After landing on Kyushu Island, Sun Chuanting had a very familiar feeling: broken walls, bones on the roadside, and no roosters crowing for thousands of miles. In short, although it was already the turn of spring and summer, this Kyushu Island seemed to be a dead island.
I think back then, many places in Qin and the Central Plains were like this! Sun Chuanting couldn't help but feel a little emotional. At that time, I was ordered to wipe out the bandits, and I saw many such scenes.
At that time, I borrowed the name of Taizu to clean up the farmland. I didn't know how many powerful people were offended, but I just wanted to give it a try and turn the tide. However, others may not know the actual pressure, but he feels it very really.
On the King Qin Road at the end of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the difficulties he encountered along the way made him feel as if he would launch a violent counterattack against him. But unexpectedly, the emperor showed his wise side. From then on, as if in a dream, the situation in the entire Ming Dynasty improved at an unimaginable speed.
In the following years, the emperor conquered the north and south and conquered the world. No matter whether it was bandits, captives, or Mongolian Tatars, there was no enemy that could be his opponent. In today's Ming Dynasty, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and it is a prosperous and prosperous era!
Thinking of this and looking in front of him, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but conceal his excitement. He immediately composed a poem and asked people to carve it on a stone tablet to commemorate this moment.
He did not expect that his original intention was to praise the emperor for turning the tide, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty could live a good life, and there would never be a tragedy like the one seen in this Japanese land now. As a result, later people misinterpreted his poems, which turned out to be his pity for the Japanese people when he was lamenting the stability and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and he was able to save the Japanese people.
This place also became a tourist attraction for later generations. Literary poets will come here to admire his poem and praise his compassion for the Japanese people.
At this time, Sun Chuanting quickly divided his troops based on the situation on Kyushu Island, hoping to capture Kyushu Island as soon as possible and conquer the entire Japanese country as soon as possible. Only in this way will he not be too far behind Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou.
His capture of Kyushu Island, of course, was not to capture every grass and land on Kyushu Island, but to capture the main towns, even if he had completed the occupation of Kyushu Island.
However, Hauge is also a master. Before leaving, he poisoned these towns. Wherever the Ming army went, they basically saw only broken walls and ruins. Therefore, the Ming army occupied the entire Kyushu Island very quickly, and messages were quickly fed back to Sun Chuanting.
Ruins, ruins, ruins...
Instead, some hungry Japanese people can be found in wild wastelands.
It was meaningless to divide the troops to occupy various parts of Kyushu Island. After Sun Chuanting considered it, he ordered the dispersed Ming army to take away all the Japanese found, and only divided the north and south sides of Kyushu Island into two places, Kitakyushu and Kagoshima in later generations. To rebuild cities and towns, the labor force will naturally be Japanese people.
Kitakyushu is one of the ports closest to Tsushima Island. After reconstruction, it will be helpful for the Ming army to replenish troops and supplies from North Korea. Kagoshima is the closest place from the south of the Ming Dynasty, which is conducive to the transportation of materials from the south of the Ming Dynasty.
Let the Japanese work, and of course you have to give them food. Although the food provided to these Japanese people was indeed not very good, compared with the miserable life they suffered after being harmed by Hauge, it was many times better. Sometimes, I am just afraid of comparison. These Japanese people had something to eat, so they were grateful to the Ming army. And this is also one of the direct reasons why most people of later generations misunderstood Sun Chuanting's poem.
In fact, Sun Chuanting could not do without the Japanese people even if he wanted to. North Korea was harmed by Japanese invaders and Japanese troops, and there were no people at all. There were not enough manpower to rebuild there, and they didn't know how long it would take to rebuild. Not to mention, Liaodong is also in urgent need of manpower.
Although Emperor Chongzhen has issued an edict and given preferential policies to allow the people of the Ming Dynasty to go to Liaodong and North Korea, this did not happen overnight. As for this Japanese land, of course it ranks behind Liaodong and North Korea, so it is impossible for anyone to come to this Japanese land.
For this reason, when Sun Chuanting landed on Kyushu Island, he sent a secret message to Emperor Chongzhen, explaining the situation of the Japanese country and suggesting that the Jianlu should not be harmed anymore.
In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen's reply was also sent to Sun Chuanting via flying pigeons and eight hundred miles by express. He agreed to his petition. However, it should be noted that as long as the ordinary people of the Japanese country, as for the daimyo and samurai class, all don't want.
At the same time, the point where Fei Ge passed messages began to expand. From the capital to Tianjin, Tianjin to Port Arthur and then to North Korea, Tsushima and Kitakyushu have begun preparations, striving to use flying pigeons to pass messages on this route in the future. Otherwise, across the sea, the message transmission would be too slow.
After Sun Chuanting received the order from Emperor Chongzhen, he ordered Navy Commander Zheng Zhilong to cross the sea and capture Xiaguan and Deshan on the other side of Northern Kyushu.
At this time, Zheng Zhilong was quite happy. He always says to everyone he meets that his son is better than his peers. No matter what, he must work hard and not be surpassed by his son.
Ever since the news came back that Zheng Chenggong conquered Taiwan and made great achievements in Nanyang, Zheng Zhilong's smile has not disappeared. He was in such a good mood that after he was ordered to capture Xiaguan and Deshan, two cities that didn't have many enemies, he was a little more generous to the surrounding Japanese people, allowing his men to share some of the seafood they caught with their work. Japanese people.
As a result, the word spread to ten and hundreds, and the Japanese people in Honshu who were suffering from military disaster heard that the Ming army had landed in the southern part of Honshu. The Ming troops there were all living Buddhas. If they could have something to eat, they moved south one after another. , just thinking about escaping the military disaster and finding a way to survive.
As a result, the Ming army has more and more construction manpower, and the progress of the construction projects in these two places is faster than that on Kyushu Island. When Sun Chuanting inspected these places, he was quite satisfied. He said with emotion to Sun Chuanting who was accompanying him: "These Japanese are also very good laborers. Look..."
As he spoke, he pointed at the Japanese who were working hard on the construction site and said, "Although they are all old and weak, their energy in working is no less than that of young people."
"Your Majesty, you are right!" Zheng Zhilong knew a lot about the Japanese country, so he answered Sun Chuanting with a smile, "The tradition of the Japanese people has always been to obey the strong. Not to mention, we are not only strong now, we also give them food and give them food." They were brought back from the brink of death. How could they not cherish such a good opportunity!"
Sun Chuanting nodded after hearing this, glanced at the hustle and bustle on the construction site, and said with emotion: "It's just a pity that all the young and strong Japanese have gone to fight. Otherwise, the progress of reconstruction can be accelerated a lot."
"Yes!" After hearing this, Zheng Zhilong immediately agreed, "Today's Japanese country is in chaos, and the daimyo in various places are all fighting in chaos, between the remnants of Jianlu and the Japanese daimyo. There are still chaos. The Tokugawa shogunate is not willing to have its power taken away, and is also frantically expanding its power. The northern part of Honshu is already in chaos."
"Then let them continue fighting!" After hearing this, Sun Chuanting pointed at the construction site and said, "The news that we have landed in this state will probably spread to the north soon. The situation may change by then, so you have to pay close attention focus on."
As for the Ming Dynasty, as long as it established a firm foothold in these two places and steadily pushed northward, it would be able to bulldoze all the remaining Jianlu remnants and Japanese names.
After Zheng Zhilong heard this, of course he agreed.
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As for Hauge's troops, they used Bao Chengxian's strategy of making distant friends and attacking closely, coercing the Japanese people in the places they passed and pushing northward. At this time, Nagoya had just been captured. Hauge stood on the top of the city of Nagoya, watching the army sweep across the entire city. city. Burning, killing, and robbing, I couldn't help but laugh to the sky.
These Japanese are actually really vulnerable.
The height of their Japanese warriors limited their combat power. As long as the white-armored soldiers came forward, there was no problem in defeating the Japanese warriors.
What the Japanese relied on most was their musketeers. However, as for their shotguns, they had already accumulated experience in the battle with the Ming army. As long as the carriages cover the rush, those Japanese shotgun soldiers will be lambs to be slaughtered.
The only artillery that made Jianlu have any scruples was pitifully few in this Japanese country. Even if you encounter it, it will be easy to break it by driving the Japanese people away to consume their ammunition.
Turg held the bloody waist knife and stood beside Haug. Looking at everything around him, he congratulated Haug and said: "Master, now our army has opened the way to Edo. The next opponent is The Tokugawa shogunate. As long as they are eliminated, this Japanese country will be respected as its master!"
Nagoya is still a bit far away from Edo, but the Tokugawa shogunate is not idle and is also expanding. Therefore, their two forces will soon be bordering.
Compared with other daimyo, the Tokugawa shogunate had a few daimyo who obeyed the orders of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the army would be larger. Hauge didn't care at all.
After hearing Turg's words, he glanced around the city of Nagoya and saw his men everywhere he looked. He laughed again, stepped on the battlements, and pointed to the north with the sword in his hand. He shouted loudly: "I want Tokugawa Iemitsu's head to be used as a urinal to unify Japan!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a Jianlu riding a horse from a distance to the city. He didn't even have time to enter the city, so he raised his head and shouted to Hauge standing on the battlements: "Master, it's not good. The Ming army is coming!"
Hauge, who was still high-spirited just now, after hearing these words, his feet slipped and he almost fell off the city.
"What, the Ming army is coming?" Hauge was still in shock, and he lowered his head nervously and asked nervously.
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