Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 387 Surrender
After Chen Guangping led the army to occupy Kyushu Island, he did not attack Honshu Island immediately, but stationed on Kyushu Island.

Wei Zhongxian's Royal Fleet holds the command of the sea, so Chen Guangping is not worried that the Japanese army on Honshu Island will attack.

Subsequently, under Chen Guangping's order, the land of countless daimyo and samurai was confiscated and then distributed to peasants who had no land or little land. Chen Guangping stipulated that in the future, all common people would only need to pay [-]% of the tax, which was higher than that of the shogunate. The tax base of [-]% is too much.

At the same time, Chen Guangping sent people to publicize in various villages and towns, explaining that the army came only to free the Japanese people from being oppressed by daimyo and samurai, and to save everyone.

Most of these propagandists were Japanese who surrendered to the Ming army, and the words spoken by them were naturally much better than what the Ming army said by themselves.

In addition, Chen Guangping's policy of dividing the land and paying less taxes to buy people's hearts has brought benefits to many people on Kyushu Island. All the people who have received benefits are very supportive of Ming's rule.

In addition to targeting farmers, Chen Guangping also enacted many laws targeting merchants. Ordinary merchants in Japan are also low-status people. Although they have a lot of wealth, they do not have the same status as ordinary people.

Chen Guangping's policy is very simple, mainly to support these businessmen. He knows that only when business is developed can a large amount of tax revenue be collected.

Just two months after Chen Guangping captured Kyushu Island, some special personnel from Daming also arrived.

This time, Zhang Qingfeng sent over thousands of students from Daming University of Technology who had studied Japanese.

The arrival of these students mainly serves as the basis of Kyushu Island's rule and as educators.

When they come, some of them will serve as some local officials, and most of them will be in charge of local education.

Zhang Qingfeng plans to assimilate all Japanese people into Han people, so education is a top priority.

On Daming's side, he doesn't have much right to reform the entire Daming, but on Japan's side, he can do whatever he wants.

After these people arrived, they immediately took over the basic rule and education of the whole of Japan.

Then Chen Guangping ordered that all children on Kyushu Island between the ages of six and 12 must go to schools in the town to receive education. If any parents refused to allow their children to receive education, their land would be confiscated directly.

It is too late for Japanese people to be happy that their children can learn knowledge. Except for a few people who are hesitant, most of the people are happy to send their children to school to learn to read.

After taking full control of Kyushu Island, after several months of rest, Chen Guangping once again ordered an attack on Honshu Island and Shikoku Island.

The troops in this attack were more than the 3 Ming army musketeers at the beginning, followed by 10,000+ Japanese soldiers who had completely surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Chen Guangping also recruited tens of thousands of civilian husbands from Kyushu Island.

In November 1610 AD, tens of thousands of soldiers captured Shikoku Island.

In December, tens of thousands of Ming troops landed from Daban, and soon captured Osaka.

In mid-December, 10,000+ Ming troops landed in the Owari area, defeated the tens of thousands of shogunate troops stationed in the Owari area (later Nagoya), and occupied the entire Owari domain.

After occupying the Osaka and Owari areas, the Ming army quickly cut off the connection between the southwestern part of Honshu Island and other places, just like an earthworm was cut off.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Guangping once again ordered to wipe out all the Japanese daimyos and samurai in the cut off island, and then distributed the land to ordinary Japanese people to buy people's hearts.

At this time, Chen Guangping did not choose to directly attack Edo to defeat the Tokugawa shogunate, but chose a steady and steady approach to encroach on the entire Japan step by step.

The time enters 1611 AD.

In March, the Tokugawa shogunate recruited 30 troops and [-] Ming troops, and another war broke out in the Owari area.

In April, the shogunate army was defeated and the shogunate suffered heavy losses.

In May, daimyo from various places in Honshu jointly overthrew the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, and then surrendered to the Ming army.

At this time, all the great names in Japan already knew that they had no way to defeat the Ming army.

Rather than being silkwormed by the Ming army every step of the way, it is better to surrender directly.

Of course, before surrendering, they still wanted to negotiate with Chen Guangping to retain their territory and privileges, but Chen Guangping directly vetoed it.

Subsequently, after more than a month of negotiations, Chen Guangping only agreed to retain their wealth and a small part of their territory, and to take back most of their land and all their military power.

However, these daimyo families who surrendered have the right to continue to be officials in Japan.

Of course, the premise is that the children of the family must be sent to Daming University of Technology to study and graduate.

In August, after more than a month of negotiations and under the strong threat of the Ming army, most of the Japanese daimyo chose to surrender to the Ming army.

In mid-August, Chen Guangping led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Edo, and the entire Japan finally fell into the hands of the Ming army.

In September, Chen Guangping issued an order to have all daimyo's troops taken over, and began to reorganize and disarm these troops.

At the same time, he issued an order to let the army attack the daimyo who did not surrender, and all resistance forces must be wiped out as soon as possible.

In December 1611 AD, the news that the entire Japan had been occupied by the Ming army reached the capital, which immediately shocked the government and the public.

This time, Zhang Qingfeng no longer concealed it from the people and the court. Instead, he used Daming Daily news to publish the process and results of the war against Japan.

"What's going on? Didn't you just say that you defeated the shogunate and forced Japan to pay reparations? How did you bring down the whole of Japan?"

This is the first time for many court ministers to know such a thing.

They all believed that the Royal Fleet just taught Japan a lesson and then made Japan lose money.

However, to everyone's surprise, the Royal Fleet defeated the entire Japan.

In fact, these are the results of Zhang Qingfeng's intentional concealment, and only a few people, including him and Emperor Wanli, know about the whole process.

At first, Emperor Wanli also thought that as long as he could force the shogunate to pay compensation, it turned out that in just a few months, Chen Guangping occupied the entire Kyushu Island.

Instigated by Zhang Qingfeng, Emperor Wanli's ambitions began to expand.

Fearing that the government and the public would turn against Ming to encroach on the territory of the vassal state, so this matter was suppressed and there was no publicity.

After all, it's okay if you succeed, but if you fail, you will definitely suffer countless infamy,

Later, Zhang Qingfeng ordered the blockade of news about Japan, so that many people did not know the specific situation in Japan.

Even if some maritime merchants spread rumors among the people, they would not attract attention without large-scale publicity.

It wasn't until Chen Guangping completely occupied Japan this time that Zhang Qingfeng announced the whole story.

Of course, he won't talk about dividing the land to fight local tyrants, so as not to cause unnecessary panic among some people.

As the "Da Ming Daily" announced the news that the Ming army had completely occupied Japan, the entire Ming Dynasty boiled like boiling water.

(End of this chapter)