Hu Zongxian calmed down, nodded slightly, and said with a hint of stupidity: "I think he can't look down on the combat effectiveness of the imperial court officials and soldiers, so he started the idea of my own soldiers." ”

Xu Wei smiled: "Otherwise, there is another reason. When the imperial court soldiers and horses are mobilized, the main book of the march needs to check the official documents. Although Bai Xiaoyou can forge illusions, he can't forge official documents, he is afraid of encountering a more serious dead eye, so he went to find Zhou Shun, and called his own soldiers without checking the official documents. ”

Yu Dayou muttered: "Bai Xiaozhen is a little uninteresting, since he is avenging me, why don't you come to me directly, will I be willing to lend those three to him?"

Xu Wei thought for a while: "General Yu, don't complain, this is also for your own good." ”

Yu Dayou was at a loss.

"Taizu once listed the Wa Kingdom as a country that was not to be conquered, and before the Son of Heaven issued an edict, as a general of the imperial court, he could not rashly attack the Wa Kingdom itself. If you borrow your own soldiers to Bai Xiaoyou, you will knowingly commit a crime, and the Governor will have to work hard to help you cover it up. Now that he has used Dao Technique to deceive the three pro-soldier captains under your command, you don't need to be held responsible if you don't know about it. ”

When Xu Wei said this, he shook his head and sighed: "I don't know when Your Majesty will be able to issue an order to conquer the Japanese country and clear the source of the Japanese invaders." Without the Holy Decree, our hundreds of thousands of troops can only disperse and defend the long coastline, and it is really not a good feeling to sit and watch Bai Xiaoyou take risks alone. ”

Hu Zongxian said with a straight face: "Wen Chang, what you said is not what a minister should say. Even if we do not take the initiative to attack, we will build the fortifications along the coast in order, and the Japanese will not return, and within ten years, the bandits will definitely be quelled. If you take the initiative to negotiate, you will be far away from the sea, and it will be difficult to replenish, but the outcome will be unpredictable. Have you forgotten the old story of the three invasions of Japan by Meng Yuan and Kublai Khan?"

Xu Wei nodded slightly, of course he knew. Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty once conquered Japan, built 7,000 large ships, and had a magnificent army, but three crusades failed. The first two times were ill-prepared, unaccustomed to water, unable to land, and the last time was fully prepared, but a typhoon hit and the fleet was swept to the bottom of the sea.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, set up an iron coupon for Danshu and forbade future generations to conquer Japan, not because he didn't want to, but because he had limited ability, he was afraid that his descendants would put their limited people's power into the bottomless pit of Japan and drag down the country, which was also the lesson of the Sui Dynasty's conquest of Goryeo.

"No matter what, Bai Xiaozhen must be tight-lipped about borrowing troops," Hu Zongxian sighed, "He has a problem for me." ”

......

In the endless blue sea, two warships sailed through the waves.

"Look at the time, Hu Zongxian should have gotten the news. Bai Xiaowen glanced up at the sun.

"Our prestige has not declined, alas. Li Shuyi said.

"Well, Hu Zongxian shouldn't have publicized this matter in the camp of the anti-Japanese Ming army, so it's normal that our prestige hasn't dropped. However, the friend-level favorability between me and Hu Zongxian has not decreased significantly, which is a bit strange. But either way, it's a good thing. ”

Of course, Bai Xiaowen didn't know, he visited Xu Wei at the end, and he unintentionally inserted willows into the shade, Xu Wei helped him explain the whole story in front of Hu Zongxian and Yu Dayou, so as to avoid the risk of his favorability being reduced.

In fact, Bai Xiaowen is already ready, even if Hu Zongxian's favorability decreases, he will admit it - next, the anti-Japanese Ming army camp wants to digest the fruits of victory and break up the pirate formation and training a new army, it is impossible to make any big moves in the short term, and staying there is tantamount to wasting time.

Bai Xiaowen thought about how to use the remaining free exploration time yesterday.

There is an option to go north to the capital division and do Sun Xuanqing's quest line. This task line, which involves the orthodoxy of the Dao of the Heavenly Master and the Quanzhen Sect, will inevitably be accompanied by the enhancement of Dao skills and spell props, which is more suitable for the development of him, a spiritual specialty awakener.

However, Fujian is very far away from Jingshi, and it is difficult to walk by land, so it is estimated that after spending the remaining five days, it will not be able to reach Jingshi, let alone participate in the task line of the Daomen battle.

Therefore, Bai Xiaowen could only choose the second option, which was to do the side quest he had unearthed before, to find the sword.

"Xiaowen, we should be far away from Japan, right? If we go to Japan like this, will there be no time enough?" asked Li Shuyi.

"To be clear, our target is not Hirado Mishima, but Matsuura Shinkuro," Bai Xiaowen said, "If we are lucky, Matsuura Shinkuro has not yet returned to China, but is stationed in the Nanyang and Penghu Islands, and we can find him as soon as possible." Of course, it is not excluded that the worst-case scenario is that Matsuura Shinkuro has returned to Japan, and we will have to spend a lot of time sailing. ”

After a pause, Bai Xiaowen said again:

"Kinmen is indeed far away from Hirado, and the straight-line distance is about the same as Kinmen to Kyoshi. However, sea navigation is both day and night, and there is no need for trivial and complicated things such as road guides and customs documents, which is relatively fast. According to my calculations, if we get to Hirado Mishima, it will only take about three days if the boat is fast, and even if the wind is unfavorable, it will only take more than four days. ”

"So, even if the worst happens, there's a lot of time, but it's tighter. Bai Xiaowen concluded.

"So, where is Matsuura Shinkuro, how can I find him?" Li Shuyi frowned and said, "I also read his reply letter to Ye Mazi, but in it Matsuura Shinjiuro did not mention his whereabouts at all. ”

Bai Xiaowen said: "I have already considered this aspect. Shin Jiulang and Ha Mako are both leaders of the Matsuura family's samurai group, so they should not be cautious enough to hide each other's whereabouts. Considering the difficulty of communication at sea, it is more reasonable for the two men to communicate frequently in their letters to inform each other of their course of action. In other words, Ye Mazi must know the location and movements of Matsuura Shin Jiulang, so Xin Jiulang's reply was not specifically mentioned. ”

"But Ye Mazi is already dead. ”

Bai Xiaowen nodded: "Ye Mazi is dead, but the pirates under his command are still there." Before I set off last night, under the pretense of Hu Zongxian's vision, I not only borrowed 200 personal soldiers, prepared food supplies for half a month, but also inspected the prisoner of war camp, selected a few Ye Mazi's henchmen and pirates, and escorted them to the ship. Now, it's time to interrogate them and find out where Shinkuro Matsuura is. ”

Bai Xiaowen gave an order to the outside of the cabin, and after a while, Zhang Ting took a few personal soldiers and escorted three Ye Mazi's henchmen and pirates over.

"There are only three people, and they all look weak, I'm afraid they are low-level personnel," Li Shuyi whispered, "What if they don't know Ye Mazi's true identity." ”

The three of them are all ordinary templates, and their level will not exceed level 5, and in terms of strength, I am afraid that they are not as good as Bai Xiaowen's one of the skeleton sword and shield hands, which is indeed weak enough.

Bai Xiaowen shook his head: "I selected these three people after careful consideration. They are weak, but they are Ye Mazi's henchmen, which is very telling in itself - one of them even plays the role of Ye Mazi's side, similar to a housekeeper! and the other two, one is responsible for conveying Ye Mazi's flagship flag, and the other is responsible for maintaining the saber for Ye Mazi. If these three people didn't know the true details of Ye Mazi, then no one would know. ”

The three of them were bound with hemp rope and their mouths were sealed, and they were separated and detained in the bilge until now, and one individual was weak and was escorted over, and after seeing Bai Xiaowen, his eyes showed fear.

Bai Xiaowen said calmly: "You are Ye Mazi's subordinates, and now that Ye Mazi has been ambushed, you are also guilty as his henchmen." However, now I will give you a chance to make meritorious contributions and expose Ye Mazi's secret. Whoever knows Ye Mazi's secrets the most will be given priority to be pardoned. ”

Bai Xiaowen waved his hand and motioned for Zhang Ting to take off the three of them's sealed hemp balls.

The three would-be robbers gasped, but none of them spoke first, and the atmosphere was a little dull for a while.

Bai Xiaowen was not in a hurry, and his fingers gently tapped on the table: "It seems that you don't cherish this opportunity for meritorious service." Kitts, drag him out to feed the fish. ”

Bai Xiaowen casually pointed to a person, and that person was Ye Mazi's flag pirate. He looked frightened and begged for mercy loudly: "My lord, I really don't know Boss Ye...... What is Ye Mazi's secret! By the way, he is a good gambler, his luck is very bad and the gambling is even worse, I don't know if it counts as ......."

Bai Xiaowen didn't listen to him much, just waved his hand. Kitts laughed and dragged the man out of the cabin by the back of the neck, followed by exclamations and the sound of a heavy object falling overboard. Thrown into the sea with such a sturdy tie, it is difficult for even a person who is skilled in water to survive.

The remaining two were even more silent.

Bai Xiaowen glanced at the two of them: "My patience is limited, wait another five seconds, if you two don't say anything, let's go feed the fish together." ”

"Great, sir, I'm willing to say!" said one of the would-be widows.

Bai Xiaowen glanced at the man and recognized that this was a pirate who was maintaining the saber for Ye Mazi. For a true ronin warrior like Ye Mazi, the saber is an important existence in life. This person can wipe and maintain the saber for Ye Mazi, and he must be very trusted by Ye Mazi.

"Say it. ”

"Ye Mazi he ...... It's not Akito!"

Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes, revealing an interested look.

Ye Mazi's housekeeper on the side, Wakou, scolded loudly: "Baga! Makita, you coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death, actually wants to betray the Matsuura family?"

A smile appeared on the corner of Bai Xiaowen's mouth, it seems that he chose the right one, the three people he picked, at least the two in front of him, knew Ye Mazi's bottom line.

After being reprimanded, the Japanese Kou Makita, who maintained the saber, was a little weak-hearted.

Bai Xiaowen was facing the housekeeper and directly cast a bewildering spell!

"The strength ratio of friend to foe is 0.224:1, and the success rate of the Confusion Charm is 77.60%. ”

"The confusion judgment is successful! ”

Wako Makita, seeing the attitude of the housekeeper Wako Arima Jiro from angry to submissive, knelt in front of Bai Xiaowen and wanted to kiss his boots, he was in fear.

"This person is unrepentant and unrepentant, and he has been robbed of his soul by me with Taoism. Nine times out of ten, I can find out the secrets he knows. If you dare to say anything else, I'll make you like him!"

Bai Xiaowen actually exaggerated the ability of "telepathy" to detect memory. Telepathic ability, the number of memory fragments that can be detected is very limited, not even half of it, and the proportion of eight or nine out of ten is even more impossible.

However, Makita, who was maintaining the sword, was already frightened, and immediately knelt on the ground and swore that he would never dare to tell a half-lie.

Bai Xiaowen first asked a few secrets that he had already discovered, such as some details of Ye Mazi's daily life, small habits, etc., and the Japanese Kou Makita was extremely obedient and told everything he knew. Bai Xiaowen deliberately said one or two things that Makita had unintentionally omitted, and Makita was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat, and he believed that what Bai Xiaowen said was true.

Subsequently, Bai Xiaowen focused on inquiring about the Matsuura family and Matsuura Shinkuro.

During the Matsuura family, they lived in Hirado Mishima, and the head of the family was named Takanbu Matsuura, whose legal name was Michiko. Hirado Mishima is the birthplace of the Japanese and has the good port of Hirado Port, so it has become a place where Japanese from all walks of life sell their stolen goods.

Since the Ming Dynasty banned the sea and canceled the "exploration" trade with Japan, the Japanese upper class aristocracy became more and more eager for the silk cloth abundant in the Ming Dynasty, which gave rise to a large number of armed smuggling maritime merchants, that is, the Japanese pirates, who plundered the rich coastal areas south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty. After all, no matter what time it is, a business without capital is the fastest way to make money in the short term.

At the beginning, the great Japanese robber Wang Nao was treated by Matsuura Takanobu on Hirado Island and settled down, and later developed into a pirate godfather-level existence that controlled the Japanese in the southeast sea.

In addition to vigorously supporting the sale of stolen goods by the Japanese on Hirado Island and enjoying the profits from the resale, Matsuura also focused on cultivating the Matsuura family's private fleet and participating in the ranks of the plundering Japanese army. Famous people such as Matsuura Shinkuro and Matsuura Shisuke are all capable men of the Matsuura family fleet.

Speaking of Ye Mazi, his real name is Ma Ye, and the reason why he changed his name, banner and even place of origin, and mixed into the ranks of fake widows is out of the dual consideration of light and darkness, which echoes Matsuura Shinkuro.

Ye Mazi's secret move was mainly to find out intelligence news for Matsuura Shinkuro's fleet, in case there were black and black pirates, and the idea was hit by the Matsuura family's fleet.

Some time ago, Xin Jiulang attacked Fujian and was pursued by Yu Dayou. After the sneak attack injured Yu Dayou, Xin Jiulang sent a secret letter to Ye Mazi, asking him to take advantage of Yu Dayou's injury and coma to participate in the looting of various provinces in Fujian and expand the results of the war.

Then, Ye Mazi sent the second master, Chen Duyan (Chen Bao), to break the Quanzhou Mansion and rob a lot of wealth. It's just that Chen Duyan was first blackened by Xu Honghei, and then matched four awakened people to Chen Duyan's flagship by the rules of the spirit world, so that all the goods were robbed back, and Chen Duyan himself was also killed.

"Where is Xin Jiulang now?" Bai Xiaowen asked the last key question.

Wako Makita thought for a while and said, "I heard Ye Mazi say before that Xin Jiulang will take the Penghu Islands to temporarily stop and see the situation in Zhejiang. If Qi Jiguang is transferred to Fujian, he will take advantage of the situation to loot Zhejiang......"