Chapter 795: New and Old Grudges

After the Ming army wiped out the Zong clan and the Japanese pirates on Tsushima Island, the whereabouts of the envoys including Qian Xili were unknown. After that, there was no communication between the two countries. If we look at the Ming-Japan relations in the second year of Wude based on past experience, we can infer that such things would have ended up in nothing. During the Hongwu period, the relationship between the two countries was strained for a time because the Japanese delegation was suspected of being involved in the Hu Weiyong case, but nothing came of it.