Borrow the day to change the day

Zheng Zhilong is definitely not interested in paying attention to the question of whether an imperial doctor in Taiyuan Hospital is married or not.Now, standing on the bow of the captured Dutch warship, no, it should be said to be the Ming warship, looking at the familiar coast of Japan, he feels a special feeling in his heart.

When he first came to Japan, he was just a man living at sea.At that time, his name was not Zheng Zhilong, but Zheng Yiguan.

During those years, because of his swordsmanship, he met and married Tian Chuan, the righteous daughter of Weng Yihuang, an overseas Chinese blacksmith in Fujian, as his wife. It can be said that he settled his family in Japan.Then he followed the great pirate and maritime merchant Li Dan to work, and by virtue of his ingenuity and ruthlessness, he finally made a name for himself and became one of the many overlords at sea.

Later, Zheng Zhilong took the initiative to be recruited by Daming, and then used the resources of the government to annex those sworn brothers from the past, almost becoming the biggest overlord in the sea.

During this period, he seldom cared about his home in Japan and devoted himself to his career.When I came to Japan for important business, I came quietly and in a hurry. Sometimes I didn't even care about my family, and then I left.

I didn't think half of my life's hard work was basically in vain because of my carelessness.Just when he was terrified and didn't know how to deal with the court and those pirates, things took an unexpected turn.

Because my own experience was valued by the imperial court, to be precise, it was valued by the No. 1 Zhongxinghou in the Ming Dynasty. Not only did I not convict him, but he will be reused in the future.

Now he came here as an envoy of the suzerain of Japan. At this time, he felt more than ever that there was a huge backer behind him, which made him more courageous than ever.

"Japan, here I come again!" Zheng Zhilong said silently in his heart.

The port of Edo has lost the hustle and bustle of the past.Dock workers, fishermen at sea, all invisible.What can be seen in this place is only groups of ashigaru, led by samurai, patrolling past from time to time.

Their task is to refuse foreign ships to dock, and not to allow their own ships to go to sea.In other words, they are faithfully implementing the closed-door policy issued by the Tokugawa shogunate.

Since the implementation of this decree in the first half of the year, there have been fewer and fewer ships in this port, and finally they were never seen again.Patrol repeating the same thing every day and nothing happening makes it seem lighthearted and kind of boring at the same time.

When the patrol first passed the pier, they didn't even look at the sea, because there was nothing but water.

But this time was different. Just as a patrol team was about to pass by the pier, an ashigaru at the end of the team inadvertently swept across the sea, and immediately exclaimed: "Boat, boat..."

The leading samurai was a little surprised when he heard this, and immediately turned his head to look at the sea.Sure enough, there was a sea-going ship sailing towards the port by riding the wind and waves.

Judging from the appearance of the ship, it is a Western ship.When the leading samurai saw it, he blew his whistle and called other patrols to come to the pier, intending to refuse these Westerners from boarding the pier.

But after the ship got close, these Japanese soldiers were confused again. Why is there a Ming flag on the western ship?Could it be that the Westerners played for Ming Dynasty?

The boat approached slowly, then pulled up to the shore.These Japanese soldiers immediately flocked to the shore, holding matchlock guns, and blocked the space for going ashore.

To their surprise, a soldier of the Ming army protruded from the boat and said loudly in Chinese: "The imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty has arrived, hurry up and inform the king, and come to meet the imperial envoy."

When the Japanese on the shore heard this, they were stunned. It turned out that they were not Westerners, but imperial envoys of Ming Dynasty.This didn't seem to be suitable for the target in the decree. After discussing it with several samurai, they immediately sent a messenger to report to Edo.

Such a strange scene appeared on the pier. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers surrounded the shore, as if they were facing a big enemy, and faced the big ship as if perfunctory, with their guns ready.

But the people on the boat were doing what they should do, as if they were docking in peacetime, and they were stunned to treat the Japanese soldiers on the shore as air.

After waiting for almost half an hour, finally a group of Japanese officials galloped over.When the Japanese soldiers on the shore saw it, they hurried out of the way.

The person who came was Ke Jianichiro, who had dealt with Daming and was valued. Surrounded by a group of followers, he got off his horse, walked a few steps, and came to the shore closest to the ship. Shouted loudly: "Congratulations to the imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty to come to the humble country..."

After repeating this a few times, there was movement on the boat.First, a Ming army sailor replied loudly: "Wait a while, and report to the imperial envoy immediately."

After a while, the wide planks of the boat were lowered and leaned against the shore, and then Jin Yiwei began to disembark.

When Renke Jianichiro saw it, he quickly led the Japanese on the shore, gave enough space, bowed his head and waited for the imperial envoy to disembark.

He felt that people on the boat continued to get off the boat, and then separated into two sides, and then another person got off the boat and walked in front of him alone.

Immediately afterwards, a voice sounded above his head: "Oh, it's Ichiro, long time no see."

Renke Kenichiro heard it a little familiarly, looked up, couldn't help but let out a "huh", and then asked in surprise, "Isn't an official an imperial envoy?"

After finishing speaking, he looked sideways behind Zheng Zhilong in disbelief, but found no one else.

Zheng Zhilong and Renke Jianichiro are both old acquaintances, they know each other's details, he smiled and said: "I can't be an imperial envoy?"

Seeing Renke Jianichiro's surprised expression, Zheng Zhilong felt very satisfied.This time's identity made him feel a bit superior in front of his old acquaintances.

Ren Ke Jianyilang looked at the standing posture of Ming Kingdom Jinyiwei behind Zheng Zhilong, and he knew that Zheng Zhilong was an imperial envoy.

He looked curiously at Zheng Zhilong, and then at the battleship at the bow, and then turned sideways to recruit his followers, led Zheng Zhilong's mount, and led the way ahead.The Japanese soldiers on the pier had already put away their matchlock guns, lined up on both sides respectfully with their guns, and bowed their heads respectfully to send off the imperial envoy of Ming Dynasty.

After walking for a while and leaving the pier, Renke Jianichiro finally couldn't help being curious, approached Zheng Zhilong and asked, "Yiguan, what's going on? I heard that you were completely wiped out by the Dutch, and Jiangnan of Ming Dynasty Was it also occupied by the Dutch, why did you come to Japan on a Western warship as an envoy of the Ming Kingdom?"

The Japanese heard this great news when they recruited their overseas businessmen back to Japan because of the closed-door policy.At that time, the news made people feel that Kenichiro was in a very difficult situation. He was once suspected that the news he brought back about the power of the Ming Dynasty was fake news.Fortunately, it was Tokugawa Hidetada who supported his news, so he was not questioned by the siege.

When Zheng Zhilong heard it, it was beyond Ren Kejianyilang's expectation. He was full of strong pride, and said casually: "It's all the old imperial calendar. My Western warship was captured by the Dutch!"