"Oh! Lord Buddha, what kind of heavenly soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can defeat Yuan Kou? Are they so powerful?!"
"Well... Blessed by the great Bodhisattva Hachiman! All the martial arts in the shogunate combined can hardly resist one of the five fingers of the Ming Dynasty!... This was also a hundred years ago, when the third generation shogun Yoshimitsu accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty emperor as 'Japan The reason why the king surrendered his status to the Ming Kingdom..."
"Ah! Maitreya Buddha's blessing! Even the Supreme Emperor, the incarnation of Maitreya Buddha, has surrendered to the king of Ming Dynasty?!"
"Sukeichiro, the emperor of Ming Dynasty is not a king, but an emperor who is above the king. He is the reincarnation of Tathagata Buddha! There is only such an emperor in the whole world. There was also the evil ghost king emperor of Yuan Kou before, but he is already here A hundred years ago, he was killed by Xu Da, the general sent by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the barbarians!..."
"Oh! The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty can kill the Evil Ghost King's Emperor Yuan Kou. He is indeed the reincarnation of Tathagata Buddha. It's so powerful!..."
Mentioning the "giant giant light" in the Western Sea of Japan, Watanabe Masumi, a monk soldier, looked frightened and his expression was obviously complicated. He was from a samurai family in Kyushu. Unlike Murakami Yoshitsuki and Sukeichiro, these two local samurai from the Ezo region did not know the power of the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, he knew very well that the Ming Dynasty was so powerful that it could crush the entire He Kingdom!
"Witness the Buddha! Although the warrior families from all over Kyushu will organize plundering fleets, they usually only plunder North Korea and rarely dare to plunder the Ming Dynasty. In fact, our ships cannot go that far..."
"Ah? The plundering fleet of the Kyushu warrior family? Plundering North Korea?..."
"Um…"
The monk soldier Masumi Watanabe nodded slightly and glanced at the nervous shipwright Jin Shanshu. As a craftsman in the North Korean government, Jin Shanshu had no personal freedom at all and could not leave the shipyard. The fact that he was able to appear in Japan and build ships for the big merchants in Sakai Port was originally one of the trophies of the Kyushu warriors who plundered Korea...
"Witness the Buddha! The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty repeatedly put pressure on the shogunate to restrain the clans in various places and eliminate the so-called 'Japanese pirates'..."
Having said this, the monk soldier Watanabe Masumi smiled, with a look of helplessness and a bit of ridicule on his face.
"However, where are there any 'Japanese pirates' in the East China Sea of the Ming Dynasty now? If a hundred years ago, when General Yoshimitsu pacified the Southern Dynasties, there were still groups of wandering warriors who had lost their land. But today, they have no roots or origins. The Southern Dynasty warriors had been wiped out long ago, and those who survived were the Ming people's own Ming pirates! They gathered many boat people and fishermen from the coast, took in many fleeing military households, and recruited a few people who had lost their families. The samurai ronin were used as a sign... In the end, they all dressed up as warriors of the Republic of China and came to plunder the Ming Kingdom's own coast!..."
"Ah! Why do the people of the Ming Dynasty want to rob themselves?"
"Because their government is tyrannical and tyrannical, and they annex land! There are many villagers along the coast who cannot survive, and there are tens of thousands of untouchables living on boats... These people can only become pirates, plundering and killing, Get a way out!…”
"Tens of thousands of untouchables living on boats? How can people live on boats?..."
After hearing Watanabe's words, Murakami Yoshiichi and Sukeichiro looked at each other, both confused. The untouchables on board that Masumi Watanabe mentioned were the numerous Fujianese people. Their origins are very complex, including remnants of the Baiyue people and survivors of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, and most of them are refugees from the Han region who are evading taxes. The untouchables on the ship were not naturalized in the Ming Dynasty and were even lower than the untouchables. They would be expelled by the government and even killed by the navy. They cannot own land, nor can they participate in various labors in the countryside and in the market, but they number in the tens of thousands, and they are one of the important sources of pirates along the coast!
"Well...those boat people are all good sailors and have excellent water skills..."
Watanabe Masumi, the monk soldier, touched his bald head. He didn't know much about these boat people, but when he went out to sea on a sea ship, he encountered those powerful plundering ships of Ming pirates and saw them a few times from a distance. Well, we are meeting colleagues...
"Those pirate ships from the Ming Dynasty are much bigger and faster than our ships from Kyushu! Xiao Zao and Guan Feng from various martial arts families in Kyushu cannot cross such a long sea to plunder the Ming Dynasty. coast. Our Xiaozao and Guanzhou are by no means a match for the Ming navy. They cannot escape if they encounter one... In fact, the powerful ships that plundered the Ming coast were all built by the Ming people themselves. of!…"
"As for the reason for doing this...it seems that the people of the Ming Dynasty on the southeast coast were very resistant to the Ming Emperor. The taxes they paid seemed to be much higher than those in the north of the Ming Dynasty...However, the Ming pirates who robbed the Ming Dynasty were behind The real master is actually from the Ming Dynasty...well, powerful and famous!..."
"Ah? Maitreya Buddha! Lord Watanabe, why do the powerful and powerful people of the Ming Dynasty raise pirates to plunder the Ming Dynasty's own coast?..."
"Witness the Buddha! It's probably to make more money, annex more land, and take in more slaves!... I heard someone said that the Ming pirates' supply of water, information on plundering, and sale of stolen goods The channels were all managed by the powerful and powerful locals in the Ming Dynasty! They listened to the powerful and powerful names and docked, robbed according to the other party's intelligence, avoided the navy of the Ming Dynasty government, and then lowered the robbed goods. Sold to powerful people at a high price... To put it bluntly, the Ming invaders are just dogs raised by powerful and famous people in the Ming Dynasty to do shady and dirty work!"
"And those powerful and powerful people in the Ming Dynasty were engaged in huge private maritime trade business, buying and selling stolen goods, and buying land that had lost their owners at low prices, and then taking the fleeing peasants as slaves at home...their The life is extremely luxurious. I heard that...well!...you can eat good rice and several fish every time! Even their servants can eat rice every time!..."
"Ah! Blessed by Maitreya Buddha! Can all the servants in the house eat rice? The powerful and famous people of the Ming Dynasty are so rich! If I can be the slave of the powerful and famous people of the Ming Dynasty..."
Speaking of this, Suichiro's face showed an expression full of envy, and he even drooled. Next to him, Murakami Yimichi gave a light "cough" and patted Sukeichiro hard on the shoulder.
"Ahem! Suichiro, put away your bowls and chopsticks and wipe your mouth. Don't talk nonsense in front of Mr. Watanabe..."
"Uh...yes!"
Murakami Kidomi reminded him, then looked at the monk soldier Watanabe Masumi and asked with some worry.
"Lord Watanabe, the Ming Dynasty is famous for its might and power. They have such powerful ships that they even plundered the Ming Kingdom's own coast...then will they send navy to plunder us?"
"Uh! Rob us? Rob Kyushu?... Ha! Our Kyushu samurai family, what do we have to rob? Are they coming to rob us of our Sakurajima radish and Temple Natto? Or rob our Ekoku rice? Haha!... "
Hearing this, the monk soldier Watanabe Masumi laughed loudly, but the ship leader Murakami Kidomi did not laugh, and neither did Sukeichiro. Murakami Jidong gritted his teeth, held the iron sword at his waist, and said seriously.
"Lord Watanabe! For the fragrant rice, the samurai can fight to the death!"
Sukeichiro also gritted his teeth, picked up the ashigaru-style spear at his feet, and shouted.
"Witness Maitreya Buddha! Villagers can fight tooth and nail for radish and natto!..."
"Well…"
Seeing the fierce looks in the eyes of the two local samurai, Watanabe Masumi was stunned for a moment, with helplessness on his face, but he couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"Witness the Buddha! Look at you two worthless people. Just for a few mouthfuls of food, you are always picking up swords and spears to fight!... The pirates of the Ming Dynasty will only go to the poor Wu family in Kyushu if they are confused... In reality In the book, pirates from the Ming Dynasty often docked in Southern Kyushu. But their purpose after landing was to recruit poor ronin without a family owner. And the treatment they gave them was that as long as they fought hard, they could get a real deal. Eating rice!…”
"If the people of the Ming Dynasty are like big whales in the sea, they are so powerful that they are incomparably huge, but they are fighting with themselves in their stomachs, constantly making waves on the sea... Then the Koreans are like big shells that produce pearls. As long as they pry open the It looks like a hard shell, but inside is all soft clam meat and valuable pearls..."
"As for us and the Chinese, we are probably just crabs waving their claws! We are so poor and unruly that even if we try our best to crush them, we can't pick out even a few ounces of meat..."
"But, thanks to the blessing of the great Bodhisattva Hachiman! Crabs don't dare to pursue whales, but if they find a chance to pry the big shells, that's no problem!..."
