During the shogunate period in Japan, the policy of closing the country was implemented, which is a bit similar to China during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the reasons for the two sides are somewhat different. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The reason for Japan's seclusion was relatively simple, the core issue of the content of the "Lockdown Order" was to prohibit the spread of Catholicism and the shogunate to control foreign trade, and after the Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Catholics in 1637, the shogunate even more strongly banned Christianity.

As for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was relatively complicated, first, to prevent the spread of Western culture and Catholicism, and second, to retaliate against Western countries for their reluctance to engage in tributary trade.

However, the difference between Japan's seclusion was that the shogunate was in charge of a major policy of seclusion for their own foreign trade rights, and as the only person who could obtain trade with the shogunate, the main focus of the Zheng Zhilong clique was on trade with Japan.

In addition to attaching great importance to trade with Japan, the main reason was that this was his main economic lifeline, the Zheng family had a large private armed force, and the amount of money and food needed to be consumed every year was innumerable, and the little money allocated by the imperial court alone was absolutely not enough, so he had to find a way to make money from other places.

The strength of the Zheng family, coupled with the strong existence of sea power, made the maritime merchants of the coastal generation of the Ming Dynasty dare not easily offend him, so they have to choose to give in or cooperate, and the consequence of this situation in the long run is that the Zheng family has no one in their eyes and does not take anyone else in their eyes at all.

For a small country like Australia, they didn't think about what huge waves it could make, so they dared to be so arrogant and presumptuous to let Australia lower the price and give him the agency directly.

Since the Zheng family did not want to negotiate peace, they could only choose war to solve the problem, and after obtaining the authorization and consent of the Executive Committee, Wu Zhengdao and others had already packed up and boarded the Perfect Ship early the next morning, and drove out of the dock and headed for Quanzhou when the sky was still bright.

The Zheng family's scouts observed everything in their eyes, and did not go back to report to Zheng Zhibao until the other party disappeared into the sea, the fifth child of the Zheng family, Zheng Zhibao, after thinking about it, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, because they didn't see the direction of the perfect number going to sea, but they just saw the sea, and before going to sea, they moved all the things on the shore, and no one stayed, and asked those Ming people who worked, and the answer was that the owner had something to do, but the salary had been paid for half a year.

There seems to be some kind of conspiracy in it, and Zheng Zhilong wants to find the details to find the answer, but he can't think of where it happened.

At this time, it didn't make much sense for him to stay, since the Australians had disappeared, he could only leave some people to stay and observe, and he took some people back to Fuzhou to make a business.

The purpose of the Perfect is thirty nautical miles off the coast of Quanzhou, where the distance is relatively far away, and there are relatively few passing ships, according to the information provided by Yan Jianye, the Zheng family will have at least one or two ships from the Quanzhou dock every day to Japan.

The route marker map on the sea was also provided by Yan Jianye, and the reason why he knew it was so secret was that he had a secret agent in the Zheng family's fleet.

When he heard that the Australians were going to teach the Zheng family a lesson, he was both excited and a little worried, after all, the Australians were weak and might not be able to win if they really wanted to compete with the Zheng family, so there were great variables here.

However, it is still okay to provide Australian charts and news, after all, he also wants to see the Zheng family deflated, if he is really taught a lesson, then he will follow the Australians in the future, and no one will dare to touch him.

They are all extremely smart people, providing news to Australia, and letting Australia test the strength of the Zheng family, no matter what happens in the end, he will not suffer, and maybe he can get some benefits.

Of course, he will not leak a flaw and be discovered by the Zheng family, otherwise with his strength, it will not be enough for the Zheng family to plug their teeth.

The Zheng family's ships transported more miscellaneous things to Japan, cloth, grain, sugar, salt, and the like, and the cargo ships from Quanzhou are said to be mainly carrying silk, which are used by the Japanese upper class

A boatload of silk can probably make a profit of 70,000 to 80,000 taels of silver, because the Zheng family is the only monopoly supplier, so the price will be relatively high, but the Japanese shogunate also consumes, this money is nothing to them, they just need to hire someone to dig silver mines.

The ore became an item that could be enjoyed, which was cost-effective for the shogunate rulers, but at the same time it meant huge profits for the Zheng family.

What the Perfect has to do is to wait for the Zheng family merchant ships off the coast of Quanzhou, the Zheng family is the well-deserved overlord of the East China Sea, all the ships running on the sea, only need to hang a Zheng flag, the pirates do not dare to rob the ship easily, because they are afraid of the revenge of Zheng Zhilong, who was also born as a pirate.

Zheng Zhilong's revenge can be said to be even more powerful than the government, and no one wants to go against a big pirate like Zheng Zhilong.

When the navy guy on the deck was watching the navy guy in four directions with a telescope at the same time, and found a small dot in the distance, he shouted excitedly.

"Come out, come out, there's a float over there, it's supposed to be there, that's it, that's right."

The guy reported the situation to Sun Yang, and then the other party took the telescope in his hand to watch, and a real sailboat appeared in sight.

"Inform the gunners to be careful, to prepare, not to sink the ship, we are going to capture the people on that ship alive."

Intercepting the goods and forcing the Zheng family to negotiate is Australia's goal, and the real war between the two sides is not the main thing.

The captain of the Zheng family's merchant ship also saw the huge ship in front of him, in addition to invisibly giving him a lot of pressure, he was a little worried, and his heart was always up and down, he didn't know why, but he was sure that the appearance of this ship here was definitely wrong.

He wanted to turn around and sail back, but the other party's speed was indeed faster than he thought, it was getting closer and closer to it, and as the distance got closer and closer, only a bang was heard, and a cannonball was fired from the opponent's ship, which exploded behind his own ship, although it did not hit, but the experienced captain knew at a glance that this was the other party's warning, signaling them not to turn around, otherwise they would sink them.

When he was five hundred meters away from the Zheng family's merchant ship, Sun Yang ordered people to lower the assault boat, and the young men were equipped with submachine guns and drove towards the merchant ship.

"Who are you, since you dare to intercept the Zheng family's merchant ships, aren't you afraid of death?" The captain of the merchant ship pretended to ask calmly, but in fact, he was already very scared, and the other party only came to him in an instant.

"We are Australians, we are currently training in this area, you have intruded into our training area, according to our laws this is tantamount to violating our territory, so we must detain you, unless you give a reasonable explanation, I advise you not to resist, our shells can sink your ships in an instant."

The navy guy made up a lot of unreasonable words to perfunctory the other party, but obviously the other party was still in a state of confusion and didn't know what he was talking about.