Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 109 Knocking off Nagasaki ([-])

"Woo~~woo~~"

Twenty minutes later, when the Thor crossed the Yemuxia Lookout, two long whistles sounded from the ship.This time, the entire port of Nagasaki was alarmed.

The small fishing boats outside the port looked at the approaching giant ship, and they all ran to the shore with oars.In the two barracks of Humachi and Xibo at the entrance of the port, hundreds of people flocked to watch.But immediately after, the watching soldiers and warriors were called back by the sound of drums in the barracks, and the noise of people shouting and horses rang out from the barracks.

Since it was identified as the foreign trade port of the Tokugawa shogunate, foreign ships came to Nagasaki Port almost every day.Although the three-masted galleons of the Dutch have not been seen recently, the sand ships of the Qing people often come.But which country does this boat with white top and blue bottom belong to?Moreover, the length of this boat must be forty feet by visual estimation.

At this time, there was no cargo on the Thor, and the six-meter-high ship's side made the onlookers on the shore marvel and wonder.

On the fan-shaped artificial island (Dejima) in the port, two left-behind Dutchmen ran to the roof of their residence with binoculars and sat on the roof to watch.The guard in charge of guarding the "Holland House" stood downstairs angrily, shouting for them to come down.

In the Dutch-style building on the westernmost side of Dejima, the Dutch business curator is observing the Thor with a telescope at the window.

"My God! Where is this ship from?"

When the Thunder God sailed to the south of Xibo, two small boats sailed from the barracks wharf in Tomachi and Xibo, one on the left and the other on the right.There was still 200 meters away from the Thunder God, and the people on Xiaozao shouted "Stop the boat" loudly.

Zhao Xin ignored it at all, and asked Liu Sheng to drive the boat to the southeast side of Humachi Military Camp Wharf, slow down and anchor.

Seeing that the two early boats of our own side did not intercept each other, a closed ship docked at Xibo Wharf hurried out after a panic, and approached the Thunder God.

"My lord! My lord!" The officer on duty at the Yemuga Lookout ran into the official hall out of breath, rushed into the house, and lay down on the ground to report to Nagasaki's Toda Shimeng (from the fifth, Izumo guard) : "My lord, a huge boat of unknown nationality has entered the port, and it seems that it is here to knock on the customs."

"What?!" Meng Toda, who was 46 years old at the time, was shocked.

This Izumo Shou is a very famous figure in history, but it is not a good name.After his death, the residents of Nagasaki Town lined up to urinate on his cemetery in Daionji, which led to the successor Nagasaki Morishi who had to issue an order "No urinating in the cemetery".How hated it is to be like this.

"grown ups!"

"grown ups!"

There was a sound of running on the floor under the porch outside the house, and two samurai from the Nabeshima family ran in.

"My lord, the foreign ship has passed the entrance of the port, and we have sent an early ship to intercept it..."

Toda Shimeng asked anxiously: "How is the preparation of Chong Erbansuo's troops?"

The two offices guarded by the Nabeshima family and the Kuroda family in turn every year are called "Oki Ryobansho" because they are located at the mouth of Nagasaki Port.And because the two places are rated to garrison nearly a thousand soldiers, they are also called "Thousand People Fansuo".

"..."

"say something!"

"Tomachi has assembled 150 people." A samurai replied with his head bowed.

"What?! Where are you?" Toda Shimeng turned to look at the other.

"Xibo has assembled 170 people."

Toda Shimeng almost fell to his death when he heard this.

The long-term peace and tranquility have caused a serious shortage of troops in Chong Erban Station. Not to mention the full assembly, many samurai's armor has rusted to death.

As for weapons, don't mention it!

The samurai of Chong Erbansuo would never say that many weapons were secretly sold for food...

But the most terrible thing is that since last year, none of the Dutch ships have come, and the Nagasaki trade has suddenly fallen into a dilemma, unable to pay the shogunate.And due to the impact of the Great Kanto Famine, the lives of soldiers and samurai here in Kyushu were also in distress.

"Isn't this going to force me to have a caesarean section?" Toda Shimeng groaned inwardly.He hastily said to his subordinates: "The pen and ink will serve you."

After a while, the two dispatch letters were quickly completed.Call Omura and Isahaya to send troops!

The Omura Clan has a stone height of 1500 shi; the Isahaya Clan, a branch of the Nabeshima family, has a stone height of 2000 shi; the Nagasaki Prefectural Office has a service height of [-] shi.According to the request of the shogunate to send troops, [-] shi sent [-] troops, and only one piece was added to reach [-] troops.

Not many troops?

However, the Uraga Prefectural Office, which was in charge of guarding Edo Bay these days, only had 2000 Yuli and [-] concentrics under its command, plus the guards stationed at Futtsu Takeoka, there were a total of [-]. [-] people is already an army.

"My lord! My lord!" A samurai from the Nabeshima family came to report. "My lord, the large foreign ship has been forced to stop at the southeast side of Tommachi by our ship closure!"

"Okay!" Toda Shimeng patted his thigh, and the boat stopped.If it didn't stop until the port, I would really have to apologize.

He immediately said to the official at the wild mother's observation post: "Take 50 people and go to the boat to negotiate immediately."

"Ha ha!"

In the compound of the Tang residence, Shen Jingdan was having wine with a group of businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.Since he came here in the first month, he has been procrastinating in the name of doing goods.

There is no way, it is still the matter of daughter Shen Xuan.

At the beginning of March, when he had already packed the goods and was about to take his daughter back to China, a friend surnamed Cheng who just came to Nagasaki from Suzhou to do business told him that the salt merchant Wang’s family had not given up and was sending people all over the world. Looking for my own daughter!I heard that even the government was alarmed.

As soon as Shen Jingdan heard it, he knew that he couldn't go back for the time being, so he had to stay with his daughter.As for his family's No. [-] sandship, he entrusted the deputy treasurer on board to act as the head of the ship, and took the merchants back.

When is this day a head!Shen Jingdan sighed secretly while drinking.He heard from Lu Yun that there was a famine in the northeast of the island country, and many people died of starvation; now there is also a famine in Nagasaki Town due to lack of food, and it is said that many people have contracted infectious diseases due to hunger.Moreover, the prices of food, meat and vegetables supplied to Tangren's houses have also increased a lot.

Daughter Shen Xuan didn't leave the door all day long, and she was also very depressed.But if you want to leave this Tang Dynasty house, you can't get out if there is no important matter.It's been more than three months, and it's going to be troublesome even in the castle town, let alone in the palm-sized Chinese house area.Now Shen Jingdan can even tell exactly how many grasses there are at the entrance of the Earth God Hall.

Fortunately, Luyun can often find some domestically-sold vernacular books from the bookstore in the town to pass the time for Shen Xuan, and the two get together from time to time to think about some island women's hairstyles, headdresses, etc., so that they can survive. Three months have passed.

When he was depressed, he suddenly heard someone behind him laughing and saying, "Boss Shen, we meet again."

Shen Jingdan turned his head and saw that it was the businessman Lao Huang who came with him last time.He asked in surprise: "Old Huang, why are you here? Come and sit down."

After greeting each other with everyone at the banquet, Lao Huang sat down with a smile and said in a low voice: "Maybe you, Boss Shen, live here, but why don't I, Lao Huang, come?"

"Okay, you, you are making fun of me, and you will be punished with three glasses of wine."

Lao Huang laughed, and then said: "Speaking of which, I would like to thank Boss Shen. Please take care of me, the sales of the goods I helped my brother last time are really good. So I want to make another batch before the May Festival." Goods, this time with a Zhapu bow."

While the two were talking, a young businessman quickly walked into the private room and said to everyone, "Have you heard? A giant foreign ship has arrived at the outer port."

ah?During the banquet, seven or eight businessmen were taken aback.They have nothing to do, they have been drinking and listening to music to pass the time since the morning.In the room, there was the sound of silk and bamboo, drinking and punching, laughing and squabbling with girls in the city, but I didn't hear the two whistles at all.

Everyone quickly said: "Tell me what's going on."

The businessman who reported the letter saw that everyone was so eager, so he picked up the excuse instead.He sat down unhurriedly, waited for Qingcheng who was beside him to pour a glass of wine and ate, then picked up his chopsticks and was about to pick up some vegetables.

"Hey~ Look at this guy, he even took the bridge."

Then the businessman named Xiao Cheng said mysteriously: "When we disembarked just now, we saw the Japanese soldiers and samurai on the pier in a mess. I looked around, and the sailors around me were just like those officials. , looking in the same direction in a daze."

When Xiao Cheng said this, he slapped the table. "As a result, I looked back and guess what I saw?"

Everyone was attracted by his storytelling tone, and they all stopped to look at him.As a result, he changed the subject and turned to Shen Jingdan and asked, "Boss Shen, how big is the biggest boat you have ever seen?"

Shen Jingdan thought for a while and said, "The Galen ship of the red-haired man and the English should be the largest. The captain is more than ten feet long and can hold more than five thousand stones..."

Lao Huang interrupted Shen Jingdan with a wave of his hand and scolded Xiao Cheng with a smile: "You Xiao Cheng, you are still in a daze (pretending to be). Tell everyone honestly, what did you see?"

Xiao Cheng deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Have you ever seen a ship that is forty feet long?"

During the banquet, everyone laughed and scolded: "Nonsense! There is such a big boat in the world! If you are fine, let us have fun."

"You think I'm telling a joke? The boat is parked on the sea outside the barracks in the west!" Xiao Cheng stood up and pointed to the outside and said loudly.

The people in the private room immediately became overwhelmed, got up and walked out, Shen Jingdan also followed in the crowd.

Everyone came all the way to Tianhou Temple in the southwest corner of the house area, climbed up to the third floor, opened the window and looked at the sea.

"There!" exclaimed a sharp-eyed businessman.

Shen Jingdan and others looked in the direction of the man's finger, and saw a huge boat moored on the sea to the northwest of Tianhou Temple. On the bow of the boat, the two huge blue Chinese characters were particularly eye-catching. .

"Thunder God?" Everyone stood there in a daze.

(End of this chapter)