Chapter 105: A trip to Japan

Dongshengwei is northeast of the bend where the Yellow River flows from east-west to north-south.

Not far from the Yellow River.

However, it is a little far away from the partial pass of Shanxi Town, more than 200 miles, and it is also far away from Kaipingwei, four or five hundred miles away.

To the south is the Yellow River, and south of the Yellow River is desert.

Even at the beginning of the founding of the country, the establishment of Dongshengwei was a very difficult thing.

Hongwu was placed in four years and abolished in five years, which was the battle of Lingbei between Xu Da and Wang Baobao, the Northern Expedition failed, the Ming army contracted strategically in the frontier, and Dongshengwei was revoked.

Once again, Dongshengwei was set up, that is, after the fishing war. The Yuan Dynasty was defeated, and all the emperor's officials were captured.

Twenty years after Hongwu, the imperial court successively established Daning, Kaiping and other guards. Dong Shengwei was re-established at that time.

But the situation is different.

Dongshengwei originally set up five guards, with a total strength of nearly 30,000, but in the thirtieth year of Hongwu, the central guards before and after Dongsheng were abolished. Only Dongsheng left and right guards.

In the second year of Yongle, even the two guards of Dongshengwei also moved to Zunhua, Hebei, and the area of Lulong.

It's been more than 50 years.

If it weren't for the fact that Dongshengwei was too far away from the rear, it would not have been built and abandoned repeatedly, and all the time of existence added up would have been only more than ten years.

This kind of practical difficulty, even if the times are reincarnated, the existence will still exist.

In addition to being more considerate in terms of allocation, Zhu Qizhen also ordered Shanxi Town to study the possibility of communicating with Dongshengwei through the Yellow River.

As for sailing directly from downstream to upstream, Zhu Qizhen naturally didn't count on it.

After all, Sanmenxia is in danger, and there is Hukou Waterfall, even if there is a boat on dry land, a large number of materials cannot be passed, but what is the situation of the river between Shanxi Biguan and Dongshengwei?

Zhu Qizhen really didn't know, so he could only let people investigate.

However, he doesn't expect it to be too good.

Just think about it, if this generation of river traffic capacity is very strong, at the beginning of the country, it will not give up Dongshengwei.

Or it needs to take a lot of effort to rectify, and in the final analysis, it is still a matter of money.

This made Zhu Qizhen can't help but think of whether the trip to Japan went smoothly or not.

Just when Zhu Qizhen remembered this incident, Li Shi had already come to Nagasaki.

During this festival, the weather in Nagasaki is very pleasant.

It's just that Li Shi hasn't seen the scenery of Nagasaki yet, so he is called protection, and he is actually under house arrest.

Japan was very surprised by the arrival of the Ming envoy, and in Li Shi's view, there was a sense of fright, and he had no way of knowing the specific situation, and he and his entourage were treated the best by the Japanese side.

Although the Japanese side has tried its best to supply Li Shi, it is almost limited to this. Li Shi still feels that the living treatment is much worse, even better

The original envoy to North Korea was much worse.

However, Li Shi didn't come for any glory and wealth, and he didn't care too much about these things.

It's just that the Japanese side's strict defense made Li Shi very uncomfortable.

He didn't know whether his mission could be accomplished. also secretly complained that the emperor was simply a whim, and put the hope of solving the financial problem in an inexplicable direction.

He even wondered if the emperor was confused.

But what he thought in his heart, he could only complain secretly, but he didn't leak a single thing.

It's just that he didn't know that when the news reached Kyoto, Japan, the Japanese side was also at a loss, and he didn't know why the Ming Dynasty suddenly sent an envoy across the sea.

The most frequent era of Ming diplomacy was the era of Taizong, and after Taizong, the Ming rarely took the initiative to send envoys.

Except for the official contacts between Japan and the Ming Dynasty during the Xuande period, there has been no confrontation for more than 20 years. During this period, Japan has changed several shoguns. I have never seen the Ming Dynasty come to canonize, but now it suddenly came. I wonder if there's any inside story in it.

Especially the current shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa was born in the first year of Orthodoxy, and is now only in his early twenties, but he has been a shogun for many years.

He was the son of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the sixth shogun of the shogunate, and his elder brother ascended to the shogunate, but he died two years before he had the opportunity to ascend to the throne as the eighth shogun of the shogunate.

Because Ashikaga Yoshimasa was a young man, the power of the shogunate was in the hands of the local daimyo such as the three leaders and the four masters.

The so-called three leaders and four families are Hatakeyama, Persia, and Hosokawa. This is the so-called three-pipe collar, Akamatsu, Yamana, Isshiki, Kyogoku, and the four vocational families.

This constituted the power structure at the top of the shogunate.

And Ashikaga Yoshimasa naturally has power conflicts with these people, but there is one person who is his good helper, the so-called Imaginju, who is also his concubine, who was originally his nurse. Later, she helped him a lot in politics and became his concubine.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa has just announced his pro-government.

And before and after, many important things were also done, that is, to crack down on the three lords and the four clans, and to take back the power of the shogunate from the hands of the major lords.

The most important event was the Hatakeyama Rebellion, which occurred in the 18th year of orthodoxy and has not completely ended until now.

The previous head of the Hatakeyama family died in the 14th year of Orthodoxy, and the head of the family was passed on to Hatakeyama Yoshisasa. However, in the eighteenth year of orthodoxy, the Hatakeyama retainers supported Hatakeyama Yoshisasa's nephew, Yazaburo, who inherited the head of the family.

Why is this happening?

That's a long story, it's nothing more than the contradiction between the heads of the previous generation, as well as the rivalry between the old and new ministers, and if you talk about it in detail, it will take a lot of space, so I won't talk about it here.

Hatakeyama Yoshi's ability to control his family is okay, and he does it as soon as possible

Out of the counterattack. Yazaburo is cornered. Looks like it's going to end soon.

But at this time, the Hosokawa family intervened.

The Hosokawa family thought that this was a great opportunity to weaken the Hatakeyama family, so they motioned for their retainers to take in Yazaburo.

Hatakeyama Yoshishi could only seize the territory of Yazaburo's followers and drive them out of the family.

And Yazaburo has the support of the Hosokawa family, and he will not give up. He also won the support of the Yamana family, so he launched a counterattack in the autumn of that year, attacking Hatakeyama Mokuni, that is, Hatakeyama Yoshinosa's most important supporter.

After Hatakeyama escaped from the country, he declared his seclusion.

Faced with the situation in which Yazaburo had the upper hand, Ashikaga Yoshimasa temporarily recognized Yazaburo as the head of the Hatakeyama family. However, he didn't want to give up, so he forced Hosokawa Katsumoto to kill the retainer who had taken in Yazaburo in the first place to show his dissatisfaction.

Hosokawa Katsumoto was dissatisfied with this and wanted to resign from the position of leader, but Hosokawa Katsumoto was a powerful minister of the shogunate, just like Yang Shiqi in Zhu Qizhen, where could he resign casually.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa can only go to Hosokawa Katsumoto's mansion in person to show his retention.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa couldn't attack the Hosokawa family, so he aimed the contradiction at the Yamana family, and launched a crusade against the Yamana family in the winter of that year, and then the Yamana family was defeated, and the Hosokawa family came forward to mediate.

However, it was also the abdication of the head of the Yamana family to live in seclusion, which made Ashikaga Yoshimasa contact with the crusade order.

Immediately in the twenty years of Orthodoxy, that is, last year. With the support of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Hatakeyama Yoshimasa launched a crusade against Yasaburo, who was defeated and fled.

And Hatakeyama Yoshishi sat firmly in the position of the Hatakeyama family.

It seems that this is the end of the matter.

Quite the opposite, actually.

Before this, the affairs of the Hatakeyama family were still the affairs of the Hatakeyama family themselves, but to the point where they are now, they are no longer the affairs of the Hatakeyama family themselves.

It was already a robbery for the struggle between the shoguns and the daimyo.

Hosokawa Katsumoto just didn't expect Ashikaga Yoshimasa to react so violently. He also has to protect his allies at the moment, that is, his father-in-law's family.

So there was just a concession to Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

It did not mean that the struggle between the two sides was over, and even this incident buried deep rifts among the various daimyos, so that the subsequent struggle became more and more intense, and even pushed the whole of Japan into the Warring States period.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa may not know this. But there is one thing he knows, the current situation between the two sides, let the Ming envoy rush to join, it will cause variables that are not under control.

This is something that Ashikaga Yoshimasa does not want to see.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa himself was a versatile man, and Japanese culture developed well during his tenure, but his enthusiasm for participating in politics was not very high.

In this series of decisions, there is a lot of room for the current participation in the bureau.