Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 120 Nagasaki's Legacy
In the middle of the night that day, the bold Shen Jingdan took Shen Xuan, Lu Yun and Lao Huang, and hurriedly escaped from the Tangren's house through the tunnel of the smuggler Sun Zhiyong.

The defeat of the Japanese army in the evening made Shen and Huang more determined to cooperate with Zhao Xin.However, the roar of guns from the foot of Shishan Temple frightened all the businessmen of the Qing Dynasty in the "Chinese Compound".These people had offended Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng before, and now they are afraid that the other party will lead an army to land and loot Nagasaki port tomorrow.

And Zhao Xin's victory in the anti-sneak attack in the afternoon made the Nagasaki Magistrate panic-stricken, and they couldn't even bother to arrest people in Tangren's house.

Shen Jingdan and others who boarded the ship did not see Zhao Xin, but after talking with Liu Sheng, they realized that Chief Zhao had already rested.In desperation, under Liu Sheng's arrangement, Lu Shoushan took him to three cabins to rest.

Not to mention how the four of them spent the night in surprise after entering the cabin.Early the next morning, a small sampan with a white flag approached Thor again.

This time the officials who came to negotiate didn't talk nonsense anymore, they just knelt down and begged not to bombard the city of Nagasaki again, so as to avoid the loss of life.

Zhao Xin raised the compensation to 20 taels of course.But the two officials said tearfully that the treasury was full of funds that were going to be handed over to Edo, and begged Zhao Xin to keep some of it.After some bargaining, the two parties finally set the compensation at 15 taels.

At noon, a Qianshi Biancai ship delivered the indemnity under the strict surveillance of the Thunder God.

The gold coin of 15 taels didn't weigh much, and it was less than four thousand catties.

While transporting the goods, Zhao Xin curiously asked the Tang interpreter who accompanied him: "Why do you give the money so happily?"

Tang Ren's interpreter saw the question from the leader of the Yichuan, and knelt on the deck in horror and replied: "Your side is Tianwei. In the battle last night, Hizen Mamoru and many retainers were injured, and the Saga Domain killed and injured thousands of people, and they were unable to fight again. "

Including the payment of compensation this time, Zhao Xin and this interpreter from Tang Dynasty have already met three times.He asked curiously at this moment: "Are you an islander or a Tangerine? I haven't asked you how to address him yet?"

The Tang interpreter was taken aback, cupped his hands and said: "My ancestors came across the sea from Daming. According to the Chinese surname, my surname is Feng, and my ancestral home is Shanxi. The name of the island country is Hayashi Changzaemon."

"Oh? Are you from Shanxi? When did your ancestors come to the island country?" Liu Sheng asked curiously.

Lin Changzaemon said: "The family ancestor came to Nagasaki in the fifth year of Qingchang (1599, the 27th year of Ming Shenzong Wanli)."

The ancestor of Hayashi Changzaemon was Feng Liu, the first Shanxi native in history to serve as Nagasaki Tang's official.In the ninth year of Qingchang, Feng Liu, who had been in Nagasaki for four years, was appointed as a general officer by the Nagasaki governor because he was proficient in the island language.

Since the 41st year of Jiajing (1562), many Ming people traveled across the sea to live in Nagasaki in order to avoid the military chaos.Most of the Tang people who came here at the beginning were called by Chinese surnames, such as Lin, Zhou, He, Zheng, Wu, Xue, etc., with Gongyan as their respectful title, ranked by the first official and the second official.

In the second generation, in order to integrate into the local society, they all changed their names to the island country style names such as Yingchuanzaemon and Kawamaemon, with the surname of their wife's family in the island country or the place of origin of their father and grandfather.

The idea that the island nation called the Chinese Tang people originated from the Tang Dynasty, which had the most frequent economic and cultural exchanges; since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the island nation also called the people from the Qing Dynasty who crossed the sea also called Tang people.

One theory is that those survivors of the Ming Dynasty who were exiled to the island country in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties called themselves Tang people in order to show that they were not Manchu people.

Another theory is that Zheng Chenggong and the people under the Zheng family called themselves Tang people in order to show that they were subjects of the Tang king, starting from their own awareness of anti-Qing and Fuming.

Looking at this "overseas Chinese" with a history of more than 200 years of settlement in front of him, Zhao Xin knew that this person was no longer from the Tang Dynasty, so he asked tentatively: "I didn't intend to kill, and the Saga clan did their best to be a minister. I am a proficient in medical skills." , if you don’t mind, you can send Hizen Mori-sama to the ship, and I will treat him personally.”

Pooh!Do you mind what I said?If Nabeshima Zhishige dared to go to the Thunder God to treat injuries, it would not be a matter of lax armaments, but a serious crime of being inside and outside.General Tokugawa tore his heart out.

Hayashi Changzaemon just bowed to thank him, and did not mention the treatment of the wound at all, Zhao Xin understood it at a glance.He took a few bottles of Baiyao with the label removed, handed it to the official and said, "This is our holy medicine for healing. Please bring it to Hizenshou." After speaking, he explained how to use the medicine.

After Hayashi Changzaemon bowed his head to thank, Zhao Xin said again: "Please tell Hizen Mamoru, if there is a destiny, we will meet again next year or two."

"Ah?! Still coming?" Hayashi Changzaemon raised his head, looked at Zhao Xin with horror on his face, and said in a crying voice: "Master! Don't come! Please let us go! This It happened once, and I don’t know how many people the shogunate will punish.”

Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and others laughed out loud after hearing this.

In the cabin on the third floor of the ship building, Shen Xuan hid beside the porthole, looked at Zhao Xin standing on the deck in high spirits through the gap in the curtains, and her heart was "thumping".

"Daddy said that this person can kill people while talking and laughing. He is not easy to deal with. But I see him always smiling, and he is not as scary as Daddy said. I heard from Uncle Lu that this person is unpredictable. The means, if you can..."

Zhao Xin, who was laughing, suddenly felt something, and then turned his head to look at the window on the ship tower.But the sun was shining at this time, and he couldn't see what was behind the window at all.

When Shen Xuan saw the other party's sudden look, she shrank back in fright and hid behind the curtain.After a while, when she poked her head slightly to look again, Zhao Xin on the deck had already turned her back to her.

Shen Xuan let out a long breath, and stretched out her hand to cover a slightly bulging thing under the clothes on her chest.

Two hours later, after listening to the report of the officials in charge of escorting the indemnity, Toda Shimeng, the head of Nagasaki, bowed his head and remained silent.Feeling deeply guilty, he shunned the little surnames around him, and walked into the inner room with an apprentice.

After a long period of silence, the barrier door of the inner room was finally opened, and the novice told the surname and several officials waiting outside that His Highness Izumo Mori had died of seppuku.Before he died, he left a suicide note to the shogunate.

Five days after the Thor evacuated from Nagasaki, a piece of news from nowhere began to spread in various towns and squares in Nagasaki.Spies appeared among the Qing people who lived in the houses of the Tang people, and revealed the arrangement of His Highness Izumo Mori to the barbarians on the big ship.That's why the barbarians suddenly bombarded Nagasaki Port and Chongyangbansuo, and then defeated the Saga Domain.

The townspeople don't really care much about the death of Izumo and how many people died in the Saga domain.But the problem is that His Highness Izumo Shou made compensation to the barbarians for all the gold in the treasury that was going to be handed over to the shogunate before his death.In this way, the government will continue to exploit the people to make up enough funds for Edo.

After understanding this joint, the anger of the people of Nagasaki turned to those merchants from the Qing Dynasty.However, there are guards guarding around Tangren’s house all day long, and ordinary people can’t get close at all. Therefore, a group of Nagasaki citizens who tried to protest had just walked down the hillside of Juzenji Temple when they were sent back by the guards who heard the news.

But anger always has to be vented.

Two days later, in the middle of the night, a sudden fire swept through the entire Chinese house.

At this time, except for a hundred merchants and sailors from the Qing Dynasty who had not completed the delivery of the goods in the "Chinese Compound", the rest of the merchants from the Qing Dynasty had already left the port in a hurry.

Fortunately, the fire did not cause casualties, but the Qing businessmen and sailors who fled in a hurry were unable to extinguish it.The huge "Chinese Courtyard" finally turned into a piece of white space, and only the Guandi Temple in the southeast corner miraculously survived.

Fifteen days after the Thor left, Masanobu Tsuchiya, another Nagasaki magistrate of Edo Castle, finally arrived in Nagasaki and was ordered to deal with the aftermath.He saw Toda Shimeng's suicide note immediately.

In this suicide note, Mr. Toda stated the fact that the Japanese side did not respond well to this incident. "It's a sunny day. They passed the Oki Randou Station guarded by the Saga feudal soldiers with their huge ships. The feudal soldiers stood by and watched. There should have been more than 50 people guarding here, but because they are used to the peaceful world, There were only [-] to [-] people on guard...for the unreasonable demands of the barbarians in Beihai, they ordered the Saga clan to burn their ships.

Due to the serious shortage of garrison soldiers at the Oki Randoubansho and the lack of action, Toda Shimono suggested to the shogunate in his suicide note that the future Nagasaki magistrate should be appointed by "Osami Kunichi" who has many subordinates.

Since the Nara period, the imperial court of the island country has divided the world into 66 kingdoms.Those territories that do not cover a country but are the name of the country's leader are called "Dashen Guochi".Taking Sendai Fan as an example, its territory is less than one-third of the area of ​​Mutsu Kingdom, but its scale output ranks second among daimyo outside the shogunate.

(Date Shigemura: "Why me again?")
After a rigorous investigation by Tsuchiya Masanobu, the Edo shogunate made the following punishments one month later:

Saga feudal lord Matsudaira (Nabeshima) Hizen Mamorujimo went to the Edo office of the old Nakatanuma Etsuji from his name generation (representative of daimyo), and his garrison was far below the quota, neglecting his duties, and he was defeated. explain.

Two months later, the shogunate lifted the security mission of the Saga Domain and was replaced by the Fukuoka Domain.

At that time, some people in the shogunate began to shout for the implementation of the "Foreign Ship Wuernian Destroy Order" except for the Qing Dynasty and the Netherlands, but they were stopped by the old Nakata Numa.

The "Tanuma era" implemented mercantilism measures similar to the Dutch "Kerberism".In Tanuma's view, the only way to solve the huge debts and deficits accumulated by the shogunate since the Tokugawa Yoshimune era is to actively use commercial capital and support finances.He relaxed some rules in order to promote Nagasaki's trade, and at the same time exported copper and seafood to replace the large outflow of gold and silver to promote the import of gold and silver.

Although there is a famine in Kanto and Mutsu now; although some officials are "a little" corrupt (corruption is rampant); the financial crisis of the shogunate has been effectively alleviated under his leadership in recent years.Therefore, the proposal to expel foreign ships finally fell through within the shogunate.

(End of this chapter)