723 Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight
The other Jianyu also surrounded Bao Chengxian, pricking up their ears to listen to what the plan was.
I only heard Bao Chengxian say respectfully to Haoge: "Today's Wa Kingdom is a chaotic era of heroes competing for deer, which is not much different from the time of the Three Kingdoms. And the Three Kingdoms are in the world, and Cao Wei is also ......"
After listening to it for a while, he didn't hear a reason, Haoge couldn't help but be a little impatient, and immediately interrupted loudly: "Straight to the point, don't talk about the Three Kingdoms, we've all heard that thing." ”
Bao Cheng listened first, slightly embarrassed. I wanted to pretend to be forced not to pretend, and I didn't dare to disobey Hauge's intentions, so I replied respectfully: "The slave thinks that His Royal Highness should coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes to control the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom first, so that he will have a righteous name, whether it is to drive the wolf and devour the tiger, or to attack other great names, the division will be famous." ”
When Hauge heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Today, the emperor is in Kyoto, and the Tokugawa shogunate is in Edo. He had already sent an envoy to Kyoto before, and he had known about it beforehand.
And to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the benefits of the princes, I have heard a lot about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Haoge certainly knows that this is one of the most important measures for Cao Cao to stand out among the princes.
If he had mastered the Emperor, what about the Shogun? At least nominally, the emperor is the emperor of the Wa Kingdom, no!
Thinking of this, Hauge couldn't help but rub his hands excitedly and said, "Okay, good, good, good, it's a good way......"
Seeing that he was so happy, Bao Chengxian felt a little proud in his heart, and immediately reminded: "Your Highness, this matter must be done first." If Kyoto is taken over by other powerful feudal clans, it will be difficult to take the emperor again! ”
"Yes, yes, yes, this matter must be the first to strike!" When Hauge heard this, he immediately nodded in agreement, and then ordered his subordinates to take most of the people down for resettlement, and then he ordered the leaders of his cronies, including Turge, Bao Chengxian and others, and then returned to the lobby to discuss the matter of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes".
Through the questioning of the Wa people, Hauge and others knew that for the time being, the emperor was in Kyoto, and it could also be said that the imperial court of the Wa Kingdom was in Kyoto. However, they are all in name only, and the decrees are actually issued by the shogunate on the Edo side. The memoirs given to the emperor by the daimyo from all over the world will also be transferred to Edo for review before they are shown to the emperor.
And the person in charge of communication with the imperial court on the shogunate's side, or in other words, supervising the emperor for Tokugawa Iemitsu, was Itakura Shigemune, the Kyoto director on the Kyoto side.
This Itakura Shigemune was one of the three giants of the Tokugawa Iemitsu era, and the other two, one was Naotaka Ii in Edo, of course, who had died of anger in the Korean War at this time. There is also a Hoshina Masayuki, the lord of the Aizu Domain, who defended Tokugawa Iemitsu against the brave Daimyo of the Northland.
This Hoshina Masayuki is actually the illegitimate son of Tokugawa Hidetada, and now the younger brother of Tokugawa Iemitsu. He was loyal to the shogunate throughout his life and passed down the family motto, which was the fifteen rules of the Aizu family, one of which was that the Aizu domain existed to protect the shogun's family, and if the lord betrayed him, the retainers could not follow him.
As a result, the successive Aizu clans were ultimately loyal to the shogun, including the last lord of the domain, and that all have a story. But it has nothing to do with here, and I don't show it.
However, it can be seen from this that this Hoshina Masayuki is loyal to Tokugawa Iemitsu.
The Korean war was defeated, and the daimyo in various places became dissenting. Now the only thing the Tokugawa family can rely on is the Aizu domain. But there was only one Aizu domain, so how could it be possible to rule the entire Wa Kingdom.
Therefore, the daimyo from all over the country brought troops or sent envoys to Kyoto, and although Itakura Shigemune controlled Kyoto, he had limited troops, and there was nothing he could do about it, and he could not prevent the daimyo or his envoys from going to the emperor.
In the lobby, a group of people understood the general situation, and Bao Chengxian said to Haoge: "Your Highness, the servant thinks that this Itakura Shigemune must have reported the situation in Kyoto to the Edo side. If the Tokugawa shogunate had freed up his hands and regained control of Kyoto, it would have been even more difficult to snatch the Emperor of Wakoku. Therefore, the minions suggested that it would be better to take Kyoto directly with surprise troops and take the emperor in his hands first! ”
Listening to his analysis, Hauge was really anxious.
He has an impatient temperament, which is also good, that is, he will do what he says.
After some deliberation, he made a decision. Regardless of Kyushu Island, 3,000 elites were selected, and 200 of them were the elite of the elites, and they immediately set off and attacked Kyoto. The one who led the team was Turg.
And Hauge himself, he cleaned up the softness, grabbed as much as he could in Kyushu, and burned it if he couldn't grab it. Anyway, they can't leave resources for other daimyos, let alone give the Ming army a chance to replenish supplies.
At this time, there were far fewer people in the Wa Kingdom than in later generations. Although Kyushu Island is large, only those larger cities are worth plundering. The so-called occupation of territory is actually just to capture these places with a large number of people, and as for the mountains, forests and wilderness, no one has the leisure to worry about it.
So, in this way, the Japanese people of Kyushu Island suffered.
Haoge's way is actually similar to that of the Ming thief. Conquer a place, coerce the people to continue to attack the next place, and what he can really raise is only the young and strong among the Japanese people, as for the old and weak, they are just cannon fodder for attacking the next city.
Wherever Hauge led his army, it was like a locust crossing the border, and it was in ruins. It can even be said that it is more terrible than locusts, after all, locusts do not eat people, but Hauge's army took everyone away, and those who did not dare to submit were killed.
It's only been two months, and by the end of February of the twentieth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Kyushu Island was almost no longer popular. There is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and there is a tragic situation of frozen bones on the road, and the scene of the original Jianyu to the Ming Dynasty is reproduced in the Wa Kingdom.
For all this, Hauge is very satisfied, and even very proud. If the Ming army attacked Kyushu Island, it turned out that there was no one at all, and there was no food and grass to replenish, which would definitely drag down the Ming army's offensive, and even make it possible for them to return in vain.
After one last glance at the island of Kyushu, Hauge ordered everyone to board the ship, ready to go to the island of Honshu, and rush to Kyoto to join the headquarters of Turge.
Just ten days earlier, Turg had sent someone to report that his direct attack on Kyoto had been successful. The old guy Itakura Shigemune didn't expect that a daimyo would really break the rules, so he couldn't take precautions, and was personally led by Turg to steal into the city and open the city gate. It's just a pity that although he caught Emperor Gomei, he was still run away by Itakura Shigemune.
Turg was worried that the other daimyo would follow suit when they saw this situation, and even Itakura Shigemune might even lead someone to fight back. Therefore, he asked Hauge's side to rush as soon as possible.
Knowing the situation in Kyoto, Hauge was of course anxious, so he crossed the sea to Honshu Island without sweeping the Kyushu Island.
At this time, it can be said that the most ferocious thing on the side of the Wa Kingdom is Haoge's forces. The other daimyo still more or less abide by the rules left in the past, and they are more or less influenced by the traditional ideas of the Wa Kingdom, so they are still tied down in doing things and everything.
However, Haoge, an outsider, did not have this constraint, plus he was worried about when the Ming army would come, and everything would be done.
As a result, as time passed, the daimyo from all over the country knew that there was such a number one person as Hauge, whose methods were extremely brutal, who rose extremely quickly, and also controlled Kyoto.
Of course, this situation was also detected by the Ming army at night, so they immediately reported it to Sun Chuanting's side on the side of Busan.
The people of the Japanese country may not be clear, for the Ming Dynasty, the word Aixin Jueluo is really not too familiar. Just as soon as he heard it, Sun Chuanting knew that it must be the remnants of Jianyu who were causing chaos.
One thing, Haoge did not guess wrong, the reason why Sun Chuanting has not sent troops to the Japanese country is because of the problem of grain and grass.
The two provinces of Liaodong and Korea were not yet capable of self-sufficiency, so they had to be transported from the Daming Pass, just like the military rations. Even if there were transport ships, it would not be possible to stock up on the food needed to attack the Japanese kingdom in a short time.
The reason why the Satsuma Domain sent troops to attack the Ryukyu Kingdom was because most of the grain and grass supplies were borne by the Ryukyu Kingdom. However, the Ryukyu Kingdom was oppressed by the Satsuma Domain, and it was an island country with a great shortage of materials, so it could not afford to fight for a long time. As a result, the Ming army in the Ryukyu Kingdom did not take advantage of the situation to attack Kyushu Island.
However, at this time, as soon as Sun Chuanting heard about the situation of the Japanese state, he resolutely ordered to reorganize the army for war.
In his opinion, if the Wa Kingdom is so plagued by the remnants of Jianyu, then what is the use of the Ming Dynasty beating down, there are no people! Moreover, we can't let the remnants of Jianyu sit big, and it is necessary to kill them all. Although the grain and grass materials are not enough, it is always possible to fight in stages.
When his generals heard that they were going to attack the Japanese state, they were all excited. If there is a war to be fought, it means that there is a military merit to be made. Sealing the wife and the son, and the marquis worshipping the general, it all depends on this.
However, what Sun Chuanting never imagined was that when he was about to lead the army across the sea to conquer the Wa Kingdom, Emperor Chongzhen's holy decree arrived.
This will was passed down by the flying pigeon, and then sent from Liaodong by fast horse for 800 miles.
Emperor Chongzhen's will was very simple, and he strictly ordered Sun Chuanting not to send troops if he did not have his will to send troops. Don't care what happens in the Wa Kingdom, just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
To be honest, Sun Chuanting was a little depressed. Because before he came here, Emperor Chongzhen had explained to him that he would make a decision on the spot depending on the situation of the Wa Kingdom, and he would allow him to attack the Wa State and destroy the Wa State.
But now the will has made him stand still......
If the original Emperor Chongzhen is replaced, he will not have much prestige in the future, then maybe Sun Chuanting will disrespect the orders of the generals abroad, however, at this time, the prestige of Emperor Chongzhen is in full swing, who dares to resist the decree?
Therefore, although Sun Chuanting regretted that the Japanese would be killed by the remnants of Jianyu, so that his achievements would be much less weighty, in the end, he could only follow the will of Emperor Chongzhen, first press the army, and continue to sit and watch the situation of the Japanese country.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had just returned to Beijing.
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