"Xia Guo cannot help you all the time. The situation in Japan still needs to be solved by you yourself. Have you thought clearly about the difficulties involved?"
Looking at the various famous names present, Chonghua expressed his attitude clearly.
But some of the famous names couldn't accept it.
"My lord, as long as the Tokugawa shogunate is eliminated, won't everything be fine?"
Shimazu Hisaki was very flustered.
He vaguely felt that Xia Guo might withdraw at any time.
And once there is no help from the Xia Kingdom, how can these famous names stop the attack of the Tokugawa Shogunate?
"Can the Tokugawa Shogunate be easily eliminated?"
"As long as the Xia Kingdom continues to attack, the fall of the shogunate will be inevitable."
"Why does the Xia Kingdom do this? Are you all willing to be citizens of the Xia Kingdom?"
Chonghua's question left all the daimyo speechless, and everyone's expressions were very stiff.
"You all understand that the Japanese people do not actually welcome the arrival of the Xia Kingdom. This is the foundation of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the reason why it cannot be eliminated. Therefore, if you want to solve the Tokugawa Shogunate's problems, you still need to rely on yourselves."
Chonghua made the situation very clear.
Although the Tokugawa Shogunate is not very powerful compared to the Xia Kingdom, it has an advantage that cannot be ignored.
That is, there is strong popular support in Japan.
In the minds of Japanese people, Xia's behavior was actually the same as aggression.
Based on simple national and national ideas, most Japanese people must be very hostile to the Xia Kingdom.
On the island of Kyushu, surrounded by the sea, there are other daimyo's works. This situation is not so obvious.
But once they really attack the mainland of Honshu, Xia Kingdom will encounter endless resistance and be difficult to move. It is absolutely impossible to completely eliminate the Tokugawa Shogunate without paying heavy sacrifices.
Even if the Tokugawa shogunate is eliminated, the wave of civil resistance in Japan will continue.
No matter how you look at it, Xia Guo has no benefit in it. On the contrary, it has taken advantage of these famous names.
It almost doesn't take much thinking to know that once that happens, these outsiders will definitely take advantage of the people's spirit of resistance and try their best to drive away the Xia Kingdom and usurp the rule.
How could Xia Guo make wedding clothes for others?
Therefore, when deciding to declare war on the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Central Committee had already drawn a bottom line.
As long as the Tokugawa shogunate is forced to surrender and admit defeat, all the forces in Japan can reach a certain balance.
Xia Guocai would not help these foreign daimyo and completely confront the Tokugawa shogunate.
Chonghua's remarks were tantamount to completely opening up the innermost thoughts of these famous names, making them all restless.
Chonghua is right.
In their hearts, they actually hate Xia Guo very much.
Just because the threat of the Tokugawa Shogunate was so close, they had to choose to join forces with the Xia Kingdom and deal with the Tokugawa Shogunate first.
When the Tokugawa shogunate is eliminated, the Xia Kingdom will inevitably become their number one enemy.
They can completely rely on the people's willingness to resist and form a huge momentum to make Xia Guo untenable in Japan.
It's a pity that no matter how careful his thoughts are, he can't escape Xia Guo's eyes.
Fortunately, everyone here is an old fox. Although it was hard to have their trump card exposed, they quickly recovered.
"Our strength is too weak. Without the help of the Xia Kingdom, we are no match for the shogunate. When we are eliminated, it will be even more difficult for the Xia Kingdom to achieve its goals."
Tadayuki Kuroda simply spoke frankly and explained the logic.
If the Xia Kingdom wants to use outside names to fight against the shogunate, it can.
But the power of Ming Dynasty is too weak. How to solve this problem?
"Xia Guo can help you train the army and support weapons."
Of course Xia Guo has a way.
The power of the Xia army has long been seen by the outsiders. Everyone was happy to know that Xia Guo was willing to start from these aspects.
"If we have the army Xia Guo helped build and the supporting weapons, we can see hope."
Not giving Maori Mitsuhiro too much time to be happy, Chonghua showed his cold side.
"Xia Guo's help and support are not free, you must repay them."
Seeing that the Xia Kingdom had divided the boundaries so clearly, all the great names felt powerless.
What they want to do most is to drag Xia Guo down into the chaos of Japan, and then make profits from it.
But he didn't expect that the Xia Kingdom would be surrounded by thousands of flowers, not a single leaf would touch his body, and the relationship with various famous names would be regarded as a naked transaction.
In this way, all the daimyo's hopes of hiding behind their backs and watching the fight between Xia Guo and the Tokugawa Shogunate were completely dashed.
Only then did they suddenly realize that their situation was extremely critical.
Because Xia Guo could retreat at any time and would not lose anything.
But if Xia Guo leaves, they will face the wrath of the Tokugawa Shogunate independently, and their destruction will be inevitable.
They knew very well that with the destruction of Matsudaira Nobutsuna and the more than 100,000 shogunate coalition forces, and the carving up of the territory of the Daimyo on Kyushu Island, even if they wanted to turn their loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate, it was no longer possible.
The Tokugawa shogunate could no longer accommodate them.
How do these ambitious guys know that under the general trend, some unscrupulous tactics will have no effect at all.
Xia Guo firmly holds the initiative of the situation, so he can naturally let them live or die whenever they want.
The only thing they can do is to completely obey Xia Guo's arrangements.
Even if there are mountains of swords, seas of fire, and endless hell ahead, we can only bite the bullet and step in.
Shimazu Hisakei only felt his scalp numb.
But since there is no turning back, a bright way out must be found for the Satsuma clan.
"The relationship between us and the shogunate has become tense. Either you die or I die. However, the shogunate has the right to mobilize the power of the whole country. Please also ask your superiors to point out a clear path so that we can let go."
When facing the Tokugawa shogunate, apart from the huge gap in power, what made them most helpless was their political and moral differences.
After all, the Tokugawa shogunate is the de facto ruler of the entire Japan. It can accuse them of traitors and then lead the country's forces to carry out siege.
The cunning Shimazu Jiuqing thought about it over and over again, but could not find a way to break the situation.
This kind of thing is not difficult in Chonghua's hands.
He told a story.
"I believe you all know the history of the Three Kingdoms very well. How did Cao Mengde gain the nominal initiative at that time?"
Japanese people admire the history of China very much and know it very well.
In particular, almost every upper-class person in Japan will read it carefully.
Tadayuki Kuroda opened his mouth and came.
"Hold the emperor to command the princes."
"The emperor is not the real emperor, so how can he be like the real emperor? Therefore, Cao Cao failed to unify the world in the end, and was always called the Cao thief."
All the big names present here were thoughtful, and could vaguely see a hint of where to start.
In this matter, Chonghua was very generous and simply provided thorough guidance.
"Respect the emperor and punish traitors, reshape orthodoxy!"
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