Xinshun 1730

Chapter 430
After finishing writing the last letter of remonstrance and signing the seal, he called all his trusted retainers to him.

The remaining samurai were handed over to them. The Jingyi family has no heirs, and he still has the children left by his uncle to take over.

The remaining samurai retreated to Hikone Castle, or stationed in Tsuruga Town and other places in Obama.If Dashun attacks Hikone Castle, just give up Hikone Castle.

Anyway, if you can't hold it, it is impossible for Dashun to stay here for a long time, so don't cause unnecessary casualties.

Having arranged everything for the Hikone Domain, he took this last letter and two trusted retainers and galloped towards Edo in the starry night.

In Edo City, there was panic and chaos visible to the naked eye, an indescribable depression, and even the most prosperous skin and meat business on weekdays came to a standstill.

Although the shogunate tried to block some bad news, some news spread outside through different channels.

The news that the Dashun Army had invaded the capital could not be concealed.

The people panicked, and within Edo Castle Honmaru, there was also a feeling of failure.

A few days ago, the director of the Dutch business house came to Edo and conveyed the attitude of the Netherlands on this matter: the Netherlands will maintain absolute neutrality in this standard oriental conflict caused by the ownership of the tributary country.

Tokugawa Yoshimune gave enough face to the Dutch curator this time, lifted the bamboo curtain covering him again, had a face-to-face conversation with the Dutch curator, and even threatened to cut off the trade.

The last time the bamboo curtain was lifted was when he became interested in Lanxue for the first time after becoming a general, and then the previous system of separating the curtain was restored.

However, the attitude of the Dutch curators is also very tough. They believe that this matter has nothing to do with trade. They reject any form of sending troops and reiterate their neutrality repeatedly.

The threat of cutting off trade failed, and Tokugawa Yoshimune followed the lure method proposed by Ooka, and proposed that if the Netherlands sent troops to support it, it would expand the Netherlands' trade quota, ban China's trade credit cards, and double the issuance to the Netherlands.

The Dutch still refused.

Just as Liu Yu said to Tadashi Ooka at the beginning, the Dutch knew that they could not sell their goods in Japan only by relying on their own goods.

Countries such as Britain, France, Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain are all eyeing Songjiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and they are all looking forward to sharing the Dutch's share of trade with China.

What the Netherlands can sell in Japan is sugar and spices, and the sales of these things are not enough to make up for the profits from reselling Chinese raw silk.Just like the Busan trade in North Korea, North Koreans thought they were selling ginseng, but they were actually selling raw silk from China.

Whether it can defeat Dashun's fleet at sea is not the reason for the Netherlands to consider.What if the fleet is defeated?How many East India companies in Europe are staring at the Netherlands at the Dashun customs port?

Britain, a suspicious ally, will definitely take revenge for being completely expelled from Southeast Asia three years ago.

It is also impossible for Dashun to allow the Netherlands to monopolize Japan's trade. The Netherlands is well aware of this, and it is unwise to intervene in East Asian disputes when Batavia is preoccupied.

However, the Dutch did not do everything, but hinted secretly: If the Sino-Japanese war ends, the Netherlands is willing to provide Japan with certain help, such as instructors, shipbuilding engineers, etc., and is willing to help Japan build a fleet .

After all, the Dutch have been the world leader for more than a hundred years. They have destroyed the British and French combined fleets, burned the port of London, and smashed Spain, the world's first empire on which the sun never sets. This strategic vision is still there.

He is worried that his interests in Southeast Asia will be damaged, so he hopes to support a force against Dashun, but he will never end by himself.

Tokugawa Yoshimune's threats and lures were ineffective. It was already expected. Considering the future, he did not get angry with the Dutch, and still allowed the Dutch to continue to live in the Nagasaki trading house.

Rather than saying it was expected, it might be better to say it was Liu Yu's disdain for borrowing troops from the Netherlands after Mr. Ooka went to see Liu Yu that day.

This made Tokugawa Yoshimune even more worried. Dashun seemed to have considered everything, even the possible accident of the Dutchman.

One side has been planning and planning since ten years ago; the other side is that when the war started, it is not yet known what Dashun's military equipment is.

The scary thing is that the side that started to lay out ten years ago has ten times the population and a hundred times the wealth.

The Dutchman's reaction was exactly the same as Liu Yu's estimated reaction when he warned Ooka Chuxiang not to be delusional.Because the important ministers inside the shogunate knew about the Edo negotiations at the beginning, they were all shrouded in a strong sense of failure.

As soon as the Dutch left, news came from Kyoto.

The Dashun Army raided Kyoto and entered the Imperial Palace.More than [-] Dashun troops landed in Xiaobin, and mobilized the field force in the hands of Daban Chengdai. There was no longer any force around Kyoto that could resist.

The letter from Emperor Shohito to Tokugawa Yoshimune was also sent by Toki Yoriminoru to Xingye.

Such heavy news exploded in Edo Castle, and the important ministers were panicked, but Tokugawa Yoshimune secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In his opinion, it was a good thing that the Dashun Army captured the capital.

It was a happy funeral, and Tokugawa Yoshimune was finally convinced that what Dashun wanted might really be what Liu Yuxin said in his letter: trade, tribute, founding of the country, and compensation.

Otherwise, it is meaningless to capture Kyoto and seize the emperor.

Tokugawa Yoshimune was convinced that it was impossible for Liu Yu not to know that the emperor was a puppet.Not even a puppet. A puppet still needs people to control itself to make movements behind its back. The emperor is at best a shrine that cannot move.

Zhaoren's letter to him convinced Tokugawa Yoshimune that the shogunate had suffered a crushing defeat in this foreign war; however, its internal rule could continue to be maintained, and there was even a turning point.

When the Dashun army invaded the capital, it was not Tokugawa Yoshimune who was most panicked, but the southwestern feudal clans on Kyushu Island.

If Dashun wants to cede land, he will not seek far away, and go to the Tokugawa direct administration near Edo to cede land, and he will definitely cede the nearby feudal clans of Kyushu Island.

When the Dashun army invaded the capital, it was as if they were entering an uninhabited land. This would make the feudal clans of Kyushu Island understand that their little army could not defeat them at all.

Don't talk about field battles, just talk about logistics and transportation capabilities across the sea. As long as the feudal clans of Kyushu Island still have brains, they should understand that there is no game.

In this situation, it can be described as a win-win for the remnants of the Western Army and the feudal clans of Kyushu Island and the shogunate.

At this time, the strength of the feudal clans in Kyushu Island has not been lost. At this time, peace talks are most beneficial to the feudal clans of Kyushu Island to preserve their strength.

Therefore, after receiving the news that the Dashun Army had invaded Kyoto and made a long-distance attack, the feudal clans of Kyushu Island would definitely ask for peace talks.

Otherwise, if we really want to continue fighting, what if the Dashun Army really landed on Kyushu Island and wiped out all the troops of the southwestern feudal clans?
Moreover, they are now voluntarily asking for peace, which will force the shogunate not to cede the land of Kyushu Island: the peace talks are possible, but the righteousness is still with the shogunate, and everyone supports the peace talks;

This is tantamount to setting the shogunate on fire.

If Dashun wants to cede land, of course it will cede the land of Kyushu Island; the vassals voluntarily support the peace talks, not for the sake of the shogunate to cede the flesh of the southwestern vassals.

This is equivalent to their recognition of the authority of the shogunate and the guarantee of the majesty of the shogunate. The vassals are responsible for the peace talks, and they will not take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use righteousness to weaken the authority of the shogunate; , in return.

And this requires Tokugawa Yoshimune to seize the opportunity and take the initiative in this chaotic situation.

The method is also very simple: claiming to fight to the death without retreating, claiming to establish a new emperor, claiming to fight to the last person.

The louder the slogan was, the smaller the obstacles to the truce, and the more the authority of the shogunate was preserved.

The current situation couldn't be better.

In Japan at this time, the influential ones actually have three forces.

The public family, that is, the emperor, the ministers, etc., is a shrine, but it still has influence, and it is easy to be snatched away from the shrine.

shogunate.

And, the external daimyo, the real feudal lord.

The three things that Dashun may want also correspond to these three forces.

Tribute.

trading.

ceded land.

Now, Tokugawa Yoshimune believes that as long as he shouts the slogan of persisting in the war of resistance to the end and fighting to the last man, he can minimize the loss.

Zhaoren was bombed, as well as the rest of the royal family, no matter how they could find someone with blood.

Tokugawa Yoshimune only needs to ask the big names, and proposes to imitate Ming's civil castle, establish a new king, and continue to fight.

Attitude is enough.

The ones who panic first are powerful daimyos such as the daimyos of Kyushu and the Date clan of Mutsu.

If the fight continues, the shogunate will be finished, but the first to suffer must be Kyushu Island and the Mutsu Kingdom.

Anyway, Dashun can only log in at most 5000 people at one time, and it is unrealistic to directly log in to Edo.

Then we must first take Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, or take Sendai of the Date family from Ezo to the south.Step by step.

When the time comes, let's see who can't bear it first.Anyway, it will not be the Tokugawa shogunate shrunk in Edo.

As long as the slogan is shouted and the world is informed, the shogunate will win the support of those main combat factions, thinking that the shogunate is "a crime of non-war, not a crime of inaction."

And as long as the slogan is shouted, the feudal clans of Kyushu Island, the Date family, etc. will come to Edo and ask the shogunate for peace talks: don't establish a new king, don't fight any more.

Of course, at that time, it will definitely not be said that it is because they are afraid that their own strength will be hit, but they will pull out many righteous reasons.

For example, the emperor took the initiative to go to peace talks, not to surrender, and the establishment cannot be abolished because of this.

Moreover, it is not impossible to establish a monarch with ministers.

However, Taijia was dark and unclear, so Yiyin chased him to Tonggong; King Changyi ascended the throne for 27 days and committed more than [-] evils, so Huo Guang abolished his throne.

Zhaoren did not make a big mistake, and he did not violate the "Forbidden China and Public Laws". Basic laws must be followed when abolishing legislation, and new ones cannot be abolished.

For another example, it is pulled out that if Xiang Yu crossed Jiangdong back then, he might not be able to rise again; Goujian was defeated and tasted dung for revenge;

There should be a truce, and we should try our best.

At that time, the shogunate, which wants peace talks most in its heart, will instead become the benchmark of the main combat faction.

It wasn't that the shogunate wanted to lose power and humiliate the country, but it was the government that wanted to negotiate and the feudal vassals wanted peace talks.

Needless to mention the matter of paying tribute, this must be the first request made by Dashun.

At that time, Tokugawa Yoshimune can pretend to use land cession in exchange for the status of not being a tributary state-the feudal clans of Kyushu Island will definitely cite ancient stories, do not seek false fame, and exchange tribute for not cede land.

As for trading and losing money, that's out of the question.

The money must be compensated. At worst, the account will be canceled in the future, and the cost of the account will be converted into compensation.

This kills two birds with one stone, not only losing Dashun money, but also continuing to weaken the strength of the foreign daimyo.

It is even possible to convert the money handed over by the feudal vassals to Dashun as a mortgage.

As long as the feudal lords don't give money, Dashun will go to armed forces to collect debts, and the shogunate absolutely supports it.

In terms of trade, Kyushu Island has Nagasaki, which is enough.If Dashun wanted a port outside of Kyushu Island, it would try to get it within its own territory, or transfer it in the future to ensure that the trade is under its own control.

In this way, those "fools" who are not very smart, fanatical, and serve the country with seven lives will think that the shogunate is the main war faction, and it is the feudal vassals who misled the country.

And these "fools" who are not very smart and serve the country with seven lives are easy to make big things happen. At that time, they will not ask for the collapse of the curtain, but for the reduction of the vassal and the integration of the public and the military.

People other than those "fools" will pursue their own interests, and naturally know when to advance and retreat.

The participation of saints who lack idealism, with force and hypocrisy, and whoever has a bigger fist, the shogunate still has the upper hand, and the foundation of the shogunate's rule will not be shaken.

Taking advantage of the situation, the righteousness of cutting down the vassals was promoted; instead, the vassals were forced to rely on the shogunate, and they were loyal and loyal.

As long as it is done properly, "Forbidden China and Public Laws" may also be blown up as the persuasion in "Teacher's Table"...

(End of this chapter)