At this time, Zheng Zhilong was also a little confused. Who did the emperor send to pick up the Tagawa family and the second official without anyone noticing?
Jin Yiwei? Is he so capable?
If it is Jin Yiwei, then who is Jin Yiwei?
After thinking for a while, Zheng Zhilong couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it. After arriving at the dock and leaving by boat, he began to think about things for next year.
The imperial court has achieved a great victory in the southwest and the main army has been called back to the north. Only Wu Sangui and him in Dongjiang Town know about it. The reason for keeping it secret is that they don't want the people below to know that someone will be captured by the Japanese or Jianlu, and thus be captured by Jianlu.
The captives learned about the situation inside the customs.
Because as of now, the imperial court has adopted a blockade policy on the grassland and Liaodong, prohibiting all internal and external exchanges. If Jianlu wants to obtain information within the pass, he can only capture the imperial border troops.
Ensuring that the news within the pass is not known to the Jianlu and Japanese countries as much as possible will help the court fight against the prisoners.
For now, only Zheng Zhilong and Wu Sangui know that the imperial court has shifted from strategic defense to strategic offensive in the war here. With the arrival of the new year, the imperial court will definitely take action.
For Wu Sangui, his perseverance in North Korea is coming to an end. Looking back, he will be rewarded based on his merits, and his achievements will not be small.
As for Zheng Zhilong, his identity as an internal agent is finally about to be exposed!
Therefore, both of them are looking forward to the new year coming soon.
At this time, Zheng Zhilong was thinking about notifying the imperial court as soon as possible that Japan was going to send more troops to North Korea. There was also a question on Wu Sangui's side, how it would end!
When the Japanese navy attacked Pi Island on a large scale, Zheng Zhilong would definitely withdraw. However, when he withdrew, Wu Sangui would be alone. And if the Japanese army sent more troops to attack northern Korea, the space for him to engage in guerrilla warfare would change.
Xiao, it’s hard to say how it will end!
Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong also had a headache, and murmured to himself: "This old Wu just wants to make contributions, now it's better, it's a headache!"
Thinking of this, he decided to write it in the memorial, leaving the court and Wu Sangui to take care of the headache.
After thinking about these things, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but think of his wife and children. Where are they? Are they safe now?
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Kume Village of the Ryukyu Kingdom is the village where Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty sent thirty-six families of Fujian boatmen to settle in Ryukyu. All of them were Ming people. Zheng Zou, who was born here, was the third official of the Ryukyu Kingdom, similar to the three princes of the Ming Dynasty, with high authority.
, presided over the resistance against the Japanese, but ultimately failed.
He himself was executed by Japanese pirates, and his younger brother Zheng Zhou fled Jiume Village and lived in seclusion in Beizhong City.
At this time, Zheng Zhou was already very old. Logically speaking, at such an age, he should be indifferent to worldly affairs.
But at this time, the door of his mansion was closed, and he was receiving guests in the lobby, supported by his son and grandson. It could be seen from his expression that he was very shocked.
In front of him, there were three people, two men and one woman. One of the men was saying to Zheng Zhou: "It is absolutely true that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty asked us to go to Nagasaki to pick them up, and he will send troops to help us.
Ryukyu expelled Japanese pirates."
At this point, he pointed at the woman and said: "This is the Tagawa family, she is the wife of Marshal Zheng Zhilong, the commander-in-chief of the Denglai Navy of the Ming Dynasty. This is Shichizaemon Tagawa, whose real name is Zheng Zongming, and is the second son of Marshal Zheng.
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Following his introduction, both Tagawa and Zheng Zongming bowed to Zheng Zhou.
When Zheng Zhou saw it, he quickly returned the gift. The expression on his face was still a little confused, and he asked the person speaking in front of him: "What does Lord Jin mean..."
This Lord Jin was Jin Yingyuan, the chief minister who had been envoy to the Ming Dynasty. Hearing Zheng Zhou's question, he quickly replied: "It's the king's wish. He wants you to arrange for someone to send them back to the Ming Dynasty and to the capital."
I seek to see the Ming Emperor and implore him to expel the Japanese pirates as promised."
After a pause, he added: "As you know, there are Japanese pirates in our country, and the palace is always under surveillance by Japanese pirates. When we came back from the Japanese country, we were afraid that the Japanese country would track them down, so it was difficult to come forward before going back.
Over there in the Ming Dynasty, if you are willing to help, this matter will definitely happen! Once the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty arrive, Zheng Sansi will be able to restore his reputation and be posthumously named by the king. He is our biggest loyalist in Ryukyu!"
For Akito of Kume Village, they cannot stand the fact that Japanese pirates are rampant in Ryukyu. As for the Zheng family, of course they hope that Zheng He, who is now slandered as a traitor, can be cleared.
Therefore, after hearing Jin Yingyuan's words, Zheng Zhou's son and grandson couldn't help it at first. They quickly called each other "father" and "grandfather". Although they did not make specific requests, their meaning was very clear.
Zheng Zhou actually didn't need his son and grandson to urge him, he was so excited when he heard it.
You should know that his brother Zheng He is the first Sansiguan of Chinese descent in the history of Ryukyu. He is the pride of the Zheng family and the pride of Kume Village. Now being slandered as a traitor, he, as his younger brother, is of course unwilling to do so.
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So, without saying a word, he immediately agreed and said to Jin Yingyuan with a slight trembling: "Please tell the king that even if the Zheng family goes up the mountain of swords and goes down into the sea of fire, they will definitely send Marshal Zheng's family back to the Ming Dynasty safely!"
When Jin Yingyuan heard this, he quickly reminded: "I have to go to the capital to ask for an audience with the Ming Emperor, and beg the Ming Emperor to send troops to Ryukyu to expel the Japanese pirates!"
After saying that, he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zheng Zhoudao with both hands: "This is the national letter written by the king himself. It must be delivered to the Ming Emperor!"
Zheng Zhou motioned to his son to take it and made a promise at the same time. As a Jiume villager who has always regarded himself as a Ming Dynasty person, his biggest dream in this life is of course to meet the Ming Emperor!
Now that he had such an opportunity, he had already decided in his heart to send his son and grandson to Daming together.
Although the Zheng family was hit and fell, there was no problem in getting a ship and leaving Ryukyu quietly.
Soon, Zheng Zhilong's wife and second son embarked on the road to Daming.
Both of them are looking forward to it.
For Tagawa Matsu, it is true that she is a Japanese, but she can marry her husband and follow her husband. For her, she has already been a member of the Ming Dynasty. She has been blocked by the Tokugawa shogunate before, but now she has got her wish and can finally go to the Ming Dynasty.
She was very excited to see her eldest son, whom she had missed for many years.
No, when she was on the boat, whenever she was alone with her son, she kept nagging her. She didn't know how her eldest son was doing. I heard that he was already an official in the court, but he didn't know if he could do well?
At this age, don’t live up to the grace of God...
Listening to his mother's nagging, Zheng Zongming had a vague impression of his brother, and he was also curious about how his brother was doing in Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, he also yearns for the Ming Dynasty very much. He wonders what the legendary Kingdom of Heaven is like? How prosperous will it be compared to the Japanese Kingdom?
In short, both of them are looking forward to arriving in Daming as soon as possible.
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The days passed by day by day, and in a blink of an eye it was the end of the first month of the 19th year of Chongzhen.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was reading the memorial sent by Yang Weizhi, the governor of Yunnan.
In this memorial, Yang Weizhi mainly reported three things.
One thing is the current situation in Yunnan. Areas controlled by the imperial government and military have appointed floating officials, and the imperial court has officially begun to govern the areas;
The second thing is that the main frontier army of the imperial court has stationed troops on the frontier of Dongwu. Dongwu has also stationed troops in its northern border, trying to resist the imperial army. Yang Weizhi requested an order to tell when Dongwu could be attacked.
The third thing is that it has been confirmed that the remnants of Li Zicheng's bandits have indeed escaped into Dongwu territory. The further situation is currently unknown.
After reading it, Emperor Chongzhen asked Sun Chuanting, who had already read the memorial, for his opinion.
After all, Sun Chuanting is the most knowledgeable military official among the current officials in the court, and he personally led the troops in the Southwest War before. His opinions are absolutely authoritative.
Sun Chuanting had already thought about it. When Emperor Chongzhen asked, he immediately said: "Your Majesty, I think that the combat power of Dongwu soldiers is not enough to compete with the imperial army. The only thing that needs to be considered in the war against Dongwu is
The problem of supplying food and grass supplies."
After a pause, he immediately went on to make a detailed analysis: "Yunnan and Guizhou are barren, and Yunnan has just experienced a war and is in need of improvement. The ministers thought that it is not appropriate to mobilize grain and grass supplies from Yunnan and Guizhou; and if grain and grass supplies are to be transported from Huguang to Yunnan
At the border, if we follow the army deep into Dongwu and continue to transport supplies forward, the consumption will be too great."
Speaking of this, Sun Chuanting concluded: "Therefore, Wei Chen believed that wealthy provinces such as Huguang and Yunnan could support Yunnan and Guizhou to restore their vitality as soon as possible, and then use Yunnan as a logistics and supply base, so the pressure on grain and grass supplies would not be too great.
During this period, Yang Zhongcheng can be made ready to attack, so that Dongwu does not dare to relax. Repeatedly, it will consume their food and supplies, tire the people's morale, and slacken their military morale, which will be conducive to future crusade!"
Emperor Chongzhen nodded repeatedly after hearing this, thinking that Sun Chuanting's suggestion was very good and a good idea.
Unexpectedly, Sun Chuanting hadn't finished speaking yet and continued to say to him: "In addition, if everything goes well with the Luzon Expeditionary Force and Nanyang is pacified soon, we can also let the navy...the navy recruit troops from the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries, from Dongwu
Launch an attack from the south and flank Dongwu!"
He had worked hard to review the situation in the entire world and knew that there were actually Dutch and Portuguese forces south of Dongwu. He estimated that if the Luzon Expeditionary Force could destroy the Spaniards in Luzon, they would be able to effectively intimidate these two countries.
As a foreign country, it is no problem to make them vassals of the Ming Dynasty, so that their troops can be mobilized to attack from the south.
Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed when he heard this, and then he remembered how the battle of the Luzon Expeditionary Force was going.