The ancestors of the Shimazu family are descendants of the Wei Zong family, descendants of the Qin family who claimed to be the descendants of Qin Shihuang, and they are proud of this. ŴŴŴ.BiQuGe.Biz
But everyone knows that this possibility is very slim, which is just to put gold on one's own face.
Shimazu Tachihisa successfully killed the samurai group loyal to his father last year, and exiled his father to a small island to keep company with fish and turtles.
After he took control of the Satsuma Domain, he adopted a more high-pressure policy towards the other daimyo on Kyushu Island, using force to conquer the most powerful Dohi Domain on Kyushu Island, and then established alliances with Choshu Domain and Tosa Domain, step by step Extend your power towards Edo, Kyoto, and Nagoya.
It also adopts more intense overseas policies to satisfy its own ambitions...
Shimazu Tachihisa was just thirty years old, at the time when he was most energetic. In his heart, he harbored the ambition to unify the Japanese country, overthrow the shogunate, and return power to the Japanese emperor.
Of course, this dream was the dream of all powerful family governors during the shogunate period, but almost no one realized it. Even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi formally unified the Japanese country a hundred years later, he still closed the door and became the emperor himself, and never brought the Japanese to the throne. The emperor put it in his eyes.
At this time, the arrival of the Ming Dynasty envoy made the Japanese feel a sense of crisis.
Because of the change in the Ming Dynasty's maritime policy, from the initial isolation of the sea and passive defense, to the current expansion of maritime borders, increased naval investment, and proactive attack.
This change made the Shimazu family in the island nation feel a sense of crisis.
If they take the initiative, they will regard Kyushu Island as their imaginary enemy, not to mention the changes in Korea. The feudal lords of Kyushu Island feel the strongest.
Ming dynasty.
The behemoth next to it, a powerful empire that believed in Confucianism and was conservative, began to become aggressive at this time.
And once a nation becomes aggressive and once they taste the benefits of plunder, then sooner or later Kyushu Island, which is their neighbor, will become the target of their attacks.
Against this background, Shimazu Tachihisa also began to change his thinking.
Thinking of establishing more bases overseas to complete the defense against the Ming Dynasty.
As for the Ryukyu Islands, in the hands of the Ming Army, it was a pre-war base camp for the Ming Dynasty's domestic soldiers and a transfer station for naval vessels. Therefore, the Ming Army's navy would have very little logistical pressure and could continuously add new troops. The soldiers landed directly and launched a war to destroy the country and species.
But if it is in the hands of Kyushu Island, it will be the forward position to defend Kyushu Island, and it will become a strong shield, blocking the Ming army from Kyushu Island.
Especially after North Korea has been controlled by the Ming army, this sense of urgency is even greater.
Korea is very close to the Doi Domain, and the Ryukyu Islands are very close to the Satsuma Domain.
The two largest forces on Kyushu Island were directly exposed to the front of the Ming army.
They are all targeting Kyushu Island.
If the Ming army obtained the Ryukyu Islands after acquiring Korea, then the various vassals of Kyushu, and even the entire Japanese kingdom, would be at an absolute disadvantage in the subsequent war with the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, this time, Shimazu Tachihisa formed a joint Japanese pirate fleet to attack the Ryukyu Islands. In fact, he did not want to get some benefits from the Ryukyu Islands alone like before. He wanted to get the Ryukyu Islands directly.
Use the population above to forge weapons for the Satsuma Domain, build seaports, arm the Penghu Islands, protect their Kyushu Island, and protect the Oo Kingdom, Hyuga Kingdom and other places where they are located.
In other words, the current oppression of the Ryukyu Kingdom is actually due to the changes in the Ming Dynasty's maritime policy.
And Shimazu Tachihisa's plan began to be implemented. He fought a great victory on the island and wiped out the Ryukyu Kingdom's army of 3,000 people in one battle. Just as he was preparing for the next step of action.
An official from the Ming Dynasty came from the Ryukyu Islands.
This made Shimazu immediately feel a greater sense of crisis.
The Ming army has noticed the movements of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and their domestic officials have been staying in the Ryukyu Kingdom.
I came here to beat myself up.
The Ming Dynasty has a strong attitude towards Kyushu Island and even the entire Japanese country. Their current capture of the Ryukyu Islands is just a means of self-protection.
He didn't dare to really break up with the Ming Dynasty, let alone kill their envoys.
So after Zhang Huaizhi came, even though Shimazu Tachihisa was very angry, he still received him in person, gave him delicious food and drinks, and gave him a warrant to return home.
Less than two months after returning, this guy came again.
Yes, not only did they come, but they also came with their latest warships and their powerful soldiers.
It was obvious that he came here to warn him, but he also brought a monk with him to cover him.
And he was thinking of sending people to send this fat monk to temples all over Kyushu Island to preach Buddhism.
Moreover, we have to go to Nagoya, Osaka, and Kyoto to promote Buddhist scriptures from the Kingdom of Heaven.
This move made Shimazu Tachihisa even more angry, but anger was anger, and he still had to deal with the matter. He first arranged for his own people to take the great monks to various temples on Kyushu Island to lecture on Buddhist scriptures, and then wrote a letter to the shogunate to report these things.
Since the Ming Dynasty’s mission arrived at Kyushu Island.
The weather in Da Ou Country has not been good, it has been gloomy and rainy.
Zhang Huaizhi stood in front of the window and looked at the heavy rain outside.
And behind him stood a tall man.
The sound of rain, wind, and thunder outside suppressed the conversation between the two people.
Zhang Huaizhi turned around and looked at the man behind him.
"Admiral, Shimazu Tachihisa is keeping a close eye on our people. It is difficult to carry out the map matter..."
The tall man behind him is none other than someone else.
It was Zhu Yi, the admiral of the Ningbo Navy, the Maritime Department, the "Navigation King" of the Ming Dynasty, and the father of Duke Cheng.
But this time when he came to Japan, he lost all his reputation and pretended to be Zhang Huaizhi's bodyguard.
Zhang Huaizhi is a very old-fashioned civil servant. It is almost impossible to obtain a detailed map of Kyushu Island and even the entire Japanese country through his leadership.
Therefore, Zhu Yi came in person.
Not only is Zhu Yi here, but their envoy has dozens of people, only four or five of them are officials from the Ministry of Rites, the others are spies trained by Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and draftsmen trained by the Maritime Affairs Department over the years.
The monk is not a real monk, but a retired eunuch from Dongchang, a veteran in intelligence work. After his retirement, he only worked as a monk for a year, and this time he was seconded for use.
And the dozen or so novice monks below him are all not monks, but young draftsmen.
When the fleet passed through the Daqi Strait, these cartographers had already started working.
The eminent monk did not go to preach Buddhism, but to find a reason to travel around Kyushu Island, record the details of various places, and complete the nautical chart of Kyushu Island...
As for the map of the entire Japanese country, it will be carried out after reaching Mingguya and Kyoto.
Zhang Huaizhi didn't know anything about these arrangements of the imperial court...
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