Chapter 228: Japanese Traitor, Offering Land to Seek Peace

Xu Wei's disappointment with the imperial court was not dissatisfaction with the Emperor, but dissatisfaction with the Great Ming Cabinet.

He did not understand why Zhu Wan was forced to commit suicide, he did not understand why Hu Zongxian was forced to die in prison, and he even less understood why the Japanese pirate menace had clearly caused the Great Ming to be devastated and riddled with holes, while the capital officials were infighting and had no interest in annihilating the Japanese pirates.

Xu Wei personally experienced Hu Zongxian's death in prison. Xu Jie wanted to kill Hu Zongxian. If he really let the Daoist Master nod, Xu Jie didn't need to do it so ugly, letting people die in prison.

Xu Wei had no dissatisfaction with the Great Ming Emperor. From the 21st year of Jiajing until now, the Great Ming Emperor was a clay statue, and the one in charge was the Cabinet.

"Xia Yan, Yan Song, Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, all are short-sighted people." Xu Wei said very firmly to Sun Keyi.

"Is the Grand Secretary also a short-sighted person?" Sun Keyi slightly disagreed.

In his view, Zhang Juzheng was truly too powerful.

"I ate a kind of rice in Liaodong, called 'random stew'. It is not limited to form, not limited to taste. Whatever you get, you stew it in a pot." Xu Wei spat out a turbid breath and talked about the past.

He felt that Zhang Juzheng was a cook, and a cook whose cooking skills were not very good.

In the 41st year of Jiajing, the pacification of Japanese pirates presided over by Hu Zongxian in the southeast achieved unprecedented victory. The Japanese pirate menace in Zhejiang and Fujian gradually subsided. Everyone clearly knew that the Japanese pirate menace in the southeast finally had a peaceful day.

In the same year in May, Hu Zongxian's backer, Yan Song, was dismissed because Yan Shifan asked for bribes from the Prince Yu's mansion. Hu Zongxian's situation immediately became precarious.

In the same year, Hu Zongxian was impeached by the Nanjing Censor Lu Fengyi with ten crimes. In this storm, Hu Zongxian was dismissed from all his posts. The Jiajing Emperor pardoned his crimes and ordered him to go home and stay idle.

That year, Hu Zongxian disbanded all his aides. Xu Wei went to Liaodong to find a job. At that time, he met Li Chengliang and became Li Rusong's teacher, and ate the dish of random stew.

"Now Zhang Juzheng's New Law is a pot of random stew, without a clear context, and without any long-term planning. It's just like a random stew made to fill the stomach." Xu Wei evaluated Zhang Juzheng's New Law like this.

The former Datong Assistant Regional Commander, now Songjiang Navy Commander Ma Jin, heard Xu Wei say Zhang Juzheng's New Law like this, immediately clenched his fists, and said angrily: "You scholar, you don't understand, what are you talking nonsense about!"

"I am a rough person. Although I can't say why, I know you are wrong!"

"So what if it's random stew? Can others burn this pot of dishes? If you are hungry, you can even eat dirt, let alone delicious food! It's you scholars who are so particular about food!"

Xu Wei looked at this commander, blinked, and the Datong Assistant Regional Commander Ma Jin was impeached by Zhang Juzheng's party member Wu Baipeng for the Xuan-Da Great Wall construction case, and now Wu Baipeng was the Governor of Xuan-Da.

Ma Jin fell to Songjiang to be a commander, which was Zhang Juzheng knocking Ma Jin down from heaven to the mortal world. As a result, Ma Jin actually defended Zhang Juzheng in every way. This was really the sun rising from the west.

Ma Jin had no strange hobbies. He just knew that Zhang Juzheng valued martial artists. Martial artists fought wars, and Zhang Juzheng spent a lot of effort to raise food and grass, instead of expecting the front line to defeat the enemy with will and loyalty.

In Ma Jin's worldview, this was a good person. He was indeed beaten by Zhang Juzheng, but that was under the premise that the situation in the Northwest was rotten and the Xuan-Da Great Wall was leaking everywhere.

Just like on the battlefield, Ma Jin, who was repelled from the front, did not have too many complaints. From his personal point of view, he did suffer a loss, but from the perspective of the soldiers, Zhang Juzheng being in charge was already a rare situation of revitalizing martial arts in the Great Ming.

In the case of Zhang Siwei burning the palace, the martial generals who came from the Northwest and relied on the clan party, such as Ma Fang, Ma Gui, and Ma Jin, were not arrested as party members. This was a kind of leniency under the background of revitalizing martial arts.

Xu Wei said Zhang Juzheng was not a good cook, so Ma Jin naturally had to refute. These scholars were always like this, demanding too much from good people, but being too lenient to bad people.

"The good person Zhang Juzheng you are talking about, isn't he also a scholar? And he is the leader among scholars. He passed the imperial examination." Xu Wei looked at Ma Jin with a full smile.

"I can't argue with you! Anyway, you are a scholar, and Mr. Zhang is not." Ma Jin was directly numb. This scholar spoke in a way that chewed words and chewed sentences. The debate was tricky to the extreme. His hand touched the hilt of the Qi family waist knife, ready to solve the problem in the way of a martial artist.

"Commander, calm down, calm down. We are all people on the same boat, and we all have imperial orders!" Sun Keyi saw that Ma Jin was ready to use force and immediately came out to persuade the fight.

"This is on the sea." Ma Jin pulled the knife out by a third. If he couldn't argue, couldn't he fight?

Sun Keyi saw this and hurriedly shouted loudly: "Commander, we all have imperial orders!"

"Humph!" Ma Jin then put the knife back.

Sun Keyi looked at Xu Wei and tentatively asked: "I once heard that the Emperor seems to like random stew very much. When rewarding the Beijing Camp, he always stewed all kinds of meat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and seasonal vegetables together. The Emperor once said: 'This thing is extremely delicious, send it to the teacher to taste.'"

This was the Emperor's original words, but whenever he found something good to use or eat, he would send it to Zhang Juzheng.

"You usually study under my door, so I ask you, if I say that Japan has wolfish ambitions and will definitely plot against our vast China, do you believe it or not?" Xu Wei stood on the deck, letting the sea breeze blow, looking at Sun Keyi beside him, and said very calmly.

In the thirteen provinces of the Great Ming, the north is bitterly cold, and the extreme south has entered the summer cicadas. The Great Ming is vast and boundless, while Japan is in frequent wars, with various daimyo fighting each other, and the people are living in misery.

When it comes to Japan, the attitudes of the court officials in the capital are very complex and contradictory.

On the one hand, they are extremely contemptuous of Japan, thinking that it is a monkey wearing a crown, not a human. On the one hand, they gnash their teeth at the destruction caused by Japanese pirates along the southeast coast. On the one hand, they feel that Japan is not worth worrying about, just a scabies disease, a trivial problem, a small problem. On the other hand, they have to admit that Japanese pirates do have a threat to the Great Ming.

This complex cognition led the capital to be too contemptuous of Japan.

Xu Wei told Sun Keyi that Japan would definitely attack the Great Ming with the whole country. When the officials in the capital heard this, they would only sneer and disdainfully say that Xu Wei was alarmist.

And having been an aide under Hu Zongxian for a long time, he knew Japan very well. He knew for sure that Japan would inevitably become a serious threat to the Great Ming in the future, because Japan's Warring States pattern since the Onin War and a hundred years of turmoil were slowly subsiding.

"I believe." Sun Keyi said very solemnly: "I have seen Japanese merchants more than once. Their eyes are full of greed. All Japanese merchants should be beheaded. There are no unjust cases. They are all spies."

Sun Keyi believed Xu Wei's words and gave his own reasons. He was not very good at using contradictions to analyze and predict future events, but he had been in contact with Japanese merchants for a long time. These damn Japanese merchants, one by one, were all spies.

And sending merchants as spies is generally a precursor to a big war.

Sun Keyi understood the greedy look in the eyes of the Japanese too well. That kind of desire had been rooted in the bone marrow.

"The path you and I take is slightly different, but the destination is the same." Xu Wei looked at Ma Jin and said: "This is the reason why I said Zhang Juzheng is a cook with poor cooking skills. He is short-sighted because he did not see the harm of Japan."

"In his heart, the situation of the Northern Barbarians is far more important than the Japanese pirate menace in the Southeast. Therefore, when the Japanese pirate menace in Liangguang had not yet been pacified, he transferred Qi Jiguang back to the capital. Protecting the safety of those big masters in the capital is more important. Are the people in the North people, and are the people in the Southeast not people?"

"If it weren't for Qi Jiguang going north, the Japanese pirate menace in Liangguang would not have reached the later scale. Yin Zhengmao spent four years borrowing the prestige of Commander Yu to pacify the Japanese pirate menace in Liangguang."

"In his theory of contradictions, he talks about priorities. In his eyes, the big masters in the capital are more important than the displaced people in the Southeast. So I say he is short-sighted, which means he did not see the harm of Japanese pirates!"

"If it weren't for the sake of silver, in his eyes, the Japanese were not worth worrying about. He would not have had the intention to annihilate Japan. He clearly had the ability and method to do this, but he just felt it was not important, so he didn't do it."

"Then, then, then..." Ma Jin was clumsy. He couldn't argue with Xu Wei. Xuan-Da had experienced more than twenty years of war, and under the scourge of war, it was riddled with holes. And when he arrived in Songjiang Prefecture, he could also see the scars of Japanese pirates everywhere.

In the second year of Longqing, Qi Jiguang going north was indeed good news for the North, but for the people of Liangguang who were looking forward to Qi Jiguang continuing to go to Liangguang to pacify the Japanese pirates, how could this not be cruel news?

"There is only one Commander Qi. What can be done? He can't be divided into two people. Later, when pacifying the Japanese pirates in Liangguang, the Grand Secretary also sent Commander Yu. Wasn't it pacified in the end? Problems are solved one by one." Ma Jin didn't know how to distinguish for Zhang Juzheng, so he could only argue forcefully.

Ma Jin became more and more annoyed as he thought about it, and said very dissatisfied: "You scholar, if you were in charge, in the first year of Longqing, Altan Khan invaded, should Qi Jiguang continue to go to Liangguang to pacify the Japanese pirates, or go north to preside over the military administration of the capital? This dilemma, how would you choose?"

Xu Wei spread his hands and sneered: "I am not a cook. I can't even make random stew. Why ask me? I can't even pass the Juren examination. I am ten thousand miles away from the Wenhua Hall. You ask me what to do, how would I know what to do?"

"I am not the Grand Secretary, not the Grand Tutor and Emperor's Teacher. I don't have such great ability, and I don't have any perfect strategy. He is the Grand Tutor and Emperor's Teacher, he is the dignified official of the selection, he is the Cabinet Grand Secretary, so he must think of a way, and he must have a way. Who let him be the Grand Tutor?"

Ma Jin was directly stunned, looking at Xu Wei blankly. This scholar should be thrown into the water to feed the fish. He shouted loudly: "You don't have a good way either, why do you have to chatter!"

Xu Wei pointed to himself as a matter of course and said: "Don't you know this is the face of a scholar? Clearly have no ability, but have to be cynical, have to point fingers at people who have ability, have to talk about things they don't understand. This is a scholar."

"Too shameless!" Ma Jin was about to pull his knife again.

Xu Wei took two steps back. He had some skills, but compared with such a fierce general, his strength could be ignored. He waved his hands repeatedly and said: "Didn't the Emperor take a fancy to our shamelessness and send us to Japan? If we go to Japan and still want face, etiquette, righteousness, integrity, and shame, then what can we do?"

"Ah?" Ma Jin looked at Xu Wei blankly. This scholar seemed to make sense. They went to Japan this time to stir up trouble, to sell... cross-ocean marriage agency, to cultivate spiritual Great Ming people in Japan. If they wanted face and followed the set of etiquette, righteousness, integrity, and shame, it seemed they couldn't do these evil things.

"Too shameless." Ma Jin took back his knife and said sincerely.

Xu Wei said almost shamelessly: "Thanks for the compliment."

Ma Jin looked at Xu Wei with mixed feelings. He was now sure that Xu Wei might be a madman. Maybe annihilating Japan was Xu Wei's obsession for his whole life, and also his only remaining obsession. He went to sea this time. After Hu Zongxian died, he lived in prison for seven years, became crazy with fear, committed suicide nine times, and his life became miserable after being released from prison.

Xu Wei continued: "I said Zhang Juzheng is a cook with poor cooking skills. The second reason is that Zhang Juzheng is too concerned about face. Zhang Juzheng is a good man, but he shouldn't be a good man. He not only cannot be a good man, but he has to be a big bad man, a big bad man, a big demon king who is full of evil and cannot be written!"

"How did Xu Jie treat Yan Song and Yan Shifan? How did he treat Hu Zongxian? In the court infighting, Zhang Juzheng still maintained a trace of benevolence and righteousness. This is his biggest mistake. His New Law has no way back. He walks on a dead end, but refuses to use decisive means."

Xu Wei, Sun Keyi, and Ma Jin led nearly a thousand soldiers to sea, not without preparation. At this time, Japan was ruled by Oda Nobunaga, who called himself the Sixth Heavenly Demon King. And Oda Nobunaga was worthy of his title as the Sixth Heavenly Demon King, and carried out destructive strikes against the Tendai Sect, Ikko-ikki, etc. of the Japanese Buddhist gate.

The Buddhist gate had great influence in Japan. For example, descendants of the imperial family who did not inherit the throne had to become monks and worship Buddha. And major temples had rich industries. In order to protect temple property, they would even form monk soldiers, and then gather together, not subject to anyone's orders, and occupy one side, bullying the local area.

In early May of the fifth year of Wanli, the ships led by Sun Keyi arrived in Nagasaki.

In the fourth year of Longqing, the daimyo of Hizen Province, Omura Sumitada, opened the port of Nagasaki and launched maritime trade with the Portuguese. Omura Sumitada was a Christian. This was thanks to the frequent wars in Japan and the lack of constraints, which led to Christianity being very popular in Japan.

Life was already very painful, and some comfort was needed.

And the person preaching in Hizen Province, Kyushu, Japan, was Francisco Sande, who was the former Governor of Luzon. Francisco's trade and preaching in Japan were dual-track, which was the so-called: silver and soul are equally important.

Francisco had no way to deal with Yin Zhengmao's great effort to produce miracles and one force to drop ten meetings. He was captured by the Great Ming in Manila and is still imprisoned in Manila's prison.

Francisco's close friend, Father Torres, was still preaching in Nagasaki, presiding over the trade between Japan and the West, and sometimes wrote to the special envoy Li Yashi in the capital, asking Li Yashi to help rescue Francisco.

Li Yashi, as Philip II's special envoy, actually had the power to mobilize all of Spain's forces in the Far East to retake Manila. But Li Yashi sat in the capital all day arguing with Chen Xuehui, and did not care about retaking Manila.

Philip II did not care about Manila either. Philip II paid more attention to trade. Li Yashi knew what Philip II valued more. Therefore, regarding Father Torres's request, Li Yashi expressed helplessness.

Luzon and Manila, in Li Yashi's view, were an insurance policy, an insurance plug for the Great Ming and Spanish ocean trade.

Manila was in the hands of the Great Ming, so the Great Ming did not have to worry that the Great Ming's long coastline would be full of red-haired barbarians, black barbarians, Japanese pirates, and desperate sea pirates. And Manila in the hands of the Great Ming, for Philip II of the West, was a small, insignificant, and unimportant vassal territory that didn't know where it was, in exchange for the Great Ming opening the seas and trading. As long as Luzon was still there, the Great Ming would not close the door to opening the seas due to military concerns.

Since the visit of the Portuguese royal special envoy Huo Zhe Yasan and the court pharmacist Tome Pires to the Great Ming, Portugal had been thinking about how to open the Great Ming's door. Huo Zhe Yasan and Tome Pires even mixed around the Ming Wuzong, requesting the Ming Wuzong to open maritime trade.

But they never got an effective result.

Western merchants actually had the same difficulty as Sun Keyi in understanding the Great Ming's decision to ban the seas. The sea ban made the private gate fat, and the sea ban caused all merchants going to sea to be pirates, because going to sea was a violation of the ban. The Great Ming's maritime trade, because of the sea ban, became a zero-sum game without any rules. In any zero-sum game, there was only internal friction.

Merchants from the West, in fact, were just like Sun Keyi; they found it very difficult to understand the imperial court's decision to ban maritime trade. Banning maritime trade only enriched private interests. Banning maritime trade caused all merchants who went to sea to become pirates, because going to sea was a violation of the ban. Because of the ban, the Great Ming's maritime trade turned into a zero-sum game without any rules to speak of, and in any zero-sum game, there is only internal friction.

Admittedly, Hu Zongxian was Yan Song's party member, but Yan Song was in charge for twenty years. Hu Zongxian wanted to pacify the Japanese pirates. If he didn't become Yan Song's party member, how could he pacify the Japanese pirates?

The Great Ming is like this. Many things that should be like this are never like this.

Sun Keyi's merchant ship arrived at the port. The three-masted clipper ship was originally modified from a carrack ship, changing the soft sail to a hard sail and the ship's cabin to a watertight cabin, without more improvements.

But the flag it hung caused the shock of the daimyo of Hizen Province, Omura Sumitada. Omura Sumitada looked at it several times with uncertainty, and finally confirmed that the flag hanging on these thirteen clipper ships was the Great Ming's Seven-Star Flag.

Fortunately, Omura Sumitada still had some knowledge, knew Chinese characters, and read some history books. When the Ashikaga Shogunate was bestowed by the Great Ming imperial court, the Great Ming angel fleet arrived at the port with the Seven-Star Flag.

Especially after seeing the three combat ships, Omura Sumitada was even more convinced that these were the Great Ming's official ships.

The combat ship was the Great Ming navy's warship. Japan's ships were small, and in front of the combat ship, they were small sampans that would break at a touch. Japan was extremely fearful and understood this kind of ship, but they had no ability to manufacture this kind of ship.

Omura Sumitada immediately sent an envoy to connect, and then the big ship began to dock.

Sun Keyi, Xu Wei, and Ma Jin had just walked off the boardwalk when they saw a person with no hair on the top of his head, hair on both sides, and a braid tied behind his head kneeling on the ground. This hairstyle was called a moon-dai head. He was wearing a torso garment, the shoulders were purple with pot-hanging patterns, the hem was green with arrow-feather patterns, which was the tail imprint of an arrow, and the white cloth in the middle had paulownia leaf patterns.

As soon as the three of them stood still, the person kneeling on the ground crawled forward on his knees to the three of them and performed a strange big ceremony.

"The angel of the Great Ming Heavenly Dynasty has come from afar. I failed to welcome you from afar. Please forgive me." The person kneeling and apologizing was the daimyo of Hizen Province, Omura Sumitada.

Sun Keyi, Xu Wei, and Ma Jin looked at each other. They had made more than a dozen plans, but they did not have a plan for kneeling as soon as they met.

Omura Sumitada was just a person who lived his life. He might be a devout believer, but he was definitely not a good family head. In the Sengoku period when wars were frequent, Omura Sumitada's performance as a family head was not excellent, and he was even bullied.

Before coming, Sun Keyi had done a full investigation, at least for Nagasaki, Sun Keyi knew very well.

For example, one thing Omura Sumitada had been active in recently was offering Nagasaki and nearby Motegi to the church. The reason why Omura Sumitada wanted to offer Nagasaki was mainly because he found that he couldn't hold it anymore, so he offered land to seek peace.

Because there were many people fighting for the benefits of maritime trade, such as the Matsuura clan who had Nagasaki's Southern Barbarian trade snatched away, and the Saigo family head near Nagasaki, Saigo Tsunayoshi, Fukahori Sumikata, etc. These people were not jealous, and often sent troops to attack Nagasaki.

On the night before the Great Ming big ship arrived at the port, Omura Sumitada was assassinated and almost died.

Maritime trade is profitable. In order to live, Omura Sumitada planned to offer Nagasaki and Motegi to the Western church, and use the power of the Western church to protect his territory.

And the Roman Catholic Church inspector, Father Alessandro Valignano, had been reluctant to agree to Omura Sumitada's request, because Omura Sumitada wanted tax revenue after offering the land.

Sun Keyi knew that Omura Sumitada was a coward before he came, but he never expected that as soon as he got off the ship, this person would bow down.

Omura Sumitada also had something to say. The Great Ming pacified the Japanese pirates all the way to Japan. He was afraid, so he was afraid!

Sun Keyi was a merchant and Xu Wei was a scholar, but the six hundred guest troops led by Ma Jin were holding hooks, bows, fire guns, and waist knives. These six hundred guest troops were enough to take Omura Sumitada's life.

Omura Sumitada was a weakling. Where did he need six hundred guest troops to pacify? Where did he have the blessing to be served by the Great Ming guest troops?

Omura Sumitada knew very well the power of the Great Ming guest troops. After all, the Japanese pirates who ran to invade the Great Ming and were repelled and fled back were constantly rendering the strength of the Great Ming guest troops—invulnerable to swords and guns, water and fire, moving like thunder and lightning, etc., like gods and Buddhas. How could Omura Sumitada not be afraid?

Those bright iron armor, a slight estimate, had more than two hundred sets.

This thing was not the white-cast iron plate armor of the West, but the steel armor forged by the imperial court.

To objectively describe the performance of these steel armors, one can describe it like this: these steel armors, except for the different patterns, were no different from the steel armor worn by the Great Ming Emperor.

This was the steel armor personally identified and used by the Great Ming Emperor.

So Xu Wei said that the Great Ming Emperor really did not treat hungry soldiers badly. He waved his hand and gave out two hundred and twenty sets of steel armor, for fear that the Great Ming soldiers would be bullied when they went out.

"Well, you are slightly submissive." Sun Keyi listened to the very unskilled Chinese, and finally nodded, confirming that Omura Sumitada had some submissive heart and could be cultivated into a shrewd person.

Xu Wei was squinting his eyes and looking at the environment around Nagasaki. It was very suitable as a springboard for the Great Ming to exert influence in Japan.

They spent a total of seven days coming this time. According to the speed of the Great Ming's ships, it only took three days from the Songjiang Shipping Commission to Nagasaki. It was just that they encountered a situation where the compass failed on the way, and the boatman spent a few days finding the direction again.

And it only took two days and one night to pass news from Nagasaki to Tianjin Wei, and only one day from Tianjin Wei to the Northern Yamen.

In terms of information distance, the distance from Nagasaki to the political center was only three days.

Xu Wei saw the Roman Catholic Church inspector Valignano. The Western face was very easy to recognize, and this inspector was staring at Xu Wei and his party with suspicious, examining, and even enemy-like eyes.

Xu Wei suddenly showed a somewhat insidious smile at the inspector.

They wanted to gain a foothold in Nagasaki, and there was still a long way to go. This inspector was one of the obstacles.

Omura Sumitada entertained the Great Ming envoys. When he learned that they were really here to do business, he was somewhat surprised.

Do you need six hundred guest troops to do business? When Oda Nobunaga, the big fool of Owari, started his business, he only had seven hundred family slaves. Now, isn't he building Azuchi Castle and calling himself the person of the world?

"Are you really just here to do business?" Omura Sumitada asked with some uncertainty.

"Not necessarily." Sun Keyi played a trick and asked with a smile: "I heard that the family head has encountered many troubles recently? Maritime trade is profitable, and there are many people fighting for profit. It is normal to have some troubles."

"Indeed, I have encountered some troubles." Omura Sumitada did not hide it, and explained the troubles he had encountered recently in detail. The maritime trade of Nagasaki was like a child holding a gold ingot in a busy market. Holding a jade is a crime.

Omura Sumitada was burned out.

"It's not strange that it has reached the point of offering land." Sun Keyi asked calmly: "Do you need help?"

"I beg for the mercy of the Heavenly Dynasty." Omura Sumitada answered very firmly. He originally offered land to seek peace. Who is it not to offer to? Offering to the Great Ming, the Great Ming is at least a state of etiquette.

"I'm afraid not. I heard that you have converted to Christianity. You should ask your Heavenly Father for help." Sun Keyi said with a melancholy face: "If you could change your faith, it would be fine."

"If I change my faith, is it believing in Buddha?" Omura Sumitada asked in confusion. For him, changing his faith was not a difficult thing. He also worshiped Buddha before, didn't he also convert to Catholicism?

"No, no, no, change your faith to the True Martial Emperor." Sun Keyi said very firmly.

The Great Ming Emperor claimed to be the reincarnation of the True Martial Emperor. In fact, changing your faith to the True Martial Emperor was believing in the Great Ming Emperor.

"What scriptures do you recite?" Omura Sumitada asked with a frown.

Xu Wei said: "True Martial Scripture."

Omura Sumitada offering land to the Roman Catholic Church is not my fabrication. Maritime trade is profitable, Omura Sumitada couldn't hold it, so he directly offered Nagasaki. Ask for monthly tickets, Aowu!!!!!!!!!!!!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 229 =====

Xu Wei spoke up and said, "The True Martial Scripture."

Omura Sumitada offering his land to the Roman Curia is not something I made up; the profits from maritime trade were so thick that Omura Sumitada couldn't resist, and he simply offered up Nagasaki. Asking for monthly votes, Awoo!!!!!!!!

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