At the end of Japan's Sengoku period and the Azuchi-Momoyama period, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first general of the Edo shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu, defeated his old enemy Toyotomi clan and established the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, and Toei entered a temporary peace from then on.

In the seventh year of Chongzheng (1634 AD), the third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu, was already the third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the Tokugawa shogunate was not peaceful at this time, and the Tokugawa shogunate brutally suppressed Catholicism in order to consolidate its rule, and repeatedly ordered the "ban on religion", and the Catholics on Kyushu Island could not bear the brutal rule of the shogunate, and there was a faint tendency to rebel.

This news unintentionally reached Zhu Cijiong's ears, it turned out that after defeating the pirate Liu Xiangbu, the Nanyang Navy Division conducted a surprise interrogation of the captives, forcing them to confess where the pirates' lair was, on several desert islands in the Ryukyus, at that time, because of the rush to eliminate the Dutch Navy's Second Fleet in the East, Zhu Cijiong did not let people immediately clear the pirates' lair, and after the Daming Navy Division combined fleet returned victorious, Zhu Cijiong immediately sent the Nanyang Navy Division to clear it.

It took only a few days for the Nanyang Navy to wipe out the pirates' lair, not only seizing a large amount of property, but also rescuing some civilians and maritime merchants who had been enslaved by the pirates. These maritime merchants were the Ming merchants who the Dutch let the pirate Liu Xiang plunder and went to Dongying to do business.

Now that the Dutch have been beaten away, and the pirate Liu Xiangbu has also been eliminated, the Ming Dynasty naturally wants to monopolize all the foreign trade of Dongying, and these traders are used to be the vanguard of monopolizing Dongying's trade, so Zhu Cijiong not only ordered to return all the property and cargo ships they were robbed by pirates to them, but also cordially met with the representatives of the maritime merchants to learn about their current situation in Dongying.

One of these maritime merchants is named Zhang Taijie, who told a secret, during this time, the peasants on the island of Jiuzhou in Dongying were preparing to revolt, and their leader Amakusa Shiro happened to be familiar with Zhang Taijie, and he also approached him because of the lack of weapons, and asked him to find a way to sell some scrap weapons eliminated by the Ming army. However, Jang Tae-suke was robbed by pirates before he could find the source of scrap weapons, and this matter was delayed.

This is a very important piece of information, Dongying is a big scourge, if it weren't for the Dutch who are so good to die and dominate the treasure island of Dongfan, Zhu Cijiong's first target will be Dongying, and now that the Dutch have been defeated, it is natural to consider the problem of Dongying.

Dongying was not weak in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Dongying also thought about unifying Southeast Asia, if he hadn't suddenly hung up when he was on an expedition to Korea, it is really hard to say what the outcome of the Wanli Korean War would be.

You must know that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is just a daimyo in the Warring States period of Toei, he only roughly unified Toei, and he can organize an expedition of 200,000 troops to Korea, and now the Tokugawa shogunate in power in Toei is much stronger than his Toyotomi clan, and it is not impossible to explode an army of four or five hundred thousand to guard Toei.

Although the Ming Dynasty is a new power, Zhu Cijiong has begun to learn to think about problems with the thinking of a great power, and the great powers will never be tough on a feudal dynasty that is in its heyday, they will try their best to weaken this feudal dynasty, and then attack when they are weak, like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, like the Mughal Empire. The Manchus were lucky, they were not colonized by the Great Powers after they were dying of opium, and the Mughal Empire was directly divided by the Great Powers!

If you think about it with the thinking of the great powers, you naturally can't be hard with Dongying at this time, if you do hard, even if the Ming Dynasty wins in the end, it will suffer heavy losses. Da Ming has just torn his face with the sea overlord Holland, if he suffers heavy losses because of the expedition to the East, the Netherlands will definitely take the opportunity to retaliate, and then Da Ming will be in danger.

The best way is to take advantage of his illness to kill him, and if he is not sick, he will be sick a little bit, and now this peasant uprising is the best chance for him to get terminally ill.

Zhu Cijiong knew that under normal circumstances, the peasant uprising of Dongying would definitely not make much noise, and if it could be to the extent of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, then the Tokugawa shogunate would definitely not be able to escape the clutches of the Dutch, but the Dutch did not invade Dongying at this time in history, which proves from the side that this peasant uprising definitely did not make the Tokugawa shogunate terminally ill.

How can this be done, he doesn't know, but now that he knows, he naturally can't let this peasant uprising develop according to normal conditions, and he must be terminally ill!

After getting the news, Zhu Cijiong immediately asked the sailor to send the fastest sailing boat to send Zhang Taijie to Kyushu Island to contact that Amakusa Shiro as soon as possible, and asked Xu Tianqi to take the Jinyi secret agent to disguise himself as a businessman to accompany him to protect, as soon as possible to find out the scale of this peasant uprising, how many people will participate, and what weapons they urgently need.

Toban was not far from Kyushu Island, and it only took them a few days to reach Kyushu, but they arrived a little late, by this time Amakusa Shiro had already revolted in the Shimabara and Karatsu domains, and had already occupied the southern part of the Shimabara Peninsula and most of Amakusa.

Fortunately, they were not too late, and the Tokugawa shogunate had not yet reacted at this time, and the army that suppressed the uprising was nowhere to be seen. Amakusa Shiro has gathered nearly 40,000 people, but half of them are old, weak, women and children, and less than 20,000 are really combative, and they are extremely lacking in weapons, only a small number of knives and arrows, and many people can only carry hoes and kitchen knives on their backs!

Jang Taisuke hurriedly contacted Amakusa Shiro and told him that he could get a lot of weapons, and told him to hold on and wait for him to send the weapons before launching.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Taijie hurried back to Dongfan, presented everything to Zhu Cijiong, and waited for Zhu Cijiong's arrangement.

Zhu Cijiong roughly estimated that it would take at least 30,000 flintlock pistols to block the counterattack of the Tokugawa shogunate, and at least 300 artillery pieces, but too many flintlock guns were not good, and it was easy for the Tokugawa shogunate to perceive that the Ming was behind the support, so he simply collected all the captured 40,000 or 50,000 Dutch arquebuses and pirate bird guns, and selected 300 of the lightest cannons from the Dutch artillery, and asked the Nanyang Naval Division to escort them over disguised as pirates, and found hundreds of "volunteers" who were proficient in the Japanese language from the Nanyang Naval Division to teach them to use muskets and artillery.

Originally, the Shimabara Rebellion only affected the Shimabara Domain and the Amakusa Domain in Hizen Province on the island of Kyushu, and was suppressed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in less than half a year, but since our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong intervened, this uprising was out of control, and eventually led to the demise of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Perhaps, history is destined to cause the destruction of a dynasty during this period of peasant uprising, and now that Zhu Cijiong is here, the Ming Dynasty has escaped the doom of extinction, and is gradually moving towards glory, so it may be the best choice to let Dongying bear this doom.

Of course, these are all later words, so let's skip them for the time being, and return to the Shimabara Uprising.

Legend has it that Shiro Amakusa, the leader of the Shimabara Rebellion. Shi Zhen is an unusually handsome and beautiful young man, and he was only sixteen years old at the time, of course, these are not the point, the point is that this Amakusa Shiro is very powerful, in history he took 40,000 civilians by the Tokugawa Shogunate's 120,000 troops to besiege the abandoned original castle of the Arima clan, and was bombed by the Dutch battleships for 14 days, but he miraculously held on for nearly two months, if it was not for the final ammunition and food, the shogunate army may not have broken the original castle, which is enough to show that he is quite talented in military affairs.

Therefore, when the weapons of the Ming Dynasty aid were delivered, he immediately organized the rebel army to launch a fierce attack on Tomioka Castle, the last fortress on Amakusa Island, the defenders in Tomioka City were not as powerful as him, and the number was not much, only less than 5,000 people, with the assistance of the Ming volunteers, 300 artillery pieces took turns to fire, forming a barrage, and the defenders on the city wall could not raise their heads, Amakusa Shiro led 20,000 young men to quickly rush to the city wall, the city wall of Dongying is not as high as the Ming city wall, So they quickly attacked the city wall with a bunch of improvised staircases, and with the help of muskets, the defenders were even more unable to resist, and even let him occupy Tomioka Castle in one day.

After conquering Tomioka Castle, there was no shogunate power on the entire Amakusa Island, and the rebels finally had their own base area, with which the Ming Dynasty could disguise themselves as pirates to transport supplies for them, and the rebels finally did not have to face the dilemma of running out of ammunition and food. At the same time, the 20,000 or 30,000 civilians in Fukuoka Castle were also devoted to the rebel army, and the strength of the rebel army soared to more than 50,000, and the combat strength of young and middle-aged people also reached nearly 30,000.

Of course, Tomioka Castle was just the beginning, Amakusa Shiro was not satisfied with a small Amakusa Island, he continued to launch a fierce attack on Shimabara Castle on the Shimabara Peninsula, both of which are now only armed in defense of Hizen Komya's local armament, and the combat effectiveness is naturally not high, in front of the advanced muskets and artillery of the Dutch, the defenders of their Shimabara Castle are also vulnerable, and in another day, Shimabara Castle was also occupied by the rebels.

This is a terrible thing, originally most of the civilians of the Shimabara Domain and the Amakusa Domain were oriented towards the rebel army, but the rebel army has not conquered the main cities of these two domains, and when the shogunate army comes, there is no place to hide, and defeat is only a matter of time, so most people dare not join.

In these two main cities, the civilians of the two feudal clans finally saw hope and enthusiastically joined the rebel army, and the number of rebel troops soared, soon reaching 100,000! Although there were only 50,000 people who really had combat effectiveness, this was enough, you know, they had 40,000 or 50,000 cannons and arquebuses, as well as 300 Dutch artillery, and their equipment was much more advanced than that of the shogunate army.

At this time, it was already the beginning of December, and the Tokugawa shogunate finally reacted by urgently sending Itakura Shigemasa as a special envoy to Kyushu to suppress the rebels. After Itakura arrived in Kyushu, he launched two attacks against the rebels, both of which failed.

The shogunate sent Matsudaira Nobutsuna to Kyushu to supervise the war, and Matsudaira Nobutsuna besieged Shimabara Castle with an army of 120,000 troops, the history is a bit similar, but this time Amakusa Shiro is guarding an intact city, and he still has 50,000 young men under him, as well as muskets, and artillery, what can the 120,000 army do!