The Tagawa clan of Ichihedo unification of Kyushu and Shikoku in less than a month, and all the princes of Honshu were impressed with him, and now no one dared to despise him anymore, on the contrary, they were all afraid, afraid that this iron-striking man would wipe out Honshu.

At this time, the princes of all walks of life on the island of Honshu have already regretted a little, why didn't they form an alliance with them in the first place, I didn't expect him to be good at striking iron, and even more so at beating people, in such a short period of time, all the princes of Jiuzhou and Shikoku were beaten down, and it was nothing to be from a humble background, as long as he had strength.

Just when the various princes of Honshu were about to contact the Tagawa clan and form an alliance with them to conspire with Toshiei, a notice from the Tokugawa shogunate, or a letter, came.

The text begins by listing the charges against Tagawa:

First, the Tagawa clan is named Hizen Guardian, but he is actually a traitor, and his son-in-law Zheng Zhilong is the king of Zhennan in the Ming Dynasty.

Second, the Tagawa clan colluded with pirates, which was extremely shameless, and its landing in Shikoku was to rely on the pirate's fleet to transport a large army, and if it was allowed to take power, Toei would become a pirate world!

Third, in order to expand their power, the Tagawa clan did everything they could, and even contained the thief Amakusa Shisada, if he was allowed to take power, Toei would definitely be in chaos in the world!

Fourth, the Tagawa clan was extremely brutal, and in the name of seeking protection, he killed the head of the family, the Matsuura clan and all the retainers of the Matsuura clan, and was an out-and-out butcher;

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Well, some of the crimes listed by the Tokugawa clan are unfounded, and even Tokugawa Iemitsu thinks that he is talking nonsense, but, in fact, these are true!

At the end of the book, Tokugawa Iemitsu loudly appealed that the shogun could only come from Honshu, and could not let outsiders seize the position of the shogun, such as the Minamoto Yori clan of the Kamakura shogunate, the Ashikaga clan of the Muromachi shogunate, including their Edo shogunate Tokugawa clan are all from Honshu, it is precisely because they are from Honshu that Honshu has always maintained the status of the center of Toei, if outsiders are allowed to become shoguns, the central position of Honshu will not be guaranteed, so he called on all the princes of Honshu to unite and conquer the Tagawa clan.

This is not his nonsense, the princes of Honshu have always had a tradition of xenophobia, Kyushu and Shikoku are not without powerful figures, such as Shimazu Yoshihisa of the Satsuma Domain, and the head relatives of Tosa Province have the strength to win the throne of Toei, but they were all beaten down by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the princes of Honshu.

The princes from all walks of life who received the text couldn't help but hesitate, they had all heard one or two things about the Tagawa clan, but who could guarantee that they had not made a mistake, it was understandable that there were one or two, but if the Tagawa clan was really as the text said, then this person would be too terrible, who would dare to cooperate with him! In addition, he is a native of Jiuzhou, and it is likely that he will move the center of Dongying to Jiuzhou after taking power, perhaps, as Tokugawa Iemitsu said, it is the right choice to unite and destroy him.

Just when the princes of Honshu were hesitating, a copy of the text was passed to Zheng Zhilong's hands, and he couldn't help frowning after reading the text, damn it, if Tokugawa Iemitsu really united the princes of Honshu, then the Tagawa clan is estimated to be unable to withstand it, don't look at the Tagawa clan now has an army of 250,000, but there are more than 50 vassal states in Honshu, and there are at least 340,000 troops together.

And the Tagawa clan does not have any advantage in weapons, the arquebuses and bird guns in their hands add up to more than 100,000, and the princes of Benzhou also collude with the Dutch, Portuguese, Spaniards and even pirates, they may not have many arquebuses and bird guns in their hands, but the total is terrifying, and it will never be less than 100,000, if it really fights, the Tagawa clan may not be able to win!

What to do? Zheng Zhilong couldn't figure it out, so he had to ask everyone to discuss, and everyone couldn't help it, how do you influence people's thoughts, you can't pry their heads apart one by one and make them biased towards the Tagawa clan.

Since everyone had no choice, they had no choice but to ask the emperor, so he wrote down the current situation of Dongying and sent it to the capital in the fastest sailing boat.

Zhu Cijiong received the recital, read the text, and thought about it for a while, the key to this problem lies in Tokugawa Iemitsu, as long as he is eliminated, there will be no one to organize, and the princes of Honshu will become a plate of scattered sand.

Or assassination? If he could assassinate Zheng Zhilong, I am afraid that someone would have ordered someone to do it a long time ago, and it is estimated that Tokugawa Iemitsu has a tight defense around him, and he has no way to start. Since he can't be assassinated, then he can only be framed, and he must be allowed to 'make' a very serious mistake, preferably so big that it exceeds the mistake made by Emperor Tian Chuan Yu, then the princes of all walks of life will not believe him.

What's the biggest mistake you can make at Toei? Zhu Cijiong thought about it, and finally remembered one, that is, to murder the emperor. Don't look at what the emperor is now a puppet, he has no power at all, but it will be a big scourge in the future, just take this opportunity to get rid of him and completely solve this scourge!

Zheng Zhilong was really shocked when he received Zhu Cijiong's secret decree, what kind of emperor is that! But after thinking about it, what emperor is not the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, what does it have to do with him, kill him.

Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't expect this, he only thought that the Tagawa clan might come to assassinate him, so he guarded his side tightly, as for the emperor, the guards were not so tight.

It's still the old way, a team of masked assassins assassinated the emperor at night, and then left a few corpses and fled, and these corpses were a few of Tokugawa Iemitsu's lone subordinates, and a large number of people knew them.

At this time, Tokugawa Iemitsu was speechless, even if everyone didn't believe that he would murder the emperor, but the corpse left by the assassin was his subordinate, how to explain this?

What is the emperor in Dongying is a spiritual symbol, although there is no power now, but after all, he is the nominal lord of Dongying, so the shoguns of the past dynasties are just 'coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes', and did not kill the Son of Heaven to come to the Son of Heaven, because they don't want to give others an excuse, this is an excuse that can make everyone unite against them, who dares to risk the disapproval of the world.

In short, this Tokugawa family is just yellow mud and drops the crotch, it's not, it's, before this problem is clarified, let alone that he united with all the princes to clean up the Tagawa clan, and it would be good if the princes from all walks of life didn't unite to clean him up.

At this time, Emperor Tagawa Yu not only did not have to worry that the princes of Honshu would unite against him, but even had an excuse to send troops, and soon, the Tagawa clan thought that the emperor would take revenge and waved his army to Honshu.

You said that you want to find Tokugawa Iemitsu to take revenge and go directly to Edo by sea, anyway, everyone in Toei knows that you have colluded with a large group of pirates, and there is no one to beat at sea, and it is convenient and fast to take the sea route, and you can reach Edo in a few days, and you can directly kill Tokugawa Iemitsu, and you will be a hundred.

But Emperor Tagawa Yu was not biased, he actually landed from Nagato with the 25th Army and rushed straight to Edo by land, that posture was completely to break through the rhythm of Honshu all the way!

The ancestors can be traced back to the early establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate (1185-1333 AD), and there were many famous generals in the family, such as the overlord of the Western Kingdom, Mori Motomoto, and one of the five elders of Toyotomi, Mori Terumoto, who were all famous generals during the Warring States Period, but the Western Army, which Mori Terumoto served as the general general, was defeated by the Eastern Army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara, which gradually shrunk the territory of the Mori Clan, and finally only Zhou Defense and Nagato remained.

The Mori clan was said to be the sworn enemy of the Tokugawa clan, so after the Tagawa clan's army landed in Nagato, the Mori clan not only did not resist, but also sent troops to follow the Tagawa clan to defeat the Tokugawa clan. However, due to the suppression of the Tokugawa clan, the Mori clan is not very good now, and only 20,000 horses can be scraped together despite all their efforts.

After the territory of the Maori clan, the next thing is the territory of the Eastern Army, and it stands to reason that the army of the Tagawa clan should encounter great resistance, because the Tokugawa clan is the leader of the Eastern Army and the shogunate general, and now the Tagawa clan is looking for trouble with him, and the princes of the Eastern Army are not desperately resisting?

In fact, otherwise, there are relatives near and far after this eastern army, and not everyone is the only one who is the head of the Tokugawa clan, and the army of the Tagawa clan can have a terrifying 250,000 people, how can the princes along the way match it! Therefore, along the way, the Kwantung princes did not dare to resist, and those who were close to the Tokugawa clan fled in the direction of Edo with their men, and those who were estranged from the Tokugawa clan simply surrendered.

It wasn't until Osaka Castle, the old nest of the Toyotomi clan, that the Tagawa army encountered decent resistance, and the Tokugawa clan gathered nearly 100,000 horses here to prepare for a desperate fight with the Tagawa clan.

Of course, this is not the loyal protector of the old retainers of the Tokugawa clan, but the Tokugawa clan tried his best to persuade some of the close princes, no way, the Tokugawa clan has to take action, if the army of the Tagawa clan is swept all the way down, it will soon be killed to Edo, and the princes of the Kanto region can retreat all the way to the east, Dewa country or even Mutsu country, the Tagawa clan will never be able to catch up all the way to kill them, but his Tokugawa clan is different, and if they lose Edo, they will be over, Even if they escape, the Tagawa clan will definitely chase after them, and instead of panicking like a lost dog at that time, it is better to break off with the Tagawa clan as soon as possible.

The reason why the Tokugawa clan chose Osaka for the final battle was because Osaka was the most fortified castle in Honshu and even Toei, and the governor of the Otomo clan, who visited during the Warring States period, once called it "the unparalleled castle of the Warring States", and its defensive power can be seen.

The army of the Tagawa clan surrendered prisoners all the way, and at this time it had reached a terrifying 300,000 people, and in the face of Osaka Castle guarded by 100,000 people, they were naturally not afraid.

As a result, the largest battle in the history of Toei - the Battle of Osaka Castle broke out, and the total strength of the two warring sides reached a terrifying more than 400,000, it can be said that there has never been a major war of such a scale in the history of Toei, and this battle is estimated to be the final battle of Toei, because the fate of Toei is already doomed, and they have no hope of participating in any battle as an independent country.