Xinshun 1730

Chapter 409
The judgment of the officers was not fraudulent, Zhao Baiquan thought for a long time, and decided to take a trip.

Holding the short blunderbuss loaded with lead bullets and the leaf spring pulled, Zhao Baiquan felt a little flustered.

Several officers and one agreed to accompany him in a small boat to Tsushima Island.

The warriors and merchants on the island were very nervous.

Either holding Japanese swords, or holding matchlock guns and iron cannons, the army is disorderly, but after all, there are many people.

This is the first time Zhao Baiquan has seen so many enemy troops. He is a civil servant and has learned archery, but he has never lived in a military camp, let alone experienced military training.

Last time in Ryukyu, even if there were some enemy troops, the troops were absolutely superior.There is also the name of Liu Yu in charge of the army. Although he thinks Liu Yu is too domineering, Zhao Baiquan is convinced when it comes to leading the army to fight, and he is not afraid.

This time, seeing dozens of warriors standing with swords and glaring eyes, Zhao Baiquan took a deep breath, and silently recited Prime Minister Wen's song of righteousness.

"Heaven and earth have righteous energy, mixed with manifolds. The lower part is the river and the mountains, and the upper part is the sun and stars. People call it Haoran, and it is full of power to fill the sky..."

After reading it a few times, it really seemed like a surge of awe-inspiring aura rising from the bottom of my heart, suppressing the fear of seeing so many enemies for the first time, revealing the aura, and becoming a standard celestial envoy once again.

In front of so many people, he read out what he wanted to say, a long speech, nothing more than two parts.

First, it is just for the Celestial Dynasty to attack the Japanese, because...

Second, the Celestial Dynasty is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and you are authorized to return to Japan to promote the benevolence and righteousness of the Celestial Dynasty, and to tell the feudal lords and generals all over Japan to surrender as soon as possible.The navy is brave and brave, and disdains to fight this kind of battle of bullying the few with the more, and let the samurai return to Japan, and the whole army will fight again.

After reading, there was a complete silence on the other side, Zhao Baiquan saw that there was no cheating now, he knew that there was no serious problem, and he became more generous.

He turned around and boarded the boat with no expression on his face and left. Before boarding the boat, he heard a burst of cheers from behind. Zhao Baiquan smiled and thought that it was over.

Not long after Zhao Baiquan boarded the ship, 5000 taels of silver were also shipped to Dashun's warship for delivery.

Among them, 8 taels are official money, which the Navy clearly asked for.The other 5000 taels was Zong Yiru's meeting gift and thank you gift. Zhao Baiquan followed the rules and took 500 taels, and the rest was handed over to the navy.

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In Zhanyuan City, several retainers and warriors knelt in front of Zong Yiru, weeping: "If the lord dies here to serve the country, we should follow the lord and die."

Zong Yiru said angrily: "Stupid! Didn't you hear that the Han Dynasty had the humiliation of Bai Deng, and the Tang Dynasty had the Weishui alliance? Even great talents like Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty knew to give in temporarily. Don't you understand the truth? ?”

"The general ordered me to defend Tsushima. I will stick to this place and not retreat. But you are different. If you retreat one person, there will be one more person on the battlefield in the future. What's the point of dying here?"

These few retainers and warriors said one after another: "If the lord dies, we should not retreat."

These few people are very loyal, but Zong Yiru doesn't want to make troubles.

Are these people loyal to him?Or loyal to Japan?Or are they loyal to both?
If both are loyal, what should be done when a choice must be made between the two?
Normally, these people would probably follow Zong Yiru's choice.

But in case there are a few people with bad brains, their heads get hot, and they feel that Zong Yiru's surrender will damage the honor of the samurai.

For the honor of the Patriarch, I decided to chop off the head of the Patriarch, saying it was a caesarean section, in order to save his reputation, what should I do?
Not impossible.

Rather, it is possible.

Those who are truly and completely loyal to him, the real confidantes, there are not many, and it is impossible to be too many, they have all been selected.

The rest of them are either those who really believe in the glory of the so-called samurai, or those who really believe that they would rather die than surrender. Anyway, they are the kind that are suitable for singing, and this kind of people is what Zongyi is most worried about when he is like this.

Facing these people, Zong Yiru sighed and told a very old story.

"In the past, Tu Anjia killed Zhao Dun and exterminated his family. Zhao Shuo's guest, Gongsun Chujiu, conspired with him, and took the Zhao family as a baby and hid in the mountains alone."

"My main wife has nothing to do with me, and my concubine has nothing to do with me. However, I have loved her so much these few nights, maybe I can leave blood in her body."

"All gentlemen are loyal people, I implore you to follow the example of Gongsun Chujiu and Cheng Ying, and send back these concubines of mine."

"If the generals repel the Tang people in the future, and the Zong family will continue, it will all depend on the strength of the lords!"

After all, he gave a big gift to these warrior retainers.

Of course his main wife can't go with him, but as a concubine, he thought about going to Dashun. If he can be knighted and has money, is there still a shortage?
Although the concubine is not pregnant, but in order to do this game, he has been really busy at night for the past few days.

Not to stay behind, but to make this lie look more believable.

Maybe someone will ask the concubine, have you really done it these few days?

After really staying, he defected to Dashun, and most of the remaining ones would die.

Zongyi understood people so well, in his opinion, Dashun should surely win.

This navy has decided that as long as Dashun wants Tsushima Island, it is impossible for Japan to get it back.

He is the only daimyo in Japan who can engage in cross-sea trade. No one in Japan knows better than him the level of the Japanese navy after the country is locked up.

Dashun's navy lined up on the sea outside Tsushima, and he knew he couldn't beat it.

In this case, if he ran back to Japan, he would be dead.

Now that the war started, it was time to make an example of others. If Zong Yiru left the guard without dying, wouldn't the rest of the people be able to run away?
If you can't beat it, it's not a reason to run away.He doesn't want to live and die with Tsushima, and he doesn't want to go back to be a chicken to scare the monkey, so there is only one way.

If you vote for Dashun, it is estimated that [-]% of them will not be able to rule Tsushima anymore.

That being the case, it is to let Tsushima spread his bad reputation, and he may never come again in his life.

Even after arriving in Dashun, changing their appearance and changing their Chinese surnames, even if there are too many ridicules, what does it matter?

Moreover, it is impossible for him to do the trade with horses anymore, so what will my retainers eat?What to drink?Why are you still faithful to yourself?
When a character like Meng Changjun loses power, his followers all run away.

How could he be able to think that after taking refuge in Dashun, without the fief and trade of Tsushima, these warriors could still follow him?

After realizing this, Zong Yiru simply divided his warriors into three parts.

A very small part is his absolute confidant.

The number of people is very small, even if you go to Dashun, you still need some confidantes, and this very small part can follow you to death.

Most of them are a group of villains.

The villains are easy to deal with. They are eager for Dashun's conditions, as long as they can guarantee that Dashun's warship will not be fired and sunk after they board the ship, it will be better to run back to Japan as soon as possible, rather than waiting to die here.

The small number can be regarded as a group of gentlemen or warriors.

This group of people caused Zong Yiru the most headache.Gentlemen or those real warriors are stubborn, and they are not very sure about letting them surrender with themselves.

However, a gentleman can deceive him.

Telling the story of the orphans of the Zhao family, these people will definitely think that "retreating is not a humiliation, but a feat of righteousness like the ancient Gongsun Chujiu and Cheng Ying."

For different people, there must be different ways of deceiving. This is the talent and talent that a feudal noble should possess.

Without such ability, it is impossible to be a enfeoffment noble.

Sure enough, these samurai vassals cried and fell to the ground one by one: "Patriarch, don't worry, we dare not do our best?"

With the loyalty and bravery of these people and a little deception, they have succeeded.

After using this reasoning to deceive the most difficult warriors he considered, these most difficult warriors never said any more nonsense about dying here with him.

With tears in his eyes, Zong Yi took out some gold and silver and said, "Take these away. I think Tang people call themselves benevolent and righteous, and they won't search you. After going there, if the concubine comes out in October, I will be the son of the prince and help with all my heart." If in the future the general returns to the horse, I will have no regrets!"

"Don't repeat the words of sharing death. Retreating today is advancing tomorrow. The blood of the Zong clan, please everyone."

"Patriarch..." The warriors wept bitterly, finally stood up and left Zhanyuan City.

Escorting Zong Yiru's side room, he boarded the three ships prepared in advance.

On the pier, merchants were vying for ships. Some were willing to pay high prices for a seat, some had their own boats and hired warriors to guard them, and some were willing to risk their lives and money to move everything from their homes to the boats. It was extremely lively.

Although Zhao Baiquan said that Dashun was a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, the wealthy businessmen didn't really believe it, so it was better to run away.

Don't worry about the rest of the merchants who don't have much money or run shops.

He neither took money nor wanted to leave, so he could only pin all his hopes on the benevolence and righteousness of the Dashun army.

Zong Yiru personally went to the pier to see him off, seeing with his own eyes that all the upright and loyal people he was worried about boarded the boat, so he was relieved.

As soon as the fleet set sail, Dashun's navy kept its word and did not intercept them, allowing the ships to leave Tsushima.

This made Zong Yiru feel more at ease. It seems that Dashun didn't know about the special casting of silver in Tsushima Island. Take it away together.

With tens of thousands of catties of silver, plus the savings in the city, as long as Emperor Dashun needs a model of surrender, life will not be bad.

After the last ship left, a hundred and fifty soldiers boarded the empty pier.

Soon, several broken cannons in Zhanyuan City were thrown out. If Zong Yi knew that these cannons could not defend himself, he might as well obey the Dashun Army's request.

Sure enough, Dashun's army did not harass Zhanyuan Castle, but issued a notice in the castle town.

Three chapters of the covenant.

Abolish all lords' ownership of acres of fields, and tax according to the reformed Wendeng Prefecture apportionment system, with a certain amount of rice per mu of land, which is about ten and one tax.

One public and nine people.This year's taxes should be handed over to the wharf as soon as possible. If there are village heads or house owners who oppress you, you can complain to the castle town.

Dashun's per-mu tax is theoretically not high.The high ones are landlords' land rent, apportionment and other messy things.

The situation in Japan is special. When the samurai are driven away, there are basically no landlords. One citizen is one citizen.

The other is to abolish all usury contracts, return the pledged land to the original owner immediately, and hand over the contracts to all those who owe usury.If the usury loans of the merchants who have left Tsushima are all burnt; for those who have not left, they can be paid off according to the interest of the highest principal, and the previous ones will also be counted.

The third is to require all shops to open as usual, and everyone must exchange their copper coins for Taixing Tongbao within one month.

The era should not be a certain year in Yuanwen, but should be changed to a certain year in Taixing.

Everyone is forbidden to shave their heads in the future.

The knife hunting order is abolished, and the common people can buy weapons allowed by Dashun Law.

In the future, the weights and measures stipulated by the shogunate will be discarded, and all shops will go first. Those who still use the old weights and measures after three months will be fined silver.

(End of this chapter)