Yunxi stood up after they left, and looked at the map of the Ming Dynasty hanging on the wall. His eyes jumped around Jingzhou, Wuchang, Kaifeng and Taiyuan, and finally fixed his eyes on Jingzhou, talking to himself. Said: "That's him."
Then he turned around and said to Huang Lu: "Send a message to the King of Xiang and ask him to start early next month." He suddenly stopped talking again and said to himself: "No, it is already mid-November, and this year it will be another year." It’s not a leap year,…”
Yunxi muttered a few more words and ordered: "Let him bring the crown prince to the capital for an audience during the Chinese New Year this year. Forget it, you go to Jin Shan and ask him to draft an imperial edict to announce that King Xiang Zhengdan will enter the capital."
Huang Lu didn't know what Yunxi was thinking. After hearing his last instructions, he bowed and said, "Yes, Your Majesty." Then he immediately turned around and left the palace.
Yunxi breathed out a breath, walked to the window and looked out the window. He noticed that the sun was close to the south, hanging high in the sky and shining on the earth. For safety reasons, there were no trees within one foot of the main hall of Qianqing Palace. Therefore, the sunlight shone directly into the glass window, causing Yunxi who raised his head to look at it and quickly lowered his head after just one glance. But at least he was sure that it was already noon.
"It took so long to meet them." Yunxi sighed with emotion, and then said to Wang Xi: "Tell the imperial kitchen that I will have dinner at Qianqing Palace at noon today."
"And ask the guards to inform He Rong, Zhang Xiaodong and others that they are entering the palace to see me in the afternoon." Yunxi added when Wang Xi called a young eunuch to give instructions.
Yunxi took out Nanyang's reports from last year and this year in the room and read them for a while, then got up and went to the dining hall to have a meal.
But on the way, he remembered what Fang Mingqian said about not seeing large numbers of pirates in Yongming Sea, and thought: 'What on earth are these pirates doing?'
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At this time, at Nambazu (port) outside Osaka City, dozens of people were waiting on the pier, as if they were waiting for someone important.
One of the guards, who was wearing armor and had a strong but shorter body, looked up at the sun in the sky, and then said to a middle-aged man next to him wearing silk clothes sold in the Ming Dynasty: "Lord Taizheng, can they come back?"
The one who is called Taizheng-sama is naturally Yoshimitsu, and now he is the only one in Fuso who can be called Taizheng-sama. After his son Yoshiji became Empress Fuso, although he immediately professed himself to the Ming Dynasty and called himself King Fuso, he still called himself King Fuso internally. Emperor, their family removed their surname and left only their first names. He said at this time: "You also saw the people they sent back yesterday. They agreed to enter Hong Kong at this time. Why can't they come back?"
"Sir, the people we sent back were separated from the brigade to report the news five days ago, and the items on their ships were of extremely high value. If they were captured by bandits in just these five days, then..." the man said.
"This," Yoshimitsu also thought about it. What his bodyguard said is very possible. The fleet they sent to transport was too valuable. Not to mention the pirates from the south, there were even pirates composed of local Fuso people. If the famous names in the foreign series know about it, they will come to snatch it.
He thought for a moment and was about to speak when he suddenly heard someone shouting: "A ship has entered the harbor!" He immediately looked up.
After a while, he saw dozens of ships slowly sailing into the port. He immediately became happy and took out an item from his pocket and said, "Blessed by Amaterasu." But when the ships were getting closer and closer to the pier, Recently, he found that most of these boats were damaged, and he suddenly became worried again.
When the first ship docked and a man he sent got off the ship to report to him, he felt relieved and said, "Take me up and have a look!"
Yoshimitsu led several guards onto a ship that was the largest and most intact in appearance. He asked his cronies to lift a piece of oil paper, and suddenly a reflected golden light shone into people's eyes! At this time, the sun returned again
It was so big and shaking that they couldn't open their eyes.
This ship, and all the ships in this fleet, are now loaded with gold.
They were naturally the fleet sent by Yoshimitsu to search for gold. In the spring of February this year, this fleet set off from Osaka Port to explore north. The news he heard from the Ming Dynasty was that the gold-producing land was named Jinning.
Hokkaido is further north; so he and several daimyo from the Northeast region teamed up to send people to Hokkaido to plunder the Ainu and lead the way, and sent a fleet to explore.
They also secretly sent people disguised as fishermen to follow the Ming Dynasty's fleet. However, this method was not effective after arriving at the Thousand Islands: at this time, Fuso's fishermen had no precedent of fishing so far north, and they would definitely let them go.
They see it.
After that, when the fleet he sent continued north, they encountered ice floes floating from the North Tranquility Sea (Bering Sea) and sank several ships. Finally, they finally reached Jinning and took some gold back.
But the news leaked immediately. Maybe there were pirates in the fleet, or maybe someone saw something wrong. Anyway, pirates were following the fleet from the moment they arrived in Aomori, and even more pirates started to appear when they arrived in Miyagi.
Attack them. The reason why Fang Mingqian did not find a few pirates in the Yongming Sea is because these pirates went to the east coast of Fuso to deal with the fleet sent by Yoshimitsu. After all, compared with the fleet of the Ming Dynasty, the fleet of the Fuso government was easier to deal with.
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They finally fought off the pirates and returned here. However, when they set out, there were hundreds of ships of various sizes, but when they came back, there were only about thirty ships left.
Yoshimitsu was very happy to see them carrying box after box of gold, but then he remembered the gold on the ship that was sunk or stolen by pirates, and his face turned bitter again. Yoshimitsu's guards saw his expression
Constantly changing.
‘Could it be that Master Taizheng learned the unique skills of the Bashu people of the Ming Dynasty and changed his face?’ the guard thought.
After the count was completed, Mitsui Tomokazu, who had served the shogun for generations, said to Yoshimitsu: "A total of 180,000 taels of gold."
"How much!" Two voices sounded at the same time. Yoshimitsu's eldest son, Yoshimitsu, who had become the general of the conquest of barbarians, also came here and exclaimed together with Yoshimitsu.
However, Yoshimitsu immediately thought of the gold that had been robbed on the ship, and suddenly became a little depressed.
Yoshitomichi didn't have as many thoughts as his father, and he was only thinking about how much gold he could get: "The daimyo who are his trusted followers should get some, at least one thousand taels each, to win people's hearts; get close to the guards and the warriors in the army."
, no matter how big or small the officials are, they all have to be rewarded; these crew members must have kept a little secretly, but they should be rewarded as much as possible. Calculated in this way, the gold that will eventually fall into the hands of the court will be about 120,000 to 30,000 taels.
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"Then we will compete with my father for more gold." He glanced sideways at Yoshimitsu.
