Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1038 Tang Ship Incident ([-])

Edo Castle, where the Tokugawa Shogunate is located, is located in Edo Bay. The entire area is densely populated. There are 40 million Japanese living around Edo Castle, which is equivalent to a large city in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to Edo, the nearby Musashi and Sagami around the Edo Bay are densely populated and agriculturally developed places. They are one of the essence of Japan and the reason why the Tokugawa family built their residence in Edo.

Uraga is located in Miura County at the southern end of Sagami, where the famous Yokosuka Naval Port is located. To the north is Kamakura County, and to the west is the former Odawara Castle.Uraga guarded Edo Bay, which is the gateway of Edo. Because it is at the entrance of Edo Bay, its geographical location is very important, so it is a place directly under the shogunate.

In order to protect the safety of Edo Bay, the Tokugawa shogunate stationed a navy in Kaura and built a fort. However, after the Warring States period, the Edo shogunate regime was basically stable, and it was not too worried about threats at sea, so Uraga The status of the city has been lowered, and it is gradually entering a state of desertion.

On October [-]th, the moonlight was like water, and the Edo Bay on the east side of Uraga and the Sagami Bay on the west side of Uraga were sparkling. .

On a stone-built fort by the coast, several braziers were burning. Three warriors wearing bamboo hats and bamboo armor, with one long and one short samurai swords stuck in their waists, were talking in Japanese.

On the fire next to it, a little soup was boiled in an iron pot. Seeing that the soup was hot, the three warriors shared a little bit, and then took out rice balls and served them with some pickles to fill their stomachs.

In ancient Japan, resources were poor, and the upper nobles and warriors kept the habit of eating vegetarian for nearly a thousand years.Three famous warriors were eating, when one of them took a sip of the soup, raised his head, and suddenly exclaimed: "Ming かりがある!" (There is light!)
Hearing the sound, the other two soldiers hurriedly raised their heads and focused their attention on the distant sea. Sure enough, they saw lights flickering on the sea.

The lights were connected together, and some were stacked in several layers, as if a city appeared out of thin air, like a mirage. The three warriors were terrified and thought that a miracle had flashed.

The lights that suddenly appeared on the sea were the Ming Dynasty fleet that set off from Ryukyu and went straight to Edo.Man Dazhuang originally wanted to rush directly into Edo Bay, but out of politeness, and because he didn't know much about the water patterns and waterways in Edo Bay, and was afraid of hitting a rock in the dark and being stranded, he chose to lower his sails outside Uraga. After dawn, negotiate with the Tokugawa shogunate.

The Ming army parked the ship on the sea, and in the dark night, many torches were lit on the deck, but it frightened the untouchables in the vicinity of Sanpu County. They all thought that some demon god had appeared, and they were so scared that they stayed up all night.

At this time, more than 100 warriors had gathered on the fort of Uraga. They looked at the sea and spoke a lot of Japanese. They seemed to want people to row a boat to see the lights, but no one dared.Although samurai are brave, they are still a little timid when facing the unknown.

Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, the leading warrior gave up his plan to send people to investigate.

Man Dazhuang and others in the fleet didn't realize it. Except for a few people monitoring the status of the ship, most of the entire fleet fell into a deep sleep.

Soon after, the sky was getting brighter, and tens of thousands of Japanese had gathered on the coast where the fleet moored at night.Many thought it was the demon gods who came to attack the coast. Samurai and fishermen held weapons one after another.

As the sky gradually brightened, the city of lights on the sea gradually revealed its original appearance. Ten giant warships and ten lucky boats slowly showed their outlines.

After Japan promulgated the national lock-up order, Nagasaki in Kyushu became the only trading port in Japan and the only area where foreign ships could be contacted. Edo Bay had never seen such a huge ship.

Japanese samurai are a bit like Chinese scholars before the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In addition to being able to learn martial arts, they also need to read and write. The first samurai saw the outlines of ten sea fortresses and judged that they were sea ships, so he asked someone to find a ship. With a few warriors, they rowed to the fleet by the early morning light.

The boat was ups and downs on the waves, but the giant ships in the distance remained motionless. When they stood on the shore and observed, they were shocked by the size of the ship, but when they approached, they realized that the ship was bigger than when they were watching from the shore. It is much larger, the height of the hull from the mast to the mast is almost as high as the three-story castle tower.

"Flag of the Ming Dynasty, これは Tang Ship!"

When the small boat approached the giant ship, the huge three-masted gunboat was dozens of times the size of the small boat. The warriors on the ship could only look up at the tall gunboat as if they were standing under a castle. The leading warrior saw the blue sun flying on the mast. Yue Qi couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

"これは唐船です!" The samurai on the ship looked up at the giant and were shocked.

Looking at the ten huge sea ships in a row, the warriors were dumbfounded, and they all remembered the existence that had made Japan worship for nearly a thousand years, and they were extremely shocked deep in their hearts.

In the battle of Baijiangkou, Japan has been transformed into Tang Dynasty for thousands of years, and it is full of admiration for Chinese things. However, since Song Dynasty was destroyed by Yuan Dynasty, Japan's mentality has changed a little.

If the entire area influenced by Chinese civilization is called Tianxia, ​​Japan can be regarded as a marginal vassal. He originally believed in orthodoxy, but the orthodoxy was destroyed by barbarians, and then he had the heart to compete for the world.This kind of mentality can be said to have continued until the Sino-Japanese War. The theme of Japan's call for Qing Dynasty was to conquer the world. , turned into a colonial conquest.

Japan has a very long history of exchanges with China, and Japan has long held admiration for Chinese culture. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Japan specially sent "envoys to the Sui Dynasty" and "envoys to the Tang Dynasty" to study culture in China. These results made Japan a world leader. One of the most culturally close countries with China in the world.

Japanese culture is deeply influenced by Chinese classical culture, and is even closer to Han culture than some minority cultures in China. However, this cultural closeness has not made China and Japan become close friends like Britain and the United States because of the bond of language and culture. On the contrary, they have become close friends. hater.

Apart from China, Japan is the only country that uses Chinese characters in the world today. South Korea, Vietnam, etc. have all abolished Chinese characters, which is embarrassing enough.This is the result of the decline of the entire Han culture and the colonization of Western spirit and culture.

In Edo Castle, Honmaru, and the castle tower, Tokugawa Ietsuna was discussing with several big bosses. Hoshina Masaoyuki and Sakai Tadakatsu were Tokugawa Ietsuna's uncle, and the other was a shogunate boss. On the Ming side.

The two believed that even if the Shimadzu family was to be dealt with, it should be done by the shogunate itself instead of being coerced by the Ming Dynasty. This would damage the prestige of the shogunate in Japan.For the Ming Dynasty, the best way for the shogunate is to delay. It will neither offend nor help. Japan has national conditions. The mistakes made by the Shimadzu family cannot be blamed on the shogunate by the Ming Dynasty.

Several people were having a meeting, when a samurai hurried into the hall, then knelt down in the middle, bowed his body to the ground, saluted and said: "General, the envoys of the Ming Dynasty を dispatch した outside Edo Bay!"

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