Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1393 Toyotomi and Shimadzu (Part [-])
In fact, when Hideyoshi and Ieyasu were competing, the Shimadzu family had already been pushed to the core area of ​​Otomo's house. It is no exaggeration to say that the soldiers are approaching the castle. Therefore, Otomo Yoshitomo and his father Otomo Zonglin personally ran to Osaka for help.

This must be saved, so Hideyoshi ordered Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin to lead [-] troops, and his retainer Xianshi Quanbing Wei Xiujiu served as the supervisor to support Otomo's family.

Chang Zong Ibu Yuanqin, nicknamed Ji Ruozi, Gui Ruozi, a descendant of Tosa, and a bat on the bird-free island (Nobunaga language), are Tosa's great names.It is said that when Changzong Ibu Yuanqin was born, he was no different from a girl except for wearing a handle, so people in Changzongwobu secretly nicknamed him "Ji Ruozi".

If it was in later generations, boys would be praised for their handsome looks, but obviously it is not popular in this era, and he does not need to be born as a rabbit son, so the elder relatives of Changzong and I were honorably judged and killed, and became four. One of the great hypocrites.

In the 39th year of Jiajing, that is, in 1560 A.D., the 22-year-old Changzong Ibu Yuanqin went to the battlefield to kill people for the first time. The picture is very vivid.

I saw Yuanqin picked up the spear, put on a posture, and then asked a question that could shock everyone present: "Who can tell me how this is used?"

Although the retainer next to him was taken aback, he reacted quickly, and immediately replied: "Pick up the spear and go all the way and it's over."

This may seem like it's over, but it turns out that sometimes fierce players can be born.In this war, Yuan Qin of Changzong's department killed two generals of the enemy army in a row, and even with his nickname, he became Gui Ruozi.

After that, he also gradually demonstrated his talents, destroying Tosa's daimyo Motoyama family, and then kicked the great god Ichi Kanesada to Kyushu, destroying the Ichi family.

Then he started to contact Oda Nobunaga, and asked Nobunaga to be his son's black hat relative (witness to the coming-of-age ceremony).However, Nobunaga obviously didn't want to coexist peacefully with the Yuan relatives. In the tenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1582 AD, he ordered Oda Nobutaka to take people to clean up Changzong's department.

In fact, the commander-in-chief of this army was originally Mitsuhide Akechi, but Hideyoshi wrote a report letter to Nobunaga in order to prevent Mitsuhide's territory from being too large, stating that Nana Ishitani, the adopted daughter of Rizo Saito under Chimitsu, was Nagamune It is possible that Toshizo Saito, the concubine of my relatives, will communicate with Nagamune.

Nobunaga was really furious and dismissed Mitsuhide Akechi, but before the army started, Nobunaga was grilled by Mitsuhide Akechi.Yuanqin then began to confront Hideyoshi, and although he surrendered, he kept Tosa Ichikuni.This time Changzong Ibu Yuanqin took his eldest son Xinqin out to fight, also in order to gain favor in front of Hideyoshi.

When the army arrived at Tojigawa in Kyushu, Sengoku Hidehisa felt that he had a great advantage, so he made a play similar to Gao Pragmatic's when he continued to march south after occupying Hanoi: flat push all the way.

My relatives of Changzong felt that this style of play was too stupid and very unreliable, so he proposed to vote, and the minority obeyed the majority.Xianshi Xiujiu immediately agreed: "Okay, it happens that there is still one person in the camp."

Unfortunately, this person is Shihe Depository who was beaten by Yuan's relatives not long ago.Shihe Depository immediately said, don't be cowardly, just do it.This is all right, the result of the vote was two to one, and Yu Chai's army set out to cross the river.

The army walked forward for a while, and there were only dozens of Shimadzu's old and weak soldiers along the road. When they saw Yuchai's army, they hurriedly retreated.Xianshi Xiujiu said in his heart, "That's it?" So he ordered: Chase!
After chasing for a while, only one cannon was heard, and then iron cannons (guns) rang in all directions, and Yuchai's army was shot down, and then tens of thousands of Shimadzu's army suddenly emerged from the forest.Yuchai's army fled in all directions, Yuanqin's son Xinqin died in battle.

And this time the Shimadzu family's style of play is their proud method of fighting in the wild - in fact, it is Zhuge Liang's routine of burning Bowangpo in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Hideyoshi had no choice but to be angry, so he directly fired Hidehisa Sengoku's squid, and then personally led 20 troops to attack Shimadzu's house.

Before the attack, Hideyoshi felt that it was too unreliable to just recognize his godfather, so he simply asked the court to give me a new noble surname.The imperial court in Japan at this time is very talkative. Simply speaking, it is to collect money to do things. Therefore, it immediately issued a decree to give the surname Toyotomi, and became the fifth noble family after the Yuan, Hira, Fujiwara, and Tachibana families. "Toyotomi Hideyoshi" officially debuted. .

So in March of this year, that is, when Gao Wushi was dealing with the Northwest Rebellion, Hideyoshi's army began to march, and once again attacked Shimadzu in a hurry.

Although the Satsuma people can fight, they are not monsters after all, and the Satsuma family did not have a Qi Jiguang, so it is completely hopeless to fight with 20 people and [-].

Furthermore, because the hearts of the people in the previously conquered territories were not stable, and the Satsuma people believed that "people who are not of our race must have different hearts", they threatened all local wealthy people.So in front of Hideyoshi's army, the lords from all over the country turned their backs one after another. Before the official fight started, the territory that the Shimadzu family had swallowed before was basically vomited clean.

In Shirasaka, the coalition fought another battle with the Shimadzu family. This time Hideyoshi Shishibatu also used all his strength to crush the weak Shimadzu family without any pressure.

However, unlike Nobunaga, Hideyoshi didn't like to drive people to death, so he sent someone to negotiate with the Shimadzu family. The request was not high, as long as the original territory of the other family was returned, and he surrendered to himself by the way.

The person sent this time was of a very high level, and it was Ashikaga Yoshiaki.This old man has been idle for many years, so he has found something serious to do.Yoshiaki met Shimadzu Tadayoshi (the eldest son of Shimadzu Takahisa), the head of the Shimadzu family, and conveyed Hideyoshi's intentions.

Zhongliang thought about it, and felt that the opponent's army was indeed too large, and this condition seemed to be acceptable, so he agreed, but Zhongliang's younger brother Zhongping was very angry, and loudly expressed that he wanted to have a good fight with Hideyoshi.

A miraculous thing happened. Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was the negotiating envoy of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was actually infected by this angry youth temperament. He recalled the glorious years when he and Nobunaga were fighting against each other, so he made a great decision: help them.

Under Yoshiaki's lobbying, Hideyoshi and the Shimadzu family reached a settlement.The Shimadzu family handed over the hostages to express their surrender, and the territory remained unchanged after the war. Shimadzu Tadayoshi accepted the guilt and abdicated and lived in seclusion, and Zhongping succeeded him as the family governor.

And Ashikaga Yoshiaki also gave his "Yi" worth fifty gold to the two Shimadzu brothers as a friend, and they changed their names to Shimadzu Yoshihisa and Shimadzu Yoshihiro respectively.

I have to say that this wave of the Shimadzu family made a lot of money. Although they didn't get anything, they lost nothing after losing the battle. As a target who is going to be violently beaten as a negative example, they should be overjoyed.

There is obviously a reason for this, that is, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi dispatched an army, he still has many scruples, such as Tokugawa Ieyasu behind him, such as Satsuma's Hayato warlike blood.

This battle had nothing to do with Daming. Whether it was the Toyotomi family or the Shimadzu family, for Daming, or more precisely, for the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, they were nothing more than "business partners".No matter what you label, I will still sell what I should sell, and I will still buy what I should buy.

However, this time was unusual, and there was a little surprise in the situation: Although the Shimadzu family lost the battle, they were still not convinced.What should I do if I am not convinced?Of course they wanted to continue fighting, but the Shimadzu family was not stupid enough to fight without looking at the balance of power, so they started to think of a way.

After some internal discussions, someone put forward a not-so-constructive idea: soldiers are more expensive than more expensive, so Satsuma should be more elite and use elite soldiers to defeat Toyotomi's army.

Speaking of elite soldiers, they quickly thought that when Boss Wang was in the past, he often sold European weapons sold by the Portuguese to Japan. Since then, there have been so-called iron artillery troops in Japan.

But later, Boss Wang was taken care of by Daming, and most of the source of the arms was cut off.Although the Portuguese came here occasionally, they were not as large as Boss Wang's delivery volume at that time.

As for Japan itself, the muskets made by Japan (for the sake of convenience, I will not always talk about iron cannons) are actually not bad. At that time, they were even more reliable than Ming's muskets, and they were even affirmed by Qi Jiguang.

However, after high pragmatism promoted private military industry, Japanese muskets became less and less effective in the face of Ming Dynasty's Longqing II Type, Wanli Type I Type, and Wanli Type II Type, and began to lag far behind.

It was only last year that I learned about this situation from the Shimadzu family.At that time, the Shimadzu family's strategy in Kyushu went very smoothly, so smoothly that everyone was inflated.

An army of the Shimadzu family passed by the small town originally belonging to Ryuzoji Temple, which was located in Miike County. This army heard that Miike Port here is quite prosperous, so they went to fight the autumn wind.

The Shimadzu family’s attitude towards the conquest of the area has already been mentioned before. As a winner, of course they are proud, so they went to Miike Port to ask the local area to provide a batch of money, food and materials.However, the local officials who belonged to Ryuzoji said that they are very poor, and the rich people are all in Miike Port, but there are "more than a hundred elite soldiers" in the local area, so they can't control it. If the Shimadzu family needs supplies, please go there take.

The army of the Shimadzu family has 500 people, and they have just won a big victory over the Dragon Building Temple. They are very high-spirited, thinking that what is the use of more than a hundred elite soldiers? Battle exploits.

They didn't know there was any fraud, so they rushed to Sanchi Port carelessly, and had a fierce battle with the "hundreds of elite soldiers" at the port.

The Shimadzu army suffered a big loss in this battle, because the opponent not only had extremely sharp muskets, but more importantly, their large ships moored in the port also fired guns.

The cannons on the sea ship were really astonishing. As soon as the cannon came down, the "Shimadzu elites" who were swarming up in an intensive attack were pulled away. Not only were more than [-] people killed and injured by huge solid shells on the spot, but the rest were also killed. Terrified so frightened, they ran away one by one.

At this time, the leading general of the Shimadzu family realized that something was wrong. The flag hanging on the big ship in the opposite port was too familiar. It was the Shujian flag of the Ming Dynasty on the other side of the sea.

Hanging the Shujian flag means that they belong to the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance.The current status of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance in Japan is not much worse than that of Boss Wang back then. If there is anything inferior to Boss Wang, it is probably that they basically do not do arms business.

The Shimadzu family's partial army, who had suffered a great loss, did not dare to be rash again, and reported the battle situation to Shimadzu's senior management.At this time, Shimadzu's top management didn't pay attention to the rear. They were planning to attack Otomo's house in one fell swoop, so they didn't respond much to this matter. They just asked the local Ryuzoji officials to continue guarding, and nothing happened. The army was also transferred back.

Afterwards, Tadahiro Shimadzu—that is, Yoshihiro Shimadzu later remembered this incident, and sent someone to find out. Only then did he know that the fleet of the Ming Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance has been based on Miike Port for the past few years. The temporary berth is to sell various goods of the Ming Dynasty locally, and at the same time, a market is also opened in the port to trade with various big merchants in the territory of Longzao Temple.

The fleet had several long-standing major local purchases of sulfur and camphor.According to the investigation of Yoshihiro Shimadzu (the name is used first for convenience), this fleet is also divided into two owners, one surnamed Gao and the other surnamed Zhu.

The Shimadzu family also does business with the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, so Yoshihiro Shimadzu guessed the origins of these two families as soon as he heard it. Not the Zhu of the Ming Emperor, but the Zhu family of Cheng Guogong.

Gao's family mainly bought sulfur at Sanchi Port, while Zhu's mainly bought camphor.During that unexpected battle, the "more than a hundred elite soldiers" guarding the port were part of the sailors of these two households (single refers to those who were ordered to disembark and fight on foot).

Originally, Yoshihiro Shimadzu only knew that the fleet of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance was powerful. This time, he gained his knowledge and found that they were far stronger than the "Shimadzu elite" in foot combat.

But he didn't have time to think about it at the time. They were just here to do business anyway. With Boss Wang's good example back then, the big names in Japan didn't see Akito as a threat. They thought Akito's purpose was very simple, but Just to get rich.This is a matter of hello, me, and everyone. Of course, Yoshihiro Shimadzu thought that it would be fine to let nature take its course.

The Shimadzu family was used to being awesome in Japan, and they didn't take it seriously when such a battle happened. They didn't even think of contacting the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance afterwards to clarify the misunderstanding.

But they didn't contact, and the Sea Trade Alliance couldn't help it.The deputy commander of the fleet at Sanchi Port was one of Zhu Yingzhen's family chiefs. He couldn't bear the scorn from the Japanese, so he sent someone to contact the Shimadzu family soon after, asking the Shimadzu family to serve as his subordinates. The two sailors who died in the battle were responsible, and the compensation was 4000 taels of silver.

Although the Shimadzu family is used to being awesome, but through this battle, they already know that the other party is not easy to mess with. In addition, there is almost no big Ming in Japan who is willing to offend maritime merchants, so the Shimadzu family is not willing to fight against the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance. .Of course, it was impossible to compensate 4000 taels of silver. Although the Shimadzu family was tyrannical, they were not rich at this time, so the negotiations fell into a stalemate.

It was only when the Shimadzu family was forced to surrender by Toyotomi Hideyoshi that they came back to think about it.Yoshihiro Shimadzu made it clear that if the elite of the Shimadzu family had the fighting power of the soldiers of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, even if there were only more than [-] troops, it would be enough to sweep Otomo and force Toyotomi back!

As a result, Yoshihiro Shimadzu once again contacted the head of Cheng Guogong's family in Miike Port, who is also the deputy commander of the fleet, and proposed that the money can be compensated, but he still needs to buy "excellent equipment of your army."

After reading these reports, Gao Wushi finally understood where Zhu Yingzhen's anomaly came from.

There are tens of thousands of businesses in the world, but nothing can be more cost-effective than selling arms to an army that is about to fight.It's a pity that there is a big problem here: Zhu Yingzhen, as a top military official, has never dared to intervene in the military industry, so although his heart is itchy like ten thousand ants scratching his heart, he can only worry when he has no goods.

Who has the goods?Of course it is Jinghua, which is highly pragmatic.
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PS: Yesterday, some readers expressed that they did not know the significance of yesterday's chapter, so they should be able to see a little bit now, right?
Let me remind you a few clues that have been revealed: 1. The Shimadzu family is a different kind in Japan at this time; 2. The Satsuma domain of the Shimadzu family is located in the most southwest corner of Japan, and the Ming Dynasty is to the west of the sea; 3. Later, the famous Sasebo military port in Japan That is, it is located on the island of Kyushu, and not far from Miike Port, which appears in this chapter.

(End of this chapter)