Zhao Guoliang heard Yang Shilong say a long list of names, and his head was said to rise, but he didn't expect that there would be so many feudal lords and daimyo in a big place. Just like this Fukue Domain, I heard that the stone is 12,000 stone high, and it is still in the middle of the country, and it seems that the Wa Kingdom is not rich!

Japan now resembles the feudal system of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, where the emperor stays in Kyoto as the nominal head of state, and the people of the whole country are placed under the control of the shogun and the "daimyo" of each domain.

The Tokugawa shogunate in Edo owned a domain that accounted for a quarter of the country's peasants' rent, and a portion of the domain was given to the samurai "Hajimoto" and "Goke" who were directly subordinate to him, called "garichi", and the rest was in the hands of the shogun.

In addition to the domains directly under the shogun, about 70 percent of the land was divided among the 270 daimyo in the country, and each of the daimyo held territories ranging from 10,000 koku to 1,200,000 koku. They distributed the annual tribute in the territory to their courtiers, who in turn gave the "old man" rice. The daimyo were under the control of the shogun and had political, economic, and military obligations to the shogunate, but they were the supreme absolute monarchs in their domains, with financial, military, judicial, and administrative powers.

The generals and samurai classes were granted and received through the layers of feudal domains and rumi, and formed a relationship of monarch and minister, master and subordinate. The daimyō, the flagbook, and the imperial family swore allegiance to the shogun's heavy burden of public and military service. Retainers, samurai, and family elders were also required to serve the shogun and their respective "lords" with all their loyalty. The entire ruling class consisted of shoguns, daimyos, and samurai all the way up to "ashigaru". In order to control the daimyo of the whole country, the shogunate placed the feudal clans and geneashiro in the important areas of Kanto,, and the East China Sea, while the daimyo of the foreign daimyo were required to move to remote areas such as Tohoku, Chugoku (San'in and Sanyo provinces of Honshu), and Kyushu, and also intersected the domains of the various feudal domains to contain each other.

Zhao Guoliang's head was big when he heard Yang Shilong's explanation, and he quickly interrupted and said, "Okay, okay!" How many feudal lords were there around Nagasaki? ”

"Lord Hui, there are a total of twenty-one daimyo on Kyushu Island, and there are three at the level of the lord of the country!"

"That's good, repair here for a few days, go to Nagasaki to grab it first!"

Nagasaki was less than 200 miles away from Fukue Island, and Zhao Guoliang led his men to complete the renovation of Fukue Island and set sail for Nagasaki on September 15.

The port of Nagasaki was part of Hizen Province in ancient times, and at that time it was just a poor seaside area. In 1550, Portuguese ships boarded Hirado for the first time, and the port of Nagasaki, which opened in 1570, became a trading port for Portugal, and a large amount of Western culture flowed into Nagasaki. Later, Dutch and Chinese merchants also came to Nagasaki to trade.

With the arrival of the Portuguese and then the Spaniards, Catholicism spread rapidly in Japan. By the eighties of the sixteenth century, there were more than 200 churches in the east and Satsuma in the west, with about 150,000 believers.

After Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Edo shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu felt threatened in the face of the growing Catholic power and ordered a "ban on Christianity". At this time, the Shimabara Domain on the island of Kyushu was headed by Matsukura Shigemasa, who carried out a brutal and bloody suppression of Catholics. After Matsukura Shigemasa's death in 1630, his son Matsukura Katsuie succeeded him as the lord of the domain, which was even more brutal. In the Karatsu Domain, a close neighbor of the Shimabara Domain, to which Amakusa Island belonged, Catholics were also treated inhumanely. Since 1634, natural disasters have occurred in the Shimabara and Amakusa areas, and the people have struggled to make ends meet. Under the brutal rule of the shogunate, the Shimabara War, the largest peasant uprising in the Edo period, finally broke out.

In 1641, after the Shimabara War was put down, Tokugawa Ieyasu saw that he was threatening his rule by spreading Catholicism, so in 1641 he issued the "Lockdown Decree", in which the Tokugawa shogunate explicitly forbade Japanese to leave the country and prohibit Japanese from returning to China, and stipulated that trade relations with foreign countries should only be carried out in Nagasaki, and the objects were limited to China and the Netherlands. In addition, certain local feudal lords traded with specific countries, including the Tsushima clan's clan and Korea, and the Satsuma clan's Shimazu clan and the Ryukyu kingdom.

Nagasaki is the only trading port in Japan, and it is densely populated with merchants, so it is natural that it is also a prison for Katsushige of Nabeshima Island in Hizen Domain. In order to protect its own interests, the Hizen clan stationed 1,000 soldiers in Nagasaki, and the navy was equipped with five main warships, the Ataka Bunes, twelve Sekibunes, and a dozen other Kozawa ships.

The house ship is somewhat like the building ship of the Ming Dynasty, with armor protection made of plates from the bow to the stern, and there are holes for archery and guns on it, and there are no shooting dead spots at all in the front and back, left and right. When approaching an enemy ship, you can also turn the slab downwards to turn it into a bridge to the enemy ship. The bottom of the boat is also designed with waterproof partitions, so that even if part of the boat gets into the water, the boat will not sink.

At that time, the power of the boat was still mainly human paddles, and large Ataka boats even required 100 people to row. The ship can be equipped with cannons, and has extremely high attack and defense capabilities, which can be called a castle on the sea. Sekibune is a small Ataka ship, but the tonnage is much smaller. An Ataka is a large flat-bottomed boat with a shallow draft, a large hull and so many loads, resulting in a very slow movement of the Ataka ship.

Now more than 40 years have passed since the Battle of Sekigahara, and the generals who passed through the Warring States period have almost died, and the inexperienced sailors, coupled with the backward ships, are worried about the sea ships of the Ming army!

From a distance in the port of Nagasaki, a group of large ships like mountains appeared on the sea, and no one except the Dutch had such a large ship on the East Asian sea. But now that the Dutch have been driven away by Zheng Chenggong, where did these ships come from?

The naval army of Nagasaki Port went out of the port to meet the enemy under the leadership of the general, Zhao Guodong looked at the strange-shaped house ship, and said to Li Tinglong: "Lao Li, the naval battle is handed over to you, so many broken ships can be sunk if they collide!" ”

"Your Excellency, just look at it!"

Li Tinglong cheered up, this was the second serious naval battle of the navy after the Battle of Luzon, and the sailors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were bullies. The five big ships at the front of the Japanese naval army on the opposite side were each four or five hundred tons, which was much stronger than the sand boats and ships of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!

"Come, pass the order, all combat ships follow the flagship! Inform the lower decks to get ready for battle! ”

The naval training of the Ming Dynasty was all from the Spaniards, so it was naturally more than the Japanese. The boatswain of the second and third gun decks, having received orders from the pipe bands, ordered the gunners to open the gun doors and raise the powder packs from the lowest ammunition depot to the main deck. At the same time, the deck is sprinkled with fine sand in order to prevent anyone from being injured, and the blood flowing to the deck can easily make people slip. You must know that the artillery deck is either gunpowder or tinder, if you accidentally finish playing together.

The five first-class warships and six second-class warships of the Ming army formed a column and headed for the Japanese naval army more than ten miles away.

The Japanese Navy still retains the tradition of gang jumping, so the deck is full of people. The fleet consisted of five Ataku ships as the core, and the other ships formed a circular formation and headed straight for the Ming Navy.

The navies on both sides were getting closer and closer, and at a distance of one mile, Li Tinglong gave the order, and all ships followed the flagship's left full rudder. Eleven ships of the Ming army made a big maneuver in front of the Japanese navy and seized the T-shape.

The generals of the Japanese Navy didn't know what was going on, and the Ming warships on the opposite side had already opened fire.

The hull of the warship of the Ming Kingdom was like fireworks in later generations, and a piece of gunpowder smoke was shrouded, and hundreds of solid lead bullets were shot out. However, now the distance between the two sides is still a mile, and there is really no guarantee of accuracy, and only a dozen shells hit the opponent's Ataka ship in the first salvo.

At this time, the defensive capability of the Ataka ship was manifested, and a few of them were hit by shells that were completely fine, and the plates on the side of the ship were not penetrated, but one of the ships was unlucky, and it was hit by two 21-pound shells. The twenty-one-pounder gun was on the third deck, with a low ballistic depth, and hit the waterline of the ship, which was quickly sunk by two large holes.

The generals of the Japanese Navy did not expect that the artillery of the Ming Navy had such a long range, and the artillery of their own side had to enter a hundred steps before it could be fired. He looked at the sunken ship, and gave an order for a small morning boat to rescue the sailors who had fallen into the water, and all the other ships to speed up and be sure to get on the Ming army ship.

With the vigorous rowing of the oarsmen of the Japanese Kingdom, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and when the distance was three hundred meters, Li Tinglong ordered all the people to replace them with shotguns, and the heavy artillery on the lowest level was replaced with heartbroken chain bullets.

The distance of 300 meters is the best range of shotguns, and even the steel plate can't stop the shots of the shotgun, let alone the wooden board of the Japanese navy. At the time of the first salvo, half of the hundreds of soldiers on the Ataka ship who were about to jump into the gang were killed. The shotguns used by the navy were the size of eggs, and when they hit the body, they were a hole the size of a bowl, and the ship immediately wailed.

The chain shells of the lower heavy guns were even more heartbreaking, and this special shell used to hit the mast was used to hit the hull of the ship, and the thin wooden planks were immediately penetrated by the chain bullets, and at the same time, the potential energy was undiminished and all the sailors who were paddling in the cabin were interrupted. The ship, which had lost power, immediately crossed the sea.

Li Tinglong saw that there was a advantage to be taken advantage of, and ordered to concentrate firepower on the ship, which had lost power. Under Li Tinglong's order, there were no more people alive on the ship of the two salvos.

This was the case in the past naval battles, if it wasn't really bad luck and was hit below the waterline, it would have been difficult to sink a ship, and of course the sunken ship was really a bit back.

Under the control of skilled sailors, the Ming warships circled around the fleet of the Wa Kingdom like swimming fish, and soon the slow Ataku ships were beaten and lost power, and there were still three ships left, and seeing that the opponent who was not the Ming army fleet turned around and fled to the port of Nagasaki.

It was the first time for Zhao Guoliang to see a naval battle of this scale, and he laughed and said, "Lao Li, it's very good!" This time, I will give you the first credit! ”

Li Tinglong knew that his military merits were extremely heavy, so he hurriedly thanked Zhao Guoliang with a smile.

"Good! Lao Li! Your navy is out of the limelight, and it's up to our army next! ”