Zijima stood in the crowd with a depressed face, frustrated and fearful!

As a descendant of the Zijima family, although he is not the eldest man, he can inherit the family business in the future, but he is also regarded as the number one person in the family, and he has been living a smooth life for more than 20 years, although his small life is not as chic as those of the big names on big islands such as Kyushu Island, but in the small place of Tanegashima, he is the ruling class of the serious children.

It is impossible to count on the days of big fish and meat every day, but it is still okay to eat well, and with this, he doesn't know how many times stronger than those ordinary people.

But in the past two days, he has experienced the saddest day of his life for more than 20 years!

Yesterday he was in a tavern enjoying a geisha performance, but his attendant suddenly broke in and told him that the head of the house had summoned his children and that some enemy was coming.

Enemy attacking?

Hearing this, he was still a little confused at first, could it be that the liver Fu clan or the Shimazu clan on the peninsula called? Or is it coming?

Although the Kojima clan is also the ruling class, the place they rule is only a small Tanegashima Island, and the total area is only a hundred square kilometers, although the area is not small, if it is placed on Kyushu Island, then the Shijima clan is enough to be among the middle class daimyos, but what kind of place is Tanegashima?

This is a lonely island, although this island is not as mountainous as Yakushima, but mostly plain, if it is developed, it can support many people, but the agricultural development in these years is not the same as that of later generations, and their Kojima clan has been dealing with seeds for so many years, and now there are only thousands of people, and there are only dozens of samurai in the family.

In recent decades, he has gradually made his fortune by relying on maritime trade and accumulated some wealth, and in recent years, he has relied on the convenience of overseas trade to come into contact with firearms, and then began to build his own guns, and at first he didn't think much about it, just to equip the samurai.

But in recent years, they have gradually learned from the pirates and maritime merchants who came to Fuso that even those farmers can master guns and artillery after simple training, and then go to war.

It is precisely because of the guns and the advanced experience of the Tang Dynasty that the military strength of the Zidao clan has gradually developed.

Speaking of which, I am afraid that the Zidao clan is also the first family in the entire Fuso to carry out modern military reform, and this kind of reform has never been seen in the original historical time and space, this time and space because of the rise of the Tang Dynasty, and after the rise of the Tang Dynasty, the impact on the entire East Asia, even the whole Asia and even the whole world is huge.

With the rise of the Tang Dynasty, some of their advanced experience will inevitably be learned by the surrounding natives, which is not a special case, and the surrounding aborigines have been learning from China for thousands of years, which is the coverage area of Chinese culture.

Although there was no complete textbook guidance, the Shijima clan began their military reform with some rumors, and they began to recruit farmers for training and then equip them with guns.

In the process of equipping the guns, they found that the muskets they made were far inferior to the Datang-made arquebuses brought by the merchants.

Of course, they themselves did not stop making guns, and they didn't use the guns themselves, but they sold them all to the island of Kyushu, and the famous families on Kyushu Island, such as the Liver Fu clan and the Shimazu clan, were all their customers.

It is precisely because of this army of hundreds of farmers that the Zidao clan has been saved from the increasingly serious pirate invasion in the Fuso Sea in recent years!

Those pirates are not very good, in addition to plundering merchant ships, they will also go ashore and loot some port cities when they have the opportunity.

However, the pirates are not stupid, knowing that although the population of Tanegashima is small, it has an army of several hundred armed with guns and a small fleet of more than a dozen ships.

Of course, there is a more important reason that the Shijima clan does not refuse to do business with these pirates, and can provide them with supplies and channels to sell stolen goods, and even the pirate den on Yakushima Island, which is more than 20 kilometers away, they turn a blind eye.

In this case, Tanegashima was not attacked on a large scale in the increasingly fierce pirate invasion in recent years, but took the opportunity to grow, and in the development of the Zijima clan, Shijima Mitsuhisa also benefited, and he obtained a high-level position in the family's army by virtue of his identity as a descendant of the family, and he was also called a general before and after.

When I heard that someone was attacking yesterday, our first reaction was that either pirates had come to us, or the Liver Fu clan or the Shimazu clan had come to see their family's trade and gunsmithing business.

But when he hurriedly gathered the ashigaru composed of hundreds of farmers under his command, this was the realization that it was not a pirate at all, nor was it other daimyo on Kyushu Island, but a famous Tang Dynasty king who just heard the name was enough to make them desperate!

No matter what era the Central Chinese Dynasty is, as long as it is completely unified and remains normal, then it will be a behemoth for the surrounding indigenous countries.

In addition, in recent years, the Tang Dynasty has vigorously developed maritime trade, and many merchant ships from the Tang Dynasty have frequently traveled to and from Fusang, and even the warships of the Tang Navy occasionally appear in the western waters of Fusang, which has made Zidao Manjiu realize the huge size of the Tang Dynasty!

Not to mention the entire empire, even the Ryukyu detachment on the Ryukyu Islands and the garrisons on the islands are said to have thousands of people, and such a military force can sweep almost any daimyo on Kyushu Island.

Why did the Tang Navy come to fight them, Zidao Manjiu didn't know, anyway, Feng Qirong didn't explain to them that he was here to suppress bandits, for the natives, Feng Qirong felt that there was no need to explain.

The dignified Tang Navy needs to explain to the natives?

So the Ryukyu Detachment of the Tang Navy came over and landed, and to be honest, the Zijima clan didn't know why they called.

As a result, Zidao Manjiu saw the family's proud fleet quickly collapse in the port, and then retreated back to the port, and then, he led his army and several other armies to prepare to intercept the landing of the Tang Marines, but the result was also attacked by the artillery of the people and had no power to fight back, and even led the army, the head of the family and the eldest man died in the artillery bombardment of the Tang Army, and finally in desperation, he Zidao Manjiu took on the heavy responsibility of command, and then led the army to retreat.

After retreating to the north of the island, he felt that it was not feasible to resist, so he prepared to cross the sea north and flee to the Osumi Peninsula, although it was said that after running to the Osumi Peninsula, his family would lose his territory, and he and his subordinates would become wandering samurai, but there was still a glimmer of hope in his heart, with this army with hundreds of guns and cannons, he completely established himself on the Osumi Peninsula or somewhere else, and there was no territory, so it was a big deal to fight a battle and snatch the territory of other small-scale daimyo.

At that time, as the last descendant of the Zijima clan, he will naturally inherit the family business, become the family governor, and finally lead the family to conquer Kyushu.

In this way, it is even better than before.

But there was no room for this perfect plan to be implemented, because as soon as they found enough ships and were about to get on the boat to cross the sea and escape, they were intercepted by the warships of the Datang Navy, and in the end they had no choice but to give up the idea of crossing the sea and escaping.

Later, they ushered in an even more desperate moment, and Zhang Linong's landing force arrived to carry out a fierce artillery bombardment!

Zijima Mitsuhisa was a knowledgeable person, and just by looking at the estimation of this shelling, he knew that it was definitely not his more than 500 troops that could resist, it was a dozen artillery pieces, and the power of the shelling was beyond their means.

After thinking about it for a while, he felt that he couldn't die under the cannonballs of the Tang Dynasty Wangshi like his father and eldest brother, he wanted to live, and he wanted to leave his blood for the Zidao family.

Therefore, he resolutely chose to surrender!

He thought about it, after surrendering, he planned to have a good talk with those Tang people, they wanted territory, it was a big deal to give them half of Tanegashima, or even give all of it, it was okay to pay compensation or ransom or something, as long as he could save his life, he couldn't care so much.

However, after surrendering, he found something even more tragic, he wanted to talk, but no one talked to him at all, those Tang people didn't even care who he was, even if he shouted loudly very clearly, I am the only heir of the Zidao clan, I want to negotiate an armistice with you, but there is still no one to bird him.

Well, in fact, there was an interpreter in the landing force, and the interpreter clearly heard Zijima Manjiu's words and reported it, but after it was transmitted to Zhang Linong, Zhang Linong reprimanded him with a straight face: "As a second lieutenant of my Datang Navy, you must always maintain your dignity as a Datang official, but it's just a barbarian shouting twice, are you still serious?" Don't take these natives seriously. ”

"Besides, these barbarians are all pirates, when have you ever seen my Datang Navy negotiating with pirates?"

After hearing this, the young lieutenant turned pale, and then hurriedly confessed!

A young naval lieutenant who was a translator was reprimanded like this, and he was also very depressed in his heart, so he turned around and whipped Kojima Manhisa, who had scolded him, twice.

Zhang Linong's thoughts are not just personal thoughts, but actually the thoughts of the entire Tang Navy, and even the officials of the empire.

If you want to negotiate with the empire, don't look at your strength, now there are not many countries and forces that can make the empire treat and negotiate seriously, if you are full of calculations, there are actually very few countries or forces that have negotiated with the empire and signed various agreements: the Tatars count as one, then the Portuguese count as one, the Spaniards are one, and so are the Warat and Tibetan, a total of five, no more, no less, just a slap in the face!

And these countries or forces all have one thing in common, that is, they are all in contact with the Tang Dynasty Prince, but the Tang Dynasty Monarch will not be able to take them down for a while!

As for the natives of other places such as Goryeo, Fuso, Annam, Luzon, Burma, etc., the empire has never looked at it squarely!

It's the same in the whole of Fuso, let alone a mere Zidao clan, and you want to negotiate? Roll as far as you want!