"His name is Ito Jinsai."
Zhu Yihai whispered something to Qi Biaojia.
Qi Biaojia smiled lightly.
At this time, Xiao Zhai Shunsheng argued with him: "Of course, being a king does not affect the state, such as North Korea..."
Qi Biaojia took advantage of this and said to Zhu Yihai: "These two people will have different futures in the future."
Zhu Yihai nodded: "What Qi Gong said is true."
After a while, another Japanese Confucian scholar, Ando Shoan, ran in and suddenly said: "The Choshu Domain and the Satsuma Domain have formed an alliance to demand the return of power to the Emperor, and Yatsushiro Castle has been captured!"
Kotaku Junsheng and Ito Saihito couldn't help but stop their argument and looked at Qi Biaojia and other Ming officials.
Qi Biaojia looked at Zhang Youyu: "Zhang Dutang, we must strengthen the defense of Nagasaki, so that Ming Dynasty Nagasaki cannot be lost to the Japanese."
After hearing this, Ito Saihito and Kotaku Junsheng felt very uncomfortable.
Is Nagasaki from the Ming Dynasty?
Didn't you take it from the shogunate by force?
But neither Ito Saihito nor Kotaku Junsei dared to ask so openly.
They know that although today's Ming Dynasty advocates Confucianism, its emperor is not an emperor who follows the way of a saint.
Moreover, now, Confucian scholars close to the shogunate such as Ito Saihito and Kotaku Junio have to care about the current attitude of the Ming Dynasty and whether they will support the collapse of the Choshu and Satsuma clans.
"Nobles of the Celestial Dynasty, please forgive me for being presumptuous. The current behavior of the Choshu and Satsuma Domains is considered an act of betrayal and goes against the principles of the monarch and his ministers. The Celestial Empire has always been a country of etiquette. Therefore, I would like to ask the Celestial Empire to agree to stop making peace with the Satsuma Domain. The Choshu Domain’s deal.”
Ito Saihito said it first.
Xiao Zhai Shunsheng also said: "I think the heaven cannot tolerate such a rebel succeeding, right?"
Qi Biaojia sneered: "What should we do? When will it be your turn to teach?"
Then, Qi Biaojia threw up his sleeves and left.
Zhang Youyu also left here, and ordered his subordinates: "Strengthen defense. Anyone who fires artillery on Nagasaki will be regarded as an invasion of our Ming Dynasty!"
Kotaku Junsei and Ito Saihito were quite puzzled by this. They wondered what kind of medicine these Ming officials were selling in their gourds.
Shang Zhouzuo also stood up and said: "I must rush back to Edo immediately and ask the shogunate to ensure the safety of our people living abroad in the Ming Dynasty."
So Shang Zhouzuo also left here.
Seeing this, Junsheng Xiaozhai and Saihito Ito could only look at Zhu Yousong and Zhu Yihai.
Zhu Yousong said: "It is inconvenient for us to interfere in the affairs of your Japanese country, but for me, the Ming Dynasty, naturally whoever can guarantee the interests of the Celestial Empire in Japan is our friend, otherwise it is our enemy."
Zhu Yihai also said: "Yes, but now we don't know who is the friend and who is the enemy."
Kotaku Junsei and Ito Saihito looked at each other, then nodded and left, and immediately rushed back to Edo.
"This is our Japanese country's own business. We should try not to let the Celestial Empire get involved, otherwise, this jackal will seek more benefits from us!"
After listening to Kotaku Junsei and Ito Saihito's attitude about the Ming Dynasty, the veteran Date Munejun talked about his own views to Tokugawa Iemitsu.
Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded and sighed: "I hope there is no need to involve people from the Celestial Empire."
Then, Tokugawa Iemitsu added: "But the merchant envoy just met me and said that if the shogunate cannot guarantee the safety of the Chinese overseas Chinese, they will have to consider whether the shogunate has the ability to maintain a stable Japanese society."
"This is a threat!"
Munenomi Yagyu, the chief minister (official position of the shogunate) stood up and said with some indignation.
"But what can we do? Now we can only hope that the Celestial Empire will not support those who are overthrown, and support the so-called 'respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians' behavior! This general was personally awarded by the emperor, and he received it from heaven. If they want to fight against the barbarians, why should they overthrow me?" ? It is obvious that resisting the barbarians is a lie, but seizing power and treason is real. Heavy troops must be sent to wipe out these traitors, and they must be wiped out as soon as possible, so as not to give the Chinese government a chance to interfere in our internal affairs and seek benefits!"
Tokugawa Iemitsu said.
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"Although our livelihood is difficult now, it is essentially caused by the Ming Dynasty plundering the interests of the Japanese country through the shogunate, but we cannot offend the Ming Dynasty now and give it an excuse to directly send troops to help the shogunate deal with us! Therefore, although Nagasaki is the richest in Kyushu The land is actually occupied by the Ming Dynasty, so we cannot attack Nagasaki."
At this time, Mourihide, the lord of the Choshu vassal, also talked about the Ming Dynasty and Nagasaki to the famous names of the fallen alliance.
The leader of the Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, punched the table angrily: "Forget it! After the Tokugawa shogunate is overthrown and the power is restored to the Empress, she can come back to deal with the people of the Ming Dynasty!"
Therefore, the Overthrow Alliance did not take the initiative to provoke Daming.
The shogunate did not want Ming to find an excuse to interfere in the internal affairs of the shogunate, and therefore raised the price, so it really spent a lot of money, distributed all the treasury money that had been collected for many years, and sent out an army of 200,000 to conquer. Fallen alliance.
The first battle took place outside Yanagawa City.
However, because the Tokugawa shogunate had to use various methods to expropriate money in order to restore its own treasury after paying indemnities and food to the Ming Dynasty, many daimyo were dissatisfied with the shogunate.
Therefore, there are more people who overthrow the alliance, and they all hate the traitorous behavior of the shogunate, so they share the same hatred with the shogunate army than the shogunate army.
As a result, the shogunate army was defeated in a battle outside Yanagawa Castle.
The general of the Satsuma clan, Hisaka Kayama, even attacked Yanagawa Castle, which supported the shogunate's daimyo Yanagawa clan, and massacred all the Japanese in the city. He did not attack the Japanese girls who paid special condolences to the Celestial Noble Society, nor did he attack the Han people in the city.
The reason is simple: they are afraid of causing dissatisfaction in the Ming Dynasty.
It's okay to be cruel to your own people.
"Trash! Trash! How did you hit me!"
Tokugawa Iemitsu was furious after the defeat. He was naturally angry because he failed to wipe out the fallen alliance as he wished, not because the Japanese in Yanagawa Castle were massacred.
And after being furious, Tokugawa Iemitsu just asked with concern: "Yanagawa Castle, is there anything going on with the nobles of the Celestial Empire in Yanagawa Castle?"
"It's okay! Those traitors don't dare to directly provoke the Celestial Empire."
Date Munjun replied.
"Right now, it seems that we still have to let the Celestial Empire intervene!"
Tokugawa Iemitsu said with a sigh.
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"Immediately send a telegram to the telegram reception office in Dinghai. Immediately take the edict to Nagasaki and allow Zhang Youyu to immediately intervene in the Japanese civil war! Fight back the fallen alliance, but it is not necessary to wipe them all out. Just keep it as it is. Let Shang Zhouzuo order firearms and armor, etc. Regarding contact with the shogunate and loan matters, this is an opportunity to coordinate with the shogunate!"
Zhu Youxiao immediately made a new announcement after learning of the defeat of the shogunate army through wired telegrams from Ningbo.
After receiving the edict from Zhu Youxiao, the Governor of Nagasaki, Zhang Youyu, immediately ordered the Ming Dynasty Navy in Nagasaki: "Put a few dummies in an uninhabited area of Nagasaki City and let them wear the cloth of our Ming Navy Navy. Wear armor, and then fire a few cannons at these dummies. After firing the cannons, immediately send someone to report to the officer, saying that the cannons fired by the Japanese army injured our people."
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