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Mao Shibai felt a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and strictly disciplined his soldiers and formulated stricter discipline. Half of all the soldiers had to stay on board at all times, always on alert.

Mao 18 also bribed Xizuo to probe the movements of the Zheng family's fleet, and was always on guard against possible attacks. However, judging from the news of the inquiry, the Zheng family has no plans to make a move against the Daishan fleet in Japan.

In Japan, the Daisan fleet has another enemy, and that is the old enemy of the Dutch!

This year, the Dutch sent a much larger fleet, a full five Dutch plywood ships, but when they saw the huge fleet of Daishan, the Dutch didn't even dare to fart.

All the goods were sold out, but there was still some time before returning to Daishan, because they had to wait for the northwest monsoon to rise.

During this period, Mao 18 and others were not idle. Song Liben coordinated with Matsuura Dong and Li Guozhu to prepare for the purchase of a large number of goods. Refined iron and red copper is the material used to make guns, so naturally the more you need to purchase, the better. Others, such as saltpeter sulfur and shotguns, are also necessities for the expansion of Daishan.

However, the Japanese shogunate strictly controlled these military supplies, and if it weren't for the relationship between Li Guozhu and Matsuura, he wouldn't have wanted to get his hands on them.

Even with Li Guozhu's energy, he can only guarantee the purchase of 100,000 catties of refined iron and the same amount of red copper......

In addition to purchasing these, Mao 18 also led more than half of the fleet to the sea for training in the name of training, but in fact, he went to the men's and women's islands to dig up guano ore that had been piled up on the island for thousands of years, which was the best material for cultivating wasteland.

The days went by like this, and in the blink of an eye, it was almost winter.

Matsuura Lingzi sent someone to summon Song Liben, she had already given birth, gave birth to a big fat boy, and took the milk name Fukuoka, and the big name naturally had to be taken by Ren Siqi.

"Meet Madame!" For Songpu Lingzi, Song Liben didn't dare to slack off, and the child in her arms might be her future young master.

"General Song, the slave family invited you here, there is something to ask for." Reiko Matsuura bowed with the baby in her arms.

"Don't dare, Madame has something to order!" Song Liben hurriedly turned sideways to avoid it, swinging his hands wildly and not daring to win consecutive victories.

"This is Si Qijun's child, General Song, do you think he looks like Si Qijun?" Matsupu Lingzi smiled, like a hundred flowers blooming, so that Song Liben didn't dare to look at it directly.

"It's like that! The young master is full of heavenly character, and when he grows up, he will definitely be a little more handsome than General Ren! Looking at the baby in Matsuura Lingzi's arms, Song Liben exclaimed.

After admiring, Song Liben took a piece of paper from his arms and handed it over respectfully with both hands.

"What is this?" Matsuura Ayako was stunned.

"This is a gift from my general to my wife and young master on behalf of my family, and I ask my wife to accept it!" Song Liben said respectfully, he knew that Ren Siqi didn't know that he had a son now, but as Ren Siqi's subordinate, although Matsuura Ayako was not Ren Siqi's official wife, but since he gave birth to a child, he had to say something instead of Ren Siqi.

Hearing that it was a gift for herself, Matsuura Ayako was overjoyed, handed the child to the maid beside her, happily took the gift list, and took a big look.

See the gifts written in Chinese characters on it: "a pair of gold collars, a pair of gold bracelets, a pair of white jade lions, four agate, twenty pieces of silk and satin, sixteen ingots of silver, eight ingots of gold, and a number of other gifts......"

The total value reached thousands of taels of silver, and Matsuura Ayako looked down with her party and her line, only to see her eyebrows and smiles, and the grievances in her heart were swept away.

Although the gift was purchased by Ren Siqi's subordinates, it also represented the status of himself and his children in their hearts. Since she became pregnant with a child, Ayako Matsuura has matured rapidly, and she is no longer the innocent girl she used to be.

"Ayako thanked General Song for his generous gift on behalf of the child!" Ayako Matsuura stacked the gift list and began to talk about the original purpose of calling Song Li.

"It's been a year since I said goodbye to Si Qijun. I thought that Siqijun would come to Japan again, but I didn't expect it to be a general.

The concubine wrote a letter, hoping that the general would hand it over to Siqijun in person. ”

Song Liben promised to take the letter again and again. Matsuura Ayako asked Song Liben about Ren Siqi's current situation again. Song Liben only needs to pick and tell her about Ren Siqi's current situation one by one.

In order to comfort her, and also to explain the reason why Ren Siqi did not come, she told a lot about the current situation in Daishan, such as Ren Siqi has become a general, in charge of dozens of islands, and his affairs are very busy, and he really can't take time to come to Japan to trade.

Matsuura Ayako asked Ren Siqi if he had a wife, Song Liben sighed, and he didn't want to hide it, so he briefly told Zhang Pujia and Huang Fengwu. Because he knew that no matter what, Ayako Matsuura would not be able to become Ren Siqi's main wife.

Listening to Song Liben's words, Matsuura Ayako's expression was gloomy.

"The general of my family will definitely be very happy when he knows that his son is born, and he will take his wife to his side as soon as possible." Song Liben comforted.

......

In the blink of an eye, in winter, a fierce north wind blew from the Siberian plateau, over the vast desert steppes, over the mountains and plains, and into the sea.

The raging waves are boundless, and the flags on the masts are hunting in the cold wind.

It's time for the return trip.

Large iron anchors were lifted from the sea, and sails were raised and hung high on the masts.

Bidding farewell to the representatives of Matsuura and Li Guozhu who saw them off, Mao 18 and Song Liben stood on the bow of the "Princess", commanded the fleet to pull anchor, and left the port of Nagasaki.

"Report to Commander Mao, the Zheng family's fleet is still staying in the five islands, and there is no change!"

"Report to Commander Mao, the Dutch fleet is also in the harbor, and there is no movement to attack us!"

Sentinel ships approached one after another, reporting to Mao 18 about the movements near Nagasaki.

"It seems that this year's trip to Japan is much calmer than last year." Song Liben smiled and said to Mao.

"Count them in for fun!" Mao Eighteen laughed.

Since there was no goods to bring on the return trip, many Daming maritime merchants chose to sell their sailboats, and then take other people's ships back to their hometowns, and buy new ships when trading next year, so that the cost was much cheaper than sailing the ships back to Daming.

In the past few months, Mao 18 privately acquired more than a dozen three-masted sailing ships from the Ming maritime merchants, and recruited more than 200 Ming immigrants and Japanese samurai in Hirado, and the strength of the fleet has increased greatly, and now there are nearly 100 ships, more than half of which are three-masted ships.

He was eagerly looking forward to a big fight with the Zheng family or the Dutch.

"Home!"

Embarking on the formation of returning home, every crew member and soldier in the fleet was extremely excited!

PS: Seeing the encouragement of so many readers, so many people insist on voting, I really can't bear to cut it like this. Go ahead, regardless of the earnings from the grades! However, the update speed will not be fast this month, and I want to save up the manuscript to cope with the full attendance of next month. (To be continued.) )