I am the king of the dead

Chapter 624 Hundreds of boats compete for thousands of sails, the waves are behind the shore and ahead

"Sacrificial flag!"

Li Binyan shook his court clothes, holding a half-person-high incense stick in his hand, lit it and placed it under the tooth flag, praying for a safe journey.

For this expedition, the left and right vanguards, all the generals of the fifth battalion and the four outposts, went to the big school field to gather the army and horses, and prepared to board the ship.

And several commanding officers, on the platform, pulled up a [-]-foot-long, bright red "Li" dental flag.

This dental flag was rewarded by the emperor of the capital.

Killing pigs and sheep, thousands of armored horses, Li Binyan, Fan Du commanding Ma Yun and other generals are all under the banner.

The Li students prostrated three times and kowtowed five times, and began to read the sacrificial text. The vocal music suddenly started, the drums burst into bursts, and the horns whimpered.

"Eight formations, mother-in-law, seven stars, Bingbing. Flowers are bright, water is spring, maple is falling, Wujiang is cold!"

"Stupid than Xiyang, master Dongjing. Crossing the dragon gate, Ning Xing credit, sucking whale wave, vowing peace!"

"Wan Guo is the emperor of the court, and a hundred barbarians are tied to the neck. Victory is the food seal, and the return is the emperor's invitation."

After the flag was sacrificed, there was continuous cannon fire. This was the first time since Xingang laid the foundation stone that the flag was raised.

Whether the artillery is misfired, whether the scheduling is perfect, whether the order is smooth, etc., the sound of the artillery rounds is the test of the entire Daming Navy.

The sound of the artillery gradually subsided, ten thousand horses galloped together, the flags lined up in five directions, the soldiers were divided into nine teams, and the officers and soldiers began to board the ship.

Standing on the treasure ship, Li Binyan watched the officers and soldiers boarding the ship with great awe, watching the banners unfurl, and suddenly pursed his lips and smiled.

On this treasure ship, there are many three-foot-long goose-yellow flags, and on each flag are written the eight characters of "Shangguo Tianbing, Fuyi to take treasure". For each flag, there is also a seven-star flag. Flag, I hope the ship will not get lost in the vast sea.

There are several flour boards hung in front of the bow, and the middle board reads "The Great Ming Commander Calls for the Generalissimo".

On the left side of this big pink card is written [Avoid], and on the right side is written [Quiet].

This is what Li Binyan finds particularly interesting. These two signs are no different from the quiet sign in front of the Yamen of Songjiang Prefecture. He just finds it interesting.

"The imperial decree has arrived!" The admiral, the minister of the Shipping Department of Songjiang Prefecture, flicked his whisk and shouted loudly: "All the ministers accept the decree."

The eunuch standing at the bow of the ship shouted, followed by many people passing on the message, nearly two hundred soldiers, officials and generals on the ship, like collapsed dominoes, bowed their heads and respectfully received the imperial edict.

Only the sea breeze was blowing and the flags were fluttering, and the eunuch who announced the decree shouted loudly: "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the edict said:"

"Weijiang's blasphemy, the family of Weizhong. Only loyalty has a king, and I am the only one. Use the whale salamander to swear to clear the sea house. Banners cover the sky, and boats and boats chase each other. Showing the loyalty of the other is my blessing."

"Songjiang governor Li Binyan and Fandu commanded Ma Yun, gave three cups of imperial wine, and ordered three hundred empty orders. Xu first cut and then played, so I will do it myself."

"The left and right pioneers Qian Yi and Ge Chunyang received the decree, and specially bestowed three cups of imperial wine, fifteen pairs of gold and silver flowers each, and fifteen pairs of red and green colored satin..."

This edict is a navigation subsidy issued by Zhu Qiyu.

Zhu Qiyu gave Li Binyan three hundred empty orders, which used the seal of the Ming Dynasty. No matter what Li Binyan did at sea, he only needed to write it on it.

Back then, when the Sanbao eunuch went south to the Western Seas, he held five thousand to an empty order, and the power of life and death of the entire fleet was in his hands.

The deputy commander-in-chief of the four posts still has three cups of royal wine, ten pairs of gold and silver flowers each, and ten pairs of red and green colored satin.

The difference between the rewards this time and the past is that there are also rewards for the officials in charge of grain households, two pairs of gold flowers and silver flowers, and two pairs of colorful satin; , each with a pair of silver flowers and one end of colorful satin.

The rain and dew are evenly stained, which is extraordinarily heavy.

Li Binyan stood with his hands behind his back, waiting for the reply from the copper pipe on the ship, mainly to check the gunpowder armament.

Each battleship has ten 'Dafa Gong', an improved type of cannon, with a range of about [-] steps.

There are forty tiger squatting cannons and fifty bowl guns placed on both sides of the ship, a kind of shotgun that can be overturned. They are all close-combat firearms.

There are one hundred bird guns, all of which are the latest type of bird guns, firearms that can hit birds, two for each team.

Others include smoke pots, ash pots, crossbow arrows, powdered crossbows, crude gunpowder, bird gunpowder, crossbow powder, large and small lead bullets, rockets, fire bricks, hook sickles, long and short soldiers, boat nail guns, javelins, and rattan tokens (big wooden 楯) , iron arrows, etc., countless, it can be said that they are armed to the teeth.

This time the sailing is mainly for sailors, and there is no business, purely to promote the country's prestige, and make money.

Everything is settled, Li Binyan looked at the fluttering seven-star flag, and shouted loudly: "Raise the sails! Let the boat go!"

The sun is rising from the east, sprinkled on the sea, scattered all the golden light, above the sea, seabirds soar in the sea breeze, occasionally pounce on the sea and then rise into the sky, more than two hundred warships The sail slowly rises, drawing out a long reflection.

The boatman shouted the chant, the boatman skimmed the water, hundreds of boats competed, and the ships turned around slowly under the rising sun. treasure ship.

After leaving the port, the ships gradually spread out on the vast ocean.

The fleet braved the wind and waves and headed east.

Hundreds of boats compete for the flow and thousands of sails are exhausted, and the waves are behind the shore and ahead.

Daming's 21-year voyages to the West finally resumed.

Slightly different from the past, this time the fleet did not have any commercial goods, but purely military operations. This change is a change in the Daming Navy and a change in the structure of Daming's maritime trade.

Both sides of the wharf were seeing off people, merchants, powerful officials, etc. They shouted loudly, as if they saw the appearance of the invincible Daming navy there.

It took only ten days for the fleet to travel from the Ship Division of Songjiang Prefecture to Naha Port in Ryukyu. During the two days in between, Li Binyan stopped at Kume Island. He met with several elders of the Kume clan. It cannot be said that they broke up unhappily, but it can only be said that they had a full exchange of views.

On the same day, Li Binyan decided to relocate, and moved all these Jiumi gentry to Jilong Island.

The situation in Ryukyu is very complicated, but in the face of the Ming navy who is armed to the teeth, whether it is the Kume clan, the Ryukyu Shang family, or the Sifang Zhenfu colluding with the Japanese pirates, they can only smash their teeth into their stomachs pharynx.

The Daming Navy will berth in Ryukyu for three months to fully eradicate pirates and Japanese pirates in the waters around Ryukyu, explore the hidden reefs in the waters of Ryukyu, conduct a comprehensive survey of Ryukyu, open up a good port and make decisions for the people.

When Li Binyan arrived at Naha Port, he arrested fourteen officials, including the governor of Ryukyu, who was a common man, and beheaded them in public at the pier.

"I'll eat it later, let's put it over there. Go and call the ambassador of the Ryukyu Cleaning Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The fish scale book and the yellow book must be done as soon as possible. Tomorrow, I will invite the elders of the various tribes. I want to talk to them." Li Binyan thought it was the secretary who delivered the food, and he confessed without raising his head. He was holding a document sent by the governor of Shuri Prefecture in his hand, and he was extremely troubled.

Li Binyan looked at it for a while, and then said helplessly: "Shangshi of Liuqiu thinks he is herding sheep. What is it? Even herding sheep, he is not so hasty. He doesn't even know how many sheep pens he has."

A rather clear voice came: "If the Shang family can manage it well, what do you want Governor Li to do?"

Li Binyan was taken aback, he slowly raised his head, saw a figure he hadn't seen for a long time, and said with a little surprise: "Old Tang?"

It was not Si Wu who came to deliver meals to Li Binyan, but the third prince and his grandfather, the most free man in Ming Dynasty, Tang Xing.

Tang Xing laughed and said with a smile: "It's my servant, I came from the country of Wa, if you need something, just ask."

Tang Xing and Li Binyan are old comrades-in-arms. When the Mizhou Shipping Department started, the two presided over the affairs of the Mizhou Shipping Department. They ambushed Japanese pirates many times. They cooperated quite tacitly. , has not been seen for nearly four years.

Li Binyan, who is also the important task of the Songjiang Prefecture Shipping Department, dare not slack off. If there were no disturbances in the prefectures and counties on the Ryukyu side, Li Binyan would not dare, let alone leave Songjiang Prefecture.

Tang Xing also has a dissolute personality, he disappears when he goes out to sea, and has never been back to Songjiang Mansion in the past four years.
After exchanging pleasantries, Li Binyan and Tang Xing did not reminisce about the old days. They were in the Yamen of Shuli Prefecture. A Governor of Songjiang and a commander of the Ming Dynasty recruited the Generalissimo.

After Tang Xing talked about it, Li Binyan finally understood why Tang Xing appeared in Ryukyu.

The entire Japanese kingdom is in chaos, Kanto and Kansai have become brainless, and there are also various famous masters in Kanto and Kansai. Everyone wants to go to Luo with a knife, and no one can settle it.

Yuan Bin conquered the Hosokawa family and went down to the three kingdoms, and he accepted it as soon as it was good. After occupying the main roads of Gyeonggi, he began to accumulate food widely, slowly become king, train Japanese soldiers, and manage mountains and silver mountains.

The source of all this is naturally that Tang Xing abducted Yu Lingjin to participate in the bureau, and Ashikaga Yoshimasa began to take charge of the government.

The three families of Hosokawa, Shiba, and Yamana had many conflicts in Kyoto. Coupled with Ashikaga Yoshimasa's refusal to reconcile, the three families finally fell into a quarrel. Kyoto was in chaos, and the entire Wa country could be said to be a group of heroes. The floods were severe this year, and Yikui uprisings continued one after another.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa was unable to preside over the situation, so he immediately wanted to invite Jin Shenju back.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa's plan is to ask the present bureau to stabilize the three leaders, control the situation in Kyoto, strengthen the power of the Muromachi shogunate, use the imperial decree of the Ming Dynasty to appease the masters of the Wa Kingdom, negotiate with Ichikui, and then kill the donkey.

It was a good idea, but something went wrong in this first step. Now Shenju has married Tang Xing, so he simply dropped the seal of the imperial order, followed Tang Xing to Ryukyu, and no longer interfered with any Japanese affairs.

"Ziziyan is higher than the top. His brother ascended the throne at the age of nine, and he died after being a general for nine months. If it wasn't for the protection of the bureau all these years, his Ashikaga Yoshimasa would have died a long time ago." Tang Xing shook his head. Said.

When Tang Xing talked about Jin Canju, he showed a bit of a smile. In fact, his political purpose of marrying Jin Shenju was far greater than his personal feelings.

For Tang Xing, freedom was never more important than everything, but the interests of Daming were more important than everything else. For Daming, Tang Xing could give everything.

Now that Shenju can let go of everything in the Wa country, and followed him to Ryukyu, Tang Xing is too lazy to care about the past. He is a dissolute person, and the dark past of the current Shenju is just the epitome of the tragedy of the Wa country.

Are there any eggs in the nest?
Li Binyan knew that Tang Xing had married such a person, and he was worried that Tang Xing would hold it to his heart. Seeing that Tang Xing didn't care much, he didn't say much. This kind of thing, like drinking water, knows whether it's warm or not, Tang Xing doesn't care about it , Li Binyan will not talk too much.

"I came this time, and I brought Governor Li a big gift! Someone come up!" Tang Xing cheerfully brought three or four people up.

Li Bin didn't understand, so he asked inexplicably, "Who is this?"

The corner of Tang Xing's mouth couldn't stop rising, and he handed the three waist cards to Li Binyan, and said cheerfully: "I see Yinshan's remnants of Confucianism."

The Tianzi No. 300 case, the Confucian Mansion case, [-] hectares of land and [-] million taels of Japanese silver are the two largest properties after His Majesty raided the Confucian Mansion, especially the [-] hectares of land.

The mansion of Prince Xiang, the first prince of Ming Dynasty, counted all the properties under the mansion of the nominal prince, less than [-] hectares, and the Confucian Mansion of Qufu was equal to two King Xiang.

This Tianzi No. [-] case was supervised by Li Binyan, and it has not been closed so far, because the remnants of the Confucian family are still at large abroad.

Tang Xing said in amazement: "Yuan Bin took 300 people, [-] horses and dry rations, and marched for [-] li!"

"On the fifth day, I rushed to Ishijian Yinshan, caught these big fish, and then retreated and returned to the mountain Yinshan. All the famous masters trembled, fearing that I would be the next one."

"There are still some small shrimps, it is no longer a concern."

Yuan Bin ran to Shijian Yinshan to show his viciousness, not simply to arrest these remnants, but also to establish his prestige. The mountains and wild Yinshan were surrounded by wolves, and they occupied important places. Some famous masters wanted to join forces to conquer together. Running thousands of miles is to let these masters weigh their heads.

Li Binyan picked up the teacup dully, took a sip, and put it down again, but he didn't notice that there was no more tea in the teacup. He asked blankly: "I always knew Yuan Bin was tyrannical, but I didn't expect him to be so tyrannical." !"

"The sky is big and the earth is big, is there any place Yuan Bin can't go to?"

"But when you think about it, it's Yuan Bin, so it's not surprising."

After moving for three thousand miles, he returned to his old lair. With such a deterrent effect, who in Japan would dare to brag to Yuan Bin?

"That's all in the Wa country. The world is in chaos, and it's not unusual for anything to happen." Tang Xing thought it was reasonable. He was used to Yuan Bin's bravery, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

It is very reasonable for this kind of thing to happen to Yuan Bin.

Tang Xing frowned and said: "There is internal strife among the Japanese, the Japanese pirates are scattered, and the number of Japanese pirates on the sea has suddenly increased. Governor Li should be more careful."

"Of course I know." Li Binyan nodded heavily.

Just like Zhu Zhanqian went to Helin single-handedly to manage the changes in the people's livelihood in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guizhou and Miao. , Wa country must be weak.

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