The content in the book finally solved the doubts in Zhengheng's heart, probably understood the ins and outs of the whole thing, and also knew the purpose of the red lady's coming. He slowly spoke: "Wang Zhiwen is about to be killed, what will you tell me about the old ministers who will fight the world with him, and what else can they do?" ”

After a little hesitation, the general secretary of Kusama replied in a low voice: "Fight for power and profit, and fight for the inheritance left by Wang Zhi." The Wang Zhi clique controls the seas, and its wealth is coveted, and the Wang Zhi clique is more like an alliance, in which the leaders are all smugglers, large and small, who can steal food and eat at sea, all of them are unruly. The Tang people have been good at intrigue since ancient times, Wang Zhi asked to behead, except for his descendants who wanted to rescue, most of the rest would rob Wang Zhi of the inheritance. ”

Hattori Masanari nodded slightly and said: "Now the Wang Zhi Group has been divided into several groups, and this red lady is one of them, but they don't know that she will come, and they say that they are here to borrow a few people from the lord for use, what is the purpose?" ”

Zhengheng slowly stood still, considered his rhetoric for a while, and then said: "Our adopted son system has a long history, which continues to this day, even if there are children in a family itself, there are often adopted sons with different surnames or sons-in-law, this characteristic makes our family not stick to blood, but as an interest group can seek better development, these adopted sons have the opportunity to inherit the adoptive father's family business, and can also be recognized by everyone." In the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, this is a kind of rebellion, in their eyes the bloodline is supreme, they adopt adopted sons to inherit the family business mainly for the sake of inheritance, that is to say, in the case of no queen to make up for the lack of blood, and at the same time to maintain the purity of the family academy. It is common to adopt the children of other brothers from the same family, that is, to follow the principle of not raising children with different surnames. ”

Kusama General Secretary and Hattori Masanari looked at Masahiro with a little puzzlement, in their eyes, the son of sisters often inherited the family business as a legitimate adopted son, and in the troubled times of the Warring States, adopting an adopted son was a political means. It doesn't matter whether the surname is different or not, and there are many examples of adopted sons with different surnames inheriting the family business of their adoptive fathers, and this kind of thing has become commonplace. In the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, the supreme blood relationship was subordinated to the needs of the family business.

Slowly sat on the stone bench in the courtyard, muttered for a while, and Zheng Heng continued: "Whether it is Wang Ao or the Red Lady, they are all Wang Zhi's adopted sons, and the adopted sons have no inheritance in the eyes of the Ming people. It is this group of people in the Wang Zhi Group who want Wang Zhi to live. They wanted to rescue Wang Zhi, because they knew that once Wang Zhi was killed, they would be devoured by the so-called old ministers who were greedy and fought the world with Wang Zhi, leaving no trace. "Wang Ao is the name that Mao Haifeng changed after he became Wang Zhi's adopted son.

Zhengheng pondered for a moment and said: "It doesn't matter if Wang Zhi goes to the meeting alone, or he throws himself into the net." He should have made some decisions before he went, Wang Ao should have been cultivated by Wang Zhi as an heir, so Wang Ao would attack all along the coast at all costs. The way he can rescue Wang Zhi is very limited, and it is difficult to rob him from a tight death row. What's more, the Ming Dynasty officials will not sit back and wait for the Wang Zhi group to rob the prison, they will definitely be locked up in secret, and no one will easily know where he is. Then the only way left for Wang Ao is to force the official to submit, and due to my family's Hachiman ship ban, a large number of bankrupt samurai and ronin defected to them, which greatly increased Wang Ao's strength. ”

"Wang Zhi is a hero. On the one hand, he wanted Wang Ao to be his heir, and on the other hand, he supported other adopted sons against Wang Ao to maintain his rule, and he knew that after landing on the mainland, he would inevitably be subject to official restrictions everywhere, and he did not want to be deprived of his power when he returned to the sea. I don't know if he doesn't know that Ming Court has always been treacherous. I still believe that Ming Ting will be able to retreat even if he goes back on his word, saying that he is bold, or too rigid and self-serving, anyway, he will not survive this year. ”

"Wang Ao ravaged the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, looting property to enhance his strength, and other adopted sons wanted to fight against Wang Ao stealing Wang Zhi's group, so they had to seek foreign aid. Those old ministers of the Wang Zhi Group who follow Wang Zhi to fight the world together, or who have long been ambitious, are also willing to see a Wang Zhi who restricts their wanton behavior everywhere be beheaded, so that Wang Ao can inherit the Wang Zhi Group, Wang Ao is not Wang Zhi, he does not have Wang Zhi's courage and charm, and the Wang Zhi Group will go downhill and eventually be replaced by other forces. Then the foreign aid targets they can look for are very limited, and the purpose of the red lady's visit is self-evident. ”

Zheng Heng sneered: "The red lady has a good idea, the fox is pretending to be a tiger, taking advantage of the general trend of the Wang Zhi group to oppress us, and then force us to enter their battle step by step." Wang Ao is now commanding operations along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and he may not know about it, nor may he have the heart to know that there is no relationship between us and the Red Lady, but as long as the Red Lady borrows a few people from me, he can make people within the Wang Zhi Group believe that we have reached an agreement with her and support her against Wang Ao. ”

Kusama General Division and Hattori Masanari were shocked, they never thought that the red lady would hide such a deep purpose behind it, and it was really a thing that outweighed the loss to get caught up in the internal struggle of the Wang Zhi group, and there were also not enough benefits.

Interests, what kind of benefits can the Date family obtain in the internal struggle of the Wang Zhi Group? Zheng Heng's smile gradually retracted, and he fell into deep thought, he wanted to find some points of interest in it, knowing that Wang Zhiwen's beheading was the beginning of the drastic changes in East Asia in the next ten years.

You must know that under the constraints of Wang Zhi and the hints of local officials acquiescing to the private market, he took the initiative to cooperate with the government and worked very hard to pacify Chen Sipan and other pirates who burned, killed and looted, maintained coastal order, gradually established his position as the supremacy of the sea, and tried to rebuild the prosperity of Shuangyu Port in Zhoushan Ligang. It was the perfidy of the Ming court again and again that led to the fact that there was no place for peaceful maritime merchants in the coastal areas of the two Zhejiang provinces, and it allowed countless maritime merchants to embark on the road of Japanese robbers.

Until Wang Zhi's death, although there were repeated exchanges, and the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty were also harassed by small-scale Japanese raids, to a certain extent, Wang Zhi also tried to maintain the road of peace, and he went to the meeting to meet Hu Zongxian alone. However, the ten years after Wang Zhiwen's beheading was the decade when the Japanese were most rampant, and Fujian and Guangzhou became the hardest hit areas of the Japanese invaders.

Zhengheng clenched his fists, his eyes gloomy. With a layer of haze on his face, obviously he couldn't think of any benefits he could get from it, once he fell into it, not only would Shangluo's road to the world be cut off, but it would also provoke Wang Ao's counterattack, which would really do more harm than good. Something suddenly occurred to him. asked, "Are those two Tang people still alive?" ”

Kusama replied, "It's alive." ”

Zheng Heng nodded slightly, as if he had made up his mind, and said: "Kusama, you ordered someone to send those two Tang people to Nawu, the crime is to forcibly break into the house and hold hands wantonly, don't say anything else, I think she will know the intention." ”

Nawu.

The red lady looked at a small police leader with a white belt on her head, a black kimono, and a single knife hanging from her waist talking in front of her. Nonsense, behind him there are two unrecognizable prisoners who are tied behind his body with ropes, and more than two dozen policemen in the same costume, of course, there are also a lot of people who are lively.

The owner of Naya, Imai Munehisa, had an extremely ugly face, he knew that there must be the Date family behind this matter, and he would not believe that the two pirates in front of him would not be unlucky enough to break into the house, and they were beaten so miserably, he glanced at the red lady. A few silver convictions were brought from the counter and handed them to the police chief. As compensation, the police boss got cheap and scolded the two Tang people fiercely, and then left with all the policemen in a grand manner.

The red lady looked at the two offended entourages, and when the two stepped forward to ask for sin, she raised her hand to be two big slaps, which made the eyes of the two of them look like gold stars. I was so aggrieved that tears almost fell, and I hated the Date family who made them suffer even more, but when I thought of the punishment I received yesterday, I felt fear from the bottom of my heart.

After the red lady slapped her twice, she ordered someone to take the two down. Hate said: "What a Date Zhengheng, a good Date one-eyed dragon, he actually saw through the clues from the clues, he is demonstrating to me again, making me retreat." ”

Although the leader of the entourage does not know the real purpose of her coming here, but he also knows the thoughts of the Red Lady, he has followed the Red Lady for many years, and knows that there is no way out, once Wang Ao inherits the Wang Zhi Group, they have only a dead end, and asked: "Red Lady, do you still want to go to the post?" ”

The red lady shook her hand and said, "He sent Wei San and Liu Si to warn me and let me retreat, if I don't know each other, he is afraid that he will put me under house arrest, and then send him to Hirado Port, and hand over my good brother." ”

Cage hand Tian Anchang hurried back, his words verified the judgment of the red lady, and said: "Red lady, there are suddenly many police patrols outside. The words of one of his cronies speak for themselves: "Red lady, there are layers of dark sentinels outside the house. ”

Everyone looked at the Red Lady, hoping that she would be able to make a judgment, knowing that these people all had their own interests, and the guards, like their leaders, could only go one way to the dark. Cage hand Yasumasa, to be exact, his master Matsuura Takanobu doesn't want to be a puppet anymore. Once Wang Ao inherited the Wang Zhi Group, then Matsuura Takanobu's life was even more sad than when Wang Zhi was in power, you must know that Wang Zhi also knew the truth that he could not kill chickens and take eggs, and regarded Hirado Port as an industrial operation. If Wang Ao wants to inherit the Wang Zhi group, he can only take over the various people of the Wang Zhi group in the name of avenging Wang Zhi, so that a lot of wealth will be needed to fight the army, and the proceeds of the plunder will have to be grabbed from the port of Hirado.

The red lady frowned and thought for a long time, she thought that women did not let the eyebrows be shaved, and she didn't know how powerful she was talking on paper.

The red lady said slowly: "This matter needs to be considered in the long run, since he does not welcome our arrival, then we just leave." She wanted to hold on, but she knew she had to give her followers a sense of self-confidence, but a small setback today had made her feel like her confidence had crumbled a bit. When she said the words of admitting defeat, everyone's expressions changed subtly, but the red lady, who had lost her mind, was not keenly aware of these changes.

For Imai Munehisa, the fire of Sakai Port destroyed a lot of his wealth, and if he wants to restore the glory of Naya, he must find a backer who can shelter him and have a future in development.

Date Masahiro, who was originally close at hand, was his ideal backer, but his business content was similar to that of Tsuda Soda of Tennojiya, and Tsuda Soda and Tennojiya had defected to the Date family since seven or eight years ago, so it can be said that Tennoji House itself was the property of the Date family, and it was only entrusted to Tsuda Soda to run it.

Tennoji House is an insurmountable obstacle, and the appearance of the Red Lady gives Imai Munehisa a second choice. He did not hesitate to choose to take refuge in the Red Lady, in his eyes, the Red Lady represents the Wang Zhi Japanese Kou Group, and taking refuge in the Red Lady is to take refuge in Wang Zhi. As long as Wang Zhi leaks a little bit of debris, he can feed the house, he didn't expect that the red lady would want to confront Wang Ao, he knew that if he wanted to get out of the whirlpool, he would either go to Wang Ao to seek refuge, but Wang Ao was thousands of miles away, so he had to go to Okayama City to ask for guilt.

Cage hand Tian Anchang saw the weakness of the red lady, he originally thought that since the red lady stood up to fight with Wang Ao, she must have her strength, but he never thought that it would be so vulnerable, he decided that after returning, he must persuade the lord Matsuura Takanobu not to be involved with the red lady again, and at the same time should befriend the Date family.

Everyone has everyone's thoughts, the wall is down and everyone pushes it, the battle between the Red Lady and Wang Ao will end because of the complete defeat of the Red Lady, the reason why the Red Lady came to Okayama Castle is nothing more than to ask for an alliance with the Date family, and collude with the Date family. She knew that she could not shake Wang Ao only by relying on the power she controlled, and only by colluding with the powerful warlords of the Japanese State and using the powerful warlords of the Japanese State to confront Wang Ao could she have the opportunity to control the port of Hirado, and then the opportunity to control the Wang Zhi Japanese Bandit group.

As for whether the Red Lady colluded with the Japanese State to evolve into a wreaking havoc on the southeast coast, and whether she would become the leading party of the Japanese Invaders, this is not within the scope of her thinking, as long as she sits in the position of the boss of the Wang Zhi Japanese Bandit Group, she can care whether the Ming Dynasty will not be destroyed by it. (To be continued.) )