And without further ado, it is already July. After entering summer, typhoons around the Japanese archipelago will increase, and voyages to the sea are generally no longer possible.
Zong Yicheng sent a small envoy - of course it was sent secretly. The shogunate was very wary of all kinds of Nanman people. If it was known that the vassal was secretly in contact with the new Nanman people, there would be another battle.
Troubles.
A Japanese sailing ship sailed towards Jeju Island with a gentle crosswind. It was said to be a Japanese sailing ship, but in fact it was a Guangzhou ship made in China. Japan's shipbuilding industry is very underdeveloped. Generally, businessmen who sail on long voyages buy ships from China or Southeast Asia.
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Because the ship is bought in a foreign country, the tonnage of the ship is generally small. The load capacity of this ship is only 70 tons, and the full row is only more than 100 tons. It is a very small ship, only equivalent to the third level of the Senate Navy.
Secret Service Boat - The smallest class of secret service craft.
The Tsushima sailors were very familiar with the hydrology of Jeju Island. After the initial invasion of North Korea failed, Zong Yiji withdrew his troops from Busan to avoid being pursued by the North Korean navy and made a false trip to Jeju Island to return home.
The ship was intercepted by a patrol boat more than ten nautical miles away from Jeju Island. At the request of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade, the Second Fleet established a blockade in the Tsushima Strait, strictly prohibiting all ships from traveling between North Korea and Japan.
Tsushimamori's envoys were Soyoshige's retainer Nagabune Genshichiro and Nagasaki merchant Takeya Munemasa. Nagabune was originally a retainer of the Ukita family. The Ukita Hide family was exiled after the defeat of Sekigahara. The retainers became ronin and went their separate ways. When he was young,
Genshichiro had no special skills, and he defected to Tsushima Shoumen several times. He was always used as diplomatic cannon fodder. Fortunately, the world in Japan was at peace. The diplomatic struggle between the daimyo was nothing more than a matter of interest, and they would not embarrass the other party's envoys and lose their lives.
It's nothing more than being tired from running errands. It's already a good job for this low-level samurai whose salary is only fifty dan. At least he doesn't have to pay for meals during his official duties.
Takewu is a distant relative and business agent of the Zong family - these days, most businessmen are also on diplomatic missions. Takewu Zong has dealt with Chinese businessmen in Nagasaki and can speak Chinese. - According to the repatriated businessman, this self-proclaimed Australian
The guy spoke Chinese - although his accent was weird. He also told a lot about Australians from hearsay. He was a second-hand "Australia expert", so he was invited to help.
This mission is also what Takeya wants. In any case, Australian goods are also very popular in Nagasaki. Currently, only a small amount of Australian goods are sold to Japan, mainly in luxury goods, and the prices are very expensive. And almost all of them are controlled.
In the hands of those Chinese businessmen.
The goods were scarce and popular, so of course it was not Bamboo House's turn to sell them - Bamboo House could only be regarded as a medium-sized merchant in Nagasaki. It did not have a high status in Nagasaki's business district. If he wanted to purchase goods directly from Guangzhou, he had no connections in the shogunate.
I didn't get the Zhuyinzhuang to go to Guangzhou. Fortunately, I still had a ship. I often used the connections of the clan to travel to North Korea privately and sell some goods. I found wealth in danger, so I took the initiative to ask for it this time, sent people to ship, and even funded a batch of goods.
Gongli took on the task of suing for peace in Jeju - of course the official was still Nagafuneon Chillang.
Hearing that the visitor was going to Jeju Island to see the "Australians", the patrol boat sent armed personnel to board the small sailing boat. After taking over the key points of dissatisfaction, the messenger's boat was escorted by the patrol boat and sailed towards Cheonpo.
When Zhuwu was recruited by Zong Yicheng, he vividly recounted some of the Australian deeds he had heard from hearsay: Qiongzhou defeated the Ming army, large iron ships bombarded Baietan, and all kinds of "Australian goods", plus
The businessmen who were released made embellished accusations about how the "four-pointed star flag ship" that hijacked them was moving as fast as flying, and how it was equipped with guns and cannons... Although it was actually just a spy boat and a patrol boat - these were already there.
Ma Shouzhong's family left an impression that Australians were no less than Nanban.
Naturally, many people did not believe this myth-like story - they thought it was too exaggerated. However, when the messenger's ship approached Chaocheonpo, a row of h800s moored in the harbor, light black, were gently swaying in the waves.
His huge body shocked the envoys.
There are quite a few Chinese merchant ships going to Japan with a deadweight of more than 500 tons. They are large ships with nearly a thousand tons in full row, but compared to the h800 with a full row of 1,400 tons, a huge mast and a beautiful ship shape, it still looks a bit small. And the Portuguese
Or the Dutch's Nanman ships are comparable.
Takeya has been a merchant in Nagasaki for a long time and is a very knowledgeable person in Japan. He has seen all kinds of Chinese ships and Nanban ships.
In terms of tonnage, the h800 is not larger than other sea ships, but there is a whole row of such large ships moored. The visual impact is much stronger than one or two solitary large ships: whether it is China Maritime in Nagasaki Port
The ships are still Nanman ships, only one or two coming each time.
Around these large ships, there were many smaller ships moored. Even these ships were much larger than theirs - even bigger than most of the ships they had seen.
This large-scale gathering of ships is not to show off force, but the Second Fleet and the transport fleet are waiting in Jeju for the last sailing before summer - with the advent of summer and the arrival of typhoon season, maritime shipping will come to an end.
.Most ships, including all steam battleships and h800, will return to their respective home ports. In accordance with the order of the Navy Military Command, all steam battleships will return to Lingao for maintenance, h800 will return to Hong Kong for maintenance, and other sailboats will be in Jeju and Kaohsiung depending on the situation.
and Hong Kong to undergo maintenance and overhaul.
The Navy's large-scale "summer break" is not only to avoid typhoons, but also to rest and reorganize the team.
The intensive shipping and escorting that lasted for more than half a year have made the navy's ships and personnel show signs of fatigue. The performance of steam-powered ships is not stable to begin with. There have been many accidents and they are in urgent need of maintenance. The fatigue of the personnel
It has also reached its extreme - due to the lack of backup personnel, sailors are overworked.
The envoys on the deck were immediately silent. Such a group of "pirates" or "Southern barbarians" are definitely not good people - the direct occupation of Jeju Island is probably not something that ordinary South barbarian merchants and pirates can do.
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Ping Qiusheng didn't know that there was a second-hand "Australian pass" in the envoy. But no matter what the background of the other party was, he would naturally give them a cold shoulder in the first day or two, and arranged for them to stay at Chaotianpu Inn. As usual, there were many things in the room.
Australian and Song Dynasty promotional album: half of them are paintings by Leib Trini and his students: high-rise buildings and landscapes, majestic Fubo army, Nogami Hayabusa-style ships, epic-style battle scenes -
Most of them are PS repaints of Warhammer 40k pictures privately collected by a certain veteran. Of course, some things from the past time and space are also mixed in... Anyway, let's talk about it after we are shocked and fainted.
Early in the morning on the third day, Ping Qiucheng summoned the Tsushima envoy at the Chaotianpu Merchant Hall.
"I am the envoy of the Kingdom of Tsushima, Captain Genshichirobei. By order of the Lord of the Kingdom, I order you to wait..."
Ping Qiusheng's face was expressionless, and his mind was rapidly thinking about the lessons he had reviewed last night about the Ma Zong family...
The country of Tsushima is not big, and the retainers group is not small. After the decline of the former head of the family, the Shao Er clan, the retainers group organized and fled to Tsushima. As the father-in-law of the previous head of the family, Konishi Yukinagawa lost his head and another group of wanderers came.
There are retainers, and then there are the scattered ones who have drifted here on their own...such as Nagafune Genshichiro's family.
When there are too many retainers, there will be too many people to feed the finance. This is not the main problem, because the sources are complex, and there are too many monks and too few people to eat, so there will inevitably be multiple mountains competing for power and profit.
Because Soyoshi was very dissatisfied with the elders of Yanagawa and Susana, and wanted to support foreign retainers who had no roots, Yan Shichiro finally got a salary of fifty koku a year, lived in a longhouse in the castle town, and had to serve as an official.
Life was extremely hard, not much better than an ashigaru. According to the laws of the shogunate, samurai could not work part-time and had no land. They had to rely on their wives to raise children for merchants to supplement the family income. As a sergeant this time, all the clothes were borrowed from the master's family.
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However, the captain had served a big boss after all, and his arrogance was absolutely arrogant. Yan Qilang's two brothers both committed seppuku and died during negotiations. He also became a retainer because of his courage and ability to bluff.
"Are you aware of your guilt?" After hearing his long words, Ping Qiucheng pulled his face and thought to himself: "Your uncle, I am more arrogant than you."
"I am an envoy to Jeju City under the command of the Minister of Taifu Temple, who leads the coastal system. He is sent by the superior country. Your master is just a servant of the fourth subordinate. How dare you send someone to come here? Could it be that your master is the one who is here?
Are you here to start a war? Then I will order the navy to immediately seize your ships and other ships. Tomorrow the fleet will set off to bombard the Japanese pavilion! Defeat Tsushima! Blockade Nagasaki!"
"Two adults, please calm down and listen to what the villain has to say." Takeya Munamasa was so anxious that he almost jumped up. If those "Australian black ships" really sailed to Nagasaki, Edo would be shaken, and the relevant people would commit seppuku.
Already.
"I have no intention of launching an attack here." Zhuwu said euphemistically, "The trade between this domain and Korea has been going on for a long time, and there is nothing that triggered Australia. For some reason, they occupied Jeju Island and intercepted our ship...
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"This Jeju Island was originally the territory of the Song Dynasty. When the pseudo-Yuan Dynasty was destroyed by the pseudo-Ming Dynasty, it was usurped by the Goryeo rebels. Today, the Song Dynasty has regained its old territory. Do you have anything to say!?"
"What happened in the old days has nothing to do with Japan. We can't say whether it's right or wrong. It's just that this ship is owned by this feudal clan..."
"Your Tsuima Kingdom is a vassal of both the Japanese and Korean vassals. Our empire has no intention of conquering Japan. Does your family master want to be a Korean or a Japanese?"
"Tsushima is a vassal state of Japan, and it is attached to Korea as a subordinate power. My master does not want to go to war with your tribe, and since the beginning of our kingdom, all the great kings have taken it as their own responsibility to keep the world peaceful and restrain the great names from being allowed to go abroad.
Provocation." Zhuwu knows that his opponent is powerful and there is no point in being cruel. He can only show his full "peace-loving".