Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1037 Go to Edo First
At the end of September, seven three-masted gunboats from Guangnan arrived at the water village of Chongming Island.

Man Dazhuang equipped with new cannons was already ready. There were three ships from the Donghai Navy and seven from the Guangdong Navy. There were a total of ten three-masted gunboats, plus ten lucky boats loaded with supplies and [-] military students. A fleet of twenty large ships followed the imperial court's order and set off from Chongming to Japan.

The fleet was headed by Man Dazhuang, the governor of the East China Sea Navy, Yu Fangqi, a member of the Guangdong Navy, as the deputy, Xu Junsheng as the guide, and Wu Shizhao, a sixth-rank director of the Lifan Academy of the Ministry of Rites, accompanied him.

This Wu Shizhao was originally a scholar who failed many times. He had no hope for the imperial examination, and he had already sailed to Nanyang, where he served as a pilot for merchant ships.

When the Ming Dynasty recovered Nanjing, the new emperor ascended the throne, and opened Enke, he happened to return to Guangzhou from Nanyang.

After sailing across Nanyang several times, Wu Shizhao was no longer keen on fame, but the people on the same boat always liked to joke about his status as a scholar. Some people heard that the imperial court had opened Enke, and they provoke him and made fun of him. In a fit of anger, Wu Shizhao really He ran to Guangzhou to take the exam, but unexpectedly won the Juren.

When the yamen servant came to report the letter with drums and gongs, Wu Shizhao had already arrived at the pier and was about to go to Champa with the boat boss.He had no hope for Zhongju, but he didn't expect that after he let go, the fame that he couldn't ask for at the beginning, he passed the exam and won the fame of Juren.

The sailors on the boat who had teased him in the past were shocked when they saw the team announcing the good news. They didn't expect Suan Xiucai to actually win the exam.

Everyone was stunned and embarrassed. Fortunately, Wu Shizhao did not hold grudges. He bid farewell to the boss of the boat and resigned from his job at the Chamber of Commerce. After receiving 200 taels of silver from the Chamber of Commerce, he embarked on the road to Nanjing to participate in the imperial examination.

It coincided with Wang Yan's reform of the imperial examination, which was not limited to the selection of scholars by stereotypes. His experience in Nanyang, especially after the bloody battle, gave him extremely rich experience that other scholars did not have. Nanyang performed well in strategy and theory, was rated as a first-class scholar, and was admitted as a Jinshi, and was immediately accepted by the Lifan Academy.

This time he traveled with the fleet. First, he was ordered to solve the Ryukyu issue, and second, he was responsible for negotiating and communicating with the Tokugawa shogunate and the Shimadzu before the Shimadzu released Qian Bingdeng.

Ten gunboats have three masts erected, the main mast is four feet high, the captain is twenty feet long, and the cabin has five floors.

The gun boat raised its huge sails and braved the wind and waves in front of it. The tall hull was like a fortress on the sea.

The fleet did not sail directly to Japan, but first went to Ryukyu to replenish, and at the same time as the replenishment, more than 1000 samurai landed in Ryukyu, and they took control of Lishou City without any effort.

When the fleet of the Ming army arrived at Shuri, the Ryukyu people were shocked when they saw the huge ship on the sea. A thousand warriors, wearing plate helmets and light armor, rushed towards Shuri Castle with self-generated fire blunderbuss with thorns inserted in their hands. After killing more than 40 Satsuma warriors wielding samurai swords, the Ryukyu army controlled by the pro-Japanese faction immediately abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and then the Ryukyu king began to cleanse the pro-Japanese faction.

After seeing the huge Ming army gunboats entering the port, some pro-Japanese factions realized that the situation was wrong and fled by boat. Some who did not come in a hurry to escape were named and arrested by the Ming army and beheaded directly.

The "36 surnames of Fujian people" who moved to Ryukyu during the Hongwu period were used by the Ryukyu king to re-establish the Ryukyu government, and prepared to thank the envoy to Nanjing to thank the heaven and the dynasty.

Ryukyu is a small country. At that time, the Shimadzu clan had [-] soldiers, and they took control of Ryukyu overnight.

The Shimadzu clan did not garrison troops in Ryukyu, but only sent some officials and forty or fifty samurai, so it was effortless for the Ming army to control Ryukyu.

Ryukyu is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and the actions of the Ming army are reasonable. This is not only to help Ryukyu get rid of the Shimadzu family, but also to show a tough attitude to the Japanese shogunate and Satsuma.

The Ryukyu elementary school is not worth mentioning. The fleet only stayed in Ryukyu for three days. After replenishing fresh water and food, they continued to sail to Japan.

At night, Wu Shizhao stood on the tower of the ship, watching the stars at night. He had been a pilot and could read the charts, so he was able to determine the location of the fleet.

"Master Wu, it shouldn't be far from Kagoshima!" Man Dazhuang asked beside him.

"Based on my observation, we will be able to arrive at Kagoshima in two days!" Wu Shizhao turned around and said, "However, Governor Mandu, according to the intention of the court, we must first go to Edo, where the Tokugawa shogunate is located. The Shimadzu family is The daimyo of the Tokugawa shogunate, we still need to see the attitude of the owner first when we hit a dog."

The Shimadzu's private attack on the Ming Dynasty mission made the Tokugawa shogunate very annoyed and at the same time more embarrassing.

The Tokugawa family has made a lot of efforts to restore the trade between China and Japan. After throwing olive branches for so many years, it was finally exchanged for the Ming Dynasty to resume the exploration and cooperation trade.Now that the Shimadzu family has given him such a trick, the Sino-Japanese trade is in danger of being interrupted again, and the Tokugawa family is naturally annoyed.

The purpose of the Shimadzu family's doing this, the Tokugawa family naturally knew that this had damaged the interests of the Edo shogunate, but the state of Japan, each daimyo has a strong independence, and the power is not weak, making the Tokugawa family not Dare to shoot easily.

After this incident, it was inevitable for the Tokugawa family to suppress and gradually deprive the Shimadzu family of their vassal land, but at this time the Shimadzu family presented him with a problem.

The Tokugawa family hopes to maintain a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty, but after all, the Shimadzu family is a foreign daimyo under his rule. The shogunate, as the nominal central government of Japan, is too close to the Ming Dynasty, and they have taken action to persecute the Satsuma clan. This feeling of helping foreign countries oppress their own people will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among other domestic daimyos, who think that the shogunate is weak and betrays Japan's interests, and it is a traitorous regime.

Edo Castle, Honmaru, Castle Tower, Tokugawa Ietsuna, the shogunate general, with a tasseled crown on his head, a black red robe on his body, a large-patterned hakama inside, a Hirao around his waist, and a vertical fan in his hand. Sitting on the tatami, on both sides of him, sat the big and middle brothers of the Tokugawa family.

"Shimadzu Guangchang い attacking the Ming Dynasty Envoy Group を negate したことで, the Ming Dynasty asked the shogunate to explain するとしなければならない, see you all!" Tokugawa Jiagang said.

The Tokugawa family sent to the Satsuma clan to ask the Shimadzu family to send the envoys of the Ming Dynasty to Edo, and prepared to seek forgiveness from the Ming Dynasty, but the Shimadzu family refused to admit that there was an attack on the envoys of the Ming Dynasty. He also asked the shogunate to give an explanation. After all, the Satsuma domain is the name of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Now the Tokugawa family is in trouble, there is no benefit, but they are caught in a dilemma.

In the hall, after listening to Tokugawa Ietsuna's words, several big bosses said, "この事はShogunateはMingguoのCoercionを受けてはならない!"

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