The distance between Nagasaki Port and the inner city of Bungo Prefecture is very close, that is, 3780 li, although there is no 600 li to expedite anything, but the secret agents of the Shimazu family can still send the news of the arrival of the Ming Navy fleet off the coast of Nagasaki and the arrival of 1,000 Ming flintlock muskezeers into Nagasaki Port within two days.

The eldest elder of the revived Toyotomi family, Mitsuhisa Shimazu, was reading at this time with the oath of allegiance to the Toyotomi regime of Tsunahiro Mori, the lord of Choshu domain.

Mori Tsunahiro was the second-generation lord of the Choshu Domain, and like Shimazu Mitsuhisa, he was the "second generation". But he is much younger, only 18 years old this year, which is the most angry time.

Moreover, the Choshu Domain was slaughtered by the Tokugawa shogunate after the Battle of Sekigahara, and three-quarters of it was cut off from 1.2 million stone before the war to 299,000 stone! Although the Mori family worked hard to acquire land and pulled the stone to 369,000 koku, and implemented a monopoly system for domestic products to obtain industrial and commercial income, no matter how hard they tried, they could not balance the finances of the domain.

This is because the Mori family was extremely wealthy before the Sekigahara War, because the wealth of the Mori family came not only from 1.2 million koku, but also from the famous Iwami Ginzan! According to the evaluation of people at the time, Terumen had so much gold and silver that it was possible to replace all the bridges from San'in, Sanyo and Kyoto with gold and silver bridges.

Such a wealthy daimyo certainly had a very large group of retainers. After the loss of 900,000 stone territory and Iwami Ginzan, the financial resources of the Maori family were reduced by eighty percent and ninety, and the originally huge retainers could not be reduced accordingly, so the poverty of the Choshu samurai was simply to the point that even the Satsuma samurai were surprised!

Therefore, the Choshu samurai hated the Tokugawa shogunate far more than the Satsuma samurai......

However, in the more than 50 years since the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the world of the Tokugawa family seems to be solid, and it is not at all something that the 370,000-koku Mori family can shake.

As a result, the Choshu samurai had no choice but to turn their resentment into a war of words, and every year on New Year's Day, the lord of the Choshu domain would ask loudly like a fool: Is it possible to fall this year?

Then the important ministers of the clan replied like fools: The time is not yet ripe for the curtain to fall.

It's like a child being beaten and crying and saying that he will fight back when he grows up!

And the Tokugawa shogunate had a psychic ear and eye, and of course knew that the fools and fools of the Maori family were playing with children's tempers. However, considering that there were too many "samurai who asked for food" in Choshu, it was difficult to deal with it after the destruction of the Mori family, so the Tokugawa shogunate did not know about it for decades.

But now the Tokugawa family has reached the time when they have to seek a dynasty to usurp the throne, and before usurping the throne, of course, they will slaughter such ill-intentioned powerful foreign feudal clans as monkeys like Maori and Shimazu!

Therefore, the shogunate no longer pretended to be deaf and dumb, but began to find trouble with the Mori family, and sent people to the Mori family's mansion in Edo to ask the Choshu clan to discuss the downfall of the curtain - this must be verified, and the Choshu domain is over!

When the news reached Hagi Castle, where the Choshu Domain was located, it immediately caused panic and commotion. It is the upper class of the Maori family who is panicking, no matter how poor they are, they are also people who stand at the top of the samurai class!

And the commotion was caused by the lower class feudal lords and village scholars of the Maori family, who had suffered for decades...... They have been waiting for decades, just waiting for a sentence: this year can be overturned!

Now that the shogunate has taken the initiative to come to the door, do the big men of the Choshu Domain still have to endure it?

Just when there was a disagreement between the Choshu Domain, more exciting news came from Kyushu, the Shimazu family had taken the lead in raising the banner of the downfall, and they had also fought all the way to the inner castle of Bungo Prefecture, and the elder Hidematsu of Toyotomi was established as the leader of the inner castle of Fu, and Toyotomi was revived!

Subsequently, the envoys of the Shimazu family arrived in Hagijo with an order signed by Toyotomi Hidematsu (that is, Toyotomi Kunimatsu, Kunimatsu was the name before Motofu, so after the official restoration of the Toyotomi surname, Kunimatsu changed his name to Hidematsu), asking Mori Tsunahiro to declare himself a vassal to the Toyotomi family, send an oath of allegiance, and agree to be the second elder of the Toyotomi family.

Now Mori Tsunhiro's oath has been sent to Mitsuhisa Shimazu!

The Choshu Maori family also officially played the banner of the Toyotomi family and the downfall!

"Okay, okay...... That's great! After reading the oath of Mori Tsunhiro, Shimazu Mitsuhisa finally smiled and said to the retainers in front of him, "With the samurai of the Mori family blocking the traitors of the Tokugawa family in the east, we can rest assured and boldly deal with the Eight-Nation Alliance that invaded our Japanese Shenzhou!" ”

"What? The Eight-Nation Coalition is coming? ”

"My lord, you just said that the Eight-Nation Alliance ......"

"When?"

"Lord ......"

As soon as they heard the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Shimazu retainers, who were still in high spirits just now, all showed panicked expressions.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa took in all the changes in these people's expressions, his face sank, snorted, and said, "It's also the news I just got, from Nagasaki...... The Eight-Nation Fleet had already arrived in the Goto Domain, and had sent five large bird ships to transport 1,000 musketeers into the port of Nagasaki. ”

"What? Already in Nagasaki? ”

"The people of the Nabeshima family are looking at it like this?"

"Could it be that the Nabeshima family has also defected to the shogunate?"

That doesn't sound right! The Nabeshima family was originally a subordinate of the Tokugawa shogunate, although it was an outsider, but it was still a retainer of the Tokugawa family, so how could they say that they took refuge?

"The Hizen clan will not change its neutral stance!" Shimazu Mitsuhisa said, "Kuroda, Hosokawa, Tachibana, Arima and other families will not easily become enemies of the Toyotomi family. So what we have to face is just the Eight-Nation Alliance. ”

In fact, there were no eight countries, Annam and Korea were simply numbered, and the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan did not send troops to join the coalition army. The enemies of the Shimazu family were only the Ming Dynasty, France, England, the Netherlands, and Portugal.......

Shimazu Mitsuhisa paused: "The countermeasure has long been there, and the Spanish Admiral Garcia has already predicted that the coalition fleet and army will take Sakurajima!"

Sakurajima is the gateway to Kagoshima Bay, and if Sakurajima is lost, Kagoshima Bay will be completely blocked, and the Satsuma Domain will lose foreign aid, and then it will be trapped in Kyushu! ”

He only said half of his words - once the Satsuma Domain was trapped in Kyushu, it was a matter of time before it perished.

Because Sakurajima, Tanegashima, and Goto Islands were all under the control of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Spanish fleet would no longer be able to send weapons and equipment to the Satsuma domain. And the Shimazu family must also face enemies from both the sea and land!

At the same time, the Tokugawa shogunate continued to receive support from the Eight-Nation Coalition from the sea!

So after the loss of Sakurajima, the future of the Shimazu family was quite bleak.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa said again: "So the battle of Sakurajima has already begun...... Kiyoo has already led the new army of the Satsuma Domain into Sakurajima, just waiting for the Ming army to come. The Satsuma New Army was a samurai army, armed with the latest Spanish muskets and artillery, far superior to the peasant armies of the Ming army.

Moreover, the Spanish Navy's Invincible Armada will also enter Kagoshima Bay after the Battle of Sakurajima begins, and deal a fatal blow to the Eight-Power Fleet!

So you don't have to worry, you just need to wait for the good news from Sakurajima in Funachi Castle with the official.

As long as Sakurajima wins, Hosokawa, Kuroda, Nabeshima, Tachibana, Arima and other feudal clans will definitely join the Toyotomi family and honor the emperor in total!

The rise and fall of the Japanese Imperial Kingdom depends on the Battle of Sakurajima! ”

......

"Admiral Li, the landing has been successful...... It seems that there are not many Satsuma clan troops on Tanegashima Island! ”

"Once you've laid Tanegashima, you'll be able to go next...... As long as Sakurajima is occupied by us, the war between Japan will basically be over. ”

At the same time, Li Yuanyin and David. The Navy and Army, commanded by Jones, are attacking Tanegashima.

Now the coalition fleet and army have been divided into three, part in Nagasaki, part in the North Goto Bay in the Goto archipelago, and the main force is followed by Li Yuanyin and Davy. Jones arrives at Tanegashima. After taking Tanegashima, they will also enter Kagoshima Bay and take Sakurajima - they don't need to take it entirely, they just need to take the western part of Sakurajima, which can block the shipping lanes in and out of the bay, and then the mission is completed.

After that, the Battle of Toyotomi Tokugawa in Japan had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty and other countries......