The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

Hosokawa Takakuni rebelled.

Kyoto was captured by the Ming army.

When Ouchi Yoshioki received the news, he was silent for a long time.

Although he had made a decision long ago and was prepared in his heart, after really learning the exact news, Ouchi Yoshioki was still extremely angry and disappointed.

If there was no Ming army that suddenly appeared, then he, Ouchi Yoshioki, would be the first powerful minister who would be in charge of the shogunate!

However, there was an additional variable such as the Ming army. I am afraid that the situation in Kyoto would all depend on the face of the Ming Zhongshan Marquis!

Damn Ashikaga Yoshitane!

When he thought of this, Ouchi Yoshioki couldn't help cursing.

Compared with Ashikaga Yoshitane, this waste is easier to control. Ashikaga Yoshitane is a treacherous wolf cub who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty early and won the secret support of the Ming court.

Even after these Ming troops left, Ouchi Yoshioki was not sure that he could completely control Ashikaga Yoshitane and make him his puppet general!

So, all the plans came to nothing!

Speak of the devil, and here comes Ashikaga Yoshitsugu, smiling.

"Ouchi Yoshioki, what have you considered?"

"Zhongshan Hou has limited patience. If he doesn't enter the capital within three days, he will really send troops to attack!"

"Can this coalition of 10,000 people really stop the 10,000 elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty?"

Hearing this, Ouchi Yoshioki's face sank, and his eyes were fixed on Ashikaga Yoshitsugu.

The wolf cub just mentioned 10,000 elite soldiers!

There are 8,000 in Kyoto City, so what about the remaining 2,000?

Naturally, it is the troops of Ma Yong and Deng Boyan under Ashikaga Yoshitsugu.

In other words, this little beast has completely turned to the Ming army and is willing to be a running dog for the Ming army!

"Ashikaga Yoshitsugu, you are really an outstanding son of the Ashikaga family!"

"If Ashikaga Takauji and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu knew that there was a descendant like you, they would be so angry that they would crawl out of their graves!"

These sarcastic words were extremely vicious, but Ashikaga Yoshitsugu didn't care.

What do Ashikaga Takauji and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu have to do with Ashikaga Yoshiwune?

If it weren't for the support of the Ming court and the support of the Marquis of Zhongshan, Ashikaga Yoshiwune would have been a lackey of Ashikaga Yoshitane and Ouchi Yoshioki all his life, and his life and death could not be guaranteed!

Ashikaga Yoshiwune had had enough of following Ashikaga Yoshitane in his escape for so many years. Now he wants to take charge of his own life, and then take charge of... the entire Wa country!

"Ouchi Yoshioki, give me a straight answer!" Ashikaga Yoshiwune sneered.

After a short silence, Ouchi Yoshioki finally sighed.

"Well, I'll go with you to see what kind of heroic figure the Marquis of Zhongshan of the Ming Dynasty is!"

Half an hour later, the coalition arrived outside the gate of Kyoto.

Ashikaga Yoshitane led Ouchi Yoshioki, Ashikaga Yoshiwune, and the generals of the coalition into Kyoto. Under the leadership of Tang Mu, they came to the Muromachi shogunate and knelt down in front of Tang Hao, the Marquis of Zhongshan.

Originally, Lei Xiong, Chang Kuohai and other generals suggested that Tang Hao live in the Japanese Imperial Palace. Although it was a little poor, it was a big place. As a result, they were scolded by Tang Hao.

That was the Japanese Imperial Palace, the residence of the Japanese pseudo-emperor, and its status was comparable to the Forbidden City of the Ming Emperor!

If Tang Hao really lived there carelessly, he would probably cause endless troubles. He didn't want to bury hidden dangers for himself.

This was a taboo, and there was no need to arouse the fear and suspicion of Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

Anyway, in addition to the Japanese Imperial Palace, there was also a Muromachi shogunate to live in.

Moreover, the Muromachi shogunate was the place that held the power of Japan in this era, and the person in power was the shogun.

As for the shogun, this was very consistent with Tang Hao, so he moved directly into the Muromachi shogunate, and "occupying the magpie's nest" was nothing more than this.

Ashikaga Yoshitane brought Ouchi Yoshioki and Ashikaga Yoshine to pay tribute, but received no response.

Tang Hao ignored the three guys at first, but looked at the two generals Ma Yong and Deng Boyan behind them.

"What are the casualties?" Tang Hao asked.

Ma Yong smiled and said, "Not bad, more than a hundred brothers lost!"

They led two thousand soldiers and became mercenaries of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Ouchi Yoshioki. They fought in a foreign land and went deep into the heart of Japan. They only lost more than a hundred people. It was really good.

Tang Hao smiled when he heard this number.

"Thank you for your hard work!"

"I will ask for credit for you after I go back!"

Ma Yong and Deng Boyan bowed immediately, but the two generals also had smiles on their faces.

To be honest, the pressure on them is not small.

After all, they are in a foreign land in Japan, and they have to do crazy things, and they have to beware of the cunning hero Ouchi Yoshioki, for fear that they will be tricked one day and the whole army will be wiped out...

Now it's finally good. Lord Zhongshan has fulfilled his promise and led the army to capture the capital of Japan and come to pick them up!

Therefore, Ma Yong and Deng Boyan now felt relaxed, and unconsciously smiled.

As long as the Marquis was present, they could rest assured about the next thing.

After a few simple exchanges, Tang Hao looked at Ashikaga Yoshitane, Ouchi Yoshioki and Ashikaga Yoshiwune.

Ma Yong and Deng Boyan greeted Tang Mu, Lei Xiong and other generals, and then followed Zuo Yidao to finish the work.

At this moment, Ashikaga Yoshitane was both terrified and angry. He had already understood his fate and ending on the way here.

That is to be supported as the shogun again, and then immediately pass the throne to Ashikaga Yoshiwune!

In other words, the position of general that Ashikaga Yoshitane had fought for all his life was easily within his reach, and then had to be passed on to Ashikaga Yoshitane!

Thinking of this, Ashikaga Yoshitane looked at his adopted son Ashikaga Yoshitane with resentment.

However, Ashikaga Yoshitane could not care about his adoptive father at this moment, because his "real father" was here!

Everyone saw that Ashikaga Yoshitane trembled and knelt down directly in front of Tang Hao's feet, then stretched out his tongue in a disgusting way to lick the dust on the boots of Lord Zhongshan. After confirming that it was clean, he respectfully called "Master".

Seeing this scene, all the generals of the Ming Dynasty were disgusted.

And Ouchi Yoshioki and Ashikaga Yoshitane were so angry that their faces turned red and their bodies trembled.

This beast really disgraced the Ashikaga family!

What are you?

Are you a slave of Lord Zhongshan?

You are the blood of the Ashikaga family!

Ashikaga Yoshitane stared at his adopted son in a daze, wishing he could stab this beast to death.

Ouchi Yoshioki was also very angry. It was not until this moment that he finally understood why the Ming court secretly supported Ashikaga Yoshii. It was because Ashikaga Yoshii was so mean and despicable that he turned into a slave of the Ming Zhongshan Marquis!

What if this beast really took the position of the shogun, wouldn’t it mean that the person who really controlled the power of the shogunate became the Ming Zhongshan Marquis?

When Ouchi Yoshioki thought of this, he felt his scalp tingling and his back cold!

Is this Yamato still Yamato?

"Get away!"

Tang Hao kicked Ashikaga Yoshii with disgust.

The latter not only did not complain, but knelt down obediently like a dog with a flattering smile on his face.

He was indeed severely punished by the Jinyiwei. The continuous water torture for three days and three nights had deeply engraved fear into Ashikaga Yoshihide's bones. So when he saw Tang Hao at this moment, the fear from the heart instantly swallowed him up, and his bones could not be hardened at all.

Tang Hao glanced at Ashikaga Yoshihide, and then locked his eyes on Ouchi Yoshioki.

"Are you Ouchi Yoshioki?"

"The head of the Ouchi clan, the overlord of the western part of Japan?"

Hearing the name of the Lord of Zhongshan, Ouchi Yoshioki trembled, and then hurriedly bowed.

"Lord Zhongshan, I am Ouchi Yoshioki, the head of the Ouchi clan."

"Oh, Ouchi clan!"

Tang Hao sneered.

The reason why the Ouchi family was able to rise rapidly is related to the rise of maritime trade.

The Ouchi family relied on its geographical advantage on the shipping route to vigorously develop maritime trade with the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, it took advantage of the decline of the Muromachi shogunate's control to continuously attack the shogunate's merchant ships heading to the Ming Dynasty. Finally, it successfully forced the shogunate to give up part of the tribute interests and joined the Ouchi family in the tribute mission, so that everyone could share the profits.

Many times, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty only needed to transport the goods to Kyushu Island and sell the goods to the Japanese merchants on Kyushu Island. The Japanese merchants on Kyushu Island then transported the goods to Honshu Island and made a lot of money.

The Ouchi family accumulated a huge amount of wealth and then quickly began to take off.

Not to mention that they secretly disguised themselves as Japanese pirates and often went out to sea to plunder Korea and the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, so the family wealth became richer and richer!

This Ouchi Yoshioki was also a heroic figure with great ambitions.

He was trying his best to expand his power, and at the same time he was secretly supporting the deposed 10th Shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshitane, and wanted to make a fuss through Ashikaga Yoshitane, a bit like Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period, who wanted to hold the emperor hostage to control the princes.

He also succeeded in doing so in history. As soon as Hosokawa Masamoto died, Ouchi Yoshioki used the name of the 10th Shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane to gather a group of local daimyo to counterattack Kyoto, and finally successfully entered Kyoto to depose the current Shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi, and supported Ashikaga Yoshitane to successfully restore the throne. Ouchi Yoshioki also jointly controlled the power of the shogunate with the temporary defector Hosokawa Takakuni and manipulated the shogunate...

Well, where is the traitor Hosokawa Takakuni?

Tang Hao looked around and found that someone seemed to be missing.

But he didn't think much about it. He probably died in the chaos in Kyoto that day.

It has to be admitted that Ouchi Yoshioki is a heroic figure. In history, he did become the next Hosokawa Masamoto, manipulated the power of the shogunate, and brought his Ouchi clan into its peak and heyday.

Even in the Jiajing period, the right to trade with Ming was monopolized by the two daimyo, the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan. The competition between the Ouchi and Hosokawa clans for the right to trade with Ming became more and more intense, and eventually led to the battle of tribute in Ningbo Maritime Customs in the second year of Jiajing.

But it is precisely because of this that Tang Hao does not intend to keep him.

Ouchi Yoshioki looks only in his forties, which is the prime of his youth and the time when he is most ambitious.

Tang Hao cannot stay in the Japanese capital forever, so I am afraid that no one can suppress this Japanese Ouchi clan's destiny hero, so it is better to get rid of him directly.

While Tang Hao was pondering, he gave Tang Mu a look.

The latter immediately understood and brought out the other three captives.

One is the current 11th Shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi, another is the current head of the Hosokawa family Hosokawa Sumimune, and the other is the current Japanese Emperor Katsuhito.

Now all the six people who have the greatest hope of regaining power in Japan are here.

The grievances between these six people can't be described in a book, so when they met at this moment, each of them looked at each other angrily, wishing to kill the other.

Only Brother Shengren's face was calm, so calm that he looked a little pale.

He also suffered the same torture as Ashikaga Yoshimi, and was waterboarded non-stop for three days, so at this moment Brother Katsuhito was reduced to the same status as Ashikaga Yoshivi, the slave lackey of the Ming Zhongshan Marquis!

He had no choice but to die rather than suffer such torture again!

When the six people arrived, Tang Hao didn't waste any time and started directly asking for help.

"The first thing is, be it the Three Islands Japanese pirates or the other Japanese pirates, which famous names are secretly disguised as Japanese pirates, plundering the coastal areas of our country, Ming Dynasty, and massacring our people?"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the six people changed drastically.

They never thought that in such a chaotic situation, the Marquis of Zhongshan of the Ming Dynasty would settle old scores!

The eleventh shogunate Ashikaga Yosumi immediately pointed at Ouchi Yoshiki and said: "Senior Envoy Mingjian, these are all evil deeds committed by local daimyo for profit. For example, Ouchi Yoshiki, their Ouchi clan has always been Doing this in secret..."

"You bastard!" Ouchi Yoshihiro panicked, "Your Majesty, this is slander!"

"My Ouchi clan has never raided the coast of the Ming Dynasty. We are engaged in friendly trade with the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese pirates are not from my Ouchi clan at all..."

This matter cannot be acknowledged until death. Once admitted, not only will Ouchi Yoshihiro's life be in danger, but the entire Ouchi clan will also suffer bloody revenge from the Ming Dynasty!

However, since Tang Hao was determined to kill Ouchi Yoshihiro, how could he not be prepared?

"In the eighth year of Hongji, the Muromachi shogunate organized the seventh trade mission to the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ouchi clan had a Seika alliance, they did not have credentials and could not realize trade with the Ming Dynasty. Under the mediation of the shogunate, the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan They jointly formed the seventh trade delegation. The shogunate and the Hosokawa clan led the Jingtai exploration alliance, and the Ouchi clan led the Chenghua exploration alliance. Yaofu was appointed as the official envoy with the longevity award. The six ships included one for the shogunate, three for the Hosokawa clan, and three for the Ouchi clan. Two, right?"

When Ouchi Yoshihiro heard this, cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He seemed to have remembered something, so his whole body was trembling with fear.

"Your Japanese mission arrived in Beijing at the beginning of the ninth year of Hongzhi. After paying tribute, they returned to China in May. Due to the complex composition of the trade group, and when the economy was peaceful on the way back, members of the Qi mission forcibly purchased goods, causing quarrels and killing people with knives. Among them were You, the Ouchi clan, killed three of my Ming people for no reason, and then took away their goods!"

"No...Senior...that's not the case..."

Ouchi Yoshihiro's expression changed drastically, and he frantically wanted to make amends, but Tang Hao didn't give him this chance at all.

"You, the Ouchi family, dare to rob and kill people for property within the territory of our empire. You have no respect for our empire at all. How can you talk about it in other places?"

"Ouchi Yoshihiro, it was only in the eighth year of Hongzhi that you, the Ouchi clan, were able to participate in the exploration and trade with the Ming Dynasty. Where did you, the Ouchi clan, get my Ming Dynasty goods before that?"

Some things simply cannot withstand investigation.

Even though every word of Tang Hao's statement was evidence, Ouchi Yoshihiro still tried to refute it.

In fact, those goods were indeed obtained by robbery, but a small part was plundered along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and most of them were obtained by the survey ships sent by the shogunate. They were often robbed by the Ouchi clan entrenched in Nagato, Shufang and other places on their way back. Well, the shogunate lost everything and the Ouchi clan made a lot of money. Therefore, the shogunate had to transfer the rights and interests of the "Tomorrow Trade" to the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan who controlled the Seto Inland Sea, and finally formed a three-party Together with the Ming tributary, the pattern of exploration and trade was established.

But how can the Ouchi family explain it? Could it be that what he robbed was not the Ming Dynasty coast, but the shogunate tribute ship?

If he really opens his mouth and admits this matter, the Ouchi clan will instantly become the target of public criticism in Yamato!

But what to do now?

Tang Hao was too lazy to talk nonsense to Ouchi Yoshihiro and waved his hand impatiently.

"Someone come and stop him!"

Lei Xiong and Chang Kuohai quickly stepped forward and directly pushed the unsuspecting Ouchi Yoshihiro to the ground, unable to move.

"Your Majesty!" Ouchi Yoshihiro was completely panicked.

He never thought that the Marquis Zhongshan of the Ming Dynasty would attack him at this moment.

Isn't he afraid of his tens of thousands of troops outside the city?

"I, Ouchi, are not guilty!"

"If the envoy listens to the traitor's slander, I, the Ouchi family, will never tolerate it..."

The front is begging for mercy, but the back is threatening.

Tang Hao looked at this hero coldly, and then sneered.

"Why do you think I don't transfer the two thousand soldiers of Ma Yong and Deng Boyan to Kyoto?"

"Guess what Ma Yong and Deng Boyan did just now?"

As soon as these words came out, Ouchi Yoshihiro's face changed drastically, and there was no trace of blood anymore.

There is no doubt that they went to slaughter the army outside the city!

The allied forces outside the city were unprepared for the two thousand Ming troops. Under a sudden attack, the already powerful Ming troops could easily kill all the nearly 10,000 troops!

damn it!

This is obviously a trap!

"Tang Hao, what exactly do you want to do?"

"By killing our Yamato warriors like this, don't you want to destroy the entire Yamato country?"

After scolding Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao, Ouchi Yoshihiro looked at Ashikaga Yoshimoto, Ashikaga Yoshicheni and Katsuhito and other brothers, and cursed angrily: "Don't you understand yet? This damn Akito wants to Destroy me, Yamato!”

Destroy Yamato?

Ashikaga Yoshizumi and Ashikaga Yoshitane's faces changed wildly, and then they all looked at Tang Hao.

But before they could come to their senses, they were directly held down by the Ming soldiers.

Then they saw Ashikaga Yoshitane and Katsuhito kneeling in front of Zhongshan Hou with flattering faces, and showed their attitude with practical actions.

What does it have to do with them to destroy Yamato?

They just want to be the master's dog!

Tang Hao handed Ashikaga Yoshitane and Katsuhito a knife each, and then pointed at the three people who were restrained in front of him.

"Kill them!"

"You are the shogun!"

"You are the emperor of Japan!"

Ashikaga Yoshitane and Katsuhito looked at each other, and then rushed over without hesitation.

Ashikaga Yoshitane took the lead in stabbing the knife into Ashikaga Yoshitane's heart, and then sneered: "Old thing, I have wanted to kill you for a long time!"

Ashikaga Yoshitane stared at this adopted son with resentment on his face, and finally died.

Brother Katsuhito killed Ashikaga Yoshizumi with a single sword. The emperor hated the shogunate, and there was nothing to say about it. Especially since the damn shogunate did not hold a ceremony for his enthronement, he deserved to die!

Finally, the two of them slowly walked towards Ouchi Yoshioki with bloody blades.

This destined hero of the Ouchi clan screamed and wailed!