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Chapter 434 Set sail

It is said that during the reign of Emperor Yu in ancient times, Boyi's son Ruomu was granted the title of Xu because he assisted in flood control.

During this period, the kings of the past dynasties worked hard to govern, and they "led Huaipu and saved the land of Xu", led Dongyi, and became a powerful eastern country that could challenge the authority of Emperor Zhou.

It's a pity that the descendants are unworthy. First, they were defeated by the king's master, and later they were involved in the whirlpool of the Wu-Chu struggle for hegemony because of the king's father's pride.

In the end, Sun Wu and Wu Zixu led the Wu army to destroy them.

It is said that after this battle, the remaining Xu royal family fled to sea under the protection of loyal ministers.

He led the Dongyi chiefs who were unwilling to surrender to Wu to establish a kingdom on the sea, and since then disappeared from the stage of the Central Plains' struggle for hegemony.

"I heard that envoys from the Great Kingdom were sailing here today. So many soldiers and generals have just arrived here."

The North Korean fisherman who was on the boat spoke fluent Jiangnan soft language, rowed the boat with his eldest son, and said with a smile to Zhu Houcong and the others beside him.

At this moment, the sky is clear in front of Juji Island, the sea is blue, and the view is wide. It is obviously a good time to go to sea.

Zhu Houcong was indeed surprised at first by the North Korean fishermen's words.

But later I saw that before the old man set sail, he spent two cans of fish oil and a stack of pancakes on the Japanese ronin who were wandering here and wanted to find some work, and recruited two sword-wielding samurai to accompany him.

Although Zhu Houcong and his group were armed with knives and swords, it seemed that they were not afraid of possible Japanese pirates and pirates on the road.

However, the boatman himself looked at Zhu Houcong, a group of burly men armed with sharp swords, and the Taoist monks.

I thought about the recent news that Japanese pirates led by the giant pirate Wang Heng attacked the king's merchant ship and hijacked fishermen to demand ransom from Tsushima Island.

I was worried about my life.

But looking at those huge treasure ships flying the flags of the Ming and Dynasties, slowly sailing out of the port towards Ryukyu.

This is one of the newly modified ships based on the Yongle treasure ship that the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty ordered North Korea to supervise the construction this year.

In order to supervise the construction of these warships, the imperial court ordered the chieftains of the newly pacified southwest and other places to select all the giant trees in the territory and supply them to the imperial court.

This matter was supervised by the Jinling court.

Officials from the Ministry of Works were dispatched to screen the timber.

Naturally, the chieftains in the southwest who had just seen the military power of the imperial court and witnessed the fate of the Luchuan Dynasty who dared to betray the imperial court had no objections.

In order to complete the empire's plan to quickly reorganize the navy.

The ancient trees close to human living areas in the southwest have been almost plundered.

A steady stream of towering trees flows down the river to Jinling.

Then they were shipped in batches to shipyards in Zhejiang and North Korea to supervise the construction of warships.

Thinking about it, with the escort of these giant ships, the pirates would no longer dare to appear randomly in the waters around North Korea during this period.

Li Shunmin couldn't help but smile on his face when he thought of this.

Seeing the young man dressed as a generous businessman from the Ming court in front of him, his eyes stayed on the two Japanese ronin standing on the bow of the ship holding knives and looking out.

Thinking of the rumors in recent years, Li Shunmin opened his mouth to explain.

"Master, don't think too much about it. They have settled here for many years. They have wives and children. They have nothing to do with those pirates and Japanese pirates. I can guarantee this, so please rest assured."

With that said, he handed the oar to his second son beside him, came to the bow of the boat, and said something unknown in the Japanese language in the ears of the ronin.

For a moment, under Zhu Houcong's gaze, the two Japanese ronin followed Li Sunchen and came to the front of Zhu Houcong and the other five.

Because the soldiers will be ordered to clean up the evil spirits and ghosts that wandered out of the Han Dynasty tombs.

For example, a certain evil spirit used the order of Emperor Wenchang to disrupt the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming court must not allow it to continue to exist.

Xu Youbang and Yu Dayou were ordered to lead the imperial troops to guard the various entrances to the discovered underground palace and to clear away the evil spirits entrenched in the area.

The Tianshi Dao disciples suffered heavy losses in the underground palace just now, except for Zhang Fawei who strongly requested to go with them. Others were sent back to nearby Taoist temples and imperial government offices for training.

During the period of recuperation, I could also help the place clean up the evil spirits that the place couldn't deal with, and the court really couldn't spare the time to deal with them before.

I saw two Japanese men walking towards the emperor with swords.

Gao Lin, the comforting general who was ordered to control the Jurchen tribes together with King Haixi, stared closely at the Japanese ronin in front of him.

His left hand has been subconsciously placed on the Miao Dao at his waist.

"It doesn't have to be..."

Zhu Houcong said softly.

The Japanese samurai on the left felt that he had been stared at by some kind of beast that was invincible to humans just for a moment.

His whole body was stiff, but his sight suddenly disappeared.

When he touched it back, his back was already wet with cold sweat.

He looked around nervously, but could not find the source of the sight.

A look of confusion flashed in his eyes.

Li Shunmin had already arrived in front of Zhu Houcong. In order to dispel Zhu Houcong's doubts, he spoke to the two ronin beside him in both Ming and Japanese languages.

"This is the owner who paid for the boat to go to Ryukyu this time. You two come to say hello."

The two Japanese samurai followed Akito's way and saluted Zhu Houcong.

Through Li Shunmin's translation.

Zhu Houcong knew the identities of these two people.

Japan was in civil strife, and the shogunate was no longer able to maintain its control over the daimyo everywhere.

In addition, there are maritime giants who want to take grain from the fire and obtain huge profits by monopolizing Japan's maritime trade. They are also encouraging daimyo from all over Japan to challenge the authority of the shogunate.

Western colonists and missionaries, Ming Dynasty pirates, Jurchen mercenaries, all forces attacked each other under the shogunate.

It made the already chaotic situation even more turbulent.

The two brothers were Japanese samurai who lost all their property during this turmoil and had to flee overseas with their families in order to escape the capture of the shogunate, daimyo and shogun.

Taking advantage of the sea breeze, the Li brothers took the opportunity to raise the sail.

The ship was driven rapidly towards the east by the wind and waves.

The small boat was not far away but mixed in with the fleet heading east, hanging behind the Ming fleet.

Many eastbound ships obviously had the same thoughts as Yi Sun-shin and others.

I want to use Akito's prestige to avoid the pirates who are roaming everywhere.

Li Shunmin and the two Japanese ronin saw nothing happened.

So I sat here and started chatting with Zhu Houcong.

It was already noon. A girl of sixteen or seventeen years old came from the bow of the boat and gave Yi Sun-shin and the two ronin two dried fish fillets each. The two ronin each got half a piece of cake, and Yi Sun-sin got one. One person only ate one piece.

Zhu Houcong politely declined the fisherman's kindness.

Watching the ronai who put salted fish and burritos together and feasted on them.

Zhu Houcong asked.

"The imperial court ordered the suppression of surrounding sea pirates half a year ago. Is it possible that these sea pirates can still be so rampant under the attack of the army?"

(End of this chapter)