The letter presented to him by Kojiro Okamura really revealed that the Shimazu clan of Satsuma wanted to form a secret alliance with his own side and communicate whether they could unite to resist the Hongmen.

This petition was unexpected by King Shang Feng, but when you think about it, it is a logical thing.

Social contradictions are always changing, one moment everyone may still be the enemy of life and death, but the next moment everyone is likely to become comrades fighting side by side.

The strength of the Hongmen people and their development have made the King of Shangfeng of the Ryukyu Kingdom, who is his ally, already a little frightened, for fear that when he gets up from bed that day, the outside of the palace will have become the territory of their Hongmen.

This is not an impossible thing, as a small kingdom that even our country Satsuma can not beat, as early as a few years ago when Hongmen helped the Ryukyu Kingdom resist and repel the Japanese people of the Wa Kingdom of Satsuma, Hongmen actually had the strength to annex the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Therefore, King Shangfeng, who has ascended to the throne in the past few years, has been desperately developing the army and purchasing armaments, which is not out of a fear of Hongmen and a strong sense of self-preservation.

In the same way, the Wa Kingdom of Satsuma had the same fate as the Ryukyu Kingdom, if not worse than the Ryukyu Kingdom, because they were enemies and opponents rather than allies with the Hongmen, and they were more likely to be attacked by the Hongmen at any time and place.

With the defeat of the mighty Spanish fleet by Hongmen, the people of the Shimazu family in Satsuma became even more uneasy, although they did not have much time to deal with the Spaniards, and the strength of the Westerner fleet in Tanshuikeng, their people in Kagoshima knew much better than the other Japanese people.

In recent years, not only have the Ryukyu Kingdom been working hard to strengthen their army, but the Satsuma Wa people have also spared no effort to develop their army.

However, after the last fleet of sailors in Satsuma was directly destroyed by Hongmen Lu and them, it was not easy to rebuild a fleet.

In particular, Wu Daofu's Ryukyu sailors from time to time ran to their territory to fight the autumn wind, which was called to protect the safety of the Satsuma Sea, but in fact it was to cut off the Satsuma Maritime Exchanges in disguise.

The Shimazu family's finance minister calculated that since the defeat of the Shimazu family at sea, their income from maritime trade had increased day by day, and many maritime merchants who had had a good relationship with Satsuma now shifted their positions to the safer Hirado and other places to trade.

Eventually, the Shimazu clan was able to make a living and communicate with the outside world through overland trade channels, but don't forget that the Shimazu clan was at odds with several surrounding lords, and trade on land was not easier than trade at sea.

In order to centralize power, the Edo shogunate was naturally happy to see it, and even secretly added fuel to the fire, sending secret envoys to support several other daimyo to intercept their own trade, so that Samoto's economic situation developed in a worse direction.

The so-called poverty is change, Shimazu Tadashi is not a daimyo who does nothing, he is naturally unwilling to be defeated by many difficulties, so that the efforts of several generations of the Shimazu family come to naught, so he is also actively operating, wanting to break through the encirclement.

This time, he sent a secret envoy to meet King Shangfeng to express his goodwill and alliance, which was one of the many efforts made by Shimazu Tadashi.

"Why would this king risk turning his face against his allies and form an alliance with one of you's defeated generals?"

King Shangfeng's face changed several times, and after a long silence, he was loyal to speak.

The reason why Okamura Kojiro can take on such a heavy responsibility is naturally that he has a few brushes, and he is not afraid of King Shangfeng questioning him in his heart, but what he is most afraid of is that King Shangfeng will drive himself out without saying a word.

"The lord of the country is wrong in this statement, it is precisely because the lord of the small minister is the general of the defeated army of Hongmen, with the relationship between my Samoto and Hongmen, it is basically impossible to have room for relaxation, so the juice machine should believe in us more and form an alliance with my Samosa!"

"Oh?"

King Shang Feng was meaningful, and his face was interested.

"The strength of Hongmen has become the biggest enemy of our Wa Kingdom and the Ryukyu Sea, don't look at Li Tianyang, the master of Hongmen, who is still wearing the official skin of a Ming Dynasty naval commander, but judging from his dispatch of troops to attack Nanyang Luzon, his people do not care about the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards the subject country."

"Looking at the territory of power in this area of the South Ocean and the North Sea, after Hongmen conquered the Luzon Islands in the South Sea, if they want to expand outward, which direction will be the most likely place for them to capture?"

Kojiro Okamura raised his head and glanced at King Shangfeng with the same meaning, which made his face change suddenly.

This is indeed a question that King Shangfeng has always forgotten, or King Shangfeng is deliberately unwilling to think deeply, because he knows very well that if Hongmen really has an idea about their kingdom, they can really only be captured, and the only thing he can do is to hope that after Hongmen conquers the Ryukyu Kingdom, he will treat their royal family well.

King Shang Feng deliberately did not want to think about the problem, the charity money Beigang Village Kojiro put on the table, so that he had to face up to this problem, in front of the secret envoy of Satsuma, King Shang Feng could only be gloomy, but then returned to normal.

However, King Shangfeng's every move was the focus of Okamura Kojiro's attention, although the change in King Shangfeng's expression was only a momentary thing, but it was seen by Okamura Kojiro.

There is a play!!

Kojiro Okamura was happy in his heart, but he didn't show it, and continued to talk eloquently: "I guess the lord of the country has an answer to this question in his heart!" ”

"I, the Japanese general Edo Tokugawa, are short-sighted, they can't see the wolf ambitions of the Hongmen people, and they think that they can rely on the terrain of the sea to fight against the Hongmen people, but my Shimazu family master is different, and I have already noticed the sinister intentions of Hongmen Li Tianyang early on, coupled with the blood feud between my Kagoshima and the Hongmen people, the country lord can trust the sincerity of my Shimazu family master."

"Actually, I, the Shimazu clan and you, the lord of the country, are the real natural allies."

“…………”

Seeing that King Shangfeng had already shown hesitation, Kojiro Okamura struck while the iron was hot and continued to fiddle with his three-inch incorruptible tongue: "Of course, our alliance is not for anything else, and my Shimazu family master is not a stupid person who wants to hit a stone with an egg, knowing that he is not an opponent of Hongmen at this time, how can he do something against Hongmen who is so powerful." ”

"The reason why I found the lord of the country is that I hope to form a secret alliance with each other, exchange information with each other, and remind each other of the movements of Hongmen when necessary, and when Hongmen really invades the border in the end, we can be hostile to each other!"

These words finally reached King Shangfeng's heart, so that he had to carefully consider the other party's proposal: "You should settle down in the city for a while first, and let this king consider it!" ”

"Hey!!"

Kojiro Okamura was overjoyed and hurriedly agreed.

(End of chapter)