Today is a calm and sunny day. щ.. lā

The sea in spring is the same as the land, and the weather is very delicate and calm, so you don't need to worry too much about the weather conditions when going to sea in spring, especially if you are sailing from Shandong to Japan for a short distance.

Early in the morning, Wu Zhi led the delegation to board the ship at the port.

The ship is a three-story multi-masted hybrid sailing ship, about 50 meters long and 10 meters wide, the wooden ship is all hooped with iron hoops, equipped with dozens of guns on both sides, and can carry thousands of soldiers to fight on the water. It is currently the most advanced warship of the Great Song Dynasty and the flagship ship of the Qingzhou Army stationed in the sea camp.

At present, only the Great Song Dynasty has the technology and strength to manufacture such a large warship in the world, and this ship also represents the most advanced shipbuilding technology in the world today.

However, in Wu Zhi's view, although this so-called battleship has gathered many amazing skills, it is really not worth mentioning in terms of combat effectiveness. Because the main structure of the ship in the Great Song Dynasty is still a wooden structure, Wu Zhi is from the perspective of a 21st century person, wooden nature is not as good as a steel warship, if any country dares to use wood to make a ship, it will be bombarded into slag in minutes...... When the flagship-level warships of the Great Song Dynasty are all made of steel, they will enter the Martial Cultivation Eye.

This is also one of the original intentions of Wu Zhi when he approved the construction of Penglai Port and Qingdao Port, which is to build the Great Song Shipbuilding Base in the two ports and build ironclad warships!

Although the construction of ironclad warships requires the support of a large number of basic industries such as smelting, steel, coal, and lathes, but now Dasong Technology is developing rapidly with Qingzhou University as the core, and the basic industry will gradually improve, and the shipbuilding industry will gradually progress.

At least now the hoop iron ring is already known outside the flagship of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is not far from filling the hull with the iron hoop.

Although it is not far from Shandong to Japan, it is not close, and the sea route is the slowest, so it will take at least ten days to reach Japan. Although the ship was well supplied, Wu Zhi still ordered someone to move a large number of fresh vegetables and fruits to pound the ship before he got on the ship, and there were many weak scholars in the accompanying group on the ship, such as Meng Tao and Qin Hui, he didn't want them to lack vitamin C halfway and get sepsis or something.

In fact, Wu Zhi still thought too much, the symptoms and treatment methods of sepsis had been spread among the Great Song Water Army, and he also brought the divine doctor An Daoquan on this trip, so there was no risk of sepsis at all on the ten-day sea route.

Under the send-off of Liu An, Wu Song, Sun Erniang and others, the big ship set sail slowly, and under the escort of six warships of the Qingzhou Navy led by Yang Zhi, it sailed to Japan.

When the ship first lifted anchor, Wu Zhi and Song Jiang, Qin Hui, Shi Qian, Ning Yuan, Meng Tao and others stood on the deck and felt the pleasant sea breeze and the magnificent sea.

But within a day, Wu Zhi and the others couldn't get up one by one, because their group of inland people collectively began to get dizzy, dizzy all day long, and vomited all kinds of meat and vegetables...... In addition to Han Shizhong, Liang Hongyu and Shi Qian, these few people who can do light work, even An Dao are all seasick and bedridden.

At first, An Daoquan also bragged that everyone who was seasick could find him for acupuncture to ensure that the three needles were effective.

This will make him dizzy, who would dare to ask him for a needle......

Fortunately, seasickness and altitude sickness are similar, both of which are an adaptation response of the human body to the environment, and after slowly adapting to this environment, Wu Zhi and they gradually recovered their mental state.

It is rare to enjoy the leisure time of sea travel, this morning, the sun is shining, the sea and the sky are blue, Wu Zhi took a delegation to the bow deck, set up a shelf, built a carbon fire, brought fresh seafood, dipped in sesame oil cumin condiment, and started a bow barbecue >

In fact, the ship has strict control of open flames, and even the captain does not dare to light an open fire on the deck... It's also a barbecue, but who is Wu Zhi, even if he sets fire to this warship, no one dares to do anything to him, who dares to say anything about having a barbecue party for entertainment?

The bow barbecue party was relatively free, and the group made dozens of fire buckets, sat around in twos and threes, chatting while eating barbecue, and drinking a few sips of wine, which was really not moisturizing.

Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu sat facing each other, and Han Shizhong was thoughtfully helping Liang Hongyu skewer the squid; Shi Qian sat with Zhang Long and Zhao Hu together, drinking wine and eating meat in large chunks; On the other side, An Daoquan chatted with Meng Tao very speculatively; And Wu Zhi, Song Jiang, Qin Hui, Ning Yuan, and Suzuki Nobunaga were sitting together, asking Suzuki Nobunaga about the current situation of Japan.

"So, we don't need to go to Kyoto to meet your Japanese emperor on this trip, we only need to get the Miyamoto family in Nagasaki, Kyushu to take Goto?"

Takeshi peeled off a large lobster that had just been examined, and asked Nobunaga while picking up the shrimp meat inside with a small silver fork.

According to Nobunaga's introduction, Japan is now in the Heian period when the emperor was in decline and local lords were rising, and the current name of Kyoto in Japan is "Heiankyo". Because Japan stipulated that the lords of the manors owned private land in perpetuity and had the right to recruit troops, and because Japan did not have enough credit to its counterparts, local transactions were mostly bartered or, more popularly, the Great Song currency.

Therefore, the current Japanese emperor has no money, no soldiers, and no power at all, and the lords of the manors continue to annex the land and organize the armed forces to expand their power, and now Japan has formed an invisible warlord separatist situation, and those manor owners are warlords everywhere, which is also the reason why Japan soon entered the shogunate era of real warlord melee.

And now in Japan, the southernmost island of Kyushu The most powerful manor lord is the Miyamoto Nobo family, and the five islands are the territory of the Miyamoto family.

"Yes, if you want to take Goto, you only need to negotiate with the Miyamoto family."

Nobunaga did not know that there were gold mines on the five islands, and Takesik's statement on this mission was to buy the five islands and establish an ocean-going port on them, which is very credible because the Song Dynasty's trade with Japan and Korea is becoming more and more frequent.

Nobunaga continued: "And the Miyamoto family has always admired the culture of the Great Song Dynasty the most, Kyushu Island is located in the southernmost part of Japan, close to the Great Song Dynasty, and the largest trading partner of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce in Japan is the Miyamoto family. I've always been friends with the Miyamoto family, and as far as I know, they also admire you, Master Wu! ”

"Oh?"

Wu Zhi was a little proud when he heard this, and he didn't expect that he was also a little famous abroad......

But if you think about it, the Great Song Dynasty is a veritable cultural center in East Asia, **** Shangguo, but if the Great Song Dynasty is popular, it will definitely form an atmosphere in the surrounding countries in the near future; Celebrities of the Great Song Dynasty, such as Su Shi and Ouyang Xiu, often caused a greater sensation when their poems and songs were transmitted to other countries where culture was scarce than in their own country.

Japanese merchant ships would purchase large quantities every time they came to the Great Song Dynasty...... And selling out of stock in Japan is a good example.

Wu Zhi has a certain status in the literati circle of the Great Song Dynasty, and has golden sentences such as "If life is only as first seen...", he became a high-ranking official of the country at a young age, and it is natural for him to be famous in Japan...... Maybe it's still the idol dream lover in the hearts of thousands of Japanese girls!

Taking a bite of prawns and taking a sip of wine, Wu Zhi couldn't help but sigh: It's a pity that in later generations, Europe and the United States are the center of world culture, and a European and American singer or actor who sings one or two songs or acts in one or two popular movies and TV series will immediately become popular all over the world, while Chinese local singers and actors, even if there are many classic works, are mostly unknown in the world.

Chinese young people also feel superior and compelled by being able to shout the nicknames of several European and American stars...... These things will never happen to the young people of the Great Song Dynasty.

Not only will it not happen, if the citizens of the Great Song Dynasty go abroad, they can be arrogant wherever they go, envied by foreigners, and full of the superiority of the **** civilization state.

"What about the Miyamoto family's detailed power? How big is the territory, and how many troops are under your command? ”

Qin Hui asked leisurely, which immediately made Nobunaga's face a little frightened.

"Nobunaga-kun doesn't have to think about it, Lord Qin just asks casually, and you can talk to us......"

Takeshi smiled slightly, and Nobunaga's back was cold when he laughed, but he had already gotten on Takeshi's thief ship, so he didn't have too many doubts, so he could only tell the truth what he knew.

"There are dozens of big lords in Japan, and the Miyamoto family is the largest lord in the Kyushu region, occupying the land of the tenth of Kyushu, and has more than 10,000 troops under his command!"

"Only 10,000 people?"

Wu Zhi blurted out, he really couldn't imagine that he went to Japan on behalf of the dignified Song Dynasty with the official position of Zhengyipin this time, and what he saw was just a small commander with 10,000 troops......

Qin Hui Ningyuan and the others also looked at Wu Zhi with a subtle expression, if they knew that the Miyamoto family only had 10,000 troops, what would it cost, just send the Qingzhou army to destroy them and forcibly occupy the five islands!

Not to mention sending the Qingzhou army, even the thousands of Qingzhou troops under Yang Zhi, who are now escorting the Wuzhi mission, if they command it properly and launch a surprise blitzkrieg against the Miyamoto family, it is very likely that the Miyamoto family will be destroyed......

Of course, after coming back to their senses a little, Wu Zhi and the others knew that this kind of idea was not realistic, because if the Great Song Dynasty attacked the Miyamoto family and seized Kyushu, the other lords of Japan would definitely not agree, and once they fought in Japan for a long time, it would be extremely unfavorable to the Great Song Dynasty.

And from the warlord's point of view, the 10,000 troops of the Miyamoto family are not small. After all, warlords are not state-to-country, they need a large number of standing armies to guard the border gates, and the warlords are still the power of one country on the whole, but they occupy their own territory, and the common people can still communicate freely with each other.

"So is the Miyamoto family's position solid?"

Wu Zhi continued to ask, in fact, the purpose of Qin Hui's investigation just now is this, after all, the domestic political situation in Japan is unstable, they don't want to just negotiate with the Miyamoto family, and in a few days, the Miyamoto family will be destroyed by other lords, and then they will have to negotiate again.

"Rest assured, Kyushu Island is the largest island in southern Japan, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Miyamoto family occupies most of the island of Kyushu, and only the north is occupied by a few small vassal families, which is not a threat. Nobunaga replied, "And there are two forces in the northern Shikoku Island and the Chugoku region that are far less powerful than the lord of the Miyamoto family, and they don't care about Kyushu." And the Miyamoto family is prosperous, and the two sons of Miyamoto Taro are very motivated, I estimate that the Miyamoto family can stand in Kyushu for at least a hundred years! ”

"That's good!"

Wu Zhi and the others finally relaxed and raised their glasses to Nobunaga-kun, and Nobunaga was naturally flattered.

However, Takeshi remembered that the end of the Heian period in Japan was the shogunate period, and the scuffle between warlords in the shogunate era was more serious, and he didn't know if the Miyamoto family could keep their territory.

However, Takeshiki only knows a little about Japanese history, and he doesn't know whether Japan will enter the shogunate era in his lifetime, and he doesn't know whether the Miyamoto family is bull x bull x cow x no cow x cow x no one in Japanese history...... He only knew that there was a sword saint named Miyamoto Musashi in ancient Japan, and he didn't know if it had anything to do with the current Miyamoto family......

Although his mind is in a mess, Wu Zhi doesn't care too much, no matter how he develops Japan, let's get the gold mine in his hands first, and after the Great Song Dynasty has a gold mine economic foundation and takes off, it is easy to directly send a few teams of ironclad destroyers, destroyers, cruisers or something to destroy Japan and include it in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty!

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