Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 194

In the fifth year of Tianqi, Busan Prefecture, North Korea.

Zhang Zongxian looked at the soldiers of the Legislative Army who took the boat one by one, and lamented that it took less than eight years for the entire school to develop so powerfully.

These soldiers will take the navy's warships and go all the way to Iwami Yinshan in the country of Japan to seize the wealth of the Tokugawa shogunate.This mountain of silver has supported the shogunate for 200 years, and it is still at its peak production capacity with an annual output of more than 50 tons of silver.

All the way is to take the Satsuma clan in Kagoshima. Their goal is to completely destroy the Satsuma clan and occupy the entire Japanese kingdom of Kyushu.

Going to capture Iwami Silver Mountain was the First Expeditionary Army, which consisted of eight infantry brigades and two cavalry brigades, with a combat strength of 5.

After capturing Yinshan, they will march to Kyoto, Japan, forcing the shogunate to rescue Kyoto, and the navy who has completed the transportation task will return to Pusan ​​Port.

After arranging the Third Expeditionary Army on board, they headed to Edo, which was Tokyo in the previous life. The Third Expeditionary Army was to wait for the shogunate to send troops to reinforce Kyoto, and take advantage of the emptiness of the troops to occupy Edo and completely shake the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The Second Expeditionary Army that attacked the Satsuma Domain also had a combat strength of [-], but they first captured Nagasaki Port, the only port in Japan that was open to foreign trade, and then marched into Kagoshima.

Zhang Zongxian prepared a 20 brigade for this attack on the Wa Kingdom, and planned to eliminate the Tokugawa Shogunate within a year, throwing the Wa Kingdom into chaos.

Moreover, Zhang Zongxian also plans to support the Ming Xiejun in the Wa Kingdom, carry out land reform in the Wa Kingdom, completely destroy its original ruling foundation, let the cultivated Ming Xie Army completely destroy the culture of the Wa Kingdom, and make the Wa Kingdom a transit battle for immigrants to win the victory over Shenzhou.

For those people who cannot adapt to long-distance routes, they will be arranged to settle in the Wa Kingdom.Slowly conquer the country of Wa.

In March of the fifth year of Apocalypse, Edo.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, who had just ascended the throne for more than a year, received the news that Nagasaki Port was captured by the Ming army, and then Iwami Yinzan also fell into the hands of the Ming army, and the Ming army had already begun to march towards Kyoto. The big names along the way were even more irresistible.

Facing Ming's sudden attack, none of the Tokugawa shogunate reacted. In their impression, the Han dynasty would never attack their homeland. Now that the Ming army really attacked, they didn't know how to deal with it.

Now the Ming army is about to hit Kyoto, and the loss of the Tokugawa shogunate in Kyoto will come to an end.

In any case, Tokugawa Iemitsu must organize an army to rescue Kyoto. Fortunately, the rule of the shogunate is based on samurai, and there have been more and more wandering samurai in recent years. Under the signs of the shogunate, a [-] army was quickly formed to support Kyoto.

The first army to attack Kyoto kept Zhang Zongxian's instructions in mind, and slowly attacked Kyoto along the way, killing the local daimyo and all the samurai at each place, and distributing the land to the farmers of the Japanese country, and promised to only charge [-]% of the annual fee tax.

Moreover, all corvees were exempted, and there was still money to help the Ming army transport military rations.

The disciples of the Legislative School propagated to the peasants of the Japanese country that after the Ming army came, they would no longer be exploited by the samurai, nor would they have to worry about being tested by the samurai.

The Ming army came to rescue them. The disciples of the Legislative School deliberately betrothed the wives and daughters of the captured warriors to the peasants of the Japanese country, and gave these peasants rice and meat.

You must know that the rule of the shogunate is even more ruthless than that of the Ming Dynasty. The rule of the shogunate for collecting taxes on farmers is to neither let them die nor let them live.

Farmers' clothing, food, housing, and transportation were all strictly restricted by the feudal government. They were not allowed to use materials other than cotton and linen to make clothes, eat more rice, buy alcohol and tea, smoke, and build houses that did not match their status.
It is even more forbidden to relocate and change occupations at will. The sale, transfer and division of cultivated land are prohibited. The cultivation of crops is uniformly regulated by the government.

In order to strengthen the control over the countryside, each village implements the system of "five families sitting together". One family is in arrears of land rent or violates the ban, and the remaining four families are jointly and severally responsible. Farmers suffer extremely miserable fate under the cruel feudal exploitation and oppression.

Many of the second sons of peasant families can only work for the eldest son for the rest of their lives because they cannot afford to marry a wife, and their life is worse than that of ordinary farmers.

The disciples of the school wanted to lead the peasants of the Wa country to break through these restrictions, and they naturally helped the Ming army, otherwise they would be attacked by the warriors when they came back.

During this period, the second sons of those peasants were recruited to establish the Ming Association Army using the weapons seized from the Japanese daimyo.

By the time they arrived in Kyoto, the Mingxie army had expanded to 5 people. After these sons joined the Mingxie army, they could have enough food every day, live with dignity, and the Ming army gave them [-] yuan each. Ten acres of land.

Under the leadership of the disciples of the Ming School, these Ming Association troops continued to encircle and suppress the scattered warriors. The Ming Army would reward each warrior with an acre of land, which made the Ming Association Army's fighting will very high.

When the Second Army captured Nagasaki, the navy pretended to be a merchant ship that came to trade. Many of the pirates who recruited had been to Nagasaki, making it easy for the Second Army to occupy Nagasaki.

After occupying Nagasaki, facing the merchants of the Wa Kingdom, the Ming army provided various purchase orders and promised to allow them to continue doing business as long as they paid taxes to divide them.

For the sake of money, these merchants took the initiative to lead the way and provide supplies, allowing the Second Army to easily capture the Satsuma feudal lord city.After completely destroying the Satsuma Domain, he immediately implemented land reform on Kyushu Island and established the second son Ming Xiejun.

All the merchant ships captured in Nagasaki were also incorporated into the navy, including a Dutch merchant ship that came to Nagasaki for trade.

In April, the First Army fought against the Tokugawa shogunate under the city of Kyoto. The shogunate’s army had not fought for 20 years. Facing the Ming army that surpassed their era, the shogunate army who took the initiative to attack suffered heavy casualties, and was subsequently defeated by the Ming army cavalry.

At the same time as the decisive battle in Kyoto, the third army also successfully occupied Edo, completely destroying the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, and then sent troops to march to Kyoto, intercepting the fleeing shogunate army in Nagoya,

The first army that conquered Kyoto let the Ming Xie army completely destroy Kyoto.
After defeating the shogunate army, the Ming army began to carry out a comprehensive campaign against the samurai daimyo and officials in the occupied area, and sent all the men to Liaodong to repair the railway, while the women were betrothed to the second son Ming Xiejun.

After completing the land reform in the occupied area, the Ming army launched an attack on the Changzhou Fan. With the cooperation of the Ming Xie Army, they quickly defeated the resistance of the Changzhou Fan.
For Zhang Zongxian of Japan, he adopted the same policy as North Korea, physically annihilating the original ruling class, benevolent to the poor, and then assimilating immigrants.

Prevent the Ming army from falling into a security war and use locals to deal with locals.

(End of this chapter)