Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 568: Drawing a Map

After hearing this, Zheng Zhilong immediately replied: "Last night, I asked about the situation in the Wa country. As His Majesty said, the situation in the Wa country is not very good!"

Speaking of this, seeing the doubt in Li Ruolian's eyes, he explained: "The previous Shimabara Rebellion was a big one, and the Tokugawa shogunate took a lot of effort to suppress it. Even so, there are still people everywhere. It’s more chaotic, and various things emerge one after another. The reason is that the samurai have no income and are making trouble. They can’t do other jobs, they can only fight and use force. Originally, the shogunate is indeed trying to solve it.”

After a pause, Zheng Zhilong smiled and said: "However, once the news spread that Jianlu was going to send North Korea to the Japanese country, the methods used by the shogunate to appease those warriors suddenly became very ineffective. Not only those who are unemployed The samurai, including those who are currently under the command of the major names, and even those samurai controlled by the Tokugawa shogunate themselves, all want to own Korea very much."

"The most senior officials of the Tokugawa shogunate may want to be cautious, but such a big public opinion, or the public opinion of the samurai, cannot be ignored." Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "The news Those who spread out, this is the army of the Tokugawa shogunate, grabbing the seven inches of the Tokugawa shogunate. It's amazing!"

Hearing this, Li Ruolian thought about it seriously, and asked his question: "Could it be possible that those warriors can defeat their king?"

This kind of thing is unimaginable in the Ming Dynasty.

If you have to explain, the Ming Dynasty is big enough, and the situation in different places is different.For example, Qin rebelled, and it was impossible for all other places to follow suit.

However, the Wa Kingdom is different. At this time, the Wa Kingdom, the Ryukyu Kingdom is still independent, and Hokkaido is also called Ezo Land. It has not yet been annexed by the Wa Kingdom. It belongs to primitive tribes, just like North America at this time.

The country of Wa is small, and under natural disasters, the whole country is basically affected by the disaster, and the life of the whole country is poor together. The public opinion gathered from this is the public opinion of the whole country of Wa.

In the history of the Wa country, it is not uncommon for the lower to overcome the upper, and perhaps this is one of the reasons.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong was not clear about it. He just nodded in response to Li Ruolian's doubts, and then explained: "Of course, there is another point. The shogun should still have ambitions. If there is one that is easy to get Territory, he also wants. For example, Ryukyu was invaded by the Japanese country, and the king was emptied, and everything was decided by the Japanese!"

When Li Ruolian heard this, he immediately shouted angrily: "It's unreasonable, Ryukyu is a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, how dare you covet Ryukyu, have you asked me if Da Ming!"

Zheng Zhilong was not angry, and said to Li Ruolian: "If the news of the strength of our Ming Dynasty reaches Ryukyu, I believe the king of Ryukyu will definitely ask my Ming Dynasty for help!"

In fact, Ryukyu at this time has already sent people to seek help from Daming.This point is the same as in the original history.It's just that in the original history, when the Ryukyu envoys arrived in Daming, Emperor Chongzhen happened to hang himself, and Jianlu invaded, and the Central Plains were in chaos, so naturally they couldn't ask for any reinforcements.

When Li Ruolian heard Zheng Zhilong's words, he quickly calmed down, pondered for a moment, and said to Zheng Zhilong with a little pride: "In this way, the reason why the Japanese court is cautious is because they care about me, Daming!"

"That's right!" Zheng Zhilong nodded immediately after hearing this, "So when I was talking to that Mei Chuan Neiku yesterday, I revealed part of the news to him as we had agreed, which is considered to echo Jianlu's words. I estimate that he will definitely report my matter to Edo."

Nagasaki is the only place where Japan stipulates foreign trade. It is impossible for Tokugawa Iemitsu's confidant to become the practice here.Zheng Zhilong can guarantee that his estimation is absolutely correct.

Li Ruolian couldn't help being very surprised when he heard this, "Why does this Japanese man have such a strange name? Doesn't he wear underwear?"

"Hahaha..." Zheng Zhilong laughed as soon as he heard it, and said to him, "The names of Japanese people are all like this, as well as my grandson Tomomi, Anan Qiang, my wife Shinji, pig nose Chihiro, ** Naoki, etc. It’s very strange to people in my Ming Dynasty, but they think this name is normal. By the way, only those who have status in the Wa Kingdom have surnames, and ordinary people don’t have surnames!”

Li Ruolian immediately laughed when he heard this, but he didn't pay too much attention to this, and immediately said to Zheng Zhilong: "Then we will just wait for the movement from the Japanese imperial court, and then play by ear?"

"Yes!" Zheng Zhilong nodded and said, "We can just wait!"

Speaking of this, he thought for a while and then said: "I have a lot of people here, so I can take advantage of this time to draw a map of the Wa country, as well as the distribution of forces, which may be useful in the future!"

"That's right!" Li Ruolian immediately showed approval, nodded and said, "If you present this map, His Majesty will be very happy!"

Both of them knew that the emperor decided to use troops against the country of Japan to destroy the country of Japan. Since this is the case, this map is very important!

So Zheng Zhilong explained the matter.Of course, he would not be so stupid as to explain the real purpose, but used his Zheng family's trade in the Japanese country as a cover. This was the true nature of the Zheng family, so no one doubted it.

In the following days, Zheng Zhilong just stayed in the mansion and didn't go anywhere.

However, dignitaries from all over the country, including those who represent daimyo, came to him openly or secretly. Anyway, in the eyes of Li Ruolian, Zheng Zhilong basically didn't have much time to really be free.

It can also be seen from this how much influence Zheng Zhilong has in the country of Wa.

But there is one thing that makes him more regretful is that he doesn't know a foreign language, and he can't understand their chat at all.

On the contrary, Zheng Zhilong, when he met Japanese people visiting, he spoke Japanese language;

In short, it seems that there is no Zheng Zhilong who can't.After discovering this, Li Ruolian also secretly admired it.This Zheng Zhilong is really a talent!
That's it, about a month later, it was already early winter, Li Ruolian lived here, and also tried to learn a little Japanese, and he was able to speak some basic words.

Missi, Missi, Sayunara, starlings, etc., all know it, but if you want to express it longer, you still can’t.

During this period of time, he also knew that there was an active volcano not far from Nagasaki, that is, in the territory of the Satsuma Domain.This made him very surprised, after all, he had never seen a mountain that spewed fire and fog in the Ming Dynasty.

Hearing his surprise, Zheng Zhilong smiled and said to him: "There are many volcanoes like this here in Japan. It is actually common for earth dragons to turn over. It is nothing more than a little bigger or a little smaller. In addition , There may also be hurricanes, tsunamis, etc., so many disasters are not just talking!"

After hearing this, Li Ruolian thought about it, and asked Zheng Zhilong, "Then this is why the Japanese want to invade Korea?"

"It's possible!" Zheng Zhilong didn't give a definite answer after hearing this, but just replied, "Expanding territories should be a favorite of any emperor or king, right?"

When it came to this topic, Li Ruolian couldn't help but think of the general in power in the Wa Kingdom. He is still in his prime at this age. He is really willing to give up a great opportunity and just stay in his own nest?
Under such doubts, someone from Edo finally came.It was Tokugawa Iemitsu, the general of the Tokugawa shogunate, who was very happy when he heard that Zheng Zhilong had arrived in Japan, and warmly invited him to Edo as a guest.And there is also a meaning behind the words, this invitation cannot be refused!

The looming threat other than being polite made Tian Chuanmatsu very worried.

In fact, the reason why Zheng Zhilong never went to Japan again after his successful career was not only because he had an official position in Daming, but also because he was the God of Wealth.

Previously, he wanted to take Tian Chuansong and his second son back to Daming, but the Japanese side had always refused because of Zheng Zhilong, the God of Wealth.

But now, Zheng Zhilong actually went to the Wa Kingdom in person. If the Wa Kingdom covets his wealth and is not good for him, such as placing him under house arrest, it is possible for his fleet to serve the Wa Kingdom and the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Therefore, Tagawa Matsu was a little worried that the Tokugawa shogunate had this idea.

But helplessly, the shogun's order had already been issued, even if Zheng Zhilong wanted to leave at this time, he might not be able to.

Regarding her worries, Zheng Zhilong did not have any abnormalities, and even comforted Tian Chuanmatsu, and then, under the urging of the visitor, he set off for Edo.

Because Tokugawa Iemitsu was in a hurry, Zheng Zhilong and his party first crossed Kyushu Island quickly, and then rushed to Edo after crossing the sea.

This way of traveling is indeed fast, but it will be tiring.Anyone with a discerning eye would know that this is by no means the real way of hospitality, definitely not the kind of hospitality intended to clean up Zheng Zhilong, but something else.

As for what was going on, whether it was Zheng Zhilong or Li Ruolian, they knew it all in their hearts, and they didn't complain about it.

Along the way, it happened that Li Ruolian had a basic understanding of the entire Wa country.

In terms of its prosperity, it is really far worse than Daming.In the fields, many Japanese people were not fully clothed.There are also many ronin with knives, doing some things with malicious intentions in villages, towns, official roads, and even other places.

If it weren't for Zheng Zhilong and his party, who were all strong and strong, and followed by a troop of soldiers from the Tokugawa shogun, it would be hard to say whether something would happen on the road.

(End of this chapter)