Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 384

[Chapter 384]

Yizhou Yizhou, Gaocheng.

The pier less than ten miles away from the city was extremely busy with people coming and going.

Since it was occupied by Dongying, it has become a trade transit point on Dongying Sea.

Merchant ships from Dongying moored here to rest, and then continued south to Luzon, and even further to Tianzhu.

At this moment, there is only one table of guests sitting in an Japanese-style tavern by the pier.

Any merchants who want to enter will be declined.

“Your Liang family must compensate for the loss of our Wufeng Island in Yanzhou this time!” On the

north side of the wine table, an eagle-eyed man pointed at the middle-aged merchant opposite and shouted.

The middle-aged merchant was strong and strong, with dark skin, which looked like the color baked by the sun after traveling on the sea all year round.

The middle-aged merchant repeatedly laughed at the eagle-eyed man’s scolding.

“Island owner, please calm down. Before that, our Liang family had already given Wufeng Island three million taels of silver. Now you, Wufeng Island, are the ones taking the money. If you didn’t get things done, how could you ask my Liang family to pay you the silver?” Middle-aged The merchant still had a smile on his face.

Lu Zheng’s face immediately turned red.

Their Wufeng Island has never suffered such a heavy loss.

Except for the more than 30 warships that were parked at sea and fled back to Wufeng Island when the situation was wrong, none of the people who landed on the land of Yanzhou came back.

Undoubtedly, they were all killed by King Yan’s army.

After suffering such a heavy loss, how could he be reconciled as the owner of the island.

Immediately, he set off from Wufeng Island to Yizhou, and wanted to ask the Liang family for an explanation.

“Fart, your Liang family never said that King Yan’s army was equipped with muskets.” Lu Zheng slapped the table and stood up.

The crew at sea heard the sound of each other’s guns, and also heard the sound of musketry.

“How is this possible!” The middle-aged merchant showed a look of surprise, and the slyness in his eyes passed away, “If this is the case, I would like to tell the owner of this matter, and if compensation is required, I will definitely compensate.”

“Forty-two warships , more than 10,000 crew members, and my deputy island owner, Heishan, you must bring out at least eight million taels of silver.” Lu Zheng looked fiercely at the middle-aged merchant, gnashing his teeth, “If you don’t give it, you know my Wufeng Island’s methods ”

“The island owner calm down, I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly.” The face of the middle-aged merchant changed slightly.

“Get lost!” Lu Zheng glared at the middle-aged merchant.

The middle-aged merchant repeatedly apologized and quit the restaurant.

At this time, people around Lu Zheng said one by one: “Island owner, we are afraid that we have fallen into the trick of the Liang family to drive tigers and wolves away.”

His name is Xue Ran, and like Heishan, he is also the deputy island owner of Wufeng Island. .

Because the island has five peaks, the middle is the highest and both sides are low, Lu Zheng set up four island owners below to correspond to the five peaks.

Lu Zheng watched the middle-aged merchant leave with his arms folded. He said coldly, “I also have the same suspicion. He wants to use us to destroy King Yan’s battleship, and also wants to use King Yan to weaken us.”

After a pause, he Said: “That’s why I came to Yizhou personally this time to ask for compensation from the Liang family. If he honestly pays the money, I will spare him temporarily. If they are dishonest, we will let him know who is this Master of the ocean.”

“It’s just how can the lives of brothers be measured in silver.” Xue Ran was a little angry.

According to his idea, the warships should be concentrated at the moment, and the Liang family’s navy should be wiped out in one fell swoop, and they should enter Zhejiang to avenge the dead crew members.

“What are you in a hurry for?” Lu Zheng opened his eyes angrily, with a fierce expression on his face, “Suffering such a loss in Yanzhou, don’t you need to ask the Liang family for money to recruit crews and buy warships? And this time General Nakata promised to sell us the Anzhai ship It’s gone.”

“Really? That’s great.” Xue Bin’s momentum suddenly fell, and he was overjoyed.

This Anzhai ship is an Japanese warship, and it can carry eighteen cannons on board, which is much stronger than their warships that can only carry six cannons.

And this boat can carry more than 350 people.

Although it is not as good as the Frang machine, the Britons are equipped with dozens or hundreds of artillery warships.

But among the three kingdoms of Dasong, Goryeo, and Dongying, this kind of warship is undoubtedly the strongest.

If Wufeng Island has this house boat, its strength at sea will be greatly enhanced.

Originally, he wondered why the island owner was so desperate for money, and even accepted the work of the Liang family.

Now he finally understands.

The two were talking, when suddenly there was a noise from the pier.

Looking out, they saw a battleship with blue and white horizontal stripes passing slowly outside the dock.

Lu Zheng showed envious eyes. Compared with the size of the merchant ships at the dock, this warship is very big.

This is the sailing warship of Frang Robot.

They came from the south side of Yizhou, where they also built a fortress built by the Frangji people, named Rezhe City.

In the beginning, Yizhou, an isolated island outside the sea, was seized by the Francoids during the civil war before the founding of Dasong, and it was used as a transit point for their sea trade.

There are now nine thousand Buddha Langji troops stationed in Rezhe City.

At the same time, they have eight warships moored in the harbor outside Rezha City.

After the founding of Dasong, the Liang family tried to attack Yizhou and take Yizhou as their own.

But they suffered a disastrous defeat in Resha City.

The warship of the Frang robot broke into the port of the Liang family and bombarded the warship of the Liang family.

The Liang family concealed the defeat and did not report it. They only exaggerated the danger of pirates, and even said that some people went to sea to act as pirates.

Since then, the Forbidden Sea has been sung, no one is allowed to go into the sea, and the common people are prevented from going into the sea as bandits.

At the same time, the Liang family got the sole right to sea trade.

After paying a large sum of money to the Frang Robot, the Liang family started to trade with the Frang Robot, and they made a lot of money.

This made the Liang family pay more attention to sea trade, and there were more than 2,000 large and small merchant ships traveling to and from the sea.

In order to monopolize the sea trade, the Liang family has always declared that Shenzhou is a treaty port designated by the Dasong court.

As for foreign ships, they can only trade goods in Shenzhou Xiangcheng.

What puzzled him was that until now, no one in Da Song seemed to dismantle this lie.

Perhaps it is true as the folks say, the Liang family’s money reaches the sky, even if someone knows it, they will not say it.

After all, the emperor only stayed in the imperial city, no one told him, so naturally he didn’t know.

“It’s really sad.” Lu Zheng suddenly sneered, “The country of the Central Plains is a stately tribute, and the power and clan are divided into regimes. They deceive the subordinates and hide the superiors, and they don’t know the great changes in the world. Even Dongpu is not as good as it is. Fortunately, I don’t do eulogy anymore. People.”

After the ban on the sea, Dongying, which was in the period of feudal lords’ melee, also banned the sea, because the co-lord of Dongying at that time, Daimyo Fujino, was worried that the feudal lord would become stronger through sea trade.

But a hundred years ago, the Fujino family declined, and the feudal lords once again fought for power in Japan.

At this time, the Watanabe family located at the southernmost tip of Japan quickly became stronger by using sea trade.

Because even during the forbidden sea period, the Watanabe family has been conducting smuggling trade with the Frangji people.

Now that we are in the Warring States Period, we naturally have no scruples.

It was also during that period that Dongying mastered the casting technique of matchlock guns from Frangji, thereby unifying Dongying.

Later, more foreign merchant ships came to Japan.

Dongying salvaged artillery from the sunken ship. Although the imitation was unsuccessful, the missionaries who entered Dongying mastered the bronze cannon casting.

Now the Anzhai ship of the Dongying Navy has a mixture of iron cannons and bronze cannons.

With artillery, muskets, and warships, the Watanabe family naturally had ambitions. Since they traded with the Francoids, they envied their warships to run across the sea and control trade routes.

So thirty years ago, the Watanabe family saw the decline of Fulangji, so they set their sights on Yizhou.

For Japan, this is also an excellent trade transit point.

After fighting repeatedly for seven or eight years, the Fulang Robot reached an agreement with Dongying to divide Yizhou into two.

Later, the Dongying people approached him and made him the current owner of Wufeng Island. At the same time, he secretly decided to use it to control the sea trade around Dasong.

After all, Francois and Britons all do this.

Their countries supported privateers in order to disrupt their rivals’ maritime trade.

For Dongpu, this method is indeed very good.

He can bring benefits to Dongying, and at the same time, when there is a conflict with Dasong, the Dongying shogunate can easily get rid of him, after all, they will not admit their relationship with them.

However, in recent years, Dongying gradually no longer cares about Dasong’s attitude.

Dasong’s power and clan are divided, the courts are quarreling with each other, the royal family is weak, and Beidi in the north is watching and will be destroyed at any time.

The Watanabe shogunate sensed the decline of Osho.

(end of this chapter)