Xinshun 1730

Chapter 416 The Peace Talks Have No Courage to Overcome Hopeless
On the flagship outside the firing range of the fort, Li Yantusihu looked sadly at the smoke of the battle in the distance, full of emotion.

"Fortunately, we already have a navy. If we don't have one, the Westerners can do the same. They use naval guns to cooperate with landing and cut off the water transportation. I'm afraid our dynasty will be in danger."

After putting down the binoculars and seeing this scene with his own eyes, even though he had never heard the secret conversation between Liu Yu and the emperor back then, he couldn't help but have such thoughts.

However, the officer on the side comforted him, "Don't worry, my lord."

"We have already measured the depth of the waterway at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Even if the Westerners completely wiped out our navy, they will not be able to cut off the canal with the support of naval guns."

"The waterway at the mouth of the river is narrow, and it is going upstream, so it is difficult to turn around. Even if our navy is completely wiped out, the Westerners can enter the Yangtze River. In such a narrow waterway, if the wind direction changes slightly, it will follow the Zheng family's example of attacking ships with fire and cutting off the retreat. .Its navy is bound to be wiped out by the river."

"In the world today, there is no ship that can sail without sails. As long as it still relies on sails, it will not be as simple as our war against Japan. Is it possible that Westerners can create ships that do not rely on sails, but rely on sailors to paddle a hundred thousand Attack from here?"

"However, if there is no navy, there will be no peace within a hundred miles of the coast. This is true. In terms of land warfare, after the military reform, there should be no worries."

The officer talked eloquently, and based on the experience at this time, what he said was absolutely correct.

As long as there is no ship in the world that can sail without sails, even if Dashun's navy is completely wiped out, the army after the military reform will not be enough to break the nerve.

Li Yan smiled and said: "That's true. But you say that, because you are afraid of being heard by interested people, but you use this as an excuse to protect the water transportation. Wouldn't Ying Suobo want to punish you at that time?"

The officer just smiled and didn't speak, thinking that the thinking of this kind of people is really weird, shouldn't the conclusion drawn after hearing this be to build a large navy and guarantee invincibility?
Water transportation is saved, forts are saved, and this money is more than enough to build a navy.

Besides, forts cost a lot of money, and a good repair is a lot of money, just like the batch in Weihai and Liugong Island, enough to build a few more large ships.

It would save money to make this kind of crap on Yonago's side, but it's useless.

It is the first lesson of the captains of the Jinghai Palace that the navy should not shoot at shore artillery, but facing this kind of gun with a range of 150 years ago, the navy can also throw away these dogmas freely... After nearly half an hour, the warship and shore guns fired at each other, and the warship was unscathed.

In the distance, the artillery battle was still going on, and the landed troops had already spread out in the open space under the cover of naval guns.

The cannon was being pulled towards the blind spot of the fort, and the fall of the old forts of Yonago was only in an instant.

And Yonago is a subordinate of the Tottori domain. Under the order of one country and one city, the former Yonago Castle has been abandoned. Once the fort falls, the Yumihama Peninsula where Yonago is located is under control.

The news of Dashun's landing in Yonago did not spread so fast.

However, the news that Dashun's warships carried out armed investigations in Izumo, Jiangjin, Yonago and other places with great fanfare had already spread.

The shogunate has fallen into chaos.

Edo Castle is too far away, and the news that Tokugawa Yoshimune can get is delayed by more than half a month.

Dashun captured Tsushima, Dashun captured Ezo Fukuyama Castle, Dashun shelled Sendai Ishinomaki Port, Sendai rice may not be able to supply Edo this year, Dashun navy is showing off its might on the sea off Kyushu Island...

Faced with these news, Tokugawa Yoshimune was a little numb, but still pretended to be terrified.

The reason why he pretended to be frightened was because Liu Yu had already warned him in the letter he had sent him before.

Now it's just like confirming that it wasn't trying to scare him back then.

Japan's land is long and narrow, surrounded by the sea. Since Japan locked itself down, it has only an army composed of samurai. It is not a sea power country at all, and it has no sense of sea power.

Dashun has the cooperation of the navy, as long as they run fast, thousands of people can turn tens of thousands of people around.

Thousands of troops at Tosa's level at that time, except for Edo, may not be able to defend the national cities everywhere. The First World War of Tosa has proved this point.

Although Tokugawa Yoshimune hated Liu Yu so much, even though Tokugawa Yoshimune knew that Liu Yu's letter was deliberately mobilizing his troops.

But after much deliberation and brainstorming, it seems that Liu Yu's strategy of "dividing into multiple regiments and stationing along the line for easy mobilization" is the only available option.

China pays attention to taking history as a mirror, and Japan also takes history as a mirror, but at this time, the history books of the past cannot be used as a mirror.

When the Mongolian Yuan invaded, they could only attack Hirado and other places from Tsushima, and the navy could not go too far.

It is good for Japan to pile up its main force on Kyushu Island.

However, Dashun traveled from Nagasaki to Hokkaido this time, and made a full circle, and landed anywhere.

Even if not many people landed, the impact would be devastating.

The most hateful thing is that Liu Yu did that thing in Tosa.

If there is no such thing, it is possible to "save people and lose ground", fight to the death without retreating, lure the enemy to go deep, and encircle and annihilate them.

But after Tosa's incident, the loss of land meant that all land was lost.

Dashun also didn’t need any land equalization or grain exemption at all, because the feudal system had not yet been disintegrated and land sales had just started in the Edo period, the word “equal land” was not needed; Six people and four people, down to two people and eight people, the common people will also win food.

The prerequisite for saving people and losing ground is that everyone is a soldier.

Under the samurai system where peasants and soldiers were separated, are samurai who lost their land still samurai?

Whether it is compensation or switching, in Tokugawa Yoshimune's view, this is just bloodletting.

As for things like benevolence and righteousness, etiquette, and tax reduction, this is rooting out.

It is said that there are 40 registered soldiers, and the mobile field force that can be mobilized is only [-] to [-], which is still mixed.He has organized a falcon hunt once or twice, and the results are just that, and he will bully the common people in a hundred years of peace.

As soon as the Tosa incident happened, the daimyos everywhere worried that their territory would be "benevolent and righteous" first.

All the domains in Kyushu hope to reserve enough troops to defend their Honmaru, and the assembled field mobile troops are only in the early [-]s.

Who knows where Dashun will land?What if I lost my own city?People know what "benevolence and righteousness" is, even if they just shout, will they be able to rule in the future?
The shogunate also knew that Kyushu Island was extremely important, so they supported a part of the banner, but together, they had a mobile force of less than [-].

The feudal lords of Shikoku Island are doing their best to suppress Tosa's uprising, the blood flowed like rivers, and all the field troops that can be assembled are fighting against Tosa's peasants.

This trend cannot last long, otherwise Dashun will send people to Tosa again, then they will really have a foothold.

As the main force of the Changzhou Domain, the first thing to protect is the Shimonoseki Strait. If it is breached there, Dashun's navy can directly threaten the Seto Inland Sea and Osaka.

A part of the banner should also be sent to defend there, and it must not be lost there.

Moreover, when Dashun's navy carried out armed investigations in Izumo, Iwami and other places with great fanfare, the lord of the Changzhou Fan was about to cry: Hagi Castle, the main city of the Changzhou Fan, was by the sea, and it faced the north. Dashun Navy's attack range.

On the Sendai side, Ishinomaki Port was bombarded by Dashun, and the main force was tricked by Dashun to station at the Tsugaru Strait in the north. Sendai's troops may not be able to withstand the attack of thousands of people, and they are also asking the shogunate to mobilize some support. .

Liu Yu has been to Edo for a long time, and the transfer of Tokugawa Yoshimune has already begun. Edo Castle still needs to retain manpower, Kyushu Island needs people, Changzhou Governor's Mansion needs people, Sendai needs people...not to mention It is said that they were led by the nose and scattered everywhere. It took a year to gather troops like this, and the shogunate's finances would collapse.

In view of the letter Liu Yu sent him, Tokugawa Yoshimune was not overly nervous before, and he still hoped that the conditions in Liu Yu's letter were sincere.

In that way, a little blood can be shed, but it will not shake the shogunate system, nor will it hurt the bones.

Now, in fact, he has long wanted to negotiate peace.

There is no way to fight this battle.

It is impossible to tense up the nerves, assemble all the warriors into a mobile regiment, and compete with Dashun for patience and consumption.

Not to mention that Dashun's national strength and wealth are far superior to those of Japan, let's talk about consumption. How much consumption can Dashun's "Japanese pirates" play like?
After spending a year, Dashun may not only have nothing to consume, but instead extort a lot of gold, silver, food and rice, and his finances will collapse.

However, politically, it is impossible for him to initiate peace talks.

If there is no war and then peace talks, those daimyos will definitely not be able to suppress them, and the legitimacy of the shogunate rule will also be in jeopardy.

Therefore, the battle still had to be fought, and Dashun's military power had to be used to let several daimyo's territories be "benevolent and righteous", so that the daimyo would wholeheartedly support the peace talks between the shogunate.

Moreover, he can't talk about peace talks.

The daimyos had to write a letter collectively, asking the shogunate to negotiate peace with Dashun.

Although I hated Liu Yu in my heart, I also felt that Liu Yu cooperated well with him—hitting the daimyos on Kyushu Island was just in line with the shogunate's wishes; engaging in benevolence and justice in Tosa was to make the daimyos support the shogunate more; In order for the daimyos to take the initiative to request peace talks.

He was already cooperating with Liu Yu as much as possible. When something happened in Sendai, he understood the tacit look Liu Yu gave him, and he had a legitimate reason not to send more samurai directly under his own banner to Kyushu Island.

According to him, the two sides cooperated tacitly.

When Dashun landed on Kyushu Island, the daimyo couldn't take it anymore and asked the shogunate for peace talks.

The steps are paved, done in one go, and that's it.

As a result, Dashun cooperated well at the beginning.

But now, to get Izumo and Ishimi, this makes Tokugawa Yoshimune a little depressed.

He also felt that what Liu Yu wrote in the letter was pure fart.

Although believe it or not, he can only defend according to the method Liu Yu taught him, but if Dashun wants more than the things in Liu Yu's letter, he will really have a headache.

Iwami Yinshan cannot be lost, if lost, the shogunate's finances will be greatly affected.Ishimi country is directly under the jurisdiction of the shogunate, where the silver mountain is located, how could it be possible for the daimyo to occupy it.

More importantly, the Tottori domain where Yonago is located is undergoing the largest one-off in recent years.In history, this is called Genbun Ichikui, and one-sixth of the farmers from all over Tottori participated.

At this moment, Tokugawa Yoshimune really couldn't understand what Liu Yu wanted to do.

Is this going to be bloodletting?Or do you really want to root?
Naturally, he didn't know that it involved the Navy's desire to expand its influence, the game between the Navy and the imperial court, and Liu Yu's desire to make an example of others.

Since he couldn't think of this, Tokugawa Yoshimune could only curse a few words in his heart, and said in his heart: Liu Yu, Liu Yu, if you do this for a year, the money you saved for the old man's coinage reform will be spent. There is no money to compensate you.

There were no banks in this era, so Tokugawa Yoshimune could only think that the indemnity that Liu Yu wanted had to be paid by him.

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When Tokugawa Yoshimune was in a state of desperation and didn't know what kind of medicine Liu Yu was selling in the gourd, Ota Ziqing, the acting representative of Osaka Castle, almost collapsed when he heard the news that the Dashun Navy had bombarded Yonago and occupied Yonago.

The Daimyo of Osaka Castle was a low-ranking official, and Edo Castle was far to the east, and all the daimyos in the west were ambitious, so a Daimyo of Osaka Castle was appointed to monitor the princes of the Western Kingdom.

It's just that Dabancheng is required to monitor the princes of the Western Kingdom, and he is worried that Dabancheng will do something big on his behalf, so the chain around his neck has been pulled tightly.

Theoretically, Dasakajo Dai is the highest person in charge of the management and control of the daimyos in the Western Kingdom, and theoretically also has military command power.

However, the reality is that after the country was locked down, Japan did not conduct large-scale military operations beyond the closure of the country and feudal vassals. Even if the peasants rebelled, it was against the feudal lord above them, and they could not flee the whole country.

During the Shimabara Rebellion, Abe Shoji, the acting representative of Osaka Castle, felt that, waiting for the news from Edo, the Catholics in Shimabara even built a heaven on earth.

But his subordinates all advised him that this was an act of arrogance, which might arouse the suspicion of the shogunate.It's better to let him revolt, since he won't be able to hit Osaka anyway, wait for news from Edo before taking action.

He tried his best to report to the shogunate, while asking Kyushu to act quickly and gather troops to quell the Shimabara Rebellion.

As a result, his order was given, but Kyushu Motsuke didn't move at all. He really didn't dare to move until the order from the shogunate.

Suppressed in advance, and there is no reward, then the shogunate will think that you are listening to Osaka Castle?Or listen to the Edo shogunate?At that time, I will be suspected again...

Therefore, we waited until the news came from Edo before this side was regarded as moving.

So the uprising, which could have been easily suppressed, dragged on into a big uprising of more than 4 people.

Since then, the chain around Daisaka's neck has loosened.

This time in the war with Dashun, the shogunate even directly authorized Daisakajo to coordinate the defense of the feudal clans of the Western Kingdom, and assumed the responsibility for the safety of the feudal clans of the Western Kingdom.

Responsibility lies in her body, so Ota Ziqing really doesn't know what to do.

(End of this chapter)