Chapter 467: Mixed River Dragon Li Jun
Naturally, these merchants refused to give up, so on the day that the news attached to the Ryukyus was delivered to Tokyo, the merchants' letters were also delivered to Cai Jing's mansion.
After all, the rulers of all dynasties have paid attention to a cultural and martial arts, and the martial arts are the most effective face in the expansion of the land and the coming of all countries, Zhao Ji was lucky to come to power, and he won successive victories in the Western Xia, and several Uighur tribes in Qinghai were attached, so the work of expanding the land was completed.
But what is unpleasant is that among the original few subject states, all the Goryeo of the Wa Kingdom surrendered to the Liao State, as well as many small countries in the north, and the countries in the Western Regions were blocked by the Western Xia, so there were only a few subject countries of the Great Song Dynasty, such as Dali and Nanyue, and the wars in South Vietnam were repeated from time to time.
This time, the Ryukyu Kingdom was willing to come to the court to request the annex, which can also be said to be a great credit to Zhao Ji, if he raised an objection, he was afraid that His Majesty would be unhappy, so Cai Jing couldn't make up his mind for a while.
Since the advent of newspapers, it has also developed rapidly as a generation channel, but except for a few that really make money, most newspapers are barely maintained by receiving help, which collects a lot, and naturally there are many businessmen in it.
First of all, there was a newspaper called Persona, the first to publicly accuse the so-called Ryukyu Kingdom as nothing more than a pirate force, he first plundered merchant ships, and later plundered the coastal areas of Fujian Road, and the so-called country was nothing but an aggressive group, and if the Great Song Dynasty recognized them as a country, then thousands of such countries would immediately appear in the East China Sea.
Then these merchants suddenly seemed to be enlightened, and the next day this kind of news and argument spread in the newspapers to most of the newspapers of the Great Song Dynasty, and the main energy of the Great Song Dynasty in the next few days was all attracted by this pirate group.
When Cai Jing saw this momentum, he immediately didn't dare to say it, and decided to press it to see how the situation changed, and then say, seven or eight days later, the news in Hangzhou was completed back and forth, and these Hangzhou businessmen saw that the newspaper was so effective, and they immediately seemed to have found a propaganda position, and more exciting news came out for a while.
First of all, the population of Ryukyu Island is mostly from the good people who were taken away from the coast of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Ryukyu massacre of the local natives, as well as the records of the Ryukyu raiding coastal merchant ships, and so on.
Zhang San got the news on the third day, thought about it, and ordered the Great Song Daily and the Great Song News Newspaper to publish similar articles to cater to each other, because Zhang San has not been completely exposed now, so Weiyuan Dart Bureau is the great enemy of the Ryukyus, and Zhang San's opposition to the Ryukyu State must be inevitable.
So when the news sent by Hangzhou fermented in the capital, the Da Song Daily also made its own evaluation of it, but it was announced in an official tone that Yousi was investigating the truth of the matter, and the results would definitely be announced as soon as there was a result.
Although Zhao Ji was so happy, he did not go to the point of starvation, so when he saw such news, he naturally asked at the court meeting, these coastal officials had already received a lot of complaints from their relatives, and when they saw the official family asking, they immediately poured bitter water, saying how the Ryukyu pirates were rampant and so on.
Zhao Ji finally turned his gaze to Cai Jing, Cai Jing weighed it, and everyone was angry, so when the emperor asked, he had no choice but to say: "It is true that Ryukyu harassed my coast. ”
Zhao Ji got the result and immediately made a conclusion on this matter, that is, it is not allowed! And reprimanded the Ryukyu envoys, and immediately released the plundered people of the Great Song Dynasty, if they dared to harass the place again, the Great Song Heavenly Army would arrive soon, and then there would be no clouds and dogs.
Therefore, Zhang San's carefully prepared mission only stayed in Hangzhou for more than a month, and was driven back, and Zhang San and a group of strategists originally designed a lot of questions about how to answer the questions of the Great Song Dynasty monarchs, how to arrange etiquette, etc., but all of them were useless.
Hangzhou hated too many Ryukyu sailors, but the Great Song Dynasty paid attention to the war between the two countries, so this boat was driven out of Hangzhou and was not abused, and outside Hangzhou Bay was Li Jun's ship responsible for receiving the mission.
Li Jun also felt that there would be no problem with the return of the mission, so he only sent three ships out to greet him, but what he didn't expect was that just after the confluence, a large number of merchant ships appeared in front and back, wanting to encircle the mission's ships.
Li Jun also wondered where these people had the courage to attack the Ryukyu ship? Looking closely, it turned out to be the fleet of the old friend Zhang family, the Zhang family can be said to hate Ryukyu to the bone, the Zhang family was killed, robbed the ship, and finally even the shipyard was robbed, and the Zhang family could only operate inland river transportation and did not dare to involve shipping.
This time, the Ryukyu mission was frustrated, and the official family spoke again, thinking that the end of the Ryukyu pirates was not far away, and the Zhang family felt that there must be important people in the Ryukyu mission, so it was better to kill them first to avenge some of them.
The mission only took an ordinary merchant ship, and now the problem came, that is, the mission's ships were slow, and the warships were fast, and if the warships were left to guard, then the speed advantage of the warships would not be able to be brought into play, and I am afraid that there would be heavy losses.
But leaving the ship of the mission to go first, the personnel and tribute are on the ship, which is not suitable, fortunately, Li Jun is also a courageous person, and without hesitation, he immediately ordered the transfer of personnel on the ship, and as for the material to pick up valuable ones and take the others, they will stay on the ship.
So when the opponent's ship was still eight hundred steps away from Li Jun's ship, Li Jun gave up the tribute ship, and the warship began to accelerate, and the Ryukyu warship that ran up was not an ordinary ship that could only catch up.
Li Jun was ready to pack up the Zhang family's boat, but was indeed stopped by Gongsun Sheng, Li Jun was very strange, Gongsun Sheng said with a smile: "As long as they return to Hangzhou safely, then the truth of the world is in my hands, and I have to exchange this broken ship for a reason to send troops!" ”
Li Jun thought about it and understood, the reason why Zhang San sent the mission first was to make the division famous, and now that he is famous, it is inevitable that it will not be tenable, but now it is different, his own ship was robbed by the Great Song Dynasty, so the Great Song Dynasty will be completely untenable this time.
This is also the Central Plains Dynasty, there must be some righteousness in the war, just like Zhang San fought the Japanese State a few days ago, what reason is needed, those are all thought before signing the treaty, but it is different for the Great Song Dynasty, you have to respect the rules of the game.
After Li Jun got Gongsun Sheng's advice, he no longer paid attention to the besieged tribute ships and retreated towards the sea off Hangzhou, the Zhang family was ready to fight to the death, but they didn't expect the Ryukyu warships to retreat like this, and they were all overjoyed.
Then the Zhang family boarded the tribute ship and saw that there were a lot of corals, refined copper, strange flowers, exotic stones, rare birds and monsters on the boat, but the most valuable ones were the two coral trees, which were more than nine feet high, and they were amazing things.
As for why the coral Li Jun didn't transport away, one is because it's too big, and the other is because that thing is not valuable in the Ryukyus, and if the net is deep for trawling, the coral is still easy to catch, but it's just a fee net.