[273] Treaty of Tomorrow's Shimonoseki

Sakai Tadakatsu did not dare to slack off in the slightest, he immediately took out ten boxes of silver from the warehouse of the general's mansion, and selected ten of the maids who were at least the youngest and most beautiful, and then came to the Dingyuan without stopping

As soon as Sakai Tadashi got on the ship, he saw Akira on the deck carrying many green wooden boxes. The wooden box was placed next to the cannon on the deck, and the gunner skillfully opened the wooden box with a crowbar, and a brass-colored conical cannonball was presented to Sakai Tadakatsu

Li Xin happened to come out of the cabin, and when he saw Sakai Tadakatsu, he said with a straight face: "Lord Sakai, I thought you weren't coming~~ Look, our cannons are ready!" Li Xin pointed to the gunners on standby

"General Li, please calm your anger!" Sakai Tadashi carefully accompanied the smiling face, "My general is timid, because the army of the kingdom suddenly arrived, he was too frightened, so he was sick in bed and unconscious. General, the terms of the peace agreement you sent cannot be seen by the general of my family, so I also ask the country to forgive a few days for the matter of peace negotiation. Sakai Tadashi ordered ten boxes of silver and ten maids to be delivered, "This is a little meaning, please laugh at the general!" ”

"A few days of grace is not impossible!" Li Xin said: "So, how many days do you want to be graced? ”

"Five days is enough!" Tadashi Sakai spread his fingers

"No way!" Li Shin resolutely rejected Sakai Tadakatsu's request, "Three days at most!" ”

"General Lee!" Sakai Tadashi smiled flatteringly: "If you want good wine and food or a beautiful woman, we will definitely do our best to serve it, and I only ask the general to give two more days!" ”

"Four days, four days at most~~" Li Xin said in embarrassment: "Otherwise, please go back, Lord Sakai!" ”

"Alright! Four days is four days! Sakai Tadakatsu suddenly looked miserable, and said sadly: "Don't hide it from you, my family, Tokugawa Shogun, suddenly fell ill and fell unconscious. The shogunate is in chaos, and I really don't know what to do as my subordinates. As he spoke, Sakai Tadashi actually shed tears

Li Xin saw that an old man was so miserable, Dao also put away his serious expression, and said: "We Daming only came to achieve the goal, and we will not stay for long. Sakai-sama doesn't have to be so sad, but I ask you to accept the terms of peace quickly. After four days, if there is no clear answer, don't blame me for being ruthless! ”

"That's~That's~" Sakai Tadakatsu wiped his tears and smiled with relief

When Sakai Tadashi returned to the general's mansion late at night, he found that the entire general's mansion had become a mess, with soldiers and samurai constantly coming and going, and everyone had a panicked look on their faces.

"What's going on?" Sakai Tadakatsu stopped a maid and asked, "What happened to the General's Mansion to be so panicked?" ”

The maid said in a trembling voice: "The general vomited blood just now, and then he has been in a coma and unbelieving, and the doctors are helpless!" ”

"What?" Sakai Tadashi's head buzzed, just now he said to the Ming army that Tokugawa Iemitsu was seriously ill and unconscious, and that was just a lie to coax the Ming army and hope that the Ming army would relax its vigilance, how could it really come true?

Time passed minute by minute, and finally, Tokugawa Iemitsu, who had survived the long dark night, did not escape the call of death after all, and when the sun rose from the sea level in the east, the talented third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate finally swallowed his last breath unwillingly, and the shogun's palace suddenly cried and shouted.

Wives and concubines feared their unpredictable future, and retainers fought over the brief power vacuum that had arisen since Tokugawa Iemitsu's death. At this moment, the whole room was filled with smoke, and the monks were softly chanting the scriptures to make the soul of the deceased in the French way. At Tokugawa Iemitsu's coffin, the nursing mother Kasuga Bureau held the five-year-old Tokugawa Ietsuna quietly to hold a vigil for him, and the room was filled with an atmosphere of sadness and refuge.

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"Lord Shogun~~" Sakai Tadashi tearfully submitted in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu's spiritual seat, "I, Sakai Tadakiyo, swear that I will definitely protect the Tokugawa family and the young lord to the death." With that, Sakai Tadashi turned around and said to a group of shogunate ministers: "Ladies and gentlemen, the shogun's health was not very good, and now he has been invaded by the Ming Kou and worked day and night, so he will die young." Those Mingkou on the sea are our enemies, the murderers of the general. Ladies and gentlemen, should we take revenge? ”

No one from the old ministers responded, and the warriors of the Shaozhuang faction shouted in unison: "Revenge!" ”

"Sakai-sama~!" Sakai Tadashi looked at Sakai Tadakatsu, who was speechless, "Do you still want to negotiate peace with Mingkou?" ”

Sakai Tadashi said: "After three days, if the shogunate does not give a clear answer, the Ming army will launch a full-scale attack. With our limited strength~~~"

"Eight grids~!" Sakai Tadakiyo roared angrily, "Samurai will not hesitate to die in battle for the sake of lofty ideals and goals. You don't deserve to be a samurai~~! Sakai Tadashiki's halberd pointed at Sakai Tadakatsu, and his fingers almost touched Sakai Tadakatsu's forehead

Sakai Tadakatsu did not mean to be angry at all, he said: "The most important thing now is to immediately choose a suitable heir to inherit the shogunship, and then decide whether to fight or make peace on behalf of the shogunate!" ”

"That's right!"

"Lord Zhongsheng is really old!"

"Zhongqing, don't be too presumptuous!"

A group of veterans without exception spoke out in support of Sakai Tadakatsu

"Okay~!" Sakai Tadashi said angrily: "You old people have lost your courage, and you will only intrigue to keep your family business!" With that, Sakai Tadashi and a group of young samurai turned around and left

"This Zhongqing~~ is so presumptuous with the favor of the general during his lifetime!" Old Naka Matsudaira Nobutsuna shook his head

"This young man~~" Sakai Tadakatsu said in a deep voice: "It will become a big obstacle to pacifying the current chaos!" ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna asked, "Then let's discuss the young master's succession as general!" ”

"Is this still negotiable?" Hotta Masamori, who is also an old man, said: "According to the convention of succession, it should be the second male Etsuna His Royal Highness to succeed to the throne!" ”

Sakai Tadakatsu glanced at everyone in the room with his eyes, and finally his gaze rested on Kasuga's face, and Sakai Tadakatsu asked, "What do you think?" ”

Kasuga Bureau looked at the Tokugawa Ietsuna in his arms and said, "Then Ietsuna!" "Anyway, the Kasuga Bureau is sitting in front of the Tokugawa family light spirit seat with the Tokugawa family in his arms, and the elder Sakai Tadatsutsu and the old middle Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Hotta Masamori, Abe Shigeji, Matsudaira Nortoju, etc., salute the Tokugawa Ietsuna, who is in the arms of the Kasuga Bureau, "See the Shogun~~!" ”

In this way, the Tokugawa shogunate completed a change of power, and Tokugawa Ietsuna, who was only five years old, succeeded him as the fourth shogun

After paying homage, Matsudaira Nobutsuna asked, "Then it's time to discuss whether to fight or make peace with the Ming Kingdom!" ”

Sakai Tadashi said: "My lord is harmonious, because through the conversation with the Ming army, I found that what the Ming people want is only money and increasing the treaty ports, and those terms of sealing the territory are probably added by those rebel ministers." ”

"But~" Hotta Masamori said, "Didn't you explain that the envoy of the country said that it must be passed by all of them before the peace clause counts?" ”

"The words of the Ming people have never been fully believed!" Sakai Tadakatsu said, "As long as we meet the requirements of the Ming Kingdom, they will leave Japan, and then Shimazu and Mori will not be our opponents." This time, we must not be as soft as the Great Imperial Palace (Tokugawa Ieyasu) and must cut off their families, not change or reduce their seals. ”

"Yes~~" Abe nodded and said, "Those who dare to disobey the Tokugawa family have only one way to die." ”

"However, where can we get the compensation of 20,000 taels? Don't say ten years, twenty years won't work! Kasuga said

Sakai Tadashi nodded sympathetically and said, "Regarding the amount of indemnity, I will work hard to fight for it, and the most important thing at the moment is that I hope that reinforcements will arrive as soon as possible, or that I can achieve a victory." Even if it's a small victory. ”

Let's say that in the Emperor's Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Masahito is holding a large smoking gun in his hand, constantly swallowing clouds and spitting fog.

"What do you think of the taste of the Fushou paste produced by our Daming?" Song Youliang looked at Zhengren's intoxicated expression and asked deliberately

"En~" Zhengren was reluctant to leave the cigarette gun for a moment, and took a few more puffs before putting down the cigarette gun and saying: "Da Ming is really rich, this kind of Fushou ointment, after I smoked it, I only felt energetic, and I had the strength to do anything." Now I can't live without him for a moment! ”

"If you like it, as long as Japan joins the Greater China Co-Prosperity Circle, you can easily get Fushou Cream!" Song Youliang said with a smile

Masahito took a few more puffs of Fushou ointment and said, "Hasn't the shogunate agreed to our terms of peace yet?" ”

Song Youliang shook his head

Masahito said with some complaint: "The Ming army is strong, and it is not possible to force the shogunate to submit by force?" ”

Song Youliang still shook his head and said: "After all, the Ming Dynasty is a foreign country, and many people in Japan have listened to the rumors of the shogunate, thinking that the Ming Dynasty is an evil ghost who has come to invade Japan and even want to destroy Japan. There are even rumors that the Emperor has been captured by us and returned to the Ming Dynasty to be dedicated to the Ming Emperor! ”

"Ridiculous ~ these ignorant red deer!" Masahito took a few more puffs of his cigarette angrily, "Well, if I go on a tour of Kyoto with you, won't that be able to dispel those rumors?" ”

Song Youliang hurriedly stopped: "I heard that the shogunate sent a lot of ninjas to sneak into Kyoto, I'm afraid you will be in danger when you leave the palace!" ”

Masahito laughed and said, "I'm not a cowardly person!! ”

So, under the protection of the Ming army and the newly formed Emperor's Guard with the help of the Ming army, the Japanese Emperor Masahito and the Ming Dynasty Anguo Gong Song Youliang rode in the same carriage and paraded through the main streets of Kyoto for two hours. Along the way, Masahito constantly preached to the Japanese people that the goodwill of tomorrow and the Ming army were the righteous teachers of the king of Laiqin, and the Japanese people's support for the Ming army was to support the Japanese emperor.

As a result, the people of Kyoto came to watch

After the parade, Masahito felt a little tired, and when he returned to the palace, he was about to smoke some more Fushou paste to refresh himself, but found that the brocade box containing Fushou paste was empty

"Guogong, do you still have Fushou ointment by your side?" Masahito began to yawn

"Your Excellency the Emperor, I just thought of a way to force the shogunate!" Song Youliang answered the question

"What's the solution?" Masahito endured fatigue

"Your Excellency, you signed this treaty in the name of the Emperor, and the Shogunate is also a subordinate of the Emperor anyway, and the Emperor has agreed, so is there any reason why the Shogunate will not agree?" "This is also a way to demonstrate the authority of the emperor," Song said. ”

"Okay!" Zhengren shouted: "Take my jade seal~"

"Your Excellency the Emperor, aren't you looking at it anymore?" Song Youliang handed over a thick original copy of the treaty

"What's there to see!" With a snap, Masahito pressed the jade seal heavily on the snow-white rice paper, completely ignoring the new clauses in the "Tomorrow's Xiaguan Treaty":

Acknowledging that the subjects of the Ming Empire had the privilege of residing, traveling, operating industry and commerce, and mining in Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido in Japan; leased Sado and Oki Islands to the Ming Dynasty for a period of ninety-nine years; Iwami Ginzan and Ikuno Ginzan Tomorrow's joint mine was developed for 50 years, and people outside the mine were not allowed to mine in the nearby mines, and the silver obtained was distributed by the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese Imperial Family, and the local daimyo according to the ratio of 442; All of Japan's coastal harbors and islands will not be leased or ceded to other countries. Japan hired the Ming people as political, military, and financial advisers; The Ming Empire helped the Emperor of Japan to establish a direct armed force, etc

The new Tomorrow Shimonoseki Treaty has 21 main treaties and 42 subsidiary treaties. Through these treaties, the Ming Dynasty controlled Japan's military, territorial, and financial priorities. Just when Masahito was intoxicated with the fluttering pleasure brought by Fushou ointment and the emperor's dream of reorganizing the imperial power, he did not know that Japan had unknowingly become a subject country of the Ming Dynasty