Shimazu Mitsuhisa's grandfather was Shimazu Yoshihiro, also known as the Daimyo of the Japanese Shimazu Navy who killed Yi Sunsin, the commander of the Korean National Naval Division, in the Battle of Roliang Naval Battle.

Shimazu Yoshihiro later participated in the Battle of Sekigahara, a key battle that determined the course of Japan's Warring States history, and joined the Western Army of Konishi Yukinaga, which was sent by Buntomi and was defeated.

After that, the Shimazu clan was suppressed by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the territory in Kyushu was completely divided, leaving only the territory of the Satsuma domain. Later, the Shimazu clan took advantage of the lack of naval strength of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the Ryukyu Islands, which became the hub of trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan.

Fang Yuan had given Jing Jie a secret military order before, wanting to keep Shimazu Mitsu alive.

When Jinshanwei was besieged for 20 days and the grain and grass were cut off, Shimazu Mitsuhisa sent people out to negotiate peace. Jing Jie agreed to peace talks with Shimazu Mitsuhisa, but the Shimazu army could not go out of the acropolis, and only provided rations that could support fifty people every day, only saving Shimazu Mitsuhisa's life, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers had to starve to death.

When Fang Yuan arrived at Jinshanwei, Xu Hua, a senior official and businessman recruited separately, also arrived at Jinshanwei.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa's envoy was begging for food supplies in Jing Jie's military tent, and Fang Yuan drove the envoy back to Jinshanwei without saying a word, and asked him to pass on the message and ask Shimazu Mitsuhisa to come out to negotiate in person.

When the envoy of the Japanese soldiers went, Jing Jie saw that Xu Hua had also come to Jinshanwei, and asked in amazement, "Boss, what do you and Shimazu Mitsuhisa have to discuss?" ”

Fang Yuan didn't answer and asked, "How many Japanese soldiers are there in Jinshan Wei?" ”

Jing Jie said truthfully, "The Japanese envoy begged for food for 3,000 people before, and it is estimated that there are still 2 or 3,000 living people!" ”

Fang Yuan nodded and said, "Send another two thousand people, and one day's rations to the gate of the Jinshan Acropolis." ”

Jing Jie didn't know what he was doing, so he could only go and do it, and the Japanese soldiers in the Acropolis saw that the Ming army had sent food, so they hurriedly opened the city gate and moved the grain into the Acropolis.

In the early morning of the next day, the Japanese envoys came to talk back, and Shimazu Mitsuhisa agreed to come to Fangyuan's military tent in person for peace talks.

Fang Yuan received Shimazu Mitsuhisa in the military tent, as well as two Japanese guards. Xu Hua has been trading silk with the Japanese for many years, and he carries a translator who can speak Japanese.

Fang Yuan asked straight to the point, "Why did the Shimazu family come to invade my Daming?" ”

Mitsuhisa Shimazu retorted, "Why did Governor Fang cut off trade with the Shimazu family? With trade cut off, how can the Shimazu family survive? ”

The logic of killing people if they don't buy and sell is the same as the logic of the nomads' invasion of the south and the opium war, and the logic of the western bandits. ”

Satsuma Kyushu, where the Shimazu clan is located, actually has a gold mine, but it was banned by the Tokugawa shogunate a few years ago.

Shimazu Mitsu was stunned for a long time, pretending to be stupid and said, "What gold?" Where does the gold come from? ”

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "It's a gold mine that was banned by the Edo shogunate a few years ago. ”

Seeing that he even knew about the ban on gold mining in Kyushu, Shimazu Mitsujiu's face changed slightly, "Since Governor Fang knows that the gold mine is banned, he still needs to trade gold, isn't it difficult for a strongman?" ”

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "A great nobleman in Kyushu for hundreds of years, what kind of thing is the Tokugawa Shogunate, he doesn't dare to pick it if he doesn't let it?" ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa was stunned and asked, "The Tokugawa family is a shogun, and of course our small Satsuma clan must obey orders." ”

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice, "Is the Shimazu family really so obedient? Let me ask you, a few years ago, the Shimabara Rebellion, the Shimazu clan supported it behind the scenes! After the Shimabara Rebellion, at least 100,000 of the ronin samurai who participated in the rebellion fled to the territory of the Satsuma Domain! ”

The Shimabara Rebellion was the largest civil strife in the Edo period a few years ago, led by Amakusa Shiro and promoted by farmers, Christians, ronin samurai, and anti-Tokugawa shogunate forces in Japan. There is a shadow of the support of the Shimazu clan behind it, because after the incident, a large number of ronin samurai hid in the territory of the Satsuma Domain.

After the rebellion, the Tokugawa shogunate banned the spread of Christianity in the country and no longer traded with any other country except the Dutch and Ming people.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa obviously didn't expect Fang Yuan to know everything about the inside story in Japan, and until this time, he hadn't heard what Fang Yuan wanted to say, and asked, "Governor Fang, I'm a martial artist, let's say something straight!" ”

Fang Yuan said lightly, "The Shimazu family, since the Christians have been suppressed by the shogunate, I am willing to provide support in all aspects, support the Shimazu family, the ronin samurai who believe in Christianity, and the rebel samurai who are remnants of the troublemaking rebellion to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate." ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa didn't expect that Fang Yuan's purpose was to support his own side in overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate, and he almost couldn't believe his ears, and asked in a lost voice, "Why does Governor Fang support us?" ”

Fang Yuan didn't hide it from him, and said straight to the point, "The Tokugawa shogunate dared to send troops to support the Zheng family to oppose me and kill my people, which is my mortal enemy." I want to send troops to destroy the Zheng family in Fujian, and I don't want the Tokugawa shogunate to interfere again. I destroyed the Zheng family, and the Shimazu family crusaded against the Tokugawa shogunate, and each took what he needed. ”

His explanation was quite reasonable, and Shimazu Mitsuhisa sighed deeply, regaining the Kyushu fiefdom inherent in the Shimazu clan, the Kansai feudal domains of Japan, and even the Tokugawa shogunate, and the fire of ambition to unify Japan began to swell gradually.

The Tokugawa shogunate was able to unify Japan because there was no foreign interference. If the powerful foreign power of Fanghara is willing to provide support, it seems that the various feudal lords who are dissatisfied with the Tokugawa shogunate, as well as the suppressed Christians and homeless ronin samurai, can also fight the Tokugawa shogunate.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa calmed down the excitement in his heart a little, and stared at Fang Yuan Liangjiu with a calm face, "What support is Governor Fang willing to provide to the Shimazu family?" ”

Fang Yuan said slowly, "Provide you with the food and cloth you need most, and also contact the Francois Chamber of Commerce outside the Netherlands for you to jointly crusade against the Tokugawa shogunate." ”

In Japan, the people are poor, there are many monks, and there is little porridge, and a group of township and village chiefs are calling around, but they are just grabbing fiefs and grain. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, it was because he did not have a fief to reward the heroes that he took the heroes under his command to the Korean country to grab the fiefs, which indirectly led to the demise of the Toyotomi clan.

An important factor in limiting the number of troops in Japan is food, so the power of the daimyo during the Warring States period was directly related to the number of fiefdoms. The number of soldiers per 10,000 stone limit is 500, and the actual number of soldiers that can be raised is 1 to 200 at most. The current fiefdom of the Shimazu clan is only 600,000 koku, and the maximum number of soldiers that can be supported is 10,000.

If there is surplus food and cloth to support it, not only can it raise soldiers, but it can also recruit more ronin samurai to participate in the war, and in the Satsuma domain, there are nearly 200,000 ronin samurai gathered in the territory of the Shimazu clan.

But Shimazu Mitsuhisa knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and Fang Yuan was willing to provide funding, which must have a lot of additional conditions attached, and asked tentatively, "What are the conditions for Governor Fang, everyone is quick to talk, let's say it directly!" ”

Fang Yuan smiled, under the pretext that he had military affairs to report, he glanced at Xu Hua, and then turned around and walked out of the barracks.

Xu Hua hurriedly opened his mouth according to the conditions that Fang Yuan had explained in advance, "Governor Fang's grain and cloth are all sold by me, Xu Hua. I only want Japanese gold, iron ore, and Japanese women, bartering and bartering. ”

How could Fang Yuan, a dignified governor, open his mouth to trade women on behalf of Da Ming, he simply laughed off his big teeth, and could only hand it over to Xu Hua, an official and businessman who opened a green building, to go to the front.

Gold and iron ore can also be discussed, if it involves human trafficking, Shimazu Mitsuhisa is still a little embarrassed, "Boss Xu, what are you doing buying and selling women?" ”

Xu Hua smiled and asked, "I'm in charge of the Qinglou industry in Jiangnan, Lord Shimazu, what do you think I will do when I buy a woman from your country?" ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa was silent, although the conditions for buying and selling women were a little difficult, but Japanese women, especially ordinary women, were originally serving the patriarchal society, and they were similar to commodities, and they were still within the range he could accept, but the specific purchase price still needed to be negotiated. And such a big event, he can't make the decision here alone, he has to go back and discuss with the retainers of the Shimazu family, as well as the patriarch.

Seeing that the two had negotiated their initial intentions, Fang Yuan returned to the military tent and added, "Lord of the Shimazu Domain, in terms of business, you talk to Boss Xu, and I have another condition, that is, the Shimazu family must withdraw from the Ryukyus." ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa asked in surprise, "This, Ryukyu is too far away from Governor Fang's jurisdiction, let alone a trade deal, why does Governor Fang want us to withdraw from Ryukyu?" ”

Fang Yuan said coldly, "Because Ryukyu has been the territory of my Ming Dynasty since ancient times, in our original place, only by expanding the territory, we will never lose an inch of land!" ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa was noncommittal, and proposed that Fang Yuan let him and Shimazu's personal soldiers return to Japan, and then send someone to discuss specific cooperation matters.

Fang Yuan said lightly, "The lord of the Shimazu domain can go back, and the three thousand soldiers will leave behind to clean up the corpses of the Japanese soldiers of Zhenhai and Jinshan Erwei, as well as repair the city wall and military port." ”

He left these personal soldiers, first, they could be hostages, and once the cooperation with the Shimazu clan was not properly negotiated, these personal soldiers would never be able to return to Japan; Second, it can be used as free labor to clean up the battlefield.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa can return to Japan, where will he refuse, busy responding.

After Shimazu Mitsu was gone for a long time, Jing Jie said, "It turns out that the boss wants to provoke a civil war in the Japanese Kingdom, and the Japanese Kingdom will not interfere in our grievances with the Zheng family again." ”

The corners of Fang Yuan's mouth rose slightly, but he still had an idea in his heart that was inconvenient to export at the moment, that is, when the Wa Kingdom killed each other, he could lead the Xuanjia Army to the island to pick ready-made peaches in the future.