If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 166 Dragon Ball
At this time, there was a hot spring annex outside Fukuoka City. Soldiers from the Qingyu Guards surrounded the place from three floors inside and three floors outside, setting up tight defenses around it.

With the strength of Qingyu Guards' defense of a thousand households, even if three to five thousand Japanese attack, they will not be able to defeat this annex. This place can be said to be the safest place on Kyushu Island today.

This annex was originally built by the daimyo of Fukuoka Castle for his own enjoyment, and no one else would come here at ordinary times.

However, even so, there are servants and maids left by the daimyo to maintain it regularly to ensure that the annex is in a state that can be used at any time.

And the annex is not just a hot spring bath, but a large area of ​​land around it is also the property of the annex. There are even small samurai residences where soldiers and small samurai can be stationed around the annex, which has certain military defense capabilities.

According to the standards of the Japanese state, this place can be regarded as the territory of a middle- and lower-level retainer.

However, as the Fukuoka daimyo and his city were reduced to ashes by Zhu Zhanchun, it naturally became Zhu Zhanchun's private property.

Along with this, the servants and maids in the villa also became Zhu Zhanchun's personal property.

In this era, even in the Ming Dynasty, people were sold into slavery, and slaves were regarded as property rather than people.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang had promulgated laws in the early Ming Dynasty to restrict slave ownership, the opening of allowing slave ownership made it impossible for those gentlemen who had to be served by others to eat, drink, and have sex, not to keep slaves.

As for Lao Zhu's rule that only 20 slaves can be kept in the prince's family, people took it a little seriously in the early Ming Dynasty. Even when Lao Zhu was here, the prince's family had more than [-] slaves, but no one Just go and dig into this kind of thing.

The Ming Dynasty was like this, and it was even more so in a country like Japan that did not treat its people as human beings at all.

For the Japanese daimyo, the people under their rule are nothing more than renewable resources and property, and they can even be killed at will.

This is simply a tacit rule in the Japanese country. Civilians can be deprived of their lives at will in front of samurai, so that samurai can chop off the heads of civilians just because civilians look at them.

As for the fact that the subjects are the assets of the lord, it does not even need to be stated in documents. Those daimyo and their vassals only need to provide proof that the land is their own fiefdom, so whether it is the population on the land or the Anything else will be deemed to be the lord's private property by default.

In the Japanese country, if a lord or a samurai master visited a village, and the beautiful girls in the village were used as maids, it was even a common rule that the village chief would be offered as a gift without having to rob the village chief. Girl.

Of course, bandits or non-lord warriors still cannot enjoy this treatment.

But for the villages around Fukuoka, the Ming army that had captured Fukuoka was now considered the owner of this land, and even if it was only temporary, it was not something that these civilians could afford to offend.

So when Zhu Zhanjun came to the annex and planned to take a bath in the hot springs here, it was not unusual for the steward who stayed here to offer his daughter to him.

Even for the steward and his daughter, being able to be presented to a noble person is a blessing in their eyes. After all, if the noble person takes a fancy to her, it will be a meteoric rise.

But how could such a person of unknown origin come into contact with the noble Ming Dynasty vassal king and still think of becoming a successful person?

Not to mention the dedicated steward's daughter, the servants and maids of the annex were all under guard and had no access to Zhu Zhanyu.The only ones who can really come into contact with Zhu Zhanjun are those eunuchs who are ordered to serve him. Not to mention others who come into contact with him, even his daily diet must be made in duplicate. After many poison tests, he will be served. Give Zhu Zhanchen something to eat.

And this is because the conditions in the Japanese country are inconvenient. If they are in the palace, the royal family's diet must be made in triplicate, one to test the poison, one to archive, and the last one is actually used for the royal family.

Not only that, when cooking, every process from purchasing to cooking is supervised and inspected to prevent problems.

If something goes wrong with the food, the imperial doctor will immediately check the archived portion to see if there is any problem and whether the ingredients are conflicting or allergic.

One can imagine how difficult it would be for strangers to get in touch with the royal family when there were so many checks just for eating.

Unless Zhu Zhanchuan thought about it himself, it would be difficult for anyone to easily contact a powerful vassal king.

Even the messenger who reported the military situation had to be notified before he could deliver the news to Zhu Zhancheng.

And this was one of the ways eunuchs made money in later Ming and Qing dynasties.

Of course, for the eunuchs who were still in the early Ming Dynasty, although they already had the door-to-door bag, they did not dare to blatantly intercept military information. The eunuchs around Zhu Zhanyu were not to the level of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty in later generations.

After receiving the military report sent by the messenger, a eunuch quickly entered the inner courtyard of the annex with the military report and reported to Zhu Zhankun.

But when the eunuch stood at the door of the inner courtyard and looked at the closed door in front of him, he shuddered and swallowed hard twice before he plucked up the courage to report loudly: "Your Highness, Fan Zhong. The general sent a military report. Our army met the Japanese army in the field a few days ago. After a fierce battle for half a day, more than [-] of the Japanese army of [-] were wiped out. Our army beheaded a thousand people and captured more than [-] Japanese soldiers. A great victory!"

"This Fan Zhong, when did he learn to lie about military information? Let him get twenty military sticks and give him the truth in return." At the door, Zhu Zhanquan knew as soon as he heard that the military report was full of water, and there was a hint of trepidation in his tone. dissatisfied.

The eunuch who reported this was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and almost knelt on the ground.

Seeing that Zhu Zhanqun had no other instructions, the eunuch hurriedly retreated as if he had been granted amnesty.

It's not that this eunuch is timid, but that Zhu Zhanchun is indeed a bit scary at this time.

If you open the door at this time, you can see that the hot spring pool that was originally a small pool has now been expanded into a deep pool. In the deep pool filled with white mist, Zhu Zhanquan is not immersed in the water with his body. Instead, the body of a true dragon appeared, with most of the body immersed in the deep pool, leaving only the dragon's head exposed.

This is not because Zhu Zhanqi has any special hobbies after cultivating the true dragon body, but when he used the true dragon body to smash Fukuoka City, he found that there was something abnormal about his true dragon body, and the power of the thunder he summoned was stronger than his. It was many times bigger than he expected. He was worried, so he used the hot spring to check himself.

"It's strange! It's strange! When did my real dragon body get an extra dragon ball?" Zhu Zhanquan checked it and was surprised by what he found.

(End of this chapter)