Zhongzuo, that is, Xiamen, Hongwu 27 years Yongningwei moved here and built the city, after which the Zhongzuo one continued to use for 263 years, until the death of the Ming Dynasty.

On the 13th, Wei Gonggong led the combined fleet, the first part of the imperial army, the first part of the Zhejiang army, and more than 11,400 officers and men on land and water to arrive at the Zhongzuo Station, plus the officers and men of the first brigade and regiment that had been ordered to be sent to Fujian for pre-war preparations, the total strength of the special zone and Zhejiang alone reached more than 20,000. If we count the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses falsely reported by Fujian, the mobilization of more than 30,000 officers and men in the Taiwan operation can be regarded as a "great campaign."

The topography of the center and left is special and connected to the mainland across the sea, so the transportation of materials can only be transported by ship. When Gonggong Wei arrived, he saw that the sea was full of ships, and the land was also waving flags, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, together with the Fujian requisitioned civilian service strong generals, turned the Zhongzuo Institute into a large military camp.

"Father-in-law, please see, that island is Kinmen, there is a famous Luowan, which has always been an important garrison of the center and left." Shen Yourong, as the chief of staff of the Combined Fleet, had to explain to the sea-blind Father-in-law Wei along the way.

"Golden Gate, the name is true."

Wei Gonggong took the clairvoyant mirror and overlooked Kinmen, this island is lonely in the east and south of the left place, choking the throat of Xiamen Port, it is the barrier of southern Fujian, looking at Taiwan in the east, facing Xiamen in the west, it is a place where soldiers must fight.

Thinking of the future generations, the father-in-law was temporary, so he said to Shen Yourong: "Wait for the shore, General Lao and the Fujian side will say a word, and put up some big placards on Kinmen Island, on which it is written Long live the Ming Dynasty, long live the Son of Heaven... Well, it's more eye-catching, so it means that it's our family. ”

Shen Yourong Wan'er, said in his heart, this little Wei Gonggong never forgot to pat the emperor's ass. As everyone knows, this is the capital of Xiao Wei's father-in-law's struggle.

The father-in-law did not ask about Liuluowan, he knew that there was a sea battle in this place, and it was also the last sea battle of the Ming Dynasty against the Westerners.

On behalf of Fujian, Hou Anzhi, the commander of the Fujian Navy, greeted the "friendly troops" who had come from afar, and that night, Huang Chengxuan, the governor of Fujian, who had traveled from Fuzhou to the center and left, held a banquet to entertain Wei Gonggong and his party.

This is the first time that Father-in-law Wei has dealt with the local governor, so he is quite restrained, and the banquet has changed his bold style in the past, which is very low-key, and occasionally he echoes Huang Chengxuan, so that Huang Chengxuan, who was worried that Father-in-law Wei is not easy to deal with in advance, can relax and have a good impression of Father-in-law Wei.

During the banquet, the Fujian side mentioned the matter, but half a month ago, the Penghu Inspection Department received a letter from the Ryukyu side from the Japanese shogun Tokugawa, in which he demanded that the Ming Dynasty resume trade with Japan, otherwise Japan would enter the army again.

"Tens of thousands of troops from the nine countries of Japan's Saikaido entered the Ming Dynasty, and dozens of states in the Ming Dynasty are adjacent to Japan, and there will be near-term worries. Is it the intention of the Japanese general Taiki? ”

Gonggong Wei carefully read Tokugawa's edict, which was written in Chinese characters, but was not stamped, making it difficult to determine the authenticity.

"If Japan seeks the market, according to the system, it should send an envoy to our Ming Dynasty, and there is absolutely no reason to ask the Ryukyus to transfer it, let alone to forward it to our country with this rude remark, so according to this official, this edict is most likely fake."

Huang Chengxuan had discussed the matter with his staff in advance, and unanimously decided that the letter was fake, because the content of the letter was too rude and too hasty, so he ignored it.

Father-in-law Wei was curious and asked, "Who is the person who sent the letter?" ”

Huang Chengxuan said: "It's a Japanese man named Murayama Qiu'an. ”

"Murayama Akian?"

Hearing this name, Shen Yourong and Shi Dezheng whispered a few words, and then asked Gonggong Wei and Huang Zhongcheng to wait a while, and he went to call a person who was familiar with the affairs of the Japanese country to come and ask.

Soon, the person who came was brought in, and it was a maritime merchant named Ge Shilin. said to be a maritime merchant, but most of them are also pirates, but because they take the Japanese route all the year round and are familiar with the inside affairs of Japan, they are very good at Shen Yourong, and the goods smuggled by Shen to Ryukyu are in charge of Ge Shilin. In the words of later generations, this Ge Shilin can be regarded as Shen Yourong's "informant", and the two sides use each other. Shen Yourong went south to bring Ge Shilin with him, for the same reason. After all, he is a Zhejiang general, and there are many things he does not do.

"Back to the adults, Murayama Qiuan is the son of Murayama and other people." Ge Shilin is really a Japanese expert, and without thinking about it, he told the origin of the village mountain Qiu'an.

Gonggong Wei put down his chopsticks and asked, "Who is the village and the mountain?" ”

Although Ge Shilin didn't know Gonggong Wei, he knew that the joint army of the three provinces was initiated by a eunuch from Beijing, and seeing that Wenwu was very respectful to this beardless young man, he guessed the identity of Gonggong Wei.

"Back to the father-in-law, this Murayama and other people are a wealthy merchant in Japan who made his fortune by seafaring trade, and he is currently the acting official of Nagasaki in Japan, and he has a lot of influence, and Li Dan of Heping has close contacts, and his trade objects are mostly Western merchants from England, Holland and other countries."

"Kapitan" Li Dan's daimyo did not know that it was no less than Wang Zhi's existence as a sea overlord, and it is said that Tokugawa Ieyasu, the current shogun of Japan, won the world with his financial support. Murayama and Li Dan had a close relationship, in other words, this Murayama and other An were most likely Li Dan's agents in Japan.

"Since Murayama and other people are maritime merchants, why did they send their son Qiu'an to send a letter to our court with this rude letter of state?" Yao Zongwen, who was ordered by his master to be in charge of the tripartite coordination and liaison affairs, was a little puzzled and said that he really didn't understand the things on the sea.

Fujian Governor Huang Chengxuan also had this question, and Shen Yourong asked Ge Shilin if he knew the inside story.

Ge Shilin shook his head, he has been in Zhejiang for the past two months, and the matter of Murayama Guoshu is really unclear. But there was one thing he felt he had to report to the adults.

According to Ge Shilin, Murayama was a Catholic, but now the shogunate in Japan is vigorously suppressing the Catholic movement, and many maritime merchants who have had affairs with Catholicism have been suppressed by the shogunate. For example, the first lord of the Shimabara Domain, Arima Harunobu, who had led a ship to invade Taiwan, was killed by Tokugawa Ieyasu. This Arima Harunobu is a well-known wealthy merchant daimyo and a Christian daimyo, and his power is several times stronger than Ango such as Murayama.

"Is there any possibility that Murayama and Aoan were afraid of being executed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, so he asked his son Akian to hold this fake letter of state to provoke my Daming, so that my Daming could send troops to attack the shogunate, so that this Murayama and Ao'an would be fine?" Yao Zongwen guessed.

"Murder with a knife? If this is the case, the Japanese are also cunning. Hou Anzhi smiled disdainfully, "No matter how cunning he is, this national letter is too unusual, how can I go on an expedition to a country for a fake national letter." ”

"The infighting between the Japanese people is really beneficial to my Ming Dynasty, and only by sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight can I reconcile the interests of the DPRK." Huang Chengxuan, the governor of Fujian, had long decided that the national letter was fake, and he would not be guilty of killing people with a knife.

Gonggong Wei shook his head suddenly, and then said, "Why can't it?" ”

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