164 Meeting with the Secret Envoy
On the note held by King Shangfeng, the content written was actually very simple: "I will send a secret envoy to Ryukyu in the near future, apologize for my past mistakes, and please accept it!" ”
On top of the note, there was a target that made King Shangfeng feel resentful: Satsuma Shimazu Tadahiro.
This was an object that King Shoho kept in mind, and he had devoted himself to developing the Ryukyu Kingdom over the years, with the ultimate goal of not repeating the mistakes of his predecessors and placing the Ryukyu Kingdom in the hands of the Japanese people.
Among them, the most concerned is naturally the Shimazu clan of Satsuma, which almost destroyed the Ryukyu Kingdom.
It has only been a few years since the last stop between the Shimazu clan and the Ryukyu Kingdom, and even the death of the former king King Shangning is mostly related to the Shimazu clan, so among the objects of resentment that they feel the most in the Ryukyu Kingdom so far, I am afraid that the Shimazu clan of Satsuma is in the front row.
Now that the head of the Shimazu clan had suddenly given himself such a secret letter, which had been delivered to him through a special and secret channel, King Shangfeng was really hesitant whether to accept the other party's secret visit and think about the other party's intentions.
However, after thinking about it for a long time, King Shang Feng still made up his mind and agreed to meet the other party's messenger, and at the same time began to arrange for his henchmen to find a suitable meeting place.
Sitting in the position of King Shangfeng, he can no longer be willful, in the current Hongmen is becoming more and more powerful, the pressure of King Shangfeng is increasing day by day, and he always can't help but consider the other party's thoughts when he speaks and acts, so as not to suddenly provoke the other party's dissatisfaction, which will cause contradictions between the two sides.
Hongmen has been suppressing the Japanese Samoto is an indisputable fact, the most angry and faintly relieved that King Shangfeng is that Wu Daofu will go to the sea area of the Samoto people every half a month to show off his might, although he will not really do anything unfavorable to Samosa, but it can always make Samoto feel very aggrieved.
In the most excessive time, Wu Daofu even led a fleet of sailors to chase and kill a gang of pirates, and unscrupulously opened fire on ships in the waters of Satsuma to strangle the pirates, treating the Satsuma fleet only a few miles away as nothing.
The reason for the anger is that although everyone knows that the Ryukyu sailors led by Wu Daofu are actually the minions of the Hongmen people, but on the bright side, Wu Daofu is the viscount of the Ryukyu Kingdom and the admiral of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and their sailors are regarded as the fleet of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and they are really annoying the Satsuma people, I am afraid that if they find fault with Samosi, they will also pick up the soft persimmons, and I am afraid that I will vent my anger from their Ryukyu Kingdom.
On the one hand, King Shangfeng had to take into account the attitude of the Hongmen people, and on the other hand, he had to judge the movements and scheming of the Satsuma people, and he was really a little helpless in his heart.
For example, now, King Shangfeng really can't understand the arrival of the secret envoy of the Satsuma, and what purpose the other party came with.
After thinking about it for a long time to no avail, King Shangfeng had to give up thinking about these unknown things, and instead began to clean up the secret letter, and at the same time deal with all the affairs in the country, anyway, according to the letter, the other party's secret envoy will soon arrive in the capital of Shuri.
The visit of the secret envoy of Satsuma was closely protected by King Shangfeng, for fear of attracting the attention of Hongmen, he knew very well that he was good in his own kingdom, and he did not know how many spies were planted by Hongmen, but as far as he knew, there were at least forty people.
But knowing that King Shang Feng didn't dare to make the slightest move against these people who were obviously Hongmen spies, but instead let the other party jump up and down in his own kingdom as if he didn't know anything, and probe his own secrets and teleport back to Hongmen or Iriomote Island.
In view of this, the manpower for the Satsuma envoy was all the personal guards of King Shangfeng who grew up together, and the place where he arranged to meet was a secret residence outside the secret passage of the royal family, so that King Shangfeng could appear outside the city unnoticed.
"Kojiro Kotomura, meet the lord of the country!"
The envoy of Satsuma came quickly, and within a few days of King Shangfeng agreeing to his request, he approached King Shangfeng's secret minister and asked to see him.
In the hidden dwellings outside the city, King Shangfeng, who came out of the secret passage of the royal family, met with this secret envoy who combed a round of moon heads.
"Get up."
King Shang Feng's face was flat, and he waved his sleeves to smooth his body.
"Thank you!!"
Kojiro Okamura took the great gift of the country very steadily, and got up after showing great kindness.
"Why did the envoy come here?"
There are a lot of eyes and ears in the Ryukyu Palace, and although King Shangfeng has covered it up, he can't stand it for fear of revealing flaws, so he doesn't actually have much time to entangle with this envoy.
"The lord of the kingdom, the minister has come this time precisely to express his apologies for the harassment of the kingdom of the lord of the kingdom a few years ago, and to offer a small gift to ask for the lord's forgiveness."
Kojiro Gangmura raised his head and made a gesture of inquiry, until King Shangfeng nodded in agreement, then he turned around and shouted a word of Japanese language, and then several Japanese people carried heavy boxes into the door.
When several Japanese people entered the door, more than a dozen Ryukyu imperial guards in the dwellings tightened their swords, soldiers, bows and crossbows, for fear that the other party would rise out and attack the enemy, which would be unfavorable to their own king.
Fortunately, the guards' worries were a little superfluous, and the big wooden box of the seven or eight kings had actually been searched, and no hidden weapons or the like were found, no matter how stupid the unarmed wouldn't be so stupid as to spend so much energy to carry out this assassination operation with little chance.
"This is a small gift from my lord General Zhongheng, and I ask the lord of the country to accept it with a smile!"
Kojiro Okamura opened the boxes in front of him one by one, and the boxes were all priceless treasures, saying that they were a small gift, but in fact they were very rich.
"No merit, this king asks himself if he has no friendship with the lord of Er, but has a great enmity, I'm afraid I can't stand the great gift of you!"
King Shangfeng felt more and more that something was wrong, according to the eyes of King Shangfeng, these boxes of objects in front of him could not be taken without more than ten thousand taels of silver, and their prices were only a lot more.
"Please also ask the lord of the country to be relieved, the head of the small minister's family said that this gift really wants to make up for the damage to the kingdom of the lord at the beginning, and has no other intentions."
"Huh!"
King Shangfeng's face was full of disbelief.
"Of course, in addition to apologizing to the lord of the country, the minister also brought a letter from my lord during his visit, and asked the lord to take a look!"
Kojiro Okamura knew very well that the hatred between the other party and his own side could not change because of his belated good this time, so after seeing the suspicion and impatience on King Shangfeng's face, he hurriedly explained his true purpose this time.
After receiving the letter handed over by the attendant, and scanning the contents of the letter at a glance, King Shangfeng suddenly realized that it was good for the Satsuma Lord Guild to come with him.
(End of chapter)