Chapter 1740: The Waiko Rebellion Along the Coast

The Japanese are the thieves of the Japanese country, so they are called the Japanese invaders.

The Wa Kingdom, that is, the East Ying.

Originally, the people of the Han Dynasty did not like or dislike Dongying, this island country in the East China Sea, but it was one of the small countries around, so not many people cared about it at all.

But it wasn't until three years ago that the Dongying delegation came to Luoyang on a pilgrimage, and challenged the heroes of the Han Dynasty in more than 30 aspects of the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, etc., which made the people of the Han realize the ambition of this island country in the East China Sea.

Of course, this challenge to the Dongying Mission failed miserably, winning only three of the thirty challenges, and losing the other twenty-seven.

This incident inspired the people's national pride, and then because most of the Dongying people were short, the people jokingly called Dongying the Wa Kingdom, so as to satirize the Dongying people for their inability to measure their strength and use their mantis arms as cars.

On the pilgrimage three years ago, the real purpose of the Dongying mission was to obtain technology from the Luoyang court, but in the end it was unsuccessful, so it could only transfer the target to obtain it from the major princes.

But the major princes are not stupid, it is impossible to give it to a small country for nothing, and in the end, the Dongying mission can only spend money to buy it.

The blockade of technology by other princes is not as strict as that of the Qin army, and each prince has the technology that he is good at, and the technology that belongs to him alone is naturally impossible to sell, but the public can be sold.

Under the heavy purchase of the Dongying Mission, the princes still did not resist the temptation and sold a large number of skills to the Dongying Mission.

Eventually, the Dongying mission sold papermaking in Cao Wei, forging steel in Zhao and Song, and shipbuilding in Sun Wu...... And a large number of new grain varieties are still being purchased by the Ming army.

Although the Dongying mission spent a lot of gold and silver, it returned to Dongying with a lot of technology.

These techniques were not top-notch in the Han Dynasty, and could only be regarded as second-class, but they were the most advanced in Dongying, and soon the strength of the power of the Omatai Kingdom, that is, Oda Nobunaga, to which the mission belonged, skyrocketed, and even exceeded the sum of the other vassal states.

Dongying is not the only country in Yamatai, but Yamatai is the largest country in Yamatai, so it is qualified to represent Yamatai.

In addition to Yamadai, Toei also has: Tokugawa Ieyasu, Akechi Mitsuhide, Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, Mori Motosa, Sanada Yukishi, Date Masamune and more than a dozen other forces.

Generally speaking, the situation on the four islands of Dongying is actually even more chaotic than that of the Han Dynasty.

Under the governance of Oda Nobunaga, Yamadai's national power grew rapidly, and Oda Nobunaga also took advantage of the great increase in national strength to begin to annex the surrounding countries, and embarked on a journey to the four islands of the East step by step.

With the support of advanced warfare technology and strong national strength, Oda Nobunaga captured nearly half of the territory of Toei in just one year, forcing other princes to join forces against his family.

At the same time, the powerful Oda Nobunaga changed the name of Yamatai to the Higashi-Win Province and replaced his wife, Queen Himiko, and became the first emperor of the Toei Empire.

The major princes of Dongying also realized that the Yamatai would become so powerful because they had obtained the advanced technology of Shenzhou, so they also came to the Central Plains to buy technology, and this was only the year when Dongying and China had the most frequent exchanges.

The princes of the Central Plains were naturally willing to use backward technology in exchange for gold and silver in the hands of the princes of Dongying to seek development.

But even if the princes of the Central Plains were willing to sell, the iron hooves of the army of Oda Nobunaga, the princes of Dongying did not have much time to develop.

In addition, after a great battle, the alliance of the Toei princes and Oda Nobunaga were both defeated, and the recovery speed of the Toei was faster than that of the Toei princes, and once the Toei kingdom was completely recovered, it would be difficult for the other princes to survive.

Therefore, in order to protect themselves, the princes of Dongying, who had no choice, came up with the bad idea of plundering the money and grain of the Central Plains to quickly recover from the wounds of the war.

In the transaction with the Central Plains princes, the Dongying princes also clearly knew that the Central Plains princes were also in a warlord melee, and as long as they moved fast enough and ran away after the robbery, the Central Plains princes couldn't take care of them at all.

Could it be that the princes of the Central Plains could still send a large army to cross east to Fusang and reach Dongying Island?

Although the strength of the Central Plains princes was strong, they could not directly threaten them, while the threat of Oda Nobunaga was close at hand.

With this mentality, the Toei princes, led by Tokugawa Ieyasu and Akechi Mitsuhide, decided to send troops disguised as pirates to loot money and grain in Samhan and the Central Plains.

"Ladies and gentlemen, among the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, there are only five coastal states: Youzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and Jiaozhou, of which Jiaozhou is too far away, so there are only four states available for us to plunder."

Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at the other alliance members below, and said in a deep voice: "In order to prevent conflicts of interest, let's still divide a region, each grab its own, and how much we can grab is our own ability." ”

"That's a good idea."

Akechi Mitsuhide, Uesugi Kenshin and other big princes echoed one after another, while the other small princes naturally did not dare and would not disagree.

"Okay."

A gleam flashed in Tokugawa Ieyasu's eyes, and he smiled lightly: "Since this is the case, then Yangzhou will belong to my Tokugawa family." ”

"Why?"

Takeda Shingen, who had some grievances with Tokugawa Ieyasu, was the first to stand up and object, saying: "Among the four states of You, Qing, Xu, and Yang, Yangzhou is the richest state. I'm too greedy. ”

"yes, yes......"

The other princes chimed in.

Seeing this, Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately frowned and said, "In that case, then my Tokugawa family only plundered the area north of Yangzhou, so it's okay, right?" ”

"That's pretty much it."

Takeda Shingen nodded with satisfaction, then pointed to the south of Xuzhou and the Jianghuai region, and said, "This place belongs to my Takeda family." ”

"In the area south of Yangzhou, I have a wise family." Wise Mitsuhide hurriedly said.

"Then my Maori family is in charge of the northern part of Xuzhou." Mao Liyuan also rushed to speak.

"The Date family is in charge of the Seonan area." Date Masamune said.

Soon, except for Youzhou and Qingbei, the rest of the regions were carved up.

The reason why no one chooses Youzhou is because compared to other regions, Youzhou is too poor and there is not much oil and water to fish.

And the reason why no one chose Qingbei is because Qin Hao and Yuan Shao, the first and second princes of the Han Dynasty, all have territories in Qingbei, so they don't dare to provoke easily.

Uesugi Kenshin was late, everything he wanted to choose was occupied by others, and the only ones left were Youzhou and Qingbei, and after hesitating for a long time, he finally chose the more wealthy Qingbei, after all, the timid starved to death and the bold died.

After Uesugi Kenshin made his choice, Sanada Yukihiro chose Yushu, while Hojo Tsunari could only choose the poorest Sanhan.