Chapter 2082
Chapter 2082
Chapter 2082
Although before the departure this time, action plans for landing and reconnaissance were formulated for the two places of Hirado Port and Nagasaki Port, but considering the specific conditions of the two places, Nagasaki is actually the key target, and there are even Portuguese merchants there. The library can provide assistance to a certain extent.However, there may be Shiba Zhiyu Party in Hirado Port, and the risk of entering the local area will be relatively greater, so the action plan for Hirado is actually just an alternative plan.If he hadn't discovered the existence of a Chinese warship nearby, Amakusa Shiro probably wouldn't have taken the initiative to ask for orders to take the risk of going ashore to implement the matter.
After being promoted to an officer many years ago, Amakusa Shiro never performed reconnaissance missions alone like this, so this mission to infiltrate Hirado also made him quite excited.Although the sea temperature in March was still bitterly cold, he swam to the adjacent coast without any stress.
Amakusa Shiro opened the waterproof bag and took out all the items, dried himself with a towel, changed into dry clothes, put all the wet clothes into the bag, and put a few stones, tied them to the deflated sheepskin tires with ropes Sink into the sea together.After dealing with these things, he counted all the belongings and took them with him one by one, raised his head to roughly identify the direction, and then headed south along the coast.
After climbing over a low hill for half an hour, Amakusa Shiro had already seen the harbor that he had seen during the day.There are dots of lights on the coast, pointing out the direction for him to go.
There are usually some recreational places for sailors to pass the time near the port wharf, which is an essential industry in all trading ports under Haihan's rule.Amakusa Shiro thought that this place would be no exception. After all, the sailors who went ashore were all idle, so what else could they do besides drinking and gambling to find women?
It is not difficult to find these places. After nightfall, you can go wherever the lights are on near the port. You can definitely smell the smell of wine and hear the voices of sailors laughing and cursing.Although Amakusa Shiro is not interested in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, he knows everything he should know, and there will be no obstacles to mixing in these places.
Sure enough, when he was still some distance away from the lights, Amakusa Shiro could already smell the aroma of wine and food in the air, making him sure that there was what he was looking for ahead.
Soon he saw a small wine house next to the pier, with a lantern at the door, and the words "Yoshida House" written on the lantern with a brush, and the sound of yelling and screaming could be heard faintly inside the house.Amakusa Shiro walked to the door and stopped for a while, confirming that there was no problem with his condition, he lifted the curtain and walked in.
The size of this tavern is not big, there are only three small square tables in the room, but there are already about ten people sitting there, Amakusa Shiro looked at their clothes through the dim light, they should be poor people.And his rash entry didn't seem to attract the attention of these people. Everyone was still drinking and having fun, and no one was curious about this newcomer.
It was the owner of the store who noticed Amakusa Shiro first, and asked him to sit down next to the counter, and asked him what he wanted to drink.There are no buddies in this tavern, and the boss himself is busy with cooking and drinking before and after running.Amakusa Shiro ordered a jug of wine and a plate of sashimi, and sat at the counter to pour himself a drink.Although he didn't talk to anyone, his ears had already begun to listen to the conversations of these people in the house.
Amakusa Shiro's appearance and speech are not significantly different from those of the locals, and there is no sense of disobedience in this small tavern.He soon realized that he had come to the right place. There were still people talking in Chinese in this small izakaya.
Amakusa Shiro pricked up his ears and listened for a while. Although he couldn't hear it completely intermittently, he got some useful information from it.Most of the people who drink here, the Japanese-speaking locals are shipbuilders and low-level sailors, but the few Chinese-speaking people seem to be a level above, and they are rude to others. .
These Chinese-speaking people are also proficient in Japanese, and it seems that they either live here permanently, or they often come and go here.Amakusa Shiro saw from the corner of his eye that the clothes of these people were similar to those of the locals, so he judged that these people probably lived in Hirado all the year round, so they tended to assimilate with the locals in terms of clothing.But these people only use Chinese when they talk to each other, and they are obviously not Japanese who can speak Chinese.
But the Chinese spoken by these people has a relatively heavy accent. Amakusa Shiro is proficient in Haihan Mandarin, but he can't understand what these people are talking about.He could only be patient, wait for these people in the tavern to leave first, and then try to inquire about the news from the shopkeeper.
After waiting for a long time, Amakusa Shiro drank most of the second pot of wine, and the empty plates in front of him began to pile up, and most of the people in the small bar finally dispersed, leaving two or three people lying on the table He didn't move at all, and there were people snoring, so he should have passed out a long time ago.
Amakusa Shiro was actually still sober at this time, but he pretended to be slightly drunk and asked the boss to come and settle the score.Taking advantage of the checkout, Amakusa Shiro claimed that he was a sailor who had just arrived here, and hoped that the boss could introduce a place where he could spend the night.The boss was not too polite, so he said that he could also stay in this small tavern, the price is negotiable, it seems that as long as there is money to make, he doesn't plan to let it go.
So Amakusa Shiro waited for the boss to clear the other drunks and close the door, and then asked him if he could still buy alcohol, and he could pay the boss for a drink with him.The boss even accepted the business of staying in the store, so naturally he would not refuse, so the small tavern became Shiro Amakusa's private room immediately.
After drinking to his ears, Amakusa Shiro took advantage of the opportunity to inquire about the surrounding situation, and he really got a lot of information from the mouth of the boss who was above Jiu Jin.The boss probably didn't expect Amakusa Shiro to look like a pure Japanese, but he was working for another country. When talking to him, he didn't have any defense at all, and he answered everything truthfully when asked. very cooperative.
This conversation lasted until the middle of the night. Both of them were dizzy and dizzy after drinking. The boss was so happy that he didn't charge Amakusa Shiro's overnight fee. Just sleep on the floor in the store, and leave after dawn.
After Amakusa Shiro lay down, he endured sleepiness and reorganized the information he got that night.According to the store owner, more than half of the people he met in the store were working for the Tagawa family.The Tagawa family is quite influential in the Hirado domain, and the shipyard and cargo terminal near the tavern are all properties under its name.
As for why there are some Han people in the Tagawa family, the boss can't say anything. He only knows that many of these Han people are quite powerful, and their status is even similar to that of the top samurai of the Hirado domain.
The main industry of this small harbor named Tianzhu Bay is not shipbuilding or transnational trade, but the export of timber.The nearby large forests provide rich forest resources, and the shipyard was actually built by the Tagawa family in recent years. Apart from the natural harbor here, another important point is probably that Tiansuke The forests near the bay are just right for making ship materials.
Before the Tagawa family developed this place, most of the timber here could only be transported to Hirado Port or further away as building materials, or local fishermen built some small sampans that were no more than two or three feet long.Today, there are a series of industries around the new docks and shipyards, such as this small wine house.After all, there were not so many sailors with spending power in this area before, and now the local economy can be considered revitalized by the Tagawa family.
The surname of Tagawa is not very unfamiliar to Amakusa Shiro. Before he set off, he also studied the investigation reports from other places. Naturally, he knew that a series of commercial and trade organizations related to the gun case seized in the Fujian Strait area some time ago. It seems that there is a Japanese named "Tagawa Kenji" who is active, which is also a main clue for the intelligence agency to follow the clues to find out Japan, and it is listed as one of the goals that need to be implemented in this reconnaissance operation.
Whether there is a direct connection between "Tagawa Kenji" who is active in Fujian and the Tagawa family in Hirado, Japan, there is no real evidence yet, but judging from the information that Amakusa Shiro learned here tonight, there may be a connection between the two Sex is quite big, and this connection point is the Han people.
There are many Han Chinese under the Hirado Tagawa family, and these people are not engaged in the lowest-level jobs, and they still have some authority. Amakusa Shiro speculates that this may be related to shipbuilding technology.The Japanese businessman Kenji Tagawa, who used to operate in the Fujian Strait, also had many Han Chinese under him, who were responsible for operating and commanding the latent agencies deployed in various places.
This level of cooperation between the Han and the Japanese is reminiscent of the Japanese pirates who once ran rampant along the southeast coast. Only driven by huge common interests can it be possible for the two peoples to belong to different ethnic groups. groups to collaborate across barriers.Shibazhi also met this requirement. Zheng Zhilong stayed in Japan for a long time back then, and had a good relationship with the Hirado clan, and even married and had children here.Among the people he brought to Fujian later, there were also Japanese from the Kitakyushu area.If the Eighteen Zhiyu Party chooses to make a comeback in Hirado, it has to be said that there may be quite favorable environmental conditions for them.
However, the industry in Tiansuke Bay is relatively simple, and more than half of the floating population are people who work for the Tagawa family. Therefore, the information that the owner of this small tavern can provide is actually very limited. What is the relationship between the family.If Amakusa Shiro wants to find out more information, he probably has to go to Hirado Port before he can find a way.
But Amakusa Shiro did not intend to hurry to Hirado Port, he was going to go to the shipyard to confirm before leaving Tiansuke Bay whether the ships built here were Chinese warships moored at the pier.
Amakusa Shiro also had a big heart, and after thinking about things, he fell into a deep sleep, and was not woken up by the store until noon.He asked for a basin of water to wash up briefly, then paid the bill and left the tavern.
After going out, you can see the whole picture of the port town that you didn’t see last night. This town is actually a street extending along the bay. The east and west ends are the pier and the shipyard. A place to play, and shops like Mihang grocery store.The local people's residences are deeper inland, and only a few people who live by the sea live near the coastline.
Of course, whether it is a dock or a shipyard, the scale of operations here is far less than that of most of the ports that Amakusa Shiro has been to. If it wasn’t for a few more glances when passing by here before, you might just miss this small place. bay.
The location of the shipyard happened to be facing the entrance and exit channel of the bay, so when passing by here yesterday, Amakusa Shiro noticed the shipyard here at a glance.Based on his own experience at the time, he judged that the sailboat under construction in the dock should be a large ship with more than [-] materials, and this is considered a very large project for Japanese shipbuilding technology. in the bay.Later, he discovered that there were several Chinese warships in the bay that covered the gun positions on the deck, so he connected these two things together.
Compared with Haihan's dockyard where military ships are built, the security measures here are very loose. There are no shelters installed around the dockyard, and the construction situation inside the dockyard can be seen from a long distance away.Although Amakusa Shiro is not a navy, it is definitely no problem to identify the general type of ship. The hull of one of the docks is about [-]% built, and it can already be distinguished from the outline that this is indeed a Chinese-style sailing ship.The construction of the other ship is still in the stage of installing the hull on the keel, but judging from its size, it should be of the same standard as the ship next to it.
And the two sailboats still under construction in the dock are the same size as the other three Chinese warships docked in the bay. Amakusa Shiro believes that these should be standard armed sailboats built in batches.
Amakusa Shiro has no way of inferring which sea areas these armed sailboats will appear in the future, but just what he saw in front of him already made him smell the danger.
Like this kind of warship that may be equipped with several deck artillery, only a few ships can form a small fleet to perform some low-intensity combat missions at sea, such as blocking waterways, monitoring sea areas, tracking at sea, robbing civilian ships, etc. .Once the number has reached a scale, its power will increase rapidly. At the beginning, Shibazhi relied on the number of warships, so that the Dutch and Spanish colonists had to bow to them in the Fujian waters.
For a local daimyo like the Matsuura clan of the Hirado Domain, having an armed fleet will undoubtedly greatly help to safeguard their own maritime interests, and even help the Hirado Domain expand its sphere of influence from the sea.
(End of this chapter)
Although before the departure this time, action plans for landing and reconnaissance were formulated for the two places of Hirado Port and Nagasaki Port, but considering the specific conditions of the two places, Nagasaki is actually the key target, and there are even Portuguese merchants there. The library can provide assistance to a certain extent.However, there may be Shiba Zhiyu Party in Hirado Port, and the risk of entering the local area will be relatively greater, so the action plan for Hirado is actually just an alternative plan.If he hadn't discovered the existence of a Chinese warship nearby, Amakusa Shiro probably wouldn't have taken the initiative to ask for orders to take the risk of going ashore to implement the matter.
After being promoted to an officer many years ago, Amakusa Shiro never performed reconnaissance missions alone like this, so this mission to infiltrate Hirado also made him quite excited.Although the sea temperature in March was still bitterly cold, he swam to the adjacent coast without any stress.
Amakusa Shiro opened the waterproof bag and took out all the items, dried himself with a towel, changed into dry clothes, put all the wet clothes into the bag, and put a few stones, tied them to the deflated sheepskin tires with ropes Sink into the sea together.After dealing with these things, he counted all the belongings and took them with him one by one, raised his head to roughly identify the direction, and then headed south along the coast.
After climbing over a low hill for half an hour, Amakusa Shiro had already seen the harbor that he had seen during the day.There are dots of lights on the coast, pointing out the direction for him to go.
There are usually some recreational places for sailors to pass the time near the port wharf, which is an essential industry in all trading ports under Haihan's rule.Amakusa Shiro thought that this place would be no exception. After all, the sailors who went ashore were all idle, so what else could they do besides drinking and gambling to find women?
It is not difficult to find these places. After nightfall, you can go wherever the lights are on near the port. You can definitely smell the smell of wine and hear the voices of sailors laughing and cursing.Although Amakusa Shiro is not interested in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, he knows everything he should know, and there will be no obstacles to mixing in these places.
Sure enough, when he was still some distance away from the lights, Amakusa Shiro could already smell the aroma of wine and food in the air, making him sure that there was what he was looking for ahead.
Soon he saw a small wine house next to the pier, with a lantern at the door, and the words "Yoshida House" written on the lantern with a brush, and the sound of yelling and screaming could be heard faintly inside the house.Amakusa Shiro walked to the door and stopped for a while, confirming that there was no problem with his condition, he lifted the curtain and walked in.
The size of this tavern is not big, there are only three small square tables in the room, but there are already about ten people sitting there, Amakusa Shiro looked at their clothes through the dim light, they should be poor people.And his rash entry didn't seem to attract the attention of these people. Everyone was still drinking and having fun, and no one was curious about this newcomer.
It was the owner of the store who noticed Amakusa Shiro first, and asked him to sit down next to the counter, and asked him what he wanted to drink.There are no buddies in this tavern, and the boss himself is busy with cooking and drinking before and after running.Amakusa Shiro ordered a jug of wine and a plate of sashimi, and sat at the counter to pour himself a drink.Although he didn't talk to anyone, his ears had already begun to listen to the conversations of these people in the house.
Amakusa Shiro's appearance and speech are not significantly different from those of the locals, and there is no sense of disobedience in this small tavern.He soon realized that he had come to the right place. There were still people talking in Chinese in this small izakaya.
Amakusa Shiro pricked up his ears and listened for a while. Although he couldn't hear it completely intermittently, he got some useful information from it.Most of the people who drink here, the Japanese-speaking locals are shipbuilders and low-level sailors, but the few Chinese-speaking people seem to be a level above, and they are rude to others. .
These Chinese-speaking people are also proficient in Japanese, and it seems that they either live here permanently, or they often come and go here.Amakusa Shiro saw from the corner of his eye that the clothes of these people were similar to those of the locals, so he judged that these people probably lived in Hirado all the year round, so they tended to assimilate with the locals in terms of clothing.But these people only use Chinese when they talk to each other, and they are obviously not Japanese who can speak Chinese.
But the Chinese spoken by these people has a relatively heavy accent. Amakusa Shiro is proficient in Haihan Mandarin, but he can't understand what these people are talking about.He could only be patient, wait for these people in the tavern to leave first, and then try to inquire about the news from the shopkeeper.
After waiting for a long time, Amakusa Shiro drank most of the second pot of wine, and the empty plates in front of him began to pile up, and most of the people in the small bar finally dispersed, leaving two or three people lying on the table He didn't move at all, and there were people snoring, so he should have passed out a long time ago.
Amakusa Shiro was actually still sober at this time, but he pretended to be slightly drunk and asked the boss to come and settle the score.Taking advantage of the checkout, Amakusa Shiro claimed that he was a sailor who had just arrived here, and hoped that the boss could introduce a place where he could spend the night.The boss was not too polite, so he said that he could also stay in this small tavern, the price is negotiable, it seems that as long as there is money to make, he doesn't plan to let it go.
So Amakusa Shiro waited for the boss to clear the other drunks and close the door, and then asked him if he could still buy alcohol, and he could pay the boss for a drink with him.The boss even accepted the business of staying in the store, so naturally he would not refuse, so the small tavern became Shiro Amakusa's private room immediately.
After drinking to his ears, Amakusa Shiro took advantage of the opportunity to inquire about the surrounding situation, and he really got a lot of information from the mouth of the boss who was above Jiu Jin.The boss probably didn't expect Amakusa Shiro to look like a pure Japanese, but he was working for another country. When talking to him, he didn't have any defense at all, and he answered everything truthfully when asked. very cooperative.
This conversation lasted until the middle of the night. Both of them were dizzy and dizzy after drinking. The boss was so happy that he didn't charge Amakusa Shiro's overnight fee. Just sleep on the floor in the store, and leave after dawn.
After Amakusa Shiro lay down, he endured sleepiness and reorganized the information he got that night.According to the store owner, more than half of the people he met in the store were working for the Tagawa family.The Tagawa family is quite influential in the Hirado domain, and the shipyard and cargo terminal near the tavern are all properties under its name.
As for why there are some Han people in the Tagawa family, the boss can't say anything. He only knows that many of these Han people are quite powerful, and their status is even similar to that of the top samurai of the Hirado domain.
The main industry of this small harbor named Tianzhu Bay is not shipbuilding or transnational trade, but the export of timber.The nearby large forests provide rich forest resources, and the shipyard was actually built by the Tagawa family in recent years. Apart from the natural harbor here, another important point is probably that Tiansuke The forests near the bay are just right for making ship materials.
Before the Tagawa family developed this place, most of the timber here could only be transported to Hirado Port or further away as building materials, or local fishermen built some small sampans that were no more than two or three feet long.Today, there are a series of industries around the new docks and shipyards, such as this small wine house.After all, there were not so many sailors with spending power in this area before, and now the local economy can be considered revitalized by the Tagawa family.
The surname of Tagawa is not very unfamiliar to Amakusa Shiro. Before he set off, he also studied the investigation reports from other places. Naturally, he knew that a series of commercial and trade organizations related to the gun case seized in the Fujian Strait area some time ago. It seems that there is a Japanese named "Tagawa Kenji" who is active, which is also a main clue for the intelligence agency to follow the clues to find out Japan, and it is listed as one of the goals that need to be implemented in this reconnaissance operation.
Whether there is a direct connection between "Tagawa Kenji" who is active in Fujian and the Tagawa family in Hirado, Japan, there is no real evidence yet, but judging from the information that Amakusa Shiro learned here tonight, there may be a connection between the two Sex is quite big, and this connection point is the Han people.
There are many Han Chinese under the Hirado Tagawa family, and these people are not engaged in the lowest-level jobs, and they still have some authority. Amakusa Shiro speculates that this may be related to shipbuilding technology.The Japanese businessman Kenji Tagawa, who used to operate in the Fujian Strait, also had many Han Chinese under him, who were responsible for operating and commanding the latent agencies deployed in various places.
This level of cooperation between the Han and the Japanese is reminiscent of the Japanese pirates who once ran rampant along the southeast coast. Only driven by huge common interests can it be possible for the two peoples to belong to different ethnic groups. groups to collaborate across barriers.Shibazhi also met this requirement. Zheng Zhilong stayed in Japan for a long time back then, and had a good relationship with the Hirado clan, and even married and had children here.Among the people he brought to Fujian later, there were also Japanese from the Kitakyushu area.If the Eighteen Zhiyu Party chooses to make a comeback in Hirado, it has to be said that there may be quite favorable environmental conditions for them.
However, the industry in Tiansuke Bay is relatively simple, and more than half of the floating population are people who work for the Tagawa family. Therefore, the information that the owner of this small tavern can provide is actually very limited. What is the relationship between the family.If Amakusa Shiro wants to find out more information, he probably has to go to Hirado Port before he can find a way.
But Amakusa Shiro did not intend to hurry to Hirado Port, he was going to go to the shipyard to confirm before leaving Tiansuke Bay whether the ships built here were Chinese warships moored at the pier.
Amakusa Shiro also had a big heart, and after thinking about things, he fell into a deep sleep, and was not woken up by the store until noon.He asked for a basin of water to wash up briefly, then paid the bill and left the tavern.
After going out, you can see the whole picture of the port town that you didn’t see last night. This town is actually a street extending along the bay. The east and west ends are the pier and the shipyard. A place to play, and shops like Mihang grocery store.The local people's residences are deeper inland, and only a few people who live by the sea live near the coastline.
Of course, whether it is a dock or a shipyard, the scale of operations here is far less than that of most of the ports that Amakusa Shiro has been to. If it wasn’t for a few more glances when passing by here before, you might just miss this small place. bay.
The location of the shipyard happened to be facing the entrance and exit channel of the bay, so when passing by here yesterday, Amakusa Shiro noticed the shipyard here at a glance.Based on his own experience at the time, he judged that the sailboat under construction in the dock should be a large ship with more than [-] materials, and this is considered a very large project for Japanese shipbuilding technology. in the bay.Later, he discovered that there were several Chinese warships in the bay that covered the gun positions on the deck, so he connected these two things together.
Compared with Haihan's dockyard where military ships are built, the security measures here are very loose. There are no shelters installed around the dockyard, and the construction situation inside the dockyard can be seen from a long distance away.Although Amakusa Shiro is not a navy, it is definitely no problem to identify the general type of ship. The hull of one of the docks is about [-]% built, and it can already be distinguished from the outline that this is indeed a Chinese-style sailing ship.The construction of the other ship is still in the stage of installing the hull on the keel, but judging from its size, it should be of the same standard as the ship next to it.
And the two sailboats still under construction in the dock are the same size as the other three Chinese warships docked in the bay. Amakusa Shiro believes that these should be standard armed sailboats built in batches.
Amakusa Shiro has no way of inferring which sea areas these armed sailboats will appear in the future, but just what he saw in front of him already made him smell the danger.
Like this kind of warship that may be equipped with several deck artillery, only a few ships can form a small fleet to perform some low-intensity combat missions at sea, such as blocking waterways, monitoring sea areas, tracking at sea, robbing civilian ships, etc. .Once the number has reached a scale, its power will increase rapidly. At the beginning, Shibazhi relied on the number of warships, so that the Dutch and Spanish colonists had to bow to them in the Fujian waters.
For a local daimyo like the Matsuura clan of the Hirado Domain, having an armed fleet will undoubtedly greatly help to safeguard their own maritime interests, and even help the Hirado Domain expand its sphere of influence from the sea.
(End of this chapter)