Kyushu Island, the wind and clouds are changing.

In the past six months, the Ming merchants have invested heavily in the command of the Kyushu daimyos, not only Otomo, Shimazu, and Ryuzoji, but also the weaker princes such as Omura and Ito, which has brought great changes to the local area.

The island of Kyushu has always been a relatively culturally chaotic area, with not only Buddhists, Portuguese missionaries, and even the Catholic Chechi Teran daimyo in the area.

The main impact of the arrival of the Ming merchants was these Chechi Dan daimyos.

Compared with the Shimazu family, who was the first to allow the Portuguese to open a trading house and closed the market due to the conflict between Buddhists and tradition, Otomo Sorin, simply believed in Catholicism and named it Francisco, and received the support of local Portuguese merchants and churches.

Longzao Temple also relied on trade, whether it was Portugal, the Ming Dynasty, or North Korea, they all received it all.

Shimazu was much the same, and they had the advantage that Tanegashima was still able to provide the Shimazu family with a slow and small amount of home-made iron cannons after severing ties with the Portuguese.

But how much can the Portuguese offer them?

Two or three hundred iron cannons a year, and how many large barrels have been sold for several years?

Chen Bazhi, who was on the other side of the island, also felt helpless about the chaotic situation in the small land of Kyushu, originally he thought that it would be very easy to achieve his adoptive father's mission, but after a little understanding of the situation, he knew that he underestimated these Japanese princes.

The external environment of Kyushu Island is that there is a flourishing Maori family in the east, and Qi Zhengyan has landed to find Yamanaka Shikasuke to help him rebuild the Niko family, so Maori is their enemy.

Ryuzoji Temple is the most welcoming to Ming Shang, but at the same time, he is at odds with Maori and threatens Otomo together; Otomo is strategically won over by Chen Bazhi, but Otomo Sorin, who is a Daimyo of Chezhidan; Shimazu is very happy to do business, and once the merchant has the intention of uniting with the Ming Dynasty, Shimazu Yoshihisa will become a dead brain.

It's not that Shimazu Yoshihisa hates Daming, but Satsuma's poor bare-bones insist on faith that can bring them incomparable courage and don't need anyone's help.

In this environment, Spain's two hundred and five came.

Taking advantage of the fact that Ryuzoji could not distinguish between Spain and Portugal, they soon supported Ryuzoji Takanobu in his war against Hizen with artillery and arquebuses, as well as silver that had been used for Philippine trade with ships, imprisoned Ming merchants, built seaports, and of course, sent people back to New Spain in the Americas to gather reinforcements.

In the Americas, they had powerful legions that conquered the Aztec and then the Inca Empire.

As soon as Li Dan returned to the Ryukyu Kingdom, he was like a big spider entrenched in the Ryukyu Islands with eight limbs stretched out, and the merchants who traveled back and forth to Kyushu and Ryukyu in the past two months brought him a huge amount of information, and he gathered this information and spread a map of Kyushu Island in Chen Bazhi's tent.

"I'm also curious to know why the situation in this place is so complicated." After explaining everything to Chen Bazhi, Li Dan scratched his eyebrows helplessly, and said: "Less than half of the land of Guangdong is lined with princes, and today it is a bloody alliance and tomorrow it is treacherous - why is the righteous father eyeing here?" ”

Li Dan's implication is that there is no value here, and the situation is chaotic, so it is better to let them close the door and have a good time.

"So Xiyi is here, don't care about them, where is the Longzao Temple? Let me see...... Hizen. Chen Bazhi wiped his face a little angrily and said: "The enemy's allies are also enemies, just defeat them, right?" ”

Spain's intervention allowed Chen Bazhi to choose war, this choice was much easier for him, compared to what vertical and horizontal, it was too easy to fight!

Li Dan was a little worried, and said: "The three families on the island have strong troops, and we should be able to talk about Otomo, they are fighting against Maori; Shimazu's words are not on good terms with Otomo and Sagara, so they should be able to save you from the threat of enemies on your back. ”

"Then I'm going to trouble my brother, I'm going to send troops to attack Hirado, and I'll sweep the port first before anything else!"

Li Dan pondered for a moment and bowed his head, and said: "Find out the situation first, if you are invincible on the shore, you will retreat and think about it in the long run, my father-in-law and General Chen of Macheng should also receive the news, and it is not too late to send reinforcements to attack again, we are much closer than Xiyi." ”

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A huge fleet of Luzon Beiwei set sail under the command of the commander Chen Bazhi, a Chikai-class Dingmao, 12 500-grain shark ships, 36 small shark gunboats, and dozens of Daifuku grain ships, and went straight to Hirado in Kyushu and went straight to Hizen in Kyushu.

The people of the castle towns in Tanegashima and Kagoshima were horrified by the large fleet sailing off the coast, and the Shimazu family received the news and even mobilized the inner city navy to line up in the shallow sea to meet the enemy, and waited for several days, but received the news that the fleet went all the way north.

Shimazu Yoshihiro, who commanded the naval army, breathed a sigh of relief, those warships were far larger than their Ataka ships, and a single glimpse of the warship frightened the ashigaru on the warship, and if it really started, I was afraid that it would be more than lucky.

Without waiting for Shimazu Yoshihiro to breathe a sigh of relief, he saw several more small boats sailing in the far sea, also under the banner of Ming characters, this time heading straight for their port.

It was Li Dan's subordinates who made a special trip to deliver a letter to the Shimazu family, and the letter was quickly sent by Yoshihiro to Shimazu Yoshihisa, the contemporary head of the Shimazu family in the inner castle tower.

"That big fleet, is it the Ming army?"

Shimazu Yoshihisa frowned bitterly and read the letter bitterly, pouting and saying: "They really still sent troops to Ryuzoji Temple, the letter said that they attacked Ryuzoji because of the Nanbanians, Ming is now an enemy of the Nanbanians, Ryuzoji and Otomo are close to the Nanbanians, Ming Guo can't find a better ally than my Shimazu in Kyushu - Matashiro, are we going to unite with Ming?" ”

Matsushiro is the young name of Shimazu Yoshihiro, seeing his brother ask, Yoshihiro took the letter, and after reading it up and down, he slowly shook his head, and said: "The soldiers of the Ming Kingdom are strong, and if they unite with them, Shimazu will be controlled by others." ”

"But this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, why not take this opportunity to surrender Sagara in one fell swoop, without the Dragon Temple behind it, Sagara is vulnerable."

To the surprise of the retainers, Shimazu Yoshihiro shook his head before, but at this time he bowed his head and said, "That's right!" ”

Shimazu Yoshihisa was also puzzled and asked, "What does this mean?" ”

"Shimazu out of Shimazu's soldiers, but not with the Ming country, the Ming country to attack Hizen, Shimazu since the attack on Higo, the people of the county." Shimazu Yoshihiro knelt down and saluted: "After harvesting the fat, the counties don't need too many troops, Yoshihiro can go by himself, and ask his brother Chen Bing to the east to guard against Otomo, they know that Shimazu will definitely attack south after sending troops." ”

"But if you don't unite with it, if the Ming Kingdom defeats the Ryuzoji Temple, what if you look back and invade Shimazu again?"

Shimazu Yoshihiro laughed without the slightest bit of philistine, but his words were very shrewd, and said: "There is still Otomo in Kyushu, and he is also a Daimyo of Kamikishitan, although the Ming Kingdom is strong, crossing the ocean may not be able to ignore Otomo, they need Shimazu to help them deal with Zonglin, first seize the fat queen, and then talk to the envoy of the Ming Kingdom about attacking Otomo together." ”