Ten miles away from Akimeura, there is a stone castle surrounded by earthen platforms, deep ditches dug on all sides, a suspension bridge in front of the castle gate, two cannons built on it, and defensive facilities such as watchtowers and arrow towers around it.

In the early morning of winter, the sky was shrouded in mist, and a ray of light had just appeared in the sky, and Lin Yiguan appeared in the castle's castle tower.

"Liu Erguan, Zhang Sanguan, Li Siguan, Chen Wuguan, Lin Liuguan, what did they do?"

"Lord Kaiyu, Lord No. 2 are on duty in the castle, Lord No. 3 and No. 4 have gone to the Hirado Domain to do business, Lord Rokan is guarding the treasury tonight, and thanks to Lord Gokunoi and the patrol in the village, the assassins have been driven away."

So, Chief Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Where is the assassin you caught?" Who are they? ”

"Returning to Lord Yiguan, we asked him in Zhejiang, Hokkien, Cantonese, Japanese, and Daming official dialects, what punishment has been exhausted, he just doesn't speak, look at his demeanor and appearance, I dare to be sure that he is a person from the Ming court."

I didn't know what happened to the imperial court, and actually sent someone across the sea to assassinate him, Lin Yiguan couldn't help but be a little nervous, and decided to go to meet the assassin for a while.

In the prison beneath the castle, Briton was tortured to the point of dying.

After opening the cell door, Lin Yiguan hugged Briton as soon as he came in, and was furious at the jailers, pretending to be angry and scolding: "You bastards, quickly untie this brother, change his clothes, and bring good wine and food." ”

So, someone came over to untie Briton, and Lin Yiguan helped him up with both hands

At this moment, Lin Yiguan is still guessing, could this be someone sent by Luo Wenlong and Yan Shifan? Or did someone in the Ryukyus betray themselves? couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "Good brother, it seems that this is a misunderstanding." ”

Britten's eyes widened with rage, and he scolded loudly: "Traitor! Yan Shifan and Luo Wenlong have already subdued the law, and your time of death has arrived. ”

Lin Yiguan is the best at improvisation, and immediately showed a smile, and praised loudly: "Yan Song's father and son have been misleading the country for many years, and Luo Wenlong has an inseparable relationship with the pirate Wang Zhi, Xu Hai and others, and it is really happy to kill well!" ”

Britten was stunned for a moment, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in his gourd.

I saw Lin Yiguan praying in a low voice for a while, took out a white handkerchief, gently wiped the blood stains on Brithorn's wound, recited Amitabha Buddha in his mouth, and complained to himself: "I was ordered by the old prince of Chengguo, and I have been lonely and wandering in a foreign land for many years, and I finally looked forward to a few brothers who could help, and I was beaten like this by these rice buckets under my hands, good brother, it is me Lin who can't stand you, brother, you have suffered!" ”

Brie informed that in the list of the old prince of Chengguo, there was no name of Lin Yiguan, and the arrest of Lin Yiguan was only given instructions after coming to Japan.

In order to dispel his doubts, Lin Yiguan took out another waist card, handed it to him, and asked, "Good brother, what do you think this is?" ”

Britten picked it up and looked at it, and wrote three big characters horizontally: Jinyiwei, and vertically: Lin Wenjun, the commander of the thousand households on the right side of the North Division.

Sure enough, it's the waist card of Jinyiwei!

At this time, someone had already sent a table of food to the dungeon, and Lin Yiguan kicked the person who delivered the food to the ground and scolded: "Bastard! It's really useless, can you let your own brother eat in prison? ”

The terrified jailer picked up Briton and took him to the castle's drawing-room.

After Briton finished eating, a Langzhong came to heal him, and Brithorn lay on the tatami mat with his eyes closed, enduring the pain of the wound, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead.

Lin Yiguan sat beside him and praised: "Good brother, he is worthy of being a good man in our Flying Fish Camp, and it really concerns the second master's courage to scrape bones and cure poison!" ”

Under the effect of anesthetic, Briton soon fell asleep.

At this time, Lin Liuguan, who was in charge of guarding the vault, came to the living room and asked anxiously, "Brother, who is the assassin?" ”

"Sixth brother, you don't have to worry about this matter for the time being." As he spoke, Lin Yiguan showed a mysterious smile.

Lin Liuguan said: "Some people in the patrol team said that listening to their shouts when they fled, they could indeed be people from the imperial court. Brother, you have to be careful, maybe Yan Shifan has become suspicious of you and sent someone to assassinate you. ”

"Yan Shifan and Luo Wenlong have both subdued the law, the Yan family and his party will inevitably fall apart, Hong Zhenren may have died on the way to the voyage, I believe that no one will pursue those treasures. However, sixth brother, we have to find a bigger backer in the future. Speaking of this, Lin Yiguan showed a mysterious smile: "Judging from the assassination in Sakai Town, there is no doubt that this is a group of people, and now it can be judged that they are Jinyi Guard, it seems that the third uncle of Sakai Town has a relationship that cannot be cleared." ”

Lin Liuguan was shocked and hurriedly asked, "What do you want to do?" ”

At this time, Lin Yiguan behaved very calmly, but did not answer positively: "Sixth brother, we must find a few more backers in Japan, strengthen the vigilance of Akimeura on weekdays, and wait for me to deal with Shimazu Takahisa, I will be the governor of the Shimazu family's navy, and the musket trade with the monkeys of Owari Province cannot be interrupted, and this matter will be handed over to you in the future." ”

After listening to his brother's incoherent words, Lin Liuguan was very worried about his uncle's safety, so he replied: "Brother, if you dare to move a finger of the third uncle, I will no longer recognize you as an elder brother in the future." ”

Lin Yiguan smiled noncommittally, patted his younger brother's shoulder, brushed his sleeves and turned away.

When Briton woke up, he found that there was no guard around him, and he got off the tatami mat, feeling much better, so he wanted to go outside.

Briton went out of the triple gate in a row, and no one stopped him, and when he reached the high walls of the castle, he saw that the soldiers were practicing arquebuses, and he felt a little interesting, so he hid and watched carefully.

Finding that these soldiers were all well-trained, Britton thought to himself: In the future, the traitors will use this thing to harm the Ming Dynasty, it is really terrible!

Suddenly, the instructor ran up to a soldier who was crouching and aiming, raised his leg and scolded: "Damn, it's all like you, how can we deal with the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Shimazu family?" ”

The fallen soldier got up and shouted, "Hey! "Subsequently, the practice of shooting continued.

The instructor commanded and preached: "Give me a good practice, in more than a month, wait until the beginning of spring, the 200,000 troops of Lord Tan, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, will arrive, we must cooperate well, report to the vanguard, strive to conquer Kyushu in a month, and destroy Japan on the May Festival (May Dragon Boat Festival), have you heard clearly?" ”

Everyone shouted in unison, "Hey! ”

At this time, when Lin Yiguan suddenly came closer, Britten asked, "Is the imperial army about to conquer Japan?" How come I haven't heard? ”

"Hehe, this brother of Jinyiwei, you don't know, I have already contacted Lord Tan Lun, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Lord Tan sent me to stay in Japan, one is to suppress pirates, and the other is to be on standby at any time as a pawn, just because there are traitors like Yan's father and son in the court, in vain to harm me, we are here to endure humiliation, lie down and taste courage, and cultivate our own armament, just to cooperate with Lord Tan to seize Japan on this day." Lin Yiguan replied.

Briton was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Lin Qianhu, please accept my worship, in the lower Britong, the captain of the Fusi Qianhu Wang Chong in Jinyi Weibei Town, we didn't know in advance that there was such a plan between Lin Qianhu and Lord Tan, and now it seems that there must be a misunderstanding between you and your uncle, wait for me to go back and tell Wang Qianhu and explain the situation here to him clearly." ”

"In order to keep it secret, Wang Qianhu and the others were sent by us to Iki Island, waiting for the Fujian Navy Division to land in Hirado, please don't worry too much about the Briton brothers, first recuperate with peace of mind, and wait for your illness to recover, and then send you over not too late."

In the next three days, Lin Yiguan entertained Briton with good food and drink, and moved around the castle as he pleased, and all Brithorn saw and heard was to step up his practice, waiting for a month later, to report the vanguard for Tan Lun, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and strive to destroy Japan in three months.

On the fourth day, Liu Erguan suddenly found Brithorn and quietly told him that it was time to send him to Iki Island.

Briton didn't think much about it, finished dinner with Liu Erguan, and left the castle at night, accompanied by four soldiers.

The group walked more than 20 miles when they were stopped by a group of samurai.

Liu Erguan said: "This is Yoshihiro, the son of Shimazu Takahisa, the lord of Satsuma, I'll go and deal with him for a few words, it's okay." ”

Shimazu Yoshihiro's attitude was very arrogant, the two sides did not speculate, and they moved their hands in an instant, Liu Erguan was injured in the arm, turned over and fell under the horse.

Seeing that Brithorn was about to step forward to help, Liu Erguan shouted loudly: "General Britton, don't be afraid, his grandmother's, this group of Japanese who don't know what to do, as soon as our navy army arrives, we will destroy them all." With that, he burst out laughing.

Liu Erguan and Briton were escorted into Isaku Kamemaru Castle, which was built on a stone wall, and the tall castle tower was located in the center of the "main castle" (main castle), and beyond the stone walls, there were deep moats, and a series of "branch castles" were distributed around the main castle.

Seeing his son's victorious return, Shimazu Takahisa asked in a loud voice, "Yoshihiro, how many spies have you caught?" ”

"Father, please take a look, and just halfway through, the child caught two." Yoshihiro Shimazu replied.

At this time, Liu Erguan, who was tied up by five flowers, scolded angrily: "Shimazu Yoshihiro, you stupid, why did you even arrest me?" ”

Shimazu Takahisa looked at the blood stains on Liu Erguan's arm, and roared angrily.

Shimazu Yoshihisa said: "My father is angry, and my brother is young and vigorous, don't blame him, leave the spy to me to deal with." ”

"I'm! Yoshihisa, if you can handle this matter well, I will retire and recuperate, and you will succeed the Shimazu family as the governor. Shimazu Takahisa said that, and ordered someone to hand over Liu Erguan and Britong to his son.

"Please rest assured, father, I will take care of this matter, if Lin Yiguan of Akimepo lies about the military situation, I will immediately send someone to destroy them." Yoshihisa Shimazu replied.

Shimazu Yoshihisa decided to try it overnight, and first brought Liu Erguan to the torture hall.

Liu Erguan pointed to the wound on his arm and said angrily: "Shimazu Yoshihiro is really stupid, it's really good to do it, look at my arm." ”

At this moment, Shimazu Yoshihisa asked nonchalantly: "We took you in Satsuma, but the muskets you brought from the South Seas were sold to the 'fools' of Owari behind our backs, are we blind?" ”

So, Liu Erguan smiled slightly and replied: "Lord Yijiu is angry, don't worry about these things anymore, Kyushu Island is about to face a catastrophe." ”

Shimazu Yoshihisa's eyes immediately widened, not knowing what kind of medicine he was selling in this gourd, and hurriedly asked, "What did you say?" ”

"Lord Yoshihisa, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty sent an army of 200,000 sailors to conquer Japan and land from the southern part of Kyushu Island. Liu Erguan replied unhurriedly.

Shimazu Yoshihisa couldn't believe it and threatened: "If you lie to me, cut off your head and feed it to the dogs." ”

Liu Erguan knew that the Satsuma people were brave and aggressive, and the more cowardly and timid they were in front of them, the easier it was to get into trouble. ”

Shimazu Yoshihisa slapped the table and shouted, "Bring me the spies in." ”

"Don't be busy, Yoshihisa-sama, let me ask you, how can we reward us for such a meritorious service?"

"What do you want, bring it up first."

"Lord Yoshihisa, if you can trust us, please ask Lord Lin Yiguan to help your Shimazu family train a sailor, and let him be the governor of the sailor."

"It's okay, it's about to go to war with Hinata's Ito family, our sailor has always been weak, if His Excellency Lin Yiguan is willing, welcome him to join our sailor."

"Lord Xie Yijiu!"

At this time, an old man dressed as a master came over, and was called Master Tongtang here, and when he sat in the position of the chief judge, Shimazu Yoshihisa and Liu Erguan avoided together, and Brithorn, who was tied up with five flowers, was escorted in.

Master Tongtang first asked in Zhejiang: "This strong man, the person who tried you has not yet come, please rest assured, others can't understand what we say, and you don't have to be afraid, let me ask you, why were you arrested here?" ”

Finding that Briton didn't react, the master asked again in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, only to see that he closed his eyes and was still silent.

Master Tong Tang sighed and said, "I am a good citizen who was plundered by pirates, and I have lived here for decades, and I look forward to seeing my relatives in my hometown every day, but I don't know why you were arrested? Tell me and I'll help you. ”

After waiting for a while, he found that Britten still did not answer, and Master Tong Tang suddenly sighed in a sad voice: "Pity me for being alone overseas, I can't return to my roots, and I can't go back to my hometown to add soil and incense to the ancestral grave, who can rescue me from this fire and water!" ”

Hearing this, Britten opened his eyes, nodded and replied: "Look that you still have a little conscience, wait until the beginning of spring, and the 200,000 sailors of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang will come to conquer Japan and land on Iki Island......"

Without waiting for Briton to finish speaking, Master Tong Tang hurriedly asked, "Is this true?" ”

"Why should I bother you!"

Master Tongtang's face changed suddenly when he heard this, and he immediately ran out.

After a while, I saw Shimazu Yoshihisa, who was wide-eyed, roared in anger, brandished a scimitar, and cut off Briton's head with one sword.

Seeing this scene, Master Tongtang was frightened and fainted......