My Daming New Empire

Because of the frequent presence of the Ming Fleet, no matter whether it is the Kyogoku family or the Yamana family, including the Nizi family, which belongs to the same branch of the Sasaki family as the Kyogoku family, they all treat this group of Daming tea merchants with courtesy.

In their view, Izumo, with only a few hundred samurai, is not qualified to fight against the Ming fleet. They treat the Ming people better now, and when Daming comes over, they will also have more amulets.

It is precisely for this reason that although Ji Gang and the others are not living a good life today, they are definitely not bad.

Many local households, those with beautiful women in their families, gave filial piety to these Ming people.

Their purpose is actually not mainly to win over relationships. Although there is a part of the reason for this, the more important reason is that they are tirelessly seeking human improvement.

Today's Ming men are mostly over 1.6 meters tall, but the Japanese are only 1.5 meters tall, with a height difference of about ten centimeters.

The purpose of their borrowing now is to make their offspring taller. As long as it is born from their daughter's stomach, they don't care who the child's father is.

This kind of trend didn't start at that time. As far back as the Tang Dynasty, Dongying people's favorite thing was to transport beautiful girls to the mainland by boat, and then transport them back to Dongying after they became pregnant.

The women here are not ashamed of it, but feel that it is an honor to dedicate themselves to the stronger Ming people.

During this period of time, Ji Gang has tasted a lot of fresh and tender flower buds. Except for the monotonous life and poor food, he has enjoyed all the beauty in this respect.

"This is just the beginning..." Ji Gang touched the window, poured a cup of herbal tea, looked at the gradually brightening Dongfang outside, and said to himself.

The Japanese girl behind her also woke up, looked at Ji Gang's burly body, and asked in half-baked Ming dialect: "Lu Liangren, don't you want to sleep for a while?"

Ji Gang looked back at her and smiled, "Miss Yamana, it's time to practice."

"Liangren" is the name that Dongying women call Daming people. Ji Gang doesn't know where this name came from, and he corrected it several times but still can't change it, so he just called her.

This Miss Yamana is the direct daughter of the Yamana family. Although she is young, she is very curious.From the very beginning, Ji Gang relied on his status as a commander to give her the upper hand and kept her by his side.

In my spare time, teach her some Chinese and recognize some Chinese characters, which can also pass some lonely time.

Of course, he pays more attention to her identity, a direct descendant of the Yamana family. If she becomes his concubine in the future, it will be of great help to him in controlling this place.

Guarding such a silver mountain, and being able to escape the persecution of him by the civil and military forces of the Kaiman Dynasty, Ji Gang never thought of returning to Daming from the day he came to Dongying.

Although Japan is now under the jurisdiction of the shogunate on the surface, even their so-called emperor has become a puppet.But in fact, the central government's jurisdiction over the lower levels is pitiful. This is equivalent to 2000 years ago in the Ming Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the major names were actually vassal kings, with supreme power of life and death in their own territory.

Being a vassal here is more free and enjoyable than being a minister in China.

Of course, he is very clear that there is a premise for all this, that is to help Taisun destroy Dongpu as a whole, only in this way can he gain a foothold here.

And the harder the ruling class in Japan is beaten, the less pressure he will face in the future.

He wanted to create a permanent foundation for his Ji family, but he didn't want to be the target of public criticism and be attacked by all the people.

So these days, he has been suppressing his subordinates, preventing them from having unnecessary conflicts with the locals, and instead focusing on building a good relationship with the locals.

Reiko Yamana supported her body from the bed, and said softly, "I'll wait on you...to get dressed."

Ji Gang turned around and squeezed her towering place, and said with a smile, "You should have a good rest. I brought a bow and arrow when I go home today, and I will teach you how to archery tomorrow."

He had already received the information from Taisun last night that tomorrow Daming's fleet would attack Osaka Prefecture. As the gateway to Kyoto, the attack on Osaka Prefecture would definitely shock the Japanese people's nerves immediately.

At this time, finding an excuse to keep this chick by my side is also a pawn to protect the future.

It is rare for the Yamana family to have such a petite beauty. After losing this chess piece, it will not be easy to find a woman he is satisfied with.

Ji Gang was able to be valued by Zhu Di at the beginning, naturally because of his extraordinary prowess and proficiency in literature and martial arts.His abilities in all aspects are beyond ordinary people, otherwise it would be impossible for him to become the commander of Jinyiwei from an outsider in just a few years.

And he is not yet 40 years old now, and he still looks talented, and he looks more masculine with a short mustache.

Although he is a little older, his literary talent and martial arts are outstanding, which can make the only 15-year-old Reiko Yamana fascinated.

Reiko Yamana wanted to tear the sheets shyly, but couldn't help puffing out her chest and letting Ji Gang be frivolous. "Then you have to send two warriors back with me, otherwise Kameji will pester me again."

A sharp light flashed in Ji Gang's eyes, he laughed and said, "Don't be afraid of him, I will personally escort you back today."

That Gui Er was originally an orphan and didn't even have a surname, but in this era, there are still a large number of Dongying civilians who don't have a surname.

As an affiliated samurai of the Yamana family, Kameji is known for being fierce and good at fighting. He has many lives under his command and has also received the attention of Yamana Shiri. He is now one of the general managers of the samurai.

This person has always coveted Yamana Reiko's beauty, but his image in Yamana Reiko's mind is too bad, so he never succeeded.

Now that Reiko Yamana is infatuated with Ji Gang, she even looks down on Kameji who can only kill and fight fiercely.

Tomorrow the Ming army will attack Osaka Prefecture, Dongying is not big, and in a few days, the news will spread throughout Dongying, so Ji Gang doesn't care about the impact of killing Kameji at this time.

Reiko Yamana said worriedly: "Kameji is vicious, he killed several samurai, and the samurai at home are a little afraid of him."

Ji Gang glanced at the wooden box on the beam, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, he can't kill me."

Yesterday, along with Taisun's letter, there was also a short gun.It never occurred to him that in just over half a year, the original firecracker would be able to fire itself without a matchstick.

According to the messenger, this kind of short-fire gun was not equipped in the army, and only Taisun's guard had a hundred.Now the grandson has rewarded him, which makes him feel extremely honored.

And with this firecracker, no matter how good Gui Er's kung fu is, he will be knocked down by one shot.

He is not a young man who fights bravely and fiercely, and he also thinks that he is much nobler than Gui Er, so it is not worthwhile to fight him and lose both.In order to achieve the goal, any despicable method can be used, not to mention using firecrackers to Kameji, whose opponent only has a sword.

In the morning, he fired several consecutive shots with this firecracker in the mountains and forests, mastered the installation of priming powder and loading ammunition proficiently, and also had an accurate estimate of the reaction force of the short blunderbuss.

There is not much difference between this kind of short-fire gun and long-fire gun. The only thing that needs attention is that holding the gun with one hand requires more force to tighten the wrist.

And using flint to ignite a fire is indeed much more convenient than using a matchlock.

He couldn't help thinking about it, and he didn't know when the firecracker would become popular.If Taisun is willing to give him a thousand guns, he will have the confidence to face any enemy, and he no longer needs to be cautious.

After lunch at noon, Ji Gang took two guards and returned to Daejeon, the residence of the Yamauchi family, with Reiko Yamana.

Dongying is just a small country, and the Yamauchi family is now nominally the owner of Ishijian, but Ishijian's entire country is not as big as a county in Daming.

It was more than ten years ago that the Yamana family took back the management rights of Iwami from the Kyogoku family. The strength of the entire family is relatively small among the major names in Japan.

Daejeon is a seaside hilly area among the mountains. It is located to the west of Iwami Ginzan, and the distance between the two places is about seven or eight miles.

They rode pony horses from Jeju Island. Although this kind of horses can't walk fast, they are faster than humans and save effort.

In today's Japan, being able to own a pony is already a status symbol.

Many samurai did not even have a pair of shoes except for their own swords.They are not the poorest group of people, because the poorest people don't even have a piece of clothing to keep out the cold, and they can't even afford a knife.

As for ordinary people, it is unimaginably poor.Many grown-up boys and girls have no clothes to wear, and they have to work naked when they are working, and they can only put on clothes after work, for fear of damage, they will have no clothes to wear.

However, it is precisely because of such a difficult living environment that people in Dongying have a natural jealousy and hatred towards the mainland.They think that robbing is justified, and many people who can't make it through have joined the ranks of Japanese pirates.

When the Silver Mountain is developed, they only need sufficient food and clothing, and they will surely be able to recruit inexhaustible labor.

As for women, if they could marry Daming, that would be their dream.