For several months, the survival of 40,000 or 50,000 people in the Tsushima Domain depended on the treasury of the two castles of Jinshi Mountain Castle and Shimizu Mountain Castle.

There was not much plain arable land in the north and south of Tsushima Island, and there was not much rice production in the Tsushima Domain, which had always relied on maritime trade.

If this were not the case, after the Korean trade was stopped, the Tsushima clan would not have sent people to rob it because it could not buy rice from Korea.

After months of blockade, the island is not only short of ammunition, but also running out of food.

Once the food is exhausted, it will still face the end of having to fall, and at that time, the conditions may be even more harsh.

At the same time, I thought that the other side would run out of food and retreat, but I did not expect that the other side would have a continuous supply of ammunition and food, and after more than three months, it still did not retreat, and today it launched another attack, and at a glance, I knew that the other side would not have to worry about running out of food at all.

Once the other party discovers that the artillery batteries in Yanyuan Harbor are out of ammunition, and tens of thousands of men and horses on hundreds of warships on the other side are afraid that they will immediately pour into the harbor and rush up and down.

Thinking about these things clearly, Zong Yicheng made up his mind.

In the afternoon of the same day, after the warships of the Daming Naval Division outside Yanyuan Harbor had been shelled for about an hour in turn, the artillery fire had stopped, and the leader of the Japanese Bandits, Yabei, who had been sent back to deliver the letter, boarded a small boat that was towed out of nowhere with a white flag, and rowed towards the Daming fleet.

Li Xingzhong saw the white flag raised in Yanyuan Harbor from the telescope, and knew that the clan and his subordinates on the Tsushima domain could not hold on, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Emperor Chongzhen finally gave the Dongjiang Sailor a task of questioning Tsushima Island, but now that more than half a year has passed, Li Xingzhong's side has not made great progress for a long time, and there is no way to go up, so he is very anxious.

At this time, Li Xingzhong, who was in front of the command of the artillery bombardment of the port, saw someone in the harbor waving a white flag, and immediately sent the officers and men of the sailor battalion under his command to take a small boat with muskets in hand and sail head-on.

Yabei doesn't speak Chinese, but the white flag he flies is a common jargon.

Soon, the Tsushima Domain's Shimibei, who had a blue nose and swollen face, was taken by Li Xingzhong to Chen Jisheng and Kong Youde's boat.

It didn't take long for Li Gui, Yuan Doubi and others to hear the news.

Mi Bingwei couldn't speak Chinese, and he was beaten a lot on the way back when he was caught and brought back by Li Xingzhong's Dongjiang sailors.

Because he was sent to deliver the letter before, he never returned, although this is not something he can call the shots, but when he returned to the Ming army in Dongjiang Town, he was inevitably beaten again and again.

When he arrived on Chen Jisheng's boat, it was the same, as soon as Li Gui, Yuan Doubi and other high-ranking officials and generals arrived, they saw this Mi Bingwei who was kneeling on the deck with five short and three thick eyebrows, and he came up and kicked it violently.

Li Gui, the Korean soldier Cao's judgement, even kicked and asked: "You damn slave, say quickly, what did the Zong clan send you back for?!" ”

Li Gui, the Korean soldier Cao Juju, was born in a family of high-ranking officials and nobles, and the official language of the Ming Dynasty was very neat, but the local dialect spoken by the Korean people, that is, the so-called Korean proverbs, can also be spoken.

In this era, the Koreans, both the official and the upper class, generally learned Chinese and spoke Chinese, and took pride in it, which can be regarded as a symbol of education and status.

Although it has been almost 200 years since the so-called King Sejong created the Korean script, the Korean script he created has not become popular at all, and the written and spoken language of ordinary Koreans is still separated.

The written language is Chinese characters, while the spoken language of the folk is the so-called proverbs.

The difference is like the difference between the local dialects of the Ming Dynasty and the Chinese characters used in unified writing at this time.

It is this dialect of the Koreans themselves, which is spoken by the Korean soldier Cao Jushu Li Gui, and by Yabei who was sent to carry a message and deliver the message.

Yabei, who was kneeling on the deck of the Fukubune, had been beaten a lot before because of the language barrier, but when he heard this, he immediately replied in Japanese and Korean:

"Hay! Hail! It is the messenger who brought a letter from the lord of the family to His Excellency General Daming! ”

As he said this, Yabei took out a small white cloth package from his bosom, knelt on the ground, and raised it above his head with both hands.

The personal soldiers standing beside Li Xingzhong immediately stepped forward, took the white cloth package from Mi Bingwei's hand, took out a letter from it, looked at Li Xingzhong's eyes, and then stepped forward and presented it to Chen Jisheng.

Chen Jisheng took it and looked at it, then handed it to Kong Youde, and then passed it to Li Xingzhong, as well as the two high-ranking North Korean officials Li Gui and Yuan Doupyo standing on the deck at this time.

The content of the letter was very simple, the feudal lord of the Tsushima domain, Zong Yoshicheng, asked for an armistice and peace talks, and was willing to negotiate with the Ming army on the conditions that the Ming sailor had asked Yabei to bring back.

After everyone read the letter, Chen Jisheng first asked Li Xingzhong's personal soldier to take the chief Li Yingyuan and Mibei to the cabin to take care of it, and then listened to the conditions that Li Xingzhong and others had proposed to Tsushima Domain, and finally said:

"Whether it is ordering Tsushima to hand over the thieves, opening the port and compensating for military expenses, these are all things that his clan should share!

"However, we and the others, leading the imperial army to stay and patrol here for several months, and there are two losses from landing on the island to attack, but we can't just ask about their previous crimes!"

After saying this, Chen Jisheng walked a few steps on the deck of the ship, turned to look at Tsushima Island in the distance and did not speak.

The sun is setting over the blue sea, and Tsushima Island is covered with undulating mountains and lush forests, and the blue roofs of the highest part of the castle can be seen faintly in the distance.

Chen Jisheng only knew that Emperor Chongzhen sent the Dongjiang sailors to ask for the guilt because of the attack on the Korean coast by Tsushima, but he didn't know why Emperor Chongzhen wanted to stand up for the Koreans and why he mobilized the army for such a trivial matter.

But after spending so much effort, if it was just to let the Tsushima domain open its ports and compensate for the military expenses, would it be such a big move?

Perhaps His Majesty the Emperor, who was far away in Beijing, thought that it would be easy to clean up the Tsushima Domain, as he thought before, and he did not expect that he would be paid so far.

But since it has come to this point, it is really a bit more than worth the loss just to ask for sin.

Before Mao Weizhang left, he had explained to him the secret decree that Emperor Chongzhen had sent to Yingzhou Zhenshoufu, and probably told him that the reason why His Majesty the Emperor still let them operate Yingzhou Zhenshoufu overseas under the situation of chaos in the country.

This long-term plan is now the Japanese kingdom of Japan, which is now separated from Yingzhou Zhenshou Prefecture by the sea.

Emperor Chongzhen did not mention to any of them the idea of attacking Japan for what purpose, but for more than two years, whether it was Mao Weizhang or Chen Jisheng, they were constantly pondering this issue.

Although the emperor did not say it explicitly, they later saw that the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spaniards continued to come from the south to the north, and they seemed to understand something.

Japan, which is separated by a sea, does not seem to be the barren island country that people in their own impression of.

For if that were the case, what were they trading with the Dutch, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards, who were said to be very rich?

These Taixiyi people continue to go north to the Japanese kingdom, what are they plotting?

At this time, Chen Jisheng stood on the deck of his ship and looked at Tsushima Island, and then walked up to the bow of the ship, looking farther to the north.

After a while, Chen Jisheng turned his head and said to everyone after deliberation: "Since the Tsushima Clan's clan wants to negotiate peace, there must be a reason why they have to negotiate peace, it must be that our blockade for months has made them run out of food!"

"In this case, the previous conditions can remain unchanged, but there are a few more articles: first, to pay tribute to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty; Second, cede the northern part of Tsushima Island to me as the garrison of my Ming Yingzhou Town Guardian Naval Division on Tsushima Island. ”

When Chen Jisheng said this, looking at the judgment of the North Korean soldier Cao Li Gui and the deputy marshal of the soldiers and horses, Yuan Doupyo, was eager to speak, and knew in his heart that the Koreans also had their own ideas and requirements, so he looked at Li Gui and Yuan Doupyo and said:

"This is just my Da Ming's request to the Ma Fan Clan, as for the two of you, if you have any ideas, you can mention them together, and the negotiation with the Zong clan also needs the participation of Li Jushu!"

Chen Jisheng said this, and Li Gui and Yuan Doubi nodded with satisfaction.