On a clear night, the bright moon hung high, and Tsurumaru Castle, which had undergone a tragic massacre, returned to tranquility under the reflection of a snow-like silver glow. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Haoran, do you think that Ben Bo is too ruthless?"

Li Xiao, who had finished washing and changed into a dry silk suit, stood at the top of the castle tower, looked up at the huge and bright silver plate in the air, and whispered to Li Haoran, the captain of the guards.

"Adult 。。。。。。" Li Haoran frowned slightly, he hesitated, but still said in a low voice: "I just don't understand, I think that at the beginning, when the adults slaughtered the Mongolian Abahanar Department, they could still save the lives of boys who were not taller than the wheels, why did they kill all the men in this Tsurumaru City?" ”

Listening to Li Haoran's words, a sneer crossed Li Xiao's face.

"Haoran, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, have you heard of it?"

"Adult 。。。。。。"

"Hmph, Benbo can tell you that if our army is magnanimous and spares the lives of the boys of the Shimazu clan, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will take the Shimazu orphans hostage in the name of recovering the feudal domain, like Benbo, and let this Satsuma land fall into turmoil again. It's better to take this opportunity to kill all the men of the Shimazu clan to prevent future troubles! “

"My lord, the men of the Shimazu clan can't be kept, but why did the adults slaughter all the men in the city?"

"Haoran, let me ask you, how credible is the words of Yuki Heizhang, if he still hides the remnants of the Shimazu clan among the soldiers and civilians in the city? If they have done such a treacherous thing, how can our army distinguish between them? If we don't take advantage of this opportunity to seize the city and use the turmoil as an excuse to kill all the potential rebels, we can do it all and avoid chaos in the future. “

Li Haoran sighed lightly, nodded and said, "What the adults said also makes sense. Now that this Tsurumaru Castle has been slaughtered, the Japanese people are afraid, and it must be safe for our army to stay in this Satsuma Domain for a long time. “

Listening to Li Haoran's words, Li Xiao shook his head slightly.

"No, Haoran, you are wrong, if our army wants to live here for a long time, then the land of Satsuma is far from enough!"

Li Haoran's face changed greatly: "My lord, what do you mean。。。。。。 “

Li Xiao looked at Li Haoran's frightened and discolored face, then gently patted him on the shoulder, smiled and said softly: "Haoran, there is a story about a Japanese samurai who sacrificed his life to avenge his vassal lord, I don't know, do you want to hear it." ”

"Of course I do."

Li Xiao turned around, leaned on the window with both hands, and his eyes staring at the full moon were full of complicated colors, and then he slowly began to narrate.

What Li Xiao said is the story of the well-known and extremely famous loyal ministers in Japan.

This story, which happened in real history at the beginning of the next century, was told to Li Haoran by Li Xiao in the way of changing the time and the names of the characters.

On March 14, Genroku 14 (1701), Asano Nagaki, the lord of the Ako Domain, who was participating in the Hogatsu no Yi event in Kyoto, slashed Yoshio Kira, the lord of the Gao family, with a waist knife at the foot of the Pine Corridor.

After the incident, Tokugawa Tsunyoshi, the fifth shogun of the fifth shogunate, was very angry, and he arbitrarily ruled that Asano Nagaju was rude and rebellious, and ordered him to immediately cut his stomach.

Subsequently, Tokugawa Tsunakishi, who was still angry, ordered the Ako Domain to be banned and the Asano retainers were disbanded.

On the same night, the news of the death of the feudal lord Asano Nagaju and the news of the banning of the Ako Domain arrived at the Ako Domain, and the entire domain was shocked, and the retainers were extremely sad.

The chief family elder Ishinaizang helped Yoshio (Zhongchen Zang), and immediately convened a meeting of all the retainers. After this meeting, all the vassals agreed to accept the shogunate's decision, and the Ako Domain came to an end, and all the retainers became ronin.

However, after the Tokugawa family's envoy left, Ishinouchi Kurasuke Yoshio held a secret meeting again, and all the retainers who attended the meeting formed a righteous alliance with the main purpose of reviving the Asano clan.

Although there were several twists and turns, the leader of the Righteous League, Ishiuchi Kurasuke Yoshio, after a series of careful planning and operation, gathered 47 allies and gathered near the Kira Mansion, in the fierce battle of life and death, Kira Yoshio, who was hiding in the horizontal stacking of firewood in the Taisho, was finally killed by the Righteous Alliance and was beheaded.

Later, in front of the tomb of the deceased lord Asano Nagaju of Edo Sengakuji Temple, Ishiuchi Kurasuke Yoshio led the crowd to kneel down and present the head of Yoshio, which reflected the loyalty of the samurai to the greatest extent and comforted the spirit of the deceased lord in heaven.

Of course, Li Xiao did not tell Li Haoran about the final ending of this story, because it was irrelevant.

In real history, these allies, led by Ishinouchi Kurasuke Yoshio, were finally convicted by the shogunate and ordered to seppuku. Their bodies were buried with the lord in Sengakuji Temple. Since then, the story of the loyal minister has become the most famous story of the loyal minister in Japan.

"I understand, Lord Li doesn't want these ronin warriors who remain in the Satsuma folk to imitate this so-called loyal minister to take revenge on my Daming." Li Haoran looked abrupt.

Li Xiao nodded and sighed, "That's exactly what I mean." Haoran, Benbo asks you again, do you know why the Japanese are simply called Wa? ”

"My lord, I don't know."

This name originated in the Three Kingdoms period. Cao Pi, the emperor of Wei at that time, once crowned the monarch of Japan at that time as the king of Wei and Wei, this word is composed of the word "Wei" to the right of the word "ghost", plus the word "亻" on the left, composed of a new word. Therefore, the country where the pro-Wei Wei king was located was also called the "Wei Kingdom". Later, the word was defined to mean obscene and short. Since the Tang Dynasty, the Wa people began to rise, and they were very dissatisfied with this Wa character, so the country name was revised to Japan, which means the country of the rising sun. Later, when Emperor Yuanmei came, he stipulated that the word "he" should be used instead of the word "倭", and it was called "Yamato" by appending "great" at the beginning. ”

"Hmph, it's arrogant to dare to call it big." Li Haoran snorted coldly.

Li Xiao said with a smile: "Originally, since the Three Kingdoms, the Japanese monarchs have all called themselves Wa kings, and they need to accept the canonization of the Chinese emperor. However, since the reign of King Shenmu, he has changed his name to "Emperor" without authorization to show his authority over the "Son of Heaven" in China. The ambition of the wolf son of the Japanese people is obvious. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiao's voice gradually became ruthless: "Therefore, for such an obscene, despicable and ungrateful nation, only with extremely cruel killing and slaughter can we deter the people, and the best way to avoid future troubles." Ben Bo would never do that kind of thing, because he wanted to be famous for a while, but he was merciful to the enemy, and caused endless disasters to his descendants! ”

Li Xiao paused and replied: "Originally, if our army had enough time and strength, it would be okay for these Japanese who already have a mature language, writing, and religion to slowly extinguish their national consciousness and naturalize into our Chinese people in an orderly and gradual way, after four or five generations. However, now our army is not abundant, and time is very urgent, after the conquest of Satsuma, our army will immediately have to deal with the domestic rogues and the northern Tartars, so it is even more necessary to make this Satsuma domain completely calm in a short period of time, without turmoil, in order to achieve long-term peace and stability. “

"I understand, so Master Li is going to 。。。。。。 next"

Li Haoran looked at Li Xiao with burning eyes, and did not finish speaking, but made a slashing gesture with his right hand.

"That's right! From tomorrow, our army will be sent back to all the villages and towns of the Satsuma Domain, and all the adult men will be killed for the crimes of Shimazu's remnants. The boys, who were not taller than the wheels, and all the women, were taken to Taiwan to marry and adopt Han Chinese. Subsequently, Fu immigrated from Shandong to make sure that he was there. ”

When Li Xiao said this, his eyes narrowed unconsciously, and he continued: "In this way, after all the land of the Satsuma Domain is inhabited and cultivated by my Chinese Han people, this Satsuma land can be regarded as truly and completely stable, and there will be no more waves." ”

Li Haoran arched his hand and said: "Master Li is far-sighted and thoughtful, and he is impressed. ”

After dawn the next day, the Tiger Army, which had finished recuperating in Tsurumaru Castle, stretched out its hideous and sharp claws to the large and small towns of the Satsuma Domain like a group of fierce beasts that had released their cages.

Five days later, all the adult males in the Satsuma Domain were beheaded by the Ming army, and nearly 30,000 heads were piled up outside Tsurumaru Castle into a towering mountain that made people feel terrified.

Subsequently, in the earth-shaking weeping and wailing, as many as 40,000 Satsuma women and underage children were pushed and scolded by the wolf-like Ming army, and forced to board the captured Satsuma water warships and go to Taiwan.

In the massacre and looting of various parts of Satsuma, the Tigers obtained a total of hundreds of thousands of stone of grain, more than 10,000 taels of gold, and more than 700,000 taels of silver. Li Xiao was very satisfied with the fact that he was able to capture a lot of money, grain, and property from the Satsuma Domain, which was depleted financially and the people were poor and barren.

After burning and looting almost the entire Satsuma into a blank field, Li Xiao ordered the newly recruited 100,000 displaced people to move in from Shandong to rebuild villages and towns in the land of Satsuma and multiply.

Seeing that everything in the Satsuma Domain was proceeding in an orderly manner according to his own plan, Li Xiaozhi was full of pride and was very happy in his heart.

He knew that from now on, this land, although it still bears the name of the Liver Fu clan, has completely become a place where the Chinese Han people settle and live, and it is no longer inseparable from the mother country of China.

At this time, Liver Fu Kanpei, who was announced by Li Xiao to re-serve as the lord of the Satsuma domain and arranged to live in Niugen Castle, the ancestral city of the Liver Fu clan, was standing in front of the window, silently watching, outside Niugen City, in the spring rain that was flying in the sky, the Han immigrants who were wearing robes and urgently planting millet seeds.

It's just that now he is wearing a Chinese costume printed with the emblem of the liver Fu clan, but he has a gloomy face.

Next to him, the loyal old man Kawatsu Dao was also solemn and solemn.

"Dao pre, you said, did we do something wrong when we surrendered to the Ming army to restore the domain?"

After a long time, the thirteen-year-old boy Fu Jian Ping finally spit out this sentence lightly.

Chuan Tsu Dao's face changed drastically, he pounced and knelt on the ground.

"Domain lord, you need to know that the wall has ears, please be cautious!"

"Hmph, what a bullshit lord, I've had enough! Do you know what it's like to be ordered to stay in Ushigen Castle every day and not go out for a single step! Be cautious, be cautious, this clan is going crazy by this Li Xiao! “

With a twisted look of resentment, he gritted his teeth and roared in a low voice. His appearance is similar to the deferential appearance in front of Li Xiao that day.

Chuan Jin Dao let out a long sigh, straightened up from the ground, and said to Liver Fu Kanhei with an extremely painful and complaining expression: "Domain Lord, the only feasible way is to endure the life in the future. Then Lord Li can cut down the roots of the Shimazu clan, and kill all the adult men of the Satsuma domain, and the women will move away from home, how cruel and vicious and ferocious he is, how can the lord of the domain disobey him! I hope that the lord of the domain will listen to the next sentence of persuasion, and he must not hit the stone with an egg! ”

Ganfu Kanping clenched his teeth, but did not speak, only gradually, tears began to flicker in his eyes.

Kawatsu continued: "Please forgive me for saying that even if the feudal lord wants to wait for the future, he will not be able to get it! You know, in Satsuma, I'm afraid that except for you and me, the Japanese are all gone! Now all the people in the domain are Chinese immigrants, these foreign people, who do not understand our language and have different customs, are only obeyed by Li Xiao's orders, and how can they listen to half a word from the feudal lord! The feudal lord has no power at all, if he wants to confront the fierce and brutal Ming general Li Xiao, I am afraid that my liver Fu clan will die in the future! ”

Liver Fu Kanpei covered his face, and the thirteen-year-old boy began to sobbed lowly.

"If that's the case, then what's the point of me being the lord of the Satsuma clan who is completely a puppet。。。。。。

Kawatsu Michi foresaw that he was so sad that he didn't feel tears, and he softly admonished, "Lord, you can't say that. Now I am waiting in this Niugen City, although I can't go out at will, and I don't have any right to dispose of the affairs of the city, but I have 50 taels of silver provided by the Ming army every month for living expenses, but I also have no worries about food and clothing, and I am rich, which is a hundred times stronger than when we were farmers in the Ryukyus. I also hope that the lord of the domain will be relieved and calm, and if he comes, he will be safe, live well, and continue the bloodline of the Liver Fu clan is the most important thing. ”

When Chuan Jin Dao said this, he suddenly forced a smile on his face, and said to Liver Fu Kanpei: "Domain Lord, I heard Lord Li say that he plans to spend two years, and when the domain lord grows up again, he will tell you a Han woman as his wife." At that time, the bloodline of the liver Fu family will officially have a successor. ”

Listening to Chuan Jin's words, Liver Fu Kanhei frowned tightly, and he shouted in a low voice: "This Li Xiao is too lenient, why can't I marry a woman from a Japanese domain, but I must marry a Chinese woman, what is the reason!" ”

Chuan Jin Dao let out another long sigh, and he said in a low voice: "Domain master, what a shrewd person Li Xiao is, how can he give you the opportunity to befriend his domain!" Besides, now that I am so attached to the Ming army, how dare I say half a word! I have repeatedly told the feudal lord that the current situation is that we will have full authority to obey Lord Li's arrangement, and we should not say anything about bargaining, so as not to bring disaster upon ourselves. Besides, as long as the descendants of the liver Fu family can continue smoothly, is there any difference between being born with a Japanese woman and a Chinese woman? Among the stakes, please think twice about the feudal lord. ”

The pale elbow Fu Jiping waved his hand, signaling him not to say any more.

"Dao pre, don't say it anymore, this clan knows how to do it, this clan knows 。。。。。。"

Repeating the last sentence, he suddenly threw his head up and laughed loudly, dancing like crazy. The poignant laughter, like a flock of frightened birds, quickly disappeared into the dim temple.