Burney must have been fooled!
Because Zhu Heji's Great Tomorrow Army did not capture Bisha City at all in early March, nor did they cross the Yalu River.
The Ming army that landed on the Liaodong Peninsula is still busy building infrastructure and opening farmland south of Nanguan Ridge (the narrowest part of the Jinzhou Peninsula), and has no time to attack Beisha City. Of course, they would not let Bisha City go. Instead, they adopted a fortress siege method, building dozens of fortresses around Daheishan and blocking all the mountain passes in and out. Snipers were also deployed in these fortresses...
As for North Korea, the Ming army has not yet seen the Yalu River. They have just advanced to the vicinity of the Qingchuan River. Due to the scorched earth tactics adopted by the Qing army during their retreat, the Ming army advancing north encountered a lot of trouble. They needed to build bridges along the way, clear roads, relieve hungry people (there were still many people who were not captured or killed by the Qing army), establish strongholds, and organize the people to resume production. The farming season for planting wheat and rice had already passed, so the Ming army marching north could only organize North Korean farmers to rush to plant some sweet potatoes and potatoes.
In addition, because the area north of the Imjin River to the Yalu River was "washed" by the Qing army, the two groups of nobles who originally informed the local grassroots no longer existed.
Therefore, Zhu Heji wanted to allocate the land on the narrow plain between Linjin River and Yalu River, close to the Yellow River, to Korean Ming army soldiers in order to cultivate a group of die-hard Ming loyalists.
To successfully complete the land distribution, Zhu Heji needed the evil Qing Dynasty to maintain a certain amount of pressure on North Korea... so it was not a good idea to advance to the bank of the Yalu River immediately.
While the northward advance was slowly advancing, the Ming army stationed in North Korea also faced a very arduous task - resisting Japan!
For the Ming army stationed in Korea, which has expanded to six divisions with a total strength of more than 75,000, resisting the Japanese is really not easy... because the Japanese invaders trapped in the Choryang Japanese Pavilion will not be able to survive even if they are exposed. The army had been without food for twenty days, but they did not dare to step out of the Japanese palace and launch a war of aggression against Ming Dynasty and Korea!
"Your Majesty, Wan Dahong's memorial said that the Japanese invaders in the Caoliang Japanese Hall have run out of food. The day before yesterday, there were Japanese invaders who ran out of the Japanese Hall to ask for food from our people..."
In the Qingde Hall, Zhu Hesi, who was listening to Yan Yuan's report, immediately became angry when he heard that there were Japanese pirates begging for food, "God damn, what kind of Japanese pirates are these? Why do they want food? Aren't Japanese pirates all warriors?" A samurai cannot beg for food even if he commits seppuku!"
Quan Shangxia on the side actually laughed "hahaha" a few times after listening to Zhu Heji's words. When he found that Zhu Da Jianguo had cast a rather unkind look, he quickly stopped laughing and looked at Zhu Heji awkwardly. Said: "Your Majesty, I thought you were joking... The Japanese in the Japanese pavilion are not all samurai, many of them are merchants and servants of samurai... And even the samurai will eat something when they are too hungry. Eating is also normal.
We don't sell them food now, and we don't let them leave... If they don't want food, won't they starve to death? "
"Don't they know how to rob?" Zhu Heji asked, "Aren't Japanese pirates all robbers?"
Zhu Heji was a great Confucian, so he was quite reasonable. He could not slander Japanese invaders for no reason!
You have to be a little bit practical, right?
The Choryang Japanese Museum was not occupied by the Japanese, but was set aside by the Kingdom of Korea for the Japanese to use. This approach seemed to later generations to have set aside a concession for the Japanese, which was an act of humiliating the country and losing its power.
However, in the 17th century or even earlier, it was quite normal to allocate a piece of land to allow foreign businessmen to govern themselves. This approach not only facilitates management, but also facilitates tax collection, and can also avoid unnecessary conflicts between foreign businessmen and locals.
If Zhu Heji believed that the existence of the Caoliang Japanese Pavilion infringed on the sovereignty of the Ming Dynasty, he could have asked the Japanese to evacuate... and if he really made the request, the Japanese pirates would probably have really withdrawn.
But Zhu Hesheng couldn't let this group of robbers escape!
"But robbers are also afraid of flintlock guns!" Quan Shangxia explained with a smile, "Even real Japanese pirates only dare to bully the weak. How can they dare to steal the food of the heavenly soldiers?"
Zhu Heji shook his head repeatedly and almost cursed "Baga" in his heart. The Japanese invaders are not good this time. Why are they so cowardly? Are they shameless navy?
He thought for a while and asked again: "Are they going to have dinner?"
Yan Yuan nodded and said with a smile: "It's almost here...after all, starving all the Japanese pirates to death is not an option!"
It’s really coming!
It turned out that the Ming army responsible for besieging the Japanese Pavilion in Choryang was worried that the Japanese pirates would starve to death and be unable to invade North Korea, so they had to give them some food. This is really difficult!
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji snorted: "This matter cannot be dragged on forever... Quan Shangxia!"
"I'm here!"
Zhu Heji said: "Go to Busan and ask them when they plan to invade the Korean province of the Ming Dynasty? Then tell them that the Ming Dynasty already knows that they colluded with the foreign barbarians, left Asia and entered Europe, and gave the Dutch and Spanish oceans It’s an attempt to be a lackey!”
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Japanese pirates were all said by the Ming Dynasty. Masanao Tsuchiya, the important shogunate minister in charge of the Choryang Japanese Museum, does not think that he is a Japanese pirate... His family is not a pirate, so how could he be a Japanese pirate? Their Tsuchiya family ancestors were loyal ministers of Koshu Takeda!
Masahiro Tsuchiya, who is known as "the one who can kill thousands of people with one hand in Tianmu Mountain", is the great-grandfather of Masanao Tsuchiya who is currently trapped in the Choryang Japanese Hall and starving by the Ming army.
Masanao's great-grandfather was very cruel back then. After Takeda Katsuyori committed suicide and the Takeda family was destroyed, he was still unwilling to fail and hid alone in Tenmu Mountain to attack the passing Oda army. He killed many people before being shot dead, so he got the title of "Heavenly Man Killer".
But this ferocity was not inherited from Tsuchiya Masanao... This high-ranking samurai who was born well, and whose father was a feudal lord and a senior shogunate, was actually a "punch-in samurai". . If you act cautiously and avoid making mistakes on weekdays, all aspects of your relationships will be well managed. If nothing unexpected happens, he can probably become a middle-aged man like his father.
The reason why he was able to get this trip to the Choryang Japanese Museum was because he was cautious enough, so the senior middlemen all agreed that letting him come to North Korea would not ruin anything.
As for what exactly is this “big thing”?
In fact, those middle-aged and old people who are messing around don’t even know it.
The current Tokugawa shogunate is no longer the heyday under the rule of Ieyasu, Hidetada, and Iemitsu, and has also gone downhill. In particular, the fourth-generation general "Stupid Gongfang" Ietsuna is not only stupid, but he has also been unable to give birth to a son. The shogunate is now in danger of losing its heirs. A group of senior middlemen are too invested in the issue of succession. How can they have time to consider external matters?
The reason why he joined the "Sixteen-Nation Anti-Ming Alliance" was actually because Zhu Heji sent Zheng Chenggong's brother Tagawa Shichizaemon as a special envoy to raise the issue of Ryukyu suzerainty to the shogunate.
A group of senior middlemen in the shogunate were afraid of taking responsibility for the Ryukyu issue, so they muddleheadedly formed an alliance with Kangxi, hoping to use this as a bargaining chip.
This time, the shogunate sent more manpower to the Choryang Wakan, and also sent important ministers like Tsuchiya Masanao. In fact, it wanted to use the "Sixteen-Nation Alliance" and the increase in personnel stationed in Korea as bargaining chips to start negotiations with the Ming Dynasty.
But who knew that Ming Dynasty did not negotiate with Tsuchiya at all, and also took a very strange behavior, initially transferring all the officials and garrison troops in Busan. Then a fleet was suddenly sent to occupy Jueying Island, and then the army came over, surrounded the Japanese pavilion, and cut off the food supply... As a result, there was not much food in the Japanese pavilion (I did not expect that there would be So many people), they soon ran out of food.
This is really a bit confusing. This Ming Dynasty was originally a country of etiquette, but why has it become so unreasonable now?
But Tsuchiya didn't dare to fight against Ming Dynasty. Their troops looked very strict and equipped with a large number of flintlock guns and various artillery. It was obvious at first glance that Tsuchiya was powerful. Tsuchiya couldn't defeat the opponent at all... .So Tsuchiya could only try his best to solve the problem of eating while waiting for the envoy from Daming.
