Late that night, the brave Shen Jingdan took Shen Xuan, Lu Yun and Lao Huang and hurriedly escaped from the tunnel of the smuggler Sun Zhiyong.
In the evening, the Japanese army returned with a major defeat, which made Shen and Huang more determined to cooperate with Zhao Xin. However, the roar of guns and artillery from the foot of Shishan Temple Mountain caused all the Qing businessmen in the "China Courtyard" to panic. They were frightened. These people had offended Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng before, and now they were afraid that the other party would lead their troops to land and loot Nagasaki Port tomorrow.
However, Zhao Xin's victory in the counter-sneak attack in the afternoon caused everyone at the Nagasaki Administrative Office to panic and 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, they were taken away by Lu Shoushan under Liu Sheng's arrangement. Three cabins for rest.
Not to mention how the four people 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 begged not to bombard Nagasaki Castle again to avoid the loss of life.
Of course, Zhao Xin increased the compensation to 200,000 taels of gold. However, the two officials said in tears that the treasury contained funds prepared to be handed over to Edo, and begged Zhao Xin to leave some money. After some bargaining, both parties agreed. In the end, the compensation was set at 150,000 taels.
At noon, a Senseki Benzai ship, under the strict surveillance of the Thor, delivered the compensation.
The 150,000 taels of gold coin didn't weigh much, just 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 Hizen 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 has met this Tang interpreter three times. He asked curiously at this moment: "Are you from the island nation 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 cupped 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 on the side 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's general secretary in history. In the ninth year of Qingchang's reign, Feng Liu, who had been in Nagasaki for four years, was proficient in the island country's language. He was appointed as a general secretary by the then Governor of Nagasaki.
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 military chaos. The first Tang people who came here were mostly called by Chinese surnames, such as Lin, Zhou, He, Zheng, and Wu , Xue and others took Gongyan as their honorific title and ranked them by one official and two officials.
In the second generation, in order to integrate into the local society, they all took the surname of their wife's family in the island country, or changed their names to island-style names such as Ozikawazaemon and Kawamaemon after their father's place of origin.
The island country's term for calling Chinese people Tang people originated from the Tang Dynasty, which had the most frequent economic and cultural exchanges. Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, people from the island country have also called people from the Qing Dynasty who came across the sea "Tang people".
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 influence of 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 asked tentatively: "I have no intention of killing, and the Saga Domain has done its best to serve as a minister. I'm sorry.
I am proficient in medical skills. If you don't mind, you can send Lord Hizenmori to the ship and I will treat him personally."
Bah! Do you mind if you say this? If Nabeshima Harushige dares to go to the Thor to treat his wounds, it will not be a matter of lax armaments, but a serious crime of Satomi Gaiban. General Tokugawa tore his heart to pieces
have.
Lin Changzaemon just bowed to thank him and did not mention the treatment of the injury at all. Zhao Xin understood immediately. He took a few bottles of white medicine with the labels torn off, handed it to the official and said: "This is our prescription."
The holy healing medicine. Please bring it to Hizen Mamoru." After saying 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 here?" 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, and I don’t know how many people the shogunate will punish.”
Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and others laughed loudly after hearing this.
In the cabin on the third floor of the ship building, Shen Xuan hid by the porthole, looking at Zhao Xin standing on the deck in high spirits through the gap in the curtains, her heart pounding.
"Dad said that this man can kill people as easily as he talks and laughs. He is not an easy person to deal with. But I see him always smiling. He is not as scary as what dad said. I heard from Uncle Lu 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. However, the sun was shining brightly at this time, and he couldn't see what was behind the window at all.
When Shen Xuan saw the other party looking towards her suddenly, she was so frightened that she shrank and hid behind the curtain. After a while, when she looked back slightly, Zhao Xin on the deck had his back to her.
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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 of the official responsible for escorting the compensation, Nagasaki's Toda clan bowed his head and remained silent. Feeling deeply guilty, he dismissed the people around him and walked into the inner room with a Jinxi.
After a long period of silence, the barrier door of the inner room was finally opened. The Kinsho told the people of his surname and several officials waiting outside that His Highness Izumomomo had committed seppuku. Before his death, he left a letter to the shogunate.
Suicide note.
Five days after the Thor's evacuation from Nagasaki, a piece of news that came from unknown sources began to spread among the various towns in Nagasaki. There were spies among the Qing people living in the Chinese houses, and the arrangements of His Highness Izumomomo were revealed.
It was revealed to the barbarians on the big ship. That's why the barbarians suddenly bombarded Nagasaki Port and Okirōban Station, and then defeated the Saga Domain.
The townsfolk don't really care much about whether Izumo Shou survived or how many people died in the Saga Domain. But the problem is that before his death, Izumo Shou paid all the gold in his treasury to be handed over to the shogunate as compensation to the barbarians. In this way
First, the government will continue to exploit the people to collect enough funds for Edo.
After understanding this point, the anger of the Nagasaki people turned to those Qing merchants. However, there were guards guarding the Tang Yashiki all the time, and ordinary people could not get close to it. Therefore, a group of Nagasaki people who tried to protest had just walked to the hillside of Juzenji Temple.
After hearing the news, he was shot back by the guards who came.
But anger always has to be vented.
Two days later, late at night, a sudden fire swept through the entire Chinese house.
At this time, except for the hundreds of Qing merchants and sailors in the "China Courtyard" who had not 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 casualties, but the Qing merchants and sailors who fled in a hurry were unable to put it out. The huge "China Courtyard" eventually turned into a white field, and only the Guandi Temple in the southeast corner miraculously survived.
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 Ujimon's suicide note immediately.
In this suicide note, Toda Shimon bitterly stated the fact that the island country responded poorly to this incident. "That day, Haru. They used a giant ship to pass through the Okinawa Station guarded by the Saga Domain Soldiers. The Domain Soldiers
They stood aside and watched. There should have been more than 800 people guarding this place, but because they were accustomed to peaceful times, there were only 140 or 50 people guarding them... The unreasonable demands of the Hokkai barbarians were ordered to be burned and beaten by the Saga Domain.
His ship. However, the opponent's ship has strong guns and ferocious iron cannons, and it can fire continuously..."
Due to the serious shortage of garrison troops at Oki Ryōban and ineffective measures, Toda Clan Mo 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 country has divided the world into sixty-six kingdoms. Those whose territory does not cover a country but is the lord of the country are called "Daishi Kunmochi". Take the Sendai Domain as an example.
The territory is less than one-third of the area of Mutsu Province, but its scale output ranks second among the daimyo outside the shogunate.
(Date Shigemura: "Why is it me again?")
After a close investigation by Masanobu Tsuchiya, 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 name (representative of the daimyo) to report that the garrison was far below the quota and neglected their duties, resulting in a huge defeat.
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 ship non-native 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 Tanuma Yiji's view, the only way to solve the huge debts and deficits accumulated by the shogunate since the Tokugawa Yoshimune era was to
He actively used 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 is
In the end, the matter within the shogunate was settled.