Zheng Zhilong is hiding behind Geoje Island, which is less than 100 miles away from Tsushima Island, where all the people who implemented the Dongying strategy are gathered, including more than 20,000 Dongying pirates led by Hong Xu and Gan Hui, more than 20,000 foreign pirates led by Shi Daxuan, and a group of Jinyi guards led by Wang Zhengnan, and the main force of 50,000 Nanyang sailors led by Zheng Zhihu.

Zheng Zhilong naturally wouldn't let the Matsuura clan notice that so many people had gathered here, Shi Daxuan, Hong Xu and Gan Hui had already pretended to be pirates and blocked the sea around them, whether it was Dongying people or Koreans, whether it was merchant ships or fishing boats, as long as they fought here, all of them were detained, and they didn't want to spread any news. Well, it seems that they were originally pirates, so there is no need to pretend about this, in short, Zheng Zhilong is secretly hiding here, preparing to carry out Zhu Cijiong's series of plans against Dongying.

The first step in Toei's strategy was to seize the power of the Matsuura clan, and after the Tagawa clan persuaded his father, the list and address of the Matsuura clan's retainers were quickly sent to Zheng Zhilong.

To say that this Dongying people are really ridiculous, a county or several counties can establish a country, a total of more than 100,000 people, but there are a bunch of high-ranking officials, such as the Matsuura clan has seventeen or eighteen 'power-holding' retainers, what a light head, a general, a city lord, a family elder, the title is strange.

If you add the contemporary governor of the Matsuura clan, Matsuura Takanobu and his two sons, Matsuura Zhenxin and Matsuura Nobusada, there are more than twenty people in the Matsuura family who are more powerful than Tagawa Yuhuang, of course, no matter how many there are, they all have to die!

After Zheng Zhilong got the list, he summoned Zheng Zhihu, Wang Zhengnan, Shi Daxuan, Hong Xu, Gan Hui and other generals to discuss the assassination, and there were more than 20 targets, which was a bit unexpected by Zheng Zhilong, there were few masters among the pirates under him, and it was really difficult to assassinate so many targets at one time, but fortunately, Zhu Cijiong had already arranged and sent Wang Zhengnan.

Wang Zhengnan's subordinates can be described as masters, almost all of the ones who can fight in Jinyiwei have been selected by him, and they can practice hard without a task, that skill is not blown, assassination is their training subject, just pull it out, you can pull out one or two hundred assassination masters.

After discussing for a while, it was decided that Wang Zhengnan would personally lead two hundred Jinyi Wei masters to carry out the assassination plan, and each of the retainers under the Matsuura clan would send ten Jinyi Wei masters, and Wang Zhengnan would personally lead twenty Jinyi Wei masters to kill Matsuura Takanobu, Matsuura Zhenxin and Matsuura Nobusada's family.

In Dongying, not to mention running to kill people, they may be exposed every minute on the way to kill, because they don't know how to speak Dongying at all, and they are not familiar with the territory of the Matsuura clan at all, and they can't say where they can find it!

What to do? This is naturally difficult for Zheng Zhilong, there are many pirates under his command who are from Hirado, just find some people to guide them, and he has also prepared a lot of gifts, and when the time comes, let Emperor Tagawa Yuhuang take them to the door one by one, and identify the target for them, absolutely can't be wrong.

After everyone finished discussing, Zheng Zhilong sent a few Dongying pirates to teach Wang Zhengnan and his two hundred Jinyi guards to speak Dongying, and trained Dongying etiquette. Uh, it seems a bit outrageous, can you learn Dongying dialect in a while? Isn't it a little too late to teach?

In fact, it's not that complicated, they all go to pretend to be people, basically they just need to learn one word, and there are not so many etiquette, simply put, nod their heads and waist: "Hayi." For example:

"Come here."

"Hello."

"Move things over."

"Hello."

"Yaga."

"Hello."

............

During this time, the retainers of the Matsuura family, including the head of the family, Matsuura Nobutaka, praised Emperor Tagawa Yu, he was simply too generous, and every day he took more than a dozen subordinates to pull a cart of gifts, and gave gifts to the retainers' houses one by one. This gift is not ordinary, are the Ming Dynasty's high-grade cloth, silk, tea, porcelain, dried fruit ......, if you want to calculate according to the market price, he gave each retainer a gift of tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the value of the gift to the main family is not less than 100,000 taels!

In the words of Emperor Tagawa Yu, these were all given to him by his son-in-law, and he didn't have any relatives, so he couldn't use them up alone, so he simply took them out and distributed them to everyone, what a good person.

This Emperor Tagawa Yu is not ordinarily good, after all the retainers near Hirado were delivered, he took people to Iki Island and Tsushima Island, and visited the retainers on the two islands one by one, and the gifts were the same.

Everyone didn't pay attention, every time he brought his subordinates was different, although these subordinates were silent, their eyes were secretly staring, and Tian Chuan Yuhuang's expression was also very wrong, with a trace of guilt and reluctance in his eyes. His expression looks like he is giving a gift to someone, and he is clearly here to see someone off!

September 18th of the eighth year of Chongzheng, this day is not a special day, at least for the people of Daming and Dongying, this day does not have any special significance, but for Zhu Cijiong, who has crossed over, September 18 has a special significance, because three hundred years later, on a certain September 18th, a tragic history came.

In the dark, there is a providence, and it was also on September 18, Zheng Zhilong launched.

On this night, the bright moon hung high, and within ten steps, even the expressions on people's faces could be seen clearly, it was a good bright moon night, even if you didn't use the lights, you didn't have to worry about recognizing the wrong person.

A group of black-clothed people sneaked into the mansions of the ministers of the Matsuura family by the moonlight, they didn't make a sound, they covered their heads and went straight to the bedrooms of the retainers, and the people they met along the way, whether they were guards or domestic slaves, went up with a knife, that was fast, and they didn't even have time to react, and the cold light flashed, and they were killed with a knife.

One by one, the retainers went silently, and even their head Matsuura Nobutaka and the two young masters did not escape their doom, and they were all in different places.

These people are ridiculously high, basically they were all killed with a single sword, and the mansions of more than a dozen retainers did not even let out a scream, of course, there are exceptions, the old Tagawa Yu Imperial of the Matsuura family is not silent, the fight there is very fierce, and in the end it even alarmed the defenders of Hirado Castle.

When the defenders of Hirado Castle heard the news and rushed to the residence of Emperor Tagawa Yu, the assassins had already fled, leaving only a few corpses before they could be taken away, and the elder Emperor Tagawa Yuhuang was wearing pajamas and hid in horror among a bunch of guards and shouted: "What is the matter with you, why did you let so many assassins sneak into Hirado Castle?" Hurry up and chase it, why are you still standing here! ”

There are no big names in the defenders, and the leaders are some light and tall, serving generals, equivalent to the role of the squad leader, and they are not at the same level as Emperor Tagawa Yu at all, they apologized vigorously: "I'm sorry, Lord Tagawa, it's our dereliction of duty, let's chase it." ”

Where to go? This is a problem, they don't even see the shadow of the assassin, how do they know which direction the assassin is running, and in the end, these little minions have no choice but to ask their head and head and the general to see how to deal with this matter.

As you can imagine, their heads are all hung up! There was no way, they had to ask the head of the house, and the head of the house also hung up! Soon, news came that all the retainers of the Matsuura clan in Hirado Castle had been killed!

Who did it? It seems that there is no need to look up this, because at this moment there are many notices scattered in every house, what Lord loves the world, Lord bless peace, the Lord is with us, a lot of mess.

It seems that the Amakusa Island gang did it, but is that really the case?

Since all the retainers, including the head of the family, were hanged, and finally the small leaders of the defenders of Hirado Castle gathered in the palace of Emperor Tagawa Yu, the elder of the family, where there happened to be several corpses of assassins, who did it, and perhaps the answer can be found in these corpses.

Emperor Tagawa had already woken up from his panic at this time, changed into the formal clothes of the old family, and under his auspices, everyone carried the body of the assassin to a large flat and examined it carefully.

The clothes are nothing special, they are all ordinary night clothes, and the weapons are nothing special, they are all ordinary katanas, and they all have a stack of paper in their arms, which is similar to the notices found in the homes of other retainers, and they are all about what the Lord loves the world, and the Lord bless the peace and .......

There doesn't seem to be any clue, it seems that the Amakusa gang did it, but no one thinks so. What about the deceitful ghosts, these assassins are all masters, the guards of the other retainers' mansions were killed without even reacting, and they were all killed with a knife, where did the rebel army come from so many masters, they have to have so many masters, just go and kill the shogunate general Tokugawa Iemitsu directly, as long as Tokugawa Iemitsu is killed, the shogunate army will definitely retreat, and the siege of their Shimabara Castle will naturally be lifted, and what does it mean to run to the irrelevant Matsuura family and kill them indiscriminately?

Just when everyone was at a loss, a samurai squad leader suddenly shouted: "I've seen this person, it's someone from the shogunate army on the Shimabara side, and I was stopped by them to check last time when I went there to do business, by the way, Ichiro, Ichiro, you were there last time, remember him, just the one standing behind their squad leader." ”

At this time, another samurai squad leader leaned up to take a closer look, and then shouted, "It's him, and this is too, these people are from the shogunate!" ”

Of course, these are the people in the shogunate army, Zheng Zhilong sent someone to Shimahara Castle to secretly kill and send them, and these people happen to be the people in charge of the outer investigation in the direction of Hirado.

Hizen Province is the size of a few prefectures, and Hirado is a trading city, and many of these small leaders have been to the vicinity of Shimabara Castle for business or private affairs, and they have been more or less checked, and these people ran forward to take a closer look, aren't they those people who are checked!

Now everyone exploded, it turned out that the people of the Tokugawa shogunate did it, revenge, we must find them for revenge.

Just when everyone was angry, Emperor Tagawa Yuhuang stood up and said indignantly: "The Tokugawa family is too much, it is not enough to secretly suppress our Matsuura family for so many years, and now they have directly sent people to assassinate our family master and the retainers, if I don't have the protection of my son-in-law's family, PA was also killed by them, this revenge cannot be avenged, I am willing to take out my savings for many years and the one million taels of silver that my son-in-law gave me, recruit troops, and go to the Tokugawa family to take revenge." ”

At this time, it was the time to share the same hatred, and immediately a few high-headed and high-ranking generals stood up to support Emperor Tagawa Yu as the guardian generation, and led everyone to seek revenge from the Tokugawa family. However, some people suggested that in Iki Island and Tsushima Island, there were still several generals and castle lords of the Tagawa family, and it was better to wait for them to come back and discuss before making a decision.

Zheng Zhilong had already arranged this, and they naturally couldn't come back, and the news came back the next day, and the generals and city lords were all killed! The head of the house and the retainers have been killed, who will take the lead? Of course, it is the only remaining home of the old Tagawa Yuhuang!

In this way, Emperor Tagawa Yu became the undisputed guardian of the dai, that is, the daimyo of the northern part of Hizen Province and Iki Province.