Sakai Tadashi's return to the Wa Kingdom was filled with joy and sorrow, and he brought news to the great shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu that made him feel ashamed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"That is to say, whether my Tokugawa family can sit in this position depends on how good or bad he Zhao Lie is in good or bad mood."

Tokugawa Iemitsu gripped the ribs in his hand tightly, his knuckles turning pale from the effort, and his whole body trembling with anger.

Ii Naotaka, Doi Toshikatsu, Diga Masamori and others all knelt down on the ground to ask for guilt, without him, the lord humiliated the ministers to death, and the main family was forced to this point by the Ming people, and they are to blame as big guys and old people.

Sakai Tadashi first prostrated himself to the ground and pleaded guilty, and then raised his head,

"General, the old minister has seen one thing on this trip, that is, Zhao Lie will do anything to control the Japanese Empire, and he will not spend too much money, he just needs to drive the Changzhou Domain as a pioneer and send thousands of cavalry to help."

Sakai's words angered Tokugawa Iemitsu, who stared at Sakai with blood-red eyes.

Sakai Tadashi's cloudy eyes looked at Tokugawa Iemitsu without a trace of wavering, because he firmly believed that what he said was right, if Tokugawa Iemitsu was still domineering at this time, it would be to push the Tokugawa family into a bottomless abyss, and his Sakai family, as the old middle of the Tokugawa family and the daimyo of the lineage, would end up together, and there would be no escape.

In other words, at this time, it is not the matter of his Tokugawa family and the Tokugawa family, but the matter surrounding thousands of retainers of the Tokugawa family.

Therefore, Sakai Tadashi could not continue to be silent because Tokugawa Iemitsu was not mature and did not bow his head.

"Could it be that the courage of my Tokugawa family to kill the whole country from Qinghe to the whole country in the past hundred years has dissipated, and Zhao Lie's intimidation makes us dare not send out a counterinsurgency army."

Tokugawa Iemitsu stared at the elders one by one with blood-red eyes, and Ii Naotaka and the others did not dare to look at each other, and they bowed their heads one after another to avoid Tokugawa Iemitsu's gaze.

They can't answer this matter, it's too easy to agree with the general, but what is the result of the tough treatment of Zhao Lie, they know too well, after several battles, the shogunate army and the water infantry army have all been defeated and lost, this is the gap in strength.

But if they refute Tokugawa Iemitsu, they can already see that the Shogun has been stimulated by humiliation and anger, and this is not a good time to oppose it.

"General, at this time, we will understand how General Xianjiayasu endured and waited for the enemy to take advantage of him."

Tadashi Sakai did not avoid it, and it was a tough answer.

This made Ii Naotaka, Doi Toshikatsu, and Tsuida Masamori all looked at him in surprise, and said in their hearts, this old Sakai is crazy today, and he has repeatedly been unable to get along with the general, so he will bow his head first, and then persuade him to die.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was stimulated and pulled out the sword, he took a few steps forward, but he controlled himself, after all, Sakai Tadashi proposed his most respected grandfather who decided his succession position, and Sakai Tadashi was the most loyal of the Pudai daimyo, if it weren't for his age, he would be the boss of today's shogunate.

Tokugawa Iemitsu waved his sword and turned away.

At this time, Naotaka Ii and others persuaded Sakai Tadashi one after another, saying that what he said was too reckless, and he still had to be tactful to persuade the general's words, etc.

Sakai Tadashi closed his eyes and didn't say a word, he had already had a death will in his heart, he went to several discussions with the Ming people on behalf of the shogunate, and he signed two secret agreements with the Ming people, he knew that his reputation would be lost for 10,000 years after the news came out.

Even his heirs will be greatly implicated because of this, not only will their future be doubtful, but they will also be ashamed to see others.

So there is only one way to change this situation, and he has been thinking about this method for a long time, so this mission to Ming Guo is the last time he will take the blame.

When he returned to the house in the evening, Sakai Tadashi instructed his subordinates to bathe and change clothes, and after everything was cleaned up, he personally studied ink and wrote two big characters, and then pulled out the ribs and cut the abdomen by himself.

That's right, he used this way to show that everything he did was forced to survive, for the survival of the Tokugawa family, these things he was extremely unwilling to do, but he was not able to defeat the Ming people, so he could only endure and give in, waiting for a good opportunity in the future.

However, he would not endure humiliation and steal his life because of these last resorts, and after finishing the matter for the shogun and the Tokugawa family, he could only apologize for his own crimes.

Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't fall asleep at all that night, and it was strange that he was able to fall asleep after being hit by a series of bad news, and after a while, he fell into a half-dream.

The little surname woke him up by knocking violently, and the little surname reported to him a bad news, and the old man Sakai Tadashi killed himself at home, and left a suicide note at the same time.

When this suicide note was placed in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu, there were two big characters stained with blood on it, forbearance.

Tokugawa Iemitsu cried bitterly, he was really hard enough, his life has been too difficult in the past few years, today is just a vent, and as a result, an old minister came to a dead admonishment, as if he was a lord of extravagance.

After dawn, when the retainers heard the news, they couldn't help but shout.

Tokugawa Iemitsu appointed Doi Toshikatsu to personally take charge of Sakai Tadashi's funeral, and he must give this old minister the honor and mourning after his death.

At this time, an urgent report of the military situation came from Kyushu, and Itakura Shigemasa, who had conquered the rebellion of the Catholics in the former castle of Kitakyushu Island, led an army of nearly 10,000 to attack the city, but was defeated by the rebels, and Itakura Shigemasa was also killed by iron artillery.

This news surprised Tokugawa Iemitsu, how could it be.

Because the Catholics who rebelled this time were only tens of thousands, excluding the old and weak, women and children, the rebels were only more than 10,000, and most of the weapons were extremely rudimentary.

And the Osaka Castle generation Itakura Shigemasa sent by Tokugawa Iemitsu led 20,000 troops, although the Tokugawa family, which was the most powerful, only had more than 2,000 soldiers, but there were more than 10,000 soldiers from various daimyo in the region around Kyoto and Osaka, plus some daimyo soldiers in Kitakyushu totaling more than 20,000 soldiers, how could they be defeated by these cowardly Catholics so easily.

It is said that Catholicism was brought into the country by Spanish and Portuguese priests for nearly a hundred years, and with the efforts of the two countries' popes and priests, it gradually spread throughout the country.

The most famous of these was Date Masamune, the lord of the Sendai Domain, who was a great admirer of Catholicism and even sent his retainers to Spain and other places.

Even the Great Demon King Oda Nobunaga was extremely tolerant of Catholicism and allowed the Catholic Church to preach in Honshu.

However, during the Toyotomi Hideyoshi period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi felt that the sect was growing too fast, and the people of Wakoku who believed in Catholicism abandoned the traditional Buddhism of Wakoku and even the god Hachiman, who protected the samurai, and there was a danger of destroying the foundation of the Wakoku ******** state.

At the same time, due to the unification of the country, the dependence on the armor and artillery of the Spaniards and the Portuguese was no longer dependent, so Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued a nationwide ban on religion.

Since then, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Hidetada, and Tokugawa Iemitsu have successively issued a ban on religion, expelling religious Japanese people, and if they still stubbornly believe, the shogunate even cruelly burned them at the stake.

But what they didn't expect was that after decades, all the Catholic priests were expelled and even executed, and the remaining believers scattered everywhere still insisted on believing in it, like ghosts for a long time.

Especially in the Kitakyushu and western Kyushu regions, the cultists and the exiled ronin samurai were entangled together, and they were dissatisfied with the shogunate and secretly preached and spread hatred for the shogunate.

Several feudal lords in this area also believed in Catholicism, and their overt or covert support for the Catholics made the Catholics in this area strangely grow.

This completely angered Tokugawa Iemitsu, and he transferred and reduced the feudal lords of several minor feudal lords, and even executed the Catholic feudal lords in the area of Shimabara Castle, and sent his cronies to be the lords of the place, but the brutal repression did not destroy the will of the cultists, but provoked greater resistance.

Finally, a few months ago, the cultists took advantage of the anger of the lord in the great famine year, and they elected the adopted son of the former lord, Amakusa Shiro, as the leader, and more than 10,000 people attacked Shimabara Castle, put the lord to death, looted the arsenal, occupied the entire city, and raised the cross banner in the city, hoping to establish an independent Catholic feudal state.

Although Tokugawa Iemitsu was extremely angry at the time, he still thought that it would be effortless to suppress this rebellion, so he appointed Osaka Castle Daidai Itakura Shigemasa as the general and mobilized more than 20,000 troops to suppress it.

At this time, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not realize that another criticism of his loss of land appeared in later generations, that is, the loss of the three major islands of Kyushu Island, and since then, Kyushu Island has never returned to the Wakoku Kingdom.

In the eyes of later generations of Japanese people, after all, the Wato only occupied a small part of the south, and was finally captured by Zhao Lie, who was recognized as a great talent, and Tokugawa Iemitsu was responsible, but it was not too big.

But the loss of Kyushu made the later generations of Japanese people feel painful, and when it comes to Tokugawa Iemitsu, there is no one who does not scold, and the reparations for defeat are just that, and even Kyushu Island is lost in his office, and Tokugawa Iemitsu is a prodigal son who sells his field.

At this time, the loser was completely unaware, and he immediately decided to appoint the old Naka Matsudaira Nobutsuna as the general and prepare ships to cross the sea to suppress the rebellion.

However, the few remaining sailors reported to him that the ships of the Broken Army had already isolated Kitakyushu, making it clear that they would not allow the shogunate to send troops to quell the rebellion.

For a while, the Tokugawa family had the urge to vomit blood, this Zhao Lie was really the sworn enemy of the Tokugawa family, and he was haunted at all times.

But remembering Sakai Tadashi's death, Tokugawa Iega suppressed his anger and decided to forbear.

Of course, forbearance did not mean that there were no measures at all, and after consulting with the big bosses, he made a decision and sent people to take a detour to the Satsuma Domain in southwestern Kyushu. (To be continued.) )