Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

"This is Ichiro Sugimoto from Kobe Port." Qin Hao looked at the Japanese dwarf who was carried onto the ship by Zhang Huyi in a playful manner.

"Yes! This guy won't let us enter the port and wants to charge more money from us. Should we kill him?" Zhang Hu made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Sugimoto, who was clamped by his waist, seemed to have sensed his fate and struggled desperately, but Zhang Hu's strong arm strength made him unable to do anything.

"Don't worry. Although the culprit has been captured, the other accomplices have not yet arrived. In three days, all the Japanese samurai who have done evil in Kobe Port will be punished." Qin Hao stepped forward and knelt down to look at Ichiro Sugimoto carefully. He wanted to completely control Kobe. Thunder blows and bloody methods are indispensable.

The former has already let the people of Kobe Port know how powerful they are today. As for the bloody methods, just wait for Zhang Hu to capture more Japanese samurai and have a good bloodbath.

"My lord, what do you mean?"

"There must have been a lot of samurai who took advantage of the chaos and robbed them just now. You should work hard these days and catch more." Shuntianying took over the Kobe Port. As the master here, he naturally has to deal with the gangsters who have done evil for the innocent people. .

It is both mercy and deterrence, killing two birds with one stone!

"Lord! I will never let go of a traitor in my humble position!" Zhang Hu bowed his hands and knelt down to accept the order.

Soon, a large number of Qinggang swords and flintlock guns were unloaded from the Wansheng ship. All soldiers held Qinggang swords and flintlock guns. A team of men and horses were equipped with first-class soldiers and began to hunt Japanese samurai around Kobe.

"Mr. Fengxing, I hope you will organize the people of Kobe to gather on the beach in front of Kobe Port in three days after you return. You should be able to do this small thing, right?"

"Okay! Okay! No problem at all."

Knowing that he was safe at the moment, Sugimoto Ichiro nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. After experiencing the threat of death, he would definitely seize such an opportunity.

"Now, we can discuss war reparations."

After hearing this, Ichiro Sugimoto's mood was immediately thrown from the sunshine zone of the Seto Inland Sea to behind the thousand-year snow peak of Mount Fuji.

I wonder, what kind of compensation figure does this young general want?

It took him nearly ten years to accumulate a lot of wealth, but now he only prays that this smiling general is kind, not the general who killed without blinking an eye, or even with joy. That is really terrible. .

"Please tell me the granaries, treasury, and the location where you hide your secrets in Kobe City. If there are any slight mistakes, I can't guarantee that your head can continue to stay on your neck. I hope you can understand this. "

Qin Hao used the gentlest words to say the most vicious words. Every place he said made Sugimoto know that the other person was an expert and could never be deceived.

"I know, I know," Ichiro Sugimoto promised, not knowing what to say so as not to offend the person in front of him who might end his future and life at any time.

As the soldier took out a sketch of Kobe Castle and handed it to Sugimoto, he was immediately surprised. In the ten years he had lived in Kobe, he had never seen a topographic map. Now, it only takes half an hour to draw it. The location of the houses in Kobe Castle is really amazing.

"The vault should be here, this is where all my money is!"

"The granary and treasury are in the north corner of the city. They store about 3,000 tons of grain!"

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Not long after, Qin Hao got all the information he wanted from Sugimoto, and then he took people there in person. He also wanted to see this Kobe.

As the junction of the north and south of Japan's four islands, merchant ships are constantly coming and going. I didn't have the opportunity to travel before, but now I have the opportunity to feast my eyes on it.

Leading people to shuttle through the main streets of Kobe City, every hundred steps they would encounter soldiers saluting. After experiencing a big chaos, the streets became much quieter. The beggars who came out to hide in the corners would peek out, and all the people hid. In your own home.

Only when the soldiers knocked on the door to check on the rebels, they had no choice but to open the door to greet them, constantly muttering Japanese words such as "spare their lives".

However, when they discovered that these soldiers did not rob or kill anyone, but only searched everywhere, they gradually let go of the thought.

After seeing An Wenwen along the way, Qin Hao quickened his pace. Compared with the feasting and feasting and beautiful girls of later generations, the low wooden houses and skinny and flour-covered women of this era were really not interesting.

After walking to the warehouse in the north of the city, I found an inner city that was half surrounded by bricks and equipped with iron gates several meters high. According to Sugimoto, all the food, gold and silver in the city were stored inside.

"key!"

Sugimoto Ichiro instantly showed a panicked expression, and large beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Sir, it was not my intention. The key to this warehouse is not with me, but with the supervisors of the Financial Department. When your powerful artillery fire just started to bombard the fort, they took the keys and accounts and fled without knowing where to go. I really I don’t know where he is now!”

Ichiro Sugimoto almost cried and explained his misfortune. He was about to die of despair. He felt that his good life was about to end.

"Ha! It doesn't matter if it doesn't happen. Duan Daxin, go drag a cannon over!" Qin Hao patted Ichiro Sugimoto on the shoulder very gently, indicating that he didn't need to be nervous. An iron door was nothing.

With the sound of a 10-pound steel cannon, a gun nearly a foot thick was penetrated by a hot shell, and a huge hole appeared in front of people.

"Mr. Fengxing, is this your property?"

To be honest, even high-ranking people like Qin Hao and Duan Daxin have seen a lot of the world, but seeing so much gold and silver piled up in such a small space gives people a visual and psychological impact. Absolutely shocking.

Not to mention the young guys, they all swallowed their saliva, but the discipline allowed everyone to be strict with themselves and had no other thoughts except curiosity.

In the semi-underground warehouse, go down the stairs. In the dark and cold warehouse, there are countless oak boxes on the ground and on the shelves beside the walls. Several boxes fell down in all directions, probably because the shelves were knocked down by shells. Fang's gold bars and silver that exuded a cyan silver light were scattered all over the floor.

"This warehouse contains the ship tax collected by Kobe Port in the past ten years, which also includes part of my personal gold and silver."

Perhaps because he had broken through his psychological defense, Ichiro Sugimoto felt much more at ease.

Who cares! Anyway, I'm already ruined. How much worse can I get? Why don't I just come clean? !

"What's the total?!" Qin Hao listened impatiently to Ichiro Sugimoto's explanation of why the money was left here, but he just wanted to know, how much is there now?

"17,000,000 taels of silver!"

"Ah, so many!" Duan Daxin was stunned by this number. Isn't this several times higher than the commercial output value of the entire Keelung?/

"More than that! There's gold over there." Qin Hao knew that he had definitely made money from this gangster operation!

If nothing else happens, the gold and silver harvest should be more than 20 million taels!

Qin Hao glanced at Ichiro Sugimoto gloomily. He had guessed that he was rich, but being so rich was beyond his expectation.

For these corrupt people's wealth, Qin Hao believed that he needed to pay it to the local lord. As for this lord, of course he was himself, the lord who had just been recognized by force for conquest.

"Seal it!" Qin Hao gave the order in a hoarse voice.

Apart from the warehouse, Qin Hao's mind was still in chaos.

A single act of robbery or war can yield such huge benefits. No wonder later Britain, France, the so-called coalition forces, Japan, etc. all started to fight, including the beautiful country later. Once the domestic economy In times of recession, we have to find ways to fight.

A horse will not be fat without night grass, and a man will not be rich without windfall. What our ancestors said is truly a wise saying!

Three days passed in a blink of an eye. Under the verbal intimidation of Ichiro Sugimoto, the entire city of Kobe was crowded with people and they all gathered on the beach in front of the port of Kobe. Many villagers in the surrounding villages were also asked to come, but they were more scattered. Can't take care of everyone.

But looking at the dark Japanese people on the beach, it seems that it is enough. They are just the first batch of seeds.

As a native Japanese fisherman, Omura Junji was very excited about today's scene.

The index finger of his right hand quietly stroked the blade of the green steel sword in his hand, and he scolded the gangsters who were driven to the square in front of the church. Just a few days ago, such treatment was given to him, but today, it was his turn. Deal with those lazy and dirty gangsters!

He felt wise for his act of seeking refuge with these outsiders. Without these people, he would have died at the hands of these evil-doing and random robbery warriors one day.

Soon, the rebels were detained and came to the square. In order to show his attention to them, Qin Hao specially sent a battalion of soldiers, armed with muskets and flintlocks, to serve as guards around their stands and in the aisles.

"let's start!"

After receiving the report that everyone was present, Qin Hao ordered calmly.

"Oyama Koichi! Committed robbery! Intentional homicide! Arson! Organizing a criminal gang! Robbery of arms!" Qin Hao, dressed in neat and flat blue robes, with righteous words on his face, read loudly what he was tied to The heinous crimes of those Japanese samurai on the wooden stakes in the audience.

"As the new lord of Kobe, I will never allow such a thing to happen in my territory, so I declare! In view of the crimes committed by the defendant in July of the first year of Chongzhen, as well as the numerous evil crimes committed many years ago, it has been decided Execution of the defendant and deprivation of public rights for life! I hope everyone in Kobe will learn from this!”

With Qin Hao's majestic pronouncement, there was a burst of exclamations and commotion in the stands where the Japanese samurai were executed. Because Qin Hao spoke in Japanese, it easily aroused the resonance of ordinary Japanese people. For these samurai who used to bully others, they wished that someone He was able to take care of them, and now someone comes forward, so he is naturally happy.

Several strong samurai stood up and shouted something loudly, but they were quickly pulled out by the surrounding soldiers. As Koichi Oyama's boss, Ichiro Sugimoto, was charged with embezzling money. Wearing a beautiful dress, he was tied up in Oyama. Beside Hongichi and others.

Qin Hao had no intention of letting this guy go from the beginning. As the main culprit, he should be executed of course!

"Shuntian Camp! Move forward!" Following Qin Hao's command, Duan Daxin, Zhang Hu and others moved forward with guns. Their mission today was to serve as executioners.

Zhang Hu came to the wooden stake where Sugimoto Ichiro was tied up. After a few days of hard work, he was already weak and dying.

If it weren't for Qin Hao's order not to let him die before the execution, he would have been tortured to see Amaterasu.

"Kneel down!" Zhang Hu kicked him hard, "Plop!" Sugimoto Ichiro fell forward.

"Okay!" The moment Zhang Hu leaned forward, he violently waved the green steel sword in his hand!

With one stab, Sugimoto Ichiro's neck was cut off!

Due to the deliberate arrangement of a thoughtful person, the direction where Koichi Oyama was kneeling happened to be facing the Japanese samurai stand. In the eyes of the people in the row closest to him, Koichi Oyama's neck contracted violently at first, and there was a brief pause. The body seemed to move forward a small step.

Then, a large amount of blood spurts out from the arteries.

The people below seemed to hear him shouting. Some said they heard him shouting "Japan!" Others said they heard "Tokugawa-sama!" However, Oyama Koichi who was closest to him was of a different kind. Say, "Spare my life!"

This was the habit of his previous master. Even if he knew he was going to die in the end, he still chose to linger and live as long as he could.

If I had known today, why would I be so greedy in the first place, and let people enter Hong Kong, I would not be suffering from today's pain.

At the moment when Osugimoto Ichiro's gray head was lifted up by the gushing blood, a soldier beside Zhang Hu waved the flintlock gun in his hand, stabbed out, and accurately picked up the head that was about to fall to the ground. Point, the blood on the head flows down the gun tip and down the gun barrel, dyeing the white cloth specially wrapped around the gun barrel to increase friction extremely bright, and it looks extremely dazzling under the sunlight!

On the tip of the gun, Sugimoto's head is still explaining the ultimate meaning of life with its own expression.

Many Japanese noblewomen have screamed repeatedly during this process of killing like clouds and flowing water.

But something even more amazing was still happening.

Ichiro Sugimoto was just the first one to be beheaded, and then, together with him, there were the rebellious samurai groups, who fell to the high platform one after another.

Moreover, they all enjoyed the treatment of having their heads lifted high with the tip of a spear!

The Japanese noble ladies and ordinary people in formal attire all looked at their former husbands or directors with expressions that were either sad, happy, or dull.

On that day, a total of thirty-four rebel leaders and more than 300 Ashigaru rebels were beheaded. Qin Hao ordered that the human heads be built as a memorial outside Kobe City as a warning, and the corpses were discarded into Kobe Bay.

As a result, a few days later, the shark's triangular dorsal fin could still be seen swimming offshore in Kobe Bay.

The entire aristocracy and samurai class in Kobe were basically looted by Qin Hao. Of course, the small nobles with no backgrounds saved their lives.

They voluntarily signed a contract recognizing Qin Hao as the lord of Kobe and promised to be loyal. In addition, there were a series of merchant treaties.

The main content of the treaty is: Qin and Han companies set up a commercial representative office in Kobe to be responsible for the management of Han people in Kobe and related commercial business. The Han people in Kobe enjoy the same treatment as the Japanese people. At the same time, Qin Hao has the right to organize the Han people to carry out activities such as reclamation, planting, and mining of minerals in the Kobe area.

These treaties are only the first step for Qin Hao to occupy Japan. In the future, through marriage, there will naturally be no Japanese species, and they will all be qualified citizens of the empire.

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