Chapter 167 – Down to the Toyo
Zhao Jinge was very worried, worried about Jiang Zhen side.
He was no longer in danger for the time being, but what about Jiang Zhen?
Zhao Jinge sent people to pretend to be ordinary fishermen to go out to investigate, while he himself with his fleet of ships found a small island to stay on temporarily.
They left too quickly so there were many things that were not fully prepared. But since this island was inhabited they could replenish their food and water.
“Jinge, what is happening?” Zhao Fugui came out of the cabin and found Zhao Jinge.
They were about to go to sleep when they were suddenly brought to this ship by Zhao Jinge without any idea what was happening.
“Father, we have encountered a little trouble.” Zhao Jinge said.
“What kind of trouble? Is there any danger?” Zhao Fugui asked again.
“No, father, don’t worry.” Zhao Jinge smiled at his father and tried to appease hi while not knowing that his own expression was in fact, very uncomfortable.
He hoped that he was wrong and they were actually not in trouble.
He hoped that it wouldn’t be long before Jiang Zhen would come to take them back.
But hope was just hope in the end.
After waiting for a day, Zhao Jinge got the news from Jiang Zhen and also saw Jiang Zhen’s fleet of ships.
The people on the ship were all unsightly, even Jiang Zhen was still covered with blood.
What happened to them was self-evident.
“Jinge, you are going to be a fugitive with me in the future.” Jiang Zhen smiled when he saw Zhao Jinge.
” Okay.” Zhao Jinge solemnly nodded his head.
Seeing his serious appearance, Jiang Zhen’s smile was not as bitter as at the beginning and even showed some sincerity: “Don’t worry, Jinge. The world is big so there always be place for us!”
Although many places in this world were different from the history he once knew and their names were also different, the terrain was still the same.
Since it was the case and there was still unexplored America here as well as overseas with large areas of undiscovered land.
He regarded Qinghua Island as a way out, but he only hid a lot of people here and hoarded a lot of food and materials so that when he had to leave Daqi he did not intend to be stuck in such small island.
The imperial navy was also not vegetarians and there was a whole Daqi behind them. No matter how powerful they were, how could they stop such an endless stream of navy on such a small island?!
If they really become trapped them, maybe even his man would turn against him first.
Jiang Zhen had made many preparations before, but in the end, he didn’t go too far. Now without thinking much of it, the fog cleared and he had a clear direction to move forward.
“Boss, what do we do next?” Jiang Zhen’s men asked worriedly.
They were all very confused at this moment.
Although some of them were dissatisfied with the imperial court, their days were good and they never thought of leaving.
As long as they did not have to live beyond their means, people wouldn’t want to rebel.
What they wanted was to live in peace and have food and clothing on their back. But the imperial court sometimes don’t think about it…
“Let’s go to the East.” Jiang Zhen said.
“Toyo?” The people were a little surprised, they thought they would live on Qinghue island or like Cheng Yongzhen to go to the Ryukyus. They didn’t expect that Jiang Zhen would propose the Toyo.
“Ryukyu is too close to Daqi, and it won’t take long for the navy of Minnan Province to reach Ryukyu, So instead of going to Ryukyu, it’s better to go to the Eastern Ocean.” Jiang Zhen said.
People from the Toyo could come to Daqi so why couldn’t they go to the Toyo?
Of course, the most urgent thing was to make a trip t Qinghua island and take their supplies with them.
As for the people who still remained in the Wexing Province…
Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge escaped in a great hurry so many of their Toyo men, as well as the families of their men, were left behind in the Wexing Province.
Jiang Zhen has the intention to pick up those people but if they go back now they would only shoot themselves in the foot ……
Fortunately, although Qi Qing was a bit stubborn he was not a bad person. At very least he would not allow his people to kill innocent people indiscriminately.
Jiang Zhen sighed, he was not a god s he could not do everything in the end.
Jiang Zhen took his fleet and went to Qinghua Island first. After taking all the people and supplies on the island, they went to Toyo.
When Sun Qiyun’s men were defeated by Jiang Zhen’s men in Yabian Village, they tried to slaughter the remaining people of Yabian Village to vent their anger, but were stopped by Qi Qing.
However, they still captured some of Jiang Zhen’s men in the end. Then after extorting confessions by torture, they learned of the existence of Qinghua Island.
Jiang Zhen unexpectedly set up an island overseas, what a wolf ambitions!
After Sun Qiyun got the news, he immediately ordered all the soldiers, while also borrowing soldiers from the Wexing Province to go with him to Qinghua Island.
However, the island was already empty at that time.
The houses on the island were only half-built, and the vegetables planted on the island had not yet grown, but there was no one on the island.
“Where did that damn Jiang Zhen go?” Sun Qiyun couldn’t help but say.
“Ryukyu?” Qi Qing frowned.
Ryukyu was now occupied by Cheng Yongzhen’s old troops and was in chaos, but if Jiang Zhen went over, those people would definitely accept him.
Qi Qing and Sun Qiyun become silent for a moment, then they headed for Ryukyu again. While Jiang Zhen fleet at this time was making its way to the Toyo.
Toyo was also an island but it was very large.
Jiang Zhen has been here a long time ago.
Every time he came here before, he was welcomed by the people here, but this time, the situation was different.
Ronins in the past were docile, but in the past two years, they have changed a lot.
They found that the people of Daqi were not as strong as they thought, and they found that robbery ade money much faster than honest business.
Previously, the price of the things sold to them by Daqi was always high, which was obviously cheating them, so why would they buy things from Daqi now?
They might as well just rob them!
So when Jiang Zhen and others docked, they met a group of eastern ronins who tried to rob his fleet of ships.
The people of Daqi were afraid of the ronin and didn’t dare to resist, but Jiang Zhen men were not ordinary people.
Jiang Zhen killed or captured all the people who came to rob them.
“We just stopped nearby for a while, and were attacked making a lot of people injured so we want to recuperate here.” Jiang Zhen said to the Toyo officials who come over and then directly occupied a piece of land by the sea.
Then nobody bothered about them.
There were also imperial family in the Toyo but at the same time it was divided and the two sides fought with each other without any rest. In recent years due to intense fights the people life was very bad.
Because of this, many people in the Toyo wanted to leave and go to Daqi.
The imperial family of the Toyo reached the point of not returning so at the same time they had no time to drive Jiang Zhen away?
When they found out that Jiang Zhen had brought many smiths and could even build weapons, they even started to make friends with Jiang Zhen, hoping that Jiang Zhen would sell them weapons.
Jiang Zhen agreed.
His weapons would be sold to both sides. At the same time he also began to take in those displaced ronins and then taught them the language of Daqi.
Ronins and he people of Daqi spoke different languages and many of their habits were also different but majority common people still had the same basic line, they all only wanted to have something to eat and wear warm clothes.
Jiang Zhen’s men would not kill them at will, and were even willing to give them food as long as they were allowed to learn the language of Daqi .… what does it matter?
Although at this time, many people from Toyo had already started to rob in Daqi, for the vast majority of the Toyo, Daqi was still their heavenly kingdom, a very prosperous and strong place.
Learning the language of Daqi, some of them even felt honored.
Of course it was not all that Jiang Zhen did.
In this day and age, the sanitary conditions were not very good so he couldn’t stand having long hair so when they arrived toToyo, he took the lead in cutting his hair short. Noticing this, all his men followed his suit.
As a result, people on Jiang Zhen’s side had short hair.
Later, even those ronins followed suit and changed their original strange hairstyles.
Jiang Zhen occupied more and more territory while also making a lot of money by doing business.
In the second year of Jiang Zhen’s arrival in the Toyo, Daqi navy was still fighting with Cheng Yongzhen and the Toyo invaders along the coast of Daqi. While Jiang Zhen sent his people to parent to be ordinary sea merchants to take away his man who was willing to go to Toyo from Daqi. What’s more, he took away most of the families his men didn’t have time to take away.
Only a small number of them were not taken away, some were unwilling to go while others because of their husbands sudden departure had already married others.
These people, Jiang Zhen took away with the help of Zheng Yi.
He became the first target of the grown-up Majesty, but the Zheng family was still fine.
The Zheng family Changhe Salt Farm was well managed and had stabilized the price of the salt not to mention earning quite a lot of money for the imperial court. They also did not have under their hands such armed forces like Jiang Zhen so his majesty left Zheng family alone.
The second lord Zheng has always been a person who knows what he’s doing, so naturally he didn’t disagree.
In the end, His Majesty was the Empress Dowager’s child so the Empress Dowager was also very tolerant of His Majesty, how could they go against his majesty?
After Jiang Zhen brought these people to the Toyo he had even more manpower on hand, and at this time, some of Cheng Yongzhen’s old troops were scattered by the navy of Daqi. Some of them become so desperate that they chose to defect to Jiang Zhen.
Once the most powerful person on the sea was Cheng Yongzhen, but now, it has become Jiang Zhen. Just under Jiang Zhen alone, there were about 20,000 to 30,000 strong young men.
This number might not seems particularly large, compared to the millions of troops in Daqi but in the Toyo it was already a powerful force.
In particular, Jiang Zhen has been trading with some of the remaining sea merchants in Daqi.
He bought many of Daqi’s craftsmen, bought weapons and food, armed his men, and began to take in more and more of Toyo ronins.
The two sides of imperial family that fought with each other all this time did not realize that something was wrong until it was too late.
After years of warfare, they had long since run out of many weapons on hand, and had no food…
If they had been pushed back many years and the technology was more developed, with newspapers and other publications, maybe they could still mobilize the people of Toyo to resit invaders together. But at this time imperial family to many people of the Toyo was only a vague concept.
What’s more, Jiang Zhen has never done such a thing as a massacre and was always been very friendly to the Toyo people.
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