The southernmost tip of Kyushu Island, Osuki, hangs alone on the coast of Yakushima on the Osuki Strait overseas. The vast blue ocean is filled with waves, hitting the rocks on the shore, making a roar of collapse and cracking, splashing snow-white foam.

At this time, a middle-aged man who was about forty years old, with slightly bald hair on his temples, thick black and neat eyebrows, and a pair of glittering eyes were standing near the shore, looking at the sea in the distance. This person was Wang Zhi, who Zhengliang was concerned about.

While Zhengliang was afraid of him, Wang Zhi was also afraid of Zhengliang.

The first thing Wang Zhi feared was the force represented by the Luo family Zhengliang. When he led the fleet to the place, the Luo family Zhengliang's power was already very powerful. In order to avoid getting into evil with him, he had an agreement to trade with the other party.

However, with the development over the years, the power of Luo's Zhengliang has become increasingly larger. Not only has the power to expand in the distance on the Kyushu Island called by the locals, but it has also almost monopolized the trade with the Ming and Korean maritime smuggling merchants, and even the trade of the Southern Barbarians.

Now, the other party conquered a trading partner (Shimazu family) he had finally dealt with. From then on, the big island in the distance could only be decided by this Luo Masara. His own power would have to further contact with the other party.

In addition to being afraid of the forces behind Luo's Zhengliang, Wang Zhi was also a little afraid of Luo's Zhengliang. Previously, Luo's Zhengliang had entrusted his adopted son Wang Sheng (i.e. Mao Haifeng) to bring him a map and a letter.

This map is a simple navigation map. After looking at this map, he realized that there was such a vast sea area and land in the west of Ming Dynasty. Of course, because it was impossible to judge its reality, Wang Zhi did not attach great importance to this map at the beginning. But after he found a few Southern Barbarians to study this map, and these Southern Barbarians pointed out the truth and preciousness of this map with red eyes, he realized the preciousness of this map.

It can be said that this is a map to the road to wealth! After all, Wang Zhi is also a sailor, and he also has a sense of hope in his heart that gallops across the sea and controls more territory.

If the map given to him by Zhengliang Luo brought him great shock, then that letter would bring him even more shock and even fear.

In his letter, Luo's Zhengliang directly pointed out the thought of his heart's desire to return to his hometown. However, his thoughts became a tool used by the interest groups of officials, merchants, and local tyrants along the coast of Ming Dynasty, making Wang Zhi a knife for them to plunder the wealth of the Ming coastal areas and attract the attention of the imperial forces such as the Ming Dynasty. However, the harm caused to ordinary people in the coastal areas after Wang Zhi became a knife, which would make him intoxicated later generations.

Wang Zhi was not very moved by the views of Luo Zhengliang regarding the corrupt officials on the coast of Ming Dynasty and the gentry. After all, he also grew up from the pile of pirates. He had long been accustomed to the use of mutual calculations for the sake of profit.

However, he was a little scared about the views of Luo's Zhengliang's bad reputation. As Luo's Zhengliang expected, the reason why he used pirate power to create such a great momentum along the coast of Ming Dynasty was mainly to force the Ming court to recognize his status and allow him to return to his hometown in his lifetime.

Now, Luo's Zhengliang pointed out directly that under the use and prevented of the interest groups behind them (after all, if he surrendered, these groups lost important tools for profit. This is an important reason why Wang Zhi was eventually killed in history), and he could not be recognized by the Ming court. Not only could he return to his hometown, but he would also be regarded as a thief and be circulated in future generations and be cursed by later generations.

When Wang Zhi thought of such a scene, he could often wake up from his sleep. The words in Zhengliang's letter directly pointed out the problems he had not realized before. Of course, he did not fully believe the words in Luo's letter, but he was indeed touched a lot.

Therefore, in the following days, he did slightly reduce his actions towards the coast of Ming State, and according to what Luo's Zhengliang said in his letter, "Since the Ming Dynasty cannot compromise at this time, why not consider using the map below to build a larger force overseas so that you can face the Ming Dynasty court with a more noble status in the future." He sent people to the sea area west to find a larger land. He did have a larger force to make the Ming Dynasty court have to pay attention to his ideas in the future. And as Luo's Zhengliang said, even if the Ming Dynasty court still did not respond, his achievements in establishing overseas were enough to be praised by future generations.

It is precisely because of this that the local Japanese country became an important rear support location for his development to the west. Therefore, while maintaining cooperation with the Luo family, he vigorously developed his relationship with local wealthy families such as the Shimazu family. Later, he not only sold iron cannons and saltpeter to the Shimazu family at high prices, but also secretly violated the cooperation agreement with the Luo family under the condition that the Shimazu family paid a lot of gold, and sent some of his subordinates to pretend to be the military force of the Shimazu family and joined the local forces on Kyushu Island.

In fact, when he first came to Kyushu Island, because he was unfamiliar with the place and the Luo family was the most powerful force in the local area, Wang Zhi's focus was on the coast of the Ming Dynasty, so he had a trade agreement signed with the Luo family (which clearly stated that he should not intervene in conflicts related to the Luo family). But later, as his power on the coast of the Ming Dynasty was constantly suppressed by the Ming Dynasty Navy, and with the explanation of the letter from Luo family Zhengliang, he gradually turned part of his focus to the local area.

So during this period, in addition to conducting normal trade with the Luo family, he also had contact and cooperation with local forces called Satsuma, Shikoku and even farther Tokaido. But geographically, Kyushu Island is closer to the coastal areas of Ming Dynasty, and Shikoku and Tokaido are not only farther away, but the locals seem to be unwilling to join his naval army. Therefore, Wang Zhi still focused more on the Kyushu Island area, and even tried to establish an agent in Kyushu by supporting the Shikoku family, and finally achieved the goal of building another foundational place for himself overseas.

However, this goal was instantly destroyed with the rapid expansion of the Luo family and the retreat of the Shimazu family. It was impossible for Wang Zhi to be angry about this, but Wang Zhi still did not dare to conflict with the Luo family. Because the Luo family's naval army was also very powerful at this time. If he wanted to defeat the Luo family's naval army, he had to concentrate all the fleets from all over the place to start a decisive battle with the Luo family.

But even if he won the final battle, he would still win miserably. Moreover, the most powerful force of the Luo family is its power on land. What did Wang Zhi spend such a big price? It wasn't it to build a foundation on land? Then he would naturally fight against the Luo family's land forces. Then one of his own side is likely to fail because of this. After all, the other side not only has a strong land power, but also has a foundation in the local area and can get continuous support. But they have no foundation.

"It seems that someone needs to be sent to discuss with the Luo family!"

Wang Zhi was originally a businessman. When he lost more than he won, he naturally hoped to fight for enough profits while avoiding conflicts with the Luo family. What's more, in Wang Zhi's opinion, in addition to being powerful, Luo family Zhengliang also made him feel a little scared.

Not only did the other party seem to have mastered very powerful navigation techniques (the Navy map in his hand that made the Nanman Banzi jealous), he could also see his plans in his heart at a glance, which made him feel like he was exposed naked in front of the other party. This feeling was really bad. So Wang Zhi was really afraid of Luo's Zhengliang.

However, even if we plan to continue to deepen our relationship with the Luo family, it is not an easy task! The previous matter of sending people to assist the Shimazu family has been exposed, and the Luo family seems very angry about this. Not only has it suspended the trade with its own side, but it has also sent people to protest.

What made Wang Zhi even more headache was that the more than 200 subordinates sent to assist the Shimazu family were also in the hands of the Luo family. These people had to be brought back from the Luo family anyway, otherwise their own strength would not only weaken, but also their generals would be dissatisfied with this.

"It seems that a lot of benefits will be given up."

So after being mentally prepared to be ruthlessly killed by the Luo family, Wang Zhi once again sent his adopted son Wang Fei (i.e. Mao Haifeng), who had been the representative of his own trade with the Luo family, to go to the Luo family to ask for Zhengliang.

After Zhengliang met the other party in Satsuma Country, he only temporarily left Wang Fei in the local area, but he started to think about it himself.

In Zhengliang's memory, according to historical records, Wang Zhi should have been greeted by Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang and Nanzhili of Ming Dynasty, at this time, but in the struggle of internal interest groups in the Ming Dynasty, he was eventually beheaded at the court of the Hangzhou Guangang District, Ming Dynasty at the end of this year.

However, in this life, due to the appearance of Zhengliang and his persuasion to him, the governor of Nanzhili, Hu Zongxian, in Zhejiang, Ming Dynasty, did not play a role in persuading Wang Zhi to surrender (of course, despite this, the celebrities in history, Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, still made achievements in the encirclement and suppression of pirates along the coast).

From this point of view, Masarara's little butterfly has changed a lot of changes to the historical process. The most prominent example is Tachibana Xue. Historical neutrality Kamiya Xue died of illness on the way out in her 80s, but now she died early when the Otomo family was destroyed. Tachibana Chiyo, the daughter of Tachibana Chiyo, who was originally born several years later, was also held accountable because of the failure of the Luo family and the Otomo family, so she was limited to more time at home, so she had more time to discuss life with her wives and concubines, so Tachibana Chiyo was born early.

Perhaps other people will be panicked by this change. After all, this may change the history they are familiar with, thus causing them to lose the advantage of becoming familiar with history. However, Zhengliang is not worried about it at all. Since the opportunity has emerged, hurry up and hurry up. There is still so much time to consider whether it will affect the entire historical process? Seizing everything in front of you is the kingdom to survive in this Warring States Period.

In fact, Zhengliang did not have much favoritism for Wang Zhi. Although the fundamental reason for the pirate disasters along the coast of Ming State was due to the maritime ban of Ming State, no matter what, Wang Zhi was for his own selfishness, which caused many ordinary people along the coast of Ming State to fall into dire straits. This is unforgivable.

What's more, Wang Zhi is still a political idiot. Although he is indeed a hero who can gallop among the pirates, he is really an idiot in politics. Can a sovereign country be threatened by you and a pirate? If you compromise with you, where is the dignity of a great country (the Ming Dynasty pays great attention to these things at this time)? How could the interest groups behind him be kind? If you surrender, it is equivalent to betraying them. Will they make you feel better?

In fact, in history, when Wang Zhi was persuaded to surrender and went ashore by Hu Zongxian, he was secretly colluded with Wang Zhi to use political means (on the grounds of suspected Hu Zongxian accepted Wang Zhi's bribes, which aroused the anger of the crowd. This forced Hu Zongxian to hand over Wang Zhi out to defend himself) to Wang Bengu, who was even more angry with the pirates. Then he added fuel to the fire, which made Emperor Jiajing, who had not yet reached a conclusion on how to deal with Wang Zhi at that time, finally decided to kill Wang Zhi.

Therefore, Wang Zhi is really a political idiot. You betrayed the coastal interest groups in order to return to your hometown, causing these groups to lose the tools to make money and attract firepower, and even more so that these interest groups hope to make the emperor's attempt to lift the ban on the sea failed. In this way, Wang Zhi not only lost its value in their eyes, but also became a beheaded sword held high above their heads (they were afraid that they would be exposed by Wang Zhi in the future). Naturally, he was determined to kill Wang Zhi at full speed.

Since Wang Zhi is such a person, why didn’t Zhengliang kill him? This is because Zhengliang is very clear that with the existence of Ming Dynasty’s maritime ban and coastal interest groups, Wang Zhi will die, and a new Wang Zhi will appear. Since that is the case, why not have a good relationship with Wang Zhi, who is currently a good relationship with the Luo family?

What's more, the Luo family is constantly developing, and Wang Zhi's power is also developing. At present, in terms of the situation of the two naval armies, the power is really equal. In this way, we naturally cannot lose both sides and be profited by other people. Therefore, Wang Zhi is afraid of Zhengliang, and Zhengliang is also afraid of Wang Zhi.

In history, the reason why Wang Zhi was able to become king on the coast of Kyushu Island was that after Wang Zhi's forces arrived on the coast of Kyushu Island, they established good cooperative relations with the Matsuura family of the Hibishimazu family and the Shimazu family of the Satsuma country, and gradually integrated with the local forces and the people, using their wealth to attract more people to join his camp to plunder resources on the coast of the Ming Dynasty (in history, the Japanese pirates who invaded the Ming Dynasty's coast were mainly from the Hibishi country, Satsuma country and other places on Kyushu Island), thus transforming the local area into its foundation.

In this life, due to the early appearance of the Luo family in Feiqian Kingdom and the rapid annexation of various forces on Kyushu Island, Wang Zhi's forces lost many opportunities to cooperate with local forces after arriving here, delaying and even curbing their plans to establish a foundation in the local area.

However, even so, Wang Zhi's power was very powerful and could be comparable to the Luo family's navy. In order to avoid losing both sides, Zhengliang naturally did not want to have conflicts with him.

Moreover, with the existence of Wang Zhi, the navy and other imperial forces on the coastal pirates along the Ming Dynasty focused their attention on the coastal pirate forces led by him, and the Ming Dynasty smuggling merchants such as Wang Hai, You Jianxia and Zuo Moyang, who had a good relationship with the Luo family, secretly developed greatly. Now, these three people have joined forces with Shi Tou, a Ming Dynasty who represents the Luo family, to establish secret strongholds in many places along the southern coast of the Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, they continue to smuggle and make profits, and on the other hand, they assist the Luo family in sending desperate refugees in the Ming Dynasty to settle in the territory of the Luo family.

At this time, there were constant natural disasters in the country, and the officialdom led to the emergence of a large number of refugees. It was impossible for local officials to know that the chamber of commerce of Shitou and others secretly transferred the refugees away, but they were already very happy to be able to quickly remove these refugees who affected their political achievements, and they could also secretly receive a lot of filial piety, so they naturally turned a blind eye very dedicatedly.

After earning a lot of benefits along the southern coast of Ming Dynasty, Shi Tou and others were preparing to establish some secret strongholds in the Northeast, where they were also preparing to continue smuggling business there, and on the other hand, they assisted in transferring Ming Dynasty refugees to the Luo family to settle down.

In this case, Wang Zhi naturally needs to fully attract the attention of the Ming court forces on the surface. In addition, due to the lack of combat effectiveness of the Luo family's naval army in the long sea, in this case, if the Luo family and Wang Zhi conflict with Wang Zhi, even if Wang Zhi defeated Wang Zhi, the defeated naval army can continue to harass the Luo family's coastal areas, and even seize the ships of the Luo family's forces on the maritime trade route between the Ming and Jiuzhou Island.

You should know that in addition to the merchant ships of Shitou and others who needed to rely on this maritime business road, the Luo family had already gone to the Ming Dynasty for the convening and siege trade three times before, and it was also easy to be attacked.

Speaking of the Kanaga trade, in history, the trade profits of the Ming Dynasty were extremely high during this period. In the early Muromachi period, it was precisely in order to obtain the formal Kanaga trade status that Ashikaga Yoshiman surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. He also gained a lot of wealth and became the most powerful general of the Ashikaga family in all dynasties. His son Ashikaga Yoshiki was unwilling to surrender and cut off trade, so the power of the Ashikaga family gradually shrank. After the Yoshien Rebellion, the Hosokawa family controlled the regime and launched trade with Sakaimachi as a base, which brought about a century of prosperity in Sakaimachi, and the Hosokawa family also maintained its prosperity for decades.

Also flourished because of the Ming trade, the Daunai family of Kyushu was the main trade with North Korea, but seeing Ashikaga Yoshima gained huge profits from the Ming Kingdom, so he relied on the convenience of geographical advantages and used Hakata Port as a base and Ming Kingdom transportation to seize the trade share of the center. Although Ashikaga Yoshima attacked the Daunai and killed Yoshihiro Ouchi during the "Yei Nai Rebellion" in 1399, the Daunai family was still the same and maintained the status of the No. 1 name in Kyushu and even the Western Kingdom. Until Tao Longfang killed Yoshima Yoshima and supported Ouchi Haruhi (the younger brother of Otoyoshi Town), the Ming court cut off the Kanhei trade between the two on the grounds that Haruhi was not the orthodox orthodox.

However, in this life, although Yoshitaka Ouchi was killed by Tao Longfang and he also made Yoshitaka Ouchi as a puppet, making the Ouchi family in the western region at that time neither human nor ghost, after all, Yoshitaka Ouchi's legitimate son Yoshitaka followed the last order of Ouchi Yoshitaka before his death, and took Kobata Yoshimi, Nijo Ryoto and others to join the Luo family. After Masayoshi general Yoshitaka Ouchi and others recruited them as the small surname, they even took Yoshitaka Ouchi as the governor of the family and established the orthodox of the Ouchi family again.

Three years ago, Masarara asked Yoshizun, Ouchi, to go to the Ming Dynasty to conduct a convening trade with the Orthodox Da Nei family, with the flower seals of the Da Nei family, to carry out convening trade with the Ming Dynasty under the banner of the orthodox Da Nei family. When the fleet arrived in the local area, it spent a lot of silver on Shitou and other local personnel. After the gold was settled, the Ming Dynasty court really recognized Yoshizun's orthodox Da Nei family, so the Luo family was able to continue to conduct convening trade with the Ming Dynasty under the banner of the Da Nei family.

Now, when the Luo family relies on this maritime trade route between the Ming and Kyushu Island for trade, smuggling and relocating Ming refugees, they naturally cannot have too much conflict with Wang Zhi, who has the ability to fight far-sea. Of course, in order to reduce their dependence on this business route, Zhengliang has discussed with Shi Tou and others. After the deployment of the northeast coastal stronghold in the Ming Dynasty, he will consider whether to concentrate his troops and pretend to be pirates and bring Jeju Island, which is also entrenched in the northeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, the North Korean coast and the Kyushu Island. At this time, the Luo family naturally controls more maritime trade routes, so that they will be more calm when facing maritime threats.

However, now without controlling other maritime trade routes and lacking sufficient long-sea combat capabilities, Zhengliang not only cannot conflict with Wang Zhi, but also needs the other party to assist in providing escort and protection for the Luo family's ships in the sea to divide the interests of trade with Wang Zhi. Otherwise, even if the other party is afraid of the power of the Luo family and has no abnormal movements, under the temptation of the expanding trade interests between the Luo family and the Ming country, he will sooner or later attack the Luo family's fleet.

What's more, Zhengliang also planned to further cooperate with Wang Zhi and encourage Wang Zhi to develop westward again. The primary goal is Taiwan. It is estimated that the Zheng family began to develop in Taiwan at this time. Zhengliang naturally hopes to encourage Wang Zhiran to come here and then participate in maritime trade in this region as a collaborator.

Of course, even if you consider cooperating with Wang Zhi, this time Wang Zhi took the initiative to tear down the agreement between the two parties, and would have to be punished. Otherwise, Wang Zhi's side would think that the Luo family was weak and bullied, which would cast a shadow on the future cooperation between the two parties and make the Luo family fall into a weaker party in future cooperation. This is naturally what Zhengliang's subordinate hopes.

As for whether Wang Zhiyi's side will tear up the agreement in the future? This is almost unnecessary. Since the other party is a pirate, this is bound to be possible. Everything depends on whether the Luo family is becoming stronger and stronger, and whether the navy under its command will gradually form powerful long-distance combat capabilities.

Just like the principle that Zhengliang has always respected, all covenants and agreements are based on the strength of both parties. Otherwise, even if it is cooperation or alliance, the weaker party will be in a weak or even subordinate position.

As for whether Wang Zhiyi's side will become weak in the future? It is difficult to determine. After all, the other party may still run back to the shore of Ming Kingdom to die, and it may also be betrayed by his subordinates just like Wang Zhi's experience of starting a family.
Chapter completed!