Chapter 597: Who Profits from Stirring Up the Storm

Most of the information on the right departure, or Mantianji, is accurate, but there is only one that is not.

It is true that Li Mi and his brothers assassinated Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but it is also true that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was not stabbed to death by them.

The agreement with Tokugawa Ieyasu was not to assassinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi in exchange for freedom, but in exchange for the opportunity to kill the remnants of Taiheido!

People outside don't know that the sword hunting order was indeed issued when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was critically ill, in order to hunt down the thirty-nine ghost soldiers, and also to ensure his own personal safety, but the expulsion of red-haired ghosts and foreign pagan religions is indeed Tokugawa Ieyasu's order!

The Taiheiti Province led by Zhang Jiao, Zhou Yu and others was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's right-hand man, and if Tokugawa Ieyasu wanted to control the government, he had to purge all Toyotomi Hideyoshi's forces.

That's why Li Mi was able to reach an agreement with Tokugawa Ieyasu, because the biggest beneficiary of this agreement was Tokugawa Ieyasu, which convinced Tokugawa Ieyasu, otherwise Tokugawa Ieyasu would not have negotiated terms with Li Mi at all.

Moreover, although this is in Japan, when it comes to understanding the Taihei Road, the people under Tokugawa Ieyasu are not as good as Li Mi and the Thirty-Nine Ghost Soldier Pills.

They have the same people to kill, relatively speaking, the threat of Taihei Dao is greater than that of the Thirty-Nine Ghost Soldier Pill, not to mention that Li Mi has a friendship with Xu Yihou, and he also had dealings with Shimazu Yoshihiro in the Korean battlefield earlier.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is a person who knows how to weigh things up and down, and even if he still wants to kill Li Mi and the Thirty-Nine Oni Soldier Pill, he will never do it at this time.

Of course, there is another reason, Li Secret is an official of the Ming court, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi wants to start a war again, which will inevitably cause the vigilance and dissatisfaction of the Ming Dynasty.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu took over, he was faced with a mess full of holes, and he needed to rebuild the empire, and it took time to develop and stabilize his power.

If the Ming Dynasty exerted pressure at this time and cut off trade between the two sides, it would undoubtedly be a heavy blow to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Therefore, instead of killing Li Mi, he went around to publicize Li Mi's official identity, and did not hide Li Mi's blowing up of the San Frandiego and chasing down Taiping Road.

is the only way to desperately pour dirty water on Toyotomi Hideyoshi, so that he will be more justified in taking over power.

Everything is in his interests, but because there is a common enemy, Li Mi can also benefit from it, which is also unavoidable.

More importantly, he needed to emphasize that Li Mi's official status as a Ming was to allow Li Mi to investigate Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death in order to eliminate his suspicions.

If everyone in the country knew that he killed Toyotomi Hideyoshi, even if he succeeded in going to Luo and took over the government, there would still be rebels.

Therefore, he must let Li Mi make a final conclusion about Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, so that he can sit back and take over the reins with peace of mind.

The investigation team was formed by a wide range of people, including the official yamen who were loyal to the emperor, the secretary of the criminal department and Daisuke the criminal department of the criminal department, the doctor Sakyo Daifu, the Dansho Yin and Danmasa Daitada who supervised the hundred officials, the Genfanryo who was in charge of supervising foreigners in Koroji Temple, and the general of the Konoe Prefecture who guarded the emperor.

It's also thanks to Li Mi's Japanese slave words that have been spoken smoothly, otherwise with these dwarf monkeys, Zhang Fei would have stared at each other with big eyes.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi is already in his sixties, and the average life expectancy of Japanese slaves is only in his thirties, which is short-lived, and he has been fighting all year round, and his physical condition is already extremely bad, so it is not too difficult to investigate.

In fact, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is quite good, and Konishi Yukicho died the year before last, but Tokugawa Ieyasu has no mercy on Konishi's family.

Li Mi also learned from contact that President Konishi actually believes in Catholicism, and has a bad street religious name "John", which should be translated as John.

Because Tokugawa Ieyasu wanted to clean up the red-haired ghosts, foreign orders were the key targets, and Konishi Yukinaga's family was also involved, in short, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's henchmen could not be left at all.

Li Mi finally saw Tokugawa Ieyasu's methods, although there was some meaning of seeking skin with the tiger, but the more Tokugawa Ieyasu was like this, the safer Li Mi and the others became.

Because of Tokugawa Ieyasu's political needs, Li Mi's official identity was widely publicized, and now Li Mi is an official of the Ming Dynasty, and if Li Mi dies, the consequences can be imagined.

With this consideration, Li Mi was relieved and focused on the investigation of the cause of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death.

There are also many talents in the Criminal Department, although Li Mi takes the lead, it is impossible to do things alone, and every move is under the supervision of the investigation team.

There are also different opinions about the cause of death, some people say that it was heart and lung failure, and some people say that it was because of eye disease, and it is said that after the defeat in the Korean battlefield, Toyotomi Hideyoshi often saw the ghost of Oda Nobunaga, and his eyes became more and more difficult.

Of course, some people say he has a foot problem.

Li Mi has done an in-depth investigation of these problems one by one, and there are various reasons, such as beriberi.

Don't underestimate beriberi, at this time Japan has not yet popularized rice cultivation technology, and perennial war, land is scarce, most of the people take fish and shrimp as a staple food, so vitamin deficiency is very common.

This kind of beriberi is almost everywhere, everyone has it, and the Japanese slaves don't even have shoes, so it is conceivable that many people are almost rotten feet.

Although Toyotomi Hideyoshi is in a high position, it is said that there should be no shortage of coarse grains and vegetables, but these are all later things.

It is not impossible for beriberi to cause heart disease, and he also has a big problem with his cervical spine.

During the investigation, Li Mi also found that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was very short, but the reason why he was nicknamed Monkey was not simply because he was short, because the Japanese slaves were short, wouldn't everyone be called a monkey?

The reason why he is called a monkey is because he has ankylosing spondylitis, and he can't straighten his waist at all in the later stage.

Li Mi thought that the dissection would be greatly hindered, but he underestimated the determination of the Japanese slaves.

In ancient Japan, it was generally a wind burial, that is, the dead were thrown into the wild, which was also caused by factors such as war and war.

After the introduction of Buddhism, they started Buddhist cremation because cremation was also trouble-free and did not require a cemetery.

Of course, the highest standard of the funeral is the burial of the gods, but only the priests have this qualification, and after death, they can enter the cemetery of the temple, etc.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was a god burial, and he was a special case because he was canonized after his death.

Although Toyotomi Hideyoshi leaned towards the government and the opposition and was the actual ruler of Japan, he was only a Taiko in the end, so according to the rules, it was either a Buddhist cremation or a Confucian style, and a tomb was built for him.

The ancient Japanese inherited Chinese culture, so they also paid attention to the "crown wedding and funeral sacrifice", that is, "yuan clothes", "wedding", "funeral" and "ancestor worship", which also gave the deceased the greatest.

Therefore, Li Mi thought that it was impossible to conduct an autopsy, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi had too many problems, and in the end, Li Mi was the master of the knife and came to find out.

And the results did not disappoint, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was atherosclerosis, and as for the eye problems, it should also be caused by high blood pressure that compressed the optic nerve.

After dissecting, these things are also clear at a glance, of course, Li Mi also saw some details that others couldn't notice, but he hid them.

Everyone finally came to a conclusion, and they could only accept Tokugawa Ieyasu, after all, the situation at this time could not tolerate a situation where the dragons were leaderless.

The Imperial family took the opportunity to win over the party and wanted to regain the imperial power, but the ministers of civil and military affairs knew that it was better to let Tokugawa Ieyasu lead the emperor than to let the emperor dictatorship, so that their authority would be greater.

Thanks to Li Mi, Tokugawa Ieyasu finally secured the position of Taiko, and the pursuit and extermination of Taipingdao has never stopped.

It is impossible for Tokugawa Ieyasu to unload the mill and kill the donkey, because he has already publicized Li Mi's official identity, and as for his desire to stop exterminating the Taiping Dao, it is also unlikely, because Li Mi still has his secrets in his hands!

The cause of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death is by no means as simple as it seems, and the biggest secret is in the hands of Li Mi, who only hinted at Tokugawa Ieyasu a few words, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's attitude towards Li Mi has become very subtle, which is more certain of Li Mi's speculation!

After handling these things, Li Mi also devoted himself to the pursuit of Taiping Dao.

Jing Zhe Xuansu, the old monk, rebelled back to Japan from the Ming Dynasty, and Li Mi planned to clean him up, but Zhang Jiao and Zhou Yu fled in panic, and the great monk Jing Zhe Xuansu became the boss who ruled the domestic religion, and Li Mi did not kill him.

Jing Zhe Xuansu was afraid of Li Mi, so he could only mobilize the people of Shenlu Palace and Ise Shrine to collect information everywhere, and Zhang Jiao and Zhou Yu and others were also exhausted.

Finally, Zhang Jiao, Zhou Yu and others took the remnants of the defeated soldiers, boarded the sea ship, and fled in the direction of North Korea.

Li Mi ruined their plan to counterattack the Ming Dynasty, and also used Tokugawa Ieyasu's power to thwart Taiheido Road, allowing Tokugawa Ieyasu to control Shenlu Palace and Ise Jingu again, and they were also very grateful to Li Mi.

However, Li Mi's goal is not in Japan, he wants to lead the brothers to cut down the Taiping Dao and eradicate the roots!

Because he knows that people like Zhang Jiao and Zhou Yu are like grass seeds, wherever they are sown, they will soon develop a grassland, and they must be pursued while they are victorious!

Of course, before leaving, Li Mi also told the emperor the true cause of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death!

Because other officials may compromise with Tokugawa Ieyasu, but the emperor will not, he has been eyeing the tiger and wants to take back the authority, this secret is left to the emperor, he will inevitably bombard Tokugawa Ieyasu one day, when Japan is in chaos, in the next few decades, they will not be able to harass the Ming Dynasty again!

On this day, the weather was fine, and it was a good time to go to sea, and Tokugawa Ieyasu led Jing Zhe Xuansu and others to see off Li Mi.

The thirty-nine demons were finally leaving Japan, and the common people and ministers of civil and military affairs all over Japan were beating gongs and drums, as if the thirty-nine demons had been sent away.

Without Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Shimazu family is also in high spirits, they were originally close to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and when Tokugawa Ieyasu went to Luo, the Shimazu family contributed the most, so the Shimazu family also showed signs of a comeback.

The Shimazu family had a friendship with Li Mi and knew how great Li Mi's kindness was in this incident, so they gave Li Mi a big ship.

This is the only surviving three-masted galleon in the bombing incident, although it has been repaired and renamed "Daijin Maru", but the dozens of cannons on board remind the world all the time that this ship is still the ship of the Invincible Armada across the seas!

Li Mi and his brothers hoisted their sails and gradually left the harbor, but at this moment, there was a dull crashing sound from the stern of the ship!

"Boom!"