Why would the Japanese invaders not get along with the maritime giants, logically speaking, they are a gang, and the Yuyao Xie clan was actually destroyed by the Japanese invaders, which is really a bit strange.

Also, how did the Japanese invaders get to Yuyao through layers of blockades, although the officials of Zhejiang Patrol Road are all Yan Song's party, but they can at most affect the waters near Zhejiang, there are thousands of miles between Dongying and Zhejiang, how did the Japanese come over?

Yang Cong looked at Qi Jingtong, who was full of loyalty and honesty, and his heart was full of doubts.

This guy, who has been in charge of the water division in the southeast for so many years, should be able to find some clues.

He couldn't help but probe tentatively: "Shixian, do you know why the Japanese can't get along with the maritime giants, have they turned their faces?" ”

When Qi Jingtong heard this, he thought about it carefully, and then muttered: "The last general once heard Wang Zhi mention that the first few times the Japanese invaders organized a large group of people to come to the southeast to plunder, although they were all exterminated by adults, but the goods they plundered were handed over to the maritime giants through secret channels, and these goods were worth at least hundreds of thousands of taels, but the maritime giants have not given them money. ”

It turned out to be for money, and this makes sense.

The first few times the Japanese robbed and made trouble on the southeast coast, the losses were quite heavy, tens of thousands of people, almost all wiped out, and people lost so many lives but did not get a single silver or two, so they will naturally be indignant.

This incident is estimated to be the fuse, and the Xie family is likely to be responsible for selling the stolen goods.

Hundreds of thousands of taels, at this time, Yuyao Xie's really may not be able to take it out, Yan Song estimates that it is to take advantage of this to let the Japanese go to Yuyao Xie to settle accounts, if the two sides collapse the talks, the Xie family's group of powerless scholars can imagine how they will end up in the face of the extremely vicious Japanese criminals.

If the Xie clan did not collude with the Japanese and invade the southeast coast, how could it cause the disaster of annihilation?

Question, how did the Japanese break through the layers of blockade and arrive in Yuyao?

Yang Cong then asked: "Shixian, think about it, what are the loopholes in the waterway from Dongying to Zhejiang, and the Japanese can touch it silently, this loophole must be filled quickly, otherwise, the southeast coast will not be peaceful in the future." “

Unexpectedly, Qi Jingtong said without thinking: "This last general has actually thought of it a long time ago, and the Japanese must have come from the Ryukyu side, because the adults once said that Ryukyu is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, and if their traders want to do some small business, we don't need to interfere." ”

I've said something like that?

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

He thought about it carefully, and he really said it.

At this time, Ryukyu and Dongying are not the same country, and even, Ryukyu is not a vassal state of Dongying, at this time Ryukyu is a country at the same level as Dongying, although their national strength is weak, but it is indeed a separate country, and Ryukyu has always regarded itself as a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, and often sends envoys to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.

At the beginning, when he was the governor of Zhejiang, he had heard that some merchants from the Ryukyu Kingdom had come to Dongfan and even Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other places to buy goods, and he also specially explained that he should go with them and not disturb others.

Anyway, a small country like Ryukyu can't build any big ships, and the most they can build is a medium-sized sea ship like the Cangshan ship, and the number can't be too much, and they can't pull much cargo in one trip, even if they want to do business with Dongying, they can't make much money.

This amount of money is nothing to Yang Cong, but the small country of Ryukyu is of great significance to the strategy of Dongying in the future, so he signaled his subordinates to make it convenient for Ryukyu traders to maintain a good relationship with them.

Now it seems that the Japanese must have secretly come from the Ryukyus by a merchant posing as a Ryukyu trader.

This is indeed a big loophole, because the Ryukyus are connected to Dongying in the north and Dongfan in the south, and if the Ming Dynasty uses the Ryukyus as a springboard to attack Dongying, it can save a lot of trouble, and it is quite easy for the Japanese to cross the Ryukyus to the Ming Dynasty.

This waterway can't be used by the Japanese Kou.

It seems that it is necessary to send sailors and warships to garrison Ryukyu to prevent the Japanese from harassing the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty by using the Ryukyu waterway.

However, at this time, Jiajing is still alive, Yan Song is still in charge of the court, Daming itself is still a mess, and it is too early to deal with Dongying, Yang Cong sighed faintly: "This matter is indeed my negligence, in the future, the merchant ships of the Ryukyus must be kept an eye on, if they go ashore to do business, you must send someone to secretly monitor, in case the Japanese invaders take the opportunity to make trouble." ”

In the current situation, it can only be like this, but I don't know if Jiajing can't get through tonight.

If Jiajing was really burned to death by a fire, how should he clean up Yan Song?

If Jiajing is lucky enough not to die, how can he clean up the mess?

Thinking of this, Yang Cong couldn't help but look in the direction of Jinling and fell into deep thought.

Jiajing didn't know that there was a fire waiting for him tonight, he met with the princes and nobles and important ministers of the court who came from the southern capital, and arranged the sacrificial matters, and then he was already tired, and after a hurried dinner, he fell asleep.

On this night, the sky was quite dark, pitch black as ink, and the whole camp, except for the dotted torches where the nearby tents could be faintly seen, the rest of the place was simply out of sight.

This night, everyone is also quite tired, Jiajing only needs to sit there, clothes to stretch out, food to open his mouth, after a few days of travel are tired, other such as the eunuchs who do chores, the palace maids who serve him, and the brocade guards who patrol night and night are more tired than him.

It can be said that in the entire camp, the people who can sleep are asleep, but they really can't sleep, and the Jinyi guards who need to patrol can also hide, and find a place to hide and doze off if they can rest, plus Lu Bing is not there, the defense of the entire camp is simply useless, even when the Jinyi guards are patrolling, it is like sleepwalking.

Just after the hour, two black shadows wearing black night clothes suddenly appeared in the darkness not far from the imperial tent, they were like ghosts and kept approaching the imperial tent through the night, whether it was the brocade guards on patrol or the eunuchs who were accompanying the imperial tent did not find their traces, these two people were naturally the dead soldiers trained by Yang Cong, their purpose was self-evident, that is, to make the imperial tent catch fire tonight.

Originally, they thought that this fire must be for them to put it, but they never thought that they had just come to a shadow not far from the royal tent, and they found that several palace maids suddenly came out of a tent near the royal tent and touched in the direction of the royal tent like thieves.

What do these palace maids want to do?

The two were very puzzled.

However, they did not dare to stare at others.

The so-called "don't look at indecent things", let alone a palace maid, even if it's an ordinary girl, you can't stare at others.

In case, people secretly run out to solve a small or even a big solution, you stare at others and see things that shouldn't be seen, let alone them, even the brocade guards on duty are afraid that they will be killed.

These palace maids don't know if they were lucky or had already calculated the time, they touched the royal tent all the way and no one found them, except for the two people hiding in the dark, no one else found them.

Immediately after, something terrible happened, they didn't know what to pour on the royal tent, the fire flashed, and a raging fire burned behind the imperial tent, and when the eunuch who was dozing outside the imperial tent reacted, the entire imperial tent had been engulfed by the fire.

At this time, all normal people wanted was to run away from the burning area of the fire, although those eunuchs could not be regarded as normal people, they were also frightened and shouted frantically and ran away!

Just kidding, the huge imperial tent, which was completely sewn from animal skins and cloth, burned a little bit and extinguished the fire, it was impossible, unless someone ran into the fire and carried the sleeping Jiajing out.

It's a pity that Lu Bing, who didn't want to die in history, was hundreds of miles away at this time, and he couldn't catch up at all, and all the people who woke up just looked at the fire of the imperial tent in horror, and none of them rushed over.

Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil.

Jiajing, I don't know what hurtful things I did, the palace maids not only wanted to strangle him, but also wanted to burn him!

The two figures hidden in the darkness watched as the tent slowly engulfed in flames until it collapsed, and then silently rushed out of the camp and disappeared into the night.

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