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And without further ado, it is already July. After entering summer, there are more typhoons around the Japanese archipelago, and sailing to the sea is generally no longer possible. [No pop-up novel website]
Zong Yicheng sent a small mission - secretly of course. The shogunate is very wary of all kinds of Nanman people. If it is known that this domain is in private contact with the newly arrived Nanman people, it will inevitably cause another turmoil.
A Japanese sailing ship sails with a gentle crosswind toward Jeju Island. It is said to be a Japanese sailing ship, but in fact it is a Guangdong ship made in China. Japan's shipbuilding industry is very underdeveloped. Generally, merchants who sail on long voyages buy ships from China or Southeast Asia.
Because the ship is bought in a foreign country, the tonnage of the ship is generally small. The load capacity of this ship is only 70 tons, and the full row is only more than 100 tons. It is a very small ship, only equivalent to the third level of the Senate Navy. Secret Service Boat - The smallest class of secret service craft.
The Tsushima sailors were very familiar with the hydrology of Jeju Island. When the invasion of North Korea failed, Zong Yiji withdrew his troops from Busan and made a false trip to Jeju Island to avoid pursuit by the North Korean navy.
The ship was intercepted by a patrol boat more than ten nautical miles away from Jeju Island. At the request of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade, the Second Fleet established a blockade in the Tsushima Strait, strictly prohibiting all ships from traveling between North Korea and Japan.
Tsushimamori's envoys were Soyoshige's retainer Nagabune Genshichiro and Nagasaki merchant Takeya Munemasa. Nagabune was originally a retainer of the Ukita family. The Ukita Hide family was exiled after the defeat of Sekigahara. The retainers became ronin and went their separate ways. When he was young, Genshichiro has no special skills, and has defected to Tsushima Shoumen several times. He has been used as diplomatic cannon fodder. Fortunately, Japan has become peaceful, and the diplomatic struggles between daimyo are nothing more than interests. They will not embarrass the other party's envoys and lose their lives. It's nothing more than being tired from running errands. It's already a good job for this low-level samurai whose salary is only fifty dan. At least he doesn't have to pay for meals during his official duties.
Takewuya was a distant relative and business agent of the Zong family—most businessmen these days also served on diplomatic missions. Takewu Zong had dealt with Chinese businessmen in Nagasaki. Can speak fluent Chinese. ——According to the repatriated businessman, the group of people claiming to be Australians spoke Chinese ——although the accent was very strange. And he heard a lot about Australians. As a second-hand "Australia expert", I was asked to help.
This mission is also what Takeya wants. After all, Australian goods are also very popular in Nagasaki. Currently, only a small amount of Australian goods are sold to Japan, mainly in luxury goods, and the prices are very expensive. And almost all of it is controlled by those Chinese businessmen.
The goods were scarce and popular, so of course it was not Bamboo House's turn to sell them - Bamboo House could only be regarded as a medium-sized merchant in Nagasaki, and its status in Nagasaki's business district was not high. If he wanted to purchase goods directly from Guangzhou, he had no connections in the shogunate and could not get the seal to go to Guangzhou. Fortunately, I still have a boat. He often used his connections with the Zong family to travel to North Korea privately and sell some goods. Wealth was sought in danger, so this time he took the initiative to volunteer, sent people and ships, and also financed a batch of tribute gifts, and undertook the task of suing for peace in Jeju - of course the official was still the long ship Yan Qilang.
I heard that the visitor was going to Jeju Island to meet "Australians". The patrol boat dispatched armed personnel to board the small sailing boat and took over the key complaints. Then the messenger's boat sailed towards Tianpu under the escort of the patrol boat.
When Zhuwu was recruited by Zong Yicheng, he vividly recounted some of the Australian deeds he had heard from hearsay: Qiongzhou defeated the Ming army, large iron ships bombarded Baietan, and all kinds of "Australian goods", plus The businessmen who were released made exaggerated accusations about how the "four-pointed star flag ship" that hijacked them moved as fast as flying. What kind of guns and guns are like Lin Yunyun... Although they are actually just spy boats and patrol boats - these have left the impression that Australians are no less than southern barbarians in Tsushima Shouchou.
Naturally, many people do not believe this myth-like story - they think it is too exaggerated. However, when the messenger's ship approached Chaotianpu, a row of h800s were moored in the harbor, light black. The huge body swaying gently in the waves shocked the envoys.
Among the Chinese merchant ships going to Japan, there are quite a few large ships with a deadweight tonnage of over 500 tons and a full row of nearly a thousand tons. However, compared with the 1,400-ton full row, the h800 with its huge mast and beautiful ship shape is still a bit smaller. It is comparable to the large Nanman ships of the Portuguese or Dutch.
Takeya has been a businessman in Nagasaki for a long time. He is a very knowledgeable person in Japan. He has seen all kinds of Chinese ships and Nanban ships.
In terms of tonnage scale. h800 is not bigger than other sea-going ships, but a whole row of such large ships is moored, and the visual impact is much stronger than one or two solitary sea-going ships: in Nagasaki Port, whether it is a Chinese merchant ship or a Nanban ship, every Only one or two ships come at a time.
Around these large ships, there are many smaller ships moored. Even these ships were much larger than theirs - even larger than what they had seen.
Most of the boats passed were larger.
This large-scale gathering of ships is not to show off force, but the Second Fleet and the transport fleet are waiting in Jeju for the last sail before summer - with the advent of summer, the arrival of typhoon season. Maritime shipping will come to an end. Most ships, including all steam battleships and h800s, will return to their home ports. In accordance with the order of the Navy Military Command, all steam warships returned to Lingao for maintenance, h800 returned to Hong Kong for maintenance, and other sailboats received maintenance and overhaul in Jeju, Kaohsiung and Hong Kong as appropriate.
The Navy's large-scale "summer break" is not only to avoid typhoons, but also to rest and reorganize the team.
The intensive shipping and convoys that lasted for more than half a year have made the navy's ships and personnel show signs of fatigue. The performance of steam-powered ships is not stable to begin with. There have been many accidents and they are in urgent need of maintenance. The fatigue of the personnel It has also reached the extreme - due to the lack of backup personnel, sailors are overworked.
The envoys on the deck fell silent. Such a group of "pirates" or "southern barbarians" are definitely not good people - the direct occupation of Jeju Island is probably not something that ordinary southern barbarian merchants and pirates can do.
Ping Qiusheng didn't know that there was a second-hand "Australia Pass" in Lai Shi. But no matter what the other party's background was, he would naturally give them a cold reception in the first day or two and arrange for them to stay at the Chaotianpu Inn. As usual, there is a brochure for promoting Australia and Song Dynasty in the room: half of it is the paintings of Leib Trini and his students: the buildings and scenery of Lingao, the majestic Fubo army, the ships in the style of Hayao Nogami's ship collection, the epic style The battle scenes - most of them are PS repaints of Warhammer 40k pictures collected by a certain veteran. Of course, some things from the past time and space are also mixed in... Anyway, let's get shocked and faint before talking about it.
Early in the morning on the third day, Ping Qiucheng summoned the Tsushima envoy at the Chaotianpu Merchant Hall.
"I am the envoy of the Kingdom of Tsushima, Captain Genshichirobei. By order of the Lord of the Kingdom, I order you to wait..."
Ping Qiusheng's face was expressionless, and his mind was rapidly thinking about the lessons he had reviewed last night about the Ma Zong family...
The country of Tsushima is not big, and the retainers group is not small. After the decline of the former head of the family, the Shao Er clan, the retainers group organized and fled to Tsushima. As the father-in-law of the previous head of the family, Konishi Yukino-chan lost his head and another group of wanderers came. The retainers, and then there are the scattered ones who have drifted here on their own... such as Nagafune Genshichiro's family.
When there are too many retainers, there will be too many people to eat from the treasury. This is not the main problem, because the sources are complex, and there are too many monks and too few people, so there will inevitably be multiple mountains competing for power.
Because Soyoshi was very dissatisfied with Yanagawa and Susana's family and wanted to support foreign retainers who had no roots, Yan Shichiro finally got a salary of fifty koku a year, lived in a longhouse in the castle town, and had to serve as an official. Life is extremely hard, not much better than Ashigaru. According to the laws of the shogunate, samurai could not work and did not own land. They had to rely on their wives to raise children for merchants to supplement their family income. As an envoy this time, all his outfits were borrowed from his master.
However, after all, the captain had served a big boss, and his arrogance was absolutely arrogant. Yan Qilang's two brothers both committed seppuku and died during negotiations. He also became a retainer because of his courage and ability to bluff.
"Are you aware of your guilt?" Ping Qiucheng frowned after hearing his long words and thought to himself: "Your uncle, I am more arrogant than you."
"I am an envoy to Jeju City under the command of the Minister of Taifu Temple, who leads the coastal system. He is sent by the superior country. Your master is just a servant of the four subordinates. How dare you send someone here to do this! Could it be that your master is the one who is here? Are you here to start a war? Then I will order the navy to immediately seize your ships and other ships. Tomorrow the fleet will set off to bombard the Japanese pavilion! Defeat Tsushima! Blockade Nagasaki!"
"Two adults, please calm down and listen to what the villain has to say." Takeya Munamasa was so anxious that he almost jumped up. If those "Australian black ships" really sailed to Nagasaki, Edo would be shaken. It would be better if the relevant people committed seppuku. .
"I have no intention of raising an army here to seek culpability." Zhuwu said tactfully, "The trade between this domain and Korea has been going on for a long time, and there was nothing that triggered Australia. I don't know why they occupied Jeju Island and intercepted our ship... "
"This Jeju Island was originally the territory of the Song Dynasty. When the Puppet Yuan Dynasty was destroyed by the Puppet Ming Dynasty, it was usurped by the Goryeo rebels. Today, the Song Dynasty has regained its old territory. Do you have anything to say!?"
"What happened in the old days has nothing to do with Japan. We can't say anything about the right or wrong. It's just that this ship is owned by this feudal clan..."
"Your Tsuima Kingdom is a vassal of both the Japanese and Korean vassals. Our empire has no intention of conquering Japan. Does your family master want to be a Korean or a Japanese?"
"Tsushima is a vassal state of Japan, and it is attached to North Korea as a subordinate power. My master does not want to go to war with your tribe, and since the beginning of our kingdom, all the great kings have taken it as their own responsibility to keep the world peaceful and restrain the great names from being allowed to go abroad. Provocation." Zhuwu knew that his opponent was powerful and there was no point in being cruel. He could only show his full "peace-loving".
