In Hirado Castle, the westernmost side of Kyushu Island, Ashikaga Kazuki was sitting in the castle lord's mansion, and was receiving a guest from afar, only to see that this guest was a very handsome young man, if Zhou Zhong was here, he would recognize this guest as his old acquaintance, that is, Hatano Hidego who had been with Ashikaga Kazuki to envoy Daming, and this time he came to Ashikaga Kazuki for help on behalf of Ashikaga Yoshisai.

"Ashikaga-kun, the shogun was able to leave Kyoto safely this time, and he also paid a great price, among which Heibe Kurashita, in order to cover the general's departure, took hundreds of dead soldiers to block the pursuit of the Hosokawa clan, and as a result, all of them were killed in battle, and the youngest son and daughter of the general and their mother did not have time to escape, and the most died in the chaos, and there were several retainers......"

Hatano Hidego told Ashikaga Kazuki about their escape from Kyoto with a sad face, although Ashikaga Kazuki had received the news that his cousin Ashikaga Yoshisai had escaped safely from Kyoto, but only Ashikaga Yoshisai escaped safely on the news, but now he heard Hatano Hidego, a person who had personally experienced it, talk about what happened at the beginning, which made Ashikaga Kazuki know how difficult it was for his cousin to escape.

"Hmph, Hosokawa Takakuni and Ouchi Yoshiko, one day I will make you pay a hundredfold price for what you did today!" Ashikaga Kazuki calmly listened to Hatano Hidego's narration, and then he pounded the ground heavily and said hatefully, cousin Ashikaga Yoshisai didn't have many heirs, and now he actually died of the youngest son, that child He had heard his cousin mention when he went to the capital last time, and he was Ashikaga Yoshisai's favorite child, but now even that child is dead. I wonder how my cousin will hurt?

"Ashikaga-kun. The day of revenge is not far off. Although the shogun paid a lot of money, he finally brought most of his strength out of Kyoto, and now he has safely reached the territory of the Tayama clan, and now Tayama Naoshun and my uncle have responded to the general's call and are actively preparing for war, only waiting until next year, when we will have a decisive battle with the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan! When Hatahidego said the word decisive battle, his face also showed hatred. After all, as a small surname next to Ashikaga Yoshisai, the hatred of the head of the family is also his hatred, and he may even hate the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan more than Ashikaga Yoshisai.

"Great, my cousin's forbearance over the years has finally not been in vain, and now it's finally time to fight the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan, but I don't know what does Lu Dao need me to do?" Ashikaga Kazuki is also full of confidence, if it was a year ago, he would definitely not approve of a war with Hosokawa Takakuni, but after more than a year of accumulation, plus all kinds of help from Zhou Shige. As a result, their strength grew extremely fast, and Ashikaga Yoshisai joined forces with the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan. It is no longer inferior to the power of the Hosokawa clan and the Ouchi clan.

"Ashikaga-kun thinks the same as we think, our Yamato can't let the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan continue to behave like this, so they must all be wiped out through a war, but now the general is short of weapons and food, especially weapons, most of the newly recruited troops can only use bamboo guns as weapons, although the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan can't equip all the army with metal weapons, but the use rate of metal weapons is higher than ours, so the general hopes that Ashikaga-kun can get some weapons from Daming!" Hatano Hidego said very solemnly.

"Weapons and food." Ashikaga Kazuki also groaned when he heard this, although Zhou Zhong said that he would support them to regain the power of the shogunate, but the two types of materials such as weapons and food were very strictly controlled, and those Ming merchants who came to trade could transport all kinds of materials, and even bring copper money for silver, but no one dared to transport weapons and food, and even iron products were very strictly controlled.

"You also know the situation of the Great Ming, and I don't dare to guarantee that the Governor of the Great Ming will agree to help us with a batch of weapons." Ashikaga Kazuki thought about it for a long time, and then sighed and said, he has provided a lot of money for Ashikaga Yoshisai for more than a year, but he can't provide much help in terms of the most urgently needed weapons.

"Hehe, Ashikaga-kun don't worry, as long as you tell the governor the truth about the current situation in our country, I guess he will definitely help us with a batch of weapons!" Hatano Hidego said very confidently.

"Oh? Why are you so confident? Ashikaga Kazuki asked with some strange expression.

"It's very simple, the governor agreed to aid our court, he didn't have any good intentions, he just wanted to see us and the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan consume each other's strength, and now although our strength has increased a lot, but compared with the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan, there is still a bit of a gap, so the Ming Dynasty will definitely make up for this gap, after all, only when the strength of the two sides is not much different, can the fight be more lively, this is the result that the Ming wants to see, not a one-sided war!" Hatano Hidego said in a deep voice, and his face couldn't help but show a little sadness, although they both understood the conspiracy of the Ming Dynasty, but they had to jump into each other's trap, which was the saddest thing for the Yamato nation.

Ashikaga Kazuki also sighed when he heard this, patted Hatano Hidego on the shoulder and said: "Your analysis is very reasonable, the result that Daming wants to see the most is that we both lose, or even die, but unfortunately we know the sinister intentions of Daming, but we can only ask them for help, this is all because we are in turmoil in our country, maybe when we unify the whole country, we can stand up and talk to Daming!" ”

A few days later, Ashikaga Kazuki personally sailed to Jeju Island, where he begged to see Tsunetaka who was stationed there, and explained the situation in his own country, and then offered that he needed a batch of weapons, which he hoped would report to the governor, and that they were willing to buy them all in silver.

For Ashikaga Kazuki's request, Chang Xiao immediately sent someone back to Shuangyu Port by clipper, Zhou Zhong received the news and was first happy, and then quickly let people prepare a batch of weapons eliminated by the Ming army, these weapons were originally to be shipped to North Korea to support the rebellion there, but now that the Japanese chaos is coming, it is better to support them first, anyway, the two countries are not a good thing, the longer the chaos lasts, the better, and the more people who die, the better!

However, weapons can be given, but the grain is not given a single grain, because he knows that although the Wa Kingdom is chaotic and the food is also a little scarce, it is still stronger than North Korea, as long as Ashikaga Yoshisai they search for it, they can always scavenge enough food from the Wa people as military pay, not to mention that the Wa people have always been known for their hardships and hard work and cruelty and killing, so let them fight hungry, maybe they can give full play to the two beautiful virtues.

Coincidentally, just after Zhou Chonggang sent away the ships transporting weapons, the entire Shuangyu Port was very rare to be frozen, you must know that this is the south of the Ming Dynasty, and the sea water is not easy to be frozen, but now not only Shuangyu Port is frozen, even the Ningbo Port next to it is also frozen, and even heard that the coast of Wenzhou in the south is also frozen, and the entire island of Taiwan has also begun to snow, and many areas in the south have suffered from the freezing disaster, and it is estimated that it is not far from the day of snow in Hainan.

Since Shuangyu Port was frozen, the port immediately lost its former prosperity, and even many ships were frozen in the port because they didn't have time to leave the port, which made many ship owners beat their chests and regret that they didn't listen to the governor's warning and sailed to the south earlier? Now it is a good thing, not only are the ships frozen in the port and cannot move, so that they can no longer transport goods until the ice is thawed, and even some ships will be frozen, and they may need to spend a lot of money on repairs in the future.

Shuangyu Port quieted down, although it was snowing in Taiwan, but the immigrants who moved to the Central Plains were originally northerners, and they were more adapted to the cold, plus this year's sweet potato harvest was huge, and every family was not short of food, just need to take out some of the food to change some warm clothes, as for fuel, it can be seen everywhere, so they are not afraid of this cold winter at all. As for the port of Malacca, not to mention, the cold weather of the Xiaoice River has not affected the equatorial region.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Chong's rule is almost safe in this winter, and he, the governor, is also idle all of a sudden, plus the weather outside is too cold, so that Zhou Chong is usually too lazy to go out, but the consequence of not going out is to make Mengwan pregnant, Zhou Chong has a total of three women, and now they are all happily waiting for the birth of the child, which also makes Zhou Chong stay alone in the empty room again, and he can only stay in the study and sleep alone.

However, it is also good to sleep alone, after all, Zhou Zhong is just an ordinary person, usually busy with official business during the day, and covets the joy of bed at night, although he is young now, there is no problem on the surface, but in fact, his body is still somewhat damaged, now he doesn't have to think about those official duties, and he sleeps alone at night, which makes Zhou Chong's body finally adjust.

At noon this day, Zhou Chong took a nap, but when he woke up again, it was already dusk, and it was snowing heavily, it was a very rare sight to see snow in a place like Shuangyu Port, which made Zhou Chong also very excited, and went to the kitchen in person, boiled the soup base with mutton bones and various spices, added a lot of chili oil to make a red pot, and cut the beef and mutton into thin slices, and washed and prepared side dishes such as mushrooms and vegetables. Prepare to enjoy the snow while eating hot pot.

But just when Zhou Chong put a few slices of beef in the pot, someone suddenly came to report that an old friend of his came to visit, which made Zhou Chong stunned at the time, and couldn't guess who this self-proclaimed old friend was? (To be continued......)