This guy is really confused, and he never suspected that Toyotomi on Jeju Island was fake from beginning to end...... Just rush at his brain, he should find a place where no one is to cut his stomach!

However, he did not use a knife to cut his belly, but happily took the request of the Ming side to Moji Port to meet Mito Nayan and Matsudaira Izumori, who came slowly.

In fact, Baba, Mito Naka, and Matsudaira Izu Mamoru left Edo Castle on the same day. But he didn't have the same identity as those two. He's just a flag book, and he can go on the road with three or five retainers.

And Tokugawa Yoribo is one of the three noble royal families, the vice-shogun of the shogunate, and the lord of Mito!

When he went out of the door, the pomp was unbelievable, and there were hundreds of retainers who followed. There was a lot of money along the way, and there was a fight with the troops. And he has to pass through the territory of many domains along the way, and those domains have to be grandly entertained - deputy general, who dares to slack off? And there's also a fierce Matsudaira Nobutsuna who is going to die!

So they ate and drank all the way, so they naturally grinded, set off at the end of August, and arrived in Kyushu at the end of October through the Guanmen Strait. The elders of several clans in Kitakyushu (the lords of the feudal domains were rarely in the domain because of the Hajj system) went to Mojiko to receive them. Baba Shigetsu is pursued as Nagasaki, and of course we have to go to meet it.

In Mojiko, in the camp house arranged by the Ogura Domain, Baba Shigetoshi happily reported his diplomatic work report card to Tokugawa Yoribo and Matsudaira Izu Mamoru with a happy face.

"Nakayan, Izu Mamoru and the lower officials tried their best to convince the envoys of the Ming Kingdom that the remnants of Toyotomi on Jeju Island were also enemies of the shogunate......"

"Oh," Tokugawa Yoribo nodded, looking at the jubilant racecourse, "Shigeri, is there any good news?" ”

"Hay!" Ma Chang nodded heavily, took out an envelope from his bosom, raised his hands above his head, and then knelt down on his knees to Laifang, and handed the letter to him. After Lai Fang took the letter, he knelt down and retreated, returning to his original position.

Lai Fang took out the letter paper and glanced at it, and his face suddenly changed, "Generalissimo Fujun to the general of the Japanese national conquest?" It's ......"

"Generalissimo Fujun is a military position held by the Prince Regent of the Ming Kingdom, and his status is equivalent to that of my country's General Zhengyi!" Baba Shigeri smiled, "But what the lower official brought was a copy, and the original was still in the hands of Zheng Sen, the envoy of the Ming Kingdom." ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna interjected at this time: "Is Zheng Sen the son of Zheng Yiguan?" ”

"Exactly." Ma Chang replied, "Now Zheng Yiguan has risen to prominence in the Ming Kingdom and has become the lord of Quanzhou, and Zheng Sen has become the lord of Taiwan. In addition, one of Zheng Yiguan's daughters also became the side chamber of the Prince Regent! ”

"How so?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna asked.

Ma Chang replied: "Because in the past two years, the Ming Kingdom has also entered the Warring States Troubled Times!" First, the rogues rebelled and occupied the city of Beijing. Later generations of Tatars entered the customs and took the northern half of the wall. The crown prince of the Ming Kingdom, with the support of loyal ministers and good generals, obtained the right to raise the army and established the Southern Ming Dynasty in the southeastern half. Not long ago, he also severely injured the Tartars, beheaded the brother of the Tartar Emperor, and had the momentum of revival. And the Zheng family is rich and powerful, and they dominate the ocean, so it is not surprising that they are reused. ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna asked, "Since the Ming Kingdom has entered the Warring States Troubled Era, how can it still have the strength to ask about what happened on Jeju Island?" ”

"I'm afraid this is Zheng Yiguan and another group of pirates used by the Ming Imperial Court, the Haisha Gang, behind the scenes, right?"

Shigeri Baba also thought it was a little strange, but he was also a samurai who was quite brainy, so he made up an answer in his head.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna thought about it and felt justified, so he stopped interjecting.

At this time, Tokugawa Yoribo had already finished reading this letter to the Japanese general Zhengyi drafted in the name of the generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty.

In the letter, the generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty Fujun put forward three requirements to the Japanese general Zhengyi: first, send an envoy to Nanjing to explain the "Jeju Island Incident" to the Ming court; the second is to withdraw all Japanese samurai on Jeju Island and return Jeju Island to the Korean state; The third is to send a mission, accompanied by Ming officials, to North Korea to apologize to the victimized North Korea!

It's a bit embarrassing!

Tokugawa Yoribo's brow couldn't help but furrow.

The first is easy to say, as long as it is not an envoy to be a minister.

And the Jeju Island incident needs to be explained! This had nothing to do with the Tokugawa shogunate, and the Tokugawa shogunate did not plan to invade Jeju Island or Korea - the Toyotomi family's world was torn apart because of the "Battle of Keicho and Bunroku", which gave the Tokugawa family a chance. Could the Tokugawa shogunate not learn a lesson?

The second one, the Zheng family has to leave the fleet! Otherwise, the soldiers of the Tokugawa shogunate would not be able to reach Jeju Island, so how could they "evacuate" the Toyotomi loyalists there?

But the third one will never work...... How can this work? How can Great Japan apologize to the Korean state?

Japan is an imperial country, a first-class power comparable to the Ming Dynasty! Korea is a kingdom, and it is not an independent kingdom, it is two ranks lower than Japan, and it should be cut by Japan, how can you apologize?

"Apologize by all means!" Tokugawa Yoribo handed the letter to Matsudaira Nobutsuna, "The other two can still be considered. ”

Matsudaira Shintsuna said: "Last year, Zheng Yiguan purchased a large number of iron cannons from the shogunate through his connections, which should have helped the Ming crown prince to fight. It's a big deal that the shogunate will export another batch of iron cannons to them...... As long as you don't apologize to North Korea, everything else is easy to say. ”

Tokugawa Yoribo thought about it and thought it was feasible, "That's it...... Mamoru Izu, let's get off as soon as possible. ”

......

Nagasaki, Masa's Yashiki. Zheng Sen, who saw the heavy profit of the racecourse again, was puzzled after learning the opinion of Tokugawa Yoribo, but just shook his head again and again: "Don't want to apologize?" Why should you be ashamed to apologize if you did something wrong? As for the royal kingdom or the kingdom, does it matter that much? ”

"The shogunate had to uphold the dignity of Japan," Baba Toshishige explained, "so an apology was not feasible...... As for the rest, it's all negotiable, negotiable. ”

"Others? For example......."

"For example, the shogunate can sell another 10,000 iron cannons to your country." Baba stated the conditions proposed by Nobutsuna Matsudaira.

Zheng Sen looked indifferent, shook his head and said, "But my country doesn't need your iron cannon...... I bought your iron cannon for emergencies. However, the power of your iron cannon is too small to beat the shield carts and thick armor of the Tartars, and now that the situation is no longer critical, our country can slowly build a more suitable iron cannon, and there is no longer a need for the iron cannons provided by the shogunate. ”

What he said was a half-truth, and the Japanese iron cannon was indeed not very useful, not as good as the Spanish light arquebus. But this year's musket is a craft job, and it takes at least three years for the master to take the apprentice, right? Capacity is not going so fast. So imports are still a must! And the Dutch imported from Europe for too long, and if you want to expand the size of the "model army" as soon as possible, you still have to buy Japanese iron cannons.

But Zheng Senduo is a treacherous businessman? Of course, he can't just leak his hole cards to the horse farm.

"Don't want it?" The horse farm is a little embarrassed, "So do you have any other requirements in your country?" ”

"Ben Jue is just an envoy," Zheng Sen shook his head, "There are some things that your country has to send dignitaries to Nanjing to talk to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...... In order to facilitate exchanges between the two sides, the envoy wanted to set up an embassy in Edo. ”

"Edo Embassy?" Zheng Sen smiled, "It's just a temporary embassy...... If the two countries want to join forces to use troops against Jeju Island, they need to have a communication channel, right? That's what the embassy is supposed to do. ”

Hearing this, the horse farm was overjoyed: "What do you mean by your envoy, have you agreed to provide ships?" ”

"As long as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince allows it, my family will have no problem," Zheng Sen said with a smile, "In addition, my family's ships are all merchants and soldiers, and if they are used to help Japan transport troops, then it will be difficult to make money......

"Understood, understood." Baba smiled, "The shogunate will not let the Zheng family work in vain. ”

"There are two small requests," Zheng Sen said, "and my mother now lives in Nagasaki, and she can't leave Japan to reunite with my father, so I hope the shogunate can make it easier."

In addition, Shichizaemon is now also an official of the Ming Dynasty, and he will be sent to Edo later to be in charge of liaison with the shogunate. Therefore, Japan must recognize his status as an envoy.

As for the matter of apology, Ben Jue can try to deal with it...... There will never be a general who can't come to power. ”