In fact, when Hideyoshi and Ieyasu were competing, the Shimazu family had pushed to the core area of the Otomo family. It was no exaggeration to say that they were approaching the city. Therefore, the leader Otomo Yoshitomi and his father Otomo Sorin personally went to Osaka to ask for help.
This was certain to be saved, so Hideyoshi ordered Choso Gabu Motouchin to lead eight thousand troops, with his own retainer Sengoku Gonbei Hidehisa acting as a supervisor to support the Otomo family.
Motochika Chosomegabu, nicknamed Ji Wakako, Oni Wakako, a native of Tosa, and the bat on the birdless island, are the famous names of Tosa. It is said that when Chosonggabe Yuanqin was born, he was no different from a girl except for having a handle. Therefore, the people of Chosonggabe privately nicknamed him "Ji Ruozi".
厽厼. If it were in later generations, a boy would be praised for his good looks, but obviously it was not popular in this era, and he did not need to be a rabbit boy, so the Chozonggabu Motochin was killed in an honorable manner and became one of the four One of the great transvestites.
In the 39th year of Jiajing, that is, in 1560 AD, the 22-year-old Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin went to the battlefield to kill people for the first time, which was very visual.
Motochi picked up the spear, took a stance, and then asked a question that shocked everyone present: "Who can tell me how to use this?"
Although the retainer next to him was shocked, he reacted quickly and immediately replied: "Pick up the spear and rush over. That's it."
This seems to be the end, but it turns out that sometimes strong players can be born. In this war, Chosonggabu Motochin killed two enemy generals, and his nickname became Kiwako.
After that, he gradually showed his talents and destroyed the daimyo Motoyama family in Tosa. Then he kicked the great master Kanesada Ichijo to Kyushu and destroyed the Ichijo family.
Then he began to contact Oda Nobunaga and asked Nobunaga to be his son's prostitute. However, Nobunaga obviously did not want to coexist peacefully with Motochika. In the tenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1582 AD, he ordered Oda Nobutaka to lead people to clean up the Chosoga tribe.
In fact, the commander-in-chief of this army was originally Mitsuhide Akechi, but in order to prevent Mitsuhide's territory from becoming too large, Hideyoshi wrote a letter of report to Nobunaga, stating that Nana Ishitani, the adopted daughter of Rizo Saito, who was under Mitsuhide Akechi, was the elder. It is possible that Saito Rizo, the concubine of Gabu Motochin, has an internal connection with Nagasogabu.
As expected, Nobunaga was furious and dismissed Akechi Mitsuhide from his post. However, before the army set off, Nobunaga was grilled by Akechi Mitsuhide. Motochin then began to confront Hideyoshi, and although he surrendered later, he saved Tosa Ichiguo. This time, Chosame Gabu Motochin took his eldest son Nobutichika out to fight, also to gain favor in front of Hideyoshi.
When the army arrived at Totsugawa in Kyushu, Sengoku Hidehisa felt that he had a great advantage and made a strategy similar to Gao Pragmatic's strategy when he continued his southern expedition after occupying Hanoi: pushing all the way.
Chosogabu Motochin felt that this style of play was too stupid and very unreliable, so he proposed a vote, and the minority obeyed the majority. Sengoku Hideku agreed: "Okay, there happens to be one person in the camp."
Unfortunately, this person was none other than Tokawa Demho, who had been beaten by Motochika not long ago. Shihe Deposit Insurance immediately said, don’t be afraid, just do it. This was good, the voting result was two to one, and Yu Chai's army set out to cross the river.
The army moved forward for a while, and there were only dozens of Shimazu's old and weak soldiers along the road. As soon as they saw Yu Shiba's army, they retreated in a hurry. Sengoku Hideku thought to himself, "That's it?" and then ordered: Chase!
After chasing for a while, I heard only one cannon shot, and then iron cannons rang out all around. I don't know how many Yushiba troops were shot down, and then tens of thousands of Shimazu troops suddenly emerged from the forest. Hashiba's army fled in all directions, and Nobuchika, Motochin's legitimate son, died in battle.
And this time the Shimazu family's method of fighting was their favorite method of fishing for Yefu - which was actually the method used by Zhuge Liang to burn Bowang Slope in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
A battle to establish his authority actually suffered a huge defeat at the beginning. Hideyoshi couldn't help but be angry, so he directly fired Sengoku Hidehisa, and then personally led an army of 200,000 to attack the Shimadzu family.
Before the attack, Hideyoshi felt that it was too unreliable to just recognize his godfather, so he simply asked the court to give me a new noble surname. The imperial court in Japan at this time was very talkative. To put it simply, they only collected money to do things. Therefore, they immediately issued a decree to give the surname Toyotomi, making him the fifth noble family after the Minamoto, Taira, Fujiwara, and Tachibana families. This was the official appearance of "Toyotomi Hideyoshi" .
So in March of this year, when Gao Pangshi was dealing with the Northwest Rebellion, Hideyoshi's army began to march and once again crusade against Shimazu.
Although the Satsuma people can fight, they are not monsters after all. There is no Qi Jiguang in the Satsuma family, so there is no way to fight with ten thousand people and two hundred thousand people.
Furthermore, because the people of the previously conquered territories were not yet stable, and the Satsuma people believed that "people who are not of our race will have different hearts," they threatened all the local wealthy people. So in front of Hideyoshi's army, lords from all over the country turned against each other one after another. Before the official war started, the territory that the Shimadzu family had swallowed up before was basically vomited away.
In Genshirasaka, the coalition forces fought another battle with the Shimadzu family. This time Hideyoshi Shizuo also used all his strength to crush the weak Shimadzu family without any pressure.
However, unlike Nobunaga, Hideyoshi did not like to drive people away, so he sent someone to negotiate with the Shimadzu family. The requirements were not high, as long as they returned the other family's original territory and surrendered to him.
The person sent this time was of a very high level, Ashikaga Yoshiaki. This old man has been idle for many years and finally found something serious to do. Yoshiaki met with Shimazu Tadayoshi, the head of the Shimazu family, and conveyed Hideyoshi's wishes.
Zhongliang thought for a while and felt that the opponent's force was indeed too large. In addition, the conditions seemed reasonable, so he agreed. However, Zhongliang's younger brother Zhongping was very angry and noisily expressed that he wanted to fight Hideyoshi to the fullest.
A magical thing happened. Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's negotiator, was actually infected by this angry youth temperament. He recalled the glorious years when he and Nobunaga were at odds, so he made a great decision: help them.
Under Yoshiaki's lobbying, Hideyoshi and the Shimazu family reached a settlement. The Shimazu family handed over the hostages as a sign of surrender, and the territory remained unchanged after the war. Shimazu Tadayoshi accepted the blame and abdicated in seclusion, and Tadahira succeeded him as the family governor.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki was also a good friend and gave his "Yi" worth fifty gold to the two Shimazu brothers. They changed their names to Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Yoshihiro respectively.
It has to be said that the Shimazu family made a lot of money this time. Although they gained nothing, they suffered a defeat but lost nothing. As someone who was prepared to be beaten up as a bad example, they should be overjoyed.
There is obviously a reason for this, that is, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent out a large army, he still worried about many things, such as Tokugawa Ieyasu behind him, such as Satsuma's warlike bloodline of Hayato.
This battle originally had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. Whether it was the Toyotomi family or the Shimazu family, for the Ming Dynasty, or to be more precise, for the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, they were nothing more than "business partners." No matter how you fight, I will still sell what I should sell and buy what I should buy.
However, this time was unusual, and there was a slight surprise in the situation: Although the Shimadzu family lost, they were still not convinced. What to do if you are not convinced? Of course they wanted to continue fighting, but the Shimazu family was not stupid enough to just fight without looking at the balance of power, so they began to think of a way.厽厼
After some internal discussions, someone came up with an idea that was not very constructive: it is more important to have elite troops than to have many, so Satsuma should use elite troops to defeat Toyotomi's army.
Speaking of elite soldiers, they quickly remembered that in the past when Boss Wang was here, he often sold European weapons sold by the Portuguese to Japan. Since then, the so-called iron artillery troops have appeared in Japan. This army is obviously elite.
But later, Boss Wang was taken care of by Ming Dynasty, and most of this source of arms was cut off. Although the Portuguese do come occasionally, the volume of goods brought is far less than that of Boss Wang during that period.
As for Japan itself, the muskets produced by Japan were actually quite good. At the time, the quality of the muskets was even more reliable than that of the Ming Dynasty. It was even affirmed by Qi Jiguang.
However, after Gao Pragmatic promoted the privatization of military industry, Japan's muskets became increasingly ineffective in the face of the Ming Dynasty's Longqing Type 2, Wanli Type 1, and Wanli Type 2, and began to lag behind significantly.
The specific information I learned about this situation from the Shimadzu family was last year. At that time, the Shimadzu family's conquest of Kyushu Island went extremely smoothly, so smoothly that everyone was inflated.
An army of the Shimazu family passed by the small town that originally belonged to Ryuzoji Temple in Miike County. This army heard that Miike Port here was quite prosperous, so they went to fight the autumn wind.
The Shimazu family's attitude towards the conquered areas has been stated before. As a victor, of course they were proud, so they went to Miike Port to ask for a batch of money, food and materials from the local area. However, the local officials who originally belonged to Ryuzoji Temple said that they were very poor. The rich people were all in Miike Port, but there were "more than a hundred elite soldiers" in the area, so they couldn't control it. If the Shimazu family wanted supplies, they should go there themselves. take.
The Shimadzu family's army has 500 people, and they have just defeated Ryuzouji Temple. They are very high-spirited, thinking that there is no use for more than a hundred elite soldiers. I, the Shimadzu elite, can definitely decide with one blow, and even make a profit. Wave of military exploits.
Not knowing that there was a deceit, they rushed to Sanchi Port and had a fierce battle with the "more than a hundred elite soldiers" at the port.
The Shimadzu army suffered a big loss in this battle, because not only were the opponent's guns extremely sharp, but more importantly, their large ships parked in the port also fired cannons.
The cannons on the sea ship were really amazing. With just one shot, the "Shimadzu Elites" who were attacking intensively were immediately stunned. Not only were more than 40 people killed and injured by the huge solid shells on the spot, but the rest were also They were so frightened that their livers and gallbladders were shattered, and all the rats fled in all directions.
At this time, the generals leading the Shimazu family realized that something was wrong. The flag hanging on the ship in the other side's port was too familiar. It was the Ming Dynasty's sword flag on the other side of the sea.
Hanging the Shujian flag means that they belong to the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance. The current status of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance in Japan is not much worse than that of Boss Wang back then - if there is anything inferior to Boss Wang, it is probably that they basically do not do arms business.
The Shimadzu family's partial army, which had suffered heavy losses, did not dare to be reckless again and reported the war situation to Shimadzu's senior officials. At this time, the Shimadzu senior officials did not pay attention to the rear. They were intensively planning to attack the Otomo family in one fell swoop, so they did not respond much to the matter. They just asked the local Ryuzoji Temple officials to continue guarding and nothing happened. troops were also transferred back.
Afterwards, Shimazu Tadahei - later Shimazu Yoshihiro - remembered this incident and sent someone to find out more. Only then did he learn that the fleet of the Ming Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance had been based on Miike Port in the past few years. At the temporary anchorage, various goods from the Ming Dynasty were sold locally. At the same time, a market was opened in the port to trade with various large merchants in the Longzao Temple territory.
The fleet had several long-term major local purchases, namely the purchase of sulfur and camphor. According to Shimazu Yoshihiro's investigation, the fleet is also divided into two owners, one with the surname of Gao and the other with the surname of Zhu.
The Shimazu family also does business with the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance, so Shimazu Yoshihiro guessed the origins of these two families upon hearing this. The Gao family is Jinghua, the leader of the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance, and the Shujian flag belongs to their family; the Zhu family is Not the Zhu of the Ming Dynasty, but the Zhu family of Duke Cheng.
The Gao family mainly buys sulfur in Sanchi Port, while the Zhu family mainly buys camphor. During that unexpected battle, the "more than a hundred elite soldiers" guarding the port were part of the sailors of these two families.
Shimazu Yoshihiro originally only knew that the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance's fleet was powerful, but this time he gained more knowledge and discovered that they were far stronger than the "Shimadzu Elite" in foot combat.
But he didn't have time to think about it carefully at the time. Anyway, they were just here for business. With Boss Wang's good example back then, the daimyo from all over Japan didn't regard Akito as a threat. They thought Akito's purpose was very simple. Just here to make a fortune. This is a good thing for you, me and everyone. Of course Shimazu Yoshihiro also thinks that just let nature take its course.
The Shimadzu family was so used to being awesome in Japan that they didn't take such a fight seriously. They didn't even think of contacting the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance afterwards to clarify the misunderstanding.
But they didn't contact each other, and the Sea Trade Alliance couldn't help it. The deputy commander of the fleet at Miike Port was one of Zhu Yingzhen's chief servants. How could he bear the insults from the Japanese? Not long after, he sent someone to contact the Shimazu family and asked the Shimazu family to serve him. The two sailors who died in the battle were responsible and paid a fixed price of 4,000 taels of silver.
Although the Shimadzu family is used to being awesome, through this battle, they have learned that the other party is not easy to mess with. In addition, almost no Ming Dynasty merchants in Japan are willing to offend maritime merchants, so the Shimadzu family is not willing to antagonize the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance. . Of course, compensation of four thousand taels of silver was impossible. Although the Shimadzu family was powerful, they were not wealthy at this time, so the negotiation fell into a stalemate.
It was only when the Shimadzu family was forced to surrender by Toyotomi Hideyoshi that they looked back and remembered this incident. Shimazu Yoshihiro made it clear that if the elites of the Shimazu family had the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance, even an army of more than 10,000 people would be enough to sweep away Otomo and force Toyotomi to retreat!
As a result, Shimazu Yoshihiro once again contacted the chief servant of the Duke of Seikuni in Miike Port, who was also the deputy commander of the fleet, and proposed that the money could be compensated, but he also needed to purchase "the sophisticated equipment of your army."
After reading these reports, Gao Pragmatic finally understood where Zhu Yingzhen's abnormality came from.
There are millions of businesses in the world, but nothing is more cost-effective than selling arms to an army that is trying to fight a war. Unfortunately, there is a big problem here: as a top military official, Zhu Yingzhen has never dared to interfere in the military industry and private sector, so although his heart is itching like thousands of ants scratching his heart, he can only worry because he has no goods.
Who has the goods? Of course it is Jinghua, which is highly pragmatic.
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PS: Yesterday, some readers said they didn’t know the meaning of yesterday’s chapter. You should be able to figure it out a little bit now, right?
Let me remind you of a few clues that have been revealed: 1. The Shimadzu family was an outlier in Japan at this time; 2. The Satsuma domain of the Shimadzu family was located in the southwest corner of Japan, heading west to the sea to reach the Ming Dynasty; 3. The famous Sasebo military port in Japan later It is located on Kyushu Island, not far from Miike Port that appears in this chapter.
