Brother Tian's birthday was 1679 in the spring.

Under Edo Castle, the residence of the Mito Domain.

Tokugawa Mitsukuni, who had just been inaugurated as the Shogunate's Elder (大老中), stood in front of a huge nautical chart hanging in his study. A "little surname" with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a very prominent outline of his facial features, held the candlestick and lit up for the new elder.

There were two people standing behind Mitsukuni, one was Okubo Tadasa, and the other was a man in his fifties, dressed as a high-ranking samurai, he was still a rare strong man in Japan, with a thick beard, and he looked quite fierce.

Guangguo also held another small yellowed chart in his hand, looking at the big one for a while, and looking at the small one for a while, obviously making a comparison.

The small chart was found from the shogunate's archives under the orders of Tokugawa Mitsukoku, and it was a hand-drawn Pacific chart drawn by the Sendai feudal lord Tsunecho Zhikura Tsunecho, who led the "Date Maru Voyage", after returning to Japan - such a chart that could almost wipe out the US Pacific Fleet has been lying quietly in the treasury of Edo Castle for more than 60 years.

And that sea chart is much more detailed and accurate than the small sea chart! This is a replica of the charts stolen from the Spaniards by the spies of the Dutch East India Company - the Dutch were so good at commercial spies that they actually found their way to the East Indies by stealing the Portuguese charts!

However, the Pacific charts that the Dutch stole from the Spaniards were of little use, and there were a few popular ports on the Pacific coast, all of which were colonies of the Kingdom of Spain. And the hinterland corresponding to these ports was also in the hands of the Spaniards. You can't grab the hinterland, just grabbing a port, it's really useless. And to grab the hinterland Dutch East India Company is really not a loss!

Therefore, the Dutch also threw the charts they had spent a lot of money in the treasury of Batavia, and probably kept it all the way to the Dutch East Indies, occupied by the Japanese devils.

But this time, these two Pacific charts that would change the future world pattern finally came together - both fell into the hands of Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the elder of the Tokugawa shogunate.

After some comparison, Tokugawa Mitsukuni finally confirmed that the chart given by Spearman, the governor of Batavia of the Dutch East India Company, was genuine, and at the same time confirmed that the chart drawn by Tsunecho Zhikura was available, so he sighed softly: "It's a pity that if Shenjun and Hidetada had known that the invincible Spaniards turned out to be paper tigers, they would definitely attack the port of Acapulco and open the door to a new world for Japan!" ”

Okubo Tadashi immediately echoed: "The elder is reasonable, if only Shenjun and Hidetadashi could see through the strength of the Spaniards. But it's not too late!

With Japan's national strength, it would not be difficult to build 100 Western Galen ships that could sail to the New World within a year. If one Galen ship can hold 200 samurai, 100 ships can hold a full 10,000 samurai!

10,000 samurai are enough to lay a large piece of territory! ”

Tokugawa Mitsukuni looked back at the bearded samurai: "Katakura-kun, can the Sendai Domain still build a big ship like the Date Maru?" ”

This bearded man turned out to be the elder of the Sendai Domain, named Katakura Keinaga, and was the retainer with the most high stones in the Sendai Domain, with a territory of 18,000 koku, and also had his own residence, Shiraishi Castle!

According to the Tokugawa shogunate's "One Country, One Castle Order", when a requisition was divided into multiple daimyos, there was one castle at the castle lord level and one daimyo at the kokulord level. When a daimyo has a plurality of requirements, each of the kingdoms has a castle.

And this Katakura Keinaga is not a daimyo, just a retainer of the Sendai Domain, but he can have his own castle, which allows the Sendai Domain to break the "One Country, One City Order" and achieve "One Country, Two Cities".

This exceptional "twin castle" alone can also show that the Tokugawa shogunate attached great importance to the Sendai domain and the Katakura family.

And this time, the reason why Tokugawa Mitsukuni invited the head of the Katakura family, Keinaga, from Shiraishi Castle was to discuss with him about building a Western-style galleon—the Sendai clan had experience in this matter! Under the guidance of Miura and his British partners, they built two Western-style galleons, one with a capacity of 80 tons and the other with a capacity of 120 tons.

"What? Now? Katakura Keicho was almost speechless when he heard Tokugawa Mitsukoku's request, the Date family sailed for the shogunate to build a ship more than 60 years ago, and even if the craftsmen who participated in this matter were still alive, it is estimated that they would not be able to do it, and shipbuilding is manual work!

In addition, the Tokugawa shogunate began to implement strict seclusion from the country more than 40 years ago, and the craftsmen who built ships in various places had no business at all, and either starved to death or changed careers, so the craftsmanship of those old craftsmen must have been broken. Where do you ask the Sendai Domain to find a shipwright to help build the ship?

"Can't you?" Tokugawa Mitsukuni also knew that this was difficult, but the Japanese are not afraid of difficulties, which is a rare excellent quality! They like to be brutal when they are in trouble!

So Guangguo said to Katakura: "Go and find all the descendants who made Date Maru back then. If their ancestors could learn to build sailboats, they would too! ”

The craft of co-authoring shipbuilding can still be inherited! But it's also in line with the old Japanese rule - the spirit of craftsmanship! Everything has been done from generation to generation, and what is important is a craft that has been passed down from generation to generation. For example, the emperor's son is the emperor, the general's son is a shogun, the minister's son is a minister, the feudal lord's son is a feudal lord, and the samurai's son is a samurai.

"But the Sendai shipwright who built the Date Maru back then was built under the guidance of the English samurai Miura Anjin, and now there is no Miura Yasujin." Of course, Katakura Keinaga didn't want to take the trouble of shipbuilding to the Sendai Domain.

This is not a deal, there is no shogunate to spend money, and the Sendai clan is a good thing to take orders.

This thing is called "universal invitation", which is a Buddhist term, which means to gather people to work. Under the system of the Tokugawa shogunate, it was a feudal obligation for each feudal clan to help the shogunate, and under normal circumstances, the shogunate did not give money, and what was particular was a white prostitute!

"Isn't it okay to do without Miura Azuki?" Tokugawa Mitsukuni asked.

"No, no, absolutely not!" Katakura shook his head immediately.

"Good!" Tokugawa Mitsukuni nodded heavily, and then pointed to the "little surname" who was holding the candlestick for him, "Katakura-kun, he is Miura Yasujin!" ”

"What?" Katakura Keichaga was stunned and stunned.

Miura Needle has been dead for decades, and now why is there another Miura Needle? Is it resurrected? It's not right, isn't Miura Anzhen an Englishman? How is this

The little surname seemed to see Katakura's question, and immediately introduced himself: "The old Katakura family, in the lower shogunate flag of the main Miura Anzhen, in the lower is the fourth generation of Miura Anzhen." ”

The fourth-generation Miura Azuki? This can also be done? Katakura was speechless.

What makes him even more speechless is that the Japanese way of giving names is a variety of names, and it is okay for this ancestor to use one name for generations. For example, the ninja leader of the god Ieyasu, Hattori Hanzo, "Hanzo" is an ancestral name. There are also many businessmen who like to pass on their names to their children and grandchildren, which is a sign of their names.

This Miura Anzhen has descendants in Japan, and it seems that the Miura family has also inherited the name "Anzhen".

Seeing that Katakura was speechless, Tokugawa Mitsukuni breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Katakura Jingchang with a smile: "The Katakura family is old, now that Miura has the Azuki and the shipwright has the Governor of Batavia, Spearman also promised to provide some foreign craftsmen for guidance. The matter of shipbuilding will be handed over to the Sendai Domain. Although it is a general invitation, the shogunate will also remember the merits of you and the Sendai Domain, and when you open up territory in the New World in the future, the shogunate will give you a million stones in the New World! ”

"Million stones?" Katakura Keinaga finally cheered up, "Mito Daina, this new continent also has rice?" ”

"It doesn't seem to be. But there's corn! Tokugawa Mitsukuni said, "I've already inquired with Spearman!" When the time comes, you will be sealed with a million corn stones! ”

Corn million stones are also millions of stones!

Katakura still couldn't believe it, "But. Can we really fight down? ”

"Yes!" Tokugawa Mitsukuni nodded heavily, "The Spaniards are a group of paper tigers, and they can't beat our invincible Japanese samurai!" ”

Dozens of fast crab boats with forty long oars broke through the fog of the early morning sea and suddenly rushed into the tranquil Hakata Bay in northern Kyushu. Twenty of the boats landed on the tidal flats of Shikashima and Noko with a bang before the Japanese batteries on Shikashima and Noko could react.

The remaining 20 or so fast crab boats ignored it and rushed straight to the two tidal flats of Tokai and Kuhara in Hakata Bay. After a while, the more than 20 fast crab boats also rushed onto the tidal flats.

These are more than 40 large fast crab boats, not small sampans that are usually used to wash the beach, once a boat of this size washes up the beach, it is not easy to leave. At least until the end of this wave of beach-grabbing landing battles, it will definitely be no fun.

That is to say, in order to seize Hakata Bay, some people actually risked their blood costs and regarded more than 40 fast crab boats as "disposable sampans". The cost of this fast crab boat is more than 500 taels, and more than 40 are more than 20,000 taels!

If you can't land, the more than 20,000 taels will be gone!

And each fast crab boat had hundreds of sailors and hundreds of officers and men of the newly built pro-army of the DPRK, and more than 40 boats almost simultaneously rushed to the beach, almost 8,000 or hundreds of people were thrown into it at one time.

The courage of this hammer deal is really great!

A ship worth more than 20,000 taels and 8,000 hundreds of officers and soldiers were smashed into it at one time. And even people and boats, there is no advance or retreat!

In order to boost morale, every officer and soldier who participated in the landing battle could receive a one-time reward of 10 taels of silver, and if the landing was successful, another 10 taels would be given.

With these expenses alone, the value of this beach rush is more than 180,000 taels!

And the people who can fight like this in the whole world, except for Zheng Jing, are probably Yang Qilong!

It is impossible for Zheng Jing to send troops from Korea to the north of Kyushu, and his family has a good relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate, so he is not responsible for the invasion, he is responsible for persuading him to surrender, so today's landing battle was launched by Yang Qilong.

He himself is now on an old 500-ton lock boat off the coast of Hakata, leaning on the railing of the stern tower, anxiously looking at Hakata Bay, which is shrouded in fog. Beside him stood a high-ranking North Korean official in his sixties, the Korean and Japanese envoy Yin Jin, this old North Korean man looked even more nervous than Yang Qilong -- he was originally the "South People's Party of the South Expedition Faction" in North Korea, and the South People's Party was a friend of the North Korean State and was hostile to a Westerner Party.

The Southern Expeditionary faction, on the other hand, was divided according to its stance toward Japan. Before Yang Qilong became the superintendent of Korea, Yin Jin was not a faction of the Southern Expedition but a faction of the Northern Expedition, that is, a faction that advocated the Northern Expedition to the Qing Dynasty. Of course, he just advocated it, not to do it.

However, under the circumstance that the capital of the Qing Dynasty has entered Seoul, it would be too dangerous to talk about the anti-Qing Northern Expedition.

So Yin Jin changed to the Southern Expedition. Advocate a crusade against Japan and never suffer from the scourge of the Japanese invaders!

What a visionary!

It's just that he never thought that Yang Qilong, a first-class public in the Qing Dynasty, was very real, and he might not have heard so many generous statements when he was an official in the Qing Dynasty, but he was really persuaded by Yin Jian and decided to send troops to avenge the Korean state!

And just do it, at the end of last year, he knocked out the Caoliang Wakan, and at the beginning of this year, dozens of warships were mobilized, and 8800 troops were sent to attack Japan!

When he first heard about this, Yin Jian was still wondering if he wanted to wait for Yang Qilong's army to come to North Korea after the defeat? This republic is a republic! It's better than the Japanese fighting back, right?

The country of Korea is weak and the people are poor, and it really can't afford another Japanese invasion.

But unexpectedly, Yang Qilong actually pulled Yin Jian to do it together, and the two of them took a big ship that had just been bought from Daming not long ago, and together with the landing fleet commanded by Shi Lang, they chose a day when the north wind was howling, and they went to sea to invade Japan. And in total only 8800 was brought with it, how could this be successful?

The Japanese side has already received the news, and they have also sent the shogunate elder Chudai Kubo Tadashi to Kyushu to be the county governor and organize the samurai of Kyushu to resist the dynasty together.

There are a lot of samurai in Kyushu, there are hundreds of thousands! And those Japanese samurai were all extremely murderous, and when they killed the Korean country, they almost perished, and now 8,800 people are going to crusade against others. If your 8,800 people are all elite soldiers from the Qing Dynasty, but the problem is that most of them are Koreans, how can this be beaten?

North Korea is going to end!

At the same moment, on the Kuhara beach in Hakata Bay, a fast crab boat had not yet stopped, and it was full of newly established Korean officers and soldiers and Korean oarsmen in the Beiyang Naval Division of the Great Qing Dynasty, all of whom had rushed down the gangplank lowered from the bow. The first team of the new Korean army was draped in heavy cotton armor, holding a saber and red eyes. The soldiers also rumbled down, all looking nervous.

"The lair of the Wokos, we have finally rushed up! Even if you die here, you will die without regrets! ”

This first officer to set foot on the land of the main island of Kyushu, Japan, was Kim Sang-yong from the Andong region of Gyeongsang-do, he was also considered to be from a famous family, and he was the son of the famous Andong Kim family, but unfortunately he was not a concubine, but a worthless prostitute, and he was destined not to be reused by the Korean kingdom - the Korean origin implements a strict mother law, even if he is born in a famous family, he must be a descendant to be valuable.

Otherwise, a concubine, a son-in-law, or even a lower prostitute is even inferior to ordinary civilians in terms of status, and of course he will not be in the second class. No matter how hard you struggle, there is no future.

But what Jin Shangyong didn't expect was that Yang Qilong, the eunuch from the Qing Dynasty, didn't care about the meritocracy of the concubines, sins, and prostitutes.

And give more money, and also promote merit!

That's so fair!

Therefore, Jin Shangyong and the other concubines, sons, and prostitutes in the new army all have a strong sense of belonging to the new army as if they had found an organization, and they are willing to die for Yang Qilong.

However, it is still too hasty to land in Hakata Bay today

Thinking of this, Jin Shangyong looked back, the fog had cleared somewhat, and the figures of most of the fast crab boats responsible for the beach were clearly recognizable!

On the sea, there is not a single boat of Japan. Hakata Bay, which used to be bustling, seems to be the only ship in the area where the invading "North Korean ship" is located.

Was the surprise attack a success?

Of course, an officer of Kim Sang-yong's level would not know what Japan's armament is like today.

Because of the war 70 or 80 years ago, there may still be many Koreans who regard Japan as a country with very strong military power, and even the Japanese themselves think so.

But in reality, the situation was due to the seventy or eighty years of peace and prosperity, and the restrictions of the Tokugawa shogunate. At present, the armed forces of the various feudal domains of Japan have become quite weak. Their armament level was even far inferior to the army sent by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to invade Korea.

Although he was sent by the shogunate to Kyushu as the county president, Okubo Tadato, who also had the Karatsu domain, had long expected that Hakata Bay might be attacked. But he really couldn't send a large army to heavily defend Hakata Bay.

Although there are many samurai in Kyushu, there are really few who are ready to be loyal to the Tokugawa shogunate, but there are many people who are looking at the bad luck of the Tokugawa family, so they can take advantage of the opportunity to rise!

And even the Kyushu samurai, who were sent to Hakata by Okubo Tadasa, suddenly saw the enemy ships rushing towards them on the sea, and they fell into a panic at the first time. So much so that none of the artillery used for defense could be fired in time.

A team of Kyushu samurai happened to be patrolling the Kuhara beachhead. They almost watched as the enemy's big ships rushed onto the beach, but they didn't know what to do. In a panic. Even the arquebus at hand did not ignite in time.

It wasn't until they found out that Jin Shangyong's men had begun to line up on the beach that they knew that something was wrong, and they also lined up together one after another, barely forming a formation.

But as soon as they finished the formation, the bullets that were gathered more than 100 paces away on the opposite side crackled and hit, and they were extremely accurate, and a salvo killed and wounded these Japanese soldiers heavily, and those who survived also lost the courage to resist, turned around and fled in a hurry.

The reaction took all North Koreans by surprise.

Is this the famous Wako? How did they become paper tigers?

(End of chapter)