Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 224
Wu Sangui was eager to achieve great results. Now that he captured Edo and obtained the body of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the current general of the Tokugawa shogunate, he was not satisfied, because although this was a great achievement for him, the Japanese country was still not conquered. It's still not enough for him.

Wu Sangui planned to find a way to establish contact with the Japanese rebels first, and use the rebels to understand the current situation in the Japanese country. This would also help him conquer hundreds of the ruling countries in the Japanese country in the shortest time.

The situation in the Japanese country is too complicated. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, even if it was in troubled times before, there would be at most a dozen countries fighting each other. Everyone would fight back and forth, but one day they would be unified.

However, the Japanese country is different. Although it is not a big place, it can be divided into hundreds of lingzhi countries. In Wu Sangui's view, it is just a bigger village, and it can be called a country. Although these lingzhi countries None of them could be conquered, but Wu Sangui felt a headache thinking about conquering them one by one.

The leader of the Japanese resistance force now under Wu Sangui is Ueda Senkari. He once served under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the Toyotomi family and became the overlord of Japan. Senkari Ueda became a ronin and sneaked into Edo incognito, waiting for an opportunity to avenge the Toyotomi family.

Now that Japan is at war with the Ming Dynasty, the Tokugawa shogunate was defeated by the Ming army, which also gave Ueda Senkari, who had been dormant for a long time, once again seen hope. Then the Tokugawa shogunate went against the grain and even tried to protect the Japanese people in Edo from evacuating Edo. The Japanese people in Edo fought to the death with the Ming army. Naturally, the people didn't want to die, and their dissatisfaction with the Tokugawa shogunate burst out instantly.

Many ronoi and down-and-out samurai who shared Ueda Senkari's resentment against the Tokugawa Shogunate took the opportunity to incite and organize the people to rebel, and soon they transformed from an unorganized rebellion into an alliance against the Tokugawa Shogunate. organize.

Ueda Senkari didn't think that much at first. He just wanted to kill Tokugawa Iemitsu with his own hands and avenge Toyotomi Hideyoshi. But when he rushed into the shogunate, it was already too late. Tokugawa Iemitsu was committing seppuku. After Ota Zizong swung a knife and beheaded Tokugawa Iemitsu, he also committed seppuku.

Ueda Senkari had no choice but to bring out the body of Tokugawa Iemitsu, but he had no idea what to do next. Just at this time, he saw the Ming army rushing to the shogunate. Ueda Senkari thought about it again and again, and decided Dedicated the body of Tokugawa Iemitsu to the Ming army in order to obtain the assistance of the Ming army.

At this point, I can only follow the rebel army until it is dark. Maybe I can get a good future in the future. When the new political power is established, I can get a fief as a hero and become a feudal lord.

Now Wu Sangui has also cooperated with the Japanese resistance army, so he asked Ueda Xianqiu to contact the large forces of the resistance army, hoping that the resistance army could send someone who could talk to them.

Ueda Senkari had no choice but to lead his men to search for the large forces of the resistance army. Although he and many of the leaders of the resistance army were old acquaintances, after all, everyone hated the Tokugawa shogunate and had interacted with each other in private before, but these days There are no communication tools such as mobile phones. After the chaos in Edo City, everyone has been separated. It is not easy to find the whereabouts of the resistance army.

After Ueda Xianshou left, Wu Sangui ordered the Ming army to station in Edo, and the burnt central area of ​​Edo city became a gathering place for Japanese people. Many simple wooden houses and thatched huts were built, which could be regarded as a simple prisoner camp, and all the Japanese who stayed in Edo were driven in.

The Ming army occupied the unburnt civilian houses on the periphery as military barracks. According to the practice of the Ming army, they could not bear the lack of defensive facilities such as city walls and fences on the periphery, so they settled in Edo. After coming down, Wu Sangui began to ask his men to build wooden fences and earth fences as simple city walls on the outside of Edo Castle.

Li Banghua, who was on Kyushu Island at this time, had also heard the news that Edo City was occupied by Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui had sent people to send Tokugawa Iemitsu's body back to the Ming Dynasty. It stands to reason that the Tokugawa shogunate had been destroyed, and this war had also It's time to draw an end.

However, the fact is that the hundreds of ruling states in the Wa Kingdom all have their own ulterior motives, and none of them voluntarily expressed their surrender to Daming, and they are still in a wait-and-see state. The Ming army surrendered to show their surrender, but now that the Ming army has not attacked their territory, they have become independent openly.

Zhu Tianqi's order to Li Banghua was to continue marching northeast until the emperor of Japan submitted a letter of surrender to the Ming Dynasty or captured him.

Li Banghua naturally acted according to his orders. He changed his previous steady and steady approach and asked Zheng Zhilong to lead his army to advance quickly and attack the Japanese capital of Kyoto. Wu Sangui's performance can be said to have shocked Li Banghua. If the attack on Kyoto was robbed by Wu Sangui again First of all, the work of myself and Zheng Zhilong these past few months has really been in vain, and all the limelight and credit have been taken away by Wu Sangui.

The two Ming armies began to compete with each other and marched towards the Kyoto of Japan, all trying to win the first victory in the conquest of Japan. However, Mao Wenlong, who was stationed on Tanegashima, was much more comfortable. He no longer had to worry about Li Banghua and Zheng Zhilong. One day it will suddenly come and catch me off guard.

After all, he is a "secret son" of the emperor. Li Banghua and Zheng Zhilong don't know that he is one of them at all. In order to ensure the safety of Kyushu Island, they are likely to attack them, especially Zheng Zhilong, because they have robbed him before. There was a deep conflict between the two people regarding the Nagasaki business and the Zheng family's merchant ship. Zheng Zhilong had long wanted to get rid of him.

Now Zheng Zhilong, as the vanguard general of the Ming Navy, had a large number of troops. If he could not protect them, he persuaded Li Banghua to lead his army to attack him on the Osumi Islands.

Zhu Tianqi also considered this situation, so Zhu Tianqi had mentioned Mao Wenlong more than once in his instructions to Li Banghua. He told Li Banghua and asked him not to provoke Mao Wenlong. Mao Wenlong was better than the Japanese. The army is more difficult to deal with, and it is not easy to annihilate them.

The most important thing now is to settle the affairs of the Japanese country first. If they rashly start a war with Mao Wenlong, the Ming army will be involved in a more troublesome situation, which will be very disadvantageous for the Ming army.

Li Banghua was naturally aware of the general situation, and he did not dare to disobey the emperor's repeated instructions. Therefore, even though Zheng Zhilong proposed to him several times that he wanted to annihilate Mao Wenlong who was entrenched in the Osumi Islands, Li Banghua did not agree.

Now that Li Banghua has handed over the important task of attacking the Japanese Kyoto to Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong naturally has no time to take care of Mao Wenlong anymore, and Mao Wenlong's situation is much safer.

But then Mao Wenlong had no time to rest. He was going to start working on the new job assigned to him by the emperor, which was to be a pirate!

The Osumi Islands where Mao Wenlong is now located are closer to the maritime traffic routes of the South China Sea and the East China Sea than the previous Jeju Island. Many Thai and Western merchant ships will pass through the nearby waters, especially those coming from Manila or the coast of Daming to Japan for trade. Many of the merchant ships are merchants from Europe and the West who have come from afar, and they are unaware of the current changes in Japan.

Moreover, they did not expect that the great pirate Mao Wenlong would suddenly appear on the previously safe and peaceful route. Even if Zheng Yiguan's Zheng flag and the flag of the Japanese shogunate were planted on the ship, it would not work. Mao Wenlong was the same. deny.In the following period, almost all merchant ships passing through the nearby waters were attacked and plundered by Mao Wenlong, causing heavy losses to the Taixi people.

Because many of Mao Wenlong's men were still wearing Ming-made clothes and armor, the Thai and Western people once suspected that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were plundering their merchant ships. It was not until they inquired about Mao Wenlong that they learned about Mao Wenlong's specific identity and situation.

The Taixi people are not Koreans or Japanese people. They don't care whether Mao Wenlong betrayed the Ming Dynasty and is no longer under the control of the Ming Dynasty court. In their view, since it was a Ming Dynasty officer who robbed their merchant ships, the Ming Dynasty court should deal with it responsible for this matter.

The Thai people currently trading in this sea area are mainly the Franji, the Helan and the British. The Franji are the earliest ones to come and have the deepest roots, followed by the Helan, who have also established establishments in Southeast Asia. In order to compete for more interests, he and the Landong India Company fought fiercely with the Franji people.

The British came from behind. After defeating the Spanish Armada in a naval battle, they became the new maritime overlord. Then they also established the British East India Company in Southeast Asia and joined the trade competition with the French and French people. .

However, because all countries sent out expeditionary fleets, the Francoids with the deepest roots are stronger in comparison. It ended in defeat and failed to find any advantages, which prompted the Helan people and the United Kingdom to get closer and closer.

However, regardless of whether they are French, Dutch or British, in Mao Wenlong's eyes, they are all Thais, and there is no difference. There is no difference in their plundering, so the losses suffered by merchant ships from all countries are also the same. Tragic.

However, because the Franji people occupied Haojing'ao, they had previously sold cannons to the Ming Dynasty's Hongyi, and they helped the Ming Dynasty recruit Thai and Western craftsmen, the relationship with the Ming Dynasty court was relatively good, although they have still not been able to establish clear diplomatic relations. , but at least they can still talk to the Ming court.

The British and the Helan people did not have this convenience. They could be said to have "no way to complain." Even if they wanted to negotiate with the Ming court about being plundered by Mao Wenlong, it was difficult to find channels.

In the end, the British and the Helan people sent representatives to Haojingao to negotiate with the Franji man, the governor of Australia, Mascar Road, hoping that the Franji man could help the British and the Helan people to seek justice from Daming, and to recover the crimes caused by being arrested. Losses caused by Mao Wenlong's plunder.

The so-called "Governor of Macau" is the abbreviation of the governor of Haojingao. Since the Franji people occupied Haojingao, the governor has been stationed in charge of the defense of Haojingao, and the official residence is set up in Fortress.

However, the first governor appointed by the Francois did not actually come to Hao Keng O to take up his post. The actual governorship in Hao Keng O began with the second governor Mascara Road.

It can be said that the Franji people established the Governor's Palace in Haojing'ao and appointed a governor, which means they have regarded Haojing'ao as their own territory, even though they obtained Haojing'ao on a lease by bribing Ming officials. Yes, he also has to pay a rent of 500 taels to Daming every year.

However, from the perspective of the Franji people, a mere 500 taels of silver is just a symbolic rental fee. In addition, they have established a good relationship through the artillery business with the Ming Dynasty, so their legal status in Haojingao, It is even more certain.

However, they may not know that Zhu Tianqi, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, did not think so. Sooner or later, Hao Jing Ao will be taken back, and all the Franji people in Hao Jing Ao will be driven away. To this day, they have not paid any attention to it. They, that's because Zhu Tianqi got them before, and he has been busy with other things in the past few years and forgot about them.

But now, Frank Machine has to go to Zhu Tianqi to establish his presence in front of Zhu Tianqi and remind Zhu Tianqi, so no wonder Zhu Tianqi "crosses the river and burns the bridge"!

After meeting the representatives sent by the British and the Dutch, Mascara also received them very enthusiastically. The Thais are different from the Asians. They do not take the country and personal grievances so seriously, but pay more attention to them. Benefit.

Therefore, even though the Holan people had just sent a fleet to attack Hao Jing'ao a few years ago, and the two sides fought several battles, Mashakar Road still showed heartfelt cheerfulness when faced with the gifts sent by the British and the Holan people. Come smile.

Afterwards, the three of them hit it off immediately, and Mashajialu immediately expressed his willingness to help the Holanders and the British come forward to ask for an explanation from the Ming court.

This is not because Mascara is obsessed with money and loves to show off. The reason why he agreed to the Dutch and British people naturally has his considerations in it, because he knows very well that if only the Franji people go to the Ming Dynasty to ask for money, The statement may not attract the attention of the Ming court.

It has been almost ten years since Ma Shijialu came to Haojingao. He is very aware of the national conditions and attitude of the Ming Dynasty. Mao Wenlong has defected to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty will never pay for what Mao Wenlong did.

Therefore, Ma Shijialu believes that it is a bit unreasonable to ask the Ming court for an explanation about being robbed by Mao Wenlong, and there is probably no good result.

But if the Helan and the British join, that may not be the case. Ming Dynasty must at least take into account the international impact of this matter, right?Even if the Ming Dynasty court ignored the old relationship and refused to give the Franji people this face, the Ming Dynasty couldn't offend the British and Helan people all at once, right?

Therefore, the participation of the British and the Helan people is simply a dream for Maaskar Road. In this case, maybe the Ming court will agree to compensate the people of the three countries for certain losses due to international pressure.

(End of this chapter)