Chapter 135: Treatment of the Samurai and Signing of the Treaty

"This is Ichiro Sugimoto from Kobe Port." Qin Hao looked at the Japanese dwarf who was carried onto the ship by Zhang Huyi in a playful manner.

"Yes! This guy won't let us enter the port and wants to charge more money from us. Should we kill him?" Zhang Hu made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Sugimoto, who was clamped by his waist, seemed to have sensed his fate and struggled desperately, but Zhang Hu's strong arm strength made him unable to do anything.

"Don't worry. Although the culprit has been captured, the other accomplices have not yet arrived. In three days, all the Japanese samurai who committed evil crimes in Kobe Port will be punished." Qin Hao stepped forward and knelt down to look at Ichiro Sugimoto carefully. He wanted to completely control Kobe. Thunder blows and bloody methods are indispensable.

The former has already let the people of Kobe Port know how powerful they are today. As for the bloody methods, just wait for Zhang Hu to capture more Japanese samurai and have a good bloodbath.

"My lord, what do you mean?"

"There must have been a lot of samurai who took advantage of the chaos and robbed them just now. You have to work hard these days to catch more." Shuntian Camp took over the Kobe Port. As the master here, it is natural to deal with the gangsters who have done evil for the innocent people. .

It is both mercy and deterrence, killing two birds with one stone!

"Lord! I will never let go of a traitor in my humble position!" Zhang Hu bowed his hands and knelt down to accept the order.

Soon, a large number of Qinggang swords and flintlock guns were unloaded from the Wansheng ship. All soldiers held Qinggang swords and flintlock guns. A team of men and horses were equipped with first-class soldiers and began to hunt Japanese samurai around Kobe.

"Mr. Fengxing, I hope you will organize the people of Kobe to gather on the beach in front of Kobe Port in three days after you return. You should be able to do this small thing, right?"

"Okay! Okay! No problem at all."

Knowing that he was safe at the moment, Sugimoto Ichiro nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. After experiencing the threat of death, he would definitely seize such an opportunity.

"Now, we can discuss war reparations."

After hearing this, Ichiro Sugimoto's mood was immediately thrown from the sunshine zone of the Seto Inland Sea to behind the thousand-year snow peak of Mount Fuji.

I wonder, what kind of compensation figure does this young general want?

It took him nearly ten years to accumulate a lot of wealth, but now he only prays that the smiling general is kind, not the general who killed without blinking an eye or even with joy. That is really terrible. .

"Please tell me the granaries, treasury, and the location where you hide your secrets in Kobe City. If there are any slight mistakes, I can't guarantee that your head can continue to stay on your neck. I hope you can understand this. ”

Qin Hao used the gentlest words to say the most vicious words. Every place he said made Sugimoto know that the other person was an expert and could never be deceived.

"I know, I know," Ichiro Sugimoto promised, not knowing what to say so as not to offend the person in front of him who might end his future and life at any time.

As the soldier took out a sketch of Kobe Castle and handed it to Sugimoto, he was immediately surprised. In the ten years he had lived in Kobe, he had never seen a topographic map. Now it only takes half an hour to draw it. The location of the houses in Kobe Castle is really amazing.

"The vault should be here, this is where all my money is!"

"The granary and treasury are in the north corner of the city. They store about 3,000 tons of grain!"

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Not long after, Qin Hao got all the information he wanted from Sugimoto, and then he took people there in person. He also wanted to see this Kobe.

As the junction of the north and south of Japan's four islands, merchant ships are constantly coming and going. I didn't have the opportunity to travel before, but now I have the opportunity to feast my eyes on it.

Leading people to shuttle through the main streets of Kobe City, every hundred steps they would encounter soldiers saluting. After experiencing a big chaos, the streets became much quieter. The beggars who came out to hide in the corners would poke their heads and peek, and all the people hid. In your own home.

Only when the soldiers knocked on the door to check on the rebels, they had no choice but to open the door to greet them, constantly muttering Japanese words such as "spare their lives".

However, when they discovered that these soldiers did not rob or kill anyone, but only searched everywhere, they gradually let go of the thought.

After seeing An Wenwen along the way, Qin Hao quickened his pace. Compared with the feasting and feasting and beautiful girls of later generations, the low wooden houses and skinny and flour-coated women of this era were really uninteresting.

After walking to the warehouse in the north of the city, I found an inner city that was half surrounded by bricks and equipped with iron gates several meters high. According to Sugimoto, all the food, gold and silver in the city were stored inside.

"key!"

Sugimoto Ichiro instantly showed a panicked expression, and large beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Sir, it was not my intention. The key to this warehouse is not with me, but with the supervisors of the Financial Department. When your powerful artillery fire just started to bombard the fort, they took the keys and accounts and fled without knowing where to go. I really I don’t know where he is now!”

Ichiro Sugimoto almost cried and explained his misfortune. He was about to die of despair. He felt that his good life was about to end.

"Ha! It doesn't matter if it's not necessary. Duan Daxin, go drag a cannon over!" Qin Hao patted Ichiro Sugimoto on the shoulder very gently, indicating that he didn't need to be nervous. An iron door was nothing.

With the sound of a 10-pound steel cannon, a gun nearly a foot thick was penetrated by a hot shell, and a huge hole appeared in front of people.

"Mr. Fengxing, is this your property?"

To be honest, even people like Qin Hao and Duan Daxin, who are in high positions and have seen a lot of the world, seeing so much gold and silver piled up in such a small space is absolutely shocking in terms of visual and psychological impact.

Not to mention those young guys, all of them swallowed their saliva, but the discipline allowed everyone to be strict with themselves, and they had no other thoughts except curiosity.

In the semi-underground warehouse, going down the stairs, there were countless oak boxes on the floor and shelves on the wall in the dark and cold warehouse. Several boxes probably fell down because the shelves were knocked down by shells, and the square gold bars and silver emitting green silver light were scattered all over the floor.

"This warehouse is piled with ship taxes collected by Kobe Port in the past ten years, including some of my personal gold and silver."

Perhaps because he has broken through the psychological defense line, Sugimoto Ichiro felt much more at ease.

Who cares! Anyway, I'm already in trouble, how bad can it get? I might as well tell you everything!

"What's the total amount?!" Qin Hao was impatient to listen to Sugimoto Ichiro's explanation of why the money was left here, but he just wanted to know how much is left now?

"17,000,000 taels of silver!"

"Ah, so much!" Duan Daxin was stunned by the number. Isn't this several times higher than the commercial output value of the entire Keelung?

"Not only that! There's gold over there." Qin Hao knew that he had definitely made money from this black-eating-black operation!

If nothing unexpected happens, the gold and silver harvested should be more than 20 million taels!

Qin Hao glanced at Sugimoto Ichiro gloomily. He guessed that he had money, but it was beyond his expectation that he was so rich.

For these corrupt people's blood and sweat, Qin Hao thought he needed to pay it to the local lord. As for this lord, of course, it was himself, the lord who had just been recognized by the military conquest.

"Seal it!" Qin Hao gave the order in a hoarse voice.

After leaving the warehouse, Qin Hao's mind was still in a mess.

An unexpected robbery or war action can bring such lucrative benefits. No wonder Britain, France, the so-called coalition forces, Japan, etc. fought each other, including the United States later. Once the domestic economy was in recession, they had to find a way to fight.

A horse cannot grow fat without night grass, and a man cannot become rich without windfall. What our ancestors said is really a wise saying!

Three days passed in a flash. Under the verbal intimidation of Ichiro Sugimoto, the entire Kobe City was deserted and all gathered on the beach in front of the Kobe Port. Many villagers in the surrounding villages were also asked to come, but they were more scattered and could not take care of everyone.

However, looking at the dark Japanese people on the beach, it seemed to be enough. They were just the first batch of seeds.

As a native Japanese fisherman, Junji Omura was very excited about today's scene.

The index finger of his right hand quietly stroked the blade of the Qinggang sword in his hand, and he scolded the rebels who were driven to the square in front of the church. Just a few days ago, he was treated like this, but today, it was his turn to deal with those lazy and dirty rebels!

He felt wise for his behavior of relying on these foreign masters. If it weren't for these people, he would have died in the hands of these evil and robbing samurai one day.

Soon, the rebels were brought to the square under guard. In order to show his importance to them, Qin Hao specially sent a battalion of soldiers with muskets and flintlocks to guard around their stands and aisles.

"Let's start!"

After receiving the report that all the people had arrived, Qin Hao ordered lightly.

"Dashan Hongyi! Robbery! Intentional homicide! Arson! Organizing a criminal gang! Robbery of weapons!" Qin Hao, dressed in a neat and flat blue robe, with a righteous face, loudly read out the heinous crimes of the Japanese samurai tied to the wooden stakes under the stage.

"As the new lord of Kobe, I will never allow such a thing to happen in my territory, so I declare! In view of the crimes committed by the defendant in July of the first year of Chongzhen, as well as the many evil crimes committed many years ago, it is decided to execute the defendant! Deprivation of public rights for life! I hope that all Kobe leaders will take this as a warning!"

With Qin Hao's majestic verdict, there was a burst of exclamations and commotions on the stands where the Japanese samurai were executed. Because Qin Hao spoke Japanese, it was easy to resonate with ordinary Japanese people. For these samurai who used to bully others, they wished someone could deal with them. Now that someone came forward, they were naturally overjoyed.

Several strong samurai stood up and shouted loudly, but they were soon pulled out by the surrounding soldiers. As Hirokazu Oyama's boss, Ichiro Sugimoto, was tied up beside Hirokazu Oyama and others in a beautiful dress on the charge of embezzlement.

From the beginning, Qin Hao had no intention of letting this guy go. As the main culprit, he should be executed as a matter of course!

"Shuntian Camp! Forward!" Following Qin Hao's order, Duan Daxin, Zhang Hu and others moved forward with guns. Their mission today was to serve as executioners.

Zhang Hu came to the wooden stake that tied Sugimoto Ichiro. After a few days of hard work, he was already exhausted and dying.

If Qin Hao hadn't ordered him to die before the execution, he would have been tortured to see Amaterasu.

"Kneel down!" Zhang Hu kicked him hard, "Plop!" Sugimoto Ichiro fell forward.

"Okay!" The moment Zhang Hu leaned forward, he violently waved the green steel sword in his hand!

With one stab, Sugimoto Ichiro's neck was cut off!

Due to the deliberate arrangement of a thoughtful person, the direction where Koichi Oyama was kneeling happened to be facing the Japanese samurai stand. In the eyes of the people in the row closest to him, Koichi Oyama's neck first contracted violently, and there was a brief pause. The body seemed to move forward a small step.

Then, a large amount of blood spurts out from the arteries.

The people below seemed to hear him shouting. Some said they heard him shouting "Japan!" Others said they heard "Tokugawa-sama!" However, Oyama Koichi who was closest to him was of a different kind. Say, "Spare my life!"

This was the habit of his previous master. Even if he knew he was going to die in the end, he still chose to linger and live as long as he could.

If I had known today why I was so greedy and allowed people to enter Hong Kong, I would not be suffering from today's pain.

At the moment when Osugimoto Ichiro's gray head was lifted up by the gushing blood, a soldier next to Zhang Hu waved the flintlock gun in his hand, stabbed it out, and accurately picked up the head that was about to fall to the ground. Point, the blood on the head flows down the gun tip and down the gun barrel, dyeing the white cloth specially wrapped around the gun barrel to increase friction extremely bright, and it looks extremely dazzling under the sunlight!

On the tip of the gun, Sugimoto's head is still explaining the ultimate meaning of life with its own expression.

Many Japanese noblewomen have screamed repeatedly during this process of killing like clouds and flowing water.

But something even more amazing was still happening.

Ichiro Sugimoto was just the first one to be beheaded, and then, together with him, there were the rebellious samurai groups, who fell to the high platform one after another.

Moreover, they all enjoyed the treatment of having their heads lifted high with the tip of a spear!

The Japanese noble ladies and ordinary people in formal dresses all looked at their former husbands or directors with expressions that were either sad, happy, or dull.

On that day, a total of thirty-four rebel leaders and more than 300 Ashigaru rebels were beheaded. Qin Hao ordered that the human heads be built as a memorial outside Kobe City as a warning, and the corpses were discarded into Kobe Bay.

As a result, a few days later, the triangular dorsal fins of sharks could still be seen swimming offshore in Kobe Bay.

The entire aristocracy and samurai class in Kobe were basically looted by Qin Hao. Of course, the small nobles with no backgrounds saved their lives.

They voluntarily signed a contract recognizing Qin Hao as the lord of Kobe and promised to be loyal. In addition, there were a series of merchant treaties.

The main content of the treaty is: Qin and Han companies set up a commercial representative office in Kobe to be responsible for the management of Han people in Kobe and related commercial business. The Han people in Kobe enjoy the same treatment as the Japanese people. At the same time, Qin Hao has the right to organize the Han people to carry out activities such as reclamation, planting, and mining of minerals in the Kobe area.

These treaties are only the first step for Qin Hao to occupy Japan. In the future, through marriage, there will naturally be no Japanese species, and they will all be qualified citizens of the empire.

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