While Zhu Pingan sent away the eunuch who announced the decree, and led Liu Dazhu and others to continue their inspection of the construction of the anti-Japanese sentry towers, the Matsuura family of Daimyo Hirado of Hizen country in the northwestern part of Japan, which was separated by the sea, welcomed a guest of the Ming, or to be exact, a hostage of the Ming, which was a monk with a plain look and a shadowy face.
This monk hostage is Xu Hai. This Xu Hai is not the other Xu Hai, he is not that more than ten days to come to Jingnan to verify Zhu Pingan collusion grain merchant corruption case of the Ministry of Ministry of Justice, the examination of merit and clear the Department of Xu Hai, but a Japanese pirate Xu Hai.
Xu Hai in the Matsuura family treatment is not high, the Matsuura family also did not treat him as an honoured guest, live in the house is also the Matsuura family underlings of the house, roof leakage, window leakage, food is also crude, even the island speciality sashimi are not given to eat, and there is no freedom, there are always around the side of the Matsuura family of the warrior side surveillance, it is very normal, after all, he is now just a hostage only.
The reason why Xu Hai has now become a hostage of the Matsuura family actually has to start from his assassination of the King of Pirates, no, it is the King of Jinghai King Hui Wang Zhi.
The reason for Xu Hai’s assassination of Wang Zhi is very complicated, firstly, different philosophies. Wang Zhi has always had great expectations of the court, the intention to recruit, to replace the Japanese tribute position, trade with the Ming, monopoly of overseas trade in the Ming, in order to achieve the purpose, a time to strictly constrain the piracy under the banner of the Japanese pirates; and Xu Hai is practicing a no-cost business, do what trade, business still need to be the cost of doing business, there is a risk, which is the robbery of the pleasure of robbing the capital is not needed, rob back are profits. In Wang Zhi constraints under the Japanese pirate behaviour, Xu Hai also from time to time to guide the Japanese pirates to attack the coast, was Wang Zhi severely reprimanded. Secondly, he was dissatisfied with the treatment. Xu Hai was ambitious and thought he had extraordinary ability. He heard his mother say that the night he was born, she dreamt of the star Sirius entering her bosom, and Xu Hai often thought to himself that the star Sirius entered his bosom, and he thought that he was not a mortal child! However, Wang Zhi did not give him the status to match. Wang Zhi’s subordinates are the Seven Musketeers under the king, no, mainly divided into seven major ship captains, representative of the ship captains are Zhejiang Mao Haifeng, Xu Yuanliang, Anhui Xu Weixue, Fujian Ye Zongman, Xu Hai thinks that his talent is not as good as Mao Haifeng, Xu Yuanliang and others, in his opinion, Mao Haifeng is just relying on the righteousness of the son of Wang Zhi, Xu Yuanliang and others and the wisdom of the short, so he has repeatedly to Wang Zhi to take the initiative to help out, said that he would like to do as a ship captain, but Wang Zhi has not agreed to!But Wang Zhi has never agreed. Third, instigated. His uncle Xu Weixue repeatedly secretly instigated Xu Hai to assassinate Wang Zhi. His uncle Xu Weixue was originally considered Wang Zhi’s business partners, booth small time, the two sides cooperation is very pleasant, nothing up and down, but waiting for the booth is big, Wang Zhi due to the ability to be far higher than Xu Weixue, dominated the business group, Xu Weixue also became a ship under Wang Zhi just head, Wang Zhi eat meat, Xu Weixue can only drink a soup. Why ah, we are all founders, why you eat meat I drink soup, why you want to dictate to me and I can only listen to ah, Xu Weixue is not willing to profit, power by Wang Zhi sole control, has been trying to kill Wang Zhi, to replace Wang Zhi’s position. Therefore, Xu Weixue has repeatedly instigated Xu Hai to assassinate Wang Zhi, so that he can get to the top.
Of course, three feet of ice is not a day’s cold, Xu Hai assassinated Wang Zhi for many other reasons, but the trigger is because of a woman – a legendary woman – Xu Hai’s woman Wang Cuiqiao.
Wang Cuiqiao. Gender: Female. Occupation: used to be engaged in the old flesh business, is famous for a moment in the south of the flower girl; now is Xu Hai eight carries sedan chair back to marry the wife. Origin: the daughter of the northern officials, her father was an official, and then her father was dismissed because of the crime, the Wang family fell, Wang Cuiqiao fell into the dust of the Qinhuai River, because of the beautiful people, slender body, delicate voice, knowledge of the book, soft jade warmth, but also with the northern women’s bravado, resolute character, acted dry and straight-forward, looks and character with a big contrast, so the fame of the Qinhuai River, was the Qinhuai River, is the time of the fame of the flower girl!She was the most famous flower girl on the Qinhuai River at that time. Once when she was going to do business with a nobleman, she was captured alive by Japanese pirates on the way. The Japanese offered Wang Cuiciao to their leader, Xu Hai. Xu Hai fell in love at first sight with Wang Cuiqiao, who was a noble woman from a famous family and had a difficult life, and took her as his wife in a palanquin. The combination of a famous flower girl and a rising star among the Japanese was a good story in the Japanese circle at that time.
However, Wang Cuiqiao’s fame spread so far that it reached the ears of Mao Haifeng and Wang Zhi.
Jiajing 31 years is Wang Zhi’s 50 birthday, Wang Zhi’s godson Mao Haifeng in Zhoushan Lekang for his father’s birthday, a cadre of Japanese big and small leaders are present, during the Mao Haifeng take advantage of the wine, with the potential to “invite” Xu Hai’s wife Wang Cuiqiao song and dance to help the fun, a crowd of Japanese are clamouring for Xu Hai had no choice but to agree. Wang Cuiqiao over worthy of the Qinhuai flower queen, a song and dance, stunning birthday banquet, so that a crowd of Japanese spellbound, that is, Wang Zhi also can not help but be moved by it, so that Wang Cuiqiao on the front of the pouring of wine to toast the birthday.
After the birthday banquet, there were rumours that Wang Zhi intended to take Wang Cuiqiao as his concubine.
This is the hatred of wife snatching.
When Xu Hai heard this, he had no doubt that Wang Zhi made Wang Cuiqiao pour wine at the birthday banquet, and Xu Hai already hated him, and when he heard that Wang Zhi was going to take Wang Cuiqiao as his concubine, he hated her even more.
The hatred of killing his father and taking his wife, this is a man’s hatred.
So, Xu Hai in his uncle Xu Weixue and instigated some instigation, then move to implement the assassination of Wang Zhi.
Naihe, Wang Zhi in the blood of the knife to today, and is not easy to be assassinated, Xu Hai’s assassination in the preparatory stage was found by Wang Zhi, has not yet begun to assassinate was Wang Zhi stolen.
After Xu Hai’s assassination failed, he was almost killed by Wang Zhi, but after his uncle Xu Weixue continued to persuade and beg, Wang Zhi was lenient and let Xu Hai go. Later, Xu Weixue had instigated Xu Hai to assassinate Wang Zhi’s news was spread by someone, Xu Weixue was worried about Wang Zhi’s retaliation, and had long been dissatisfied with Wang Zhi’s monopoly of profits and power, so he simply took Xu Hai and some of the Japanese to leave, and Wang Zhi parted company, began to work alone.
However, Xu Weixue’s heart is higher than the sky, but his ability and luck are poor.
Xu Weixue pulled Xu Hai out to go it alone, rubbing his fists, recruiting troops and horses, ready to do something big.
For the first time, Xu Weixue selected Taizhou, Zhejiang and Jiangsu Province, ready to snatch a sky rich.
Breaking the boat!
The whole army attacked!
When a lion fights with a rabbit, it also uses all its strength!
Xu Weixue will pull all the men on, cut through three small boats in public, to the Japanese under his command to show the determination to break the boat, the morale of the Japanese under his command, Xu Weixue was full of energy.
But the luck is too bad, Xu Weixue this time the whole army attack, not yet to the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, halfway encountered a typhoon. Yes, that’s right, it’s that typhoon, the typhoon that made Jiangnan plagued by torrential rains.
A typhoon down, Xu Weixue’s ambition was buried in the sea, more than 800 pirate ships, only less than 30 left, thousands of Japanese under his command are almost all buried in the sea.
