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"Shizi, it's time for dinner!" In the evening, it was time to finish eating, and the sun was still hanging in the western sky and refused to fall, but it did not have the power of noon, but it only gave people a warm feeling. Geng Jingzhong was lying alone on a recliner reading a book, and the guards around him came to report.

It's been five days since they set out from Edo, and they haven't reached the port of Nagasaki until now. It was a tailwind when they went to Edo, but when they came back, it was a headwind most of the time. It was supposed to take only five days to travel, but now I don't think I can get there in two more days. Since Geng Jingzhong and Wang Zhenbang were sure that Tian Xin and the others should be at Ryuzoji now, they ordered the fleet to go straight to Nagasaki Port.

The order of the Tokugawa shogunate to withdraw had already been sent to Kyushu Island, and the coalition forces that had attacked Kagoshima had all retreated, but the stronger Daiyu clan and Ouchi clan each left a part of the naval division and wanted to occupy part of the territory of the Shimazu family. The Sagara clan and the Ito clan, which were closest to the Satsuma Domain, also advanced dozens of kilometers on the border and occupied a castle.

Geng Jingzhong didn't know about it, and he didn't want to know. In the future, these problems should be a headache for the Ryuzoji clan. What Geng Jingzhong wants at the moment is to hurry to Nagasaki and finalize the cooperation with the Ryuzoji clan, and then he can go home with peace of mind!

"What's going to eat tonight?" Geng Jingzhong asked casually as he walked into the cabin.

"Back to the world, stewed fish, horse meat, pickles and canned food!" The guard replied truthfully.

"I haven't finished eating horse meat yet, how many days have it been? How many more? Geng Jingzhong was stunned. He frowned displeasedly.

"Listen to the master of the room. Today is the last meal. After eating, it's gone! ”

"Whew, that's good!" By this time, he had already appeared in the cabin hall. What used to be a long table in the conference room has now become a collective dining table for senior generals.

"Shizi!"

"Shizi!"

"See the Son!"

A group of high-ranking generals who stayed on the Zhenyuan stood on both sides of the table and greeted Geng Jingzhong one after another. Just wait for Geng Jingzhong to sit down first, and then start together. Such scenarios happen every day, and they have become the norm on battleships.

"Sit down and eat! We are at sea, no better than at home. The conditions are like this, just get used to it. Geng Jingzhong said again to several generals of the Marine Army. He's said it over the past month, but he can't help but repeat it. "Hehe, these plates of sauced horse meat, roast horse meat and stewed horse meat are the last meal, you must wipe out these large plates of horse meat on the table for me today, I really don't want to continue to see it tomorrow!"

The other generals who had just sat down frowned almost at the same time. This thing has been eaten for five days in a row, that is, the delicacies of the mountains and seas are enough to eat for five days, not to mention the horse meat that is not delicious! "Shizi, this is too difficult for us. I'm going to vomit all of this! Zeng Yangxing opened his mouth and said.

"You don't eat alone, I eat too. Let's divide these together! Geng Jingzhong took the lead in picking up chopsticks and put a few pieces of sauce horse meat in his bowl. There was no way, and everyone else did the same, dividing the horse meat on the table.

The horse meat eaten in the past few days is one of the 20,000 war horses sent by the shogunate. After the 20,000 horses were delivered to Yokosuka, the warriors reluctantly allocated a lot of cabins to house the horses. But it was still relatively crowded, and after going to sea, Geng Jingzhong ordered a batch of these war horses to be killed for easy placement. With this killing, four thousand horses were killed at once. Only some good meat was selected for the slaughtered horses, and all the other bones were discarded, after all, there was not so much salt on the ship to marinate it. In this way, 600,000 catties of good meat were selected, of which 100,000 catties were pickled, and the others were wiped out in these five days.

The reason why Geng Jingzhong is so generous is that he doesn't look down on these war horses of the Japanese kingdom at all. This kind of war horse native to the Japanese country is called Kiso horse; It is said that the Kiso horse is the best breed of horses in the native Wa Kingdom, and at the same time, it is also the main war horse of the Wa State cavalry. But its size is too small, and it is really only suitable for Japanese people to ride. The average height of the Wakoku people is about 1.6 meters, and it is just right to ride on Kiso, who is only 1.1 meter tall.

If this Kiso horse was given to the horsetail warriors to ride, it would definitely not be very suitable, so it could not be transported to Fujian as a war horse. This horse has a strong physique, a deep and broad chest, and a well-developed heart and lungs; The stomach and intestines are larger, less suitable for illness, and easy to reproduce. Kiso horses are easily conceived and can give birth to one foal a year. Moreover, this horse can tolerate rough food, has a long body and a large belly, has a long intestine, and can fully digest all kinds of forage fiber.

However, this kind of horse is also useful, you can't be a war horse, you can also be a pack horse. It's hard to be a pack horse, but it's better than nothing! If it really can't be done, they will sell these horses to the people and use them as ploughing cattle, or for ploughing the land.

Since he can't be used as a war horse, Geng Jingzhong is not so concerned. Seeing that so many horses were taking up too much space, he ordered a group to be killed. But this killing made the whole army eat horse meat for five days. The average person is two and a half pounds a day, at the beginning, everyone was still relatively happy, and then everyone who ate wanted to vomit!

The Mawei fleet sailed at sea for another two days and finally arrived at the port of Nagasaki. Nagasaki is now the largest port in the Japanese Kingdom, and as the only treaty port for foreign trade in the Japanese Kingdom, it is also the most prosperous place, even in Edo Castle. The port of Nagasaki bears some resemblance to the port of Tsuki, with several kilometers of waterways leading to the trading area. However, Nagasaki is much stronger than Tsukiminato, and although Nagasaki Bay is not long or wide, the water is very deep, making it a natural harbor. When the warships of the Mawei fleet went to Moon Harbor, they could only anchor at Kinmen Island outside, but they could not enter inside. And on the Nagasaki side, all the battleships can be driven directly into it without scruples.

The merchant ships of the Kunpeng fleet can sail when they are full of goods, and their warships are not much larger than the ships of the Kunpeng fleet, and of course they can also pass. When more than 100 warships of the Mawei fleet appeared in the port of Nagasaki, everyone who saw the fleet was shocked! Of course, this does not include the merchants from Fujian, who have seen it for a long time, so they will not be surprised. But they will be surprised how the Mawei fleet can appear in the port of Nagasaki, could it be that the Mawei navy wants to attack the Wa country? If they had stayed in Fuzhou a month ago, they would have known that Geng Jingzhong had indeed led his troops to attack the Wa Kingdom, but unfortunately they had not returned for a long time. No merchant ships from Fujian have come here for a month.

The port of Nagasaki is a mixed bag, with not only Chinese, but also Koreans and Dutch from other countries, in addition to the Japanese people. Although there are not many Koreans and Dutch, and together they are half of the Chinese, but they have not opened many fewer shops than Chinese. The Dutch, in particular, have seven trading houses here. When these Dutch and North Koreans saw the Mawei naval fleet, their eyes widened and they couldn't believe it.

There was such a huge and mighty fleet in the far east, and the rows of black holes on the battleship gave them great shock. When the neat ranks of naval teams stepped off the battleship, the Dutch hair, who had still looked down on the yellow Asians, instantly put away his contemptuous gaze and began to become in awe. And the Koreans were even more unbearable, they were originally vassals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and when they saw that it was the army with long braids that came down, they thought it was the Qing soldiers, and they came forward to bow and salute!

Geng Jingzhong got off the ship and went directly to the merchant house of the ocean trading company here. He didn't talk nonsense with the defenders of Nagasaki Port, and the army anchored in Nagasaki Port, and then he directly sent someone to invite the lord of the Ryuzoji clan to come and speak. The old nest of the Ryuzoji clan is in Saga Castle, and it will take a day to reach it quickly, and by the time the lord of the Ryuzoji clan arrives, it is estimated that it will be two days later. After drifting on the sea for so long, the officers and men of the Navy took turns to enter the port of Nagasaki to rest. I haven't stepped on land for nearly twenty days, and I feel a little weak under my feet at the moment

The current feudal lord of the Ryuzoji clan is Ryuzoji Nobutaka, and this year has just passed the year of confusion, and he is very shrewd and capable. After the Mawei fleet destroyed the Shimazu family, Tian Nobu and Gu shopkeepers immediately arrived at Saga Castle, and within half a month, the shogunate first ordered the coalition forces to attack Kagoshima, and then withdrew. This series of dazzling changes made him dare not move, and offered Tian Xin and the others delicious food and drink.

Geng Jingzhong's invitation and the family warrior arrived at his mansion at about the same time. Geng Jingzhong's fleet appeared intact in the port of Nagasaki, which means that the Edo side was also defeated, otherwise there is no way to explain it. It seems that it is time for you to make a choice.

"Come on, please ask Tian Sang and Gu Sang to talk in the living room!" Nobutaka of Ryuzoji Temple commanded his subordinates loudly, and he also got up and went to the living room at the same time.

As soon as he arrived in the living room and sat down, Tian Xin and the shopkeeper Gu arrived together. "Haha, Tian Sang, Gu Sang, I have been slacking off a lot in the past few days, please forgive me!" As he spoke, he stood up and bowed deeply.

"It's nothing, we've had a lot of fun in Saga Castle these days, it's a nice place, if it weren't for too many things, I'd really like to stay a few more months." The shopkeeper Gu has rich experience, and Xinlong of Longzao Temple has ignored them for so many days, and today he suddenly invited them, it must be that there is news from the prince's side. "Well, the lord of the feudal domain should have received news of my family's lineage! I don't know what the conditions given by the prince are thinking about it? ”

"Well, I want to ask Gu Sang and Tian Sang, is what your lord said true?" Ryuzoji Nobutaka's face was solemn, as if he had made a huge decision. "Don't hide it, your lord just sent me an invitation and invited me to Nagasaki for a meeting. It seems that the Mawei Navy is even more powerful than the two said! ”

After pondering silently for a while, Nobutaka of Ryuzoji Temple continued: "Please two go with me and help me speak, I promise all the conditions of your lordship!" (To be continued......)

PS: Don't speak, brothers please help!