Arima Qingchun didn't expect Masayoshi to consult his opinion. His original plan was to hold his tail and be a man without saying a word. After all, as a newly surrendered general who had recently entered the Luo family, he had to be more cautious. In addition, when he entered the Luo family, he sat in the position of representing the Luo family's internal affairs minister. His current position in the Interior Pavilion is second only to Heiji Togo and Liu Le. This made him even more cautious. He didn't want to be suppressed by other retainers of the Luo family as soon as he came.

Now that the head of the family asked in person, he immediately had a headache. After thinking quickly, he gritted his teeth and finally said:

"Lord, my subordinates think that the Lord Dongxiang is right. With the current situation of Feihou and Satsuma, my subordinates think that it is better to adopt a strategy of friendship and division against the local tyrants. They try their best to support some forces close to our family in the local area, which is much better than to directly enter the local area. Moreover, even if they take down the Amako Islands and successfully advance to Nanfei and Satsuma, it will only attract more enemies for our family, which will not help our family to be surrounded by enemies on all sides."

Knowing that he could not fool Zhengliang, the young governor, Arima Qingchun, was determined to make a fuss. At the risk of being shot out by the Luo family's retainers, he also gritted his teeth and told Zhengliang his true thoughts.

"Are you surrounded the enemy on all sides?" Zhengliang immediately began to think after hearing this.

"Haha, yes, Qingchun's analysis is reasonable. What I need to consider is to avoid the situation of being surrounded by enemies on all sides. The north, east, and south of my family cannot quickly ensure safety, so there are only five islands hanging on the sea in the southwest." Zhengliang said at last.

As the saying goes, "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." Since the next strategy goal of the Luo family is determined as the Five Islands Islands, you must make complete preparations. So under the command of Zhengliang, the Luo family immediately devoted themselves to the intense preparations for the expedition.

In a blink of an eye, the summer of the 12th year of Astronomy (1543) has arrived. The summer of this year is hotter than in previous years. On the morning of this day, something interesting happened on Seed Island in eastern Satsuma.

Seed Island is a small island located in the eastern part of Satsuma. It was named after the territory of Seed Island clan, the retainer of the Shimazu family since the Kamakura period. The most famous scenery on Seed Island is naturally Nishinoura.

Nishinoura is surrounded by the sea. If you stand on the beach and look away, you can see the boats slowly sailing from the fog on the horizon, bathe in the warm sea breeze and listen to the music of the waves hitting the reefs; turn around and there is another beautiful view, and birds in the verdant forest are singing softly. From time to time, small animals frightened by bobcats will rush down the mountain in panic and hit people's feet in panic.

On this day, Eitsushima was patrolling the territory along the coast of Nishinoura. At this moment, several local officials dressed in a row rushed over, and the leader was the old minister Hara Nobuzen. Although he was nearly 60 years old, running at this level was not very difficult.

"Sir, sir!" Yuan Zhicheng shouted as if he was facing a great enemy, "A boat came from the sea!"

Hearing this, Eiji Seedijima couldn't help but feel a little funny. For an island in the sea, it's normal to have a boat dock on the shore. Why is it necessary to be so panicked?

"What cargo is loaded on the ship? How many crew members?"

"Low... two monsters with red hair all over their bodies and green eyes emitting green light!"

"What?"

听到原之丞的描述后,不但是种子岛惠时,就连他身后的众人也愣了一下.自从种子岛有人居住以来,还没见过此等怪事,今天倒是可以瞧个新鲜.于是他们便彻底无视了原之丞夸张的恐怖形容,反到跟着他跑去瞧热闹.他们跑到岸边,只见一艘怪模怪样的船像是搁浅了一样斜靠在岸边,船上的人也已经走了下来,站在沙滩上叽哩咕噜地不知道说些什么.为首的二人穿着有蕾丝和刺绣装饰的怪模怪样的衣服,活像是身上套了几个南瓜.两人的手背上都长着绒毛,毛发浓密卷曲,胡子和头发都是绛红色的,皮肤白里透着赤红,长鼻子高鼻梁,活像传说中的“鬼人”.

Since Seed Island Eitsushima guarded this island, he has seen countless people, but this is the first time that people with this look have seen it. He can't help but feel a little frizzy. His feet can't help but slow down and slowly walk towards the two of them.

At this time, the people on the boat also began to whisper and make sounds that seemed to be discussed. After one of the two leading monsters talked with his companions for a while, he spread his hands and began to speak out their rumbling words.

Soon, one of the weird men bent down, supported his left hand on his knee, stretched out his right hand towards Seedshima Eshita, and a smile appeared on his face.

For some reason, Eishishi Seijima also stretched out his hand. The two hands were held together. A group of people not far behind Eishishi Seijima stopped and stared at them blankly.

"brigado (Portuguese, you mean it)" the weirdo spoke.

But Eishima Seedijima couldn't understand what the other party was saying at all, so he had to look at the other party a little awkwardly.

就在此时,从船上的人群中缓缓走出了一个约莫三十岁上下,穿着有点类似唐画上装束的男子.模样倒和种子岛惠时等人并无太大的区别,被海风吹晒得略为发黑的黄皮肤上刻画着轮廓并不突出的五官和由于日晒雨淋和岁月流逝刻画下的痕迹,眼睛和头发都是黑色的,嘴角挂着一丝若隐若现的微笑.他从怪客的身边擦过轻声说了些什么,便径直朝着种子岛惠时一行而来.

"Hello, here are the five peaks of Ming people." The man said.

As soon as the man said, everyone was stunned again. The mysterious visitor from the sea, the Ming people Wufeng, could speak Japanese in a way that was not very smooth, but it could make people understand the meaning clearly.

Since we can communicate, things will be much more convenient. Thinking of this, Eijima Seedijima took a step forward and said, "I am the lord of Eijima Seedijima here. I wonder what the purpose of your visit to the despicable place is?"

"This is a desperate situation," said Wufeng. "We encountered strong winds and waves on the sea and drifted here. We had to use Guibao Island to dock and repair the ships. We didn't know that there were people living on the island. We really had no intention of offending. Wanwang Island's owner Hai Han. When the rain was clear, we would set off immediately and never stop for a long time."

"Since that's the case, please don't be polite. Stay in this place for a while and you can just speak up if you need to repair the ship." After knowing the other party's purpose, Huishi immediately said with great enthusiasm and signaled to his subordinates, "Jia Ji, help the guests from far away prepare a resting place."

As the island owner, if you encounter ships drifting in a boat or people who come to ask for help, Huishi will not only not persecute them, but will instead treat the visitors with kindness, because this can exchange a lot of good things from them.

His wife's family agreed to leave in a hurry. But after a while, Huishi received the reward of food and accommodation. The group of strangers set up camp on Seed Island and settled down. After Wufeng's introduction, the people on the island finally understood that the two strangers were not incarnations of evil ghosts, but traders from a distant country called Portugal in the Southern Barbarians.

On this day, Huishi saw a Portuguese taking out two dark iron rods from the cabin. Behind the iron rod was a small-angle bent handle, and a hollow iron pipe in front, which looked as strange as its owner.

"What are you going to do?" Huishi asked immediately puzzled.

"This thing is called the Fire Dragon Spear in our Ming Dynasty. Just fill it with gunpowder and projectiles. Pull the trigger without superb martial arts. Even women and children can easily kill the enemy." Wufeng took one of them from the Portuguese hands and said while gesturing, "It's like pouring in gunpowder and lead balls, and stabbed it with the small stick below..."

He said as he held up the front half of the butt with one hand, his body tilted slightly, and he aimed at the bulge of a huge reef twenty steps away from a distance. With the sound of pulling the trigger, everyone heard a loud "bang" sound, and a burst of gray smoke floated past in front of him. Looking at the reef again, there was no bulge in the bulge! The original bulge was left with only a blue-gray scar just exposed. The people of Seed Island couldn't help but be stunned, and they all stared at the eyes and opened their mouths. Even Huishi, who was knowledgeable, was stunned.

"How is it? It's really a good thing." Wufeng smiled and said, "Does the island owner want to have a shot?"

"...Is it okay if the Lord wants to give it to me for free?" Huishi swallowed a mouthful of air and said, "There will definitely be such a good thing in the world, right?"

"Haha, since the island owner said that, please ask the island owner to open a price himself. Regardless of the amount, it is just used as a thank-you gift for the hospitality and care for several days."

"A thousand taels of gold, what do you think?" Huishi narrowed his eyes and stretched out a finger and said.

Wufeng was a businessman after all, so he handed the words back calmly: "This price is also..."

"What, is it that the bid is too low? If it is inappropriate, please ask the Lord to offer the price." Hui Shi said with a determined attitude and said, "My family has been warriors for generations. With my eyes, this thing called the Fire Dragon Spear will be worth much on the battlefield in the future. Furthermore, there is a saying in your country that it is hard to buy the good things in your heart. Of course, the things we like to be loved by warriors are weapons..."

"Then, the deal is completed." Wufeng interrupted Huishi's long statement. So, in the end, Huishi spent a total of 2,000 taels of gold to buy two muskets.

After buying the musket, Huishi wanted to build a few more iron cannons. So he immediately ordered his servant Koshiro Oitawa to learn the sieve and legality of ammunition. After that, Seedijima began to study the casting method of iron cannons, and then mined sand iron to make forging. However, in the end, the iron cannons made of the same appearance as they were, they were still unusable. Later, in the second year, a group of Southern Barbarian merchants came, and fortunately, there was a blacksmith on the ship. Shi Yao was trying to learn the gun barrel making technology from Baban Qing. Qingding married his seventeen-year-old daughter Wakasa to the captain of the merchant ship, and then he got the true teachings of iron cannon production.

The Nanman ship, which sold two muskets, set sail again, and its target was the territory of the Luo family in Feiqian.
Chapter completed!