Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 82 Five Conditions
Shibata Kakuzo and a group of three carefully followed behind Sheng Haizhou.Li Ji was holding the pistol in his jacket pocket and followed slowly.

As Sheng Haizhou pushed open a door in the cabin and entered first, Shibata Kakuzo and the three who followed behind suddenly felt their eyes lit up.In the cabin of about seven pings (one ping equals 3.3 square meters), bright light shone from the roof, and the three one-foot-sized portholes were drawn with tulle curtains.

There was a huge rectangular table in the room, and on the opposite side of the table sat two tall people with short hair and wearing weird clothes.

"Everyone, please take a seat." After Sheng Haizhou finished speaking, he walked to the other side of the table, stood behind the two, and continued: "This is my lord Master Zhao, and the Thor is my lord's boat. This is my lord. Master Liu, is my lord's deputy."

When the three of Shibata Juezang heard it, they hurriedly bowed to Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, and introduced themselves.

"You three don't have to be cautious, please sit down. Drink some water first." Zhao Xin said with a smile.

After discovering that the "lord" on the opposite side was also speaking a strange but fluent island dialect, Shibata Kakuzo and the three of them had no mind to drink water, and their foreheads were full of question marks.

After sitting down with a chair, Shibata Juezang first looked around at the furnishings around him, then his face sank, and he glared at Zhao Xin and asked, "Why did your Excellency bombard Matsushima Town yesterday and torture and kill the samurai of this domain?! Why did you come to block it today? My Ishinomaki Port Route?!"

"We have limited time and don't have time to chat with you." Zhao Xin showed a sneer on his face and said to Sheng Haizhou behind him, "Tell them our conditions!"

"Yes, my lord!" After Katsumi said, he picked up a piece of paper full of handwriting from the table.

This is a notice written by Zhao Xin in advance.What he meant was to read out the situation and conditions directly to the other party, and if he listened to it, he would be fine, but if he didn't listen, he would just shoot the gun to deter him.Anyway, it only takes up to four days to go back and forth from Beihai Town, and the Thor will stop by if there is nothing to do, and see who can handle it.

"You!" Shibata Juicang saw the rudeness of the other party, and he was instantly furious. He clenched his fists hidden under the table, and wished he could immediately draw a knife and cut off the three people on the opposite side.

"Hey! Little devil, be honest with me!" Liu Sheng looked at Shibata Juezang opposite, raised his hand and picked up a black Marlin 1894 lever rifle.The gun is less than a meter long and has a magazine capacity of nine rounds.

"Bastard!" Shibata Juezang saw that the other party pointed the black hole of the fire gun at him, and immediately stood up angrily, and his hand touched the knife handle at his waist.

"Master samurai, I advise you not to draw your knife, otherwise you will die very ugly." Li Ji, who was standing at the door, took out the pistol in his jacket pocket and said to Shibata Kakuzo.

The business owner and the tax officer who accompanied Shibata Juezang saw that the two sides were arguing with each other, and quickly got up to smooth the field: "Sir Shibata, don't get angry! Have you forgotten to pursue the purpose that the lord sent you here?"

This is what I want!Shibata Juezang couldn't help admiring his wit, and the two accompanying people were the right ones.Speaking of which, who can't pretend to be a grandson? The problem is to pretend to be a grandson in a polite and disciplined way. This is called wisdom.So he put his hands down from his waist with a look of anger, snorted and sat back in his seat.

The owner of the business hurriedly said to Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng in front of him: "Next is Katsuyama Densan, the owner of Katsuyama Brewing, and the deputy envoy appointed by the master. Please don't take offense, the two masters. There will be a boat for the masters later. We will send you the wine brewed by my number, and ask the adults to accept it."

(This "Katsuyama Brewery" is real. Since 1688, breweries and shops have been opened in Sendai Domain. In other words, his family's Junmai Daiginjo is still very famous; , that's a brand name from 1990, pure hype.)
"Are you from the Tang Dynasty? Are you from the Qing Kingdom?" The tax officer on the side suddenly stood up and asked.

"Yes, no. We are Tang people, but not Qing people. Please remember this." Zhao Xin explained lightly.

The tax officer listened and sat down slowly with doubts on his face.

Zhao Xin turned his head and nodded at Sheng Haizhou, Sheng Haizhou bowed to salute, then looked at the stack of papers in his hand, cleared his throat, and began to read: "The first one, because the Sendai Domain sent troops maliciously to ambush our personnel , causing damage to our ships, we demand compensation of 1 taels of gold from the Sendai Domain."

"What?! Asshole!" Shibata Kakuzo stood up and roared.

Ship damaged?Your boat is made of iron. What's wrong with you?Even if you hit it with a large tube, it is probably just a piece of paint!Besides, not to mention the matter of the ship, nearly [-] samurai from this domain died in battle, [-]!This is not a radish all over the ground, just pull it and you can have it.

Zhao Xin laughed. He waited for Shibata Juezang to finish his roar before he said lightly, "Are you going to go to war?"

"I" Shibata Juicang immediately wilted, and it really is a pot that can't be opened and lifted.I want to fight, but the problem is that we don't count.

"Second, release Tongxin and Katayama Kanbei, who were captured by you, and return them to our side; and pay 5000 taels of gold."

Shibata Kakuzo was already angry and began to tremble.
"Third, we must not be prohibited from transporting refugees on board. For every [-] adult healthy refugees, we are willing to exchange three stones of polished rice, or equal weight of wheat."

"Huh?" Shibata and the three couldn't help but stunned.

"Fourth, from today onwards, if the Sendai clan, including the Edo shogunate, attacks us, we will bomb Hiraishinomaki Port, Matsushima Port, and even Sendai Castle until you surrender completely."

"Devil! It's definitely the act of the devil! Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, please transform into Angry-eyed King Kong and punish these people!" Shibata Juicang was extremely angry, his teeth were clenched, and he wanted to rush to kill the opponent.

"Fifth, in order to show our determination, our artillery will be fired four times into the uninhabited area of ​​the sea in the port before the second quarter of this afternoon, to prove it!"

"Bang!" Two times, the owner of the winery, Katsuyama Chuan Sanlian, turned the chair over to the ground; Shibata Juezang abruptly got up and brought the chair down; the tax officer lowered his head in thought.

"Bastards! You can't do this!!" Shibata couldn't bear to pretend to be angry at this time, he shouted anxiously.

Zhao Xin leaned on the back of the chair, glanced at Liu Sheng with a smile, turned to Shibata Juezang and said, "You can let the refugees and beggars die helplessly, why can't we do this?"

"Those people are filthy, right and wrong. They are all pariahs!" Shibata Juetang shouted.

"Master samurai, I'm also a pariah." Liji said to Shibata coldly.

"And me!" Hu Ji walked in from the door.

"We are all!" Outside the conference room door, a dozen sailors shouted angrily.

"You guys, are you going to rebel?!" Shibata Juezang stared at the crowd pouring in at the door, and pointed at Liji.

Zhao Xin sneered disdainfully: "You can't even feed yourselves, who has the time to spend with you. Go back and tell the people in Ishinomaki Port Fengxing and Sendai City, I will only give you two days. If within two days, if If there is no answer, I will blow up Ishinomaki Port! Send off!"

"Heaven's calamity, heaven's calamity!" The Ishinomaki Port official hall, the acting official, almost fainted after listening to the report of the three Shibata Juezang.He covered his head and sighed inwardly, "Why am I so unlucky, I've only been here in Ishinomaki Port for a year, and I haven't made much money, and a catastrophe has come to my door!"

After a long while, the acting officer slowly slowed down, and immediately ordered his men to report to Aoba City.He couldn't handle this matter at all, so let the adults in the feudal city handle it.

"My lord, I have a word for this subordinate, I don't know if I should say it or not?" The tax officer of the Fengxing Office had not spoken since he came back, and suddenly opened his mouth at this moment.

"It's this time, what else is there to say. Hurry up and say it!"

"Haha. Your lord, the third item mentioned by the person on that boat."

"Huh?" Feng Xing was stunned.He was so angry just now that he was compensated and fired in the afternoon that he didn't pay attention to the third rule.

"Hey~~ You mean, they are going to take refugees out to sea? Are they going to exchange rice for it?"

"That's right, they are talking about using milled rice or wheat of equal weight." The tax officer said affirmatively.

"The villain also listened very genuinely, and they did say so." The owner of the winery, Katsuyama Densan, hurriedly leaned over and added.

Feng Cheng suddenly calmed down, sat down slowly, and fell into thought.

How much is 5000 taels of gold?It is nothing to Sendai Fan.Besides, this matter can still be discussed. There are so many abalones, sea cucumbers and shark fins in the warehouse, which are worth a lot of money!This thing is not as much as you want.

That Katayama Kanbei is nothing, just a little concentric, just give it to them.His wife and children are all on that boat, so it's useless to arrest him alone.

But the matter of replacing rice is very interesting!
Now the mountains and forests outside the port, along the roads, and even inside and outside the towns and villages, are all landless refugees. Even if these people return to the countryside, they have no land to grow.This is all the burden of the local domain. If these people can be exchanged for rice, it will be a great achievement.

Besides, what if Edo knew about this kind of thing?Is the general going to use his own grain storage to open a warehouse for relief?What a joke!The rice on the market in Edo all point to Sendai Domain and Ishinomaki Port. Even if adults know about it, they will pretend to be stupid.It's just a group of pariahs, I didn't expect to be able to exchange for food
Thinking of this, Feng Xiong asked Shibata Kakuzo with a serious face, "Did the people on the boat say where to bombard this afternoon?"

"It's said to be a no-man's land on the sea in the port." Shibata Kakuzang replied with his head lowered.

"Yeah." After thinking about it, Feng Cheng said: "Notify the cargo ships and fishing boats in the port that they will not go to sea for two days without an order from the government, and they will all be parked at the pier for me. Inform the town that everyone is not allowed to go to the pier this afternoon. Wandering around, offenders will get fifty sticks and one hundred fines."

"Yes." Everyone left immediately and started to get busy.Some people went to write notices, and some people were busy riding horses into the town to notify the families.

Shibata Juezang left the official hall without a word, standing at the door in a dazed trance.Katsuyama Denzo followed behind him, and when he saw Shibata like this, he also guessed a few points in his heart.To be honest, when they left the Thor in the morning, that scene really freaked him out.

It was said that the three of Shibata Juezang, after Zhao Xin issued the expulsion order, walked to the deck in dismay and was about to get off the gangway, when Liu Sheng stopped the three behind them.

The tax officer could listen and speak some Tang dialects, so he stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter with this lord?"

Liu Sheng said with a smile: "Nothing else, let's open your eyes. Don't think that being a samurai with a knife means only five people and six people."

"You!" The tax officer was furious when he heard it. The samurai sword represents the soul of a samurai, how could he insult him at will.

Liu Sheng gestured to Hu Ji beside him; there were seven or eight porcelain bowls under Hu Ji's feet, all brought from the ship's canteen.Seeing Liu Sheng's gesture, he picked up a bowl and threw it towards the sea.

"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and the porcelain bowl was shattered.

Huji continued, throwing all the bowls on the ground one by one.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" Liu Sheng shot one, shattering all the porcelain bowls.

The sailors on deck cheered.Except for Shibata Kakuzo, whose face was ashen and his legs were trembling.

Shibata Juezang could see clearly that the opponent's iron cannon could fire in a row. The man just moved an iron ring under the gun body, and he could fire continuously and hit the gun.

He thought that when he pretended to be angry in the cabin and wanted to draw a knife, the other party used this iron cannon at him, and if it all hit him.
Shibata Juezang suddenly broke out in cold sweat, and almost fainted on the deck by the sea breeze.

(End of this chapter)