Edo Castle, the Tokugawa shogunate, had been closely monitoring the movements of the Ming fleet.

The Shimazu clan is a good strength among the foreign daimyos, and is known for its naval army, Sakai Tadakatsu informed the Shimazu family of the movements of the Ming army's fleet, and he believed that with the strength of the Shimazu family, the Ming army would definitely be able to hit a nail and even defeat the Ming army.

If, as the shogunate thought, the Ming Dynasty had to find the shogunate in the end, then the shogunate could come out and clean up the situation.

Edo Castle Honmaru, Tokugawa Ietsuna's palace, Tokugawa Ietsuna and many bigwigs of the shogunate, kneeling in the hall, more than a dozen people together, but the hall was unusually quiet, as if something great had happened.

"The twenty warships of the Ming Kingdom actually defeated one hundred and fifty ships of the Satsuma Domain, and the Satsuma Naval Army was almost wiped out!" Tadashi Sakai gasped.

The shogunate always paid attention to the news of the Ming fleet, and the information about the naval battle of the Osumi Strait and the Ming army's shelling of the Tiger Shoumaru was soon transmitted back to Edo Castle, which made a group of shogunate officials extremely surprised, and they did not expect such a result. One of the most powerful daimyo in Japan's water failed so easily, and so completely.

"What do the warships and big cylinders of the Ming Kingdom look like?" Masayuki Hoshina was also dumbfounded when he saw the information.

Since the shogunate issued the lockdown decree, Japan has been closed off from the outside world, except for the Nagasaki area.

In their hearts, they only thought that the Ming Kingdom was still the appearance of the Korean Campaign, and it was even a little inferior, after all, the Ming Dynasty was captured by the barbarians, and even the barbarians couldn't defeat it, and the strength of the Ming Kingdom was naturally declining.

Although the shogunate wanted to trade with China, they did not think about how far Japan was from the Ming Dynasty, and they could not imagine how different and strong the Ming Kingdom was from Japan.

The outcome of the Battle of the Osumi Strait undoubtedly shocked the top brass of the shogunate.

At the time of the discussion between the top officials of the shogunate in Edo Castle, the Ming Dynasty had already signed the "Mingsa Treaty" with Satsuma, and if the treaty could be implemented, the Satsuma Domain would become a dumping place for Ming Dynasty goods, and finally gradually become a semi-colonial state.

Of course, the Satsuma Domain was only a local government in Japan, and this treaty was obviously not legitimate, and the Ming Dynasty wanted to make the treaty enforceable, and the central government of Japan had to recognize the treaty.

After the fleet stayed in Satsuma Bay for a few days and marked the details of the treaty one by one, Qian Bingrup signed the treaty with the Satsuma Domain on behalf of the Ming Dynasty.

During this period, the Ming army returned the body of Shimazu Tadaro and released the captured 2,000 Samo soldiers, but after some of the samurai were released, they heard that the Shimazu family had signed an indemnity treaty with the Ming Dynasty, admitting defeat, and actually gathered on the side of the dock when the main family had already admitted defeat, and they did not attack the Ming army, but chose collective seppuku to express the grief and indignation in their hearts.

This made the generals of the Ming army such as Man Dazhuang not understand, and they were secretly shocked that these warriors were really ruthless enough, a total of eighteen warriors collectively cut their stomachs at the dock, and their intestines flowed all over the ground.

The samurai committed suicide like drinking water, so Qian Bingrup signed the treaty, loaded it with 100,000 taels of silver, and immediately left the Satsuma Domain with the fleet.

This suicide show is shocking, this place in Japan is poor and bad, full of people, samurai go to the street and want to try the knife, you can cut and kill the untouchables at will, go to the street, collide, and may draw a knife at any time, which is extremely difficult to manage.

In the whole of Japan, four or five hundred thousand samurai are ruthless characters who despise the lives of others and are not afraid of death, and it can be said that it is not easy to occupy this country.

The Ming Dynasty never wanted to occupy Japan at the moment, and the goal of the Ming Dynasty was only to obtain the Japanese market, a country of more than 20 million people, enough to feed thousands of workshops.

After the fleet left Satsuma, it came to the outside of Edo Bay a few days later.

In Miura-gun, the samurai on the Uraga Fort found the departing Ming army giant ship from a long distance and came to the outside of Edo Bay.

Ten three-masted gunboats rode the wind and waves in front, and Man Dazhuang and Qian Bingrup and others stood on the tower of the Ying Yuan, and some cold sea breeze blew their big red cloaks, whirring.

At this time, on the mainmast, the watchman suddenly shouted downward: "Governor, the Uraga Fort asks us to stop the ship and not enter Edo Bay!" ”

Last time, out of politeness, the Ming army hoped that the Tokugawa shogunate could come forward to solve the attack on the mission, but the Tokugawa shogunate did not express its position, and even hoped to suppress the matter, so that the Ming Dynasty would suffer a dumb loss.

Hearing this, Man Dazhuang picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at the fort, where the garrison of the shogunate was waving flags, and several small morning boats in Uraga Port also rushed out, as if they were preparing to intercept the Ming fleet.

"What about the Governor?" Xu Junsheng also saw the movement of the shogunate army, so he asked.

Man Dazhuang put down the clairvoyant mirror, sneered, and then said, "Ignore them, rush in directly!" ”

The Ming Dynasty and the shogunate wanted to say that there was actually no conflict, and the purpose of the mission was to trade with the shogunate in a friendly manner, so it was extremely impolite to directly pass through the shogunate's checkpoints, rush into Edo Bay, and drive the fleet directly to Edo Castle, but Man Dazhuang said this, but no one objected.

Qian Bingrup felt that this was a little inappropriate, not in line with etiquette, a little arrogant and domineering, and a bit of a bully, but he didn't say anything to stop it, because he knew that doing so would help the Tokugawa shogunate accept the conditions of the Ming Dynasty.

His Royal Highness the King of Chu said that the royal way is implemented internally and the domineering is carried out externally, which is probably what it means.

"What if the shogunate attacks us?" Xu Junsheng asked with a smile.

Man Dazhuang smiled, "They don't dare, if they dare to make the first move, we will naturally fight back!" ”

On the Uraga Fort, the samurai waved flags for a while, but the Ming fleet did not respond, and the huge fleet broke through the shogunate's checkpoint directly.

The samurai on the fort watched in amazement as the fleet rushed by, and several small ships were almost overturned by the waves raised by the three-masted gunboats, and the samurai stood in small boats and watched in amazement as the huge warships sailed into Edo Bay.

In November of the third year of the reign of the Ming Dynasty, on November 8 of the first year of Japan's commitment, the Ming Dynasty East Sea Division Governor Mandazhuang, led ten three-masted gunboats and ten fortune ships, broke into Edo Bay, and moored the fleet in the sea outside Edo City, and the cannons on the ship were aimed at Edo Castle on the shore with bad intentions, and the whole country was shocked, and the ten gunboats were called "Tang Ships" by Japan.

In the face of the Ming army's invasion of Edo Bay and the artillery pointed at Edo Castle, the Japanese shogunate was in chaos, the bells in the large and small temples outside the city rang in unison, women and children cried bitterly, the rich people were ready to flee to the countryside, and more people flocked to the shrine, high-fived and prayed to the gods, begging for the "kamikaze" to rise again and protect Japan.

At this time, the shogunate officials finally saw with their own eyes the large ships of the Ming Kingdom, which had defeated 150 warships of the Satsuma Domain, and they realized that the navy of the Ming Kingdom was no longer the navy of the Korean War.

At that time, Japan could barely compete with the Ming warships, but now it is absolutely impossible for the Japanese warships to resist the Ming warships.

The shogunate boss Sakai Tadashi saw the Ming army testing artillery at sea, and he understood that Japan was too far behind the Ming Kingdom, and Japan's big barrel could not hit one mile, and the effective range of the Ming army's artillery was four miles, and the farthest was ten miles, and the Japanese original battle was a face-to-face battle, but now they didn't see the Ming army, and the artillery came over, and the Ming ships galloped ******, the north and south were unobstructed, and the Japanese transferred troops to the mountain road to block it, and even if the 60,000 flag warriors gathered in Edo Castle, they could not defeat the Ming warships at all.

Sakai Tadashi and Hoshina Masayuki had no choice but to invite Wu Shizhao out, let him go back to the Ming ship, and expressed their willingness to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty.

While the Ming Dynasty envoys were negotiating with the shogunate, a major event occurred in the Ming and Manchu dynasties and the Jin Kingdom. On the side of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong of Fujian Province did not report to the imperial court, first cut and then played, framed the Spaniards for attacking the Zheng family's merchant ships, and started a war with the Spaniards.

After the loss of Sichuan, the strength of the Jin State was greatly damaged, and the Jungger Department took advantage of the high autumn horse fat to plunder the Jin State in the south, and Haoge had no choice but to contact Dolgon, and the two countries reached an alliance and decided to jointly wipe out the Jungar Ministry, and Moxi was in turmoil for a while.

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