After Wu Weizhong said this, Liu Xilin pondered for a moment, and then said, "It's okay!" Next, the Korean gentry will strictly control the domestic slaves in their respective houses, punish the fugitive slaves more severely, and reduce the treatment of Xuanfu, which can also prevent a large number of domestic slaves from escaping in Busan. ”

Liu Xilin thanked Wu Weizhong for his salute as he spoke.

As a result, it was decided to halve the wages and salaries of North Korean people.

After Wu Weizhong and Song Yingchang came to Qi Jiguang, Wu Weizhong informed Qi Jiguang of his decision.

After hearing this, Qi Jiguang nodded and said: "That's fine, with the help of the North Korean government to recruit people, you can recruit more people, so as to facilitate the next conscription." ”

Wu Weizhong and Song Yingchang nodded.

Then, Qi Jiguang said: "According to the sea situation in this area in recent years provided by Jinyiwei, and the news brought by General Yu from Ningbo, Ben Shuai decided to cross the sea in five days and land in Pingdo!" ”

Qi Jiguang looked at Wu Weizhong as he spoke: "You immediately convey the order and order the first batch of officers and soldiers to land to get ready!" ”

Wu Weizhong immediately said yes.

Song Yingchang couldn't help but look excited, looked at Qi Jiguang, and said, "Jingluo, please let the lower officials also go to Pinghu with the first batch of soldiers." ”

Qi Jiguang looked at Song Yingchang: "What to do with the advice, aren't you afraid of really encountering a kamikaze?" ”

"Didn't Jingluo say that this sea crossing was determined according to the sea area conditions provided by Jinyiwei, how could there be a kamikaze?"

Song Yingchang asked.

Qi Jiguang said with a smile: "That being said, the weather at sea has always been ever-changing, and no one can say whether there will be such a sudden rise in demonic winds." ”

"In this way, the lower officials have to go with them!"

"Because Xiaguan brought an extremely powerful Zhang Shenxian, who can cast a spell to drive away the evil winds on the sea, let him go with Xiaguan, and naturally he can reach Hirado smoothly."

Song Yingchang said.

Qi Jiguang glanced at Song Yingchang thoughtfully: "This immortal can really drive away evil winds?" ”

And Song Yingchang said: "Please think about it, how many years has the 140,000 army of the Yuan Dynasty been defeated by the kamikaze, even if you don't believe it, will the soldiers below not believe in this kamikaze?" At this time, shouldn't the lower officials take this immortal to stabilize the army's heart? ”

"You're right! On the day of the expedition, first ask Zhang Shenxian to board the ship to do a ritual. ”

Qi Jiguang said.

Although this was just a magic technique, it was really authoritative for most people at that time, otherwise the cult would not be so rampant.

Therefore, even if Qi Jiguang didn't believe it, he chose to believe it.

Five days later, it was a sunny day in the Busan area, and I saw a clear sky and the endless sea was full of water.

And a large number of warships gathered here by the Ming Dynasty were ready to set sail at this time.

As a sentry in nature, the wave boat has set sail in advance and sailed towards the junction of water and sky.

Wu Weizhong, who was going to take the first batch of officers and soldiers to Hirado, also boarded his flagship at this time, a double-decked large bird ship with thirty-two cannons.

Since Zhu Yijun asked Qi Changguo and others to develop a 2,400-kilogram heavy cannon equivalent to the type of Hongyi cannon in history, he asked the sailors to improve the warship according to Xiyi, so that now the Ming Dynasty has built a double-decked big bird ship on the basis of the wave boat, and this kind of ship has become the main warship of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the bow of this type of ship is thin and fast, and it travels like a bird on the sea, it is called a bird boat.

Of course, Zhu Yijun was not only satisfied with letting his Ming Dynasty's giant ships on the sea reach the point of a double-decker large bird ship equipped with more than 30 gates, his goal was naturally to build a bigger and magnificent warship in the future.

It's just that the timber that can be mined is limited, the technical personnel are limited, and the real environment is limited, so Zhu Yijun has not let the military department not spend huge sums of money to build larger-scale giant ships, such as giant ships with 100 giant guns on three decks.

After all, now in Asia, only Xiyi can challenge the Daming Sailors from afar, but because Xiyi came from afar, the ships brought by Xiyi are basically merchant ships, and the tonnage of the main warships brought by nature is not very large, and the largest is only a double deck.

Therefore, with the current strength of the Ming Dynasty's warships, the main warship can be used as the main warship with a double-deck and can carry twenty or thirty heavy guns of more than two thousand catties, and it is still possible to suppress Xiyi in Asia and be rampant, not to mention that Daming is still the home field, and the number can be enough to suppress Xiyi.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun has not yet upgraded the warship directly to the first-class sail battleship carrying 100 heavy guns in the mid-17th century.

After all, it's also very expensive to build a giant ship.

Although it is now Zhang Juzheng and other reformist civilian officials who attach importance to military equipment to govern the country and do not oppose Zhu Yijun, it does not mean that they are really willing to let the emperor be so happy that he spends a lot of money on building super warships of little practical significance.

And for the enemy who is currently fighting the main battle, that is, the Japanese Naval Army, the big bird ship is even more than enough to deal with.

Because the current Japanese naval army has very few artillery, most of them still use bows and arrows, and the so-called iron cannons, which are widely used by the Japanese daimyos, are only heavy arquebuses imported from the Portuguese.

Therefore, Daming does not have to worry about the Japanese on the water now, and the only trouble that may need to be worried about on the water is to encounter a typhoon.

The conversation turned back.

At this time, those who boarded the ship with Wu Weizhong were Song Yingchang and that immortal.

"Bring it up!"

After Wu Weizhong boarded the ship, he first issued an order to execute the spies.

Because there were many powerful gentry in the Ming Dynasty who were secretly smuggling trade with the Japanese State, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty not to be alert in advance to such a big move as the Ming Dynasty's conquest of the Japanese State, and there were even domestic powerful gentry who did not want the imperial court to win and let them lose their monopoly on trade with Japan, so that the Japanese Daimyo knew in advance that the Ming Dynasty might want to levy them.

In addition, the Wa Kingdom was currently in the Warring States Period, and many of the nobles of the Wa Kingdom, namely the Daimyo, had rich experience in warfare and knew how to use information warfare, and many daimyo such as many daimyo of the Shimazu family were masters of using information warfare.

In addition, in this era, the national consciousness of the Han people has not yet been fully established, and it is still an era of family and world, and many Han people have naturally taken refuge in the Wa Kingdom, and they are willing to spy for these Wa Daimyos, as long as the Wa Daimyo give them enough benefits.

Therefore, the Japanese state naturally planted many Korean spies and Han spies to Pusan to find out the details of the Ming Dynasty's conquest of the Japanese official army.

It's just that Qi Jiguang and Wu Weizhong, the famous generals of the Ming Empire, are not vegetarians, and Jinyiwei is not vegetarians, they all know about intelligence warfare, and they are all serious counter-espionage, and they have caught a lot of spies.

According to Qi Jiguang's order, these spies who were caught were to be used to sacrifice the flag when they went out on the expedition.

Therefore, Wu Weizhong also issued such an order at this time.

It didn't take long for a traitor and a traitor to be brought up, and he was ordered to kneel on the deck.

"Slash!"

Wu Weizhong shouted.

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

Suddenly, one after another sword shadows slashed down towards the sky, and a large number of heads fell to the ground.

The spies were all killed, and blood smeared the entire deck.

The so-called Zhang Shenxian, who boarded the ship, began to do things according to the plan at this time.

All of a sudden, a large amount of black smoke rose from the ship.

The officers and men on the ship around him were stunned, and then they all cheered happily.

"The wind is smooth, the wind is slow!"

After Zhang Shenxian read a few words, he said to Wu Weizhong for a while: "You can set sail." ”

Wu Weizhong nodded after hearing this, and immediately ordered: "Raise the sail and raise the anchor!" ”

Suddenly, the sentries on the mast crane raised the order flag and waved the flag of hoisting the sails and setting sail.

"Raise the sails and anchor!"

"Raise the sails and anchor!"

After a while, the sound of orders from the officers of the Ming Army's naval divisions was heard on other sailing ships.

So, at this time, Song Yingchang saw that many of his own soldiers on the ship were suddenly running to the deck, all of them were in high spirits, and seemed to really believe in Zhang Shenxian's spell, thinking that they would not encounter a typhoon, and they were all doing what they were responsible for.

Then, Song Yingchang saw that several people had turned the car stick, which made the wooden roll rattle and rattle, and after a while, iron chains came out of the water on the side of each warship, like a black dragon out of the water.

It didn't take long for the ships to slowly leave the harbor and head towards the twilight daylight.

At that time, the moon hung in the west, the mountain shadows were reflected in the sea, the huge sails covered the clouds, the seabirds wandered in the middle, and a few chirps were heard from time to time.

And Liu Xilin, a North Korean official who came to Busan for the first time, saw these giant ships for the first time, so he stood on the shore and watched these giant ships leave with a dumbfounded voice: "Fortunately, my Royal Highness is willing to be a dog for the Celestial Empire!" ”

(End of chapter)