The Kata Kingdom was in full swing to clean up the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the people in the Shogunate also felt the aggressive atmosphere of the Kagawa Kingdom.

Edo, Tokugawa shogunate.

In the past few days, the shogunate elder Sakai Tadakatsu has been restless, he has just received an urgent report from the lord of the Hirosaki domain, saying that the Huaxia Kingdom has frequently transferred troops on Ezo Island, and even the Korean army has been transferred, and there is a possibility of war against Aomori at any time; What worries him even more is that Hosokawa Tsunashi, the lord of the Kumamoto domain, and Nabeshima Katsushige, the lord of the Saga domain, also came to the shogunate for help, saying that the tens of thousands of local peasant troops had raided their homes, and that they had escaped from their domain and had become homeless feudal lords.

The elder was a small official position of the Tokugawa shogunate, responsible for overseeing the affairs of the shogunate, and participating in the determination of important policies.

At present, there are rebellions all over the island country, but they are all small groups of ronin who are not in the climate, for the Tokugawa shogunate, there is no problem at all to suppress these rebellions, the problem is that now there are two large forces, under the banner of Toyotomi, in Saga and Kumamoto, these ronins not only defeated the army of the feudal lords, but also drove the two feudal lords out of their fiefdoms, divided their family property, and robbed the grain depot of the feudal lords' families.

No, Hosokawa Tsunashi and Nabeshima Katsushige are crying under the shogunate's tent.

Hosokawa Tsunari, an eight-year-old boy who was the third lord of Kumamoto, cried and talked about what had happened to him in Kumamoto in the company of his mother. As the lord of the Kumamoto domain, he is a rich man with an annual income of 540,000 koku, and the wealth lost in this disaster is not small, so this child is really crying.

Nabeshima Katsushige, the lord of the Saga domain, is a seventy-seven-year-old man, and although he does not have a handful of snot and tears like Hosokawa Tsunatoshi, he is also full of tears.

"It's horrible! It's horrible! Nabeshima cried, "They just burst into my bedroom, dragged me from the bed to the floor, and whipped me." ”

He lifted his sleeves, revealing his fat white arms, on which the marks of the whip were still there.

"Not only did they kick me out of my house, they burned down my house and looted all my grain depots."

Nabeshima Katsushige was subordinate to the Western Army as early as the Warring States Period, the leader of the Western Army was Ishida Mitsunari, Ishida Mitsunari's Western Army, and the Eastern Army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu, there was a big war in the Sekigahara area of Mino Province, known as the "Sekigahara War", this Nabeshima Katsushige was in the Sekigahara War when Tokugawa Ieyasu defected, which was equivalent to a pre-battle uprising, and was later named 350,000 stone by the Tokugawa shogunate Saga Domain, this Saga feudal lord was named 350,000 stone of annual income, in fact, the real 60,000 stone in his hands was only, The rest was divided among the clans, so there was not much food left at home.

How could Nabeshima Katsushige's bottom line Tadashi Sakai not know? So he didn't care about this old guy's crying, and walked up to Nabeshima Katsushige with square steps and said, "Nabeshima-kun, you don't have to be too sad, so as not to hurt your body!" We already know the loss of your family, so you can go down and rest first, and as for how to drive away the rebels in Saga, the shogunate has its own decision. ”

The old middle Matsudaira Nobutsuna also came to persuade: "Nabeshima-kun! You're lucky to have saved your life, so don't cry here at the shogunate. ”

Laochu was the permanent highest position in the Tokugawa shogunate and oversaw the shogunate. The quota is four to five, and the first person to take office in the old middle school or the person from a special family such as the Imperial Gate is the chief position of the old middle school.

Nabeshima Katsushige has a lot of life experience, and as a general, he didn't dare to ask for much extravagance, he just hoped to be able to sit back in his position as the lord of the Saga domain in peace, so when Matsudaira Nobutsuna came to persuade him, although the words were hard to hear, he still accepted it and retired to the elder Sakai Tadakatsu.

After Nabeshima Katsushige withdrew, eight-year-old Hosokawa Tsunashi stopped crying, and under the guidance of his mother, he also retired to Sakai Tadakatsu.

The old middle Abe Tadaaki said to the back of the departing Hosokawa Tsunatoshi mother and son: "Looking at their appearance, it is indeed pitiful, and the wealth of the Hosokawa family has been wasted." ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna said: "It's strange to say, why did Saga and Kumamoto have so many riotous people at once? ”

At this time, the lord of the Aizu domain, Masayuki Hoshina, who was the uncle of Tokugawa Ietsuna and one of the shogunate's auxiliary ministers, walked in from outside.

As soon as he came in, he scolded: "Baga! These rebels are so hateful that I ask that an army be sent to conquest them immediately. ”

Elder Sakai Tadashi said: "These chaotic people are not terrible, what is terrible is that the Chinese army has been eyeing us, and now they have driven the army to our doorstep." ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna sighed: "The chaotic people are also a scourge, if they are allowed to make trouble like this, not only Kumamoto and Saga will suffer!" ”

Sakai Tadashi said: "The lord of the Hirosaki Domain asks for help, what do you think at this time?" ”

Abe Tadaaki said: "The lord of the Hirosaki Domain is worried about the sky, he doesn't look at what kind of weather it is, and the Huaxia army is not a heavenly soldier, now it is a cold winter, can they cross the Tsugaru Strait?" ”

Sakai Tadakatsu asked, "Even if the Hirosaki Domain doesn't have to send troops, what about the Hirado side?" Our troops in Hirado were driven out by the Huaxia army. ”

Abe Tadaaki scolded viciously: "Yaga, those stupid pigs in Hirado are unreliable, they were driven out of Hirado like this, if it was our shogunate's army, even if they died in Hirado, they would not escape." ”

Sakai Tadakatsu said: "Don't say anything that is not conducive to unity, what should we do in the face of the current situation, everyone has ideas!" ”

"Report ——, the owner of the Hirado clan in a hurry!" A head came to report.

After Sakai Tadakatsu took the letter, he immediately opened it and read it carefully, and after reading it, he passed it to Masayuki Hoshina.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Abe Tadaaki both looked at Sakai Tadakatsu, who waved his hand to back down the messenger before he said, "Matsuura Atsushi has sent a letter saying that Huaxia is willing to help us exterminate the rebellious people. ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna said happily, "This is a good thing! With their help, we will be more sure to exterminate these rebels. ”

Abe Zhongqiu said: "Confused, can the army of Huaxia Kingdom really help us?" I think there must be a conspiracy in it! ”

Sakai Tadakatsu said: "Abe-kun is very right, Huaxia Kingdom is offering to help us, but there are conditions. ”

"On what terms?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna asked eagerly.

At this time, Masayuki Hoshina also read the letter, and he handed it back to Sakai Tadakatsu and said: "Their condition is that we will hand over 500 million silver to them, and they will send troops to quell the chaos for us." ”

"Yaga! This is the lion's big mouth! We ignored him. Abe Tadaaki said indignantly.

Sakai Tadakatsu received the letter and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Baoke Zhengzhi: "500 million is too much, should we send a delegation to Hirado to negotiate with Huaxia?" ”

Abe Tadaaki said: "What is there to talk about? They obviously came to extort money from us, and they said they wanted 500 million yuan when they withdrew their troops, but now they want 500 million yuan to enter the army, and we absolutely cannot agree to such an unreasonable demand. ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna said, "Abe-kun, have you forgotten about Kumamoto and Saga?" ”