In Nagasaki Port, except for the Nagasaki Administrative Office assigned by the Tokugawa shogunate and the nearby daimyo who are ordered to take turns guarding every year, there is no castle like the location of the feudal hall.

The entire Nagasaki Port was almost entirely undefended towns and cities. That night, Nagasaki Hoshino, who had no time to escape or commit seppuku, was captured by the Dutch mercenaries who were the first to rush into the port town.

The two thousand-man feudal troops guarding the Okiguchi Toishi Yakusho in Nagasaki Port, belonging to the Kumamoto Domain and the Satsuma Domain, suffered heavy casualties during the bombardment of the Provencha and subsequent warships. Later, they were also attacked by the Dutch fleet.

The musketeers and the musketeers commanded by Zhang Guogan were severely beaten during the attack, and almost the entire army was wiped out.

The Minato town of Nagasaki, which had just regained its popularity a few months ago, was burned to the ground early the next morning after being looted all night long.

The houses in Nagasaki Town are lined up in rows and are very dense, and the houses of the Japanese are mostly made of wood, and most of them are flammable light wood. Once the fire breaks out, there is no chance of survival.

In this way, the fire suddenly ignited in the early morning when the Dutch soldiers and Yang Zhen's soldiers were retreating, and then burned for a whole day.

The diffuse smoke and ashes forced Yang Zhen to lead his fleet to gather his troops and retreat outside Nagasaki Port after dawn.

Around the afternoon of August 27, Yang Zhen was invited to take a small boat to Dejima, the only preserved Dutch trading house in the entire Nagasaki Port, and discuss the next plan together.

This time, Yang Zhen did not bring the impulsive Zhang Guogan with him. Instead, he brought Li Lu and Yan Shengsan to accompany him. It was still Yu Haichao and his men who were responsible for leading the ship and escorting the ship.

Dejima in the bay of Nagasaki Port was originally an artificial island built by the Japanese for the Portuguese. After the Portuguese were expelled, all the Dutch were forced to move here to live under surveillance. It is connected to Nagasaki Port Town through a bridge.

The island is not big, and there are many Dutch houses built on the island. The architectural style is completely European, and although it is small, it is well-equipped with all the internal organs. There are piers, churches, shops, warehouses, residences, taverns, brothels and military barracks on the island.

When we arrived at Dejima, we felt as if we were not in the Japanese port of Nagasaki, but in a seaport town in Northern Europe.

Li Lu, Yan Shengsan and Yu Haichao, who followed Yang Zhen and waited until they went to the Dutch merchant house on Deshima to discuss matters, had never seen such an exotic style. As soon as they landed on the island, they were attracted by the Dutch architecture that was completely different from the Ming Dynasty.

I looked around, took a closer look, and was amazed.

In the afternoon of that day, the Dutch fleet commander Lemaia and other Dutch officers convened the party in the banquet hall on the second floor of a two-story red brick building facing the street, the Dutch Merchant House.

This gathering was both a meeting to discuss military operations and a banquet to celebrate victory.

When Yang Zhen and the four of them arrived at the banquet site, the banquet had already begun.

Lemaia had a white napkin around his neck, a knife and fork in his hand, and was sitting at the top of a long table, concentrating on a large piece of steak on the plate.

The other Dutch officers were sitting on both sides of the long table. Almost everyone had a small and exquisite Japanese slave woman in their arms, drinking wine and eating meat, and clucking their hands in joy.

Some Japanese slave women were hiding and resisting the red-haired ghost's hands, while other Japanese slave women were moaning and panting and trying to resist. The whole scene was very lively.

Yang Zhen led several of his subordinates upstairs to the banquet hall, and was greeted by He Tingbin who was waiting at the door.

At this time, Maximilian Lemaia, who was sitting opposite the entrance of the banquet hall, stuffed a piece of beef into his mouth, pointed to a specially vacant space on his left with the finger holding the fork, and muttered something.

"Captain, Mr. Lemaia, please come and sit there."

He Tingbin quickly translated what Lemaia said to Yang Zhen.

Of course, without the need for He Tingbin to translate, Yang Zhenguang knew what Lemaia meant just by looking at his body movements.

Yang Zhen nodded to Le Mai'a, strode around the long table, sat down at that position generously, then picked up the knife and fork and ate the steak in front of him.

Yang Zhen was naturally no stranger to foreign and foreign knives and forks, and his proficiency in using them was beyond the knowledge of the red-haired ghost, He Tingbin and others present.

Many Dutch and red-haired ghosts were originally waiting to see Yang Zhen's joke, but when they saw this situation, they all suddenly felt a little bored, and turned around to play with the petite Japanese girl in their arms as if no one else was around.

Under Lemaia's gaze, Yang Zhen slowly finished the medium-rare steak sprinkled with pepper and salt, then wiped his mouth with a napkin, and then faced Lemaia's gaze and said:

"I heard that there is more tender and delicious beef near Edo in Japan. Are you interested in trying it, Mr. Lemaia?"

Yang Zhen said this, of course he was talking nonsense. Of course he knew that the so-called Wagyu in later generations was a Japanese beef cattle breed that was developed hundreds of years later, and there is no trace of it now.

But his purpose for saying this, of course, has nothing to do with wagyu. It's just to use this opportunity to create a topic.

He Tingbin knew this very well and immediately translated Yang Zhen's words.

Le Mai'a is also a smart man. After listening to Yang Zhen's words translated by He Tingbin, he immediately understood what Yang Zhen meant.

"Edo Castle? Edo Castle where the Japanese shogunate is located?"

"That's right."

Under He Tingbin's translation, Yang Zhen and Lemaia soon started talking to each other sentence by sentence.

"Yang, when you mention Edo Castle, do you want us to drive straight into Edo Castle and negotiate directly with the Japanese shogunate?"

"That's right, the power of Japan is in the hands of the shogun. No matter what kind of treaty we want to reach, it needs to be recognized by the shogun. In this case, finding the person who truly has the power is the shortcut to reaching the final treaty!"

"Shortcut? Yang, you may be right. But in my experience, the real shortcut is to create fear. I heard that the shogun is very stubborn. If you want to reach a treaty with him that he is unwilling to accept, you must first give him

Create enough fear so that he knows in advance how terrible the consequences of rejecting us will be."

"You mean, just like what you did in Nagasaki, continue to loot their city and continue to massacre their population?"

"Haha, Yang, don't be so cruel. We are here just to seek fairer trade, aren't we? Our purpose is just to seek peace!"

Having said this, Maximilian Lema reached for the tall silver wine glass on the table, squinted his eyes and smiled, and pointed it at Yang Zhen.

Lemaia obviously knew that Yang Zhen knew what he meant by fairer trade and the pursuit of peace.

"Haha, yes, our final goal is indeed for peace. Cheers to the final peace!"

After Yang Zhen said this with a smile, he also raised the tall silver wine glass next to the dinner plate. In the sound of He Tingbin's translation, it collided with Lemaia's wine glass, and then pointed at the other Dutch people present.

The officer raised his glass and drank it all.

The wine has a strong grape aroma, and the alcohol content is not low. However, after aging, the taste becomes sweet and soft. It should be grape brandy.

The Dutch people are not trustworthy, let alone reliable, but Yang Zhen doesn't believe that they dare to do anything to him now, so he feels safe eating meat and drinking wine.

However, Li Lu, Yan Shengsan, and Yu Haichao, who followed Yang Zhen to the scene, were very wary.

Facing the Dutch people's arrangements, they ignored them at all and stood motionless behind Yang Zhen.

Seeing that the generals behind Yang Zhen were wearing a solemn military demeanor, Lemaia quickly ordered the venue to be cleared, ordered people to drive out all the Japanese women present, and then got down to business.

He first ordered people to bring the captured shogunate Nagasaki to the meeting venue, and through He Tingbin, who could speak Japanese, informed him of the Dutch East India Company's request to open the Japanese coast to full trade and cede Nagasaki and the Osumi Islands.

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The Nagasaki minister appointed by the shogunate was a short, fat old man in his fifties or sixties named Tasayuki Masatoki.

He was an old acquaintance with He Tingbin, the former general secretary of the Dutch Commercial Post in Nagasaki, and Cohen, the deacon of the Dutch Commercial Post who was also present.

In the past, when Zhe Zhi was in charge of Nagasaki, he was aloof and arrogant in front of Cohen and other red-haired businessmen. He never paid attention to He Tingbin, the general manager of the Dutch business office, and engaged in all kinds of extortion.

There is no shortage of things to do.

However, at this time, he was tied up and thrown to the ground, and he had long lost the arrogance of the past.

After Zhe Zhi listened to Le Mai'a's request and He Tingbin's translation, he just scanned the crowd with a pair of small eyes full of spite, and kept his mouth tightly closed without speaking.

No matter what He Tingbin said, no matter how the Dutch people present beat him or scolded him, he just kept silent.

Faced with the Nagasaki executive who refused to cooperate, Lemaia had no choice but to order He Tingbin to write down all his demands, put them in an envelope, and then force them into his arms. Then he asked someone to drag him downstairs and untie him.

Untie the rope and let him go.

As a result, as soon as the ropes binding Zhe Zhi's hands and feet were untied, the Nagasaki warrior ran wildly and hit a stone wall beside the road. He suffered a bloody head injury and died on the spot.

This sudden scene made Le Maia, Yang Zhen and others who were standing by the upstairs window looking down, stunned.

Before launching the attack on the port town of Nagasaki, Lemaia had issued an order to capture the Nagasaki chief assigned by the shogunate alive, in order to allow the Nagasaki chief to return to Jiangsu with the conditions offered by the Dutch East India Company.

Go to Hucheng.

This can lay a foundation for future negotiations between the Dutch East India Company and the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The result was good. This Nagasaki cult leader did not have time to commit suicide by caesarean section in Nagasaki Port last night, but at this moment he found the opportunity to kill himself.

However, Zhezhi's suicide in the street did not make much sense.

After a brief period of consternation, Le Maia immediately asked someone to retrieve the letter written to the shogun from the dead Zhe Zhizheng, and then ordered the combined fleet to end its rest, and at Yang Zhen's suggestion, ordered the combined fleet to launch the attack the next day

Depart early in the morning to fight in Kagoshima Bay of Satsuma Domain.

Yang Zhen's actions on Hirado Island, that is, forcing the Matsuura clan, the lord of Hirado domain, to cede Hirado Island and Iki Island and recognizing the Goto Islands as belonging to Yang Zhen, gave Lemaia great inspiration.

Before receiving recognition from the Tokugawa shogunate, Lemaia also planned to use the power of the combined fleet to force the Satsuma Domain to cede Tanegashima, the entire Osumi Islands including Yakushima, and the Mōshima Islands in the southeastern sea of ​​Nagasaki Port.

These islands all belong to the Satsuma Domain. As long as the Satsuma Domain signs the cession, what can the Tokugawa Shogunate say?

Even if the Tokugawa shogunate refuses to agree, by then there will be a treaty between the Dutch East India Company and the Satsuma Domain, and the combined fleets of Le Maia and Yang Zhen will be considered to be famous.

This idea came from Yang Zhen, and Yang Zhen promised to follow his gunboat fleet to help, of course there were conditions.

The condition is that the Council of Senior Members of the Dutch East India Company recognizes the legal validity of the treaty signed by Yang Zhen and the Matsuura clan of the Hirado Domain, and recognizes the legal validity of Yang Zhen's occupation of Hirado Island, Iki Island, Goto Islands, and Ushima Islands.

Correspondingly, Yang Zhen also recognized the occupation of the Osumi Islands and the Zengjima Islands by the Dutch fleet led by Lemaia, and recognized the territorial treaty that the Dutch would sign with the Satsuma Domain in the future.

Of course, as additional compensation, the Yang Zhen fleet that followed had the right to retain all war captures.

In this way, Yang Zhen reached an agreement on mutual recognition through Le Maia and the Council of Representatives of the Dutch East India Company that he represented. After further consolidating the previous results, he no longer had any scruples in his mind and took the next actions.
Chapter completed!