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Chapter 106 The Sensible and the Unreasonable

Raphael: Oh, yes!I forgot to tell you that I have already sent the news of your visit to Ningbo with the Meng Mission to the East Factory Admiral Shang Ming through a secret channel!Dongchang will probably wait for you to arrive in Beijing and send someone to have a secret meeting with you. The secret code for the meeting is "The flower of hope, which connects us." and "So, don't stop..." These two sentences.

Baoer: ...

Bao'er: Are you a devil...

Ever since Bao'er learned of the connection code given to him by Raphael, he has been worried that when meeting with the connection person from Dongchang, some assassins with guns would suddenly rush out and shoot him indiscriminately. kill.Then fell in a pool of blood, and after crawling for a certain distance, Boa finally bled to death from a gunshot wound.Before he died, he would stretch out the fingers of his left hand to let the blood flow forward along the fingers.

Bao'er was suddenly slapped by the dragon horse behind him, and she shivered suddenly.

"You scared me to death!"

"It's rare to see you lost in thought, what's the matter?" Ryoma asked playfully, "You're homesick?"

"No, I was just wondering if someone would jump out and assassinate me after we docked..."

"That's not easy!" Ryoma pointed to the port not far away, which is three or four times larger than Sakai Port, and said, "After we landed, you will know if someone has assassinated you!"

Only then did Bao'er recall that Ningbo Port had already arrived.

However, even though the members of the mission on the ship saw Ningbo, the transit point of this tribute, their faces did not show any joy, but were full of doubts and puzzles.

"Why did the Ouchi clan's family crest appear outside Ningbo Port?"

"Could they also come to pay tribute?"

"Impossible! The survey and cooperation book of the tribute is still in our hands, how could they come to pay the tribute!"

Hosokawa Fujitaka once again took out the survey and cooperation document of the tribute. Seeing that the date above is clearly May of the 16th year of Shenghua, which coincides with this time, and the survey and cooperation document is also stamped with the seal of Honglu Temple, presumably Their survey and cooperation documents must not be forged.So……

"Then" Ryoma said to Hosokawa Fujitaka with a wry smile, "I'm afraid this is the real backer that that old fox Miyoshi Changqing prepared for us!"

Although Ryoma used to be a Tosa corporal (lower-level samurai), his family was rich, so he did not miss this book at all.So when Ryoma saw the tribute ship of the Ouchi clan stationed in Ningbo Port, he guessed that this time the Hosokawa clan and the Ouchi clan would inevitably have a dispute over the tribute, and it might even turn into a bloody conflict.

After all, in the history of his world, there is a record of the "battle for tribute".And the protagonists of this "battle for tribute" are the Ouchi family and the Hosokawa family.Therefore, Ryoma could only persuade the warriors of the mission to keep their swords away from their bodies as much as possible. At the same time, he also quietly told Bao'er to hide his sword.

Although Longma didn't know the existence of Bao'er's system, Longma knew that Bao'er had a magic weapon that could hide things. Otherwise, why would Bao'er often carry tens of thousands of silver dollars with him?And the weapon in his hand will often disappear and reappear, appear and disappear again.Long Ma heard from his wife that these things were left to Bao'er by the Dragon God back then.

Hehe, Dragon God... Long Ma chose to believe his wife's words without hesitation.Over the past few years, Longma has accidentally learned that his wife Wu Liniang was also the queen of Dameng Kingdom!He had to admit that Bao'er was really a kind of magical creature, and some magical things could always happen around him.

"Can you really fight?" Bao'er asked Long Ma in a low voice.

"It's really possible! This kind of thing really happened in my history, but the time is not right!"

At this time, Bao'er suddenly remembered the delusion that he might be assassinated, and he hurriedly asked Ryoma, "You didn't sell the musket to the Ouchi family, did you? Neither did anyone else?"

Ryoma decisively shook his head and denied: "I swear, neither I nor the Shimadzu family have ever sold even a single iron cannon to the Ouchi family, so you don't have to worry about the Ouchi family secretly hitting you with black guns. "

"Oh..." Bao'er felt relieved a little, and said in a low voice, "That's good, that's good."

"It's not good at all!" Ryoma raised his hand and pointed at the three tribute boats of Ouchi's family, emphatically: "Three boats came from their family. Even if there were 3 warriors on one boat, there would be 30 people in total. 90 The samurai who can really know how to use swords are not the mob you met on the ship! Once a conflict breaks out, even if you can fight, Baoer, you will not be able to take care of everyone in the mission!"

"Is it still allowed to bring knives after starting the tribute process?" Bao'er recalled the records in the "Code of Conduct for Tribute Personnel" and said: "After we go ashore, won't our weapons be confiscated by the officials of Honglu Temple Well!"

"But what if they reserve a hand in advance, hide all the weapons, or snatch the weapons of the defenders?"

"This is easy to handle. Since we are afraid that they will hide weapons, then we will hide along with them and we will be done!"

"Brother Bao'er, what do you mean..." Ryoma asked curiously, "Let us give you all the knives?"

Then, the sabers of more than 20 members of the mission disappeared in front of their eyes.After the tribute ship docked, a sixth-grade temple minister was in charge of receiving the members of the mission from General Ashikaga's residence.However, Liu Hao, the Prime Minister of Honghe Temple, wondered why there were two batches of tribute envoys from Japan appearing at the same time, and the envoys who arrived later were more prestigious than those who arrived earlier in terms of appearance and clothing. .

The most important thing is that this group of people actually got off the ship without any weapons!This was not like the group of barbarians just now, who didn't even understand the rules of handing in their weapons after landing, and even almost clashed with the Jinyi guards who were in charge of protecting the officials of Honglu Temple.

As a general interpreter, Bao'er was of course responsible for communicating with the officials of Dameng. He cupped his hands and said, "We have come all the way from Dongying to the Central Plains to receive the grace of His Majesty the Emperor, so naturally we dare not add further chaos to the Shang Kingdom. We have left the swords in the tribute boat, and dare not bother the chief officials of Honglu Temple."

Si Cheng Liu Hao thought to himself, look, look!This is the attitude that a tributary envoy should have!As the saying goes, if you compare people, you will die, and if you compare goods, you will throw them away.As far as the appearance of the Ashikaga General's mission and their respectful attitude towards my country are, they are a hundred times better than that group of countrymen who came out of nowhere just now!As for the interpreter sent by General Ashikaga's mansion disguised as a man, is it still a problem because she can speak so clearly in official language?

Ever since, discriminatory treatment came about so simply.On the one hand, there are more than 100 members of the mission of the Ouchi clan, who are closely watched by Jin Yiwei and the generals of Ningbo; A team of 30 people.

It happened that the Ouchi clan also noticed the Hosokawa mission that had arrived in Ningbo. At this time, they were also wondering why the general family still sent The tributary mission.

Compared with the attitude of the Dameng officers and soldiers on their side, the treatment of the Hosokawa mission can be described as "abnormal preferential treatment".However, as the first time to pay tribute to Meng, they don't have any AC in their hearts. Naturally, they don't understand some rules and unspoken rules of paying tribute, and they don't understand the twists and turns in Dameng's officialdom.

As a result, the mentality of the members of the Ouchi mission naturally collapsed, and an unprecedented sense of humiliation surged into the hearts of each of them!Now all it takes is a small spark to detonate the powder keg of Ouchi!

(Author's popular science: "Don't stop." This stalk comes from "Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans" after the 48rd minute and 23th second of "Promise", one of the protagonists of this work. What Zika said when he unfortunately died, and then somehow became a "don't stop" meme. The author said responsibly that anyone who abused this meme is a devil!)

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Thanks for the reward from the starting point book friends!

(End of this chapter)