open sea

Chapter 343 Silver Mountain
The dwarves have landed!
In Manila Bay, the samurai who arrived exhausted after traveling across the ocean and suffered heavy rains were supported by ashigaru wearing array hats, and leaned on each other around wooden boxes in the port.

Some bald and waisted swordsmen with simple armor, even wearing only their stomachs, looked at the huge warships docked in the harbor with joy, but more armored men who were dressed in suitable clothes and exquisite materials, and could barely be called luxurious looked at them with vigilance. The guards of the Ming Dynasty guarded them with bird guns or spears around them.

A rough look at 400 people, at least ten of them are of higher status than others, maybe they belong to the Japanese samurai class; hundreds of them can be regarded as old acquaintances, and they are Japanese pirates or pirates at first glance, and most of the rest are wearing simple belly as armor. Wearing array hats, some people don't even have a decent armor, and look around with fear, it should be the peasant ashigaru.

In addition to these Japanese who can be seen at a glance, there are forty or fifty Han Chinese. Although they also wear Japanese-style armor and carry Japanese-style weapons, they have different temperaments, especially when they speak, they are full of old people, and they sound like fellow villagers. The meeting has already started asking for food with Qijun's relatives.

These remnants and defeated soldiers from Japan were brought by Qi Zhengyan, Chen Mu's former subordinate.

"For three years, I took my caravan to Japan. When the caravan came back, you were gone. I thought you died in Japan."

In Nanyang Yamen, Chen Muduan sat on the head, looked at Qi Zhengyan who had taken off his full clothes and knelt down, raised his finger and said to the outside: "Now you bring three or 400 people here, saying that you have lost the battle in Japan, and you want to go back to Chen to beg for food." Eat, I have to talk about it, why? What happened in the past few years."

Qi Zhengyan was lost in Japan back then, and to Chen Mu, there was no beginning and no end. Now that he came back, he was also in a daze, and he didn't receive any news during the interim.

Chen Mu could see that many changes had taken place in this old department in recent years.

Qi Zhengyan knelt down on the ground and was about to apologize, but was stopped by Chen Mu with a wave of his hand: "Don't say those things are useless, you are my bannerman, I spared your life back then, and you worked hard for me for three years. And don't, it doesn't affect the business in Nagasaki, as the guest of honor, there is no need to say anything extra—just talk about what you have done in Japan these years."

Qi Zhengyan was irrelevant, what Chen Mu said was for the other staff and subordinates present.

If he is unpopular in the future, whoever wants to leave him can decide to stay or stay, the premise is that it doesn't spoil his business, and we can see each other in the future.

"Yes."

Qi Zhengyan nodded, then raised his head and looked a bit embarrassed, and said: "In the second year of Longqing, I was ordered by my lord to lead a fleet to Nagasaki, where it was easy to sell goods. After the news of the low prices, the fleet returned and left behind manpower to go to the border port of Osaka with the Portuguese to rely on Japanese merchants to buy goods, travel to and from Nagasaki, and supply the fleet.”

"There is not peace in Japan, so I hired some people to protect the goods. Later, I met a Japanese assistant. He was recruiting soldiers for the local rich Nizi clan. Because his subordinates heard that the Nizi clan used to hold the silver mine of Ishimi country, they went with them. Xing Sheng, the leader of the company, made an agreement that after Nizi's restoration to the country, I will mine and transport it to the lord by sea."

"At that time, the lord had already gone north, and all the people he sent back were stopped by the officers and soldiers along the coast, and the subordinates couldn't leave. They didn't dare to pass the matter on to others. With the lord, the subordinates just kept saying goodbye without saying goodbye. All gone."

"Later, I helped them fight, bought a batch of bird guns, trained soldiers like the lord, conquered Yueshan Tomita City, and took over the local fiefdom. Later, I tried my best to support them. After all, there were few soldiers and few generals. They lost to the famous Maori family. This year Completely defeated, Xingsheng doesn't know where to go."

"I heard from the Portuguese that the lord led the troops to fight against the Western Yi in Nanyang, and the Japanese assistant and others led the fleet to search for them. When there was a strong wind at sea, if it wasn't for Sun Qian and Commander Sun's help, he might have died in the belly of the fish."

Chen Mu sniffed, waited for Qi Zhengyan to finish speaking, did not speak for a long time, took a sip from the tea bowl, and then smiled and said: "The warriors of the Ming Dynasty from Nizi's family, disrespect and disrespect!"

He doesn't quite understand!

He has heard of the Maori family, it seems to be a famous name, but what is the Danizi family?Japan helped him know that Qi Zhengyan Long Junxiong was the first to work under him when he was taken captive to Japan, and he learned the skill of jumping, but who is Lucky Sheng?
The only thing that he can have a definite understanding of is probably only the word Yinshan, which is very vivid.

Silver, mountain, mountain of silver.

Nothing else works, this is a good thing!

Qi Zhengyan didn't care about Chen Mu's ridicule, or Chen Mu should have said a few words about him.When he went ashore, he inquired. Long Junxiong, who was no more than his confidant in the past, now has two or three thousand subordinates. He has made great achievements in battle, and it seems that he is only short of a chance to go out to become a general.

He has been in Japan with Shigao Wanshi, the co-leader of Japan, for more than a year, and the actual command force is less than a thousand, which is very aggrieved in comparison.

After thinking about what else he had to say, he raised his head and said to Chen Mu after pondering for a while: "In order to obtain the bird gun in Japan, my subordinate became sworn brothers with the Osaka businessman Xiao Nishi Longzuo, and even recognized his apprentice as his adopted son, named Qi Xing Chief, he is just fourteen this year, and this time he also brought the bay, hoping to get rid of the lord's subordinates."

Don't say that Chen Mu doesn't know each other, even if he does, he doesn't care. He said with a smile, "No matter what, it's always a good thing to come back. You won't have to make decisions by yourself in the future. Tell me what you need in advance. If you can do it, we can find a way together. There are many people." Strength is great—you have to tell Mr. Chen that there is a silver mountain over there, so what’s so difficult about sending three or four thousand soldiers to help you? Maybe you can become a big name in Japan.”

As Chen Mu spoke, he waved to Long Junxiong who was standing beside him, and said, "Go and arrange a place for the soldiers brought by Zhengyan. They should be starving. Prepare meals, just like yours."

Long Junxiong left with his fists in his arms, and Chen Mu let Qi Zhengyan sit down, and asked, "Tell me about what happened in Japan recently, not to mention anything else, how the Portuguese are doing missionary work in Japan, Oda Nobunaga and Lords of Three Rivers, how are they doing recently?"

It's not that Chen Mu wants to call it like "seems to understand", Oda Nobunaga is fine, Sailugong really doesn't know what Sanhetoutou's surname is now, the last time I heard about him, he changed his name from Matsudaira Motoyasu It's called Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the surname and first name have been changed. How should it be called?
"It's not good. Portuguese and Yi are not trusted in Japan. Only businessmen are willing to approach them in order to get goods; Oda and Tokugawa were defeated by the coalition forces. Nobunaga burned several temples last year. The whole world is their enemy. , will be killed in a short time, and most people believe that Takeda Shingen will take over the world." Qi Zhengyan asked: "Why did my lord ask them?"

Chen Mu shook his head, stood up and patted the armor on his body and said, "I don't know what Tokugawa Ieyasu looks like on the battlefield wearing a bear's hair. Let's eat first. There will be plenty of time to reminisce about the old days, so stay at ease. Later, let someone get you the armor, don't wear it again." It's a Japanese armor."

When Chen Mu walked out of the castle, he happened to meet Long Junxiong who had just come back. He said in a low voice, "Lian Dou reported back the situation of the Japanese, and the experience was the same as what Zhengyan said. Commander Sun sent a boat to say that there will be no Japanese pirates in the future. It should be these people, and he will continue to guard against them, how to deal with these people?"

"Compile one alone first, then let Lian Dou get in touch with them, and find out the situation before we talk about it. It should be usable."

As Chen Mu said, he walked towards the stables, shaking his head while walking.

"Japan, Japan..."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)