The forces on Kyushu Island include the following parts.
Among them, Nagasaki is under the direct jurisdiction of the shogunate and is managed by the Nagasaki Administrative Office.
In addition, after the Battle of Tsushima, the Tokugawa shogunate seized the Hyuga Kingdom from the Satsuma Domain, but it has not yet been fully digested.
Satsuma Domain, Kumamoto Domain, Fukuoka Domain, Saga Domain, and Karatsu Domain are outside daimyo and have the most distant relationship with the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The Ogura Clan and Nakatsu Clan of Bungo Province, the Fuuchi Clan and Takada Clan of Bungo Province, and the Kurume Clan and Yanagawa Clan of Chikugo Province are the Daimyos of the generation and can be regarded as loyal ministers of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
However, in the battle of Shimabara Peninsula, all these Daimyos followed Matsudaira Nobutsuna and lost most of their power. It can be said that they existed in name only.
As a result, half of Kyushu Island became blank.
Chonghua planned to use these places to win over the foreign daimyo and prompt them to fight against the Tokugawa shogunate.
The changes in the war situation have always concerned Daimyo.
After seeing that more than 100,000 shogunate troops were completely wiped out, all the outside daimyo were extremely excited.
They finally saw hope of resisting the Tokugawa shogunate.
Therefore, after receiving Chonghua's invitation, various daimyo sent important people to Nagasaki.
What Chonghua didn't expect was that Arima Naozumi of the Nobeoka Domain of the Hyuga Kingdom also sent people.
"The Arima family has always been at odds with the Tokugawa shogunate. Taking advantage of the great victory of the Xia Kingdom, the head of the family has vowed to raise troops and fight against the shogunate."
Arima Naojun is the legitimate son of Arima Harunobu, and was originally the bitter enemy of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Arima Harunobu was ordered to commit seppuku by Tokugawa Ieyasu for protecting Catholics, and his territory was transferred to the Nobeoka Domain of Hyuga Kingdom.
Since then, he has been oppressed by the Satsuma clan and has never been able to lift his head.
When the Tokugawa shogunate sent troops to quell the Shimabara Rebellion, it also ordered Arima Naozumi to send troops to participate.
When he saw that Matsudaira Nobutsuna's defeat was inevitable, Arima Naojunichi ran away and quickly raised troops, becoming the first daimyo in Japan to resist the Tokugawa shogunate.
However, Naozumi Arima knew very well that with his own weak strength, he was definitely no match for the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Therefore, he quickly sent an envoy to Nagasaki, hoping to get the support of Xia Kingdom.
"Anyone who opposes the Tokugawa shogunate is a friend of the Natsu Kingdom. If the Nobeoka clan has any demands, just tell them directly."
The messenger was greatly encouraged.
"The head of the family requested to take over the territory of Hyuga Country and Shimabara's old territory in order to accumulate strength and continue fighting against the shogunate."
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The Nobeoka clan's request was actually opposed by two forces.
One is the Satsuma Domain and the other is the Shimabara Rebel Army.
"The Hyuga Kingdom has always been the territory of our Satsuma Domain, but it was occupied by the Tokugawa Shogunate for some reason. Now it has been returned to our Satsuma Domain."
Shimazu Hisaki's attitude was very firm.
The Satsuma clan has been severely weakened and urgently needs more territory to restore its strength.
The Nobeoka Clan actually wanted to rob the Hyuga Kingdom, and was naturally opposed by the Satsuma Clan.
What the Shimabara rebels opposed was...
"Now that Shimabara and Amakusa are under our complete control, we no longer want to endure the exploitation of any daimyo."
After a bloody battle, the Shimabara rebels have now completely occupied the Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Island, and are preparing to move north to re-capture the Saga Domain.
Arima wants to make a comeback, but Amakusa Tokisada will never agree.
Chonghua also disapproved of Nobuoka Domain's approach.
"Now that the minions of the shogunate are at the end of their rope, there is a large area of land on Kyushu Island that can be redivided. We are all allies, and there is no need to kill each other."
He set the tone for the matter and was recognized by everyone.
Next, Chonghua began to preside over the distribution of those empty territories.
"Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Island were captured by the rebels, so they should naturally belong to them."
He looked at Shimazu Hisaki again.
"Now that the Kumamoto Domain has been destroyed, the territory is divided equally between the Satsuma Domain and the Shimabara Rebel Army. In addition, the Hyuga Kingdom has returned to the Satsuma Domain."
Shimazu Jiukei's eyes filled with excitement, and he quickly fell to the ground.
The Satsuma Domain not only took back the Hyuga Kingdom, but also got half of the Kumamoto Domain's territory, far more than in its heyday.
These are all gifts from the Xia Kingdom.
Satsuma Domain's loyalty to Xia Kingdom became even deeper.
Amakusa Tokisada and others are also very satisfied.
Both Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Island are relatively barren. With the fertile land of Kumamoto Domain, they will surely prosper as long as they are managed well.
Seeing that the envoys of the Nobuoka clan looked ugly, Chonghua threw them a big gift.
"The Arima family is trapped in Nobeoka and has no future. It is better to move north. Bunzen and Bungo can be your territory."
The envoy of Nobeoka Domain was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed.
Nobeoka Domain is just a piece of land, how can it compare with Bunzen and Bungo?
The dissatisfaction of Nobeoka Domain was also completely eliminated.
"Thank you, Your Excellency, for your impartial handling of this matter. From now on, the Ma family will only follow the lead of the Xia Kingdom, and will never change its ambitions."
Among the various daimyo present here, it can be said that Arima is the weakest one.
Without Xia Guo's auspices, such a large territory as Bunzen and Bungo would never fall to them.
It will definitely take a long time for the Ma family to manage these two newly acquired lands with impregnable strength, which requires the support of the Xia Kingdom.
It can be said that in terms of true loyalty to the Xia Kingdom, the Arima family definitely ranks first.
In the remaining Fukuoka Domain, Chonghua was also very powerful.
"The Saga Domain and Chikuzen and Chikugo will be handed over to the Fukuoka Domain. We still need to manage them carefully and treat the people well, so that things that harm the people can't happen again."
Tadashi Kuroda burst into tears and kowtowed to Chonghua.
Expanding from the land of one domain to the land of the Three Kingdoms, the strength of the Fukuoka Domain will expand rapidly.
Given time, even if he faced the Tokugawa shogunate alone, Kuroda Tadayuki would be fearless.
Just when the territory was being redistributed in Nagasaki, Mitsuhiro Maori rushed over after a long journey.
"The shogunate wanted to make enemies of the Natsu Kingdom and searched for ships everywhere. They also ordered the Choshu Domain to hand over the Murakami Navy, with the intention of being detrimental to the Natsu Kingdom. The Choshu Domain did not want to be an enemy of the Natsu Kingdom, and as a result, they angered the shogunate. Ooku The general has ordered Osaka's army to march westward, intending to attack us. Please show mercy to our Choshu Domain and send troops to rescue us."
Among all the foreign daimyo, the one who had the least dealing with the Tokugawa shogunate must be the Choshu clan.
Therefore, when the Xia Kingdom declared war on the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Choshu Domain had already made up its mind to sit on the sidelines and wait to see the Tokugawa Shogunate defeated.
Matsudaira Nobutsuna was besieged on Kyushu Island, and Tokugawa Iemitsu was worried. While building an army, raise warships.
Without the Satsuma Domain, the Murakami Navy absorbed by the Choshu Domain was an important force.
The Choshu clan wished that the Tokugawa shogunate would be wiped out, so how could they provide help in such a situation.
This made Tokugawa Iemitsu furious.
Across the sea, there was nothing we could do against the Xia army on Kyushu Island. How could we allow the provocation of the Choshu clan on the mainland of Honshu?
Tokugawa Iemitsu ordered Sakai Tadakatsu to lead an army of 150,000 in Osaka to march westward to attack the Choshu clan.
Mouri Hidemoto knew that the Choshu Domain alone would never be able to withstand the shogunate's attack based on its own strength.
At this time, his face was completely broken, so he sent Mouri Guangguang across the sea to ask for help.
The hostile relationship between the Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyō had officially become clear.
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