Japan has a tradition of building castles since the Warring States period, and the daimyos, or powerful people, would build castles in dangerous places on their territory to protect themselves and the surrounding people.

Kagoshima is not actually the name of the main castle of Shimazu, Kagoshima is just a castle town, Yamakawa Port is the name of the harbor, and the castle where the Shimazu family members lived is called Inner Castle, which is located in the north of Kagoshima Castle Town.

Like most of Japan's daiju castles, the inner city was tall and sturdy, with a strong boulder wrapping around its foundations, a wide moat attracting living water, and a snow-white wall filled with holes for shooting.

This fortified castle has guarded the Shimazu family for more than 400 years, and under such a long period of feudal rule, there is a very strict order of superiority and inferiority in the inner city, and countless rules.

The Japanese people respect the rules very much, sometimes this characteristic is strict to the perverted Cheng dù, in the city where the head of the family lives, any loud noise is not allowed, and even the maids have strict rules for walking, and the feet must be panned against the ground like a female ghost.

There are also those guarding warriors, one by one, they dare not breathe, for fear that the slightest sound will disturb the life of the lord.

But no matter how perverted the rules are, there are people who break him, and today's guest from Ryukyu is a typical rule-breaker. The scolding of the castle tower was now loud enough that the maids in the back kitchen could hear it clearly.

"Kayama Kurigen, you are a disgrace to the samurai... In the Ryukyus, you were beaten by the prime minister like a lost dog, why don't you stay in the refugee camp for the rest of your life... To be shameless, to be shameless......"

"Baga... Baga ......"

"Takenaka Inoue, you fish that slipped through the net, don't think that you have escaped punishment in the Ryukyus, you are a good person, what you did before is in the eyes of our Ryukyu people, and you are also an invader......

"Baga... Baga ...... How can you be ungrateful..."

"Shimazu Hisamitsu, Shimazu Tadayoshi...... You are the executioners who started the war, and sooner or later the people of the Ryukyus will approve you..."

"Baga... Baga ...... It's rude, get out, get out of the inner city, you are not welcome in the Satsuma Domain......"

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The scolding was incessant, and it was in a very pure Satsuma accent, and all the men and soldiers in the inner city could hear it clearly.

Everyone was dumbfounded, their Shimazu family is located in Kyushu, guarding the southernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago, and the southwest feudal clan that Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu could not help in history, today actually made four Ryukyu college students point their noses and scold angrily.

You must know that even the envoys of His Majesty the Emperor had to be polite when they came to see the head of the Shimazu family, and they had never encountered such an insult.

Countless soldiers and samurai clenched their weapons in anger, and subconsciously wanted to rush forward and hack these bold and fanatical people to death, and countless maids and maids turned pale with fright, and their hands and feet had no place to rest, for fear that this conflict would anger them.

The entire inner city was already on the verge of a storm, more like the eve of a volcanic eruption, and everyone was waiting for Shimazu Tadayoshi to erupt, as if the bodies of four college students were about to be dragged out in the next second.

But the quarrel lasted for half an hour, and the important ministers of the Shimazu family did not even dare to add their fists and feet except to scold Baga, and countless soldiers and subordinates all turned their eyes to the sea, knowing that the lord had succumbed to the threat of artillery.

Half an hour later, I heard a loud bang, and a low table flew out of the fence of the castle tower, and the debris on it fell like a goddess scattering flowers. All they heard was a snap, and the low table had smashed to the ground.

"Get out... Come on, blast these bastards out...... Expelled them from Kagoshima, from Yamakawa Port, and from the Satsuma Domain......" Shimazu Tadayoshi finally broke out, and a group of samurai swarmed up, and after a while, Xiang Ying and the others walked down the stairs with angry faces.

The negotiations eventually broke down, and everyone guessed the final outcome of this scolding war, and this group of Chinese did not even borrow a gunpowder or two.

Xiang Ying walked in front with a pale face, and after a while, he saw Liu Laoliu, who was drunk and hazy, this guy was about to fall asleep, and when he saw Xiang Ying and them coming over, he stretched out his hand to make wine.

"... Shameful thing...... "Lin Zhen rushed up with a kick, kicked the drunk Liu Lao Liu with two big heels, and was about to continue fighting, but Xiang Ying stopped him.

"Don't let people see jokes, take him on board...... The next battle will be assigned to the death squad...", one sentence has already doomed Liu Laoliu's fate.

The gate of the inner city was tightly closed, and Xiang Ying and them only had a pair of ashigaru escorting them back to the sea, and when the four of them looked back at the castle tower, they found that Shimazu Tadayoshi was also watching them standing at the railing, and there was a deep meaning in the eyes of both sides.

Xiang Ying and Shimazu Tadaya didn't know that in the lower residential area of the inner city, several handymen who were feeding horses and chopping firewood were using a carbon strip to write small characters on the chopping wood, and after a while, the chopping wood full of words was thrown out through the wall.

In the mountains and forests outside the wall, a group of civilians collecting bamboo shoots, mushrooms and other mountain goods have been busy for a long time, waiting for this information, and soon the chopping wood became fuel in the field campfire, but the information has been transferred.

The rule of the Shimazu family does not seem to be monolithic, and these important ministers may never have dreamed that the handymen chopping wood in the back kitchen actually know how to read, and they are actually a group of small workers.

When Xiang Ying and the others traveled through the entire Kagoshima castle town, they discovered the true deterrent power of Western warships, and at this time, the castle town was already dead and quiet, and the streets and alleys were full of guarded samurai and ashigaru, one by one cautiously staring at this group of Ryukyu students who were in the dark sky of the chaotic sky.

"See, this is what the prime minister said about the deterrent power of the cannon of the giant ship, as long as it is within the range of the artillery, all the truth is our......s," Xiang Ying said in a low voice.

Cai Bixuan looked at the longing warship in the harbor and said, "Yes, I don't know what the steel giant ship depicted by the Prime Minister looks like, I think it will be more powerful than a wooden battleship, right?"

"That's natural, I have written down this hatred today, and in the future, I have to come over with ironclad warships, blockade Shanchuan Port, and bombard Kagoshima......" Lin Zhen was as fanatical as ever.

Only the fat man was good at enjoying himself, and said with a smile, "Waste, you are really wasteful, why are you bombarding Kagoshima? If you want me to say that there is a cannon, I will collect protection money every day, and I will not blow up ...... again."

"Hahaha......" The four of them looked up to the sky and laughed arrogantly, and the soldiers around them grabbed their weapons in an uproar. Especially the team that escorted them, all of them understood the murderous threats of the four people, and their faces turned white with anger, but they didn't dare to turn their faces yet.

The Ryukyu visitors only spent the morning in the Shimazu family's domain, and in the end they didn't get what they wanted, but after leaving behind a bunch of harsh words, the battleship set sail.

Watching the warship slowly sail out of the mountain and river harbor and disappear at the end of the sea, the city finally regained its popularity, and the citizens hidden in the mountains and forests returned to their homes one after another.

But in a foreign goods shop in the business district, several blond and blue-eyed Europeans were still analyzing today's accident, their faces grim.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... We all came from Europe, our purpose is to make money, but if we want to make a lot of money, we have to maintain our strong position as Europeans in Asia, so no matter what our nationality is, but at a critical moment, we have to help the French......"

"Help? What can we do with our merchant ships against pirates? I'm afraid my ships are powerless..."

"Yes, those Chinese can even capture a French cruiser, which shows that their combat effectiveness is still very strong, I have now believed the news from Europe, Xiao Lotian may have really defeated the French..."

"That's it, that's it...... We're businessmen, and there's only so much we can ...... help."

At this time, the merchant who was the first to speak sighed, "Gentlemen, you must think about it, if the French occupy the Ryukyus, then this group of French fleets will get one more colony, and their warships will control the seas of East Asia...... If we don't take advantage of this time to have a good relationship with them, will we wait for them to retaliate later?"

"God, you're right, Napoleon III had a bad temper, and they will definitely take revenge..."

The crowd chattered, and the coffee on the table was drunk as fast as boiled water.

At this moment, there was a knock on the closed door, and the local Japanese businessman hired by the foreigners humbly walked in, bowed ninety degrees when he saw each foreigner, and finally walked to the first foreign businessman to speak and whispered a few words.

"Hahaha, gentlemen, don't worry about your money and supplies anymore, I have now found the best way to help the French...... That's the information, I just got an update that the emissaries from the Ryukyus have broken down negotiations with the Shimazu family, and they have been expelled......"

"God forbid... This is really good news, Molière will be very happy to hear it, and he will be grateful to us... These wandering lone wolves have no combat effectiveness, and even our merchant ships are three points safer......"

Although the poor Shimazu family is located at the southernmost tip of the most civilized Japanese archipelago and can easily accept new Western things, they also have their own unspeakable secrets, that is, the continuous penetration of Western forces.

European businessmen have long established a secret intelligence network here, and the defense network of the Shimazu family has long been poked out of countless loopholes.

The Wavebreaker sailed south, and along the way countless merchant ships took refuge, except for a few brave fishermen who came up to try to sell some seafood and food, praying that the angry soldiers would be generous and not eat ugly hand-to-hand robbery.

Fortunately, Xiao Letian's new army was strictly disciplined and did not have the habit of eating white food, and the four warships bought out the goods of the five fishing boats, and they also welcomed several rare guests from the fishing boats.

"Wang Huaiyuan, is it Lord Wang......"

"Oh my God, Ryoma Sakamoto, the Japanese who the prime minister saved with blood, Ryoma Sakamoto..."

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