"Old man Yuxida! Come with us quickly..."
The auditory hallucinations are not over yet! Has the deadline come?
Ukita Hideie sighed. Although he knew it was an auditory hallucination, he couldn't help but want to see who was playing this kind of joke on him - this was so cruel!
The five elders of the Toyotomi family! Rice is a rich man who can afford to eat and throw away a bowl! But what about now?
Those who stuttered had to make mats, and these mats couldn't be sold for much money... When some old acquaintances were still alive, the Ukita Hideie could ignore their face and ask the ministers in charge of them to deliver the mats. Get some white rice from acquaintances.
Although he knew that such behavior was close to begging for food, he couldn't care less so that his children and grandchildren could eat the legendary white rice.
But now that all his old acquaintances are dead, his mats are becoming less and less valuable, and now it's even difficult to sell them.
If the mats cannot be sold, the white rice will no longer be available...
"You are..." Ukita Hideie rubbed his eyes. He was not sure whether what he saw was true?
Several men in their fifties dressed as warriors were kneeling before me in the small courtyard! And outside the courtyard, there seem to be more samurai!
what 's wrong?
The Tokugawa family finally remembered that they were the source of trouble and were coming to eliminate them?
Okay, then let’s give him a delicious meal before annihilating him!
Ukita Hideie, who had long disregarded life and death, put down the straw mat in his hand, straightened his back, tried hard to think about it, and then said in the majestic tone of the old days when he was one of the top five elders: "I am Ukita Hideie, your highness. Adopted son, are you the Tokugawa retainers who came to take my life?"
The few people who came were not Tokugawa retainers, but the "Toyotomi Relics" headed by Zahepu. After the "Jeju Island Incident", Zhu Cixiang asked Zheng Zhilong to place these people on overseas islands, and regularly exchanged their salaries for food and daily necessities.
Zheng Zhilong chose a small island called Bashige in the south of Taiwan to settle them. Although they had no worries about food and drink, and they also got an island and some natives to rule for them, this life was not what they wanted.
But they were reluctant to leave the "Zhu family" and become ronin. Although their job is to guard a deserted island, their salary is not low! Among them, the salary was the highest. Because of his meritorious service in the Jeju Island Incident, his salary was raised from 250 dan to 500 dan!
Where can I find 500 shi of white rice a year?
Just when the Japanese soldiers on Bashige Island were bored and panicking, Zhu Cixiang thought of them again.
What was sent to them this time was a big deal. They went to Hachijo Island to pick up the Ukita Hide family and his family, and pick up a "Spanish sailing ship" hired from Macau.
"The elder has misunderstood. I am a retainer of Shimazu, and I have come to invite the elder on the order of the Lord."
After listening to Zahepu's words, the Ukita Hide family grandfather felt as if he was in a dream.
The Shimadzu family wants to take him away from Hachijo Island?
Is this going to...fall?
No, no, no...it must be an illusion!
Mr. Ukita Hideie still couldn't believe it. All he wanted was a bowl of white rice! If you get to the Shimazu family, you should have a few hundred stone tomoyo, right?
Doesn’t that mean you can eat a bucket of white rice a day?
Thinking of this, the old man closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then suddenly opened his eyes.
Zahepu and others are actually still there!
This thing doesn’t seem to be a dream!
The old man was still worried, and then asked: "Are you really from the Shimazu family?"
"Hai!" Zahope replied, "Brother, come with us quickly... The Spanish sailing ship is at the dock, let's leave quickly."
"What? Spanish ships? They too..."
Of course, Zahepu would not say much, as he would be wrong if he spoke too much. He just said: "Elder brother, don't ask anymore! Everything will be clear to you when you meet Marquis Shimazu!"
Ukita Hideie was still a little worried, "Is this really the work of Lord Shimazu?"
"Of course!" Zahope said. "Who else can contact the Spanish in Manila besides him?"
It seems that this is the case. Japan is now closing itself off, that is, opening three openings in Nagasaki, Uraga and Ryukyu. Among them, the gates of Nagasaki and Uraga were firmly controlled by the shogunate, and only the gates of Ryukyu were in the hands of the Shimadzu family.
Ukita Hideie finally nodded heavily: "Okay! I'll come with you!"
With the "disappearance" of the Ukita Hide family and the incriminating evidence of the Shimadzu family's "Tongqing" being sent to Edo Castle, a storm that will sweep across the Japanese archipelago has begun to brew.
However, in the Qing Dynasty, which temporarily occupied the top spot in the "Nissin Fur War", no one cared about the good news sent from Sakhalin Island at this time - wasn't it just killing and capturing two to three thousand "dwarfs"? It's nothing remarkable. How can it be compared with such a big event as the Mongolian Kingdom of Tianzhu coming to pay tribute?
This is the great unity of Mongolia!
And it can also make the Qing Dynasty get 1 million taels in vain, what a good thing!
So these days, Dorgon's illness has been half cured, and he is cheerful all day long. He is even more happy today, because he received a report from Azig, saying that he had been escorted by the troops of the Kashote Khanate. Mission from Mongolia to Tianzhu. The size of the mission was very large. It was led by a prince from Tianzhu and Mongolia, and it carried many gifts. There were more than 1,000 camels carrying the gifts...
"Queen Mother, Your Majesty, it's almost time. It's time for us to pack up and leave."
In the Cining Palace, Dorgon was holding the memorial from Azig he had just received and talking to Bumbutai and the young emperor Shunzhi with a smile.
The little emperor Shunzhi and the queen mother Bumubutai had to go to the grassland together. Shunzhi had to go to the grassland to play the role of the Mongolian Khan!
Bumbutai had to play the role of an old Mongolian queen mother, and Dorgon... was the father of the Great Khan! Of course they are also Mongolian.
In addition to Dorgon, Bumbutai and Shunzhi, several Mongolian tribes on the Monan grassland also sent people to Qianli Pine Forest to join in the fun.
How could the Great Khan of the Great Mongolia not have Mongolians around him?
In addition, both the Zhenglu Banner and the Eight Banners in Beijing had to send their most elite soldiers to the Qianli Pine Forest to show the great Mongolian martial arts to the envoys of Tianzhu Mongolia!
In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has been making progress, and Mongolia, no, it should be the Qing Dynasty is also working hard to make progress!
If you don’t work hard, you will die!
Therefore, Dorgon did not dare to neglect, and also promoted military reform on the premise of learning from all aspects of experience. The specific method is to form two standing armies, the "forward battalion" and the "firearms battalion".
The so-called "forward battalion" is a replica of Sauron's cavalry, a kind of unarmored "dragon cavalry" equipped with muskets, spears, and sabers. They mount their horses to attack, dismount to shoot, and can also use their sabers for hand-to-hand combat. The war horses allocated to them are also selected as much as possible with strong physiques and fast sprinting speeds.
The "firearms camp" combines muskets, spears, knives and artillery, which is a bit like the organization method of the Ming army.
However, Dorgon did not use the two new armies of the Forward Battalion and the Firearms Battalion together, but divided them under the Chonghua Palace (Regent's Palace), Shengjing General's Palace and various Angbang Zhangjing Palaces.
In other words, there is a forward battalion and a firearms battalion in Beijing, there is also a forward battalion and a firearms battalion in Shengjing, and there are also forward battalions and firearms battalions under various Aung Bang Zhangjing yamen outside. Although they are both called Qianfengying and Firearms Camp, the Qianfengying and Firearms Camps under the jurisdiction of Chonghua Palace, Shengjing General Mansion and Heilongjiang Angbang Zhangjing Yamen have the largest number of people (Heilongjiang Angbang Zhangjing Yamen does not have a firearms camp, so it is a cable camp with 3,000 people. Lun Cavalry Forward Battalion), the two battalions totaled about three to four thousand people.
There are also 1,200 officers and soldiers of the forward battalion and firearms battalion under the other Angbang Zhangjing Yamen.
This time Dorgon wants to gather as many new troops as possible from the forward battalion and firearms battalion, and also give the Tianzhu Mongols a good eye-opener.
"Huang Ama," Wen Shunzhi seemed reluctant to go out and asked with a frown, "We went to the Qianli Pine Forest to go hunting on horseback?"
Dorgon laughed and said: "Of course you have to hunt on horseback, otherwise what are you going to do in the Thousand Miles of Pine Forest? Your Majesty, you have to take the time to practice and don't make a fool of yourself then."
Shunzhi smiled half-heartedly, "Huang Ama, you have to be more careful when riding... You have just recovered from a serious illness!"
