Chapter 70: Hoi An
If you don't want to be a starving ghost, but is it glorious to support a dead ghost? What bushido, what Shinto, four islands, this chapter is dedicated to those Hawa people, before you Ha, you might as well carefully study the history of the Wa country, what is the cuisine? Because there are no cooking conditions, I have to cook something that can be found everywhere and eat it!
While Hisataka Kazuyama and Mitsuhisa Shimazu were kneeling in front of the temple to see Li Shouhan, Kazuo Koga and others were acting as coolies on the docks.
Although he landed in the darkest part of the day before dawn, Kazuo Koga still had a clear understanding of the surrounding situation by relying on his eyesight:
The two wind ships were on the north and south sides of the trestle, and the gun windows on the ships were all open, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed at the four ships of their own as if intentionally or unintentionally.
And his own fleet, under the muzzle of others, was pitifully moored behind several wind hunters and supply ships transporting supplies, and was pointed at by others with guns.
As soon as he and his ten ashigaru men got off the boat, they were pointed at by those soldiers of the Nanchu Army with the iron cannons in their hands, "Put all your rags in the basket!" An officer who was at least a general yelled at the Shimazu samurai in a vicious voice, referring to the bamboo spear in Ashigaru's hand and the sword and rib in Koga's waist, and as for the iron cannon of the iron gunner, someone unceremoniously stepped forward and grabbed it, and threw the gunpowder into the sea.
An iron gunner was a little impulsive, roaring something in a low voice, wanting to pounce on the soldiers of the South Central Army on the opposite side, but he didn't want to, the other side fired the iron cannon at the iron gunner without warning.
"Bang bang bang!" At least four iron cannons pierced the body of the iron gunner, and the short body was almost carried up by the huge impact force and flew in midair, and seven or eight blood arrows sprayed out of his body.
"Don't move!" Mino Mamoru whispered to stop the crowd who wanted to pounce, "It's all up to the general of the country!" ā
Soon, the 800 people of the Shimazu family were disarmed, and even the helmsmen and sailors on the four ships were also bombarded down, "Your Excellency, General, we are helping the army of the Celestial Empire to fight, well, those people were captured by your army after we stopped them, if we also became prisoners?" ā
Under the explanation of Mino Mamoru Mamoru , the attitude of the Celestial Empire army changed slightly.
Mino Mamoru took a dozen apprentices and his own general to meet the general of the Celestial Empire, leaving these 800 people to wait on the dock.
As the sky began to lighten, Kazuo Koga was driven away by a roar before Kazuo Koga could take a closer look at the city, which was said to be more prosperous than Edo.
"Get up! Get up! ā
People were taken to the trestle in a daze, "A team of 100 people!" Each team moves one kind of thing, and the things are stacked in one place! Can't make a mistake! ā
Many strange things were hoisted from the ship by the Celestial Empire people on a set of large and small wheels, unloaded on the trestle, and the people began to carry these piled up mountain-like materials under the command of the Celestial Empire people.
Kazuo Koga picked up a straw bale, pointed his finger into the straw in the direction of force, and felt a chill, he immediately understood that this was a knife! Wrapped in this bundle of straw, it's all knives!
Gently twisted it with his fingers, and a pain came from between his fingers, such a sharp knife! It seems to be no less than the legendary Muramasa! But such a good knife was actually treated like this, wrapped in a bundle of straw and discarded in the open air?
While slandering the people of the Celestial Empire in his stomach as a loser, he worked hard to carry it, and by the way, he peeked at the groups of people next to him, who were struggling to push those huge national collapses. There are still traces of seawater on the body of the country, it is obvious that this was fished up from the sea, could it be from those sunken warships? Kazuo Koga secretly counted the more than 100 cannons that were fished from the sea.
The straw bales were quickly moved, but Kazuo Koga's group was sent to other tasks.
In pairs of twos, huge wooden barrels are carried.
At first, Kazuo Koga thought that these barrels should contain gunpowder, but looking at the barrels that seemed to be constantly being pushed out of the cabin, he was a little dumbfounded, if it was all gunpowder, it was the thunder of the Great Bodhisattva Hachiman, and it was not as powerful as its explosion!
Only when I transported it did I know that this heavy wooden barrel was definitely not gunpowder in it, not only judging from the smell of the wooden barrel, but also from a small note pasted on the wooden barrel, Kazuo Koga also found two Chinese characters for cement.
"Cement? Nani? ā
Puzzled, Kazuo Koga carried the heavy barrels until about three quarters of the hour, when the sun appeared above the sea.
There was a shrill brass whistle, and four strange cars arrived on the dock at some point.
"Now it's time for breakfast!"
The Celestial Empire officer with the eight-petaled hat and iron-tipped helmet announced loudly.
People lined up at both ends of the car, ready to receive their share of the meal.
Several huge bamboo baskets were placed at the front of the queue, and inside were large and dizzying-looking bowls, neatly stacked there. "One pair of chopsticks per person! Pick it up yourself! ā
Kazuo Koga came to the car with ten of his men with large bowls, and he was stunned by the sight in front of him.
The two large pots in the car are boiling steaming rice porridge, the viscous rice porridge is steaming in the pot, tumbling bubbles, and a long chopstick stands on the rice porridge, steady.
The man in charge of the spoon picked up the huge spoon fiercely, put a bowl in the pot, and handed it to the person next to him, who scooped out another spoonful of fish from a small pot and threw a salted egg into the bowl.
"If it's not enough, you can add it later!" Huotoujun admonished, but Kazuo Koga couldn't listen anymore, and all he had in his eyes was the big bowl of steaming, fragrant rice porridge, no! It's rice and salted fish!
There's even a pickled duck egg with oil!
Kazuo Koga is dumbfounded!
Although he was playing the role of a coolie, the strict hierarchy in the Wa Kingdom still played a role, and it was natural that the Ashigaru were together, and Ashigaru leaders like Koga did not dare to go to the apprentices and iron cannon generals.
A foothead next to him suddenly burst into tears and began to cry with tears in his eyes.
"This, this, is this the severed head rice mentioned in the Celestial Empire's script?"
Since Wanli, the novels of the Ming Dynasty have been pirated and printed by the Wa Kingdom who admired Chinese culture, so for the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, Jin Pinmei, Sanyan and Two Beats, etc., these warriors are not less known than the Nanzhong sergeants, and even more familiar than those Miao and Jingpo warriors in Wang Bao's Phoenix Camp.
Such a meal, coupled with the fierce and vicious behavior when he landed, can't help but remind people of the severed meal given to the death row inmates who are about to die in bliss in the little talking book.
"Red deer!" Kazuo Koga scolded in a low voice, couldn't resist the temptation of food, and filled his mouth with a mouthful of hot porridge, which was hot, and he let out a strange scream in his mouth, and while sighing, he laughed at this colleague, "I didn't listen to the Lord of the Heavenly Dynasty, if it's not enough, you can add more?!" Have you ever seen that feudal lord still feed people before he kills people? Besides, where is the Dharma field? And where is the executioner?! ā
After laughing at his colleague for a few words, Kazuo Koga began to work hard to eliminate the large bowl of white rice in front of him. Yes, it's white rice, but when it's cooked, it's just a little more water. Although it is said that this meal is a little early, but being able to eat such white rice, as well as a salted fish, a spoonful of pickles, and a duck egg, has already made him think that he has seen some of the world with Mino Mamoru in his heart, and he is greatly shocked!
Could it be that because we intercepted the fleeing Ruan family army on the sea and made war exploits for the Ming army, the lords of the Celestial Empire let us enjoy the treatment of their generals directly under the banner? However, it seems that the direct flag of Lord Taige didn't have such treatment back then?!
Kazuo Koga was very despised for that colleague, and he was still crying a handful of snot and tears, and in a blink of an eye, a huge bowl of porridge made of rice had been completely sacrificed to the Five Organs Temple, and he was very eager to run to the front of the car, looking at the big secretary in charge with pitiful eyes.
The big secretary, who was a little chubby, saw him coming, didn't say a word, picked up the big spoon, and filled this guy with a full bowl. So, with a hula, almost all of them lined up in front of the car again.
Kazuo Koga was saddened to find that he was in it.
After the morning meal, people continued to carry supplies on the wharf, but this time it was different from before the meal, people were in full swing, and a few guys were still doing it, while singing songs and tunes of their hometown, for a while, the wharf was full of a lively and extraordinary labor scene.
People find it so happy to work after their stomachs are filled with rice!
Happy times always pass quickly, and in just over two hours, the sun overhead has just reached the middle of the day, which is called three o'clock in the afternoon, and people are once again gathered by the sharp brass whistle.
This time, it was the same senior secretaries, standing behind huge wooden barrels, holding huge spoons in their hands.
The aroma wafting out of the barrel is so strong that it makes people swallow their saliva.
However, I have only eaten morning food for less than three hours! Isn't it too early for Koga to look up at the sun in the sky and eat a big meal now? Moreover, although Fang Cai's work was very tiring, carrying almost a thousand cement barrels, almost all of the goods piled up on the dock were carried to the freight yard and covered with huge cloth. However, it seems that my stomach is not very hungry yet!
People are still lining up in front of the car very well. He looked eagerly at the huge barrels and imagined the contents.
"It would be nice if it was the same as the morning food!" Someone whispered longing.
When the big secretaries opened the lid of the barrel, the people were once again struck down by the sight!
The largest wooden barrel is as big as the bath at home, and one person can soak in it. However, there was a bucket full of rice!
One by one, the lid of the barrel was opened, and people's eyes were flashed by the sight of the barrel:
Whole fish and meat stewed together, stewed pork, and the chicken and duck that could be distinguished, "just like in the morning, if it's not enough, you can add more!" The chief secretary shouted, ready to get to work.
However, a scene that surprised the chief secretary appeared.
A few ashigaru knelt on the ground, their heads resting on the ground, sobbing in low voices, and some people clasped their hands together with tears on their faces, and chanted words in their mouths, "Buddha! ā
"What a fuss! Still not eating?! In the end, it was the chief secretary who broke off and ended this qiÄ.
People sat around and looked at the food in front of them, the fragrant salted fish stew, the oil-cut eggs, the fat chicken, the big duck, and even the pot of green vegetables was shiny. There is also a big bowl of rice in front of everyone, which can only be eaten during the New Year's festival or when His Royal Highness the lord has a happy event!
The ashigaru people sincerely feel that this time they come out with Mino Mamoru and Wakaden-sama, and it is absolutely something that they can go back and brag about to their families and neighbors. Not to mention anything else, just this morning eclipse and the big eclipse are completely in heaven! Not to mention His Royal Highness Shimazu, I'm afraid that even His Majesty the Emperor and the shogun of the shogunate don't have such good food to eat!
Suddenly, the crowd didn't know who took the lead and shouted, "General! Full Race! ā
After the big meal, after a little hot water, people began to go back and forth between the dock and the freight yard with an almost crazy speed and drive, and in the morning a wooden barrel full of cement was very laborious for two people to carry, and now, Kazuo Koga felt that if it were not for the round barrel and the difficulty of exertion, he could have moved one himself.
The soldiers of the Nanzhong Army on duty on the side were a little strange, this group of widows, as for it? Isn't it just a salted fish stew? All the people eat this kind of food! Even those officials and slaves are the same.
When people quickly completed all the work, they found that the sun was about to set on the other side of the sea, and the sea water was set by the afterglow of the setting sun.
Kazuo Koga began to wonder if he would camp on the ship at night, when the copper whistle sounded again, and the people froze.
Sure enough, it was the same as at noon, except that there was one more soup, and every ten people could drink a small jar of rice wine.
When Kazuo Koga was drinking with wine in his mouth and discussing with his colleagues whether the emperor could live such a day once a year, Mino Mamoru and Wakaten-sama returned.
In the same way, Mino Mamoru and Wakaden, who was disguised as a small person next to him, also had a red face, a strong aroma of wine in their mouth and nose, and muttered words from time to time, and they didn't know what they were saying.
The dozen or so apprentices who followed the adults also sang songs in a low voice all the way, completely forgetting the duties of the samurai to the lord. Just muttered from time to time, "It's okay now! Now it's good! ā
"Line up!" Although Mino Mamoru is old, but the middle qi is still sufficient, a loud roar, the ears of the people who shook for a while, his silver hair, under the light of the lamp, trembling to himself.
Looking at the ashigaru, iron cannon, and ashigaru heads who quickly finished lining up in front of him, the apprentices, and the generals, Kayama Hisataka was quite proud, although these subordinates were far less elite than the general's direct banner, but in Kyushu, they were also elite soldiers.
"We, at sea, assisted the Celestial Empire army in intercepting the traitors in Annam! The general is very satisfied! He specially sent his general, Lord Mo Yu! Come and read the edict of the Great General and announce the reward for us! ā
Regarding the numbness of this old man, Mo Yu has been taught many times today, and he can be regarded as a little immune, nodded, stood in front of the queue with a shy chest, and began to read out Shouhan's commendation to the Shimazu family.
Kazuo Koga and his colleagues, although they can read the script, still listen to this quaint and ornate text like falling into the clouds.
I only heard the approximate meaning, knowing that you have a loyal heart, although you are an island, but you have also admired my China for a long time, and now you are fighting to kill the enemy, I am very relieved. Special commendation to the leader of the Shimazu Division.
"You and other Japanese people, helmsmen and sailors, etc., everyone will give a reward of five stones of rice, and a horse of good dyed cotton cloth! Leaders at all levels, the reward is doubled! ā
Kazuo Koga suspected that he had misheard, and he asked the people around him softly, "What did the adults say?" ā
The man was also dumbfounded, and he even forgot to wipe his saliva, "Five stone rice?!" ā
What did five-stone rice mean in Japan during the Edo period, especially in the Kyushu region, which was economically underdeveloped at the time?
According to the calculations of the Ming Dynasty, or Li Shouhan's weights and measures, one stone of rice is 188 catties, and five stone of rice is nearly a thousand catties. In Japan in the Edo period, five stone rice was equivalent to a shigaru head like Kazuo Koga, a year's worth of rice. And the double reward is ten stones, ten stones! This is the fortune of the Ashigaru general! A general can earn less than 30 stone meters a year! These ten stone rice can feed the whole family for a year! Of course, it is a morning meal and a big food, two meals a day, which is different from this hearty meal in the Celestial Empire.
When the merchants bought the samurai's rice, the price was one stone of rice and one or two gold. Ten stone of rice can be exchanged for ten taels of gold in the country. As for the reward of the best dyed cotton cloth, it is even more unthinkable that a foot of cotton cloth will cost at least more than 800 Yongle Tongbao, which is still the price of conscience, and some unscrupulous businessmen will sell more than 800 Yongle Tongbao on a foot of linen! A little better Songjiang cotton, don't sell your consistent Yongle Tongbao, people are embarrassed to say that this is the Songjiang muslin of the Ming Kingdom!
Not to mention the dyed cloth!
It's still by the horse!
A piece of cotton cloth is forty feet, even if it is sold to those merchants after returning home, it will be discounted and deducted, at least, at least it can be exchanged for more than 30 Yongle Tongbao! That's thirty taels of gold!
Koga's peasant soldiers began to wonder if they would marry Hanako from a neighboring village after returning home?
"My lord, can you give us back our weapons? In this way, we can also raise the bell and cheer for the adult's freight yard at night to prevent the night from being small. Kayama Hisataka felt a little uncomfortable when he remembered the scene of being disarmed in the morning, but fortunately, the young and unspoken general of the Ming Kingdom promised the Shimazu family so many benefits, which was enough to cover up the humiliation of being robbed of the weapon.
"Oh, yes! If you don't mention it, I'll forget, it seems that there is a soldier who died in the line of duty because of a misunderstanding, right? Mo Yu looked at him left and right.
"Yes, it was an iron gunner under the foreign minister, who was killed by the army because he failed to comprehend the intentions of the army of the kingdom when he first landed on the shore." At the mention of that scene, Mino Mamoru felt a wave of humiliation, timidity, fear, and other emotions intertwined in his heart.
"Oh! My general has an order to give a bereavement of 50 stone rice and 10 pieces of cloth to this soldier who died in the line of duty due to a misunderstanding! His wife is small, and he can get a pension of five stone rice every year! ā
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar. Kazuo Koga wishes he could die for that lucky guy!
"My lord, our weapons ......"
"Oh, why don't you look for it!" Mo Yu scolded the team officer who had been on duty on the dock. The guy slipped away.
After a while, the team officer came back with a few people carrying a few bamboo baskets.
"My lord, the gunpowder is still there, and the lead is there, but I don't know if the gunpowder was mistakenly taken away by the brothers of the artillery division. These waist knives are all there, but the ,......" management officer is a little embarrassed.
"But what?!" Mo Yu had his back to Huashan Jiugao, and under the cover of the torches, the people around him couldn't see his expression clearly, and he winked at the team officer.
"I don't know if it was messed up by a nearby child, the scabbard is gone, and the damage is quite severe. As for those spears, the brothers of the baggage team cooked for the big guys and used them as firewood! ā
"Ahh No matter how good Mino Mamoru is, he can't help but have a seizure at this time, not to mention, there is also a young and vigorous Wakaden-like Shimazu Mitsuhisa by his side.
"Lord Shangguo, this matter?! Isn't that appropriate?! "The old man has long been tall and has the meaning of eyebrows.
"Huh! I said Mino Mamoru Adult, you are so childish! Those things of yours, if they are broken, they will be broken! In front of my generals, I also have some trivial duties, and I can do some things, so that your eight hundred people, in addition to eighty iron gunners, have six hundred pikemen, and the rest are leaders at all levels, yes or no? ā
"Yes!"
"Good! The spears of these 600 pikemen, I will make the decision for my general, and replace them with our funeral guns, as for the sabers of your leaders, if they are damaged, then each of them will go back to China to find a suitable knife to repair, and we will compensate each of you for a desperate knife! ā
"Also, the general said, between the battle formations, the horses are handsome, and I can't greet you well, so I will accompany you to Hejing for a tour, and you can choose who your leaders at all levels are willing to go."
These 600 spears, 100 knives, and rice and cotton cloth that are almost insignificant in the eyes of Shouhan, "It's just some advertising investment!" In the future, it set off monstrous waves in the three islands of Dongying.
That night, the leaders at all levels kept running and diarrhea, and on the other hand, they started an unprecedented quarrel.
A few sailors who were on duty at the port and kept watch over the supply team at the freight yard heard and witnessed the incident.
"These dwarves! Isn't it just eating two meals of oil! Look at this bit of energy! Go to the thatched house one by one, and you are not afraid of dying! One of the soldiers of the baggage squad had a look of disdain on his face.
"Cut! Don't talk about them, you forgot, when we first joined the army, wasn't it the same? O man! The stomach and intestines are the same, I don't eat oily food for many years, I don't eat meat, and if I eat a meal occasionally, I will definitely have a loose stomach. "A slightly older veteran, but still quite kind.
However, in the future, there was a post-break saying in the army to describe someone's work or attitude, which often said, "The dwarf eats fat and has diarrhea!" ā
The Shimazu family was arguing over who would go to the main city of the Celestial Shogun with the nominal leader, Mino Mamoru, and who would be responsible for waiting for the Shogun's reward and escorting the supplies back.
And the young master of the Shimazu family, if the palace is like Shimazu Mitsuhisa, he is always silent in thought.
From the beginning, Kayama Hisataka used the excuse of protecting his safety that Jian yƬ did not explain his identity to Li Shouhan, but only mixed him with Jiudaka's entourage. Although he also participated in the meeting between Hisataka Kayama and Li Shouhan from beginning to end, from the bottom of his heart, Shimazu Mitsuhisa was very unhappy.
Especially when the baggage team of the Southern Chinese Army sent those spears and broadswords, this idea became even stronger.
Although the sword was not as sharp as his own Muramasa, it was far superior to the sword of an ordinary samurai. Moreover, even if his own Muramasa Treasure Knife is in a duel like this, it may not be able to please him, because this knife is too heavy for Muramasa! With the weight alone, you can knock your Murasho into the air!
And the heavy officer who came to deliver the knives and spears, under the offensive of his own golden judgment, finally said the price of these knives and spears.
A sword in their mouths was worth five cents, and a spear, and a mourning spear in their mouths, worth three cents, but it was to be paid for in gold.
Compared with the Sanma gun in the hands of Ashigaru, the funeral gun is obviously more sophisticated, and it is the same length as the Sanjian gun, but the lethality of the steel three-foot gun is far greater than that of the Ashigaru Sanma gun. After all, the best Sanjian guns are made of oak and bamboo, and the vast majority of Sanjian guns are made of bamboo, so it seems that the funeral gun with a stone oak wood with a toughness is stronger than that of bamboo, and such a gun is also close to oil, both in terms of price and performance, compared with Sanjian gun, it is a complete victory.
But to whom should the 800 men armed with such weapons belong?
In terms of affiliation, these people were recruited by Minomori, but Minomori is also a courtier of my Shimazu family! These people deserve to be under my command and ownership.
The old and refined Mino Mamoru Kayama Hisaka, glanced at the young master beside him with his eyelids, and he also figured out what he thought in his heart.
"That's it! Don't be noisy! ā
The solution proposed by Lord Mino Mamoru is that the young lord and his entourage are naturally optimistic if they want to go, but for the sake of safety, I still ask the young lord to return to China first and report the situation here to His Highness. By the way, he took away 200 of these peasant soldiers under his command, and the remaining 600 people were left to guard the goods rewarded by the Celestial Empire. Because our ships were too small to accommodate such a large reward, we had to walk in stages.
Such a plan scratched the itch of Guangjiu, not to mention anything else, these two hundred people returned to Kyushu, which was naturally a delicacy in his mouth. He was already thinking about whether to equip the 200 people and give them to his mother's clothes.
And the warriors at all levels under his command, except for those who stayed in Hoi An, commanded the rest of the peasants and soldiers, and guarded the supplies, were all those who accompanied him to the general's main city.
A group of dozens of people, accompanied by Mo Yu, set off for Ha Jing.
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