Plane Travel Guide

In the 21st year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty and the 30th year of Onei in Japan, on the evening of May 1423, [-], Hirado Port in Matsuura County, Hizen Country, Kitakyushu, Japan was bombarded mysteriously and was destroyed as a white land!

After follow-up rescues—basically a waste of time, no valuables or human lives could be evacuated, the final statistical conclusion is that Hirado Town was completely destroyed, and the number of casualties is estimated to be between [-] and [-]. Between twelve thousand.

Since the number of floating population cannot be counted clearly, there is a lot of room for fluctuation in the statistical results.

As for the so-called casualties, in fact all the personnel died directly, and not even one survivor could be rescued.Even if they were lucky enough to escape the initial fierce shelling, they could not escape the raging fire that lasted for 1 days and burned at high temperature.

After a torrential downpour on May 24, follow-up rescuers finally entered the ruins of Hirado Town.Plane Travel Guide 1467

Before that, no one was lucky enough to break through the raging fire and enter the depths of Hirado Town, so the details of the fire in it were never known.Rumors about the sudden burning of Hirado-cho almost reached the point where they changed overnight.

All kinds of strange news spread out continuously, and new rumors were born and became popular every day.It didn't take long for news about the sudden burning of Hirado Town to spread throughout Japan, and the reasons for it were extremely confusing.

The mainstream view is that the Matsuura family did a lot of evil, and they offended the gods because of their many sins, and finally sent down thunderous fire to wipe the entire Hirado town to nothing.This statement has been recognized by the vast majority of people and has become the final official answer.

Seven days later, after the heavy rain extinguished the fire, the rescue troops who entered Hirado witnessed with their own eyes the situation like a purgatory on earth.In addition to many limbs torn apart by the violent explosion, there are also a large number of charred corpses.Even in secret rooms, wells, and cellars in many hidden locations, many suffocated corpses were found.

Compared with those who died directly from the artillery fire, the state of the corpses of the rest of the victims who were charred or suffocated at the scene is simply daunting.Many brave warriors were all terrified and sick after seeing these corpses with their own eyes.

After the follow-up rescuers entered Hirado Town, first-hand information about what disaster happened in Hirado Town was finally circulated.But after everyone who heard it learned the truth, they were so frightened that they encountered nightmares again and again.

Corresponding legends began to appear in the Kyushu area, warning every local to do good deeds and accumulate virtue.It first started from Kitakyushu, and soon swept the entire Japanese archipelago.

A large number of princes and lords and wealthy merchants began to spend a certain amount of money and food to give alms to a large number of poor and helpless people, and offered more pious gifts to nearby monasteries-gold and silver-even the Buddha could not ignore these extraneous things!

No one thought that the unexpected disaster that occurred in Hirado Town would have such a follow-up impact.

In the past two years, Japan's annual growth has not been very good, and the long-term confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties has led to frequent wars between the two sides.The shogunate has always been unstable, and fierce wars often occur.

All the burdens are on the farmers everywhere, and the heavy tax pressure has caused a large number of farmers to rely on loans to live.It can be said that since the merger of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, all the people in the world have been looking forward to the shogunate's decree to exempt a large number of farmers from high debts, otherwise the farmers' families will end up with economic bankruptcy.

However, the shogunate did not take corresponding actions until the disaster broke out when Hirado was destroyed by divine punishment.

Historically, a few years later, a large number of unemployed farmers in Japan would set off riots due to economic bankruptcy, which dealt a very heavy blow to the rule of the shogunate.However, because of the disaster in Hirado Town, the corresponding fuse was cut off again.

Although the amount of money and food donated by princes and lords and wealthy merchants from all over the place is not high, at least it can be considered to have eased the increasingly tense situation.However, because of this large-scale donation, another result has also been produced-the peasants in the Japanese archipelago are increasingly looking forward to the shogunate's decree to exempt everyone from their high debts.

"If you don't want to do this, maybe the gods will send down thunder and anger again to wipe everything out?" Many poor peasants are looking forward to this, hoping that the precedent of Hirado Town can be given to the rulers. wake up.

In the final analysis, it was because no one knew the truth about the destruction of Hirado Town, which was actually the Ming Royal Navy's retaliatory action against the Japanese "insurgency" in Ninghai Town.There are various rumors before, but there is no guessing answer that is closest to the truth.

The most important reason is that the Shang Kingdom of Huaxia has always been a state of etiquette, and it is impossible to do such a cruel and ruthless thing.

Leaving aside the undeclared war, just destroying the entire Hirado town with thunderous anger is unlikely to happen.From the point of view of Confucianism, this is totally inconsistent with the sage's theory of "benevolence, righteousness and morality".

Even before the shogunate received the news from the businessmen that the Ming Dynasty was boiling and preparing to declare war on Japan to eradicate the Japanese "insurgency" completely, there was not even a high-level person who really valued this information.Plane Travel Guide 1467

Therefore, the truth of the destruction of Hirado Town has always been a mystery to Japan amidst the public's intentional or unintentional ignorance.

What they really paid attention to was the handling procedures after the destruction of Hirado Town.

After this battle, the Matsuura family, which occupied the rich land of Hizen country in Kitakyushu, was greatly hurt.To put it a little more seriously, it basically means that more than half of it has been destroyed.The lair that has been painstakingly managed for many years has been continuously destroyed, and the countless gold, silver, money and food accumulated have all disappeared with the wind overnight.

The seven-day high-temperature fire even burned the main city of Hirado Town to ashes.The main city, which was basically destroyed by a large amount of artillery fire, also suffered heavy losses in the subsequent burning.

Even the gold, silver, and copper coins that the Matsuura family painstakingly accumulated could not be kept in the high temperature of the fire—it turned into countless gold, silver, copper water and was lost among the rubble and sand.

After the Matsuura family suffered such a heavy loss, the surrounding princes and nobles who had coveted its territory for a long time were eager to move, and they used various means to spy on the details and win over their allies everywhere in an attempt to get a piece of the pie.

The attitude of the shogunate and the imperial court towards the follow-up handling of this incident is also very interesting. After a long delay, no constructive conclusions can be drawn.

Although Hirado Town has been burnt to a white ground, its status as a natural and excellent port has never been shaken.It only needs to invest a certain amount of money to rebuild, and it will not take long for it to become a prosperous town again.

The geographical advantage of Hirado Port in Kitakyushu and the long-term trading "inertia" mean that its importance has never been reduced because it was burned to nothing this time.Because of this, the coveted power under the huge cake will be endless.

The remaining sect of the Matsuura family, Matsuura Nobunao, can be said to be the only remaining symbol of the fruit. It stands to reason that the shogunate directly recognizes the status of its heir and it is over.But the result was from May [-]th until the beginning of June, neither the shogunate nor the court had come up with a conclusion.

This kind of ambiguous attitude has led to Kyushu, and even the princes of Shanyang Road and Sanyin/Dao to cast their eyes on this place.

And many famous princes and rural nobles in the entire Kitakyushu and Sanyo Road received orders from Jianing Temple and began to secretly mobilize their military forces at home, and comprehensive preparations began.

Ouchi Yoshicong suddenly stood up at this time and expressed his support for Matsuura Nobunao to inherit the territory of the Matsuura family, hoping that the decision of the shogunate and the court would not hurt the loyalty of the people of the world.Otherwise, based on the principles of goodness and public customs and the long-standing revolutionary friendship between the two families, the Ouchi family will inevitably raise troops to go to Luo, and uphold justice for good friends and a quilt!

As soon as this remark came out, the world was in an uproar.Nima, your Ouchi clan and the Matsuura family have a "Mao" long-term revolutionary friendship?There may have been some revolutionary friendship when they jointly supported the Southern Dynasties before, but after the Matsuura family changed their strategy, the two sides became enemies.

Back then during the Applied Chaos, the navy of the Ouchi family was repeatedly defeated by the Matsuura family, and in the end they almost lost even their pants.Yoshihiro Ouchi, the previous patriarch of the Ouchi family, once swore that the Ouchi family and the Matsuura family would be incompatible from then on.

At that time, the failure of the "chaos" of the application of the big insiders was really the reason why the strategic layout could not be realized in time because of the devastating blow to the naval forces.From this point of view, the Ouchi family and the Matsuura family have become feuds.

Now you jump out to talk about the principle of revolutionary friendship and public order and good customs, you are talking nonsense with your eyes open without blushing.

However, Nobunao Matsuura appreciated Ouchi Yoshinobu's timely support and expressed his intention to form an alliance with Ouchi.And Ouchi Yoshinaga was not hypocritical, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement.

And the follow-up situation is quite weird. Not only many princes of Kitakyushu and Sanyo Road have stood up to support this conclusion, but even many princes and wealthy families of Sanin/Dao have come forward.

What made the shogunate and the imperial court even more shattered was that many of these supporters had been wandering around Hirado Town not long ago, planning to take advantage of the fire to loot.

The sudden dramatic change in the situation finally made the shogunate and the court vigilant.The general, the bigwigs in the shogunate, and the court ministers quickly reached an agreement. The topic of the division of interests can be discussed later, and the small flames should be strangled first.

For a while, the news that a large number of princes and lords and nobles in Kitakyushu, Sanyo Road, and Sanin/Do have begun to prepare for war has spread, and the information that many wandering wild warriors have been recruited has attracted the attention of the shogunate.Plane Travel Guide 1467

As a result, just when they were about to unify their attitudes and then shout out, an ultimatum from the Ming Dynasty court to the Japanese "government" forwarded by a merchant in Jieding shocked all parties.

Nima?Are you kidding me again?Was the combined fleet of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty responsible for the destruction of Hirado?