Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 565 Arriving in Wa Country
At this time, the sea breeze was blowing head-on, and it was already a bit cold.

On the deck of one of the ships, however, stood a group of people, two of whom stood together, just ahead, and others, centered around them, at a distance.

Obviously, the identities of the two people in front are not ordinary.

Looking at the shadow of Edo from a distance, one of them asked the other with a little curiosity: "This is Nagasaki, where the Japanese country allowed trade? Why does it feel a little... a little ordinary!"

"Master Commander is right, this is Nagasaki!" The other person immediately replied with a smile after hearing this, "This Nagasaki is already a relatively prosperous town in the Japanese country, while other places are even more humble. The Japanese country is far from being able to compare with my Ming. It is also the same, they are very envious of my Ming!"

Needless to say, the commander must be Li Ruolian, the commander of Jinyiwei, and the person who answered him was naturally Zheng Zhilong.

Li Ruolian listened, showing a trace of pride on his face, nodded and said: "Indeed, although the world is big, my Ming Dynasty is the most prosperous, there is no doubt about it!"

In this world, at this point in time, what he said is really not bragging, just putting gold on his face.

Looking at the famous and powerful beautiful countries in later generations, Paris, which has been blown away, can't compare with the capital of Ming Dynasty, or Nanjing, let alone other places.

At that time, the center of the world was Daming, the kingdom of heaven, and it was not self-proclaimed.

At this time, Li Ruolian asked after a pause, "The King of Japan and the Tokugawa shogun are not here, how long are we going to stay here?"

"The king of the Wa Kingdom is just a decoration, don't mind!" Zheng Zhilong immediately answered after hearing this, "The military and political affairs of the Wa Kingdom are decided by the shogun. The reason we came here is to relax. If you don't enter the house, If you go directly to Edo, you will be suspicious, so it is necessary to go ashore here in Nagasaki first!"

"Okay!" Li Ruolian nodded after hearing this, then looked at Zheng Zhilong, and said to him seriously: "Now I don't know if Jianlu is here, or if he went to Edo, what's the situation, has it been negotiated? Everything is unknown, it depends on you adapting to the situation, as long as you can meet His Majesty's request!"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zhilong immediately said respectfully: "Understood, I will never disappoint Your Majesty!"

His respectfulness is definitely not pretending, but sincere.

In fact, when he first heard that all the land in Fujian had been confiscated by the imperial court, he had very strong opinions in his heart.Even if his own son did this thing, on his side, he blamed the emperor even more.

In this way, he really has to use his son as a gunman, but he is still working for the emperor!

Of course, your court said that it is not his property if you don't pay taxes.For these reasons, he is not a bird, after all, he has lost a lot of interests.

However, when Li Ruolian gave him the letter written by Emperor Chongzhen, as well as his materials and the materials of the Japanese country, Zheng Zhilong was shocked.

You must know that in this era, when information and communication still rely on horses, the cost of obtaining information from afar is very high.It can even be said that no matter how much you invest, the news will lag behind, and it is impossible to get comprehensive news.

Not to mention, the news about Wa country is across the sea.

As far as the entire Ming Dynasty is concerned, if Zheng Zhilong dare to say that he knows the Wa Kingdom, if he is only the second, it is impossible for anyone to be the number one.

However, among the materials given to him by Emperor Chongzhen, there is very comprehensive news, and in recent years, even he has not paid attention to the news, and Emperor Chongzhen has these materials.

In addition, in these news, there are even some major events that will happen in the country of Wa. The internal affairs of the country, from the current emperor to the samurai who have lost their masters, are all involved.

Also, there are many things about Zheng Zhilong's own information that he thought no one would know, but it turns out that they are all in this information.After he saw it, he had a feeling that he was naked in front of the current emperor, and he could see it clearly!
As a businessman, Zheng Zhilong couldn't understand how useful it would be to obtain such information.It is absolutely impossible for mortals to obtain such news. The only explanation is that the Emperor Taizu appeared and used the means of gods, then everything can be explained.

After being shocked, Zheng Zhilong immediately found a reason for himself.Even Xu Guogong and other prominent nobles of the Ming Dynasty have to abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, so he is just a general soldier, so what is there to complain about?

Moreover, Emperor Chongzhen also promised him in the letter that if he did this well, he would hand over the Daming steam ironclad warship to him when he returned, so that he could fight in all directions, easily obtain military merit and be conferred a title.

Also, his fifth younger brother went to America, as long as he can come back as planned, he will also be knighted.

As for his son Zheng Sen, Emperor Chongzhen revealed to him that he planned to let him succeed Li Ruolian in the future and become the emperor's most trusted general, the commander of Jinyiwei.

Even his second son in the country of Wa, Emperor Chongzhen, allowed him to bring him back to join the army in the country of Wa, so that he could become famous in the future.

All these things can be said to be a combination of kindness and power, which convinced Zheng Zhilong, and he dared not have a little dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty, or the Chongzhen Emperor.

Even leaving aside the matter of Emperor Taizu, he had seen the iron-clad steam warship before, and he knew very well that the sea in the future would definitely be ruled by iron-clad steam warships.If he dared to resist the court, the court's navy composed of steam ironclad warships would definitely crush him!
At this time, they were chatting, the ship was getting closer and closer to the port, and the Japanese over there had already noticed the two ships.

Seeing this, Li Ruolian said to Zheng Zhilong: "I've arrived in the Wa Kingdom, and I'll be your bodyguard from now on, don't show your feet, just order me around!"

Zheng Zhilong smiled and said: "For the sake of the imperial court, I can only be wronged by the Commander!"

After hearing this, Li Ruolian smiled silently, but didn't answer.

Zheng Zhilong's two boats are hung with his very conspicuous command flag, so that people can tell at a glance that they are Zheng's boats.

As for the Zheng family's ships, needless to say, they are all very famous along the southeast coast of Daming, including Korea, Japan, and Nanyang.

After someone on the shore noticed it, a person suddenly jumped up, showing an overjoyed expression, and then ran away.

The people of the Japanese country at the port were also alarmed, and rushed to tell each other. After a while, the boat hadn't landed yet, and there were already a lot of people waiting on the shore.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the Nagasaki Wharf, and still felt a little emotional in his heart. After leaving before, he hadn't been back for many years.

This Nagasaki, in his impression, was far more lively than what he saw now.

The reason, of course, Zheng Zhilong also knows, is because the Tokugawa shogunate started the sea ban order.

Although the sea ban was never aimed at people from the Ming Dynasty, it banned maritime merchants from other countries, and only Hongyi could barely trade with Japan, which made Zheng Zhilong's protection fees at sea very unfavorable. It's what he doesn't like.

However, he has no choice but to implement the ban on the sea in Japan.

Now that he has come here, it is also a very difficult task to help Jianlu go to alliance with the Wa Kingdom. To be honest, he has no idea whether he can achieve it.

While thinking in my heart, the ship slowly docked, and people from the Wa country were waiting on the shore.

Naturally, they would never have thought that Zheng Zhilong would go to the Wa Kingdom in person.Those Japanese people who recognized him in the crowd were immediately very pleasantly surprised, and everyone thought that Zheng Zhilong had a big deal at his door.

Zheng Zhilong is naturally sophisticated and handy when it comes to interpersonal communication.

Talking about people when seeing people, talking nonsense when seeing ghosts, even though I haven't been to the Wa country for many years, I can handle it with ease.

They were talking and exchanging pleasantries here, and there was commotion on the shore again, but someone came again.

Because of Zheng Zhilong's arrival, the pier was already surrounded by water, and many people admired the pirate king.

But now these onlookers gave way one after another. This movement was a bit big, and it also attracted Zheng Zhilong's attention.

When I heard the sound and looked over, it happened that the visitor had already passed through the crowd, and I saw each other in a blink of an eye.

At this moment, the people on both sides froze.

Li Ruolian pretended to be Zheng Zhilong's personal guard, and since he couldn't understand Japanese, he naturally had more energy to check who was coming.

I saw the person in the head, a woman in her forties, dressed in a bright suit.At this time, his face was very excited, and there were even sparkles in his eyes.

Beside this woman, stood a boy of about eighteen years old, but he was dressed in Japanese clothes, and his face also had excitement, but also a trace of awe and fear.

They all came to Wa country, Li Ruolian knew that he had understood the situation here.

Seeing him at this moment, he probably guessed that this woman should be Zheng Zhilong's wife Tian Chuan in the Japanese country, and the young Japanese is Zheng Zhilong's second son, adopted to Tian Chuan's side, it seems to be called Tian Chuan Shichizaemon .

Before coming to Wa Kingdom, he heard from Emperor Chongzhen that he seemed to have a good impression of this Tian Chuan clan.He could feel that it was definitely not because Tian Chuan was Zheng Sen's biological mother.However, Emperor Chongzhen didn't say what the specific reason was, so he naturally couldn't ask.

At this time, the other Japanese naturally recognized the person who came, and when they saw their husband and wife meeting, they were very acquainted, and they didn't surround Zheng Zhilong anymore, they just let Zheng Zhilong go to rest first with a smile.

Before Zheng Zhilong, he had actually wanted to take Tian Chuan and his second son back to Daming, but the Japanese side disagreed.The second time, that is, in October of the first year of Longwu in Nanming, when he wanted to take them back to Daming again, the Japanese side finally let go, but only let Tian Chuan go back.

(End of this chapter)