On the fourth day of November, in the imperial palace of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were having a court meeting. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The official of Honglu Temple shook his whip and shouted: "If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat!" ”

Zhang Guanghang, the waiter of the Criminal Department, held a tooth card in his hand and shouted: "The minister has something to play!" ”

"Play!"

"The minister recently heard that Li Zhi, the Duke of Jinguo, was severing trade because of the Wa State and intended to attack the Wa State."

Hearing Zhang Guanghang's words, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were all shocked. Attacking the Japanese kingdom is not a trivial matter. Although Japan is a small country, it is quite strong. During the Wanli period, Japan crossed the sea to attack Korea, and Emperor Wanli Xian used the strength of the whole country and spent a huge amount of money to drive Japan back. At that time, it was the era when the Ming Dynasty was strong and strong, and it took a lot of effort.

The Ming Dynasty faced a country like Japan, which can be regarded as a national war, and if it does not send more than 100,000 soldiers and horses and costs tens of millions, it will not be able to tell the winner at all.

What's more, Li Zhi still crossed the sea to attack, and the difficulty of logistics support can be imagined.

Although Li Zhi actually controlled Shandong, he was not yet able to mobilize various forces in Shandong. Now the force that Li Zhineng can mobilize is only a town in Tianjin. With the power of Tianjin Town, you want to attack Japan? The officials looked at each other in surprise as if they had heard a joke.

Zhang Guanghang arched his hand and said: "Li Zhimang attacked the Japanese state, and the defeat was small. I went to the kingdom in a dignified manner, and it was a big loss of authority. If Li Zhi is defeated and returned to be looked down upon by the Japanese state, and the barbarians from all directions are coveted and ready to move, then I will lose a lot of money. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhang Guanghang and did not speak.

Zhang Guanghang arched his hand and said: "The minister asked the Holy Lord to proclaim the decree to Li Zhi, so that he should not act recklessly." Otherwise, if you lose your prestige and humiliate the country, how can Li Zhi afford it then? ”

Although the Wanli Korean War was won, the ferocity of the Japanese army still made the civilian officials of the Ming Dynasty remember it vividly. Now that the Ming Dynasty is declining day by day, embattled on all sides, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty easily dare not provoke the enemy of Japan. Li Zhi attacked Japan, and the civilian officials felt that there was no chance of victory no matter what.

Zhang Guanghang has always been loyal, but he was kind enough to worry about Li Zhi's defeat. The other civil officials were happy to see Li Zhi return defeated.

Liu Zongzhou, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, took a step forward and said loudly: "The minister thinks that Li Zhi is ambitious and has nowhere to vent his energy. If he is not allowed to attack Japan, he will be angry and cause trouble in Shandong. Since he didn't want to attack Japan, let him go. When he returns defeated, he will know that he will be honest! ”

When all the officials heard Liu Zongzhou's words, they all smiled. The officials seemed to have seen Li Zhi's defeat and return to ashes, and they couldn't wait to get up.

Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, arched his hand and said: "Holy Lord, if Li Zhi wants to fight, let him fight." When he broke the blood, he knew that the sky was high and the earth was thick. In the future, I will not be so unscrupulous in talking and doing things. If the Son of Heaven insisted on stopping him, he still felt that the Son of Heaven would not let him conquer the Wa Kingdom? ”

Hearing the words "conquering the Japanese country", the civil officials in the court burst into laughter, and they all lost order for a while.

The conquest of the Wa Kingdom with the power of a town in Tianjin is really a bit incredible.

The officials racked their brains all day long to trap Li Zhi in a predicament, but who knew that the officials' methods had not yet succeeded, but Li Zhi jumped into the fire pit by himself.

How can such a good thing be stopped?

Zheng Sanjun bowed his hand and said loudly: "What if the minister seconded the proposal and let Li Zhi suffer a defeat?" Li Zhi's loss does not mean that Da Ming loses, and other barbarians don't dare to do anything because of this. At this time, it is a good thing to let Li Zhi learn a lesson and rein in some tricks. ”

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The ministers seconded it!"

Zhu Youzhen also did not believe that Li Zhi could defeat Japan with the power of Tianjin Town. He thought for a moment and said slowly:

"What the secretary said is reasonable. Let the Duke of Jin do it cheaply. ”

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On the sixth day of November, outside the port of Nagasaki on the Japanese island of Kyushu, a dense fog was filled.

The early morning fog covered the entire harbor, and the visibility was only fifty meters, and further away it was only snow-white. A two-masted Ataka ship patrols the port of Nagasaki to guard against possible enemy attacks.

However, there is no possibility of any enemy attack this month. Even if the Spanish ships came to attack the port, they would not attack in November when the wind was uncertain. Ships from the south to Nagasaki usually come from the south in June and July. The November winds ebb and go, and the sailing ship may be blown away as it sails in the East China Sea.

There were a dozen ashigaru and junior samurai on the two-masted boat, and at this time they were bored, and the soldiers threw their weapons aside and were throwing dice in a broken bowl to gamble.

Gambling and gambling, a samurai with a turban lost a full two dollars and began to cheat on not paying. They scolded him angrily and told him to get out of the way. However, this samurai was a scoundrel, and did not give money, nor did he let it aside, and continued to bet.

The crowd was clamoring and quarreling, and they all started a fire. A tall ashigaru pushed and shoved with this samurai who didn't give money, and finally got into a scuffle on the boat. The others didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, and shouted on the side, encouraging the two to fight more intensely.

The two-masted Ataka was no more than a dozen meters long, and it shook in the scuffle between the two brawlers.

Everyone was getting excited when they suddenly heard a whine from the fog. The sound was like someone blowing a trumpet, but it was much louder and longer than a trumpet, not like a human sound.

The soldiers on the Ataka ship were stunned, and they all looked at the thick fog to the south, not knowing what was in it. They had never heard such a whine. Even the two people who were scuffling together stopped moving, looking at the fog to the south in amazement, and gradually became a little nervous.

A soldier tugged at the captain's sleeve and said, "Captain, do you want to raise the alarm?" ”

Alarm for a whine? When he goes back, the general will definitely deduct his own money. Captain Ashigaru didn't answer, just stared into the fog with his eyes.

Everyone stared at the thick fog for two or three minutes, and suddenly saw a huge black shadow in the thick fog. The shadow grew bigger and darker, and pressed straight towards the Ataku patrol ship on this side.

"Woo~~"

Suddenly, there was a loud whining whistle from the dark shadow. The soldiers of the Tokugawa family on the Ataka ship were stunned, and looked at the huge black shadow that pressed over them, and then they saw clearly that it was a huge ironclad ship several feet high.

The huge ironclad ship was covered in ironclad all over its body, and thick black smoke came out of the middle of the ship, pressing it like a moving castle, where could the small Anzhai ship stop it? The ironclad was moving extremely fast, a few minutes faster than the fastest sailboat, and the waves that parted a few feet high at the bow of the ship were unstoppable.

Seeing that the Ataka ship was about to be hit by the ironclad ship, the captain of the Ashigaru ship on the Ataka ship shouted: "Run! ”

As soon as he jumped into the icy waters of November.

As soon as the captain of Ashigaru jumped off the ship, the ramming angle of the ironclad ship pressed against the small Ataka den without hesitation, and under the huge impact, the sharp ramming angle tore the Ataka ship apart and smashed it into two.

Captain Ashigaru struggled to swim in the icy waters, desperately trying to avoid the whirlpool when Ataka sank. He swam for a long time before he glanced behind him.

He saw a huge warship, full of iron armor and cannons, bound for the port of Nagasaki at a speed never before seen in a sailboat.

On the top of the ironclad ship, the huge Li-shaped banner hunted and hunted, like an unstoppable conqueror, announcing his arrival to Japan.