Chapter 646: The Knowledgeable Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Few people could bear Ling Chi's torture, and Wang Ao was not a hard bone.

A few hours later, when Li Nan returned to the deck with the docile little Spanish beauty like a kitten, Wang Ao really told all the things he had done in his life.

According to Wang Ao's confession, since the death of the pirate king Wang Zhi, there have been three large pirate groups in the Daming Sea.

Originally, the strongest was Wang Ao, who took over the Wang Zhi pirate group, but after Shuangyu Port was surrounded and suppressed by Hu Zongxian and the sailors, he lost most of his men and warships, leaving only the Songpu nest of the island country.

At present, the most powerful should be Xu Hai, who split from Wang Zhi's pirate group.

Xu Hai is different from Wang Zhi and his uncle Xu Weixue, he prefers a book of looting to trade, so because of this matter, he was repeatedly taught by Wang Zhi, and later prepared to assassinate Wang Zhi.

After breaking away from the Wang Zhi pirate group, Xu Hai colluded with the Japanese people in the island countries of Satsuma, Osumi, Tsushima, Hinata, Tanegashima and other places to burn, kill and plunder the coastal area of Daming, and he was the most cruel of all the pirate gangs.

In addition to Wang Ao and Xu Hai, the rest are Chen Dong, Ye Ma, Hong Donggang, Huang Kan who colluded with the Japanese bandits, Wu Ping and Zhang Lian who are entrenched in the waters of Fujian, and small and medium-sized pirate gangs such as Zheng, Shi, Ma, and Xu who are family thieves at the mouth of the Pearl River.

Hundreds of years ago, the vast expanse of the sea, in the hearts of all people in the world, was a place of darkness, and sailing out to sea was a matter of life and death.

In the 14th century, Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty led a fleet south through the Strait of Malacca, and then sailed eastward, crossing the vast Indian Ocean, arriving on the east coast of Africa and the Red Sea coast, exploring an ocean route on the dark sea.

Beginning in the fifteenth century, adventurers in the West also began to search for new routes to new continents.

Portugal and Spain, the two countries that the Ming collectively referred to as Franco, found a route to Africa after constant sailing adventures.

Although the Portuguese prince repeatedly insisted on living in peace with the natives of the discovered land, he advocated peaceful colonization there. But the material benefits of gold and the slave trade were so great that the adventurer's discoveries became a nightmare for Africans, and the great seafaring discoveries have since turned into conquest and plunder by force, and into brutal colonialist domination and oppression.

A few decades later, the Portuguese nobleman Vasco da Gama, on the orders of the Portuguese king Manuel, set out from Lisbon with a crew of about 170 people and four ships to find a route to India.

Vasco da Gama succeeded, and he returned to Lisbon with a fleet laden with spices and precious stones, where he was rewarded and welcomed. The net profit from this voyage was 60 times the cost of the voyage.

When Vasco da Gama led his fleet on his second voyage to India, he intercepted merchant ships along the way, killed people, bombarded Calicut, and forcibly occupied Goa and Cochin.

Vasco da Gama finally opened a new route from Western Europe to India, promoting the development of commerce and shipping in Europe and Asia, and at the same time beginning the bloody colonial plunder of the East by Western colonizers.

The achievements of the Portuguese made the Spaniards jealous, so soon they sent Columbus east in search of a new route.

After two voyages, Columbus discovered the new continent of America, and since then the indigenous Indians have suffered unprecedented devastation.

Finally, the Portuguese Magellan completed the round-the-world voyage for the first time, so that the East and the West finally had a passable ocean route.

As a time-traveler with the memories of later generations, Li Nan has thoughts and insights that are ahead of his time, such as those islands that no one cares about now.

For the time being, it was very dangerous for Li Nan to learn from Wang Zhi and Xu Hai to anchor in the island country, or to use Zhoushan and other places close to the Ming Dynasty as a base, so he chose Taiwan Island as his base camp and Jeju Island as a branch base.

With Wang Ao, the pirate king, in his hands, Li Nan easily eliminated Wang Zhi's lair in the island country of Matsuura, and then started a war against the island country of Otomo, Matsuura, Genyi and other daimyo who supported the Japanese invaders.

At this time, the strongest Ming in the island country was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was known as the monkey, but he was still fighting fiercely with the daimyo in various places, and he had no leisure to take care of other people's affairs.

In fact, even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi has unified the island country, Li Nan is not afraid of it, you must know that the total population of the island country at this time is only a few million, and there are not many soldiers who can handle it.

In later generations, perhaps it was the game company that hyped up the famous generals of the island country for the sake of the product, but on the battlefield, these island farmers holding bamboo guns really had no combat effectiveness.

Li Nan, who has experienced the world of Resident Evil, knows that even a regular army with advanced weapons cannot compete with undead creatures such as zombies or zombies, let alone soldiers in this era.

Not long after each battle, when the soldiers of the island nation found that the enemy they faced could not be killed, they cried out in fear and fled.

Li Nan did not have the slightest mercy for the men with strong beastly nature in the island country, if they didn't resist, it would be okay, but these soldiers didn't have to stay.

After several battles in the island country, the daimyo such as Otomo, Matsuura, and Genyoshi, who were defeated in successive battles, all gave in one by one.

At this point of servility, Li Nan prefers island people, because after they meet a strong man who can't be beaten, they will loyally kneel and lick you, and there are almost no betrayals.

Now that these daimyos have surrendered their allegiance, Li Nan is embarrassed to continue to kill them all.

After staying in the island country for several months, Li Nan collided with Toyotomi Hideyoshi several times, and in the face of those terrifying zombie soldiers, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was quite politically minded, decided to negotiate peace with Li Nan.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was busy fighting for the power of the Oda family at this time, so he didn't want to waste his precious troops with Li Nan, and Li Nan didn't think about occupying the island country of his real brother.

The two sides soon reached a consensus, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ceded the island of Kyushu that had been occupied by Li Nan, and after hearing that Li Nan liked beautiful women, he also gave him the first beauty of the island country, Oda City.

Li Nan promised not to attack the islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, and Shikoku, and that his fleet would trade with Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

After everything was dealt with, Li Nan left a thousand of the newly baked thousands of zombies converted by the soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom, and let Liu San, who was the first to follow him, take them to sit on Kyushu Island, and he led the others to return to the Daming Sea in dozens of big ships.

After booby-trapping Wang Zhi, the king of Hui, the situation along the coast did not get better as the Ming monarchs and ministers imagined, and the situation became worse and worse.

When Wang Zhi was there, he could still lead these maritime merchants, pirates, and pirates to make money through trade, but after he died, everyone returned to the old way of burning, killing, and plundering.

When Li Nan was attacking various daimyo in the island country, Xu Hai led Shingoro, the younger brother of Lord Osumi, Sukegoro of Tanegashima, Satsuma's gang chief, Hikotaro of Hinata, and Hosoya of Izumi to invade the Yanhai region south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty again. Later, maritime merchants Chen Dong and Ye Ma, as well as Hong Donggang, Huang Kan and other weaker pirate leaders joined one after another.

Xu Hai was very powerful, claiming to be fifty or sixty thousand horses, attacking various state capitals, villages and towns, and the Jiangnan region fell into a sea of swords and blood.

After Li Nan settled on the island of Taiwan, he soon learned what Xu Hai had done, so he left half of his soldiers and horses to build buildings and coastal defense forts, and he personally led fifteen Fuchuan warships and headed straight for Jiangnan.

This time Li Nan has already made up his mind, other pirates may be able to live, but Xu Hai, a traitor, must die! u