Chapter 500, bloody battle to the end
In the Seto Inland Sea of Wakoku, the mighty fleet of ships headed towards the Kyoto area, the core of Wakoku at this time, and everywhere they passed, all the daimyo of Wakoku trembled for fear that they would become the target of this huge Ming army.
The news of the destruction of the Otomo family on the island of Kyushu disappeared and quickly spread throughout the country.
The strength of the Otomo family is not too strong among the many daimyo in the entire Wa country, but it is definitely not weak, and it can be regarded as a hegemon.
However, in the face of the powerful Ming army, it was like a mantis arm blocking the car, it was not vulnerable at all, just 10,000 Ming troops, and in less than a day, the powerful Otomo family was wiped out, and the capital of Higo Kingdom was in ruins.
The whole country was in an uproar~
The Ming Dynasty is the suzerainty of the Wa Kingdom, and the Wa State and the Ming Dynasty are also friendly to the times.
For a long time, the Wa Kingdom also learned from the Central Plains Dynasty everywhere, and the writing used by the upper class aristocratic society of the Wa Kingdom is Chinese characters, and those who can write Chinese characters are people of great social status.
However, now the Ming Dynasty is using troops against the Wa State on a large scale, and directly destroyed the family of the princes of one of the parties, which makes the daimyo of the entire Wa Kingdom fearful.
But fortunately, everyone soon knew that this time the Ming army was not to invade the Wa Kingdom, but to avenge the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.
Some Ming merchants in the Wa Kingdom levied heavy taxes on Ming merchants, and the Dayou family and the Ouchi family even ransacked the Ming merchants, and the Dayou family even killed the Ming merchants.
This incident angered the Great Tomorrow, this time, the army of the Ming Dynasty came to Xingshi to ask for guilt, at this time there were tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of warships went straight to the Kyoto area at the core of the Wa Shogunate to kill the past.
Obviously, this time, if the Wa State does not give Daming an explanation, Daming will not give up.
Muromachi is the seat of the shogunate Seiki Muromachi.
In the council hall of the shogunate Ashikaga Yoshisumi, many retainers of the shogunate gathered, and the shogun Ashikaga Yoshisumi stared at the crack in the door with dull eyes, as if he wanted to see the free world outside through the crack in the door.
Although he was a shogun, he was a puppet shogun.
The previous shogun, Ashikaga Yoshisai, was deposed, and he was jointly promoted by several powerful ministers, and there is no doubt that he did not have any power at all, and at this time all the power of the shogunate was in the hands of a few retainers.
Hosokawa Masamoto, Hino Tomiko, Yoon Se Sadadada, Uehara Motohide, the power of the shogunate is basically in the hands of these four people, as for the Hatakeyama Masacho and Ashikaga Yoshimi, who originally supported Ashikaga Yoshisai and were loyal to the Ashikaga family, they were all old and dead, and all the power of the shogunate fell into the hands of the retainers.
"Let's talk about it~"
Hosokawa Masamoto looked at everyone, and then at Ashikaga Yoshisumi, seeing that everyone didn't speak, he thought about it and said slowly.
"In my opinion, we should call on the daimyo of the entire Wa Kingdom to send troops together to resist the invasion of the Ming Dynasty, this is an invasion, the invasion of Chiguoguo~"
Yin Shizhen said almost without thinking.
"A call?"
"How many daimyo do you think will listen to us?"
Motohide Uehara said with a sneer.
"The Ming invaded, and they didn't listen to us at this time, did they want to betray our Wa Kingdom?"
Yin Shizhenzhong looked at Uehara Motohide and said.
In fact, these four ministers also have huge differences with each other, and they are also competing for power, and they all want to gain more power, and they are even ambitious to control the entire shogunate. 85
"Yin Shizhen is actually right, at this time, even though the daimyo from all over the world usually obey us, but at this moment, they have to listen to our shogunate."
"Because this is a matter related to the interests of our entire Wa Kingdom, whether it is the collection of heavy taxes or the looting of Ming merchants in our Wa Kingdom, these things are our own affairs."
"Even if the Ming side is dissatisfied with us, they shouldn't have mobilized the people to come over, let alone destroy the Dayou family without saying anything."
"This is no longer a matter of one or two daimyos, but a matter between our entire Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, so it is natural to gather the daimyo from all over the country to discuss countermeasures and jointly resist the invasion of the Ming people."
"This may be an opportunity, an opportunity to greatly weaken the power of the daimyo in various places, and if we take advantage of it, our shogunate may be able to regain control of the entire Wa Kingdom."
Hosokawa Masamoto's voice was not loud, but it was very weighty, and his words also made everyone present nod their heads.
That's right, this is indeed a good opportunity, an opportunity to weaken the daimyo in various places by the hands of the Ming people.
The current shogunate is a bit embarrassed, and there are fewer and fewer areas that are really under control, and now the Kyoto region is still in the hands of the shogunate, and the daimyo of the Kansai, Chugoku, Kyushu, and Shikoku regions are all against the shogunate, and each of them is ambitious, and they all want to replace the current shogunate and become the ruler of the Wa Kingdom.
"Just now I have received a distress letter from the Ouchi family in the Chinese region, the Ming army has landed in the Iwami area and has occupied Iwami country, and it is estimated that the next step may be to directly sweep the Ouchi family."
"In addition, according to the report, the Ming soldiers in the Seto Inland Sea went straight to our Kyoto area on one road, and the other went straight to the Tokyo metropolitan area in Kansai."
"If the Ming people just teach the daimyo who levy heavy taxes in various places, there should be no need to divide the troops into three ways, they can completely break them individually, and clean up the daimyo who offended the Ming Dynasty."
"Obviously, the purpose of the Akito should be more than just to teach the Daimyo who offended the Akito, and their main army was coming straight to the Kyoto area, where our shogunate is located."
"Even if we send people to make peace with the Ming people, it is estimated that the Ming people will also put forward extremely harsh conditions, so no matter what, there will be a battle between us and the Ming army."
Hosokawa Masamoto carefully analyzed the situation, and then said with great certainty.
"Just do what Hosokawa Masamoto said, and gather the armies of daimyo from all over the world to come to the Kyoto area to assist our Ming army, no matter what, it will not be the turn of the Ming people to dictate the affairs of our Wa Kingdom."
Tomiko Hino, who had never spoken, spoke, although she was a woman, but she had extremely large power, and it was with her support that the deposed shogun Ashikaga Yoshisai became the shogun.
But Ashikaga Yoshisai wanted to monopolize power after becoming a shogun, which seriously violated Hino Tomiko's original intention at the beginning, so she united Hosokawa Masamoto, Yin Se Sadada and others to abolish Ashikaga Yoshisai and support the puppet general Ashikaga Yoshisumi to ascend to the throne, just from here you can know how powerful this woman is.
"Yes, it is not the turn of the Ming people to take care of the affairs of our Wa Kingdom, just a few Ming people died, what's the big deal, the Ming people are doing business in our Wa Kingdom, and the large-scale dumping of products has had a huge impact on our Wa State, and it is long overdue to levy heavy taxes on the merchants of the Ming Dynasty."
Some people followed suit to express their support.
"But Daming is our suzerainty after all, and this time Daming's tens of thousands of troops are pressing the border, it is still unknown whether we can win."
"There is nothing to be afraid of the Ming people, there are many wandering warriors in our Wa Kingdom who looted in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, and they are invincible, and no one can do it at all."
"Although the Ming Dynasty is big, it is not strong, tens of thousands of troops seem to be a lot, but they are just paper tigers, and there is nothing to be afraid of."
"I heard that last year, the army of the Ming Dynasty annihilated all the million-strong army of the little prince of the grassland, and it is estimated that the combat power should not be bad."
"Don't be angry with others to destroy your own prestige, and the samurai of our Wa Kingdom are not easy to mess with."
Everyone expressed their opinions one after another, but the shogun Ashikaga Yoshisumi never said a word, this puppet he was very qualified, and he never cared about these things.
After some quarrels, the shogunate finally decided to summon the daimyo from all over the country to the Kyoto area to fight against the invasion of the Ming army.
At the same time, the shogunate also began to mobilize the shogunate's own army, all of which were concentrated in the Kyoto area, preparing to fight the Ming army to the end.