It's March 2, Kanei, Japan, and spring is gradually getting stronger in the Tsuruga Port Town area in Hokuriku, Japan. The weather this spring seems to be a little warmer than usual. It’s only February, and all the snow blocking the mountain roads near Tsuruga Port Town has melted. As the snow melted, this port town, located in the western part of Japan's Hokuriku region and not far from Japan's Kinai region, suddenly became extremely noisy. Not only did a large number of rogues from the Ohama clan rush here to station, but many rogues from Hokuriku, Kinai, Kanto and other places also gathered in this inconspicuous Tsuruga Port.
Of course, this group of rogues who caused headaches for the Tokugawa Shogunate, Fukui Domain, and Kohama Domain came to Tsuruga Port in the cold with a motive... Their plot was to organize the marriage of the Japanese Emperor!
That's right, this group of ronin who thought they were samurai but had no place to receive their salary after eating too much, now actually want to interfere with the marriage of His Majesty the Emperor. However, they did not dare to cause trouble outside the Emperor's Imperial Palace in Kyoto. Tokugawa Iemitsu was now in charge of Nijo Castle in Kyoto. If a mere rogue dares to flirt with the General, he will be "fighting to the death".
And they have no right to go to Kyoto to cause trouble, because this matter is not the fault of the shogunate, but the Emperor himself who wants to abdicate and marry, and the Tokugawa General also agreed...The Emperor and the General reached an agreement , what excuse do the vagabonds have to make trouble?
Should we oppose both the emperor and the general? Isn't this a double traitor? Therefore, the ronin had nothing to cause trouble in Kyoto, so they could only go to Tsuruga Port to cause trouble. Because several famous ronin received reliable information that the Ming Dynasty prince who dared to marry the emperor would land in Japan at Tsuruga Port.
Therefore, last winter, Yuhi Masauki, a well-known dairon and military strategist in Edo, who claimed to be the orthodox successor of Kusunoki Masashige, issued a call to thousands of disciples while teaching in his military academy "Zhang Kongdo", demanding loyalty to the emperor. The rogues gathered in Tsuruga in the spring of the 23rd year of Kanei, and used their swords to drive away the licentious king of the Ming Dynasty who tried to marry the emperor!
Thousands of loyal people who love the Emperor gathered in the small Tsuruga Port Town just after the heavy snow covering the Hokuriku melted. They not only occupied the few Yashiki in the Port Town, but also occupied several of the surrounding buildings. This temple made the local businessmen and monks have big heads.
As for the Kohama clan that ruled Tsuruga Port, its attitude was ambiguous, although Sakai Tadayo, the heir to the feudal lord who stayed behind in the Kohama clan, ordered samurai from the clan to station in Tsuruga Port to maintain order. However, there was no order to expel the rogues who gathered in Tsuruga Port Town, and they were allowed to gather in series and make various remarks that undermined the friendly relations between Ming Dynasty and Japan.
In the past few days, news has come from the Korean Peninsula. It is said that the ship of the Prince of Ming Dynasty, who is preparing to marry the emperor, is about to leave Busanura and will arrive at Tsuruga Port within a few days.
So every morning, a large group of rogues with swords in their arms squat on the pier of Tsuruga Port, waiting for the arrival of Zhu Cijiong, the evil king of the Ming Dynasty... Look at this posture, Zhu Cijiong has to be careful, otherwise the emperor will not marry him People were hacked to death in a foreign land.
However, the morale of the vagabonds who were waiting to behead people on the pier today did not seem to be too high. They all looked gloomy and did not say a word.
It turned out that along with the news that the Ming Prince was about to arrive, there was also the brave reputation of the Ming Prince - unlike the earlier rumors that the Ming Prince was a well-fed waste, this 15-year-old Ming Prince The prince seems to be a great warrior.
Last winter, he also personally led 500 Ming warriors to participate in the conquest of Dorgon, Duduo and Azig, the remaining Qing party members. It is said that he personally led the cavalry into the battle, defeated the Qing army, and killed three Qing army cavalry!
I’m afraid it’s not easy to kill such a fierce Ming Dynasty prince!
In addition, Sakai Tadakatsu, the lord of the Obama clan and the shogunate leader, also arrived at Obama Castle yesterday afternoon, probably to greet the Ming Dynasty. The risk of beheading someone in front of the shogunate boss seems very high!
But everyone is already here, so it would be too embarrassing to sneak away like this...
"The large sailing ships...there are three of them, approaching!"
Suddenly a sharp-eyed warrior shouted, breaking the rather solemn atmosphere on the dock.
The warriors all stood up, stretched their necks, and looked towards the sea.
Sure enough, three huge sailing ships had appeared on the sea at this moment. It's not a Chinese-style sailing ship, but a Western-style sailing ship. The white sail is embroidered with a flying red dragon!
It was the warships of the Ming Dynasty’s Royal Navy that came!
"It's the Red Dragon Sail... That's a gunboat. It looks like it should be a large gunboat of 1,000 tons. There are at least 60 cannons on the ship every day!"
"There are 60 cannons on one ship? Aren't there 180 cannons on the three ships?"
"What does Mingguo want to do? Does it want to invade Japan?"
"Baga...we must let Mingkou know how powerful the Japanese warriors are!"
At this time, many rogues had already pulled out their knives... Maybe they wanted to cut down the battleships of the Ming Dynasty's imperial navy, right?
However, the waving long knives did not scare the warships riding the wind on the sea, nor did they scare the Ming Ning King Zhu Cijiong on the warships.
Zhu Cijiong went to the battlefield last winter and killed several Qing soldiers - this was specially arranged by Zhu Youjian, just to let Zhu Cijiong see blood before marrying the Japanese Emperor, and increase his murderous aura. Settle the situation.
Zhu Cijiong, who has experienced war and murder, now looks much more ferocious. He looked full of energy when he stood there. He put down his binoculars and snorted coldly, which made the accountant Mr. Huang Jiang who was following him tremble. The accountant is a Cantonese. I don’t know if my father or grandfather went to Beijing to open a soy sauce garden. Because Emperor Chongzhen made Beijing very depressed, his family's sauce garden closed down. However, he and his father did not return to Guangdong. Instead, they joined Huangzhuang and became Xu Ruolan's assistant.
However, the father and son were not from Shanxi and could not gain Xu Ruolan's trust. They worked for several years without any appreciation. So I joined the Salt Bank not long ago and became a bookkeeper. Now this Huang Jiang was assigned by the Salt Bank to work beside Zhu Cijiong, responsible for lending money... But this job made the profiteer named Huang Jiang lose more than ten kilograms in a row!
It was too dangerous... I was originally a moneylender, but I didn't expect to follow him to the battlefield and witness Zhu Cijiong personally leading the cavalry into battle! Now I'm following Japan again, and I saw a Japanese pirate wielding a sword at a pier!
"Your Majesty... there are Japanese pirates on the dock!" Of course Huang Jiang was scared to death, so he quickly reminded Zhu Cijiong, "Why don't we go back!"
He did this for the safety of the bank's assets - if Zhu Cijiong was hacked to death by Japanese pirates, the bank would have bad debts!
Zhu Cijiong had already observed it with a telescope, so now he looked indifferent and said with a smile: "Aren't there just a few thousand Japanese pirates? I'm not even afraid of the Tatars, why should I be afraid of Japanese pirates? And they shouldn't be here to kill me, maybe they are. Do you want to take refuge with me?"
Take refuge? Huang Jiangxin said: You should kneel down when seeking refuge. How can anyone wield such a long knife?
Zhu Cijiong smiled and ordered: "Huang Jiang, go and prepare 100,000 taels of silver... You need cash. The lonely king will have to put it aside to reward him later after he accepts his retainers."
