Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 111 Knocking off Nagasaki ([-])

Because of fear of heights, when the three officials of the Nagasaki Magistrate came out of the rope net, their legs were already weak with fright.

Under the white awning built on the deck, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, Deng Fei, Zhao Liang, and Ding Guofeng sat behind three long tables covered with snow-white tablecloths.Except for Zhao Xin, everyone else was wearing sunglasses.

Pingtai, Huoji and Miichiro and a dozen other people stood around the awning with guns.The silver-white barrel of the lever rifle reflected the dazzling light in the sun.

Looking at the scene in front of them, the three Nagasaki officials who didn't even know how to put their feet walked into the awning under the leadership of Lu Shoushan.

"You three, please sit down. Sit down and talk about anything first." Lu Shoushan stretched out his hand to signal the three to sit down, and a sailor brought tea.

The three officials looked at the oriental faces in front of them like fools.These people all have short hair and are wearing short jackets that are either yellow or green, and the strange patterns on them make people dizzy at first glance; A black platform boot.

The five people sitting opposite were all very tall.Except for the one in the middle, all four of them wore glasses with black lenses on their faces.

"Don't these few have bad eyesight?" The officials of the Nagasaki Magistracy are well-informed, and they have all seen the myopia glasses brought by the Dutch.In this era, some businessmen in Osaka and Edo were also equipped with a pair of myopia glasses because they had been working hard to settle accounts all year round.

If Liu Sheng and others knew that their pretending to be AC ​​was misunderstood as poor eyesight, they don't know how they would feel.

"May I ask who is at the bow of the ship?" The leading official began to ask.

Lu Shoushan walked behind Zhao Xin, looked at the three officials and said, "This is my master."

The leading official said something in the language of the island country, and Tang Ren's interpreter carefully translated: "May I ask your honorable name."

Zhao Xin smiled and said in island dialect, "You can call me Thor."

This man can speak the native language!The faces of the three officials suddenly changed.

"May I ask where you are from? Can you tell me the meaning of crossing?"

"Do you want rice? The hulled polished rice costs one tael and a half gold per stone."

When the leading official heard this, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. It turned out that he was here to do business.He immediately said seriously: "Since your Excellency can speak our language, you must also understand the credit card trade. Without the credit card, it is absolutely impossible to enter the port for trade. Please take your boat and leave as soon as possible, otherwise our army will arrive..."

"Don't mention the army with rusted armor." Zhao Xin raised his hand to interrupt the other party. "We are here this time, in addition to giving you a chance to do business, we also have to talk about the Changzhou Domain."

"There are spies, there must be spies! The other party knows about the disorganization of the army. This is terrible!" Zhao Xin interrupted the leading official, who was about to get angry, but when he heard these words, he was sweating profusely.

At this time, Tang Ren's interpreter on the side asked Zhao Xin: "Excuse me, your Excellency, what does your crossing have to do with the Changzhou Fan?"

Zhao Xin looked at this descendant of the Tang people in Japan, and said lightly: "The Nanjing ship 58 years ago."

The three Nagasaki officials were at a loss when they heard this, and looked at each other. They didn't know what happened 58 years ago.

"I won't talk nonsense, you will understand when you go back and check. If there is no explanation from the Changzhou Fan, we will not leave."

"Shua!" The three officials got up at the same time after hearing this, and shouted angrily: "Your Excellency, do you want to use your people to fight against our country's Tianwei?! There are no less than [-] armored soldiers in Kyushu in our country!"

"Hehe, I thought you were tongue-tied. [-]? Let me open your eyes by collecting [-]. By the way, is the knife on your waist wrapped in tinfoil?"

"Bastard!" The leading official was choked by Zhao Xin, his face turned from black to red, and from red to blue.After so many years, no foreign merchant ship has dared to be so presumptuous to itself.He was almost going to fight Zhao Xin one-on-one.

Zhao Xin looked at the furious island officials in front of him, and said with a sneer, "Go back and tell the Nagasaki magistrate exactly what I said. I will only give you three days. If you don't reply for three days, we will bombard you at Chenzheng." It’s time to charge twice! Remember to keep your people away. It’s not easy for anyone these days, it’s all for food, and it’s best to save a little life.”

"Cannon?!" The three officials were shocked when they heard this. There are cannons on board!This matter has to be reported back immediately.Damn Maori, what the hell are you doing?People are now coming to collect debts.

"Wait a minute!"

Seeing the three of them getting up and going to the rope net, Zhao Xin stopped them again.

"What else is there for you?"

"Let me say one more thing, don't think we have Tang people here, just want to embarrass the Qing merchants on the shore. If you dare to send troops into the Tang people's house, I will blow up the official office of the Nagasaki Magistrate. Tomorrow you go and invite some Qing merchants to come here , I have something to talk to them about.”

Looking at the three officials with gloomy faces who looked like the bottom of a pot, Zhao Xin smiled faintly: "Lu Shoushan!"

"Master, you order!"

"Put the ladder down for them!"

Soon, a winch on the deck began to rotate, and the white telescopic gangway was raised from the shelf on the side of the ship and then moved out of the side of the ship; at this time, the other winch let go of the cable, and the gangway slowly stretched out until it reached the water surface.

"You!..." When the three officials saw this scene, they almost died of anger.They turned their heads and looked at the disdainful eyes of the people on the boat looking at the three of them, and immediately understood that they were just playing with themselves.

"It's unreasonable! Let's go!"

When the three returned to the closed ship, they heard a burst of laughter from the Thor.

Ding Guofeng covered his stomach and laughed: "Mr. Zhao, you are too bad! I can't bear to watch those three people get mad at you."

Zhao Xin's face was calm, and after everyone laughed, he said lightly: "The game is over, we should prepare to fight."

More than half an hour later, in the official hall of the Nagasaki Magistrate.

"How unreasonable! A group of barbarians dare to insult our country like this, and even want to bombard the barracks on the shore. They simply don't take our country seriously!"

After a while, Toda Shimeng gradually calmed down. He turned to an elderly official beside him and asked, "What happened to the Changzhou Domain 58 years ago?"

The official immediately said: "His Royal Highness, do you remember 'Susa Tang Ship'?"

Toda Shimeng shook his head in bewilderment, 58 years ago, he was not even born at that time, who would have time to take care of those things.

"Okay, let me tell His Highness what happened..."

The official told the events of the year one by one. In addition to the official statement of the shogunate, he also mentioned some records of this matter in the written talks of Confucian scholars.

It is said that during the Edo period, Japan’s shogunate and various vassals all had the post of Confucianist, serving as a consultant to explain Sinology and related academic aspects to generals and daimyo.

At the beginning of the Chinese ship’s arrival, the feudal clans would send Confucian scholars or people who knew Chinese to the place where they were drifting to contact and talk with the Chinese drifters, and investigate the drifting process; and they would also go to Nagasaki with the Chinese drifters and act as interpreters on the way.

Due to the restriction of the "locked country" system, except for these Confucian scholars, ordinary Japanese are not allowed to contact the Chinese drifters.

During the period of contact with Chinese drifters, Confucian scholars often asked Chinese drifters about the Chinese issues they were concerned about in the form of written conversations, and a considerable part of the records of these written conversations have been preserved intact.

The Confucians in the island countries know that most of their culture comes from China, so they often use the Chinese drifters as their Chinese knowledge solvers.

However, Confucians in these island countries look down on the Manchu Qing very much, and some Confucians even believe that the emperor of the Qing court is a descendant of the nobles of the island country, so as to prove the superiority of their country.A Confucian once asked the drifters in China: "People from Yueqian in our state drifted to the place of Nuergan in Manchuria the year before last (many years ago). Guanmen god painting has a statue of Judge Yoshitsune (this is a mistaken recognition of the Chinese door god as Yuan Yi Jing), the world may call your country's Taizu the source judge. I don't know if your country has a legend?"

After listening to the old official's explanation, everyone present finally understood what happened 58 years ago.

"Could it be that these people are descendants of those people?" Toda Shimeng asked suspiciously.

The old official shook his head: "I don't think so, those people are from the Qing Dynasty. But the people on the big ship call themselves 'Beihai people', and they all have short hair without braids. I have never heard of such people .”

Did the Maori family do something wrong?After listening to the explanation of the old officials, Toda Shimeng felt that he had done too much.But things have passed for so many years, and the shogunate has already made a conclusion, so no matter what, they cannot admit that they did wrong back then.Otherwise, where is the prestige of the shogunate?As the local acting official of the Tokugawa shogunate, Toda Shimeng must look at this matter from the standpoint of the shogunate.

As for rice, heh heh, the country is short of food now, but we must not lose our country just for a little food.A big ship is nothing.When the armies of the feudal vassals are assembled and all bullets are fired, I don't believe that he can't be defeated!
That being the case, then tighten the inside and loosen the outside, let's stabilize the group of foreign barbarians for the time being.

Thinking of this, Toda Shimeng ordered: "Let's stabilize them for the time being, and give them some water, rice, wine and food as a reward, so that they can relax. Didn't their leader say that he wanted to see the merchants of the Qing Dynasty, so you go to the residence of the Tang people Find some merchants from the Qing Dynasty to board the ship. But what they talked about and what they said, you have to record them one by one, and then report to me.”

The old official praised: "Your Highness's move is very clever."

"Haha!" All the officials and generals below obeyed in unison.

Inside the Chinese house.

"Boss Shen! Brother Shen! Excuse me, are you at home?" Outside Shen Jingdan's house, Lao Huang slapped on the barrier door and shouted.

The barrier door opened quickly, Shen Jingdan looked at the sweaty old Huang, and asked in surprise: "Brother Huang, why are you looking for me?"

"Oh! Don't mention it. Just now, the officials of China's Nianxingsi and Suding came with a few people, saying that the barbarians on that big boat wanted to see us merchants from the Qing Dynasty. Let me go with them to that big boat to meet with them tomorrow. The barbarians will talk. You said this was a big deal, and after I heard it, I hurried to find my brother. How do you think this should be dealt with?"

Shen Jingdan walked to the corridor, paced back and forth, thought for a long time before saying: "To tell the truth, I used binoculars to look at the big boat just now. The people on the boat seem to be oriental. I guess these people came from Southeast Asia. of."

"Nanyang? What are they doing here?"

"Then we won't know until we meet tomorrow." Shen Jingdan stroked his beard and said.

"What does that man mean, let's go and see tomorrow?"

"It's a blessing, not a disaster. It's a disaster that can't be avoided. The Japanese officials have come, and we have to show up. We are all businessmen, and we travel thousands of miles just to make money. What if it is an opportunity?"

When Lao Huang heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, and he quickly said with a smile: "Well, tomorrow I will only follow my brother's lead."

"Good talk, good talk."

After Lao Huang left, Shen Jingdan returned to the house, he sat down and said to Lu Yun beside him: "Tomorrow, you go to the town and see what news there is in the market."

"Is that the big boat?" Luyun asked in a low voice.

Shen Jingdan nodded and said, "I don't think it's that simple. This boat is so weird, I've never seen it before in my life."

"Daddy, my daughter has heard what you and Boss Huang said, and I will go with you tomorrow."

"Nonsense! You are a daughter's family, how can you be so crazy. Don't go!"

(End of this chapter)