Outside Iki Island.●⌒,

The Zheng Zhilong brothers led the fleet and have been waiting for Liu Jun for a long time. In the past six months, Zheng Zhilong has made a lot of money. Although the Ming Dynasty opens its trade with various countries, the Netherlands, Britain, Spain, Portugal and other countries can freely come to the Ming Dynasty for trade, but there is an agreement to come first, but countries cannot get involved in trade with Japan and North Korea.

Zheng Zhilong conducts re-export trade in Taiwan. Silver from the Americas, spices from the South China Sea, cotton cloth, tea from the mainland, raw silk, porcelain, sugar, silver from Japan, copper materials, lacquerware, grains from North Korea, medicinal materials from Africa, ivory from Africa, gold, etc. gather in Taiwan, and then resold them to all parties by the Ming East India Company. This re-export trade will be a lot of profit.

Although the Zheng family of East India Company only holds 10% of the shares, it cannot withstand the huge scale of monopoly. In the past, although the Zheng family dominated the maritime market, Taiwan's re-export trade was controlled by the Dutch, and Portugal, Spain, Britain, and Swedish countries also purchased large quantities of merchant goods along the mainland coast. Zheng Zhilong mainly purchased goods for various countries, and compared with the Dutch countries, he did not make much money.

Now, the Ming East India Company monopolizes a huge market, and the company's large number of shareholders are the upstream controllers of foreign trade goods, including giant silk merchants, big porcelain merchants, big tea merchants, big silk merchants, and markets and sources of goods. The Ming East India Company's business is extremely smooth. Even if Zheng Zhilong only 10% of the shares, his profits will be far greater than that.

What's more, he has business himself. His shipyard now builds soft sailboats in Europe, and the business is excellent. And Taiwan's immigration mining and military farming has also had a good prospect. Not to mention, in less than a year, the current Taiwan immigration boom has sent 500,000 people to Taiwan in less than a year.

This is a huge number. Many people come to Taiwan with nothing. They divide the land and reclaim land, or get salaries for employees of development companies. Everyone needs to eat, drink, live and use when they go to Taiwan. Various daily necessities and production materials need to be transported from Fujian, Guangdong and other places, and these transactions are basically monopolized by the East India Company.

The East India Company also established a shopping port on the fiefdom of Liu Jun in Nanyang. It officially made a kick in Nanyang.

When Zheng Zhilong received a letter from Liu Jun, saying that he wanted to make a kick in the Korean Strait, Zheng Zhilong was not surprised at all. No matter how strange the decision Liu Jun made, he was not surprised now, and when Liu Jun summoned him to lead the fleet, he did not hesitate.

Following Liu Jun is beneficial, which is the conclusion that Zheng Zhilong has reached now. With Liu Jun fighting against Taiwan and Macau, his strength has increased exponentially. He became the general of the Navy, and his subordinates have formed two fleets. His brothers have become the generals and the guerrilla generals. Following Liu Jun to establish the East India Company, he has taken the business to a new level.

Zheng Zhilong knew clearly how big the Japanese market was. Back then, the Dutch made millions of profits every year by purchasing merchant goods from China and reselling them to the Japanese. Now they have their own channels for goods. With the reduction in the links in the middle, they will only make more profits.

The agreements with the Netherlands and other countries have made maritime trade very stable now. Everyone has got the desired results and is busy making money by trade.

When he saw Liu Jun, Zheng Zhilong had a smile on his face, with respect in his smile.

While he was busy making money in Taiwan, Liu Jun had already fought several beautiful battles in Liaodong, and now he has been promoted from Marquis Gao to Duke.

"Congratulations to Duke Chu, I heard that the King of Korea married his beloved daughter Princess Jingshu to the adults. It's a joyful congratulation." Zheng Zhilong bowed to Liu Jun and congratulated him.

Liu Jun gave in and did not accept his full courtesy, "Brother Zheng came very quickly."

"Sir, how dare you delay any delay?" Zheng Zhilong asked, "Sir, really want to attack Japan?"

"It's not considered an attack on Japan. I received news that the Edo Shogunate was preparing to further close the country. They wanted to close Hirado Port and move foreign merchant stations there to Nagasaki. In the future, only foreign merchants were allowed to trade in Nagasaki, and the amount of trade ships must be stipulated, and only how many ships were allowed to enter the port for trade each year were very unfavorable to us."

Liu Jun finally confirmed the exclusive trade rights of the Ming East India Company with the Netherlands and other countries, how could it allow Japan's new policy?

"This time we are going to show our force with the Japanese and force the Japanese to sign an exclusive trade agreement with us, and there are no restrictions. If possible, then we also seek to control Hirado Island. You are very familiar with Japan, especially Hirado, and this depends on you."

Zheng Zhilong did live in Japan for many years. He was at Hirado when he was in Japan.

Hirado is a large island, only five or six hundred meters wide from the narrowest part of Matsuura. A hundred years ago, it was only a small fishing village. Later, the Chinese pirate king Nao cooperated with the Japanese Matsuura family to recruit ronin samurai and sailors in Hirado, and established a very powerful pirate organization. He went to China's coastal areas to harass him repeatedly, hoping to force the Ming Dynasty to open up the sea ban and allow maritime trade.

However, the Ming Dynasty was tough, so Wang Zhi and others began to repeatedly plunder the coast of the Ming Dynasty, which eventually became a serious Japanese invasion at that time. Hirado also became the base camp of the Japanese pirates at that time and later became a free port. A hundred years later, although the Japanese pirates had been restricted by the Japanese shogunate, Hirado also became a prosperous port in Japan.

Many Chinese maritime merchants and pirates at that time also took root here, and there were Chinese people everywhere. In addition to the Chinese, Hirado also had many foreigners, and they were once the trading ports of Dutch Portuguese and other countries in Japan. Many European missionaries began to preach to Japan here.

When Zheng Zhilong was in Japan, he married a Japanese wife here and gave birth to Zheng Sen. Later, Zheng Zhilong took Zheng Sen away, and later asked him to become an adopted son under Liu Jun's knees and changed his name to Zhu Chenggong.

However, Zheng Zhilong's Japanese wife was still in Hirado. It was not that Zheng Zhilong did not accept him, but that since the Japanese lockdown order was issued, the Japanese shogunate stipulated that all Japanese were not allowed to go abroad, all Japanese overseas were not allowed to return, and the Southern barbarians, that is, Europeans, were not allowed to preach in Japan. All Japanese who had originally believed in religion must change their belief in foreign religions.

"Hitodo returns to the Hirado family, and Hirado family receives the Hirado family's Kita Matsuura County and Iki. The vassal office is located in Hirado, and is known for its naval army."

The Japanese vassal states were equivalent to the ancient Chinese vassal states, and the vassal lords were called daimyos. During the Edo Shogunate era, those who knew and practiced more than 10,000 stones were called daimyos. At this time, there were more than 200 daimyos in Japan, which were basically divided into daimyos in the relative vassal states, daimyos in the genealogy and daimyos in the foreign vassal states.

The political system of the Edo period was the shogunate system, and Japan was jointly managed by the shogunate and the vassal states.

The Hirado family belongs to the Ushikaya Daiming, who knows and practices 63,000 stones. It was the Daming family who was forced to surrender in the Battle of Sekiga and was not trusted by the Tokuya family. Compared with the Maeda Taki family in the Ushikaya Daiming, the Masato family in the Ushikaya Daiming, the Shimazu Tadaemune of the Satsuma Daiming had 770,000 stones, and the Ida Masamune of the Sendai family had 625,000 stones. The Hirado family's strength was quite weak.

"I heard that your wife, Takawa family, is a retainer of the Matsuura family, the Hirado vassal lord?" Liu Jun asked.

The contemporary vassal lord of the Hirado clan was Matsuura Shinnobu, the fourth generation vassal lord. It is said that when Zheng Zhilong was in Hirado, he had a good relationship with the Matsuura family.

"I sent someone to pick up the Hotanchuan family back to Fujian, and the Matsuura family stopped them in various ways. Finally, I sent a warship to come. He finally handed over the successful handed over, but refused to handed over the Tatanchuan family. My relationship with the Matsuura family had long been cut off." Zheng Zhilong said.

In fact, Zheng Zhilong didn't say the words completely. When he was in Hirado, the Matsuura family had a good relationship with him, but later Zheng Zhilong and Yan Siqi and a group of Chinese people planned to raise an army to seize Hirado. As a result, the matter was not revealed, he was forced to flee to Taiwan, and his wife and children were thrown at Hirado. The Matsuura family was not guilty of them, because the Takawa family was a retainer of the Matsuura family.

Since the lockdown of the country, Hirado Port has been far worse than before.

"Are you ready?" Looking at Hirado Port, Liu Jun asked Zheng Zhilong.

"It's ready." Zheng Zhilong replied, "Sir, let me take someone to land in the port first."

Liu Jun nodded.

Hundreds of ships appeared in a mighty manner outside Hirado port, causing panic.

"That's not a merchant ship! It's a warship!" The Matsuura family samurai shouted in panic.

The sun and moon flag flutters on the high mast, a red flag.

An old man with white hair and beard looked at the bright red sun and moon flag, and his face showed a look of fear.

"Tang State, Tang State has sent troops. I knew, I knew that Tang State will send troops to come one day. It has been forty-eight years, and they have come. They have come, and the Tang army is coming!"

The old man was a samurai of the Matsuura family. He had participated in the invasion of Korea with the vassal lords and fought with the Ming army with the red sun and moon flags.

He had a deep memory of the Ming Dynasty. They had occupied North Korea, but were finally defeated by the Ming army. Later, another invasion was launched, but it still failed. With the death of Toyota Hideyoshi, all the Japanese troops who entered North Korea finally retreated. The first time was 160,000 and the second time was 140,000, Japan launched a national force to invade North Korea, but in the end, only 50,000 bodies were left in North Korea.

The Japanese remembered that great defeat. Over the years, they have been worried that China will come to take revenge sooner or later. Unexpectedly, this day will come after all.

After forty-eight years, this day still came.

Zheng Zhilong stood on the deck of his flagship Dragon King of the East China Sea, looking at the panicked port pier, and suddenly felt a little confused.

"Brother." Zheng Zhibao called him softly.

Zheng Zhilong came back to his senses and looked at the dock, "Sank all the Matsuura family ships in the port, whether they are merchant ships or warships, bombard the dock, and then land, we will take Hirado Castle!"

"Yes." Zheng Zhibao nodded, and his face showed excitement, "Damn it, let the Japanese compensate us for our greatness."

Zheng Zhilong looked at Hirado Island, but he was thinking about the woman who had been separated for more than ten years. (To be continued.)
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