At the beginning, most of the lower class people in Japan were filled with indignation when they heard that the Han people were going to invade. Some even wanted to pick up a stick and go to the battlefield immediately.
As a result, the Han army had not yet arrived, but they were waiting for the order from the shogunate to "strengthen the walls and clear the country."
What followed was a series of incidents where families were destroyed and people died.
Even the weed shacks built casually on the roadside by homeless people who have no money or food will be burned down by the daimyo samurai in disgust on the charge of supporting the enemy. The young and strong among them will be taken away. Those who dared to resist were hacked to the ground.
As for those tenant farmers whose conditions were slightly better, after all their property was robbed, their houses were demolished and the wooden beams were set on fire. Men would be driven away to do corvées, while women, the elderly, and children would be driven away to do hard labor. Anyone who dares to disobey will be mercilessly hacked to death.
Even residents with some status living in the city would be exploited in large numbers before being let go.
For a time, the whole of Japan was in turmoil and mourning was everywhere.
The shogunate's method of dealing with Japanese people's grievances was also very "smart". They preached to the people at the bottom: The sins you are suffering now are all caused by the Han people who want to invade Japan. If you want to hate it, just hate the Han people.
If the shogunate's army could not stop the Han invasion, the Han army would massacre all Japanese indiscriminately after they captured Japan. Although you are suffering a little now, you can still survive. But if the shogunate cannot defeat the Han people, then only death awaits you.
It must be said that the shogunate's propaganda was also very successful, and it quickly transferred the hatred of the lower class people whose families had been destroyed to the Yijun.
So much so that when they were mobilizing for war, the people at the bottom asked to join in to jointly resist the invasion of the Yi army.
But with the arrival of the Yi army, the Yi army claimed that the reason why the Yi army wanted to attack Japan this time was purely because the Japanese royal family and officials of the shogunate disrespectfully provoked the majesty of the Yi Dynasty court, and even spoke to His Majesty the Emperor of Yi Dynasty: Caused by arrogance, this war has little to do with the people at the bottom of Japan. The people of Japan should eat and drink without worrying.
Even Da Yi Chao couldn't bear to see the current miserable situation of the Japanese people. A land distribution policy has been implemented for the lower class people in the occupied areas, so that everyone at the bottom of Japan has land to cultivate;
At the same time, the Yi Dynasty also reduced a large amount of land taxes for the people in the occupied areas to ensure that every hardworking person could eat white rice.
As soon as the news of the Yijun came out, it was like a heavy blow hitting the hearts of the shogunate and the various daimyo and landowners. It made them fearful.
In this regard, the shogunate and the daimyo from various places are trying their best to block the propaganda information of the Yijun. But with such a small area in Japan, how can it be possible to completely block it?
Sure enough, as soon as the news came out: the entire bottom class in Japan began to feel confused.
Don’t you say that the Han army is all cannibalistic ghosts? They all kill evildoers on sight. How come what they said is completely different from what the shogunate agreed to do? Should you believe what they say?
Instinctively, they prefer what the shogunate says to them. After all, everyone is Japanese.
However, Yijun's propaganda is even more attractive!
That is a field, a field that can be passed down from generation to generation. How many people don’t have a field?
And that white rice,
How many people have not eaten white rice for a long time? They all live by eating rice bran mixed with wild vegetables!
However, if the Yijun's propaganda is true, then who should they turn to for their grievances that caused their families to be destroyed?
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Satsuma Domain
The battlefield outside Tsurumaru Castle
At this time, the fierce fighting was nearing its end.
After this battle, the shogunate had lost more than 2,000 cavalry and more than 8,000 infantry. Of the more than 60,000 men and horses, less than 30,000 men and horses finally escaped back to the camp, which was less than half of the men and horses who returned. This loss was not unbearable.
Most of the people who returned this time were soldiers from the shogunate. As for the other daimyo, except for their own families and the samurai they supported, the peasant soldiers they brought over basically either died in battle, surrendered or got separated.
Although for those daimyo, only the samurai of their own family and the samurai they support are their real armed forces, the loss of too many young and strong men in the territory also weakens their strength.
Without young people, how can food and tax revenue be guaranteed?
Without food and tax revenue, how can they go around trying to save face?
My flesh hurts a lot just thinking about it.
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On the other hand, on the coalition side, there were basically no casualties in this battle.
Apart from being hit by artillery shells and a handful of arrows thrown by cavalry, there were almost no casualties on the Yijun side. Among the few hundred casualties of the coalition forces, they mainly came from Satsuma Domain. Brought by the warriors who went up to charge.
After this battle, Tokugawa Ieharu really felt the military strength of the Yi Army. No wonder the Manchu Tatars, who were known as "all invincible" in Lianzhong Heng Grassland, were still beaten by the Yi Army. We are retreating, and now we can only defend passively.
The loss of more than 30,000 men and horses was not something that the shogunate, which had been running Japan for hundreds of years, could not afford. But for the long guns and artillery of the Yi army, if the shogunate cannot come up with a solution. Then even if the shogunate can recruit more soldiers, it will not help.
Moreover, if the shogunate deploys too many military forces to guard various places, resulting in insufficient guarding power in various places, it will also put the shogunate's rule on the verge of danger.
Especially after the current policy of "Strengthening the Wall and Clearing the Fields", the number of peasant riots in various places is constantly increasing. Insufficient guard troops will aggravate these incidents, making it possible for the shogunate's rule to be subverted.
No matter what, Tokugawa Ieharu couldn't let such a thing happen, otherwise he would be written down by history as a mediocre and incompetent waste?
This is something he absolutely cannot accept.
Obviously he had just taken over Jiangshan, so why did this mess happen before he had done anything.
"Zhang Rui, damn you, if you want to fight a war, you're going to have a war. What other policy is there to divide the land, divide the land, and reduce taxes? Is dividing the land, dividing the land, and reducing taxes something you, a person from a hostile country, should think about?"
"As a member of a hostile country, how can you not kill civilians? You should let your men kill more of the mud-legged people below to relieve their anger! This will also make the untouchables in Japan fight to the death with you."
"What do you mean by this? You are bullying us because of your family's great cause. Your land is not divided emotionally, and you are not going to ask for taxes, so what do you mean by attacking us Japan?" At this time, Tokugawa Ieharu was almost in the camp It's the devil who shouted.
Tokugawa Ieharu believed that he could still handle the riots that occurred among people everywhere. But facing the powerful Yijun, and even the Central Plains of China with unlimited resources behind them, Tokugawa Ieharu only felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
