At the beginning of the twelfth year of Chongguan, the Goryeo army, including foot soldiers and sailors, under the personal leadership of the state minister Zuo Jing, braved the severe cold weather of early spring to travel long distances from the snow-covered northern counties, or drove boats and boats, and successively assembled in the southwestern Haiyang county.

By the beginning of February, more than 20,000 Shuibu troops had been concentrated in Haiyang, and they planned to cross Hainan to conquer Danluo.

The Danluo people are also fierce soldiers on the island, actively preparing for war, and preparing to fight a war to defend their homeland and country.

The strength of the Danluo Wang's army increased from less than 1,000 men in the two battalions before the war to nearly 4,000 in the six battalions in early February.

At the same time, the Li clan of the Danluo royal family, from the Saga clan of Fuso Chikushi Province, took over Matsuura, Hirado, Goto and other places in the northern part of Kyushu Island, and established the Toshu Governorate.

The Danluo royal family appointed Chi Zhou as the governor of Dongzhou, Nagasaki Xiuxiang as the deputy governor, and Yan Baishan as the governor of the prefecture.

Danluo newly set up a naval division, and newly attached Wudao Kou soldiers were assigned to the first, second, and third battalions of the Danluo Wangjun Naval Division, and Ren Chizhou was the commander of the Wangjun Naval Division.

The Toshu Governor's Office leased Fukue Island and Kuga Island to the Huaidong Military Division to establish a free trade port. The garrison of the free trade port, as well as civil affairs and commercial affairs, are all controlled by the Jeju Inspection Department.

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Although the Danluo royal family had limited control over the Dongzhou Governorate, they did not have to bear any obligations, and they could still receive a considerable amount of tribute tax revenue every year; What is the royal family unhappy with such an arrangement?

Chi Zhou became the biggest beneficiary of this assassination, clearing his identity as the leader of the Wudao pirates, and became the governor of Dongzhou in Danluo State, officially having the right to govern a place. The Chi family is also a natural Haikou family, and it has transformed into a big family and a big family in Dongzhou.

This kind of whitewashing of identity, and even the power to rule and control a larger region, is undoubtedly a big pie in the sky for Chi Zhou, and it is exactly what Chi Zhou has been dreaming of for a long time.

Although Chi Zhou ceded Kuga Island, he won Matsuura and Hirado for nothing, which was enough to make up for the loss.

In terms of area, Hirado Island alone is three times the size of Kuga Island; The area of the Kitamatsuura Peninsula is more than twice the size of the entire Goto Islands.

With the exception of Fukue Island and Kuga Island, the temporary land under the jurisdiction of the Dongju Metropolitan Government was slightly larger than that of Jeju Island (Danluo), but it was located in the fertile wilderness of northern Kyushu Island, and Dingkou was about three times the size of Danra, reaching more than 21,000 households, accounting for about one-fifth of the area and population under the control of the Saga clan.

Even if you take 10,000 steps back, in the face of the pressure of the Saga clan, even if the Chi family is not enough to keep Dongshu independently in the end, it is still more than enough to exchange Dongshu with the Saga clan or other vassal forces of Fuso for a few lifetimes.

To cut off such a large piece of meat at once, the heart of the Saga family is dripping blood. But in any case, Lin Jian finally used Chi Zhou to temporarily take Dongzhou, which made Saga Laiyuan feel much better.

Chi Zhou has been based on Goto for more than ten years, and is closely connected with the wealthy power of Kitakyushu Island, and even married the daughter of the Koizumi clan, a local wealthy clan in Matsuura, and his fifth, sixth, and fourth daughters are all of Fuso blood.

The appointment of Chi Kan as the governor of Toshu not only allowed the Saga clan to see hope of reclaiming Toshu, but also made it easier for the wealthy clans and samurai groups on Kitakyushu to accept such an arrangement.

The political structure of the Fuso Islands was still in the stage of combining the county and feudal systems.

Although the Tsukushi Province is ruled by the Saga clan, the land under the direct jurisdiction of the Saga clan accounts for less than one-third of the Tsukushi Province, and the rest of the territory is under the direct control of other large and small wealthy clans.

The Dongzhou Governor's Office was established, which was nominally supervised by the Danluo State, and in a larger sense, it was the Chi clan that rose in the Dongshu region and replaced the previous Nagasaki clan. The Nagasaki clan surrendered to the Huaidong Army, thus losing Matsuura Castle, and deserved such punishment.

Of course, the appointment of Nagasaki Hidego as the deputy governor of Dongzhou was also to resolve the resistance between the local wealthy and the common people.

After the pattern of the Toshu Prefecture finally surfaced, the Saga clan and other Fuso feudal states could also see that the Huaidong Military Division implemented a restraint method against the Dongshu region, and while using the Danra and Chi clans to restrain the Saga clan, it also strictly restricted the Huaidong Military Division's own territorial ambitions on Kyushu Island.

Before the threat of death, Saga Yorigen was forced to take responsibility for the assassination, and signed an agreement to cede Matsuura, Hirado, Goto and other places, and at the same time as signing the land cession agreement, they also agreed on the alliance between the Saga clan and the Huaidong military division.

The Saga clan was initially full of shame and hatred, and it was too late to try courage and be inspirational, so where could they seriously pay attention to the bullshit's alliance obligations?

However, seeing that the Huaidong Military Division implemented a policy of envy and power in the Haidong region, and that both the Danluo people and the Great Kou Chizhou could profit from it and carve up the rights and interests of the Dongzhou region that originally belonged to the Zuohe clan, the Saga clan had to calm down and consider the obligation to form an alliance with the Huaidong Military Division.

It is not difficult to see that Goryeo defected to the Donghu people, so that the Dayue Dynasty was on the northern border, and took on more military pressure from the Donghu people. The Huaidong Military Division, which was loyal to the Dayue Dynasty, could only be the Goryeo in the Haidong region.

The Huaidong Military Division's implementation of the policy of restraint in the Haidong region was aimed at cracking down on the Goryeo who had defected to Donghu.

With the strength of the Saga clan, once it becomes the core force of the Huaidong Military Division's implementation of the restraint policy in Haidong, it will naturally be able to obtain corresponding benefits from it. Not only is it possible to recover the Dongzhou region, but it can even use the power of the Huaidong Military Division to eliminate the Taira clan and the Kongo clan and unify Kyushu Island.

With these expectations, Saga Yorigen also sent Yamashita Keigo to represent the Saga family in the later period, and officially made frequent contact with the Huaidong Army and the Dongshu Governor's Office.

On the 10th day of the second lunar month, Saga Yorigen, accompanied by his retainer Keigo Yamashita, personally landed on Fukue Island and met with Hayashi again, which was regarded as a formal renunciation of antagonism and recognition of the alliance.

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Lin Jian was in Songpo, but he had been keeping an eye on the build-up of the Goryeo army in Haiyang County.

The strait between Goryeo and Kyushu Island has a very favorable feature for sea navigation. It is in the sea area attached to the northern part of Kyushu Island, the ocean current flows from Danluo Island and the northwest tip of Kyushu Island, and flows from west to east, which is a tributary of the Black Water Ocean, and is still prosperous in winter; In the southern part of the Goryeo Peninsula, the direction of the current is reversed, and it flows from east to west, and it is a coastal current in the Sea of Japan, flowing between Jeju Island and Haeyang-gun.

At that time, the cause of the ocean current was not known, but the two opposing currents formed in the same sea area made it only take a little more than a day to travel from Jeju to Dongju or from Dongju to Jeju, even if the wind was not downwind.

This is also the reason why the Goryeo army continued to assemble in Haiyang County, and Lin Jian was still able to calmly implement restraint and containment measures against the Dongju region from 400 miles away.

Even if the Goryeo army immediately crossed Hainan to conquer Danluo Island, Lin Jian got the news and rushed over to support with the main force of the water battalion, and he was completely able to catch up.

The establishment of the Dongzhou Governor's Mansion and the promotion of Chi Zhou to the position of the Governor of Dongzhou, the fog of the situation on Kitakyushu Island has also cleared up a bit, and this side can also be temporarily over, and it is time to return to Danluo Island to prepare for war.

Saga Yorigen and his retainer Keigo Yamashita landed on Fukue Island and officially recognized the alliance, and it happened that Chi Kan and Nagasaki Hidego were also on Fukue Island.

Lin Jian had nothing to do, climbed Mt. Nara in the snow, and met with Saga Yorigen and Chi Zhou at the top of Mt. Nara.

"The Lin family is prosperous because of business, because of boats, because of water, I have a dream since I was a child, that is, to be able to drive a galleon to sail to the depths of the sea, until the end of heaven and earth," Lin Jian stood on the top of Mount Nara and said with emotion, "It's a pity, I am in such a position, the responsibility cannot be shirked, and the dream can only be handed over to others to complete......"

It sounds like Lin Jian led his army over, killed six or seven hundred people, occupied Fukue Island and Matsuura Castle, and forced the Saga clan to endure humiliation and submit, just to fulfill one of his childhood wishes.

Saga Raigen's hostility towards Lin Jian is not so easy to completely dissolve, and he is naturally disdainful of Lin Bin's emotion.

However, this kind of emotion can quite arouse Chi Zhou's feelings.

Chi Xuan has been floating on the sea for half his life, from the South Seas to Haidong, experiencing countless winds and waves, even if he will be tired, but there are often wishes that Lin Jian said with emotion at this time.

Chi Zhou became the governor of Dongzhou, and in the future, he may come out of more practical interests and make choices that are beneficial to himself and the Chi family, but for now, he is still impressed by Lin Xuan's means and courage.

has lived for half his life, Chi Zhou can be regarded as a hero, but he has never seen anyone who can have the means of forest binding.

The so-called courage is nothing more than power, means, and the will to subjugate people.

Lin Jian led the army to come, and he was so pressed that he didn't dare to breathe at the beginning of Chi Guan's fight, and even planned to drag his family and escape from Haidong to find another way out, but in the blink of an eye, he was carried to the position of governor of Dongzhou, who he couldn't even think of. The changes in just one month were so drastic and so unexpected, how could Chi Zhou not be impressed by Lin Xuan's courage?

Chi Zhou looked sideways down the mountain, where the harbor surrounded by Kuga Island and Fukue Island was quiet, clear, and blue like jasper, and it would be the main port area of the free trade port.

The Saga clan, Danra, and the Toshu Governor's Office all recognized the status of a free port, and local merchants were not allowed to enter the free port for the purpose of trading goods, nor were they allowed to impose additional entry and exit taxes on traded goods.

Raw silk, tea, ironware, porcelain, cloth, paper and other items shipped from the Central Plains were extremely profitable. The real involvement in the maritime trade of these commodities was also the local tycoon represented by the Saga clan, the Chi clan, the Nagasaki clan, and the Yamashita clan.

The emergence of a free port, at least for the time being, is in the interests of all parties.

Moreover, Lin Jian promised that the Dongzhou Governor's Office and the Saga clan, as long as they were not hostile forces of the Huaidong Military Division, could obtain the high-quality warships and excellent armor they urgently needed in the free port.

The interest tax levied in the Free Port Zone will be paid by the Huaidong Military Division, the Dongshu Governor's Office, the Saga clan and the Danluo royal family. Therefore, the Huaidong Military Division only planned to send a battalion of soldiers to the free port to be responsible for the security and defense of Fukue Island, Kuga Island, and the inner harbor, while the protection of the outer sea areas was undertaken by the Toshu Governor's Office, and the Saga clan and Danra Island were responsible for rescue.

The first transaction of the Freeport had been completed, and from this deal, Chi Xuan had obtained four Jiyun-class warships, twelve bed crossbows, 50 crossbows for shooting 200 paces, 100 arm crossbows for shooting 150 paces, 200 pairs of fine armor, and 400 stainless iron steel knives.

Such excellent warships, armor, and ordnance were unimaginable to Chi Zhou before. Even if he had silver, he couldn't find a place to buy it.

Chongzhou produced a stainless iron steel knife, the cost was only 2,000 yuan, and it was sold to Chi Zhou ten times more than the price, and it was sold for 20,000 yuan; However, the same stainless iron steel knife, which was forged in Fuso, cost about 20,000 yuan, and the supply was very limited. The Saga's iron-smelting workshop can't beat a hundred stainless iron steel knives a year.

After the upgrading of ordnance and warships, the newly formed three-battalion naval army of the Dongzhou Governor's Mansion has at least two grades higher in combat effectiveness than when he was a pirate before, so Chi Zhou did not hesitate much, and took out nearly half of his belongings and 100,000 taels of silver.

Chi Xuan wanted to get two more Jinhai-class warships.

The price of Lin Tie is not high, an ordinary Jinhai-class far-sea merchant ship, 25,000 taels of silver; Transform into a warship, plus 10,000 taels of silver. Some shipyards in Guangnan and Eastern Fujian also built large ships with a carrying capacity of 5,000 stones, but the cost was only one-tenth of that of Jinhai-class warships. Only those who have been adrift at sea for most of their lives know the difference.

Chi Zhou thought that his subordinates had made up nearly 2,000 soldiers, and he would have to rein the future, he couldn't live by robbery, and he had to leave some silver in case of trouble, and he didn't dare to expect his water battalion to have Jinhai-class warships for the time being.

It's not that Lin Jian didn't think about the issue of financial resources for Chi Zhou: "I will return to Danluo Island tomorrow to prepare for the war; Toshu and the Saga family, when they attack Tsushima as promised! The capture of Tsushima Island was owned by the Saga clan, and the damage in the battle of Toshu was made up by the Saga clan. From then on, Toshu and the Saga clan were bounded by the former plateau, and as long as the Saga clan occupied Tsushima Island for one day, it was not allowed to make territorial claims against Toshu for one day. How, you say? ”

"It's all based on what the envoy says, do we dare not use our lives?" Saga Yorigen and Chi Xuan replied in unison.

Tsushima Island is located between Kyushu Island and Goryeo Sangnam-gun, and the main island alone is about the size of the Goto Islands and the size of Xisha Island in Chongju.

Both Goryeo and Fuso occupied Tsushima at different times.

Sixty years ago, the indigenous nobles of Tsushima Island and the retainer of the Saga clan led their troops to Goryeo, and Tsushima Island has since become a county under the rule of Sannam-gun of Goryeo, and is the second largest island in Goryeo after Danra Island.

For nearly 100 years, the Saga clan mainly competed with the Taira clan and the Kongo clan for the right to rule Kyushu Island, and the naval army has not been strong, so it has never been able to regain Tsushima Island from the Koreans.

Naturally, Lin Jian will not easily return Toshu to the Saga clan, and now he is using Tsushima Island to compensate the Saga clan.

As long as Tsushima can be conquered, the pirate forces between Tsushima and Kyushu can be expelled or subdued, and all the other islands in the northern part of Kyushu except the Goto Islands can be incorporated into the Saga clan, which will almost make up for the territorial losses ceded by the Saga clan to Matsuura and Hirado.

Of course, Tsushima Island also has to be taken by the Saga clan itself, and the Saga clan is shorter than the water camp, so it is necessary to use the Dongzhou naval army under Chi Guan.

Chi Kan wanted to ease the antagonistic relationship with the Saga clan and at least take possession of the Toshu region in a more legitimate and justifiable manner, so he had to undertake the obligation to send troops this time to help the Saga clan attack Tsushima Island.

Of course, Chi Zhou and the Saga clan joined forces to fight Tsushima Island, and since then they have been on the same side with the Huaidong Army and declared war on the Koreans. When the Huaidong Army and the Danluo Army fought against Goryeo on the Eastern Front, they attacked Tsushima at the same time, and they were able to contain the Goryeo on the Western Front.

Judging from the current situation, Saga Raigen also knows that it is very unlikely that he wants to take back Dongzhou immediately, unless he starts a full-scale war with the Huaidong Military Division, which will only put the Saga clan in danger of extinction. endured this humiliation, but instead used the power of the Huaidong Military Division to expand the territory and open up the territory, and even after the Saga family unified Kyushu Island, they would find a way to solve the problem of Dongzhou.

Military affairs have always been based on interests.

Tsushima Island is on the outer side of the Fukue Islands, and once the Saga clan conquers Tsushima Island, it is natural to form a naval army to garrison Tsushima Island. The free trade port is also located in a relatively safe inner line, and is surrounded by the navy of the Toshu Metropolitan Government and the navy of Saga Tsushima Island. Of course, first of all, the alliance between the Huaidong Military Division and the Saga clan, the Danluo Kingdom, and the Dongzhou Prefecture can be maintained.