Thanks to the blessing of Xu Weixue, Xu Hai turned from a nephew to a hostage!
This day is already the fifteenth day of Xu Hai’s life as a hostage, and his resentment towards his uncle Xu Weixue has deepened.
Early in the morning, a magpie landed in front of his leaky window and chirped for a long time before flying away.
“When a sparrow arrives at the window, I expect that there will be happy news today.”For the first time in half a month, Xu Hai revealed a smile.
It was also at this moment that he heard a sound of footsteps coming from outside, and when he looked up, he saw the Matsuura Family Governor walk into the courtyard.
What is Matsuura Family Governor doing here?
Xu Hai was first stunned, then his heart was overjoyed, Matsuura Family Governor’s personal arrival should be his uncle’s early repayment of the outstanding amount! It was agreed that the repayment would be made in two months, but now only half a month has passed! Otherwise, Matsuura family governor where free to see his own hostage ah.
Just, why is the Matsuura Family Governor’s face so dark?
After Xu Hai was overjoyed, he suddenly realised that something was wrong, the Matsuura Family Governor’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and it also stank like a mess.
What’s going on? There is still a month and a half before the repayment time ah, Matsuura Family Governor why is it so ah?
In Xu Hai’s astonished gaze, as soon as the Matsuura Family Governor boarded the door, he waved his hand and pointed at Xu Hai, and ordered the samurai behind him, “Take this Ming monk with this governor, chop him up, and throw him out into the wild to feed the dogs!”
Crap!
What’s going on?
Before Xu Hai could react, he was tied up by two short but exceptionally strong Japanese warriors, and pulled to the courtyard like a chicken cub, then both of his knees were kicked at the same time, and then Xu Hai fell to the ground with a plop, one Japanese warrior yanked Xu Hai’s head with his hand and exposed Xu Hai’s neck, and the other warrior lifted his katana high in the air. ……
Seeing that Xu Hai was about to lose his life on the spot, a shout was heard, “Your Highness Matsuura, leave him under the sword!”
Who was shouting to stay under the sword? Xu Weixue? No, this cry to stay under the sword was shouted by Xu Wei Hai himself.
“Thy uncle plundered the land of Baiyue of the Great Ming, Xiao Xian tipped off the Ming army, and both sides set up an ambush on Nan’ao Island, and thy uncle was ambushed and killed! Thy uncle man is dead, the 20,000 taels of gold he owed this governor can only be paid for with your dog’s life!”
Matsuura family governor impatiently waved his hand, ordering the samurai to slash Xu Hai, one out of the heart of the evil anger!
“Your Highness Matsuura, spare my life, I’ll serve you and pay off your Highness’ debts for my uncle!”Xu Hai shouted repeatedly.
“You?”
Matsuura Family Governor swept a glance at Xu Hai and sneered disdainfully. For Xu Hai’s words, Matsuura Family Governor didn’t believe a word of it, when Xu Weixue said it was also good, but as a result, he caused himself to lose his blood money!
“Your Highness Matsuura, I am a native of Daming, during my early years as a monk, I travelled all over the southeast of Daming. The topography of the mountains and rivers in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, the distribution of the army and horses, barren and affluent, easy to attack and difficult to defend, etc., are all in my mind, I have me to lead the way for His Highness, will enable His Highness to return home full of money, and the profit gained is a hundred times that of the past.”
Seeing that Matsuura Family Governor did not believe his words, Xu Hai hurriedly kowtowed and begged for forgiveness while shouting loudly.
When Matsuura Family Governor heard this, a pair of eyes finally looked squarely at Xu Hai, as if looking at a livable curiosity, Xu Hai saw this and hurriedly grasped the opportunity to sell himself, “I would like to serve Your Highness as a dog and horse, I also ask Your Highness to give me a chance to prove my worth, and will never let Your Highness down!”
“It just so happens that my men are going to plunder Daming tomorrow, so I will give you a chance. If you can prove your worth, this governor will treat you as his guest! If you cannot prove your worth, that wild dog will serve you as his guest!”
Matsuura Family Governor looked at Xu Hai with a burning gaze and said slowly.
In fact, Matsuura family governor has long wanted to find a satisfactory Ming traitor, Matsuura family to Japanese pirates to start, the early years of plundering Korea, and later plundered the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty is different from North Korea, they plundered the Ming Dynasty did not go well, the reason is that the Ming Dynasty is a large and diverse land, the people of the world, they are not familiar with the land, often harvest is not ideal. If there is a qualified road party, familiar with the topography of the mountains and rivers of Daming, know where Daming where affluent, where barren, where suitable for looting, where should avoid ……The harvest will definitely increase greatly.
When he first cooperated with Wang Zhi, he had this in mind, and when he learnt about Wang Zhi from Ukyu Mori Ting, he invited Wang Zhi to use Hirado Island off Kyushu, which belongs to Hizen Province, and Matsuurazu, which is in Satsuma Province, as the bases to build fine residences for Wang Zhi so that Wang Zhi could live there for a long period of time. However, Wang Zhi was so powerful that the Matsuura family governor not only failed to achieve his goal, but also led the wolf into the house, and was controlled by Wang Zhi, so he had to be careful to welcome Wang Zhi.
If this Ming traitor named Xu Hai in front of him is as he said, then it is still an unexpected gain.
“Thank you, Your Highness! I, Xu Hai, will prove my worth to Your Highness, so that Your Highness will not regret today’s decision!”
Xu Hai kowtowed his head and thanked him, swearing his loyalty to the Matsuura Family Governor.
Thus, on the second day, Xu Hai was taken aboard the Matsuura family’s Japanese ship as a lowly odd-job Japanese and Ming traitor bandwagoner. The Matsuura family’s Japanese pirates were mainly poor peasants from Hirado, ronin and Matsuura family samurai, and less than 30% of them were Daming pirates, so Xu Hai, as an odd-job Japanese pirate and Ming traitors, did not have any status among the Matsuura pirates, and could be said to be in a low position, being at the beck and call of the others.
It must be said that Xu Hai was gifted in being a pirate and a traitor! Of course, this is a derogatory term!
He was cunning and shameless by nature, and rich in the art of leadership and excellent military talent, with the talent of being a pirate; he betrayed his countrymen to come, his conscience didn’t hurt at all, and proactively, gently and happily led wave after wave of Japanese pirates to burn, kill and loot in the land of the Great Ming, with the talent of being a traitor.
The first time with the Songpu Japanese pirates to plunder the sea, he guided the Songpu Japanese pirates stepped on the border of Songjiang Prefecture, chose Songjiang Prefecture is more affluent, easy to get the hands of the Huating County, led a group of Songpu Japanese pirates in the Huating County to kill and loot a painful, silver and gold, jewellery, women and children loaded with a boat after boat …….
After the looting was surrounded by the official army, Xu Hai guided the Songpu Japanese bandits to flee from a forest path out of the encirclement of the official army, and even guided the Songpu Japanese bandits through the reed swamps to kill a horseback, killing the encircled Ming army a surprise, so that the Ming army loss of soldiers and generals, Xu Hai led the Songpu Japanese bandits to go away.
Not only that, on the way back, Xu Hai also assisted the Songpu Japanese leader to command the flotilla, avoiding the Ming Dynasty navy’s pursuit and interception.
Xu Hai’s debut in the Matsuura Japanese pirates was perfect, and he was promoted to the rank of squad leader by the Matsuura Japanese pirate leader on the way back.
Upon returning to the Matsuura family territory, the Matsuura family governor was satisfied with Xu Hai’s performance and promoted Xu Hai further to captain.
In his second appearance, Xu Hai made a plan, firstly, he gave gold, silver, jewellery and bird guns to the Japanese pirate Wang Ma Zi in the name of friendship, and after gaining Wang Ma Zi’s trust, he led a hundred Matsuura family warriors to attend Wang Ma Zi’s birthday banquet in the name of celebrating his birthday. When the wine was warm and the wine was hot, Xu Hai suddenly struck out, killed Wang Ma Zi, and annexed more than 1,000 Japanese pirates and more than 100 Japanese pirate ships under Wang Ma Zi’s command.
In a month or so, Xu Hai won the appreciation and trust of the Matsuura family governor and became one of the leaders of the Matsuura Japanese invaders, with more than 1,000 Japanese invaders under his direct command.
Day after day, Xu Hai’s status continued to rise, and his power continued to expand. ……
