(There was a problem with the network at home yesterday. I could only log in to the website. I got up early and went to the cafe to upload it. Mobile is cheap, but it is really not as stable as telecommunications. It’s depressing!)
Chi Zhou of Kuga Island sent someone over, so Lin Fu asked Yamashita Keigo to leave first and let someone invite Chi Zhou's envoy in.
"Kuga Island Yan Baishan pays homage to the Chief Envoy!" Chi Zhou's envoy Yan Baishan was ushered into the cabin. He immediately knelt down and kowtowed, honoring Lin Fu by his official title.
Lin Fu looked at Yan Baishan. He was in his fifties, his chin and beard were stained with frost white, his face was dark and thin, and his small eyes seemed to be squeezed into a ball. His appearance was unremarkable. Even if he changed into a plain blue robe, he looked more like a man who had been at sea for many years.
He was an old fisherman, but this man was Chi Zhou's most trusted adviser. He fled here from Guangnan with Chi Zhou and established himself here. There were more than ten people there, and he was an important figure in the pirate force on Kuga Island.
Compared with the Saga clan who sent Yamashita Keigo here, Kuga Island Chizhou, who was only across the water from Fukue Island, did not dare to send a small role casually even if he wanted to deal with the Huaidong Army.
It had been less than half a year since Lin Fu took office as the Huaidong envoy.
The route from Jin'an, Mingzhou, or Chongzhou to Kyushu Island is never really interrupted. Not only the vassal states on Kyushu Island but also Honshu Island have a general understanding of the situation in the Central Plains, as well as the larger-scale pirate forces around them.
, and always pay attention to that side.
Yan Baishan walked into the cabin and gave Lin Fu a big surprise as a common man was introduced to an official.
Lin Fu was slightly startled and then said: "Mr. Yan is very polite. If you have anything to do with me, please sit down and talk..." He asked his retinue to bring an embroidered rug in front of the case and asked Yan Baishan to sit down and talk.
"Shen Heming is entrenched in Fujiang Island and has committed many crimes, and all the people of the five islands have suffered from it. The five islands have the intention to eliminate it, but the people are weak and dare not fight rashly. The commander-in-chief will lead the army to destroy it this time, in order to eliminate the people of the five islands.
It is a great harm to relieve the people. Everyone recommended the young man to come here, firstly to express gratitude to the Lord, and secondly to prepare some small gifts to reward Master Wang and condolences for the Lord's hard work..." Yan Baishan said.
If the pirates on Kuga Island are all good people, Lin Fu will pluck his own eyeballs and eat them.
Bounded by the narrow strait separating Kuga Island and Fukue Island, the south is often called Minamigoto and the north is called Kitagoto. Including Fukue Island, the pirates of Kitagoto mainly plundered the sea and extorted business travelers.
To make a living.
Unlike the Northern Goto Islands, which are all rugged and mountainous, the Southern Goto Islands have a slightly gentler terrain. After Chi Zhou occupied Kuga Island, he allowed people to farm on the island, but at bottom they were still pirates.
Compared to other pirates, Chi Zhou's cleverness was that he only used Kyushu Island as a dumping ground for looted goods and rarely did any crimes nearby, so he was able to stay in this sea area for more than ten years without being driven away.
In any case, Chi Zhou sent Yan Baishan to express his goodwill. Lin Fu would not turn him away at this time and said: "Mr. Yan's words are serious..."
"We, the common people, traveled across the ocean to live on this isolated island, without food and clothing, and were invaded by strong thieves. We have always longed for the protection of the imperial master," Yan Baishan said emotionally, "
Today, the envoy of Zhizhi led the king's troops across the sea. I feel like seeing my parents and relatives, like falling into the rain. I am so happy that words can't express it. I hope you don't blame me for saying the wrong thing out of joy..."
"How is that possible?" Lin Fu said with a smile, "It is said that the speaker is not guilty. If you say something happy, how can you say it wrong?"
"Your Excellency has wiped out Shen Heming, but to prevent Fujiang Island from being occupied by other strong thieves and harming Haidong again, Xiaobai bravely asked Your Excellency to leave an elite force of the king's army to garrison, so that more than ten thousand people on the five islands can always be protected by the court.
!" Yan Baishan said.
Lin Fu glanced at Yan Baishan and knew that he was trying to test the Huaidong Army's fundamental purpose of this cross-sea expedition under the guise of a request.
"I do have this idea," Lin Fu said, "but I don't know whether the people of the Five Islands really welcome Master Wang to stay here, or whether they are pretending to welcome him..."
Yan Baishan's heart skipped a beat when Lin Fu stared at him with sharp eyes.
Just like Yamashita Keigo came to seek blessings on Jiangdao on behalf of the Saga clan, before Yan Baishan came here, he also thought that the Huaidong Military Division was unlikely to be interested in this island.
Lin Fu directly stated his intention to garrison the army without any concealment. The words Yan Baishan had prepared in his heart were of no use for a moment, and he kept saying: "How could it be a false welcome? How could it be a false welcome? Joy!
It’s not too late, it’s not too late to be happy…”
Lin Fu and Yan Baishan talked for a while, then left the military gift he carried and let him go back to Kuga Island.
"The Saga family may tolerate Fujiang Island being stationed at Huaidong with hundreds of soldiers. If Chi Zhou leads his troops to surrender, the news will be huge," Song Jia said. "Chi Zhou is more powerful than Shen Heming, but he tolerates Shen Heming occupying Fujiang Island.
I think he mainly doesn’t want to alert the Fuso people!”
The five main islands of the Goto Islands are very close to each other and are almost a single island. Like the strait between Fukue Island and Kuga Island, the south entrance is only more than 400 steps away.
The entire Goto Islands are about the same size as Xisha Island, and are only over 20 miles away from the nearest point on the north coast of Kyushu Island.
In the history that Lin Fu knew, the Meng Yuan had twice crossed the sea to conquer Japan, both of which were defeated. If the Meng Yuan had occupied the Five Islands in advance and used the Five Islands as an advance base, the history of their eastward expedition to Japan would have been
It will probably be rewritten.
Not to mention the Saga family, other vassals on Kyushu Island, and even Honshu vassals, could not tolerate the entire Goto Islands falling into the hands of the Huaidong Military Division.
This has gone far beyond the scope of garrison protection of trade routes.
Yan Baishan came over and his words revealed that Chi Zhou was willing to accept the recruitment.
Whether Chi Zhou wanted to use the name of Zhao'an to separate the five islands, or he wanted to use Zhao'an to perfunctory this side, it was a headache.
"After all, the situation here will become clear after the battle with the Koreans is decided!" Lin Fu said, "Neither the Saga family nor Chi Zhou are fools, including Shen Heming, I'm afraid they are not
Think that I will send troops to attack Fujiang Island before the battle on Danluo Island!"
"..." Song Jia smiled sweetly and said, "When you defeat the Koreans on Danluo Island, Shen Heming still won't run away? If Shen Heming had escaped earlier, Chizhou would have sent people to occupy Fujiang Island first. Chizhou would surrender at that time.
By the way, you don’t have the name to directly occupy Fujiang Island!"
"Shen Heming will not settle this score." Lin Fu said with a smile.
Song Jia smiled and said: "If Shen Heming had you, you would be able to settle accounts, and you wouldn't be bribed by the Koreans to attack Jeju..."
Lin Fu smiled proudly, and now Lin Jingzhong came in from outside.
The third batch of fleet from Chongzhou to Danluo Island has docked. There is a message from Chongzhou reporting to the Economic Prefecture. Lin Jingzhong took a large stack of pond copies and reported from Di.
All the documents were divided into colors to show their priority; Song Jia knelt down on the soft couch and took a paper knife to cut out the urgent letter with red ink. The first letter was not good news. Song Jia showed it to Lin Fu with a solemn expression.
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On the day of the Lantern Festival, there was heavy snowfall in Chongzhou, Hecheng and other places. A rare spring tide arose at noon, flooding the coastal areas of Hecheng, Gaocheng, Jianling and Yandu, causing a major disaster.
Because sea dikes were built above the high tide line, and there were few storms in winter, everyone was not prepared for winter surges. Two construction sections north of Hecheng suffered extremely heavy losses. More than 200 people drowned in the construction camp alone.
More people, salt households, and farmers drowned, but there are no specific figures for the time being.
"We have to grit our teeth to defend the sea dike and build it!" Lin Fu sighed. The terrain of Hecheng is relatively higher, while the terrain of the coastal areas of Gaocheng, Jianling, and Yandu is lower. The losses caused by these tidal intrusion disasters are heavier.
The Hailing Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture and the Lianghuai Salt and Iron Envoy Department were responsible for the matter. He did not need to intervene, but it was hard for anyone to bear such a loss.
Seeing that Lin Fu didn't mean what he said in the letter, Song Jia took the letter and filed it away. He thought to himself: Counting the great tide in the summer of the ninth year of Chongguan and the two major disasters in Huaidong in the third year, the losses were extremely heavy.
If we can't build a sea wall to protect the sea, Huaidong really can't be considered a good place to take root.
Most of the prisoners of war on Fujiang Island were transported to Danluo Island by ship. A small number of them stayed to supervise the restoration and reinforcement of Fujiang Village. The infantry temporarily stationed in Fujiang Village. Except for the sentry ships, most of the warships went to Fujiang Island to fight with Jiujiang.
Moored in the harbor between Kashima Islands.
Lin Fu and Song Jia were on the Jinhai, and it was already late at night after finishing processing the official letters and newspapers they had accumulated for nearly half a month.
Just as Song Jia was about to say goodbye and go back to the cabin to rest, she heard someone shouting on the deck: "Someone is digging the boat under the water!"
The thin parts of Jinhai's ship's plating are also five or six inches thick. Not only is the bottom of the ship reinforced, but it is also densely covered with copper nails to prevent insect infestation. The entire ship is divided into sixteen watertight compartments. If you cut a hole, it will not work at all.
Even if they let it go and let twenty or thirty people submerge under the water, they may not be able to sink the Jinhai even if they dig for half a day.
In addition to its own escort force, the Jinhai also has two Jiyun-class warships and four Mengyou warships stationed on the left and right, dedicated to escorting it. At this moment, two Mengyou warships approached first and took out long hooks.
He stretched out his hand to catch the water ghost hiding under the sea and digging the boat. Suddenly someone shouted: "In front, in front!" Apparently the water ghost was found at the front of the ship, and many guards on the deck ran to the front.
Song Jia was about to go outside the cabin to see what was going on, but Lin Fu grabbed her and said, "Sit here!" He grabbed the saber under the desk, straightened up, and listened to what was going on outside the cabin. Zhou Pu
He walked in with four followers and guarded Lin Fu personally. Lin Fu asked them to pay attention to what was going on outside.
Immediately afterwards, two muffled sounds of "Puff" came from the rear side. If you don't listen carefully, you can easily ignore it!
Zhou Pu pulled out his saber, and a dark figure burst open the back window and rushed in, hitting him in the middle. Song Jia was startled when blood spattered on her face. Lin Fu put out the light and pulled Song Jia back to the corner.
inside, leaving room for Zhou Pu to play. Two more assassins broke in, but they did not expect that the lights in the cabin were extinguished at this time. It was not their turn to identify the real owner of the assassination. Zhou Pu and the two guards
They came up to kill them, and the four guards on the corridor in front of the cabin also came in to support...
The water ghosts who dug the ship under the water diverted the attention of most of the guards on the ship and created opportunities for assassination. Although it was not very clever, it still had some uses. Unfortunately, the opportunity only lasted a short while, and the three submariners
The assassins who boarded the ship had no chance to seize the opportunity.
The three assassins were quickly killed, and the water ghosts who were digging boats underwater to attract attention were also killed and two were captured alive.
Two water ghosts were dragged in, shivering all over. I guess it wasn't because they were afraid, but because they were cold and dripping with water.
Lin Fu looked at these two short water ghosts wearing leather rugs and asked, "Who sent you here?"
The Japanese feudal lords and heroes faced each other, and the big ones were no more than a dozen counties, and the small ones were no more than a few townships. Each power had no so-called strategic depth, and life and death, victory or defeat were often determined in one battle. Compared with the desperate battles on the battlefield, assassinations were more
The victory that came seemed easy. Assassinations often happened among Japanese vassal states. Lin Fu did not expect that it would be his turn.
Danluo Prince Li Ji and Ma Pohou arranged for people to search for assassins who might be lurking on the shore. Lin Jingzhong and Ge Cunxiong came over first to say hello, and then rushed Lin Fu to interrogate the two water ghosts.
The assassins all have the consciousness of being dead soldiers. Obviously, these two water ghosts will not let up just because of Lin Fu's words. When Lin Fu saw Ge Cunxin, Lin Jingzhong came in and said: "Go find Li Ji, Ma Pohou, break the dawn."
Complete preparations to attack Matsuura before the attack!"
"Ah!" Ge Cunxin was stunned and said in surprise, "The assassin may not be sent by the Saga family!"
"Who knows," Lin Fu smiled coldly and said, "Since the Saga family is the closest, let the Saga family be responsible for this!" He waved his hand to drag the two water ghosts down, without even looking at the two water ghosts.
What was the response to his orders?
Song Jia knew that Lin Fu just needed an excuse to directly attack the Saga family!