"What a beautiful view on the sea" Masara was wearing a Ming Guo straight body (a wide robe similar to a Taoist robe) given by Wang Hai at the moment, standing on the deck of a modified Ming Guo Haicang ship, admiring the beautiful scenery along the way. Behind him are three of Masayo's close attendants, Kinoshita Masanao, Akimine Hidemasa and Yoshida Shigemasa. The three of them were wearing Mingguo's guards (clothes belonging to the half-arm category), as if they were subordinates.

Why is Zhengliang here? It all started three days ago. On that day, Wang Hai came to seek help from the Luo family, and Zhengliang took the opportunity to put forward the intention of cooperation, of course Wang Hai could not ask for it, but also pointed out that he also had a partner in the Ming Kingdom, and hoped that Zhengliang could send people to the Ming Kingdom with him in order to continue to discuss cooperation. There is only one meaning, he is very much in favor of the Luo family's involvement, but he is only a small boss, and he still needs the consent of the big boss.

Zhengliang immediately said that he would go in person. As soon as Zhengliang's decision came out, not only Wang Hai was surprised, but even the retainers of the Luo family also persuaded each other, and Dongxiang Heiji came to advise every day. Zhengliang had to give full play to the advantages and disadvantages of his tongue again, and stated the pros and cons to the retainers.

First of all, although the family has become the number one powerful in the East Matsuura Peninsula, there is still a gap compared to the Bodo, let alone compared with the daimyo of a country, and it is imperative to develop trade with the Ming Kingdom and obtain various materials from it; Secondly, the situation around Luo's house is just in a stable state, which brings convenience to the head of the family, as long as everyone does their own work according to Zhengliang's arrangement, then during the period of Zhengliang's absence, they will definitely have no worries; After the last, Masahiro's trip this time is as short as half a month, and he can return in a month, time is still allowed, besides, besides, who else can speak fluent Ming Chinese besides the head of the family?

So, after some haggling. The retainers finally agreed to Masahiro's trip. The price is that Masaro must return to the territory within a month, and at the same time he is accompanied by several bodyguards. Speaking of bodyguards. In fact, the most suitable for this job in the current territory is Kunatong, according to the force value, Kunatong has at least 80 force value, but unfortunately he still has the heavy responsibility of supervising the water army. So I had to leave it at that. Since Su Natong couldn't make the trip, he could only retreat and choose Mingfeng Hidemasa and Yoshida Shigemasa, who were temporarily a little lower in force, and these two people were still a suitable candidate. However, after Kinoshita Masanao, whose injuries were basically good, learned about it. No more. He was depressed and recuperated at home for a while, and he had not been able to fulfill his duties as the head of the house, which made him feel very uneasy, so he insisted on accompanying him, and even knelt outside the mansion and pleaded. In desperation, Zhengliang had no choice but to agree.

After arranging everything in the territory, October 22 of the ninth year of astronomy. Masara announced to the public that he would make a detour to the Zhongxiao Temple near Nogao Village to pray for a good harvest for the coming year. Then quietly under the escort of everyone, he boarded Wang Hai's merchant ship docked in Banwu Bay. So there was a scene of Masahiro enjoying the scenery on the sea just now.

"Hahaha, His Royal Highness Zhengliang is really interested" at this time. There was a loud laugh from the other side of the deck.

Zhengliang followed the prestige. It was the navigator of the ship, Song Wei.

"Brother Song Wei came out to point out the route?" Zhengliang said in return.

"Hahaha, His Highness Masara, before entering the depths of the sea, these sailors don't need to be piloted below," Songwei said with a smile.

"Oh? In this case, could it be that Brother Song Wei also came out to enjoy the beautiful scenery? Masato said.

"Nope. I came to pay tribute to my brother who died in the nearby sea," Song Wei replied gloomily.

"People have gone west, Brother Song Wei, please don't be too sad," Zhengliang comforted. Thinking about it, the experience of this navigation leader who Wang Hai "hooked" from Wang Zhi can be described as extremely miserable. …,

His father is Song Suqing.

Who is Song Suqing? Song Suqing's original name was Zhu Min. He learned to sing from an early age. Later, it was loved by Japanese merchants. In 1496 (the 9th year of the reign of Hiroshi Akira and the 5th year of the Ming Dynasty) his uncle Zhu Cheng engaged in lacquerware business with the Japanese merchant Tang Shigoro, but he was unable to deliver the goods on time. So he sold him to Tang Shigoro to pay off his debts. Tang Shigoro brought Zhu Min to Japan, changed his name to Song Suqing, and became a retainer of the Hosokawa clan, the governor of the Muromachi shogunate, and engaged in trade activities with the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the Muromachi shogun sent ships to the Ming Dynasty in the name of the "King of Japan" to trade, but after the Onin War, the shogun's power declined, and the power of Kinai was controlled by the Hosokawa and Ouchi clans respectively, and the Tomorrow trade fell into the hands of the Hosokawa and Ouchi clans. The Hosokawa clan held the shogun hostage and formed an alliance with Sakai merchants; The Ouchi clan allied themselves with Hakata merchants. Song Suqing supported the Hosokawa clan.

In 1510 (the 5th year of the Ming Dynasty and the 7th year of the Japanese Eisho Dynasty), the Hosokawa clan and the Ouchi clan jointly sent a ship to the Ming Dynasty under the guise of "King Minamoto Yoshisumi" (Muromachi shogun Ashikaga Yoshisumi) to support the Ouchi clan's Shogen Katsura Satoru. At that time, the Ouchi clan sent two ships, and the Hosokawa clan sent one. However, Hosokawa Gaoguo was unwilling to be in a disadvantageous position in tomorrow's trade, and secretly sent Song Suqing to come to the Ming Dynasty trade first, and presented a thousand taels of gold to the powerful eunuch Liu Jin, and was given a flying fish suit, which was unprecedented.

In 1523 (the 2nd year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty and the 3rd year of Daiei of Japan), Ouchi Yoshixing sent a Ming ship to the Ming Dynasty again with the establishment of the Kendo sect as the outline. After learning of this, Hosokawa Takakuni also sent a Ming ship to the Ming Dynasty with Luaoka Ruizo as the Tsunade (main envoy) and Song Suqing as the deputy envoy. The Ouchi clan held the Kanji from the Shotoku period, while the Hosokawa clan held the one from the Koji period. The survey mark held by the Hosokawa clan is expired.

Song Suqing's Hosokawa fleet arrived at the city of Ningbo later than the Ouchi fleet (two ships in total) set up by the Kendo sect. But Song Suqing had already secretly bribed the eunuch Lai En of the City Shipping Division, so he was inspected first. This caused strong dissatisfaction with the Qiandao sect. When Ichiboji entertained the guests in the guest hall, he let the envoy of the Hosokawa clan sit on the top of the envoy of the Ouchi clan, so Zong Shu raised troops to rebel in anger, and led the Ouchi clan fleet to burn the Hosokawa clan's dispatch ship, attacked the guest hall, Dongku and other places, killed Luangang Ruizo, and Song Suqing fled to Shaoxing. Zong set up to burn and loot along the way, the Ming Dynasty officials and troops went to suppress, but were defeated, Zong set killed Liu Jin, the commander of Zhejiang, who went to suppress, kidnapped the commander Yuan Jin, and hijacked his ship to flee to the sea. This is known as the Ningbo Rebellion.

Afterwards, Song Suqing was thrown into prison, and one of the ships set up by the Qiandao sect encountered a storm at sea and drifted to the territory of North Korea, where it was surrounded and suppressed by the North Korean official army, and 33 people including Zhonglin and Wanggu Doro were captured and sacrificed to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty sent them to Zhejiang to confront Song Suqing in prison, and found that the Kamo Fu held by the Hosokawa clan was fake, so Song Suqing was sentenced to death. The other members of the Ouchi clan's fleet who were captured were also sentenced to death. But soon they all died in prison.

After this incident, the Ming Dynasty abolished the post of chief eunuch of the city and reduced the scale of trade with Japan, which led to a surge in the number of Japanese pirates (Jiajing Da Wakou).

After Song Suqing's death, as the two sons who stayed in Japan, Song Wei and Song Wei's brother were still taken care of by the Hosokawa clan. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and with the decline of the Hosokawa clan, the two Song Wei brothers were also forced to leave home, wander around, and later even became pirates. Since they were children, they had heard their father talking about the customs and characters of the Ming Kingdom, and they had long wanted to see the beautiful scene of the Ming Dynasty, and became pirates waiting for the opportunity to cross the sea to the Ming Dynasty, which was the only way that the two brothers thought of. The struggle of the pirates was brutal, and before the two brothers could see the scenery of the Ming Dynasty, Song Wei's brother was injured in a conflict between pirates and fell into the sea and died. Grief-stricken, Song Wei was captured by his opponent and taken to the pirate ship as a slave before he could collect his brother's body. Later, he escaped in a pirate conflict, and by chance drifted to the Ming Kingdom, where he was rescued by an old sailor of Wang Zhi's fleet, and then he has been living on Wang Zhi's fleet until the old sailor died of illness and did not leave. …,

This time, Wang Zhi planned to take refuge in Japanese businessmen, but Song Wei was indeed unwilling to be a lackey of Japan, so under Wang Hai's persuasion, he resolutely took refuge in Wang Hai and became the navigator of Wang Hai's merchant ship.

Today is the death day of Song Wei's dead brother, and this happens to be the vicinity of his brother falling into the sea that day. Now, Song Wei is planning to pay tribute to his dead brother. I saw him take out a few earthy incense, light it and stick it on the strings of the boat, then bow his head and recite it silently, and then take out sake and sprinkle it on the sea. This is a common way of worshipping pirates. Everything is simple, I only hope that the dead will not be lonely in the depths of the sea, and even send a glass of warm wine to drive away the chill of the seabed.

After looking at it for a while, Masato quietly led everyone back to the cabin. At this time, I happened to meet Wang Hai, who was about to come out and needed to find Zhengliang.

In a corner of the cabin, the two sat opposite each other.

"You mean you might encounter pirates?" Masara said.

"Yes. Because this time there was a distinguished guest in the ship, His Royal Highness Zhengliang, and he had to tell him calmly. This time, our route was to come out of Xuanjie Beach, follow the sea all the way east, and then reach Hangzhou Bay in the Ming Kingdom, and from there dock into Shaoxing Mansion, which is our destination," Wang said.

"Where did the pirates come from?" Masato is more concerned about this. After all, no one wants to meet pirates.

"Before entering Hangzhou Bay, we will first pass through some small islands, which are often infested with pirates," said Wang Hai. ”

Zhengliang thought about it, what Wang Hai was talking about should be the waters near the Zhoushan Islands in the future, where there are indeed many small islands. Due to the lack of regulation, these places became a pirate's paradise.

"Don't the Great Ming Sailor care?" Masara asked. Calculate the time, those famous historical anti-Japanese celebrities have not yet taken the throne.

"Hehehe, Your Highness. It's good that those Ming sailors can ensure the stability of Hangzhou Bay," Wang said, "and they prefer to charge for passing ships in Hangzhou Bay." ”

Zhengliang understood as soon as he heard it, it was not that the Ming State Sailors had no strength, but that there were no interests to be gained, and they were too lazy to blow the sea breeze and rain. They are too lazy to move, and our ships are in trouble. Of course, this can't be blamed on the Ming State Water Division, after all, now the Ming State has implemented the sea ban policy, once he meets the Ming State Water Division, there is only the possibility of being caught. (To be continued......) ……，