After leaving for a long time, Lord Suzuki also came to Fukuoka in the north, which is the most developed city around. Only by passing the news here can it reach Kyoto as quickly as possible.
Seven days have passed, and Lord Suzuki has also sent people to keep an eye on Nagasaki, but so far no news has been received. No news is the best news. If any news were to come, it would definitely mean that the Tang army has taken action.
Fukuoka has entered a state of combat readiness, but the army here is pitifully small. Although there has been temporary recruitment, the total number of people does not exceed 10,000. As for the navy warships, they are even more pitifully small. Apart from a dozen broken ships, there are no other navy warships.
Moreover, their fighting method is very old-fashioned. They can only row their boats over and then jump onto other people's boats to fight. Lord Suzuki has seen the ships of the Tang Dynasty. They are extremely high. No matter how high your jumping ability is, you can't jump on them.
And according to their thinking, if the Tang Dynasty's naval warships hit us directly, our ships would probably be smashed to pieces, and there would be no space for us to jump on and fight. What's more, even if you jumped on, how could our short soldiers be a match for those burly soldiers of the Tang Dynasty?
So Mr. Suzuki stood on a high place every day, hoping to see the letter from Kyoto, but he also knew that this was impossible. Although he had expedited the delivery many times, it would take at least half a month to receive a reply.
When he came out of Kyoto, Mr. Suzuki knew what the top management was thinking. They thought it was a complete misunderstanding. Mr. Suzuki even hoped in his heart that it was a misunderstanding. But after the last meeting, he realized that there was no misunderstanding at all. Their goal was very clear, which was to tear off a piece of meat from Fuso, and it had to be a relatively fat piece of meat.
"Lord Suzuki, it's getting cold outside. You should go inside and rest. I've already given orders. If there's any news from Kyoto, they won't hesitate and will send it to me immediately."
The local daimyo Miyazaki Junming was also with him the whole time. He also knew that the Tang Dynasty had sent troops. In fact, he had known it a long time ago. The reason why Lord Suzuki was able to rush here from Kyoto was because he went to report the news. However, he did not expect the response from above to be so slow. So far, there has been no news. If he could not wait for the news from above, but instead waited for the Tang Dynasty army to arrive, then he had to escape first.
His men who had run back from Nagasaki had already described the situation clearly to him. Watanabe had now sent his brother to Chang'an, which saved his life. If the Tang army took over this place, wouldn't his two sons also be sent to Chang'an?
Although all of them admired the culture of the Tang Dynasty, it was not this kind of admiration. They sent their children to Chang'an by force, not knowing whether they would ever see each other again in this life. The most important thing was that the sea was unpredictable, and who knew whether they could reach Chang'an. If something happened, it would be a farewell.
So he had already made up his mind that if the Tang army came to attack him, he would definitely leave here as soon as possible. As for what kind of punishment he would receive in the end, he would talk about it when the time came. If he even lost his life, would the punishment still matter?
"How's your defense going here? I told you a few days ago that you must get your soldiers to practice and stop slacking off. If they continue to act like that every day, they'll be the first to be arrested when the Tang army arrives."
When Lord Suzuki saw this guy, Hayao Miyazaki, he was furious. This guy was even more excessive than Watanabe. He himself supported the pirates going to the Tang Dynasty, and the number of pirates was much more than that in Nagasaki. He thought that this was just a problem in Nagasaki, but he didn't expect that it was in several places, and the situation in Fukuoka was the worst.
"Sir, you know our strengths better than I do. Although we do fight each other in normal times, our wars are child's play in the eyes of the Tang people. Whether fighting at sea or on land, we are no match for them. Although we have temporarily recruited a group of local militia, their fighting power is..."
Thinking of the fifty people who were caught while escaping this morning, Miyazaki Hayao didn't know what to say. He originally wanted to recruit these people to defend Fukuoka, but these guys wanted to escape in one night and had no intention of fighting at all.
"Then learn to lie to them. Let them know the tragic scene in Nagasaki. I saw it with my own eyes. Hundreds of corpses were thrown into the sea. If they want to become corpses too, then let them run away."
Thinking of the scene he had just witnessed, Lord Suzuki shuddered all over. The people of the Tang Dynasty were too cruel. They killed all the people related to the incident. If they were allowed to occupy Fukuoka, many more people would have died.
Miyazaki didn't know what to say. Did he have such strong language organization skills? Even if he did, the people below would never believe it unless they saw it with their own eyes.
If you want to blame them, blame them for describing the Tang Dynasty too favorably, especially the pirates. They always said the people of the Tang Dynasty were very wealthy and very weak, and that if you went there, you could just rob them of all their goodies. Now they're describing the people of the Tang Dynasty as terrifying. Do you think the people are fools? Do they believe anything you say?
Just when Lord Suzuki was about to go back to rest, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance. There were not many horses in Fuso, so apart from the government, the common people did not have such things. Fukuoka did not have many external contacts, and now the sound of horse hooves appeared, which must be news from Kyoto.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry."
Lord Suzuki did not go back to rest. He ran out directly from where he lived and ran towards the place where the sound of horse hooves came from. Miyazaki could only follow behind. He didn't know what news came from Kyoto. Whether it was war or peace, it would not be good for him.
