Pirates, or pirates, are robbers who specialize in robbing other ships at sea, and are of the same nature as bandits operating on land. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just as the pirates robbed in the busy river sections, the pirates naturally robbed in the sea areas where ships passed, and with the navigation technology of this era, the pirates were active in the coastal waters.

Some pirates are fishermen, and once they encounter a weak boat, they can kill and rob at any time; Others are specially waiting in economically prosperous harbor cities or shipping routes, and have become full-time robbers.

When it comes to pirates in the seas of East Asia, the first thing that comes to many people's minds is the pirates, but in fact, there are many sources of pirates in East Asia, and for the Wakos, they are themselves victims.

When Zhang Yu was in the Wa Kingdom, Sima Da, the head of Anbu Village, and others introduced the national conditions of the Wa Kingdom to him, and the content of the conversation was about the Haikou along the coast of the Wa Kingdom, and there were about four sources of it: the Hao minions in the coastal areas of the Wa Kingdom, the Silla/Baekje Haikou, the Nanban Haikou, and the Sushen Haikou.

When the wealthy clans in the coastal areas of the Wa Kingdom saw the merchant ships passing by the sea in front of them, they would inevitably instruct the fishermen and boatmen under their control to attack the ships and kill people and steal goods, which was a normal thing.

The Silla/Baekje Haikou were in a similar situation, and the sea exchanges between Silla, Baekje and the Wa Kingdom were relatively frequent, and ships traveled back and forth between the Korean Peninsula and the Wa Islands, so they became fat sheep in the eyes of some wealthy families in the coastal areas of Silla and Baekje, and it was natural for them to make a cameo appearance from time to time.

There are islands in the waters south of Tsukushi Oshima in the Wa Kingdom, and the Japanese call the islanders Nanban, and these islanders often go north by boat to harass the feudal states of Chikushi Oshima, and most of the raiding areas are concentrated on the south side of Chikushi Oshima.

"The south side? Isn't the sea where the fleet must pass in between? Did you come across any ships in the waters southwest of Tsukushi Oshima? ”

Yu Wenwen asked, the so-called southern islands where the "Nanban Haikou" lived in the Wa Kingdom should refer to the Ryukyu Islands south of Kyushu Island (Chikushi Oshima), and the aborigines on the island were still in a primitive tribal form at this time.

"When we arrived in the waters southwest of Chikushi Oshima on this voyage, we didn't see a single sail board." Zhang Yu answered truthfully, and seeing that Lord Lang didn't ask, he continued the unfinished topic.

In addition to these three kinds of pirates, there is also a kind of pirates, which are active in the northwest coastal waters of the main island where the capital of the Japanese kingdom is located, and these pirates seem to come from the extremely cold places in the west of the sea.

In the pre-Qin period, the Central Plains called the three major ethnic groups in the Northeast Sushen, Zhanqi and Donghu, and the name of the Sushen clan was "Beji" in the Yuan and Wei dynasties, and now it is also called the Yan Ya.

Many of the Ya tribes were conquered by Goguryeo in Liaodong and the northern part of the peninsula, and some tribes migrated north to escape the enslavement of Goguryeo.

These sporadic tribes mostly fished in the area on their own, and occasionally boats traveled southwest along the coastline and clashed with ships traveling between the Wa kingdom and Baekje and Silla.

Hearing this, Yu Wenwen remembered that there was some famous "Dao Yi into the Kou" in the history of the Wa Kingdom, which was the Northern Song Dynasty in the Central Plains, when the Wa Kingdom had long since been renamed Japan, and its Tsukushi Island had been attacked by powerful pirates.

This group of pirates attacked the coastal villages of Kitakishima in the north, looted property and people, and even stormed Hakata Bay to attack ships berthed, causing chickens and dogs to jump off the northern coastal area of Chikushi Island.

The Japanese court was made to cry without tears by the sudden attack, and only later did it become clear about the origin of this group of pirates: they were Jurchen tribal pirates in the northeastern region of the Central Plains, and the Goryeo people called them "Daoyi".

Yu Wenwen only felt eye-opening when he thought of this: Your hunting scope is not limited to the mountains and forests in the northeast, you have all run to the sea!

"Lord Lang, Master Sima Village confessed in private, the closer we have contact with Minister Su, I am afraid that the more jealousy of some people will be, and the other party is very likely to commit a black hand at that time."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Lord Lang knows that the Soga clan has always had a close relationship with the so-called 'Watarai people', and among the Watarai people, not only the Watarai people from the Central Plains, but also the Watari people from Baekje and Silla are also quite a few Tolai people."

"Your... What the village master Sima meant was that the closer we had a relationship with Su Ma Zi, the more restless the people of Baekje would be, and they would find ways to stop them later? ”

"Yes, although the village master Sima didn't say it explicitly, the meaning is already obvious." Speaking of this, Zhang Yu added: "Although the owner of Sima Village has settled in the Wa Kingdom for decades, no matter how he says it, he also has feelings for the Central Plains. ”

Yu Wenwen groaned, Sima Da and the others' kind reminders were very helpful to him, the opening of the sea trade route of the Japanese State was just to make money by trading, but it was possible to cause a disaster.

Baekje, located in the southwestern part of the Korean Peninsula, fought with Silla in the east against Goguryeo in the north, and Baekje had always had a very close relationship with the Wa Kingdom.

Many of the new wealthy families of the Wa Kingdom were more or less related to Baekje, and among the Wa people, the proportion of Baekje people was no less than that of the Central Plains Watarai people, and the Soga clan, which had always advocated the reuse of the Walai people, was an important partner of Baekje.

Suga Mazi worshiped Buddhism and wanted to promote Buddhism in the Wa Kingdom, and he had always relied on Baekje to provide help, whether it was Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures, or monks, all of them were "produced" by Baekje.

According to Zhang Yu, Sima Da and other nuns who became nuns' daughters, Sima Dao (Shanxin Nun), and several nuns went to Baekje to "study" and practice Buddhism this year, which shows that Baekje has a lot of influence on the Soga clan and even the Wa Kingdom.

Politically, the Renna region, the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, was annexed by Silla dozens of years ago, so the later kings and retainers of the Wa Kingdom were trying to find a way to "regain the lost territory", which required Baekje's assistance.

Therefore, the economic, political, and cultural ties between Baekje and the Wa Kingdom have always been very close, and now that Soga Mako is in charge of the Wa Imperial Court, it is conceivable that Baekje will attach great importance to its relationship with the Soga clan.

The two parties had a happy "married life", but a third party stepped in, and this third party made a generous move, and the priceless Buddha statue of Zhantan can overshadow the Buddha statue that Baekje has given to the Wa Kingdom for decades.

The third party "directly sold" Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist studies from the Central Plains, which were more orthodox than the second-hand Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist studies transmitted by Baekje; The incense brought by the third party is not much higher than the roadside wildflowers in Baekje.

A third party can bring high-end porcelain, silk, cloth, and raw silk, and what else can you send to the poor and remote places of Baekje? Chrysanthemum?

Thinking about it from another perspective, if someone desperately gives gifts to Wei Chi Chifan, coaxing the beautiful woman's heart to bloom and never forget, then Yu Wenwen, as a husband, has only one way to pull out a knife and cut people.

"The kindness of the village lord Sima has been appreciated by the widows, and he will not have to give more gifts in the future." Yuwen Wen smiled slightly, revealing Sensen's white teeth, "The ship that is following you in Hakata Bay seems to be a Baekje ship, you think about it these days, if you have bad intentions over there, how to prevent it." ”