The sound of the piano is rippling, the singing is soft, which makes people listen like a spring breeze, and occasionally a deliberately elongated "oh hey" can make people feel shocked.

Outside the window, the grass is green and the flowers are red, and the sea breeze is gentle. Several Japanese businessmen in kimonos were sitting in the mansion where Zhuge Weidao met Tokugawa Qizhao that day, drinking tea while quietly listening to a woman stroking the qin and singing in the hall, all smiling, and the fragrance of tea wafting in the hall at the same time.

The sound of the piano and the singing stopped abruptly, and the woman looked surging and nodded lightly.

This time, at the Shoyoshiki Mansion, all the Japanese merchants who had been doing business in Nagasaki were coming...... Oh, it's not a loyal and patriotic "loyal businessman", it's all comprador profiteers who see money! Only those compradors who smuggled in the industrial products produced by the Ming Dynasty on weekdays and wrapped them in "Made in Japan" wrapping paper (this wrapping paper was of course also produced by the Ming Dynasty), pretending to be Japanese domestic products, and those profiteers who bought the girls from poor peasant families in Japan were trained and trained and then sold to the Ming Dynasty or difficult profiteers, did not dare to stay in Nagasaki, which was "respectful of the king", and ran to the Caoliang Wakan on the ground in Korea.

Oh, that Jong Yi-hee is not a profiteer like that. He was a samurai, and he was also a vassal of Korea, the state of etiquette, so it was impossible to do such a shameless business. In addition to this Caoliang Wakan, the good business of their clan is to train female warriors who can sing and dance and are proficient in martial arts, and then introduce them to the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, Korea, or wealthy merchants in Japan as "retainers".

Those female warriors were generally from down-and-out samurai families, and the poor families had no choice but to send them to the Tsushima Fuchu Domain...... And every time the famous martial arts family is destroyed, there will be a large number of martial arts daughters who have lost their support, and for the Zong family, it is a good opportunity to "purchase" at a low price!

At present, among the two feudal domains of Satsuma Shimazu and Choshu Maori in Japan, many people have been involved in the Nagasaki "Emperor Tsumei" incident, although the shogunate has not ordered a crusade against Nagasaki, nor has it punished the Satsuma and Choshu two domains, but it should be a matter of time.

Therefore, Zong Yixi contacted the representatives of the royal merchants who served the Sa and Chang Domains today...... Let's pull the relationship first, and when Sa and Nagaji are confiscated by the order of the shogunate, he can buy them at a low price.

Thinking of this, Zong Yixi pointed to the snow-white Fuqin woman, and said to Umeda Hannosuke, the royal merchant of the Satsuma Domain, who was present: "Umeda-kun, this is my adopted daughter Yui...... Don't look at her posture, she can only be considered mediocre, but she is also proficient in calligraphy and painting, and she is also proficient in martial arts, especially good at kendo and aikido, and the Daikoku family in Edo is ready to hire her as a guard. ”

Umeda Hannosuke is a fat man who always looks kind and wealthy, and of course he knows what Zong Yixi's "female warrior" does? He glanced at the woman named Yui, who was just a demure and quiet girl, what kind of swordsmanship and aikido was probably a gimmick.

But Umeda also knew what Zong Yixi meant by saying this to himself? He thought the Satsuma Domain was going to end...... In fact, Umeda also felt that the Satsuma clan was a bit hanging, but he was always a Satsuma person, and he couldn't be too depressed at this time, otherwise there would be too many people asking him for an account.

Just when this Umeda was about to force a smile, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then I saw the door moving slightly, and a middle-aged female warrior had already knelt outside, bowing her head and saying to Zong Yixi: "Lord, the Ming Beiyang Fleet is back!" ”

Hearing this, Na Zong Yoshi-hee was not doing much, but Na Umeda asked nervously, "How many boats have come back?" Is there a Han Wu Emperor? ”

The middle-aged female warrior was stunned for a moment, raised her snow-white face and looked at Zong Yixi.

"Mafei, say it." Zong Yixi didn't take it seriously, and directly asked the female warrior to answer Umeda's question.

"Ha Yin...... A total of eighteen ships returned, and the Emperor Wu of Han was among them. ”

Zong Yixi laughed when he heard this, then pressed his hand on the floor, already stood up, and then said to Umeda: "Okay, Caoliang Pavilion is going to do business...... I'll have to go and make some arrangements, and I'll be less accompanied. ”

There are tens of thousands of officers and sailors of the Ming Navy on the eighteen warships, and their spending power is very strong!

Although the fleet will not have a holiday after entering the port, only half of them will go ashore, and half of them will come to Caoliang Wakan to consume, and Zong Yixi will also make a lot of money!

Umeda also immediately stood up and said to Zong Yixi: "Lord of the domain, the villain wants to go to Busan Castle. ”

"To Busan City?"

Umeda looked worried: "Now that the army is in chaos, and the villain is alone, the family must be very worried, so I want to send a telegram back to report safety." ”

There was no telegraph office or telephone office in the Choyang Wakan, and if you wanted to send a telegram, you had to go to the North Korean Telegraph Office in Busan.

"Oh," Zong Yixi nodded, "Umeda-kun, it's no problem for you to send a telegram, but the North Korean telegraph office in Busan City is managed by someone from the Beiyang Fleet Intelligence Department of the Ming Navy...... You have to be careful not to let people mistake you for talking about military affairs! ”

"Of course, of course...... I just want to bring peace to my family. ”

"Okay, that's fine." Zong Yixi waved to the woman who was stroking the qin, "Yui, send Umeda-kun to the telegraph office in Busan City." ”

"Hayin!"

......

Umeda telegraphed to bring peace to his family...... There is only a short paragraph: "Dalang has taken me and other eighteen people to Busan, and the journey is safe", but when this message was transferred to Shimazu Qiliang in Nagasaki City, it became "Climbing Jeepage Mountain"!

"My lord, my lord, climb the Shadow Mountain!"

In Nagasaki's Shimazu Jinya, after a rush of footsteps, the sound of the old man Komatsu with a knife came from outside the door to the ears of Shimazu Qiliang, who was carefully wiping a sword.

The so-called sword is a dagger hidden in the bosom. Because the samurai carried swords and ribs with them, there was no third hand to fight with a sword. Therefore, this sword is usually not used for combat, but is prepared for seppuku...... Shimazu Qiliang originally felt that he would not need a sword in his life, but now it seems that he has to be prepared.

He is now being forced step by step by the Tokugawa family to the point of "respecting the king", which is tantamount to playing with his life, and he may be able to negotiate a good price with Daming if he plays well, but he is ...... The sword can be used!

But he knew that he was playing with his life, and he had to play it...... Because in the previous Ji Yin Waterway incident, he had already folded himself in! Because Charlie. The revelation of Yilu, the Ming side has asked to investigate him (in fact, there is no such thing)!

And this investigation, if you don't know, will check the entire Shimazu family. So now he has no choice but to take a risk, and with the acquiescence of the shogunate, he led some of his subordinates to "hijack" the airship and ran to Nagasaki to reverence the king - this is a rebellion for the shogunate!

If the goal is achieved and Japan gets a better "condition for being a dog", then his life and the Shimazu family may be saved. No matter how bad it is, he can still go into exile in England.

Otherwise...... He's the sinner of Shimazu!

However, considering the disparity in strength between the Ming Dynasty and the Nagasaki righteous warriors, Shimazu Qiliang also knew that the consequences of fighting against the Ming Dynasty would be more than lucky...... If you want to win, oh, or make a "move", the only way to do this is to use the newly formed airship force to sneak attack the Shadow Dao base.

If the main force of the Ming Beiyang Fleet can be blown up, then the Ming Dynasty should give Japan a decent "dog price"!

Of course, that could also completely anger the Ming Dynasty and bring an even greater disaster to Japan.

But even so, the Shimazu family would be given the opportunity to go into exile in India because of their outstanding contributions to the British Empire...... In this way, the Shimazu family and their retainers were Indians.

Thinking of this, he put away his sword, then stood up and said to his old man Xiaosong with a knife: "Okay, the time has come, let's go, let's go to the fifty-year airship field!" ”

"Hayin!"