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The Zheng family, which has no mass base, wants to gain a foothold in Hokkaido, and to put it bluntly is a bit overconfident.They managed Fujian and failed to control the overall situation. At most, they were just a wealthy businessman on the seashore, and their ability to manage an island was really average.Even if the Zheng family later managed Taiwan and brought hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians with them, the level was still the same.

What's more, the Zheng family has been in this time and space for the past few years, because of the loss of Japan's trade, what can they support?If it weren't for Daming's protection, he might have been driven into the sea by the power of the Japanese imperial family long ago.

"This is all calculated by the emperor." Tagawa Jiro has a lot of opinions on Zhu Youjian, he just feels that he has been used.

"It's no wonder your Majesty, our Zheng family's appetite is too big, we want to eat a fat man in one bite, but we are choked." Zheng Zhilong waved his hand and said: "The Majesty's plan is obvious, I know I can't rush, but I still I just wanted to get in. A mistake!"

It is true that the Zheng family is the biggest local power in Ming Dynasty, and the Zheng family's contribution is a bit overwhelming.Before, Zheng Zhilong was worried that Zhu Youjian would attack the Zheng family, but Zhu Youjian didn't do that. On the contrary, he still used Zheng Chenggong very much.Zheng Zhilong understood one thing, the Zheng family who had left the shore was nothing.At the beginning, he thought that Houjin was powerful, but that was because he didn't expect Nanjing to have a rising strength.

Later, Zhu Youjian recovered the field, and the entire Daxi and Dashun armies were incorporated by Nanjing. How could the Zheng family be able to contend with such a force?

Later, Zheng Zhilong hoped that there would be an island where he could live a peaceful life. Taiwan has never been available, and Nanyang did not want to go. Wa became the best choice.

Zhu Youjian was generous enough, and he also saw what the old man of the Zheng family was thinking, and gave them Hokkaido abruptly, which made Zheng Zhilong ecstatic!

"But brother, our Zheng family has run out of money." Zheng Hongkui stood behind Jiro Tagawa and said inappropriately.

"That's right! The territory in the world is not good." Zheng Zhilong looked up to the sky and sighed.It's easy to become a rich man. There are many paths for the Zheng family.But if you want to crack the soil and become a king, that's not for ordinary people. Even if you occupy a piece of land, can you live in it?

The Zheng family is rich, but they can't fill the bottomless pit of Hokkaido.A lot of money was spent in it, and it was filled deeper and deeper, and now this hole is about to swallow the Zheng family.

"Will the emperor leave us alone?" Tagawa Jiro was worried that Zhu Youjian would abandon the Zheng family.

"No. If he wanted to abandon Hokkaido, he wouldn't have done it in the first place. I only figured it out recently." Zheng Zhilong's eyes lit up, and he said with certainty.

He did not realize until recently that it must be useful for Zhu Youjian to want Hokkaido.If the Zheng family was not in a hurry to enter Hokkaido first, Zhu Youjian would have used other methods to deal with Japan.But he, Zheng Zhilong, is rushing to be the rafter in the early stage, so who is to blame.

"Report! Report to the lord of the country, and Siming urgently reports." Several people were feeling emotional, and a communication soldier hurried over to send a military report.

"Father, the eldest brother sent us a letter asking us to hurry up." Of course Jiro Tagawa would not tell important things in the street, but judging by his expression, Zheng Zhilong had already guessed that something good was coming.

That's right, Zheng Chenggong has already received Zhu Youjian's oral order to ask Hokkaido to unite with the Tokugawa family and ask Ming Dynasty to send troops to suppress the rebellion.In other words, the three-year civil war has divided Japanese society.The power of the royal family that existed for thousands of years has almost completely manifested itself.At this time, with the purpose of helping the shogunate, Ming sent troops to Japan to solve the Japanese problem in one fell swoop.

Anyone who does not take advantage of the contradictions among the inherent forces in Japan and adopts a strategy of aggressiveness will eventually suffer heavy losses.The biggest failure of the Central Plains to Japan is that it habitually regards Japan as a single whole, which is a serious strategic misjudgment.

Chapter 662: Raiders against Japanese One

In fact, no force or organization is monolithic. If you want to completely defeat a powerful opponent, you must disintegrate the opponent as much as possible.

The war between North Korea and Japan was just a fire for Zhu Youjian to consume the country, which is equivalent to burning down the opponent's house and making the opponent poor; and assassinating the emperor is equivalent to digging the foundation of the opponent, leaving the opponent no chance to rebuild .

The current shogunate is like parents who have betrayed their relatives, and no one listens to anything they say.If the shogunate wants to maintain its position, it can only ask Daming for help.Because the incompetent rule of the shogunate is crumbling, it is a pity that the shogunate has far-sightedness than the Japanese imperial family in this matter.

This is not the political external environment facing Japan during the Fall of the Curtain Movement. Japan’s opponent is not only Midi who wants to trade, but Zhu Youjian who wants to kill him.Fortunately, Zhu Youjian's first move was to cut off the trade alliance between the Netherlands and Japan, and no one in the whole world would lend a helping hand to Japan. This is the external contradiction of Japan.

One thing is clear, the emperor and the shogunate launched by the Japanese royal family are now politically opposed, and the trusted emperor wants to avenge the previous emperor; while the shogunate does not recognize the succession of the trusted emperor, and the royalists also want to collapse.This is why Zhu Youjian asked Tiandi to assassinate the emperor and the next emperor.

As early as eight years ago, after Tokugawa Iemitsu's death, the famous "Qing'an Incident", that is, the Ronin turmoil, broke out in the country of Wa.There are many wandering samurai who are dissatisfied with the shogunate. These people have already contacted the royal family under the banner of respecting the king and fighting barbarians.People in other countries don't know it, but Zhu Youjian sees it very clearly. This is the domestic conflict in the Wa country.

In Edo, in the Tokugawa Shogun's Mansion, Tokugawa Ietsuna, the fourth-generation shogunate general who holds the highest power in Japan, and his uncle Hoshina Masaoyuki, Sakai Tadakatsu, Matsudaira Nobuzuna, and Abe Tadaaki sat kneeling together to discuss the shogunate. Dominate the future.

"This is the condition of sending troops proposed by the Ming Dynasty." Abe Tadaaki handed over the diplomatic documents to Hoshina Masayuki with both hands, because Tokugawa Iezuna was mentally handicapped (according to records, his IQ was not high), and his uncle Hoshina Masayuki was actually in power.

"Nani? Do you want us to recognize the establishment of Kyushu and the Four Kingdoms?" Bao Ke Masayuki knocked on the table with a look of anger.As for Tokugawa Iezuna, who was sitting in the upper head and left Harazi, he didn't know what was going on, and looked scared.

"Baga, this is trying to dismember my Yamato." Tadakatsu Sakai was also extremely indignant.Such a traitorous treaty is unbearable to anyone who hears it, just like when Japan forced the Manchus and the Qing to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki hundreds of years later.Compensation of [-] million taels of silver, this kind of humiliation, is like being slapped ten times on the face alive.

"What's the point if you don't sign it? Are Kyushu and Shikoku now facing us?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna blushed, but said what should be said.

Kyoto is to the west, Edo is to the east; Kyushu and Shikoku are also to the west.From the start, the two islands have taken a wait-and-see approach.The forces of the shogunate are now fighting against the main force of the royalists in the Nagoya area.

In this war, the shogunate had the upper hand at the beginning and gradually became evenly matched, and some extreme wandering warriors kept gathering to the east and gradually smuggled to Hokkaido, causing trouble for the Zheng family.

This is Japan, a place where the emperor is regarded as a god, just like when later generations finally convicted war crimes, the real guilty escaped.

Some people say, why didn't the shogunate directly take the lead in declaring war on Ming Dynasty?That's because the shogunate looked farther. With Japan's current strength, touching Ming Dynasty was like hitting a stone with a pebble, without affecting the final result.And the Japanese right wing, to put it bluntly, is this group of royalists.

"Let's sign it! At least, I can keep the blood of this island." Baoke Zhengzhi closed his eyes in pain, and he finally figured out a problem.

If the shogunate mobilized the whole country to fight when Hokkaido was divided, the Ming Dynasty might have to pay a higher price if it wanted to succeed.But now, I'm afraid it's even worse.

The most hateful thing is North Korea's accomplice, which directly confused the shogunate's judgment and made the shogunate mistakenly think that Ming just wanted to be a middleman to ask for some benefits.

It's too late to say it all!

When the shogunate's treaty was sent to Nanjing, Chief Prosecutor Zhu heaved a sigh of relief.Because this piece of paper represented that Ming could use troops against Japan without any scruples.And the so-called emperor has fallen from the altar.

It is a prudent thing to use troops against Japan. The war is neither big nor small, and it involves both water and land.

Zhu Youjian felt that it was perfectly appropriate for Daming to use the Japanese sacrificial flag to declare the strength of force.

In this battle, Zheng Chenggong, who is most likely to speak for Japan in Ming Dynasty, because the relationship of the Zheng family will only agree and not oppose, while other ministers will not object at all.

Within ten days, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, the coaches of the two young men of the Ming Dynasty, and the three generals Hao Yaoqi, Bai Wenxuan, and Li Laiheng were recalled to Nanjing for the highest military meeting before the war.Further large-scale announcements will continue to be made.

At the same time, Ming Dynasty had informed North Korea and asked North Korea to send troops to assist in the battle.When the king of North Korea heard this, he went crazy with joy. This is simply a good opportunity for the fox to pretend to be a tiger, and he made it clear to make a fortune.Therefore, North Korea decided to send [-] to [-] elite soldiers, and let the Ming Dynasty dispatch them at will.

In addition, the Kingdom of Ryukyu also requested to send 1000 troops to express its position.

And Nanyang Province, which is the special zone of Ming Dynasty, also allocated fifty warships to the combined fleet to be formed.

Needless to say, the Zheng family gave everything they had and mobilized all the forces they could mobilize in their hometown in Fujian, wishing they could even sell their old house to fight this war.

It can be said that Ming has actually surrounded Japan, and the rest depends on how to fight.

"In my opinion, there is only one way to fight: attack all the way, and use the army to crush the little dwarfs to death." Hao Yaoqi looked down on the Japanese at all, and he said that he would crush others to death every now and then, with a loud tone.

"Japan is mountainous, and it is a big problem to supply the army after landing." Li Dingguo is not Hao Yaoqi, he has been studying the terrain.

This sentence hits the point. The Japanese mainland has never been directly captured, and the willingness is because of the complicated terrain.If it can be won in the end, everyone will admit it.But at what cost to win it, that is the question.

For these dwarfs, is Da Ming willing to sacrifice 10 people?Of course not.

"Take control of all the towns, and let them solve the rest!" Zheng Chenggong, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke the most constructive words.

The core of Japan is a few towns, and most of these places are near the sea.Controlling the town is equivalent to controlling the lifeline of the economy. Others want to be savages, let them go!

Chapter 663: Raiders against Japanese II

In terms of military strength, the battle against Japan mainly relies on landing operations. If large-scale land battles are not fought (actually, they are not needed), there is no need for many troops at all.

Japan in the [-]th century had poor weapons and equipment, not to mention tactics. In Gao Xiaosong's words, Japan's wars at this time were at most at the level of village fights.The charge of two hundred people is already considered a big battle.

What's more, the current Daming has completely changed its equipment and officially installed breech-loading guns.It's a Chasebol rifle.After ten years of continuous improvement and research and development, Daming finally launched the first-generation breech-loading rifle similar to later generations, a breech-loading rotary rifle that uses oiled paper and flax to wrap round projectiles.The idea of ​​bolt movement was proposed by Zhu Youjian. It cannot be blamed on the fact that the firearms design team is not smart, but that the technology tree needs to be done step by step. If Zhu Youjian does not break it, it will develop as normal, which will be too slow.

This is already a big improvement, and we cannot require the use of copper-cased bullets in one step, after all, the processing technology cannot keep up.Just like India in later generations, where firearms can be made, bullets still have to be imported.And how many other small countries can make bullets?

This rifle has been rifled, but the seal is not good enough, and the range is not far from the flintlock.However, the rate of fire has increased, which is the advantage of breech-loading guns.The caliber is large and the power is not small. It is no problem to kill a horse within the effective range of the projectile wrapped in oil paper.Those who were shot were either dead or disabled, which is a bit unreasonable to put it bluntly.Zhu Youjian intends to let the Japanese try it first.