Twenty minutes later, when the Thor passed the Nomoga Lookout, two long whistles sounded from the ship. At this time, the entire Nagasaki Port was alarmed.
The small fishing boats outside the port looked at the approaching giant ship, and they all swung their oars and ran to the shore. In the two barracks at Tomachi and Nishiba at the entrance of the port, hundreds of people poured out to stop and watch. But immediately after
, the watching soldiers and warriors were called back by the sound of drums in the military camp, and the din of people shouting and horses rang out from the military camp.
Since it was designated as the foreign trade port of the Tokugawa shogunate, foreign ships have arrived at Nagasaki Port almost every day. Although the Dutch three-masted sailing ship has not been seen recently, the Qing sand ships often come. But on this road
Which country does the white and blue ship belong to? And the length of this ship must be forty feet by visual inspection.
There was no cargo on the Thor at this time, and the six-meter-high side of the ship made onlookers on the shore marvel and marvel.
On the fan-shaped artificial island (Dejima) in the harbor, two Dutchmen who stayed behind ran to the roof of the residence with monocular binoculars and sat on the roof to watch. The guard responsible for guarding the "Dutch House" stood at the station angrily.
Downstairs, shouting loudly for them to come down.
In the Dutch-style building on the westernmost side of Dejima, the Dutch merchant director was observing the Thor through a telescope in front of the window.
"My God! Where did this ship come from?"
When the Thor sailed to the south of Nishibo, two small morning boats sailed out from Tomachi and Nishibo's military docks. When they were still 200 meters away from the Thor, the people on the small morning boat shouted loudly.
Shouting "stop the boat".
Zhao Xin ignored it at all. He asked Liu Sheng to drive the boat to the southeast side of the Tomachi Military Camp Pier, slow down and anchor.
Seeing that the two small morning boats of our own had not intercepted each other, a customs boat docked at Xibo Pier hurriedly sailed out and approached the Thor.
"Sir! Your Majesty!" The officer on duty at the Nomoga Observatory ran into the official hall out of breath, rushed into the house, and lay on the ground to report to Nagasaki Chief Toda Clan (from the fifth position, Izumomomo)
: "Sir, a huge boat of unknown nationality has entered the port. It seems that it is here to knock on the door."
"What?!" Meng, who was 46 years old at the time, was shocked.
This Izumo Mamoru is a very famous figure in history, but he is not a good name. After his death, the residents of Nagasaki Town lined up to urinate on his cemetery at Oonji Temple, which led to Nagasaki who took over
Feng Xing had no choice but to issue an order "No urinating in the cemetery." This must be hated by others to do this.
"grown ups!"
"grown ups!"
There was a sound of running on the floor under the porch, and two samurai from the Nabeshima family ran in.
"Sir, the foreign ship has passed the port entrance, and we have sent an early ship to intercept it..."
Toda clan asked anxiously: "How are the troops preparing to attack the second station?"
The two stations guarded by the Nabeshima family and the Kuroda family in turn every year are called "Oki 2 Stations" because they are located at the entrance of Nagasaki Port. Also, because there are nearly a thousand troops stationed in the two stations, they are also called "Oki 2 Stations".
"Thousands of People Bansho".
"..."
"say something!"
"Tomachi has gathered one hundred and fifty people." A samurai lowered his head and replied.
"What?! Where are you?" Toda Shimeng turned to look at the other one.
"One hundred and seventy people have been gathered in Xibo."
Toda clan almost fell to death after hearing this.
The long period of peace and quiet caused a serious shortage of troops at the Second Division. Not to mention the full force, many samurai's armors were rusted to death.
As for weapons, don't mention it!
The samurai who rushed to Erbansuo would never say that many weapons were secretly sold for food...
But the most terrible thing is that since the last year, not a single Dutch ship has arrived. The Nagasaki trade was suddenly in trouble and could not pay the surrender fee to the shogunate. And due to the impact of the Great Famine in Kanto, the soldiers and samurai here in Kyushu were in trouble.
Life has also fallen into embarrassment.
"Isn't this going to force me to have a caesarean section?" Meng Toda secretly complained in his heart. He quickly said to his subordinates: "I will serve you with pen and ink."
After brushing and brushing, two letters to mobilize troops were quickly written. Adjust the Omura Domain and admonish the Haya Domain to send troops!
The Omura clan has a stone height of 57,000 koku; the Isahaya clan, a branch of the Nabeshima family, has a stone height of 10,000 koku; the Nagasaki administrative office has a height of 1,500 koku, and under its command are thirty knights with the power of 50 people.
According to the shogunate's request for sending troops, 10,000 dan was required to send 250 troops, and one yuan was added to only reach 2,000.
Not many troops?
However, the Uraga Office, which served as the garrison of Edo Bay in these years, only had 14 members of the same group of 18 riders under its command. Together with the guards stationed at Futtsu Takeoka, there were a total of 40 or 2,000 people.
It's already a big army.
"My lord! My lord!" A samurai from the Nabeshima family came to report. "My lord, the foreign ship has been forced to anchor on the southeast side of Tomachi by us!"
"Okay!" Mr. Toda slapped his thigh and stopped the ship. If it didn't stop until it reached the port, he would really have to have a caesarean section to apologize.
He immediately said to the official at the Nomuxia Lookout: "Take fifty people and go to the boat immediately to negotiate."
"Ha ha!"
In the courtyard of Tang Ren Yashiki, Shen Jingdan was having a drink with a group of businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Ever since he arrived in the first month of the year, he had been dragging him away in the name of doing business.
There is no way, it is still daughter Shen Xuan’s business.
In early March, he had already packed all the goods and was about to take his daughter back to China when a friend named Cheng who happened to come to Nagasaki from Suzhou to do business told him that the salt merchant Wang family had not given up and were sending people all over the world.
Looking for his daughter! I heard that even the government was alerted.
Upon hearing this, Shen Jingdan knew that he could not go back for the time being, so he had no choice but to stay with his daughter. As for his Yin-10 sand boat, he entrusted the financial deputy on the ship to act as the bowman and take the merchants back.
When did this day end? Shen Jingdan sighed secretly while eating wine. He heard from Lu Jun that there was a famine in the northeast of the island country, and many people starved to death; now there is also a famine in Nagasaki Town due to lack of food.
, and I heard that many people have contracted infectious diseases due to hunger. Moreover, the price of grain, meat and vegetables supplied to Tangren Yashiki has also increased a lot.
My daughter, Shen Xuan, has been stuck at home all day long, and she feels very depressed. But if she wants to leave this Chinese house, she can't leave unless there is something important. It has been more than three months, and she will get tired even in a castle town, let alone
Said that it can only be found in the palm-sized house area of Tang Dynasty. Shen Jingdan can now tell clearly how many grasses are there at the door of Tushen Hall.
Fortunately, Lu Jun could often find some domestically sold story books from bookstores in the town to relieve Shen Xuan's boredom and pass the time. The two of them would get together from time to time to figure out some island women's hairstyles, headwear, etc., so that they could survive.
Three months have passed.
While he was feeling depressed, he suddenly heard someone behind him smiling and saying, "Boss Shen, we meet again."
Shen Jingdan looked back and saw that it was the businessman Lao Huang who came with him last time. He asked in surprise: "Lao Huang, why are you here? Come and sit."
After greeting everyone at the banquet, Lao Huang sat down and said in a low voice with a smile: "You, Boss Shen, are allowed to live here, but I, Lao Huang, are not allowed to come?"
"Okay, you're just trying to make fun of me. I'm going to drink three drinks as a penalty."
Lao Huang laughed and said immediately: "Speaking of which, I would like to thank Boss Shen for this. Thanks to my brother's care, the sales of the goods I helped my little brother sell last time were really good. So I want to take advantage of the opportunity to buy another batch before May Day. The cargo, this time came with the bow of a Zhapu boat."
While the two were talking, a young businessman quickly walked into the private room and said to everyone: "Have you heard? A huge foreign ship has come up from the port outside."
Huh? Seven or eight businessmen were stunned during the dinner. They had nothing to do. They had been drinking and listening to music to pass the time since the morning. In the room, they were listening to the sound of silk and bamboo, drinking and boxing, and laughing and playing with the beautiful women. They didn't listen at all. Until those two whistles sounded.
Everyone said quickly: "Tell me what's going on."
When the businessman who reported the news saw that everyone was so anxious, he picked up his chopsticks. He sat down calmly and waited for Qingcheng who was beside him to pour a glass of wine to eat. Then he picked up his chopsticks and started to pick up the vegetables.
"Hey~ Look at this guy, he's even holding a bridge."
The businessman known as Xiao Cheng then said mysteriously: "When we got off the boat just now, we saw the Japanese soldiers and samurai on the dock were all in a mess. I looked around and saw that the sailors around me were also like those officials. , Shiwu looked in the same direction."
Xiao Cheng said this and slapped the table. "Then I looked back. What do you think I saw?"
Everyone was attracted by his narrative tone, and they all stopped and looked at him. Then he changed the topic and turned to Shen Jingdan and asked: "Boss Shen, how big is the largest ship you have ever seen?"
Shen Jingdan thought for a while and said: "The Galen ships of the Red-haired and English people are probably the largest. They are more than ten feet long and can hold more than five thousand stones..."
Lao Huang waved his hand to interrupt Shen Jingdan's words and scolded Xiao Cheng with a smile: "You Xiao Cheng, you are still in a daze (pretending to be pretentious). Let me tell you the truth, what did you see?"
Xiao Cheng deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Have you ever seen a forty-foot ship?"
Everyone at the banquet suddenly laughed and cursed: "Nonsense! How can there be such a big ship in the world! You guys are fine, so we people are just having fun."
"Do you think I'm telling a joke? That boat is parked on the sea outside the west barracks!" Xiao Cheng stood up and pointed outside and said loudly, refusing to admit defeat.
Everyone in the private room was immediately furious. They stood up and walked out. Shen Jingdan also followed the crowd.
Everyone went all the way to Thean Hou Temple in the southwest corner of the Yashiki area, climbed to the third floor, opened the windows and looked out at the sea.
"There!" exclaimed a sharp-eyed businessman.
Shen Jingdan and others looked in the direction of the man's finger and saw a huge ship moored on the sea northwest of Tin Hau Temple. On the bow of the ship, which was white above and blue below, two huge blue Chinese characters were particularly annoying. People pay attention.
"Thunder God?" Everyone stood stunned on the spot.