open sea

Chapter 370
There is no battle to fight in Ryukyu. Whether the eldest son succeeds or the second son succeeds depends entirely on the ministers. How can the heavenly army have the idea of ​​raising troops when it comes to Hong Kong? Send people across the sea to Fujian, and send a report to the imperial court to ask Emperor Longqing to canonize it.

Canonized by the emperor, there is no need to ask about the result, it must be the second son of the direct descendant who succeeded to the throne.

Chen Bazhi's request was easily fulfilled. The Ryukyu officials, mindful of the friendship between the two countries, asked Chen Bazhi to build a port in the northern part of Amami Oshima. You can dominate Hong Kong.

The Ming army came at a good time. In the fifth year of Longqing, after the chief of Amami Oshima and the relatives of Wanda died, his subordinates conspired against him and refused to pay tribute to the Ryukyu royal family. Therefore, the former emperor Shangyuan King personally conquered Oshima and defeated him. The local rebels were also critically ill afterward. Ma Shunde, the magistrate, prayed to God to die for their king. King Shang Yuan insisted on returning to the capital.

Ma Shunde passed away that year, so he was buried generously.

Last year, when King Shang Yuan passed away, there was a lot of turmoil among the princes in the middle school, and no one cared about Da Dao. Now that the Ming army was willing to station on the island, it was just enough to suppress Da Dao's opposition, and it was too late for the courtiers to be willing.

Chen Bazhi had no battle to fight, and his wish came to nothing, so he could only build a seaport in the north of the big island. Because he looked at Tanegashima in the north, he named it Wangdao Port, and then built three customs defenses on the nearby islands. They were built by pirates on the opposite bank of Wangdao Port. Xiushuizhai and the northern sea area are two hundreds of households in the sea.

In fact, what he saw was not Tanegashima, but Suwanose Island. Tanegashima was much larger and farther away than that.

"Brother is here?"

Now that the five thousand households under his command are familiar with the daily drills of the Chen family's army, Ba Ye is much more relaxed, and brought a few servants back from hunting on the mountain, and saw Li Dan and several Ryukyu officials, including Zheng Pei, waiting outside the camp.

He runs the army strictly, except for Chen Mu, anyone in the whole world will be kept out of the camp without his permission-who let the Luzon Northern Guard's Banner Army have a commander who admires Wei Liaozi?
The servant took the little black rabbit that can only be found in Amami Oshima to the Huobing barracks. The water fortress was just under construction, and the officials were left outside the tent. Li Dan watched Chen Bazhi sit in the chief seat carefully when he followed Wipe the blunderbuss carefully, with a serious expression as if holding a lover's arm in his hand.

Li Dan took his seat, sighed softly, and said: "I enter the camp, but your soldiers will not let me in, and you still recite the military order for me at the gate of the camp, saying that those who lead people into the camp without the commander's permission will be executed. Habaro, you Who will fight for you after killing all the soldiers?"

Li Dan was playing tricks on leading troops to fight. All his military talents were learned by his ears and eyes. He never learned it deliberately, and he didn't feel the need to lead troops to fight by himself.With so many strong generals under his foster father, a foster son like him who is proficient in several languages, knows how to do business, and has seen the world doesn't need to lead troops at all.

Even if you have fought a war, you have to rely on quick wits when you have to.

He was a little apprehensive about the murderous nature of his brother leading the soldiers towards the soldiers.

Chen Bazhi carefully put the blunderbuss into the pouch and put it aside, then raised his eyes to Li Dan and said seriously: "A humble person like me should have died on the battlefield or in a corner where no one knew about it. I owe it to my adoptive father to be here today, how dare I be perfunctory when I was asked to train soldiers, my military order is like a mountain, only my adoptive father is the sun and the moon, how can others violate it."

"I heard that in ancient times, soldiers who used soldiers could kill half of the soldiers to strengthen the country. If Chen Ba was not talented, he could kill thirteen of them. I would like to help my father and commander to strengthen the princes."

Li Dan spread his hands and said, "I know what you said. My foster father does great things. You raise troops and I raise money and food. If you and I do our best, everything will be safe; but you have pushed the soldiers too hard. They are treating you now." I am very afraid, I dare not violate the order, and I am not allowed to drink, play cards and find women without holidays, and I have to be tied up for [-] times when I leave the team when I am in a hurry to urinate.

"That's why we have to fight. If one battle is successful, the rewards are like the sun and the moon, and the letter is like four o'clock, so the army's morale can be settled." Chen Bazhi knew it well, and opened his hands and said: "Although a hundred people can defeat ten thousand people, as a heroic soldier in the world— —Brother brought Ryukyu officials, what's the matter?"

"As long as you have a plan." What else could Li Dan say?He didn't know much about military training, but when he mentioned the Ryukyu officials, he was very energetic, and said: "The Ryukyu officials have always been worried about Shimadzu across the sea. They are fierce when they trade, and they bully the weak Ryukyu soldiers. Japanese pirates come and go and plunder."

"When you docked, they saw that the soldiers on your ship were well-organized, and they heard that you trained them in Luzon, which is also weak, so they wanted you to help them train in Ryukyu. What do you think?"

As he spoke, Li Dan raised his hand and said, "Although Ryukyu's land is barren and there are frequent famines, and food is exchanged by tomorrow and day, the trade is prosperous, and there is no shortage of any goods."

"Training, this matter requires the permission of the commander-in-chief. Send someone back to Luzon to ask. It's okay if you allow them to train two thousand households." Chen Bazhi thought for a while, waved to the servant standing at the tent gate, and said, "recruit They come in and I ask."

After a while, Zheng Pei brought the old Ryukyu officials in, and after seeing the ceremony, he introduced: "This is Weng Shouxiang, the third secretary, named Ruifeng, and he is a highly respected official in the country."

As he said that, Zheng Pei said to Weng Shouxiang: "Mr. Weng, this is General Chen, the commander of the Northern Guards of Lusong."

Hearing this official position, Weng Shouxiang felt a little uncomfortable. He had been a tribute to the Ming Dynasty two years ago, and he was an official in charge of foreign affairs when the late king was alive. At the same time, his relationship with Shimadzu was not bad.

In the trade with Shimadzu, Ryukyu often suffers from Shimadzu's fierceness, so he hopes to strengthen the military to make him more confident, but what he wants is definitely not Ryukyu being annexed by Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there are people in the middle school who want to be merged into Ming Dynasty, and no matter how close they are to Shimadzu, no one wants to be merged into Japan.

For Ryukyu, Japan and Ming Dynasty are like two articles, one is rude and barbaric, full of swords and swords; the other is gorgeous and condescending.No matter which one, I am not comfortable with myself.

Daming established a command and envoy in Luzon, so will it also set up a command and envoy in Ryukyu in the future?

But his expression remained the same. Chen Bazhi, who was 40 to [-] years younger than him, greeted him, praised him a few words, and dared not rely on his old age. He was very reserved, and then he expressed his intention: "The Ryukyu soldiers are weak, so I want to ask the general to train some soldiers and horses on my behalf."

Seeing Chen Bazhi's noncommittal expression, he followed up and said: "Ryukyu wants to submit a letter to the emperor, and after getting the approval, he will buy military equipment from the Nanyang Yamen. I heard that the general lacks pack horses. We can offer the general a hundred mountain horses as a reward for training. "

"It's not easy for Ryukyu to hear. When it comes to buying military weapons, they want to buy firecrackers and three-eyed blunderbusses, but they don't dare to mention birdcracks." Li Dan looked at Chen Bazhi as he spoke, with a bit of embarrassment in his words, and said, "General Chen thinks Woolen cloth?"

"Practice or not, I'm not here to send a letter to the Nanyang Yamen; to buy military weapons, you can't help Ryukyu to submit a letter, and the Nanyang Yamen will report first; as for me, I don't want to train your soldiers."

Chen Bazhi looked at Zheng Pei and then at Weng Shouxiang, and said, "Before the ugly words, the equipment and equipment I need for training are the same as those of the soldiers outside. Ask my brother about the price of the weapons. In addition, one thousand soldiers will die and three hundred will be killed. I am not allowed to ask other people, I advise the old man to go back and think carefully."

(End of this chapter)