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It is ridiculous that in the Japanese army, there is no special distinction between archers, sword and shield soldiers, and pikemen, but all samurai use long swords, and there are very few samurai with spears and bows. Moreover, they did not have many cavalry, and most of the samurai on horseback were either the personal soldiers of the daimyo or the wealthy masters of the family, and they used their horses more for sending letters and transporting goods. Instead of creating a professional cavalry unit.

Therefore, during this period, the Japanese army was far from being able to compete with the countries on the mainland, and it can be said that even the armies of Goryeo, Silla, and Jeje, which had been destroyed by Woomyeong, were all stronger than the Japanese army.

Seeing that defeat was inevitable, Yasuke Yamamoto finally ordered: "The enemy is powerful!" Everybody run to the boat! Get ready to retreat! ”

Since he knows that he can't beat others on land, he can only get on the boat and escape, although the other party's warship is faster than his own, but as long as he is scattered and escapes in dozens of directions, maybe he can escape some people, anyway, his own boats are about the same, and Zhou Jun can't know which boat he is on.

However, he found that all but a few of the ships that had been anchored on the shore at the time of the battle had escaped and had been sunk and burned by enemy warships.

At this time, several Japanese soldiers with black faces rushed to report out of breath: "General Yamamoto, something is wrong! Another enemy ship came from the east and attacked our ships anchored in the harbor, and now all the ships have been destroyed by the enemy! ”

"Yaga! You're only reporting now, what's the use? Yasuke Yamamoto was so angry that he kicked the soldiers to the ground.

After thinking for a moment, he turned around and ran into the city, planning to disguise himself as a Ryukyuan man when he returned to the city, so that he might be able to escape the disaster.

But he soon found out in despair that the way back to the city had been cut off by another Zhou army, and the general of the Zhou army was looking at him with a cold expression.

And beside the general of the Zhou army in this week, there was a person he was very familiar with, and he had been arrested several times but had never been caught.

"Ahh Dezhao, you didn't die, and you called Zhou Jun! "No matter how stupid Kosuke Yamamoto is, he can guess the reason.

"Kosuke Yamamoto, you destroy my Ryukyu and my homeland, today the army of the Celestial Empire is here, it is your end coming!" Dezhao pulled out his saber with a "Qiang" and said, "Hurry up and grab it!" I can also leave you with a whole corpse! ”

Kosuke Yamamoto touched the hilt of his sword, but he didn't dare to rush forward, because he found that the other party was also well-equipped hoplites, spear and shield soldiers, and archers.

Moreover, even if you really get in front of the enemy's shield wall, can you kill through the enemy's phalanx?

At this time, only a golden drum was heard. From the left and right sides of Kosuke Yamamoto, two more Zhou troops came over, plus the Zhou Tao troops who were chasing from behind, he was completely besieged.

When he looked at the Japanese troops around him, there were less than a thousand people. It seems that they have either fled back to the city or have been ambushed.

After thinking for a moment, Kosuke Yamamoto pulled out his long knife and said to Zhou Tao in a deep voice: "General of the Central Plains, I, Kosuke Yamamoto, failed to complete the emperor's task, and suffered a heavy defeat in a row, losing my troops and losing my troops. I don't have the face to go back to see the emperor again, and when I die, I hope to bury my body properly! ”

With that, he looked up to the sky and sighed, raised the long knife upside down and stabbed it into his lower abdomen, and blood suddenly poured out of the knife.

And behind him, the nearly 1,000 Japanese samurai all raised their swords and committed suicide by seppuku.

Everyone present couldn't help but be a little surprised when they looked at this scene. The Japanese samurai's mentality of treating death as if they were at home, and their practice of committing suicide after defeat, shocked them all.

As the king of the Ryukyus, Tokuaki knew the mentality of the Japanese better than Zhou Tao and Song Jingang.

He then explained: "General Zhou, General Song, and Hu Junshi, the Japanese have always worshiped the strong and looked down on the weak, but the Japanese samurai have always believed in the spirit of bushido, and have been required to be loyal to the head of the family and the emperor since childhood. They regard their reputation as more important than life, and believe that death is not terrible, and this disregard for life is doomed to the distortion and cruelty of their character. If they don't care about their own lives, how can they care about the lives of others? In their hearts, it is not felt at all that it is a sin, and it is taken for granted, and the victor has the right to do anything to the vanquished. ”

"Hmmm! Now let's move on to the siege! Zhou Tao nodded.

Although there were still remaining Japanese troops in Ryukyu Castle, most of them were old and weak, and the main force had already been brought to the beachhead by Yasuke Yamamoto. The remaining more than 10,000 people, under the attack of 50,000 Zhou troops, were defeated in just over an hour, and Ryukyu Island was completely recovered.

And Song Jingang immediately ordered the whole island to be cleared of the remnants of the Japanese troops.

A few days later, after the situation on the island calmed down, Song Jingang stayed behind to guard Ryukyu Island. At the same time, Dezhao was sent back to Jiangdu to settle down. According to Umaki's secret decree, all members of the royal family of the former Ryukyu Kingdom should not stay in Ryukyu to live, lest they have dissent in the future. The inhabitants of Ryukyu Island also tried to move them inland, and then moved Han Chinese from the inland to settle down. In this way, the Ryukyus could be firmly controlled by the Zhou dynasty.

After the end of the Ryukyu Campaign, Zhou Tao and Hu Sizheng boarded the Invincible again, and led the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division to Kyoto, Japan, where he wanted to open the door to Japan and seek a foothold for the Zhou Dynasty in the Japanese archipelago.

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On the 25th day of the first month of the Yongchang year, Yu Ming led his army back to Luoyang, and those former Tang officials who were willing to swear allegiance to the Zhou Dynasty also returned with him. Among these people, there are Pei Lin and Gao Shilian, who originally belonged to Li Jiancheng's faction, and Wang Gui and Yang Shidao, who belonged to Li Shimin's faction; There are also Qu Tutong, Ma Zhou and others of the neutral faction. However, Liu Jing did not see it, and it is said that she may have fled with Li Shimin.

After the grand triumphal ceremony, everyone in Luoyang City was full of smiles, because it meant that the world was finally unified, and everyone could live and work in peace and contentment, and no longer worry about wars and disasters.

Yuming immediately went to the 10th day of the first month of the Yongchang year and held the first court meeting of the Great Zhou after unification.

After the arrival of these vassals of the Tang Dynasty, they just filled many vacant official positions in the central and local courts. The shortage of officials in the Zhou Dynasty was greatly alleviated.

At the same time, Yu Ming told these ministers in detail about the unique nine-ministry cabinet system of the Zhou Dynasty and the importance of the ministers. Counting the time, there are still two years before the new cabinet is formed.

After the unification of the world, it involves the determination of the local system.

After a long discussion among the ministers, it was decided to divide the Zhou Dynasty into ten provinces, including Hebei, Liaodong, Goryeo, Silla, Shandong, Henan, Hedong, and Hetao, and then divide the provinces into counties and counties. The change of the original Sui Dynasty was only divided into county and county two levels of power, resulting in a situation in which there were more than one county in the whole country, and the central government could not control it at all.

Parliament, on the other hand, is divided into two levels: the National Assembly and the local councils, which have legislative power and oversight over the government. Members of parliament are elected by universal suffrage, and private parties are allowed to participate in elections. Starting from the next Cabinet, the prime minister will be led by the party with the majority of seats in the National Assembly, and will no longer be held by ministers.

The judicial power of the Zhou Dynasty was exercised by the Criminal Department, which was divided into four levels: central, provincial, municipal, and county. Disputes among the population, disagreements with the government's actions, and official dereliction of duty are tried by the Criminal Department.

Of course, Yuming did not completely copy the system of the Zhou Dynasty from the parliamentary constitutional monarchy of the West in later generations. In the political system of the Great Zhou, the power of the emperor was still considerable.

Although the prime minister was elected by the parliament, it was stipulated that the appointment of the prime minister must be approved by the emperor, and if the emperor objected, he could reject the council's recommendation and ask for a new prime minister. And if the parliament wanted to reject the emperor's objections, it had to obtain two-thirds of the votes in favor before the emperor's objections could be rejected and the new prime minister could be forcibly put on the throne.

But under normal circumstances, this kind of thing is difficult to happen, after all, the emperor still has a lot of influence on the people and parliamentarians. It was difficult for the parliamentarians to obtain a fourth-majority to overturn the emperor's resolution.

The number of members of the National Assembly is determined by each province in proportion to its population, but each province is guaranteed to have at least one member of parliament.

In addition, the power of the emperor was also reflected in the military power. For example, in the cabinet of the Zhou Dynasty, although there was a Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Defense played more of a role as an army logistics support center, and although the military department had to participate in cabinet meetings, it was only responsible to the emperor and was not under control. The truth that power comes out of the barrel of a gun, Yuming is still very clear.

However, in order to avoid the Zhou emperor after him, there will be a situation where the current democratic system will be overthrown and dictatorship will be implemented. Yu Ming also announced in the same dynasty that if the order issued by the emperor was contrary to the "Great Zhou Constitutional Edict", the generals at all levels of the military department, from the minister to the soldiers, were not allowed to carry it out. At the same time, the parliament can also initiate a motion to impeach the emperor, and when passed by a two-majority majority, the incumbent emperor will be removed and another suitable member of the imperial family will be elected.

In terms of determining the heir to the throne, Yuming proposed a plan for succession. That is, stipulating the first in line to the throne, the second in line to the throne, the first in line to the throne, and so on. When the emperor dies, abdicates, or is unable to perform the functions of the emperor, the first in line to the throne becomes the new emperor.

If the first in line of succession died or was disqualified from the throne before then, the second in line of succession ascended the throne as the new emperor, and so on after the first in line.

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