Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 417 Lelang Province Jinghai and Japan Dusi

September of the 31st year of Qianxi.

The 50-year-old Japanese king Liu Changxin led his generals to the capital of the Ming Dynasty. He presented the Japanese household registration album and map to the Emperor Qianxi Zhu Gaoxu, and asked to incorporate the Japanese country into the Ming Dynasty as a county. He and his descendants are willing to serve the Ming Dynasty for generations. .

His move followed the example of North Korea seven years ago.

In the early years of Qianxi, after Zhu Gaoxu captured Mobei, he insisted on using troops against the Li Dynasty. Qingyao urged him to use Wenjiao as a sword and spend more than ten years bone-cutting and fleshing out the Li Dynasty, waiting for the opportunity to annex the Li Dynasty. .

Otherwise, if the Ming Dynasty rashly enters the court to fight, the court will surely fall into the quagmire of war. If one move is not careful, the Ming Dynasty will follow in the footsteps of the Sui Dynasty.

At that time, Zhu Gaoxu was very high-spirited and arrogant, but fortunately he was not dazzled by the victory and instead followed Qingyao's advice.

Therefore, since the sixth year of Qianxi's reign, barbarian women have been invading the court continuously, and Japanese pirates and other pirates have also entered the court year after year to plunder.

After several years of small-scale testing, the female straight women and the pirates discovered that Li Chaowai was a powerful force, and they began to become unscrupulous.

In the tenth year of Qianxi's reign, the Li Dynasty sent out a large-scale army to resist the invasion of the barbarian Nüzhi, and sent tens of thousands of troops to suppress the pirates. However, Nüzhi was brave and not afraid of death, and the pirates had strong ships and powerful guns.

In order to barely maintain the dignity of the country and prevent the royal capital from being invaded by female straight women or pirates, the king would die and the country would be destroyed. The Li Dynasty paid a heavy price.

From the 18th year of Qianxi to the [-]th year of Qianxi, for eight years, as few as [-] to [-] and as many as [-] to [-] soldiers of the Li Dynasty died on the battlefield every year, and every year they were killed and plundered by bandits. There are hundreds of thousands of people.

During this period, the king of the Li Dynasty, Li Yu, was still unwilling to bow his head and ask for help from the Ming Dynasty.

By the 19th year of Qianxi's reign, the whole country of the Li Dynasty was in mourning and the people were in dire straits. At this time, the ministers of civil and military affairs unanimously hoped that the monarch Li Qi would petition Emperor Qianxi to request the Ming Dynasty to send troops for assistance.

Li Qi did not want to be the king of subjugation, so he had to bow his proud head to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaoxu followed the current and agreed to the request of the Li Dynasty monarchs and ministers, and sent Yang Hong and other military generals with [-] elite soldiers and [-] naval forces to sweep away the Nuzhi and the pirates.

The Ming Dynasty soldiers pointed out that both the women and the pirates surrendered without fighting.

However, after the Ming Dynasty retreated, the pirates and Nüzhi suddenly rebelled and worked together to break through the capital of the Li Dynasty. They massacred the nobles of the Li Dynasty and robbed their goods and women.

In order to prevent the descendants of the Li Dynasty monarch from retaliating, the rebels not only killed the Li Dynasty monarch Li Qi and his children and concubines, but also his brothers and other relatives were also massacred.

When the Li Dynasty was about to live and die, Li Xiang, a branch of the royal family, went through many dangers and traveled thousands of miles to the Ming Dynasty to ask for help.

Zhu Gaoxu agreed to Li Xiang's request, and Yang Hong and other generals were ordered to go to the DPRK again to fight. In one battle, they wiped out the rebellious savages Nuzhi and the pirates.

After this battle, Yang Hong was awarded the title of Duke of Jing based on his merit, and his military rank was raised to the highest rank of general.

In the 20th year of Qianxi's reign, Zhu Gaoxu issued an edict to confer Li Xiang the title of Lord Haiguang, and ordered him to act as regent in Li Dynasty's state affairs. He appointed Yang Hong as General Anton and led [-] elite troops to stay in Li Dynasty.

In September of the 24th year of Qianxi, Li Xiang, the regent of Korea, Haiguang Jun, brought the civil and military officials of Korea and brought the household registration album across the ocean to the capital to ask for an audience with Zhu Gaoxu. He requested that Korea be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty as a county. Serve the Ming Emperor.

Zhu Gaoxu was greatly pleased with Longyan, so he referred to the establishment of Lelang County in the Han Dynasty, abolished Korea, and established Lelang Province. Yang Hong, the Duke of Jing State, was appointed as the chief military officer of Lelang. , rest with the country.

At the same time, he issued an edict to confer Li Xiang, Lord Haiguang of the former Korean state, as Marquis of Haiguang County in the Ming Dynasty, and moved Li Xiang's direct descendants to live in Wanping County, Shuntian Prefecture.

If Qingyao provided the strategy for North Korea's return to the Ming Dynasty, then generals such as Yang Hong were the specific executors.If we talk about the strategic contribution of Guiming in North Korea, Qingyao is the first. If we talk about the offensive contribution of Guiming in North Korea, Yang Hong should be the first.

Now, Zhu Gaoxu happily accepted the invitation of the Japanese king Liu Changxin, and decreed that Liu Changxin should be given the Chinese surname Chen and the Chinese name Zhongming.

Then, he issued an edict to abolish the Japanese state and establish the Japanese capital and the Jinghai capital.

Ezo Island and several surrounding islands, as well as the northeastern part of the former Japanese state, are under the jurisdiction of the Whale Sea Capital Division.

The Japanese capital oversees the part of Japan except the northeastern part and two islands in the southwest (Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island).

Zhu Gaoxu accepted Chen Zhongming's suggestion and set up three fourth-rank Xuanfusi (chieftains) under the Dongying Dusi, namely Jinye Changguansi (Yagyu clan), Iwami Xuanfusi (Ashikaga clan), and Kuangzhi Xuanfusi (Uesugi clan), each Xuanfu division was divided into a number of six-rank official chieftains (chief chieftains), in order to appease the three major forces under the original Japanese shogunate and their subordinate forces.

As for why the Japanese king is Ryu Sheng Naganobu, and why he returned to the Ming Dynasty, where did the Japanese emperor go?

This starts from the third year of Yongle.

At that time, the Nanyang giant thief Chen Zuyi was captured, and was secretly pardoned by Zhu Gaoxu, who allowed him to perform meritorious service. Chen Zuyi's appearance and voice were changed by Zhu Gaoxu with drugs, and Zhu Gaoxu gave him the Japanese name of Yagyu.

Later, with the help of Jin Yiwei spies, Chen Zuyi entered the Japanese country as a Japanese pirate wandering at sea.

After all, Chen Zuyi was a Nanyang thief. Although he was far away from the Nanyang he was familiar with, he was still very good at controlling people's hearts and his subordinates.

Coupled with the secret assistance of the Jinyiwei spies, he not only obtained a household registration in Japan as a jungler with Yagyu in the tenth year of Yongle, but also became one of the many small pirate forces along the coast of Japan.

In this way, Chen Zuyi got married and had children in the Japanese country. With the assistance of Jinyiwei spies, he continued to weave and develop forces loyal to him (the Ming Dynasty).

More than thirty years later, in the 18th year of the reign of Emperor Qianxi, the Kaji Rebellion broke out in Japan. The sixth shogun Ashikaga Yoshitsune was assassinated by his retainer Akamatsu Mitsuke. The following year, Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, who was only nine years old, succeeded to the position of shogun. .

Because he was young and had no political ability, the real power was in the hands of the shogunate leader Hosokawa Mochiyuki, who relied on thousands of elite warriors and tens of thousands of pirates trained by Chen Zuyi.

In other words, Chen Zuyi, who had been lurking in the Japanese country for more than 30 years, finally became one of the de facto leaders of the Japanese country with the help of many Jinyiwei spies.

He took advantage of this opportunity to promote many of his sons and close subordinates (Kinyiwei spies). The sons, mainly the eldest son Chen Zhongming (Yagi Naganobu), the second son Chen Xiaoming, and the third son Chen Weiming, continued to evade all the forces under the shogunate.

The pacification of the Cargill Rebellion was ostensibly due to Hosokawa Mochiyuki, but in fact it was Chen Zuyi's achievement.

Ashikaga Yoshikatsu died eight months after taking office. The cause of death is unknown. Rumors include being dismissed, assassinated, and dying of illness.

After his death, his brother Ashikaga Yoshimasa succeeded him as the eighth Muromachi shogun.

In the year when Ashikaga Yoshimasa succeeded to the throne, the shogunate relaxed its previous control over the Kanto shogun family, and another son of the late Ashikaga Mochi came to the throne, and he was the biggest protagonist in the "Japanese Rebellion" in history. ——Ashikaga Seiji.

The eldest son of the Ashikaga Mochi clan committed suicide, and the second son and third son fled to the general who supported the Kanto general. Later, the Uesugi army went to defeat the general, and the two children were also killed.

So when it came time to support the Kanto shogunate, the fourth son Ashikaga Shige became the prime candidate.

After the Ashikaga Sei clan came to the throne, the Uesugi family, which had been running Kanto for many years, became extremely powerful. This made the Kanto generals less powerful than before. The conflict between the two became more intense, and the retainers also started fighting openly and secretly.

(End of this chapter)