Ambassador Zheng Hongkui Zheng can finally take a breath now, and he has a lot of work to do during this time! First, they prepared supplies of up to 10,000 koku for smuggling boats that entered Uraga Port at an unknown time and by what means – a very large amount in Japan at the beginning of the Edo period!

Moreover, the list sent by the Cabinet Office was varied, not only food, fresh water, sake, tea and other nautical necessities, but also many daily necessities and thirty flower girls, but also young and strong, well-behaved and obedient, able to do farm work, preferably virgins...... Is this a boat prostitute or a daughter-in-law?

I finally bought the flower girl according to the requirements, and the imperial court sent a high-level mission to Japan, and the leader of the team was the former cabinet chief assistant to overcome the difficulties of the American prince Wei Zaode!

That's thirteen years of prime minister! Although he has stepped down now, he doesn't know how many protégés and former officials there are, and Zheng Hongkui doesn't want to offend him, so he is busy again. And just as he was busy greeting the Wei Zaode mission, another large bird ship of the Oriental Fleet temporarily docked at the port brought him the latest instructions from the Cabinet Office - trying to seduce Japanese dignitaries to go to sea on the Flying Fly...... What is this for?

Zheng Hongkui was confused by the order of the Cabinet Office, but an order is an order after all, and it must be carried out!

Fortunately, the task of seducing Japanese dignitaries was relatively easy to complete, because Zheng Hongkui's old friend Sakai Tadashi followed Tokugawa Mitsukuni to Uraga Port. Moreover, in recent years, Japanese dignitaries have been very interested in the changes that have taken place in China, so when they have the opportunity to visit the first ship of the Ming Navy, the Flying Flight, Sakai Laozhong will not not go.

However, what Zheng Hongkui didn't expect was that in order to arrange for Sakai Laozhong to get on the ship, he actually talked to the Dutch captain of the Flying Ship. Jones had a long quarrel - the Dutchman was a hypocritical Protestant who was adamantly opposed to the Japanese way, so he did not allow Sakai Tadashi's beautiful little surname to fly on the Flying...... The man is as beautiful as a flower and does not violate the military regulations of the Ming Navy, why not get on board?

But it's useless after arguing for a long time! Although the Oriental Fleet was founded by Zheng Hongkui's nephew Zheng Jiangong, this fleet is not surnamed Zheng after all!

So after arguing for a long time, I could only get angry, and in the end, Sakai Tadashi relented and didn't bring a small surname. Sakai is not a picky eater, and he can accept both the flower girl and the small surname. So I took a group of flower girls and a bearded samurai uncle on the ship to investigate.

According to the plan, it took three or four days for the Flying to return, so in these three or four days, Ambassador Zheng was finally able to relax, so he sent someone to Edo to find two of the most popular Taifu (senior traveling girls) to come over, both of them were sixteen or seventeen-year-old girls, who had just debuted, fresh and delicious, and not losing their femininity......

Lao Zheng was very satisfied when he saw it, and was about to close the door and have fun, just when he was about to tell the two little girls to untie their clothes in front of him, one of his subordinates knocked on the door outside: "Lord (Lao Zheng is the Lord of Kenan Pinghai), Lord ...... The Flying is back! ”

"Wait...... Don't take it off! Lao Zheng stopped the two wandering girls who were taking off their kimonos, and got up to open the door for his subordinates.

The subordinate outside the door was sweating profusely, he was trotting all the way from the port of Uraga, and he was still panting!

"What the hell is going on?" Lao Zheng looked at the man and asked.

"The Flying is back," said the officer, "...... has docked!" ”

"How is that possible?" Lao Zheng couldn't believe it, "Do you see clearly?" Is it really the Flying? ”

"Can't be wrong...... The Flying Ship also sent someone down, saying that it was going to carry supplies onto the ship immediately, and that it was necessary to let ......" When the subordinate spoke, his eyes were only aimed at the two Japanese wandering girls in the house.

Zheng Hongkui understood what he meant, hurriedly walked out of the house, closed the door with his hand, and then walked quickly to the study, the subordinate also followed, and when he arrived in the study, Zheng Hongkui frowned and asked, "Did you see Sakai Laozhong, Captain Jones and First Officer Hao?" ”

"I didn't see it!" The subordinate said, "Sir, the people on the Flying have said that you can only see them in person!" ”

"What?" Zheng Hongkui was stunned, "Such a big shelf?" You also have a six-rank official body, and it's no problem to see the emperor......"

"Sir, look at this!" As he spoke, the subordinate had already handed over a white envelope with both hands, the envelope was empty, and it was only stamped with a "Cabinet Office Seal" on the surface.

As soon as he saw the envelope stamped with the "Cabinet Office Seal", Zheng Hongkui didn't say anything, so hurry up and go out!

Ambassadors to foreign countries are "cabinet civilians", that is, civilian officials under the direct jurisdiction of the Cabinet Office, so the Cabinet Office can directly issue orders to ambassadors by bypassing the Ministry of Rites and Foreign Affairs.

Zheng Hongkui called a few entourages, rode the Japanese pony in captivity in the ambassador's mansion and went straight to the dock, and when he arrived at the dock, Zheng Hongkui found that the shogunate faction in Uraga Port was nodding towards an elderly and imposing Japanese samurai, looking at the family crest on the samurai's clothes, it should be a member of the Sakai family, but Zheng Hongkui had never seen him - Sakai Laozhong likes beautiful men, not old men with a scruffy beard. And this uncle looks like he's in his 60s...... What kind of age is that? Could it be a figure from Sakai's Tadakatsu generation?

Zheng Hongkui hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. When the governor of Nauraga saw him coming, he hurriedly stepped aside and said to him in Chinese, "Ambassador, are you here...... Lao Zhong asked you to get on the Flying Flight, and I don't know what happened? At this time, I actually returned to Hong Kong! ”

Not really! It's getting dark...... Zheng Hongkui looked at the sky, and then at the Feixiang - it was indeed the Feixiang! Then I looked at the old man of the Sakai family, I was really a little familiar, I had seen it somewhere, but I couldn't remember it for a while......

"Ambassador, please!"

The old man didn't talk much, and after speaking, he made a solemn gesture, and then he was about to lead the way in front, Zheng Hongkui and the commissioner of Puga Port glanced at each other, and then walked together, ready to get on the boat. But the old man turned around and said, "Lao Zhong only invited Ambassador Zheng to come on the boat and talk!" ”

The Uraga Port Governor was not yet able to get on the ship to meet Sakai Chinaka...... This shelf is really big!

Zheng Hongkui had no choice but to smile bitterly at the commissioner, and then followed the old man on the Flying Flight.

And when he stepped onto the deck of the ship, he suddenly realized that something was wrong!

This ship is not the Flying!

Feixiang is an original Dutch ship, although it was sold to the Ming Navy, but the ship can be seen everywhere Dutch-style decoration, but at first glance this medium-sized Galen warship that looks exactly the same as Feixiang, but there is no Dutch-style decoration, all are Hokkien style...... At first glance, it is the product of Zhengjia Shijing Shipyard!

In addition, there were many foreigners on the Flying Ship, but there was not a single foreigner on this ship, all of them were Orientals!

Obviously, this is a copycat version of the Flying!

Several men in red military attache uniforms were waiting for Zheng Hongkui on the deck, and when they saw him coming up, they bowed to him, and one of the leaders also reported to himself: "Oriental Fleet, Chen Shangchuan, the captain of the Henan, has seen Ambassador Zheng. ”

This is Henan!

Zheng Hongkui immediately understood!

How can you not understand? This is going to be smuggled to the Americas...... I thought that such a thing as smuggling would use an inconspicuous small boat, but I didn't expect the navy to send a brand-new warship with a load of 800 tons and 40 cannons!

This is an armed smuggler!

Chen Shangchuan spoke again at this time: "Ambassador, are the supplies and women ready?" When can I get on board? Time is tight, you have to hurry! Also, can the administration of Uraga Port be sent away? It's not very convenient to do things under his nose after all! ”

Zheng Hongkui nodded: "The woman is ready...... There are 30 people in total, and you can come at any time. The governor of the port of Uraga was easy to deal with, and I immediately invited him to the embassy to eat and drink, but it was not easy to carry 10,000 koku of supplies onto the ship, and it required a lot of strong work. ”

"There's no need to hire someone," Mr. Chen said, "and there's someone on board!" ”