Chapter 209: The Red-Haired Ghost and the Wa Kingdom
Nobuko Takashi knelt on the ground and begged, "General, you must save us Japan, the Dutch fleet is at the gate of Edo, and they want food and gold and silver, and we want beautiful women to serve them." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Originally, the Dutch had been doing business with the Satsuma Domain, and the Dutch transported spices from Southeast Asia, and transported their own pig iron and other goods into the Satsuma Domain, in exchange for sulfur, silver, brass and other goods produced in Japan and returned to China. Later, the Dutch cooperated with the Guangdong pirate Liu Xiang and the Fujian pirate Xu Xinsu to obtain raw silk, ceramics and other items from the Ming Dynasty.
If raw silk, ceramics and other goods were only shipped to Southeast Asia and then to Europe, it would be fine, but the Dutch transported raw silk and other goods to Japan, which harmed the interests of Zheng Zhilong and Li Dan.
At that time, Yan Siqi, the leader of the Pirate Alliance, was still alive, Yang Tiansheng, Zheng Zhilong, Chen Xinji and other pirates became brothers, and Liu Xiang was also a member of this pirate group, of course, Zheng Zhilong did not dare to touch Liu Xiang, who had the Dutch as a backer. Later, after Yan Siqi's death, Zheng Zhilong became the leader of the pirate alliance and began to accept the recruitment of Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty.
After Zheng Zhilong accepted the imperial court's recruitment, he successively destroyed Yang Tiansheng, Xu Xinsu, Li Kuiqi, Zhong Bin and other pirates, and fought with the Dutch, which is the famous Battle of Liaoluo Bay.
After the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, the strength of the Dutch in Fujian was greatly damaged, and Zheng Zhilong destroyed the last remaining sworn brother, Liu Xiang, the only great pirate who could compete with Zheng Zhilong.
The pirate groups along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong were broken by Zheng Zhilong, and after they were all wiped out, Zheng Zhilong became the only boss in the Oriental Sea that year, and even the Dutch ships had to pay protection money to Zheng Zhilong when they passed by.
Zheng Zhilong himself is also doing sea trade, in fact, the sea ban of the Ming Dynasty only forbade the royal family to do sea trade, and those Donglin Party members who are known as Qingliu are actually more or less colluding with pirates to do maritime transportation business, some descendants of heroes, hereditary magnates and some people secretly do sea trade, of course, they are inseparable from the help of pirates.
The Donglin Party said nicely, saying that the royal family must not compete with the people for profit. In fact, the so-called people are themselves! The commercial tax was suppressed by these civil officials, and the most profitable maritime trade business was in fact controlled by the civilian officials.
At that time, the so-called pirates were actually half-merchants and half-bandits, who obtained raw silk, ceramics and other goods from the mainland and went to sea by ship. If they are not in collusion with the civilian clique, how can they obtain the goods for export?
Zheng Zhilong's backer was Xiong Wencan, and later Xiong Wencan failed to appease Zhang Xianzhong, and Emperor Chongzhen ordered Yang Sichang to replace Xiong Wencan, and escorted Xiong Wencan to Beijing to be executed. After Xiong Wencan's death, Zheng Zhilong's backer was Qian Qianyi of the Donglin Party.
When the Manchus entered the customs, the sea ban became more severe, and in order to prevent Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan and others, the Qing court really spared no effort to enforce the sea ban. As a result, the Dutch were unable to obtain export goods from the Qing Kingdom, so they had to take the Japanese route exclusively to obtain goods from the Satsuma clan that could replace Chinese silk and ceramics.
In this way, in addition to sulfur, silver, and brass, Japan exported more silk and ceramics.
Zheng Chenggong conquered Taiwan, but the Dutch were still in the business of the Japanese routes, and Zheng Chenggong had to pay three thousand miles of silver for each ship.
But because of the appearance of Wang Xinyu, Batavia has been unplugged, and the Dutch still need to do business on Japanese routes? They even lost their sea transit and supply depots, and Manila in the Philippines was Spanish, and the relationship between the Spaniards and the Dutch was so bad, how could they let the Dutch enter Manila.
So now the Netherlands is fighting Japan, saying that it is killing chickens to take eggs, but there is no way to do it, because this chicken no longer belongs to the Dutch, it is better to kill it, and it can take eggs and eat meat, and then leave after eating, and go back to Europe to have a good fight with the English.
As long as they can win against the English, the Dutch can still control the American route, and that route will also make money. As for the trade here in the East, if you take it slowly, that's a matter for later.
Wang Xinyu asked, "Miss Yingji, why did you come to find us?" ”
Takashi Nobuko replied: "The general's sailor is mighty, I heard that the Dutch suffered a great loss at the general's place, and were driven away from the southeast coast by the general, so they went to our Edo to plague Japan." ”
Wang Xinyu only felt funny in his heart, in fact, it was not him who gave the most credit for driving out the Dutch, but the English, if it weren't for the English occupying New York and provoking the Anglo-Dutch war, would the Dutch fleet leave like this? They must not be willing to come to the East for nothing, and they must constantly make trouble for themselves at sea, and then get benefits from the Qing court.
The samurai of the Satsuma clan also participated in the battle of the Qiongzhou army against the Dutch, and when the samurai returned home, they boasted about how much credit they had made in the Qiongzhou army, and the Qiongzhou army still had the magic to fly into the sky, and the Dutch were defeated and fled.
Originally, the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Satsuma Domain also had a deep conflict, but when the Dutch killed chickens and eggs, they first cleaned up the Satsuma Domain before going to Edo to find the Tokugawa Shogunate, and as a result, the Dutch also formed a deep hatred with the Satsuma Domain. At the suggestion of the samurai of the Satsuma Domain, the Tokugawa shogunate sent people to Wang Xinyu and asked for troops to save Japan.
Wang Xinyu knew that it was impossible for the Dutch to stay in Japan for too long, and they would have to go home after looting, because they were fighting with the British, and it was impossible to wait for them for too long at home. But the Japanese didn't know about the Anglo-Dutch War! So Wang Xinyu agreed: "Yes, I can send troops to save Japan!" Guaranteed to drive out the Dutch! However, if you want me to send troops to save Japan, what conditions do you have? ”
Eagle Si Nobuko said prostrately: "The concubine body is willing to serve the general!" We, the Tokugawa shogun, let the concubine come, just hoping that the concubine can be favored by the general! The concubine does not expect to get the favor of the general, as long as she can serve the general, she knows enough! ”
Looking at this cute and cute, childish, giant ru, and little Lori who looks like Ai Shinozaki, Wang Xinyu thought to himself: Since the little Lori of the Japanese Kingdom is sent to the door, she must be going to eat her! There is a sense of guilt in eating the little Lori in his own country, but he doesn't have a sense of guilt in his heart when he eats the little Lori of the Japanese country.
If Emperor Akimasa of Wakoku is willing to send it to the door, even if he is a little older, he can eat it.
It's just a little Lori.,In exchange for your own troops.,Isn't that a condition too simple? This will not work, and it will definitely be added to the Wa Kingdom! More conditions need to be proposed.
Before Wang Xinyu could answer, his second military division Li Guangdi whispered in Wang Xinyu's ear: "Dashuai, this woman is the cousin of the Emperor of the Japanese Kingdom, and the aunt of the current emperor, if she is accepted as a concubine, it can be regarded as a marriage with the Tokugawa shogunate." We can marry, and then let the Tokugawa shogunate open the sea ban! And it was also a convenient way for us to get in touch with the Tokugawa shogunate. ”
"That's fine!" Wang Xinyu nodded, turned his head to look at Yingsi Xinzi, "Miss Yingsi, if General Ben is willing to take you as a concubine, are you willing to stay in Mingguo?" ”
When Nobuko Takashi heard this, her heart was overjoyed. Looking at the tall and handsome Wang Xinyu, Yingsi Xinzi was naturally two hundred percent willing! Her father wanted her to marry Tokugawa Tsunyoshi, who was also a Japanese samurai, but he was even shorter than her! The two legs are thick and short, and they are typical of the Japanese people.
The Japanese are too short, and her cousin, who is dead and used to be the emperor, is only 1.28 meters tall!
That is, the Japanese people are short, so during the Song Dynasty, many Japanese women came to the Great Song Dynasty to borrow seeds.
Takashi Nobuko's aunt, Takashi Takashi, is the wife of Tokugawa Iemitsu's main room, although the current shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna is not from the Takashi girl, but from the side room Hoshuin Araku, but Takashi Takako is the main room, no matter how Tokugawa Ieduna calls Takashi Takashiko, he has to call his mother.
Therefore, there is actually no blood relationship between this cousin and his cousin. The Tokugawa family has decided to let Nobuko Takashi marry her cousin Tokugawa Tsunyoshi.
Originally, Emperor Meisho sent his cousin, and he also meant to borrow seeds, so he had a seed first, and then asked his cousin to go back and marry Tokugawa Tsunyoshi. Anyway, the women of the country are different from the Chinese in these concepts, it doesn't matter if the man's son is not his own, as long as he is planted well, growing tall and mighty is the king, it doesn't matter if he is his own. In this way, the Tokugawa family had a tall and mighty offspring, and they looked much better, and they were tall, and they felt more like they stood out from the crowd when they stood out from a group of shorter Wakoku.
But for Nobuko Takaji, marrying Wang Xinyu is different, it's much better than facing a man who is shorter than herself every day after returning to Japan.
Then Wang Xinyu put forward another condition: "It is okay to let the domain send troops, but in the future, the Tokugawa shogunate can no longer close the port, and our merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty can enter Edo, and we also hope to recruit farmers from the Tokugawa shogunate to build a port." But rest assured, we sell you the best deals, and you can sell us the goods. ”
Eagle Nobuko said: "If the port is opened, the little woman can't call the shots!" If the general wants to open the port, he should also ask the general to send troops to save Japan first. ”
Wang Xinyu nodded and said, "Okay!" Then the clan will send Mr. Li to go! In addition, the clan will send new warships and magical flying orbs to save you! Specifically, let Mr. Li talk to you Tokugawa shogun! ”
Next, Wang Xinyu ordered to send a catamaran clipper to find his two fast cruisers, and also to find Hu Dedi and their Marine Corps special combat team, ready to let them follow Li Guangdi to Japan.
That night, Yingsi Nobuko served Wang Xinyu, omitting 5,000 words below.
Early the next morning, Wang Xinyu woke up, he felt very comfortable sleeping last night, first turning the clouds and rain, and then hugging the little Lori with huge waves, it felt really wonderful.
Hundreds of miles away in the Mandarin Duck Village, the sound of cannons rumbled.
After several days of transportation, four 64-pounder mortars were finally delivered. Li Rui was ruthless, and directly used four powerful new flowering shells to launch an artillery bombardment on Yuanyang Village.
First, it was bombarded with solid shells, and after proofreading the coordinate data, it was replaced with relatively cheap ordinary flowering shells. Several rows of shells smashed down, and the fire in the stockade was in the sky, and thick smoke billowed from the sky. Although it is a relatively cheap ordinary flowering shell, the large-caliber mortar flowering shells in the Qiongzhou army are now filled with black huo medicine mixed with two percent xiaohua gan oil, and this flowering shell is still much more powerful than ordinary flowering shells.
When the shelling was launched, the owner of the village and the county commander ran into the temple of Princess Iron Fan in the village to ask Princess Iron Fan for protection.
It is said that the princess of the iron fan is very spiritual, when the Japanese invaded, the princess of the iron fan appeared, floated down from the air, scared the Japanese and fled, and protected the safety of the Mandarin Duck Village.
But this time the princess of the iron fan is gone, and the county order and the owner of the village pray that the princess of the iron fan will blow over the cannons of the Ming army, which can only be a beautiful imagination.
In the end, Li Rui ordered the firing of four high-power flowering shells.
The flowering cannonballs filled with Dana explosives fell to the ground, making a loud noise like when thousands of artillery pieces were bombarded at the same time, and a huge fireball rose in the stockade, and a powerful wave of air overturned a large area of buildings, and the people in the stockade were killed and wounded heavily.
A large section of the walled wall collapsed with a violent explosion and became a pile of ruins.
"It's broken! It's broken! The Ming army let out an excited shout.
The Ming army rushed towards the gap in groups of three with one-handed swordsmen. Before the person rushed into the gap, the grenade in his hand smashed into the stockade, blowing up the people and villagers who were arrayed inside, screaming and flying flesh and blood.
"Soldiers, hurry up and fight back!" The Qing court county order let out a hoarse roar.
But no one listened to him, and when a grenade exploded, the people were in chaos.
"Don't surrender! Ming Dog is a pack of mad dogs! If you surrender, they will kill you too! The Qing court county commander shouted.
The sword and shield men, pikemen and musketeers in the back poured into the stockade, and the neat phalanx was like a razor, and all the way through, the defeated people and the brave fell one after another. The people who did not die could no longer care about the scare of the Qing court's county order, and threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground one after another, surrendering to the Ming army.
In the blink of an eye, all the people and Lian Yong knelt down and let the Ming army tie them up like pigs and sheep.
"Defeated! Defeated! Finished! It's all over! The Mandarin Duck Village is over! Ou Ting Village is our end! The owner of the village and the county commander knelt on the ground and hugged their heads and cried.
The Ming army controlled the entire stockade, and the county commander and the owner of the village were taken prisoner.
Li Rui was not polite, and ordered the county order and the owner of the village to be pushed out, and beheaded at the gate of the village to show the public.
After executing the county order and the owner of the village, Li Rui ordered all the villagers and the people who fled from Chenghai County to be imprisoned in the village and waited for their fate.
Liu Lin is the daughter of a prominent person in Chenghai County, and when she heard the news that the army was about to attack the county, she and her father fled to Mandarin Duck Village, originally expecting that Mandarin Duck Village could protect their family. Who knew that the Ming army broke through the stockade without much effort, and they all became prisoners of the Ming army.
At this time, Liu Lin and her family were detained in a small room.
"Ready to eat!" The voice of an auxiliary soldier was heard outside.
A small window opened a crack, and a pot of roasted sweet potatoes came in through the gap. The Ming army outside said: "Hurry up and eat, after eating, you will be on the road at night!" ”
"On the road?" When Liu Juren heard these two words, he fainted on the spot. (To be continued.) )