Kuroda Kanbei didn't continue, and Tsuda Munekazu also didn't get to the bottom of it, and the two tacitly didn't talk about what they were like, because they knew that it was just speculation. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the middle of the night, Kamiya Sausei walked in with a young man with a brown face, pointed to the young man and introduced: "Two adults, his name is Shimai Clan, born in Tsushima Island, he went to Ryukyu by boat a year ago, and then used Ryukyu as a transit station to go to Ming with the fleet, back and forth for half a year, and returned to Hakata three months ago, and has been living in Hakata. ”

Historically, the Shimai clan was the same Hakata Sanjie as Kamiya Sozhan, the son of Kamiya Suseze, but unlike the Kamiya family, who were original Hakata merchants for generations, the Shimai clan came from humble backgrounds, was known for its adventurous spirit and good investment, and accumulated a huge fortune.

The current Shimai clan is still a seaman in Hakata, and because he was born in Tsushima and has close ties to the pirate merchant community of Tsushima, he was sometimes a Japanese merchant and sometimes a businessman, and this is how he earned his first money.

Kamiya Sausei pointed out that the Shimai clan has been dormant for three months, and it is not a lie.

The reason is that an encounter broke out at sea between the Shimai Party and the Yanagawa Party, where he was a party, and he accidentally killed the second son of the current leader of the Yanagawa Party, Gonbei, and had to lie dormant in Hakata.

Tsuda Sokazu glanced at the Shimai clan, frowned slightly, and said, "You tell us about what you have seen, and if you can satisfy us, the Date family will protect your safety." ”

Kuroda Kanbei also nodded yes.

Shimai Zong's face was brown and yellow, but a pair of eyes were very bright, he originally bowed his head and was silent, he heard the words of Tsuda Soji, and then thought of the respectfulness of Kamiya Shaoze, and stepped forward to bow respectfully: "The villain went to the Ryukyu Kingdom with the Tsushima people before the New Year, and the Ryukyu Kingdom is a transit point for trade between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Kingdom because of its special geographical location, and the trade is developed, known as Wanguo Jinliang." However, a few years ago, the pirates landed, and the Ryukyu Kingdom was once again divided into the three kingdoms of Shanbei, Nakayama, and Shannan. The villain stayed in the Ryukyu Kingdom for more than a month before boarding a Japanese ship, and it took more than a month to land in Quanzhou, Ming Kingdom. ”

Kuroda Kanbei's eyes flickered, and he hurriedly asked, "How is Mingguo?" ”

The Shimai clan shook his head and sighed: "The situation in the Ming Kingdom has changed abruptly, traitors have swarmed, and even the counties near Quanzhou have fallen into chaos, and the situation is very tense. ”

Tsuda Zonghe was shocked, how could he have thought that the Ming Kingdom, which had always thought that it was strong, would be in turmoil in the mouth of the Shimai clan, and rebellions broke out, and Qin lost his deer and chased them together.

Kuroda Kanbei asked eagerly, "You're not lying?" ”

The Shimai clan said bitterly: "How dare the villain, the villain was also shocked when he saw this situation that day, and he didn't know what to do, you must know that in the villain's opinion, the Ming Kingdom must be a golden country full of business opportunities, but this is all what the villain has seen with his own eyes, how prosperous Quanzhou City is, but now it has become a place of dirt and filth, and there is hunger everywhere." The villain asked the owner of the boat about his doubts, and the owner of the boat finally told the truth after some doubts. It turned out that the Ming Kingdom continued to have natural disasters, plus man-made disasters, and the living beings were ruined, so the fields were barren, and countless displaced people were produced. ”

After a pause, the Shimai clan took a sip of tea and continued: "The old owner of Wufeng was killed by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, and the new owner of the Wufeng ship rebelled in the coastal area of the Ming Kingdom in order to avenge his father. As a result, the turmoil spread to the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom, and more civilians were coerced by the rebels. This cycle repeats itself, and the situation is as bad as you can imagine. With the outbreak of the uprising in the Jiangnan region of the Ming Kingdom, the uprising of the Red Lady in Zhili, Shandong, and the uprisings in various places continued and flooded.

Two years ago, the Wufeng ship master broke through the Ying Tianfu of the Ming Kingdom, established the Great Wu Kingdom, and appointed himself the king of Wu. However, now there is not only one country in the Great Wu Kingdom, but there are more than 30 kingdoms large and small, but all of them jointly promote the Great Wu Kingdom as the leader of the alliance to jointly fight against the Ming Kingdom in the north. In fact, the strength of the Ming Kingdom is still the strongest, even the more than thirty kingdoms combined are slightly inferior to the Ming Kingdom.

It's not that the Ming Kingdom doesn't want to put out the rebellion, it's really difficult for it to do. Now the Ming State can be said to be enemies on all sides, the uprising alliance led by the Great Wu State in the south, the northern Yuankou in the Ming State often invade the border, and the Wuliangha in the northeast frontier take the opportunity to become bigger. ”

The Shimai clan is still talking.

Kuroda Kanbei suddenly interrupted the Shimai clan's statement and said, "Shimai clan, your account is refreshing to me, you immediately follow us back to the Kokura Castle camp to meet the Taisei Palace, and repeat what you just said." ”

He couldn't wait to bring the Shimai clan to Zhengheng, who would have thought that the situation in the Ming Kingdom would be so bad? As long as Zhengheng knows that the Ming State is now powerless to look eastward, embattled, and unable to rescue Korea, Ryukyu and other vassals, as long as the raw rice is cooked and matured, and wait until the Ming State divides the winners and losers again, as long as he pretends to pay tribute and gives some face to the Ming Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom will not say much.

Tsuda Munekazu also didn't expect that the Ming Kingdom would become so weak, and if the people of the Date family knew the truth that the Ming Dynasty was like a paper tiger, I am afraid that there would be another turmoil.

Tsuda Munekazu suddenly asked, "Shimai-kun, why does the ship's owner know so many military secrets?" ”

Kuroda Kanbei also looked at the Shimai clan, yes, a Japanese who came and went to the maritime merchants knew so much, just now he was too happy, and he didn't even notice any obvious loopholes, damn it, it wouldn't be the Shimai clan who deceived them with lies, his eyes were cold.

The Shimai clan said bitterly: "The Great Wu Kingdom comes from the Wufeng Shipowner Group, and it is inevitable that it is full of a large number of ronin evil parties, although most of them are engaged in low-level generals, but there are also many people who have climbed to the top. The backer of this shipowner was the lord of Quanzhou City in the Great Wu Kingdom, and the villain claimed to be the deputy envoy of the Kyushu Dayou's family, so he heard the details from their mouths, but he left in a hurry for fear of being exposed. ”

Tsuda Zonghe and Kuroda Kanbei glanced at each other, and they all knew that what the Shimai clan said should be true, as long as they sent a ship to the Ming Kingdom to find out the truth or falsehood, in this way, the Shimai clan was even more important.

Tsuda Muneki, Kuroda Kanbei took Shimai Mune, Kamiya Sakure and others back to the Ogura Castle camp overnight.

On the other side of Dazaifu, a huge military camp rises from the ground, and in the core tent of the military camp, Kiyokawa Hengxiu took out a huge silk cloth and spread it on the ground, and the silk cloth has drawings of various colors, which is a very detailed map covering the entire three kingdoms of Chikuzen, Hizen, and Chikugo.