At the end of September, seven three-masted gunboats rushed from Quang Nam to Chongming Island Water Village.

Loaded with new cannons, Man Dazhuang was already ready, three East China Sea Division, seven Guangdong Navy Division, a total of ten three-masted gunboats, plus ten Fu ships loaded with supplies and 1,000 martial artists, forming a fleet of twenty large ships, and then followed the instructions of the imperial court, starting from Chongming and heading for Japan.

The fleet consisted of Man Dazhuang, the governor of the East China Sea Division, as the main general, Yu Fangqi, the general of the Guangdong Naval Division, as the deputy general, Xu Junsheng as the guide, and Wu Shizhao, a director of the Liupin Yuan of the Ministry of Rites.

This Wu Shizhao was originally a talent who had failed many attempts, and there was no hope for the imperial examination, so he had already gone to the South Seas and piloted the merchant ships, but he didn't want him to come and run, so he actually tried twice in a row, and since then he has entered the officialdom again.

When the Ming Dynasty recovered Nanjing, the new emperor ascended the throne, and opened Enke, he happened to return to Guangzhou from Nanyang.

After running through the South Seas a few times, Wu Shizhao is no longer keen on fame, but the people on the same boat always like to joke about his identity as a talent, some people heard that the imperial court opened Enke, so they provoked him and ridiculed him, Wu Shizhao was angry, and he really went to Guangzhou to participate in the exam, but he didn't expect to be lifted.

When the officials beat gongs and drums to report the news, Wu Shizhao had already arrived at the dock and was about to run with the boss of the ship to occupy the city. He didn't have any hope for the middle lift, but he didn't expect that after he put it down, he couldn't get the fame he couldn't ask for, but he won the test and got a fame.

The sailors on the ship who used to laugh at him saw the team of the annunciation, and their jaws fell to the ground, but they didn't expect that Sour Xiucai would really be lifted.

Everyone was stunned, they were very embarrassed, but fortunately, Wu Shizhao and held a grudge, he said goodbye to the boat boss, and went to the Chamber of Commerce to resign from the errand, and after getting the two hundred taels of silver funded by the Chamber of Commerce, he embarked on the road to Nanjing to participate in the imperial examination.

At the time of Wang Yan's reform of the imperial examination, he was not limited to the Eight Shares of Scholars, and his experience in Nanyang, especially after the bloody battle, gave him extremely rich experience that other scholars did not have, so that he performed well in a policy on Nanyang, and was rated as a first-class scholar, and was taken as a jinshi, and then immediately asked for it by the Lifan Yuan.

This time, he traveled with the fleet, first, to solve the Ryukyu problem, and secondly, to be in charge of negotiations and communication with the Tokugawa shogunate and the Shimazu clan before the Shimazu clan released the main courtyard Qian Bingji.

Ten gunboats, three masts, four feet high main mast, twenty feet long, five cabins, the deck of the building as high as a city, can accommodate 300 people, with 48 large and small guns.

The gunboat raised its huge sails and rode the wind and waves in front, and its tall hull was like a fortress on the sea, not afraid of the wind and waves, and sailed quickly, leaving ten lucky ships far behind.

The fleet did not sail directly to Japan, but first went to Ryukyu to resupply, and at the same time as the supply, more than 1,000 warriors landed in Ryukyu and took control of Satoshou Castle without much effort.

When the Ming fleet arrived at Lishou, the Ryukyuan people looked at the giant ships on the sea, and they were shocked, and a thousand warriors wore saucer helmets and light armor, and rushed to Shuri Castle with their own fire guns with spurs, killing more than 40 samurai wielding katana, and the Ryukyu army in the hands of the pro-Japanese faction immediately abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and then the Ryukyu king began to purge the pro-Japanese faction.

Some pro-Japanese factions had already fled by boat after seeing the huge Ming gunboats entering the port, and some of those who did not have time to flee in a hurry were arrested by the Ming army and directly beheaded.

The "Thirty-six Surnames of the Min People" who moved into Ryukyu during the Hongwu period were activated by the King of the Ryukyus, and the Ryukyu government was re-established, and the envoys of gratitude were prepared to go to Nanjing to worship the Heavenly Dynasty.

Ryukyu is a small country, and the Shimazu clan took control of Ryukyu overnight with 3,000 soldiers.

The Shimazu clan did not garrison the Ryukyus, but only sent a few officials and forty or fifty samurai, so it was a no-brainer for the Ming army to control the Ryukyus.

The Ryukyus were subject states of the Ming Dynasty, and the actions of the Ming army were reasonable, not only to help the Ryukyus get rid of the Shimazu clan, but also to show a tough attitude to the Japanese shogunate and the Satsuma domain.

The Ryukyus were small, and it was not worth mentioning that the fleet stayed in the Ryukyus for only three days, replenished with fresh water and food, and then continued its voyage to Japan.

At night, on the full boat, Wu Shizhao stood on the ship's floor, watching the stars at night, he had done pilotage and looked at the charts, and could judge the location of the fleet.

"Master Wu, it's not far from Kagoshima!" Man Dazhuang on the side asked.

"With my observation, we will be in Kagoshima in two days!" Wu Shizhao turned around and said, "However, Mandu Governor, according to the will of the imperial court, we must first go to Edo, where the Tokugawa shogunate is located. The Shimazu clan is the daimyo of the Tokugawa shogunate, and we still have to look at the attitude of the owner first when we beat the dog. ”

The Shimazu clan's private attack on the Ming Dynasty mission made the Tokugawa shogunate very annoyed and embarrassed.

In order to restore trade between China and Japan, the Tokugawa family made a lot of efforts, throwing an olive branch for so many years, and finally in exchange for the resumption of exploration and trade in the Ming Kingdom. Now that the Shimazu clan has given him such a hand, there is a danger that Sino-Japanese trade will be interrupted again, and the Tokugawa family is naturally annoyed.

The purpose of the Shimazu family's doing this, the Tokugawa family naturally knew that this had damaged the interests of the Edo shogunate, but the state of Japan, each daimyo had a strong independence, and the strength was not weak, so that the Tokugawa family did not dare to act easily.

After this incident, it was inevitable that the Tokugawa family would suppress and gradually deprive the Shimazu family of their domain, but at this time, the Shimazu clan gave him a problem.

The Tokugawa family wanted to maintain good relations with the Ming Kingdom, but after all, the Shimazu clan was a foreign daimyo under his rule, and the shogunate, as the nominal central government of Japan, was too close to the Ming country and persecuted the Satsuma Domain.

Edo Castle, Honmaru, Castle Tower, Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna, with a hanging crown on his head, a black robe on his body, a large striped hakama inside, a flat waist, a fan in his hand, sitting on a tatami mat, and on either side of him, sitting on the big and middle of the Tokugawa family.

"島津光長い襲撃明国使節団を否定したことで、明国要求Shogunate に説明するとしなければならない、皆さんはどのように見!" Tokugawa Ietsuna spoke.

The Tokugawa clan sent to the Satsuma clan to ask the Shimazu clan to send the Ming envoy to Edo, and was ready to seek the forgiveness of the Ming country, but the Shimazu clan refused to admit that there was an attack on the Ming envoy, and the Ming Dynasty asked the shogunate to give an explanation, after all, the Satsuma domain was the daimyo of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Now the Tokugawa family is flying in trouble, and there is no benefit, but they are caught in a dilemma on both sides.

In the hall, several bigwigs listened to Tokugawa Ietsuna's words, and one of them opened his mouth and said: "この事はshogunateは明国の脅迫を受けてはならない!" ”

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