The news that "a ghost has attacked Osaka and destroyed the whole city" reached Kyoto two days later. Hideyoshi sent someone to verify again, and another two days passed. Four days is enough time for people to inquire about the truth. Therefore, no matter how Hideyoshi suppressed it, the news that "the ghost attacked Osaka and destroyed the whole city" spread.

When the news reached the north, Uesugi Keikatsu and Date Masamune, who had long been ready to move, immediately jumped out. Originally, he did not send troops to participate in coastal defense for various reasons, but now he played the banner of "acting for the heavens, taking the side of the Qing monarch" and directly attacked the surrounding daimyo who were loyal to the shogunate. As a large number of troops were mobilized to the west-central and southwestern coasts of Honshu, Uesugi Keikatsu soon completely occupied Echigo, and Date Masamune completely occupied Ou. In addition, Li Sigong occupied Tsushima, Niko Takahisa occupied Izumo, Chomune and Ibu Wanqin occupied Shikoku, and Shimazu Yoshihisa occupied Kyushu, and Dongying, which was about to be unified, was limited to division again.

Seeing that the wind was not in the right direction, the other daimyo also faintly disobeyed the shogunate, and even used various reasons to withdraw their troops from the front line. The Hojo clan did the most thorough work, and all the troops ran back to the Kanto region to defend it strictly. Dongying's coastal defense line was suddenly full of holes, and the pirates went deep into the interior and plundered everything. At one point, he even entered the interior along the Yodo River, appeared under the castle of Kyoto, and after looting near the mouth of Lake Biwa, he retreated with great fanfare.

For a while, the whole Honshu was boiling, and the Houyang Chengtian Locust even sent someone to ask Hideyoshi how to do it.

How is it good?! Toyotomi Hideyoshi is also crazy, and the ministers below also have different opinions, and none of them agree. In the end, it was the adopted son Toyotomi Hideji who gritted his teeth and crawled out and said that he was willing to send an envoy to the Celestial Empire to listen to the news. After all, it's a nephew (Hideji's biological mother is Hideyoshi's sister Ruilongin), and he broke his bones and connected tendons.

It's good that someone is willing to make a mission, but how to do it becomes a problem. Damn pirates, the places that have been robbed are cleaner than the plates that have been licked by dogs, not to mention the ships that still work. The shogunate still had a few Japanese-style merchant ships in their possession, but they would be sunk as soon as they went out to sea, so they could not go directly by ship. After thinking about it, I could only go to Izumo and contact through the Niko family.

The contact information is available, but Xiuji can't just say go. Although the unlucky Hideyoshi has a lot of wives, since his eldest son Ishimatsumaru died more than ten years ago, until now, Hideyoshi's wives have not given birth to a son, let alone a son. There are even rumors that Hideyoshi's function is not good, and Ishimatsumaru is not actually his son, but a borrowed species. Hideji and Hidekatsu (Hideji's own brother, his tenth granddaughter Setsuko Kujo, gave birth to a war maniac named Hirohito. It's the only two men who are related to Hideyoshi, but if something happens, you have to send someone to contact you first.

As soon as Niko Takahisa received the message from the messenger, he did not dare to delay and immediately sent a ship to send the messenger to Tsushima.

In fact, Liaoning's plan did not intend to eliminate the Toyotomi shogunate. With the increasing power of Liaoning, the consideration of Dongying has changed from resisting Dongying's invasion to conquering and using Dongying. What Liaoning needed was Dongying's population, technology (especially shipbuilding technology), gold, silver, copper, lead (lead was used to make bullets), sulfur, timber (used to build ships), and blue grass (its root was the root of the magic medicine banlang). As far as the folk customs of Dongying are concerned, if they are occupied, they will be in a quagmire, and if they are not careful, they will not be able to get out, and it is still cost-effective to support the puppet government.

Li Sigong is aware of the considerations of the highest level in Liaoning, and he himself is one of the top levels in Liaoning. He immediately agreed to the shogunate's request for negotiations, and at the same time sent the newest and fastest liaison ship "Haiyan" back to Dalian to report, as for the request for an armistice, wait for the results of the talks.

In June, two ships appeared off the coast of Tsuruga. Tsuruga is a port city on the coast of Japan in the central and western part of Honshu, facing Tsuruga Bay, and has been an important transportation point since ancient times. The two ships were flying the Great Bright Sun and Moon flags, the smaller one was the "Victory," and the larger one was the "Ao Guang," the lead ship of the Dragon King class, which had just completed sea trials. The Dragon King class was redesigned by Ma Youcai, and it is larger than the "Black Pearl" class, with more firepower, faster speed, and longer self-sustaining power.

According to the detailed analysis of the data of the "General Discussion on River Defense" of Yuan Ren Zhensi, the ship material is the volume of people and goods that a boat can carry. One material is ten cubic feet. According to the calculation of 1 foot = 0.311 meters in the Ming Dynasty, 1 material = 0.3 cubic meters, which is equivalent to 0.3 tons. The Black Pearl class is a 2,000-material ship, with a converted displacement of 600 tons, and the Dragon King class is 3,000 materials, 900 tons, which is a big mountain in the eyes of the Dongying dwarf. The last time the Black Pearl entered Kiisui Island, it left all the unnecessary things on board on the supply ship and reduced the draft to 4 feet.

Hideji leaned up on an ordinary Japanese-style merchant ship, looked up at the "Ao Guang", and almost fell backwards. It took a lot of effort to climb up the rope ladder to the big boat, and was stopped by the officers and men on board. Why are the officers and soldiers of the Celestial Empire Navy Division so tall, at least five feet nine inches tall (one foot = sixteen inches)! The average height of the northern Chinese people in the Ming Dynasty was 1.73 meters, which was much taller than the Dongying dwarfs with an average height of 1.57 meters at that time (determined according to archaeological research)!

As soon as the boat started, Xiuji got seasick. The Dragon King class is a modified clipper-type fast sailing ship, a pure warship, with three masts fully equipped sails, as well as front and rear sails, and a maximum speed of more than 10 knots at sea trials. In order to form a formation with the "Black Pearl", the "Ao Guang" only sailed half a sail, and the speed of the formation was about 6 knots. However, landlubber Xiuji and his subordinates still couldn't stand it and vomited a lot of meat and vegetables.

The next morning, Hideji had nothing to vomit in his stomach, and when he was about to vomit blood, the fleet finally reached Tsushima. Hideji and his men were carried off the ship, and they had to rest and recover first.

Xiuji met Li Sigong at noon on the third day. In order to suppress Xiuci in terms of momentum, Li Sigong replaced the guards with tall and sturdy soldiers, all of whom wore full-body plate armor and held large swords and giant axes. Li Sigong himself was born in a general's family, has sufficient nutrition, and received special height enhancement exercises from his younger brother Li Sicheng during adolescence, and is a standard one-meter-eight handsome guy. The people on both sides stood together, and Xiuji and his subordinates had the heart to die.

Li Sigong didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: As the only government representing Dongying, the Toyotomi shogunate must be responsible for looting the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty back then!

The pirates who plundered the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty were called the Wako. From the 13th century to the 16th century, they were active as maritime invaders based in the Ryukyus and Taiwan along the southeastern coast of China. It was once classified as a pirate or the like, but in reality it was not a ship that plundered it, but a land-based city. At their peak, they were active as far away as East Asia and even as far as the interior. The composition of the pirates was not limited to the Toei pirates, but there were also many Chinese people, but because the pirates were based on Tsushima Island, Ichiki Island and Pingdo Island in Toei Kyushu, they were collectively called "Wakos". In the later period, due to the changes in the domestic political situation in Dongying and the Ming Dynasty's vigorous crackdown on the Japanese pirates, the number of looting incidents of the Japanese pirates had decreased.

Hideji explained: The Japanese were headed by the Shimazu clan and the Mune clan, and the Toyotomi shogunate was established only a few years ago, so it should not be responsible for the affairs of the previous regime.

The representatives of the Shimazu clan and the clan who were present strongly protested against this, and they repeatedly stated that the Japanese had nothing to do with them at all, and that the shogunate's accusations were groundless and purely slanderous. Both the Shimazu clan and the Zong clan are peace-loving, purer and kinder than the White Rabbit, and would never commit such a pirate act! The two families reserve the right to fight back against the slander of the shogunate!

Governor Lee pointed out that the supreme ruler of Toei was still the Locust, and the Toyotomi Shogunate was authorized by the Locust to govern the country, and in this respect, the current government and the previous government were the same. The change of government is the internal affair of Dongying, and the Ming Dynasty does not interfere, but the supreme ruler has not changed, which proves that the two governments are legitimately inherited, so the current government must be responsible for the previous government's negligence in disciplining the locality!

After careful calculations, the looting of the Japanese invaders caused a total economic loss of 9,876,543,22 yuan and one cent of gold in the Ming Dynasty. I am magnanimous, and if I add interest, I will collect 10 million taels of gold. If gold is not enough, it is okay to use silver to offset it, and ten taels of silver are counted as one tael of gold. Dongying must pay one million taels per year within ten years. If you owe a point, I'll take it myself!

After all, Hideji had been trained by Hideyoshi's heir, and immediately found out the problem from between the words. First of all, the Ming Kingdom had no intention of exterminating the Toyotomi shogunate, nor did it have a plan to kill the locusts; As long as the Ming Kingdom has money, it has no ambition for the land of Dongying; From what he has experienced in the past two days, it is found that Dongying really does not have the ability to defeat the Ming Kingdom.

Since there is leeway, then we can continue to talk......