Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1180
Almost all the people on the island are fishermen, and all of them are good at driving boats.The Ming people living on the island even exaggeratedly said that the islanders are as light as an arrow.

The people here, like the people in Wudao, were descendants of the rampant Japanese pirates—their ancestors followed the ships of the great Chinese pirate merchants to the coast of Daming to plunder every year less than 100 years ago. The vanguard of the charge.

In addition, they are also good at diving to catch abalones and sea cucumbers, catching sharks, and making shark fins—these are all skills learned because of the needs of Chinese businessmen. Every year, a large number of fish are transported from here to Daming and exchanged for Tang ships. Lucky to get "treasures".

The island owner's daimyo, Matsuura, is a daimyo that has continued since before the Warring States period, and it can be regarded as the oldest family among Japanese daimyos.

The feudal lord here is named Matsushima.Like the famous Wudao family of the Fujiang clan, it is also named Miao after the place.

It is said that the origin of Matsuura's surname is called Saga Genji.But in the past, he used to call himself Hira or Fujiwara.This is a common phenomenon of clinging among daimyo.

It is said that the ancestors of the Matsuura family were brave and powerful warriors from the Eastern Kingdom. The Yamato court moved them to the coast of Chikushi as garrison soldiers to resist the barbarians-these barbarians covered in pigskin and covered in lard were the ancestors of the Jurchens. Driving a simple raft made of logs, he burned, killed and looted along the coast of the Japanese archipelago along the current.

Entering the Heian period, the system became nominal, and the central government forgot their existence.The garrison soldiers who were abandoned on the wilderness formed their own factions and took weapons and land as their own.Before and after the Kamakura period, several samurai groups called "party" had been formed to fight against each other.Many independent "pavilions" have been formed.Become a "water army" that harasses the coast.The ancestors of the Matsuura family grew up slowly in this long and chaotic historical era, and eventually became the overlord of the upper and lower Matsuura areas.

In the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Matsuura family also participated in the attack on North Korea.After the Battle of Sekigahara, because he was neutral in his hands, he was able to continue to exist under the family name of 3000 two hundred stones.It is much larger than the Fukue domain with only [-] stones, which shows the importance of Hirado's overseas trade to the Matsuura family.

The terrain of Hirado Island is rugged, and the roads are almost all slopes.There is only a small flat place called the front of the palace where stone walls are built, raised with rammed earth, and paved with stone slabs. This is called the trading square of the "Portugal Wharf Market". Zhejiang ships and red-haired Nanman ships with sails made of cotton cloth also dock here.
Zhou's ship anchored here.After the ship docked, the sailors of the Zhou family began to unload the cargo, while the elders were led by Ping Kefu to a building with Zhou Xingru's name card.

In the evening, a banquet was held in the museum for the "Australian maritime merchants" who came from afar.It was a young man who received them. The young man had a new generation of hair, and the hair was combed from the back to the top of the head. His appearance was very refreshing. It seemed that he would never be older than thirty.This place should be a merchant's shop, but the people who come here are dressed like a samurai family.Ping Qiusheng thinks this is not surprising, Kyushu was originally the lair of Japanese pirate merchants, and most of the so-called naval forces are like this-the head of the Wudao family also started his business in this way.Most of these navy troops did not get mixed up until Toyotomi Hideyoshi's conquest of Kyushu: separated from the level of "nationals" and "wild samurai", they can be regarded as upright samurai.

Although the visitor was dressed as a martial artist, he treated people very enthusiastically, with shrewd eyes, and looked like a businessman.The rise of Hirado benefited from foreign merchants, who were cash cows for the local samurai.So much so that Ming's merchant ships were called "treasures" in Hirado.

After the guests and hosts were seated, Ping Kefu introduced that this young man is the "house owner" Hamada Shinzo, whose father is the famous Hamada Yahei.

Hamada Yahei, originally an unknown Japanese, became a famous figure in the history of East Asian foreign relations because of the conflict with the Dutch East India Company, which led to the "Hamada Yahei Incident".

Although the result of this incident ended with the surrender of the Netherlands, looking at the entire incident, the greed of the Dutch, the arrogance of the Japanese, Zheng Zhilong's power, and the law of the East Asian sea jungle have all been fully supported in this incident. show.

In the final analysis, the "Hamada Yahei incident" has a crucial relationship with Zheng Zhilong's monopoly position in the coastal areas of Fujian, and Hirado is also the place where Zheng Zhilong started his family - it is not an exaggeration to say that it is his base camp in Japan.

If he could block his trade here, break his monopoly, and replace it with the monopoly of the Senate, the Zheng Zhilong Group would be seriously injured due to the loss of a large amount of economic resources, or even lose without a fight.This is why the Executive Committee has to approve the start of trade with Japan at this time.

In summer, Ming merchant ships would not sail to Japan—the Tang ships to Japan would sail only in winter.This gap period is enough for them to do many things.If Zhao Yingong worked a little harder, it would not be impossible to rewrite the new history of Sino-Japanese trade.

When Zheng Zhilong's An Haichuan came to Japan again... Elder Ping couldn't help feeling complacent.

The banquet was quite sumptuous, at least better than Ping Qiusheng expected.He had read a few books, and saw that the "imperial food" enshrined to the emperor was also very shabby: just more dried fish with seafood.This is an island, so at most, there should be more seafood—he's already tired of eating this.Now it is served with dried meat dipped in sauce and roasted, which is fragrant.He tasted it, and it looked like chicken.

"Is this Samoyed Chicken?"

"Master Ping is rich in knowledge." Hamada can understand Chinese, although the Chinese has a strong accent of Nanzhili Mandarin, the meaning can be understood.

Now Ping Qiusheng praised the fatness of the chicken again. In fact, before coming to Japan, the cadres sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to Jeju Island asked Ping Qiusheng to collect some Satsuma chickens and transport them back to Jeju Island.Satsuma chicken is fat and fat, and it grows well, and it can adapt to the environment of Jeju Island. It will be of great help to solve the supply of meat and oil on the island in a short period of time. In the old time and space, Satsuma chicken was known as one of the three major native chickens in Japan. First, although the Satsuma chicken in this time and space has not been improved by the system, it tastes really good just now. Tell Ping Kefu to Zhang Luo.

In addition to the chicken breast, some grilled fish, various shellfish, and salt salt made from squid were also served.There are also rice, rice cakes, and of course miso soup, which Japanese people drink all year round and never get tired of drinking it every day.

The glass bottled rum brought by Ping Qiusheng also amazed the young curator, he drank two bottles in a row until he became a little tipsy.In Japan during the Tokugawa era, only wealthy businessmen had financial resources and were not bound by the etiquette of samurai and nobles, so they could pay attention to food.However, Japan's material conditions have always been limited, and it is quite backward in eating, drinking and enjoying.Especially Japanese wines—don’t look at the great reputation of Japanese sake in old times and space, and even formed a system similar to enology in the world, but Japan is still quite backward in the wine making industry at this time, and the wines on the market are mainly Grain fermented wine and shochu are still rare, let alone high-grade distilled wine like "Guo Shi Wu Shuang".

In the end, the servant served two side dishes after the meal, one was prunes, and the other was persimmon yokan. Hirayaki had some research on traditional Japanese snacks. Let alone whether the prunes are Nanko plums, this persimmon yokan is an authentic delicacy. Strong specialties are not available in Kyushu, and the enjoyment of the Hamada family is also very good.

Hamada repeatedly apologized, saying that his father was involved in the affairs of the main hotel in Nagasaki. Although Mr. Zhou had informed all the Australian guests that they were coming, he was in a hurry and could not prepare.From the conversation, I learned that the Hamada family is actually the agent of Noto Jiro, a big businessman in Nagasaki.Their main business is the import of raw silk from Quanzhou - this business is the largest business in Sino-Japanese trade, and it is very profitable.

Speaking of his father, it is inevitable to talk about the "Hamada Yahei Incident", and Hamada Shinzo couldn't help but feel elated—the envoy of the East India Company has arrived in Japan, which is a complete number. One of the parties involved, Da The governor-general of the member will also be handed over to the shogunate.In return, the shogunate would allow the re-entry of the blue ships to Japanese ports.

No matter from which angle you look at it, this matter can be regarded as a complete victory for the Japanese.But Shinzo Hamada didn't show much joy, because the root of the matter: Zheng Zhilong's monopoly still hasn't been resolved.

Under Ping Qiusheng's persuasive temptation, Hamada Shinzo drank a few more glasses, and couldn't help pulling out many things.

In recent years, the coast of Fujian has been controlled by the Zheng family. The Zheng family has almost monopolized the raw silk trade between Daming and Japan. If the Japanese want to buy raw silk in Quanzhou and ship it back to Japan, the Zheng family will never issue a command flag. , and it is basically difficult for the fleet without the Zheng Jialing flag to safely transport the goods back to Japan.This almost stuck the neck of the Japanese sea merchant holding the Zhuyin shape.

Either the Japanese maritime merchants would honestly pay 2100 taels of silver in exchange for the command flag, or they would risk being intercepted by Zheng Zhilong and losing all people, ships and cargo.

Hirado, in particular, has been an important gathering place for Chinese pirate merchants since the time of Wang Zhi.Both Zheng Zhilong and his former father-in-law Yan Siqi have their buildings here, and they are very powerful among the local Japanese, with many eyes and ears.

"I heard that his wife and son have gone to China."

"His father-in-law's family, Tagawa's, is still in Hirado." Hamada Xinzang's wine was half drunk, his face was already flushed, "There are many people working for him here. The feudal lord also looks at him differently."

Since the time of Yan Siqi, Chinese pirate merchants have enjoyed the same power as extraterritoriality in Hirado - almost the treatment of "foreign masters" for foreigners in the old time and space.

(End of this chapter)