Chapter Seventy-Five: Matsuura (Page 1/1)

"Ming Army?"

Matsuura Takanobu's eyes were not of the same size, and his facial expression was extremely wonderful when he listened to the retainer's report, and he forgot to close his open mouth.

He and Nabeshima Naoshige actually had the same idea, and they both thought that these people were the Shimazu Army.

Although Matsuura Takanobu also felt that the Shimazu family would definitely beat him if he really came.

In the rumors he heard, only the savages of the Satsuma Domain had the strength to make the elite Ryuzoji army collapse at the touch of a button, and now that it was the Ming army, Matsuura Takanobu's eyes turned several times.

In the whole of Kyushu, if there is any family that is most resistant to the Ming army, it is probably the Matsuura clan, who has no sense of existence and is suppressed by various forces on Hirado Island.

Their family fought with the Yuan army, and was the first to organize the Japanese to go to the Central Plains to loot in retaliation against the Yuan army, maintaining a long-term tradition of the Japanese army. Therefore, when he heard the word Ming army, Matsuura Takanobu, who was terrified in his heart, directly ordered to recall the army outside the city and repair the city on the spot, preparing to defend and surrender.

Defend first, then surrender.

But if you want to say which family in the entire Kyushu has the most favorable impression of the Ming Kingdom, it is undoubtedly the Matsuura clan who has been rubbed by various forces in turn on Hirado Island.

And the closest thing to the Ming in this family is the contemporary head of the family, Matsuura Takanobu.

The last Ming man who had a deep contact with him was called Wang Zhi, who was the chief of the Ming Dynasty and brought the Bird Gun and the Portuguese to Japan.

Matsuura Takanobu once built a gorgeous residence for Wang Zhi in Hirado, and later because Wang Zhi came to Japan and passed through Goto to call himself the owner of the Wufeng ship, he simply handed over Goto to him to garrison to repair the port, so as to attract more Ming smuggling maritime merchants to trade with Hirado.

It was the most glorious time for Hirado and Matsuura Takanobu, and in the last years of Wang's life, the port of Hirado prospered unprecedentedly through the many Ming merchants that Wang Nao had brought in, and the economic prosperity also strengthened the military power of the Hirado Matsuura clan to a certain extent.

More iron cannons and wealth gave Matsuura Takanobu the strength to unify the Matsuura family, intervene in the internal strife of the Shisa clan in a timely manner, support his son-in-law Shisa Junyuan, and make the son-in-law take the initiative and control the Shisa clan; He intervened in the struggle between the Hatata clan, who was close to the Tsushima clan, and the retainer Hidaka clan, and took the opportunity to destroy the Hatata clan, obtain Iki, and build the largest territory of the Matsuura clan.

Then, Wang Zhi was killed in prison by Hu Zongxian.

The Matsuura clan, which prospered before time and space, used marriage and other means to stabilize Otomo and Ryuzoji, but they could not stop the economic decline of Hirado Port.

There was no Wangzhi, there were no Ming merchants, but Hirado still had Nanban trade, an average of five Portuguese ships came to Hirado to trade every year, but Matsuura Takanobu, who had lost Wangnao's ally, was very weak to the Portuguese, and he was allowed to trade and proselytize at the same time.

The conflict between the Buddhists and Chechitan deepened, and in order to maintain his rule, Matsuura Takanobu had to expel the missionaries from the territory, and as a result, the prefect Torres said that he had treacherously told the Nanban ships not to come to Hirado again.

Merchant, as long as there is profit, the missionaries cannot limit most of them, so although the Nanban ships become one ship a year or two years, there are still people who come to trade.

Then in the seventh year of Yongroku, which was also the forty-third year of Jiajing, Kishitan Daimyo Omura Juntada opened the port in Nagasaki, which is tantamount to giving Matsuura Takanobu a head drink after Wang Zhi's death, and the port of Hirado was completely declined, leaving only the old, weak, sick and disabled Japanese and the dying port of Hirado.

Without Ming merchants and Nanban merchants, the Matsuura family would die of poverty.

In view of the above reasons, Matsuura Takanobu was extremely cautious about the Ming army's unwitting landing in Hirado and starting a war against the Ryuzoji family under his nose, and he did not choose to contact the Ming people immediately, but sent people to Goto to find the Ming pirates who had fallen to Japan.

These people didn't show up when he was fighting, and now that the battle is over, it should be of some use to him, right? They should go and find out for him the purpose of the army stationed in the city.

Speaking of which, Matsuura Takanobu also wondered, what about his widows?

What about his huge number of powerful pirates?

In fact, there is no need to look for it, his widow did not mean to abandon him, but was scared.

On their way to the aid of their family in Sekibune and Kozai, they all found a terrible fleet docked in a bay not far from the port of Hirado.

A group of powerful and well-equipped Japanese robbers, what will they do when they see the huge Ming warship?

Rob.

What about the results of the robbery?

Even the man and the boat sank to the bottom of the sea to feed the whales.

Witnessing the terrifying scene, the Japanese and ronin were wandering in the sea, and they did not dare to land in Hirado, so they called the Japanese from all over the place to retreat.

Among them, there were a considerable number of Ming pirates, far from their homeland and deeply afraid of the Ming army, and did not hesitate to send the ship back to the five islands.

During the time when Matsuura Takanobu was waiting for his cronies, Chen Bazhi was not leisurely, relying on the battle of Kusano Castle to roughly find out the combat power of the regular army of Longzoji Temple, which made him much easier for this trip, and immediately gave an order to the docked fleet on the shore, and the troops and horses were sent out in all directions.

Only one thousand households were left behind to guard the ships on the sea, two thousand households were looking for a suitable place to build a trestle bridge on the shore, and the other thousand households were divided into ten divisions to lead the army to sweep westward and search for islands from the coast.

In fact, these actions are redundant, Hirado Island is only the Matsuura clan, in order to deal with the Ryuzoji self-fattening after the slaughter, Hirado can allocate all the troops gathered in Matsuuratsu Kusono Castle, too late to arrive are also in the overseas islands, Hirado does not have any hostile forces.

On the first day, Chen Bazhi's banner army was encamped only four or five miles away from Kusano City, and the Matsuura clan in the city was waiting for them, but both sides maintained restraint and reserve, and neither wanted to send someone to communicate with the other first.

In this strange peace, the people of the castle town who fled into the mountains returned to their homes, and many people thought that the Ming army drove the enemy for them, and thought that it was the rescue soldiers invited by the daimyo Matsuura Takanobu, so they reported with great favor, sent some rice and radishes, and even taught them to boil radishes in salt water, and then grind them into a paste and eat them with a small amount of rice - the common people eat this.

This allowed Chen Bachi to gather more information, and the people of Hirado were not surprised at all that the daimyo had invited reinforcements from the Ming people, and the strangest thing was that they felt that their armor was much better than that of the Hirado samurai.

Chen Bazhi turned several turns in his head before he realized that the Hirado samurai mentioned by the Hirado farmer was not Japanese, but the Japanese and their descendants who lived in Japan after Wang Zhi's death.

Here, these criminals were transformed into regular troops not controlled by the local daimyos, and they were closely intertwined, just like the Matsuura 48 Party.

He obtained information from Matsuura Takanobu through the farmer's mouth, and Matsuura Takanobu would soon be able to obtain their information through the same means, and Chen Bachi thought that someone would soon invite him to enter Kusano Castle.

At this juncture, a warship from Guangdong led the way through several small shark boats, and docked at the edge of the trestle that Chen Bazhi had not yet built.

The beard of the person who came was already gray, and he knew the year of the destiny of heaven, and the wide robe and big sleeves arched his hand to Chen Bazhi and said: "Commander Chen, the old man Wang Rulong, on the order of Chen Shuai, will help Your Excellency to level the Nine Islands!" ”

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