For Japan, the Ming Dynasty is no stranger, and the reason why it is not strange is because of the Japanese Invaders, once upon a time, the Japanese invaders once plundered the southeast coast and suffered for as long as 300 years. Later, although the Japanese were quelled by Qi Jiguang and other Ming generals, and the end of Japan's Warring States Period, due to the influence of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on the Hachiman boat, that is, the prohibition of piracy, the Japanese invaders disappeared from the land of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan did not stop, and the profiteering trade of "a ship of silk to the east and a ship of silver returned" made the wealthy merchants of the southeast sea, and also made the Zheng family, and even Jiangbei, also relied on the huge profits of trade with Japan. Even now, the Ming Dynasty relied heavily on copper from Japan.

However, trade with Japan was not all smooth sailing, especially in the past 30 years or so, the Tokugawa shogunate issued a total of 5 "national closure decrees", the general content of which was: prohibiting the spread of Catholicism in Japan, prohibiting Japanese people from going abroad, Japanese people abroad are not allowed to return to China, except for the Netherlands and the Ming Dynasty, people and merchant ships from other countries are not allowed to come to Japan, and the scope of activities of the Dutch and Ming merchant ships is limited to Nagasaki.

Nagasaki was the only way for the outside world to enter Japan, but in the past few years, the port of Nagasaki, where Dutch merchant ships had been constantly coming, was no longer seen by Dutch, only Ming ships.

Again, when a merchant ship sailed into the port of Nagasaki, Tadao Aoyama, who was standing by the window, put down the binoculars in his hand and sighed.

"It's the Ming ship again, it's been three years since I saw the Lan boat!"

Tadao Aoyama, the lord of the Tamba Kameyama Domain, was a rotating Nagasaki Bunban officer, and since he assumed this position, he had not seen a Dutch merchant ship.

In the 18th year of Kanei, Japan was completely closed with the shogunate's decree of seclusion. The shogunate also stipulated that ships that came to Japan for trade were required to submit reports on the situation in the overseas world to the shogunate when they entered Nagasaki, and a special organization was set up to collect and organize these reports. This kind of information, the book of information and the presentation of the book, "wind story", the so-called "wind story" is also rumor, rumor, rumor, the meaning of the wind story

It was collected, translated, organized, and handed over to the Nagasaki Shogunate for transmission to the Edo Shogunate, the supreme governor of the Kazeshuo Clan, also known as the Nagasaki Bunban Campaign, that is, Nagasaki Zaiban or Nagasaki Servant, and this position was held by the Shogunate's 14 Kansai feudal clans in turn, and was under the leadership of the Nagasaki Prefecture, which in turn was held by the four Kansai feudal domains, namely Fukuoka, Saga, Kumamoto, and Nagasaki.

The reason why Tadao Aoyama, who is now the current "Nagasaki Bunban Service", makes such an exclamation is because he has discovered that the world outside of Japan may be changing rapidly from the anomaly of the blue boat.

"Yes, the blue ships did not come, in the past, it was unimaginable that in order to monopolize the trade with Japan, the Dutch could respond positively to us, and when the shogun decided to close the country, he promised the shogunate that he would never preach in Japan, nor would he support any missionary activities, and in order to gain the trust of the shogunate, the Dutch merchants also supported the shogunate's efforts to suppress the rebellion of the cultists. However, now, their merchant ships are no longer visible here, and even the Dutch merchant house is deserted. ”

Yoshio Taro stood respectfully behind Tadao Aoyama and said softly.

"From the point of view below, it is very likely that the reason why the Dutch no longer sailed to Nagasaki was done by the Ming people, who had driven the Dutch out of Taiwan a few years ago, and now they may have even occupied Batavia and driven the Dutch out of Batavia."

Unlike before the Opium Wars in another time and space, when the Manchu emperors would ask the stupid question of "whether there were dry roads from England to Huijiang?" and the officials would think that the British were "wrapped all over, their waists and legs stiff, and they could not recover from their servants" and therefore could not kneel.

Although the severity of Japan's lockdown is far greater than that of the Manchu Qing in another time and space, they have a basic understanding of the world through the "Wind Story" written by the "Wind Story", and the Wind Word Service is the "General Word" in the old text, the number of people varies from time to time, the General Word is a hereditary profession and exists, there are more than 40 large General Word Writers, among which Yoshio, Konishi, Ma Tian, and Motoki are four talented people, known as the Four Famous Families, and Yoshio Taro was born in the Yoshio family.

"But every time we come into contact with Akito, we can't get a single bit of information from them, Yoshio, I think maybe ......"

Staring at the Ming merchant ship that sailed into the port, Tadao Aoyama said.

"The Ming people may be doing it deliberately, perhaps, those Ming people on the Tang boat, and maybe even the officials of the Ming Kingdom, they deliberately block the news, so that we can't get the news from the outside world."

Tadao Aoyama's words made Yoshio agree with him.

"There is indeed such a possibility, but the lower officials don't know, why they do this, or rather, what is the benefit of doing this, the Tang people have a saying that "no profit is not early", if there is no benefit, why do they do it? ”

Yoshio's rhetorical question made Tadao Aoyama frown, he also didn't know what it would be, but he always felt that something was wrong.

"Yoshio, you should know that in recent years, Tang ships have often appeared in the north, in the area of Ezo and North Ezo, full of Ming whaling ships, when we closed the gate and forbade the Japanese to leave, when we contacted the Westerners, after the Ming people restored the country, they sailed their ships to places that had never sailed before, decades ago, when did Ming ships appear in Ezo? When did the Northern Ezo people appear in the Ming Kingdom? However, it is now the land of the Ming people, and even they have set up the Heishui Governor's Mansion there, and there are still a large number of immigrants there, and the Ming Kingdom is no longer the Ming Kingdom of the past......"

Despite being in Nagasaki, Tadao Aoyama can still get news from the north through some channels, the Ezo land in his mouth is the "Hokkaido" of another time and space, and the "North Ezo land" is Kuya Island, although the shogunate issued a national closure order, but Japan still maintains contact with the Ezo people, and through those people you can learn some news from the north.

"After the ship entered the port, Yoshio ......"

Looking at Yoshio, Tadao Aoyama said.

"You contact them personally, to get as much information as possible, at least, to find out where the Dutch have gone? There is also what has happened in the Ming Kingdom. ”

"Hey!"

At the same time as Tadao Aoyama gave the order to Yoshio, on the merchant ship that had just sailed into the port of Nagasaki, Wang Shiping looked at the sailors on board and said.

"You all know your responsibilities!"

At least half of the more than 40 sailors on the ship are not real sailors, they are all military officials who are about to join the military department, and Nagasaki is their "examination room", and they must pass this exam in order to truly become military officials.

"Okay, I'll repeat it one last time, what each of you needs is to live and learn what you learned in school, and the people you deal with are experts in collecting intelligence for generations, they know how to easily get the information they need in chat, and they know how to distinguish the truth from the falsehood of information, so this will be your examination room."

Of course, at the beginning, it was just to learn how to collect intelligence, but later this kind of learning changed its flavor and became a battlefield, and the purpose of these soldiers coming here was to spread false news to them, so that the Japanese could not obtain external information and make judgments about the world.

Even until now, the Japanese did not know that Batavia had been occupied by the Ming Dynasty, let alone the feudal state implemented by the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang, and their understanding of the Ming Dynasty was often still limited to the old intelligence, and of course, there was also the false news that the Ming deliberately spread.

"Captain, don't worry, we know what to do! Don't you say it's a chat? ”

Chatting is a technical job, especially when chatting, spreading some confusing and convincing fake news that the other party is convinced, which can be called an extraordinary ability, and this is also what the military leaders must master, of course, every time, all the news revealed by each group of people coming here is carefully prepared by the military department, and there will be no false news with any loopholes.

Of course, Yoshio didn't know all this, and when he looked at the big ship that was getting closer and closer, he still told the people of Yoshio's family from time to time, telling them how to get the news, and let them guide the topic to the Netherlands and other issues as much as possible.

Finally, after the inspection, the ship entered the port. When the Tang ship sailed into Nagasaki, Tadao Aoyama's expression on the tower of the sea view was dignified, as the lord of the domain, when he looked at the sea, he had countless questions in his heart,

"What has happened to the outside world?"

In his mind, the question was rolling, but he didn't have any channel to get the news.

"If you can sail to Mingguo, you may be able to really understand all this, but ......"

frowned, although he thought so in his heart, but he also knew how unrealistic this was, because the lock-off order was to prohibit Japanese ships from going to sea to trade and the Japanese to communicate with overseas, and the stowaways would be sentenced to death, under the constraints of the lock-up order, it was impossible to send ships or personnel to the Ming Dynasty to learn information, and the only channel was through Nagasaki's "Wind Talk", but the Ming people seemed to know all this, and the information obtained by the Wind Talker was accurate?

"Perhaps, the general should be persuaded to agree, at least send a few people to the Ming Kingdom to investigate......"

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