Three days later, Feng Gong sent someone to tell us that the time and place of meeting with Akai Yoshitaka had been arranged, and that we met Akai Yoshitaka in his seaside annex, and that his public identity was a Japanese businessman, and that there were several foreign trade enterprises in Huludao.

At the door, we saw two small but very capable Japanese men who led us to the courtyard, pushed open the lighted door, and stood outside respectfully.

Very elegant and chic room, the furnishings are simple and clean, everything in the room is placed in accordance with the tradition of Dongying, under the lamp a young man in a kimono sits cross-legged on the tea table, a fresh smell of tea greets you.

Under the lamp, Akai Yoshitaka was younger than I expected, with neatly combed hair, a very careful man, and a pair of black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, which made him look elegant and elegant.

He looked up at us, those bright eyes revealed an old man who was not commensurate with his age, and as Feng Gong said, this is a person who is extremely deep in the city, he straightened up and bent down slightly, and stretched out a hand very politely.

"You may be seated."

I don't have a good impression of the Japanese son, I guess it is influenced by the general, as long as he mentions the Japanese son, the root of his teeth can bite out the sound, the field chicken is happy and angry, from here he has a gloomy face, on the way to come, Feng Cheng explained the emergency response, don't be reckless.

After the people outside closed the door, we made it to the opposite side of Yoshitaka Akai.

"Dongying's tea art originates from the Central Plains, but tea tasting is all about calmness, removing all miscellaneous thoughts, so that the body and mind are completely integrated into relaxation." Akai Yoshitaka said as he washed his hands with a long-handled ladle of water from the water tank next to him.

I looked around at the room, which was small and elegant, with delicate calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, and a vase with fragrant lilies on the desk next to it.

"We're here to talk about a deal." Tian Ji pushed the business card handed over to us by Feng Gong in front of Akai Yoshitaka.

"Tea tasting pays attention to tranquility, and tonight's acquaintance with you is also a kind of fate, since it is recommended by Mr. Feng, of course I have confidence in you." Akai Yoshitaka scooped a scoop of water, and said earnestly while boiling water on the water. "My ancestor is Akai Nobunari, who was the overlord in the Toei Muromachi period, and has the reputation of being an upright red ghost, in 1615, and it was also the forty-third year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated Toyotomi Hideyori in the Osaka Summer Battle, the ancestor was defeated, and the remnants of his subordinates left their homeland and fled to the Kinsai generation in China."

"Don't say it so nicely, during the Wanli period, it was your ancestors who burned, killed and looted on our territory, and did all kinds of evil, I haven't heard of the overlord you said, I only know that these Dongying people were called Japanese Kou in those years." Tian Ji's voice was cold. "Do you know what a widow is, it's a thief!"

"Yes, you call the ancestors the Wako." Akai Yoshitaka smiled calmly, not minding Tian Ji's aggressiveness. "The word Kou from the end from the end, the end refers to the integrity of the homeland", the finger is beaten, the end and the grasp are linked together to indicate that the homeland is broken, in your words, the king is defeated, the ancestors are defeated and scattered here, a group of homeless people, just want to live. ”

"They want to live and burn, kill and loot? Since you also know about homelessness, do you know that it is because of your ancestors that how many people along the coast have been homeless? Tian Ji asked indignantly.

"Akai Nobunari was indeed a generation of overlords in Dongying, but after the defeat fled to China, although it was defeated, but the number of remnants of the soldiers was large, and the brave and good fighting in the Wanli year, the coastal generation was known, and even the most rampant pirate Nine Ghost Righteous Names were also under his command." Feng Cheng looked Akai Yoshitaka on the opposite side up and down, and said in a low voice. "At that time, it was the largest coastal force, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses at its peak, even more than the garrison in Jinxi at that time."

"With so many people gathered, I guess I didn't do anything hurtful back then." Tian Ji said coldly.

"The Ming Dynasty is forbidden, the ancestors led their subordinates to stay away from their hometowns, but they just asked for a piece of idle land, but unfortunately the Ming Dynasty refused to accept it, and the ancestors were also bored in every way, so they fought each other." Akai Yoshitaka looked at the steaming kettle and said calmly.

"Your ancestor Akai Nobunari was indeed brave and unmatched when he was in Dongying, but it is a pity that what he did in Huaxia was to kill people and set fires, and forcibly seize them, but he called it a hero." Seal-for-tat.

"A thief is a thief, say so much ......"

"In troubled times, we only seek peace, and our ancestors will only take risks at the end of the road." Before Tian Ji finished speaking, Akai Yoshitaka interrupted him very calmly. "The merits and demerits are right and wrong, they are all hundreds of years ago, this time I just want to find the remains of my ancestors in Jinxi, the Central Plains has a saying, the leaves fall back to the roots, I just want to do my filial piety."

"Nobunari Akai?" I looked at Feng Cheng, when I was a child, I read the history of the Ming Dynasty, which did record the coastal disasters at that time, and the biggest force was Akai Nobunari, and even the Ming defenders were helpless against it for a time. "But the strange thing is that Akai Nobunari suddenly disappeared, and without any warning, overnight, along with his subordinates, as if they had evaporated out of thin air, they disappeared."

"No one knows what happened, and the disappearance of Akai Nobunari made the coastal defenders of the Ming Dynasty who were tired at that time also at a loss, and in the history of the field, this is an unsolved case that has not been solved to this day." Feng Cheng looked at Akai Yoshitaka and asked. "You're here to find the ancestor, so Akai Nobunari didn't return to Dongying in the end?"

"Nope." Akai Yoshitaka replied in the affirmative.

"At that time, some people speculated that perhaps Akai Nobunari looted a lot of treasure along the coast of Jinxi, and with the support of sufficient financial resources, led the growing soldiers and horses, and returned to Dongying with the intention of making a comeback, but in the history of Dongying, since the end of the Warring States period, there has been no record of Akai Nobunari, so many people believe that Akai Nobunari was shipwrecked and buried at the bottom of the sea when he returned to Dongying, and the soldiers and horses who followed him were finally disbanded because the dragons were leaderless."

Speaking of this, Feng Cheng looked at Akai Yoshitaka, he is a descendant of Akai Nobunari, maybe what happened to Akai Nobunari, only he knows best.

"The ancestors did not return to Dongying." Before the water was boiling, Akai Yoshitaka took out a plate of incense from the incense box on the tea house. "The ancestors have always been at war with the Ming army, and the last time they appeared was here."

"It's not a war, it's an invasion." Tian Ji retorted coldly.

Akai Yoshitaka also ignored Tian Ji's provocation, polished the match and shone on his face, Sven's cheeks were gloomy and sophisticated, he looked at the fire in his hand in a daze, and seemed to have his thoughts in that brightness, and he didn't say anything for a long time until the fire burned his hand.

Akai Yoshitaka came to his senses at this time, threw away the embers in his hand and continued to tell me that at that time, although Akai Nobunari was strong and strong, he had been trying to break through the coastal defense of the Ming army in Jinxi, but the Ming army fought bloodily with outnumbered enemies and refused to give up an inch of land.

"I have been studying the past of the ancestors, putting aside the prejudices between us, throughout history, the ancestor Akai Nobunari can be described as an outstanding military strategist, even if he was defeated in Dongying, it was because the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, the ancestors lost to the times is not a strategic win or loss, it can be said that the ancestors have fought countless battles in their lives, few achievements, in addition to their bravery, more ancestors have a strategy."

Akai Yoshitaka said as he took out a map and laid it out in front of us, it was a map of the Ming Dynasty's coastal defense, Akai Yoshitaka pointed on the map, and the location was Huludao where we are now.

He told us that, according to later documents, Akai Nobunari, despite his strong army, had been entrenched in pirates far from the mainland, and that supplies were becoming increasingly overstretched, and that Akai was anxious for a coastal fortress that could be used as a base area.

"The ancestors once gathered all the soldiers and horses, and attacked Jinxi for three years." Akai Yoshitaka said with a puzzled expression.

"In history, it became the Ningjin Rebellion, and you didn't capture this projectile land for three years, and you still said that your ancestors had a good strategy, isn't it a joke." Tian Ji smiled coldly.

"As far as things are concerned, if Akai Nobunari hadn't been outnumbered by the enemy before and after, he wouldn't have been defeated in Dongying, and in terms of strategy, he can be called the overlord of the top five in the Warring States of Dongying." Feng Cheng calmly looked at the map on the table. "If Akai Nobunari is trying to occupy the fortress and use it as a buffer base, he shouldn't have chosen to attack Jinxi."

"I also think so, the Central Plains military book has clouds, the city must be several times more than the enemy, but also sufficient supplies, although Jinxi is a projectile land, but the Ming Dynasty coastal defense town, the city is easy to defend behind the high wall, the ancestors are taboo to attack Jinxi, not to mention that at that time, the ancestors had many opportunities to choose, but the ancestors insisted on going their own way, and would rather lose the soldiers and generals, and vowed to take Jinxi."

"At that time, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty was declining, and the number of defenders in Jinxi was not large, and it was completely dependent on the strength of the city to hold on, but if Akai Nobunari attacked for three years, why couldn't he capture it in the end?" I asked.

"Almost, just almost, at the beginning, the Ming army can still stalemate with the ancestors, as time goes by, the ancestors have gained the upper hand, there is not much left of the Ming defenders, Jinxi City is in panic all day long, the ancestors are ready to launch the final blow."

Akai Yoshitaka looked a trace of regret and confusion, and was silent for a long time before he said gloomily, seeing that the city was about to be broken, and suddenly reinforcements rushed to aid Jinxi, like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and the momentum was like a broken bamboo, and Akai Nobunari was defeated in one go.

In that battle, Akai Nobunari suffered heavy losses, not only suffered more than half of the casualties, but was also pursued all the way back to the pirates to survive, three years of strength, once defeated, the success fell short.

"There are reinforcements rushing to Jinxi?" I looked at each other with the feud, and that period of history was forced to pass me. "Wanli only set up a thousand households in Jinxi, it was already the largest coastal defense garrison at that time, resisting Akai Nobucheng for three years, there must be little left, there are no reinforcements in Jinxi to reinforce, and the last record of the Ningjin Rebellion is that the Japanese can not attack the army for a long time, and there is no record of reinforcements, when did the Ming army reinforce Jinxi?"

"It's not the Ming army." Akai shook his head.

"......" We were stunned and looked at him in surprise, and the palace lord asked. Who is it that is rushing to help? ”

"Jin Yiwei!"