On the third day of September in the second year of Zhengde, the sea breeze rolled up countless fine sands and poured the salty sea fog into Yuzhou Mountain outside Haizhou City.
In the Ming Dynasty, Yuzhou Island and Haizhou City faced each other across the sea. Since Emperor Zhengde opened Haizhou as a treaty port, merchants traveling from south to north formed their own settlement at the east end of Yuzhou Island.
Settlements.
This place is backed by mountains and faces the sea. Hundreds of years later, it became the east of the main artery of the Eurasian continent: Lianyungang.
In the southernmost part of this settlement, there are two camps facing each other. One is inhabited by Japanese people from Sakai City, and the other is also inhabited by Japanese people, but they are from Hakata.
The same confrontational situation is also very common in the other eighteen civilian treaty ports.
Some merchants from the Ming Dynasty didn’t understand: they were all members of the same race who were away from home, so how could they become enemies of life and death?
However, Ming merchants don’t really care about the life and death of Japanese people. If there is opposition, they can bargain. The profiteers wish that there were ten thousand guardian daimyo in Japan, and then everyone would fall at the feet of Ming merchants and beg.
Han people appreciate their wives.
"Japanese women's legs are too short!" Zhang Shuda, who had countless women in later generations, once commented on Japanese women. Then Li Rusong added, "The powder on their faces is too thick."
In this era, the Japanese women who fell in love with Japanese women were synonymous with unsalted women. The Han people who were ruthless enough to sleep with Japanese women were all first-class heroes, such as Zheng Zhilong and so on.
Sakai City, also known as Osaka in later generations, has been the border between Settsu, Kawachi and Izumi since ancient times, so it is called Sakai. And because it is close to the sea, businessmen from all over the world will gather here to do business, gradually becoming the economy of East Japan.
center.
And what about Bodo?
Hakata, located in Chikuzen, is Japan's most important foreign trade port. Since the seventh century AD, it has been the gateway to the mainland. Envoys to the Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, and Silla all departed from here. It is the shipping center of the entire Japan.
So in the second year of Zhengde, whose hands were these two places?
During the Meiyo Incident fourteen years ago, Hosokawa Masamoto led his army to invade Kyoto, forced Ashikaga Yoshie to leave, and promoted Ashikaga Yoshichen as the general. Since then, he has gained control of the Kyoto area, and Sakai City has naturally fallen into the hands of Hosokawa.
In the hands of the Chuan family.
And ten years ago, Ouchi Yoshihiro, who defeated the father and son of Chikuzen Shogun at the foot of Hizen Seiki Castle, also successfully took over the power of Hakata.
The two great families, Hosokawa and Ouchi, were Japan's most famous gay friends in the first thirty years of the 16th century. When they were fighting, Oda Nobunaga's father had just been born.
Therefore, it is only natural for merchants and warriors from these two places to confront each other.
What's more, since the Hongji Kanfu has expired, the samurai of the Hosokawa family have long been unhappy with the Ouchi family who holds the Masanori Kanfu.
According to the memory of a surviving Ouchi family samurai: That day, the sky was very blue, really blue, bluer than the beach at Nagato.
The Ouchi samurai named Kinoshita Kichiemon stood at the gate of the camp and watched the half of the heavy wooden door fall to the ground. There were still two corpses of his own samurai under the door. He immediately rushed towards the camp.
Run to the big house.
In the camp of the Ouchi family, there were less than ten warriors and more than a dozen merchants and their entourage, who were responsible for looking after the warehouses on the shore. The remaining people were on the big ship on the seaside, guarding the retreat.
As for the Hosokawa family, there are more than 20 warriors who have landed ashore, and there are dozens of merchants and followers. In the other three trading ports in Nanzhili, the Ouchi family has the advantage, except for Haizhou, and recently it is
The Hosokawa family has the upper hand.
However, a few days ago, news came from Hakata asking them to sneak attack the Hosokawa family's camp. Although it was the master's intention, Kinoshita Yoshiemon still felt that this was too crazy.
The head of the family, who was thousands of miles away, did not know the current situation in Haizhou, so Kinoshita Yoshi decided not to teach the Hosokawa family a lesson for the time being. After their goods were gone, he would sneak attack the Hosokawa samurai stationed there...
But damn Saburo Naito, he actually dared to sell the family head’s secret order to the Hosokawa family!
Looking at the corpse of the samurai at the gate, Kinoshita Yoshi immediately understood the cause and effect of the matter: Saburo Naito betrayed the Ouchi family, and the samurai of the Hosokawa family came to take revenge.
Saburo Naito, like Kinoshita Yoshi, was a native of Nagato, but Kinoshita Yoshi was a samurai loyal to the Ouchi family, while Saburo Naito was a direct descendant of the Naito family.
Since the tragic defeat to Ouchi Yoshihiro, Naito Hiromiki and his son handed over the power of Shu Fang and Nagato, but the Naito family has always had a deep hostility towards the master's family, and now it is normal to betray themselves.
Kinoshita Yoshi only hated his own ignorance and being deceived by Saburo Naito's fellow countrymen. There is a Chinese saying that is true: When a fellow countryman sees a fellow countryman, he will shoot him in the back.
Filled with regret, Kinoshita Yoshi pulled out the tachi from his waist. Although his martial arts skills were good, dealing with more than 20 Hosokawa family samurai was nothing more than a dream.
Even if he dies, he must die with honor. This is what Kinoshita Kiemon thinks at this time.
Some people will do whatever it takes to survive; but there are also people who will give up survival for the sake of morality in their hearts. Kinoshita Yoshi is undoubtedly such a person.
Be an upright warrior, not a coward who lives in an ignoble way.
He clenched the sword in his hand, ran forward suddenly, and rushed into the meeting room like the wind.
A pungent smell of blood rushed towards him, making his stomach churn.
After seeing the scene in front of him clearly, Kinoshita Yoshiemon couldn't help but take a breath of cold air and stood blankly in a pool of blood, looking at the majestic man opposite.
The spacious room was full of corpses and blood. All the warriors, merchants and followers of the Ouchi family were lying in a pool of blood. On their corpses, stood more than forty warriors and merchants of the Hosokawa family, watching.
Staring at him wistfully.
Most of Japan's maritime merchants were bankrupt middle- and lower-level samurai, so temporarily acting as killers was a complete reappearance of their talents.
The big man in the lead was not like an ordinary Japanese man. He was nearly six feet tall, with very broad shoulders, raised cheekbones, plump cheekbones, deep-set eye sockets, and a pair of bright ring-shaped big eyebrows under a pair of knife handle-like eyebrows.
Eye. He was wearing a green cloth robe and a set of leather armor, which was stained with blood.
On his back was a long bow slung across his back, and on his waist was a cowhide quiver produced in the Ming Dynasty, with a dozen sharp arrows inserted in it.
The most terrifying thing is that the long sword in the hand of this big man is not an ordinary sword, but a Tang-style horizontal sword!
The sky is blue, the ground is yellow, and the sky is full of blood.
A strange pattern flashed involuntarily in Kinoshita Yoshiemon's mind.
"Who are you?" Kinoshita Yoshi put the knife across his chest, looked at the room full of Hosokawa family warriors, neither running nor hiding, and asked in a deep voice, "Why did you kill my subordinate?"
"What a courage!" The big man's eyes shot out a sharp light, looking at the loyal warrior in front of him with disdain, "Erlang Taiqin of a certain mountain city!"
The First Samurai of Kyoto, Togi Kamejumaru?!
Kinoshita Yoshi was stunned for a moment. When did this kid join the Hosokawa family?
Togi Kamejumaru comes from the Togi clan in Taiqin Town, Kuzuno County, Yamacheng Country, and is a branch of the Taiqin surname. Kamejumaru is the most famous samurai in the clan. He once defeated invincible opponents in Kyoto and was killed by the sword without knowing it.
How many famous samurai have been killed!
By the way, after Hosokawa Masamoto invaded Kyoto, he controlled all the surrounding daimyo and used the general to command the princes. No wonder Kamejumaru was also taken under his command.
In the remote seaport city of Ming Dynasty, I could actually see the famous samurai who shocked Kyoto. Kinoshita Yoshi could only smile bitterly. Just as he was about to speak, he saw that the Tang-style horizontal sword in Kamejumaru's hand had already drawn a sharp arc.
The line drew silently, but very quickly towards my neck...
Kinoshita Yoshi raised his tachi and swung it upwards. There was a "ding" sound, and the blades collided. His palms were numb due to the flick, and the tachi came out of his hand and was inserted into the wall next to him.
After rolling to the ground and soaking in countless blood in the pool of blood, Kinoshita Yoshi supported the wall and stood up with his hands empty. His shoulders were also covered in blood, but most of it was his own.
Kamejumaru's sword just now not only swept away his tachi, but also made a long gash on his shoulder, which could have cut off his neck within a finger's distance!
After narrowly escaping from death, Kinoshita Yoshi felt his heart beating wildly and a sense of powerlessness all over his body. He and Kamejumaru were simply not the same level of opponents.
Since he was going to die, he should die cleanly and happily. Kinoshita Yoshi stood there, lowered his hands, closed his eyes, just waiting for his opponent's long knife to sweep over and chop off his head.
"You are indeed a man who does not run away when faced with a desperate situation, and is not timid when encountering a strong enemy." Kamejumaru suddenly said in Chinese, "Since you are a hero, I can't tarnish your reputation. I went back to the ship myself. When I arrived in Hakata, I
I greet Ouchi Yoshihiro and tell him that I will kill all the Ouchi merchants in the eighteen ports."
Kinoshita Yoshi suddenly opened his eyes and stared at the other person, neither turning away nor speaking.
A murderous aura rushed towards his face, Kamesumaru laughed, and stabbed Kinoshita Yoshi's left chest with the sword in his hand, as fast as lightning!
Kinoshita Yoshi did not dodge, he raised his toes, and the sword lying on the ground flew up and slashed towards Kamejumaru's lower abdomen.
He actually wanted to kill Kamesumaru with his own life!
Kamejumaru flew up and kicked the tachi's blade. The tachi sword in his hand was directly pressed against Kinoshita Yoshi's chest, penetrated the flesh, and stopped suddenly.
Blood flowed down like a spring, and with a "dang" sound, the sword fell to the ground.
"Are you really not afraid of death?" Kamesumaru said in Chinese.
Kinoshita Yoshi suddenly discovered that the other party had been speaking Chinese, but he was speaking Japanese. Most of them who came to Ming Dynasty to do business were proficient in Chinese, and even if they didn't speak fluently, they could understand the general meaning, but Kameju
Maru actually speaks Chinese very fluently.
When he was puzzled, he could only smile bitterly and said: "You have no intention of letting me go, so why bother teasing me?"
Kamesumaru laughed loudly: "I originally planned to chop off your head when you turned around, but I didn't expect you to be quite interested in me, so I left you alive to help me."
Kinoshita Yoshi shook his head, regardless of the blood flowing more and more on his chest and shoulders, and said sadly: "I am a traitor in life, and I am a traitor in death. Send me on my way."
Kamesumaru put away the knife and returned his hand, picking up a piece of Kinoshita Yoshi's flesh and blood. After the other party groaned in pain, he spat disdainfully and said: "Ouchi Yoshihiro is nothing, he is just a small country rich man, how can he do this?
Is it worth for a hero like you to die for him?"
Kinoshita Yoshi ignored him, stuffed the vagina on his chest with a piece of cloth, slightly stopped the bleeding, and said calmly: "Isn't the Hosokawa family the same?"
Kamesumaru snorted and said proudly: "I have no intention of staying at Hosokawa's house. When I promised Masamoto that guy, I was just to be his guest, not a slave. Everyone in this house is my brother, so
They are all heroic men, and helping the Hosokawa family to kill the Ouchi family is just a gesture of friendship between host and guest."
"You won't kill me?" There was so much blood that Kinoshita's whole body felt weak, but he still held on and did not fall down.
"I want you to be my brother." Kamesumaru stared at him.
"Then I'm leaving." Kinoshita Yoshi supported the wall beside him and turned around.
"Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?" Kamesumaru asked from behind him.
"Then you are not Erlang Taiqin, and you will not talk nonsense with me for so long," Kinoshita Yoshi walked out of the door and staggered forward. His voice came from a distance, "You should worry about yourself, how can you escape the pursuit of the Ming army?