679 Emperor Ming’s decree

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Zheng Xiangming's face was a little ugly, but he also understood that the Japanese were so aggressive and always arrogant. If this was told as it was, I don't know if the commander-in-chief of the Ming Army would be worried.

However, he also understood that in this situation, he must translate truthfully. Moreover, there may be some people here who understand the Japanese language, or in other words, there are some Japanese people who understand the Ming Dynasty Mandarin, so it is difficult to translate it truthfully.

So, he finally translated Yagyu Jubei's words to Li Dingguo truthfully. After finishing speaking, he stared at the commander of the Ming army to see how he would react.

When Li Dingguo heard this, his words were indeed not good, and he immediately sneered and said: "Haha, you always keep the water from the well and the river? I would like to ask you, who is it who repeatedly invades the coast of our country, robs our things, and kills our people? Who is it? Who attacked Korea, our vassal state of Ming Dynasty, and also intended to attack Ming Dynasty through Korea? And who conquered Ryukyu Kingdom, our vassal state of Ming Dynasty, deprived its king and mutilated it? So much so that the King of Ryukyu wrote two blood letters to complain to our Ming Emperor? Who took the initiative to attack our army in Ryukyu? With all these things, how can you be considered as someone who doesn’t offend the river?”

Hearing these words, Zheng Xiangming remembered the years of being oppressed by Japanese pirates and the fact that his grandfather was killed by Japanese pirates. He immediately became excited and conveyed Li Dingguo's accusations with anger.

Yagyu Jubei didn't expect that the commander of the Ming army could be so eloquent. With just one mouthful, did their Ming army's invasion of Japanese territory become justice?

This is absolutely not possible. The righteous party must be Japan!

With this in mind, when he was about to speak, he heard Li Dingguo yelling again: "You Japanese pirates are so ambitious and arrogant. You can't defeat our Ming army, but you still talk like this. No." Teach you pirates a lesson, you don’t even know how many eyes Lord Ma has.”

Zheng Xiangming listened and conveyed these words louder.

When Yagyu Jubei heard this, he immediately became angry. In his opinion, it was clearly the commander of the Ming army who was more arrogant. How many soldiers and horses did you bring, how dare you speak so arrogantly on the territory of Japan!

This arrogance must be attacked.

Thinking like this, he responded with a sneer: "Whoever is arrogant will see the truth under his hands. Come on, come on, I don't need weapons, who will compete with me and see who can win?"

Regarding his own swordsmanship, Yagyu Jubei is still somewhat confident.

When Zheng Xiangming heard what he said, he immediately became a little suspicious. He looked at the Edo envoy several times and made some guesses in his heart. Because I speak like this, especially when I am obviously not as tall as the Ming Dynasty soldiers, but I still say this to challenge, if I don't have a little confidence, it is impossible.

The most famous people in Japan, who are very powerful in personal martial arts, can be found in Edo.

However, he has never been to Edo, does not know the person in the legend, and is not sure. After all, the Japanese are indeed arrogant. Maybe he is not that person, and he may say this.

So, he conveyed the Japanese challenge to the Ming army commander.

When Li Dingguo heard this, he couldn't help but have a hint of ridicule on his face. He didn't expect that this Japanese pirate would say such a thing.

So, he looked at the Japanese pirate and sneered: "Do you think that today's era is still an era when two armies are fighting and the generals are fighting against each other? This is something that has not been played in China for thousands of years! Retarded! "

In Chinese history, a long time ago, as passed down from the primitive tribes, the elite level of the army was far from being compared with that of later generations. Generals would often fight in single combat to boost morale. The winner would cover up and kill, and the loser would flee. It can be said that the bravery of generals plays a very important factor in winning or losing on the battlefield.

But later on, the army began to place more emphasis on the whole, and such things as one-on-one battles between generals were slowly eliminated.

For today's Ming Dynasty, the army has transitioned to the era of hot weapons, and it is even more impossible for such generals to fight one on one.

Therefore, although Li Dingguo did not believe it, there were many brave men in his army who were the best among the three armies, and Sun Yingyuan was one of them. But it was not necessary to challenge the Japanese pirates in a one-on-one battle. No matter how powerful he was, could he be worthy of a musket?

According to Duke Xingguo, times have changed long ago!

After hearing what Li Dingguo said, Zheng Xiangming conveyed his words with a contemptuous tone.

What Yagyu Jubei is most proud of is his swordsmanship. Unexpectedly, he was so belittled by the commander of the Ming army, and he became furious.

He immediately provoked him again: "Why, no matter how nice you say it, you still don't dare to fight me? Let me tell you, my level is only the most average in my country. If you are so afraid, then quit obediently." The territory of our great Japanese country, otherwise, as soon as the army arrives, all your Ming army will be wiped out!"

His ultimate goal was to scare away the Ming army without a single blow. This is the most beneficial situation for the Tokugawa shogunate. Not only Tokugawa Iemitsu, but also his own reputation will become as high as the sky.

Unexpectedly, after Li Dingguo heard what he said, he sneered and said to him: "It's really unwise to waste words on you Japanese pirates! Now you Japanese pirates refuse to change their teachings and have no repentance. Come on, please come out, Your Majesty." Will!"

Zheng Xiangming was stunned after hearing this. There was also the Ming Emperor's decree. Was it specially prepared for today?

Under his curiosity, he saw the Jin Yiwei Supervisor, who had always been invisible, wave his hand, and one of the Jin Yiwei men held up a bright yellow imperial edict with both hands and handed it to the Jin Yiwei Supervisor.

Afterwards, the Jinyi Guard Supervisor unfolded the imperial edict and began to read it.

"The emperor is entrusted with the destiny of heaven, and he says: The saint's benevolence has great fortune, and wherever the heavens and the earth are carried, everyone will respect the emperor's order. ... Qinzai!"

This edict was actually written by Zhang Mingwei, and the contents were all instructed by Zhang Mingwei. Emperor Chongzhen naturally had no objection, so he wrote the edict in advance and asked the expeditionary force to bring it over.

The content of the imperial edict was to clearly tell the Japanese country that based on the various past offenses of the Japanese country that had offended the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese country was now invading the Ryukyu Kingdom again and persecuting the Ryukyu king and people. To this end, the Ming Emperor clearly made several demands to the Japanese country:

First, Japan was required to cede the territory of the Satsuma Domain to the Ryukyu Kingdom to punish the Satsuma Domain for its previous persecution of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Second, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese ignored this and forced the Ryukyu Kingdom to surrender to the Japanese. For this reason, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty ordered the Emperor of Japan to cancel his title of emperor and change his title to King of Japan, expressing his surrender to the Ming Dynasty and never betraying him.

Third, the Japanese invaded and harassed the Ming Dynasty several times. The new and old accounts were calculated together, and compensation must be made in the amount of 10 million taels of silver.

Fourth, in order to express the fraternity of the Ming Emperor and let the Japanese people live a better life. The Japanese were ordered to open all areas, not only to allow the people of the Ming Dynasty to come and do business, but also to receive the most favorable treatment. In this way, the people of the Ming Dynasty came thousands of miles to help the people of the Japanese country live a better life.

It is necessary to explain here that it is said that the first person to use the title "Emperor" was Prince Shotoku who was regent in the Suiko Dynasty. In the letter of credence he sent to Emperor Sui Yang, he wrote, "The Emperor of the East respects the Emperor of the West," which aroused the anger of Emperor Sui Yang.

On the contrary, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty in China once used the title of Emperor, and was called the Second Saint together with Queen Wu Zetian. This may have affected the adoption of the title of "Emperor" in Japan.

The earliest official written record of the Japanese "Emperor" to the outside world was around the time of the invasion of China in 1936, and China called the Japanese emperor Emperor around the time of Tongzhi in the late Qing Dynasty.

At this time, the imperial edict clearly stipulated the title of the ruler of the Japanese state, which was also a gesture of the Ming Dynasty overriding the Japanese state.

The reason why the Japanese country was not destroyed is that the Ming Dynasty is now in the stage of using troops everywhere. If we want to destroy the Japanese country, we cannot conquer it without investing a lot of energy.

Therefore, occupying the Japanese country and turning it into the territory of the Ming Dynasty is better than colonization in an alternative way, obtaining raw materials from the Japanese country and dumping Ming products. The ultimate goal of fighting is to benefit Ming Dynasty, not to carry a burden.

At this time, when Zheng Xiangming heard this, he was very surprised and very excited at the same time.

He did not expect that the Ming Emperor was so considerate of the Ryukyu Kingdom that he would force the Japanese country to cede the Satsuma domain to the Ryukyu Kingdom. This was really surprising.

So, he quickly translated Li Dingguo's words and the contents of the imperial edict.

When Yagyu Jubei heard this, he was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that according to the wishes of the Ming army commander, it was precisely because of his attitude that the Ming army believed that the Japanese country was hopeless, so they issued this imperial edict from the Ming emperor. If you say so, has he done anything wrong?

Of course he wouldn't admit it. When he came to his senses, he immediately became furious.

Now that the matter has reached this point, we can no longer talk about it. This meeting naturally ended on bad terms.

Seeing Yagyu Jubei's back angrily walking away, Zheng Xiangming was excited and a little worried and reminded Li Dingguo: "Tokugawa Iemitsu over in Edo will definitely not agree and will definitely send a large army to attack. of!"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo nodded with a smile and said: "We must first defeat the Japanese country before they will consider it. We have already prepared for this."

After hearing this, Zheng Xiangming realized that the Ming army had been prepared for a long time. Then, he remembered something again and hurriedly said to Li Dingguo: "General, why did you cede Satsuma Domain to Ryukyu instead of Ming Dynasty?"

His ancestors lived in Ryukyu under the order of the Ming Dynasty Taizu, and deep down he still regarded himself as a Mingren.

Li Dingguo smiled after hearing this and said: "The main reason for sending troops this time is the blood letter of the King of Ryukyu. He promised at the beginning that the gold mines of Satsuma Domain belong to our army. Apart from this, there is no other value at present. As for Let’s talk about it later!”

Zheng Xiangming listened and nodded, probably understanding why he did this.

For some reason, he suddenly remembered the abnormality of the current King of Ryukyu, King Shangzhen. I decided in my heart that I must figure it out after I go back.