Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 743
Of course, from then on, the enmity between the monarchs of Song Dynasty, Ye Chen, and Xiangfu Kingdom deepened.

And then, the emperors and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, who wanted to take revenge on Ye Chen, set their sights on the forces under Ye Chen's command in the Song Dynasty or the forces that were inextricably related to Ye Chen.

Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Pu reached an agreement to suppress Xiangfu Kingdom's business in the Song Dynasty with all their strength, and to kill the Beijing Beggar Gang, Cao Gang, Dajiang Gang, Jianzhuang, etc. led by Shiwa, Zhou Jie, Liu Jinyuan, Bai Zixuan, etc. power.

It's just that these days, the Song government, the Song Wei government, and even the military have invested a lot of manpower and energy, and achieved some results, but they are far from reaching the expected goal.

Xiangfu Kingdom suffered the most serious business losses in the Song Dynasty. According to Jia Xian's latest report to Ye Chen: In just one month, the loss reached more than 300 million taels of silver, and was captured by the Song Dynasty government with all kinds of eyesight. Hundreds of backbone manpower were recruited.It directly ruined half of Xiangfu country's fiscal revenue.

The next biggest loss is the power of Shiwa and Zhou Jie.Although Shiwa Zhou Jie ordered his subordinates to hide or evacuate from the capital early, he still lost nearly half of his manpower, but Shiwa and Zhou Jie mysteriously disappeared.Now the Kaifeng Mansion and Song Wei Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty have offered a reward of 10 taels of silver to Shiwa and Zhou Jie.

What annoyed the Song court the most was that the Song court originally thought that Liu Jinyuan and Bai Zixuan would lead people to escape to Xiangfu Kingdom in the northwest, so they set up a net on the northwest border. They didn't want to get the news that Bai Zixuan led more than 100 people from Jianzhuang The direct descendants detoured to Khitan to go to Xiangfu country, and then Liu Jinyuan led more than 3000 direct descendants overseas.Now I got the news that Liu Jinyuan led people to attack Japan.

Zhao Pu was not surprised that Liu Jinyuan led people to flee overseas. He thought that Ye Chen wanted Liu Jinyuan to become a group of overseas pirates, with the aim of landing from the sea at any time and attacking the Song Dynasty's coastal defense line. For this reason, he has even talked with Cao Bin of the Privy Council reached an agreement to develop a navy for maritime operations, one is to guard against Liu Jinyuan's subordinates;But now that Liu Jinyuan led people to attack the Wa country from a long distance, he couldn't help but be surprised.

The country of Wa was rarely mentioned in the court of the Song Dynasty.They are thousands of miles away, and have not communicated with the Central Plains for hundreds of years. Since such a country is not included in the suzerain-vassal system, the Song court will be happy to forget them.

Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom has been introverted and self-defensive, almost closed to the outside world, and only businessmen and monks are willing to travel across the ocean.Monks came to learn Buddhism, while merchants sold local products in exchange for rare Chinese silk and porcelain.Other than that, there is no more communication with China.

Among the specialties of the Japanese country, the most famous one is the Japanese sword.Its sharpness is far better than that of the swords in the country, which is recognized, and the price is also extremely expensive.

That is to say, in the past few years, the former Huaxia Weifu Weapons Department and the current Xiangfu Kingdom Armory under the guidance of Ye Chen have combined and studied some of the weapon forging techniques of later generations, and the swords they have created are compared with Japanese swords.

But swords belong to the category of warriors after all, and civil servants will always be in charge of the Song court.

Therefore, the country of Wa was often not mentioned in the court of the Song Dynasty for several years.If it wasn't because Liu Jinyuan led people to invade the Wa country this time, no one would mention it in the court.

Of course, Zhao Pu, Zhao Dezhao and the others didn't know that the Wa country had a lot of silver and copper mines, otherwise they would be able to understand why Ye Chen asked Liu Jinyuan to attack the Wa country.

"This is the news that Song Weifu's spies inquired from the maritime merchants." Fan Changcai, the head of the Song Weifu's intelligence department, reported to Zhao Pu in detail, "Two Japanese businessmen fled to the island and were rescued by a group of maritime merchants. It is said that Liu Jinyuan invaded the Western Sea Road of the Wa Kingdom half a month ago."

At this time, the Western Kaido of the Wa Kingdom was divided into Kyushu, which was under the jurisdiction of the Wa Kingdom Dazaifu.As for the entire Wa Kingdom, there are Wuji, Qidao, and Three Islands, a total of 93 counties.

These are all the information provided by Fan Changcai to Zhao Pu, some of them are obtained from the two Japanese merchants, and some are obtained from the records handed down from the Tang Dynasty.

"How many people did Liu Jinyuan bring into the Japanese kingdom?" Zhao Pu asked with a frown.

"It is said that there are as few as [-] troops and as many as [-] troops."

"Bullshit!"

Fan Changcai was so frightened that he almost knelt down, and said anxiously: "I don't dare to lie to the Prime Minister, the information obtained by our intelligence department is indeed what it says."

"Hmph! In those days, whether Lian Jicheng or Hu Sanguang, the intelligence department of the Huaxia Weifu, would they report such news to Ye Chen? After the news came, it had to be analyzed and judged. Don't you understand the simplest truth? "

Fan Changcai immediately scolded himself for being confused.The words of the two terrified Japanese businessmen can be regarded as intelligence.

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After Jia Xian, Han Xizai, Ma Wentao and others learned of Ye Chen's plan to let Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu attack the overseas Japanese country, they were all surprised that the Japanese country was rich in silver and copper, but they didn't quite understand why a country with a huge amount of silver would very poor.Ye Chen can only explain that Japanese people are not good at finding silver mines. In fact, Ye Chen doesn't know the reason, and it is difficult to explain this natural miracle.In the original history, the output of Iwami Ginzan, which was discovered in the [-]th century, reached more than [-]% of the world's silver output.

Nature often likes to play this kind of joke, and concentrates the precious resources on the earth at a certain point at will. This time, its gift has given Japan the reputation of "the country of silver" for more than 100 years. In history, the Tokugawa shogunate put this Huge amounts of silver were squandered, and when the silver beds dried up, Japan became impoverished again.

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To be honest, Ye Chen, who is far away in Xiangfu Kingdom in the northwest, does not have full confidence in whether Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu can take down the Wa Kingdom.

More than 300 years later in the original history, a hurricane can make the mighty Mongols fail. Since then, Kamikaze has been worshiped by the Japanese people of later generations.If Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu were unlucky, there might be some accidents. Maybe there would be no kamikaze, but there might be natural disasters such as heavy rain, snowstorm, earthquake, and volcano.

However, based on the information Ye Chen has learned, if Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu did not encounter major non-combat attrition such as natural disasters, relying on the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, it may be difficult to win the elites led by Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu who are already armed to the teeth.

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Abe came from the Takeda clan of Koshu, Japan, and the Takeda clan of Koshu came from Genji. The ancestor of Abe Mizoshi was also a son of Takeda Mountain Monkey.After Katsuyori died in the village, the Abe family went to the Kansai region of Japan. In Ye Chen’s original history, the last job of this family was to be a businessman until the end of the Tokugawa period. Their family has always been known for their quick brains and good at steering the helm. .

This Abe Goshi is only 25 years old this year. Last year, he defected to the Changzhou Domain and became an ashigaruto. He has a salary of 55 Shimi per year.Yesterday when the feudal clan suddenly mobilized secretly, Abe Mizoshi thought that Dazaifu was finally going to attack Changzhou, but when he walked into the team with a tragic heart, the leader of the team told him that he was going to fight a group of "sea bandits" ".

After hearing that the opponent was a pirate, the morale of Abe Goshi and his peasant soldiers was high. The heads of the pirates were very valuable, and their combat effectiveness was no better than them.Along the way, the upper and lower samurai and farmers also heard that this bandit seized the Xiaguan Port of the Changzhou Fan and openly blackmailed the Changzhou Fan.This made them even happier, because this time the Changzhou Fan mobilized nearly 2000 troops, including [-] combat soldiers. Isn't it just fun to fight a pirate who came ashore?

But as soon as he arrived near Shimonoseki, Abe Goshi felt that something was wrong. The rows of soldiers on the opposite side were not bandits at first glance, and they stood more neatly than the samurai on his side.It was even more wrong when the two sides lined up their troops. The "pirate bandit" on the opposite side was full of iron armor, and Abe Goshi's boss was stunned.They even forgot to issue the commonly used order to line up, and the other warriors were also dumbfounded.Abe Goushi is not as ignorant as his bumpkin friends. When he was doing business with maritime merchants, he heard a lot of rumors about China. The iron armor in front of him looked like a military weapon of the Chinese court. This thing is simply rich. There is no place to buy it either.

Abe Goshi glanced at it, and estimated that the largest overseas pirates, the Dadong Gang and all other pirate forces, could not make up so many armors. He carefully expressed his doubts to the leader of the team, The leader sent him to speak to the general this time.The general saw the dazzling equipment on the opposite side.He was also speechless like the toad that had been struck by lightning. After hearing Abe Goshi's report, the general scolded the military liars in the domain while sending his subordinates to try to communicate with each other. .

The emissary walked 20 meters in front of the pirate army and shouted: "I am the Koizumi family of the Changzhou Fan." Halfway through speaking, the unlucky guy was shot into a hornet's nest by a crossbow arrow.

After learning about the situation of the Wa Kingdom from Heishan Erlang, Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu studied it, and finally divided their troops into two groups to attack the Wa Kingdom.This group, which was mistaken by the Japanese for pirates, was the 3000 elite troops of Tianyi Island led by Du Qianqiu, and Liu Jinyuan led [-] elite troops of the Jiang Gang and [-] Dadong Island pirates who landed from Kyushu.

Du Qianqiu had heard of some Japanese customs.Before the envoy finished translating the words, Du Qianqiu decided that this ceremony was a challenge before the battle, and he ordered the battle to start when he got impatient.

A rain of arrows roared and flew over the heads of the Japanese army in Changzhou.The equipment of the Japanese army in Changzhou was not enough to withstand the arrows, and three or four hundred fell.Immediately after dozens of steps away, a group of crossbow arrows shot straight at the Japanese army, and the Japanese soldiers at the front level screamed and fell down.

According to Heishan Erlang, there have been four generations of Japanese people who have not fought a war, and the Changzhou warriors and farmers present even saw crossbow arrows for the first time.

(End of this chapter)