Volume 9 Chapter 24 The reward for receiving Dongying is really amazing
In the face of Osaka Castle held by 100,000 people, Amakusa Shizhen still used the old method, surround three queyi, the defenders in the city are not the Tokugawa clan's descendant army after all, the 120,000 shogunate army has long been wiped out in Shimahara, these Tokugawa clan's old retainers have been put together temporarily, and the fighting spirit is definitely not strong, as long as they are given a little hope, they will not fight to the death.
Amakusa Shizhen didn't press too quickly, but divided the 100,000 people on each side into five waves, taking turns to attack the city day and night, mainly with drums and scratches, the cannon was bombarded, and the guns were also fired, but he rarely really went to climb the city wall, his purpose was to make the defenders unable to rest, once they relaxed, they could break through the city in one fell swoop.
The defenders of the city were as he had guessed, and after three days they were exhausted, and the guns of the defense were gradually thinning out, and the arrows were long gone. Amakusa Tokisada seized the opportunity to organize 150,000 men and horses to launch a fierce attack on the three walls in the early morning of the fourth day.
The next thing is simple, the army of the Tagawa clan pursued all the way, and directly chased the 100,000 rabble and fled, and when the soldiers came to Edo Castle, Tokugawa Iemitsu had already been ordained as a monk, and the Tokugawa clan opened the castle and surrendered, and the overall situation of Toei was determined so far.
Emperor Tagawa Yu did not stop after occupying Edo, he immediately sent Tagawa Hongxu and Tagawa Ganhui each led 100,000 horses to sweep through the central and northern parts of Honshu, and the princes of all walks of life looked down on the wind, and in the first month of the ninth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Tagawa clan finally occupied the entire territory of Honshu, at this time Tagawa Hongxu and Tagawa Ganhui had reached 300,000 men and horses, plus the 100,000 army led by Amakusa Toshisada, the Tagawa clan had 400,000 troops, which can be said to be the most powerful daimyo in the history of Toei.
According to the habits of the Toei people, once they are strong enough to be invincible, they will expand outward, like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who dreamed of dominating Eurasia and becoming the world hegemon. This Tagawa clan is now stronger than the Toyotomi clan back then, will he also have delusional thoughts of becoming a world hegemon?
Of course, Emperor Tian Chuan Yu did not have such ambitions, not only did he not try to dominate the world, but also made a decision that shocked the whole country: he actually wanted to send an envoy to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and ask him to be the king of Dongying!
What kind of international joke, it's not bad if you don't occupy the Ming Dynasty if you are so strong that you still pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty! Most Dongying people think that Emperor Tagawa Yu is afraid that he has gone crazy.
For a while, the whole Dongying was crazy, and there was no scolding, and the dead and alive, the wall and the sea, and the disembowelment, all of which were about to turn Edo Castle into a morgue. Emperor Tian Chuan Yu was unmoved, if he hadn't incorporated almost all of Dongying's army, I am afraid that someone would have rebelled long ago.
Even the army of the Tagawa clan also had a strong opposition, but the three generals Amakusa Tokisada, Tagawa Hongxu and Tagawa Ganhui were not angry, and the veterans from Jiuzhou Island were also silent, and it was only in vain for these soldiers who were subdued to shout again.
It's understandable that Tagawa Hongxu and Tagawa Ganhui are not angry, because they are originally people of the Ming Dynasty, and the veterans from Jiuzhou Island are reluctant to say the past, most of them have seen the hellish scene in the camp of the shogunate army, they don't want to be cannon fodder, only this Amakusa Shizhen is not angry It's a little strange, he is the chief general of the Tagawa army, an invincible legendary general, will he be afraid of the Ming Dynasty?
Of course he is not afraid, in fact, he is very unconvinced in his heart, to say that the destruction of the 120,000 shogunate army is completely coincidental and the main general is incompetent, let him now command 400,000 troops to fight against the Ming Dynasty, the fleet of the Ming Dynasty may not be able to hurt him, don't camp near the coast, even if you have 10,000 guns, you have to land in the end, as long as he gets to the land, he has countless ways to clean up the Ming sailors.
Maybe it was because he was not convinced, or maybe it was Zheng Zhilong's arrangement, Emperor Tian Chuan Yu actually appointed him as an envoy and led the Dongying envoy group to Daming to ask for a seal!
Amakusa Shizhen could only curse "Baga" in his heart, and then reluctantly set off with the envoy group.
In fact, all this was arranged by our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong, as early as when the army of the Tagawa clan first entered Edo, Zheng Zhilong realized this problem, and now the entire Dongying has the ability to contradict Emperor Tagawa Yu is this Amakusa Shizhen, if he is not convinced, this plan to subdue Dongying is afraid that it will be in trouble.
How can he be willingly surrendered? It is definitely impossible to fight, and if you want to fight Daming, you will already send troops, so why take advantage of the special status of Emperor Tian Chuan Yu. Now it seems that fortunately there was no fight, plus the 120,000 army that happened to be annihilated by the Tokugawa shogunate and the 40,000 army that was wiped out by the Satsuma Domain, as well as the men and horses killed in large and small battles, the entire Dongying can gather no less than 600,000 troops, if the Ming Dynasty really invades, this number is afraid that it will rise by a few percent, in the face of the desperate resistance of the seven or eight hundred thousand army, the Ming is no matter how advanced the weapon is, I am afraid that it will hurt the muscles and bones, and if the Dongying people are tenacious enough, even if they are injured, I am afraid they will not be able to beat it.
Since he can't fight, Zheng Zhilong is basically out of line, he can only use the old method and ask the emperor.
Zhu Cijiong's reply was very simple, that is: organize the envoy group to ask for the seal, let him be this envoy, let him come to Daming, and I will convince him.
If so, there is the appearance of Amakusa Shizhen's envoy to Daming, in order to convince him, Zhu Cijiong has tried his best:
First of all, the Ming Dynasty arranged the fleet to 'escort' the envoy group, this so-called escort is actually a deterrent, Zhu Cijiong directly sent the super giant ship Chenggong, when he saw this giant ship, the entire envoy group including Amakusa Shizhen was shocked and speechless, Daming actually has such a huge warship, look at the huge cannons equipped on the battleship, all the coastal cities in Dongying are afraid that they can't escape his shelling!
Then, instead of going directly to Daming, the envoys made a detour to the port of Incheon in Seoul to land, first letting them see the development of North Korea. Now North Korea is terrible, the Ming not only supports their grain, but also buys their minerals and native products, like the famous Korean ginseng and even exported to the European continent, the profits, it is simply scared to death, compared with the current North Korea, Dongying is simply as backward as the countryside, what is wrong with being a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, look at the life of the Koreans who live better than the Dongying people I don't know how many times stronger.
In the end, Zhu Cijiong also asked people to lead the envoys to walk around Liaodong, and then took a train from Liaodong to Beidaying, and then from Beidaying to Dongdaying, and also let them visit the newly built 50 super battleships, as well as the three super treasure ships that are about to be launched.
Daming is so vast, the area of Liaodong alone may exceed the entire Dongying, I heard that it is only a state capital of Daming! The Ming Dynasty is so powerful, the garrisons of the two super cities alone exceed 300,000, and there are countless super battleships and treasure ships, as far as these armies they see, they can completely sweep through Dongying! Daming is so developed, the super dock of Dongda Shipyard is simply amazing, and what kind of train can run by himself is unheard of!
When Cao Shizhen arrived in the capital of Daming, he was completely convinced, a super city of millions of people, there were three Daming he saw alone, compared with Daming, Dongying was simply an indigenous person who had just escaped from primitive life.
In short, Dongying and Daming can't be compared at all, and what to say about occupying Daming is an international joke.
Zhu Cijiong specially arranged for Xu Guangqi and Zeng Dezhao to have a banquet for Amakusa Shizhen, so that their parishioners could chat together and enhance their relationship.
This time, Amakusa Shizhen was completely relieved, the first assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty was really a parishioner, and the Ming Dynasty really let the Portuguese missionaries be officials in the court! Didn't he rebel in the first place just for freedom of belief, and now it seems that the Ming Dynasty is as free as the European continent in terms of religious belief, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will not care what you believe in at all!
When he met His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire next, Amakusa Shizhen bowed down in front of Zhu Cijiong, he really hoped that Dongying could become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.
This Tiancao Shizhen's handsomeness really scared Zhu Cijiong, Nima, this can't be a monster, can a person be so handsome? Of course, this issue has nothing to do with state affairs, or is it important, he agreed to Dongying's request after a little bit of consideration, but Dongying can only be a second-class vassal country, in his words, that is, Dongying's princes are too aggressive, if they are allowed to have military power, maybe when they will fight again, the people of Li will never be at peace, it is better to directly let them have no soldiers under them, and honestly be their vassal lords.
Amakusa Shizhen only cares about the prosperity of the common people's lives and the freedom of faith, as for the hegemony or something, he really doesn't have that mind, so he doesn't have much objection to Zhu Cijiong's holy will, and the two sides finalized the details of Dongying becoming a vassal of the Ming Dynasty in a friendly atmosphere, and Zhu Cijiong even decided that he would go to Dongying in person to coronate Emperor Tianchuan Yu!
On the twenty-sixth day of the first month of the ninth year of Chongzheng, the emperor of the Ming Empire came to Edo to coronate Emperor Tian Chuanyu, the king of Dongying, accompanied by one hundred super battleships of the Nanyang Naval Division, as well as five super treasure ships such as the Sun and Moon, the Success, the Zhennan Wang, the Nanyang, and the Beiyang, as well as nearly 600 Fuchuan warships, as well as the two legions of the Tianxiong Army and the Dingliao Army that arrived in advance, as well as the first legion of the Praetorian Guard and the second legion of the Praetorian Guard.
The fleet that covers the sky and the sun is almost like swallowing Edo Castle in one bite, and it is also a 400,000 army, and the 400,000 army of the Tagawa clan is simply a scum in front of the 400,000 army of the Ming Dynasty, and all the officials present in Dongying are so frightened that they dare not come out.
Zhu Cijiong ordered the ceremonial officials of Honglu Temple to read out the "Ming Domain's Decree System", and designated Dongying as a second-class subject country, as for the army, only two legions of 200,000 people were left, and the main general was served by Zu Dashou and Zhao Shujiao, two veteran generals of Liaodong, in order to comfort the Tian Chuan clan, Zhu Cijiong deliberately left Tian Chuan Hongxu and Tian Chuan Gan Hui as the chief soldiers of the First Army of Dongying and the Second Army of Dongying respectively.
In the end, Zhu Cijiong personally picked up the crown representing the king of Dongying and put it on the head of Emperor Tian Chuan Yu who was kneeling in front of him, and Emperor Tian Chuan Yu immediately kowtowed and thanked him: "Emperor Xie, long live my emperor, long live long live." “
Zhu Cijiong was saying something, and the long-lost voice of the system beauty sounded in his head: "Ding Dong, congratulations on completing the third glorious task to expand your territory, and now you will be rewarded: cable telegraph drawings." ”
Zhu Cijiong only felt a burst of dizziness, and a bunch of drawings and knowledge poured into his mind at once: what wired telegraph sending and receiving device, steam generator, and how to make wires .......
This, this, this, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but be surprised, there was a wired telegram, it turned out to be a wired telegram, and a steam generator, oh my God!
Before he came back to his senses, the system beauty immediately prompted: "Ding Dong, friendly reminder: cable telegraph can make the end of the world a stone's throw away, Sao Nian, hurry up and explore the colony, the system will provide extremely rich rewards." Tips are over, happy playing. ”
Where can Zhu Cijiong still take care of the beauty of the system, he immediately began to look through the knowledge in his mind, uh, it seems that it is a bit difficult, just this wire is difficult to make.
How difficult is this wire, wired telegraph transmitting and receiving device and steam generator? Can Zhu Cijiong make it? At the end of this volume, please see the breakdown of the next volume.