Chapter 138: Mission to Japan (III)

In the conference cabin outside the office, Li Weizhengzheng and Lai Yongguo, Yang Fan and five thousand households, including Lai Yongguo, Yang Fan, and two aides, Lu Siyuan and Zhou Ming, held a meeting to discuss a plan to deal with the Da Nei family. In fact, there were only two plans. One was to bombard Kitakyushu Port like the Busan Port, and forced the Da Nei family to hand over ten cargo ships by force. The other plan was to accept the Da Nei family's disguised compensation, return the two thousand women and children to him, and take a sum of silver to leave.

"Sir, I personally prefer the latter among the two plans." The one who stood up and spoke was Qianhu Yang Fan. He was seven feet tall and very strong. From a distance, he looked like a black bear. He glanced at everyone and continued: "When I got ashore, I observed their ports. They were completely different from Busan Port. All the buildings in Busan Port are crowded in a narrow area, which is conducive to bombardment and destruction. However, this Japanese port is very scattered. Except for a few sporadic cargo ships in the port, the rest we can destroy is the wharf and the lighthouse. Their castle is ten miles away from the harbor, and it is extremely tall and strong. If you want to destroy it, you can only go ashore. But the problem is that we only have four thousand people, and we know nothing about the number of their troops."

Li Weizheng suddenly said, "Ouchi Yoshihiro's troops have 30,000 troops, and with other countries in Kyushu Island, he can mobilize a total of 50,000 troops."

This is the information obtained from Eiyoshi Ouchi. Li Weizheng had actually made a decision in his heart, but he wanted to listen to everyone's thoughts. When he saw Lu Siyuan want to speak, he smiled and said, "Mr. Lu may as well say something."

Lu Siyuan stood up and nodded to everyone and said, "Okay! I'll say a few words. I think the fundamental reason why our Busan strategy was successful was not just that my force scared Li Fangyuan. The key was the relationship between Goryeo and the Ming Dynasty. Goryeo is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and is connected to the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty. He just wanted to use the Ming Dynasty's tolerance to rely on fifty cargo ships, not to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty. So when we used force to express our determination in this matter, Li Fangyuan was scared and quickly handed over the ship.

Japan is different. They never admit that they are vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. It is useless to just threaten them. Unless we have enough troops to go ashore and fight them hard. If they are afraid of them, they will naturally surrender. But we don’t have this condition yet, so my opinion is the same as General Yang, giving them hostages to them in exchange for their silver. Of course, we also have to bargain. He pays ten taels of silver for each person, so we will have fifteen taels of silver. In short, we will get as much compensation as possible."

"I also agree with Mr. Lu and General Yang." Zhou Ming added: "The army of Da Neijia has fought many wars in the past ten years, and it is really fierce. Four thousand of us went ashore to fight land wars with them. If we play the weak and avoid our strengths, we will suffer a great loss. Please think deeply."

Li Weizheng nodded and asked Lai Yongguodao again: "What is Lai Qianhu's opinion?"

Lai Yongguo stood up and bowed: "Sir, what I mean is very simple. I don't fight with them or exchange hostages with them. I just transported these Japanese women and children back to the Ming Dynasty and sold them, and collected their money. I always feel a little uncomfortable."

Li Weizheng asked the other thousand households again what they meant, and they did not agree to go ashore to fight land war with the Japanese. At this time, Li Weizheng stood up and said, "Since everyone thinks that we are short of troops, we can establish the first principle. We don't go ashore, but my ideas are slightly different from everyone. These two thousand women and children have no meaning to us. They are useless to consume food and fresh water. They can return them to the home in exchange for their redemption. Of course, I will not give up the money, but I will not be so angry.

Swallowed, since the Danei family was able to seize the ten cargo ships of our Ming Dynasty, it means they also have a large fleet. I asked Danei Eiyi that this fleet was hidden in the islands and bays west of Kyushu, Japan, and there were about hundreds of warships of all sizes. These people were actually the Japanese pirates who were haunted by our Ming Dynasty and Goryeo. Whether it was the navy or the Japanese pirates; whether it was the Navy or the Japanese pirates; whether it was the cargo ship or not, we would destroy all these Japanese fleets. This is the task assigned to us by the emperor."

The thousands of households were overjoyed, but Li Weizheng waved his hand again and smiled faintly at Yang Fan and Zhou Ming, saying, "I'm sorry, please go there again, tell Ouchi Yoshihiro, I will accept his ransom, but each person will spend more than ten taels of silver, and a total of 30,000 taels of fresh water will be consumed, and I hope the delivery will be completed within two days."

After the meeting, Yang Fan and Zhou Ming took the roster on the boat and set off again. Li Wei Zhengze returned to the cabin impatiently. As soon as he entered the cabin, Chi Song Yaoji threw herself into his arms like a ball of fire, hugging his neck tightly and putting on his rosy lips. Li Wei was lowering his head and kissing her. Although they were only separated for a long time, there were thousands of words in each other's hearts. They didn't say anything, but just took off each other's clothes quickly and fell on the bed, expressing their inner passion with body language. The cabin was suddenly full of spring, filled with heavy breathing and panting moans.

Yao Ji has never given her wholeheartedly as she has today. She has no support and no home. Li Weizheng has become the only man she can rely on. In order to please this man and stay by his side, Yao Ji gave out everything a woman has.

After a while, Li Wei finally lay down tiredly, closed her eyes, and savored the extreme pleasure of conquering women. Yao Ji was lying on him like a cat. The bright redness on her face had not faded. Her long hair like a black waterfall formed a strong contrast with her white skin. Her pretty face was pressed against his chest, but she couldn't help looking at him secretly. Finally, it was the time to decide her fate. Will he leave herself? Yao Ji's heart was pounding. She couldn't figure out the idea of ​​the man in front of her. Although she felt that she already knew this man very well, at this moment, he was so strange. Do you really want to go to the Ming Dynasty with him? In that strange country, she suddenly became a little scared. The contradiction between expectation and worry was intertwined in Yao Ji's heart, so that she was confused about her future.

"Why are you thinking about coming back?" Li Weizheng finally spoke, his voice very calm.

"I'm homeless." Yao Ji bit her lip and replied in a low voice.

"Where are your parents, why don't you want to go back to your parents' home?"

Yao Ji shook her head sadly, "Five years ago they didn't want me. I am a daughter who brought shame to them. The Chisong family would not let a woman full of failure and shame step into the house. There is that demon. I would rather die than go back to him. So where else can I go? Either starve to death on the street or fall into the prostitution. How can I live a weak woman?"

After staying with Li Wei for more than ten days, her Chinese language has also improved a lot. Although her voice is still a little weird, she can also say some long sentences. Thinking about the glory of marrying into a wealthy family when she was eighteen six years ago, she has no way out until now, and Yao Ji's eyes can't help but turn red.

Li Weizheng's hand gently stroked her face and said gently: "Actually, you still have many ways to go, such as marrying an honest family, giving birth to children, living a peaceful life, and learning a skill, opening a small shop, and supporting yourself with your own strength."

His hand stopped and stared at her and said, "It's a pity that you met Li Weizheng. I am a selfish person. I want to take all the women I have lived with. I can't allow her to have physical relationships with other men, so from now on, you will be my woman."

Speaking of this, Li Wei was staring at her eyes and shouting sternly: "I don't care about your past events, but from today on, you are my woman. I don't allow you to have any relationship with other men. Also, I don't like your Chisong surname. From now on, you will change your surname to Li and be called Li Yaoji. Have you remembered it?"

"I... remember!"

In front of this domineering man, she surrendered and obedient, but this surrender and obedience brought her an unprecedented sense of security. She hugged Li Weizheng's waist tightly, and tried her best to welcome him, shouting affectionately in a crying voice: "I am willing to be your woman, I just ask you not to abandon me forever."

The negotiations with Yoshihiro Ouchi were very smooth. That night, both sides decided to redeem 1,840 women and children at a price of 30,000 taels of silver. In addition, Yoshihiro Ouchi proposed to buy the head of Eiyi of Ouchi for 10,000 taels of silver. Yang Fan sent someone to ask Li Weizheng for instructions. Li Weizheng changed his mind and no longer wanted to send Eiyi of Ouchi to the Southern Dynasties as a bargaining chip to deal with the family of Ouchi. He was no longer interested. Before dawn, he ordered people to cut off Eiyi of Ouchi and gave it to Yoshihiro Ouchi.

In the room, Yoshihiro Ouchi looked at the heads of the brothers in the wooden box silently. The grudges of more than ten years were finally settled. When Eiyoshi Ouchi died, he removed a big hidden danger in his heart. The remaining one was Ouchi Kenhei, the third brother of the Hokage Kingdom, who stole the bitch of Kikuchi Fenga from Nagato.

Yoshihiro Ouchi has always been dissatisfied with his father. At least three of the six kingdoms of the Daunai family were led by him, but in the final distribution of inheritance, his father only gave him the Three Kingdoms, which means that his father actually gave him nothing and was not around. His father would rather give him the Victory portion than to Eiyi. Obviously, his father wanted to balance the power between his brothers, but in this way, the Daunai family was originally divided into several pieces, and his power was invisibly weakened.

Yoshihiro Ouchi has never lacked ambitions. He is determined to occupy the entire Kyushu Island, but his strength is not enough and he has worries. Due to the family's mistake, he led the wolf into the house, and Nagato was occupied by a woman, which made Yoshihiro Ouchi reluctant to fight south for a long time, for fear that this woman would take advantage of the situation to enter.

"Young Master, I don't think Yingyi has been dead for a long time." A slave from the Danei family next to him suddenly discovered a clue.

"Of course I know, he was just killed." Ouchi Yoshihiro stood up and said coldly: "It doesn't matter when he died, what's important is that he is already dead."

"But the eldest young master, he is..." The slave in the hometown was a little unable to speak. The eldest young master in front of him was too cold. How could he let his younger brother be killed? His sister-in-law and even his ex-wife. He also watched her get on the Ming Dynasty ship without asking any questions. He wanted to persuade him again, but Yoshihiro Ouchi's sharp eyes shot up, which scared him so much that he didn't dare to say another word.

Yoshihiro Ouchi paced back and forth in the room with his back, and he would pay as much money as possible. He would do these things in the scenes more beautifully than anyone else, but it was rare for the Ming fleet to come. Isn’t it a pity that he just let them go so easily?

Yoshihiro Ouchi stared at the Kyushu map on the wall, and an ancient Han proverb came into his mind: Kill people with a knife.

Three days later, Yoshihiro Ouchi sent 40,000 taels of silver as agreed. Li Wei threw the 1,840 women, children and elderly people captured from Danluo Island on Iqi Island, and the fleet set sail and headed southwest of Kyushu.

The coast of Kyushu is fragmented, and islands of all sizes are scattered on the sea. Famous islands such as the Goshima Islands, Fukuei Island, etc. Secondly, the bays are densely populated, and all kinds of natural ports are all there, so it has become the base camp of Japanese Japanese pirates. Especially in the Nagasaki Port, several famous Japanese pirate families such as the Koga family and Shibuzu family, as well as the Kondo family of Shikoku Island, also have a fleet in Nagasaki Port. In addition, many sporadic pirates also robbed the sea together. These Japanese pirates have close relationships with the pirates and the Ouchi family. They intercepted the Ming fleet a few months ago under the unified command of the Ouchi family.

That morning, a news spread wildly in Nagasaki Port. Fifty Ming cargo ships that had escaped several months ago were back. After the winter, the Japanese pirates who were about to go out to sea seemed to smell the bloody wolf pack, and they were eager to try and were ready to bite a piece of meat from this fleet like last time. Of course, they also knew that there was the Ming Navy's escort, but wasn't there a navy's escort last time? The Ming Navy's escort was impossible to cover everything, and they would definitely be robbed of several cargo ships. The key is who can eat this piece of meat.

Nagasaki is the largest harbor in the Hibiraki country and the most important city on Kyushu Island except Kitakyushu Monji Castle. But in an economic sense, Nagasaki's prosperity even surpassed Kitakyushu. It is one of the three major harbors in Japan. The Ouchi family made its fortune by trading through Nagasaki and Goryeo. The Ouchi family's overseas business was basically concentrated in Nagasaki. However, in such an important city, the owner of the Ouchi family gave it to the third son Kaehiro when he was dividing his family's property before his death. The reason is very simple. The old Yoshihiro territory has the Three Kingdoms, and the second son Yingyi won a share of the two countries, and the third son only had one country, so he obtained the prosperous Nagasaki and obtained almost all the overseas trade capital of the Ouchi family.

But Ouchi Kenhei is a very low-key person. He is addicted to food and women all day long. He follows all the instructions given to him by his elder brother, but there is one principle he never agrees, that is, he will never give up the position of the guardian of the Hoshimaki Kingdom. Although he is not strong, several elders of the Ouchi family support him, which makes Ouchi Yoshihiro never find an excuse to seize the Hoshimaki Kingdom.

Early this morning, Ouchi Kenhei suddenly received an emergency order from his elder brother. The fifty Ming cargo ships that escaped a few months ago were back. He had already investigated that the Ming Dynasty's escort ship was not strong, and even worse than last time. Therefore, he asked Ouchi Kenhei to take the ship out to sea in person and must seize all the cargo ships.

Yoshihiro Ouchi's orders were extremely tough. If Ouchi Kasuhira refused to go to sea, he would hand over the fleet to him. He went to sea to intercept the Ming cargo ship. Ouchi Kasuhira did not dare to neglect him. He immediately summoned the representatives of the Koga family, Shimazu family and Kondo family in Nagasaki to come to his mansion to discuss.

In view of the lessons learned last time, several families unanimously demanded that the distribution standards be raised. Ouchi Kasuhira had no choice but to agree to increase the distribution standards from the last 28 share to the last 30% share.

Everyone formulated a careful interception plan and changed the interception location from the last Five Islands Islands to Fukue Island where the ships headed south. A total of 200 large and small warships will participate in the interception, and the atmosphere in Nagasaki Port suddenly became hot.

In a wooden house in Nagasaki Port, Yusuto Tanaka, the representative of the Kondo family, expressed his worries. A few months ago, the Ming cargo ship was robbed near the Goshima Islands, which forced the fleet to return. He was scolded by the head of the Kondo family. Afterwards, he gradually realized that since the Kondo family had defected to the Southern Dynasties, he was of course angry that the materials that the Southern Dynasties longed for were robbed. But now, the Ming cargo ship has come again. What should he do? It seems too late to report and ask for instructions, and he has to make decisions by himself.

Yusutoshi Tanaka is a forty-year-old man. Three years ago, the Kondo family, a major trading merchant in the four countries, obtained the consent of the Ouchi family and formed a fleet in Nagasaki to trade with Goryeo. Yusutoshi Tanaka is the eldest son-in-law of Kenji Kondo, and he was appointed as the representative of Nagasaki. However, Yusutoshi Tanaka knew that the real purpose of the Kondo family was not Goryeo trade, but paving the way for the Southern Dynasties to enter Kyushu.

Now that the Ming cargo ship is coming again, he must take action. He does not want to be scolded by the head of the family anymore. Thinking of this, he summoned a confidant subordinate, gave him a few instructions, his subordinate nodded and agreed, and left quickly.

That night, a small boat left Nagasaki Port and headed towards the Goshima Islands.

In the morning, the weather was clear, and a few white clouds were floating faintly in the sky. The sea water was as blue as the sky, bright as the sky, and shining with silver light like brocade. Thousands of seagulls were hovering on the sea. From afar, on such a peaceful and sleepy sea, three fleets of white sails came riding the wind and waves.

At the bow of the treasure ship, Li Wei was standing in front of the compass, holding the needle book needed for navigation in his hand and looking at the distant sea surface. He was learning from a sailor in charge of positioning how to judge the route.

Three days have passed since departure from Iqi Island. They have explored dozens of islands and more than a dozen bays, but they have never found any trace of Japanese pirates. According to the experience of the Ming army, Japanese pirates usually attacked the Ming coast from April and lasted until October. In other words, the Japanese pirates should still be in Japan's base. Yesterday, they suddenly received a report from a small boat near the Ueno Island in the Five Islands. They learned from them that more than 200 Japanese pirates had gone out to sea, and are currently mainly concentrated in the Fukue Island area, preparing to intercept Ming Dynasty cargo ships. At this time, from the distance, Fukue Island should be not far away.

"What are you looking at?" Lai Yongguo appeared behind Li Weizheng with a smile. He was in a good mood. He heard that the commander was preparing to attack the Japanese pirates' nest, and he was a little impatient.

"A large group of seagulls suddenly appeared in front of him, which means they are not far from the land." Li Wei was holding the curtain and looking carefully at the distance. There was still a vast sea in the distance, and nothing could be seen. He said with some emotion: "I heard that Westerners have a kind of clairvoyance, a long tube shape, through which they can see ships ten miles away. If we have such things, we can find each other before the enemy and seize the initiative."

"Can you really see ten miles away?" Lai Yongguo's eyes showed a look of extreme yearning. He said extremely enviously: "I have never heard of the things that the lord said. When can we go to the West and buy it dozens of them back."

Of course, what Li Weizheng said was looking at the glasses. Galileo was invented by Galileo, but Galileo was probably not born yet. However, as long as there are raw materials, he could make them. Li Weizheng smiled and changed the topic: "General Lai, do you think anyone among the Japanese pirates is helping us?"

Lai Yongguo's face became solemn. He pondered for a moment and nodded, "It's very possible."

A hint of worry appeared in Li Weizheng's eyes, and he said slowly: "I have been thinking about this since yesterday. I always feel that the Japanese who reported the message had some problems. According to them, they are from the Kondo family and do not want the Southern Dynasties to be robbed. But if I am the leader of the Japanese pirates and plan to intercept the Ming cargo ship, I will also send someone to disguise themselves to deliver the message to provide wrong information."

Lai Yongguo was shocked, "My lord means that they are providing false information."

Li Weizheng shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter whether the information is true or false. What's important is that someone must have an idea for us. As long as we are ready, we are not afraid, so we can no longer walk according to the scheduled route. If I was right, the situation in Fukue Island is complicated, and it is indeed very likely that they will intercept us. We don't have to confront them head-on."

Lai Yongguo was a little stunned. Didn’t the commander just want to fight the Japanese pirates? Why did he want to avoid them? He hesitated and said, “Does he not want to fight the Japanese pirates again?”

"No!" Li Wei was staring at the sea in the distance, saying word by word: "I want to disrupt their deployment and let them follow our rhythm."

At this moment, the looking hand on the mast suddenly shouted loudly, "Land! Sir, I saw the land."

Li Wei was immediately supported on the side of the boat and tried hard to look into the distance. Sure enough, he also faintly saw a long black line, which was Fukue Island.
Chapter completed!