Chapter 267: Sincerity is the greatest nirvana

Ashikaga Yoshiaki's Wa King was the name of the Ming Dynasty canonized to the Muromachi Shogunate, and the Seiyi Shogun was the name of the Wa Kingdom official canonized to Ashikaga Yoshiaki himself, which gave Ashikaga Yoshiaki still some appeal.

After the news of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's re-establishment of the shogunate in Nagasaki was released, he still called on a group of people to come and defect.

Therefore, the Nagasaki shogunate is not an empty shell, it is a person and organization that runs the government.

For example, the public, the public, the same friends, the ape people, the doctors, the women's rooms, etc., which are being built in the townhouse, do not have any strength, mainly serving Ashikaga Yoshiaki, such as the women's room, so that Sun Keyi and Ma Jin and others can't understand it directly, and the poor public who is begging for food everywhere actually has a lot of female dependents.

The more powerful ones here are the big names.

The daimyo composed of the children of the daimyo such as Kitabatake Gokin of Ise, Nobuyei Takeda of Wakasa, Motomasa Yanagisawa of Tanba, Rokkaku Yoshiyao of Omi, and Soga Harsuke of Echizen Province were a group of people who were ridiculed by Sun Keyi as the loser's alliance.

The daimyo were former kokuji, guardians, and guardians who had been confiscated or expelled by Nobunaga, and who came to Nagasaki to worship Ashikaga Yoshiaki in search of restoring their domains and positions, and in general, there were no less than 100 people directly involved in the Muromachi shogunate.

"Just these people, it's completely wishful thinking to be able to defeat the Great Demon King of Owari, after arriving in Nagasaki, there has never been any lying salary to taste the guts, either watching a monkey show, or prostituting a wandering girl, or fighting fiercely, it's all a matter of spending all day and wine, and the little money in my hand is used in this kind of place, and the only thing in common is complaining about Oda Nobunaga, how can this defeat the Great Demon King?" Sun Keyi is very dissatisfied with these people.

After failure, there are two attitudes to face failure, the first is to lie on the salary and taste the guts, and three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu; The second is discouraged, weak and debauched.

Among this group of losers, the only one who really wanted to fight Oda Nobunaga was the general Ashikaga Yoshiaki, no matter what the motives, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was serious about forming a force to resist Nobunaga and re-ascend to Luo, and became the most ambitious of these losers.

As for the monkey opera that Sun Keyi said, it is not an ape music, but a kind of loose music from the Han Dynasty, but the loose music of the Han Dynasty was transmitted to the Wa Kingdom, and it was lowered from a major key to a minor key, and directly from the human world to the underworld.

Like most of the culture that the Ming Dynasty transmitted to the Wa Kingdom, three points of human nature can't be learned, but seven points of animal nature are deeply rooted, and they can't understand if they really steal.

"No, no, no, it's just such a group of wretched, do you really want our generals to gather stars and talents? If he really had so many generals, how could he be exiled and begging for food everywhere? ”

"The king is defeated, and the king is defeated."

"It's such a group of guys who don't succeed enough and have more than enough to lose, they are the people we need, so that they won't have any burden to do bad things in the name of supporting the general Shangluo, and we can use them no matter what we need." Xu Wei was very satisfied with the state of these people.

Counting on a group of defeated dogs to win Oda Nobunaga head-on, it is better to hope that the sow will go to the tree, Xu Wei never expected this group of people to do anything big, he from the beginning, he just hoped that this group of people would engage in Oda Nobunaga's territory! Break! Bad!

On the battlefield, these people are just delivering food to Oda Nobunaga, the great demon king, but if you think differently, these people use their connections to spy on intelligence, sabotage supplies, and rumors, etc., and it will be effective.

"That's what the gentleman said." Sun Keyi was stunned, and he didn't know what his husband had an epiphany in prison, and he had no morals at all.

"Has the messenger of the Maori family come?" Xu Wei didn't even plan to say anything to these people in person, and when he needed them to do something, he promised benefits in the name of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and let them do it.

Xu Wei is more concerned about the Maori Huiyuan of the Maori family, there are two reasons, the frontal battlefield still has to rely on the Maori family and the Daimyo of Kyushu Island, on the other hand, Xu Wei cares about the most, and it is also what the Ming court cares about the most.

Oda Nobunaga's strategy of taking the world is now moving westward, attacking the territory of the Mori family, and the Mori family urgently needs an ally to support him against Oda Nobunaga's invasion, and this ally must be strong enough to help him defend against Oda Nobunaga's attack.

"It is said that the son of the governor of the Maori family has arrived." Sun Keyi's face was extremely strange and said.

When Xu Wei saw this righteous son, he immediately understood why Sun Keyi had a strange face, because Xu Wei recognized this person, it was Mao Li Huiyuan himself, and there was no righteous son at all, just the name of the righteous son.

Compared with the defeated crowd, the other group of people, the group of people who are worthy of Xu Wei's personal reception, should be called the confrontational crowd.

There are more than thirty of these people, but the protagonists among them are Juntada Omura, Takannobu Kunizokuji Hizen, Otomo Muneshi, Shimazu Yoshihiro and others are waiting.

Ryuzoji Takanobu and Otomo Sorin are all the heads of the family, only Shimazu Yoshihiro is not, his own brother Shimazu Yoshihisa is the lord of the Satsuma Domain, and Shimazu Yoshihiro, as his right-hand man, can also see that the Satsuma Domain attaches great importance to this alliance.

If a painter is found to paint at this time, the name of the painting is "Nagasaki Shogunate Alliance", and the picture must be Xu Wei, Sun Keyi, Ma Jin and Mori Terumoto, Omura Juntada, Ryuzoji Takanobu, Otomo Sorin, and Shimazu Yoshihiro.

Nagasaki Shogunate Alliance, where is the Shogun? Of course, the shogun was in the alliance, but he was just watching the monkey show with the Ming people.

In the notes on the ceremonies of the feudal state, there is no clear stipulation that Xu Wei is polite to them regarding the etiquette of receiving these people.

For example, this Ryuzoji Takanobu, he is the lord of Hizen Country, and Nagasaki's land is on other people's territory, and Omura Juntada is just a small famous landowner of Hizen Country, Omura Juntada can be served, or he can sacrifice Nagasaki to serve it.

And Otomo Sorin, known as the lord of Kyushu Island, has six command countries under his command, this is not bragging, Kyushu Island has a total of nine order countries, Otomo Solin actually controls six, and also has a territory on Honshu Island, and the Maori family has been fighting for many years, and does not fall behind.

"The Maori Governor came in person, and it was a great delight." Before starting, Xu Wei first exposed the identity of Maori Huiyuan and stripped off the vest of his righteous son, and everyone spoke clearly.

Maori Huiyuan's face changed several times, and he couldn't help but think of those white stripes in the waves, that is, people galloping around with hydrofoils, in the rumors of the Wa Kingdom, these people are the dragons in the sea, going up and down the earth, and doing anything.

This messenger from the Ming Dynasty can recognize him at a glance, it is obvious that he has seen his portrait, and this portrait is very exquisite, so he can recognize it at a glance.

This represents a terrible ability to gather intelligence, and the Ming Emperor is the same as the Nine Folds, only the courtiers can see the emperor every day, and on the third day of the first month of each month, the courtiers can look at it from a distance, so it is difficult to know the specific appearance of the emperor.

Maori Huiyuan's appearance, that is what the people around him leaked out.

Xu Wei's words mean that if Da Ming was assassinated, he would never kill the wrong person.

"Angel is polite." Maori Huiyuan admitted his identity with a complicated face, and the rest of the people whispered to each other.

"You came this time, naturally to congratulate the Nagasaki shogunate on the preparations, our general Ashikaga Yoshiaki is not a weak coward, although he has failed many times, but he has always wanted to revitalize the shogunate, and there is no way to ask for help, and he has asked the emperor of the suzerain, and His Majesty has an edict ordering a certain cheap act." Xu Wei motioned to Sun Keyi to show the holy decree of the Ming Emperor.

The Wa Kingdom does not yet have its own writing, it is all in Chinese, and the content of the emperor's holy decree can be understood by these people.

At this time, Nagasaki was not strong, and there were only a few thousand people in the Tang Pavilion and the Hokkien Hall in the townhouse, and the Nagasaki Governor's Mansion was indeed very weak, but Xu Wei was very strong behind it.

Behind him stood Da Ming, the Ming Emperor, this is Xu Wei's confidence to be high and arrogant, and it is the reason why he called these people to come, and these people had to come.

Angered this angel, the angel ordered that the general manager of the Japanese merchant ships should not trade with a certain order country of the Japanese country, then this order country would really be greatly damaged.

The economy is also a force at some point, especially when it doesn't completely tear its face, and its power is even greater than force.

For the barbarians around the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is the Heavenly Empire, which is determined by the national strength, even if it has been a troubled country for so long, the daimyo of the Ming Dynasty have made a lot of support behind them, and finally they were pacified by the Ming Dynasty, and in the process of pacifying the Ming Dynasty, the biggest resistance actually came from the party struggle of the imperial court, not the lack of strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Wei motioned to Sun Keyi to put away the holy decree, looked at Maori Huiyuan and asked with a smile: "I heard that Iwami Yinshan is in the hands of the Maori family governor?" ”

"Yes." Mori Terumoto nodded and said: "The Ouchi clan, the Niko clan and my Mori clan fought for Iwami Silver Mountain, and after more than seventy years of fighting, it ended with my grandfather winning and passed to me, which is also the fundamental reason why Oda Nobunaga wants to go west, that is, silver." ”

Oda Nobunaga is a very ambitious person, he proposed the world Buwu, naturally he wanted to end the situation of the warring states of the Japanese Kingdom, but this process also requires real money, and the Iwami Silver Mountain controlled by the Maori family is real money.

The Ouchi clan was annexed by Otomo Mune, the lord of the six kingdoms of Kyushu.

"Iwami Silver Mountain can now produce 330,000 taels of silver a year, and the entire Wa Kingdom is only 1,500,000 taels to 1,800,000 taels a year." Mori Terumen knows very well about the Iwami Silver Mountain in his hands, Iwami Silver Mountain is the largest output of the Japanese Silver Mountain, money always flows to the place where there is more money, Iwami Silver Mountain is also the largest silver distribution place in the Japanese State, nearly sixty percent of the silver in the Japanese country is distributed in Iwami Silver Mountain.

"Frankly speaking, Your Majesty sent me to the Wa Kingdom just for silver, and the Ming Dynasty needs as much silver as the sea." Xu Wei explained the intentions of the imperial court, and the results of the court discussion of the Ming courtiers were actually not very interested in exterminating the Japanese people, but they were very interested in the silver of the Japanese state.

The only supporters of this 20-year long-term plan were Zhang Juzheng and the emperor, and the initial motivation for this plan was because he did not want to be controlled by the inflow of silver.

Even if Felipe II, the king of Spain in Ctessy, has always increased the export of silver, even if the galleon trade has always been smooth, and even if Spain has always maintained its hegemony in Ctessy, the Ming Dynasty cannot completely hand over the silver that is related to the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty to others.

Xu Wei has been telling the truth, this is the highest level of deception, there is no deception of any lies, how to distinguish the true from the false?

Sincerity is the greatest nirvana.

"Da Ming is interested in Iwami Silver Mountain?" Maori Huiyuan frowned, he was already a little nervous, if the Ming envoy ambushed the sword and axeman, he would definitely not be able to get out of Nagasaki today, the reason why he had to hang the vest was because he was afraid of such a thing as a knife and axeman.

"I repeat, Da Ming is interested in silver, but he is not interested in silver at all, I am soft-hearted and can't see those hardships." Xu Wei said very sincerely.

Xu Wei knew very well about the life of the kiln people in Iwami Ginzan.

A child begins to work in the silver mountain at the age of nine, and after the age of fifteen, he begins to work in the kiln, and whenever the potter can live past the age of 30, the local village community will hold a feast to celebrate.

Beginning at the age of fifteen, every day to go down to more than 30 zhang of the kiln well, day and night to work, until enough silver is dug up, will be out of the kiln, Iwami Silver Mountain, Taixi Peruvian Viceroyalty Potosi Silver Mountain, Wancavillica Silver Mountain, etc. are very similar, the surrounding rock of Silver Mountain is soft, not solid, very easy to collapse, and the poisonous gas under the ground is pervasive, some of these poisonous gases are suffocating, some will explode, some are killing people invisibly, and some are harming for life.

The suffering of mining is still part of it, the potters have to use sootblowing to refine silver every day, and now the Tessie missionaries have brought the amalgamation method, using mercury to refine gold and silver, these potters inhale a large amount of mercury, and in just a few days, they will have gums, epidermal loss of the mouth, diarrhea, listlessness, and over time, they begin to become forgetful, breathless, chest pain, low back pain, and edema all over the body.

The amalgam method is used to refine gold and silver, and the mercury poison still penetrates from the skin to the bone marrow, and the limbs begin to tremble, weak, and the whole body begins to weaken, and then usher in death.

It only takes about four years for mercury poison to turn a strong man into a puddle of mud, a mountain of silver, a real hell on earth.

Xu Wei is still telling the truth, he can't see these hardships, so he simply disappears, as long as the silver is delivered as scheduled.

Really let Xu Wei manage the silver mountain, he will only completely ban the amalgam method to refine silver, after all, as the beacon of civilization and the messenger of the heavenly empire, Xu Wei also has the common disease of the Ming people, high moral disadvantage, even if he can pass his own level, those officials in the court who have nothing to do know know that Xu Wei has done this kind of unconscionable thing, and he can drown Xu Wei by spitting Xingzi.

The amalgamation method is harmful, but it is really high.

Daming still uses the relatively backward soot blowing method to refine silver, who makes Daming have no silver mountain, this industry can not develop at all.

"Ah, so, only silver, not silver." Mori Terumoto finally showed a big smile.

He was very worried that the Ming Dynasty, the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, would obtain silver in an arrogant and forceful way, but obviously Maori Huiyuan underestimated the brilliance of the Ming Dynasty's human nature, and the lord of the Ming Dynasty really couldn't see these hardships.

"I need silver, and the Maori governor has it, so it's a good fit, and I've got a detailed list of trades here." Xu Wei asked Sun Keyi to send a trade list, and there were all kinds of commercial goods in the Ming Dynasty.

"I wonder if there are any armaments?" After reading the list, he was very satisfied with the list of trade, and what could be bought in Songjiang Province could be bought at Songjiang Yuanhang Commercial Bank, but Maori Huiyuan wanted to buy something else.

"Yes." Xu Wei gave an affirmative answer, and then asked Sun Keyi to take out another list, which was ordnance.

Long and short soldiers, bows and arrows, arrows, gunpowder, firecrackers, artillery, everything, if Qi Jiguang is here, he will find that these are all ordnance eliminated by the Ming army, such as the bird gun made in the 36th year of Jiajing, in fact, it can still be used, but it has been changed, so it has been eliminated.

Whether it is in Taixi or Daming, they all agree that money is the devil.

The emperor actually took out the ordnance and sold it for the sake of silver, so he was not afraid that the Japanese would continue to harass the Ming Dynasty with the weapons of the Ming Dynasty? However, it was not until the second year of Wanli that the plague was completely subsided, and in June of the fifth year of Wanli, a group of Japanese invaders from the Ryukyus who attacked and disturbed the Ming Dynasty were also exterminated by the Songjiang sailors.

The emperor is blinded by money and lust for profit, so what are the Ming princes in the court, what are they doing, don't you know how to persuade them?

The reason is actually very simple, because there is no fear.

In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty could only make 10,000 firecrackers a year, and it took a total of five years to build, and then it stopped building, because the imperial court was poor when pants, and there was no money to build, now it is completely different, the Ming Dynasty is slowly and sufficiently, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have begun to change their clothes.

These obsolete ordnance, destroying the trouble, and keeping it is even more troublesome, it is better to sell it directly to the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom.

Zhang Juzheng once discussed with the little emperor that any extravagant performance, as long as the cost is not discussed, it is and nonsense.

The Mori clan can't beat Oda Nobunaga, but what if the Mori clan is supported by many daimyo on Kyushu Island? What if you add the Maori clan supported by the Ming Dynasty?

Mao Li Huiyuan looked at the long list of ordnance names, looked at Xu Wei in horror, and then looked at the list, and said several times in a row: "Can you really buy the things on this?" ”

"You have bought a lot of firearms from Hongmaofan, their prices are expensive, and the quantity is very small, but Daming is full of quantity and quality, of course you can buy it." Xu Wei's smile is very sincere, this is the second reason for the Ming Dynasty to sell obsolete ordnance, the Ming Dynasty does not sell to the Japanese, the red hair will be sold to the Japanese, artillery, guns are all sold.

Everyone is here to grab the market, before the sea was not opened, the meat was given to you to eat Hongmaofan, and now Hongmaofan can't drink a mouthful of soup.

In the face of silver, there is nothing that has no price, including the soul, the Tessie envoy Lysit.

As a believer, he was very resistant to gold and silver, but Spain's need for silver to condense a scattered land into one piece is a very contradictory perception.

The confidence in Maori Huiyuan's heart was finally enriched, and he asked with a look of hope: "Is there any grain to sell?" ”

"Not really." Xu Wei spread his hands and said: "As you know, grain ships are easy to sink, and almost no maritime merchants are willing to transport grain for sale, because the risk is too great. ”

Daming has grain boxes, but the number of grain boxes is not enough for Daming to use himself, how can he have the effort to transport grain to the Wa Kingdom? And Daming also needs food, so it is very difficult to transport grain out.

"The Japanese still have to find a way to raise food on their own." Xu Wei went to the Wa country and saw too many people starving to death, mainly because of the lack of food, the lack of food does not mean that the arable land is not enough, although at the moment, the Wa country belongs to the mountains and narrow land, but the Wa country, which has less than 10 million mouths, can still afford to raise such a large place.

The scarcity of food is mainly due to the frequent wars and turmoil in the Japanese country, under the military disaster, production and life have been extremely seriously damaged, the land is barren, and there are many reasons for the water conservancy congestion.

This creates a vicious circle, in which the desolation of the land leads to famine, famine becomes the reason for war, and famine and war simultaneously lead to the reduction of the Dingkou, which further exacerbates the desolation of the land.

In fact, the Wa Kingdom has gradually found the answer to the question in the chaotic war for nearly 100 years, that is, to end this chaotic era.

Oda Nobunaga appeared in front of everyone in the expectation of everyone, it can be said that it is the desire of the people, even if Oda Nobunaga died at the hands of the traitor, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu after Oda Nobunaga are trying to seek stability.

What Xu Wei did was very evil in the values of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of silver, he muddled the pool of water in the Wa Kingdom and made the Wa Kingdom fall into military disasters again, this is what Xu Wei is doing.

The Ming Dynasty destroyed the Japanese people, and the Ming army could not kill the Japanese people, but if the Japanese people were allowed to kill themselves, it could be done.

There is a contradiction between Mori Terumoto and Otomo Sorin, because the Mori clan and the Ouchi clan have to fight against the Mori clan because of the bloody head of Iwami Ginzan and the Otomo Sorin, who annexed the Ouchi clan; And Otomo Sorin's and the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain also have contradictions, the main contradiction is that the Shimazu clan wants to be the king and hegemon, and Otomo Sorin's Kyushu Island Six Kingdoms are in charge of stopping the Shimazu clan.

Even they themselves can't explain the contradiction in this, and after killing for so many years, they have long forgotten why they fought in the first place.

There were complicated contradictions between them, but Xu Wei pulled them together and sat down to talk about business.

Silver, sulfur, Japanese women, and fish oil are four bulk commodities, and the bulk of them is mainly silver, and the commodities that the Ming can provide are too many, tea, porcelain, silk, cotton, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, books, jade, and so on.

Xu Wei never forgot what he came to do in the Wa Kingdom, letting the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty shuttle around the Wa country, collecting all the information, and sending it back to the Ming Dynasty to prepare for the Ming Dynasty's extermination of the Wa, while the white strip in the waves was disguised as the guardian of the merchants to spy on them.

Gathering intelligence is a long job, and the first thing Xu Wei did when he gathered people was to do business.

After determining the list of trade, Nagasaki's status as the home of the Oriental World Trade was fully established, and the Taixi people were more greedy than the Ming people, and the Taixi not only wanted silver, but also the soul, and the Ming was much simpler, as long as silver.

After determining the trade list, Xu Wei immediately pushed the boat down the river and said: "There is a treaty here to ensure the smooth passage of the Ming merchant ships, you can take a look, if there is no objection, sign it, if there is any objection, you can object, we will discuss." ”

Xu Wei put a treaty in front of everyone, the main content of which was the treaty of non-attack on each other by merchant ships such as the Maori Domain, the Ouchi Domain, the Satsuma Domain, and the Hizen Kingdom.

"Where's the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty?" Ryuzoji Takanobu keenly discovered the problem.

Xu Wei replied with a smile: "The main task of the Ming is to complete the attack by the battleship, and not long after that, the Ming will deploy a five-masted ship in Nagasaki, and the attack will be completed by the five-masted ship." ”

"Ah, the battleship." Ryuzoji Takanobu reacted at this time, although the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty are also armed merchant ships, but in fact, the attack power is not very strong, because the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty have professional warships that are full of aggression.

"If you wait ten days, the five-masted ship will arrive at the port, but this is a patrol ship from Matsue Prefecture, to Ryukyu, and then to Nagasaki, not the one deployed to Nagasaki." Xu Wei continued: "The five-masted ship deployed to Nagasaki was faster, with more artillery and more soldiers. ”

What is the basis for the validity of the treaty? Relying on the five-masted ship and relying on violence, the Ming Emperor once accurately defined violence in the palace newspaper, and violence is gunpowder, steel, silver coins, theories and people's hearts.

"This treaty is good for all of you, and I think you know very well that if you have no doubt, you can sign it, if you refuse to sign it, you can leave directly, and if you violate it after signing, the other parties will meet to attack it." Xu Wei elaborated on the rules of the game, you can not sign, do not sign the merchant ship of the Ming Dynasty, but after signing, you can't go back, and you have to bear the price for breach of contract.

As the party presiding over the treaty, Xu Wei will never be polite to those who break the contract.

To Xu Wei's very, very surprise, Shimazu Yoshihiro of the Satsuma Domain was the first to sign the treaty, and he couldn't wait, and the one who best understood the strong strength of the Ming Navy was the Shimazu clan, because the Shimazu clan was plotting against the Ryukyus, and the Ming Dynasty was patrolling the Ryukyu armed forces, which greatly shocked the ambitions of the Shimazu clan.

Shimazu understands very well that Daming does what he says.

Asking for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!!!!!

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