Tadayo Sakai returned to Japan with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow, and brought news to General Tokugawa Iemitsu that made him extremely ashamed and angry.
"That is to say, whether the Tokugawa family can secure this position depends entirely on Zhao Lie's mood."
Tokugawa Iemitsu held the ribs in his hand tightly, his knuckles turned pale from the exertion, and his whole body was trembling with anger.
Ii Naotaka, Doi Toshikatsu, Kazuda Masamori and others all knelt on the ground to plead guilty.
For no other reason than the master humiliated the minister and died.
The master's family was forced to this point by Akito.
As big bosses and senior middlemen, they are all to blame.
Sakai Tadashi first kowtowed to the ground in apology, then raised his head, "Sir General, I have seen one thing during this trip, and that is that Zhao Lie will do anything to control the Japanese nation, and he will not spend a high price.
He only needs to drive the Changzhou clan as a pioneer and send out thousands of cavalry troops to help.
That’s it.”
Sakai Tadashi's words angered Tokugawa Iemitsu, who stared at Sakai Tadashi with blood-red eyes.
Sakai Tadayo's cloudy eyes looked at Tokugawa Iemitsu without any wavering, because he firmly believed that what he said was right.
If Tokugawa Iemitsu was still domineering and motivated at this time, it would push the Tokugawa family into chaos.
In the abyss at the bottom of the world, the Sakai family, as the oldest member of the Tokugawa family, and the generation daimyo will be destroyed together, and no one will be spared.
In other words, at this time, it was no longer a matter of his Tokugawa Iemitsu and the Tokugawa family, but a matter surrounding the thousands of retainers of the Tokugawa family.
Therefore, Sakai Tadashi cannot continue to remain silent because Tokugawa Iemitsu is immature and has not bowed his head.
"Has the courage that our Tokugawa family has exerted over the past hundred years to fight from Qinghe to the whole country has dissipated?
Has Zhao Lie's intimidation stopped us from sending out the army to counter the rebellion?"
Tokugawa Iemitsu stared at the senior middlemen one by one with blood-red eyes.
Naotaka Ii and others did not dare to look at each other.
They lowered their heads one after another to avoid Tokugawa Iemitsu's gaze.
They couldn't answer this.
It was too easy to strongly agree with the general, but they knew very well the consequences of treating Zhao Lie toughly.
After several battles, the shogunate's navy and water infantry were all defeated.
This is strength. gap.
But if they refute Tokugawa Iemitsu, they have already seen that the general has been a little disturbed by humiliation and anger, and this is not a good time to object.
"General, at this time, we understand how General Xian Jiakang stayed patient and waited for the enemy to take advantage of him."
Sakai Tadashi did not avoid it, but gave a tough answer.
This made Ii Naotaka, Doi Toshikatsu, and Kazuda Masamori look at him in surprise, and thought to themselves, this old Sakai has lost his temper and gone crazy today.
He has repeatedly had trouble with the general.
He lowered his head first, and then tried to persuade him to die.
Tokugawa Iemitsu was stimulated and drew out his sword with a click.
He took a few steps forward, but he controlled himself.
After all, Sakai Tadayo proposed his most respected grandfather who decided his inheritance position, and Sakai Tadayo was Fudai.
The most loyal among the daimyo, if he hadn't been too old, he would be the boss of the shogunate today.
Tokugawa Iemitsu waved his sword and turned around with his sleeves turned away.
At this time, Naotaka Ii and others tried to persuade Tadashi Sakai, saying that what he said was too reckless, and that the general should be persuaded tactfully, etc.
Sakai Tadayo closed his eyes and said nothing.
He had long had a death wish in his heart.
He went to represent the shogunate for several discussions with Akito, and he signed the two secret agreements with Akito.
He knew When the news got out, his reputation would be infamy.
Even his heirs will be greatly implicated because of this.
Not only will their future be in doubt, but they will also be ashamed to see others.
There is only one way to change this situation.
He has been thinking about this method for a long time, so this mission to Ming Dynasty is the last time he will take the blame.
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Returning to the house in the evening, Sakai Tadayo ordered his servants to bathe and change clothes.
After everything was packed, he personally wrote two big characters using ink, then pulled out his ribs and committed suicide by caesarean section.
Yes, he used this method to show that everything he did was out of necessity, for the survival of the Tokugawa family.
He was extremely unwilling to do these things, but when he lost to Akito, he could only endure and surrender, waiting for good things to happen in the future. opportunity.
However, he would not endure the humiliation and live out his life because of these last resorts.
After finishing the matter for the general and the Tokugawa family, he could only commit suicide to apologize.
Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't sleep at all that night.
It was strange that he could fall asleep after being hit by a series of bad news.
After midnight, he fell into a half-dream and half-awake state.
Xiao Xing woke him up with a violent knock on the door, and Xiao Xing reported to him the bad news that Mr.
Tadashi Sakai committed suicide at home and left a suicide note at the same time.
When this suicide note was placed in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu, there were two big words on it stained with blood, forbearance.
Tokugawa Iemitsu cried bitterly.
He was really suffering enough.
His life had been too difficult in the past few years.
Today, he was just venting his anger.
As a result, an old minister came to give him a scolding, as if he was a licentious master.
After daybreak, all the retainers couldn't help but boo after hearing the news.
Tokugawa Iemitsu appointed Doi Toshikatsu to personally take charge of Sakai Tadashi's funeral, and he must give this veteran official posthumous honor and mourning.
At this time, urgent military information came from Kyushu.
Itakura Shigemasa, who was conquering the Catholic rebellion in Hara Castle, North Kyushu Island, led nearly 10,000 troops to attack the city.
He was defeated by the rebels.
Itakura Shigemasa was also hit by an iron cannon and died.
This news shocked Tokugawa Iemitsu, how could it be possible.
Because there were only tens of thousands of Catholics in the rebellion this time, excluding the old, weak, women and children, the rebels only had more than 10,000 people, and most of their weapons were extremely crude.
The Osaka Castle Daimyo Itakura Shigemasa sent by Tokugawa Iemitsu led an army of 20,000 people.
Although the Tokugawa family with the strongest combat power only had more than 2,000 troops, the troops of various daimyo in the Kinki area around Kyoto and Osaka were all.
There were more than 20,000 soldiers, plus some daimyo soldiers from Kitakyushu, totaling more than 20,000.
How could they be defeated so easily by these cowardly Catholics?
It is said that Catholicism was brought to Japan by Spanish and Portuguese priests for nearly a hundred years.
With the efforts of the popes and priests of the two countries, it gradually spread throughout Japan.
At the beginning, many daimyo believed in this Catholicism, which led to the following vassal states.
A large number of his subjects also believed in Catholicism.
The most famous among them is Date Masamune, the lord of Sendai Domain.
He highly respected Catholicism and even sent retainers to visit Spain and other places.
Even the great devil Oda Nobunaga was extremely tolerant of Catholicism and allowed the Catholic Church to preach in Honshu.
However, during the period of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Toyotomi Hideyoshi felt that the sect was developing too fast.
The Catholic people of Japan abandoned the traditional Buddhism of Japan and even the Hachiman God who protected the samurai.
There was a danger of destroying the foundation of the Japanese state.
At the same time, due to domestic unification, there was no longer reliance on the Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, guns, guns and artillery, so Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued a nationwide ban on Christianity.
From then on, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Hidetada, and Tokugawa Iemitsu all issued bans on religion, expelling Japanese people who believed in religion.
If they still stubbornly believed, the shogunate even brutally burned them to death.
But what they didn't expect was that after decades, all the Catholic priests had been expelled or even executed.
The remaining believers scattered around still persisted in their faith, lingering like ghosts for a long time.
Especially in the Kitakyushu and Western Kyushu regions, believers were entangled with the exiled ronin samurai.
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They were dissatisfied with the shogunate and secretly preached and spread hate speech against the shogunate.
Several feudal lords in this area also believed in Catholicism, and they openly or covertly supported the believers, causing the Catholics in this area to grow strangely.
This completely angered Tokugawa Iemitsu.
He transferred or reduced the titles of several small feudal lords, and even executed the Catholic lords in the Shimabara Castle area and sent his trusted followers to be the lords here.
However, the brutal suppression did not destroy the church.
The will of the masses only aroused greater resistance.
Finally, a few months ago, the church took advantage of the lord's anger and resentment during the years of famine.
They elected the lord's adopted son Amakusa Shiro as their leader.
More than 10,000 people invaded Shimabara Castle, executed the lord, and robbed the The arsenal occupied the whole city and raised the cross flag in the city, hoping to establish a Catholic vassal state.
Although Tokugawa Iemitsu was extremely angry at the time, he still believed that it would be easy to suppress the rebellion.
Therefore, he appointed Osaka Castle Dai Itakura Shigemasa as the general and mobilized more than 20,000 troops to suppress it.
Unexpectedly, what he received was The news of the defeat and the loss of thousands of soldiers made Tokugawa Iemitsu feel devastated.
These days were so bad, one after another.
At this time, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not realize that another criticism of his loss of land had appeared again, that is, the loss of Kyushu Island, the three major islands.
From then on, Kyushu Island never returned to Japan.
In the eyes of later generations of Japanese people, the loss of Ezo Land was that Kazuto only occupied a small part of the south, and was finally captured by the army led by Zhao Lie, who was recognized as a man of great talent and strategy.
Tokugawa Iemitsu was responsible, but it was not too big.
However, the loss of Kyushu made the Japanese people of later generations heartbroken.
When it comes to Tokugawa Iemitsu, everyone curses him.
The compensation for the defeat is nothing more.
Even Kyushu Island was lost under his watch.
Tokugawa Iemitsu is just a bastard who sold his land.
The image of the prodigal son is deeply ingrained.
At this time, the prodigal son was completely unaware.
He immediately decided to appoint the old man Matsudaira Nobutsuna as the general and prepare ships to cross the sea to annihilate the rebellion.
However, the few remaining naval forces reported to him that the warships of the Polu Army were already isolating Kitakyushu, making it clear that they would not allow the shogunate to send troops to quell the rebellion.
For a moment, Tokugawa Iemitsu had the urge to vomit blood.
This Zhao Lie was really the mortal enemy of the Tokugawa family, and his ghost lingered at all times.
However, thinking of Sakai Tadashi's death remonstrance, the Tokugawa family suppressed their anger and decided to endure it.
Of course, forbearance does not mean that there is no action.
He sat back and watched the rebellion spread.
After discussing with the bosses, he made a decision and sent people to take a boat out to sea and take a detour to the Satsuma Domain in Southwest Kyushu.
To be continued
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