"In August last year, the Japanese invaded our Kumajin shipyard, and in February this year, they attacked again!"

Holding his arms, Mao Jue narrowed his eyes dangerously, looking at the three Japanese visitors.

The old woman didn't seem surprised by this, and was only silent, but Chiyohime, who had sewn a kimono for herself out of homespun cloth and combed her hair into a bun like a Japanese noblewoman, immediately shouted with a smile of surprise.

"It's Sister Maori, she's here to save us, kill this big badass!"

She said this in Japanese, but she had long guarded against this hand, Mao Jue also had an interpreter by her side, God knows how many Chinese Adelena would speak, wrapped in a black cloak, just like the bad woman Milady in the three musketeers, lying on Mao Jue's ear and whispering.

"The last name she just said is Maori!"

As soon as her spirit was tight, the old lady immediately stabbed Chiyohime hard, and the tears of the little girl who hurt almost didn't come down, the interesting thing is that she hurriedly leaned into the arms of Yuan Chonghuan, who was so angry that her face was purple, that the distance between the two was a little ambiguous.

Maori home!

I don't know much about Japanese history, but I don't know much about playing a full-scale war, and the village chief of Japan's Warring States still knows a little bit about fighting, this family is not ordinary, the water army is a must, even the sixth day demon king Oda Nobunaga has no choice but to get it, to say that the Japanese belong to their family, this is a bit of a basis.

But although the Maori family was subordinate to the Ishida Mitsunari side of the Eastern Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, the Tokugawa family did not rush to kill it and only reduced the seal, and later the Maori family also developed into the famous Choshu Domain, which played a pivotal role in the movement of the end of the Japanese Edo Dynasty.

And are the Maori family so rich?

"Open the skylight and speak brightly! The Japanese invaders occupied Jeju Island, and Li Chao asked General Ben to help in the battle, and I was annoyed by this fight, since I was from the Maori family, if I crossed the sea to send you back to the Maori family, how much ransom could you pay? ”

"Mao Jue, you are the deputy general of the imperial court! What is the difference between doing this and being a robber kidnapper? You've lost all the face of the court!"

Yuan Yanqing couldn't sit still again, and angrily smashed the teacup at Mao Jue's feet, and the old face was distorted like an earthworm.

"Why was the old man blind at the beginning, thinking that putting you in the Dongjiang River can be a solid screen of the imperial court, people like you, who are interested in interests, and they are simply scum in the world!"

"It's Lao Tzu, it's the scum of the world!"

The tea was caught off guard, and the anger flashed away, but Mao Jue suddenly laughed nervously, reached out and cut the teacup back, wiped it clean with his sleeve, and put it back on the table, in the stupid chiyo chiyo nodded in agreement, Yuan Chonghuan's angry and stunned expression, Mao Jue hugged his arm again.

"Lao Tzu is digging into the eyes of money, so what? Everything about Lao Tzu is earned by all means by relying on these hands, and I don't let my women starve! Don't let my people starve! It's Inspector Yuan, what are you capable of? In Korea, you can't pacify the war! In vain, you can't feed your wife and children at home, and you have to rely on your wife to support you! You still have the heart to play ambiguously with this widow chick, you are a scumbag who eats soft rice, what qualifications do you have to drop this teacup!"

"If I were you, I would have died of shame!"

Poking his fingers at his chest, Mao Jue was full of bitterness and meanness, and said contemptuously, the Chiyoji who listened to it was full of confusion, and Yuan Chonghuan's old face was directly red like a purple eggplant, and he didn't hold back a word for a long time, he flicked his sleeves barefoot, and rushed out of the house angrily, and he didn't know where he went.

"Official!"

Exclaimed, Mrs. Yuan and the Zhao family wanted to go out, but Mao Jue waved his hand.

"Two sisters-in-law, don't worry, this waste, what can he do without you? It won't be long before it's cold, and he'll have to come back himself!"

"What are the considerations?"

If there is no eyesore, the negotiation can continue again, and Mao Jue's eyes fell on the old lady who knew martial arts.

Who was the most famous rich man in the late Ming Dynasty? Zheng Zhilong! Where did most of Zheng Zhilong's wealth come from? Doing business with Japan! If you want to turn the geographical location, you are actually not much worse than Zheng Zhilong, if you send these three people back to the Maori family in exchange for a favor, Mao Jue doesn't mind having three less idle meals.

The old lady also thought for a long time, and then nodded solemnly.

"If the general sends us back to Jeju Island, the old man can let my army and sailors immediately withdraw from the army, and give a big sentence of 1,000 and a small sentence of 20,000!"

The big judgment is the kind of Japanese gold coin that Mao Jue copied out last time, the big judgment is ten taels, the small judgment is one tael, and this time, it is 30,000 taels of gold coins, at this time, the gold and silver exchange rate is almost one to one, that is, 240,000 taels of silver, this price is very satisfactory to Mao Jue.

Yet he shook his head.

"I can send you back, not to Jeju, but to Changju!"

Just kidding, Mao Jue is also a person with status now, how can he talk to the little minions, and if he wants to negotiate, he will also talk face-to-face with the lord of the Choshu domain, and who knows if these would-be robbers can convey the trade willingness he wants to express back and dump goods to the shogunate, which is more important than these 240,000 taels of silver.

Obviously her eyes flickered, and the old lady shook her head dullly.

"Don't bother the general! Our country has a long way to go, and the road is difficult and dangerous, so the general can send us to Jeju!"

"Heh, how far is the water? It just so happened that there was going to be a big ship launched to try sailing, so it was decided!"

waved his hand, Mao Jue was not with her much, he turned around directly to leave, he had already seen the abnormality in the eyes of the three of them, sure enough, before Mao Jue walked out of the door, the old lady who was a martial arts master was already roaring behind her back.

"If you send us to a Maori house, you won't even want to get a tael of silver! And you'll become the enemy of all of Japan! In the face of our endless rage and pursuit!"

"Hehe, then it's even more interesting!"

Turning around, Mao Jue shrugged his shoulders indifferently.

"General Ben is also adventurous, I want to see if I can get you back to Maori's house, if you can't get a tael of gold or you can get more! The wrath of the whole of Japan? I forgot to tell you that the Japanese who attacked the shipyard were covered in tung oil and hung on the beach! I heard that the leader is still a woman!"

Ignoring the fact that the old lady, a martial arts master, knocked over a cigarette roll by mistake, Mao Jue snorted and turned his head and left, and walked out of the house directly with his subordinates.

People are really used to coming out, Mao Jue just left the two ladies of the Yuan family without wiping their hands, holding coats and shoes, anxiously looking for footprints to find Yuan Chonghuan, and did not leave for the first time, and gave a few cigarettes to his subordinates, Mao Jue was interested in leaning on the wheel, looking at the three people sitting speechless in the room.

"General, do you really want to send the three of them back to the Maori family?"

"What are you kidding, it's a strange thing!"

It is estimated that what kind of old-fashioned, boring, cheesy family rights struggle, Lao Tzu loves young sons, wants to pass on the throne, the eldest brother is jealous and rebels or something, anyway, it is the power struggle within the Maori family, this stupid girl and that timid boy are in hand, Mao Jue has the capital to blackmail the Maori family, if it is soft, it is very comfortable to knock tens of thousands of taels of silver as pocket money a year, if it is hard, according to Mao Jue's financial resources and strength, it is not impossible to collude with the boy in the shogunate Liriya as the puppet family master and subvert his Maori family.

It's more cost-effective than sending it back directly and exchanging it for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

"The general is really, more and more like a profiteer!"

I was really afraid that Mao Jue would be hot-headed and do something loss-making, Adriana, a "bad woman", couldn't help but relax, and immediately shook her head funny.

"Don't you just like profiteers? Poof!"

Taking advantage of this girl's inattention, Mao Jue suddenly came to steal food, the foreign girl didn't react, and the guard next to her almost didn't blow out the smoke, and hurriedly turned her head and eyes to the side, as if she hadn't seen anything.

Even though it was a dragonfly with a little bit of water, it also made this Adriana blush, and for a long time, it was only then that a charming big white eye smashed back.

…………

Since it is a strange commodity to live in, the plan of the three stupid girls of Chiyoji has to be considered in the long run, so what is in front of him is to quickly earn back the quick money of Li Yuanyi of the Li family's North Korea, you must know that this time for the war for the imperial court, even wages, ordnance and food, Mao Jue has lost more than 114,000 taels before and after, and the expansion of the army has cost more than 50,000 taels, so it is necessary to quickly find a place to make up for the hole.

This Emperor Chongzhen really called his elbow to turn out, March 12, the urgent military order has arrived at Phi Island, and ordered Dongjiang Town to send troops to help the subject Li Korea to recapture Jeju Island, the military expenses or anything was not mentioned, the only thing mentioned was that it could not lose the face of the court, that tone, even if Mao Jue died, it could not let the Goryeo soldiers lose a cold hair.

Fortunately, before this, Mao Jue had already set off, otherwise he would have been half angry.

Eight regiments, leaving three to guard Yizhou, Tieshan, the remaining five are dispatched by the whole army, but the auxiliary army, this time Mao Jue only brought more than 1,000, borrowed two thousand Fu boats from Mao Wenlong, three thousand ships, more than a dozen thousand warships, and more than 30 Cangshan sentry boats, etc., all the materials are placed on the ship, Tieyi's spring ploughing is imminent, manpower is already tight, Mao Jue doesn't want to because of Li Yuanyi, his summer harvest is indebted, and Li's North Korea will definitely send troops, they can't be used in the war, and the Ming army will resist the east and west, right?

Standing on the deck, Li Yuanyi's Li Korean Corps had not yet seen it, but on the beach, a row of behemoths was the first to come into view, the towering tail tower, more than ten meters of three-masted sails, wide canvas to cover the sky and the sun, but also the use of Chinese hard sail technology, the wide canvas was separated into a grid by strips, so that even if it was shot by artillery, it was only a piece of damage, not like the destruction of a whole sail like a Western soft sail.

In his previous life, he had a relationship with sailboats, and now looking at these behemoths, Mao Jue took a deep breath of relief.

(End of chapter)