Zheng Hongkui Ambassador Zheng can finally take a breath now. He has a lot of work during this period! First, he prepared supplies of up to 10,000 koku for the stowaway ships who did not know when and how they entered Uraga Port. In the Edo period

In the early days of Japan, this was a very large number!

Moreover, the items on the list sent by the Cabinet Office are diverse. They are not only food, fresh water, sake, tea and other necessary items for navigation, but also include many daily necessities and thirty flower girls. They are also required to be young, strong, well-behaved and obedient.

Can do farm work, preferably a virgin. Is this to be a boat prostitute or a daughter-in-law?

After finally buying the flower girl as requested, the imperial court sent a high-level delegation to Japan, led by the former chief minister of the cabinet, the American Gong Wei Zaod!

That was the prime minister for thirteen years! Although he has stepped down now, he still has countless disciples and old officials. Zheng Hongkui is not willing to offend him, so he is very busy again. And just when he had just finished welcoming the Wei Zaode delegation

, another Otori ship of the Toyo Fleet that temporarily docked in the port brought him the latest instructions from the Cabinet Office. He tried to seduce Japanese dignitaries to go out to sea on the Flying Ship. What was he doing?

Zheng Hongkui was confused by the order from the Cabinet Office, but an order is an order after all and must be implemented!

Fortunately, the task of seducing Japanese dignitaries was relatively easy to accomplish, because Zheng Hongkui’s old friend Tadaki Sakai came to Uraga Port with Tokugawa Mitsukuni. Moreover, Japanese dignitaries have been very interested in the changes that have taken place in China in recent years, so

If you have the opportunity to visit the first ship of the Ming Dynasty Navy, Mr. Sakai will not miss it.

However, what Zheng Hongkui did not expect was that in order to arrange for Mr. Sakai to board the ship, he actually had a long argument with David Jones, the Dutch captain of the Flying Ship. This Dutchman was a prude Protestant and firmly opposed to Japanese characteristics.

Everyone, why don't you let Sakai Tadakiyo and his group of beautiful and beautiful people with the surname "Zhongzhong" board the Flying Ship? The man is as beautiful as flowers and it doesn't violate the military regulations of the Ming Dynasty Navy. Why not let them board the ship?

But after arguing for a long time, it was still useless! Although the Dongyang Fleet was founded by Zheng Hongkui's nephew Zheng Jiangong, this fleet was not named Zheng after all!

So after arguing for a long time, we could only get angry. In the end, Tadayoshi Sakai relaxed and stopped taking the nickname. Mr. Sakai is not picky about food, and he can accept both flower girls and nicknames. So he brought a group of flower girls and bearded samurai with him.

The uncle went on board for inspection.

According to the plan, it would take three or four days for the Flying Ship to return, so during these three or four days, Ambassador Zheng could finally relax a bit, so he sent people to Edo to find two of the most popular taifu (high-class traveling girls).

Come here, they are all girls of sixteen or seventeen years old. They have just debuted. They are fresh and delicious, yet still charming.

Lao Zheng was very satisfied after seeing it. He was about to close the door and have a good time. Just when he was about to tell the two little girls to undress and take off their clothes in front of him, one of his subordinates knocked on the door outside: "Jue

Sir (Old Zheng is a master of the sea), Sir Alex Flying is back!"

"Wait a minute, don't take it off!" Lao Zheng stopped the two wandering girls who were taking off their kimonos, and stood up to open the door for his subordinates.

The attendant outside the door was sweating profusely. He had jogged all the way from Uraga Port Pier and was still panting!

"What's going on?" Lao Zheng looked at the man and asked.

"The Flying Ship is back," the crew member said, "it has docked in port!"

"How is that possible?" Lao Zheng couldn't believe it. "Did you see it clearly? Is it really the Flying Number?"

"It's true that the Flying Ship also sent people down, saying that they were going to carry supplies onto the ship immediately, and they also had to let them go." When the crew member spoke, his eyes only focused on the two Japanese wandering girls in the room.

Zheng Hongkui understood what he meant, and hurried out of the room, closed the door behind him, and walked quickly to the study. The staff member followed him. When he entered the study, Zheng Hongkui frowned and asked, "When you see Mr. Sakai, what are you doing?"

Captain Jones and Mate Hao?"

"I haven't seen it!" the officer said: "Sir, the people on the Flying Number have said that you can only see them in person!"

"What?" Zheng Hongkui was stunned, "So big of an air? You also have a sixth-grade official status, so you have no problem meeting the emperor."

"Sir, look at this!" The staff member said as he handed over a white envelope with both hands. The envelope was empty, but had the "Cabinet Office Seal" stamped on the surface.

As soon as he saw the envelope stamped with the "Cabinet Office Seal", Zheng Hongkui said nothing and went out quickly!

Ambassadors to foreign countries are "cabinet civil servants", that is, civil servants directly under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet Office, so the Cabinet Office can bypass the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of Rites and issue orders directly to the ambassador.

Zheng Hongkui called a few followers, rode on the Japanese pony kept in the ambassador's residence, and headed straight to the dock. When he arrived at the dock, Zheng Hongkui discovered that the shogunate's followers in Uraga Port were heading towards an elderly man who looked very young.

The imposing Japanese samurai nodded and bowed. Judging from the family crest on the samurai's clothes, he should belong to the Sakai family. However, Zheng Hongkui had never seen him. Sakai, a senior, liked handsome men and disliked old men with unshaven faces. Moreover, this man

He looks like he's over sixty, so what age is he? Could he be a member of Sakai Tadakatsu's generation?

Zheng Hongkui hurried forward to greet him. Seeing him coming, Zheng Hongkui stepped aside quickly and said to him in Chinese: "Ambassador, you are here. Lao Zhong asked you to get on the Feixiang. I don't know what happened."

What's going on? You're actually back in Hong Kong at this time!"

No! It was getting dark. Zheng Hongkui looked at the sky and then at the Flying Number. It was indeed the Flying Number! Then he looked at the old man from the Sakai family. He looked familiar. He had seen it somewhere, but for a moment he thought

Can't get up

"Ambassador, please!"

The old man didn't speak much. After he finished speaking, he made a sign of respecting guests, and then he was going to lead the way. Zheng Hongkui and Uraga Minato's boss glanced at each other, and then walked together to prepare to board the ship. But Mr. Sakai

But he turned around and said: "The Chinese only asked Ambassador Zheng to come on board to speak!"

Uraga Port's followers can't even get on the ship to meet Mr. Sakai. This is such an arrogance!

Zheng Hongkui had no choice but to smile bitterly at the monk before following the old man on board the Flying Boat.

And when he stepped onto the deck of the ship, he suddenly discovered something was wrong!

This ship is not the Flying Ship!

The Flying is an original Dutch ship. Although it was sold to the Ming Dynasty Navy, Dutch-style decorations can be seen everywhere on the ship. However, this medium-sized Galen warship, which looks exactly like the Flying at first glance, has nothing Dutch-style.

The decorations are all in the southern Fujian style and at first glance they are products of Zhengjia Shijing Shipyard!

In addition, there were many foreigners on the Flying Ship, but not a single foreigner was seen on this ship. They were all Orientals!

Obviously, this is a copycat version of Feixiang!

Several men in red military attache uniforms were waiting for Zheng Hongkui on the deck. When they saw him coming up, they bowed to him and saluted. One of the leaders also reported his family background: "The captain of the Dongyang Fleet, Henan, Chen Shangchuan, has met Ambassador Zheng."

This is the Henan number!

Zheng Hongkui understood immediately!

How could you not understand? This was about to be smuggled to the Americas. I originally thought that an inconspicuous boat would be used for smuggling, but to my surprise, the navy actually dispatched a brand-new warship with a load capacity of 800 tons and a capacity of forty cannons!

This is about armed smuggling!

Chen Shangchuan spoke again at this time: "Ambassador, are the supplies and women ready? When can we board the ship? Time is tight, we must hurry up! In addition, can the pursuit of Uraga Port be sent away? Under his nose

It’s not very convenient after all to do things!”

Zheng Hongkui nodded: "The woman has prepared a total of 30 people, and they can come over at any time. Uraga Port is easy to deal with. I will invite him to the embassy for food and drink immediately. However, it is not easy to carry 10,000 dan of supplies onto the ship. It requires a lot of money."

A strong worker."
Chapter completed!