Chapter Ninety-Three: The Situation in Japan

In the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the news of the marriage of the Chongqing princess was silently transmitted in secret.

At this moment, Wang Ying has already raised troops to Japan.

At this moment, Ashikaga Yoshimasa is already in Owari Province.

When it comes to Owari, the first thing that comes to mind is the Owari Great Demon King, but it's a pity that the Owari Great Demon King has not yet been born, and even the Oda family has not yet broken away from the rule of the Spo family and become an independent daimyo.

The area around Owari is the domain of the Spo family.

Of course, not at the moment.

However, it was because Ashikaga Yoshimasa led the remnants of the defeated soldiers from Kyoto, as well as the remnants of the Yamana family, the Spo family, and other remnants who supported him, there were about 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers.

In the face of such an army, the Spo family's control over the place could not be guaranteed.

Of course, Ashikaga Yoshimasa also showed enough respect for the Spo family.

But Ashikaga Yoshimasa also knew that if he couldn't quickly turn defeat into victory, then the support of his subordinates would not last long.

Kyoto is the heart of Japan.

Shoguns will only be treated as generals if they are only in Kyoto, and generals who are not in Kyoto will not be respected.

Now Ashikaga Yoshimasa is full of regrets.

In fact, although the Onin Rebellion in history dealt a serious blow to the authority of the shogunate, Japanese historians directly classified the Onin Rebellion as the beginning of Japan's Warring States Period.

However, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, who caused this, did not suffer much loss, and continued to be a general after the Onin Rebellion, and even successfully exiled his younger brother and passed the position of general to his son Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

Of course, how much more power belongs to the general, is another matter.

But in the midst of this history.

The cooperation between the Ming Dynasty and Ashikaga Yoshimasa brought more benefits to Ashikaga Yoshimasa, at least more income than the finances. Ashikaga Yoshimasa's strength has increased greatly, and he wants to do more politically, and he wants to complete his ideas with a more decisive attitude.

As a result, there was no room for relaxation between Hosokawa Katsumoto and Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

So much so that Hosokawa Katsumoto expelled Ashikaga Yoshimasa from Kyoto, and even had the state of exterminating everything.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa had to unite Hosokawa Katsumoto's enemies, even if they were once his own enemies. To fight against Hosokawa Katsumoto, they are the Yamana family, the Spo family, the Hatakeyama family, and several other daimyos, as well as many small daimyos.

Among them, the Yamana family and the Hosokawa family are old rivals, and the two sides are not just a little contradictory. And the Spo family is an old rival with the Hosokawa family, to put it simply, more than ten years ago, that is, during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, the chief family of the Ashikaga family was the Spo family, but then it became the Hosokawa family.

The grievances are enough to write a few chapters.

The Hatakeyama family is actually the lead of this war, and it all has to be said for several years

The former Hatakeyama family was in civil strife, and the Yamana family and the Hosokawa family each supported one family.

In fact, at the beginning, Ashikaga Yoshimasa was against the current head of the Hatakeyama family, Hatakeyama Yoshimasa.

It's just that it was Hosokawa Katsumoto who directly suppressed Hatakeyama Yoshishi, in fact, it can be said that it was the unanimous opinion of the shogunate at the beginning, but Ashikaga Yoshimasa's younger brother Ashikaga Yoshimi played an active role in it, and it seemed that he wanted to establish his position through the battlefield, so that his brother did not dare to shake easily.

All of this led to a change of course in Ashikaga Yoshimasa in favor of Hatakeyama Yoshisa.

The two sides fought fiercely in Kyoto for more than three months.

The two sides mobilized more than 170,000 and more than 110,000 troops.

Of course, the two sides mobilized these hundreds of thousands of troops, but no more than 100,000 could really fight, after all, there were still places controlled by the army. Therefore, in the Battle of Kyoto, the total number of troops invested by both sides was about 100,000 people.

Elder Hosokawa Katsu was scheming and finally defeated Ashikaga Yoshimasa, causing Ashikaga Yoshikatsu to withdraw from Kyoto.

Even now it has been rumored that Hosokawa Katsumoto supported Ashikaga Yoshimi to become a shogun.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa reflects at this moment, in fact, one of the reasons that really made him fail was his relationship with Daming.

The Ashikaga shogunate traded with the Daemin and made a lot of money. But for the daimyo in various places, not to mention the gold and silver on Sado Island, there was a large influx of Daming goods alone.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa reaped enough benefits from the middle. But the daimyo people, there are enough benefits?

Although the industrial output value of the Ming Dynasty is not as good as that of an industrial country, Japan's volume is not large, and it can only be used for trade, gold, silver and copper are precious metals.

At this moment, Japan's mining industry is not developed enough, and in the face of such a situation, the continuous outflow of silver has gradually brought Japan's gold-silver ratio closer to that of the Ming Dynasty.

You must know that the official price of the gold-silver ratio of the Ming Dynasty is one to ten, and one tael of gold can be exchanged for ten taels of silver, but when the gold-silver ratio in Japan is the highest, it is one to four.

Such a big economic fluctuation.

For the low-level people of Japan, and the daimyos, it has never been bearable.

Of course, it is impossible for the Japanese to analyze this accurately, but that does not prevent them from attributing all this to the fault of the Akito.

Therefore, anti-Ming sentiment in Japan has come one after another.

The victory or defeat in the Battle of Kyoto was actually a reaction to anti-Ming sentiment.

It was just the judgment of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, and now it is just an afterthought.

He's already riding a tiger.

The only thing that can be relied on is the army of the Ming Dynasty.

The tens of thousands of his remaining troops were all defeated generals, and only by escaping far enough could they get rid of the pursuit of the Hosokawa family. I want to counterattack Kyoto, but I don't even think about it.

Only the Ming army can release him and return to the throne of general.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa stood in front of the port, his feet on the wood

Clogs, some can't wait to pace back and forth. asked Ise Sada, who was beside him, "Why haven't you come yet?" ”

Ise Sadashi said: "General Shangguo Navigation Bowang, I have already said that this is probably the time. ”

As a representative of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Ise went to Nagasaki to negotiate with Wang Ying.

It can be said that although the Ming Dynasty has not officially intervened in the Japanese civil war, Zhu Qizhen has already achieved one of the several small goals, that is, to complete the control of Nagasaki.

Historically, Nagasaki became a famous port in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, and Nagasaki is still a small place today, but because of the trade between Japan and the Ming Dynasty.

It is rapidly prospering.

Wang Ying directly used Nagasaki as a staging point for the Ming army to enter Japan, transferred one or two guard posts from Korea, and directly controlled the vicinity of Nagasaki, and Wang Ying ordered to choose a place near Nagasaki to build a city.

The level of architecture in Japan can be regarded as some, but the city in the eyes of Japan and the city in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty have never been the same concept. And Wang Ying also knew that this Nagasaki City was likely to be the residence of His Royal Highness King Yu.

Naturally, extra care.

Nagasaki Castle may not surpass Kyoto in the future, but it is definitely the number one castle in Kyushu. The implication is already clear.

It's just that the Ise Sadakin, who negotiated at that time, could only be regarded as invisible, and he had to come forward to appease the local Japanese, who were all directly under the shogunate, otherwise Ashikaga Yoshimasa would not have been able to control Sino-Japanese trade and gain a lot of benefits from it.

Let these Japanese honestly serve the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Ying agreed on the route and time with Ise Sada.

Wang Ying's plan was to join Ashikaga Yoshimasa first.

And then go to war.

None of them.

Although Wang Ying has enough confidence in victory, he can't say that he has a dark eye on Japan, but he knows too little, although Jinyiwei has spies in Japan.

However, Jinyiwei's funds are limited, and it would be good for a limited number of spies to give Wang Ying an understanding of the overall situation in Japan.

It is still too difficult to get them to provide enough information for Wang Ying to make decisions.

And Wang Ying didn't want to take advantage of the fire for the Japanese.

Japanese cannon fodder does not need to be in vain.

Naturally, they converged first in battle.

So it was decided to go north from Nagasaki, through the Shimonoseki Suido, through the Bungo Suido, bypassing Shikoku Island, and going directly to Kiyoshu.

It's just that there is always a little bit of a small error in such a long waterway. Therefore, Wang Ying's fleet was delayed for a while.

However, Wang Ying was not long late.

I don't know who said, "Here it is." ”

Countless Japanese people looked southeast on tiptoe, but they saw a little black dot popping up at the line between the sea and the sky, and soon these black dots spread.

What is a ship that is not a Ming dynasty?