Bang bang!
The Ming army guarding King Wei and his party immediately gathered at this time, and the first row of spearmen had already blocked the Japanese attack.
But these Japanese people seemed to carry out the assassination with a certain death mentality.
Therefore, even though the Ming army behind them had already armed themselves with firearms, they still rushed over.
Eventually, these Japanese were all wiped out.
"Who is so bold and dares to assassinate Gu?"
King Wei couldn't help but touch his heart at this moment, and then asked.
The accompanying official Xing Jie said at this time: "It should be people from the Tokugawa clan. They must have known about His Highness's plan to conquer Fanhonshu."
King Wei was quite shocked after hearing this and asked, "Ah, how did they know about this?"
Xing Jie replied with a serious face: "Of course there is a traitor."
"Traitor?"
King Wei asked.
Xing Jie said "hmm" and said: "It cannot be ruled out that some people are still worried that His Highness can successfully establish a vassal state in this state, making the vassal vassal overseas even more irreversible."
"For them, it's better to use the hands of the Japanese to cause an accident to His Highness!"
"In this way, there will be enough reasons to ask the court to postpone the transfer of vassal vassals overseas, and it will also increase the fear of domestic vassal vassals, making them even more afraid to come overseas to join the vassal state. In fact, they may even be unwilling to go overseas to join the vassal state. And commit regicide and rebellion."
"How insidious!"
King Wei couldn't help but say something at this time.
Xing Jie continued: "Since His Highness has chosen to join the feudal clan and has already arrived in Japan, I have to speak out!"
"Speak directly if you have anything to say."
"His Highness may be assassinated in more than one incident, so His Highness should be more careful. After all, there are many people who don't want His Highness to successfully take root here."
"However, don't worry too much, Your Highness. We are the majority here now, and we have absolute strength to ensure His Highness's safety."
"Of course, I will try my best to ensure the safety of His Highness."
After Xing Jie said this, King Wei couldn't help but said: "Why didn't you tell me this earlier?"
"Your Highness, please forgive me."
"Of course I don't want His Highness to back down, so I won't say anything more before Your Highness comes to Japan."
Xing Jie said.
King Wei: "..."
Xing Jie then said to King Wei: "Your Highness, this matter must be reported to the imperial court, so that the imperial court can strictly investigate the people behind the scenes, and also allow the imperial court to use this as an excuse to make the Japanese pay a greater price for this! Because it is against etiquette for them to attack and kill the prince!"
King Wei nodded, and then couldn't help but ask Xing Jie:
"Xing Budang, why do you think the imperial court must transform the Japanese into kings, increase their hatred, abide by Taizu's ancestral precepts, and not conquer their country?"
"Reporting to your highness, this is all because the Ming Dynasty under the rule of the old rites has been destroyed for a long time."
"To be specific, the hatred between Chinese people has been increasing day by day because of the backwardness of old rituals!"
"If we don't use new rituals to transfer this increased hatred into hatred between us and the Japanese nobles, then a large number of our own people and even the nobles' children will die unexpectedly. Your Highness may still die unexpectedly one day in the future. And it is very likely that he died at the hands of his own compatriots."
"Because His Highness is a member of the Ming Dynasty royal family and owns a large amount of land and industry. Once the common people who cannot survive want to rebel, they will naturally choose to eliminate people like His Highness. After all, it is more cost-effective to eliminate His Highness than to eliminate the common people."
Xing Jie replied.
After hearing this, King Wei let out a long sigh, and then smiled and said: "Thank you for your advice. I understand a lot now. I should put away my sympathy, because there is no absolute justice in this world, and kindness can only be treated by certain people and people." You have to be kind at some point, but you can’t really be a farmer with a poisonous snake in your arms.”
"Your Highness understands that it is best."
"Actually, apart from our own people, those who really want His Highness's life are just individual meat-eaters among the Japanese who are unwilling to lose too much profit."
"As long as this dynasty does not rule the land and population here purely through killing and violent plunder, but allows them to live a better life in the name of kingship, there will not be many people who will not allow His Highness to rule here."
Xing Jie said with a smile.
After Xing Jie said this, King Wei nodded thoughtfully.
At the same time that King Wei went east to join the feudal vassal, in Central China, Shen Shixing's younger brother Shen Shijie and his family also arrived in Suzhou.
Suzhou was located in Jiuquan in later generations, and in today's Ming Dynasty, it was a border town.
Because there are not many literati here, when Shen Shijie's family arrived here, not many people came to greet them. Only local officials and some guards officers who had lived here for generations came to greet them.
Shen Shijie wanted to bring his family to settle here, so as soon as he arrived there, he asked Tian Le, the governor of Ganzhou, to support him, set up a school here, and began to teach the children here to read, even the children of the Hu people who had joined in.
Suzhou is located in a border town where Hu and Han people live together. Many Hu people from Qinghai choose to settle in Suzhou.
Now Shen Shijie has come to further strengthen the Sinicization of the Hu people within.
After Wang Xijue's second son, Wang Heng, arrived in Jianchang, he directly summoned the local Han Yi people to watch the play he had rehearsed in person. This made him known to many Han Yi people at once, and his influence was greater than that of Shen Shijie.
Because of this reason, many local people soon knew about the deeds of Guan Yu and Yue Fei, as well as people like Zhang Juzheng, Qi Jiguang, and Yu Dayou. Naturally, they also knew a little better about the Emperor of Heaven.
Zhu Yijun also learned about the situation of these Jiangnan literati who went to the southwest and northwest through reports from Jin Yiwei and others.
at the same time.
Zhu Yijun also learned about King Wei's status overseas through secret reports from Xing Jie and others at any time.
When he learned about the assassination of King Wei overseas, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but frown and told Zhang Jingxiu:
"We need to find out the person who secretly communicated with the Japanese pirates! I would like to know who is so bold that even Ling Chi dares to secretly communicate with the foreigners."
Zhu Yijun continued: "Of course, I know that it is not necessarily our own people who are secretly communicating with the Japanese pirates. It may be the news brought back by the Japanese pirates' own informants. But no matter what, we must try to go in this direction." Check to prevent someone so bold from doing this."
Zhang Jingxiu raised his hand and said yes.
Zhu Yijun frowned again when he saw Xing Jie saying that King Wei also expressed his incomprehension about the Ming Dynasty's destruction of Japan because of his assassination.
But after he saw what Xing Jie explained and King Wei's reaction, he smiled brightly again: "This Xing Jie is really capable of taking on big responsibilities. With him here, King Wei's plan to conquer Nengjing is going very well." .”
Zhu Yijun then stood up again and said sternly to Li Chengliang and others: "The Japanese pirates are hateful. They dare to plot against my clan and destroy the etiquette of the world!"
"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Shuozhou is currently sending his troops to Osaka. From my perspective, this matter must be related to the Toyotomi clan. The Toyotomi clan has carried out a terrorist attack on our royal nobles. The king should be ordered to carry out a thorough attack on the Toyotomi clan. Eradicate them and make them pay a greater price!"
Li Chengliang replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi is an arrogant and rude villain, and the rest of the evildoers are naturally not much better. Now that they have attacked and killed me, the noble Tianhuang, they just used this as an excuse to let Shuozhou Hou punish them with maximum force. The best blow is to shock all the Japanese nobles!"
"yes!"
It was spring and March of the twenty-fifth year of Wanli when Ma Gui received the order.
"Immediately inform the entire army! It is said that the Japanese pirates are plotting to kill the prince of this dynasty, so His Majesty has decreed that all people in Osaka Castle who carry swords will be killed without mercy!"
Ma Gui Ze gave the order after receiving the order.
And not long after, Ma Gui and his army had just finished their rest and officially came to Osaka Castle.
After knowing that the Ming army continued to attack, Asai Chaya of Osaka Castle immediately summoned the civil and military ministers of the Toyotomi family to discuss countermeasures.
On the civilian side, Ono Masuchiuchang and others advocated that the army stay in the city.
On the military attache's side, Sanada Yukimura and others advocated going out of the city to fight the Ming army in the field, and occupy Fushimi Castle first to expand the depth of Osaka Castle's defense.
But Qian Qianjingcha still adopted Wenchen's suggestion.
but.
In addition to holding on, the Toyotomi family in Osaka Castle was not unprepared. They also called on many ronin to help in the battle, that is, many samurai who had lost their territory, about 100,000 people.
Many of them were people who had experienced many wars during the Warring States Period in Japan. These people were not afraid of the Ming army.
Although Ma Gui knew that his officers and soldiers were well-equipped, he did not dare to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly. He also knew that he was fighting in another country and did not have geographical advantages or human advantages. At least he would not have the support of the upper-class Japanese nobles.
Even though the power of the Japanese lords is now very scattered, most of them are relatively united when facing the Ming army's attack, and there are still relatively few surrenders.
Therefore, Ma Gui did not divide his troops and advance quickly after the winter snow melted and the weather got warmer. Instead, he first sent many Yebu who stayed in the Japanese land all year round, learned the Japanese language, mastered the Japanese customs, and even married and had children among the Japanese people. Collect the sentry to investigate the situation in Osaka Castle.
After Magui learned that the Toyotomi family did not take the initiative to seize Fushimi Castle and many other strategic points belonging to the Tokugawa clan, Magui also laughed with relief: "Is this Toyotomi family a warrior?"
then.
Ma Gui said: "Send the order to Qi Jin to immediately occupy the place called Yamatokou, and order Luo Shangzhi to immediately enter and occupy Fushimi Castle! The main force of the missionary officers of the army will be to rescue the poor Japanese along the way and develop them into trench fillers. At the same time, they will focus on heavy artillery bombardment. After bombarding Osaka Castle for three days, send people to negotiate! Since they dare not go out to fight in the city, they must be cherishing their lives. Since they cherish their lives, everything will be easy to handle. "
After saying that, Ma Gui turned around and went into the tent and fell asleep peacefully.
At the same time, the Ming army began to unload the heavy artillery pieces from the horse-drawn carts, and the missionary officers also began to lead the soldiers to set up pots in preparation for relief to the ordinary Japanese.
Soon, the Japanese informants informed the Osaka City rulers such as Qian Asaicha of this situation: "The Ming army is distributing food to Fanxia!" (End of this chapter)
