The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 449
The situation in Wa Kingdom is more complicated than that in Ming Dynasty, especially on the class level.

Under the current confrontation with Ming Dynasty, they seem to be united, but they are actually full of evil intentions.

Especially today, the status of the emperor is in a state of decline. After experiencing the war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the status of the emperor has fallen, which can be said to be the lowest time in the history of the Japanese kingdom.

This situation is not only reflected on the emperor's side, but even the shogun cannot ignore it.

Just as the shoguns ignored the authority of the emperor, there was often a phenomenon in Japanese society at this time that the guardian daimyo despised the general, the local lower-level lords and samurai challenged the guardian daimyo, and even the samurai ignored the emperor—this phenomenon is called "The next gram goes up".

For example, Emperor Guangyan of the Northern Dynasty encountered a guardian of Mino, Tuqi Laiyuan, when he was on a tour.

The emperor's close minister shouted: "The emperor's sage is here, get off the horse quickly!"

Tu Qi Lai Yuan heard that instead of dismounting, he said angrily: "Please tell me whether it is the courtyard driver or the dog driver. If it is the dog driver, shoot him with an arrow."

As he said, he really drew his arrow and shot.

His entourage rushed forward, tore off the curtain on the emperor's car, overturned the car, and beat up the minister next to the emperor.

Afterwards, Toki Laiyuan was executed by the shogunate, which aroused even greater dissatisfaction among the lower-level samurai.

Someone said: "If there is no emperor, you can carve one out of wood or cast it in gold, and exile the living emperor to other places to avoid trouble."

Someone lamented: "The phoenix is ​​born in the end of the world, and it is also sad to be down; the pheasant is driven by wildfire and has no nest to return to.

At this time, the power of the emperor's court declined, and he was like a small prince.

Historically, Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty called Ashikaga Yoshimitsu the "King of the Wa Kingdom, Origin Daoyi" in his imperial decree to the Wa Kingdom.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also called himself "the source of the king of Japan" in the letter to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The shogun has become the representative of the highest power in the country. The direct descendants of Emperor Qinghe.

Even the later Tokugawa shogunate family also came from Genji Qinghe, so the power of the shogunate was nothing more than the replacement of this one by the other branch of the emperor.

After the unification of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu did not fulfill his original promise, that is, he still restored the tradition of the emperors of the Daikakuji School and the Chimeiin School.

The royal family, ministers, and soldiers of the Southern Dynasties were extremely indignant, and Emperor Kameyama regretted it too much.

In the original history, Hou Guishan escaped from Kyoto and once again established the Southern Dynasty in the Yoshino Mountains, known as the Hou Nan Dynasty in history.

In order to restore the old business, the descendants of the royal family and the courtiers of the Southern Dynasties continued to struggle for nearly half a century.

Later, a group of thugs sneaked into the imperial palace, snatched the divine sword and divine seal, and supported the emperor Yin of the Southern Dynasty to oppose the shogunate. After the defeat, many descendants of the royal family of the Southern Dynasty were killed.

Later, there was another similar incident, implicating the royal family of the Southern Dynasty almost extinct.

The forces represented by the Southern Dynasties were the Japanese pirates who mainly invaded the Ming Dynasty.

For example, Zhu Di's capture of the secret work of the Japanese country belongs to the Southern Dynasty.

During the split period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, during this period, the struggle among the various princes of the Wa Kingdom reached a stage of fierceness, and they attacked each other. The native country of Wa.

Some of the feudal lords of the Southern Dynasties, and of course the samurai and ronin under the feudal lord's rule would also choose to leave in order to avoid the pursuit and killing of them by the Japanese mainland. Smuggling, what's more, burning, killing and looting.

Along with the continuation of the Southern Dynasties in the Wa Kingdom, the Japanese pirates along the coast of the Ming Dynasty continued to import wealth into the Southern Dynasties as a resistance to the Northern Dynasties.

The dispute between the Southern and Northern Dynasties in Wa Kingdom did not end with the unification of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

But in history, entangled for hundreds of years.

The power of the Southern Dynasties has never been completely wiped out.

Some people say that the Northern Dynasties controlled most of the country, so they were the actual rulers and should be orthodox.

But some people say that the artifact handed over by Hou Daigo is a fake, so the orthodoxy is still on the side of the Southern Dynasty.

Even hundreds of years later, some people say plausibly: "Isn't the current emperor the descendant of the usurper who snatched the three artifacts from the Queen of the Later Southern Dynasty?"

For a while, there was an uproar in the country of Wa.

In the end, Emperor Meiji, who was the successor of the Northern Dynasty Empress, made a ruling that the Southern Dynasty was orthodox, and the emperors of the Northern Dynasty were not included in the succession series of emperors, but the status and treatment of the emperor remained unchanged.

Therefore, Ashikaga Takashi was regarded as a traitor, and Kusuki Masamari became a model of loyalty to the emperor.

The current Wa country, seemingly unified, is actually on the verge of splitting.

The shogunate was powerless to suppress daimyo everywhere.

In this special era, the guard generation, the people of the country and people related to them all became famous with their strength, and they competed to expand the territories of the sub-countries one after another, becoming the famous names of the Warring States Period.

As a result, a split situation was formed in which the heroes separatist regimes, and since then, the Wa Kingdom has continued to war.

In Kanto, the Kamakura government, Ashikaga Chengshi, was dissatisfied with the governor of Kanto, Uesugi Kentada, and assassinated him.

This move triggered a long-term confrontation between the Kanto governor and the government, and led the shogunate to send the Suruga guardian Imagawa to crusade, forcing the Ashikaga Naruto to move to Shimoso Furukawa, becoming the first Furukawa government.

After the war, Masachikazu Ashikaga, the Lord of Horikoshi, supported by the Uesugi family, the governor of the Kanto, appeared in Kanto, and the Lord Furukawa, who was supported by the northern Kanto nobles, appeared.

The rebellion of Nagao Jingchun, the important minister of the Yamauchi Uesugi Clan, made the Ogiya Uesugi Clan take the opportunity to expand his power, prompting the Yamauchi Uesugi Clan to choose to reconcile with Furukawa to fight against the Ogiya Uesugi Clan.

In order to fight against the Yamauchi Uesugi clan, Ogiya Uesugi formed an alliance with the Ise Naga clan.

Due to the civil strife in the Horikoshi government, he was eliminated by the Isecho clan, and the strength of the Gohojo clan of the Isecho clan increased greatly.

Soon after, the sudden death of Uesugi Sadasho led to the decline of the Ogaya Uesugi clan, and the Hojo clan turned to attack the Ogaya Uesugi clan, and eliminated the Sagami Miura clan and occupied Odawara Castle, which led to a new situation in which the two Uesugi clans joined forces to fight against the Hojo clan.

After that, Tsuna, the second-generation family governor of the Hojo clan, invaded the Musashi Kingdom, replacing the old Ashikaga and Ryouesugi clans, and became the strongest daimyo in the Kanto region.

In addition to the rise of the Ise Naga family in the Kanto region and becoming the representative of the daimyo in the new era, new powers that overcame the superior and even became the hero of one party also began to appear in various parts of the Wa Kingdom.

The Izumo guardian Dainiko usurped the real power of the guardian Kyogoku clan. In the future, his daimyo Niko replaced the Kyogoku clan and became the Izumo guardian.

During Nizi's long lifetime, the Nizi clan expanded to keep pace with Ouchi Yoshihing, the family governor of the Ouchi clan, which prospered due to overseas trade.

During the struggle between the two heroes, Mao Liyuan, a native of Anyi, gradually absorbed the power of Nizi and Ouchi. Later, taking advantage of the civil strife in the Ouchi clan, he defeated Tao Qingxian, the power minister of the Ouchi clan in the Battle of Itsukushima, and became the new overlord.

In addition, the guardian Toki clan of Mino was also expelled by the important minister Nagai Norihide and declined. Nagai Norihide later inherited the Saito clan and changed its name to Saito Hideryu, with the dharma name "Dosan".

It can be said that the current Wa country is in chaos.

In the face of the constant threat from the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers, but without a major war, the Wa country has already experienced serious civil strife.

This is why it is said that Kyushu Island is about to be occupied by Ming Dynasty, but the current army of the Wa Kingdom has not moved for a long time.

On Zhu Di's side, after a brief repair, he personally led the army the next day.

Under the ravages of the hurricane, although the people on the Japanese side have long been used to it, they still cannot avoid casualties.

Let's not talk about the personnel situation, but in terms of city defense, it can basically be said to be blank.

In just three days, Zhu Di's army made great contributions.

Wherever he went, there was no decent resistance at all, and it could be described as pushy.

But as the army continued to advance, a very difficult problem was placed in front of Zhu Di.

"My lord, there is not much food left in our army."

"In all the villages currently occupied, these Japanese people have almost no rations."

"After interrogation, I learned that long ago, there were officials of the Japanese people who expropriated here, and then transported all the food away."

"Not only the food, but also some young and elite people are basically transported to Honshu Island."

Zhang Yu was on the horse and reported to King Yan.

Holding the rein, Zhu Di frowned as he sat on the horse and looked at the city in front of him that was constantly being easily conquered by soldiers.

"These Japanese people are really ruthless. They don't even care about their parents, wives and children, and just run away by themselves."

"They want to use the entire Kyushu Island as a cage to trap us."

Zhu Di said with some sighs.

Zhang Yu replied again: "Your Majesty, Kyushu Island is the place that is most severely hit by hurricanes every year. According to what the Japanese people said, every time a hurricane hits, they must seek help from Honshu Island."

"Now the Japanese are still transporting all the food away, but we keep so many captives, it's a shame."

Zhu Di did not speak.

Even on the battlefield, one will succeed and ten thousand will die.

But of course Zhu Di would not say that he would do such a thing as massacring Japanese people.

The problem now is that if the food is taken away, it will naturally be able to maintain the consumption of the army, but on the Japanese side, a large number of them will starve to death.

Unless it is said, kill prisoners.

After thinking about it, Zhu Di gave up the idea of ​​killing prisoners.

Because too many were killed, there would be no one left in the future, and the land that was conquered would become a wasteland, so it would be of no use at all.

"Jin Wang, what is the arrangement now? Qunying Chamber of Commerce has sent food to Jin Wang." Zhu Di didn't answer the previous question, but asked Zhu Yan's side instead.

Zhang Yu shook his head and said, "At present, no fleet has come over. Even the fleets of some maritime merchants have diverted their voyages after knowing that our Ming army is conquering the country of Wa."

"On Song Guogong's side, before the hurricane, there was a fleet going back to transport food. It shouldn't be long after all."

"However, if we take the Japanese people into consideration, our own soldiers will not be enough."

Zhang Yu's consideration refers to the situation that the Japanese people will not starve to death.

But compared with the army, the population is a very large base.

Wherever Zhu Di's army went, except for sporadic resistance, almost all the villages surrendered directly. In less than three days, there are [-] to [-] Japanese people.

If the fight continues, as the territory expands, the population will increase, and food will become increasingly scarce.

"Take control of all the Japanese people, except those who first turned to us."

"Give a small amount of food, a bowl of porridge a day, all of which are controlled, and nothing special is allowed."

"If there are Japanese people who provide a place to hide food, they will get two full meals a day."

"There is also an order to the soldiers on the front line to slow down the speed of the conquest."

After thinking about it, Zhu Di ordered directly.

The population must not be discarded. Without people, there is no talk of governance. Could it be that it is the governance of mountains, rivers and beasts?

At this moment, the change of power on Honshu Island is also undergoing rapid changes due to the external pressure of the Ming army.

The Imperial Residence of the Wa Kingdom.

Different from the title of the imperial palace, a single character reflects the gap between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty.

"Tell me, if I contact the Ming army and secretly help them defeat Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, will the emperor of Ming Dynasty continue to let me be the emperor?"

Emperor Komatsu asked his closest ministers.

The title of the Emperor of Japan actually only existed in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Strictly traced back, it was after Tang Gaozong.

Prior to this, the Wa country did not have the title of emperor, only "big king" or "Wo slave king".

The term "Wanu King" was bestowed by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty. It is recorded in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty Dongyi Biography" that the envoys of the Wa Kingdom paid tribute to the Han Dynasty and asked Emperor Guangwu to give him a name.

Emperor Guangwu saw that the envoy was very short, so he bestowed it on the "Wanu Kingdom", and its king was naturally named "Wonu King".

Although this name does not look very good at present, the people of the Wa Kingdom were very happy at that time, and it was used for more than 600 years, and the seal of "Wo Nu King" was unearthed in later generations.

Even the self-proclaimed 'Zhen' was brought to the Wa country.

Of course, for the Ming Dynasty, or the Central Plains Dynasty, even the Emperor of the Japanese Kingdom called himself a subject.

Then the reason why Emperor Komatsu asked his close ministers like this was because he really couldn't stand Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who is currently in control of the power, was already preparing to abdicate to his nine-year-old son Ashikaga Yoshimitsu before the Ming Dynasty conquest.

Only after the construction of the huge mansion Luyuan and the splendid Kinkaku-ji Temple in Kyoto, it will start.

Of course, this does not mean that he wants to abdicate and give up power, but that he wants to become the Minister of the Taizheng himself. This ambition can be said to be obvious.

From Emperor Komatsu's point of view, Daming's conquest of the Wa Kingdom at this moment is not a conquest against himself, but a conquest against these disobedient ministers.

So he wants to unite with Ming Dynasty to overthrow the shogunate rule of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and restore the rule of the emperor.

Hearing this, the minister hesitated and said: "Perhaps His Majesty has already sent someone to contact one side to try, but now General Ashikaga has completely ignored His Majesty."

After Emperor Komatsu heard the words, he nodded heavily.

(End of this chapter)