Chapter 346 - Japanese Ronin Oyama Rock (Third Update, Ask for Subscription)
If you talk about it, if you say that the chicken dog will not stay, you will have to leave the chicken dog without it!
For the Dutch in the city of Geranza, if they heard this, they would have beaten the chief Paul to death.
But now, for the survivors, they have absolutely no leisure to think about these issues, and now they have only one thought left in their hearts - when will the shelling of the Ming army end?
And to their disappointment, even if they raised the white flag, the shelling of the Ming army continued, and did not stop because of the raising of the white flag. For the more than two thousand Dutch in the city of Geranza, they were even desperate in the face of such shelling,
"God, have you really abandoned your people?"
In the ruined church, the priest prayed there, and around the smashed benches, there were corpses everywhere, and the smooth floor was wet - it was blood! It's the blood of the dead.
The cannonball has no eyes, and it doesn't avoid it because it's a church, and for the priest, everything around him makes him desperate.
And Paul, who is a senior officer, saw that the white flag did not work, and there was only one thought left in his heart.
"Don't the people of the Ming Kingdom understand what the white flag means?"
It must be like this, no, you have to send someone out.
Paul, who took advantage of the fact that the shelling stopped and hid inside the fortress base, looked at the big mountain rock in front of him and asked.
"Do you know the Mandarin?"
"Yes!"
Dashan Iwa, dressed as a samurai, replied truthfully.
Although Oyama Iwa was Japanese, he was also a Dutch mercenary.
In fact, they originally came here as escorts for merchants, but as early as a century ago, Japanese shippers also traded in these waters, holding a government-issued license for overseas voyages and trades known as the Goshuin, and went to trade in the Ming Dynasty and Southeast Asia.
In many places, including Hoi An, Khmer, Siam, Batavia, Manila, etc., small towns with Japanese gatherings have been formed, similar to the "Chinatowns" in Europe and the United States, which are called Japanese towns in Japan, and there is also a Japanese town in Dayuan Town.
However, due to the Tokugawa shogunate's 1636 lockdown decree, which forbade Japanese to trade at sea and prohibit Japanese from returning to Japan, these Japanese towns would eventually disappear in the course of history, but now is the time when the number of Japanese overseas is at its highest, and in addition to merchants and sailors, there are many unemployed samurai, also known as unemployed ronin, and many refugees who have been oppressed because of their Catholic beliefs.
As a ronin, Oyama Rock, like many people, became a mercenary of the Dutch in order to survive, and crusaded against the surrounding tribes for the Dutch. And now, Paul thinks of him because he's Asian.
"You go out of the city to contact He Bin, who was left behind in the Ming Kingdom, and ask him to go out to the south to mediate and test the bottom line of the Ming Kingdom's ceasefire."
Now, the only hope for Paul is to let the Ming stay behind to negotiate, but he doesn't dare to send other Dutch to come forward, what if he is killed by the Ming in Dayuan Town? And the Japanese are very reliable, after all, they are all orphans abandoned by Japan.
Soon, the short Dashanyan slid down the rope down the city of Relansha, and then ran quickly to Dayuan, and found him in the "Left-behind Yamen", which was actually He Bin's house, but when they met, he was surprised to see that there was also a Ming official in the house.
They actually met so openly that they didn't even have to open themselves at all, which is either self-confidence or ......
It's just that you were counted in the first place!
Chen Deyi smiled at the person in front of him, He Bin had mentioned these widows before, and these widows were all homeless people. They can be used by the Dutch, and naturally they can also be used by the Ming.
He Bin, who didn't expect Dashanyan to come over, laughed.
The mountain rock came just in time!
But the opportunity to come to the door, for He Bin, was almost the guest next to him, and he just said a few words. He has already made the choice that is best for him.
Take refuge in that prince.
It's not that he is disloyal to the Zheng family, it's just that the conditions offered here are too good for people to refuse.
Dayuan knows the county!
This is the official body that He Bin is looking for! With this position, not only can you glorify your ancestors, but also leap into the dragon gate, from a flat-headed common person to a court official.
The future is naturally limitless, and if people do not do it for themselves, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed. Besides, they are all for the imperial court, so what is the Zheng family and the Zhu family.
In Dashanyan's surprised kung fu, I listened to He Bin take the initiative to introduce.
"Dashanjun, this Chen joins the army, and he is a member of the army of my Ming Dynasty and the Great General's Mansion."
In an instant, Dashanyan looked left and right a little nervously, shouldn't he have thrown himself into the net! But he immediately knelt down and kowtowed:
"Go down to the great mountain rock of the Ronin and meet the Lord of the Celestial Empire!"
Dashanyan, who has been here for more than ten years, speaks Chinese very well, Chen Deyi stood up with a smile:
"Dashan-kun, please get up quickly."
After Da Shanyan got up, Chen Deyi looked at the leader of the Japanese mercenary team that He Bin had introduced before. Asked.
"Is there something going on here?"
Dashan Yan replied respectfully and truthfully:
"The Lower Kingdom Ronin is on the order of the chief officer, and asks the remaining Lord to come forward to mediate the Heavenly Empire's dismissal. If the army lord agrees, they are willing to offer 10,000 taels of silver as ransom money. ”
"I don't want silver!"
Chen Deyi's smile retracted,
"Admiral Sun had given them the opportunity to go out of the city and surrender before, but the Dutch resisted stubbornly, and the heavenly soldiers came, those who obeyed were born, and those who rebelled died, so leave the silver for them to buy a coffin."
Yes!
Da Shanyan looked at this Celestial Empire Lord in horror.
Is the Lord of the Celestial Empire going to slaughter the city?
Looks like the city is going to be slaughtered!
As a down-and-out samurai who lost his title and left his master's house to wander around, Dashan Yan, who once fought for the lord, was no stranger to slaughtering the city, but when he was in Japan, he was often on the side that was slaughtered, and if the lord was not defeated and died, how could he wander around. Thinking of slaughtering the city, Oyama immediately feared for the lives of the more than 300 Japanese in the city.
As for the lives of the Dutchmen, it had nothing to do with him, they were just employers. But now the Japanese are in the city, too.
Seeing that Dashanyan's face was pale, Chen De smiled and said.
"You don't have to worry, this time we are ordered by the general to go south, in order to recover this place and expel Heyi, as long as you live here well, I will not drive you away."
"Thank you for the grace of the heavenly officials, the mercy of the heavenly officials, it really moved the lower country ronin, but it was just ......"
Da Shanyan slapped a sycophant and said immediately.
"There are still nearly 400 Japanese in the city, I don't know, I don't know what to do after the city is broken!"
"Lord Admiral has words first, people do not stand without faith, words must be counted, saying that the chicken dog will not stay, the chicken dog will not stay! Since they are in the city, there is only one way to die! ”
Dashan Yan was so frightened that his back was sweating, and that's it...... Talking counts...... Shocked in his heart, he knelt down and kowtowed and said:
"Please also ask the Lord of the Army to intercede with the Admiral and spare their lives!"
Immediately, Chen Deyi smiled.
"You want to live?"
Who wants to die?
Dashan Yan nodded.
"Lord Joiner, we are all ronins who can't return to Japan, and we are here to survive, but just to survive, and please spare my life."
Then he knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"As long as you join the army and spare your life, we will definitely serve the Ming Dynasty with all our heart from now on, please join the army and give us good words."
For the samurai who have no lord, there is never any loyalty, and besides, they are just a group of ordinary people who then use their money to eliminate disasters for others, as for loyalty...... Well, they haven't been paid this month.
The reality is always cruel, and at this moment these "orphans" who were considered by the Dutch not to betray were in addition to the most advantageous option for them.
Maybe they're just a bunch of homeless wanderers, but because they're homeless, they're more realistic.
"Spare Your Lives......"
Smiling, Chen Deyi said.
"It's not that you can't, it's just that how are you going to serve Daming?"