Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

Nagasaki, Japan

The living room of the Huaxia Commercial Building in Japan, located on the edge of the port area, was densely packed with people. These people looked anxiously, looking left and right, but each of them tried their best to suppress their emotions, so the atmosphere in the living room seemed to be frozen.

Speaking of which, these fidgeters were victims of summer conflict.In view of the fact that the Nagasaki Executive Office did not give the Chinese merchants the due buffer period at all, after the Edo Shogunate promulgated the "Genroku Rixia Trading Style" and before the Chinese coastal provinces got the real news, there were no merchant ships from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian who came to Japan for trade. With one exception, all were detained, resulting in a considerable number of businessmen and ship owners losing their money and being forced to stay in Japan.

Since it was unreasonable to reason with the Japanese, the representatives of Sandu merchants who once had commercial relations also avoided seeing them. Therefore, the desperate Chinese merchants and ship owners had to ask the Huaxia Dynasty to come to the Nagasaki trading office.It is said to be a business house, but it is actually an embassy. As early as the Ming and Zheng Dynasties, Zheng Fan wanted to establish formal diplomatic relations with the shogunate. However, the shogunate deliberately delayed the reply. Therefore, until the establishment of the Huaxia Dynasty, the two sides still did not establish diplomatic relations.As a last resort, the Chinese court was forced to replace the embassy with a commercial house, and established a window for communication between the two parties in Nagasaki. Even so, due to the arrogance of the shogunate, the communication between the two parties was not smooth.

"Lord Dai is back, Lord Dai is back." A burst of noise came in, and the merchants present stood up one after another, rushing to the door to greet the arrival of the shop owner. "Master Dai, what do the Japanese say, can the cargo be returned to us?"

"Everyone," Dai Shuyong, who came to the main seat, shook his head towards the expectant eyes in front of him. "Nagasaki insists on refusing to return the seized cargo." As soon as this sentence came out, the last hope of the people present was shattered immediately. Some of the nervous ones were already crying, and Dai Shuyong suddenly yelled. "What are you panicking about?" Like a rooster being strangled by the throat, the crying stopped suddenly. "Today, the imperial court sent a notification ship to take everyone back to the country. As for your losses, just submit the manifest when boarding the ship, and Tonghai Bank will guarantee compensation."

Tonghai Bank is the property of the manager of the inner court, which is equivalent to Zheng Kezang losing money out of his own pocket. Is it possible that this is true?

Immediately, a surprised and delighted businessman blurted out and asked, "Master Dai, do you mean that the imperial court will compensate us?"

"How is it possible!" Dai Shuyong flatly denied. "I heard clearly that it is Tonghai Bank, not the imperial court."

The people present became more and more confused. Aren't the two the same thing?

Dai Shuyong explained: "The country's expenses have long been budgeted. How can a baht and a cent be embezzled? It's just that the sage is benevolent and willing to use internal funds to help the people. However, this kind of thing is only once. Go to sea at your own risk in the future. If you still want to get compensation, go to Tonghai and Sihai to buy new marine insurance."

Although I don't know what the new marine insurance of the two major banks is, but this time they were able to escape from death, the merchants present immediately smiled, and some clever ones immediately turned over and kowtowed at the country three times, bluffing. Everyone followed suit and chanted "The Holy One is kind, benevolent and loving for the people" in unison.

The captains of the merchants went back to pack their bags and prepared to board the ship to return to the country tomorrow. As soon as they left, the text of the merchant shop came together: "My lord, let them write their own manifests, how do you know if they will make false reports? As for the personal money of the Holy Majesty, should I go to the Nagasaki Enforcement Office to settle it?"

"No need." Dai Shuyong shook his head. "Before they go to sea, they have filed records with the customs at various ports, and they can find out when they go back to check. They don't dare to make false reports." Dai Shuyong sneered when he said this. "And we will board the ship together to return home tomorrow, so let Nagasaki take the embarrassment of preparing for it and enjoy it."

"We also want to return to China," the text was taken aback. "Then, the Nagasaki trading house will be closed."

"The way it is now is different from closing the museum." Dai Shuyong snorted coldly. "Yelang, a Japanese man, is arrogant. He thinks that the imperial court is settled, but he doesn't know that he is seeking his own death. Just wait and see, we will be back soon."

Wen Wen raised his eyebrows, as if realizing something: "My lord, has the imperial court decided to send troops?"

"Don't ask if you shouldn't." Dai Shuyong's words were not so much reprimand as tacit consent. "Immediately notify, the whole museum organizes their luggage, destroys everything that cannot be taken away, and must not leave a piece of paper for the Japanese to use." The text responded and was about to retreat, Dai Shuyong stopped again. "Slow!" Dai Shuyong ordered when the text turned back. "You go and inform the Tianchuan family and ask them to evacuate with us. If you don't want to, then forget it."

On June 14, the third year of Wucheng in Huaxia and the 28th year of Genroku in Japan, the Chinese Commercial House in Japan withdrew from Nagasaki.Before leaving, Dai Shuyong warned the Japanese side to abolish the "Genroku Rixia Trading Style" as soon as possible and compensate the Chinese side for all losses, otherwise the consequences will be at their own risk.

However, in the eyes of the Japanese, China's warning is just an empty threat. From the generals, veterans, down to common people and merchants, they all think that the Huaxia Dynasty will not send troops to Japan at all. Japan can also deal with it calmly, only a few "sighted people" are anxious about the complete cut off of Chinese goods.

Under the sober dominance of this extreme optimism, the two countries finally ushered in a war inevitably.

Summer is the season of high incidence of typhoons, but on this perilous sea, a fleet of ships is sailing eastward.

The flags hoisted on the fleet indicated that they were a task force of the Beiyang Fleet of the Huaxia Dongyang Fleet from Seogwipo.The entire squadron has fourteen ships, large and small, among which there are two second-class cruisers of the largest [-] materials, two first-class cruisers of the next [-] materials, and six more. There are four second-class cruising ships of [-] materials, two [-]rd-class cruising ships of [-] materials that are no longer part of the battleship type, two first-class notification ships of [-] materials, and the smallest one of [-] materials. There are also two second-class notification ships.Since there is no drag of the transport ship, the entire squadron can advance at the fastest speed.

In fact, the distance from Seogwipo to Kyushu, Japan is quite short, so in less than half a day, Daoying Daoying appeared in front of the fleet.Judging from the chart, this should be the Wudao Islands off the coast of Kyushu. Wang Zhi, a famous Chinese pirate in the mid-Ming Dynasty, had been entrenched here for a long time.

According to past experience, the key to cross-sea operations is of course the issue of food.In order to ensure the safety of the grain ships, it is necessary to build a new port at an appropriate distance and store supplies, so any squadron must land on the Five Islands.However, with the development of shipbuilding technology and the improvement of ship handling technology, the Huaxia fleet with sufficient load does not need to spend so much trouble.Therefore, after the landmarks were established, the entire squadron then turned to the southeast and headed straight for the Osumi Strait.

Two days later, the task force joined forces with the reinforcement fleet dispatched by the Toyo Fleet in the northern waters of Kochinoshima, which had been assigned to Ryukyu in the Osumi Islands. At this time, the Huaxia fleet had expanded to 32 ships of various types. However, due to the addition of six large transport ships carrying a certain unit of the Ryujo Army and some supplies, the speed of the ship was dragged down instead. It was not until the fifth day of July that it sailed into the ocean east of Kii Kumano and further along the Honshu coastline Drive towards the Aima Peninsula and Edo Bay.

On the sixth day of July, a typhoon swept across Japan's Tokaido. Due to the huge waves caused by the front of the typhoon, the Huaxia fleet retreated instead of advancing, and was forced to retreat to the sea off Tosa to stay.After another two days, the impact of the typhoon subsided, and Xia Jun continued eastward.

It must be unbelievable to say that the Japanese side did not notice any of the actions of the Huaxia Navy, but it is the case.Due to the extreme backwardness of Japanese shipbuilding technology-the technology of ocean-going Zhuyin ships in the Tokugawa Ieyasu era was lost-so Japanese coastal transport ships can only travel at a distance of visual coastline, and cannot go deep into the sea.Therefore, even though the Huaxia Navy was by his side, the Japanese side did not find any trace of the enemy at all.

"Lord Kazuki, what do you see over there?" The so-called night walk will eventually encounter ghosts. As the Chinese Navy crossed the Ise Peninsula again, the Japanese side finally discovered for the first time that there is such a creature of unknown origin. Big fleet. "Why do I look like sails? There are a lot of them."

"Sail? Is there a ship in Japan that can sail into the ocean?" Kazuki climbed up to the castle tower of the Ataka ship, and looked at the distance carefully. Since telescopes are extremely expensive things in Japan, even if he couldn't afford them at all, he could only Observe with the naked eye, but a closer look reveals the problem. "That's not a Japanese ship, it's a red barbarian ship. No, there are dozens of them." Dozens of red barbarian ships?The waterman was at a loss for a while, and the well-informed merchants on board were also a little confused. "Ah, they're approaching."

The face of the businessman who hired Yimu suddenly changed, and he seemed to think of something: "Yiki, are you sure it's the Hongyi boat?"

"Boss Jiujiuya, my eyes can see fifty paces away at night, so how could I be wrong?" Kazuki responded with some dissatisfaction. "That's right, it's the Hongyi ship. I saw it in Nagasaki. Hey, there is indeed something wrong. Why do some of them seem to be Xia Guo ships?" Kazuki suddenly exclaimed. "It's Xia Guo's ship, Xia Guo's tricolor flag."

Kazuki saw the color of the flag on the rapidly approaching notification ship.Due to Zheng Kezang's bad intentions, the Huaxia Dynasty had a variety of national flags, royal flags and military flags. Among them, the naval flag was a blue, red, and blue tricolor flag, symbolizing the sky, the ocean, and the blood of men in it.However, the flag of the navy can only be used exclusively by the navy, and ordinary merchant ships can only use the flag of blue (earth) and yellow orchid, but the notification ship that comes in a hurry has not only the military flag but also the national flag, so Kazuki can distinguish clearly.

"Xia Guochuan. Oops!" the owner of Jiujiuya exclaimed. "Hurry up, get to the shore quickly."

"There are reefs on the shore, and the boat will run aground."

"It doesn't matter, hurry up to the shore." But it was too late. Under the terrified eyes of the farmers on the shore, two jets of water suddenly rose from the surface of the sea, and at the same time, the sound of thunder resounded through the sea and air. "It's over," the boss of Jiujiuya wailed. "This is the big tube of the Xia people"