Chapter 900: Sophistry
In fact, before coming to Xiaoliuqiu Island, Aoki Akiyoshi was quite confident in his trip, after all, Aoki Akishin still has tens of thousands of Japanese who obey his orders, and they are still entrenched on the islands of Great Ryukyu Island and Kyushu Island in the Japanese Kingdom, and they have a lot of strength.
Wandering people like Aoki Mingxin who were wandering overseas, successive dynasties would usually take the form of appeasement to deal with them, giving Aoki Mingxin a name and letting him work for the imperial court, so that he could control them.
As for whether Aoki Mingxin will be evil again after accepting the court's appeasement, this is not a matter of concern to the court, as long as he can do things for the court carefully, then the court will turn a blind eye to some of his violations of law and discipline.
Aoki Mingxin now means this, hoping to smuggle at sea under the banner of the imperial court, of course, he will also take out a sum of money to check up and down, and solve the problems that may be encountered at sea for Daming.
In Aoki Mingyi's view, if Aoki Mingxin is appeased by Li Yuntian, it will be a great achievement for Li Yuntian, and it will save the two sides from fighting each other, which can be described as a great joy, why not do it?
However, since arriving at the port of Xiaoliuqiu, especially after Wu Ziyan refused to accept the priceless and precious cat's eye gem, Aoki Akiyoshi vaguely felt that the situation was out of his control.
Now seeing Li Yuntian looking at the letter written by Aoki Mingxin with a normal face, Aoki Mingyi's heart suddenly hung up, and a person like Li Yuntian who was invisible, was the most difficult to deal with, because he didn't know what Li Yuntian was thinking in his heart, so naturally there was no way to deal with it.
"You also think that Aoki Mingxin is the hero of my Ming Dynasty's defense against the Japanese invaders?" After reading the letter, Li Yuntian pondered for a moment and asked Aoki Mingyi quietly.
"Lord Wang, although it is rumored in the outside world that the villain's brother attacked the coastal counties of Daming, but it is all a lie, the elder brother is keen on maritime business, and has never harassed the coastal people.
Although he had expected in advance that Li Yuntian's attitude might be cold, and he had already been mentally prepared, he still felt an inexplicable panic when he faced Li Yuntian, and hurriedly bowed down and explained, "The villain doesn't dare to say that the villain's brother is the hero of the Hell Wokou, but several big pirates that used to run rampant along the Daming coast were all destroyed by the villain's brother. ”
Li Yuntian suddenly sneered in his heart when he heard this, if it weren't for colluding with the Ming local government, the guard and other Japanese to eliminate those big Japanese invaders, Aoki Mingxin would not have become the current momentum, not so much that he was for the Ming Imperial Palace, but for his own selfish interests.
If he had been a messenger sent by other Japanese leaders, Li Yuntian would not have seen Aoki Mingyi at all, but Aoki Mingxin was different, he had been at sea for twenty or thirty years, and he could be described as an out-and-out king of pirates, and had important influence on Ryukyu Island and Kyushu Island in the Wa Kingdom, so how to deal with Aoki Mingxin became a tricky matter.
According to Li Yuntian's plan, he must have wanted to bring to justice the leaders of the great Japanese invaders like Aoki Mingxin and Yamami Mitsutaka, so that he could truly pacify the Japanese who caused disaster along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time gave an explanation to the imperial court.
If Aoki Akishin and Yamakai Mitsutaka had simply relied on the Japanese to smuggle at sea, Li Yuntian would definitely have opened the net, in his opinion, the sea ban was too harsh, and sea smuggling was a last resort.
However, the mistake of the two was that they attacked and harassed the coastal prefectures and counties of Daming, burning, killing and looting, which had touched the bottom line in Li Yuntian's heart, so they must be severely punished.
But then again, Aoki Mingxin and Shanhai Mitsutaka are the Ming people in the final analysis, and they became Japanese criminals for various reasons, although they should die, but Li Yuntian's next step is to deal with the Japanese country, and both of them have a certain amount of power in the Japanese country, if they can be properly used, they can help Li Yuntian a lot.
In particular, Aoki Akishin has his own territory of influence on Kyushu Island with the huge profits from sea smuggling, and his identity and status are no different from those of the daimyo of Wakoku.
Therefore, in the face of the issue of Aoki Mingxin and Shanhai Mitsutaka, Li Yuntian's attitude has changed, and he no longer thinks about arresting the two of them, but thinking about how to control the two to work for Daming.
To be honest, it is not easy to capture Aoki Akishin and Yamakai Mitsutaka, both of whom have bases in the Wa Kingdom and Nanyang, and are familiar with the sea conditions, they will definitely be exiled, and it will be difficult to capture them.
In fact, Li Yuntian knew that the reason that really forced Aoki Mingxin to sue for peace was not that the Ming army and sailors captured Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island, but that the imperial court opened the coastal fishing ban so that the fishermen could go out to sea to fish, so that they would have a livelihood and would no longer help the Japanese to do things.
Without the help and cover of the coastal people, it was difficult for Aoki Akishin to do the business of smuggling by sea, which made him have to bow to Li Yuntian in order to seek a way out.
"This king will find out what you said, and when Aoki Akiyoshi recovers from his illness, he will come and explain to this king in person." While Aoki Akiyoshi waited anxiously, Li Yuntian pondered for a while and then said to him quietly.
"The villain has written it down, and he must bring the words of the prince." Aoki Mingyi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart when he heard this, although Li Yuntian's attitude still seemed a little tough, but his tone was relaxed, otherwise he would not have let Aoki Mingxin come to see him.
Aoki Mingyi didn't think that Li Yuntian would use this to trap Aoki Mingxin, as a loyal and powerful king of the Ming Dynasty, but a two-rank jinshi of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuntian would definitely not use this kind of unruly means to deal with Aoki Mingxin, in that case would undoubtedly make his statement humiliating.
"You go down first, this king still has official business to deal with." Li Yuntian bowed slightly when he heard this, and then picked up the previous official document and read it.
"The villain quits." Aoki Mingyi hurriedly kowtowed to Li Yuntian, and walked out of the room with his body backwards.
After leaving the living room, Aoki Mingyi's bent waist straightened up, and he felt a cold feeling on his back, it turned out that his back had been wet with cold sweat unconsciously, and Li Yuntian had given him huge psychological pressure in the short period of time just now.
Aoki Mingyi never imagined that Li Yuntian could give him such a great coercion, so he turned his head and glanced at Li Yuntian who was sitting in the living room, and quickly followed Wu Ziyan away.
"Come on, get ready, this king is going to Fuzhou Mansion!" Soon after Aoki Mingyi left, Li Yuntian frowned and put down the official document in his hand, and said in a deep voice to the guards standing on the side.
The incident that occurred in the Xingdu Division of Fujian Province in which the military attache of the guard station prevented the military households from moving to Xiaoliuqiu Island was too bad, and it was quite a representative example of many similar incidents, since the other party wanted to provoke the majesty of the imperial court without knowing whether he was alive or dead, then do not blame him for being polite.
In the afternoon of the next day, Fuzhou Port.
The port of Fuzhou is the station of the Fuzhou City Bosi, which was set up specifically for the tribute of the Great Ryukyu Island, which is commonly known as the Ryukyus.
The three-masted warship of the Ming Yang slowly docked on the shore, because in recent days, there are often ships of the Ming army sailors entering and leaving the port, so the people who are busy in the port do not pay any attention to this new warship of the Ming army sailors.
Li Yuntian, dressed in a major military uniform, walked down the boat slowly, because he was mixed with other military attachés, he was not conspicuous at all, and no one would have thought that this tall and handsome young military attache was the famous Zhongwu King.
The military attache of the Fuzhou Division of the Jiangwutang had already greeted him on the dock and took Li Yuntian and his party to the office of the Jiangwutang in Fuzhou City.
As early as a few years ago, Jiangwutang has placed a lot of properties in Fuzhou City, the most important of which is undoubtedly real estate.
At the present stage, the primary purpose of the Jiangwutang Division is to coordinate various matters between Xiaoliuqiu Island and the Fujian Third Division, and the materials and personnel transported from Fuzhou Port to Xiaoliuqiu Island are handled by them, which can be described as a busy official business.
In a small courtyard with an elegant environment in the backyard of the Fuzhou Division.
"I can't go to meet the prince, please forgive the prince." A military attache dressed in a colonel's uniform walked briskly into a side room and bowed to Li Yuntian, who was sitting behind a desk looking at official documents.
The person who came was Song Renjie, the secretary of the Fuzhou Division of Jiangwutang, a military attache who graduated from the first phase of Jiangwutang, and a person from Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangxi.
Song Renjie didn't know that Li Yuntian was coming, so he went to the Fuzhou Mansion to do business today, and only after he came back did he know that Li Yuntian was coming, so he hurriedly came to visit.
"This king is a private visit to Weifu this time, and I don't want to alarm the outside world." Li Yuntian put down the official document in his hand, smiled at Song Renjie and said.
Song Renjie has been conscientious since he served in the Fuzhou Division, and recently he has been working hard for the affairs of Xiaoliuqiu Island, and Li Yuntian has been very important to him.
"I don't know how the humble position can serve the prince?" Hearing that Li Yuntian came to Weifu for a private visit, Song Renjie couldn't help but be taken aback in his heart, but he knew that the affairs on Xiaoliuqiu Island were the busiest time now, and it was obviously not a good thing for Li Yuntian to come here at this time, so he asked with a stern expression.
This is where Song Renjie is stable, he didn't ask Li Yuntian why he came this time, he just asked Li Yuntian for his life.
"What do you think of the conflict in Fuzhou Xingdusi?" Li Yuntian stretched out his hand and motioned for Song Renjie to sit down on the seat next to him, and asked quietly.
"Lord Wang, as far as I know, it is Yan Zhong, the brother-in-law of Yang Yu, the commander of Jianning's right guard, who prevented those military households from leaving, on the grounds that those military households owe him money."
Song Renjie, as the highest resident military attache of the Wutang in Fujian, naturally knew everything about what was happening in Fujian, and knew what Li Yuntian was asking as soon as he heard it, so he sat on the chair and turned sideways to face Li Yuntian and said, "As far as the lowly officials know, those military households expressed their willingness to write down the note and will definitely repay this debt in the future, but Yan Zhong ignored it and insisted that they should pay off the money now, and as a result, a conflict broke out between the two sides. ”
A sneer flashed at the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth when he heard this, he knew very well how those so-called debts came from, it seemed that Yan Zhong was a very greedy guy, and he wanted to enslave those military households all the time and ignore the laws of the Ming Dynasty, it was really hateful!