In June of the 32nd year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, Kyushu Island and Hakata Bay.

This port city located on the seashore of Chimakiko in the north of Kyushu Island has always been the core of exchanges between Japan and the Western continent. A curved bay that is sunken inwardly and several long islands and sandbanks form an excellent wind shelter anchorage. The area of ​​the anchorage is not small, about sixteen miles long from east to west and eight or nine miles wide from north to south.

At this time, the sea surface of the open Hakata anchorage was densely filled with almost the same Song Dynasty treasure ship!

The treasure ship fleet led by Emperor Zhao Lun of Dongzhou is now anchored at Hakata Harbour. After replenishing supplies, it will take direct flights to the Dongzhou Continent.

Because of the development of the Higashima Continent and the development of the Honsou Island Ishimi Ginshan and Sado Gold and Silver Mountain, Hakata City has been developing rapidly over the years, and has become the largest city on the Japanese archipelago.

Near the Bay of Hakata, brick and wood buildings of the Song Dynasty were arranged in densely, forming streets of horizontal and verticality. They stretched south from Hakata Bay for more than ten miles!

On the port dock, there are also many quite novel human-powered pedal cranes arranged, and bags of Jiuzhou rice were lifted by them to treasure ships docked at the dock.

The short local coolies in Kyushu were walking between the dock and the warehouse, carrying small pieces of goods, and transporting jars of rice wine and boxes of pickled vegetables to the treasure ships that were mooring against the dock.

A little further away from the pier, at the former site of the Dazaifu Honglu Pavilion, a brand new six-sided and twelve-cornered bastion has stood there.

This bastion was only completed three years ago. It is now the Hakata Castle, the residence of the Hakata Shogunate, and it is also the residence of the Emperor Zhao Lun of the Higashima Island during his stay on Kyushu Island.

Zhao Lun arrived in Hakata ten days ago on the sixth day of the sixth month, and received a warm hospitality from his two cousins, Zhao Shanzhen, the general of the Conquest of the Yi, and Zhao Shanhe, the actual founder of the Hakata shogunate, Wanyan Yan, died of illness three years ago.

However, before Wanyan Yan's death, her two sons, Zhao Shanzhen and Zhao Shanhe, had already grown up.

Zhao Shanzhen and Zhao Shanhe have a completely different temperament than their father Zhao Gou, and they look different. Zhao Shanzhen was born very thick, with a tiger back and a bear waist, a round face, a plate with small eyes, and a unshaven beard. She looked similar to a barbarian martial artist from the grassland.

Zhao Shanhe is much more delicate, with a gentle face and a long figure. He has three long beards and a white-faced scholar.

These two people were put together. If no one introduced them, who would know that they were brothers from the same father and mother? Anyway, Zhao Lun couldn't see it.

However, although the two brothers don’t look very similar, they can truly achieve mutual respect and unity. Although they have their own territories and retainers, they form a group. However, both during Wanyan Yan’s lifetime or after Wanyan Yan’s death, the two brothers supported each other and united!

As far as Zhao Lun knows, the rough-looking Zhao Shanzhen didn’t look like a rough martial artist, he was actually a martial artist!

Long before his mother Wanyan Yan passed away, he had become the number one general of the Hakata Shogunate. He fought with the troops of the Japanese Tenno Mansion at the forefront of Honshu Island all year round, and he also created a set of small squad warriors who were very suitable for the rugged terrain of Honshu Island to cooperate with tactics and small phalanx tactics.

The former is a squad of twelve people, equipped with big bamboo spears, spears, bows and arrows, divine arm crossbows, sword cards and thunder. This kind of team does not play a dignified formation, but specializes in melee battles in the forest (this team tactic is actually gradually explored by the samurai of the Hakata Shogunate in the Kyushu Mountains), which is extremely effective!

The latter is a square array of spears of hundreds of people, combined with camel cannons and "Iron-armored Cavalry" to fight. On a small piece of flat ground in the western part of Honshu Island, such a force scale and combination of troops are also the most powerful.

In addition, Zhao Shanzhen is also very capable of building a city. He not only builds a bastion on the plain, but also builds a mountain city based on mountain forces.

It is quite difficult for others to take back any territory he has captured!

Therefore, famous Japanese generals such as Ping Zhongsheng, Ping Qing Sheng, Ping Zhongzheng, Yuan Yoshitsuki, Yuan Yushitsuki, Yuan Yushitsuki, Yuan Yushitsuki, were all defeated generals under his command!

Before Wanyan Yan's death, he had already built six countries including Nagato, Zhou Fang, Ishimi, An Yun, Beihou, Izumo, etc. on Honshu Island.

After Wanyan Yan's death, Zhao Shanzhen continued to attack after a brief rest and captured the five countries including Beizhong, Beiqian, Meizuo, Boqi, Inha, etc., and won the title of eleven countries (of which Nagato only took half, and half of them had long been controlled by the shogunate), and also won the reputation of the Tiger of Kyushu and the War God for himself!

Zhao Shanhe, who was very elegant, was good at internal affairs and strategy. When Wanyan Yan was alive, he was named "Shuo-Governor Prime Minister". After Wanyan Yan died, he simply moved to Hakata for a long time and was appointed as the shogunate manager by his brother. During his time when his brother Zhao Shanzhen led his troops to the war, he was fully in charge of the shogunate government affairs.

Under his leadership, Zhao Shanzhen, who was fighting on the front line of the continent, never worried about war and logistics for military rations, military sources, civilians, weapons and ammunition!

So at least half of Zhao Shanzhen’s military god is Zhao Shanhe’s contribution!

These are the real good brothers, brothers! It’s not like Zhao Lun, and Zhao Ping’s brothers almost fought each other in order to compete for the foundation of the country!

Standing on a triangular platform in Hakata Castle, looking at the busy scenes at the Hakata Port, looking at the dense treasure ships in Hakata Bay, and thinking of Zhao Shanzhen and the unity and harmony of the two brothers, Zhao Lun couldn't help but sigh.

How great would it be if Zhao Ping could be the same as Zhao Shanhe!

Hearing his sigh, Zhao Shanzhen and Zhao Shanhe exchanged glances with each other, Zhao Shanhe smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I often hear people returning from Dongzhou talking about the vastness and prosperity there. In terms of the size of the land, this Dongzhou is even more than the Song Dynasty, but the population is small and has not been developed. If we can continue to immigrate and colonize within a period of time, it will definitely be a rich world no less than the Song Dynasty! The great officials entrusted His Majesty with it, and they must have great expectations for Your Majesty."

Zhao Shanzhen also said: "That's right, my brother once heard from my mother that the great official asked our brothers to open a shogunate on the Japanese archipelago in order to allow the big sailboats going east to the East Continent to have a place to add water and food, so that more Song people can go to East Continent to open up territory. If 100,000 people can immigrate a year, thirty or fifty years later, East Continent will flourish greatly."

Zhao Lu was stunned, "Is that so? There is such a thing?"

He had never heard his father say this. He had only heard people say that the shogunate of the Japanese general who conquered the barbarians was actually caused by Zhao Gou's remnants after he ran to Japan. He had never been recognized by the Song Dynasty court!

Of course, Zhao Kai did not deny that the general of the scourge of the vassal states said that the two brothers Zhao Shanzhen and Zhao Shanhe seemed to have failed to seize the throne in Middle-earth and were excluded from the Japanese archipelago.

The same fate as them is the Southern Emperor Zhao Chen, who has been established in the southern part of the world for many years!

There are rumors that Zhao Chen is the real eldest son of the Song Dynasty official family!

Thinking of this, Zhao Lun's mood suddenly improved a lot. He squeezed out a smile and said to Zhao Shanzhen: "It's really a blessing. Although you two have not been able to win the position of the Great Song Dynasty, they are still the eldest son of the great official family and the emperor of Dongzhou. The two have something to do with me, just speak!"

Zhao Shanzhen and Zhao Shanhe laughed. Then they bowed to Zhao Lun together, "Thank you, my brother, for your support. If you have any invitations in the future, I will definitely submit to Dongzhou!"

They both welcomed Zhao Lu so enthusiastically, of course they had something to ask for!

Although their Hakata shogunate had already conquered twenty-two decree countries in Japan's Kyushu and the Western Kingdom, Japan had more than sixty decree countries in total.

They only have one of the three parts of the world. It is not so easy for them to unify Japan, and the main reason why they cannot unify Japan is not that easy. In addition to the strong resistance of the Heian court, Zhao Kai's Song Dynasty court did not support the Hakata Shogunate very much. Without Zhao Kai's support, it is of course extremely difficult for them, such as outsiders, to unify Japan, where the military power is increasingly emerging. Especially when the battlefield continues to move eastward, the Hakata Shogunate has gradually been unable to support the army's expedition.

Zhao Shanzhen and Zhao Shanhe certainly would not look for reasons from themselves and their mother Wanyan Yan, so they regarded the brotherly grudges between Zhao Kai and Zhao Gou as the main reason why the Song Dynasty court did not support Bota very much.

After finding the reason, of course there is a solution. Of course, it is not Zhao Kai. They don’t have the ability, but they can wait. Zhao Kai is dozens of years older than them, and now he is "sixth" and how many years can he stay?

Once he dies, Zhao Ping will have a chance after joining the Taihata Shogunate!

However, the Hakata shogunate could not directly exert influence on the Song Dynasty court. It was speechless, and it could not be hindered by the Song Dynasty court.

But they can exert influence on the Emperor of Dongzhou! After all, the communication between the Emperor of Dongzhou and the mother country of Song must be maintained through Japan.

Otherwise, the ships traveling east would have to float on the sea for an additional 2,030 days, which means that more supplies and supplies need to be prepared for at least 30 days, and the number of people and supplies will be less.

After Zhao Kai's death, Zhao Ping, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, would ask for Yu Dongzhou because Zhao Ping would have several sons following Zhao Lun's footsteps and go to Dongzhou to be the king.

Therefore, as long as the Emperor Zhao Lun of the Dongzhou Emperor supports him, Zhao Ping will give more help to the Hakata shogunate.

And if the Hakata shogunate gets help, it is possible to unify Japan!

Zhao Lun nodded, turned his gaze to Hakata Bay, and said to himself: "In another three or five days, we should be able to set off? I will never come back, and I will never come back!"
Chapter completed!