Although the highest official of Ningbo City Bo Division was promoted from Wupin, but from the beginning of Emperor Yongle, the palace sent a eunuch to serve as the governor of Ningbo City Bo Si City Ship Eunuch, at first only participated in the affairs of the city, and then gradually began to preside over the affairs of the city.

In order to control the economic interests of the country and avoid the control of economic power by the civil and official groups, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty sent eunuchs to serve in those departments, mainly the municipal shipping department, the salt tax department, procurement, weaving and firing, and so on.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, according to the old system of the previous dynasty, three ports were set up in Guangdong, Zhejiang and Fujian for foreign trade, which were under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Shipping Division.

After Yongle, the eunuch served as the eunuch of the city and became Lezhu, in addition to managing foreign trade affairs, he could also ask for orders to control and supervise the coastal army to deal with emergencies.

Not only that, the Ming Dynasty's Huangzhuang had Guancang eunuchs, and even the grassland was managed by eunuchs, even the Caocang, which was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, also sent eunuchs to supervise during the Xuande period.

Historically, after Xuande, the eunuch began to send eunuchs to supervise and verify the taxes of various places, and by the time of the Wanli period, the eunuchs had reached a climax as tax officials, directly controlling the taxes of various places.

Because of the emperor's order, the eunuch tax envoy built official offices and collected minions everywhere he went, ravaging the local area and becoming a local hazard.

The magistrates dared not speak out on this matter, so in addition to being in charge of local taxation, the tax envoys also intervened in local affairs, and monitored the daily words and deeds of the local officials and reported them to the imperial court, so that everyone in the magistrates was in danger, and no one dared to provoke those eunuchs.

Therefore, in order not to be excluded from this tribute, Yamana Ruiyan thought of starting with the eunuch of Ningbo City to solve the troubles he faced, and then received miraculous results.

In the final analysis, Yamana Ruiyan has the survey issued by the Ming Dynasty in his hand, although it is the survey during the Yongle period, but it is also a certificate issued by the Ming Dynasty to Japan for tributary trade, which is enough to prove that Yamana Ruiyan is an official official of Japan, so as long as the eunuch is willing to be accommodating, he can fish in troubled waters to achieve this tribute.

As for why Yamana Mizuyan wanted to carry out this tributary trade so much, it was because the economy and order began to recover after the end of the Korean War, the depleted finances, and the sharp increase in the demand for luxury goods from the imperial family and the daimyos.

Therefore, Japan sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty in the first year of Yongle, wanting to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and at that time it could only carry out tributary trade, that is, Japan "paid tribute" to the Ming Dynasty.

Although it is a tribute, but it is not free to give goods to the Ming Dynasty, through guò Nagong Japan can not only get a reward that exceeds the value of the tribute, but also can carry goods with the tribute ship to the Ming Dynasty for trade, rich rewards so that the Japanese daimyo in order to the Ming tributary rights to fight for the Ming Dynasty, chaos continues.

As the authority of the shogun weakened, it was no longer possible to control the guardian daimyo who held heavy troops, and finally led to the outbreak of the tribute war.

In fact, as early as the last tribute to the Ming Dynasty, Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Chitoyo, the two most powerful daimyo in Japan, united to squeeze out the shogunate's generals, and jointly formed a tributary group to the daimyo, and obtained the Yongle Kanji and Xuande Kanji kept by the shogunate, from which they received rich rewards.

It is worth mentioning that Yamana Ruiyan was able to buy off the eunuch of Ningbo City Bosi smoothly this time, thanks to his helper Hebian Baiguang, this matter was handled by Hebian Baimang and achieved by Shun Lì.

In fact, Kawabe Shiraki had already made a great contribution in the last tributary trip between Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochitoyo to suppress the joint group of shoguns.

At that time, according to the agreement between Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochito, Hosokawa Katsumoto had three tribute ships, and Yamana Mochitomo had two tribute ships, and Hosokawa Katsumoto's people served as envoys to lead the fleet to Daming.

However, Yamana had one less tribute ship than Hosokawa Katsumoto, so he secretly let the riverside white light lead a boat to Daming before the joint tributary fleet set off.

The white light by the river came to Beijing in November of the fourth year of Xuande, although there was no national letter of Japan, but its sophistication was sleek, well versed in human feelings, so he bribed the eunuch in charge of tributary matters with a large amount of money, and then was able to participate in the grand celebration banquet held by Emperor Xuande in the first month of the fifth year of Xuande as the deputy envoy of the Japanese national tribute envoy group, and won the exceptional reward of Emperor Xuande, and gained a lot, which made Yamana Chifeng very important to it.

According to the official information, the original name of Baiguang by the river was Song Mang, a native of Zhejiang.

In the twenty-ninth year of Yongle, when the Japanese tributary fleet arrived in Ningbo, Song Mang's father was asked to purchase goods on behalf of the Japanese merchants who accompanied the ship, but until the tribute mission returned to China, his father could not deliver the goods at the price, so he had to use Song Mang to pay off the debt.

After Song Mang arrived in Japan, he became a retainer of Yamana Chitoyo and changed his name to Hakumitsu.

When Bai Guang by the river left Beijing and took a trade ship to Ningbo to meet with the Japanese envoys, he was recognized by his uncle, who saw that he was dressed in Japanese clothes, and thought that he had taken refuge in the Japanese invaders, so he went to the government to report to the government to avoid being implicated.

The government immediately seized the white light by the river, verified his identity, and reported it to the Zhejiang Political Envoy, who then reported it to the imperial court, wanting to punish him.

When Emperor Xuande learned of this, he specially issued an edict, saying that Baiguang by the river was a Japanese envoy, and that his punishment was afraid of causing protests from Japan and causing other problems, so he ordered the Ministry of Rites to warn him not to serve as a Japanese envoy and let him go back to Japan.

Since Hebian Baiguang knew the day-to-day operation of the Shibo Division very well and knew that many of the officials inside were very greedy, Jian Yì Yamana Ruiyan used money to buy the Shibo eunuchs.

As a result, the eunuch of Ningbo City's Bo Division turned a blind eye after receiving a bribe from Yamana Ruiyan, and regarded Yamana Ruiyan's tribute fleet as a Japanese national tribute ship with Hosokawa Motomichi holding the Xuande Survey, and not only let Yamana Ruiyan's fleet accept the goods first, but also over-inspect the amount.

Not only that, because the eunuchs did not receive benefits from Hosokawa Motomichi, they instructed those officials of the city ship division who had received bribes from Yamana Ruiyan to make Hosokawa Motomichi difficult everywhere, deliberately reducing the number of Hosokawa Motomichi tributes or depressing the quality of their tributes, so that Hosokawa Motomichi had a bitter but helpless voice, and suffered a sulk.

Originally, if the officials of the Ningbo City Department could adhere to the principle in the subsequent matters, the matter would not have been out of control, but then the officials of the Ningbo City Department made another big mistake under the banquet held in the guest hall to welcome Hosokawa Motomichi and Yamana Ruiyan, and then lit the fuse of the Japanese tribute envoy tribute incident.

At the banquet, Mizuyan Yamana, who held the Yongle Kanji, was arranged to sit in the chief by the officials of the Municipal Shipping Division, while Hosokawa Motomichi, who held the Xuande Kanji, was arranged to sit in the second seat.

This arrangement of the officials of the city department completely angered the Hosokawa Motomichi Mission, originally they and the people of the Yamana Ruiyan Mission were hostile forces in Japan, and wars often broke out between each other, and the relationship could be described as very bad, coupled with the cynicism of the personnel of the Yamashita Ruiyan Mission, which made the members of the Hosokawa Motomichi Mission, who were already full of anger, furious, and soon fought with the people of the Yamashita Ruiyan Mission.

Seeing the brawl between the two sides, the officials of the city division dispatched their soldiers, and finally separated them, and a good banquet broke up.

Because many of the people in the Hosokawa Motomichi mission were pirates, that is, the Ming Dynasty called the Japanese Kou, so after the banquet, they were angry about what they had suffered, and Hosokawa Motomichi was even more angry, so he made a bold decision in anger, led his men to open the eastern treasury of the city, took back the weapons that had been collected and preserved according to the regulations, and then aggressively attacked the station of the Yamana Ruiyan Mission.

The people of the Yamana Mizuyan mission were immediately at a disadvantage in the grappling because they had no weapons in their hands, and the tribute envoy Yamana Mizuyan naturally became the main target of the attack, and was soon killed by the people of Hosokawa Motomichi.

Seeing that a conflict broke out between the two sides, the officials of the city port division were chased by the people of Hosokawa Motomichi and fled, so they hurriedly provided weapons to the people of Yamana Ruiyan to resist.

It is a pity that the Hosokawa Motodo mission was so numerous that the people of the Yamana Ruiyan mission could not compete with it, so they had to flee in the wilderness, and escaped from Ningbo City under the protection of the guards who rushed to hear the news, and took refuge in Qingtian Lake, ten miles away.

The Hosokawa Motodo mission then set fire to the guest hall where the mission was received, and then traveled north along the Yeongbashi Gate through Dongdu Gate to Wagimon, burning the ships of the Yamana Ruiyan Gong Fleet that had stopped there.

Although the Yamana Ruiyan Gong fleet was burned, Hosokawa Motomichi and others were still not angry, and continued to chase and kill the members of the Yamana Ruiyangong envoy who were escorted away by the Ming army, such as Baiguang by the river, and pursued them from the bank of the Yuyao River to the foot of Shaoxing City, and returned to Ningbo after scolding Shaoxing City with the city gate closed.

At this moment, Hosokawa Motomichi could no longer control his exuberant subordinates, and under the leadership of those pirates, the people of the tribute mission burned and plundered along the way as if they were in a no-man's land, killing and plundering along the way, and after arriving in Ningbo, they plundered in the bustling neighborhoods, and then robbed the ships parked on the shore and returned to Japan.

The commander of the Bei Wadu Liu Jin, the commander of Qianhu Zhang Bo, the commander Yuan Lian, the commander of Baihu Liu En, and the Baihu Hu Yuan were killed in the battle with the people of the Hosokawa Motodo Mission.

On the way to escape back to Japan with the Hosokawa Motodogong mission, a ship drifted to the sea of the Korean Kingdom because of the wind, and after landing, more than 30 people were killed by the Korean army, and more than 20 people were captured, all of which were handed over to the Ming Dynasty, and then escorted back to Zhejiang by the Ming army for interrogation.

After learning that the Hosokawa Yuan Daogong envoy and the Yamana Ruiyan Gong envoy had clashed and looted, the Zhejiang Governor and the eunuch of the town guard ordered Bai Guang and others, who were hiding by the river in Shaoxing City, to be imprisoned and awaited interrogation.

However, it is a pity that the white light by the river seems to have foreseen the danger, so he left Shaoxing City with his henchmen one step in advance, and then was not caught by the officers and soldiers who came to arrest them, and was able to return to Japan safely.

After the people of the Hosokawa Moto-Daogong Mission, who were escorted back from the Kingdom of Korea, and the people of the Yamana Ruiyan Gong Mission, the succession of the two missions' tributes and the authenticity of the investigation were exposed, and then the Ningbo City Ship Division Tribute Dispute Incident was formed.

The officials in charge of hearing the case have already reported the charges of the personnel of the two missions and the officials involved in the Ningbo City Bosi to the imperial court, waiting for the final verdict of the imperial court.

Historically, after the tribute dispute, the Ming Dynasty immediately abolished the two cities of Zhejiang and Fujian, cutting off Japan's tributary road, which in turn exacerbated the troubles.

"Sandpiper and clam compete, fisherman profit!" Looking at the official document in his hand, Li Yuntian's slightly frowning brows gradually relaxed, and a meaningful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Then, lazily, he stretched out, put on the military coat hanging on the hanger, and walked out of the room, something was now time to be settled.