Zhu Hui and Ma Zhishan accompanied Shen Qi to the Bashihe port market, and found that merchants from all over the world used this kind of silver coin, and asked a Chinese businessman, only to know that this kind of silver coin was higher than the purity of silver ingots, but when it was brought back to China, it was not accepted by the government, and it was difficult to circulate among the people, so it could only be melted into silver ingots again. [No pop-ups. 】

When he was in Yuegang, Felipe and the others didn't even bring a little bit of this kind of silver coin, and all the silver ingots they used showed that he understood the reason very well, and when he went to Manila, all the silver coins were delivered, and Shen Qi understood his good intentions. With such a huge amount of silver coins melted back into the furnace, the loss of fire consumption was not a small amount, and it seems that he was bound to himself tightly, and to accompany him to the New World to open a silk factory in the future.

After wandering around the port market where merchants from all walks of life gathered for a long time, Zhu Hui found that the Manila authorities no longer checked merchant ships from all over the world, and there was no panic atmosphere before the war.

Ma Zhishan and others have already done some investigation, and there are about 1,000 Spanish soldiers in Manila, including 800 in the navy, another 200 in Wangcheng, and more than 600 armed people composed of locals, mainly stationed in the surrounding areas, and nearly 2,000 Japanese ronins were all taken to the military camp south of the city for intensive training on the day they arrived in Manila.

Out of the Bashi River Estuary Market, Ma Zhishan led everyone to Vito Cruze in the south, walked more than ten miles, and came to a barracks surrounded by high walls, and the high-pitched shouts of the ronin C could be heard from a distance.

This military camp is heavily guarded, guarded by the Spanish musket team, there is a deep trench dug outside the wall, and there are Western soldiers patrolling everywhere, they suddenly found that several Japanese ronins tried to get out of the camp, but were stopped by the musket team, it seems that General Fernando is wary of this group of Japanese ronin, and will never allow the ronin to step out of the camp for half a step, if they make any abnormal moves, they can be annihilated on the spot.

The number of this group of Japanese "reinforcements" is more than that of the Manila garrison, all of them are outlaws, and their purpose is very obvious, that is, to wait for Lin Fengli to seize Manila, according to Ma Zhishan's understanding of Lin Feng, he should be lurking nearby, and Bee Suga will definitely try to get in touch with him.

According to Zhu Hui's understanding of the Japanese Invaders, they are often capable of doing things that ordinary people cannot predict, since Bee Suga has brought so many outlaws all the way, how can he easily give up? As for whether he has already made contact with Lin Feng and what kind of plan of action he has, it is still difficult to judge.

So, Zhu Hui, accompanied by Li Dan, went to General Fernando, handed over Zhang Gou'er's letter, and told it through the translator of the General's Mansion, in which he said that all the men and horses of the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force were willing to be incorporated into the Japanese team, but only accepted the command of Zhu Hui, the special envoy of the Ming Jinyiwei.

In fact, when Zhang Gouer and others had just arrived in Luzon, the Manila authorities had great hopes for the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force, and wanted them to rush to the front as cannon fodder, so as not to restrict their freedom, but gradually found that this group of people was extremely slippery, greedy for life and afraid of death, and even very stupid, and did not obey the command at all, but they never caused trouble, and they couldn't get rid of them if they wanted to, and they couldn't send troops to destroy them, which made General Fernando very troublesome, so he had to let Zhang Fan be at ease for several months.

Since Zhang Gou'er arrived in Luzon, he has never bought General Fernando's account, and he didn't have much hope at all about whether Zhu Hui could persuade the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force, but he didn't expect that this little brocade guard would immediately make that thorn so obedient.

Judging from this letter, General Fernando believed that it was not difficult to understand that Ryukyu, as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, made this reaction, and could not help but be in awe of the "special envoy of the Jinyi Guard Yamen" in front of him, and considering that the Ryukyuan people only accepted his command, he wanted to keep Zhu Hui by his side as a military adviser.

This was an expected and undesirable good thing for Zhu Hui, so he immediately agreed, said goodbye to Fernando and returned to the Governor's Palace, and immediately summoned Ma Zhishan and others to a meeting together.

At this moment, Zhu Hui was very worried that some of Ma Zhishan's subordinates would have an affair with Lin Feng, so he wanted them to accompany Shen Qi back to China, and only left Ma Zhishan behind and went to the Manila Garrison Headquarters with him on an errand. It is better to follow Shen Qi to earn money than to take risks, and these fifteen strong men have no complaints.

The next day, Zhu Hui, accompanied by General Fernando's special envoy, went to Pasig Village, and Zhang Gou'er was already ready to set off from the village.

Before leaving, Zhang Gou'er took Zhu Hui to the church again, comforted Mark and Louise, and told them that if they were willing to go to Yuegang, someone would pick them up in a few days, and if they were willing to stay in Manila, it might not be too long before they could expose the Y plot of the Japanese and clear their grievances.

Mark wants to go to Moon Harbor, and Louise wants to stay in Manila, and the two argue about it, and Zhang Gou'er laughs and asks the two of them to discuss it slowly, anyway, they can only continue to wait.

Zhang Gou'er took the soldiers and horses of the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force, accompanied by the envoys of Zhu Hui and General Fernando, to the Vito Cruze military camp, and the guards Gonzalez and Bee Suka had already received the order, and they held a simple welcome ceremony, introduced Zhang Fan, the general of the Ryukyu Expeditionary Force, to everyone, and invited him to give a speech.

So, in fluent Oriental dialect, Zhang Gouer directly told Wasuka and others that he was a subordinate of "Oda Shini" and defeated Ryoma Ryobi, the prime minister of the Ryukyu Kingdom, so that he could serve as the vanguard officer of the expeditionary force.

Bee Suga listened, couldn't hide the excitement and excitement in his heart, there was a feeling of meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign country, and he admired the monkey Hideyoshi so much, but he couldn't help but have doubts, I don't know why Zhang Fan brought a Ming Dynasty brocade guard?

Gonzalez arranged barracks for the Ryukyu soldiers to live with the ronin, and demanded that they undergo training in the future.

After the Westerners left, Bee Suga invited Zhu Hui and Zhang Gou'er to his big tent, and the three of them sat cross-legged on the tatami mats, and couldn't help laughing out loud......

"May I ask General Beesuka, I heard that Lin Feng fled to the West Malay Peninsula, is this information accurate?" Zhu Hui asked deliberately.

Finding that the envoy of the Jinyi Guard Yamen questioned it, Bee Suga suddenly roared like thunder and asked, "Lin Feng has disappeared in Luzon for several months, could it be that Your Excellency thinks he is dead?" Governor Lavizares, Archbishop Perez, General Fernando, they have not doubted this information, is your Excellency more clever than them? ”

"Please don't be so agitated by General Wasuka." Zhu Hui persuaded.

Unable to figure out why Oda Nobuyi's men had brought a brocade guard, Wasuka cautiously said, "This information comes from Father Simon Almeida of the Jesuit Society in Sakai Town, so please don't question it. You may not know the situation in Japan, and if the information is wrong, it is impossible to send me here. ”

Zhu Hui asked: "In this way, what is the unspeakable secret of General Bee Suga?" ”

"Your Excellency, as the Jinyi guard of the Ming Dynasty, speaks Oriental dialect so well, presumably Your Excellency has some understanding of the Warring States disputes on the Japanese archipelago." Bee Suga said, looking at Zhu Hui in detail.

"I've heard of it, but I don't know if Oda Gondai's words can break the secondary fence?" As he spoke, Zhu Hui stared at Wasuka with blazing eyes.

"I won't hide it from you, just before I set out on the expedition, with Uesugi Kenshin of the northern country as the leader of the alliance, echoing with the western daimyo Mori Terumoto Hara, by the Takeda Katsuyori of Kofu, the Ishiyama Honganji Shinru, the Hatano Hideji of Tanba, Kishu Saga and other rebels, are building a 'secondary seine net' against Oda Gondai Nayan, Akechi Mitsuhide, Araki Murashige, Harada Naomasa and other Owari Kuni generals are about to go to Osaka to fight, such a critical moment, Oda Gondai Nayan received a distress letter from the Sakai Town Public, Gondai Nayan-sama who takes the sky as his own responsibility, immediately made the decision to organize reinforcements to support Manila, Hashiba Chikumae Mamoru personally recruited soldiers, and Mr. Konishi Ryuza donated his own money as military expenses, so that there was this expeditionary force composed of 'Christians', if the information of the Zhonghe was wrong, then, when Lord Oda Gondai Nayan himself was seriously threatened, what was the need to send me to Luzon? ”

Regarding the Japanese war situation, I have already heard Guo Yi talk about it, and Zhu Hui also looks at the delicate relationship between Yushiba Hideyoshi and Oda Nobunaga, whether it is Konishi Ryuza or this Bee Suka Koroku, in fact, they are all retainers of Yushiba Hideyoshi, and their fate is completely linked to the monkey from Ashigaru.

As a general under Oda Nobunaga, although the monkey is resourceful and prominent, he has made great contributions, and after defeating Kotani Castle, Nobunaga married his sister Aichi to Shibata Katsuie, which makes Monkey have a deep sense of crisis, whether it is Maeda Toshiie, Akechi Mitsuhide or Shibata Katsuie, their status in Nobunaga's mind is far above himself.

As early as when Ishiyama Honganji Temple, Zhu Hui had heard that the monkey had obtained a national treasure that could predict the future, the divine mirror had manifested itself, Oda Nobunaga died in the raging fire, and the monkey was like a rising sun, perhaps because of this incident, the monkey had the idea of replacing it, and secretly used a series of means.

At present, if Oda Nobunaga fails in the second purse seine and is burned to death, then the monkey will lose the basis for survival, and his retainers will only become ronin, and there will be no place to stand in the Japanese archipelago. For the "far-sighted" monkey, take precautions to consider this in case, Korea and Ryukyu are too close to Japan, and they are all subject countries of the Ming Dynasty, it is not easy to figure out, Taiwan Island is closer to the mainland, and there are Ming troops stationed in it, so they dare not provoke easily, in the end, Luzon is the most ideal place for him to escape, not to mention that there is a forest wind that echoes him from afar.

If Oda Nobunaga succeeds in opposing the "secondary seine net", it can be said that Japan has returned to unification, whether the Oda clan abolishes the emperor, dismisses the shogunate, or appoints himself as the "general of the expedition", then he will be the only hegemon of Japan, and the next step will inevitably be to conquer the Ming Dynasty, descend to India, and fight until the Franco, so as to realize the strategy of "the world is clothed", which is also the long-cherished wish of many generals of the Oda clan.

For the generals under Oda Nobunaga, whoever took the lead in expanding his power overseas would be the generalissimo of the Imperial Japanese Expeditionary Force in the future!

Through the evidence of Mark and Louise, the monkey originally hoped to use the help of "Oda Shinyi" to eradicate the Ryukyu Minister Ma Liangbi, who secretly defected to Oda Nobunaga, in an attempt to establish his own power in the Ryukyus, although Ma Liangbi was deposed, but Oda Shini did not continue to deal with him, and he no longer had any hope, secretly made up a set of lies through Ryoshi Nishironzo, and got Simon Almeida, so that he could deliver the news to Archbishop Perez, and then sent this expeditionary force.

So, Zhu Hui was ready to go straight in to test Wassuka's reaction? He said reservedly: "As the envoy of the Celestial Empire's Jinyi Guard, I have the fate to come to the ends of the earth and meet with the general of Bee Suga Pingshui, and now we are in one place, and we are in one place, and we are fighting the enemy together, so who is our common enemy?" ”

Hearing this, Bee Suhe Teng stood up suddenly, his face was like a pig's liver, and he asked angrily: "Didn't you come to Manila to help in the war, to deal with the Moslem army that was about to conquer the Ming Dynasty?" If not, what is the purpose of the Ming Dynasty sending you here? As he spoke, he seemed to have been greatly insulted, and he wanted to start a duel with Zhu Hui immediately.

The reserved Zhu Hui looked at Wasuka, and from his contrived expression, he could see a trace of timidity, so he smiled and waved his hand at him, motioned for him to sit down, and said unhurriedly: "Please General Beesuka, please calm your anger, and frankly, General Zhang Fan and I are both from Akimeura, Kawabe County, Kyushu Island, and after the destruction of Lord Hayashi's castle, everyone will go their separate ways." Many years later, I became the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Guard, Zhang Fan became the former Zhengyin pioneer officer of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the two of us brothers came to Luzon together, nominally to exterminate the pirate Lin Feng for the Ming court, but in fact secretly helped Lin Daao, I don't know if there is a problem with such an identity in front of your General Bee Suka? ”

Wasuka sat down cross-legged and looked at Zhu Hui without blinking.

Looking at each other, Zhu Hui's expression at the moment was also very serious, and he looked at Zhang Gou'er, who had been silent, for fear that the two of them would fight and not end well.

The two men looked at each other for a full quarter of an hour, and at the same time they laughed loudly, and Wasuka held out a hand, and Zhu Hui held it tightly with him.

"You are all descendants of Akimeura?" Wasuka asked.

Zhu Hui nodded and replied: "Yes, this General Zhang Fan is the son of the three officials who advocated Sanao back then, and his surname is Zhu Minghui, and he also grew up under Lin Yiguan's watch, may I ask General Bee Suga, what other questions do you have?" ”

So, Wasuka took the hands of the two of them at the same time and said excitedly: "Work together and be loyal to Lord Hashiba Chikuzen!" ”

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(1) Regarding the origin of "Oda Shinyi", please refer to the third volume of this book, "Dark War", which refers to Guo Yi

(2) We often hear that Lin Zexu is "the first person to open his eyes to see the world", but in fact, except for the Qing Dynasty, all Chinese dynasties were open, and Lin Zexu was just the first person to see the world in the Qing Dynasty. Of course, this does not mean to belittle Lin Zexu, for in the era of Manchu rule, Lin Zexu was the backbone of our nation, and we still look up to it.

Many major events in the Wanli period proved that the Ming Dynasty was by no means so unbearable as the history of the Ming Dynasty that was repaired by later generations, the three major wars of aiding the dynasty and chasing the Japanese were all victorious, Matteo Ricci went to Beijing to preach and establish churches, etc., which were carried out smoothly, and the Eastern and Western civilizations were able to exchange, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the missionary Matteo Ricci's "Notes on China" recorded China as follows: the material production here is extremely rich, there is everything, the sugar is whiter than Europe, and the cloth is more exquisite than Europe...... The people are beautifully dressed and graceful, and the people are in good spirits, polite, and elegant.

Macartney, a British envoy who visited during the Qianlong period, said: China is full of astonishing poverty, many people have no clothes to wear, and the army is in tatters like flowers......

We often hear that Lin Zexu is "the first person to open his eyes to see the world", but in fact, except for the Qing Dynasty, all Chinese dynasties were open, and Lin Zexu was just the first person to see the world in the Qing Dynasty. Of course, this does not mean to belittle Lin Zexu, for in the era of Manchu rule, Lin Zexu was the backbone of our nation, and we still look up to it.

Many major events in the Wanli period show that the Ming Dynasty is by no means so unbearable as the history of the Ming Dynasty that later generations repaired, the three major wars of aiding the dynasty and chasing the Japanese were all victorious, Matteo Ricci went to Beijing to preach and establish churches, etc., which were carried out smoothly, and the Eastern and Western civilizations were able to communicate, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the missionary Matteo Ricci's "Notes on China" recorded China as follows: the material production here is extremely rich, there is everything, the sugar is whiter than Europe, and the cloth is more exquisite than Europe...... The people are beautifully dressed and graceful, and the people are in good spirits, polite, and elegant.

Macartney, a British envoy who visited during the Qianlong period, said: China is full of astonishing poverty, many people have no clothes to wear, and the army is in tatters like flowers......

(End of chapter)