At the same time that Zheng Zhilong led the fleet to attack Kuga Island, Zheng Zhihu also sailed into the port of Nagasaki with ten three-masted ships.

Seeing the arrival of a sea ship, a Japanese galleys came to meet them from afar, and on board stood the officials of Nagasaki Port.

"Which fleet are you, and can you apply for entry in advance?" The Japanese port official shouted with his neck cocked.

The three-masted ship was too tall, and the galleys he was riding on were less than half the height of the three-masted ship, so he had to raise his neck and shout. Some of the maritime merchants who came to Nagasaki to trade in the Ming Kingdom stayed in the port of Nagasaki, and a special place was set aside on land for the Ming merchants to live in. The firms of the Ming Kingdom University were all located on the five islands off the coast of Nagasaki, and they did not want to live in the crowded port of Nagasaki. However, trade must take place at the port of Nagasaki, so ships from the Goto Islands often come to the port of Nagasaki, but they need to apply to the port before coming.

Faced with the questioning of this Japanese official, Zheng Zhihu smiled coldly and ignored it, but issued a series of orders one after another.

Following Zheng Zhihu's order, the other seagoing ships accompanying him all bypassed the Japanese galleys and swooped towards the harbor, pounced on the seagoing ships that were parked on the sea.

"Eight Ga Ya Road!" The Japanese official shouted angrily.

In the midst of the shouting, the tall fortune boat passed by the side of the galleys, and almost rubbed against the galleys, if they were rubbed, the galleys would have to be overturned in the sea. The Japanese official was so frightened that he clung to the cable, and said with a pale face, "Quick, go back and report the news, the maritime merchants of the Ming Kingdom are going to make trouble!" ”

The mooring location of the pirate ships that did not attend the meeting had already been checked, and the ten three-masted ships each found their target and quickly pounced, and countless flying claws were thrown, connecting the pirate ship and the ship together, and the soldiers on board first fired a round of fire, and then a few grenades were thrown onto the pirate ship, taking advantage of the smoke from the explosion, they grabbed the cable and flew over, and started a broadside battle. Then I found that the seizure of the ship was very smooth, and it was more than I imagined, and basically every lucky ship did not encounter fierce resistance.

Because they were anchored in the port of Nagasaki, the Wakoku was naturally responsible for the safety, and the pirates were not vigilant, and most of the pirates on the ship lived on the shore, taking advantage of the rare leisure time, and spent the whole day drinking on the shore. The Wakoku were poor, but Nagasaki was the only port of the Wakoku to the outside world, but it was very prosperous, with a large population, a long stretch of buildings, all kinds of shops, taverns and brothels everywhere. In the summer and autumn of each year, there are generally more than 100 ships of the Ming Kingdom that come to Nagasaki, with tens of thousands of crew members, and these tens of thousands of seafarers have to live in Nagasaki for three or four months, until the northwest monsoon rises in winter, and then they will sail back. Tens of thousands of seafarers brought great prosperity to Nagasaki, and countless Japanese people depended on the sea trade for their livelihood.

Seafarers have money, and pirates' money comes faster and is naturally more enjoyable. These pirates spend their days in taverns and brothels, and most of them don't live on ships at all.

So, the offense went smoothly naturally. It took less than half an hour to capture all the pirate ships, kill hundreds of pirates, and surrender all the remaining pirates.

Eight large ships thus fell into the hands of the Royal Maritime Trading House, each carrying a large cargo of gold and silver.

It was not until the end of the battle to seize the ship that the Japanese sailors were assembled and met the merchant warship.

The Ming ships brazenly fought in the port of Nagasaki, and in any case, they did not take the Japanese shogunate seriously, and the Nagasaki defenders were naturally annoyed.

In the face of the rapidly approaching Japanese sea ship, Zheng Zhihu smiled coldly and ordered the cannon to be fired.

In the loud sound of "boom, boom, boom", more than a dozen shells fell around the warships of the Japanese Kingdom and into the sea, splashing water columns one after another.

"Eight grids!" Fujita Ichiro, the general of the Wa Kingdom who commanded the naval division, had a blue face, and the Ming sea ships were actually equipped with Hongyi cannons, and the Japanese warships were not opponents at all.

Although Japan is an island country, the sailors are not good at all, and the sea ships produced in Japan cannot be compared with the Ming ships, let alone the Xiyi plywood ships. Otherwise, more than 200 years later, the country would not have been bombarded by the Xiyi people with huge cannons in the Black Ship Incident.

After the failure of the invasion of Korea, the Japanese shogunate implemented a policy of seclusion and seclusion, prohibiting the samurai and maritime merchants of the Japanese kingdom from going to sea. Even if they don't go out to the sea, naturally there is no need to build ships, and for decades, the sailors of the Wa Kingdom can imagine what the situation is, and there are not even big ships that can go to sea, and they are all pulp sailing ships that can only sail in the near sea.

So don't look at the Nagasaki defenders dispatched more than 100 warships at once, ten times the number of the royal merchant ships, but they were all small ships, and the largest pulp sailing ship was only half the height of the three-masted Fuku. Moreover, each three-masted ship has several Hongyi cannons, as well as dozens of Francophone cannons and bowl-mouth guns, and the strength of the two sides is not at the same level at all, just like the difference between a child and a big man. Not to mention anything else, the three-masted ship did not need to open fire, and it could knock over the Japanese galleys with a collision.

What, broadside battles? The deck of the warship was more than a zhang high from the deck of the three-masted ship, like a city wall in front of them, and the difficulty of the battle was like a siege.

So don't look at the aggressiveness of the Nagasaki defenders, they don't dare to come with the merchant warships at all.

"Captain, there is another Ming Sea Ship coming!" Suddenly, a samurai pointed to the ocean and exclaimed, Fujita Ichiro quickly turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw several sea ships appearing several miles away, speeding towards Nagasaki Port.

"Stop and see what happens." Fujita Ichiro seemed to have found the ladder and said quickly.

"Maybe this fleet and the port are not in the same group, let the Ming people fight by themselves first, and then we will clean up the mess."

"Wing Captain Gao Ming!" The samurai complimented.

However, it was destined to disappoint Fujita, and in the eyes of everyone, several new ships and the previous Ming ships converged, and it was obvious that the two fleets were in a group.

"Big brother, I've taken all the pirate ships that don't listen to the call captive." Zheng Zhihu stood at the bow of the boat and hugged his fist at Zheng Zhilong on the Fu boat next to him.

"The second brother has worked hard, and he will return to Fujiang Island with me." Seeing that he didn't fight with the Wa Guo Sailor, Zheng Zhilong breathed a sigh of relief. Since he didn't tear his face with the Japanese people, things are easy to say.

As a result, the group stopped stopping at the port of Nagasaki and set sail for Fukue Island.

"Rich, really rich." Fukue Island, looking at the captives anchored in the bay and returning from the sea, Mao Liangzhe rubbed his palms excitedly.

Twenty-three seagoing ships were captured at once, and seven or eight pirates were connected with the fleet of the Fuzhou merchant gang and the Funing merchant gang. Fuzhou Merchant Gang, Funing Merchant Gang, plus Quanzhou Merchant Gang, Fujian's three major merchant gangs engaged in maritime trade, Quanzhou Merchant Gang has been destroyed, and the remaining two merchant gangs have worked hard to buy goods and sell the silver in their own hands, which makes Mao Liangzhe not excited.

The traders, bookkeepers, and treasurers of the trading house got busy, boarded the captive ships, and began to count the silver goods on board. In order to prevent someone from embezzling and hiding privately, there is a Praetorian Guard supervisor who is responsible for monitoring every account officer.

Mao Liangzhe, as the chief shopkeeper of the firm, naturally did not have to conduct the inventory himself, but sat in a house in the dock and waited for the results of the inventory. Zheng Zhilong, who had just come back, also sat with him.

"General Zheng has made a great contribution this time, and he has really worked hard." Mao Liangzhe said.

Zheng Zhilong said humbly: "These maritime pirates are too easy to fight, and they don't have a little vigilance, so they can't talk about hard work. ”

The battle to seize the ship has always been very cruel, the enemy and the enemy fight each other on the narrow deck, there is no way to avoid it, there is no room to toss and turn. The two sides will fight until one side collapses, and even if they can win, their losses will be very large. And whether it is those pirates, or the crews of the Fuzhou Merchant Gang and the Funing Merchant Gang, they are all experienced veterans, and their combat experience is not bad. So at the beginning, Zheng Zhilong didn't want to fight, because even if he won the battle, the casualties would be large, after all, the other party's ships were more manpower than the Royal Sea Trade Company.

However, the result of the battle was unexpected, he really didn't expect that the battle would be so easy. It barely played much, and it won easily, and only used two points at most.

After thinking about it carefully, Zheng Zhilong thought that the reason why he fought so easily was because the other party did not notice it in advance because of the sneak attack, and the firepower of the fleet was too strong. The entire fleet of more than 20 sea ships is fully equipped with more than 150 Hongyi cannons!

There are more than 100 Hongyi cannons, and the number of Hongyi cannons in the entire Ming army is not so much! Not to mention the hundreds of other guns such as the Franc machine and the bowl mouth gun in the fleet. Then there are the Praetorian Guards, each of whom is armed with advanced firearms, which are no worse in range or accuracy than those captured from the Dutch red-haired ghosts.

As long as it can be connected to the broadside, often the Praetorian Guards shoot a burst of fire, and the crew on the deck of the opposing ship will be shot in pieces, and the next broadside battle will be no longer suspenseful.

Throughout the battle, Zheng Zhilong's once proud old subordinates, those experienced old sailors and old pirates, actually didn't play a role. In front of the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, who ordered the ban on firepower, the combat experience of those old sailors was not worth mentioning at all.

If I had such a strong strength, I would have dominated the entire southeast coast long ago, so why should I cooperate with the Royal Maritime Trade Company? Zheng Zhilong sighed secretly. But he also knew that it was impossible, because with his own ability, he could not train the Praetorian Guards who ordered and forbade it, let alone make such sharp firearms.

After sighing, Zheng Zhilong was also secretly glad that he had taken refuge in the government and the emperor in the morning, otherwise with the Praetorian Guard being so strong, if he continued to be a pirate at sea, he would be exterminated sooner or later.

"By the way, General Zheng, we have completely swept the face of the Wa Shogunate this time, will there be any trouble in the future?" Mao Liangzhe asked.

This operation was insisted on by Mao Liangzhe, in order to completely subdue the Ming maritime merchants and realize the situation of dominating the Ming coastal area as soon as possible. After all, there are not many opportunities to bring together most of the maritime merchants who take the Japanese route at once.

Since spending time at the Royal Academy of Sciences, communicating with Xiyi missionaries, and people like Xu Guangqi, Wang Zheng, and Song Yingxing, Mao Liangzhe's horizons have broadened a lot. He is no longer just an ordinary businessman, but a self-proclaimed businessman. Therefore, I have long been dissatisfied with the hard work of coming to the Japanese country to earn silver.

How can a giant businessman do everything by himself? You have to be able to make money for others.

That's why Mao Liangzhe came up with the idea of directly collecting commercial taxes from these maritime merchants, relying on strong force to subdue these maritime merchants who came to the Japanese kingdom and forcing them to pay the eleventh commercial tax, but in fact, where does the Royal Maritime Trade Company have the power to collect taxes?

In order to subdue these maritime merchants, it is necessary to take those maritime pirates who did not come to the meeting and kill the chickens and monkeys!

So this battle must be fought. As for whether he will offend the Japanese shogunate, Mao Liangzhe has no bottom in his heart. However, if you are offended, you will be offended, as long as you can suppress these maritime merchants, you can collect millions of taels of silver every year just by collecting commercial taxes in the future, and the Royal Maritime Trade Company will no longer be allowed to trade in the Japanese country in the future, which is worth it.

Of course, it would be better not to completely offend the Wakoku shogunate, so that they could continue to do business. Send a fleet every year and easily earn millions of taels of silver, why not?

"The big shopkeeper can rest assured that there won't be much trouble." Zheng Zhilong said with a smile.

"Although the Japanese have always studied China, they have not learned the essence of Chinese culture, and their country and its people are not much different from other barbarians. Fear of power but not virtue is the common characteristic of these barbarians.

Today's battle of Nagasaki made the Japanese shogunate see the strength of our trading firm's armed forces, and naturally they will feel afraid, how dare they easily become our enemies?

They will fear that not trading with us will anger us, and if we bombard the port of Nagasaki in a fit of rage, the Nagasaki officials and the generals of the Japanese Navy will not be held accountable.

Just as I need Japanese silver, Japan is also very eager for all kinds of goods from my Ming. Japan is a narrow country and a poor country, and the Japanese aristocracy is extremely poor and luxurious, and all kinds of materials urgently need to be imported from our Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there are many silver mines in the country, and the 'useless' silver that cannot be eaten or worn is exchanged for various materials of the Ming Dynasty, so why not.

So I don't think the Japanese side will ban us from trading at all, at most they will send someone over to reprimand us so as to save some face. I suspect that the officials in Nagasaki would not even report this to the shogunate. ”

"Deceive the upper and lower and profit from it. I know, isn't that the case with many officials in the Ming Dynasty? Mao Liangzhe laughed out loud and expressed his approval of Zheng Zhilong's analysis, "It's still General Feihuang who knows the Japanese people better." ”

"That is, the last general has lived in this Wa country for many years, so he naturally knows some thoughts of these Wa people." Zheng Zhilong said with a smile.

"I'm afraid I don't just know what the Japanese think, but I also know the thoughts of the Japanese women." Mao Liangzhe squeezed his eyes and laughed.

"Hahaha......" Zheng Zhilong laughed.

At this moment, a steward of a trading house hurriedly walked in.

"The big treasurer, General Zheng, the captured ships have been counted with silver."

"How much silver was seized?" Mao Liangzhe hurriedly asked. Zheng Zhilong also sat up straight and pricked up his ears.

"All kinds of goods add up, a total of five million taels!" The steward said excitedly.

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