Just when the general army of Ming Shanxi led the army south, the city gate of Xinzhou had already been broken by the Liukou and rushed in to massacre the people, and the Ming Xinzhou guerrillas who defended the city: Qi Zhongyou, led the soldiers to surrender to the Liukou army on the street, and also asked to meet Emperor Dashun to let him promise not to slaughter the people of the city, this move was discovered by the governor of Mingxinzhou, he felt shameless to face the court, and then jumped down from the city tower and fell to his death!

Emperor Dashun saw that he had some backbone and ordered a thick burial, and then sent an order to comfort the people to rectify the grain, in the Dashun forward governor: Li Laixiang, led 5,000 troops to the east to seize Dingxiang County, Dashun spear and cavalry governor: Bai Minghe, led 20,000 troops to the west and went straight to Jingle County to control the area of Lanzhou and Zhenxiwei.

The ambitious Emperor Dashun continued to lead his troops to the north, and when he came to Xinkou Village, he heard the Malay newspaper in front and said, "Report, Your Majesty, our army has found that in the territory of Yangwu County, there are a large number of Ming troops wearing cotton armor and carrying firearms, bows and crossbows and artillery are approaching this side?" Emperor Dashun didn't think so, and he didn't care if it was just local reinforcements, but the prime minister of Dashun came up and persuaded him, "Your Majesty, the interior of the Central Plains is full of Ming troops wearing waist-length armor, chain mail, cloth armor, fish scale armor, piercing armor and other armor, but have you never seen a Ming army wearing cotton armor?" Could it be that this army is the northern frontier army? ”

After hearing what the prime minister said, Emperor Dashun was a little nervous! Because so far he has never been in contact with the northern border army of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the Shun army is heavy armor, infantry, very cavalry even the guns and artillery are captured by the Ming army, so he did not dare to take it lightly, in order to prevent the Ming army from encountering head-on, Emperor Dashun was very reluctant to order the troops and horses of the headquarters to retreat back to Xinzhou to rest, so that you can rely on the city artillery to some chance of victory?

On the other side, when the general army of Mingshan West was about to cross the river, he also received a report from the herald and said: "Lord Qiqi General Soldier, the main force of the Liukou who marched to Xinkou Village suddenly retreated for some reason?" ”

This makes the general soldiers of Mingshan feel very strange? He asked, "Oh? It's cowardice! What about Dingxiang County? The soldier shook his head and said he didn't know! He wanted to be loyal to the country, so he immediately led his troops to take a detour to Dingxiang County to rescue, but was persuaded by General Xiwei of Mingzhen and said, "Lord Commander, the last general thinks that you can't go all out?" Not to mention that our army made a detour to cross the river, even if it arrived in Dingxiang County, we don't understand the situation! It is easy to be ambushed by the rogues, rather than this, it is better to send a team of men and horses to the south by boat, and wait until Dingxiang County, if the city is still there, then the defense is not there, then retreat, so that you can not be ambushed by the enemy and can explore the situation, isn't it beautiful? ”

After hearing this, the general army of Ming Shanxi acted according to this plan, and sent Ming Ninghua Qianhu to lead the troops to take a boat, and went south along the Tuo River, and soon came to the river side of Dingxiang County. He hurriedly asked the soldier to bring a telescope to look at it.

Take a closer look at the original (Black Tiger Shunzi Flag) on the city tower in the distance, shocked Mingning Huaqianhu back a few steps, very disappointed and ordered to turn the bow of the ship back, so Dingxiang County was also occupied by the Shun army, the rescue plan was completely empty!

At the same time, the heralds sent out by the Ming Fujian General Army have also taken a boat to the Tokugawa Shogunate Hizen Province, because the heralds were wearing Confucian clothes when they landed on the shore, so they were not investigated, and when they entered Hirado Castle in Matsuura County, the Ming heralds who knew a little Yamato language communicated with the guards guarding the city, "Yamato language: I am a subordinate of the Ming Fujian General Army, here is a secret letter please be sure to transfer it to the lord of Hizen Country, please!" ”

The guards took one look at him and began to search his body to make sure that he did not carry any weapons before letting him into the city, but the herald was driven in as soon as he wanted to continue to ask, and he walked out to the street and watched the Japanese people walking in (Wu clothes), and the herald wanted to come forward to inquire about the situation, but most of them wore samurai swords around their waists, and they didn't look like good stubble! The herald stood still and looked at it for a moment before locking on to the target?

I saw a widow girl with a small pillow tied to her back, and she was walking around the street and didn't know what to buy? The herald stepped forward to greet him and asked, "Yamato: Hello girl, how do you get to the feudal lord's hall?" ”

The widow girl who had just finished her voice turned her face to look at him, almost not scaring the Ming herald! She said in a very gentle voice, "Yamato: Go straight from here, turn right and cross the street." ”

After learning about the feudal lord's hall, the herald ran quickly and came to the outside of the hall, this time he directly took out the token of the Daming Fujian sailor to show the guards, and learned that it was a herald from the Ming Dynasty, and the guards immediately let him in, and reported to the lord of Hizen Province Hirado Domain: Tagawa Nanazaemon, he learned that it was his father: Zheng Zhilong, and after sending a letter from home, he asked, "Dare to ask my father, how is your health in recent years?" What is the meaning of coming to the Tokugawa shogunate? ”

The herald replied, "Master Zheng, let me inform Childe to let you play the Emperor and the Shogun of Seiyi, and say that there is an envoy who wants to negotiate with the envoys of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and see what they say?" ”

However, the lord of Hizen Kuni's Hirado clan did not understand why the emperor was invited to testify. Do you have to clean up the Satsuma Domain? He looked at the herald with some excitement and said, "It has been dozens of years since His Royal Highness Sekihaku died, and the power of the Satsuma Domain has far surpassed that of my Hizen Domain, Choshu Domain, and Tosa Domain, so it's time to teach it a lesson and be honest." After speaking, he ordered the guards to take the herald down to rest, and waved his hand to let the maid next to him come over and say, "Yamato: Go and get the four treasures of the study." ”

The maid put her hands on her waist and asked, "Yamato: Master, do you really want to help Daming report this matter to General Zhengyi?" As soon as the words fell, the former lord of the Hirado clan looked at her with serious eyes and said, "Yamato: Omura Akishima Yoshiko just do your thing, and you have to ask more about the rest!" After hearing this, Yoshiko Akishima Omura had no choice but to bow her head and reply, "Yamato: Hi! ”

After a while, Yoshiko Omura Akishima took the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone and returned it to his master, the lord of Hizen Province, the lord of the Hizen Province, and wrote two letters, one to Emperor Go-Akira in Kyoto Castle, and the other to Shogun Seiyi in Tokyo Castle on Honshu Island.

At this time, the ships of the Fujian Shogunate and the Ming Army also sailed into the Gyeonggi waters of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Ming Fujian Naval Counsellor who led the team on the bow saw that there were many houses imitating the architecture of the Tang Dynasty on the sea area 800 meters away, and he sighed, "The Tokugawa Shogunate has always imitated my Central Plains culture, and today I see it and it really deserves its name!" Look, even this house is in the style of the Tang Dynasty. The soldiers asked, "Your Excellency, do we want to land near the sea?" ”

After all, he didn't know the situation of the Tokugawa shogunate and didn't dare to land rashly, so he went to the inside of the cabin to discuss with the Ming Fujian general. The Ming Fujian Navy Counselor asked in surprise, "Your Excellency, how did you know in the cabin?" ”

I saw that the general soldier of Ming Fujian touched his beard, stretched out his finger and pointed at the general of the Ming Fujian Navy Division and said with a smile: "In the waters of the Tokugawa shogunate, I don't know how many times I have gone back and forth in the future, and ordered the ships not to dock and continue to move towards the waters of Tokyo." ”

The Ming Fujian Navy Counselor, who did not know the situation, asked, "Why didn't we go to Gyeonggi?" Going to Tokyo instead? The Ryukyu envoy explained, "The Counsellor doesn't know anything! This Tokugawa shogunate is different from the Ming Empire, their emperor is in the air, and the real power is the shogun of Seiyi, so we are going to Tokyo City to meet the shogun of Seiyi. Hearing this, the Ming Fujian Navy Counselor hurriedly retreated, came to the bow of the ship to continue directing the ship, and swung his right rudder to the north.

The next day, Ma Wei, who was in the study in the backyard of Prince Lu's mansion in Henan Province, was holding a book of "Mencius" and reading in front of Prince Minglu Min: "Why should the king say profit? There is also benevolence and righteousness, and the king said, 'How can it benefit our country?' The doctor said, 'Why is it for the benefit of my family?' The Shishu people said, 'Why do you benefit my body?' 'The country is in danger and the country is in danger, and the country of ten thousand times will kill its monarch, and the country of a thousand times will kill its monarch, and the country of a thousand times will kill its monarch, and the country of a thousand times will kill its monarch, and it will be a hundred times the house, and it will take a thousand things, and it will not be too much, and it will be the first benefit for the sake of the aftermath, and it will not be taken away??? ”

During the rush, Ma Wei didn't know this word and couldn't read it anymore! He was very embarrassed to look at this word and paused, Wu Junzhen, who was sitting, got up and walked over to take a look when he saw this, and answered, "If you don't take it, you don't have it, you don't have benevolence and leave your relatives, and if you don't have righteousness, you don't have righteousness and then your monarch, and the king also says that it's just benevolence and righteousness, so why bother with profit?" After reading it just now, Prince Minglu Min clapped his hands and praised: "Okay, good, it's still Wu Ban's ability to study!" ”

Then Prince Minglu Min picked up his pen and planned to draw a picture of [Spring Tree and Autumn Frost] on the desk, but before he could put down his pen, he saw the soldiers hurriedly come to report and said: "Your Royal Highness Prince Qilu, there are many hungry people gathered outside the palace and want you to give you something to eat, Your Highness, do you want to expel it?" "Ma Wei heard that there were hungry people? He hurriedly persuaded him, "His Royal Highness Prince Lu, these people are the foundation of my Ming Dynasty, the source of taxes, and the source of replenishing troops, and they must not be expelled!" If His Royal Highness Prince Lu trusts, he is willing to lead the people to open up the wasteland and cultivate. ”

But Prince Ming Lu Min was born in Prince Lu's mansion since he was a child, and he rarely came into contact with outside incidents and thought that the people were making trouble? He said angrily: "Spread the word of the lonely king, drive it away quickly!" ”

Seeing this, Wu Junzhen, who was on the side, also stepped forward to persuade him: "Slow down! His Royal Highness Prince Lu must not! The people will come to ask for food because of hunger, if we drive them away, then they will inevitably rebel, and then the number of rogues will increase, and the lower officials implore His Highness to think twice! ”

Seeing that the two of them persuaded at the same time to make Prince Minglu Min shake his mind, he sat down and asked, "What should I do according to Wu Ban's reading?" Wu Junzhen asked Prince Minglu Min for a vacant land, so that the people could open up the wasteland and cultivate, and His Royal Highness Prince Laifu and his party also had food income.

Prince Minglu Min thought about this matter for a while before agreeing, but only gave 3 acres of hillside vacant land in the south of the city, Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei thanked Prince Minglu Min and then set off to go out of the house, and happened to meet Liu Ruilin and Yao Qiuyue and went out of the house together.

When the guards of Prince Lu's mansion opened the gate, a large number of people instantly rushed up and shouted, "Okay, give a little food!" ”

Seeing everyone's eagerness, Wu Junzhen stepped forward and shouted, "Don't worry, don't worry, everyone! But no one paid attention to the fact that it continued to be crowded, and seeing this, the guards quickly drew their swords and prepared to swing them, which frightened the people to retreat.

Wu Junzhen took the opportunity to say, "Folks, I know you are hungry!" But it's not right to break into Prince Lu's mansion privately! I have already asked His Royal Highness Prince Lu for the fields, and if you want food, you can go with me to cultivate it. ”