After hearing He Tingbin's explanation, Yang Zhen nodded slightly. The Tokugawa Shogunate's order to lock the country did have a great influence on the Satsuma Domain, which once started with the maritime trade.

Originally, they relied on the sea to eat, and their wealth continued to grow and their territory continued to grow with their sea trade. However, the Tokugawa shogunate, who was unwilling to sit idly by the Satsuma vassal to become stronger, issued a national lockdown order and monopolized the benefits of foreign trade.

This is also related to this when Satsuma's family grew into the main force of the Anti-Shaped Movement two hundred years later.

Of course, Yang Zhen still supported the Tokugawa Shogunate's Locking Regime.

Whether the Tokugawa shogunate issued the lockdown order to monopolize the benefits of foreign trade or to suppress the foreign daimyo of Kyushu Island, they did so at least weakened the strength of the Satsuma clan, delayed or delayed the pace of the Satsuma clan's annexation of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

If it weren't for the Tokugawa Shogunate's lockdown order, the Satsuma vassal would have completed the annexation of the Ryukyu Kingdom as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and would not have waited until the Tokugawa Shogunate fell.

In this regard, the Tokugawa Shogunate's lockdown order, especially the existence of the Tokugawa Shogunate, is a good thing for other parts of East Asia in this era.

"You said that. But the Satsuma clan is a little poor, and if you are a little poor, you don't have that ambition. You don't have to think about going south at any time and eroding my vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu!"

"What the governor said!"

"So, He Tongshi, besides the Satsuma tribe, Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island and Unu Honshu Island, which coastal vassal state was once rich enough to rival a country?"

Yang Zhen calls He Tingbin why he is very knowledgeable, and he seems to be a bit outspoken.

But in front of the Dutch officers, especially Thomas Pedell, Yang Zhen had to do it with caution.

He Tingbin obviously knew Yang Zhen's intention, and inadvertently looked at Thomas Pedell, who was listening to Yang Zhen's words, and asked loudly on purpose:

"What does the governor mean?"

"How can we take wealth for them?"

"Haha, what the governor said is reasonable. But since the governor said so, it would be better to go directly to Edo!"

He Tingbin, who had communicated with Yang Zhen on Fukue Island before, spoke loudly and led the topic to Edo.

"The Tokugawa family Ishigao is more than four million, and the gold and silver mountains of the Japanese slave country and the benefits of sea trade belong to him. The income from the joint fleet to fight ten foreign vassals is probably not as good as taking one Edo!"

The Dutch fleet had no consensus on whether to go north to Edo Castle and sign a castle agreement with the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Maximilianlemay, the commander of the Dutch fleet, had this intention and listed it as the highest target of the trip.

However, some of the captains and officers under Lemai'a were not very active. Some believed that the treaty with the Satsuma clan had been reached and the results of this trip were enough.

Some people simply think that Edo Castle is still too far away, the weather and sea conditions are unpredictable, and there is a risk of continuing to move north.

In this regard, Yang Zhen had thought of simply putting aside the Dutch fleet and leading the fleet to Edo by himself. And once he succeeded, the benefits would be unprecedentedly huge.

But he thought again that the few naval generals under his command were familiar with the sea conditions on the east and west sides of the Liaodong Peninsula, but none of them had brought a ship to the east coast of Japan.

He led them alone around Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, and went north to Edo along the coast. Although they succeeded, what if they gained both fame and fortune, what if they failed?

Besides, because the two defeats of the Yuan army's expeditions to the Japanese sub-country hundreds of years ago, the Japanese sub-country were not very afraid of the forces from the Haixi continent.

What if, after successfully leading the navy to the Edo Bay where Edo Castle is located, it cannot intimidate or threaten the Tokugawa Shogunate?

Do you really want to land on the shore and attack Edo Castle, the base camp of Tokugawa Shogunate, with one blow?

It doesn’t mean you can’t fight, but if you really fall to this point, you will lose Yang Zhen’s original intention.

This time, Yang Zhen led his army to come, not because he had started a full-scale war with the Japanese sub-country, nor because he had to fight to the death with the Tokugawa shogunate.

Yang Zhen came here to harvest a sum of gold, silver, wealth, food and other materials from the Japanese sub-country, and prepare for the next battle to attack and destroy the Qing army.

If you are in a desperate battle with the Tokugawa Shogunate, it will be in a completely different way from Yang Zhen’s original intention here.

So after thinking about it, Yang Zhen still felt that he should be pulled into the Dutch fleet and continued to go north to unite them to truly intimidate the people in the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The group of people were not afraid of the army from the Goryeo Peninsula or the army from the Ming Dynasty, but they were quite afraid of the red-haired ghost-like wild animals from Taixi.

The Tokugawa shogunate's order to lock the country was arrogant and arrogant, but in fact it exposed the fear of the foreigners coming from the east.

This fear is fear of the unknown.

And Yang Zhen wanted to use their fear to achieve his goals.

On the morning of the seventh day of the September 14th year of Chongzhen, that is, on the morning of the third day after forcing the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma clan to sign the underworld alliance, at the suggestion of Yang Zhen, Thomas Peder, Cohen and He Tingbin, Maximilianlemai finally ordered a new sail, led the joint fleet to leave Kagoshima Bay, and then went east through the Osumi Strait to the north, and sent troops to Edo Castle.

In the days after the agreement was reached, the commander of the Dutch fleet, Lemai A, repeatedly considered whether to continue to expand the war, while on the other hand, he was also dealing with the aftermath issue after the conclusion of the Satsuma Treaty.

After reaching a treaty with Shimazu Kokuha, Lemai A handed him over to Nagasaki to submit the letter from the shogunate to the full opening of trade, and entrusted him to Shimazu Kokuha, asking him to send someone to deliver it to the Edo Shogunate.

In response, Shimazu Kokusa, who was forced to surrender, did not dare to refuse to agree, so on the fifth day of September, he sent someone to leave by land to Edo to deliver the Dutch diplomatic letter.

Yang Zhen initially opposed Lemai's approach, but then he thought about it and let it go.

When Yang Zhen used to fight against the Qing army, because he was in a position of a weak side for a long time, he often used the tactics of raids or ambush when fighting, and liked to attack him unexpectedly.

Now facing the Japanese, Yang Zhenqing couldn't help but want to use the fighting style he used to be.

But the Dutch fleet is different. They are used to playing with all the advantages, so they hope to directly scare their opponents and win without fighting.

Which of these two playing methods is better? Of course, we need to analyze the specific issues in detail.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, Yang Zhen feels that the Duke's approach may be more desirable.

Because when you have superior strength, what you should consider is not to avoid the main force of the enemy, but to mobilize the main force of the enemy to fight.

Of course, after the Battle of Kagoshima Castle, Yang Zhen was a little nervous whether the overall strength of the joint fleet was dominant when facing the shogunate army.

The Dutch fleet originally had five giant plywood ships and more than a dozen small ships, but in the previous operations, one of the giant deck ships named Putmans was shot several times near the coast where Kagoshima Castle was located.

Although the coastal artillery of the Satsuma family was equipped with only counterfeits of the Bolang machine and the mother cannons, and the projectiles they fired were only the size of fists, the Bolang machine and the mother cannons, which were called the Guokong, by the Japanese, were considered to be the rear-mounted rapid-fire cannons and still had certain power.

Fortunately, the Putmans was only hit on the port side by a few solid bullets from the Bolang machine's mother and son gun. Several shots broke several sail cables at the same time, and the actual damage was not too great.

However, considering that the newly occupied Jenjima Island and Seed Island, Yakushima and other Osumi Islands need to be stationed, and at the same time, they will not be able to make trouble in the rear by the Satsuma Domain. Lemayah, who is not very concerned about the rear, decided to send the captain of the Putmans, a Kabidan named Danke, to take several large and small ships to stay in Seed Island.

Of course, Lemai's actions actually meant to truly put the results of the Dutch fleet, including the seized materials, into the pocket.

Yang Zhen fully understands this.

After all, even Yang Zhen himself could not take the battle results obtained from the Satsuma Phantava and the seized materials to Edo.

Although the things that Yang Zhen has harvested this time are not as much as Yang Zhen imagined, loading them all onto existing warships is also a burden and burden.

Only by actually sending them back to Fujiang Island and even Yingzhou Island can you be truly relieved.

Including the large number of Japanese ships blocked deep in Kagoshima Bay that the Dutch despised, Yang Zhen also once felt worried.

Take it with you, they are a bit too many, and they are small at the same time, so they are not very useful in naval battles.

But stay, they will inevitably continue to be used by the Satsuma clan again.

Who knows whether these small Japanese ships, small early ships, will become the weapon for Japanese to fight back in the future?

Apart from that, only a torch left burned them all.

But Yang Zhen felt it was a pity to do this. After all, there were three or four hundred ships. Although they were not big, they were quite large.

Yang Zhen, who has always been frugal in calculating and frugal, naturally couldn't bear to give up and burn it with one fire.

Fortunately, early in the fourth day of September, Yang Zhen asked Yan Sheng San to send people to send a boat back to Fujiang Island to pass the order.

In this regard, Yang Zhenke has much advantage over Lemai A, because both Fujiang Island and Yingzhou Island are much closer than Dayuan Island.

On the evening of the sixth day of September, when the sun was setting, Shen Yongzhong and the fleet departing from Fukue Island arrived at Kagoshima Bay in a mighty manner.

Before coming, Shen Yongzhong had already learned about the situation of Yang Zhen's fleet in Kagoshima Bay from a messenger sent by Yan Sheng San.

So although he brought not many ships, there were quite a few sailors from Yingzhou Island who came with him.

Yang Zhen once considered to burn the many Satsuma ban ships that were burned by a fire. The small morning ships were immediately different after having sailors.

These ships are useless for maritime combat, but they can completely act as offshore transport ships in Jinhai Town.

In this way, on the morning of the 7th day of the September 14th year of Chongzhen, following the low tide of Kagoshima Bay, the joint fleet commanded by the Dutch fleet commanders Le Mai A and Yang Zhen, sailed out of Kagoshima Bay in a mighty manner.

Once you leave the bay, one team goes east and one team goes west.

Going east was the joint fleet heading to the Osumi Strait and heading north.

Going westward is Shen Yongzhong's fleet that looks even larger and returns with a full load.
Chapter completed!