The sound of gunshots came from the Ming Dynasty’s official army.
It turns out that the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers stationed in Japan had their own early warning system to prevent greedy Japanese warriors who couldn't help but slaughter and plunder the Han people when they saw they were good at farming.
Specifically, mounted police and infantry police were set up in various Han-inhabited areas to quickly report the situation to surrounding officers and soldiers.
These Japanese warriors ran away as soon as they heard the sound of gunfire and did not choose to fight Gao Zijia again.
Gao Zijia breathed a sigh of relief, and after taking a look at the bloody Yanling knife in his hand, he quickly dropped the knife on the ground.
After a while, Gao Zijia came back to his senses and helped the shivering Wu Qian up.
Wu Qian's hair was messy, her clothes were disheveled, and she was crying so hard that after Gao Zijia helped her up, she hugged Gao Zijia and cried.
thump!
Gu Gu!
At this time, the sound of falling water and the crow of chickens could be heard outside.
When Gao Zijia looked around, he saw that the Japanese warriors who had just gone to his chicken coop to snatch his chickens had been beaten to death by the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers with hawk-billed muskets, and they all fell into the water. The chickens that were sitting on the ground also flew around.
Wu Qian, who had been taking care of the chickens during this period, hurriedly ran over and picked up the chickens.
Gao Zijia also walked towards this side and picked up the Yanling knife in his hand again.
"Okay! You dare to kill someone!"
At this time, Yiguanjun was saying something to Gao Zijia.
Gao Zijia just smiled.
Because the officers and soldiers arrived in time, the bold and greedy Japanese warriors did not cause much damage to the new Han village.
At least the Han people like Gao Zijia who were surrounded by the village did not suffer any economic losses.
It's just that a few Han people were killed outside and some food was robbed and taken away.
But this is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty first stationed troops in the Japanese country and set up government offices to manage it, and then immigrated.
If pure Han people migrate here on their own, without the support of a powerful country, they will just be fat sheep slaughtered by the indigenous people.
Because people will not respect you just because you are better at farming. They will just do the same as domestic landlords and try their best to exploit you, and they will even be more brutal and brutal.
Historically, the Ming Dynasty had no motivation to expand externally and did not care whether the Han people who migrated lived or died. Therefore, most of the Han people who migrated were massacred.
In addition, most of the Han people who migrated out did value farming to make money rather than hegemony and expansion. They even preferred to fight among themselves and exploit their own compatriots, so there was no expansion of Han civilization.
In fact, any expansion of civilization requires the support of a ruling class.
But now there are Ming garrison troops in Japan, and there are also ministers and other officials who are responsible for all kinds of order here. It is not the case in history that after the Han people moved overseas, they were not under the control of their own court or even actively abandoned by their own court.
Therefore, if the greedy Japanese warriors do this, it will only cause the entire Japanese landlord class to suffer severe revenge.
Even if only a few Han people were lost.
But it is a big provocation to local officials and soldiers who have vital interests.
When Xing Jie, the governor of Japan, learned about this incident, he was very angry and ordered Liu Cheng'an, the general stationed in Yuan Jing Mansion:
"When I saw the imperial envoy arriving, something like this happened in Yuanjing Mansion. What if the imperial envoy reported to the court that I was not doing enough to educate and educate? Immediately raise troops to attack these Japanese pirates!"
After Liu Chengan led the troops, he went to Hizen Yanagawa Castle, which was closest to Motokyei Mansion.
Although it would be difficult for the Japanese officers and generals of the Ming Dynasty to find out which Japanese warriors came to plunder the Han villages, basically once there was such a provocation, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty would directly attack the daimyo closest to the place where the incident occurred, and directly think that these The Daimyo is the culprit.
Because these big names are basically in the city, with fixed residences and fixed industries, they are easy to suppress.
Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty only need to question these famous names.
What's more, it's near the place where the accident happened.
The daimyo was originally the master of the nearby Japanese warriors, so he also had the obligation to ensure that the Japanese warriors under his command did not act randomly.
As a result, the Uraike clan, the daimyo of Yanagawa Castle, was suppressed.
The entire nine Urachi clans, including the samurai retainers in the city, except for the head of the family, Urachi Masuzune, were escorted out, both men and women, and ordered to kneel on the ground to be beheaded.
These people can be counted as all the Japanese landowners in the entire Yanagawa County area.
And now that they were forcibly suppressed by the Ming army, they were naturally very dissatisfied.
"You robbed our land, why are you blaming us now? You robbers deserve to die!"
Therefore, Puchi watchman cursed the Ming army wearing red helmets and red armor in front of them, but he did not deny that he had nothing to do with the warriors who plundered the Han people.
"cut!"
However, at this time, An Zhaoyu, the Ming general who was responsible for suppressing Yanagawa City, did not say much. He only waved his hand and ordered the execution of these Japanese landlords.
Uh-huh!
Uh-huh!
Uh-huh!
Therefore, Puchi watchman watched helplessly as Japanese landowners like himself fell to the ground one after another, and froze in place.
Not long after, his eyes darkened and he fell to the ground.
After all the Japanese landlords in Yanagawa County were suppressed, only tenants and ordinary Japanese slaves remained in Yanagawa County.
Because the class contradictions in the Japanese country in this era were very acute, after the Ming Dynasty killed the Japanese landlords, it did not need to suppress ordinary Japanese, but needed relief.
The reason for the relief was, firstly, to obtain the land of these Japanese landlords, to prevent these ordinary Japanese from being coerced by other daimyo, and to organize them to fight against the Ming Dynasty in the name of dividing the land; secondly, the Ming Dynasty needed them to mine minerals.
Moreover, the cost of relieving these Japanese people is not high. They just need to provide crude meals based on corn and sweet potatoes.
Because the daimyo samurai who originally ruled them exploited them too hard in order to fight for hegemony, and heavy taxes and heavy labor often left them hungry.
However, Ming Dynasty will still give them some wages, so that they can get rich through labor and be able to consume, so as not to cause the Ming Dynasty's cheap cotton to be unsaleable.
Therefore, these ordinary Japanese were basically willing to accept the relief and arrangements of the Ming Dynasty and were taken to mine minerals.
[In view of the general environment,
A down-and-out ronin named Amakusa Ryuichi was taken from Yanagawa Castle to the Daming Dongying Mining Area for mining for a month. When he received his wages, he burst into tears and said to Morita Taken, an old miner here:
"Why do they care more about our dignity!"
Takeshi Morita said: "Because they come from the Ming Dynasty, they are here to save us!"
Amakusa Ryuichi was convinced of this, then raised his head and cried:
"I am so lucky to be redeemed by the Celestial Empire and no longer have to go hungry to tend my master's fields."
For the ordinary Japanese who were captured, Daming was like a savior.
But for the head of the Urochi clan, Ryuzoji Housekeeper, Ming was obviously a domineering bandit, and he directly suppressed the lord of Yanagawa Domain under his control.
However, although the housekeeper of Longzao Temple hated it in his heart, on the surface, he did not dare to say a word about it. He only urged his retainers internally to control their own warriors and not to provoke the Ming Dynasty.
His retainers also felt helpless, because they often had trouble controlling their warriors from being greedy.
At this time, the lord of Yanagawa City, Uuchi Masuchong, felt aggrieved and helpless and knelt down in front of the Japanese governor Xing Jie, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said in Japanese:
"Spare your life! Spare your life! I really don't know where we have offended your country. I am willing to give up my property to forgive our sins. I also ask you to propose a price."
