Among the four Shimazu brothers, Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Iehisa are both known for their wisdom, and I am really lucky to be able to meet both of them at sea at once.

Previously, due to the general trend, the Shimazu family had to choose a side between the Shibata family and the Yushiba family. But this kind of taking sides is purely out of desperation, and it is not a sincere move in a certain direction.

In the history of the previous life, the Shimazu family held out until the end of the unification of Toei, and when Hideyoshi Hashiba almost unified Toei and attacked Kyushu with the whole country, they had to take a low profile in exchange for peace.

For the sake of war and peace, there were many frictions and disputes between the four brothers, and in the end they failed to reach a reunification. However, this is also a manifestation of Shimazu's wisdom - some of them surrendered to Hashiba Hideyoshi and preserved their strength; Some continued to fight and left their names behind.

If you have to choose a family that has both fish and bear's paws during the Warring States period, the Shimazu family must be counted as one, and the other is the Sanada family represented by Sanada Yukimura, the "first soldier of the Toei" in the late Warring States period.

And in this life, the Shimazu family chose to join the command of the Yushiba family for the first time - the reason is very simple, compared to the simple and rough Shibata clan, Shimazu Yoshihisa believes that the much more meticulous Yushiba Hideyoshi will have the last laugh.

Now, the entire Dongying has been divided, and in order to ensure the intensity of the confrontation with the other party, the Shibata clan and the Yushiba clan will definitely give priority to sweeping away the threat behind them - in the case that the Maori clan has turned to the Yushiba clan, if the Shimazu clan is still stubbornly resisting, then I am afraid that without waiting for the two armies of the east and west to collide, the suspicious Yushiba Hideyoshi will be the first to turn around and destroy the Shimazu family!

Moreover, due to the confrontation between the two sides at this time, if you take refuge in the Yuchai family at this time, you will definitely get the highest treatment and benefits. It makes sense that all birds and beasts are exhausted, and good bows are hidden. Now that the war is in full swing, Hideyoshi, who is as smart as Yushiba Hideyoshi, will never reach out to hit a smiling person......

However, such a team is just a union for profit, and they will eventually disperse, so will they continue to sleep in the same bed and dream from generation to generation?

In the depths of Shimazu Yoshihisa's heart, he hopes that peace can last longer, and gives himself more time to prepare; I also hope that there will be an opportunity as soon as possible, so that I can kick away the Yuchai clan and no longer be this unjustifiable vassal.

Now, this opportunity has appeared, but Shimazu Yoshihisa does not know how to express it. Maybe he, like me, is wondering where to say it, and what to say? Or is it half and half?

The head of the Shimazu family drank water and wine one by one, and his alcohol consumption was not good, far less than the third brother Shimazu family, who was known as a drunkard, for a long time, but he still drank it cup by glass.

In normal times, Shimazu Iega would definitely persuade his eldest brother to drink less and drink more for him, but not today - he saw that his eldest brother, who was not strong enough to drink, wanted to drink it himself, and it was not someone else who forced him to drink.

This scene only appeared before the family meeting two years ago to discuss whether to pour into the Yuchai family, and the eldest brother also drank cup by cup, drank for a long time, and suddenly dropped the cup, and the decision was made.

So there was a very strange scene on the field - the person with the worst amount of alcohol drank the most fiercely, and he tried to persuade him to drink, and everyone else had a feeling that he couldn't play, for fear that he would drink and fall down with a "snap", wouldn't it be embarrassing?

But the feared thing didn't happen after all, Shimazu Yoshihisa drank most of the bottle of water and wine alone, suddenly pinched the cup, and asked vaguely, "Who do you say will win?"

He didn't say who was who, but I knew exactly who he was.

"In your opinion, who is included in this war?" I asked deliberately as I held my glass and squinted my eyes as I looked at Shimazu Yoshihisa.

"That's not easy!" Shimazu Yoshihisa made a rough appearance, shook his hair and shouted: "Defeat the Koreans with indomitable courage, and then turn around and teach those Shibata idiots how to fight, and the war is over!" ”

I laughed out loud: "How does this seem like Yoshihiro's statement?" ”

Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Iehisa laughed together, and Iehisa clapped his hands and smiled, "Isn't this what the second brother said?" In his eyes, there is no opponent in the whole Dongying! ”

I smiled, and my voice was not high: "Brother Yoshihiro is not wrong in what he thinks, but unfortunately, this time the opponent of the two armies of Shibata and Yuchai is not a cowardly and incompetent Goryeo stick, but a Daming iron horse!" ”

The entire cabin fell into a deep silence after I said this. My subordinates don't understand why I'm here to tell the truth that Da Ming is about to send troops, after all, the two people in front of me are "enemies" in a real sense.

The two Shimazu brothers were also dumbfounded, in the previous concept, Daming was deeply troubled by internal and external troubles, and the probability of sending troops to help Goryeo was extremely small. In their thinking, it was imperative and feasible to occupy Goryeo and establish a bridgehead for the invasion of the Ming Dynasty. Who knows that the fierce enemy that will not appear in the conjecture will really disregard the constraints of reality and send troops to aid the DPRK?

Among all the people, only Rakesh understood what I meant, and he immediately said: "The Ming Dynasty, as the suzerainty of Goryeo, may not send troops, and if it sends troops, it must be fully successful." At that time, it is difficult to say that the jade is broken, so whether it is to advance or retreat, you still need to think in advance. ”

This sentence is exactly what I want to say, and the reason why I said those words to Shimazu Yoshihisa and the others is to tell them that things are not as simple as they think, and if they are deeply involved, when the time comes to liquidate, I am afraid that friends are not friends, and reason is not reason.

Shimazu Yoshihisa was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked again: "Will you go to war?" Qilan. ”

I silently took out the seal of the Governor of the Navy and handed it to Shimazu Yoshihisa.

The wise man of Kyushu held the seal and looked at it for a long time, as if he wanted to keep the lines of the characters in his mind.

"I heard that when you were in the West, you helped Britain defeat the invincible Spain, but is this true?" Shimazu Yoshihisa didn't raise his head and asked in a deep voice.

"That's true." I'm not modest either.

"On the kind of boat we are on?" He asked again.

"That's right, hundreds, thousands." I'll be honest.

"It's not fair!" Shimazu Yoshihisa slammed his wine glass, glared at me, and said, "Such a warship, one can beat our Fuso fleet!" It's not fair at all, don't you say? Qilan! ”

I know that he is not complaining about the strength of our fleet as an enemy, but as a warrior, as a warrior, he is angry that he cannot compete with a powerful enemy head-on!

I understood what he meant, but my answer was still cold: "There's no fairness in this world, right?" If it is fair, how can Yamanaka Shikasuke still be defeated and die in a different place after he prayed to the new moon and made a vow to 'let me suffer all kinds of hardships'? If there is fairness, how can a long-term government that values justice pursue justice all his life and has to be self-defeating? There is no fairness, no! ”

Shimazu Yoshihisa lowered his head silently, just looking at the seal, and I don't know how long it took, he lowered his head again and asked, "After this battle, what are your plans?" Do you want to stay in Daming as an official? ”

I laughed and asked, "What do you suggest?" ”

Shimazu Yoshihisa smiled: "Qilan, you are always wise beyond your age, and your answer is clear to me, you will not stay in Daming for a long time!" Right? The Emperor of the Zhu family is narrow-minded and incompetent, and if you stay, you will only live in sorrow every day, and watch out for disasters from the sky every day, right? ”

I smiled happily: "As the old saying goes, a gentleman has something to do and something not to do." Everything I have done is for the sake of national righteousness, for the sake of perseverance in my heart, and for the legacy of my ancestors. As for what I will get and what I will face, are these disturbances in my thoughts? ”

So saying, I stood up and said aloud:

Angry hair rushed to the crown, leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rest. Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, and be fierce. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad.

Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing. When the courtiers hate, when will they perish. Driving a long car is broken, and Helan Mountain is lacking. Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood. To start from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky.

When Yue Wumu wrote this sentence back then, how could he have considered what happened after his death? I smiled at the sky with my horizontal knife, went to leave the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun, and did great righteousness, a thousand years of merit and crime, and free descendants to comment on it! With that, I raised my head and picked up a glass of wine and drank it all!

"Good!" Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Iehisa stood up vigorously, and Iehisa raised a glass to me and said generously: "When I saw it in Kyushu back then, I knew that Qilan was really a hero of my generation, and the eldest brother once said: The Shimazu family will not be an enemy of the Sun family for life!" Presumably this is still a number today! ”

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to his eldest brother, Shimazu Iehisa. The governor of the Shimazu family looked at me deeply and asked again, "How to act?" ”

Again, I didn't know what he meant. Now that he has joined the Yuchai army, he is ready to send arrows. If he hastily withdraws his troops, it will only cause Hashiba Hideyoshi's worries and doubts, and all his previous efforts will come to naught.

So, he needs a decent ending. As the governor of the Shimazu family, as the de facto manager of Kyushu, he needs to think about the interests of the whole, not just personal face, gains and losses, or other illusory things.

What he needs is to keep the two big ships tied together, Shimazu and Kyushu, away from the storm and let it land smoothly!

I thought about it from Shimazu Yoshihisa's point of view, and after a while, I held the wine glass, squinted my eyes, and muttered a sentence: "Since there is no way back, why not advance as retreat?" ”

The two Shimazu brothers were visibly stunned when they heard this, and they needed some time to understand what I meant. The two of them stood there, thinking for a long time, and suddenly understood what I meant, and at the same time, their eyes were shining, and they were quite excited to raise a glass to me!

"If there is a lie, there is such a cup!" There is no beginning and no end to the oath, but I know that they are sincere—because they don't want to really die for the Yuchai family, especially in the face of enemies like the Ming Dynasty and me.

"Slap" "Slap" "Slap"! The three glasses were shattered, and the two brothers saluted me and walked away.

As I watched them walk out of the cabin, onto the board, back to their own ship, and fade away, I was speechless and filled with emotion in my heart.

"A soldier who surrenders without a fight, Mr. is wise!" Rakesh's voice came from behind him.

"This is just the first step in the long march, I hope everything goes well!" I sighed.

The sunset is like blood, I don't know if the sea will be sunny or rainy tomorrow!