Nearly 300 cannonballs smashed into Edo Castle in a very short time like a raging storm, and dense fires exploded between the buildings like stars in the Milky Way. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi on the castle tower was dumbfounded.

His ministers were dumbfounded.

The vast majority of the houses in the Wa Kingdom are made of wood, even the houses of the shoguns are no exception, and the most famous castle in history is the fire, burning half of Edo Castle once every three years on average, and the 90 fires recorded in the history of 270 years, you can imagine how the level of fire prevention is, after 300 shells are smashed down, the entire Edo Castle immediately billows in smoke and flames.

"Quick, quick, get them to stop!"

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi screamed in horror.

"Madamn, if you live by the sea, you dare to play tricks with us!"

On the battleship in the distance, Fang Heng said speechlessly.

Fortunately, the Ming army was only a deterrent, and after firing a round of shells at Edo Castle, they immediately stopped firing and enjoyed the spectacle of smoke billowing from the sea.

"Next armor change!"

Fang Heng said with satisfaction.

Not long after he had said this, he rode out of Edo Castle on a fast horse, and then came to the beach and boarded a small boat and rowed over......

Okay, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi succumbed, take the order, kneel and kneel, the hero doesn't suffer the immediate loss, send the Ming army away first, otherwise this is only a round of shelling, it will cause such a big mess, if the Ming army continues to bombard, it is estimated that the Edo Castle that has been built so hard will be destroyed, you must know that his wife and children are all in the city, and the most elite samurai of the Tokugawa family, the core ministers are also there! If this is served in a pot, the Tokugawa family will still be a fart in the future, how many daimyo in the north and south are staring at it ambitiously, as long as the Tokugawa family suffers heavy losses, needless to say, these guys will definitely turn into hungry wolves and come up to bite them.

Of course, the main thing is that he himself is in the city.

Although the Ming army deterred artillery bombardment, deliberately avoided the castle tower, but there was still a cannonball exploded nearby, and then more than a dozen samurai who were there were blown up at once, either killed or wounded, one of them was a well-known kendo master, but even the enemy was blown to pieces, this scene made Tokugawa Tsunayoshi completely lose the courage to persevere, and the ferocity of the Ming army already belonged to another plane for him.

"Cheap bones, just owe a beating!"

Fang Heng spat in disdain and set foot on the land of the Wa Kingdom again.

Only this time, he was greeted with drums and a humble smile in front of him, Yanagisawa Yoshiho, who had been arrogantly expelling him, and went directly out of the city with a guard of honor to officially welcome him into the city, and then came to Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's palace watch inward again, and once again held the holy decree and repeated the words he had shouted when he came last time, this time Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was finally supported to walk out from behind the curtain, hesitated, and knelt on the ground aggrievedly to meet the holy decree of His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

Fang Heng looked to both sides.

There were only a few ministers on either side of him, and even the samurai outside had been cleared away, and it was clear that Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was not going to make the kneeling decree public, so the less people could see it, the better.

Fang Heng didn't care, the most important thing in his trip was to declare the decree, and Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's careful thinking could be ignored.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said!

In disregard of the law and order, on 3 December, the Japanese military openly plundered the Zhejiang-flagged merchant ship Fushun in the southern waters of Kyushu Island, resulting in two losses of the Fushun's cargo, 10 innocent crew members killed, and 20 crew members seriously injured.

And since the beginning of the war between the Holy Dynasty and the Netherlands, the Japanese kingdom has turned a deaf ear and openly allowed the Dutch to live on the island of Nagasaki.

Both crimes will be punished today.

……”

Fang Heng read the holy decree solemnly.

And the more Tokugawa Tsunayoshi listened, the more angry he became.

He originally wanted to take the order casually and quickly serve these plague gods, but now he knows that the Ming people have a big appetite, and it is far from being something he can fool in the past, asking the emperor to send the prince level to apologize, and he must use the identity of the king of the Wa Kingdom, which means that it is absolutely unacceptable to officially announce the world that the Wa Kingdom has become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

And the emperor will not agree!

Although the emperor hardly had any presence at this time, and even only had 30,000 koku of land to worship every year, and even all the ministers added up to only 100,000 koku, his only duty was to verify the authenticity of the legendary gods and goddesses in Kyoto behind closed doors......

Well, there are 30 million immortals in the Wa Kingdom.

But he is the emperor after all.

It is true that the Wa Kingdom has declared itself a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, but it is not the emperor who claims to be a vassal, but Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

As for the compensation, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if the murderer is punished, just find a samurai to cut the abdomen, capture the Dutch and give it to Daming, that doesn't matter, those Dutchmen don't have any value at all, let alone give it to Yang Feng, even if he cuts it all, he won't care, but the rest of the things are unacceptable.

However, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi still held back, after all, the deterrent effect of the shelling just now was still there, he honestly listened to Fang Heng read it, and then officially accepted the order, and then simply avoided it under the pretext of being in poor health, and Yanagisawa Yoshiho was responsible for everything next, after all, every moment he experienced now was humiliation, in fact, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was not just evasive, he left Edo Castle directly and simply and ran outside to take refuge, in case of a real fight and was killed by a shell from the Ming army, it would be a big loss.

Fang Heng didn't care about this, and it was also very uncomfortable to communicate with this shogun who was just over his waist.

Immediately afterwards, Yanagisawa Yoshiho arranged a high-level banquet, and sent people to send condolences to the Ming warship, and even arranged a large number of Ji women, ready to comfort the Ming army, but because the Ming army did not go ashore, and Ji women were not allowed to board the ship, so at this time, it was just for the time being, Fang Heng and a few of his attachés enjoyed it very much, of course, they would not make the mistake of being rich and noble, and soon entered the main topic after a feast.

First of all, it's okay to compensate for this.

Although the amount proposed by Fang Heng was a little higher, after adding the cost of this edict, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi needed to compensate 200,000 small judgments for this, this figure was indeed not low, although the purity of that thing was a little lower, but it was almost three tons of gold, but this was not so unbearable that the shogunate could not bear it. It's easy to punish the murderer, and if the investigation is clear, kill the one who should be killed, this is no problem, it is easier to arrest the Dutch, Yanagisawa Yoshiho can now replace Tokugawa Tsunayoshi to give the Nagasaki defenders an order to go out of the island to raid the house, and it is estimated that the income from the Dutch will be enough to compensate for this indemnity.

But this switch ......

"Yanagi Zejun, it's not a mistake to close off the country, and we don't ask you to completely open the coastal ports, but since the Japanese State is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, then we are a country, since it is a country, of course, there is no customs problem, so the Ming merchant ships in the Japanese country should also be the same as in the Ming Dynasty or Goryeo Annan and other places, you can land in any port, and you don't need to pay customs duties in any port, this is for foreigners, why does your country need to pay customs duties?

As for the Minister in the Wa Kingdom, this is also for the convenience of communication in the future, and you don't want us to come over in this way for anything in the future, right?

As for extraterritoriality.

You are only a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, of course, you have no right to judge the people of the kingdom, otherwise if there is anything wrong in the middle, we will still come.

It's also for your own good!

You don't always think that our merchants have made money from your gold and silver, this situation is completely caused by your retreat, in fact you also have a lot of things that make us money, but the retreat makes your merchants unable to make money, such as your copper ore, such as your sulfur, can make money from us, and even your people can go to us to make money, such as ......"

Fang Heng looked at the girl of the Japanese Kingdom who was snuggling beside him, and showed a smile that you understand.

Yoshiho Yanagisawa smiled understandingly.

"And you don't like the Southwest Domain to make money as a middleman, but you don't switch it, we don't look for who they are looking for? If Edo and Osaka are also switched, do we have to go to Kagoshima? ”

Fang Heng then said.

Yoshiho Yanagisawa was moved.

This is indeed very right, he knows this matter well, the root is that the shogunate wants to cut off the smuggling channels of the Ming merchants, to prevent Satsuma and other southwestern domains from continuing to grow, but once all the ports are open to the Ming merchants, then the Satsuma and other domains will not monopolize this interest, and if the switch is made, the Wa State can export various commodities to the Ming Dynasty on a large scale, and it can also make money from the Ming Dynasty, and even as Fang Heng said, even those women can make a lot of money by selling meat in the Ming Dynasty, and it is very common for the Korean people to open a courtyard in the Ming Dynasty.

This doesn't seem to be a bad switch.

"Your Excellency, can you sell us the iron cannon?"

He asked tentatively.

"High quality and low price, as much as you want, flintlock pistols, cannons, ammunition, what you want!"

Fang Heng said.

"Yanagisawa-kun, we have no malicious intentions, in fact, we should be considered friends, or our Emperor Majesty and your Tokugawa family should be considered friends, because we have a special relationship between us, I say one person and you understand, as far as I know, your Tokugawa family is Zhu Zhiyu's student, right? Ah, his name here is Zhu Shunshui. ”

Fang Heng continued.

"Mr. Shunshui is the teacher of our country!"

Yoshiho Yanagisawa immediately put on a reverent expression and said solemnly.

"And who are we? Contemptible and he is the same country, my great-grandfather of Her Majesty the Empress of the Ming Dynasty is his friend, Mr. Huang Lizhou, who fought side by side with him, and my Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty is the son of Mr. Huang Lizhou, the place where His Majesty the Emperor raised his army, is Mr. Zhu Shunshui's Changguo who assisted King Lu to resist the Qing Dynasty, until now one-third of my Ming cabinet is still after Mr. Zhu Shunshui's old friends, including the great-grandfather of the contemptible people, who also fought against the Qing Dynasty with him back then. ”

Fang Heng said.

"Then why can't we be friends?"

Then he added. (To be continued.) )