Due to its special feudal system, Dongying can be said to be composed of small order states.

So apart from the capital Kyoto and the free port of Osaka, there are almost no major cities in the whole country.

Some daimyo fiefdoms are no larger than a town, but in Toei, it is a small country.

Osaka has been burned down by the Ming army, which also makes the families around Osaka who think they have not offended the Ming Dynasty before, and they come to serve in a hurry.

Most of them sent gold, silver, and beauties in exchange for the Ming not to do anything to them.

Under Zhu Zhanji's instructions, Jinyiwei and the internal prison joined forces to accept these gold, silver and beauties, and after screening their identities, they were registered and registered.

All the families that have not been out of the family and have never sent troops to the Ming Dynasty have conditionally protected them and did not harass them.

Since Jinyiwei's spies have been active here for more than a year, they have a rough estimate of the details of most of the families.

As long as the gift can have two or three tenths of the family's wealth, Da Ming promises to protect its safety and is willing to trade with the other party.

This kind of convergence of the Ming Dynasty did not take the initiative, but after seeing that these families were safe, more and more families joined in, and in the back, not only around Osaka, but also in Kyoto and Nara, families took the initiative to take refuge in it.

When he came, the inner supervisor loaded more than ten ships of silk and tea, as well as various fabrics, which became the favorite commodities of the Japanese people at this time.

It was also at this time that Yasuko Hino's request for help arrived in Osaka.

Of course, although Yasuko Hino was in control, she cautiously asked for help in the name of her son, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu.

No matter how ambitious she is, in the state of Eastern culture, women always have to suffer some discrimination. There has only been one woman like Wu Zetian in thousands of years.

The mission not only brought a large amount of gold and silver, but also a group of trained dancers.

But they were not able to meet His Royal Highness Taisun directly, but only boarded Taisun's flagship and bowed down from afar.

The leader of the mission was Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's youngest brother-in-law, Ashikaga Yoshioka, and he was not at all dissatisfied with the arrangement that he could only kneel down to Zhu Zhanji from afar, because he had already been frightened by the dense maritime city of Osaka Bay.

He had never seen such a huge ship as Taisun's flagship, let alone thought that a ship could be built so huge that it could accommodate thousands of people.

Such a ship, even if it is exhausted, I am afraid that it will not be able to build one, and the Ming Dynasty is said to have dozens of them.

The grandeur of the Heavenly Empire made him appreciate it when he saw these ships.

At this time, he would only be glad that he chose the side of Yasuko Hino, that is, he chose the side of the Ming Dynasty. As for the nephew, Yoshimo, he could only pray for him.

With such an invincible opponent, even if he is rampant now, he will be defeated.

Looking at the tall figure on the upper deck, there was nothing but awe in his heart.

Zhu Zhanji finished reading the letter of request for help handed over by Li Liang, handed it to Zheng He beside him and said with a smile: "Director Zheng, let's also take a look, when to send troops, it will be up to you to arrange." However, I suggest that you do not send troops until you receive a letter from Ji Gang. ”

In the letter asking for help, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu said that the situation in Kyoto was extremely critical, but Zhu Zhanji did not sympathize at all, he was more concerned about the current attitude of the major names in Toei, and how much benefit the captured prisoner could get.

Today's Ming army has not been corrupted, and the entire military system and military discipline have not been destroyed.

The development of muskets has made Daming's combat effectiveness the strongest in the world.

Therefore, if Daming wants to break Dongying's management system, it is only a matter of time.

How to reap greater benefits from the war is an issue that Zhu Zhanji needs to consider, and as for the method of war, let professional people handle it.

Zheng He finished reading the letter and handed it to Yi Xin and Zhu Zhen next to him, as well as Liu Sheng.

The march into Kyoto, of course, was mainly based on the Shenji Battalion, and the navy was only assisted. The navy has not yet been reequipped, and it is pitiful that it is equipped with few firearms, so it is more in line with the interests of the Ming Dynasty to let the Shenji Battalion, which is fully equipped with firearms, go to war.

However, the transportation of materials and the maintenance of transportation channels require the cooperation of the navy.

Zheng He waited for them to read the letter before he said: "According to the news sent by the patrol ship from Kamakura, after learning the news of the occupation of Osaka by our army a few days ago, Uesugi Zenhide led more than 100 people of the wealthy clan to attack the Ashikaga Mochi. The victorious Zen Xiu then attacked the new leader Kenki Uesugi. Mochiji and Kenki managed to escape, but Kamakura's dominance fell into the hands of Zenhide Uesugi, the former leader. ”

Although Zheng He shifted the topic to other places, no one would feel that he was untargeted, and listened quietly to him as he continued.

Zheng He also said: "At the same time, in the Kanto and Kansai regions of Toei, there are also many supporters of Ashikaga Yoshitsugu who have started a small-scale war. Although these wars could not destroy Ashikaga Yoshinori's rule, they did favor countless neutrals. Our Damei fleet began to blockade Toei at the end of last year, and for nearly half a year, trade was almost interrupted, and every daimyo suffered heavy losses, which also shook the rule of Ashikaga Yoshinori. Therefore, at this time, our Ming army will directly attack Kyoto, and it will not be attacked by the whole people, so as long as the information of the Ji Commander is sorted out, he can enter Kyoto in a purposeful manner. ”

Seeing that he had a clear mind, Zhu Zhanji stopped worrying about this matter, and said to Li Liang: "Zhuang Jing has built a Jingguan and rested for a few days, summon him, it's time for him to go out to raise military expenses for the army." ”

The faces of a group of generals twitched when they listened. This highness is good anywhere, but he is a little too greedy for money. In Osaka, there are now two million taels of silver looted, and the major names are still sending gold, silver, and beautiful women over in a steady stream.

And the direct trade with these daimyo also allowed Daming to earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

But this highness is not satisfied, and still wants to exchange the captured captives for silver.

Now that the army is overwhelmed and has lost the support and persecution of Ashikaga Yoshimosa, those daimyo may not be as tough as they were during the New Year.

They could imagine that this would give Da Ming countless gold, silver and materials.

But that's okay, at least in this war, Daming made a lot of money, and when he went back and brought so much money, those civilian officials would not accuse the war of spending countless amounts of money.

Zheng He glanced at the envoy kneeling on the lower deck and asked, "Your Highness, what about these people......"

Zhu Zhanji waved his hand and said: "Accept the gift, the woman accepts, as for the request to send troops, let An Yuanhou reply to them, and send troops within three days at the latest." ”

Although the news collected by Ji Gang has not yet been sent, Zhu Zhanji already knows that he has infiltrated Kyoto, and the information should also be delivered in the next two days.

And this kind of diplomatic occasion is the most suitable for Liu Sheng, the Marquis of Anyuan, who has a knighthood, to come forward. In particular, he is the main general of this attack on Kyoto, and if he contacts the other party, he may be able to suck some bone marrow again.

And on the day of the war in Osaka, Yamana Clan Rishi came to the Akito Villa under Iwami Mountain. But except for the master surnamed Lu and a few guards, the rest of the nearly 100 people were not here.

The commander of the guards he most wanted to see was not there, which made him a little puzzled. Yesterday's gathering, Commander Ji didn't say that he would go out today, and most of the people had left here, he didn't even know, which also made him a little ashamed.

Sitting in the spacious living room, Yamana's seat sat on a chair, habitually taking off his shoes, and remembering that he was not sitting on a tatami mat, he put them back on.

"The head of the Lu family, I met with Commander Ji yesterday, he didn't say that he wanted to go out, and he also picked up the little girl, but he left her here alone, what kind of system!"

Feng Tian, who pretended to be Lu Zhong, originally had a kind face, otherwise he would not have chosen him to pretend to be a tea merchant in the first place. After listening to Yamana's questioning, he still smiled and clenched his fists and said: "Disturbing the famous master, I want to introduce myself again with the famous master today." ”

Yamana was still a little confused, not understanding what the other party meant. I only heard "Lu Zhong" say again: "I am the first guard of the emperor of the Ming Empire, and I greet the famous lord in Jinyi Weibei Town, Fusi Baihu Feng Tian." ”

The army is about to launch an attack on Osaka today, and Ji Gang, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, even if he does not participate in the war, at this time, he must gather the hidden line hidden in Dongying, and record the reactions of the daimyo in various parts of Dongying after the war broke out.

Those famous masters are worth wooing, those who need to suppress the advantages of those famous masters, and those who must be eliminated. After the army officially landed, this information must be sent to His Royal Highness Taisun.

Therefore, of course, Kitsuna could not wait for the information to be collected here in Iwami Ginzan, which was in a remote corner, but came to Kyoto from Izumo Province, where he waited for the confluence of the spies.

And in the war, they no longer need to hide their identities. From now on, they don't need to live incognito.

Moreover, Feng Tian also knew this famous lord of the Yamana clan very well, and knew that although this person rose due to the situation and wanted to return to Iwami Province from the Kyogoku family, he was not outstanding.

Sandwiched between two big countries, he has always lived cautiously, even if he knows their identities, he doesn't dare to publicize them everywhere.

Yamana Shiri was really frightened, and when he heard Feng Tian's self-report, he was so frightened that he almost stood up and wanted to run.

But then, when he saw the smile on Feng Tian's face, he didn't do it.

Squeezing out a smile with difficulty, he also made a gesture and asked, "So, Commander Ji is not a guard commander anymore?" ”

Feng Tian gave a thumbs up and smiled: "The true identity of Commander Ji is this ...... of our Jinyi Guard"

Yamana sat down on the chair all of a sudden, and said in a loud voice: "No wonder, no wonder ......"

Ji Gang's name is not only famous in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the surrounding small countries such as Dongying, and everyone knows it.

Yamana had already wondered why a guard commander could not have much respect for the head of the family, and this head of the family didn't care, but now he really understood.

However, the ruling class of Dongying was originally composed of nobles and guards, the so-called guards, that is, samurai, they are not like the subordinate relationship of the Ming Dynasty, but more like a subordinate relationship.

Daimyo originated from the word name, which refers to a field with a name, i.e., private land, and daimyo refers to a person who owns a large amount of land.

In the latter part of the Heian period, a large amount of state-owned land and estates were given to or usurped by nobles such as the Fujiwara clan, and the banda system was dismantled. The aristocracy ruled and had fun in Kyoto, and the land and manors they owned were left to the retainers to take care of. They were proficient in martial arts, mounted archery, and acted as thugs for the nobility, evolving into later samurai.

In the late Heian period, the emperor's power was greatly reduced, and he abdicated to implement the imperial government. Then the samurai were then enlisted as minions to fight against the nobles of the Fujiwara clan, and the land of the nobles was robbed by the samurai.

The emperor and the nobility were pitted against each other, and both sides relied on the samurai. The Taira clan, the leaders of the Genji samurai clan, Taira Kiyomori and Minamoto Yoritomo, took the opportunity to establish the Taira regime and the Kamakura shogunate, and the land owned by the samurai loyal to them was legalized and became the lords.

In the current Muromachi Shogunate period, the samurai leaders who followed the Ashikaga clan were appointed guardians, and the samurai who commanded one or several countries were collectively called guardian daimyos.

Therefore, in Toei, the relationship between the samurai and the nobility was a cooperative superior-subordinate relationship. Even if Yamana sometimes thinks that Ji Gang shows little respect for the head of the family, he thinks it is a reflection of his strength.

Thinking that he was a brother and sister to such a ruthless person, and sent his daughter into his arms, he only had surprise in his heart now.

With such a relationship, this Ji Commander should be able to help him.

He then asked, "I wonder where Commander Ji has gone now?" ”

Feng Tian said with a smile: "I, His Royal Highness the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, led an army of 200,000 to punish the Muromachi Shogunate, and today I have attacked Osaka, and Commander Ji has gone to Kyoto in order to cooperate with the actions of the army. ”

Yamana was so distraught that he had forgotten what he wanted to do today.

Dongying has been locked down for half a year, and everyone knows that the war will definitely start, and this day has finally come!

Although Kitsuna arrived in Kyoto Prefecture on the second day of the fifth month, he did not stay in Kyoto, where household registration was strictly controlled, but lived in Toraiji Temple in Otsu on the shores of Lake Biwa.

This temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and has survived several wars, but it has been stubbornly preserved.

And the monks in this temple are all people who admire the Ming Dynasty, and they are also one of the largest strongholds of Jinyiwei in Dongying.

When Ji Gang left Iwami, there were only dozens of people around him, but since the fifth day of the first month, the spies who had been arranged in various parts of Toei have converged one after another, and the number has exceeded five hundred.

With so many people appearing elsewhere, it's hard to hide. However, Donglai Temple is surrounded by mountains and rivers and covers a vast area, even if nearly a thousand secret agents are all gathered, they will not be discovered.

And this is also the center of Dongying, no matter where the spy is, the distance from here is not too far.

In the past few days, Ji Gang has been working day and night to count the information collected from various quarters, classify this information, and organize it into a book according to different targeting patterns.

It was only the tenth year now, and many secret agents in remote areas had not yet arrived, and Ji Gang was anxiously waiting for them in his heart, for fear of missing the attack of the army.

But on the surface, he is still calm, and he has a relationship with these subordinates who he hasn't seen for a long time.

Most of these people may return to Daming in the future, and there will never be a superior-subordinate relationship again. But they are all people who are very familiar with Dongying, and they will return to Daming in the future, and they may also engage in work related to Dongying.

Leaving this incense is good for his future development in Dongying.

Now Zhuang Jing and Pang Ying are not around, but after nearly ten years of power, Ji Gang still has a large number of capable assistants by his side.

On the day of May 11, although there were still subordinates who still hadn't arrived, Ji Gang couldn't wait any longer.

He registered two booklets of the various mycories of Toei, gathered a hundred subordinates, divided them into two teams, and handed over the information to them separately, asking them to send it to Osaka, a hundred miles away.

The men were divided into two teams, one of which was led by Guo Lin, who had been in charge of collecting information on the Kyoto Plain, and he led nearly 20 people from Osaka by land.

The leader of the other team was the monk Gomei of Donglai Temple, who led 80 people from the waterway all the way down the Yodogawa River and forced their way through the waterway checkpoint.

Guo Lin's identity in Dongying is a Japanese warrior, and the small Japanese businessman he protects is the Japanese traitor collected by Jinyiwei.

The two of them knew the situation in the Kyoto Plain very well, avoided the checkpoints along the way, encountered small forces and directly destroyed them, and finally arrived at the outskirts of Osaka at noon on the 12th day.

They had a smooth journey, but they lost one of them, and another colleague was injured in the thigh and was placed in the house of a small merchant they knew in the town of Yaban.

When they arrived in Baban Town, they learned that because of the burning of Osaka, it completely shocked the Japanese people, and now almost half of the large families here have the intention to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

As for those stubborn families, most of them had various grievances with the Ming Dynasty, so they could only pack up their softness and flee inland.

In just a few days, the situation has changed so much, and Guo Lin and the others are sighing that their country is so strong.

As for those who took refuge in the Japanese people, they felt that they had taken the right path.

However, they were still a group of people who came later, because Wuming took eighty people and took a two-hundred-stone river boat all the way down the river.

Although they experienced several interceptions and lost nearly half of their personnel, they successfully arrived at Minamiko Island in Osaka on the evening of the 11th.

Zheng He also ordered on the evening of the 12th that 20,000 troops of the Shenji Battalion, 2,000 musketeers and 2,000 naval soldiers were dispatched to march into Kyoto on the morning of the 13th.

The army of the Shenji Battalion was responsible for the attack, the navy was responsible for handling the boats, and Yu Linwei was responsible for protecting the ships.

However, the order that everyone received was not to confront the Dongying people, but to carry out a beheading operation, and the target was the Dongying royal family and the general's mansion.

In addition, there is also a team of hundreds of internal prisoners who are not going to raid the house, but just to help the royal family keep an eye on the wealth of those rich people.

In their rear, there is also an auxiliary team of thousands of people, responsible for protecting the safety of the waterway, and according to the discipline of the information they sent, they are responsible for appeasing the local Japanese people.

Today's Shenji Battalion has long exceeded the regulations of the general army, but because the training of musketeers is a unified plan, it has not yet been dispersed into an army.

After this battle of Dongying, the Shenji Battalion will definitely be divided into different formations, otherwise, the troops in Liu Sheng's hands will be too large.

When Ashikaga Yoshioka heard that the Ming Dynasty was finally going to send troops, tears of excitement almost fell. In his opinion, as soon as the Ming army arrived in Kyoto, Ashikaga Yoshinori was afraid that he would flee from the wind.

Among the giant flagships, although it was getting late, the conference room was still brightly lit.

Regarding the next day's troop meeting, Zhu Zhanji did not attend, and he did not want to influence Zheng He and Liu Sheng's decision.

Zheng He has a broad vision and coordination ability, Liu Sheng has been fighting horses all his life, and now he has an absolute advantage in weapons, the logistics are smooth, and the soldiers are single-minded, and it is difficult to defeat the battle.

On the contrary, he paid more attention to the blackmail scheme that Zhuang Jing and Pang Ying were about to carry out, which was a matter related to the money bag.

There were hundreds of people from the Advisory Department and Jinyiwei, divided into different teams, and the reactions of the major names collected at the end corresponded to the previous information, and formulated different plans.

Zhuang Jing and Pang Ying are in charge of the overall situation, ready to knock on the bone and suck the marrow, and suck the blood fiercely.

Zhu Zhanji was also particularly interested in such a plan, and when he saw the plan they worked out, he felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in his heart.

If he can let this country decline and destroy the development of this country, his heart is extremely happy.

It's just that this pleasure, no one in this day and age can understand.

No one knows why he has such a grudge against the shogunate and the emperor.

For most of the Ming people, as long as they purge the Japanese invaders, it is enough.

But for Zhu Zhanji, if he can trample the Shinto religion under his feet, the emperor and the shogunate, and destroy their ruling structure, it is the most important thing.

"Be ruthless to the enemy, but you can't turn all the Japanese into enemies of the Ming Dynasty. Eliminate a group, suppress a group, and support a group. The evil deeds were to be done by the Japanese robbers, and official documents were posted everywhere accusing the emperor and nobles of their crimes, and the commoners were given a tax reduction in their land. Let all the people of Dongying know that I am the superior country of the Celestial Empire, and I treat the people with mercy and preferential policies. ”

Ji Gang and Pang Ying both nodded and sat upright to listen. Zhu Zhanji said again: "The two of you are here to be wicked this time, but it is far from enough to be vicious, you not only want to make people afraid of you, but also to make some people like you, then you must also pay attention to the means, don't make people angry, and I will not end up for you at that time." When this matter is settled, I will make good amends to both of you. Nanyang is vast and sparsely populated, especially Nanzhou, there are only some savage tribes on it now, since I want to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty, of course I will not let go of this place. I plan to arrange the two of you to Nanzhou in the future, although it will be a little bitter at first, but the land there is fertile and rich in resources, and there will be a good life in the future. ”

A warning, and give them some sweetness and hope. Both of them are people who have seen the globe and know that Nanzhou is half the size of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the south, where there are countless fertile lands. The two of them bowed down one after another: "Dare not to serve His Highness!" ”

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said: "There is no need to serve your life, follow me, it will only allow you to enjoy glory and wealth, and the family will be endless." ”