The merchants in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty were very good at playing, and on the grounds of the treaty, they ignored the demands of the shogunate.

In the next few days, the grain merchants gave full play to their "mercenary intentions", not only resisted, but also repeated the Wanli Dynasty Suzhou tax resistance incident, spent money to find spokespeople, and led the Japanese citizens to riot.

They think that there is a ruthless man like Emperor Tianwu in the Ming Dynasty, and we can't get cheap, and in your little Japan, can your shogunate still turn against the sky?

The vast majority of Japanese high-roller rice merchants were also unwilling to accept the shogunate's manipulation of the market, and the two sides hit it off, gathering in the streets and alleys to protest, demanding that the shogunate reduce commercial taxes, abolish the policy of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and no longer intervene in the market.

At this time, the shogunate elder Nakamatudaira Nobutsuna, who was in charge of internal affairs, had already personally taken command, and when he saw that someone was acting so recklessly, he angrily ordered all the suspects to be arrested and returned to the prison for trial, and the rest were dispersed regardless of who they were.

His idea was very simple, since someone disrupted the market, the shogunate had the right to interfere, even if it was a merchant of the Ming Dynasty, it would be punished!

Matsudaira Nobutsuna had an idea and decided to return the favor with the other way, and the shogunate also secretly supported the ronin to launch a rebellion.

Of course, their rebellion was not aimed at the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and the shogunate-backed rioters, consisting of ronin and townspeople, pointed the finger at wealthy merchants under the slogan of "lowering the price of rice and relieving the poor", targeting rice shops that hoarded rice and wealthy merchants who dealt in raw silk.

In this way, the Japanese forces supported by the Ming Dynasty attacked the ruling institutions of the shogunate, and the forces supported by the shogunate destroyed the grain stores under the control of the Ming merchants.

This beautiful scenery was not only present in Kyoto Prefecture, but soon spread throughout Japan, and the destruction and riots of the people of Osaka Town echoed it, and the scale spread to almost all the cities along the Osaka Bay coast from Hyogo south in the west to near Kishu.

Some Japanese grain hawkers, unable to resist the madness of bankruptcy, did not know who set the entire trading warehouse on fire, but fortunately, it was extinguished in time and did not cause harm to spread.

After the incident became a big one, the three main leaders of the Tokugawa shogunate could no longer sit still, for fear of provoking an uncontrollable popular uprising.

Because they suddenly found that the hostile forces were stronger than they imagined, and even if they lost many shops, they still continued to fund and support the rioters, as if they could not spend all the money in their hands.

In the long run, these riots in Japan will only greatly shake the authority of the shogunate, deal a heavy blow to the power of the shogunate, and even sound the death knell of the shogunate's rule!

Soon, the elder Sakai Tadakatsu took the opportunity to make a decisive decision and sent troops to suppress it by force, arresting the grain hoarders and the rich Chinese merchants who dealt in raw silk, and confiscating their grain.

No one could have imagined that this was just the beginning, and that an even bigger storm was yet to come.

Two days later, the Tokugawa shogunate ordered the closure of the Ming merchant houses in Kyoto, Osaka and other places in the name of the shogun, and all the Ming merchant ships in the port of Osaka were seized by the shogunate soldiers, and the Ming merchant ships that had not arrived in the port were ordered to return.

The Ming merchants in Japan, as well as the Japanese businessmen involved in the matter, were all arrested and interrogated.

The Tokugawa shogunate's move to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle completely angered the Ming Dynasty!

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"Extra! Extra! Little Japan seized my Ming merchants! ”

"The Tokugawa shogunate officially closed the merchant houses in Osaka and Kyoto, seized the merchant ships of my Ming Dynasty, and captured the merchants and crew members of my Ming Dynasty!"

In Nanjing, there were people on the major newspaper kiosks on the streets who constantly publicized this important event.

The so-called extra number refers to the small sheet of newspaper that needs to be added by the newspaper company to report important news in a timely manner, because it is outside the sequential number of the newspaper that is published regularly.

The actions of the Tokugawa shogunate were not sudden for the Ming court, but for ordinary people, it was tantamount to anti-heaven!

"A small island country, dare to provoke again and again, and it should be destroyed!"

In a teahouse on Hongwu Street, a powerful voice spread throughout the floor.

It was a man of thirty years of age who spoke, and his face was full of anger and indignation.

Not only him, but everyone in the entire teahouse, as long as it was a gentleman, was very angry, and they drew their swords one by one and looked around, as if they were looking for a Japanese to vent their anger.

The strength of the Ming Dynasty has given the people a sense of pride in the Heavenly Empire, and in recent years, whether it is land or sea, the Ming army has been invincible all the way!

The Ming Dynasty first collected Taiwan, defeated Japan twice, marched into the South Seas, and defeated the Spanish Invincible Armada in the ocean, which made the overseas merchants raise their eyebrows and straighten their waists, not to mention the people who had lived in Shenzhou for a long time.

Daming's overseas expansion has brought obvious benefits to domestic businessmen, and many people are ready to increase investment and go to sea.

Now that tiny Japan dared to detain the merchants and merchant ships of the Celestial Empire, of course, it caused the anger of many people.

Parade, parade again.

In just a few days, the streets of Nanjing City were filled with crowds, they held high the battle flag, and they all rallied with righteous indignation to ask for war!

Before the team, it was the wives, children, and children of the businessmen who were captured by the Japanese, and the family members invited the team to come to the imperial city and ask the imperial court to send troops to rescue their relatives and punish Japan.

The marches and rallies of the Great Ming Wu Dynasty are very distinctive, people are protesting against the government, and the Ming Dynasty is basically asking for war.

Yang Tinglin, the first assistant to the cabinet, personally came forward to meet with the petitioning delegates, and said that the imperial court would definitely rescue all those arrested by Japan.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty have a high political status, and there are also a number of spokespersons of businessmen in the imperial court, such as the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty, but this force is not large, and it has not yet reached the point where it can influence the political situation.

They waved their flags and shouted, played the role of fueling the flames, and bluntly asked for war to rescue their compatriots in the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that after a period of fermentation, the Ming Dynasty and the outside unanimously shouted to send troops to Japan, and no one mentioned that Japan was one of the countries that did not conquer in the ancestral training.

During this time, Zhu Cihong has always made an appearance of the Ming army who humbly accepted advice and listened to advice.

With such great effort, he was waiting for this moment, in the name of safeguarding his country's interests, to crusade against Japan by force, and to achieve a great cause that no one has completed for eternity!

The little Japanese dog jumped over the wall in a hurry and took the initiative to provide enough reason for Daming to use force, and it was too much to say if he didn't fight!

Tonight's pre-imperial meeting is a major political decision before the Ming army sets out, and Zhu Cihong asked all parties about the preparations.

As a matter of fact, everyone had already been prepared, and the main purpose of coming to the meeting was to listen to the will of the troops and discuss the battle plan, as well as the selection of the commander-in-chief of the three armed services.

When Zhu Cihong officially announced that he would personally conquer Japan, a minister at that time immediately advised him that His Majesty was a noble body and that it was not suitable for him to go on an expedition to Japan and suffer from the turmoil.

Zhu Cihong ignored him, just kidding, can I not go to beat Little Japan?

The Yuan Dynasty was so awesome back then, when Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, was in charge, the second expedition to Japan capsized, and at the historical moment when the Ming Dynasty returned to the old business, there can be no more problems!

The Japanese are cunning and cannot completely subdue them unless they are personally conquered!

Therefore, Zhu Cihong made up his mind that he would not listen to anyone who said anything, so he immediately issued an order and ordered the Ministry of Rites to immediately draft an edict to fight against the thief, and set out to fight the thief five days later!