Chapter 74 Black Dragon Society (Please collect! Please vote! Please invest!)
Japan is located on the eastern island and is often affected by tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural disasters. In addition, the terrain is mountainous with few plains, so there is a lack of arable land. In this era when productivity is not well developed, food in Japan is very precious.

It was precisely because of the constant natural disasters and the extreme living conditions of lack of food that the heroes of all generations in Japan, after unifying Japan, wanted to expand outward and get rid of Toshima.

The current actual ruler of Japan, Prime Minister Toyotomi Ieyasu, after defeating the daimyo such as Hojo, Sato, Mori, and Kudo and unifying Japan, has set his greedy eyes on Goguryeo, Silla, Gongdu, and Liaoyang of the Great Zhou. Not only is he ambitious, he has put his ambition into action. In the third year of Anhe in the Great Zhou, he sent 110,000 Japanese soldiers to land in Gongdu, intending to invade Liaoyang of the Great Zhou.

Because the Golden Horde was invading at that time, Prime Minister Shangguan Hongyuan was unable to fight on two fronts. He could only send his subordinates Yang Dongting, the commander of the Tiger Guards, and Song Wenhui, the governor of Liaoyang, to gather 50,000 troops to stop the Japanese soldiers outside the country and fight fiercely with them in the palace. The two sides fought back and forth, and because they were at a disadvantage in numbers, although the Zhou army had the upper hand, they were still unable to drive the Japanese soldiers into the sea.

The war between the two sides lasted for about half a year. In the fourth year of Anhe, when Shangguan Hongyuan defeated the Golden Horde and was about to lead the main force of the imperial army to rescue the palace, the experienced Toyotomi Ieyasu took the initiative to withdraw his troops from the palace in order to preserve his strength.

Although Toyotomi Ieyasu returned empty-handed in this battle and lost tens of thousands of soldiers, this did not completely dispel Toyotomi Ieyasu's ambitions for Miyato, Liaoyang and other places.

However, this defeat made him realize the huge gap in power between Wa and Da Zhou. Therefore, Toyotomi Ieyasu changed his original strategy of a massive attack and changed it to a step-by-step approach...
With the support of Toyotomi Ieyasu, some samurai, ronin, and pirates from Miyato, Silla and other places who were defeated in the internal struggles in Japan united together to form a notorious organization called the Black Dragon Society.

The Black Dragon Society was based in Miyabi, Silla and other places. They used beauty, money, assassination and other means as weapons to gather intelligence and news for Toyotomi Ieyasu.

With the support of Toyotomi Ieyasu, in just a few years, the Black Dragon Society rapidly grew into the leading underground organization in Gwangdu, Silla and other places. Many officials of Gwangdu and Silla became pawns of the Black Dragon Society and were manipulated by them. Even the source of the Gwangdu Incident, Park Sung-tae's rebellion, was also caused by the Black Dragon Society.

Because the Golden Horde had hundreds of thousands of cavalry stationed on the northern border all year round and often invaded the border, under such a huge threat, the basic national policy of the Great Zhou was to concentrate on dealing with the enemies in the north. Therefore, as for the Black Dragon Society that was causing chaos on the northeastern border, it was unable to continue and could only watch it grow and become stronger step by step.

Against this backdrop, the Black Dragon Society was no longer satisfied with developing only in the imperial capital, Silla. With their powerful military forces over the years, they began to gradually infiltrate the Liaoyang Province of the Zhou Dynasty, trying to make Liaoyang the next imperial capital, Silla!

This time, the Imperial Guards occupied the palace, which was undoubtedly the next major blow to the Black Dragon Society. However, after realizing the huge gap in strength between the two sides, the Black Dragon Society wisely did not choose to fight back, but chose to disappear and preserve its strength. Although he did not know how the Black Dragon Society targeted him and how they hooked up with Xu Zhaojie, it was obvious that being targeted by them was bad news for Ye Mingsheng!
The Black Dragon Society may not be good at head-on battles, but they are really good at assassinations behind the scenes, making it hard to guard against!

But what makes Ye Mingsheng most curious now is that if his guess is correct, it is really the people from the Black Dragon Society who want to deal with him, then what role does Pei Zhixiu play in it?
Pei Zhixiu just admitted in front of him that her mother is Japanese...
Ye Mingsheng has been in Gongdu for almost a year, which is not a short time. According to his understanding, there are quite a few Japanese in Gongdu, with a number of at least over 100,000. They are the third largest ethnic group in Gongdu after the Gongdu people and the Zhou people. And among these people, many have connections with the Black Dragon Society!
Thinking back to Pei Zhixiu's conflicted and somewhat resistant expression just now, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but feel the doubts in his heart growing wildly!
If this person now was not Pei Zhixiu, but another woman, Ye Mingsheng would not hesitate at all and would choose to destroy her with ruthless hands, torture her directly, and do everything possible to dig out the information he wanted to know from the other party's head...
In fact, when Pei Zhixiu finished speaking and Ye Mingsheng gradually became aware of what was going on, Ye Mingsheng instinctively wanted to send someone to keep an eye on Pei Zhixiu and monitor her every move. However, in the end, thinking of what had happened in the past, Ye Mingsheng chose to give up.

Although Ye Mingsheng does not think that he is a good person, he always has his bottom line and will not repay kindness with enmity!

It is not certain whether Bae Ji-soo has a problem, but what is certain is that Bae Ji-soo at least saved his life.

What's more, this time it was Pei Zhixiu who took the initiative to talk about this matter. With Pei Zhixiu's intelligence, she must have understood that as long as she told it, I would definitely suspect her, but she still chose to tell it. If she didn't tell it, I would still be kept in the dark and know nothing.

The reason why Pei Zhixiu did this seemed to be because she was worried that she would be attacked by someone else...
After thinking about this, Ye Mingsheng developed a complex emotion towards Pei Zhixiu, the woman who was shrouded in mystery in his heart. He didn't know how to face Pei Zhixiu.

Shaking his head, Ye Mingsheng put these romantic feelings behind him for the time being. He would have plenty of opportunities to sort them out slowly after he had overcome this difficulty.

The most urgent task now is to think about how to deal with Xu Zhaojie's evil hand and the possible Black Dragon Society. Judging from the current situation, the other party is likely to launch an attack in the next seven days.

Although he was confident in the combat capability of his 700 imperial guards, the terrain of Huishan was complex, with many steep canyons that could be used as ambushes. If he was not careful and spoke out, it would be very troublesome!

(End of this chapter)