The current de facto ruler of the Tokugawa shogunate is Tokugawa Hidetada.But Tokugawa Hidetada was not the shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.The real shogun was Tokugawa Iemitsu, the son of Tokugawa Hidetada.Because Tokugawa Hidetada studied Tokugawa Ieyasu two years ago, he gave up the shogun's seat to Tokugawa Iemitsu, and moved out of the shogun's palace and lived in the Great Imperial Palace.Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetada is equivalent to the "Taijo Emperor" of the Tokugawa Shogunate, however, Tokugawa Hidetada is not a "Taijo Emperor" who has no power, but a "Taijo Emperor" who holds the actual control of the shogunate.Tokugawa Hidetada still did not know that he had provoked the Ming Dynasty to retaliate by allowing the Nagasaki daimyo Matsuura clan to drive out the Ming merchants.Now he had only just learned about the brutality of the Matsuura clan in driving out the merchants of the Ming Kingdom.However, Tokugawa Hidetada didn't pay much attention to this.Because in this day and age, most rulers did not yet have the consciousness to pay enough attention to the lives of civilians.Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetada did not think that the Ming Emperor, who was far away in the world, would raise troops to crusade against him because some expatriates and merchants were slaughtered.In addition, Tokugawa Hidetada naturally would not severely punish the daimyo because he killed a few Ming people because of the soldier's daimyo, not to mention that the daimyo still supported him.But Tokugawa Hidetada obviously didn't know much about the current Ming Dynasty and the current Ming Emperor.Because of this, a few days later, Tokugawa Hidetada was shocked to learn that Nagasaki had been plowed by the Ming Dynasty and that even the Nagasaki daimyo Matsuura Domain had been wiped out."
Damn Ming people!
How can they treat me like this!
This is nothing short of an affront to General Ben!
Great offense!
”Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetada pulled out his knife and directly slashed hard, cutting off a corner of the desk."
General, they're taking revenge!
Because the Songpu Domain killed their overseas Chinese merchants, they did this, according to what I heard, the reason why they shouted that they would not seal the knife for ten days was because our Songpu Domain slaughtered the overseas Chinese merchants of the Ming Kingdom for one day, and they wanted to kill for ten years to retaliate!
It's just that it's still unclear, whether this is the instruction of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, and if so, what does the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom want to do, is he taking the opportunity to annex our Wa Kingdom, so he uses this tough way to provoke us, or is there another reason?
”Date Masamune, who followed the Tokugawa family in the Tokugawa Ieyasu era, said to Tokugawa Hidetada at this time.After hearing this, Tokugawa Hidetada's expression became solemn: "That being said, we have to be patient, and we can't give the Ming Emperor a chance to raise troops to crusade against us!"
It should be ordered that the major names must not disrespect the people of the Ming Kingdom in the future, so as not to give the Ming Emperor a crusade against us. ”"That's right!
In addition, it is also necessary to send someone to bring the letter of state to the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, and the Nagasaki incident was caused by the unauthorized actions of the Matsuura Domain, and it has nothing to do with the shogunate!
”Date Masamune continued to reply.Tokugawa Hidetada nodded, he was no longer annoyed by the revenge of the Ming Navy against the Nagasaki Wako, but quickly regained his senses, knowing that if he wanted to protect his ruling interests, he must adopt a policy of appeasement, so now Date Masamune suggested that he send someone to bring a letter of state to the Emperor Daming and take the initiative to explain the matter, and he did not object.As a result, Chen Xin did not suffer large-scale retaliation from the Japanese after the occupation of Nagasaki.On the contrary, the Tokugawa shogunate also took the initiative to send grain and grass to Chen Xin, the reason was to show his shogunate's good-neighborly and friendly attitude, Date Masamune, these daimyo also took the initiative to show favor to Chen Xin, and also wanted to take the initiative to dedicate their daughter to Chen Xin, just like Zheng Zhilong, who was quite powerful at sea in history, also got the opportunity to sacrifice his daughter to the daimyo of the Japanese kingdom and married the Japanese girl and had Zheng Chenggong.But Chen Xin is not Zheng Zhilong, he is just a military general under Zhu Youxiao, not a prince, Zhu Youxiao only gave him and his sailors the privilege of not paying military discipline to foreign people, but did not give them the privilege of not caring about internal military discipline, so Chen Xin naturally did not marry these daimyos, and only accepted the grain and grass of the shogunate.Chen Xin's behavior won the favor of Tokugawa Hidetada.Because what Tokugawa Hidetada was worried about was that the daimyo colluded with the Daimei Naval Division, and then tried to challenge his authority as a general.Therefore, not only did Tokugawa Hidetada not organize the shogunate army to recover Nagasaki and drive away the Daming naval division led by Chen Xin, but also prevented some other daimyo who cared about the national dignity of the Japanese kingdom from sending troops to Nagasaki.But what Tokugawa Hidetada didn't know was that the Ming Empire, which began to capitalize on commerce, has begun to be extremely aggressive because of the transformation of production relations, especially after the emperor and the officials in power are big capitalists, and this aggression is not transferred by human will, because the current Ming Empire needs the market, raw materials, and a large number of cheap labor, otherwise, the new textile technology of the Ming Dynasty is no longer the driving force for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, but the fuse that leads to social turmoil in the Ming Dynasty.Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetada will find that even if he chooses appeasement, Daming will take the initiative to come to the door and force him to do many things that he is not willing to do.It's the same as North Korea now.North Korea is now the most loyal little brother of the Ming Dynasty.But it doesn't mean that Da Ming will let him hide behind the scenes and live a comfortable life.Because the nature of society has changed, the Ming Empire is destined to reformulate the rules as a new type of world hegemon after revealing his fangs of foreign plunder.In the past, the Ming Dynasty only asked his younger brother to pay tribute to him, and then did not interfere with each other, and each managed his own people.But now Da Ming has more requirements for his little brother.Seoul."
This, this, good manners, why does the Celestial Empire want to conquer the Japanese Kingdom, and even ask me to send a division from North Korea, will this anger the Japanese Kingdom?!"
The lord of Joseon, Li Liang, was shocked when he received Zhu Youxiao's order to send troops to the Japanese state.Naturally, he did not want to send troops to the Wa State, although the Wa State had brought great humiliation to his Korean State more than thirty years ago, and although during the Imjin War, his Korean sailors performed quite well, not as badly as the army.But as a ruler who just wanted to live and steal peace, Li Liang did not want to seek revenge on the Japanese state.It's not just that Li Wei doesn't have the intention of looking for revenge against the Japanese state, but most of the scholars and doctors in North Korea don't have the intention of looking for revenge against the Japanese state, and they just want to have a quiet time.Just like during the Song Dynasty, among the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were only a few people who intended to make a northern expedition to the country.Of course, it cannot be said that the Korean monarchs and ministers are stupid, but it happens that they are too shrewd and too good at settling accounts, and they know that going out to conquer the Japanese state is a thankless task, a labor expedition, a waste of money and food, and even retaliation from the Japanese state.Therefore, at this moment, when the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao's holy decree asking Korea to go to war arrived, Li Qi and his ministers felt very embarrassed.Jin Liu, the leader of the council, followed up and asked Guo Mu, who had always announced the decree: "As the king said, is it a wise policy to go to the Japanese kingdom?"
After all, it was only the lives of some merchants, so why did the Celestial Empire make a big conquest because of this?
And if you really want to go on an expedition, you will have to spend money and food, and my Korea is a small vassal country, which is really unbearable!
”Therefore, Guo Mu directly pulled out his knife, pointed at Jin Liu, and then said to Yuan Chonghuan: "May I ask him, do they want to resist the decree?!"
They are afraid of the retaliation of the Japanese State, so they are not afraid that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will be angry?!
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