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After conquering the Kumamoto Domain, the daimyo of Kyushu either surrendered in the hope of reaping the benefits of the Ming army; Either they fled to Edo and asked Tokugawa Iemitsu for help. Go to the net --.7-K--o-m. (.16b.) By the beginning of March, the entire island of Kyushu was completely controlled by the Ming army and the allied forces of Korea and Japan.

On 1 March, the Ming army occupied the port of Monji, the communication point between Kyushu and Honshu, and immediately afterwards, the generals of Kong Youde's department, Sun Long and Xinna Zhongyao, under the cover of the Ming army's navy and the navy of the Pinghu Domain's Matsuura Zhenxin, forcibly crossed the Guanmen Strait, and seized the port of Shimonoseki in the Choshu Domain in one fell swoop, and contained the Guanmen Strait. This force was an interception force composed of 4,000 men and 3,000 Korean soldiers led by Sun Long and his son Yanling of the Ming Army, 1,500 Shimazu soldiers of the Satsuma Domain, and 1,000 Matsuura soldiers of the Hirado Domain. Their mission was to keep the shogunate army at Shimonoseki and prevent them from breaking through the Kanmon Strait and setting foot on the land of Kyushu.

Shimonoseki, a port in the southwestern part of Honshu, Japan, belongs to Yamaguchi Prefecture. It is located in the Tsushima Strait and the Seto Inland Sea, and faces Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait. The terrain is relatively flat, the climate is warm and humid, and it is a military town and a military gateway to western Japan, choking the passage from Kyushu to Honshu. For the shogunate army to set foot on the land of Kyushu, it was necessary to break through the Kanmon Strait and pass through the defensive line laid by the Ming army opposite Shimonoseki.

The Ming army built strong fortifications on the beach, while Ganhui's Ming naval fleet and the Hirado Domain's naval fleet patrolled the sea. On March 2, Shimazu Mitsuhisa and Matsuura Jinnobu jointly wrote a letter to Mori Hideyo, the lord of the Choshu domain, asking him to join the army of the Shogunate.

Maori Xiu's intelligence is far inferior to that of his grandfather, Maori Moto, that is, half of his father's Maori Huiyuan. But he also has ambitions. Although he married his wife, Kisakihime, the adopted daughter of the second-generation shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, his heart still lingers in the fond memories of the Chugoku created by his grandfather, Mori Moto

Motoyao Masuda was one of Mori Shu's closest retainers, and the Masuda family had managed the Mori family's finances for generations. Masuda Yuanyao said: "Lord, I remember that Yuan said that the Maori family should follow the strong, or they may be able to keep the family business. Now it's not clear who is strong and who is weak between the shogunate and the Kyushu army, and I don't think the Lord should make a decision lightly. ”

Mori Shu wondered: "If I continue to support the Tokugawa family, then I will have to raise an army to attack Kyushu within the deadline of Tokugawa Iemitsu, but now that the finances of the domain are tight, you also know how to raise an army?" ”

"Raise troops but don't send troops!" Masuda Motoyao said: "You can order the samurai of the clan to polish their swords, feed their horses, and be ready to go on the expedition at any time, as for when to go on the expedition, it's not up to you to decide?" ”

Mao Lixiu was helpless, so he could only nod his head in agreement, "What about this letter?" Burn it or keep it? ”

"Keep it!" Yitian Yuanyao was also very helpless

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Just when Maori Xiu was hesitating, Song Youliang quietly came to Xiaguan, "Is this Maguan?" Song Youliang stood on the bridge of the Dingyuan and looked at Xiaguan from afar, "That damn "Shimonoseki Treaty" was signed here!" Song Youliang muttered: "This time, I must sign a treaty for me here to lose my power and humiliate the country, and cede land and pay compensation~"

"Grandpa!" Guan Yunbao lightly got on the bridge and presented the two letters to Song Youliang with both hands, "This is the letter sent by Master Song Yingxing of the Seiko Workshop and Master Chen Zilong of the Household Department the day before yesterday. ”

"Oh?" Song Youliang first picked up Song Yingxing's letter, opened the envelope, and looked at it carefully, only to see that the more he looked at it, the happier he became, the more excited he became, and he said to himself: "It is worthy of Song Yingxing, he can already make sulfuric acid and nitric acid." ”

Song Yingxing told Song Youliang in the letter that under Song Youliang's guiding ideology of reducing talents without sticking to one pattern, there were many new Taoist priests who could make alchemy and medicine in the Seigongfang. They will be the kind of alchemy called "Fox Gangzi Method" that Song Youliang told them before leaving.

Hu Gangzi, an ancient Chinese alchemist, is a Taoist celebrity. There is no official history. The year of birth and death and nationality are unknown. According to the research of Mr. Chen Guofu, a native of the Jin Dynasty, he wrote "Hardware Jue" at the same time as Ge Hong, calling Hu Gangzi "the largest Danhuang Baishi". According to Mr. Zhao Kuanghua's research: Fox Gangzi is named Qiu, also known as Hu Gangzi and Hu Gangzi. An outstanding representative of alchemy in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Boyang seems to be his teacher, and Ge Xuan, a Wu man of the Three Kingdoms, seems to be his disciple. Hu Gangzi wrote the "Catalogue of Gold Mines", which conducted field investigations and in-depth research on the properties, geological distribution, prospecting and collection, and smelting technology of gold and silver, indicating that as early as the Han Dynasty, China's gold and silver geology and metallurgy reached an advanced level, among which the "furnace method for smelting tin ash blanks" (that is, the "soot blowing method") was originally the original form of smelting precious metals in ancient times, but for a long time, it is not clear that the period of its birth, the record of Hu Gangzi has made up for this gap. In addition, the "refining stone gall extract method" is the world's earliest record of extracting sulfuric acid from stone gall (US4?5H2) by dry distillation, which is five or six hundred years earlier than the 8th century Arab alchemists proposed to heat alum to distill "alum essence" (sulfuric acid). In addition, in order to kill gold and silver poison, there is a "gold and silver powder method", which is wonderful: first make the gold into liquid amalgam, and then study with the salt powder, the gold is dispersed and attached to the surface of the salt powder, and then the mercury is evaporated, and the salt powder is washed to obtain very fine gold powder. This method has been used by alchemists in previous dynasties, and it is still recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Ming Dynasty.

When the fox gangzi method produces sulfuric acid, the gallium is decomposed into copper oxide and sulfur trioxide after burning, and the active ingredient is sulfur trioxide, which is dissolved in water to obtain sulfuric acid.

As for the manufacture of nitric acid, in fact, in the early 17th century, the method of producing nitric acid by dry distillation of a mixture of alum and saltpeter was introduced to China by missionaries from Europe. "Xu Guangqi's Handwriting" has a description of this "method of making strong water". In 1638, Li Tianjing, Tang Ruowang and others translated the Kunyu Gezhi (published in 1643), which included the "nitric acid method" on how to separate gold and silver, but for various reasons, this method was not widely adopted.

Song Youliang laughed and said: "Now that you can make sulfuric acid and nitric acid, then you will be one step closer to thundermercury!" After laughing, Song Youliang took out Chen Zilong's letter again, Chen Zilong is now appointed as the left servant of the household department, and is fully responsible for the agriculture of the Ming Dynasty, including the promotion of high-yield wheat, potatoes, corn, new agricultural machinery, fertilizers, etc. In the letter, Chen Zilong told Song Youliang that high-yield wheat has been fully promoted in northern provinces such as Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Liaoning, and potatoes and corn have also first received bumper harvests in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, and Shanxi. Nowadays, the price of grain in Daming is stable, and the supply of grain is very sufficient, whether it is civilian or military.

"Chen Zilong is really my Xiao He!" Song Youliang solemnly folded the two letters and put them into the envelope. "Herald, I'm going ashore."

"Order!" Guan Yunbao responded to the call

Song Youliang came to Shimonoseki in a small boat to meet Sun Long and Xinna Zhongyao and Songpu Zhenxin, who were flattered.

"I can't imagine that His Royal Highness Guogong is so young!" Matsuura Zhenxin sycophant

"Sure enough, it is in response to the Ming proverb, heroes come out of youth!" Xinna Zhongyao also said

In fact, Song Youliang is already a middle-aged man in his thirties at this moment, where is there any hero to speak of?

Song Youliang said with a smile: "Both of them are righteous people who affirm their righteousness, and it is not impossible for millions of stones to know and act in the future!" ”

Xinna Zhongyao was overjoyed, although he knew that he might not be able to rise to a great name, but it was still possible to increase his knowledge and deeds. Matsuura, on the other hand, hopes to reap greater benefits from overseas trade

"Did the Maori show have an echo?" Song Youliang asked

Matsuura shook his head, "The spies reported that the samurai of the Mori family had begun to prepare for battle, but they never left their house, and Mori Shu neither refused nor agreed. ”

"Matsuura-kun~" Song Youliang suddenly said: "Strong wind or light breeze, which can better determine where the grass on the wall falls?" ”

Matsuura Zhenxin didn't know what to do, thought for a moment and said, "Of course it's a strong wind!" ”

"So, let's do a strong wind!" Song Youliang replied with a smile

"I see!" Matsuura Zhenxin suddenly realized and said, "I am willing to be the vanguard of the attack on Hagi Castle (Choshu Domain). ”

"Report!" A Jinyi Wei wearing a tight-fitting suit suddenly appeared in the dark, after Song Youliang's adaptation, today's Jinyi Wei no longer wears a conspicuous flying fish suit, but still uses an embroidered spring knife. "Intercept the flying pigeon biography ~ Tokugawa Iemitsu, the great chief of the Japanese country, led an army of 130,000 to Nagahama City."

"Scared ~ 130,000 troops?" Matsuura Zhenxin was taken aback, Fang Cai's momentum was completely lost, and Xinna Zhongyao did not dare to speak

"Can there be artillery and muskets?" Song Youliang asked

"There are no artillery, no more than four thousand muskets!" Jin Yiwei replied

"Good~!" Song Youliang said with a smile: "Songpu-kun, I advise you to put up white cloth as soon as possible." ”

"Why is that?" Matsuura Town Shin was surprised

"These 130,000 troops have not returned, how many people should use white cloths?" Song Youliang laughed out loud when he spoke

On March 5 of the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army, the Korean army and the Japanese army in Kyushu crossed the lower pass and entered the territory of Nagato. Subsequently, the coalition forces besieged Hagi Castle and showed off their might under the castle for three days. Mao Lixiu was shocked by the strong military power of the Ming army, and announced that he would raise troops and join the ranks of the fallen army.

On March 17, the Ming army and the fallen army conquered Kyoto without blood, and in the palace, Song Youliang met Emperor Mizuo Masahito

"Song Youliang, the Duke of Anguo of the Ming Dynasty, has seen the emperor!" Song Youliang saluted Zhengren

"Shimazu Satsuma Shouzuo Lieutenant General Hisamitsu to see His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Matsuura Hizen Mamoru Mamoru Shin see His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Maori Nagato Shou Right Konoe Quan Major General Show will see His Majesty the Emperor!"

This was followed by the general small feudal lords who were subdued one after another

Emperor Masahito said tremblingly: "Wait~ Your family has come to see me, what is the so-called matter?" ”

Song Youliang grinned and said, "Your Majesty, don't misunderstand, I'm here to ask Your Majesty for righteousness." "Righteousness is actually a high-sounding reason for crusading against the Tokugawa shogunate

"Righteousness?" Emperor Masahito trembled: "What righteousness? ”

Song Youliang glanced at Shimazu Hisamitsu and signaled that you Japanese should still come by yourself

So Shimazu Hisamitsu raised his head and said, "Tokugawa Iemitsu has no way, and the following is on the top." Having deprived His Majesty the Emperor of his right to rule Japan, we are waiting to raise troops to demand that Tokugawa Iemitsu return his power to His Majesty the Emperor. For this reason, I hereby ask His Majesty the Emperor to grant him the righteousness of the crusade against Tokugawa Iemitsu. ”

This is another trump card of Song Youliang's "Japanese Disruption Plan".