Wanli Xinming

Chapter 286 Provocation
The fleet led by Ling Yunyi consisted of two Fubo-class ships, 62 other large and small warships, troop carriers, and supply ships, with a total of 800 troops—the Great Ming Beiyang Navy was almost fully deployed.

Of course, such a large-scale military operation cannot be kept secret.When the navy was still chopping the waves on the sea, a fast ship had already arrived in Japan first, telling the Ming army to attack in a big way, and the first stop was likely to be Hirado or Nagasaki.

The Hirado castle owner, Matsuura Town, reported to his old father urgently that Hizen guarded Matsuura Takashin.Matsuura Takanobu was negotiating with Shimazu Yoshihisa, who defeated the Ryuzouji family in the Battle of Okitawan in March and killed his family to oversee Ryuzouji Takanobu, and was negotiating how much the Matsuura family contributed to the Shimadzu family each year.

Shimadzu Yoshihisa listened to Matsuura Takashin's report, and was also a little numb with fright.The Satsuma vassals in Kyushu had already opened their trade in the Wufeng era, so the news was very well-informed - Daming destroyed Myanmar by chopping melons and vegetables in the Indo-China Peninsula. To come to Kyushu's bad luck, Shimazu Yoshihisa's complacency after destroying the Ryuzouji family was swept away.

Along with the elders of the Matsuura family who reported the letter, there is also military information about the main battleship of the Ming army, the Fubo class. Only two battleships have 120 or eight cannons, and the entire Hizen now has a total of ten "big tubes", which are still Matsuura. The home was bought after the Futian Bay naval battle with Portugal in Jiajing 44, and the nose was bruised and swollen by Portugal.

At this time, it is not to continue to discuss the question of how much money the Matsuura family will receive after the surrender. If the Ming army does not deal with it properly, Nagasaki or Hirado will inevitably become a piece of scorched earth, and whether the Shimadzu family and the Matsuura family can continue to exist is a problem: Myanmar tens of millions In a country with a large population, Ming can easily take it. Kyushu's strength is not even one-tenth of Myanmar's. What can you resist?

At that time, Shimazu Yoshihisa had nothing to do with Matsuura Takanobu, and ran back to Izaku Kamemaru Castle in a hurry. Before leaving, he explained to Matsuura Takanobu that I won't investigate the trouble of you following Ryuzoji Takanobu, as long as you keep Hirado Castle. .If you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. I will give you strong support here.

Matsuura Takashin had no idea, and planned to be a tortoise. He wrote back to his son Zhenxin saying that you are a businessman who manages the trade in Hirado City. If the Ming army comes, you should come to trade—what does the Ming army have? You can handle it from a commercial point of view.

Of course, the Ming army just doesn't want to give money, you should donate and donate, don't dig around, just lay down and get hammered and you're done.At the same time, Longxin explained to his son that he wanted to tell the commander of the Ming army that the boss of Satsuma in Kyushu was the Shimadzu family.

On the first day of August in the 12th year of Wanli, Ling Yunyi led the fleet to Hirado.In the eyes of Matsuura Zhenxin, the Ming army's large ships were like mountains, with long sails covering the sun, and he couldn't get the right idea at all. When he was observing in the castle town with the imported telescope from Daming, he was so frightened that he lost his voice. After burning the incense, Nei found it and was able to speak.

Immediately, the Ming army sent a small boat ashore and asked the city lord Matsuura Zhenxin to immediately clear the Hirado wharf and guide the Ming warships to the shore, otherwise they would immediately open fire to attack the city.

How could Songpu Zhenxin give the Ming army that opportunity, and immediately dispatched the Laojun ship that had been prepared for a long time, and sent both the Fengxiechen Banquet and himself to the ship of Commander Ling Yunyi.Ling Yunyi entered Hirado smoothly without firing a shot.

After Ling Yunyi had a good day in Hirado, he explained his intentions, and asked Matsuura Zhenxin to inform the Japanese court that Commander Ling Yunyi came to Japan to question the emperor's name.Matsuura Zhenxin immediately wrote a letter to inform his father and the minister of the imperial administration Nijo Akira, and then accompanied Ling Yunyi to kill the chickens and reward the Ming army.

Three days later, the city of Hirado, with a population of 30, was completely devastated, and the supplies were almost wiped out by the Ming army.Matsuura Town hesitantly told Ling Yunyi that you, the old man, have led too many people, and I really can't afford it—but the Shimadzu family has a lot of supplies, so I can lead the Huangming army.

Ling Yunyi said yes, but the army was turbulent along the way, and now he was so tired that he didn't want to move.You go and call Shimazu Yoshihisa, and I'll talk to him.

Matsuura Zhenxin went to Izaku Kamemaru Castle with a sad face, and invited Shimazu Yoshihisa to Hirado and his party, saying that Ling Yunyi had invited him.

Shimazu Yoshihisa has not been idle these days after returning to the city, and seized the time to harvest food, prepare the army, and prepare to fight the Ming army to the death.

After listening to Matsuura Zhenxin expressing the intention of the Ming army, Shimadzu Yoshihisa let out a long sigh of relief.Unexpectedly, it turned out that they were not here to sweep Kyushu. These days, I was so frightened that my heart almost stopped beating.Isn't it just some food and grass supplies?Anything that can be solved with money is not a problem - that, eldest nephew, tell me the truth, is the Ming army really planning to go to Beijing to pass the decree?This circle can go far enough.

Matsuura Zhenxin then learned to Shimadzu Yoshihisa the words that Daming wanted to pursue for decades of Japanese pirates. After hearing this, Shimadzu turned pale. Most of the Japanese among the Japanese pirates were Satsuma ronin and refugees. He was hired by the Daming pirate forces to fight.

Then he changed his mind and asked Songpu Town Channel: "Does this Ling Yunyi know the relationship between Ouchi's family and Dayou's family?" Seeing Songpu Zhenxin's head full of question marks, he directly said: "Ouchi's family name is inherited by Ouchi's family. Now, do you know about this?"

The historical confusion about the inheritance of Japanese family names is a compulsory course for daimyo children. After hearing this, Matsuura Township immediately retorted: "Ouchi's main family died in the hands of the Maori family, and the family name was long ago. Next, Kobayakawa Takashi, Ryuzuo Temple, and even our family is still related, so what is the relationship with the Otomo family?"

Shimadzu Yoshihisa folded the small fan in his hand and patted it on the table, and said with a smile, "At least there is a 'big' character that is the same! Besides, Otomo Seihii, Otomo Zonglin's younger brother, was once accepted by Ouchi Yoshitaka as a The adopted son, after Ouchi Yoshitaka gave birth to a son, he was sent back to Ouchi's house. Tao Qingxian, a powerful minister of Ouchi Yoshitaka, went down and killed Ouchi Yoshitaka. After killing Ouchi Yoshitaka, Ouchi Yoshihide changed his name to Ouchi Yoshihide and was greeted as a puppet family governor. , this is true!" [Note 1]
"In the past in the Ningbo rebellion, Song Suqing belonged to the Xichuan family, and the Qiandao sect who killed him and rioted in Ningbo was sent by Danai Yixing! Could it be that the imperial envoy Ling Yunyi doesn't want to take revenge? Look, this is not Are you in a relationship?"

Songpu Zhenxin heard this, his eyes lit up, he bowed and said, "What do you mean—"

Shimazu Yoshihisa said with a smile: "Now in Kyushu, Longzuo Temple is nothing to worry about, and the great friend Zonglin still has the strength to fight, why not provoke it and let the Ming envoy order the great friend Zonglin to hand over the territory, open the abdomen to apologize, that food and grass and righteousness are not available. Yet?"

The Matsuura family has survived in the cracks of the major forces in Kyushu. Before relying on the Ryuzo temple family, Shimazu Yoshihisa has been jealous of his family's Hirado port for a long time.After Ryuzoji Takashin was obtained, Matsuura Takashin had surrendered to Shimadzu Yoshihisa—the two sides were discussing the protection fee last time.

Judging from the exchanges between Matsuura Zhenxin and Ling Yunyi in the past few days, Ling Yunyi is basically in a dark-eyed state towards the major forces in Japan. may succeed.

But in that case, the semi-independent status of the Matsuura family will be completely lost. Although the great friend Zonglin has gone downhill in recent years, there are still three thousand nails in the rotten boat. The Matsuura family can occupy Hizen and Hirato in the form of paying protection fees, or Shimadzu. Because the family is worried about the Otomo family.

To cheat or not to cheat?This is a problem.Songpu Zhenxin thought for a while, and said with a smile on his face: "His Royal Highness Zuoweimenwei, Ling Yunyi has served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi successively, and later served as the deputy privy envoy of Daming, and the governor of the Navy, such a person is not easy to deceive him." He said in his heart, "Anyway. You're going to Hirado, I can't tell this lie."

Shimazu Yoshihisa was slightly annoyed when he heard that he called himself Zaemon Captain, instead of calling him the lord when he first met him.

Closing his eyes slightly, he thought about the back and said: "You don't have to say this, I will point it out when I visit the imperial commissioner, and then see what he means. Just don't demolish it in private."

Matsuura Zhenxin hurriedly bowed to the ground, saying that he would never say anything.After Shimadzu Yoshihisa sent him off, he clapped his hands and instructed the little surname beside him, "Go and call Genshiro."

When the old Yijiyuan Zhonglang came in to meet him, Shimadzu Yoshihisa told him: "Prepare 1000 taels of Jiazhou gold, [-] sheep, [-] dolphins, [-] catties of dried fish, [-] shi of rice, and [-] bundles of fodder— —I will use it tomorrow.”

Ijiin Zhonglang was surprised and said, "My lord, why do you use so much gold and things?"

Shimazu Yoshihisa said with a wry smile: "It's a matter of fate and good fortune! If I can buy Ling Yunyi, I may be able to resolve this crisis, and even realize my dream of unifying Kyushu. If I mess with him, Shimazu will be in danger!"

"Don't worry about gold at this time! After this disaster, we and other foreign vassals can still be at ease, or even make progress in the world. If I can't make it through, Longzao Temple Longxin - is my end!"

　The turbulent relationship between the Japanese daimyo made Lao Mo a headache.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)