New Shun 1730

On the other side of the war faction, there are not only the surrender faction, but also the peace faction.

Ii Naosada, who rolled on the ground in pain and had his intestines covered in mud, was a peace faction.

The reason why he made such a big fuss was that he believed that some conditions of Dashun should be agreed to and there should be a bottom line for peace talks.

If the war continued, something big would definitely happen.

The lords of the powerful feudal domains would not refuse to cooperate with Dashun just because they were Japanese. The common people might not understand why this was so, but aristocrats like Ii Naosada were extremely sober. There were always rumors in the aristocratic circle that Date Masamune asked Spain for troops and divided Japan into three parts.

He made such a big fuss in the hope that his death would suppress the voices of the war faction and promote peace talks as soon as possible.

After hearing the report from his attendant, Tokugawa Yoshimune's heart suddenly sank, and he tightly grasped the fan in his hands with both hands.

This is a loyal minister.

But he can only be a treacherous minister at this time.

Otherwise, it would be very disadvantageous to the shogunate.

Regarding the peace talks, the court officials and the powerful vassal states can talk about it, but the shogunate, the daimyo of the close vassal states, and the daimyo of the hereditary generations cannot talk about it first.

He exhaled twice heavily, and his heart felt like blood dripping. Then he suppressed the pain, pretended to be angry, and shouted: "Inaba-no-kami is so cowardly that he has disturbed the morale of our army and talked nonsense about peace talks. How is he different from Qin Hui, who was humiliated after Jingkang?"

He cursed in his mouth, but in his heart he still wanted to see this loyal minister for the last time.

He stood up with a furious look, brushed his sleeves, and walked out without waiting for the ceremonial guards, wearing only wooden clogs. In fact, he felt sorry for the loyal minister who committed seppuku. If he didn't find an kaishakunin, he would have to bear the infamy, but he couldn't show his concern, so he had to take advantage of the situation and run fast.

He hurried to the place where everyone was watching. Ii Naosada was not dead yet. He cut very skillfully and didn't hurt the aorta.

The retainers who followed him couldn't bear to watch it anymore, but the order of the master was that no one could be kaishakunin, so they could only kneel on the ground, crying bitterly, and dared not look up.

When Tokugawa Yoshimune approached, the retainer knelt and handed over Ii Naosada's last letter and sword.

Ii Naosada, who was almost fainted, heard Tokugawa Yoshimune's voice and wanted to struggle a few times to say something, but he could not say anything.

It was the first time that Tokugawa Yoshimune saw someone committing seppuku like this. There were many people who committed seppuku before, but most of them were fan-cutting, just gestured; occasionally there were real ones, but as soon as they were cut open, the kaishakunin would chop them off with a knife.

There had never been anyone who really didn't beheaded and endured it alive.

Even the most stubborn Nishina Morinobu in the legend tore his intestines off immediately after committing seppuku and threw them to the Oda family; Hattori Hanzo was known as the leader of the ninjas, and when he was the kaishakunin for Tokugawa Nobuyasu, he saw the scene of seppuku and had a mental breakdown and didn't have the strength to lift the knife to chop off the head.

Before seppuku, there were three layers of people watching the excitement. Now that the noise has become so intense, the slightly timid ones can't stand it anymore and run away.

But Ii Naosada's goal was achieved. Committing seppuku in a busy city, the words before death, would soon spread throughout Japan.

He wanted to use this most painful way of death to prove one thing, that he was not a coward. He was not afraid of such a death, so how could he be afraid of dying on the battlefield?

However, if he really couldn't win, he would definitely be finished if he continued to fight. So he could only use this way of death to suppress the voices of continuing to fight.

Tokugawa Yoshimune held back the trembling of his legs, his eyes seemed a little wet, but he still shouted angrily: "You are not afraid of death, why are you afraid of fighting? The shame of the Imperial Garden, how can you not fight to wipe it out?"

After scolding a few times, he turned and left, without looking back at Ii Naosada.

But after walking a few steps, he couldn't bear it after all, so he asked the attendants to carry Ii Naosada into the city.

After entering the city, he dismissed the rest of the people, and Tokugawa Yoshimune came to Ii Naosada alone. Ii Naosada, who had been tossed until now, had reached the time of his last light. He wanted to say something, but he didn't have any strength at all.

Tokugawa Yoshimune whispered in his ear: "You are a true loyal minister. I know you are not afraid of fighting."

After saying this several times, Ii Naosada exhaled with a sound of "ah, ah" and knocked on the floor with his last bit of strength to indicate that he heard it.

Tokugawa Yoshimune stood up, left Ii Naosada, called someone to chop off Ii Naosada's head, and finally ended his suffering with a little skin.

He returned to his room, dismissed the people around him, and opened the last letter stained with Ii Naosada's blood.

When he read about the battle of Obama Castle, he took out a knife and cut his fingers three times as a memory.

The first of the three cuts was that he regretted meeting Liu Yu in the first place, and he should remember Liu Yu's words in the future and never believe them; the second of the three cuts was that he hated Liu Yu for sending him Shi Shiyong, who was unparalleled in riding and shooting, but he used muskets and cannons; the last of the three cuts was that he hated himself for dismissing Arai Hakuseki as soon as he came to power, and did not listen to his suggestion that "Southern Barbarian Practical Learning should be separated from Kirishitanism."

After reflecting on himself three times, looking at the suggestion of "abandoning the navy and focusing on land warfare" proposed by Ii Naosada, and recalling the miserable state before Ii Naosada's death, a few tears dripped from the corners of his eyes, moistening the dried blood on the letter, and the petals spread out, like plum blossoms.

Originally, according to his thoughts, the battle of Dashun was won by the navy, and he should also build up the navy. But now seeing Ii Naosada's last words, which carefully analyzed the harm of building up the navy, and then feeling his newly cut fingers, one of the three provinces was extremely distrustful of Liu Yu, and felt that Ii Naosada's words were really reasonable.

If he spent gold and silver to build a navy, as long as the Dashun side did not kill Liu Yu, Liu Yu would definitely find a way to sink the navy when he was halfway through building it with his fleet.

Neither would they do it at the beginning of construction, nor would they do it again after it was built. Tokugawa Yoshimune thought about Liu Yu's shamelessness and viciousness, and thought that he would do as Ii Naosada said, and would definitely burn and kill when all the money was spent and the combat effectiveness was not yet in place.

However, even if Ii Naosada saw the direction of sleeping on straw and tasting gall in the future, how easy would it be to build a new army?

It was said that there were 80,000 hatamoto, and the interests of the samurai could not be touched, so there was no money to train a new army.

Before the Kyoho famine, they were so poor that they could not even pay the salaries of the hatamoto, and even suspended the participation in the court.

The financial situation has just improved in recent years. After fighting such a war with Dashun, and thinking that Liu Yu would definitely ask for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of kilograms of gold and silver, the finances would be even more embarrassed.

It was already five officials and five civilians, plus the extortion of the village head, it was actually six officials and four civilians or even seven officials and three civilians. Could it be that they would receive eight officials and two civilians?

If the harvest is really like this, the people's uprising will not just negotiate with the feudal lord, but will rise up.

The reason why Arai Shiraishi reduced trade and changed policies was because the outflow of gold and silver was too serious. In the letter Liu Yu wrote to him, it was clearly written that Japan should open up trade. At that time, the outflow of gold and silver will be more serious, and there is still no money.

Guns and cannons, even if they can be bought, where will the money come from?

The interests of the samurai cannot be moved, so the policy of separation of farmers and soldiers must be guaranteed, and the salaries of the samurai must be guaranteed, otherwise the rule of the shogunate will be in jeopardy.

Separation of farmers and soldiers, soldiers can only be samurai, one less death, can it compare with the number of farmers captured by Dashun to serve as soldiers?

At this moment, Tokugawa Yoshimune finally felt the despair of Ii Naosada in the Battle of Obama.

Just like in the Battle of Obama, the strategy was right, the tactics were good, and the courage was there, but he just couldn't win.

The future he faces now is the same.

The idea was there, and the general plan of going by land first and then by sea was correct, but nothing could be done.

After reading it for a long time, it finally turned into a long sigh of exhaustion, and I put the letter away. I summoned the old middle and other important ministers, and issued a series of orders to "defend to the death", which was actually a final scare to the southwestern feudal domains.

Order the hatamoto samurai near Wakayama to go north to Osaka and Kyoto immediately.

Order the troops of the Osaka Castle Lord to retreat from Tottori to Kyoto.

Order the samurai of the Okayama and Hiroshima domains to support Kyoto and prepare for the final decisive battle.

Order the troops supporting the Sendai domain to return to Edo quickly to prevent the Dashun from taking the opportunity to land.

Then, the news of Kyoto was passed on to the lords of each feudal domain, indicating that they should establish a new monarch, resist to the end, and fight to the last man.

These orders sounded very reasonable. Since they had to fight to the last man and the Dashun army was strong, they needed to gather together to fight.

In fact, letting the samurai of Okayama and Hiroshima support Kyoto was equivalent to opening the flank of Choshu, deliberately exposing a huge flaw.

This was to let Choshu express its position: fight or make peace. If they continued to fight, Hagi Castle would be lost.

Anyway, the mountains of Choshu were high and the shogunate was far away, and it was not the shogunate's territory.

Letting the samurai who supported Sendai return was equivalent to giving up the Date clan of Sendai.

If you have the ability, you can fight the Dashun clan yourself. If you don't have that ability, you must firmly oppose it when the shogunate wants to establish a new emperor and fight to the death.

Anyway, even if the Dashun army wants to attack Edo, it must first step on the corpses of various clans.

In order to show enough posture, Tokugawa Yoshimune led his troops to Kyoto in person, and let Tokugawa Ieshige, who was almost thirty years old and still wet his pants, stay in Edo.

He indicated that he would fight a decisive battle in Kyoto, annihilate the Dashun Army that had broken into Kyoto, and recapture Kyoto. After all, even if he established a new king and fought to the death, the new king would have to ascend the throne in Kyoto.

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In Kyoto, Li Xi was busy asking people to erase all the usurpation words in the usurpation palace.

He also took down all the usurpation plaques that could be taken down.

Before, Wu Fangrui had few people, so in order not to stimulate Zhaoren too much, he just didn't look at it, which was no problem.

As a prince, Li Xi couldn't just look at it, but smashed it if it was indecent, and demolished it if it was indecent.

More than 4,000 troops entered Kyoto, and their backs were much stronger than Wu Fangrui's surprise attack with more than 300 people.

But considering that the other party was the ruler of a country after all, even if he was the king of a fallen country, he still had to have the right attitude. Zhaoren insisted that he was going to negotiate, not to be a prisoner, otherwise he would commit suicide.

Li Li certainly understood what merit it was to capture someone alive and what merit it was to chop off his head, so he agreed without hesitation and allowed the other party to retain certain ceremonial guards for the trip, but they had to follow the etiquette of Dashun and not exceed the rules.

Considering the previous exchanges between Japan and Korea, Korea was a county king, but could use the etiquette of a prince, so Zhaoren was also allowed to use the ceremonial guards of a prince. The etiquette of the two sides was different, and Li Li did not ask much, as long as he followed the rules of Dashun and used the etiquette of a prince.

Zhaoren did not have much pomp, he was just a shrine. Li Li agreed without hesitation, saying that he was asking him to negotiate instead of taking him as a prisoner, and he slightly saved some face, so as not to turn such a great achievement into a dead person.