Chapter 61 Uninvited Guest

After Zhou Mengchen received the letter, he watched Qi Jiguang complain about Shimazu Yoshihiro's character in the letter, and almost directly scolded him, like a human being, like a ghost. He will fight for the situation today, and he will rebel in the future.

Zhou Mengchen was happy, but he just smiled slightly.

From a more objective perspective, it was just a misunderstanding that Qi Jiguang did not understand Japanese society. Of course, Qi Jiguang, no, many Ming people would never understand Japan in their entire lives.

Why? Because the Ming Dynasty was the supreme country of the Celestial Kingdom. This is an extremely confident claim. That is, in terms of culture, military, and even various ways of doing things, and philosophical thoughts, other countries should learn from the supreme country's practices, not the other side.

Therefore, although most Ming people are not obsessed with the outside world, they also have a natural sense of superiority in the past.

Even though Qi Jiguang did a lot of homework to Japan, it was more military or related to military affairs, but he didn't understand the specific Japanese mentality or something.

Therefore, from the moral concept of the Ming Dynasty, all of them are like beasts. But the Japanese naturally have their own logic.

In Qi Jiguang's view, how can a person who can even take action on his own elder brother be trusted, but in Zhou Mengchen's view, the Shimazu family is trustworthy. It's not that Zhou Mengchen believes in the character of the Japanese, but that he believes that the Shimazu family has been beaten and remembers the pain. As long as the Japanese who participated in this battle did not die, the Shimazu family's awe of the Ming Dynasty was not exhausted, the Shimazu family would not be betrayed.

But the Otomo family is not the case. The Otomo family surrendered too easily. They have never really tasted the iron hammer of the Ming Dynasty and have not had enough respect for the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, when the form is not conducive to the Ming Dynasty, he will easily jump out, just like, now he is easily turning to the Ming Dynasty.

Things that are too easy to get are too easy to lose.

However, Zhou Mengchen did not expect the Japanese to be so well-behaved. As long as the Ming Dynasty is maintained, the Japanese will definitely be willing to become loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty cannot remain strong all the time, the Japanese will turn against each other sooner or later.

Zhou Mengchen naturally didn't tell anyone about these judgments. But he didn't believe it.

After more than twenty years, Zhou Mengchen had already retired. When he was leisurely under the forest, Toyotomi Hideyoshi finally took the final step of unifying Japan and began the Kyushu strategy.

Daming, headed by the Otomo family, was swept by the Toyoko family for several days. Then the Toyoko family launched a large-scale attack, and almost all the Japanese who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty betrayed, but only the Shimazu family and the So family did not betray it.

On the entire Kyushu Island, the Ming Dynasty only retained three or five ports to defend and waited for assistance, among which the Shimazu family was stalemate for more than half a year and finally waited for the Ming Dynasty to fight back. It also became the first battle for the Ming Dynasty to expand externally, and fought in Japan for several years.

This is all a story later.

However, after Zhou Mengchen knew that Shimazu surrendered, he had already thought in his mind that it was time to leave Japan.

After all, his time is tight. He has suffered enough to fight against the wind. Now that the 38th year of Jiajing is approaching, the wind direction will change after the Chinese New Year. It is better to go south with the wind after finishing early. It only takes a few days to reach Jiangnan. If you wait for the headwind, it will be another long journey.

All Zhou Mengchen's strategic attempts to come to Japan have been completed.

From now on, Japanese Daming on Kyushu Island will not participate in the affairs of Japanese pirates as long as they are not kicked by donkeys. Now, even if they want to participate, they will be attacked by the Ming Dynasty's Beiyang Governor's Office.

Eliminate threats in the bud.

Everything can be put to an end.

"No." Zhou Mengchen said in his heart: "These things are going to end."

Although everything seems to be peaceful now, in Zhou Mengchen's opinion, this still needs to be confirmed. Although Zhou Mengchen does not think that a alliance has any credibility, if the famous people in Jiuzhou refuse to give the Ming Dynasty even the face of an alliance, it means that the work Zhou Mengchen did is not enough, and there are some branches and leaves that need to be built.

So, Zhou Mengchen only met with Shimazu Yoshihiro. After only confirming that the Shimazu family surrendered unconditionally, he ignored him.

Instead, he sent invitations to all the Japanese on Kyushu Island who could be called daimyo, and even sent an invitation to the Maori family on Honshu Island. After all, the Maori family still had a little share in maritime trade.

This is a meeting to determine the new order of Jiuzhou and the new order of Sino-Japanese maritime trade. It was the 19th year of Jiajing.

Time is a little tight.

However, in Zhou Mengchen's view, this is also a test of the obedience of Jiuzhou Daming to the Ming Dynasty. As long as you receive an invitation, you will get up immediately. It is still time to go.

After all, Japan is not a big place.

Zhou Mengchen set the alliance place and set it on Hirado.

At this time, Hirado was even more lively than before.

Zhou Mengchen is in Hirato, and a large number of troops are stationed in Hirato. The future Beiyang Governor's Office is likely to be in Hirato. In this way, the Ming Dynasty merchants naturally flocked to it, and this is still against the wind. It is not easy to travel from Jiangnan to Japan. When the wind changes in the coming year, I am afraid that the merchants coming will immediately make Hirato prosperous.

Even so, there are still many Ming merchants from unknown places who come to Hirado to do business, and there are also many Korean-Japanese merchants.

Although Zhou Mengchen had not officially announced the lifting of the maritime ban on Japan, he had already accused of giving up the maritime ban policy. Now he wants to ban it, Japan is the one that banned. Because after Zhou Mengchen served as the governor of the six provinces, he cut off Sino-Japanese trade and showed explosive development.

With this alone, Hirado's prosperity will be far beyond that of Matsuura's family.

It is precisely because the Hirado trade has touched the hearts of so many people that Zhou Mengchen issued an order and did not dare to neglect the names of various places. Those who had not arrived before have also come, such as the Qiuyue family, the Asu family, and these originally neutral families.

The arrival of these people further increased the prosperity of Hirado.

Immediately, there was even more explosive news, that is, the Maori family also sent someone to come.

The Maori family has never participated in the incident of the Ming Dynasty coming to Kyushu. They have maintained their friendship and vigilance towards the Ming Dynasty and have a tacit understanding with the Ming Dynasty that as long as the Ming Dynasty only exerts its influence in Kyushu, the Maori family will not interfere. If the Ming Dynasty wants to cross the strait and extend his hands to the Chinese region, then the Maori family will fight to the death.

The Chinese region here is a concept of Japanese geography, which probably coincides with the territory of daimyo such as the Maori family and the Nizi family.

Although Zhou Mengchen did not send envoys to tell the Maori family that the Ming Dynasty would not cross the Guanmen Strait to go north, which was the dividing between Kyushu and Honshu. If he sets limits in this way, Zhou Mengchen would not fall into paper and pen, or promise the Maori family on formal occasions. After all, all the actions of the Ming Dynasty were based on the strategic needs of the Ming Dynasty, and now there is no need to go north and attack Japan in a comprehensive manner. However, the Ming Dynasty does not need to guarantee that there will be no need in the future.

However, there should be a little tacit understanding, but it was conveyed.

In this way, the Maori family has actually always adhered to the non-interference strategy of Kyushu. As a silent outsider, Zhou Mengchen invited him many times but nothing, but the Maori family has always been generous and humble.

But this time, it suddenly came. This not only surprised many people, but also made Zhou Mengchen a little worried. He didn't know what the Maori family wanted to do. After all, Zhou Mengchen was about to finish it now and was about to return to China. Suddenly, something unexpected happened.

The invitation he invited to the Maori family was also a routine matter, but he did not expect that the Maori family would really come.

Zhou Mengchen could only call Zong Kangqing over and said, "This matter is left to you. You can mobilize all your connections and find out what the Maori family is going to do?"

"Yes." Zong Kangqing said.

He actually had no clue in his heart. After all, Tsushima Island was alone, and Sokakura's connections were quite limited, not to mention that the Maori family had only been replacing the Ouchi family for a few years. He couldn't figure out many situations.

However, he did not have the confidence to refuse Zhou Mengchen's order. After he agreed, he immediately went to do it. There was no progress at all. The Maori family's mission seemed to have come to Hirado Dazhong to purchase, and nothing else was done.

And the agreed time for the alliance has come.
Chapter completed!