Chapter 41 Chapter 20 The First Spy of Ming Dynasty

Mao Guoqi had already held back his anger towards Sacheon. Yoshihiro Shimadzu took Sacheon as the rear and Jinju as the base of attack. Although he did not make any major moves, he kept harassing Shanchuan, Yining, Xianyang, Gaoling and other places. Li Ning died in battle with Satsuma soldiers. result.Mao Guoqi has always wanted to meet this guy. He was stationed in Quanzhou the first time, and he took the initiative to ask Xing Jie for a battle, and he was going to fight Shimadzu Yoshihiro in the middle road.Xing Jie was very happy, so he added troops and sent them to Xingzhou. At this time, Dong Yiyuan was recruiting servants in the Xuanfu, and the Ming army in the middle road was temporarily leaderless.Xingzhou hangs alone in the south, and it is under considerable pressure.Mao Guoqi led 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers, plus 3,000 cavalry from the guerrilla Lu Degong, and the big horse was in front of Xingzhou, smashing against the Satsuma soldiers of Shimadzu's family.Shimadzu didn't have the heart to go north, and Mao Guoqi didn't dare to go south rashly. The two sides clashed many times, each suffered damage, and no one took advantage.

There is a staff officer beside Mao Guoqi, named Shi Shiyong, who was born in Jin Yiwei, has a good brain, and it is said that he is also good at Japan.During the confrontation, Mao Guoqi asked his nephew Mao Mingshi to write an edict to Japan, and asked Shi Shiyong to list Hideyoshi's ten crimes in it, and sent them to the Shimadzu camp with great fanfare, hoping to hit the morale of the enemy. I don't know if it will work. Anyway, beating children on rainy days is nothing but idle time. Dong Il-won entered the court for the second time in August, and discussed the matter of going south in Sangju.Mao Guoqi made great contributions to the defense, and was appointed as a pioneer, stationed in Gaoling.

Goryeong is quite close to Jinju.So when Dong Yiyuan's army was launched, Mao Guoqi was the first to rush to the battlefield. That day happened to be September 19th, and Mao Guoqi arrived in Nanjiang in the early morning.At this time the army had not yet arrived.He patrolled around on horseback, surveying the terrain. It was early in the morning, and there was fog on the river, and Mao Guoqi saw a person running towards him from a distance.He thought it was a Japanese scout, so he thought it would be better to grab his tongue, but when he took a closer look, he found that this person was a woman in Korean costume, looking at the running direction, it seemed that she came out of the Japanese army camp.

At that time, Koreans captured by the Japanese army often ran out to seek asylum from the Ming army.Mao Guoqi was not surprised, so he drove forward and stopped her. According to the standard procedure, he first asked about the information of the Japanese army, then gave her something to eat, and let her go home by herself. But to his surprise, the woman saw that she was a bright general, and relieved, she slumped on the ground with a thud, panting and took out a letter from her arms. "For me?" Mao Guoqi's eyes widened.The woman doesn't understand Chinese, so she can only point to his armor and nod desperately.

Mao Guo was very surprised.This is the first time he has come to Jinzhou in his life, and he has never known any Japanese. Now, a Korean woman sent a letter to him from the Japanese army camp. Is there anything more strange than this? ? He took the letter, opened it, and saw the text inside: "This woman is about to travel to a foreign land. I feel sorry for her. She will redeem her money and return her old jade. Soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty should pity her for her poverty and don't kill her. It is the virtue of saving ants." This letter is compiled from "Two Dynasties" "Ping Rang Lu", but I suspect that rhetoric such as "returning the old jade" and "the virtue of saving ants" are all modified by Zhuge Yuansheng himself.There is another version of this letter from Mao Yuanyi's "Wu Bei Zhi", which is relatively simple and credible: "This woman will go to a foreign land, and I will redeem her with pity, and the heavenly soldiers will not harm her."

No matter which version it is, the meaning in it is very clear: this woman will be sold to Japan soon, and I felt sorry for her, so I redeemed her body and begged the Ming army not to harm her. " The content of the text is actually nothing, but the signature of this letter is too puzzling: "The person who knows my surname is the father of the burial son after Ling Gong. Those who ask my name will say yes or no, but no talent." Mao Guoqi's cultural level is not high, and he can't understand what the inscription means.He called Zan Hua, who was following him, surnamed Zhuge, and asked him what he meant.As expected, Zan Hua's surname was Zhuge, and he guessed it quickly, saying it was an anagram.

Linggong refers to Guo Ziyi, a famous official in the Tang Dynasty.Guo Ziyi once served as the order of Zhongshu, so he was honored as Linggong. The father of the buried son comes from Guo Ju's buried son in the story of Twenty-Four Filial Piety.It is said that there was a man named Guo Ju who had an old mother and a son. His family was very poor and he often didn't have enough food.Later, his son accidentally drowned, and Guo Ju's wife cried to death. Guo Ju said, "Don't cry, the son can be raised after death, and the mother will never be found again after death."So Guo Ju buried the child, and when he was burying it, a thunderstorm suddenly fell from the sky, which not only revived the son, but also released a jar of gold.

These two allusions can be guessed by anyone with a little knowledge of ancient culture.Therefore, "the person who knows my surname, the queen of Linggong, the father of the buried son" is implying that the person who wrote the letter was surnamed Guo. "There is a mouth for or." The answer to the riddle is a traditional Chinese character "country". "The button of no talent", the word "press" removes the handle, and the answer is the word "An". So Zhuge Zanhua said the real name of this person: Guo Guoan. So far, I wonder if readers still have an impression of this name?

The most legendary espionage story in the Anti-Japanese Aid Korea is undoubtedly Empress Xu Yi.This patriotic overseas Chinese who appeared at the beginning of this book, shouldering the risk of his life, dealt with the Shimadzu family and Hideyoshi, and delivered precious Japanese military intelligence to Daming through his disciple Zhu Junwang. Xu Yihou's report was not written by him alone, there was another author.This author is also Chinese, but he holds a position in the Shimadzu Army, and his rank is not low.After he spared no effort to help Xu Yi, he used his special identity to complete the most critical part of the Japanese military situation in the entire report.

His name is Guo Guoan. The story of Xu Yihou and Guo Guoan was interrupted after that.But as I said at the end of the last chapter, after eight years, the most legendary spy story in the entire War of Resistance Against Japan and Aid Korea is about to appear in the next episode. It is said that Zhuge Zanhua solved the anagram and recognized this person as Guo Guoan.But Mao Guoqi was not familiar with this name at all, and he was still at a loss. He walked back with the letter, thinking about it as he walked, and suddenly remembered that the staff officer next to him, Shi Shiyong, was a member of Jin Yiwei, and he was very intelligent.Maybe Jin Yiwei could know something about these things.

He took the letter to Shi Shiyong and said, sir, do you know what's going on?Shi Shiyong took it over and took a look, he couldn't help but smile, and patted his thigh repeatedly: "Guo Guoan, he really is a trustworthy person!" "So you know each other?" Mao Guoqi was confused. "I've known you for a long time." "Where did you meet?" "Japan." When Mao Guoqi heard this, he was dumbfounded.At that time, going abroad was not as convenient as it is now, and ordinary people had no chance and did not want to go out.Shi Shi said in an understatement that he had met Guo Guoan in Japan, and he couldn't help being shocked. "For Jin Yiwei, nothing is impossible." I made up this sentence, but I believe that Shi Shiyong must have said something similar to Mao Guoqi at that time, and said it very proudly. Let's move the time forward a little bit and go back to the end of the 20th year of Wanli (1592) to see what major events Jin Yiwei planned in Japan. Let's move the time forward a little bit and go back to the end of the 20th year of Wanli (1592) to see what major events Jin Yiwei planned in Japan. At the end of the 20th year of Wanli, the Japanese army's offensive on the Korean peninsula had stopped, Song Yingchang and Li Rusong were gaining momentum in Liaodong, and the Korean king was trapped in Yizhou, crying every day. Shi Xing, who was still Minister of the Ministry of War at the time, carefully studied the report of Xu Yihou brought by Zhu Junwang, and synthesized various intelligence collected by the Korean and Ming armies. The reports match up surprisingly well. Shi Xing thought, this is an important talent, he should be able to play a greater role.So he wrote a letter to Fujian Governor Xu Fuyuan, asking him to send capable people to Kyushu, Japan, to meet the Empress Xu Yi for a while.After Xu Fuyuan received Shi Xing's request, he quickly summoned two famous commanders, one named Shen Bingyi and the other named Shi Shiyong.Shen Bingyi was too old to use and was soon eliminated. Xu Fuyuan saw that Shi Shiyong was a man of stately appearance and extraordinary conversation, so he entrusted him with this arduous task. In June of the 21st year of Wanli, Shi Yong disguised himself as a businessman, and went to Japan with two other companions, Zhang Yixue and Zheng Shiyuan, on a ship of the maritime merchant Xu Yu.He crossed the ocean all the way, and finally landed in Uchiura Port in Hiradogawa, Kyushu on July 4th. By the way, 31 years later, a Chinese-Japanese man named Zheng Chenggong was born here. Shi Shiyong inquired after he landed, and found that he disembarked too early.Although Uchiura and Satsuma belong to Kyushu, the distance is still a bit far.He inquired again and learned that Shimadzu Yoshihisa and Xu Yi went to Nagoya to meet Hideyoshi.He was quite courageous, and went straight to Nagoya.After arriving at Nagoya, he and Zhang Yixue split into two companies. After Shi Shiyong went to find Xu Yi, Zhang Yixue and Zheng Shiyuan were responsible for secretly drawing the geographical situation of Nagoya. Nagoya was the base camp of the Japanese invasion, and all the supplies of the army were dispatched from here.One day, if the Ming army came over, this information would be useful. The quality of professional intelligence personnel is different.Shi Gong contacted Xu Yihou without much effort.Xu Yihou was overjoyed by Shi Shiyong's arrival. He never expected that Daming would send someone to contact him. This is such a great comfort to a lonely overseas child. But Xu Yi was not overwhelmed by joy.Nagoya is Hideyoshi's territory and has many eyes and ears. He asked Shi Shiyong to go back to Uchiura first and contact him for a while. On August 13th, Hideyoshi finished talking with Shimadzu Yoshihisa and asked him to return to Satsuma.Xu Yi found an opportunity to desert and slipped to Neipu, where she met Shi Shiyong, Zhang Yixue, Zheng Shiyuan, and Xu Yu on August 27.Shi Shiyong asked him if he heard that Shimadzu's family had always been dissatisfied with Hideyoshi, could he see him. Under the leadership of Yoshihisa Shimadzu, the Shimadzu family defeated Toyotomi's army in the Battle of Tojigawa, which planted a curse.Later, Hideyoshi personally led an army to crusade against Kyushu. In order to preserve the Shimadzu family, Yoshihisa had to announce that he had become a monk and went into seclusion. Under the persecution of Hideyoshi, Shimadzu Yoshihisa had to ask his third brother Shimadzu Tokuhisa to commit suicide by caesarean section in Umekita Ichikui in June last year.So it is impossible to say that Shimadzu Yoshihisa has no resentment towards Hideyoshi. Xu Yi later said that it is not easy to meet the feudal lord, it is better to get close to the important ministers around him first.Uchiura Port happens to belong to the territory of Ijuin Tadato, a senior minister of the Shimadzu family, so we should pay a visit to him first. On the third day of September, Xu Yihou took Xu Yu and Shi Shiyong to Zhongdong's residence in Yijiyuan, nominally visiting as a merchant, with Xu Yihou acting as an interpreter.Yijiyuan Zhongdong was old and cunning, and when he saw Xu Yu, he squinted his eyes and said, "I don't think you are a businessman." Xu Yi quickly said, "You can be regarded as a warrior of Ming Dynasty." Both sides tentatively said a few words A polite remark without any substance.Yijiyuan Zhongdong didn't look into it carefully, and even gave Xu Yu a pair of armor. Unexpectedly, this meeting was leaked out for some reason.On September 19th, a monk named Xuanlong came to Xu Yu and asked, "Are you sent by the Fujian government of the Ming Dynasty to investigate intelligence?" Xu Yu was also a courageous person, and he did not deny it: " That's right! You invaded Goryeo and acted recklessly. Our Emperor Wanli didn't want to kill too much, so he sent Shen Weijing to make peace. Xu Junmen sent me to investigate your facts and see if you are sincere." These words are half true and half false However, Monk Xuanlong was also afraid that he would be charged with sabotaging the peace talks, so he had to leave angrily. After that, Shi Shiyong felt a little dangerous, gave up the idea of ​​meeting the feudal lord, and concentrated on collecting all kinds of information.It was during this period that Shi Shiyong got acquainted with the legendary Guo Guoan through the recommendation of Xu Yihou and obtained a lot of information. Time passed to October.At that time, Yoshihiro Shimadzu was stationed in Geoje Island, and the plague was prevalent. Yoshihiro sent Xu Yi to Goryeo to become a doctor.After Xu Yi left, Shi Shiyong felt that his mission was almost completed, so he also left by boat to return home.It's a pity that he was unlucky, encountered a typhoon on the way, and had to return to Kyushu. Soon Shimadzu Yoshihisa and Yijiyuan Zhongdong sent people to investigate Xu Yu, and Xu Yu frankly repeated what he had said to Monk Xuanlong.Shimadzu Yoshihisa nodded, and instead of turning him away to see Hideyoshi, he took out a letter and some gifts and asked him to forward them to Xu Fuyuan, which was regarded as an official reply. The letter did not mention any war, only that trade would continue regardless of the relationship between the two countries.This is a bit of Shimadzu Yoshihisa left behind, hoping that if the Japanese army goes against Korea, it will not affect the Shimadzu family's business. Xu Yu obtained the approval of Yoshihisa Shimadzu, and left Japan on January 24, the 23rd year of Wanli. Shi Shiyong also left Japan on another ship shortly before or after his departure.Their mission to Japan was successfully completed. Xu Yu returned to Fujian smoothly on March 1 of the same year. After returning, he asked Xu Fuyuan if Shi Shiyong had returned.Xu Fuyuan was taken aback, I was about to ask you. Only then did they realize that Shi Shiyong, who also went to sea in January this year, has not moved until now. Where did he go? The answer is, he is still in Kyushu... After Shi Shiyong went to sea, he thought that he could return to Fujian as soon as possible and report the information.But he never expected that the ship had not gone far, and encountered a strong typhoon again, which was really unlucky.Under the tyranny of nature, all the fleet sank, Zhang Yixue died in the shipwreck, only he and Zheng Shiyuan survived, and were pushed back to Kyushu by the waves. The two were penniless and did not understand the language.At this time, both Xu Yihou and Guo Guoan had left Japan, and Xu Yu was also gone.The two unaccompanied spies spent seven miserable months in Japan. At the end of August of this year, two Ryukyu envoys went to Japan to visit Hideyoshi and investigate intelligence by the way.When they reached Samo, they were suddenly stopped by two beggars.The two beggars were dressed in shabby clothes, and they claimed to be Shi Shiyong, the commander of the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Shiyuan, the messenger, and hoped to get help to return to Fujian. Compared with Japan, Ryukyu is still closer to Ming after all.The messenger immediately hid the two of them and took them back to Ryukyu on a boat.Ryukyu has done this matter several times. The other Chen Shen report that was comparable to Xu Yihou's report was sent from Ryukyu. This time is not bad. The Ryukyu people took great care of Shi Shiyong, and specially dispatched a tribute ship to send him back to China.Shi Shiyong let out a long sigh of relief, thinking that this time he can finally go home. Then, then he was caught in a storm... When the tribute ship was approaching Fuzhou, it encountered a storm, which blew the ship to the waters near Pinghu Mountain, Quanzhou Prefecture, Quanzhou, and almost the whole ship was killed.Shi Shi was blessed with a great life, survived the catastrophe abruptly, and was rescued by the Ming government. It was already the end of the twenty-second year of Wanli. Shi Shiyong, who had escaped death, returned to China, cheered up, and usurped the collected Japanese intelligence into the book "Japanese Love Preparation".This book is the first professional book that Daming sent personnel to Japan to collect on its own initiative. It discusses the situation in Japan and is quite incisive. It also comes with many important original documents. It is more professional than Xu Yi’s report. The book has contributed a lot. As soon as this book was published, it was regarded as the first-hand material for the study of Japan, and both the imperial historian of the Ming Dynasty and the king of Korea were full of praise for it.Letters from officials must be quoted, decisions made by the Ministry of War must be referenced, and Yang Gao even wrote letters to Hideyoshi to predict the domestic situation in Japan. And Shi Shiyong himself, also because of the title of "Japanese Studies Expert", was transferred to North Korea during the Dingyou Rebellion.He was first assigned to Xing Jie's banner, and then transferred to Dong Yiyuan's office. Dong Yiyuan probably felt that this person was not very useful, so he asked him to accompany Mao Guoqi to fight on the front line. Two flowers bloom, each representing a branch.When Shi Shiyong was fighting against the storm, Xu Yihou was not idle in North Korea. At that time, China and Japan were negotiating peace, and it was widely rumored that Hideyoshi begged for peace talks.Although Xu Yihou didn't understand the deception of President Xiaonishi and Shen Weijing, he knew Hideyoshi and knew that Hideyoshi would never give up the war.He sent a secret letter to Song Yingchang on Juji Island, which said bluntly: "Although Guan Bai is begging for tribute, he actually wants to spy on Ming Dynasty next year." The truth is revealed in one sentence. After Song Yingchang received Xu Yi's secret letter, he was very impressed and praised him for his "great plan". At this time, Xu Yiguan, Xie Yongzi and Shen Weijing planned to go to Nagoya, and Song Yingchang specially arranged for a member of the mission named Zheng The officials asked him to try to contact Xu Yihou after he arrived in Japan. It's a pity that the mission of this mission was very unsuccessful, and it came back dejected within a few days, and the official surnamed Zheng didn't have time to look for it. I don't have time to look for it, it doesn't matter, I will take the initiative to say it. In October of the 22nd year of Wanli, a Korean named Wu Jingxi found Li Shiyan, the defender of Jeolla Province, and reported something to him.Wu Jingxi claimed to be a slave captured in Japan in the 21st year of Wanli. He met a Chinese named Xu Yihou in Satsuma.Under his arrangement, Wu Jingxi was sent back to North Korea.Wu Jingxi asked me to bring a sentence to Daming after talking about Xu Yi: "The thieves are waiting for the angel's letter, and they should return it as much as they can in mid-August." So what happened in August of the 21st year of Wanli? Hideyoshi was ecstatic when he got his son Hideyori in his old age, and he gave the order to withdraw the troops, and the main force of the Japanese army began to cross the sea and return home from North Korea step by step.The Ming court believed that this was a sign of Japanese concessions and allowed Naito, the Japanese envoy sent to China, to move from Seoul to Liaodong.President Xiaoxi and Shen Weijing's deception has just progressed in full swing. It can be seen that Xu Yihou's insight was astonishing. He keenly anticipated the inevitable connection between Hideyoshi's son and the Japanese army's retreat, and specially arranged for the North Korean prisoners to return to China, hoping that Ming Dynasty could prepare for this move of the Japanese army in advance. Although the information he conveyed was outdated when it was sent to Ming Dynasty, but the patriotism of Empress Xu Yi, who is throbbing all the time, is really worthy of our admiration again and again. We should also notice one small detail.After Xu Yi arrived in North Korea, he was able to send the secret letter to Song Yingchang; after returning to Japan, he was able to get Wu Jingxi back to North Korea, creating an opportunity for him to escape back to the Lee Dynasty.Without the help of powerful figures in the army, it would be very difficult to rely on him as an imperial doctor. Although there is no historical data to mention it, I guess that this powerful figure in the army is Guo Guogao.Only the cooperation of these two people can send information and even living people in and out so smoothly. Guo Guogao, this person, came into our sight again and again, but each time it seemed blurred.He always stood behind Xu Yihou, Shi Shiyong and others, keeping silent. He had to use a lot of evidence to corroborate him, so that he could barely perceive his afterglow.We don't know his background, his appearance and character, his Japanese name, or his position in the Shimadzu family's army—he hides in the shadows all the time, looming.What we know is that he still loves his motherland and is still eager to let the motherland know his existence, so he left his name in the letter when he released the North Korean female prisoners. Now, he finally slowly came out from behind the curtain. There are very few people in Ming Dynasty who have heard of this name, no more than two digits, and there are only two people who can remember this name and understand the meaning it represents, one is Zhu Junwang who returned to the field, and the other is the famous agent of Jinyiwei Shi Shiyong.Guo Guogao didn't know who the Ming army on the opposite side was. He just wrote down his name, hoping to be remembered by the people of the old country. He didn't hope that the Ming army would recognize who he was. What Guo Guogao never imagined was how the escaped Korean woman would hand over her name to the only person in Ming Dynasty who could recognize her by such a coincidence, and that person happened to be the forward of the Ming army. Come to attack the Japanese camp where he is.What a coincidence it must be! When "Wu Bei Zhi Korea Examination" wrote this paragraph, he used two words to describe Shi Shiyong's reaction when he heard Guo Guogao's name: "Yueran".The joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land is beyond words.The two lines of Shi Shiyong and Guo Guogao, after four years of separation, unexpectedly converged in such a small probability event.This has to make us sigh, fate is really a wonderful thing.