After completing the signing and exchange of treaty texts with representatives of the shogunate, Zhao Xin raised anchor and set sail the next day as agreed, under the supervision of the shogunate navy.
Then, the Thor stayed at the Miura Peninsula for a day, waiting for Pan Xiucheng's troops to board the ship. However, when releasing the previously captured prisoners, a bearded warrior refused to leave and said he would follow him to Beihai Town to open his eyes.
This person calls himself Misawa Ihei, he is 25 years old, and he comes from Morioka Domain. (I’m afraid I can’t remember just the name of the domain, but when you mention Nanbu Tetsubo, many people may say “oh”.) He was originally a teacher in a swordsmanship dojo, and studied under the “Ono School Itto-ryu”.
It is said that there are only a few people learning martial arts these days. Basically, it is only done by high-level samurai who have enough food to eat and two bad money. For others to learn this, it is better to learn to settle accounts and become a cook.
Yihei's life was fine because he had enough to eat for one person and the whole family was not hungry. Who would have known that the Iwaki volcano erupted three years ago, and coupled with the disaster, more than half of the Morioka Domain's population was wiped out.
The economy was getting worse and worse, and the kendo gym could no longer be opened. Misawa Ihei, who was laid off, had to go to Edo to make a living. The problem is that the martial arts schools in Edo are more competitive. Ihei's two tricks in a small county town were fine, but in a big city with a million people, he is not even considered a low-ranking martial artist. In desperation, he could only look for work to make a living.
A few days ago, the shogunate sent troops to Uraga. Ihei thought it might be an opportunity, so he spent two-thirds of his savings to buy a leather armor with an iron heart and followed him. He thought to himself that if Tang Yi was beaten away, if he could be used as a long-term meal ticket, it wouldn't be too beautiful.
It turns out that Yibingwei's idea was too beautiful. Beihai Town only fired two cannons and then charged, and most of his team became prisoners.
Facing the weapons of Beihai Town, even Yagyu Munenomi and Miyamoto Musashi are useless. As the saying goes, "No matter how good your kung fu is, the machine gun will knock you down"!
The reason why Misawa Ihei wanted to go with Beihai Town was not only because he envied Beihai Town's weapons, but also because he had eaten prisoner food for a few days and was put off by the "half a pound plus four taels" food in Beihai Town. Needless to say, vegetables, soy products, fish, poultry and eggs, the most important thing is meat! The most important thing is to eat any staple food!
Zhao Xin and his men did not want to mistreat these island warrior captives, and treated them based on the principle of multiple people and multiple pairs of chopsticks. After a few meals, Ibei decided to join the gang.
Pan Xiucheng did not dare to make the decision privately on this matter. After asking Zhao Xin for instructions, Misawa Ihei was left behind.
When almost all the people in Beihai Town got on the ship and were about to prepare for departure, a new situation occurred. An unspectacular old man and a young man actually got into the team of cooks. Moreover, the two men were wearing the jackets of soldiers from Beihai Town. If the soldiers guarding the gangway hadn't looked at these two strangers, they would have been fooled. Pass.
It's a big deal now! Pan Xiucheng angrily asked his subordinates to gather on the deck alone to identify people. He had to figure out how these two people got in.
After almost half an hour of recognition, two soldiers suddenly pointed at the old man and the young man and shouted angrily: "It turns out that you two took away my clothes. I invited you to eat with kindness, but you took them without telling me!"
The matter was finally found out. The old man and the young man arrived at the whale cutting site at noon yesterday. He said he was here to meet a friend, but everyone at the whale cutting place ran away. The old man was very courageous. When he saw that lunch was about to be held in Beihai Town, he asked two soldiers if they could give him a bowl. The two soldiers whose clothes were stolen saw that the old man was quite old and skinny, so they gave him two bowls. . In the evening, the old man and the young man had another meal before leaving.
Unexpectedly, when they got together today, the two soldiers found that their shirts were gone. Fortunately, each of the soldiers in Beihai Town had a spare set in their salute. When the two of them were looking for clothes again, the order to assemble came.
"What are the names of the old man and the young man?"
"The old man's name is Lin Ziping, and the young man's name is Xinyuan. Chief, I will send a boat to take them back to the shore."
"Wait a minute!" Zhao Xinteng stood up immediately. "What did you say the old man's name was?"
Pan Xiucheng scratched his head and replied: "Lin Ziping. This name is really weird. It sounds like a Han."
"Take them both to the conference room."
"Ah? Yes!"
Lin Ziping, 48 years old, formerly known as Okamura Tomonao. His father, Okamura Yoshimitsu, was once the shogunate's official official, a 620-koku high-ranking samurai. Later, he was expelled from the feudal clan for some reason and changed his surname to Lin. When he was young, Lin Ziping and his brothers and sisters went to the home of his uncle who was the doctor of Sendai Domain at that time. So don’t think that this person has Han ancestry and that he is 100% island native.
Lin Ziping had a rough life, but he had a good second sister who was spotted by Date Munemura, the sixth generation head of the Sendai clan, and became his concubine. Lin Ziping was also naturalized as a member of the Sendai clan after his service. No matter how unpopular he was with the shogunate throughout his life, he would always have enough to eat and drink.
The most famous person in history is the book "Illustrated Description of the Three Kingdoms", which clarified the ownership of Ryukyu, Xingyu Island and Takeshima. It was listed as the most hated book by the governments of later island countries.
Every time the governments of later generations of island countries declare that this place is mine and that there is also mine, someone will bring out this book and slap them in the face.
As for that young man, his name is Sato Shinbuchi, and he is just seventeen years old this year. Because his father, Sato Nobuki, was good friends with Lin Ziping, the young man was originally traveling and passed by Edo. Hearing that his father's friend was also there, he hurriedly went to visit him, but was tricked by the old man into coming to Uraga.
But don't underestimate Sato Shinbuchi. This man will later become a famous strategic theorist in the island country. He wrote 300 books in his life, totaling 8,000 volumes. To put it simply, it advocated "education and training, bravery and courage, and the integration of soldiers and farmers". It was called the pioneer of the island country's external expansion theory by later researchers.
When Zhao Xin came to the conference room to see the old man and the young man, Lin Ziping's face was pressed in front of the TV hanging on the wall, trying to figure out what was going on, while Sato Shinbuchi was sitting there honestly. Not a word was spoken.
"Tell me, what are you two planning to do by stealing clothes and getting on the ship?"
Lin Ziping turned to look at Zhao Xin, and said with a smile: "How can you call something elegant a thief? Don't be so unpleasant to speak."
Sato Shinbuchi walked to Zhao Xin, knelt down in the tunnel and said, "I really want to trouble you. Teacher and I want to go to Beihai to have a long experience."
Zhao Xin looked at the young man with circles under his eyes with a smile and said to himself that it is good to be young. Young people have a blank sheet of paper. From now on, instead of writing about "island-centered theory", write "Chinese-centered theory". Just write that China's defense circle should be far away from the mainland, and finally expand to the opposite continent, and write that the Pacific Ocean should be its own bathtub.
"Then are you planning to become a Beihai citizen and give up your status as an island nation?"
Lin Ziping walked to sit across from Zhao Xin and said: "Sendai Clan is almost wearing the same pants as Beihai Town. I think it is not necessary to deregister?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "My Beihai secret skills cover everything from hundreds of scholars in astronomy and geography to scholars, farmers, industry and merchants. If you don't want to be naturalized, just take a look and wait until the next ship to Sendai. Come back."
"Young people sound crazy, but I like it." Lin Ziping laughed and suddenly asked: "What drives your boat? Why can it run so fast without sails?"
"Haha, do you want to know? I won't tell you. Naturalize. Once you become a citizen of Beihai Town, I will show you." Zhao Xin found Lin Ziping interesting, so he deliberately teased him.
Unexpectedly, the old man chuckled and said calmly: "I am a lonely man, and the shogunate will not let me write this book, even if I leave my country. Now Beihai Town has even taken the Ezo land. I wonder where your highness's next target will be?" "
"Do you know who I am?"
"First we attacked Matsushima Town, then Nagasaki, and now we have even attacked Edo. Your Highness, King Zhao, now you are famous all over the world. His Highness's name can be heard in Nagasaki and Edo, and the children in Nagasaki and Edo can stop crying at night."
Zhao Xin smiled slightly and said, "Oh? Am I so famous? You two haven't introduced yourselves yet."
Lin Ziping raised his hands in Han Chinese etiquette and saluted: "I am Lin Youzhi, courtesy name Ziping, from the Sendai clan."
Sato Shinbuchi bowed and said: "I am a vassal of the Kubota Domain of Dewa Country, Sato Shinbuchi, courtesy name Genkai. See His Highness King Zhao."
Zhao Xin stood up and cupped his hands at Lin Ziping and said, "I've heard of Mr. Mister's name for a long time, and I'm honored to meet you today. Please sit down, please."
Lin Ziping laughed and asked abruptly after sitting down: "Your Highness hasn't said where to fight next? I guess Satsuma?"
"I won't fight anyone. I will go back to farming, studying and marrying a wife."
"Your Highness has strong soldiers and horses, and a number of weapons that have never been seen or heard of before. Why don't you send your troops south to drive out Beidi and regain China?"
For the islanders of this era, especially Confucian scholars, they actually looked down on the Qing Dynasty in their hearts.
Because the land of China was sinking, the Han people were gone; just like there was no China after the Mengyuan Yashan, the whole country wore filial piety and mourned for the Southern Song Dynasty; the so-called Yi Di could not be orthodox no matter how they changed their appearance.
The news that the Manchus entered the customs did not reach the island country until January. The shogunate was very worried about this because they were afraid that this would be another enemy like the Mongolian Yuan.
According to the Korean manuscript "Qiao Ren Qiao" and the echo files of Zheng Chenggong's envoy Zhang Guangqi, in 1660, when the fourth generation of Tokugawa Tokugawa Ietsuna was in office, the shogunate, under the guidance of Ming Dynasty survivors living in the island country, took a boat to They set off for Beijing, but encountered strong winds on the way and suffered a lot of losses, and ultimately returned without success. After that, they only agreed to support the Zheng family with some strategic supplies and allowed the Zheng family to buy and sell gold from the island country.
Nowadays, there is a Beihai town with great military power, which has defeated the Manchu and Qing Dynasties twice. Moreover, it is also a descendant of Zhu Ming. This originally made the Confucian scholars of the island nation who still regard Zhu Xi's Confucianism as orthodox extremely excited. If it weren't for Zhao Xin's three attacks on the island country and his arrogance and rudeness, even a hereditary scholar like Lin Qinshan, the head of the shogunate university (equivalent to the Imperial College's sacrificial wine), would have come forward to help with advice.
Zhao Xindao: "Mr. Lin, Mr. Sato, the system in Beihai Town is different from what you think. It will be easy for me and my companions to send our troops south to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but what we want is not a hereditary and irreplaceable feudal dynasty, continuing like this The decadent rule of the shogunate or the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, what Beihai Town wants is to find a way to survive for the poor in the world."
Lin Ziping's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he solemnly said, "Your Highness, please teach me."
At the same time, far away in a village near the seaside in Nakamura County of Shirakawa Domain, a group of thugs were beating a farmer named Quan San.
"Hit me! This is what happens if you don't pay the rent!" Hu San, the owner of the brothel, commanded a group of thugs and beat a farmer with a big stick.
Quan San, whose nose and face were bruised and swollen after being beaten, supported his upper body, forced his swollen eyes open, glared at Hu San and others and said: "I, I can't pay the rent, you, why do you have to We need to capture Shima! Abin is my woman and she wants to marry me!"
Hu San had a dull look on his face. He walked up and kicked Quan San to the ground. He said to his subordinates: "Tie him up and throw him into the sea tomorrow morning!"
After hearing this, all the thugs swarmed forward, first wrapped Quan San in thick straw, and then tied a few ropes tightly around the outside. Four or five people lifted Quan San and threw him into the woodshed in the backyard.
Outside the brothel, Quan San's parents knelt on the ground with tears on their faces, kowtowing and begging Mr. Hu San to spare their son. At this time, a middle-aged man in Tsing Yi walked up to Quan San's parents and said to the two old people with a smile: "You and me, you two, can't pay the rent, you can borrow money."
"How can we pay back!" Quan San's father and Bahe's wife cried loudly.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, are you just going to watch your son being beaten to death?"
Not far away, a group of villagers who came after hearing the news stood under the eaves with sad and angry expressions. They all sighed with regret at what happened to Quan San's family. But so what?
Rent collectors are like wolves and tigers, and every family is the same. If they don't want their wives and children to be sold to brothels to pay off debts, they can only borrow money from loan sharks. If you can't borrow money, you can only pay with your own hands.
"What kind of world is this! Officials, brothels, loan sharks, they all collude and wait for us to get in every year!"
"You don't want to live anymore! Keep your voice down, otherwise Hu San's men will beat you again if they hear you."
"Alas! It's just because Abin is so beautiful that Tiger Three has been eyeing her for quite some time. "
"What can I do? Now that I have paid the rent, how can I live in the winter?"
"Be patient, maybe next year's harvest will be better. God has to let people take a breath, right?"
After a while, some village women who couldn't bear it finally came out, knelt in front of Quan San's parents and said, "Get up first, let's go back and discuss how much money we can raise. Alas!"
After that, several people helped Quan San's parents and headed towards the village, turning back every step of the way.
Early the next morning, the thugs from the brothel carried the dying Quan San, who was wrapped in a straw roll, and threw him into the river outside the town. The cold and fast river water rolled eastward, and the straw roll quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
At noon, on the Thor, which was sailing north, a crew member on duty on the deck suddenly pointed at the sea not far away and shouted: "Someone has fallen into the water over there!"
It is impossible to stop the Thor, but the ship's speed can be reduced. The crew on the ship lowered the assault boat and sailed towards the man who fell into the water.
The man was holding a piece of wood, his face was bruised and swollen, and he was already dying. When they returned to the Thor, the military doctor who came after hearing the news examined the injury and found that the man only suffered severe skin trauma and was severely dehydrated. So he first hung up a bottle of anti-inflammatory medicine and had someone feed him some rice porridge. After the injured fell asleep, he reported to Ding Guofeng.
When Ding Guofeng heard this, he could only say that it would be like this for now. Although the origin of this person is unknown, he cannot be left alone. There have been too many such people in Beihai Town before.
Forget it, take it back.
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