Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 116
Toda Shimeng is waiting.He planned to expel the Thunder God by force after the reinforcements from the Satsuma domain arrived.

Edo is too far away from Nagasaki, a full three thousand miles away, and when the shogunate's order arrives, the day lily will be cold.

Because of the lack of local military equipment, Toda Shimeng had no time to ask Edo for instructions, so he directly asked the Satsuma Domain in the south for support.At this time, Shigego Shimazu, the patriarch of the Satsuma Domain, happened to be in Kagoshima Castle.

After the subordinate retainers received the urgent report from Nagasaki, they held a meeting in the chamber.

When a large foreign ship knocks at the customs, soldiers will definitely be sent; the question is how many troops to send?

By the way, the Satsuma clan is really poor!
As a foreign daimyo with a height of 77 stone, the Tokugawa shogunate tried to make them spend more money.Participating in the Qin Dynasty, building cities and bridges, encouraging the purchase of a court official position, and so on.In the end, the Satsuma clan could only borrow money from businessmen in Edo, Osaka, Kyoto, and the clan.

Until Shigeho Shimadzu came to power, Satsuma's annual income was only 15 taels of gold.The total foreign debt has reached more than 500 million taels, and the annual interest payment alone is 25 taels, which is seriously insolvent.The more it is not paid, the higher the debt will be under compound interest.Even if the entire Satsuma clan does not spend a penny in the future, it will not last for hundreds of years.

In this situation, how to send troops?

By the way, will the shogunate reimburse the cost of sending troops?That must absolutely not be possible...

In the future history, in order to solve the debt problem of the Satsuma domain, Shigego Shimadzu used the lower-level samurai investigation office Hirogo in his later years to serve as the ruling family elder and Ometsuke.

After Tiaosuo Guangxiang took office, the way to deal with the huge debts is to - renege on debts!

He used a two-pronged approach, coercing with force with one hand, and luring with the other, so that all creditors canceled the debt interest of 25 taels per year, and the remaining debts were repaid in 500 years.

Look, how awesome (shameless). After paying off in 500 years, all the grandchildren came out of Wuzhi Mountain.All the creditors cried to death immediately.

Tiaosuo Guangxiang also allowed the rich merchants of the clan among the creditors to inherit the family name of the samurai of the Satsuma clan, and thus break away from the status of merchants at the bottom of society.Although there is no salary, but he has finally entered the ruling class, and the creditors in the domain have no choice but to agree.

From the point of view of the Shigao system, the Satsuma clan can send more than 1 troops (2155 troops per [-] stones).However, since the Edo shogunate did not reimburse him for travel expenses, after a meeting, everyone decided to send [-] troops, including [-] for the navy, [-] for the army, and shut down [-] ships, including a few small boats.The sailors can arrive first, and the infantry dawdle, take your time.In case this side hasn't set off yet, the big foreign ships over there will retreat.

However, Zhao Xin will not wait for Satsuma to send troops to arrive.By the morning of the third day, he decided to act early.And the reason why he made this decision was because someone secretly reported it.

It is said that yesterday when Luyun went back to Tangren's house to find someone to inquire about the whereabouts of Shen Jingdan's father and daughter, after getting the news from the businessman Lao Huang, Luyun panicked, and after much deliberation, there was nothing she could do.

She knew that the businessman Lao Huang and Shen Jingdan had a good relationship, and that Lao Huang was kind, so she asked the maid to invite Lao Huang over.

When Lao Huang heard that the Japanese officers and soldiers were going to be expelled by force, and that some officers and soldiers had already ambushed into the warehouse on the new island (Xin Jizang), he immediately became anxious.He brought a large amount of silk and raw silk with the ship this time. If the two sides started a war and the warehouse caught fire, it would all be over.

Luyun was also in a hurry, Shen Jingdan couldn't come back, if something bad happened, what would happen to him and his unborn child?
The two waited so anxiously until the evening, when Shen Jingdan finally brought Shen Xuan back.

Originally, Shen Xuan didn't want to come back so early at all. She felt that everything on the Thor was so novel and interesting, even the tables, chairs and benches were different from the usual ones.

When Shen Jingdan saw that the sun had set, he would have to eat dinner on the boat if he didn't go back.So regardless of her daughter's "begging", Shen Xuan made another disguise, said goodbye to Zhao Xin in a hurry, dragged her off the boat.

"Oh, brother Shen, you're back!" Lao Huang, who was pacing back and forth in the corridor, saw Shen Jingdan walking up to the second floor with a bag, followed by Shen Xuan disguised as a man.

"Wow!" The barrier door was slammed open, and Lu Yun who heard Lao Huang's words in the room hurried out.

Shen Jingdan hastily caught up two steps, and said eagerly to Luyun: "Hey, slow down!"

After the four of them entered the room and sat down, before Shen Jingdan could speak, Luyun recounted the news she had heard from Boss Yamaguchi in detail.

"Brother Shen, what do you think of this? If the warehouse catches fire, I will be ruined!"

"That's right, Dad. I don't think anyone on that big boat is a bad person, so I have to find a way to tell Uncle Lu them."

"Don't worry, let me think about it." Shen Jingdan bowed his head in thought.

When he was a guest on the Thunder God before, Zhao Xin said that he had some leather goods here and wanted Shen Jingdan to help him take a look.As for the price, it's easy to say, it's up to Shen Jingdan to decide.

Shen Jingdan was also shocked when he saw this batch of leather goods in a cargo hold.These are the best pearl fur fox skins, deer skins and otter skins in the Northland, and there is even a very complete top-quality black bear skin.If this is brought back to the south and sold to salt merchants, it will definitely make a lot of money.

However, if someone gave him such a big benefit for no reason, he must have something to ask for.After Shen Jingdan carefully raised his doubts, Zhao Xin said that he hoped that the other party could help him buy some people in the Qing Dynasty, not many, a thousand people would be enough.

The reason Zhao Xin gave was that although he now has tens of thousands of refugees under his command, they are all islanders.He himself still hopes to find some compatriots from his home country, so that it will be convenient for everyone to communicate.As for the future trading location, you can choose the sea off Nagasaki, or the sea off Ishinomaki Port of Sendai Domain.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty continued to use troops in the northwest and southwest, and the peasants in the north were actually living in poverty.It is not uncommon to sell children and daughters, and even sell the whole family to be servants.In times of disaster, two hundred Wen can buy a boy; in normal seasons, buying a strong young man as a servant is only six taels of silver.

For Zhao Xin's proposal, Shen Jingdan did not rashly agree.Although the benefits of money and silk are touching, they must have life and flowers.

Zhao Xin saw the other party's hesitation, so he said that after the incident in Nagasaki this time, he asked Boss Shen to go to Beihai to have a look. If other businessmen are interested, they can go with them.

Shen Jingdan didn't believe that Zhao Xin could fight against the shogunate army at all, so he pretended to be very interested and agreed.

Zhao Xin didn't notice Shen Jingdan's perfunctory, and happily selected a few high-quality fox and otter skins from those fur goods and gave them to Shen Jingdan.

At this time, Shen Jingdan, who was in deep thought, thought of Zhao Xin's kind smile and sincerity, as well as the possible huge benefits, and couldn't help but fell into a tangle.

After another incense stick, Shen Jingdan finally made a decision.He first winked at Luyun secretly, and the other party immediately understood, and then found a reason to drag Shen Jingdan to the back room.

After the two of them entered the room, Shen Jingdan told Lu Yun in a low voice: "It's still early, you can still go out. You go to Shishan Temple immediately to find Sun Zhiyong, and ask him to arrange for me to go out at the beginning of the evening. Arrange a sampan by the sea to take me to the big ship. You tell him, I will give him 20 taels of silver when it is done."

Luyun looked at Shen Jingdan very worriedly: "Is this okay?"

"do not worry."

The Sun Zhiyong mentioned by Shen Jingdan is an islander who once worked as a "far-sighted fan" who monitored Tang ships and Tang people.This person lives near Shishan Temple, very close to the "Chinese Courtyard".So boldly, he dug a tunnel from his home directly to the residence of the Tang Dynasty, and started a smuggling business.

Digging tunnels is a big project in this era. Sun Zhiyong recruited a few townspeople from the city and a few low-level officials to cooperate with him. The business is booming.

Shen Jingdan used to go outside through the tunnel, so he has a good relationship with Sun Zhiyong.Luyun also knew this person.

In the middle of the night, a figure quietly walked out of a small courtyard in Juzenji Town.

Because he didn't dare to light the lantern, Hei Ying walked cautiously for half an hour before arriving at the beach and boarding the prepared sampan.

More than an hour later, a ball of paper wrapped in rocks was thrown onto the deck of the Thor.

Zhao Xin, who got the news, immediately asked Lu Shoushan and Heping Tai to notify the guards on board to strengthen their vigilance, and he, Liu Sheng and other five people held an emergency meeting in the cockpit.

Yesterday afternoon, Zhao Liang had obtained the situation that a new team had appeared in the north of Nagasaki City through the drone.Judging from the marks on the simple map, these people camped five miles north of Nagasaki City.

The footage captured by the drone shows that the opponent's soldiers and horses are hidden in a dense forest, and it is impossible to see the specific personnel, baggage and weapons.

In order to confirm the news, everyone decided to fly the drone again after dawn to check the Chongerfan Office on both sides of the port, the two dock warehouses, and the closing of ships at the port.

At seven o'clock in the morning, two drones painted light gray took off from the compass deck and began to scout everywhere.

More than an hour later, the news on the ball of paper was confirmed one by one.

Except for dozens of old, weak and remnant soldiers in Chong Erfan Station, the rest of the troops stationed there were silent; near the warehouses of the two piers, there were armored warriors coming in and out; The densely populated area is heading towards the port.

After discussion, Zhao Xin and others decided to sink all the closed ships moored at various docks, and then bombarded them twice.As for those soldiers, put them aside for now. Without shutting down the ship, can they still swim and attack?
At nine o'clock, the Thor began to be busy. All personnel entered the poop and began to check their weapons and equipment.

At 30:2, the gun covers of the two D[-]s on the center line of the deck were removed, and several boxes of shells were moved out of the cabin; the M[-]HB gun covers on both sides of the deck were removed, and all eight machine guns were loaded. Armor-piercing incendiary bombs were used.

At a quarter past ten, after Deng Fei's careful calculations, considering that the current calm in the port, the two D30s had adjusted their shooting angles and their muzzles were raised.Afterwards, the azimuth data calculated according to the ship's position observed in advance were fired in sequence.

At [-]:[-], Zhao Xin, who reconfirmed that everything was ready, gave the order to fire.Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng immediately pulled the leash in their hands.

(End of this chapter)