One of the things that makes a person feel desperate is when you put all your energy into one thing to chase a certain goal, but in the end you find that such a goal is getting farther and farther away from you, making all your efforts in vain.

"Okay, I'll join, but I don't need your Samoto fiefdom, we sea boys still like the free sea, as long as your daimyo can promise to let my brothers freely enter and exit your Kagoshima and other cities in the future!"

Because of despair, but he couldn't let go of the resentment in his heart, Yuan Laoba quickly sorted out his thoughts from the conflict of ideas swaying left and right, made up his mind, and agreed to recruit the Japanese people.

"Moreover, unless I want to do it with the people of Nanhai Hongtang, I won't take my brothers to work for you for nothing at other times, and you will have to pay the price for other requirements!" Although he agreed to the recruitment of the Japanese envoy, from the bottom of his heart, Yuan Laoba still couldn't let go of his free life over the years, and he was still reluctant to be restricted by too many Japanese people.

"As long as you can accept our Daimyo and are willing to contribute to the attack on Hongtang and his gang, I believe that our Daimyo will agree to your request!" Although it is not considered a complete success, but anyway, the purpose of recruiting the pirates is to deal with Hongtang's group of strongmen, as for how to clean up these pirates in the future, it is not up to this Japanese envoy to control.

The conversation was very pleasant, and the Japanese envoy received a verbal promise from Yuan Laoba, a group of powerful pirates, that he would get the full support of Yuan Laoba and his group of pirates when Satsuma was in need; And the pirates under Yuan Laoba, everyone also has an official identity, and they can appear openly and openly in the land of Kagoshima, Dayu, and Hyuga Sanzhou cities to which the Japanese Satsuma Belong, and live the life of ordinary people.

For this group of pirates, who already have some savings, although it is not the homeland of the Ming Dynasty and the language is not understood, it can still be regarded as fulfilling everyone's good wishes.

Moreover, Satsuma is also willing to canonize the official position to these pirates, which is something that these pirates dare not think of, as for the fiefdom that Yuan Laoba refused, although his henchmen are very incomprehensible, they don't have too many complaints!

Among Yuan Laoba's team, those who are eligible for fiefdoms, over the years, with Yuan Laoba traveling all over the world, their net worth is naturally rich, and they are Yuan Laoba's henchmen, and they can buy land at their own expense without fiefdom; And those low-level pirates are not eligible to obtain fiefs, so they will not have the slightest complaint about Yuan Laoba's choice because of this.

After the Japanese envoy left, a few people walked into the house, and the first ones were Lao Yi and Li Jin, two of Yuan Laobayi's confidants of Wen Yiwu.

"You two are so bitter to hide from me, you didn't tell me such a big thing, do you really think that I, Yuan Laoba, am so fragile?" As soon as he came up, Yuan Laoba vented his resentment to Li Jin and Lao Yi half-truthfully, but more often vented the helplessness and sadness in his heart.

"Big boss, I came up with this idea, don't blame anyone else!" Lao Yi stood up and took the initiative to take the initiative, since the crisis experienced a few years ago, Lao Yi has also changed, he knows how to turn in the knots, and he no longer cares about slapping Yuan Laoba's ass like he did at the beginning, and offended too many middle and low-level pirates.

"Big brother, I also have a fault, I shouldn't hide it from you, but at that time, I watched that big brother, you finally returned to the state of the original situation, and led everyone to do a good job, and I didn't want you to affect your mood because of these bad things!" Li Jin also stood up, since the matter has been exposed, then as one of the two culprits, Li Jin, who is quite upright by nature, how can he be embarrassed to let Lao Yi bear the blame alone!

After the good students left the group of henchmen around him, Yuan Laoba sighed and told the matter of his promise to the envoy of the Japanese people.

To Yuan Laoba's surprise, Lao Yi and his henchmen seemed to have already guessed it, and they didn't have much expression for the news that Yuan Laoba said was related to everyone's chance of survival in the future.

"What, do you all know?" Yuan Laoba was a little puzzled, his choice was suddenly moved by the Japanese people, and he had never told his brothers beforehand.

"Hehe, what does the eldest brother think in his heart, how can we not know as brothers! And as long as you make a decision, the brothers will support it unconditionally! Although Li Jin is a reckless man, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know how to use his brain, and there is Lao Yi on demand, so they can easily guess Yuan Laoba's choice.

Lao Yi actually didn't want Yuan Laoba to go back to the old road again, to be honest, in the past few years when they all went north, except for a little poor life at the beginning, the later days were no worse than they were in Huludao.

It's just that Lao Yi also knows what the reason for supporting the almost fifty-year-old man to continue to fight on the front line of the battle is, as long as this Japanese envoy tells their purpose, he must be more than half sure of impressing Yuan Laoba.

As a think tank around Yuan Laoba, he has actually made a lot of money over the years, and he has long wanted to quit the risky industry of pirates when he wants to become famous, but they will definitely not let himself go when Yuan Laoba comes, and secondly, his identity and background have long been known by the Ming government.

Therefore, although Lao Yi should be persuaded to refuse this recruitment from the perspective of Yuan Laoba, in the bottom of Lao Yi's heart, he always felt that the Hongtang people were not so easy to clean up, even if their opponent at the moment was a big name with strong real power in the Wa Kingdom, but in fact, Lao Yi still felt that the final defeat would be the side of the Satsuma Wa people.

But after thinking that if Yuan Laoba agreed to recruit the Japanese people, he Lao Yi would be able to live in the three prefectures of the Japanese Satsuma and Tibet openly, and there was even a great possibility that he Lao Yi would be able to get an official and a half-job, these are all things that Lao Yi, who thinks highly of himself, is very fond of.

In addition, Lao Yi himself knows that for a man at sea like Yuan Laoba, maybe things outside the body such as official wealth may not be in their eyes, but there is such a mentality that revenge must be revenged, and it is true that Yuan Laoba has been a big man for so long and has not been able to change the mentality of children, which can be regarded as a shortcoming of Yuan Laoba.

In the same way, among the many pirate gangs in the Yellow Sea, some of the envoys sent by Satsuma left with smiles, and some left with a disgraced face, but in general, the faces of the Japanese envoys were more sad and there were few smiles.

(End of chapter)