Wait!

While Fang Yizhi was waiting in Nagasaki, in the Shogunate's palace in Edo, the proposal of General Daming Heiyu to the emperor caused an uproar.

For a time, there was a lot of opposition, and almost everyone was worried that the imperial court would take the opportunity to rise with the help of the Ming Dynasty. They did have concerns about this, after all, the shogunate had always been able to suppress the imperial court because it had neither soldiers nor power, nor money. Even the purple clothes sold to the monks, such a small power, were taken away by the shogunate, and even the emperor illegally sold the purple clothes to force him to abdicate, which led to the succession of the current Emperor Mingzheng.

But what if the imperial court has the support of the Ming Dynasty?

For a while, Tokugawa Iemitsu was very depressed, and as a shogun, he felt some kind of powerlessness for the first time in the face of the situation in front of him.

Hu Lu's attack made him angry at the same time, but he couldn't stop all this, not powerless, but impossible!

"Japan is an island country, we never know where those Hulu will attack, if you want to stop them, there are only two options, strengthen military armaments, go west to Korea, and fundamentally solve the threat of Hulu, but whether it is to strengthen military armament or west to Korea, it will inevitably lead to the growth of foreign daimyos, strengthen military equipment, defend against Hulu, foreign daimyo will take the opportunity to build ships, under the pretext of defending Hulu, and reviving trade, as for the westward conquest of Korea, this is how Toyotomi lost the world!"

Facing the dead trees in the courtyard, Tokugawa Iemitsu's mood became more and more irritated when he said this.

Since succeeding to the shogunate, he has been doing everything possible to consolidate the rule of the Tokugawa family, he thinks he is doing better than his father, crushing those foreign daimyos, but he never imagined that one day, this balance will be broken by a group of pirates.

And for those pirates, he couldn't even fight back.

Fight back, it will shake the fundamentals, and those outward daimyo will take the opportunity to expand their power. If you ignore it, it will also shake the fundamentals, and the daimyo will also take the opportunity to expand their strength.

Why is this so difficult?

Even in his heart, he complained about the Ming Dynasty, you beat Hu Lu to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, forced them to North Korea, and even forced them to rob Japan, what is this!

Thinking that he will shake the fundamentals if he fights, then send someone to ask Daming's father for help!

But who would have thought that after returning from Dalian, Hotta Masamori brought another news that he was a little confused about - General Heiyu was going to marry Emperor Mingzheng.

"Therefore, the only way to do it now, for the general, the best choice is to send troops to Korea by the Ming State, and get rid of Hu Lu by the hands of the Ming State, as long as Hu Lu is defeated by the Ming State, it is naturally impossible to attack Japan again, and the daimyo in various places will have no excuse to reorganize their armaments and build big ships, so ......"

Standing behind the general, Hotta Masamori paused and did not continue.

"So, do you want to marry the emperor to him?"

Glancing back at Hotta Masamori, Tokugawa Iemitsu asked rhetorically.

"Is this a condition for him to send troops?"

"Yes, General."

"The dignified Heavenly Empire clan would actually look at foreign barbarians, this is really incomprehensible, Hotta, you have seen him, do you think he has another purpose?"

"General, when the minister was in Dalian, he heard some rumors related to General Pingyu."

"Oh? Let's hear it. ”

"The minister heard that when he went south to help Nanjing, he once ordered his subordinates to rob the well-known Kabuki as a maid. And when he defeated Hulu, he directly accepted Hulu's queen and concubine as maids, and even made people draw "After Tasting Pictures" to spread around. ”

Belch!

With his eyes wide open, Tokugawa Iemitsu was stunned for a while before he spoke.

"It's unbelievable that Ju actually behaves like this!"

Yu Daming, many people say that "the prince is young and beautiful", and the next minister thinks that he proposed to the emperor, which should be the same. ”

Hotta Masamori even thought of Akimasa's appearance with some disrespect, it was indeed extremely beautiful, but he shouldn't have known.

"Mingzheng is indeed a national color, but do you think he cares about beauty?"

"General, in the opinion of the minister, what he cares about is probably the emperor."

"What?"

"She's the Emperor!"

Keep your eyes open!

After a while, Tokugawa Iemitsu understood the meaning - Ming is the emperor, and an ordinary woman may be a heavenly fragrance, but there is only one emperor. Why did he take the queen of Hulu as his maidservant, because...... She's the queen!

Because Ming is the emperor.

"If you analyze it like this, it seems that he doesn't care about the imperial court."

"Although it is not the imperial court, it cannot be guarded against, so the minister thinks that even if he agrees, he might as well marry the emperor to the Ming Dynasty according to his wishes, and the Ming Dynasty is so far away from Japan, even if the imperial court has the intention to borrow the power of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid it is beyond the reach of the whip."

Distance is the best chip!

The reason why Japan has been on the edge of the Chinese system is because of the distance!

"So is it possible to let the emperor abdicate first, and then marry off?"

"General, he's going to marry the Emperor!"

He's going to marry the emperor!

Tokugawa Iemitsu, who fell into silence, did not make a decision immediately, as the shogun, he first considered the interests of the shogunate, and everything else was not within his consideration.

Is there any political repercussion possible for the emperor to marry?

Even if it had an impact, it had nothing to do with the shogunate, it was a matter for the imperial court, a matter for the emperor, and even if the emperor's reputation was damaged, the Tokugawa family would be able to replace him in the future.

Staring at the fallen leaves on the ground, Tokugawa Iemitsu said.

"I am only a general appointed by the emperor, and the emperor should be in charge of the emperor and the imperial court when he marries."

It seems that no decision has been made, but how could Hotta Masamori not know what the general meant - the general agreed! But the matter must be handled by the imperial court.

……

Like previous shoguns, the Tokugawa shogunate did not abolish the emperor in order to maintain the legitimacy of his rule, but accepted the emperor's canonization and established the shogunate.

The so-called emperor is just a puppet. In this regard, Emperor Gomizuo, who has abdicated, naturally understands it well, after all, he chose to abdicate more than ten years ago after being extremely humiliated by the shogunate.

"General Ming Guo Pingyu wants to marry Ming Zheng!"

Looking at Konoe Shinhiro who was kneeling on the ground, Gomiao's heart suddenly became a little excited, after the "Purple Cloth Incident", Tokugawa Iemitsu sent his nurse Kasuga Bureau to the Kyoto court to meet the emperor in order to humiliate him. According to the regulations, only five or more officials were eligible to meet the emperor, but the Kasuga Bureau did not have an official position but met with the emperor under the authority of the shogunate, so he felt that he was greatly humiliated.

Under the repeated blows of the "Purple Cloth Incident" and the "Kasuga Bureau Visit" incident, since he did not dare to do anything to the shogunate, but he did not want to continue to be the emperor of the Shogunate, the only choice was to abdicate, in fact, this is also what Tokugawa wanted.

After abdicating, he called himself Gomizuo-in and compared himself to "Emperor Mizuo Second", and Emperor Seiwa in the Heian period, alias Emperor Mizuo, intended to ridicule Tokugawa Iemitsu as another Fujiwara Kitsune, who was a powerful minister in the Heian period and forced Emperor Seiwa to abdicate. That's all he can do to show his protests.

It's not that he doesn't want to fight, it's that he can't do it.

"Yes, General Myeongkoku said that he would send troops to Korea only if he married His Majesty the Emperor to him......"

Konoe Shinto, who was kneeling on the ground, replied truthfully, although the news arrived in Edo very early, but the imperial court had just learned about it.

"Oh, that's why!"

Gomizuo was not angry, but just silent there, he pondered all the humiliations he had suffered over the years, why the Tokugawa family would do everything possible to restrict the imperial court and the public family, and why would Tokugawa Iemitsu do everything possible to humiliate him?

In order to control the imperial court, perhaps he could give the public a certain amount of compensation in terms of money, but the public must be in his control, as for the emperor...... But it's just a puppet in his eyes!

And this puppet doesn't even have the power to protest, what is the only resistance? It is abdication......

And now, the marriage proposal of the Ming Shogun gave him an opportunity, an opportunity to get rid of the shogun......