The Wajin mission was lodged at the Guest House within Ningbo City, not very far from the scenic Moon Lake. This so-called "Guest" naturally referred to "officials" who had come from afar, or "envoys from foreign lands" who had traveled a great distance; it had not the slightest thing to do with ordinary commoners.
In truth, almost no ordinary neighborhood folk could be seen around this stretch of the Guest House, and there was very little activity from commoners. Arranging the Wajin mission in such a remote location was also done to reduce contact between the Wajin and Ningbo's local people as much as possible, with a clear intent to guard against them!
Of course, the sheer scale of the Wajin tribute fleet this time far exceeded the expectations of the Ningbo Maritime Trade Office. In fact, this too was the butterfly effect brought about by the Kingdom's gold trade with Wagoku.
Originally, with only the Hosokawa Clan and the Shogunate, they could not have produced this much merchandise to trade with the Ming Dynasty. But Morino Kiyoshi had brought a large sum of gold currency, allowing the tribute fleet to buy even more precious goods from the Ming Dynasty, and thus increasing the number of cargo ships for the return voyage. That was how there came to be a full eight large ships: five belonging to the Hosokawa Clan, two to the Shogunate, and one to the Tendai Sect, swelling the mission to eight ships and seven or eight hundred people!
So many Wajin flooding in gave the local yamen of Ningbo no end of headaches. Those four hundred-plus strong Wajin Samurai, even stripped of their blades and weapons, still carried a savage barbarian fierceness about them. If any disorder broke out among them, it was simply not something