More than 20 years ago, Edo Castle was just a small town with hundreds of people, and Ieyasu of the Mondegawa Shogunate took a fancy to it as the town of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The rest was only a partial refinement of the inner moats and Nimaru, but the construction of Edo Castle also cost most of the money and food of the Tokugawa shogunate, and became the biggest burden on the shogunate's finances.

The circumference of Edo Castle is nearly 30 li, divided into two sides, the outer outline is the residence of the daimyo and their families, the families of Edo officials and merchants, etc., the inner outline is the harem of the Tokugawa shogun's residence and the residence of the guards, the inner castle and the outer castle have wide moats, dozens of city gates, it can be said that Edo Castle rose to become the first fortified castle in Japan in 20 years, and the shogunate piled up with money and grain.

The five-story castle tower is located in the inner rim of the Honmaru, and the five-story castle tower is built on solid stone steps and is the largest castle tower in Japan. On one side of him is the general's harem Oku.

This year, only the Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is in his early twenties, sits in full costume, and is young and takes the position of the Great Shogun, the Great Nayan, the Tokugawa Shogunate's family governor, the heavenly leader who controls more than 4 million stones, more than 80,000 banners, more than ten gold and silver mines, dozens of castle towns, and most of the ten major Japanese fortified castles, and the Tokugawa family is also the most powerful shogunate in the history of the Japanese shogunate.

It was this power that created the majesty of Tokugawa Iemitsu, and the fair-skinned and delicate-faced Tokugawa Iemitsu inspected the retainers sitting below.

Sakai Tadashi was the lord of the Sakai Domain

Date Masamune: Lord of the Mutsu Oida clan

Toshikatsu Doi Omigawa Domain, lord of Furukawa Domain

Tadashige Naito, lord of the Toba domain

Inaba Masakatsu is the lord of the Moka Domain

Wait for people to sit down one by one.

The reason why Iemitsu summoned important ministers at the castle tower was because of an urgent letter from Matsumae Kimihiro, the lord of Matsumae Domain, the lord of Ezo Island. A large number of Ming people landed in West Ezo. Establish a base and develop. His people have a huge ship of the Southern Barbarians, and the soldiers are well-trained, and because the sea route is blocked by the Ming people, the specific details of the Songqian Domain are being explored by land, and they will be reported later.

Although the Ming Dynasty was a huge empire in East Asia, it never sent troops to Japan, and the only confrontation between the two countries took place in the Battle of Keicho Bunroku, and it can be said that the Ming Dynasty and Japan were both defeated after several years of conquest. The Ming Dynasty ran out of financial resources, the Toyotomi family collapsed, and the Tokugawa family took advantage of the situation.

Although there are different evaluations of the Ming army's combat power, the understanding of the Ming Dynasty is indeed unified, and the Ming people came to Ezo Island, which is opposite to the Mutsu Kingdom, which is the biggest threat to the Japanese archipelago from the mainland since the Mongol Yuan expedition, so it is necessary to convene a meeting of the elders, which is a real state affair.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Ming people have come from the sea. This is something that has never been done before, and it is the greatest threat to Japan. As a general of Zhengyi, I have an unshirkable responsibility, and I hope that all the elders will speak freely. Tokugawa Iemitsu finished slowly, his stuttering problem has been with him all his life, so for the sake of prestige, he has always slowed down his speech.

"Your Highness, if you don't mistake the document sent by Tsushima Shomune Yoshinari a few months ago that Jeju Island in Korea was captured by the Luzon Ming people, then the Ming people who appeared on Ezo Island and Jeju Island should be the same group." The old minister Sakai Tadashi bowed and replied.

"What Sakai-sama said is extremely true, the documents sent by the Tsushima clan have proved that they are the Ming people who rebelled against the self-reliance of Luzon Xiyi, with dozens of large ships and nearly 10,000 soldiers, occupying Jeju Island for many years and establishing a foothold." Inaba replied with a bow.

Tokugawa Iemitsu's satisfied chin head, one was known for his prudence for three generations of old ministers, the other was the son of a nursing mother, and the person he believed most among the elders of the family, all gave detailed judgments.

"Your Highness, if you allow it to gain a foothold on Ezo Island, I am afraid that its foundation will be established after a long time, and you must guard against it." Date One-Eyed Dragon, who was in his early sixties, said prostrately.

"Masamune-sama, please rise, it is precisely because he cannot be allowed to open up on Ezo Island that he has summoned important ministers to assess, my lord, please relax." The Tokugawa family is short and supports Date Masamune.

Date Masamune is no longer the time to sigh that he was born at the wrong time, the ambitious Date one-eyed dragon, his hair is all white, he just wants to live in seclusion, and the current concern for the family is his only one, Tokugawa Iemitsu certainly understands Date Masamune's thoughts, Date is in Mutsu, if Ezo is occupied by the Ming people, Mitsunoku across the sea will not be calm.

"Your Highness, the top priority is to order Tsushima Shouzong Yicheng to find out the strength of the Ming army and the relationship with the Ming court, and in addition, His Highness can order the navy to join the investigation." Toshikatsu Doi, who is in his fifties, bowed down and said.

"Doi-sama can take me to issue an edict, ordering Zong Yoshinari to send a naval army to investigate, and order the ship to carry out the war of purging the water armament with Mukai Tadakatsu." Jiaguang said slowly. "In addition, the Nagasaki Commission was ordered to conduct reconnaissance through the Ming maritime merchants who came and went."

"Your Highness, the Ezo Plain is vast, and it is enough to accommodate millions of people when it is carved out, and it must not be lost, please order all the vassals to prepare for war in case of contingencies." Naito said.

"I and I have discovered Ezo for a hundred years, and we must not lose it in the hands of this general." Of course, Iemitsu understood that he was in power for the first time, and losing his prestige at this time would be a heavy blow.

Of course, if you go to the national war, none of the daimyo can be left behind, especially a few foreign daimyos, such as the Choshu Domain, the Satsuma Domain, etc., which is a good opportunity to lose their strength.

After the assessment, Jiaguang left Inaba Masakatsu, as the eldest son of the nurse Ah Fu, and now he is the most trusted member of the old middle, some things can only be handled by him, this is out of absolute trust in Ah Fu, but also for Inaba Masakatsu's trust.

It's not because of Ah Fu, Inaba Masakatsu will never become an old man at a young age without a battle array, the reason is Jiaguang's favor, he will have nothing if he loses Jiaguang's favor, so Inaba Zhengsheng has always been from Jiaguang, and on the contrary, he has won Jiaguang's trust.

"Inaba Masakatsu, go to Nishimaru in the afternoon to visit the Great Imperial Palace, and tell the Imperial Minister Akito about the movements." The Tokugawa family said expressionlessly.

Sakai Tadashi and Date Masamune, who are close associates of the Taisei Minister, will definitely tell the reclusive Taisei Minister, his father Tokugawa Hidetada, but Inaba Masakatsu went to represent his respectful attitude and the meaning of communication, after all, the Taisei Minister's apparent retirement is actually manipulating the situation in the dark. Externally, it is ridiculed as dualism.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, Iemitsu's most respected grandfather at the time, also retired and manipulated the court situation for many years. Now the Minister of Imperial Affairs is certainly acceptable to Jiaguang. It's just that for his parents, Jiaguang has complicated feelings, he has never received love from them, he can't get close, and what they prefer is the second son Tadacho.

If it weren't for the nurse Afu to meet his grandfather Ieyasu on his behalf, Ieyasu would have determined his status as a son, and the one sitting here at this time should be Tadashiga, and he should be outside the domain. Therefore, he has more resentment towards his parents.

"Your Royal Highness General, this matter involves the Ming people and the national war, it is not trivial, and my subordinates hope that His Royal Highness will go to the Great Imperial Palace tomorrow to visit the Minister of Taizheng and listen to the teachings." Inaba is victorious and prostrate.

"Of course." Tokugawa Iemitsu's face twitched, he didn't want to go to the Great Imperial Palace to pretend to be filial, but the matter was so important that Inaba Masakatsu should be rewarded as a confidant. "Get up, you go and see you first, and find out what the Great Imperial Palace means. Come back and report it to me. ”

"Yes." Inaba Masakatsu bowed down and left.

The Tokugawa family opened the window and looked out. From a distance, I saw the maids of Da Ori constantly walking, this is the place where the nurse Ah Fu is in charge, losing the favor of his parents, thanks to the care of Ah Fu, this is the only bright color in the bleak childhood of the family.

Tokugawa Iemitsu smiled at Ooku, but in a flash, he was still worried about Akito, and Iemitsu felt that this matter was not under his control, and the military affairs that were not under his control meant a crisis.

Zhao Lie and Alexandra were watching the Andalusian war horses and their descendants at the Jeju ranch at this time, today the cold snap has passed, the weather is getting warmer, the grass on the grassland has begun to wither and yellow, all the horses are grazing on the grassland, and the people on the grassland are shouting and neighing for a while.

Seventy stallions and forty-five mares captured in Macao died on the way, and the rest were carefully served.

Since then, more than 2,000 Mongolian mares have been purchased intermittently, which is already the limit of what can be obtained in the short term, after all, with the war horses and horses used by the broken army, the purchase of thousands of horses in a short period of time has increased the price of horses in the north by nearly two percent, and the financial support can not be supported. Fortunately, after reaching this base, the purchase of horses was temporarily stopped.

Under the orders of Zhao Lie, under the auspices of the Portuguese, Shidao Racecourse implemented a genealogy plan, which was to mark each mare on his body, and the foals born were marked and recorded as the offspring of the stallion to prevent inbreeding.

This matter is extremely cumbersome, if it were not for Zhao Lie's strict order really could not be implemented, in order to smoothly push away, several of the strongest stallions and more than 40 Andalusian mares to establish a separate garden, and subdivided, in addition to more than 60 stallions, each war horse received more than 30 Mongolian mares to establish their own herd, respectively, feeding, breeding.

In a little more than a year, they gave birth to nearly 2,000 foals, but most of them were left on Stone Island to be transported when they were older, as the newly separated mare were still weak, so as to prevent them from being damaged in the sea. Most of the stallions are leading mares, and most of the mares are pregnant.

Still, more than 300 one-year-old foals were brought to Jeju.

The Portuguese Ricardo and Gu Yan are introducing the situation of the horse farm in detail.

"My lord, there are more than 2,600 Andalusian and Mongolian horses in Jeju Horse Farm, 16,700 Jeju horses, and nearly 60,000 horses in Jeju Ranch, and most of them are idle at the moment." Ming Renyu reports.

"My lord, after transporting 2,000 Jeju horses to Ezo and distributing more than 3,000 horses to local farmers, there are still 16,700 horses." Portuguese Ricardo said.

Of course, Zhao Lie understood what they meant, Jeju horses were a trouble here, they couldn't be used as military horses to consume money and food from time to time, and they had to hire people to take care of them, and they couldn't die and starve and lose weight, of course they wanted to get rid of these burdens as soon as possible.

"When Ezo is developed next year, most of it will have to be shipped there, and before that, if there is a large number of deaths and fat loss, I will wait for you." Zhao Lie instructed.

The three of them hurriedly said yes, but it was only another year to get rid of this burden, they could still afford to wait, and there was already hope at the moment. (To be continued.) )