One afternoon at the end of September in the tenth year of Xuande, a two-masted ship slowly sailed into the port of Jilong, and a group of sailors and soldiers were guarding the harbor, silently watching it dock.

Standing in front of the sailor soldiers was Wu Ziyan, looking at several Japanese people wearing Japanese clothes on the deck of the sea ship with an expressionless face, the sea ship that came today was very special, and it was an envoy sent by Aoki Mingxin to meet Li Yuntian.

"There's Master Lao." When the boat stopped, a middle-aged man dressed as a widow and with a big belly hurriedly walked down, came to Wu Ziyan and bowed, speaking an authentic Jiangnan dialect.

"Please." Although the Japanese were the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, the two armies did not fight, so Wu Ziyan turned to one side, made a gesture of invitation to the fat middle-aged Japanese Emperor, and led him to see Li Yuntian.

When he came to Li Yuntian's mansion, Li Yuntian was discussing with several military attachés who had been sent by the Jiangwutang to manage the administrative affairs of Xiaoliuqiu Island, and these military attaches would be responsible for the construction of the prefecture and county on Xiaoliuqiu Island.

In order to manage Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island well, Li Yuntian deliberately selected a large number of officials from the six major academies of the Wutang to serve as officials on these two islands, and to be honest, he really did not dare to recruit officials from the vicinity of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to serve on the two islands as the imperial court had sent to Jiaozhi before.

The reason why there was a huge rebellion in Jiaozhi was related to the rampant corruption of corrupt officials, and those officials who were recruited by the imperial court from Liangguang and Yunnan were simply going to get promoted and make a fortune, stirring up a miasma in Jiaozhi and restlessness.

Therefore, Li Yuntian opened six colleges in the name of Jiangwutang to train qualified local officials to manage the affairs of Jiaozhi, after all, the governance of Jiaozhi is "negligent and not blocked", only if the lives of the people of Jiaozhi can be improved, then they will not rebel with those traitors with evil intentions.

"Master Jun, be careful, please drink tea." The fat middle-aged widow was then led by Wu Ziyan to the side room to wait, and after entering the door, the fat middle-aged widow saw that there was no one left and right, and smiled and took out a silver ticket of five hundred taels from his sleeve and handed it to Wu Ziyan.

"You wait here, the prince will call you when he is free." Wu Ziyan glanced at the amount on the silver ticket, he did not reach out to take the silver ticket, but quietly instructed the fat middle-aged widow, and then got up to leave.

The fat middle-aged widow never expected that Wu Ziyan would refuse the five hundred taels of silver tickets, and the smile on his face froze, and he looked a little helpless for a while.

As the saying goes, thousands of miles are only for money, and the fat middle-aged widow doesn't think that Wu Ziyan came to such a wild overseas island as Xiaoliuqiu Island to save the people on Xiaoliuqiu Island from fire and water, and he must have come to seek wealth, and five hundred taels of silver is enough.

Usually speaking, in ancient times, the people who went to those remote areas to serve as officials were recruited by the imperial court from neighboring areas, and it was obvious that those dignified court officials were unwilling to go to the kind of places that were considered barbaric, and those recruited officials risked their lives to go to their posts nine times out of ten to make money.

"This guy has such an appetite!" After being stunned for a while, the fat middle-aged widow came back to his senses, and couldn't help muttering to himself, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, obviously he thought that Wu Ziyan was thinking that the five hundred taels of silver tickets were too little, so he confiscated them.

For the fat middle-aged widow, he is not afraid of Wu Ziyan's greed, as long as it can be solved with money, it is not a problem, he is afraid that Wu Ziyan will not eat the fireworks of the world, which will be a big trouble for him, and he will not be able to win over Wu Ziyan and get useful information from it.

In addition to meeting Li Yuntian, the fat middle-aged widow came this time for another purpose, that is, to make friends with the officials around Li Yuntian, so that he could get information about Li Yuntian's character and temper, and then do what he liked.

"Please!" After about half an hour, Wu Ziyan walked into the room, stretched out his hand to the fat middle-aged widow who was sitting there sipping tea, and made a gesture of please to the door.

"Master Jun, this is a cat's eye gem from Persia, it is priceless, I hope Master Jun likes it." Hearing this, the fat middle-aged widow hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand and stepped forward, and when he came to Wu Ziyan, he did not rush out, but turned his back to block the door, stretched out the palm of his right hand in front of Wu Ziyan, and explained secretly with a smile.

On the palm of the fat middle-aged wolf is a golden-green gem, which changes in intensity and light with the slight shaking of his palm, and is flexible and bright like a cat's eyes.

Wu Ziyan saw the cat's eye gem for the first time, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, attracted by this magical optical phenomenon, the fat middle-aged widow couldn't help but show a smile when he saw this, it seems that Wu Ziyan will definitely accept his gift this time.

"You seem to have misunderstood, the military attaché of our martial arts hall is forbidden to accept bribes, otherwise he will be severely punished. Those who give bribes will be punished with the same guilt if they don't repent, and I don't want this to happen a third time. However, to the surprise of the fat middle-aged man, Wu Ziyan quickly came back to his senses, said a cold word to him, and got up to leave.

The fat middle-aged widow was stiff when he heard this, and he never expected Wu Ziyan to say such a thing, and his face suddenly showed an embarrassed look.

Realizing that Wu Ziyan was different from the officials he had dealt with before, the fat middle-aged widow immediately turned pale, put away the cat's eye gem and followed behind Wu Ziyan with some apprehension, he had long heard that the military attachés under the martial arts hall were different, and now it seems that it is really extraordinary, Wu Ziyan was indifferent in the face of such a priceless treasure, and if he was someone else, he would have already smiled and accepted it.

After all, there are two fat middle-aged widows and Wu Ziyan at the scene, and if the two don't say anything, there is absolutely no third person who knows, even if the fat middle-aged widow wants to poke this matter out, then as long as Wu Ziyan refuses to admit it, then he is helpless, unless he can find the cat's eye gem from Wu Ziyan, but Wu Ziyan will not hide it.

in the living room.

Li Yuntian looked at an official document in his hand with a stern expression, this official document was sent by the official of the Jiangwutang who was responsible for recruiting and relocating the people, and the commander of a guard in the Xingdu Division of Fujian deliberately prevented the subordinate military households from leaving, and an armed conflict broke out for this reason, causing several casualties.

Since the military attache of the Wutang did not interfere with the power of the local guard station, the official in charge of the local recruitment had no choice but to send a letter to Li Yuntian and let Li Yuntian decide.

Li Yuntian felt very annoyed in his heart, he had repeatedly stressed in his official letter to the Third Division of Fujian that he should not embarrass those people who wanted to migrate to Xiaoliuqiu Island, but in fact, those military households had been subjected to a lot of difficulties, and it was inevitable that there would be fierce conflicts now.

Originally, Li Yuntian didn't want to take care of the messy things in the guards, but since the military attaches in the guards only thought about their own fortune and completely ignored the interests of the Ming Dynasty, then don't blame him for being polite.

"Lord Wang, the envoy from the Aoki Mingxin Sect is here." Just when Li Yuntian was frowning and pondering how to deal with this incident in the Fujian Xingdu Division, Wu Ziyan walked in from outside the door and bowed down.

"The villain Aoki Mingyi knocks on the prince." When Li Yuntian raised his head, the fat middle-aged widow just walked in the door, and when he came to him, he knelt down with his legs and saluted.

"Aoki Akiyoshi, why did you come this time?" After putting the official document in his hand on the table beside him, Li Yuntian looked at the fat middle-aged widow and asked quietly.

"Lord Wang, the villain was entrusted by his brother to come to see the prince." Aoki Mingyi raised his head and said to Li Yuntian with a respectful face, "My brother knows that the prince wants to run Xiaoliuqiu, so he asked the villain to send a batch of supplies to the prince. ”

"Oh?" Li Yuntian had already guessed that Aoki Mingxin had sent Aoki Mingyi to show favor to him, so he deliberately frowned slightly, and asked in a deep voice, "Why didn't Aoki Mingxin come by himself?" ”

"Lord Wang, my brother can't go out in bed because of the occasional cold, and I'm afraid that I will neglect the prince, so I sent a villain to visit him first, and when my brother's condition eases a little, I will come in person." Aoki Akiyoshi had already prepared, so he methodically took out a letter from his arms, "This is a handwritten letter written by my brother when he was in bed, please look at it." ”

Seeing this, Li Yuntian nodded to the guard on the side, and the guard took the letter and spread it out on the table in front of Li Yuntian.

After seeing the contents of the letter, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth couldn't help flashing a sneer, Aoki Mingxin did not admit in the letter the guilt of colluding with the Japanese to attack and harass the Ming coast, but unashamedly stated that his behavior was to expel those Japanese Japanese robbers for the Ming Dynasty.

"The villain seeks profit from the sea, sells goods and Zhejiang Fu, benefits with others, defends the border for the country, and never seduces the party thieves to intrude on things, but the world does not understand the reason, and they all collude with the villains to be wronged."

After counting the merits of the thieves in the letter, Aoki Mingxin expressed his willingness to "follow the dogs and horses and gallop to pacify the sea frontier for the imperial court." In his words, he hoped to be solicited by Li Yuntian, and as for his violation of the ban on smuggling in the Daming Sea, he lightly mentioned it and tried his best to quibble.

Li Yuntian naturally knew that this was just a sophistry that Aoki Ming wanted to let himself recruit him, and the so-called expulsion of the Japanese pirates was just his fight against dissident pirates in order to fight for the power of smuggling at sea.

As for Aoki Mingxin's "bedridden", he naturally suffered from heart disease, he knew that after the Ming Dynasty recovered Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island, the sea smuggling route would be strangled to death by the Ming sailors, and he could no longer dominate the situation as before, so he thought of taking refuge in the imperial court, so that he could continue to operate the sea smuggling business under the banner of the imperial court.

Obviously, in order to test Li Yuntian, Aoki Mingxin specially sent Aoki Mingyi to investigate the truth, if Li Yuntian's attitude eased, then Aoki Mingxin will find a way to show favor to Li Yuntian, in order to be recognized by the imperial court, if Li Yuntian's attitude is tough, then Aoki Mingxin will have to find another way.

Although Aoki Mingxin's subordinates claim to have 100,000 Japanese robbers, there are only more than 30,000 people who can really be accused by him and used to fight, and the rest are dependent on him.

Half of Aoki Akishin's men had already been wiped out by the Ming Army's naval divisions when they recovered the islands of Xiaoliuqiu and Qiongzhou, and the remaining half were on the island of Ryukyu and Kyushu in the Wa Kingdom.

It seems that Aoki Mingxin is still the largest Japanese leader on the sea, but it is simply not worth mentioning in front of the Ming army's sailors, even if he can organize a fleet of Japanese soldiers to find the stubble of the Ming army's sailors, then the powerful firepower of the three-masted warships of the Ming army's sailors is completely a live target on the sea.

Therefore, after learning about the powerful firepower configuration of the three-masted warship, Aoki Mingxin even dissipated a little bit of his desire to find fault with Li Yuntian, and he was bent on being recruited by the imperial court.

Aoki Mingyi secretly observed Li Yuntian's face, wanting to see his true thoughts from Li Yuntian's face, but to his disappointment, Li Yuntian's face was not shocked and could not see the slightest psychological change.