Fukuoka Domain is a large domain, with a stone height of 473,000 stone.

Therefore, the second article of the treaty between Yang Zhen and Kuroda Tadayuki required him to send a retainer back to collect 473,000 shi of rice or gold, silver, and bronze items worth 473,000 shi of rice.

, silks, fabrics, sulfur, saltpeter and other materials, in order to return him and his retainers and feudal lords.

As for the peasants and soldiers who participated in the war led by Tadayuki Kuroda, the lord of Fukuoka Domain, Ashigaru, if their bodies could be found, Yang Zhen would allow them to take them back in the future.

But for the more than 900 people who were alive, the conditions for their release were the same as those of the Matsuura family soldiers. Regardless of their age, they were given ten shi of rice or ten shi of sulfur.

Kuroda Tadayuki, the lord of the Fukuoka Domain, had the largest territory, the highest number of stones, and the largest amount of compensation and ransom to pay.

However, after thinking for a moment, the man gritted his teeth, signed the contract, and agreed to Yang Zhen's request.

After Kuroda Tadayuki concluded the treaty, Kuroda Nagahei, the lord of the Akizuki Domain, and Kuroda Takamasa, the lord of the Torenji Domain, who both belonged to the Kuroda family of Chikuzen Province, naturally had nothing to say.

Because the stone height of Akizuki Clan is 50,000 koku, while the stone height of Torenji Clan is 40,000 koku, which is much less than the Fukuoka Clan Moto Clan where they were born.

In the past, this meant that they had a low status in front of the feudal lord, and it has always been a worry for them.

But now, it has become something to be thankful for.

Although it is not an easy task for a small vassal like them to collect 40,000 shi or 50,000 shi of rice in a short period of time.

But the terms that Yang Zhen signed with them also had a lot of room for maneuver, and it didn't necessarily require rice.

Sulfur can be used, saltpeter can be used, gold and silver can be used, bronze can be used, even silks, satins, oxen and war horses can be used.

Therefore, for small feudal lords like them, they are much happier than Matsuura Shigenobu and Kuroda Tadayuki when they can successfully reach the conditions for their release with Yang Zhen.

Of course, this is exactly what Yang Zhen hopes to achieve as a means of dividing them.

If Yang Zhen does not make any distinction and demands land cession or heavy compensation, then they will share the same hatred and it will not be so easy to reach a treaty with Yang Zhen alone.

Now the daimyo of the small vassals are rushing to sign a contract with Yang Zhen, so that the daimyo of the other vassals can only reluctantly agree.

Among these feudal lords, the one who was as painful as Kuroda Tadayuki of Fukuoka Domain and finally signed his name through gritted teeth was Nabeshima Katsushige, the feudal lord of Saga Domain.

Because the stone height of Zuohe Domain is 357,000 stones.

Nabeshima Katsushige was determined to argue with reason, but when he thought of Soyoshige's fate and Kuroda Tadayuki's courage, he finally signed a treaty similar to Kuroda Tadayuki's.

For the always ambitious Nabeshima Katsushige, as long as he lives and can go back, he can bear no matter how high the price is.

Because in my heart, I can endure the humiliation for a moment in order to get revenge even a thousandfold in the future with profit.

So although he hated Yang Zhen in his heart, on the surface he signed a treaty with Yang Zhen as if nothing had happened.

As for Masashige Nabeshima, the head of the Kashima Domain who also belongs to the Nabeshima clan of the Saga Domain, his treatment is similar to that of the Akizuki clan and Torenji clan of the Kuroda clan.

Because Kashima Domain's stone height was only 20,000 koku, even if their remaining 300 Ashigaru soldiers were included, it would only be a ransom of more than 23,000 koku.

Correspondingly, Kendaka Terasawa of the Karatsu Clan and Junnobu Omura of the Omura Clan had almost the same thoughts as those of the Kashima Clan, Akizuki Clan, and Torenji Clan.

Because they are all small feudal lords, the Karatsu Domain, which has more acres of land, has a slightly higher number of 60,000 kiku, while the Omura Domain, which has many mountains and few fields, only has a pitiful 20,000 kiku.

In this way, the feudal lords such as Matsuura Shigenobu, who were imprisoned on Hirado Island and had reached treaties with Yang Zhen, began to select their trusted retainers from the prisoner-of-war camp one after another on July 19th.

They were ordered to cross the sea and return to their respective vassals with the complete bilingual covenant signed by each other in Chinese and Japanese.

Lin Qingye and Li Lu both expressed their concerns about Yang Zhen's actions.

They were worried that the retainers selected by the feudal lords would not fulfill the treaty after returning to their respective domains, but would report it to the Tokugawa shogunate and then mobilize a large army to fight again.

At that time, even if Yang Zhen killed all the feudal lords imprisoned on Hirado Island one by one, it would not help.

At the same time, they were also worried that even if the confidants sent back by these feudal lords' daimyo collected the gold, silver, or rice supplies requested by Yang Zhen, once these feudal lords' daimyo were sent back in the future, it would be like letting the tiger go back to the mountain.

Especially Matsuura Shigenobu, the head of the Hizen Mori Matsuura Clan, Kuroda Tadayuki, the head of the Fukuoka Domain Kuroda Clan, and Nabeshima Katsushige, the head of the Saga Domain Nabeshima Clan.

They faced such harsh conditions, but they all agreed in the end. This means that as long as they can go back, they will definitely tear up the treaty in the future and continue to be enemies with us, and they will definitely be sworn enemies until death.

Faced with the doubts of Lin Qingye and others, Yang Zhen actually also thought about whether he was a bit too bold and too ruthless.

But when he thought about the Treaty of Shimonoseki hundreds of years later, in addition to ceding large areas of land to the Japanese slaves, the compensation to the Japanese slaves alone was as much as 200 million taels of silver.

Up to 450 million taels. When he thought of this, Yang Zhen's mind immediately became as hard as iron.

Yang Zhen has already made the conditions, and the head of the Matsuura family, Matsuura Shigenobu, the head of the Kuroda family, Kuroda Tadayuki, and the head of the Nabeshima family, Nabeshima Katsushige, have also signed in black and white.

If they can do it, Yang Zhen will let them go back as promised after delivering the compensation requested by Yang Zhen and the materials to offset the compensation.

As for whether they will break their promise after returning, whether they will tear up the treaty, and then turn their backs and refuse to recognize the territorial sovereignty over Hirado Island, Iki Island, Goto Islands, Tsushima Island and its affiliated islands that Yang Zhen obtained on behalf of the Ming Dynasty.

Then let them be.

At worst, it's just another fight.

Moreover, Yang Zhen also believes that as long as they really pay enough ransom, both the Fukuoka Kuroda clan and the Saga Nabeshima clan will be severely damaged in the future, and even if they want to fight against Yang Zhen, they will be unable to do so.

Of course, if the confidants they sent back could not implement the terms of the treaty because their conditions were too harsh, Yang Zhen would never be polite to them again.

The deadline Yang Zhen set for them was August 15th, and they would not wait until then.

If the feudal clans involved in the contract with Yang Zhen fail to fulfill the contract as scheduled, then Yang Zhen will kill all the feudal lords including Matsuura Shigenobu and all the Japanese slave prisoners without hesitation.

However, instead of executing them all, Yang Zhen is currently more inclined to use them to hollow out and drain Kyushu Island, several vassal states that once relied on piracy and maritime trade to become relatively wealthy.

At noon on July 21st, the various feudal lords who had negotiated and concluded armistice treaties with Yang Zhen scrambled to send their closest retainers back to their respective feudal halls.

And Yang Zhen was not idle either.

At noon that day, he first dispatched Lin Qingye and Yan Shengsan to lead the main force of the fleet to occupy and take over Iki Island and Tsushima Island. Then he personally led the team, including Matsuura Shigenobu, Matsuura Hironobu, Kuroda Tadayuki, etc.

Together they erected a stone monument in Hirado Port, and selected several skilled stonemasons to engrave the treaty reached between him and Matsuura Shigenobu, the head of the Matsuura family.

After the monument was completed, Matsuura Shigenobu, who was ordered by Yang Zhen to carve his name himself, thought he had been humiliated. After carving his name, he knelt down and cried bitterly, and fell ill that night.

Fortunately, after Yang Zhen took Iki Island, Hirado Island and their affiliated islands from the Matsuura clan, he did not demand huge ransoms from Matsuura Shigenobu, Matsuura Hironobu and their retainers and samurai.

There were only more than 1,100 captured soldiers and horses of the Matsuura family, and the gold, silver, rice and supplies that needed to be paid to redeem them were not much.

At the same time, although the Matsuura family's territory has been hit hard by the plague since last winter, the Matsuura family has a large business and a relatively rich family fortune, and they can afford it.

At noon on July 20th, Matsuura Shigenobu sent his confidant, Prince Tagawa Onu, to carry the letter of covenant and return to Matsuura County, which is across the sea from Hirado Island.

On the morning of July 29th, his confidant, Prince Tagawa Onyu, led Matsuura Shigenobu's younger brother, Matsuura Nosada, and escorted 12,000 koku of rice to redeem the Matsuura clan's captured men and horses.

After Yang Zhen met with Emperor Weng Yu of Tagawa who was escorting the rice back, he also behaved quite trustworthy.

After Yu Haichao was sent to lead a team to receive 12,000 koku of rice at noon that day, before noon, Yang Zhen personally led a team to capture Matsuura Shigenobu, Matsuura Hironobu, their retainers and samurai, and more than a thousand peasant soldiers Ashigaru.

Sent the ship back to the feudal lord.

Of course, the released Matsuura Shigenobu and his samurai retainers did not return to Iki Island this time, but to Matsuura County in Hizen Province on the main island of Kyushu Island.

Because as early as July 23, Iqi Island was successfully captured by a joint fleet led by Lin Qingye and Yan Shengsan.

After the plague was raging, the population of Iki Island was already small.

This time, in order to eliminate Lin Qingye and recapture Hirado Island, Matsuura Shigenobu massively recruited peasant soldiers on Iki Island to serve as Ashigaru for military service. All men under the age of fifteen and under fifty were conscripted.

As a result, when attacking the former village of Hirado that Lin Qingye had captured earlier, the peasant soldiers from Iki Island were put in front of the army, and suffered heavy casualties in the end.

The rest were almost all buried in Hirado West Bay after Yang Zhen led the fleet to arrive.

Therefore, when Lin Qingye and Yan Shengsan arrived at Iki Island with fifteen 400-ton gunboats, twelve large turtle ships, and nearly 300 large and small seki ships and wooden house ships, the Matsuura family who stayed on Iki Island

The rest of the people were completely unable to resist.

At the same time, Lin Qingye and others held the island-separation treaty between the Matsuura clan and Jinhai Town of the Ming Dynasty, which also gave the remaining Matsura clan on the island a legitimate reason to give up resistance.

The treaty ceding Iki Island to Jinkai Town of the Ming Dynasty has the signatures and pictures of Matsuura Shigenobu and Matsuura Hironobu.

If this is the case, then why resist?

Lin Qingye and Yan Shengsan also strictly adhered to Yang Zhen's instructions and allowed the island's samurai, servicemen and domestic servants who were willing to remain loyal to the Matsuura clan to leave by boat.

In this way, on July 24th, Lin Qingye, Yan Shengsan and their fleet successfully completed the occupation and takeover of Iki Island.

Now, brothers Lin Qingye and Lin Siye are leading their fleets and are stationed in the harbor of Iki Island. Relying on the old battle houses of the original old port, they are using the islanders who have not left the island but chosen new loyalties to build castles and forts.
Chapter completed!