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, saying that 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 the Morioka Domain. (I’m afraid I can’t remember just the name of the domain, but when it comes to Nanbu Iron Pot, many people may say “oh”.)
This person was originally a teacher at a swordsmanship dojo, and studied under the "Ono School Itto Style".
By the way, 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, it is better to learn to settle accounts and become a cook.
Ihei had enough to eat for one person and the whole family was not hungry, and his life was not bad at first. Who would have thought that three years ago, the Iwaki volcano erupted, and due to the disaster, more than half of the Morioka Domain's population was lost.
The economy is getting worse and worse, and the kendo gym can no longer open. Misawa Ihei, who was laid off, had to go to Edo to make a living. The problem is that the competition among martial arts schools in Edo is more fierce. Ihei is fooling around in a small county.
Not bad, in a big city with millions of people, he is not even considered a low-income person. In desperation, he can only look for work everywhere 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 that if Tang was defeated, he would be able to escape.
Hey, if I could be used to get a long-term meal ticket, it wouldn't be too nice.
Facts have proved that Ibei's idea was too good. Beihai Town only fired two cannons and then charged, and most of his team became prisoners.
Facing Beihai Town's weapons, even Yagyu Munenomi and Miyamoto Musashi are useless. As the saying goes, "No matter how good your kung fu is, a 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 Beihai Town's "half a pound plus four taels" of food. Vegetables,
Needless to say, soy products, fish, poultry and eggs, the most important thing is meat! The most important thing is to eat as much as you want as a staple food!
Zhao Xin and his men did not want to abuse these island samurai captives, and treated them based on the principle of multiple people with multiple pairs of chopsticks. After a few meals, Yibingwei decided to join the group.
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 from Beihai Town got on the boat and were about to set off, a new situation happened. An old man with an unspectacular appearance and a young man actually got into the team of cooks, and these two people were still wearing Beihai Town clothes.
The soldier's coat was worn. If the soldiers guarding the gangway hadn't seen these two strangers, they would have been able to get away with it.
This was a big deal! 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 place at noon yesterday. They said they were here to see a friend, but all the people at the whale cutting place had already run away. The old man was very brave and saw that Beihai Town was going to open lunch.
I asked two soldiers if I 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. At night, the old man and the young man had another bowl.
After dinner, we said goodbye.
Who would have expected that when they got up to assemble today, the two soldiers found that they had no shirts. Fortunately, each of the soldiers in Beihai Town had a spare set in their salute. When they 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!" Zhao Xinteng stood up. "What do you think the old man's name is?"
Pan Xiucheng scratched his head and replied: "Lin Ziping. This name is really weird. It sounds like a Han Chinese."
"Take them both to the conference room."
"Ah? Yes!"
Lin Ziping, 48 years old this year, was originally named Okamura Tomonao. His father, Okamura Yoshimitsu, was once the shogunate's official secretary and a 620-koku senior warrior. 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 later went to the house of his uncle who was the doctor of the Sendai Domain at the time. So don't think that this person has Han ancestry. He is 100% island native.
Lin Ziping had a rough life, but he had a good second sister who was favored by Date Munemura, the sixth generation head of the Sendai Domain, and became his concubine. Lin Ziping also became a naturalized citizen of the Sendai Domain after serving in the Yuan Dynasty. No matter how he lived his life, he was not welcomed by the shogunate, but
After all, you don’t have to worry about eating and drinking.
The most famous person in history is the book "Three Kingdoms Illustrated Notes", which clarified the ownership of Ryukyu, Xyu Island and Takeshima. It was listed as the most hated book by the governments of later island countries; whenever it was stated
When this place is mine and that place is mine, someone will take this book out and slap it in the face.
As for the young man, his name is Sato Shinbuchi, he is just seventeen years old this year. His father Sato Shinki and Lin Ziping are good friends. Originally, the young man was traveling and passed by Edo. When he heard that his father's friend was also there, he was happy
I hurriedly went to meet him, but was tricked by the old man into coming to Uraga.
But don’t underestimate Sato Shinbuchi. He later became a famous strategic theorist in the island country. He wrote 300 books in his lifetime, totaling 8,000 volumes. Simply put, he advocated "education and training, bravery and courage, and the integration of military and peasantry."
, 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 sat there honestly.
Say nothing.
"Tell me, what are you two planning to do by stealing clothes and boarding 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 talk about."
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 this young man with a smile and said to himself that it is good to be young. With a blank piece of paper, don't write "island-centered theory" in the future, write "Chinese-centered theory". Just write that China's defense circle should be far away from the mainland.
Finally, it expanded to the opposite continent and turned the Pacific Ocean into 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 Zhao Xin and sat down diagonally across from him, saying: "Sendai Clan is about to wear the same pants as Beihai Town. I think there is no need to deregister, right?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "My secret skills in Beihai 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 for 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. Naturalization. Once you become a registered citizen of Beihai Town, I will take you to see it." Zhao Xin thought Lin Ziping was quite interesting, so he deliberately teased him.
Unexpectedly, the old man chuckled and said calmly: "I am a lonely man. The shogunate won't let me write this book even if I deregister. 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?"
"We attacked Matsushima Town, then Nagasaki, and now we have even attacked Edo. Your Highness, King Zhao, now you have become famous all over the world. His Highness's name can be heard in Nagasaki and Edo, and the children can stop crying at night."
Zhao Xin smiled slightly and said, "Oh? I'm 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, a member of the Sendai clan."
Sato Nobubuchi bowed and said: "I am Sato Nobubuchi, a vassal of the Kubota Domain of Dewa Province, Zi Yuanhai. 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 him today. Please take a seat, 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 variety 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 no longer in the country; just like there was no China after the Meng Yuan 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 had 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 Zhang Guangqi, Zheng Chenggong's envoy, in 1660, when the fourth generation of Tokugawa Tokugawa Ietsuna was in power, the shogunate army took a boat under the guidance of the Ming Dynasty survivors who lived in the island country.
Marched to Beijing, but encountered strong winds on the way and suffered a lot of losses, and finally returned without success. After that, they only agreed to support the Zheng family with some strategic materials and allowed the Zheng family to buy and sell gold from the island country.
Now there is a powerful Beihai town that defeated the Manchus twice, and it is also a descendant of Zhu Ming. This originally made the Confucian scholars of the island country who still regard Zhu Xi's Confucianism as orthodox extremely excited. If Zhao Xin hadn't attacked the island country three times and was so arrogant and rude,
Even Lin Qinshan, a hereditary scholar like the head of the shogunate university (equivalent to the Imperial College's sacrificial wine), would come forward to help with advice.
Zhao Xindao: "Mr. Lin, Mr. Sato, the system in Beihai Town is different from what you think. It would be easy for me and my companions to send our troops south to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, but what we want is not a hereditary and irreplaceable feudal dynasty, and it will continue like this
Despite 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 raised his hands and said, "Please teach me, Your Highness."
At the same time, far away in a village near the seaside in Nakamura 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!" The brothel owner Hu San commanded a group of thugs and beat Quan San violently 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 the others and said: "I, I can't pay the rent, you, why do you have it?"
We need to arrest A Bin! A Bin is my woman and she wants to marry me!"
Hu San had a dull look on his face, walked up and kicked Quan San to the ground, and said to his subordinates: "Tie him up and throw him into the seaport early 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 were kneeling 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 wearing Tsing Yi walked up to Quan San's parents with a smile on his face.
He said to the two old men: "You and I, 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 lamented what happened to Quan San's family. But what can they do?
Rent collectors are like wolves and tigers, and every family is the same. If they don't want their wives and daughters to be sold to brothels to pay off their debts, they can only borrow money from loan sharks. If they can't borrow the money, they can only pay with their bodies.
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"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 that Abin is so beautiful. Tiger San has been eyeing her for quite some time."
"What can I do? If I pay the rent now, how can I survive in the winter?"
"Be patient, maybe next year's harvest will be better. God must let people take a breather, 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 it and see 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 into the crowd.
In sight.
At noon, the Thor was traveling north along the coastline and had entered the coastal area of Mutsu Province. All ships of all sizes encountered along the way turned around and ran away.
Suddenly, a crew member who was on duty on the deck pointed to the sea not far away and shouted: "Someone fell into the water over there!"
It was impossible to stop the boat, but the speed of the boat could be reduced. After the crew lowered the assault boat, the two of them drove the boat towards the man who fell into the water.
The man who fell into the water was holding a piece of wood with his head resting on it. His face was bruised and swollen, and he was already dying. When he returned to the Thor, the military doctor who came after hearing the news examined the injury and found that the man only suffered serious skin trauma.
Moreover, he was seriously 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 was unknown, he could not leave him alone. There had been too many such people in Beihai Town before.