A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 226 Going to sea to pacify Japan

Now that Laizhou is under the control of Liangshan, Zhang Heng's ship did not stop at the Mizhou Shipping Department to pay taxes. Instead, it docked directly from Laizhou on the Bohai Sea, and changed to a paddle wheel river boat to sail upstream along the route of Wenshui River. Finally, it goes straight to Liangshanbo.

Although it took a longer detour at sea, compared to the speed of the land route, it saved a lot of money. In just a few days, we returned to Dazhai.

In this day and age, going to sea was hard work and very dangerous, and life was in danger at every turn.

If the boat capsizes in the river, you can still swim to the shore, but if there is an accident in the sea, the whole army will be wiped out, and there is no way to save it.

Normal people are basically unwilling to go to sea as long as they have some way to make a living.

Zhang Heng and others traveled all the way to the sea, and they made great contributions. Li Gui personally led people down the mountain to welcome them back to Liangshan Dazhai, and his sergeants then transported the goods on the ship into the warehouse.

A banquet had already been held on the mountain, ready to welcome Zhang Heng and his party back from overseas.

After everyone sat down in their seats, Li Gui took the lead in raising a bowl to toast: "Brother Zhang Heng has worked hard all the way. Let's toast our brothers together."

Everyone agreed with a bang, picked up their wine bowls, and drank all the wine together with Zhang Hengyi.

Zhang Heng drank a bowl of wine and said with a smile:

"There is a shortage of everything on the sea, especially this wine, which can be used as a substitute for fresh water. You can't just drink it casually. You have to drink it regularly and in regular quantities. It almost killed me!"

"Now that I'm back on the mountain, I can have a good drink."

Everyone burst into laughter and joked:

"I'll bring ten buckets to your bedside later and get you drunk to death, you drunkard!"

A group of brothers joked and made out for a while before finally talking about the brimstone.

Zhang Heng poured another bowl of wine and said angrily:

"When the ship I was waiting for first arrived at the Japanese country, everything was normal. The noble merchants of the Japanese country were very friendly, and the purchase of goods went smoothly."

"I left a few stewards at the port and went to look for the stone and silver mountain."

"But not long after, when I returned to the port, the merchants told me that they had sold out all the sulfur and had no goods for me."

"My little brother is not a fool. Of course he knew something was wrong here, so he bribed some Japanese nobles."

Zhang Heng poured himself another bowl and continued:

"All the nobles in this world are like birds. They are greedy for money. As long as the money is in place, everything can be easily discussed."

"My little brother inquired from them that the Emperor of the Zhao family listened to someone's advice and issued an imperial edict to the Emperor of Japan, prohibiting the private sale of sulfur to various rebel armies."

"That Japanese country is the loyal dog of the Song Dynasty. If the Song Dynasty does not let him sell it, he will not sell sulfur to me in Liangshan."

"The Song Dynasty has also seen the power of artillery. This sulfur is related to the production of gunpowder and is an important military item. It is reasonable to not allow the Japanese country to sell it to Liangshan."

"If there is not enough gunpowder, even if there is artillery, it is just a big iron block and there is nothing to fear."

"It's just that even the bird officials of the Song Dynasty know this truth. How come I don't know the importance of this thing?"

"How can I let this businessman from the Bird Kingdom choke my neck in Liangshan?"

"In anger, my younger brother simply led a group of brothers into the noble's mansion, killed the unknown Japanese noble, and snatched several carts of sulfur."

"The local defenders came to fight. I saw that there were many of them, so I didn't fight with them. I just went back to the sea with sulfur."

"But this ship of sulfur won't be used for long. I'll probably have to buy it from Japan."

"I'm afraid I'll have to change the port to land at that time, or simply pretend to be a merchant from the Song Dynasty to buy it."

Li Gui filled up the wine for him, waved his hand nonchalantly and said:

"Do you want to buy more?"

"Now that Emperor Zhao knows the power of this artillery, I'm afraid that in the future this type of materials will only be sold by officials, and even real merchants of the Song Dynasty will not be able to buy the goods."

"Humph, this small country is so ignorant!"

"Giving them silver is just for convenience, but it doesn't make them afraid."

"Since they are shameless, we don't have to talk to them about anything. We can just destroy his city, destroy his country, and turn his family's world into our own private land."

Everyone burst into laughter and said: "Brother, our current territory has not been fully digested. Isn't that small barbarian country with a poor land and sparse population worth occupying?"

Li Gui smiled and replied:

"If it weren't for that Shi Jian Yin Shan, I wouldn't bother to occupy him."

"Our local territory naturally needs to be managed well, and we must eliminate the powerful forces who divide the land between the people. However, the Japanese country does not need to do this, as long as they can send labor for mining."

He turned around and asked Zhang Heng next to him: "Brother Zhang Heng, have you found Yinshan?"

Zhang Heng hesitated and said:

"Brother, I have arrived at the place you mentioned."

"It's just that it's deserted now and there's no one around. I don't know if it's the place my brother is looking for."

Li Gui then said:

"We just need to determine the approximate location. Once we occupy Japan, let them send people to build a road there and conduct a detailed survey."

"The mountain is there. If you search slowly, you can always find it."

After Zhu Wu heard this, he asked:

"Brother needs to take as many people as he wants. My younger brother will arrange the manpower and ships. We can set off in ten days at most."

Li Gui laughed and said:

"How many troops and horses will you bring?"

"We are short of people for internal cleaning. How can we allocate people to waste on such trivial matters at this time?"

"Just a trip with Brother Ma Ling."

"His two wheels of wind and fire are so powerful that walking on rivers, lakes and seas is like walking on flat ground."

"I estimate that we can be back in as soon as ten days or as short as two months."

Zhu Wu said with color:

"Brother is joking again!"

"Without soldiers and horses, how can my brother occupy Japan?"

"Is it possible to kill everyone?"

Li Gui said with a smile:

"Our mining requires a lot of people. If we kill them all, it will be wasted."

"Since I don't intend to make a living there, it will be much easier to occupy Japan."

"As long as we keep those nobles who surrender and kill those who don't, we can easily become the ruler there."

"Just like in the Song Dynasty, if we had not killed the gentry, divided the land, and offended the Confucian family and the Taoist and Buddhist families, a certain family would have dominated the world long ago."

Through the battlefield fighting and government affairs experience in the past two years, everyone has long discovered the contradiction between these gentry and civilians. They are also aware of the huge power of these gentry in the local area. They understand that in order to rule stably, those gentry must be eliminated. Now He stopped talking and let Li Gui make his own decision.

Li Gui said again:

"Song Jiang is currently chasing Wang Qing and the remnants of Tian Hu. He has no time to attack us in Liangshan. I will go back quickly. I will definitely come back before he comes to attack, so as not to delay things here."

After hearing this, Lin Chong shouted:

"Brother looks down on people so much!"

"My little brother was defeated last time. It was purely due to the lack of soldiers. It only took a few rounds of artillery fire to collapse."

"Now we are all elites on Liangshan, and we have enough artillery and gunpowder. If Song Jiang dares to come, I will let him see the power of Liangshan."

"Brother, just go and play in Japan with peace of mind. Don't worry about what's going on on Liangshan Mountain!"

Li Gui laughed and thought deeply, then raised his wine bowl and continued drinking with everyone.

After being escorted by Zhang Heng, Li Gui took Ma Ling and left Liangshan the next day, passing through Yanzhou and Yizhou, heading straight for the Mizhou seaside.

(End of this chapter)