Daming Military Empire

Chapter 217 Fighting to protect the main minister Quan Qingguang
Zheng Zhilong is currently hiding behind Juje Island, which is less than a hundred miles away from Tsushima Island. All the troops who carried out the Dongying Raider have gathered here, including more than 2 Japanese pirates led by Hong Xu and Gan Hui, and Shi Daxuan. There are more than 2 foreign pirates, as well as a group of Jinyiwei masters led by Wang Zhengnan, and the main force of the [-] Nanyang Navy led by Zheng Zhihu. There are no less than a thousand warships, large and small, gathered in the bay behind Juji Island. I know, I'm afraid I'll be scared out of my urine.

Naturally, Zheng Zhilong would not let the Matsuura family notice that there were so many people gathered here. Shi Daxuan, Hong Xu and Gan Hui had already pretended to be pirates and blocked off the surrounding sea. As long as you call here, everyone will be detained, and no news will be spread.Uh, it seems that they are pirates, so there is no need to pretend. Anyway, Zheng Zhilong is secretly hiding here, ready to implement Zhu Cijiong's series of plans against Japan.

The first step in the strategy of Dongying was to seize the guardian power of the Matsuura family. After Tian Chuan persuaded his father, the list and addresses of the Matsuura family's retainers were quickly sent to Zheng Zhilong.

It is ridiculous to say that the people from Dongying are really ridiculous. A county or a few counties can form a country. There are only more than [-] people in total, but there are a lot of high-ranking officials. Retainers, such as foot light head, servant general, city lord, family elder, have weird titles.

If you add Matsuura Takanobu, the current governor of the Matsuura family, and his two sons, Matsuura Shinnobu and Matsuura Nobusada, there are about twenty people in the Matsuura family who are more powerful than Emperor Tianchuanyu. Of course, no matter how many there are, They all have to die!

After Zheng Zhilong got the list, he summoned Zheng Zhihu, Wang Zhengnan, Shi Daxuan, Hong Xu, Gan Hui and other generals to discuss the assassination matters. There were more than [-] targets. This was a bit beyond Zheng Zhilong's expectation. It's really difficult for several masters to assassinate so many targets at once. Fortunately, Zhu Cijiong had already made arrangements and sent Wang Zhengnan here.

Wang Zhengnan's subordinates can be described as a cloud of masters. He has selected almost all those who can fight in Jinyiwei. They can practice vigorously without missions. That skill is not for bragging. Assassination is their training subject. Just a little bit of it can be done. Come out with one or two hundred master assassins.

After discussing for a while, they decided that Wang Zhengnan would personally lead two hundred Jinyiwei masters to carry out the assassination plan. The Matsuura clan's retainers would each send ten Jinyiwei masters, and Wang Zhengnan would personally lead twenty Jinyiwei masters to kill Matsuura Takanobu. , Matsuura Zhenxin and Matsuura Nobuzhen's family.

It is said that the Jinyiwei under Wang Zhengnan are all out-and-out Ming people. In Dongying, not to mention running to kill people, they may reveal their secrets every minute on the way to kill, because they don’t speak Dongying dialect at all. To Matsuura I'm not even familiar with the territory of Shi, and I'm not sure if I can find it or not!

How to do it?Naturally, Zheng Zhilong couldn't be troubled by this. Most of the pirates under him were from Hirado. Just find some people to guide them, and he also prepared a lot of gifts. When the time comes, Tianchuan Yuhuang will take them. Send them to the door one by one, and identify the target clearly for them, there is absolutely no mistake.

After everyone's discussion, Zheng Zhilong sent a few Japanese pirates to teach Wang Zhengnan and his [-] Jinyiwei masters how to speak Japanese, and also trained them on Japanese etiquette.Uh, it seems a bit outrageous, is it possible to learn Japanese in a while?Is it too late to teach now?

In fact, it’s not that complicated. They are all pretending to be servants. Basically, they only need to learn one word, and there are not so many etiquettes. Simply put, they just nod and bow and say, “Hai.” For example:
"come over."

"Hay."

"Move things over there."

"Hay."

"idiot."

"Hay."

During this period of time, the retainers of the Matsuura family, including the patriarch Nobutaka Matsuura, praised Tian Chuan Yuhuang. He was simply too generous. Every day, he took more than a dozen of his subordinates to pull a cart full of gifts, and sent gifts to the families of the great ministers one by one.These gifts are not ordinary, they are high-grade cloth, silk, tea, porcelain, and dried fruits from Ming Dynasty. If you want to calculate it according to the market price, he gave gifts of tens of thousands of taels of silver to each of his retainers. Gifts for the master's family The value is no less than 10 taels!

In Tian Chuan Yuhuang's words, these were given to him by his son-in-law, and he didn't have any relatives, so he couldn't use them all by himself, so he just took them out and distributed them to everyone, what a good person.

This Tianchuan Yuhuang is not so good. After all the retainers near Hirado were delivered, he took people to Iki Island and Tsushima Island, and visited the retainers on the two islands one by one. There were also many gifts. .

Everyone didn't notice that the servants he brought were different every time. Although these servants didn't say a word, their eyes were sneaking around, and Tianchuan Yuhuang's expression was also very strange, there was always a trace of guilt and guilt in his eyes. Reluctant.His expression doesn't look like he's here to give someone a gift, he's clearly here to see him off!
The 300th day of September in the eighth year of Chongzheng is not a special day, at least for the people of Daming and Dongying, this day has no special meaning, but for Zhu Cijiong who came from time travel, September [-]th The eighth day has a special meaning, because [-] years later, on a certain September [-]th, a painful history came.

In the dark, it was God's will, also on September [-]th, Zheng Zhilong launched it.

That night, the bright moon hung high, and within ten steps, even the expressions on people's faces could be seen clearly. It was a pretty moonlit night, and even if you didn't use lights, you didn't have to worry about mistaking someone.

Teams of men in black sneaked into the mansions of the various ministers of the Matsuura family under the moonlight. They covered their heads and went straight to the bedrooms of the retainers without making a sound. Anyone they met along the way, whether they were guards or domestic slaves, would stab them with a knife. , that fast one didn't even have time for people to react, a cold light flashed, and they were killed with a single blow.

The retainers just went away without a sound, even their patriarch Matsuura Nobutaka and the two young masters did not escape the bad luck, all of them were decapitated.

These people are so skilled that they are basically killed with a single blow. The mansions of more than a dozen retainers did not utter a scream. Of course, there are exceptions. The old Tian Chuanyu of the Matsuura family is not silent Yes, the fighting there was fierce, and finally even alarmed the defenders of Hirado Castle.

When the defenders of Hirado Castle heard the news and arrived at Tianchuan Yuhuang's mansion, the assassins had already fled, leaving only a few corpses before they could be taken away. The elder Tianchuan Yuhuang, who was terrified in his pajamas, hid among a group of guards and shouted loudly. : "What's the matter with you, how did you let so many assassins sneak into Hirado Castle? Hurry up and chase, why are you still standing here!"

There are no big names in the defenders, and the leaders are those who are light-headed and tall, and serve as generals. They are equivalent to the role of small captains. They are not at the same level as Tian Chuan Yuhuang. They kept apologizing: "I'm sorry, Tian Chuan My lord, it was our dereliction of duty, we will chase after it."

Where should I go?This is a problem, they didn't even see the shadow of the assassin at all, how could they know which direction the assassin was running to? In the end, these little guys had no choice but to ask their top-footed and waiter generals to see what happened to this matter deal with.

The result can be imagined, their heads are all hanged!They had no choice but to ask the Patriarch for instructions, but the Patriarch also died!Soon, news came one after another that all the retainers of the Matsuura clan in Hirado City were killed!
Who did it?It seems that there is no need to check this, because there are a lot of notices in every house at the moment, saying that the Lord loves the world, the Lord blesses peace, and the Lord is with us. There are a lot of messes.

It seems that the gang from Amakusa Island did it, but is this the truth?

Since all the vassals, including the head of the family, were killed, the heads of the Hirado Castle garrison finally gathered in the old Tianchuan Yuhuang Mansion. There happened to be a few assassin corpses here. Who did it? find out.

Tianchuan Yuhuang had already woken up from the panic at this time, and changed into the formal attire of the elders. Under his auspices, everyone carried the assassin's body to a large lawn and examined it carefully.

The clothes are nothing special, they are all ordinary night clothes, and the weapons are nothing special, they are all ordinary samurai swords. They all have a stack of papers in their arms, and the notices written on them are almost the same as the notices found in other retainers' homes. , God bless you.

It seems that there are no clues, it seems that the gang from Amakusa Island did it, but no one thinks so.Liar ghosts, these assassins are all masters, the guards of the other retainer mansions were killed without even reacting, and they were all killed with one knife. Where did the rebel army come from so many masters? They must have so many masters. Just go directly and kill Tokugawa Iemitsu, the general of the shogunate. As long as Tokugawa Iemitsu is killed, the shogunate army will definitely retreat, and their siege of Shimabara Castle will naturally be untied, and they will run to the irrelevant Matsuura family. What does random killing mean?
Just when everyone was at a loss, a samurai captain suddenly shouted: "I have seen this person before. He is from the shogunate army on Shimabara. Last time I went there to do business, I was stopped by them and questioned. Yes. Oh, Ichiro, Ichiro, you were there last time, remember him, the one standing behind their team leader."

At this time, another samurai captain leaned over to take a closer look, and then shouted: "It's him, and this one too, these people are from the shogunate!"

Of course, these were people from the shogunate army, Zheng Zhilong sent people to Shimabara Castle to kill them secretly and sent them here, and these few happened to be the people who were in charge of the peripheral investigation in the direction of Hirado.

Hizen country is only as big as a few counties, and Hirado is a trading city. Many of these small bosses have been to the vicinity of Shimabara Castle for business or private affairs, and they have been more or less interrogated. These people ran forward Take a closer look, isn't it the people who are interrogating?

Now everyone exploded, it turned out that the people of the Tokugawa shogunate did it, revenge, we must seek revenge from them.

Just when everyone was furious, Tianchuan Yuhuang stood up and said with righteous indignation: "The Tokugawa family is too much, it is not enough to secretly suppress our Matsuura family for so many years, and now they directly send people to assassinate our Patriarch and everyone Retainer, if I hadn't been guarded by my son-in-law's family, pa would have been killed by them. I have to avenge this revenge. I am willing to use my savings for many years and the 100 million taels my son-in-law gave me to recruit soldiers and buy horses. Tokugawa's revenge."

At this time, it was time for the same enemy to fight against each other. Immediately, a few high-footed and high-ranking generals stood up to support Tianchuan Yuhuang as the guardian, and led everyone to seek revenge from the Tokugawa family.However, some people suggested that in Iki Island and Tsushima Island there are several servants and city lords of the Tagawa family, and it is better to wait for them to come back and discuss it before making a decision.

Zheng Zhilong had already arranged this point, so they naturally couldn't come back, and the news came back the next day that those general servants and the city lord were all killed!The patriarch and retainers have all been killed, who will take the lead?Of course it is the only surviving family member Tianchuan Yuhuang!
In this way, Tianchuan Yuhuang became the guardian generation without dispute, that is, the daimyo of the northern part of the Hizen country and the Iki country.

(End of this chapter)