Chapter 401: The Conquest of Japan

In 222 A.D., on the seventh day of the third month, everything recovered, and in this spring back to the warm ground, the world was refreshed in the season, Xiangyang changed from the royal city to the imperial capital. Ma Hong was proclaimed emperor in Xiangyang under the persuasion of hundreds of courtiers such as Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Liu Ye, Zhu Ran, Lu Xun, Wei Yan, Zhang He, Jiang Wei, Deng Ai, etc., and the country name was still Chu, and the Yuan Tianqi was changed. With Pang Tong as the left prime minister, Pang Tong as the right prime minister, the civil and military officials and titles are basically unchanged. In the same month, Ma Hong ordered an amnesty to the world, with Luoyang, Chang'an, as the accompanying capital, and sent an envoy to Yecheng, the capital of Wei, to ask Cao Rui to bow down and be a vassal.

In the autumn of the first year of the Apocalypse, the Lü Meng cruiser fleet sent back the news that the island was discovered, which is today's Taiwan, Ma Hong named it Taiwan, and ordered Lü Meng to continue to advance eastward to discover the island that Ma Hong really wanted to discover, the Japanese archipelago, because according to the historical records of the Han Dynasty, in the second year of the establishment of Wu by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty (57 AD), the "Japanese slave" country had sent an envoy to Luoyang, and the Han Dynasty gave its king a golden seal (see the golden seal of the Han Weinu king). In the first year of Emperor Yongchu of Han An (107), the Wa king Shuaisheng sent an envoy to the court and offered "shengkou" (slaves). These historical materials are enough to prove that Japan exists now, but it is only called the Wa Kingdom by the Han people. Although it was possible to prove the existence of this country, the Han Dynasty never sent a fleet to Japan, so it was not known the exact location of the Japanese archipelago, and with the help of Ma Hongna's less clear map and Han Dynasty historical documents, Lü Meng's fleet continued to advance eastward to explore the Japanese archipelago.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, in the spring, the Lv Meng cruiser fleet sent back the news that the Japanese archipelago was discovered, Ma Hong then sent 20 large steam engine ships, 50,000 naval troops, led by Lu Xun, with Zhuge Jin's son Zhuge Ke, Li Yan's son Li Feng, Zhang He's son Zhang Xiong, Wei Yan's adopted son Wei Sheng, Zhang Zhao's son Zhang Xiu and other more than ten generals accompanied by this war against Japan. [Japan at this time was in the Yayoi period, and the period between 300 BC and 250 AD was known in Japanese history as the Yayoi period. The name of this era is derived from the Yayoi-style pottery, which was regarded as a representative feature of this period, and the agrarian society centered on rice cultivation, and the Yamatai Kingdom became the co-ruler of many small countries, and it is recorded that in 238 AD, Himiko sent an envoy to Nansheng Rice to meet the Wei Emperor Cao Rui. Emperor Wei gave Himiko a purple ribbon gold seal engraved with the words "pro-Wei Wang", and several gifts, including 100 bronze mirrors. The Yamatai Kingdom had always been at odds with another dog slave kingdom ruled by a male king, and she specially sent an envoy to the Wei State again to ask for help. Emperor Wei sent an envoy to express his support for the Yamatai Kingdom, but the Dog Slave Kingdom did not seem to care about Emperor Wei's inscriptions. During the long war, Himiko died. The Yamatai Kingdom established a male as the king, but the country caused great turmoil, so it had to once again support the female "Taiyo" of the Himiko clan as the queen, which quelled the civil strife. 】

At this time, Japan was still composed of many small countries, in the slave age, its strength was simply difficult to compete with the powerful Chu State, the lord of Xingmatai State Beimihu was only a nineteen-year-old woman at this time, after Lu Xun and Lu Meng's army landed in Kyushu, he took the initiative to show goodwill to Lu Meng and Lu Xun's army, expressing his willingness to surrender to Chu, Lu Xun accepted Himiko's submission with the will of the king of Chu, and then sent an army to attack the dog slave country, Lu Xun ordered the acceptance of surrender, if it was a desperate resistance, kill it, regardless of men, women and children, if one resisted, kill one, If a hundred people rebel and kill a hundred people, if the whole clan resists, the tribe will be destroyed, if a small country resists, the country will be destroyed. In less than a year, the Chu army slaughtered all the way, surrendered, strength was the best thing at any time, and the Chu state soon took control of the Japanese archipelago.

The Japanese archipelago consists of four large islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu and more than 3,000 small islands nearby, which Ma Hong ordered to be incorporated into the territory of Chu and divided the entire Japanese archipelago into four prefectures, Hokkaido was named Hokkaido, Honshu was named Kiyosen-gun, Shikoku was named Gansen-gun, and Kyushu was named Kyusen-gun. Subsequently, the Chinese culture was transmitted to the four counties, requiring the nobles of each small country to learn Chinese characters, speak Chinese, and take Lü Meng as the general of Beiyang to control the four counties.

The queen of Xingtai was carried to Xiangyang, the imperial capital of Chu State, and Ma Hong took her as a concubine and lived in the palace for a long time. Conquer more countries, snatch more queens and princesses as concubines is Ma Hong's next thing to do, weak Japan was soon conquered, and then only Ma Hong understands in this world, Japan will no longer exist, it will be the four counties of Chu, after Lu Xun pacified the four counties, he left 10,000 soldiers led by Zhang Xiu to assist Lu Meng, who personally carried 40,000 sailors and recruited 80,000 peasant troops in the four counties, built weapons, raised food and attacked the Korean Peninsula. [From the 2nd century BC to after BC, the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China were mainly distributed with the Buyeo Kingdom, Goguryeo, Wofu, Donghao and other small countries or tribes. The Western Han Dynasty established the four counties of Han in this area. However, due to the counterattack of the locals, the two counties of Zhenfan and Lintun soon collapsed, and Xuansu County was also transferred to Liaodong. After that, Lelang County was directly involved in the counties north of the Daedong River for a long time, and ruled Samhan. At the same time, after the rise of Goguryeo in the Yalu River valley, it began to gradually unify its neighboring countries, and in the last year of the Western Jin Dynasty (313), it annexed the last county of the four Han counties, Lelang County. 】

Because the Western Han Dynasty failed to establish a county on the Korean Peninsula, Lu Xun under the order of Ma Hong, ordered to kill to stop the war, Lu Xun killed chickens and monkeys, after landing on the Korean Peninsula, first with 80,000 peasant troops as the vanguard, all the way to kill, after a little training and equipment of the peasant army successively broke through more than ten cities on the Korean Peninsula, everywhere the chickens and dogs were left. After that, Lu Xun personally led the army forward, and sent an envoy to order the four kingdoms of Fuyu, Goguryeo, Wofu, and Donghao to surrender in Kaicheng, dare to disobey, and kill without mercy! First of all, Donghao was the first to hold on, surrendered to Chu, and organized more than 10,000 people to join the Chu camp to assist Lu Xun in attacking the other three countries, the most powerful of the four countries is Goguryeo, Donghao is only a vassal state of Goguryeo, but no matter what era, the weak only obey the strong, and the Chu state is stronger, so it can only submit. Donghao (150 BC to 400 AD) was a tribal state in the history of the Korean Peninsula. Donghao is bordered by Goguryeo and Wofu to the north, Jinhan to the south, and Lelang County to the west. Its territory included South Hamgyong and Gangwon provinces (north) in present-day North Korea and Gangwon Province (south) in South Korea. Donghao was a vassal of Goguryeo. Around 400 A.D., King Haotai of Goguryeo annexed Donghao. Goguryeo thus dominated the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and much of present-day northeastern China. Donghao, Goguryeo, and Wofu belong to the same branch of Buyeo, and their language and culture are similar. In the tenth month of each year, the Donghao people and the Goguryeo people hold a ceremony of singing, dancing and performing martial arts. The Donghao people regard the tiger as a sacred object. 】