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Chapter 549 Haiyang Port

On the day the North Pacific Exploration Fleet received the telegram from Nanjing, it sent a frigate south to Japan to check the situation on the Chinese continent.

The rest of the fleet built a temporary base in the ice-free port of Ezo Island.

The fleet carries a lot of various tools. There is a forest not far from the beach. It is convenient to cut down wood and build docks and camps...
Kujo Nobuno squatted on the deck, snoring. After a while, he finished a large bowl of salted fish porridge, and he felt completely comfortable.

Only then did he have the intention to look carefully at this group of strange people and think about why they were here.

As a well-established samurai, Kujo Nobuno had heard his master speak Chinese many times. Looking at the Chinese characters on the flags of these ships, he had to suspect that this group of people came from Dachu.

However, if these people really came from Dachu, why would they ask him what dynasty China was in?
And after hearing that it was Dachu, why were you so surprised?

His knowledge was really limited and he couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

However, he felt that no matter where this group of people came from, they would be a chance for him to survive or even turn around.

Seeing that these people started cutting wood and digging soil after landing, they seemed to want to build a camp here. Kujo Nobuno thought hard for a while and finally came up with an idea.

He immediately called Jiliwala to the soldiers guarding him.

Several soldiers didn't understand, so they called Li Xiangen.

After hearing this, Li Xiangen was slightly surprised and said: "You mean, there are several villages in the mountains and forests. There are grains and young men in the villages. We can rob the grain and women and capture the young men to work?"

"Hai!" Kujo Shino nodded excitedly.

"As you said, those villages are all of your own race, and you actually betrayed them?"

Kujo Shino said: "It's not about betrayal - they are all exiles or descendants of exiles. They should have helped new exiles like me."

"However, over the past year or so, not only have they not accepted me, they have often opposed me."

"Now that I am your master's servant, I naturally ask them to help you obtain food, women and labor."

Although Li Xiangen doesn't like looting, he also knows that the fleet does need to replenish supplies.

So he took Jiu Tiao Xinye and reported the matter to Shi Lang.

"There is actually a village?"

Shi Lang was quite surprised, and then asked Jiujiao Shinye through Li Xiangen about the information about those villages.

Shi Lang felt relieved when he learned that there were only a few dozen people in small villages, two or three hundred people in large villages, and the total number of people in several villages was less than a thousand.

He immediately asked Wang Yi to take the Land War Camp, Jiu Tiao Xinye, and a batch of goods to do business with these villages.

Before leaving, Shi Lang explained: "It would be best if they are willing to trade food and labor; if they are not willing, you might as well let them know what the power of Da'ei's army is, do you understand?"

"I will finally understand!"

In fact, Shi Lang was overly worried.

When Wang Yi led 300 Marine Battalion soldiers outside each village, no village dared to refuse the deal. Not to mention, what Wang Yi was carrying was cloth, a hard currency that was very rare in Ezo.

Of course, at first these Japanese were only willing to trade some grain and were not willing to take risks to work for the fleet.

But after seeing the power of the Marine Battalion's muskets, no one dared to refuse.

The short Japanese were young and strong, and they reluctantly said goodbye to their wives. With a dying mentality, they left the village and came to the port to help the fleet do hard work such as logging and digging.

After the Marine Corps completed the mission of "trading" with the Japanese on Ezo Island, they did not take any time off. They also asked several hunters from the village to hunt in the forest before it started to snow, preparing to hoard a batch of meat.

There are one or two thousand soldiers in the fleet. Although there is still a lot of food on the ship and some have been traded with the Japanese villagers, it is always right to store more. A few days later.

Kujo Nobuno, who had taken a shower and changed into new clothes, acted as a supervisor like a dog.

However, he couldn't be happy at all when he saw those young fellows happily drinking salted fish porridge.

Because the scene before him was completely beyond his imagination.

In his expectation, these people had powerful force and should directly attack the villages, steal the food and women, capture the young men, and beat them with whips to work.

But now, this group of people only used some cloth in exchange for food and the services of these hateful villagers.

This was really beyond his expectation.

But he didn't dare to mean anything to this. Instead, he wanted to continue to show his value, work as a supervisor for this group of people, and supervise the work of the young men of the same clan...
In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, and it is late December.

The port named "Hai Duang" has been covered with snow more than a foot deep due to weather changes.

Fortunately, the fleet took advantage of these ten days to accumulate enough firewood and built a simple dock.

As for the houses, only dozens of simple wooden houses have been built - such wooden houses are not suitable for habitation in the severe winter and can only be used to store firewood.

Fortunately, the cabins of several ships are the best houses. As long as there is enough firewood, the fleet can survive this winter safely.

This day.

The frigate that went to Japan finally came back.

Huang Tao and Zheng Zunqian, who were in charge, did not bother to rest after landing ashore, and went directly to Shi Lang and Wang Shouzhe to share the news they had learned.

"We went to the south and asked three Japanese nobles about the situation in China. The results proved that Kujo was not lying. The name of China's current dynasty is indeed called 'Dachu'."

Zheng Zunqian took a sip of hot wine to warm himself up, his tone full of emotion.

"According to one of the most knowledgeable older nobles, the founder of the Chu Kingdom was named Xiong Mingyuan, and his origins are unknown."

"About two hundred years ago, this man came out of nowhere and destroyed the Song Dynasty first, and then the Jin Dynasty and Xixia."

"Later, the Chu Taizu insisted on an expedition to the grasslands to wipe out the newly emerged Mongolia, but he died of a sudden illness on the way."

"So the war between Chu and Mongolia ended with no end... Later, the war between Chu and Mongolia was mutually beneficial, and no one could destroy the other."

Hearing this, Wang Shouzhe couldn't help but ask, "What's the situation in Dachu now? What's the strength of the army?"

Zheng Zunqian said speechlessly: "How do the small nobles of the Japanese country know this kind of thing? In their mouths, Da Chu is the kingdom of heaven and has always been very powerful."

"If we want to know more and more detailed information about Dachu, we have to wait until spring and take another boat trip to the big city of Japan."

"According to those nobles, there are occasionally businessmen from Dachu in the big city. I think such people must know the current situation of Dachu."

Wang Shouzhe nodded slightly, "Forget it, let's wait until the spring begins before sending someone there. However, since it has been confirmed that China is indeed the Great Chu, we should send a message to the Holy One first."

After saying that, Wang Shouzhe went to find the telecommunications team in person.

However, when thinking about the legends about Taizu of Chu told by Zheng Zunqian, he always felt that they were inexplicably similar to His Majesty.

They all have unknown origins, and they seem to appear from nowhere, bringing an end to troubled times and unifying the world in one fell swoop.

He couldn't help but wonder to himself, could it be that Xiong Mingyuan, Taizu of Chu, was the reincarnation of an immortal like the Holy One?

(End of this chapter)