The two sides initialed an agreement - the trade agreement will not be effective until Tsushima holds the seal, completes the mandate, and sends hostages. The two sides agreed that Tsushima will send a ship to Jeju in one month. The previously captured Tsushima merchant ships will not be effective until the agreement takes effect.
They could not be returned until later. To show their sincerity, Jeju released all the captured personnel this time. Each person was given a set of clothes, a pair of Australian straw sandals and two bottles of rum. The official also gave a glass lantern made in Lingao.
The members of the mission also gave each other gifts, and also brought Zong Yicheng a set of bone china and a Lingaoyi revolver.
This revolver is a special version - like the Nanyang-style rifle, it is a smoothbore flash cap gun. In terms of power and range, it is really average, but the flash cap gives it an unprecedented rapid shooting effect. This is
It's a big enough selling point.
"Chief, do we want to export swords to Fuchu Domain?"
"Not necessarily." Ping Qiucheng was vague. At present, Japan is in a "quiet world" state, and there is really no big market for things like swords.
According to the thinking of some elders, including Ping Qiu Sheng and Si Kaide, they were preparing to add fuel to the flames in the chaos after the 1633 lockdown.
The Tokugawa shogunate, like the Toyotomi regime, had a deep distrust of outside Catholicism. For the Tokugawa shogunate, almost all Chichidan names were from the Western Army camp in the past. The shogunate had always been worried that the Catholic faith would be influenced by foreigners.
The name was used to launch a rebellion against the shogunate, and then colluded with the Nanman people who had strong ships and powerful artillery.
The dual distrust of politics and religion made the shogunate's persecution of the Chichitan religion intensify. Since Kitakyushu was the main settlement of Chichitan believers, it was closely monitored by the shogunate. In 1628, the shogunate veteran Doi Toshiki and Sakai Tadayo "inspected
"In Shimahara County of Hizen Province, 570 Kirikidan believers were burned to death in one go.
In 1630, the shogunate issued a "prohibition order": Chichichidan believers were ordered to give up their faith within two months, otherwise they would be executed. With the efforts of Terasawa Hirotaka, Matsuura Tadanobu, Muneyoshige and other Chichidan lords, the "prohibition order" was
" was finally stopped. However, the third-generation shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu once again issued a "ban on religion" in 1633 and ordered the main defender of the Kirishitan religion, Hizen Karatsu, the 240,000-koku daimyoji Ze Hirotaka to commit seppuku. The Karatsu clan was subsequently destroyed.
After the reform, Matsukura Katsuie, the 66,000-koku daimyo of Yamato Nobukiyama, took over the temple leadership and began the brutal persecution of the Chichitan believers. He was burned to death by Matsukura Katsuie in six years from 1633 to 1638.
There are as many as 10,000 Chechidan believers, and the conflict has become extremely intensified.
Although the Great Amakusa Revolt was said to have taken place in 1638, there were actually opportunities to instigate Kirishitan Ikui throughout the entire period from 1633 to 1638. The foreign daimyo of the southwestern feudal clans: Satsuma, Chosu and other clans had always been hostile to the shogunate.
, once the shogunate is unable to suppress Amakusa Tokishiro in time, the dissatisfied foreign daimyo who were brutally suppressed by the shogunate - especially the daimyo of the Western Army who participated in the Battle of Sekigahara, are likely to rise again. Because of the "Aoi Three Generations"
The harsh "arbitrary politics" of the period were reformed by many ronin of various dynasties, and the number of ronin who arrived home in 1651, the fourth year of Qing'an (1651), had swelled to 500,000. It is estimated that this is not the case.
Many, but 200,000 to 300,000 people will always gain.
These ronin have no income and are burdened by their status as warriors. They harbor resentment in their hearts. Once there is an opportunity to reignite the war and gain fame and fortune, they will not give up.
When war breaks out, the daimyo and shogunate in various places will need a large amount of arms. In this way, the policy of expanding foreign trade, which was effective during the Warring States Period, will be taken seriously again, and the policy of seclusion will inevitably end, and various restrictions on gold, silver, and copper will
The outflow policy will also be relaxed due to the demand for arms - this is quite troublesome for Taira Akimori, because the outflow of precious metals is serious, and the shogunate has restricted the outflow of silver and copper since 1616.
However, this wonderful plan involves specific strategies for facing Japan - this is something that can be finally decided by the Executive Committee and the Senate. Therefore, Ping Qiusheng can only make simple preparations and cannot invest too many resources.
He said to Zichuan: "There are other things you need to prepare for. The organization is preparing to send you back to Japan."
"Please give instructions, chief!"
"This time you have to make friends with Zong's retainers. If you get Zong's permission, you can follow the ship to Tsushima next time you come."
"yes!"
"After Tsushima has arranged the affairs, you will take their ship back to Nagasaki to do a few things: First, this time in Jeju Island, including in Taiwan, more than a dozen security forces were killed or died of illness, and two others
If they are injured and want to go home, you have to send them and their ashes back. And bring the empire’s pension and medals to their families.”
"Yes, thank you to the Senate for your kindness."
"Secondly, you need to inquire about a person. This person is your church member, named Amakusa Shiro Tokisada. He may also be named Masuda Tokisada, Oyano Shiro, or Ebe Shiro. His biological father used to be a retainer of Konishi Yukinaga.
, named Masuda Yoshiji. He was later adopted to Amakusa Jinbei. This man is probably eleven years old now, and may be living in Nagasaki. He may have learned medical skills from the Dutch... This is his information, please record it in detail
"Remember it. Now Tokugawa has issued a ban on religion, so you must be careful to conceal your identity."
"Yes!" Zichuan didn't know why Elder Ping suddenly became interested in an eleven-year-old ronin, but an order was an order.
"You just need to find him, there is no need to contact him. Although Zong changed his religion, he secretly sympathized with the Catholic Church. You can find reliable believers among Zong's retainers who secretly still believe in Kirikidan and establish correspondence with Amakusa. In the future, we will definitely
useful."
"Yes." Zichuan suddenly felt his eyes sore. Sure enough, God had entrusted him with a big task in his dream.
"The villain will never give up even if he dies."
"The last thing is to see if we can recruit enough ronin." Ping Qiucheng said, "The security army has decided to add six more Japanese companies. You can go and see if there are suitable ronin - they can't be too old.
Yeah. It’s best to be under thirty years old.”
"Yes!" The last task was the easiest. Zichuan thought that the number of homeless ronin he knew was not fifty but a hundred. If he could find people through them, it wouldn't be a problem to recruit one or two thousand people.
The shogunate strictly prohibited Japanese from going abroad, and Japanese who had already gone abroad were not allowed to return to the country, otherwise they would be executed. Therefore, this matter had to be carried out in a secretive background.
"District 11 can't resist shocking things..." Watching the Tsushima messenger's ship go away, Murasaki Hideji listened to the melancholy words from Elder Taira that he couldn't understand at all... Maybe his Chinese is not good enough.
.
But Elder Ping cannot just stay in Jeju Island. There are already enough elders in Jeju Island. He came here to carry out trade with Japan with a two-pronged approach. Now that the Tsushima tube has been inserted, the other one must be inserted as soon as possible.
Just fine.
"Pack our bags, we have to go." Ping Qiusheng said to his personal secretary Ping Ayako.
Ping Qiu Sheng stood on the deck and looked into the distance. Fujiang Island was already in sight. This was a Chinese-style sailing ship. The ship was captured by the navy from the vicinity of Changchun. There were less than 50 people on board. This unlucky sailing ship was in
The ship was detained by the navy in the Tsushima Strait more than a month ago - the ship was originally going to Busan.
At that time, the navy's mission was to capture the Fuchu clan's ship, but the fire chief and general officer who interrogated the ship found out that they were not a ship belonging to the Mazon family, but from the Goto Clan.
Because a maritime trader who looked like a Chinese was captured, Jeju Island did not dare to make the decision without authorization and immediately sent a message to the police to request instructions.
A telegram was sent to Lingao. Ping Qiusheng immediately sent a telegram after learning about it: "All people, ships and goods are detained."
Zhou Xingru, a native of Jiangning Prefecture who set out from Fujian to trade with Japan, was accepted by Junfu
With the personal red seal certificate granted to him by Tokugawa Ieyasu, he could travel from various ports in Japan to Nagasaki without any obstruction. This kind of red seal certificate was issued by the shogunate to Japanese maritime merchants. If Zhou Xing was able to obtain it, it shows how much Ieyasu valued him at that time.
Zhou's territory in Japan is the Goto Islands in Japan. The so-called Goto Islands are an archipelago running northeast-southwest off the west coast of Kyushu Island. They are under the jurisdiction of Nagasaki Prefecture in modern time and space. They include Fukue, Kuga,
There are 5 islands including Naru, Wakamatsu and Nakadori, as well as more than 140 islands nearby. This place is very close to Nagasaki, Japan's main external port at the time, and has many natural ports and anchorages. It is a place where merchants who trade with Japan rest their ships.
Important location. At that time, the Goto Islands were the main stronghold of the Chinese in Japan and their influence was considerable.
This time the Zhou Group's ship was transporting swords to North Korea in exchange for ginseng. Since the cargo was not large and the distance was not too far, they only sent a sailboat of a hundred tons and a few accompanying boats. Unexpectedly, the cargo ship had just arrived.
Unfortunately, they encountered an Australian speedboat on the ocean surface of Jeju Island and were captured without any suspense. Although they were constantly interrogated after being kidnapped ashore, they did not know what this group of strange characters wanted to do. Until Australia
They were told that they were going to Japan on a ship, but they still couldn't figure out what this group of people was thinking.
Ping Qiusheng has his own theory: after claiming to be the Hengwu Ping clan, his ancestors led the remaining clansmen to cross the mainland westward after the Battle of Dannoura, drifted all the way to Fujian, and settled in Fuzhou. Later, the Mongolian army came to the border, and the Ping clan members became
Following Tuanzong and his officials and people, they went all the way south, crossed the sea from Yashan, and passed through Champa. Siam finally arrived in Australia. It has been 350 years now. He is the 22nd generation grandson of Pingqing Shenggong. When his ancestors were alive, a moment
Not forgetting to return to his homeland, coupled with Ping Qiumei's Japanese that sounded strange at the time, people were somewhat skeptical of his statement. Naturally, along the way, the relationship with the locals became closer.