When the Otama's soldiers rode on ninety-two large ships to the Satsuma Province in the southern part of Japan's Kyushu Island, there was no Spaniard galleon in Kagoshima Bay, which was controlled by the Satsuma Domain, and there was no Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the lord of the Satsuma Domain, in Kagoshima Castle......

Of course, the Spanish fleet and Shimazu Mitsuhisa didn't hear that the Great Tomorrow soldiers were coming, so they ran away to the Americas in advance. In fact, they did not know that the Great Commander had already set out for the expedition - there were no advanced means of communication in those days, and even if the Spaniards in Shanghai saw the majestic scene of the fleet's departure, they could not immediately inform the Grand Fleet in Kagoshima Bay.

And what made the lord of Satsuma and the Spanish fleet leave Kagoshima Bay was a suicide note left by Shimazu Tadatsune, the first lord of the Satsuma domain!

This suicide note was sealed in a secret room in Kagoshima Castle that was guarded by samurai at all times, and only after the Shimazu family and the Tokugawa shogunate had torn their faces could the feudal lord and the elders of the clan enter to watch it.

Moreover, this matter was the top secret of the Satsuma Domain, and it was always known only to the feudal lord, Setsui, and Daiden (the former feudal lord) - even the samurai guarding the secret room did not know what was stored in the secret room.

When Shimazu Koku, the lord of the Satsuma domain, finally decided to reject the conditions proposed by the shogunate to change and reduce the seal, he led the clan elders into this dusty secret room, opened a dusty iron box, and took out Shimazu Tadashi's suicide note written on a parchment scroll.

The suicide note only says one thing, that is, Kunimatsu, the son of Toyotomi Hideyori, was not captured and beheaded by Itakura Katsushige, the representative of Kyoto Shoshi, after the battle of Osaka Summer, and it was Kunimatsu's stand-in who was killed, while the real Toyotomi Kunimatsu was protected by Sanada Yukimasa, the son of Sanada Nobushigeru, who fled before the destruction of Osaka Castle, and fled to Satsuma Province on a sea ship that had been prepared for a long time, and then went to the Toyogo Province Hirise Domain for refuge under the personal escort of Shimazu Yoshihiro, the father of Shimazu Tadatsune, who had become a monk and lived in seclusion.

The reason why he fled to the Sunrise Domain was because Kinoshita Ieta, the father of Kinoshita Nobuyoshi, the lord of the Sunrise Domain, was the elder brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's main room Kodaiin, and Kinoshita Iejo and Kinoshita Totoshi also had the Toyotomi surname - that Sekihara God of War Kobayakawa Hideaki was the fifth son of Kinoshita Iedai and the younger brother of Kinoshita Toshitoshi.

Because of the face of Takadaiin (Toyotomi Hideyoshi's eldest wife was close to Tokugawa Ieyasu) and the side of the Eastern Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, the Kinoshita family not only received 25,000 koku of the Sunrise Domain, but also allowed the Toyotomi surname to be used for generations.

Perhaps it was because Kobayakawa Hideaki died inexplicably more than a year after the Battle of Sekigahara, and the confiscation of all the 550,000 stone territories he had received was confiscated by the shogunate. Therefore, before the battle of Osaka, Takadaiin took the opportunity to enter Osaka as a lobbyist for Tokugawa Ieyasu to meet with Toyotomi Hideyori, and agreed on a way to preserve the last trace of blood of His Royal Highness Taiko in the event of Osaka's punctuality - that is, to let Kunimatsu, the son of Toyotomi Hideyori, flee to the Sunrise Domain of Toyogo Province to live in seclusion.

When Shimazu Yoshihiro escorted Kunimatsu to the Sunrise Domain, it seemed that both the age and the fourth son of Kinoshita Nobuyoshita, the lord of the Sunrise Domain, had just died, so Yeonjun used an impostor method to let Kunimatsu survive in the name of Kinoshita Nobuyoshita's fourth son, Kinoshita Nobuyoyu......

This Kinoshita Nobuyuki, now 44 years old, was given a territory of up to 5,000 koku after the death of his adoptive father Nobuyoshi, and also met Tokugawa Iemitsu under the arrangement of his brother Shunji....... After that, it became the flag book of the shogunate.

At the time when the Shimazu family raised the banner of the downfall, Kinoshita Nobuyuki was not in Edo, but with his brother Nobuyoshi in the Sunrise Domain, and according to the plan explained by the Hajj, it was their turn to report to Edo next year (1658).

Kinoshita Shunji and Enyu themselves also know the true identity of Enyu, and in recent years, Toyotomi's legacy has been in a uproar, which has made them both very worried, so they have also secretly made some preparations.

After Shimazu raised his army, he immediately summoned his retainers and feudal lords to enter Sunrise Castle. However, the Sunrise Domain had a total of 25,000 koku of belongings, and there were only one or two hundred feudal lords under it, and they did not dare to play the banner of Toyotomi Kunimatsu, so no matter how much they mobilized, there were only five or six hundred people, so they had to stay in the city trembling and wait for the opportunity...... Or the end of the world.

Fortunately, in addition to the Satsuma Domain, which is located in the southernmost part, several powerful feudal domains in Kyushu, such as Chikuzen Kuroda (Fukuoka Domain, Akizuki Domain), Chikugo Arima, Tachibana (Kurume Domain, Yanagawa Domain, Miike Domain), Hizen Nabeshima (Saga, Hasuike, Ojo, Kashima), Higo Hosokawa (Kumamoto, Nitta, Uto), etc., are all in the western part of Kyushu Island, that is, on the side facing the Ming Dynasty. In the eastern part of Kyushu Island, there were a bunch of weak feudal domains, the most powerful of which were the Nobeoka Domain (Naito family) of Hyuga Province and the Oka Domain (Nakagawa family) of Bungo Province were only 70,000 koku. In addition, in the Battle of Sekigahara, most of the lords of Hyuga and Bungo supported the Western Army, so after the war, a large number of confiscated and reformed were created, and a large number of ronin who were dissatisfied with the Tokugawa shogunate were created.

At present, in the face of the defeated army that was slaughtering along the western coastline of Kyushu Island from the direction of the Satsuma Domain, only the Nobeoka Domain (Washiro Naito Clan), the Wasi Domain (this domain belonged to the Shimazu family's enemies of the Ito family), the Bungo Fuchu Domain (the Bandai Matsudaira family), and the Kitsuki Domain (Spectrum Matsudaira Clan) put up a desperate resistance.

However, the sum of the four feudal clans was only a little over 170,000 stones, and the team that could be pulled up in a hurry was only a few thousand people, which was no match for the tens of thousands of troops of the Shimazu family. Moreover, the implementation of the shogunate's "One Country, One City Order" destroyed a large number of castles in the country of Hinata and Bungo, and in the face of the Shimazu army with Spanish artillery, the armies of Ito, Naito, and Ryomatsuhei did not hold out for even a month, and collapsed one after another. The rest of the feudal domains of Bungo and Hinata, including the Sunrise Domain, all submitted to the Shimazu family.

In other words, by the time of the arrival of 1657, the Shimazu family already owned the four kingdoms of Satsuma, Osumi, Hinata, and Bungo of the ten kingdoms of Kyushu (including Tsushima Province), and the Yoshifan (Sagara clan), the head of the Higo country, also claimed to be a vassal to Satsuma.

Half of Kyushu is already firmly in the hands of the Shimazu family! The stone height controlled by the Shimazu family has also increased from the original 605,000 stone to about one million stone (because Bungo and Hyuga still have many shogunate celestial lords), and the strength seems to be quite small...... However, in the face of the Eight-Nation Coalition led by Daming, Shimazu Mitsuhisa was still frightened - just one Daming, Shi Gao would have to be hundreds of millions, right? It's not an opponent! So after reading his father Tadahiro's suicide note, Guangjiu immediately took the Spanish warship to Toyogo Province and went to the Sunrise Domain to invite Toyotomi Kunimatsu to come out and carry the black pot!

Because of the arrival of Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the 44-year-old Toyotomi Kunimatsu, that is, Kinoshita Nobuyu and his nominal brother Kinoshita Shunji, had to leave Sunrise Castle and go to the inner castle of Bungo Mansion with a nervous mood to prepare for the blame......

Not to mention, Kinoshita Nobuyu and Kinoshita Shunji put aside to see together, and they knew that they were not brothers - Kinoshita Nobuyu is a big tall man, not one meter eight but also one meter seventy-five, no wonder he was looked down upon by Iemitsu as a flag book, everyone knows that Tokugawa Iemitsu likes tall handsome men the most!

And Kinoshita Shunji didn't even have a meter five, and he was with Kinoshita Nobuyu...... It's Wu Dalang and Wu Erlang!

"Mixi! Sure enough, it's the heir of Xiu Laigong! The Toyotomi family is expected to revive again! The great cause of the curtain will be accomplished! Shimazu Mitsuhisa stood outside the castle with a vote of retainers and lords who depended on him, and when he saw the big tall Nobuyu, he came with such a voice, but the people around him and the two brothers of the Kinoshita family were shocked.

Then I saw Shimazu Mitsuhisa striding forward, and when he arrived in front of Kinoshita Nobuyu, in front of everyone, he knelt down for this stupid big man, and then said loudly: "Chen Shimazu Satsuma Shouguang Jiu see the lord Toyotomi elder!" ”