The army of the Ming people suddenly surrounded the thatched hut where Tokugawa Iemitsu was imprisoned, and the matter came so quickly that Tokugawa Iemitsu and the important ministers and generals of the shogunate who followed him in surrender did not have time to react.

Soon, under the orders of the Ming ** team, the unarmed guard soldiers under Jiaguang were evacuated. In the middle of the night, no one knew where the soldiers were taken.

"So, that means that Ming Guo is treacherous?"

Although he was only sixteen years old, Tokugawa Iemitsu, who had been educated by Shiko since childhood and raised by his grandfather himself, understood what was happening.

"My brother... So fast... Are you going to kill me? ”

Jiaguang, who was a little stammering, touched the light on his forehead, and said with regret: "I knew this was the case, I, why should I lose the face of my grandfather and father." ”

"Shameless, the Ming Kingdom has always shown the world with faith, and now that our army has surrendered and reached the conditions, why should your army do this! Aren't you afraid of being ridiculed by the world and punished by heaven? ”

Tadayoshi Sakai, a retainer of the Tokugawa clan, the first lord of the Kawagoe Domain of Musashi Province, and a defender of Edo in the Battle of Osaka, questioned him angrily.

There was silence outside, and after a long time someone said, "This is the end of the matter, please move quickly, so that the pain can end sooner." ”

"Japanese?!"

Sakai Tadashi's eyes widened, and he shouted, "As a Japanese, do you know what you are doing now?" Even more guilty of the following! Your deeds will be condemned by the whole of Japan, and it will not be an exaggeration to go to hell in the future! ”

"Yaga!"

The people outside the door were clearly angry.

Several Ming ** people rushed into the house in an instant, pressed Sakai Tadashi to the ground, and then slapped his mouth mercilessly.

Again and again, Sakai was beaten with blood in his mouth, and he couldn't say anything.

"Enough!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu rushed forward and pushed away the Ming soldiers who were beating Sakai, "If you want to kill, kill it, why torture it so much!" ”

A soldier sneered, "Then what are you still rubbing?" The sooner you go, the sooner you finish. ”

The fluent Japanese of the Ming soldiers made Iemitsu stunned: "You are all Japanese? ”

"Yes, it's not right."

The officer outside the door finally walked in, looking at the Tokugawa Shigetomi and Iemitsu's attendants in the room, he smiled contemptuously, and finally set his eyes on Iemitsu: "Once upon a time, we were Japanese, and we were the bravest soldiers of the Toyotomi era. But now, we are no longer Japanese, we are the Ming people, the bravest soldiers of the Empire, the liberators who saved the Japanese people, and the burial of your Tokugawa shogunate! ”

"Huh? ... You are North Korean outcasts! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu let out a surprised voice, he finally knew who these people were.

A long time ago, he heard from his grandfather that many Japanese soldiers who had been ordered to go to Korea did not return.

Instead of dying, they were captured, and some even surrendered to the enemy on their own initiative.

These soldiers, who were never able to return to Japan, were called Korean outcasts at home.

"Perhaps, we are indeed outcasts."

Kojiro Kumamoto, a famous combat hero of the emperor's army, known as the leader of the first squadron of the first infantry wing of the former Taiwan Garrison Division, and the current captain of the first army test thousand households, looks back on the past years, and is really emotional. He never thought that one day the life and death of the high-ranking general would be controlled by him like this.

"When my grandfather was here, I always had to mention you, father... Father also wanted to send a messenger to the Ming Kingdom to redeem you..."

Tokugawa Iemitsu stammered that he didn't want to die, and that he wanted to plead with the Korean outcasts in front of him to help him.

However, before he could speak, Kumamoto was rudely interrupted.

"Your Excellency, do you decide it yourself, or do I do it!" With the rough words, Kumamoto drew his command knife.

Is it irretrievable?

Iemitsu looked at Kumamoto blankly, and then looked at his subordinates in a distracted manner, and from their eyes he only got one message, that is, as the son of the shogun, he must die.

And the people in this room will also die.

Because, there was already a wailing outside.

There's no need to think about what happened.

"It's really loud outside."

Tokugawa Iemitsu muttered to himself, then turned his gaze to the North Korean outcast who drew his sword, and said very seriously: "Can you let me take a bath, well, I haven't taken a bath for three days." ”

"This request is not excessive, Your Excellency does not like dirt, please make the final accommodation!"

Tadashi Aoyama, the lord of the Iwatsuki Domain, who owned a 45,000-stone territory in Edo Castle, bowed to the Ming **ren.

This was undoubtedly Tokugawa Iemitsu's last wish, or request. He wanted to die clean, he hated dirt. When he was in Edo, he had to take a bath every day.

It's just that this requirement has not been met.

"Your Excellency, don't have unrealistic illusions anymore, the wind and rain outside have nothing to do with Your Excellency! ... As a former Japanese, please be decent and preserve your dignity as a general's son! ”

The biggest care that Kumamoto can give to the shogun in front of him is decency.

This decent, such as seppuku.

Unfortunately, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not have the guts, and after confirming that the commander of the Ming Kingdom, who had affectionately called himself "Tokugawa's Great Brother" a few hours earlier, was really treacherous and wanted to kill him, he chose to hang himself.

After confirming Tokugawa Iemitsu's death, Kumamoto ordered the soldiers to mercilessly slaughter Iemitsu's boys, as well as Sakai and Aoyama's important ministers.

The massacre continued until dawn, and no one escaped their fate, from the shogun's son, the shogunate's old manchu and retainer, to the most ordinary ashigaru.

They were either given dignity, or brutally pushed into a pit, or stranded in strings, or combined with swords.

One night of slaughter filled the land with the smell of blood.

"It's a tragic thing."

Father-in-law Wei, who slept all night, recovered quickly, and in front of the body of the Tokugawa brother, the father-in-law shed a few tears, and then asked someone to look nearby to see if there was a paper paster, and paste some paper people and paper horses so that the Tokugawa brother could live a decent life after arriving there.

After that, my father-in-law, who felt uneasy about his conscience, took a few pieces of special wiping paper produced by the treasure banknote division for the imperial army, and wrote the words 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold on them, and stamped them with the seal of his own admiral eunuch.

The incident has already happened, and now is the time to deal with the aftermath.

The best way to deal with the aftermath is to eliminate Xiuzhong.

The general assault on Kyoto began.

The emperor's army, which had experienced the Tsuneishi Zhenwa incident, was like a giant beast rampaging towards Kyoto.