When Ji Yan and Mei Yuning heard Zheng He say this, they were a little frightened, and they only heard Zheng He continue:

"You were the last of the spies I sent out to Japan, and everyone in front of you failed."

Although combined with their own experience in the Ryukyus, he felt that these Japanese were indeed not simple, but he was still a little shocked to hear that all the others who set out had failed.

Ji Yan couldn't suppress his surprise, opened his mouth wide, and said in disbelief:

"All failed?"

Zheng He sighed, repeated again, and said:

"Yes, all. When the first people to come back said that they had found nothing, I also slapped them on the board, thinking that they were not doing their job properly. But then they came back one after another to report the same result. ”

Ji Yan didn't care about the etiquette of his superiors and subordinates at this time, and hurriedly asked:

"Didn't they stop looting before they landed, and when they landed, they found that they had disappeared, as if they had never existed."

Zheng He replied affirmatively:

"Yes, everyone's answer is the same, it is said that after landing, all kinds of investigations, but to no avail, those Japanese robbers seem to have never existed, at the beginning I had to reflect on whether the information we had previously detected was wrong, so that they were arranged to go to the wrong place."

Zheng He paused for a moment and continued:

"But then I thought that even if there was a mistake in the investigation of the individual and the Japanese had been disturbing my border for several years, it would be impossible for me to be wrong with all the news about them, especially since you have returned from a great success, which makes me feel that the enemy is holding my ground. Tell me in detail what happened to you, how you found out where they were, and how you captured these thieves alive. ”

Ji Yan and Mei Yuning glanced at each other, looked at each other, and Ji Yan began to tell about their experience in the northern country of Ryukyu Mountain.

Zheng He listened attentively to what the two of them were saying, pacing back and forth slowly in front of the two of them while listening, and when Ji Yan said that they had been suspicious of a family for many days at the beginning, but there was no progress, Zheng He's brows furrowed vigorously.

Later, Ji Yan and others encountered an earthquake, Ji Yan used a plan to retrieve the glass beads, and guessed that the gang of would-be robbers would jump over the wall in a hurry, and they would not let them go so easily, so they set a trap to close the door and beat the dogs, tied up the officers of the northern country of Ryukyu Mountain, and then they went to sea overnight.

Of course, Ji Yan omitted unimportant episodes such as Mei Yuning's allergy to eating sashimi, "Ji Gongzi, you pressed my hair", and "Your grandfather's sledgehammer".

Zheng He listened very carefully until Ji Yan told the whole story, saying that the group of would-be robbers and the family were now being taken prisoner in the two merchant ships they were on.

郑和 says:

"Those thieves should not stay on their ship for too long, and now that it is almost time, it is not too late to ......"

Zheng He turned his head to look at Mei Yuning and ordered:

"Captain Mei, on this mission, you should immediately go and get a lucky boat, choose twenty or thirty capable sergeants, wear civilian clothes, change the flag on board, and now set off to the Osaka pier, sneak in at night, and bring those prisoners to my camp for care."

After speaking, he took out an iron talisman from his bosom and handed it to Mei Yuning.

Mei Yuning clenched her fists and was about to leave.

Ji Yan stepped forward and said:

"During this trip to the Ryukyus, two merchants from Quanzhou and Qingzhou were very helpful, and their fierce loyalty also moved the lower officials, who were guarding the prisoners on the ship at this moment. Therefore, the subordinate dared to ask the envoy to agree, and let Captain Mei bring the two of them to our military camp to see the might of our army. ”

Ji Yan remembered Ruan Zhong's excitement when he saw Zheng He's fleet, and felt that although he might cause Zheng He's displeasure by doing so, he really had nothing else to repay them, so he could only try hard in this matter.

If he heard this kind of request on weekdays, Zheng He would definitely refuse it sternly, and he might even reprimand Ji Yan.

However, now Ji Yan is the only person who has made meritorious contributions to Japan so far, so he does not want to attack Ji Yan.

Zheng He glanced at Ji Yan, hesitated for a moment, and then turned to Mei Yuning and said:

"Bring those two merchants together, and then Ji Tong Yi will arrange their affairs."

Mei Yuning walked and glanced at Ji Yan, this glance seemed to be thanking Ji Yan for Ruan Zhong and Lin Anhe, and seemed to be curious about what Ji Yan was trying to do this time.

Ji Yan actually didn't think too much, he was very entangled in everything related to Zheng He, on the one hand, of course he wanted to get close to Zheng He, hug Zheng He's thighs more, maybe he could follow him in history, but on the other hand, his secret identity made him less willing to get too close to Zheng He, because the more he made meritorious contributions, the more Zheng He trusted him, and the greater the possibility that he himself would have to live up to this trust.

At the moment, this is still an uncrackable game.

So he decided not to think too much about these annoying things, just fuck it, and just follow his heart.

He felt that Lin Anhe and Ruan Zhong had helped him, and he had to find a way to repay them, and he didn't care if it would make Zheng He look down on him because of this.

After Mei Yuning was ordered to leave the camp, Zheng He asked Ji Yan with a serious face:

"Ji Tongyi, based on what you saw and heard during your trip to the Ryukyus, as well as the results of other investigation teams, what do you think?"

Ji Yan sorted out his thoughts and told Zheng He some of his thoughts about these situations. He slowed down his speech, for fear that something would be wrong, and slowly said to Zheng He:

"According to the lower officials, first of all, these widows are no longer the unorganized and undisciplined team of ronin rogues from earlier, and now they have been organized by a huge net, and this organization must not all rely on force to make them obey, there are all other ways to let these people, at least let the leaders of these people, have higher goals and pursuits."

The various situations that have been collected so far remind Ji Yan of some of the manifestations of the Japanese after they fell into fanatical militaristic sentiments during World War II, but now it is still hundreds of years earlier than that era, and secondly, he doesn't know how to explain this kind of organizational "brainwashing" behavior to Zheng He, so he is vague for a while.

Ji Yan looked at Zheng He and stood in place thoughtfully, not moving, did not continue, just stood there and looked at Zheng He.

There was silence in the tent at the moment.

This silence seemed to wake up Zheng He, who was pondering, and he realized that Ji Yan should not have finished speaking, so he raised his head and said to Ji Yan:

"There is some truth in what you said, but this higher pursuit and goal is a bit illusory, we still need to know more, I heard what you mean, I haven't finished speaking, continue to talk."

Ji Yan nodded slightly, and then said:

"There is also the issue of the internal response of the Japanese in our country. These wouldn't have known much later than our interpreters had learned that they were going to organize a fleet to deal with them, and they didn't know what they had heard before they left Nanjing, but they were preparing a fleet in Ningbo for the purpose of going to the West, not the East. Not only that, but I suspect that the reason why everyone knows that the fleet of the envoys is aimed at the Japanese is deliberately spreading the news. ”

Zheng He turned his face violently at this time, his eyebrows furrowed, his eyes flashed with a hint of cruelty, and he looked at Ji Yan faintly and said:

"What do you mean by that?"