When he received a report that a Nanban ship had docked at Hakka Bay on Hirado Island, Masari was inspecting the Roche family shipbuilding workshop in Imari Bay, Matsuura County, Hizen.

The workshop was established last year, and currently only two Ming shipwrights and a dozen or so local shipwrights work here. In order to prepare for this shipbuilding workshop, Masashi sent people to various places to collect and purchase a large amount of shipbuilding timber. Most of the wood is not needed for the time being, but it is a good idea.

At this time, the shipyard did not have the ability to build ships on its own, and could only repair the ships that already existed in the territory itself. Zhengliang had already entrusted Wang Hai and others to find some shipbuilding skills and even craftsmen from the Ming Kingdom, and then prepared to start building Ming ships on their own.

Masato prepared to build a large number of Ming ships. According to the information provided by Wang Hai, this kind of boat is slightly smaller than the Fu boat, with a draft of about seven or eight feet, and the wind is maneuverable, and it is used to cooperate with the Fu boat in the Ming Navy. The Ming naval division was generally equipped with four jack Buddha machines, three bowls, 50 spray cans, 80 cigarette cans, 10 artillery, 50 fire bricks, 200 rockets, 6 medicine crossbows, and 100 crossbow arrows. The crew was fifty-three, nine sailors and forty-four warriors.

In Masayo's opinion, this kind of ship is better than the Japanese ship. Of course, both the Ming Fubune and the Japanese Ataka ship are better than this kind of ship. However, judging from the technical abilities and resources currently mastered by the Luo family, it will take at least a while to accumulate before the construction of these two ships can be considered.

After receiving the report of a Portuguese visit, Masa's initial idea was to send Ander directly to communicate. But on second thought. It seems that the Spaniards and the Portuguese are still fighting in the western seas? In the end, I dispelled this idea. And then. He was also going to send Kamiya Sauce, who was in charge of the territory's foreign trade, to negotiate. But after learning that there was a Ming man named "Wufeng" on that ship as an interpreter, Masahiro went there himself.

Others don't know who the guy from the "Five Peaks" is, but Zhengliang knows the way. This person is Wang Zhi, who is known as "Wufeng". Two years ago, he took Wang Hai and others to smuggle and sell supplies at sea, but later broke up with Wang Hai and others, and then followed a Japanese envoy (essentially a trade team under the guise of political exchanges) to work for them. Now for some reason, it's entangled with the Southern Barbarians.

According to historical records. His cooperation with the Nanban this time will also end soon, and then he will defect to his "little countryman" Xu Dong. In Zhengliang's view, perhaps, he felt that Xu Dong, the leader of the largest armed merchant group on the sea who defected to his "little countryman" and the largest armed merchant group on the sea at this time, would be more able to do a more vigorous career, even if the Xu "merchant group" was full of more danger and blood than when he was in the Japanese "mission". And in his blood, there is no lack of cruelty and adventurous spirit. Moreover, he will soon gain Xu Dong's trust, and from "Guanku" to "Guansen", he will become a powerful figure in the Xu business group with military power. Since then, he has embarked on the path of gradually becoming the "King of the Pirates".

When I met this controversial figure in later history in Hirado. Masato also took the opportunity to look at the other party. He was about thirty years old, and wore a gray gown that was often worn by civilians in the Ming Kingdom. The appearance is very square. It's just that it is estimated that the skin is slightly darkened due to the fact that it is often exposed to the sea breeze, but this is a healthy complexion.

"Meet your lord." Seeing Zhengliang enter the council hall, Wang Zhi immediately saluted respectfully. The two Portuguese behind him also made a standard aristocratic salute to Zhengliang.

"What do you call these two?" Masarashi smiled and looked at the two Portuguese, and then asked Wang Zhi.

"This one is Sir Francisco, and this one is Sir Barmond." Wang Zhi immediately introduced. Generally, Westerners who come to the East like to put on the title of nobility.

"Welcome to my domain, Master of the Five Peaks, Sir Francisco, Sir Barmond." After learning the names of the guests, Masahiro naturally expressed his welcome first.

"It's an honor to be hosted by you, my lord." After Wang Zhi's translation, Francisco and Barmond naturally immediately expressed their gratitude to the director for being received.

"Wufeng shopkeeper, listen to the accent, Your Excellency seems to be a person from Nanzhili of the Ming Kingdom?" After the host and guest were seated, Masashi spoke first.

"Oh? Could it be that the lord has ever been to the Ming Kingdom? In the next is indeed born in Guilin, She County, Huizhou, Nanzhili. Hearing Zhengliang accurately state his birthplace, Wang Zhi was surprised for a while, and then immediately guessed that Zhengliang should have been to the Ming Kingdom.

"Yes, a few years ago, I was fortunate enough to visit Mingguo." Masara also nodded and replied. Seeing Wang Zhi's surprised expression, Zhengliang smiled secretly in his heart. Brother, but from the next generation, I naturally know the way about your situation.

"Ha Luha, in this way, it seems that I have a chance with the lord in Xia." After receiving Zhengliang's affirmative reply, Wang Zhi immediately smiled. Judging by the expression on his face, it seems that this person is a guy with a bold personality. But who would have thought that just a few years later, he would become the leader of the sea pirates, known for his cold-blooded treachery? It's just that in such an environment, if you are not cold-blooded and treacherous, how can you survive? Everything is still a matter of chance and circumstance.

"I don't know what the shopkeeper of the Five Peaks of the Road and the two knights plan to do here?" After a polite conversation, it was natural to get to the point, so Zhengliang asked directly.

"Your Lordship, that's right, Sir Francisco and Sir Barmond are the pioneer merchant ships of Portugal, hoping to establish a commercial relationship with your lordship." Wang Zhi said immediately.

"Hehe, welcome, maybe a few people don't know the way, the island where the dock where your ship's ship docked is the same place where the family trades with merchants from all over the world. There is no tax to trade on this island, as long as you can follow the rules of the island, then the family will protect everyone's belongings and personal safety on the island. After hearing Wang Zhi's explanation, Zhengliang immediately said.

"Honorable Lord, is what you said true?" After listening to Wang Zhi's translation of Zhengliang's words, Francisco and Barmond looked at each other in surprise, and then Francisco asked in disbelief.

"It's true!" Masashi said affirmatively. This time. Even the Shuangyu Island, which was occupied by pirates off the coast of the Ming Kingdom and used to trade in pirate supplies. There is also a need to pay taxes. Now Masato has come up with such a tax-free island. As you can imagine, it will become more and more prosperous as more and more ships discover it.

After receiving a clear reply from Zhengliang, with the help of Wang Zhi, Francisco and Bamonde immediately made a lot of trade requests, and in the end, they even took out a musket again in an attempt to attract Zhengliang's attention.

"Huh. This arquebus is made with good craftsmanship, and it is indeed the work of a good craftsman. Zhengliang took the arquebus handed over by Wang and skillfully operated it.

"Your Lord, have you ever seen this kind of musket?" Seeing that Zhengliang was so familiar with this kind of musket, Wang Zhi suddenly sighed in his heart, so he hurriedly asked.

"Hehe, to tell you the truth, you are not the first Western ship to arrive here, there has already been a Spanish merchant ship before you." Masara said. But I felt funny in my heart, Wang Zhi and the three of them obviously hoped that Masato would be a big boss like Megumi Tanegashima. These muskets were bought with thousands of taels of gold, but now they were easily provoked by Masato to provoke conflicts between the Portuguese and the Spaniards.

"Your Excellency. Trust us to offer something better than the Spaniards. Sure enough, after learning that the Spaniards had arrived here before them, the two Portuguese hurried to Wang Zhi.

After that, they provided a lot of preferential treatments, and these politicians asked them to go to the Luo family's Kamiya Shaoce, who was in charge of foreign trade, to consult.

However, at the very end of the meeting, Masa-liang offered to provide Francisco and Bamond with the manufacturing skills of their three-masted galleon and the manufacturing skills of artillery, which the Luo family actually needed more than ordinary Nanban cargo.

After sending Wang Zhi and the three away, Zhengliang sat quietly in the council hall. According to historical development, after Wang Zhi returned to the Ming Kingdom to join Xu Dong this time, it will soon develop.

At this time, Xu Dong, a native of She County, was entrenched on Shuangyu Island, 60 miles off the coast of Ningbo in the Ming Kingdom, built a two-masted ship, and used force as a guarantee to carry "prohibited" goods, becoming an armed merchant group on the sea. They often buy and sell as well as rob.

According to Zhengliang's own memory, in March of the 27th year of Jiajing (1548), Du Si Lu Bo led Fujian troops and ships to the sea of Wenzhou. Before the typhoon season of that year, the Ming army launched a sudden and fierce attack on Shuangyu. In April, Lu Bo lured Xu Dong's armed merchant fleet away from Shuangyu, and the two armies fought fiercely in Jiushanyang. After the last battle, the armed merchant group was defeated, Xu Dong was captured, and Wang Zhi's remnants luckily broke out of the encirclement and fled to the Zhoushan Islands with hatred. After the Battle of Shuangyu, Wang Zhizhong collected the remnants and went north to Liebiao Mountain (also known as Liegang), which was sixty miles away from the county seat of Zhoushan. At that time, Wang Zhi had replaced Xu Dong's original status in the rivers and lakes.

After that, Wang Zhi adopted a variety of means such as sneak attacks, assassinations, and annexation, and gradually subdued the surrounding forces, and finally established his position as the supremacy of the sea.

However, in the leap March of the thirty-second year of Jiajing (1553), Wang Chen sent Yu Dayou and others to lead troops to attack Liegang for more than 1,000 nights. Yu Dayou led the sharp pawns, took the lead in the wind, and Tang Kekuan led the troops to respond later, and went straight to the thief village. Wang Zhi was caught off guard and broke out by boat in a panic. The Ming army was killed in the rear, and the pirates drowned and beheaded countless people.

It was after this battle that the young general Yu Dayou became famous at sea, and Wang Zhi led the remnants to the islands of Hirado and Satsuma in shame. Speaking of which, it is also because in the years when Wang Zhi came to Japan, the whole of Japan experienced a large-scale harvest failure due to the onset of the Xiaoice period. As a result, a large number of desperate ronins became Wang Zhi's mercenaries. It has created the rapid recovery and re-emergence of Wang Zhishi's power.

To be honest, no matter what Masaliang's relationship with Wang Zhi will be in the future, but in Masaliang's opinion, he doesn't want his territory to become another sea giant's lair. Therefore, at this moment, Masahiro accelerated the inclusion of the five islands in the territory of the force, and the idea of developing a naval army was even stronger.

It's just that some people appeared at this time and hindered Zhengliang's plan. (To be continued......)