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Chapter 548 Da Chu?

Wang Yi knew the importance of this Japanese prisoner, so he personally escorted him back to the seaside and took a speedboat to the flagship.

Shi Lang and others were quite surprised to see Wang Yi capture a "savage" so quickly.

Wang Yi gave a military salute to several people and said: "Report, we caught this person in the forest. From his words, he must be a Japanese."

Japanese?

Shi Lang, Wang Shouzhe and others all looked happy after hearing this.

After coming back to his senses, Shi Lang immediately said: "Go and ask Li Xiangen and Cheng Minghao to come over!"

Li and Cheng are the two translators who can speak Japanese.

Among them, Li Xiangen is a graduate of Nanjing University, and Cheng Minghao comes from a family of maritime merchants in Zhejiang. He has been doing business in Japan all year round and has a deep understanding of Japanese customs and even history.

The two of them were on the flagship and came quickly after hearing the news.

After hurriedly saluting Shi Lang and the others, the two started chatting with the savages in Japanese.

After a few words, Li Xiangen said: "This Japanese man's name is Kujo Shinno. He was originally a high-status samurai in Japan. He was exiled to Ezo for crimes more than a year ago."

Hearing this, everyone in Shi Lang looked even happier.

During the days when they were sailing at sea, they also had a certain understanding of the history and customs of the Japanese country.

Although I don't know what era the Japanese country here is in, samurai are better than civilians - because until the end of the Ming Dynasty, the civilians in Japan were also illiterate and ignorant groups, and they didn't even have surnames.

If this person is a civilian, it is difficult for them to get any useful information from him.

Samurai are different.

In some eras of Japan, samurai had the opportunity to transcend social classes and become nobles. As for the nobles of the Japanese country, even if their culture is not high, they should at least know the era they live in, right?
Even if a samurai is illiterate, he should know who the reigning king (emperor) of Japan is, right?
So, several people waited patiently with expectation.

Sure enough, not long after, Li Xiangen said: "According to what this person said, there are now two emperors in Japan, divided into the north and the south."

"He belongs to the Northern Dynasties. The current emperor of the Northern Dynasty of Japan is Emperor Komatsu. This year is the second year of Yuanzhong of the Northern Dynasty of Japan."

Although generals such as Shi Lang and Huang Tao had some understanding of Japanese history in the past year, they only had a general understanding and did not even know that Japan also had the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

As for who Emperor Komatsu was, and which year the second year of Yuanzhong in the Northern Dynasty of Japan corresponded to in Zhongyuan Zhongyuan, he was even less clear.

Shi Lang then urged: "Ask him if he knows which dynasty it is in China and what its name is."

Li Xiangen was speechless after hearing this: "Don't worry, Commander Shi. Although this man was a warrior of considerable status in the past, he may not know anything about China."

"We have to ask more questions to figure out which side of China is which dynasty now."

Li Xiangen just finished speaking.

Cheng Minghao, who was the main interrogator, frowned and said: "According to what this person said, the Northern Dynasty is actually in charge of the Japanese general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu."

When the staff officer Zheng Zunqian heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "It seems that the Japanese country not only had the Southern and Northern Dynasties like us, but also the phenomenon of powerful ministers in power."

However, military and political officer Wang Shouzhe was keen enough to notice that Cheng Minghao looked strange, so he asked: "Did Translator Cheng guess the age of China from this?"

Cheng Minghao nodded, hesitated slightly, and said: "If nothing unexpected happens, it is very likely that the former Ming Dynasty Emperor Hongwu is on the throne in China."

what? !

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty? !
Shi Lang and others were shocked when they heard this.

Although the Qian Ming Dynasty was extinct, they all grew up under the rule of Zhu Ming after all. They had heard countless stories about Emperor Hongwu when they were young.

If the Shenzhou here really is the emperor, they will have to consider the matter of going to Shenzhou in the long run.

At this time, Li Xiangen subconsciously asked in Japanese.

"Do you know what the name of the Chinese Dynasty is now?"

During the interrogation between the two of them, they had been coerced and promised that as long as they cooperated in answering the questions, they would be given food soon, so Kujo Nobuno was still very active in answering the questions.

Hearing this, he said: "Of course I know this, it's Da Chu."

Li Xiangen and Cheng Minghao were stunned when they heard this. Dachu?

Shouldn't it be Daming?
Did they hear it wrong? Or is this Japanese man lying?
Li Xiangen came to his senses and asked, "Are you sure it's 'Da Chu', not 'Da Ming' or 'Dayuan'?"

Kujo Shino looked a little confused, "What's 'Da Ming' or 'Da Yuan'? I've never heard of it."

Hearing this, Li Xiangen and Cheng Minghao both frowned and their expressions became extremely serious.

Cheng Minghao said sternly: "If you don't know, just say you don't know. If we find out that you are making this up, we will never spare you!"

"I would never dare to deceive the nobles of the Kingdom." Kujo Nobuno quickly explained, "It has been a hundred or two hundred years since the founding of Chu. If you don't believe me, you can send a ship to the south to find a noble and ask."

Although several people spoke in Japanese, Shi Lang and others could not understand, but they realized something was wrong through the expressions of Li and Cheng.

Wang Shouzhe said: "Why do you two look like this? What did this person just say?"

Li Xiangen said: "This person said that China is not the Ming Dynasty, nor the Yuan Dynasty, but the Chu Dynasty. And this Chu Dynasty has been established for a hundred or two hundred years."

"how is this possible?"

Shi Lang, Huang Tao, Wang Shouzhe, and Zheng Zunqian all looked surprised after hearing this.

Even the two generals Shi Lang and Huang Tao knew that there was no dynasty called "Da Chu" in the history of China that was founded a hundred or two hundred years ago.

After coming back to his senses, Wang Shouzhe immediately said: "Ask him, does he know which dynasty China was in before the Great Chu?"

Li Xiangen translated.

Kujo Shino scratched his head and answered "Song", but said he was not sure.

Obviously, as a high-ranking samurai, Kujo Shino's information was limited.

No matter what Shi Lang and the others were thinking, they couldn't figure out what the situation was like in China right now.

Huang Tao said: "According to what the Holy One said, China here is most likely a dynasty before Zhu Ming, but it turns out not to be the case now. What should we do?"

Several people couldn't figure it out no matter how hard they tried.

So Wang Shouzhe said: "We can only inform the Holy Father of this news by telegram first."

"That's all it can do."

The others nodded in agreement.

···
Nanjing.

Forbidden City, Tianxin Palace.

Liu Sheng looked at the telegram that had just been sent, his face full of disbelief.

Dachu?

Has it been a hundred or two hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China?

Are you kidding me?

However, after calming down, Liu Sheng immediately made assumptions.

'Is it possible that the history there has undergone huge changes for some reason? '

'Or, is there simply a senior time traveler who changed history? '

Thinking of this, Liu Sheng wished he could fly over there immediately and figure out the matter as soon as possible.

But he knew that if he wanted to get proof of this, he would have to wait until the exploration fleet sent someone to Japan.

After putting down the telegram, Liu Sheng immediately said to Secretary Lang who was waiting for the order in the palace: "Ask the Telecommunications Office to send the report to the North Pacific Exploration Fleet, and ask them to send people to Japan as soon as possible to verify the relevant news about China mainland."

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)