After talking with Yamashita Yuandao, Li Yuntian learned the identity of the pirate who pursued Yamashita Yuandao on the sea in the morning, and it was the widow of Xiaoliuqiu Jilong Mountain.

Xiaoliuqiu is the name of Taiwan in the Ming Dynasty, and its counterpart is the Great Ryukyu, that is, the Ryukyu Islands.

Because Taiwan was called Yizhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Taiwan Strait was called Yizhou Strait at this time, and it was one of the three famous straits in the Ming Dynasty.

The three famous straits of the Ming Dynasty from north to south were the Tatar Strait, the Yizhou Strait and the Qiongzhou Strait.

Yizhou seafood and the Qiongzhou Strait are well known to later generations, but even fewer people know about the Tatar Strait, because during the Second Opium War, Tsarist Russia forced the Qing government to sign the Treaty of Beijing in 186, which took both sides of the Tatar Strait as its own.

The Tatar Strait is named after the Tatars, a Russian term for many Asian nomads in Central and North Asia, who separate Sakhalin Island to the east from the Asian mainland to the west, connecting the Sea of Okhotsk to the north and the Sea of Japan to the south.

At this time, Xiaoliuqiu was a paradise for pirates, smugglers, and fugitives, who used it as a base for plundering maritime merchants and harassing the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason for this situation is that in the twentieth year of Hongwu, Ming Taizu implemented a policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness against the Japanese who attacked the southeast coast, and ordered the abolition of the Penghu Inspection Department in charge of Xiaoliuqiu's affairs, and moved the residents of Xiaoliuqiu to the neighboring Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.

It was not until the forty-second year of Jiajing that the Ming court restored the Penghu Inspection Department and once again took charge of the military and political affairs of Xiaoliuqiu.

According to historical records, the Haikou took advantage of the sea breeze to wantonly plunder the rich southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, coming like wolves and going like birds, so that the Ming army stationed in the Ming Dynasty was overwhelmed.

Due to its special geographical location, Xiaoliuqiu naturally became a necessary place for the Japanese to go to the southeast coast to plunder, and the Japanese not only plundered on the southeast coast, but also plundered Xiaoliuqiu, which was isolated overseas, making Xiaoliuqiu a hard-hit area for the Japanese to plunder.

Some people who chose to take refuge in Xiaoliuqiu in order to escape the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty never imagined that they would encounter a woe, which can be described as extremely unlucky, and they wanted to cry without tears.

In order to solve the problem of the Japanese invaders, Emperor Hongwu first tried to use diplomatic means and sent envoys to Japan several times, but Japan was in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties at that time, and the noticers of the two factions passed the buck to each other, so that Emperor Hongwu's efforts were defeated, so he switched to using force to exterminate the Japanese invaders.

In that year, Tang He, the governor of Min and Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty, once reported to Emperor Hongwu that every time the Japanese invaded Fujian, Guangdong and other places, they would go to Xiaoliuqiu to replenish fresh water and grain.

This made Emperor Hongwu believe that Xiaoliuqiu was the culprit of the repeated bans of the Japanese in the southeast coast, so he issued a ban on the sea, wanting to cut off the connection between the Japanese and the southeast coast.

Unfortunately, this measure of Emperor Hongwu not only did not eradicate the troubles, but instead caused many people on the southeast coast to become pirates and smugglers for their livelihoods, and then joined the ranks of the Japanese pirates.

Moreover, because Xiaoliuqiu became the supply base of the Japanese Invaders, which made the Japanese Invaders very mobile, they often sent people to the coastal cities to spy on the virtual reality, once they found the opportunity to swarm in, with lightning speed to loot, and when the local garrison came to reinforce the Japanese Kou had already snatched up and left by boat, so that those garrisons could only sigh with admiration.

In view of this, Emperor Hongwu began to change his strategy to deal with the Japanese and began to arrange coastal defenses in the coastal areas, setting up more than 50 guards in the long coastal areas from Liaodong to Guangdong, creating a solid coastal defense line.

According to Emperor Hongwu's requirements, each of those coastal guards was equipped with 5 warships, each of which could carry 5 soldiers, with a total strength of more than 20,000.

Because of this coastal defense line, the number of incidents of Japanese raids was greatly reduced, and when the Japanese invaded and plundered, they were usually pursued and killed by those coastal guards, and Emperor Hongwu spent a lot of manpower, financial and material resources to build this coastal defense line seemed to suppress those Japanese invaders.

However, the Japanese soon changed their strategy, hesitating that Xiaoliuqiu was lonely and the strength of the Ming army was weak, so they went to Xiaoliuqiu when they came to the southeast coast to rob again, and then sent people to the southeast coastal cities to spy on, if the local Ming army was well guarded, then they would stay in Xiaoliuqiu first, and once they found that the Ming army was a little lax, they would take the opportunity to swarm up, go to loot, and then quickly escape.

Xiaoliuqiu has enough supplies, enough for those Japanese to stay on it and wait for the opportunity, and there is really no chance to loot Xiaoliuqiu, and there can be a good harvest.

As a result, Xiaoliuqiu gradually became a springboard for the invasion of the Japanese on the southeast coast, and the coastal defense line that Emperor Hongwu had painstakingly built could not do anything about it.

Unless the vast area of Xiaoliuqiu can be managed like the inland, so as to drive out those Japanese pirates, but Xiaoliuqiu is still a barbarian land, to achieve this goal requires huge energy and financial resources, and also to organize the inland residents to immigrate to Xiaoliuqiu, the project is huge, difficult to implement.

In July of the 19th year of Hongwu, the Japanese invaders used Xiaoliuqiu as a base to harass the coastal areas of Fujian for more than a month, and plundered Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Xinghua, Xiamen and other places one after another before they left and returned with a full load, but the local coastal defense army was powerless.

After the war report reached Nanjing, Emperor Hongwu was furious and scolded Tang He, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang: "The hero of the founding of the country can't help but be a slave!"

In view of the fact that the coastal defense line could not resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders, Emperor Hongwu thought of an extreme method, that is, to withdraw to the situation of Xiaoliuqiu in the strong wall of Xiaoliuqiu, and the ministers of civil and military affairs at that time agreed with this move, even if there were dissenting people, they did not dare to disobey Emperor Hongwu.

So, in the twentieth year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu issued an order to abolish the Penghu Inspection Department and move the residents of Xiaoliuqiu to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.

As a result, the people of Xiaoliuqiu burned down their houses and destroyed their grain, and moved into the interior under the arrangement of the government.

However, it is a pity that this strategy of clearing the wilderness seems to have cut off the back road of the Japanese Invaders, but it has turned Xiaoliuqiu into a paradise for the Japanese Invaders, and the pirates and fugitives from the southeast coast have also come to Xiaoliuqiu, making the Ming Dynasty's Japanese troubles even more rampant.

Jilong Mountain is an important stronghold of the Japanese in Xiaoliuqiu, with a population of tens of thousands, after more than 30 years of development, it has become a show-off town, and it is the largest of several Japanese forces in Xiaoliuqiu.

Yamashita Motodo operated a maritime trade route from Nanyang to Ningbo, so naturally he had dealings with the Japanese in Xiaoliuqiu, and in order to be able to pass the Guò Yizhou Strait safely, he had to pay tribute to the Japanese in Jilong Mountain every time, and was protected by the Japanese in Jilong Mountain.

In fact, Yamashita Motomichi didn't want to live this kind of fearful life, sea navigation was full of dangers, in addition to the black-hearted pirates, there was also unpredictable weather, the slightest carelessness would destroy the ship, kill people, and die in the belly of the fish.

However, he was also forced to be helpless, because the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy was extremely strict, so he had to disguise himself as a Japanese and take risks.

In the third year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu dismissed Taicang Huangdu City.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu ordered the abolition of the city of Quanzhou in Fujian, Ningbo in Zhejiang and Guangzhou in Guangdong, which had been in charge of overseas trade since the Tang Dynasty, and the foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty was cut off.

In the fourteenth year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu did not hide his footprints with the Japanese Kou, and ordered that the people on the coast of the sea were forbidden to communicate with overseas countries, so that the Nanyang countries that were good with the Ming Dynasty could not come to the Ming Dynasty for trade and cultural exchanges.

In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu once again issued the "Ban on Foreign Domain Traffic Order".

In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, in order to completely ban overseas trade, Emperor Hongwu banned the use and trading of imported incense and goods.

In the thirtieth year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu issued an edict again, prohibiting the people of the Ming Dynasty from going to the sea.

Although Emperor Yongle reopened four cities, including Ningbo in Zhejiang, Fuzhou in Fujian, Guangzhou in Guangdong and Yuntun in Jiaozhi in order to make overseas countries come to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, it was a commercial trade between officials, and private transactions were strictly prohibited.

In order to prevent coastal people from entering the sea for trade, the "Da Ming Law" stipulates severe punishment methods:

If the traitors and the soldiers and civilians build illegal ships of more than three masts, go to sea with prohibited goods, go to the country to buy and sell, infiltrate pirates, conspire to gather, and plunder the good people as guides, they will be punished according to their own laws, and they will still show their heads to the public, and the whole family will send border guards to fill the army.

It built the sea ships in the previous paragraph, sold them to the people for profit, and compared them with those who went to sea with forbidden weapons, so they leaked the military law, and the leaders were beheaded, and the servants were sent to the side to fill the army.

Those who dare to have a private mutual market, must be placed in the heavy law, all incense, goods are not allowed to sell, and the existing ones are limited to three months to sell out.

However, Yamashita Yuandao can finally say goodbye to this kind of fearful days, and after climbing the high branch of Li Yuntian, his life will obviously change.

To be honest, if it wasn't a last resort, Yamashita Motomichi would definitely not want to carry out sea smuggling with his head, and he also wanted to reunite with his family.

"The official decided that the two ships of goods would land in Fuzhou City, and after you got the money, you went back home, arranged the affairs at home, and then went to Jiaozhi to find the official."

Near the end of the banquet, Li Yuntian said meaningfully to Yamashita Yuandao, "I hope that when I see you again, it won't be like today. ”

I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, Li Yuntian accentuated the pronunciation of the words "like this".

"Don't worry, the villain will live up to the high expectations of the adult!" Yamashita Yuandao has rich experience, so he naturally understands the meaning of Li Yuntian's words, and when he saw that Li Yuntian asked him to go to Jiaozhi, he was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly arched his hand at Li Yuntian and replied loudly.

Obviously, if Li Yuntian wanted to take in Yamashita Yuandao, Yamashita Yuandao would no longer be able to appear in front of Li Yuntian as a widow, and Li Yuntian was hinting that he would change back to his original identity.

Looking at Yamashita Yuandao who looked excited, a smile appeared at the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth, it seems that Yamashita Yuandao is indeed a smart person, and he understood what he meant so quickly.

Talking with Yamashita Motomichi, he found that Yamashita Motomichi was not only proficient in the languages of several countries in the South Seas, but also knew the fairways and the shape of the Nanyang countries well, and he needed someone like Yamashita Motodo to help him open up the trade market in the South Seas, so he decided to take it for his own use and began to plan for overseas trade with the Nanyang countries in the future.