Chapter 424: Soldiers sent to Edo
Slaughter Li Anliang is full of Jianzhou Jurchen, this Jurchen was divided into three guards by the Ming Dynasty, belonging to the earliest Jurchens who submitted to the Ming Dynasty, a few decades ago the Jurchens were only more than 2,000 households, and there were only more than 10,000 people in the full fight, but after decades of development, coupled with the support of the Ming Dynasty, the power of the Jianzhou Jurchens has been expanding, not only the birth rate has risen sharply, but also annexed many other Jurchens, and when the Zhengde period, the Jianzhou Jurchens have exceeded 100,000 people.
In addition, Li Anliang's youngest son died at the hands of the savage Jurchens, and compared with the Jianzhou Jurchens, the number of savage Jurchens is more, but most of the savage Jurchens live in the deep mountains and old forests, so it is more difficult to count, but it is certain that the number of savage Jurchens is definitely not less than that of Jianzhou Jurchens.
In the past, Li Anliang didn't know much about the strength of the Jurchens, so he made a grand wish to slaughter the Liaodong Jurchens to avenge his family, but when he found out the strength of the Jurchens with the help of the power of the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas, he couldn't help but be a little desperate, millions of Jurchens, such a powerful force, even if he really unified Korea before, I am afraid that it will be difficult to avenge his family with the strength of the entire Korean country, and even if he supports him now, but in Li Anliang's opinion, I'm afraid that Da Ming will not really send an army to destroy the Jurchens because of his personal family feud, after all, even if Da Ming wins, it will also need to pay a considerable price, plus the consumption of grain, grass and ordnance, even if he sells his whole family, it is not worth Da Ming to do so.
It was precisely because of the above that Li Anliang felt a little desperate about revenge, but Zhou Chong, the most reluctant, gave him an idea. As a result, Li Anliang was immediately overjoyed after hearing it. At that moment, Xiang Zhou knelt down and kowtowed a few times. Zhou Chong couldn't stop him if he wanted to, and he could only tell him to finish recruiting North Korean laborers quickly, and then he could start arranging his revenge.
Early the next morning, Li Anliang hurriedly took the men dispatched by the governor's palace and rushed to Korea by boat, which has now been completely taken over by the Ming Dynasty, which divided it into three administrative envoys, namely Goryeo, Silla and Baekje. These three names are all ancient country names on the Korean Peninsula, and they were used by the Ming court by the way.
After Li Anliang arrived in North Korea, he showed the documents of the Governor's Office to the local Ming officials, and then asked the local officials to cooperate, it just so happened that the local Ming officials were also worried about the North Koreans, and now there are people who are willing to recruit North Koreans to work, which just coincides with the matter of the imperial court's relocation of Koreans to the interior, not to mention that this is still an order from the Governor's Office of the Four Seas, and this face must be given no matter what, after all, people are big red people in front of His Majesty the Emperor. They can't afford to offend.
With the cooperation of local officials, coupled with Li Anliang's understanding of North Korea. Then, using some software or hardware means, many North Koreans were soon recruited, and by November, the 20,000 North Korean laborers that Zhou had asked for had already been recruited. Speaking of the Ming Dynasty from the North Koreans, after the Han people moved to North Korea, the original Koreans became second-class citizens, the fields are the worst, but the taxes that need to be paid are the highest, and many people have not even been able to eat, so now when they meet people to recruit workers, they not only eat and drink, but even receive a monthly money every month, which naturally attracts many people to sign up.
The recruitment of laborers was not difficult for Li Anliang at all, and soon these recruited laborers were transported to Songjiang Province for the construction of the new city of Shanghai, and this was only the first batch, after all, in Taiwan and Malacca, where a large number of laborers were also needed, and there were not enough Han Chinese, so the demand for labor was even stronger than in Shanghai.
However, after Li Anliang organized the first batch of laborers, he did not need to interfere in the rest of the affairs, and after the other officials of the Governor's Office were familiar with the affairs of Korea, they could complete the recruitment of laborers on their own, and as for Li Anliang himself, he did not return to the Governor's Palace, but took a small boat to Jeju Island in the southeast of Korea with the order given to him by Zhou Chong.
Originally, with Zhou Chong's re-planning of the navy, the original sailors from all over the country were transferred back to Shuangyu Port, and then the new navy changed their defenses, but there was a fleet Zhou Zhong that never moved, and this fleet was stationed on Jeju Island and was responsible for guarding the Korean Peninsula and monitoring the movements of the Japanese state.
Originally, the general in charge of this fleet was Chang Xiao, and later because Zhou was divided into three major naval fleets, so Chang Xiao was transferred back, and now the person in charge of this fleet is named Shen Zhou, that is, Shen Ying's most important son, who has been leading soldiers in the army before, and has repeatedly made military exploits, and later came to work under Zhou Zhong with Shen Ying, Shen Zhou relied on his youth, and began to study the navy again, Chang Xiao is his teacher, and now he is out of the division, and he can lead a fleet alone, At the same time, Shen Zhou is also a representative of the young Zhuang faction officers in the governor's palace, and is deeply loved by Zhou Chong, as long as he makes military achievements, it is estimated that one of the three detachments in the South Ocean in the future will be led by him.
Li Anliang came to the naval station on Jeju Island alone, and after seeing Shen Zhou, he took out the appointment document that Zhou Chong gave him, and after Shen Zhou saw it, he was immediately overjoyed, and warmly entertained Li Anliang at the moment, and took him to visit the naval station, because Zhou Zhong had appointed Li Anliang as the counselor of the navy, although he had no real power, but he had another task, and this task was also related to Shen Zhou's future military exploits, so he naturally welcomed Li Anliang very much.
For the next period of time, Li Anliang stayed on Jeju Island, except for participating in some activities of the navy, the rest of the time was spent learning Japanese language from the interpreters in the army, and even he personally went to the army of Ashikaga Yoshisai and Tayama Nashon on Honju Island with a fleet that sent weapons to the Japanese country, and personally watched several battles between the Japanese army.
The reason why Li Anliang is so concerned about the Japanese state is naturally an important reason, just when the winter of the ninth year of Zhengde is about to pass, and the spring of the tenth year of Zhengde is about to be ushered in, the navy stationed on Jeju Island suddenly dispatched, this fleet not only did not reduce the number because of the adjustment of the Governor's Palace, but also increased a lot of warships by Zhou, and now the total number of warships has reached 30, although most of them are old warships in the past, and there are not a few new Warren warships, but in the waters of Korea and the Japanese country, it is a veritable maritime hegemon.
Shen Zhou dispatched twenty warships this time, leaving only ten old army guards, and left with the army with 10,000 Korean troops, this army was originally the elite of the original Pyongan army, after the annexation of Korea, this army will be useless, but if it is disbanded, it is a pity, and then Zhengde sent this army to Jeju Island, because he knew that the next Zhou Zhong had a big operation, this army may be of some use, and now it happens to be temporarily commanded by Li Anliang.
This fleet from Jeju Island first entered the Tsushima Strait, then passed through the waterway between Kyushu and Shikoku, and finally came to the east side of Honshu Island, this route Jeju Island's Ming Navy has long been familiar, because Ashikaga Yoshisai and Tayama Nashun's army is in Kii Province on the southeast side of Honshu Island, and the Ming army often traded with them in the past, for example, last time Li Anliang came to the Wa country through this route, and observed the battle between the Wa armies up close, although the equipment of the Wa people was extremely poor, But the desperate momentum of the battle made him very satisfied.
However, this time, the destination of the Ming army was not Kii, but after crossing Kii, they went all the way south again, all the way to Musashi Province and Shimokoku, that is, the area of Tokyo Bay in later generations, and then with lightning speed, the fleet raided Edo Castle in Musashi Province, and it only took half a day to defeat Edo Castle.
Musashi Country was originally the territory of the Kamibin family in Ogiya, and Edo Castle is also the most important stronghold of the Kamibin family, during this time the Kamibin clan has been fighting hard with Hojo Sakumo, who controls Izu and Sagami in the south, and the Kamibin family is now in a weak position, and has lost a lot of family elites in terms of occupation, and there was still a chance to fight back, but I didn't expect disaster to fall from the sky, and suddenly killed the Ming fleet halfway, and also occupied their base camp, which made them extremely shocked, and wanted to find the Ming theory but didn't have the courage, The last man had no choice but to flee to Kawagoe Castle with the remnants of his men, and ceded the entire eastern coastal area of Musashi Province to the Ming fleet.
After Shen Zhou occupied the eastern part of Edo and Musashi Province, he did not stop marching troops, but led his army to run rampant throughout Edo Bay, and the four regions of Shimato, Kamiso, Anbo, and Sagami all ushered in the arrival of the Ming fleet, and all the cities located on the coast were swept away by Shen Zhou's troops, during which there were also Chiba warships who wanted to sneak attack, but Shen Zhou led the fleet to break the other party to pieces, and not a single prisoner of war was left, and also shelled the coastal cities of the Chiba clan, which led to a great injury to the vitality of the Chiba clan, I had to give in to the Ming fleet, and compensated a lot of money and women, which made the anger of the Ming fleet temporarily subside.
After Shen Zhou's show of martial arts, coupled with the fact that the Chiba clan was almost unable to fight back, this made several forces around the entire Edo Bay all honest, and they also recognized the gap between themselves and the Ming fleet, knowing that even if they joined forces, they would not be the opponent of the Ming fleet, so they immediately put away their vicious faces, and changed to a flattering gesture to show goodwill to the Ming fleet, and rushed to send women and property to Shen Zhou, hoping to exchange for friendship in the Ming Dynasty, It's just that these stupid Japanese people don't know what to do, and Shen Zhou brought a lot of weapons and soldiers from Daming this time, but he didn't bring any friendship. (To be continued......)