"You know what we're saying?"

Mao Lixiu held on to the handle of the knife and said in amazement.

"Did I say I didn't understand your words? Do you think our general will send a messenger who does not understand your language? If you speak Korean yourself from the beginning, then I will have to let my house slaves talk to you! To re-introduce, Luo Lie, a staff officer of the Staff Office of the Beiyang Naval Division of the Ming Dynasty, and a native of Nagasaki, the mother of the contemptible man, of course, she is filthy, so we don't have to continue to discuss this issue.

Let's discuss a little practical. ”

A certain old pirate under Zheng Zhilong's old pirate bought in Nagasaki and born to a filthy woman, Luo Lie, the current staff officer of the Ming Beiyang Naval Division, walked straight to the guest seat and sat down.

Mao Lixiu waved his hand very sensibly, and the samurai with an average height of one meter and four quickly put away their swords and stood on both sides again, while he retreated to his main seat and sat down, looking at Luo Lie with a gloomy face. In fact, Luo Lie sitting on his seat is already a humiliation, after all, his mother is a filthy person, of course, as Luo Lie said, there is no need to continue to discuss this now, let's discuss something practical!

"Daimyo, please forgive us for taking the liberty of it!"

Luo Lie said very frankly.

"Presumptuous, this is your presumptuousness?"

Maori Xiu pointed to the half-collapsed castle tower outside and gritted his teeth.

"Daimyo, we, as soldiers, must follow the orders of our superiors, and the order we received is to strike at all the cities along the coast of Wakoku, and Hagi Castle is only the first stop, of course, we all know that the Daimyo is innocent, but ......"

Luo Lidun.

"I beg your pardon, he's also a soldier!"

Then he lowered his head and said apologetically.

Of course, Mao Lixiu knew who he was talking about, Zheng Zhilong's son became the commander of the Ming navy in the north, this is not news, Zheng Chenggong has been rampant on the Yellow Sea for many years. Although the title of Wa Guo still made him very unpleasant, it was not important at this time, the important thing was that he quickly heard what Luo Lie meant, the Ming army did not come only to bully him, the target of the Ming army's bullying was the entire Wa State......

Then you should hurry up!

We didn't stop you, and we won't bother you, you hurry up and bomb somewhere else, there is Iwami Tenryo to the north, and Fukuoka Castle of the Kuroda family to the south, you have a bunch of targets in front of you, there is no need to waste too many shells here with me.

"Samurai must indeed obey orders!"

Maori Xiu said with his head bowed.

"You are such an open-minded and truly respectable elder! Now that you understand our difficulties, please forgive us for the ...... we are going to do."

Luo Lie said movingly.

"What else are you going to do?"

Maori Xiu said with a cold sweat on his head.

"Well, according to the order of the Grand Governor's Office, we need to land and carry out a deep attack on the Japanese mainland, including the capture of coastal cities, so as to facilitate the arrival of subsequent reinforcements. We're sorry, but Hagi Castle is a great target, so please forgive the Daimyo for our offense and we'll take over your city! ”

Luo Lie bowed his head apologetically and said.

The warriors roared in an instant, and then they drew their swords and jumped out.

Then there was a strange whistling above their heads, and then under a jaw-dropping gaze, a dark shadow fell in an instant in the elegant courtyard outside, bounced off the ground with a splash of dirt and then fell again, rolling out with a faint trail of smoke under the cherry blossom trees. Then it turned into an explosion of flames, a loud explosion mixed with gunpowder dust, wood and flower petals, crashing in like the winds before a summer rainstorm. The room erupted in screams of terror, and several loyal samurai immediately pounced on Maori Shuto, and in this seemingly apocalyptic chaos, only Luo Lie remained motionless while sitting upright......

"Daimyo, in fact, we have another choice!"

He brushed off the petals on his body and said.

Mori Shu struggled out from beneath the samurai who were pressed down on him, and looked at the cherry blossom trees that had been blown off with trepidation.

"Please, please!"

He said with a deep breath.

"Actually, the order of the Metropolitan Governor's Office is for us to choose the landing site for this time, Hagi Castle is indeed very suitable, who let you be the closest to us! Our first stop from Busan was Hagijo. But Hagijo isn't the only one, and if the Daimyo can help us choose a more suitable one, pay for the shells we wasted this time, and then provide some comfort for our soldiers, then we can consider a different landing place. ”

Luo Lie said.

"How much do you want?"

Maori Xiu quickly sobered up, and he said without hesitation.

"20,000 Qing Chang Xiao Sentence!"

Luo Lie said.

"No, I'd rather fight!"

Maori Xiu said about the retainer.

The Keicho small judgment is a gold coin, a piece is less than 18 grams, and 20,000 Qingchang small judgment is also a really huge amount of money for a big name, you must know that the stone of the Changzhou domain is only 370,000, that is to say, the output of the entire Changzhou domain in a year, pay attention to the output, not the financial revenue, this is only 370,000. After deducting the food and drink of the common people, the consumption of the retainers and samurai, and the necessary contributions to the shogunate, the final fall into the hands of the daimyo was almost gone, and it was not uncommon for the daimyo to borrow money to get by.

And a small judgment of 20,000 yuan can buy at least more than 60,000 stone rice......

Actually, it's not much.

Be ruthless to the common people, basically you can scavenge it out in a year, of course, there is still a gap between it and the actual operation, after all, the farmers of the Choshu Domain like to do things, and this is also well-known within the Wa Kingdom.

"That's a pity!"

Luo Lie said.

"Honorable Daimyo, I think you have to watch the destruction of Hagi Castle, and your father's spirit in the sky may not be able to rest in peace!"

He stood up and added.

After saying that, he was about to go out......

"Wait a minute!"

Maori Xiu suddenly shouted.

Luo Lie turned his head.

"I can pay this money and give you some fish and rice, and you must keep your promise to get out of here immediately."

Maori Xiu said.

"You haven't told us where to go?"

Luo Lie said.

"You can go wherever you want!"

Maori Xiu gritted his teeth and said.

"No, no, we won't leave Hagi Castle without telling us where to go, we don't know anything about the Wa Kingdom, how would we know if we didn't have your guidance, attacking there would be the only way to bring your ruler to his knees?"

Luo Lie said.

"Then go to Fukuoka!"

Maori Xiu said viciously.

"No, we need to make a U-turn to Fukuoka, it's not good for our course, and besides, the Kuroda family in Fukuoka still has some friendship, and it's not good for us to run to bombard their city."

Luo Lie said.

"Then go to Iwami, Iwami Castle, Tokuura, Iwami Ginzan, whichever is fine, don't you want to punish Japan? Then go and punish the Tokugawa family, as long as you take down the Tokuura and attack inside the silver mountain fence, as long as you take Iwami Castle and Yataki Castle, the Tokugawa family will give in to you! ”

Maori Xiu roared like crazy.

"Ah, thank you very much for reminding us, we will definitely report to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and ask for credit to the prison state for you, you have made a great contribution to the peace between the Ming and the Japanese!"

After Luo Lie finished speaking, he left satisfied.

"Lord, Tokugawa Iemitsu will definitely trouble the lord, they will deliberately advertise that you taught them to attack Iwami!"

The retainer said in fear.

"Tokugawa Iemitsu? I'm afraid he won't have the time to trouble others in the future, don't you still understand what Mingren wants to do? War for a few boatloads of rice? Do you believe such excuses? They are just a sin that they want to add, this is just the beginning, and there will be no peace in the future in the Wa Kingdom, as for Tokugawa Iemitsu, let's solve the greed of the Ming people first! As for us, just look at the excitement, remember that my father is Mori Terumoto, the Mori family is not a Tokugawa retainer, and the Mori family used to submit to Toyotomi Hideyoshi instead of Tokugawa Ieyasu! ”

Maori Xiu sneered.

"Give him everything this pariah wants, give him a small sentence of 20,000 yuan, give them food, fish, these Ming people eat meat, then give them more meat, find someone to find a way to mix in their boat, and show them the way to Tokuura, I want to see how Tokugawa Iemitsu faces the loss of Iwami Ginzan next!"

He went on to say.

Then he smirked a few times, but his smile quickly faded as he looked at the half-collapsed castle tower in the distance.

Three days later, the well-harvested Beiyang sailors left Hagi Castle, and two days later they raided Toupa under the leadership of a traitor, seizing the four silver-carrying ships that had just been loaded, and capturing 50,000 pieces of Keicho Ding silver in one fell swoop. Immediately afterwards, the accompanying marines broke through the Iwami Ginzan Daikan Office, but were counterattacked by the defenders such as Yataki Castle and the miners of Ginzan, and the Ming army, which lacked enough space to stand in the mountains, withdrew from Tokuura......

After all, there are 200,000 miners in Iwami Ginzan.

The landing of hundreds of Ming troops was still very helpless in the face of miners who were almost all over the mountains.

Also, the terrain here is not suitable.

Iwami Silver Mountain is a true mountainous area, and the three mountain castles, including Iwami Castle, guard a huge fence that encloses the entire silver mining area, and nearly 200,000 miners mine silver and gold under the supervision of the defenders of the three castles. This area is only a few dozen miles in total, which is very convenient for army mobilization and personnel organization, and as the economic lifeblood of the Tokugawa shogunate, the people stationed here are also elite, and it is indeed difficult for a small Ming army to bargain.

But it doesn't matter.

Because the plan of the Ming army was not to use a few hundred marines to capture Iwami Ginzan.

Immediately after that, the Ming army marched north to occupy Oki Island, which had almost no defense, and then a whole brigade of marines set off from Pusan to Oki Island, where they recruited local Japanese to build forts with a large amount of money. At the same time, the Ming fleet blockaded the coasts of Iwami, Izumo and other places, and shelled all the ships that sailed out, and even the fishing boats of the Wa Kingdom became their targets. In addition, small groups of Ming troops continued to land on the coast, and snatched grain and livestock from coastal villages, and even captured people, and the entire coast from Noto to Iwami was in panic.

What's more......

Iwami Ginzan's food supply was also cut off.