The current actual ruler of the Tokugawa Shogunate is Tokugawa Hidetada.
But Tokugawa Hidetada was not the general who conquered barbarians in the Tokugawa shogunate.
The real general who conquered the barbarians was Tokugawa Iemitsu, the son of Tokugawa Hidetada.
Because Tokugawa Hidetada learned from Tokugawa Ieyasu two years ago, he abdicated the shogunate to Tokugawa Iemitsu, and moved out of the shogunate and lived in the Imperial Palace.
Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetada is equivalent to the "Top Emperor" of the Tokugawa Shogunate. However, Tokugawa Hidetada is not the "Top Emperor" without power, but the "Top Emperor" who holds the actual control of the shogunate.
Tokugawa Hidetada still does not know that he caused the Ming Dynasty's revenge because he allowed the Matsura clan of Nagasaki to drive out Ming merchants.
Now he has only just learned about the brutal behavior of the Matsuura clan when they drove away Ming merchants.
However, Tokugawa Hidetada did not pay too much attention to this matter.
Because in this era, most rulers do not pay enough attention to the lives of civilians.
Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetada did not think that the Ming Emperor who was far away would raise troops to attack him because some overseas businessmen were massacred.
In addition, Tokugawa Hidetada naturally would not severely punish the daimyo because he killed several Akito because of the daimyo, not to mention that the daimyo still supported him.
But Tokugawa Hidetada obviously does not understand the current Ming Dynasty and the current Ming Emperor.
Because of this, a few days later, Tokugawa Hidetada was shocked when he learned that Nagasaki was conquered by the Ming Dynasty and even the Matsura clan, the great name of Nagasaki, was wiped out.
"Damn Mingguo people! How could they treat me, the Yamato people, like this! This is simply an offense to my general! A huge offense!"
Tokugawa Hidetada therefore pulled out his sword and struck with all his strength, breaking off a corner of the desk.
"General, they are taking revenge! Because the Matsuura clan killed their overseas businessmen, they did this. According to what I heard, the reason why they shouted that they will not seal the sword for ten days is because our Matsuura clan massacred the Ming Dynasty. The overseas Chinese merchants were killed for one day, and they wanted to retaliate by killing them for ten days! But it is still unclear whether this was the instruction of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. If so, what did the Emperor of Ming Dynasty want to do? Is he taking the opportunity to annex our Japanese country? So you use this tough approach to anger us, or is there another reason?"
Date Masamune, who had followed the Tokugawa family in the Tokugawa era, said this to Tokugawa Hidetada.
After hearing this, Tokugawa Hidetada's expression became solemn: "Now that we have said this, we must be patient and not give the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty a chance to raise troops to attack us! We must order the great names not to disrespect the people of the Ming Dynasty in the future, so as not to give the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty a chance to attack us." An excuse to attack us.”
"That's right! In addition, someone should be sent to bring the letter of credence to the Ming Emperor. The events in Nagasaki were all caused by the Matsuura Domain's unauthorized actions and have nothing to do with the shogunate!"
Date Masamune continued to reply.
Tokugawa Hidetada nodded. He was no longer angry because of the Ming Navy's retaliation against the Nagasaki Japanese. Instead, he quickly recovered his rationality and knew that if he wanted to safeguard his ruling interests, he must adopt an appeasement policy, so , now Date Masamune suggested that he send someone to bring a letter of credence to the Ming Emperor and take the initiative to explain the matter, and he did not object.
Therefore, Chen Xin did not suffer large-scale revenge from the Japanese after occupying Nagasaki.
On the contrary, the Tokugawa shogunate also took the initiative to send grain and grass to Chen Xin, on the grounds that it showed the neighborly and friendly attitude of the shogunate. Great names such as Date Masamune also took the initiative to show their goodwill to Chen Xin, and also wanted to offer their daughters to Chen Xin. Just like history Zheng Zhilong, who was quite powerful at sea, also got the opportunity of the Japanese daimyo to present his daughter, so he married the Japanese girl and had Zheng Chenggong.
But Chen Xin is not Zheng Zhilong. He is just a general under Zhu Youxiao, not a prince. Zhu Youxiao only gave him and his navy the privilege of not observing military discipline against foreign people, but he did not give them the ability to He did not care about the privileges of internal military discipline, so Chen Xin naturally did not marry these daimyo and only received food and grass from the shogunate.
Chen Xin's behavior gained the favor of Tokugawa Hidetada.
Because Tokugawa Hidetada was worried about the collusion between the daimyo and the Daming Navy, and then attempted to challenge his authority as a general.
Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetada not only failed to organize the shogunate army to regain Nagasaki and drive away the Daming Navy led by Chen Xin, but also prevented other daimyo who cared about the dignity of the Japanese country from sending troops to Nagasaki.
But what Tokugawa Hidetada didn't know was that the Ming Empire, which had begun commercial capitalization, had become extremely aggressive due to changes in production relations, especially after the emperor and officials in power became big capitalists. Moreover, this aggressiveness It is not based on human will, because the current Ming Empire needs markets, raw materials, and a large amount of cheap labor. Otherwise, Ming's new textile technology will no longer be the driving force for the restoration and prosperity of Ming Dynasty, but will lead to the decline of Ming society. The trigger for unrest.
Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetada will find that even if he chooses appeasement, Ming Dynasty will come to him and force him to do many things that he is unwilling to do.
Just like North Korea now.
North Korea is now the most loyal younger brother of Ming Dynasty.
But it doesn't mean that Daming will let him hide behind the scenes and live a free and easy life.
Because of the change in the nature of society, after the Ming Empire exposed its fangs for external plunder, it was destined that it would re-write the rules as a new type of world hegemon.
In the past, the Ming Dynasty only asked his younger brothers to pay tribute to him, and then not to interfere with each other, and each took care of his own people.
But now Daming has more demands on his younger brother.
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Seoul.
"This, this, it's so good. Why does the Celestial Empire want to conquer the Japanese country? Why does it ask me, North Korea, to send troops? Will this anger the Japanese country?!"
The leader of North Korea, Li Zhu, was shocked after receiving Zhu Youxiao's order to send troops to Japan.
Naturally, he did not want to send troops to Japan, even though Japan brought great humiliation to his country more than thirty years ago, and even though during the Imjin Japanese Rebellion, his navy performed pretty well, not as bad as its army. .
But as a ruler who only wanted to live in peace and quiet, Li Zhu had no intention of seeking revenge against the Japanese state.
Not only did Li Zhu have no desire to seek revenge against Japan, but most of the scholar-bureaucrats in North Korea also had no desire to seek revenge against Japan. They all just wanted to live in peace and quiet.
Just like during the Song Dynasty, among the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were only a few people who intended to expedition to the north to avenge the national humiliation.
Of course, we cannot say that the Korean monarchs and ministers were stupid, but it happened that they were too shrewd and good at settling accounts. They knew that going to Japan to conquer Japan was a thankless task. It was a laborious expedition, a waste of money and food, and they might even suffer revenge from Japan.
Therefore, at this moment, when the imperial edict from Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty asking for an expedition to North Korea arrived, Li Zhu and his monarchs and ministers felt very embarrassed.
Jin Liu, the leader of the government, then asked Guo Mu, who had always announced the decree: "As the king said, is it wise to go to the Japanese country? After all, it is only about the lives of some businessmen, why would the Celestial Empire launch a large-scale expedition because of this? And if If we really want to go on an expedition, we will definitely spend a lot of money and food, and Korea is a small vassal country, so it is really unbearable!"
Therefore, Guo Mu directly pulled out his sword, pointed it at Jin Liu, and then said to Yuan Chonghuan: "May I ask him, are they going to resist the decree?! Are they afraid of the revenge of the Japanese country, but aren't they afraid of the wrath of His Majesty the Ming Emperor Long Yan?! "
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