"Ouch, you're back, young master, they're waiting for you to ask something!" Guo Changsheng had just gotten off the boat, and a person on the dock grabbed him and dragged him to the chicken coop harbor.

When Guo Changsheng took a closer look, he found that the guy in front of him who was in a hurry was Wang Decai, a difficult brother he hadn't seen for many years: "You bastard, I haven't seen you for so long, and I don't know how to greet my buddy, but I don't have any brotherhood!" ”

Although the words seem to complain, but in fact, Guo Changsheng's eyes are full of kindness and surprise to see his friend, they haven't seen each other for many years, the two have been reading together for Li Tianyang since childhood, and now they have made achievements in one field, but it is difficult to meet each other.

"Hehe, when the young master finishes asking you, brother, I will set up a table and banquet in Dewang Building to make amends for you, how about it?" Wang Decai turned around and grinned, and while making amends, he still didn't forget to drag Guo Changsheng to Hong Kong, for fear of delaying the task given by Li Tianyang.

When he hurriedly took Wang Decai into the building where Li Tianyang and them worked in Jilong Port, there were already more than a dozen people sitting in the conference room, and Wang Decai, who was confused, saw that everyone in this room was sitting in danger, and the idea of saying hello to Li Tianyang was gone, so he hurriedly put away his smiling face and saluted everyone present.

"I'm sorry, Decai, I didn't even give you time to wash up and rest, so I recruited you, it's really a tricky problem on our side, and we need to ask you about the situation." Li Tianyang, who was sitting at the head of the conference room, said to him apologetically while motioning for Wang Decai to sit down.

"Where, young master, you can ask directly about anything, what are you polite to our brothers!" Regarding what Li Tianyang wanted to ask, Wang Decai was the second monk who was puzzled, he had been running on the route of the Japanese Kingdom for two years, and he really couldn't imagine that Li Tianyang would find him in anything.

"The stakes are so high, so I won't beat around the bush, I just want to ask you, in the past two years, you have traveled back and forth between the Wa Kingdom and the Jilong Port, do you have any information about the Satsuma Shimazu clan and the Ryukyu Zhongshan Kingdom." Li Tianyang is not polite, to be honest, they have been dragging Shang Zhong, the secret envoy of the Ryukyu royal family, for almost a month, that is, because they know that Wang Decai's fleet that has traveled far away to the Japanese kingdom is also coming back, so they can ask for some information about this Samoto and the Ryukyu royal family first.

It is also Li Tianyang who is a little short-sighted, in recent years, they have put more emphasis on chicken coops, Bengang, and the interior of the Ming Dynasty, and they are really snub about overseas information, and they didn't expect that they would deal with these overseas princes so quickly.

Therefore, when Shang Zhong, the secret envoy of the Ryukyus, came to the door, Li Tian, who gradually began to know how to fight steadily, naturally hoped to get more information about the Ryukyu royal family and the Shimazu clan of Satsuma, such as how much strength the Ryukyu royal family still had, how much price it could take, what the strength of the Shimazu clan of Satsuma Bo, and how many troops they could send if there was a war, etc.

Although this information was somewhat understood by Wu Daofu when Shang Zhong and Wu Daofu came back all the way, who can guarantee how much credibility the words that came out of the mouth of this royal secret envoy who found a group of pirates for help news.

"Satsuma's words of the Shimazu clan, my understanding is also from the mouths of those merchants in the Wa country, I heard that the strength of their Shimazu family is not bad, but because it is far away from the central area where the Edo Tokugawa shogunate is located, the relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate is a little estranged, not so much that they are vassals of the Tokugawa family, but rather that they are the emperor of the mountain high, and they are the real princes who listen to the announcement or not, and still maintain a little bit of their shadow of the daimyo of the Warring States period of the Wagawa country."

"However, the king of Shangning of the Zhongshan Kingdom of the Ryukyus, because it is located in the middle of the route between the Wa Kingdom and our Jilong Harbor, our ocean-going fleet occasionally needs to replenish fresh water and grain on their islands, so we have more dealings and more things to know."

"It's funny to say, this is a Ryukyu kingdom, the island covers an area of no less than thousands of miles, and there are more than 100,000 inhabitants, but in the end it was defeated by a prince who lived in a corner of the Wa Kingdom, which is really not profitable. It is said that the general of the Wa Kingdom, Kayama Hidaka, who was only 30 years old, led about 4,000 Japanese samurai, and the Ryukyu royal family, which had tens of thousands of soldiers, was defeated for a long time, and in the end, Niu even their rich capital Shuri was defeated, and to this day, the old people in the capital of Shuri are still trembling when they talk about it, and they dare not think too much. ”

"Four thousand people conquer a kingdom, is the strength of this Samoto warrior so strong?" Li Tianyang turned his head and looked at Wu Daofu with puzzled eyes, how could this be too different from the strength of the Satsuma Tibetan Navy that Wu Daofu reported to them at sea.

"Hey, listen to the old people in the Ryukyu Kingdom, this is mainly because the Shimazu samurai who attacked their kingdom at the beginning had a divine weapon in their hands, called the iron cannon, the sound was like thunder, and it was easy to penetrate the iron armor and steel helmet within a hundred steps. It was precisely because of this sharp weapon that more than 10,000 soldiers of the Ryukyu Kingdom lost their armor and fled. ”

"Originally, I thought that this iron cannon was a good thing, and I thought that I would use the convenience of trade to get a batch back from the hands of the Japanese people, and let Yang Zhi study it, who thought that this so-called iron cannon was just a firearm controlled by imitation of the arquebus of the Westerners, but it was just a different statement. Then I through some relationships, the Zhao people bought two back to experiment, after all, it is an imitation, more than the arquebus of the foreigners, but I heard that their tactics are good, but also learned Westerners, two-stage strike, three-stage attack tactics are quite sharp, otherwise it is impossible to kill more than 10,000 people in the Ryukyus with 4,000 people. ”

sprinkled a lot of information, Wang Decai told Li Tianyang and them without reservation, but because he didn't pay too much attention to it at the beginning, after this call, Wang Decai thought of where to go, and there was no rule at all, although it also helped Li Tianyang a lot, but it is estimated that there are many omissions.

"Then you don't have any news about the strength of this Satsuma Shimazu clan?" Li Tianyang frowned, then recovered quietly and asked again.

"This, I really didn't pay attention to it, but I think about it, it seems that I heard someone say that they were originally samurai from the Shimazu clan......" Wang Decai glanced at Li Tianyang apologetically, and then seemed to remember something, holding his head and pondering for a while, he suddenly picked up and shouted happily to Li Tianyang: "The group of Japanese people who served us two or three years ago seem to have been the samurai of the Shimazu family in Satsuma!" ”

(End of chapter)