Poor King Jingjiang didn't know that the countdown to his nightmare had begun.

He is not the second victim, though.

Well, neither is Zhang Xianzhong.

In fact, Yang Qing's Imperial Bank had already opened in Sichuan, and it was also sent to Zhang Xianzhong, which can be regarded as an ultimatum! In short, Sichuan must buy at least 2 million treasury bonds within half a year, otherwise it will delay the welcome, but Zhang Xianzhong is ......

As for Zhang Xianzhong's ignorance, it's another matter.

But at least until the half-year deadline is reached, Yang Qing will still not take measures against Zhang Xianzhong.

And it will take at least two months for the King of Jingjiang to fight, after all, it will take time for the marines to move from Xiamen to Qiongzhou, and then prepare for landing in Qinzhou. Regardless of whether the King of Jingjiang successfully accepted the conditions, Yang Qing must seize Nanning in this operation, Guangxi is different from Guangdong, King Gui has no room to play as soon as the Humen is opened, but King Jingjiang is in Guilin, and Yang Qing has no imminent threat to him even if he lands. Therefore, it is necessary to seize Nanning, obtain a solid base in Guangxi, and then talk about the deterrence of the King of Jingjiang, otherwise just landing in Qinzhou or Lianzhou will not be able to scare the King of Jingjiang, and the core area of Guangxi at this time is in Guilin and not Nanning.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, there were 40,000 households in Guilin, and there were only 5,000 households in Nanning!

As for the Ming Dynasty......

No one in the Ming Dynasty knows!

After the hard work of the Ming Dynasty household registration workers from generation to generation, Guangxi's current registered population is 1.1 million, and 1.5 million during the Hongwu period, which can be counted as a quarter of the population in 300 years, and Guangxi has not experienced any large-scale wars during this period, which is indeed a bit too exaggerated.

However, according to modern experts, it should be between 400 and 5 million.

But at the prefectural level, I really can't say.

However, it is also true that the core area of Guangxi has always been around Guilin, until after the death of our Qing Dynasty, because the small warlord Qin Buqu who controlled Guilin fell out with the Guangxi Provincial Council, the latter simply went to Nanning to re-form the parliament by himself, and then the Guilin parliamentarians also formed a parliament in Guilin. Behind the parliament of Nanning was Lu Rongting, the governor of Guangxi of Wu Mingren, and finally there was a battle between the open and the dark, and even the vast majority of the local gentry in Guangxi shouted the slogan that the province of Gui will not pay taxes, and the province will pay taxes, which finally made Nanning counterattack and become the capital of Guangxi. But after that, this problem was still repeated for decades, and even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were still those who supported Liuzhou, and finally Taizu made a decision, and Nanning's status as the provincial capital was finally established.

But at this time, Nanning was an ordinary frontier city.

As for the second victim of Yang Qing's violence......

Hagi Castle.

"Why did they do that?"

Mori Hideya, the daimyo of the Choshu Domain, stood on the Hagi castle tower, staring at the sea in the distance in amazement, and roaring with grief and indignation.

The castle tower, which was five stories tall and not counting the steps, gave him an extremely wide view, and he could clearly see the countless black ships lined up on the blue sea, all of which were spewing flames from their sides, and the whistling of cannonballs pierced the sky, like the howl of evil spirits in hell, and like howling evil spirits, destroying the magnificent castle that had just been built for decades under his feet......

Although his castle is only 300 meters wide, even the moat.

But this is already "grandiose".

This was built by his father, Mori Terumoto, who was once listed as one of the five elders of Taiko along with Tokugawa Ieyasu and the commander of the Western Army during the Sekigahara War.

Although his father was known for his incompetence.

But after his father grovelled and ran to kowtow to the old turtle to admit his mistake, the Maori family still retained the Choshu domain, and was not beheaded like Konishi Yukinaga. However, at this moment, this "magnificent" city that his father had exchanged for humiliation was collapsing like a pile of sand under the blow of cannonballs flying from a mile away. Those terrible black ships in the distance, those warships from the Great Ming, are constantly bombarding Hagi Castle with the terrifying national collapse, no, their weapons are more powerful than the national collapse......

The Maori Show suddenly sounded in his ears.

Before he could react, the eaves of the top floor of the castle tower above his head instantly turned into flying pieces of wood and rubble, and then fell like a torrential rain......

Well, his father didn't think about naval artillery when he built Hagi Castle, this "magnificent" city is less than two hundred meters from the coast, and even the core castle tower is less than a mile from the deep waters of the sea, and the cruisers in the bay are densely packed with cruisers, even if even a six-pounder cannon can hit it. Poor Mori Shu watched as his castle tower began to collapse in the shelling, and the entire Hagi Castle as far as he could see was plunged into a hell of death by the shelling. His "magnificent" castle, the commercial area outside the castle, the Hachimangu Shrine in the distance, and of course his valiant samurai, the descendants of the samurai who had followed Kobayakawa Takakei, Mori Hidemoto, Yoshikawa Hiroie, and others in their conquests of Korea were scurrying in terror like ducks.

None of their knives were drawn.

Their iron cannons have not been fired.

Only a few of them were fighting back in vain, but the shells could only make sporadic and insignificant splashes on the surface of the sea, and they could not be seen in the smoke that obscured the entire bay on the other side.

But why?

Why did the Ming people come to bombard Hagi Castle?

Maorixiu looked up to the sky with grief and roared, and then a cannonball flew past his ear, breaking the pillar behind him at once, and one of his attendants very decisively dragged him to the side, and just after running two steps, the roof smashed down, and the dust instantly submerged Maorixiu, and the collapsed roof turned into countless rubble and broken wood like a waterfall.

But by this time the shelling stopped.

Then a small boat rowed out of the black boat and rowed towards the shore.

Half an hour later.

"Fornication?"

Maori Xiu, who escaped the catastrophe, said in confusion.

"Yes, my lord, according to him, there are people who trade with Jiannu, that is, the Hu people in the north of Korea, and sell to the Hu people the rice they forbid to sell to them, so they will punish us."

Said the retainer who acted as an interpreter.

Of course, the latter doesn't know Chinese either, but he understands Korean.

"Bastard, what does this have to do with them coming to beat us? We don't sell rice! ”

Maori Xiu roared like crazy.

Then he looked up at the two messengers standing in front of him, one of them wearing a red half-length shirt on the right side, black trousers underneath, and many shiny ornaments on their bodies. The saber and the dagger at his waist had been removed, and he wore a hat-like felt hat on his head, and his body was as big as a giant, and he was smiling and looking down at him, and the gaze was disgusting. Next to him is the North Koreans, who act as interpreters, groveling behind them.

"You tell him that we don't sell rice!"

Maori Xiu took a deep breath and said.

The retainer hastened to reply, and then the North Korean immediately translated, and saw that the red-clothed giant said a few words with that disgusting smile, and then translated.

"My lord, he said that he didn't care who sold it, as long as it was us, as long as it was Japanese, it was the same in their eyes, and the task they received was to carry out a punitive war against Japan, and the lord, as a local official in Japan, must accept their punishment."

The retainer said cautiously.

"Rude!"

A samurai roared like a burst of fire.

Immediately after that, he drew his sword, and several other samurai around him also roared and drew their swords, and quickly surrounded the red-clothed giant, like a pack of coyotes surrounding spotted hyenas.

The latter looked around with disdain.

Maori Xiu immediately drank the samurai.

"Explain to him that we are the Choshu clan and not the Tenryo, we are not retainers of the Tokugawa family, and we are not the Tokugawa family here, so it is not right for them to come to us. It is impossible for us to know about the trade between the Tokugawa clan and the Hu people, and according to the Lockdown Decree, we cannot trade privately with foreign countries, and only the Tsushima clan is responsible for trade with Korea, and even if there is a sale of rice, it can only be sold to the Tsushima clan, and they can go to the Soyoshi family to verify it. ”

He said patiently.

If you are impatient, you can't do it, if you are not patient, Hagi Castle will be destroyed, and there will be thousands of gates on the sea.

The retainer hastened to explain with the same patience.

"He said that the Zongyi family said that it had not been sold, and the Zongyi family did not know who sold it!"

Then he quickly relayed the reply.

Tsushima is not stupid, in fact, Tsushima and Busan have a close relationship, and there are merchant houses in the Ming concession to trade, as soon as they heard that the army was going to be punished for this incident, the Zongyi family quickly cleared themselves by bribing Zheng Chenggong. However, the Soyoshi family did not remind the Maori family of their obligation, and they reported to the Tokugawa family at most, but given the speed of information transmission at this time, it is estimated that the Tokugawa Iemitsu in Edo knew the news for at least half a month, but the Soyoshi family also got what they wanted......

Then the Ming army quickly bypassed them.

Similarly, the Tsushima clan continued to do business through the merchant houses in Busan, and shiploads of Ming goods were loaded in Busan and continued to be delivered to Tsushima, while the Soyi clan was responsible for selling to the other feudal clans of the Wa Kingdom, but the unfortunate Maori Shu had to fall from the sky.

I have to say that he is also very innocent!

But who put him in a tragic position?

There are less than 200 kilometers of waterway from Busan!

"They believe what the Zongyi family says, but they don't believe what we say? Zongyi's family is close at hand, they don't bully, but they come to bully when we are far away? They didn't go to the Tokugawa family, they didn't go to Nagasaki to find Nagasaki, they didn't go to Iwami to find Iwamimori, and they didn't even go to the Kuroda family, so why did they have to come to Hagi Castle to commit violence? Am I the one who can be humiliated? ””

The Maori show finally broke out, and he got up and said angrily.

He also drew a knife when he spoke.

The samurai immediately drew their swords, and the red-clothed giant, who was surrounded by them, looked around casually, and then continued to laugh at the Maori Hide, who was more than a head shorter than himself......

"Are you done with your show?"

He said in Japanese.