In the waters of Osumi Province, the southwesternmost province of Japan, Marin docked for supplies and procured mainly vegetables. After all, after turning east into the depths of the Pacific Ocean, there will be no vegetables to eat. At that time, everyone can only rely on making green tea to supplement vitamin C.

The lemon leaves that Marin brought from the native have run out, but fortunately there is another alternative in Daming - green tea. Because the heat of green tea is controlled during processing, the original flavor of the tea leaves is well preserved. At the same time, vitamin C is also retained to a certain extent. So, drinking green tea is similar to drinking lemon leaves to soak in water.

However, the vitamin C content in green tea is not too high. Therefore, Marin also specially brought a lot of mung beans and ate them with sprouts during the voyage to supplement enough vitamin C to avoid scurvy.

In addition, Marin's fleet also carried shiitake mushrooms. Marin likes to eat shiitake mushrooms, so he definitely brought shiitake mushrooms back this time. There are two kinds of shiitake mushrooms he carries - one is dried mushrooms, which cannot be used for propagation and are mainly used for eating.

There is also a kind of shiitake mushrooms that are being reproduced, Ma Lin directly bought a few sections of dead wood with shiitake mushrooms from Daming shiitake mushroom growers, and then brought a farmer who can grow shiitake mushrooms to take care of the dead wood with shiitake mushrooms and return with the ship.

But the fresh shiitake mushrooms on the dead wood Marin will not be eaten, after all, he will wait until he brings them back to China to reproduce further. In this way, he will be able to eat shiitake mushrooms every day in his homeland in the future.

Fresh shiitake mushrooms are not allowed to be eaten, and mung bean sprouts Marin is not promoted, but they are eaten by themselves. Mainly, Marin was afraid that the Portuguese would get the mung bean sprouts technology and solve the problem of scurvy of the Great Voyage. Therefore, Marin would rather let most of his sailors drink more green tea than spread the cultivation of bean sprouts.

However, mung bean sprouts have limited vitamin C content, so Marin specially asked the fleet to dock in the waters near Japan to purchase some radishes, greens and other vegetables. At the same time, I also brought some sweet potatoes on board, which can also supplement vitamin C.

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In fact, the reason why Marin docked was not only to purchase vegetables, but also to spy on the reality of Japan. However, Osumi Province is located in the southernmost part of Japan, which is a remote area, and Marin did not see any flowers.

Moreover, the strongest local clan force, the Liver Fu Clan, is not a fool, seeing so many fleets and men and horses in Marin, he will take the initiative to attack them when he is full.

Marin felt a little bored, originally, he wanted to lure the local devil samurai to attack them, and then create a diplomatic dispute to find an excuse for future action. As a result, the other party was so cowardly......

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But Ma Lin didn't know that the strength of the local clan clan also had its own difficulties......

The Hefu clan is a powerful local power at the southernmost tip of the Osumi Peninsula in Osumi Province, and is the de facto controller of Osumi Province. However, they are not the decent guardians (princes) of Osumi Province, but only the controlling family of the southernmost part of Osumi Province. The true guardian of Osumi Province is the Shimazu clan.

However, in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the Shimazu clan was fratricidal and had no time to care. In addition, the Shimazu clan also controlled the Satsuma and Hyuga domains, which were adjacent to Osumi Province, and attacked each other. Therefore, the Liver Fu clan took the opportunity to control most of Osumi Province and became the de facto controller without a guardian identity.

And the Shimazu clan obviously won't hurry up to a feudal kingdom like Osumi Province that belongs to their family to be controlled by outsiders, so the two sides are also at war. In the case of a strong enemy outside, the Liver Fu clan is not brain-dead, and will not provoke a strong enemy casually. Of course, if Marin only had one small boat, it was very likely that he would be killed and seized......

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Disappointed, Marin left Osumi Province with the fleet after completing the vegetable procurement. But soon after going to sea, Marin, who had been disappointed, encountered something that interested him - he saw two Japanese small hayafunes (a type of small military ship in Japan's Warring States period) chasing another small hayafune......

What made Marin's interest even more increased was that through the telescope, Marin found that there were actually several women on the pursued Xiaozao boat......

It seems that there are several female warriors dressed in red, guarding a young woman in purple. On the two small morning boats behind, there is a group of murderous Japanese samurai......

Marin was bored, so he decided to watch a good show. He slowed down the flotilla, but at the same time took out his musket and put it on guard. After all, the Japanese samurai are not to be trifled with. Except for Karn and other highly skilled guards, ordinary Beihai warriors could not defeat the Japanese samurai alone.

The woman in the front of the small morning boat seemed to see hope when she saw Marin's fleet, so she directed her men to paddle and approach Marin's fleet......

"Tass 剋嘚 (Japanese for help)!" The woman on the boat shouted.

Marin was stunned, why? He remembered the island country action movies he had seen in later generations...... It seems that when the heroine is chased by the bad guys, she often shouts like this...... At the same time, it is also accompanied by action movie professional terms such as "yes sell stupidity......

Thinking of his previous life, Marin sighed and ordered:

"Let them come, don't shoot."

Then, the escaped ship approached Marin's fleet and happened to be on Marin's ship......

"Master, danger!" Karn reminded.

Marin was also aware of this, and in order to guard against a possible assassination by the enemy, Marin, Karn and the others put on full-body plate armor. In this way, even if the other party is an assassin, he is not afraid. What's more, Karn, who put on the moving house and took the mace, was not afraid of the Japanese samurai at all.

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After letting the escaped little morning boat approach, the two small morning boats chasing behind seemed unwilling and also chased after them, but Marin ordered a warning shot. However, the other party seemed to ignore it completely, and about fifty or sixty Japanese samurai on the two ships showed their teeth and claws, brandishing katanas, and seemed not to take Marin and his party seriously......

"Made, retarded!" Marin glanced at the Japanese samurai on the two ships with disdain.

Perhaps, the opponent's martial arts are strong and very powerful in traditional broadside battles. However, in the face of Marin's musketeers, no matter how high your martial arts are, you will be knocked down with one shot. What's more, Karn and the others beside him, after wearing plate armor, were not afraid of katana at all.

Of course, the Japanese samurai didn't know, and they thought that if they got close to the enemy ship and jumped on it, they could kill each other at will. Moreover, it seems that they also have a crush on Marin's big ship......

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“***？” When a group of veiled female warriors surrounded the purple-clothed girl on the boat, the moment they saw the purple-clothed girl's face, Marin was in a trance. Because, he saw that the woman in purple looked too much like the "otaku mentor" of later generations***......