The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 106 Encountering a Japanese (Third Watch)

After seeing off the head of the horse club, Fatty Xu walked in.

Chang Feng asked: "Is there a wealthy businessman named Ma Baolu offering Cheng Yi to you today?"

Fatty Xu replied: "Yes. I gave you 1000 taels. I confiscated it. Did you give it to you too?"

Chang Feng laughed and said, "That man is good at watching people order dishes. You were given one thousand, but I was given two thousand."

"I have a feeling. This person must have done something wrong."

"He was afraid that us imperial envoys would find out and report to the court. That's why he gagged us with money."

Fatty Xu said: "Heh. Maybe I gave it to Eunuch Li too. But Eunuch Li will definitely accept everything."

Stayed in Hangzhou for three days.Chang Feng and others headed east to Ningbo, preparing to board the ship in Dinghai County.

Governor Huang did not personally see him off.He sent Zhejiang military preparation envoys and led 2000 Hangzhou guards to accompany them as escorts.

The soldier's surname is Chen.He used to be Yuanwailang in the Ministry of War.

Go to Dinghai County.Chang Feng suddenly found a small village in front of him, and black smoke was floating over the village.

Chang Feng and Fatty Xu rode horses to the small village.The two were shocked!
In the entire small village, there were corpses of common people everywhere.Either covered in blood, or burned into charcoal by the fire.

In front of the small village, eight bamboo poles were planted.The heads of eight common people were stuck on the bamboo poles.

Chang Feng was puzzled: "There are bandits making trouble? It shouldn't be. The bandits are asking for money and food. Why do they have to be so ruthless?"

Chen Bingbei rushed to the two of them on horseback.

Chang Feng pointed at the small village: "What's going on?"

Chen Bingbei hurriedly said: "Ah! It seems that the bandits ransacked the village and killed all the people. As an envoy of the military preparation, I cannot escape the blame."

Chang Feng said: "That's not right, Mr. Chen. There are such vicious bandits in Dinghai County, you didn't know before?"

Chen Bingbei prevaricated: "Ah, it's the lower official's dereliction of duty."

Chang Feng got off his horse and pulled out an arrow from a commoner.Then he whispered to the corpse, "No wonder."

Chang Feng glanced at the arrow and exclaimed, "No!"

Fatty Xu asked, "What's wrong?"

Chang Feng said: "Our Daming's arrows, whether used by officers and soldiers or bandits, are all arrows without buckles. The arrows are flat and triangular, and the top corners are as small as needles."

"Look at the arrow. It's a three-edged arrow. Only Japanese people use three-edged arrows."

Fatty Xu blurted out: "Japanese pirates?"

Along the coast of Daming, Japanese pirates have been active since the Yongle period.During the Chenghua period, Japanese love eased slightly.

The Japanese pirates are not the official army of the Japanese country, but a pirate gang composed of ronin and dilapidated warriors of the Japanese country.

Chang Feng said: "There are Japanese pirates in Dinghai County, we must report to the imperial court!"

Chen Bingbei hurriedly said: "Chang Qianhu can't judge that the people who slaughtered the village are Japanese pirates just by using one arrow."

"We in Haiqingheyan, Zhejiang Province, haven't had trouble with Japanese pirates for more than ten years."

When he said this, Chen Bingbei himself did not believe it.

Chang Feng argued with him: "But this arrow is indeed used by Japanese people. How can ordinary bandits know how to use three-edged arrows?"

At this time, Li Guang came over.He pulled Chang Feng aside: "Chang Qianhu. It's their Zhejiang government's business whether it's Japanese or not Japanese pirates. Let them handle it."

"Let's go to the South China Sea to worship Mazu, and pass by here, so why bother to make troubles, and play something to offend the Zhejiang government?"

After all, Li Guang is the supervisor of the Rites.After he said that, Chang Feng had no choice but to say: "Okay, I will listen to Eunuch Li."

Going further to the sea, everyone found two small villages that had been slaughtered.

In one of the small villages, the heads of the murdered people piled up a hill at the entrance of the village.

Chang Feng had never seen such a bloody scene.Fatty Xu even retched directly.

Chang Feng covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and said to Chen Bingbei: "Master Chen, is this also what the bandits did? Are there such brutal bandits in Zhejiang?"

Chen Bingbei had a look of embarrassment on his face: "Send the servants on the ship safely, and the subordinate officials will immediately join the Dusi Yamen to suppress the bandits."

"These damn bandits are really lawless!"

Chen Bingbei has always denied that the people who slaughtered the village were Japanese pirates, only saying that they were bandits.This made Chang Feng suspicious.

But running errands is important.Chang Feng and others boarded the boat at Dinghai Port.

The ships were sent by the Zhejiang Navy.A boat for the imperial envoy, the deputy envoy and the accompanying three hundred brocade guards.

The two horse boats were taken by the sailor Paoze to escort the boats.

Chen Bingbei returned with [-] Hangzhou guards.

Standing on the deck, Chang Feng looked at the endless and rough sea, and immediately felt refreshed.

This was the first time in his life that he was on a ship.

Fatty Xu had a painful expression on his face: "Damn, I didn't get seasick on the canal official boat. Why do I feel like vomiting when I get on the sea boat?"

Yang Tinghe came over and said, "My lord, compared with the raging sea, the canal is just a small ditch."

"You'd better go back to the cabin and lie down to rest."

"Boom!" Chang Feng suddenly heard the sound of a cannon.Hearing the sound, it should be the cannon on the stern of the ship.

Chang Feng hurried to the stern.

I saw Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling standing in front of a cannon.Several soldiers are reloading gunpowder and shells.

Chang Feng asked: "What's going on?"

Zhang Heling said: "Brother Chang. Let's try how far the boat cannon can hit."

Chang Feng said: "Uncle Xiao Guo, stop messing around. Carefully blowing up the chamber will hurt both of you."

The two little devil kings didn't listen to anyone, except Chang Feng.

Zhang Heling stuck out his tongue: "Okay, I won't let them let go."

The three ships sailed for four days at sea.

Four days later, at noon, there was fog on the sea.The waves are also much higher.

Chang Feng asked the helmsman at the helm: "Isn't it lost?"

The helmsman said: "Chang Qianhu is too worried. Four generations of my family have enjoyed the job of steering. Besides, I still have in my hand the Western Compass that the Japanese Kingdom paid tribute to our Daming."

At this time, Ming only collectively referred to Europeans as "Westerners".

Calling the Portuguese and Spaniards "Franji people" was a matter of the Jiajing Dynasty decades later.

"boom!"

Chang Feng heard a gunshot.

He murmured: "Those two little devil kings, I told them not to let them set off firecrackers for fun."

However, after the sound of the cannon, there were more than a dozen cannons that sounded like popping beans.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Chang Feng hurried out of the wheelhouse and stood on the deck to have a look.

In front of the ship, there were more than a dozen warships with strange styles.

These dozens of warships were smaller than the escort horse boats, but they were fiercely fired and shelled continuously.

Chang Feng hurriedly asked a navy soldier, "What's going on?"

The navy soldier hurriedly replied: "This is the eight-man boat of the Japanese pirates. On the mission, we have met the Japanese pirates!"

The sailors fired back.All of a sudden, the sound of gunfire rumbled across the sea.

Chang Feng and others don't understand naval warfare.The imperial envoy Yang Tinghe simply handed over the command to the sailor Qianhu who accompanied the ship.

Gradually, the three bright ships lost the wind.There are too many Hachiman boats, how can two fists beat four hands?
"Boom!" The cannon from a Japanese cannon was unbiased, and it happened to break a mast on the ship.

(End of this chapter)