291 Landing on Kyushu Island

(Thank you to the two brothers 'Cloud Lion' and 'Wonder Jack' for the monthly passes, hehe, thank you.)

Also, continue to ask for a commuter pass. Brothers, don't stay until the end of the month, give it to me now, my monthly pass is so bleak now, it's pitiful!

There's been a lot of things lately, but I'm still keeping more than 10,000 updates a day, brothers, sincerity is here. is about to enter a small **, to fight Fusang, from now on! After talking, Lian Zining found out that he was very proficient in Sinology of Qian Dai, and there was no problem in writing poems, and even the Bagu articles were written very neatly. But think about it, these children of Fusang masters have received the most orthodox Sinology education since they were young, and some of them are exquisite, and there is often a frustrated talent from the Ming Kingdom at home, who is responsible for teaching.

One afternoon, we had a good conversation.

In the evening, when the goods had been moved, Chiyo took his leave, and before leaving, he collected the weapons of his women's iron artillery team, found some more from the ship, and handed over five hundred iron cannons to Lian Zining.

Lian Zining was holding one in his hand at this time, quietly looking at it under the lamp.

This iron cannon, in Fusang, the correct name should be Chikuzen Copper Cannon, and in the time and space of Lian Zining, they also have a name in the Ming Kingdom - Bird Gun!

To put it bluntly, it was also a type of arquebus in this era, and he said that he saved a Portuguese captain and several crew members who were shipwrecked, learned how to make muskets from them, and then quickly spread throughout Fuso. Later, in the 27th year of Jiajing, the Ming army captured some people who were good at making shotguns and shotguns in the battle to recover Shuangyu, which was occupied by the Japanese and the Portuguese. Ma Xian, Li Huai and others learned the method of making shotguns, and on the basis of them, they studied and improved them, and in the 37th year of Jiajing, they created the first batch of 10,000 arquebuses in China, which were "more exquisite than those of the West", which were called "bird's beak guns".

After that, until the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the bird gun was one of the most important weapons in the Ming Dynasty army.

But now, the Ming Dynasty has done the stupid thing of abolishing firearms, but in Fusang, firearms are very popular.

So much so that Lian Zining now has to get the bird gun and the Fran cannon from the Tachibana family.

He knew that the surname of the bird gun was average, roughly similar to the Five Thunder God Machine, but the rate of fire was far behind, but now the fire guns of the 3,000th household of the infantry army were still bare-handed, and it was good to use it for the time being.

Although these soldiers have no guns in their hands, they have usually practiced with the Five Thunder God Machine, so they will soon get started.

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All transactions were made at sea, and the Tachibana family delivered the remaining silver and transported all the ordnance.

All this, Kang Lu did not carry Lian Zining behind his back, Lian Zining has been touching and watching, figuring out the profit of the Hou Mansion of Shouning this time. According to what he thought, this time the net profit would have to be around 500,000 taels. Kang Lu revealed some to him, and then he realized that he still wanted to fork in, this time the cost of the goods of the Shouning Hou Mansion alone reached more than 500,000 taels, and as for the earnings, it was as high as 1.5 million taels!

Three hundred percent of the horror profits.

This transaction has depleted the Tachibana family's savings for all these years of plundering.

For Kang Lu and the others, after escorting this batch of goods, this journey was already over, but they did not retreat, but stayed, ready to help Lian Zining.

Of course, it's just to help, they can't fight hard for Lian Zining like Wu Yijun, they are more of a role in waving the flag and shouting and knocking on the side.

Just like that, Lian Zining is already very content.

Being able to do this is already a great affection, and of course Lian Zining will not be without repayment.

He had already vaguely mentioned to Kang Lu that in the future, every year of Iwami Yinshan's production, one percent of it would be sent to the Shouning Hou Mansion, and the Shouning Hou Mansion could be sent to the account office to enter as a supervisor. Iwami Yinshan's annual silver production is about one million, and the five achievements belonging to Lian Zining are 500,000 taels, and one percent of them is 50,000 taels. For Zhang Yanchang, this is not much, but it is better in the long stream of water and the steady stream.

And that's just the beginning.

As the only nephew of his mother's family, Zhang Yanchang is extremely favored in front of the Queen Mother, because of his ability to do things, fortitude and courage, he also has a lot of face in front of the emperor, and sometimes his words can change Lian Zining's fate.

Of course, Kang Lu understood, Lian Zining took the opportunity to make a request, hoping that after going back, he would get a batch of cotton armor through the relationship of the Hou Mansion of Shouning, but the price was just that he hoped that it could be lowered.

Kang Lu thought that he couldn't make the decision, but he just said that he would definitely ask Hou Ye for instructions after he went back.

can take this road, Lian Zining is already very satisfied.

After handing over to the Tachibana family, the boat headed south, and after another day, after passing Tsushima Island and Iki Island, you could see the black coastline in the distance.

Tsushima Island and Iki Island are not under the jurisdiction of the Goto clan, but they are about the same, the clan occupies Tsushima, and the Hatata clan occupies Iki, both of which have already submitted to the Goto clan and are counted as distant retainers.

These two islands are not very large, so you can see the mountain castle built on the high slope from a distance, and when you see this huge Ming fleet, you hurriedly send someone to inquire, and when you learn that it is a Ming nobleman who went to Hizen to do business, you quickly send someone to the Goto clan to deliver a letter. Therefore, before Lian Zining and the others arrived, the news of the imminent arrival of an extremely large Ming fleet had already spread throughout Hizen.

Lian Zining stood at the highest point of the Fushan ship, looking at it from afar, and from a distance, he could see a forest composed of masts in the distance.

The closer you get, the more you can see clearly, on the horizon in the distance, is a huge harbor, the port radius is not more than ten miles, there are countless ships docked in it, large and small, I don't know how many, from a distance, it seems to be a forest of masts.

He stood high and could see far away, he could already see it clearly, the shore was crowded, the voices were boiling, and the black crowd was pushing and squeezing, as if he was looking forward to this side.

On the shore, there are large wooden houses, and in the distance, on top of a stone mountain more than 100 meters high, a tall and majestic stone mountain town stands majestically.

Lian Zining took a deep breath, is this where he was in the first battle in Fusang?

At that time, Fusang, the commercial trade was extremely developed - because Fusang produced silver and gold, but the goods produced were very few, so there were a lot of business travels around the country, such a prosperous city, a port, such a huge throughput, worthy of being the first in the whole Fusang, that is, to get the Ming Dynasty, but also a first-class port, only afraid that it is only inferior to Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Tianjin and other more than a dozen large ports.

But here, it is about to be enveloped in a fire and blood!

Blood and fire of your own making!

These civilians, these people, these merchants, how many hours will they survive?

However, Lian Zining has no sense of guilt in his heart, every Chinese child, if he wants to create a massacre in Fusang, no one will apologize.

He calmed down for a while, waved his hand to the guards waiting downstairs for Shi Dazhu and the others, and said in a low voice: "Pass the order, all the soldiers are in a team, listen to the order at any time, and prepare to fight!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Shi Dazhu knelt down to receive the order, kowtowed heavily, and led those guards to give orders.

Soon, the soldiers of the Wu Yi Army on several Fushan ships reacted, put on their clothes and armor or red fat jackets, took spears and halberds, and stood in a neat queue on the deck and the wooden city.

Shore.

The crowd was very crowded, and the dock area was full and impassable, but there was a large area in the middle, and there was no one within a radius of 100 meters, and everyone looked at the past with awe and fear.

There, in the best view of the entire dock, dozens of samurai in iron armor with katanas hanging from their waists were surrounded by three people, two of whom were in their forties, and the other was no more than twenty. All three of them wore traditional kimonos, which were shorter, with their ankles exposed, clogs on their feet, their eyebrows thinly shaved, and the hair on both sides of their sideburns shaved to the top of their heads, with the middle one braided straight up, which looked ridiculous.

But in Fusang, this kind of dress can only be done by an aristocratic lord. If the civilians imitate it privately, they will be killed!

The middle-aged man standing in the middle, who looked like a leader, shrugged his eyebrows, he had big ears and was very imposing, especially the tall and majestic man who was not like the average Fuso person, with a mouth full of black teeth - this is also the sign of the Fuso nobility - and his voice was also very majestic.

"Elder Shengzhongbi, those Ming fleets, you said that we came like this, are you a little condescending?" He smiled deeply: "The dignified governor of the Wudao clan and the old ministers of the pen, as well as the next family governor, came to greet a few Ming businessmen, these Ming people, the face is really big." ”

But he is fluent in Chinese, and in the upper class society of Fusang, Chinese is always the first language, and anyone who does not speak Chinese is simply like being discriminated against in the ball salon of European ladies and celebrities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At first glance, you know that it is a turtle from the countryside.

These three people, the one who asked the question, is Goto Cungen, the governor of the Goto clan, and the other middle-aged man is the first minister of the Goto clan, that is, the so-called pen head minister Goto Katsushige, and the young man next to him is his only son, Goto Kiyoike.

That Goto Katsushige was not as afraid of him as the other retainers, he smiled in a low voice, and said: "Lord, although these Ming people are good faces, they are also big silver!" ”

"The news from the Zong clan and the Hado clan that the fleet consists of more than twenty ships as huge as mountains and several ships as large as the city, larger than the former! These ships are more than twice as large as the Tachibana family's ironclad ships! If they can afford such a ship, how can they be ordinary Ming merchants, not to mention, they also have the escort of the Ming Dynasty sailors! According to my guess, they are not only the so-called officials and businessmen of the Ming Dynasty, but also the top officials and businessmen. Since the lord is a hero, and our Wudao clan has occupied Hizen, we have seen so many merchants of the Ming Kingdom, and which one of them is escorted by a sailor? ”

"The arrival of such a fleet, just think about it, you can know how much benefit it can bring to our Goto clan! All of this aside, if we can get in touch with them, we might be able to buy those elite weapons and armor of the Tachibana family. He looked at Goto Cunxuan, and his eyes flashed with a feverish light: "Isn't the Tachibana family just relying on having dealings with the nobles of the Ming Kingdom, and crushing our Goto clan to the death, if we can also get the same opportunity, then, how can we be afraid of them?" ”

"Even if you put all of this out of the way! This fleet also deserves to be greeted by us, because of that man! ”

"Yes! That man! Wudao Cunxuan shook his eyebrows, which resembled the lowest grade of the Ming Dynasty, and the prostitute in the village painted crooked because of the low transparency of the mirror, and opened his mouth to groan: "If life is only as first seen, what is the West Wind sad painting fan!" I really don't know what kind of person can make such elegant words, and I'm really looking forward to it! ”

Goto Kiyochi snorted coldly: "Maybe it's just a person who deceives the world and steals his name, I heard that he became a military general because he was afraid of losing the imperial examination, and he can't say that the word was copied by someone else." ”

The words are full of young people's disdain for their excellent peers and the jealousy and inferiority hidden in them.

Goto Katsushige smiled and did not refute. Goto Cunxuan glanced at his son, his eyes full of pampering and tolerance.

The big ship got closer and closer, and the small boat with guidance came up, almost overturned by the wind and waves brought up by the big boat, and under the guidance of the small boat, the giant ship finally slowly leaned on the trestle, and the crowd of onlookers made a neat and loud sound to breathe in the cool air - the people of the Hado clan and the Zong clan did not lie, it turned out that there was really such a huge ship, it was really like a mountain and a city!

They looked back at the mountain castle of the Goto clan, and felt that the giant ship in front of them was really bigger.

The mountain-like ship poked out a long, bridge-like huge wooden plank on the ground, and then the sound of horses' hooves came out, and in the incredible eyes of everyone, the ship was actually dozens of cavalry rushing down, these cavalry were so heroic, wearing shining plate armor and cloaks, holding long sabers in their hands, and even their war horses were covered with thick armor!

Everyone shouted again with a neat and loud exclamation, raising cavalry on a ship? But considering the size of this big ship, it doesn't seem to be an unacceptable thing.

Dozens of dragoons rushed down with Lian Zining, and the onlookers avoided one after another, Lian Zining slammed the reins, and the neighing of the war horse Herod suddenly stopped, and the horseshoe and bluestone slabs were agitated, and a shiny spark burst out.

Behind him, the dragoons were also in unison, forming a moon shape, and surrounded him at the front!

Lian Zining looked at it slowly, and couldn't help but feel agitated in his heart.

The crowd on the shore is afraid that there are thousands of people, all of them come to see the excitement, after all, the fleet of the Ming Dynasty is common, but such a large fleet, such a huge warship, is the first time in his life to see. Lian Zining saw the Fusang civilians in the crowd wearing tattered clothes and a humble smile on their faces, saw the Fusang merchants wearing silk and satin, blackened teeth and eyebrows, and escorted the samurai by their side, saw the Fusang ronin with a sword in his arms, stepped on clogs, and combed a braided face with a rebellious face, saw the Ming dressed, and even saw the red-haired Dutchman and the blue-eyed and snow-skinned Franco, the messengers of the Hato clan and the Zong clan had spread the news of this Ming fleet throughout Hizen, a huge ship as a mountain, Even on the sea, I'm afraid it can be on a par with the highest castle tower in Goto Mountain Castle.

Behind these people was the spacious open space of the dock and the vast civilian area, and in the distance, the towering Hizen Stone Mountain and the huge mountain town towering on the stone mountain, his gaze passed through here, and he seemed to see farther ahead. There is the Tachibana family, Shikoku, Honshu Island, and the whole of Fuso.

I finally set foot on this land in this time and space!

This small country in the East, a few drops of the Great East Asian plate sprinkled on the Pacific Ocean, have been entangled with the Chinese nation for a hundred years in their own time and space, and have created countless killings and crimes. And in this plane, will everything repeat itself?

No, it won't! Definitely not! Lian Zining clenched his fists fiercely, all of this has to change because of me!

Everyone can see that the young man in front of him is obviously the leader of this group of people, maybe he is still some high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty.

Kang Lu and the others did not get off the boat, but stayed on the horse clipper.

Then behind them, countless men and coolies disembarked from the ship, carrying them on their shoulders and pushing them in their hands, full of all kinds of goods, and in a short time all kinds of goods were piled up all over the dock, like small mountain bags.

At this time, the crowd parted, and Lian Zining saw three people who were obviously Fusang nobles, surrounded by dozens of samurai, coming this way.

Lian Zining hurriedly got off the horse and greeted him, the distance between the two sides stopped at a distance of about ten steps, and Goto Katsushige took a step forward, bowed deeply, and said: "The contemptible Goto clan pen head Goto Katsushige, I have seen all the nobles of the Ming Kingdom!" ”

Lian Zining laughed: "It turned out to be the pen head of the Wudao clan, and the president of the Wu Yijun in the Ming Dynasty commanded the affairs, Lian Zining, polite!" ”

His eyes turned to the tall other person beside the middle-aged man, and his heart said, the errands are all important ministers, so isn't this person?

"It turns out that you are only as good as the first time you see Lord Lian, you have admired it for a long time, and even the two words of Lord Lian are popular in our country, and I have heard it for a long time, and I am very admired in my heart, and it is really a great honor to be able to meet Lord Lian face to face today." Goto Katsushige was polite for a while, then stretched out his hand to Lian Zining, and said: "This is the contempt, the governor of the Goto clan, the daimyo of 300,000 stones, and the Lord Goto Cunxuan who leads the four countries of Kyushu Island!" ”

It's really the mystery of the five islands!

This guy is also a bit of a name in history, in the time and space of Lian Zining, the quality of the soldiers of the Godao clan is still one of the best in the entire Kyushu Island, and under the hands of Wang Zhi, the old shipowner who has been in the seas during the Jiajing period, there are many warrior generals of the Godao clan, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong.

(To be continued)