Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1036
Japan's Satsuma Domain, Kagoshima Castle, also known as Tsurumaru Castle, was the residence of the Shimadzu clan in the Edo period.

Due to geographical relations, Japan has frequent volcanic earthquakes and frequent disasters. In order to facilitate escape, there are almost no cities that enclose hundreds of thousands of residents like China.

The castles in Japan are more like the castles of the nobles in the West. They are only for the nobles to live in. There are only nobles and soldiers, and no common people live.

This is the case with Tsurumaru Castle, where only the Shimadzu family lived, as well as some retainers and samurai.

At this time, in Shimadzu Mitsuhisa's room in Tsurumaru Castle, two crisp slaps came out.

Tagawa Shichizaemon took off his clogs and walked in, and saw Tadaro Shimadzu lowering his head, being reprimanded by Mitsuhisa Shimadzu.

After attacking the mission, Tadaro Shimadzu thought he had completed the mission, but when Qian Bingdiao was captured from the cabin, he realized that he had exposed Shimadzu's identity after the other party questioned his identity. At that time, it was too late to chase Xu Junsheng who had fled.

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu had an expression of "Baga Yalu", and was obviously very angry inside, "Shogunate は依にに说をさせて, はどのようにちえて, あなたはばか!"

The shogunate personnel entrusted by the Ming Dynasty to conduct research and cooperation in China questioned Iezuna Tokugawa about the attack on the mission by the Shimadzu family. Shocked, he immediately sent someone to the Satsuma clan to inquire, and asked the Shimadzu family to hand over Qian Bingdeng, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, to make the matter smaller and smaller.

In the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the elite soldiers of various Japanese vassals who had just finished the Warring States period, it can be said that for thousands of years, the most elite troops in Japan were soldiers who fought a hundred battles. , launched the campaign of Wenlu Qingchang, conquered Sanhan, but was driven back to Japan by the Ming Dynasty.

This caused Japan to fear the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the attack on the mission was morally unreasonable and unreasonable. Therefore, the Tokugawa family took the initiative to put pressure on the Shimadzu, and did not want to make the relationship with the Ming Dynasty too hard. I want to make big things into small things, and small things into small things.

Tagawa Shichizaemon saw that Taduro Shimadzu's face was red and his ears were red. He had obviously been slapped a lot. He pursed his lips and said in a deep voice: "Protect Your Excellency, getting angry now is useless. The key now is to find a way to deal with it!"

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa listened to Shichizaemon's words, with a gloomy face, he said something in Japanese to Shimadzu Tadaro, who hurriedly bowed down to salute, and then backed away.

"Your Excellency, please take a seat!" Mitsuhisa Shimadzu sat down on the tatami with his back straight. He waited for Shichizaemon to sit down before he said with a hint of humility and apology: "I didn't expect things to go wrong. Shu Shogunate, the Tokugawa family asked me to send the envoy of the Ming Dynasty to Edo. If I send the envoy, it will be as if this matter has never happened. Still, but is it possible?"

Before Shichizaemon could speak, Mitsuhisa Shimadzu went on to say: "Assault on the Ming country's mission ship and kill more than 100 missionaries, Ming country will not forget it easily, besides, Ming country also mentioned the Ryukyu incident this time." After acknowledging this matter, it is not important for Satsuma to lose Ryukyu, but also to compensate the Ming Dynasty, and the Tokugawa family will inevitably be dissatisfied with Satsuma and impose sanctions on Satsuma. The Shimadzu family will be like the Ouchi family and the Hojo family. Withered like cherry blossoms."

The implication of Shimadzu Mitsuhisa's words was that he did not want to acknowledge the mission and wanted to fight, but compared with the Ming Dynasty and the Tokugawa Shogunate, the strength of the Satsuma Domain was still too weak.

Hearing what he said, Shichizaemon pressed his hands on the thighs of the kneeling seat, and said in a deep voice, "How are you going to respond, Your Excellency Guardian!"

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu raised his head, squinted his eyes, and looked at Shichizaemon, "I, Satsuma, did not keep secrets in this incident, but your Excellency once made a promise to Shimadzu. The prince will prevent the Ming Kingdom from sending troops. I don’t know if your Excellency has brought me good news. If the Ming Dynasty does not send troops, the pressure on the Tokugawa family will not be enough, and my Shimadzu family will not admit to attacking the Ming Kingdom’s mission. It is expected In the end, the Tokugawa family will let it go."

Speaking of this, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa pressed his hands on the thighs of the kneeling seat, with a rigid face and head suddenly lowered heavily, and said solemnly, "Tagawa-kun, please persuade the two highnesses to help Satsuma through the difficulties, please! "

Shichizaemon heard this, but quickly bowed his head heavily, bowed to Shimadzu Mitsuhisa, and accompanied him, "Guard Your Excellency, I am very sorry for this matter, because the Shimadzu family has exposed their identities, and the two Highnesses cannot incite the ministers." Severing diplomatic relations with the shogunate, the Ming court has decided to send troops!"

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu heard this, his face turned cold, and seeing Nanizawaemon's attitude, they seemed to want to get out and sell the Shimadzu family, he couldn't help feeling a little flustered, but after a while he straightened up again, and said in a cold voice: "This The thing is that your Excellency was the one who got in touch with it. Now that such an accident happened, although the responsibility lies with the Shimadzu family, you, Prince Tang and Prince Lu will not just leave Satsuma alone! The country, I am afraid it will be very unfavorable to the two princes!"

"Guardian Your Excellency, please understand that Da Ming is now Prince Chu's regent, and the council has decided to send troops. It is inconvenient for the two Highnesses to directly participate, and they cannot stop it." Seeing Shimadzu Mitsujiu's displeasure, Qi Zuweimen lowered his head and said: "However, you can rest assured that the two Highnesses will provide you with sufficient information, and did not respond to Prince Chu's order to allocate ships to the court."

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu's face was still gloomy. Ruguo's Ming Dynasty sent troops, and the Tokugawa family was under pressure, and the Shimadzu family would inevitably be sanctioned.

Shichizaemon saw that Mitsuhisa Shimadzu had not spoken, so he said again: "Your Excellency, there is no need to worry too much. This time, Da Ming did not dispatch a large army, but only dispatched ten gunboats, and it will not do anything to the Shimadzu family! If the Shimadzu family can withstand the pressure, this crisis may be able to survive!"

"Ten gunboats!" Mitsuhisa Shimadzu felt a little relaxed when he heard that there were only ten ships. He was afraid that the Ming Dynasty would send tens of thousands of people to attack him. After all, Satsuma was just a foreign daimyo under the Tokugawa shogunate. If the Tokugawa shogunate did not help, they would not be able to confront the Ming.

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa narrowed his eyes, "If only ten ships come from the Ming Dynasty, then I am not very worried."

"These ten ships are the latest gunboats of the Ming Dynasty. You should not take them lightly!" Shichizaemon reminded.

"No matter how powerful ten ships are, Satsuma is not afraid." At this time, Japan did not know that they were far behind the world in terms of navigation and warships. He squinted his eyes and said, "If Mr. Tianchuan can guarantee that the Ming Dynasty will only dispatch ten warships, then Satsuma will only need to worry about the weakness of the shogunate, unable to withstand the pressure of the Ming Dynasty, betraying Satsuma, and even helping the Ming Dynasty oppress Satsuma."

The Tokugawa family and Satsuma are close at hand. If the shogunate helps the Ming Dynasty, the Shimadzu family will not be able to compete!
Shichizaemon nodded slightly, and said after thinking: "Your Excellency is a daimyo granted by the shogunate after all, and the Tokugawa family represents Japan after all. It is unlikely that General Zhengyi will completely side with Ming to deal with Satsuma. If the shogunate helps the Ming Dynasty Your Excellency may contact a few close daimyos and accuse the shogunate of being too weak in dealing with Daming and betraying the interests of Japan. Of course, the premise of this matter is that the guardian needs to bite the bullet and deny the matter of attacking the mission."

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa nodded with a sullen face, and suddenly asked: "If the shogunate can withstand the pressure of the Ming Dynasty, will the Ming Dynasty go to war with the shogunate? Or will it increase its troops again?"

"No! Most of the ministers in the cabinet do not agree to go to war with the shogunate, and this matter is not done by the shogunate, so it is absolutely impossible!" After thinking about it, Shichizaemon said: "Although the two highnesses cannot stop the Ming Dynasty from sending troops , but to prevent the situation from expanding, there should be no problem!"

"So please, Your Highnesses!" Shimadzu Mitsuhisa lowered his head again, already paying attention in his heart, "I will contact a few guardians, express the hope that the shogunate will treat the Ming country toughly and protect the interests of the country, and I will send a gift. The batch of gold and silver was given to Hoshina Masaoyuki and the big boss Sakai Tadakatsu, and asked them to speak for the Shimadzu family, so that the shogunate could withstand the pressure of the Ming Dynasty, and finally let this matter go."

(End of this chapter)