Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 491 The Supreme Emperor goes to Luo to ask for salary (please subscribe, please vote)
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If you have money, you are a mercenary. If you don't have money, who do you think you are?Isn't that "Wobelao"?

The warriors were bombarded and shot every day on the beaches of Ming Dynasty. They didn't even have enough to eat. In some places, even fresh water was cut off by the Chinese, so they had to drink seawater to quench their thirst!The working conditions are so harsh and dangerous. Apart from the Spanish silver mines in the New World, there is probably nothing worse than this, right?Everyone is like this, almost dead, and the damn Spaniards still refuse to pay them. This is no longer a black-hearted boss, this is simply inhumane!
Before Hotita Masatoshi said anything, the group of Tokugawa retainers around him who routinely deducted the samurai's pay were now turned into bitter and resentful working Japanese who encountered a sinister boss, and they immediately began to cry out for injustice.

"Xinnajun is right. It's already embarrassing for me and other noble warriors to serve as mercenaries for the Spanish barbarians. Now we can't even get military pay. It's a great shame!"

"That's right, we are not retainers of the Spanish barbarians. We came to China to help the Spanish fight in the war just to earn military pay. But the Spanish barbarians have not paid military pay for several months, and the employment relationship has long ceased to exist. Now, we are Spain's creditors! "

"Is there any reason in the world for a creditor to be loyal to his debtor?"

"Lao Zhong Hota, please ask for forgiveness from the Ming Dynasty on behalf of us samurai who were harmed by the Spanish barbarians."

Not to mention, these Tokugawa family members are very clever in their thinking (otherwise, how could they become members of the group? All their dead brains were buried with Toyotomi). The change of stance was called the King of Spain when they fought smoothly. The mercenaries, now seen to be invincible, have become the creditors of the King of Spain.

It is natural for a mercenary to work for his employer, but why does it mean that a creditor should work for his debtor?So they can justifiably surrender and save their lives!

Those mercenaries on the European battlefield who are always owed wages would probably have to shout "admire" if they knew about the tricks of these Japanese colleagues!

Masatoshi Hotta also thinks this makes sense!Because the Spaniards had not paid military salaries for several months, Japanese mercenaries automatically changed from mercenaries to creditors. The employment relationship was terminated and the debt relationship was established. The mercenaries' obligations to their employers were also relieved. Enemies who defected to their employers did not violate the spirit of Bushido.
"Xina-kun" Hota Masatoshi was still a little uneasy and asked a little uneasily, "Although we were hired by the Spaniards as mercenaries to invade the territory of the Chinese Empire, after all, we offended the Chinese Empire and caused a lot of damage to the Chinese Empire. General, can you forgive me for waiting?”

This attitude of confessing is much better than that of the little devils of later generations!
But just pleading guilty is useless. If you are guilty, you must be punished!

"Hotita Lao Zhong," Shinna Tadaaki said with a smile, "for the damage you have caused to the Celestial Empire, you can compensate according to the price and then pay three times the fine!"

"what?"

"To compensate"

"Are you still going to pay a fine?"

"Xinajun, we were ordered by the Spanish barbarians"

"Yes, Daming should ask Spain for compensation!"

Hearing the answers from a group of Japanese devils who wanted money, life and pain, Xinna Zhongming smiled and nodded: "What you said makes some sense. In fact, Tomorrow has already claimed compensation from Spain. No, it's not a compensation, but You went to New Spain to get compensation from the silver mines! The Ming Dynasty’s expeditionary force had already gone to New Spain to get compensation before the Spaniards hired you as soldiers! You must have heard of the Aztec Republic, right? This is the Ming Dynasty The expeditionary force was established together with the natives of New Spain. The Spanish rule in New Spain is about to end."

Before the Spaniards caused damage to the Ming Dynasty, they first sent troops to New Spain to "get" compensation, and also overthrew the Spanish rule in New Spain. This Ming Dynasty has really turned bad, a bad Ming Dynasty, it is really It's so terrible!

When Hota and his men heard this, they all took a deep breath.

"Xinna-kun, we really have no money." Masatoshi Hotta actually knew that the other party was not really here to ask for money - the silver mines in New Spain were all owned by the Ming Dynasty. Would the Ming Dynasty still care about the tens of thousands of Japanese mercenaries working for their lives?So what Ming Dynasty wants must be other benefits!However, Hota still pretended to be aggrieved, almost crying.

"If you don't have money, you can work as a mercenary for the Ming Dynasty and use your military salary to pay off your debts!" ​​Xinna Zhongming said, "How much money will the Spanish give you?"

"The most ordinary warrior can get three ding silvers a year. Every time an officer advances to a level, his income is doubled, with a maximum of [-] ding silvers. Food, armor, and equipment are all provided by the Spanish and Dutch. The war is over. It can then be owned by the mercenary personally."

"Ding silver" is a kind of Japanese silver coin. The silver content of one Ding silver is about 4 taels. Three Ding silver is 12 taels, which is almost one tael of silver a month. It is really not high. Of course, this is ordinary What the samurai could get was not the amount paid by Spain and the Netherlands to the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The Tokugawa shoguns must take a huge cut!Otherwise, wouldn't the general's work be in vain?
"Da Ming can give you double!" Xinna Zhongming said, "but you have to serve as a soldier for a year in vain to pay compensation and fines. This is the benefit I have tried my best to win for you from His Highness the Vice General. Please don't bargain. Got it!"

"Um," Hota asked, "I wonder where the Vice-General wants us to attack?"

"Kyoto!"

"Nani?"

"Kyoto, Japan?"

"Xinnajun, what are you talking about?"

"Do we need to be Ming's lackeys to invade Japan and disturb His Majesty the Emperor just to survive?"

A group of officers under Hota immediately jumped up. They were all samurai loyal to the emperor. How could they march into Kyoto?This is rebellion!
"You have misunderstood!" Xinna Zhongming quickly explained, "The Ming Vice General does not want to destroy Japan, nor does he want to invade Japan. He just wants to take you to ask the emperor for an explanation!"

"What are you asking the emperor for?" Hota was confused.

"His Highness the Vice-General would like to ask the Emperor why General Tokugawa was allowed to lend Japanese troops to the Spanish barbarians to invade the Kingdom of Heaven?" Shinna Tadaaki said seriously, "In addition, the Vice-General can also ask the Emperor for you. debt!"

"Asking for a debt from the Emperor?" "The deputy general thought that His Majesty the Emperor allowed His Excellency to lend troops to the Spanish?"

"The deputy general of the Ming Dynasty must not know the national conditions of Japan, right?"

"We in Japan, like the Ming Dynasty, are ruled by generals. The emperor has no power at all!"

A group of big Japanese pirates kept explaining to Xinna Zhongming without even thinking about who this Xinna was?He is the patriarch of the Satsuma clan, so he is not familiar with Japan?

After all, Hota Masatoshi has been a veteran, and he knows a lot better than the stupid guys under his command. At this time, he looked at Xinna with burning eyes: "Xinna-kun, I'm afraid it's not the deputy general of the Ming Dynasty who is going to Kyoto. Ask the Emperor, but Satsuma-sama wants to raise his sword and go to Luo, right?"

Raise the knife to Luo
The Warring States Period is coming again?

Hearing "Raise the sword to Luo", the blood in the veins of Hota's mercenary leaders immediately boiled!

Everyone stared at Shinna Tadaaki. They didn't know if they wanted to join in a big fight, or if they wanted to draw a sword and kill the Shimazu family patriarch to show their allegiance to General Tokugawa?

"No!" Shinna Tadaaki shook his head and said, "It's not that the Lord of Satsuma wants to take the sword to Luo, but the Lord of Satsuma, the Marquis of Choshu, the Marquis of Tosa, the Marquis of Kanazawa, and the Marquis of Yonezawa all have the belts of His Majesty the Emperor. Zhao, we will unite with King Luo Qin and overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate who betrayed Japan's interests to the Spanish and Dutch barbarians. This is a righteous act to respect the king and fight the barbarians! Moreover, we have also received the support of the Ming Dynasty, so we will definitely win!"

Hota is a veteran of the Tokugawa Shogunate!Of course, he refused to casually join the camp of overthrowing the Tokugawa and repelling the barbarians, and his face darkened at that time: "The shogunate certainly colluded with the Western barbarians, but the Ming Dynasty's vassal Korea also occupied Chikuzen, Hizen, Tsushima, Ittai and Ezo in Kyushu. Island land!”

"Hotita-kun is here," Xinna said. "When the Korean superintendent occupied these areas, he was not a minister of the Ming Dynasty, but a minister of the Qing Dynasty. So it was not the Ming Dynasty that invaded Japan, but the Qing Dynasty! And the Qing Dynasty was Spain and the Netherlands are die-hard allies. The shogunate sent troops to help Spain and the Netherlands attack the Ming Dynasty. They were helping the Qing Dynasty and the Korean supervisory state of the Qing Dynasty. They were really betraying their country and seeking glory!"

"But now Yang Qilong is already a minister of the Ming Dynasty! Right?" Hota guessed that his contact with the Japanese mainland has been severed, and he doesn't know what the relationship between Yang Qilong and the Ming Dynasty is like?
"Yes!" Shinna Tadaaki said, "Yang Qilong has been named the King of Korea, but his territories in Chizen, Hizen, Tsushima, Ittai and Ezo Island do not necessarily belong to the Kingdom of Korea."

"It doesn't necessarily belong to the Kingdom of Korea? Who does it belong to?"

"Who belongs to it should be decided by the Ming Emperor!" Shinna Tadaaki said, "The Ming Emperor means that the lands of Chikuzen, Hizen, Tsushima, Ittai and other Kyushu Islands should belong to the borders of Japan and be owned by the Yang family. The Yang family who owns the above-mentioned places will separate their families and declare themselves vassals to the emperor! The land of Ezo will be controlled by the Yang family, and the national boundaries will be determined by the imperial family after consultation with the Yang family. If the Yang family is willing to allow Ezo to join Japan, Ming Dynasty has no objection."

Is there such an operation?
Hotta was stunned. He never expected that the Ming Dynasty would come up with such a plan - let the Yang family send people to be the lords of Chikuzen, Hizen, Tsushima, Itdai and other places, and at the same time surrender to the emperor. Moreover, this plan was still The "Judgment" of the Ming Emperor!
Why did the Ming Emperor decide disputes between Japan and Korea?
Doesn't this mean that Ming Dynasty is the suzerain of Japan and Korea?

What's even more frightening is that His Majesty the Emperor is likely to accept the ruling of the Ming Emperor - Chikuzen, Hizen, Tsushima, Itdai and other places have stone heights of one million koku!All were ruled to be the territory of the Emperor’s direct ministers!
Why would the Emperor oppose such a good thing?

If the emperor does not object, what about the shogun?The land in Japan theoretically belongs to the emperor, and the emperor agrees. Why does the general object?And the general has no ability to regain those territories!

Should the shogun be defeated if he cannot take it back himself and the emperor is not allowed to take it back?

"Hotita-kun!" Seeing that Hota and other senior Japanese mercenary leaders had nothing to say, Shinna Tadaki said to them seriously, "He who understands current affairs is a hero! The general trend of the Shenzhou is like this now, and the Ming Dynasty is strong and unstoppable. The enemy, and Japan must change its camp, otherwise it will be completely strangled by the Ming Dynasty! Japan is an island country! Surrounded by the sea, if the Ming Dynasty did not have a strong navy, Japan would have natural dangers to rely on, enough to destroy China. But now the Ming Dynasty navy can defeat Spain The Armada has become the dominant force in the Pacific. Even though New Spain is far away, it cannot stop the Ming army from marching on the waves, let alone Japan? Moreover, the Yang family, the vassal of the Ming Dynasty, has landed in Kitakyushu and occupied as many as a million stones. territory.

Japan has long been out of danger!Apart from joining China, Japan has no other way out! "

This makes sense!

And whoever is ignorant of current affairs is not far from death!
Before Hota could express his position, someone under his command had already made a decision!
"Xinajun, we all support respecting the king and resisting the barbarians!"

"Xinajun, the Yi and Di beasts are not of my race, and their minds must be different. The shogunate abandoned China to serve the Yi and Di, which is really a disaster for the country and the people!"

"Xinajun, please recommend the deputy general of the Ming Dynasty to us!"

Shinna Tadaaki looked at Hota and said word by word: "Hotita-kun, don't you want to have your own million stones? Hota-kun, have you seen those old lock ships on the sea? Those are the Ming Dynasty's troop transport ships. If you are willing to go to Luo for payment under the leadership of the deputy general, half of the tens of thousands of Japanese mercenaries on the Zhapu beach can board the ship immediately. In less than a month, they can land in Osaka, and in a few days, the soldiers can leave Enter Kyoto! At that time, the samurai from Satsuma, Choshu, and Tosa will also march together. The Uesugi family of the Yonezawa clan and the Maeda million stones of the Kanazawa clan will also raise the flag of justice! The great cause of overthrowing the curtain will be successful soon! "

Of course, it is not that easy to succeed in bringing down the curtain!
After all, the big boss leading the Tokugawa Shogunate now is Tokugawa Mitsukuni, not Tokugawa Keiki.And although the shogunate's navy has not been established, the new army of the shogunate's army has been frightened.

So the Tokugawa shogunate was not defeated so easily!
Of course, Li Zhongshan never thought about overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate.
However, Hota, Shinna, and the other leaders of the Japanese mercenary group did not know the thoughts of General Ming.Now when they think of "the fall of the curtain" and the "chaotic times of the Warring States Period", their blood boils!
The faces of the Japanese devils all had expressions distorted with excitement!
The main theme of Japanese Bushido is violent robbery!If you can't rob foreign countries, then start a civil war in the Warring States period at home!Historically, the reason why the Meiji government was able to gradually stabilize the situation after its overthrow was because the Qing Dynasty, a loser, ceded territory to Japan and paid compensation. If the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-] had gone as well as Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, Japan would have imploded!
Nowadays, Japan's external expansion is completely out of the question, and the Tokugawa shogunate's participation in the Eleven-Nation Alliance and the Yang family's invasion of Korea, etc., has completely inspired the warlike genes of the samurai and rogues in Japan.

Even if the family is rehabilitated now, I am afraid that there is no way to suppress the chaos of the Warring States Period that is about to begin again!
Japan, Osaka, Kawaguchi Port, March [-]th, the first year of Japan’s reign.

Early in the morning, when the businessmen in Osaka woke up from their sleep, washed up, had some breakfast, and walked to the street as a habit, looking towards the direction of Kawaguchi Port, everyone was caught in the trap. Just the same, just standing there, unable to move at all.

Outside Osaka Kawaguchi Port, which had become empty due to the order of the Ming Dynasty General's Office, hundreds of large and small sailing ships appeared overnight, including old lock ships, wide ships, bird ships, and lucky ships. None of them The exceptions are all sailboats from China, and the hulls are huge. They all look like "giant ships" with a displacement of several hundred tons or even thousands of tons. They are densely packed and cover the sea surface!

On the masts of these ships, red flags are still fluttering in the wind!
Although the tattooed graphics on these flags cannot be clearly seen, there is no doubt that the red flags must represent the Great Tomorrow Dynasty!

The Great Tomorrow Soldiers are here!

(End of this chapter)