Obai could not catch the Japanese pirate leader Zong Yicheng this time, because Zong Yicheng was not in Tsushima Island, but in Edo Castle.
He was originally from Edo. He was born in Edo and grew up in Edo. He ascended the throne as the lord of Tsushima Fuchu Domain in Edo and only occasionally went back to visit the domain.
However, he happened to be at home when all the "Japanese pirates" at the Domopo Japanese Museum in Busan ran back to Tsushima. After learning the shocking news that the Japanese combined fleet had invaded North Korea, Muneyoshige immediately set off back to Edo to report to the Tokugawa shogunate.
This is a big deal!
The Japanese United Fleet is here...and the commander-in-chief's surname is Ukita!
I wonder if he is the one who ran away from Hachijo Island?
So he had to go to Edo to report the drastic changes in Busan.
Of course, even if you go to Edo, you won't be able to see the "idiot" Tokugawa Ietsuna. Ietsuna is only 13 years old this year and is still competing with "Elementary School Arithmetic"!
And he doesn't care about anything.
Since the generals in this term were relatively stupid, the auxiliary uncle Masayuki Hoshina and the senior officers Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Abe Tadaki, Matsudaira Noriju, Sakai Tadakiyo and others came up with a good way to help the general govern.
While the General was concentrating on doing multiplication and division with his fingers, several senior middlemen were briefed on government affairs. These government affairs were all discussed by the senior middlemen and reported to the General together. As long as the General did not raise any objections. Opinions show approval of the senior middlemen’s decision. The people below will follow suit...
So it doesn't matter no matter how stupid the public is, just don't talk - this method started from Iezuna's period and was used until the Tokugawa shogunate closed down. Except for a few generals with good minds, the other generals have never heard of government affairs.
What's even more exaggerated is that sometimes, in order to save time, senior middlemen or side employees will report several government affairs at the same time. It means several people report together...several people talk together and report different things! In this way, the general couldn't understand what they were saying, so he couldn't raise any objections.
Many people like to explain the constitution of the imperial cabinet, but compared with the Tokugawa generals, Emperor Apocalypse is considered to be in charge of more things!
However, not only the stupid old man did not understand what Soyoshige reported this time, even the extremely smart old Chinese such as Masayuki Yasukina, Nobutsuna Matsudaira, Tadaki Abe, Noriju Matsudaira, and Tadaki Sakai were confused. So we had to hold meetings for several days to discuss, and even invited Tokugawa Yorifusa, the lord of the Mito domain, to come and discuss together.
"The Shimadzu family must be causing trouble!" The wise and wise Tokugawa Yorifou immediately came to a conclusion after listening to Soyoshige's report!
All the bad things were done by Shimazu... The big shots in the Tokugawa shogunate always regarded Satsuma Shimazu as the villain!
"I am afraid that this matter cannot be accomplished by the Satsuma people!" Masayuki Hoshina put forward a different opinion, "According to reports from people at the Domopo Merchant House, the so-called Japanese combined fleet that invaded Busanpo had a total of 20 large Chinese sand ships... ..Each sand boat has at least 200 people, and 20 sand boats equals 4,000 troops! If the Samo people mobilized so many people, we would not have known about it."
"It makes sense!" Tokugawa Yorifou nodded, "It seems that the Mori family is also involved... They are always evil and always thinking about overthrowing the world!"
Shimazu is a bad guy, and Mori is certainly not a good guy either!
He had no good intentions during the Battle of Sekigahara. If Tosho Kami-kun wasn't so powerful, this group of people would definitely pounce on them and destroy the Tokugawa family.
After the Battle of Sekigahara, the Maori family's territory was greatly reduced, from 1.2 million koku to 300,000 koku (370,000 koku after land inspection), which can be said to be a great loss of vitality. The Maori family also held a grudge against Tokugawa and wanted to overturn it.
"But what is their purpose for doing this?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna asked.
He had just returned from Satsuma Domain not long ago - he went to Satsuma Domain to investigate the escape of the Ukita Hide family. Of course, nothing was found, so he had to let Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the head of the Shimazu family, live in seclusion.
Because Mitsuhisa's son Tsunahisa was more suspicious (Ukita Hide's family fled, Mitsuhisa lived in Edo, and Tsunahisa took charge in Satsuma), Tsunahisa's son Nonohisa was directly allowed to take the throne.
"Perhaps they are dissatisfied with the shogunate's policy of seclusion?" said Tadaki Sakai, who recently became a senior middle school student. "Recently, due to the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been voices among samurai and ronin opposing seclusion."
Japan's seoguo is not actually implemented after following China. This country has been practicing seclusion since China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The target of seoguo is actually China!
Although Japan has absorbed a large amount of Chinese culture, it is not willing to be assimilated by China, so it implements seclusion.
However, during the Tokugawa shogunate period, many Japanese samurai did not know where the lock country came from, and they thought it was copied from China.
Now that China has opened up, Japan should also quickly copy it!
Why is it still locked? Is it because Mr. Gongfang is too stupid to copy?
"A bunch of idiots!" Tokugawa Yorifusa cursed, "The consequence of the founding of the Ming Dynasty was the decline of scholar-officials. The scholar-officials of the Ming Dynasty are equivalent to the samurai of our country!"
Of course there is a big difference between scholar-bureaucrats and samurai, one is civilized and the other is military!
But Yorifu was right about one thing. Once Japan was founded, the samurai would definitely decline.
Because founding a country means going to the ocean and participating in international competition. There are two ways for Japan to participate in international competition, one is commercial competition; the other is military expansion.
The former has basically nothing to do with samurai.
The latter... Japan is an island country! Military expansion must focus on the navy! The foundation of the Japanese samurai was land, and it was difficult for the military aristocracy based on land to go to sea in the age of sail.
Matsudaira Nobutsuna breathed out: "It should be for the founding of the country... There are too many samurai in Satsuma and Nagasu, and there is no way out. Maybe they want to make money through sea trade!"
Masamichi Hoshina: "Where are there not many samurai? The biggest problem in Japan is that there are too many samurai!"
These middle-aged men are not stupid either!
Although Zhu Cixiang's agents had always wanted the shogunate to believe that the Satsuma clan was supporting the remnants of Toyotomi, they were not fooled.
Because the Tokugawa shogunate's military and financial resources were overwhelming compared to the few "powerful feudal lords" who were not very obedient, there was no fear of someone's collapse.
“We’ll discuss the issue of too many warriors later,” Matsudaira said. “The top priority is to explain the misunderstanding to the Ming Dynasty and North Korea... We should send an envoy to China to explain to the Ming Emperor in person, and by the way, examine the circumstances of China’s founding. "
"Let my Mitsukuni go!" Tokugawa Yorifusa said, "He is proficient in old and new sinology, and he can put it to good use now."
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"Enemy attack!"
"It's the Mongols..."
"How can it be?"
"They are the Mongols, it's written on the sail!"
Before Tokugawa Mitsukuni set off, Fuchu Castle on Tsushima Island was already in chaos!
Because the Mongolian navy has already arrived, it has just carried out a round of shelling, and is now putting down the boat and preparing to land on the beach near Fuzhong City.
Fuchu Castle is located on the seaside of Minamitsushima Island, with Imohara Port just below the castle. From the city wall, you can use a telescope to clearly see the flag of the Mongolian warship on the sea and the three Chinese characters "Great Mongolia" on the sail.
Mune Yoshizhin (son of Yoshinori), who stayed behind in Tsushima Prefecture, also held a telescope in his hand and observed the Mongolian fleet on the sea accompanied by several retainers.
He also saw the words "Great Mongolia" on the sails of several large Western sailing ships...it was so eye-catching! There should be no mistake, the Mongols are coming!
But...why do these Mongolians embroider Chinese characters on the sails? Why not Mongolian writing?
Also, why did the Mongols use Spanish-style galenic ships?
Ma Zongshi is not unfamiliar with rural celebrities. Their family has been engaged in foreign trade for generations and has seen many Western sailing ships. Of course, they can recognize Spanish-style galenic ships.
The Mongolian Navy no longer uses Mongolian characters on its flags and sails, and it does not use Mongolian Galen ships... This is a bit strange no matter how you look at it!
Could it be that the Spanish pretended to be Mongolian?
When Muneyi was really thinking about it, one of his retainers rushed over and reported loudly: "My Lord, the ship is ready. Please board the ship immediately and leave Tsushima Island! Let me wait for the battle in Fuchu Castle!"
