Late that night, the daring Shen Jingdan, with Shen Xuan, Lu Jun and Lao Huang, hurriedly escaped from Tang Ren Yashiki through the tunnel of the smuggler Sun Zhiyong.
In the evening, the Japanese army returned with a heavy defeat, which strengthened Shen and Huang's determination to cooperate with Zhao Xin. However, the roar of guns and artillery coming from the foot of Shishan Temple scared all the Qing businessmen in the "China Courtyard". These people had previously offended Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, and now they were afraid that the other party would lead their troops to land and loot Nagasaki Port tomorrow.
Zhao Xin's artillery bombardment during the day and counterattack in the afternoon caused everyone in the Nagasaki execution office to panic, and they did not even bother to arrest people in Tangren Yashiki.
Shen Jingdan and others who boarded the ship did not see Zhao Xin, but after talking with Liu Sheng, they learned that leader Zhao had taken a rest. In desperation, under Liu Sheng's arrangement, Lu Shoushan took him to three cabins to rest.
Not to mention how the four of them spent the night in amazement after entering the cabin. Early the next morning, a small sampan with a white flag approached the Thor again.
This time, the officials who came to negotiate no longer talked nonsense. They knelt down and asked not to bombard Nagasaki Castle again to avoid the loss of lives.
Zhao Xin naturally increased the compensation to 200,000 taels of gold. However, the two officials burst into tears and stated that the treasury contained funds prepared to be handed over to Edo, and begged Zhao Xin to keep some. After some bargaining, the two parties finally set the compensation at 150,000 taels.
At noon, a Senshi Benzai ship delivered the compensation under the strict surveillance of the Thor.
The 150,000 taels of gold coins didn't weigh much, only less than 4,000 kilograms.
While transporting the goods, Zhao Xin curiously asked the Tang Dynasty interpreter who was accompanying him: "Why do you feel so comfortable giving money?"
When the interpreter of the Tang Dynasty saw the leader of the barbarian ship asking the question, he knelt down on the deck in horror and replied: "Your Majesty. In the battle last night, Lord Hizenmori and many retainers were injured. The Saga Domain lost thousands of people and was unable to fight anymore." "
Counting the payment of compensation this time, Zhao Xin and the Tang interpreter have met three times. He asked curiously at this moment: "Are you from the island country or from the Tang Dynasty? I haven't asked you how to address me yet?"
The interpreter from the Tang Dynasty was startled, then he raised his hands and said, "My ancestor came across the sea from the Ming Dynasty. According to the Chinese surname, my surname is Feng, and my ancestral home is Shanxi. The name of the island country is Lin Changzaemon."
"Oh? Are you from Shanxi? When did your ancestors come to the island country?" Liu Sheng asked curiously.
Hayashi Nagazaemon said: "My ancestor came to Nagasaki in the fifth year of Keicho (1599, the twenty-seventh year of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty)."
The ancestor of Hayashi Nagazaemon was Feng Liu, the first Shanxi native to serve as Nagasaki Tang's general secretary in history. In the ninth year of Keicho, Feng Liu, who had been in Nagasaki for four years, was appointed as a general service officer by the then Nagasaki minister because of his proficiency in the island country's language.
Since the 41st year of Jiajing (1562), many people of the Ming Dynasty crossed the sea with their families to live in Nagasaki in order to escape the war. Most of the people from the Tang Dynasty who first came here were called by Chinese surnames, such as Lin, Zhou, He, Zheng, Wu, Xue, etc. They used Gongyan as the honorific title and ranked them by first official and second official.
By the second generation, in order to integrate into the local society, they all took the surname of the Japanese wife's family or changed their names to island-style names such as Tojizaemon and Kiyozaemon based on the place of origin of their father's ancestors.
The island country's term for calling the Chinese people "Tang people" naturally comes from the Tang Dynasty, which had the most frequent economic and cultural exchanges.
One theory is that those Ming survivors who fled to the island country in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties called themselves Tang people in order to show that they were not Manchu subjects.
Another theory is that Zheng Chenggong and the people under the Zheng family called themselves Tang people in order to show that they were subjects of the Tang Dynasty based on their consciousness of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.
Looking at the "overseas Chinese" in front of him with a history of more than 200 years of settlement, Zhao Xin knew that this person was no longer from the Tang Dynasty, so he tentatively asked: "I have no intention of Shura Field, and the Saga Domain has done its best to serve as a minister. Tao. If you don't mind, you can send Lord Hizenmori to the ship and I can treat him."
Pooh! Do you mind if you say this? If Nabeshima Harushige dared to go to the Thor to treat his wounds, it would not be a matter of lax armament, but a serious crime of internal communication. The Tokugawa shoguns tore his heart out.
Lin Changzaemon just bowed to thank him and did not mention any treatment for his injuries. Zhao Xin understood it at first glance. He took a few bottles of white medicine with the labels off, handed it to the official and said, "This is our holy medicine for healing. Please bring it to Hizen Mamoru." After that, he explained how to use the medicine.
After Lin Changzaemon bowed his head and thanked him, Zhao Xin added: "Please tell Hizen Mamoru that if we are destined, we will meet again next year."
"Ah?! Are you still coming?" Lin Changzaemon raised his head, looked at Zhao Xin with fear, and said with a cry: "Uncle! Don't come! Please let us go! This is It’s just one incident, I don’t know how many people the shogunate will punish.”
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng laughed loudly after hearing this.
In the cabin on the third floor of the ship, Shen Xuan hid by the porthole, looking at Zhao Xin standing on the deck with high spirits through the gap in the curtains, her heart pounding.
"Dad said that this man is capable of killing people while talking and laughing. He is not an easy person to deal with. But I always see him smiling, and he is not as scary as what dad said. I heard Uncle Lu say that this man is unpredictable. If you can..."
Zhao Xin, who was laughing, suddenly felt something in his heart, and then turned to look at the window on the ship's upper floor. But the sun was shining right now, and he couldn't see clearly what was behind the window.
When Shen Xuan saw the other party looking towards her suddenly, she shrunk in fright and hid behind the curtain. After a while, when she looked back slightly, Zhao Xin on the deck had his back to her.
Shen Xuan let out a long breath and reached out to cover a slightly bulging thing under the clothes on her chest.
Two hours later, after listening to the report from the official responsible for escorting the compensation, Nagasaki official Toda Ujimon bowed his head and remained silent. Feeling deeply that he was guilty, he rejected the people around him and walked into the inner room with a Jin Xi.
After a long period of silence, the barrier door of the inner room was finally opened. The Jin Xi reported to the surname and several officials waiting outside that His Highness Izumomomo had committed seppuku. Before his death, he left a suicide note to the shogunate.
Five days after the Thor evacuated Nagasaki, a piece of news that came from unknown sources began to spread among various towns in Nagasaki. There were spies among the Qing people living in the houses of the Tang Dynasty, and they revealed the arrangements of His Highness Izumo Shou to the barbarians on the ship. That's why the barbarians suddenly bombarded Nagasaki Port and Okiron Station, and then defeated the Saga Domain.
The townspeople actually didn't care much about whether Izumo survived or how many people died in the Saga clan. But the problem is that before his death, His Highness Izumomomo paid all the gold in the treasury to be handed over to the shogunate as compensation to the barbarians. In this way, the government will continue to exploit the people to collect enough funds for Edo.
At this time, the anger of the people of Nagasaki turned towards those Qing businessmen. However, there were guards guarding the area around Tangen Yashiki all the time, and civilians could not get close to them. Therefore, a group of Nagasaki people who tried to protest were shot back by the guards who came after hearing the news as soon as they reached the foot of Juzenji Temple.
But anger always has to be vented.
Two days later, late at night, a sudden fire swept through the entire Tangyashiki.
At this time, except for the hundreds of Qing merchants and sailors in the "China Courtyard" who had not yet completed the delivery of goods, the rest of the Qing merchants had already left the port in a hurry.
Fortunately, the fire did not cause any casualties, but the Qing merchants and sailors who fled in a hurry were unable to put it out. The huge "Chinese Courtyard" eventually turned into a white field, with only the Guandi Temple in the southeast corner miraculously surviving.
Fifteen days after the Thor left, another Nagasaki official in Edo Castle, Tsuchiya Masanobu, finally arrived in Nagasaki and was ordered to deal with the aftermath. He saw Toda Shimon's suicide note immediately.
In this suicide note, Toda Shimon bitterly stated the fact that the island country responded poorly to this incident. "It's a sunny day. They used a giant ship to pass through the Okinawa station guarded by the Saga domain soldiers. The domain soldiers looked on. There should have been more than 800 people guarding this place, but because they are used to peaceful times, There were only 140 or 50 men on guard... The Saga clan ordered the Saga clan to burn and beat their ships for the unreasonable demands of the Beihai barbarians. However, the opponent's ships had strong guns and powerful iron cannons, and they could fire continuously..."
Due to the serious shortage of garrison troops at Oki Ryōban and ineffective measures, Toda Clan Momo suggested to the shogunate in his suicide note that the future Nagasaki governor should be appointed by the "Otana Kunimochi" who had many subordinates.
Since the Nara period, the imperial court of the island nation has divided the world into sixty-six kingdoms. Those whose territory does not cover a country but is the name of the country's leader are called "Dashen Kokuchi". Take Sendai Domain as an example. Its territory is less than one-third of the area of Mutsu Kingdom, but its scale output ranks second among the daimyo outside the shogunate.
(Date Shigemura: "Why is it me again?")
After a close investigation by Tsuchiya Masanobu, the Edo shogunate made the following sanctions one month later:
The lord of the Saga Domain, Matsudaira (Nabeshima) Hizen Mamoji Shigeru, went to the Edo Office of the old Nakatanuma Etsuji by his daimyo (representative of the daimyo) to report that the garrison was far below the quota, neglected their duties, and was severely defeated. Give an explanation.
Two months later, the shogunate relieved the Saga Domain from its security duties and replaced it with the Fukuoka Domain.
At that time, some people within the shogunate began to shout for the implementation of the "Exotic Ships No Two Nian Dafu Order" except for the Qing Dynasty and the Netherlands, but they were stopped by the old man Nakatanuma Yiji.
The "Tanuma Era" implemented mercantilist measures similar to the Dutch "Colbert Doctrine". In the view of Tanuma Yiji, the only way to solve the huge debts and deficits accumulated by the shogunate since the Tokugawa Yoshimune era is to actively use commercial capital to support finances. He relaxed some rules in order to promote trade in Nagasaki, and at the same time exported copper and seafood to replace the large outflow of gold and silver to promote the import of gold and silver.
Although there is a great famine in Kanto and Mutsu; although some officials are "a bit" corrupt (corruption is rampant); the financial crisis of the shogunate in recent years has been effectively alleviated under his leadership. Therefore, the proposal to expel foreign ships was ultimately ignored within the shogunate.
