The Return of Shen Menggang and Hu Funing to China

 

     Shen Menggang and Hu Funing sailed presumably from Sakai Port toward Guangzhou.  Unluckily, they were interrogated off ChaoZhou.  The documents they had, presumably including the reply from the Miyoshi Regime, were discarded and they were imprisoned.  When Zheng Shungong heard of their imprisonment and tried to contact them, they had already been executed.

     What determined the destiny of Zhen Shungong, who was imprisoned but wasn't executed, and Shen Menggang and Hu Funing, who were executed?  Maybe, due to the arbitrary rulings of prosecutors.  Perhaps, whether they went too far or not.  In the case of Jiang Zhou,who was imprisoned but wasn't executed, his companion, Chen Keyuan, returned from Goto Islands and wasn't charged.  Possibly, the information they could offer mattered.  When Zhen Ruoceng wrote and compiled Chouhai Tubian, as he had never been to Japan, he probably depended on the information Jiang Zhou had through his experience in Japan.  Zheng Shungong wrote and compiled Riben Yijian for himself.