After hearing Wang Hai's confirmed reply, his conscience was churning.

Who is Wang Zhi? He is a very controversial person in the history of the Ming Kingdom, and those who admire him say that he is the One Piece King of the Sea, so that the people of the Wa Kingdom bow down to him; Those who criticized him scolded him for being a dog thief, because he organized the Japanese to cause trouble along the coast of the Ming Kingdom. Zhengliang couldn't help but think of Wang Zhi's profile.

"The Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty? Volume 55 contains: "When the Japanese invaded the islands, they invaded Suzhou, Chongming, killed the residents, plundered the goods, and the coastal areas were all afflicted. In March of the second year of Hongwu (1369), Zhu Yuanzhang sent a pedestrian Yang Zai to Japan, "give the seal book, let Wang Yuan Huailiang", and asked the reason for Kou Luo's coastal China, saying: "It is advisable to come to the court, not to repair the army and consolidate itself." If it must be a thief, he will be ordered to recruit the group to collect the ear, and the king will plan it. "But the Japanese king Lianghuai was suspicious and fearful, and refused to obey the order, and the Mongols tasted my good words, and followed the attack with soldiers, and there was no China after Song and Zhao. Continue to take advantage of Shandong, Fujian, and rob the coastal residents of Wenzhou, Taizhou, and Mingzhou.

One Piece is called Wufeng, and he is a native of She County, Huizhou Prefecture. Wang Zhi was born into a merchant family. According to Wanli's "Chronicles", according to legend, when Wang Zhi was born, his mother Wang had dreamed that a star fell from the sky into his arms, and there was a person wearing a high hat next to the star. "Not long after, it snowed heavily and the grass and trees froze. Wang Zhizhi was secretly happy in his heart after knowing this sign: "The stars are in the arms, and the extraordinary fetus is also; Grass and ice, soldiers and elephants. Heaven will order me to show up with force? As a result, Wang Zhi, who was young and unambitious, began to have close contacts with some uneasy local people such as Ye Zongman, Xu Weixue, Xie He, and Fang Tingzhu. Wang Zhi once said to these accomplices: China's laws are too strict, the slightest action will touch the law, and the imperial examination is only open to those who are full of sour scholars, why don't we go overseas and wander around, only trapped in this small "handful of soil" What can we do? So in the nineteenth year of Jiajing (1540), together with Xu Weixue, Ye Zongman and others, he took advantage of the relaxation of the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban to go to the coast of Guangdong to build a giant ship, yes, it was very difficult at that time. The Ming Dynasty strictly forbade the delivery of sulfur, silk cotton and other items to Japan, Siam and other countries to trade and make huge profits. In just 5 or 6 years, Wang Zhi gained a huge amount of capital and became an upstart in the forbidden trade, known as the "Wufeng Ship Owner". At that time, there were two main Fujian and Zhejiang commercial groups active in the sea, one was headed by Li Guangtou, a Fujian man, and the other was headed by Xu Dong of She County, Huizhou Prefecture. Xu Dong's business group initially cooperated with Portugal, and later Japanese private businessmen moved in. Wang Zhi and Xu Dong were fellow villagers, so they joined his business group. After Xu Dong and Li Guangtou were successively exterminated by the Ming army for engaging in piracy, Wang Zhi established himself as the owner of the ship and became the leader of the exile merchant group. After continuous conquest and private collusion with local officials in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Zhi gradually gained a monopoly position in the maritime trade between China and Japan, and all new ships entering the sea could only dare to sail on the sea under the banner of "Five Peaks". The actions of the Wang Zhi clique attracted the attention of the central government of the Ming Dynasty, and the government successively sent Zhu Kun and others to wipe out the armed forces of the displaced people along the coast of Zhejiang. They sent troops to attack Wang Zhi on two fronts, and Wang Zhi had no choice but to move his base to Japan.

The foreign trade policies of the Japanese princes provided Wang Zhi with good conditions for guest residence. Wang Zhi was good at winning over and making friends, and won the trust of many Japanese, he settled in Hirado, Japan (now belonging to Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan), hung up the banner of "King Hui", and used Hirado as a base to absorb the anti-Ming forces, not only recruiting domestic outlaws, but also using huge sums of money to collude with Taro, Jiro, Shisuke Shiro, etc., of the Japanese True Wamen as wings, and using the Japanese ronin to launch many cross-sea attacks on China's coastal areas.

In the thirty-first year of Jiajing (1552), Wang Zhi annexed the headquarters of Chen Sipan, the pirate leader of Guangdong. In February of the same year, Wang Zhichuan ordered the Japanese to break into the Dinghai Customs and move to Liegang in Jintang. In April, the Japanese chieftains of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian Province colluded with Wang Zhi and others, and led tens of thousands of Japanese and rebellious people to sail more than 1,000 ships from Zhoushan, Xiangshan, and other places in Zhejiang Province to land on the shore, and plundered Taiwan, Wenzhou, Ning, and Shao, captured the city fortress, and killed and plundered countless residents. In March of the following year, Wang Zhiji gathered pirates from Zhangzhou in Fujian Province and Guangdong Province and Japanese pirates from all walks of life to invade on a large scale, and more than 100 ships came to cover the sea. From Taizhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Suzhou and Songjiang in the south, to Huaibei in the north, thousands of miles along the coast are in an emergency at the same time. The next day, Wang Zhi and others captured Changguowei in Zhejiang (now the government of Changguo Township, Xiangshan, Zhejiang), invaded Suzhou and Songjiang in April, broke through Shanghai County, plundered Jiangyin, and attacked Zhapu. In August, they sacked Jinshanwei and committed Chongming, Changshu and Jiading. In the first month of the thirty-third year (1554), he burned and plundered all the way from Taicang to Suzhou and captured Songjiang. In April, Jiashan was captured, Chongming was broken, and Chongde County was entered. In June, he arrived in Jiaxing via Wujiang, sacked and returned to Tunzhelin. Since then, Wang Zhi's pirate group has completely embarked on the path of colluding with the Japanese to plunder the wealth of China's southeastern coastal areas and kill the Chinese people, and has become a pirate giant in the Jiajing period. …,

It is undeniable that the Ming court's policy of banning the sea and purging the operation greatly restricted the maritime trade activities of Wang Zhi and others, and also restricted the survival and financial routes of the coastal residents and even some maritime merchants, causing dissatisfaction and rebellion among these people, who combined with the Japanese who plundered the southeast coast of China, and became a major problem for the Ming rulers. In April of the 33rd year of Jiajing (1554), Hu Zongxian, a native of Jixi County, Huizhou Prefecture, was appointed as the governor of Zhejiang. After that, with the advancement of the Anti-Japanese War, Hu Zongxian was appointed by the imperial court as the Zuo Shilang of the Military Department and the Imperial History of the Zuo Tuo of the Imperial Procuratorate, the military affairs of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fu and other places, and concurrently served as the governor of Zhejiang, focusing on the important task of resisting the Japanese in the southeast coast. In the 35th year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1556), Wang Zhi sent a message to the Ming court, expressing his willingness to obey orders and assist in the eradication of displaced people from all parts of Songjiang, and hoped to exchange this for the Ming government's promise to open up coastal trade. Hu Zongxian deliberately created an atmosphere of peace between the two sides and ensnared Wang Zhi. Due to the tense situation along the coast at that time, Hu Zongxian did not dare to kill Wang Zhi rashly, allowed him to live, and put him under house arrest in Hangzhou for more than two years. On December 25, the 38th year of Jiajing (1559), Wang Zhi was executed by the Ming court.

Now pinching your fingers, isn't it exactly 1540? It seems that this time it was Wang Zhi's first voyage to the Wa Kingdom for trade. Now Wang Zhi is just a small person, it is a good time to make friends with him, if he is the king and hegemonic in the future, he will not look down on the little shrimp of the Luo family. Moreover, Zhengliang also wanted to take the opportunity to find a way to influence some of Wang Zhi's practices in the future. In fact, Wang Zhi was bent on returning to the arms of the Ming Dynasty, but at this time, there were too many corrupt Confucianism in the court, so that he repeatedly ran into a wall and was desperate, so he finally chose to threaten the court by organizing pirates to loot the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty.

"Wang Hai, where is your fleet expected to dock?" Thinking of this, Masashi continued to ask.

"My lord, I heard from the owner of the ship that this time the ship is going to dock at a place called Hirado, and there is a Japanese man on our ship, and this time he is in charge of piloting," Wang Hai replied.

Is that really the case? It seems that Wang Hai settled in Hirado for a long time in the future, probably because it was the first landing point of his maiden voyage, and it was also close to the coastal area of the Ming Kingdom, which was convenient for the transit of goods, and more importantly, the Hirado Matsuura clan there had a good friendship with him. Thinking of the Hirado Matsuura clan, Masara couldn't help frowning. According to the course of history, Hirado Matsuura would soon be under pressure to temporarily submit to the power of the Hakata family, and then use the trade with the Ming Dynasty and later the Nanban to secretly develop, and eventually replace the Hakata family as the leader of the Matsuura Party in Higashimatsunura County. It seems that no matter what, the Luo family has to find a way to get a piece of the pie, and you must know that to strengthen yourself is to weaken potential enemies.

"Wang Hai, I will send someone to send you back to your fleet, and then ask you to convey the meaning of the Luo family's desire to trade with your shipowner, I wonder what you think?" Masara said.

"My lord, the villain must bring the goodwill of the adult to the shipowner. Adult, you are really the reborn parent of the villain, the grace of saving life, the villain will remember it in his heart" Wang Hai knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhengliang a few times after speaking. He was happy that after escaping death, he finally had a way to return to the fleet.

"Okay, Sun Goro, I'll leave this matter to you. Be sure to send him back to the Ming fleet, and after getting the results of his deliberations on the Ming fleet, he will come back immediately and report to him," Masato commanded.

"Yes, Your Highness. There are people in the navy who are familiar with the waters in that area, please rest assured, Your Highness will promise to send him back to the Ming country's fleet safely," Sun Goro, the general of the navy, bowed and saluted.

So, after a full meal, Wang Hai embarked on the return journey back to the Ming fleet. Wang Hai went for an afternoon, and in the evening, a Luo family sailor who traveled with Wang Hai returned alone to report the progress to Zhengliang. …,

"My lord, the villain has escorted the Ming man back to the Ming country's fleet," Ashigaru reported.

"Oh? Where did you find the Ming team? Masari asked.

"The villain first drove to the sea area where the Ming fleet encountered a typhoon last night, but there were no more ships there. Later, we sailed directly to the port of Hirado, where we saw the Ming ships that were already unloading supplies to the docks. That Mingkoku-sama originally wanted to find the owner of the Mingguo ship directly, but our Kohaya was stopped near the dock by the pirate Shiro who belonged to the Matsuura family", Ashigaru said angrily.

Shiro? Isn't it the same as the Japanese who followed Wang Zhi as a disaster on the coast of the Ming Kingdom in the future? Hmph, it looks like you have to get rid of it. Thinking of this, Masaro continued to ask, "The sea area where this Shisuke Shiro is active is generally in that sea area?" ”

"My lord, Nashiro was originally a group of small pirates in Karatsu Bay, and was later driven out of Karatsu Bay by the naval forces of the Hakata family and the Yobuko family, so he took refuge in the Matsuura family, and now he is mainly active in the area of Takashima and Kuroshima," Ashigaru replied.

"Well, I know about it. Now let's talk about what happened next, shall we? Masarashi nodded and motioned for Ashigaru to continue.

"Later, it was the Lord of the Ming Kingdom who came forward to explain and was confirmed by the people of the Ming State fleet that we were able to get close to the dock. After returning to the Ming fleet, Lord Sun Goro first asked the villain to come back and report to the adult, and the villain didn't know the rest of the matter", Ashigaru reported.

"Very good, you go down and rest" Masarashi waved his hand and motioned for Ashigaru to go down and rest. Looking at the back of Ashigaru leaving, Masara pondered, it seems that this cooperation must not be as smooth as expected.

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