More than a year has passed since the Siege of Edo, and Edo has returned to its former prosperity, and the number of people in the castle has increased rather than decreased. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The castle town was extremely prosperous, and the crowd of people on the street was obviously able to bring more money to Edo.

However, Tokugawa Iemitsu knew that the Wa Kingdom was no longer the Wa Kingdom that existed before the Kanei Death, and now the powerful daimyo of the Wa Kingdom were all ready to move, including the Choshu Domain in the west, the Sendai Domain in the northeast, and even the Kaga Domain in the middle, which was a half-clan domain, had some changes.

These daimyos all saw the fact that the shogunate's banner standing was lost by more than 20,000 people in the Great War, and to this day it has only been replenished by a few thousand, so why not complete it all.

It seems that the news that the Ming people squeezed a large amount of silver from the shogunate is reliable, thinking that Tokugawa Iemitsu has no silver money to make up for the lost strength, and the shogunate is now more than 60,000 banners, but there are more than 30,000 people who cannot be separated from the town, and the shogunate can only send more than 20,000 people to attack the ministers at most.

But for some large vassals, their standing is close to 10,000 people, and they can still resist for a while by refusing to defend the city, of course, the shogunate has the help of the various daimyos, but now the daimyo are also wait-and-see, and now it is not easy for the shogunate to pass on the daimyo again.

It's not that Tokugawa Iemitsu doesn't want to make up for his regular reserves, but he can't, and the shogunate is now burdened with a huge foreign debt for thirty years, which means that he has to cut down on food and clothing to survive these thirty years.

That is to say, Jiaguang knows that he has no hope of revenge on the Ming people in this life, and can only leave it to future generations, and now he is conscientiously guarding this foundation is all right, and it is good to protect the current situation of the Japanese country for his descendants.

For more than a year, Jiaguang and a group of bigwigs have carefully observed the movements in various places, although there are some undercurrents surging in the news from the secret agents everywhere, but it is quite stable, which also makes Jiaguang breathe a sigh of relief.

But at noon on this day, Iemitsu received a report from the big boss Naotaka I, the old enemy of Kansai, the unbeatable Xiaoqiang Choshu Domain, rebelled again, and the slogan was to recover the lost Chinese places and restore the former family name and glory.

Iemitsu sat behind the desk trembling all over, and he couldn't control what he said, he wasn't afraid that the Choshu Domain could have as many standing guards and ashigaru as it could threaten Edo Castle far away in Musashi, and the Choshu Domain might not even be able to break through the defensive line formed by the Kii Domain and the Owari Domain.

But how vicious this Choshu Domain was, it was precisely when Edo was at its weakest that he made a move, and how deferential he was on weekdays, and if I am not mistaken, Mori Shu had just returned to Choshu Domain from Edo in March, that is, he had lived in Edo for half a year, and he could go back to the domain, and he would have to embark on the journey to Edo again in March.

This haired Mori Show knelt down in front of his Iemitsu and looked obedient, Tokugawa Iemitsu still clearly remembers that this Mori Show was born with a bitter appearance, coupled with a thin body and gray hair, he Tokugawa Iemitsu really didn't look down on this obscene old man.

Unexpectedly, this half-buried old man launched a rebellion after he returned, which shows that this Maori Xiu has been planning this matter for a long time, yes, even when he was in Edo Castle, his subordinates were also in full swing to prepare for a rebellion.

And Mori Shu pretended to be tame in front of his family light, showing that lewd smile to deal with his family light, and he probably didn't know how much he looked down on him as a great general and wanted to shake the rule of the Tokugawa family.

Now that he thinks of Mori Hide's performance in Edo for half a year, Tokugawa Iemitsu is extremely disgusting, which makes him feel uncomfortable.

Tokugawa Iemitsu picked up the tea bowl and tried to take a sip of water to calm himself, but the bowl and chassis kept ringing, showing how much his hands were shaking.

Tokugawa Iemitsu slammed the tea bowl on the table, the tea bowl snapped open, and the hot tea spurted out, and Iemitsu's hand trembled, leaving red blood in his palm.

"Your Highness, if you are swaying today, the more Your Highness must be calm at this time." Jing Yi Naotaka bowed to the ground and persuaded him.

He knew that his words were a little abrupt, but between the current embarrassing situation of the Tokugawa family and the immaturity that Tokugawa Iemitsu showed from time to time, he couldn't help but say that he was a big man and a genealogy of the Tokugawa family, and the glory and safety of the family depended on the Tokugawa family.

Tokugawa Iemitsu knew that he was a little out of shape, he let go of his bloody right hand, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, calming his trembling body a little.

"Come on, pack these up." Tokugawa Iemitsu slapped the table.

The two little surnames hurriedly walked inside, one began to clean up the mess, and the other took out to bind Tokugawa Iemitsu's wounds.

"Please get up, your participation in this major government is to assist the palace in governing the government, what can't you say, please get up."

Tokugawa Iemitsu raised his hand and motioned for Naotaka Ii to get up and speak.

Ii Naotaka then got up and served, he is actually the most anxious as the boss of the auxiliary government, since Iemitsu took power alone, one thing after another continues to happen, all of which are extremely unfavorable to the shogunate, and the people of Denlai Ming seem to be born to be the nemesis of the Tokugawa shogunate, as long as they meet them, everything is not going well.

It has only been less than two years since they were sent away with the arrears, and the catastrophe has come again, and if it is not handled well this time, the rule of the entire shogunate may be shaken.

"Now that the rebels in Changzhou are attacking eastward, how can the participation of the great government teach me."

Tokugawa Iemitsu is sitting at eye level Ii Naotaka, he has basically regained his calm now, things have come to this point, he still has to think carefully about how to defeat the rebellion of the Choshu Domain, thinking that too many others are useless.

"Judging from the alarm, the rebels in Changzhou are going to Shannan, driving directly to the reserve, preparing to close the door of the Chinese region, and then slowly clean up the various big names and wealthy families in the entire Chinese region, and finally control the entire ten countries of China."

Naotaka Ii broke through Mori Hide's plan in one word.

"Your Highness, the rear of the rebels in Changzhou is actually extremely unstable now, so if you can quickly send troops to break the army of the rebels in Changzhou at this time, the Changzhou region will hardly be affected. If the rebels in Choshu are stabilized, the forces of the pro-me Tokugawa family behind are uprooted one by one, and the help of 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers can be gathered together. ”

"Daimasa's involvement means that the Kii and Owari clans will gather the nearby daimyo and send troops together to attack Choshu and rebel."

Tokugawa Iemitsu immediately understood Naotaka I's thoughts, if he collected grain from Edo, gathered the standing reserves, and waited until the march to the back of Kansai was crowded, it would take at least two months, and at this time it was already possible to make Choshu rebel do a lot of things.

If the two pro-domains of the Kii Domain and the Owari Domain take the lead in sending troops, they will launch an attack in more than half a month, fight the rebellion of Choshu, and extinguish this fire as soon as possible.

Jing Yi Naotaka bowed, he did not say anything, but expressed his opinion, that is, the sooner this rebellion was extinguished, the better.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was also thinking about this, if he could extinguish this war as soon as possible, of course, it would be good, but more than a year ago, because of the rescue of Edo, the standing reserve of Tokugawa Yoribo of the Mito Domain was almost wiped out, and most of the standing reserve of Tokugawa Yoshinao of the Owari Domain was lost in the Blood Temple, and more than a year has passed, and they have not yet recovered.

Although Tokugawa Yorinobu of the Kii Domain suppressed the speed of reinforcements and preserved his strength, he also buried a rift between Tokugawa Iemitsu and Tokugawa Yorinobu.

After that, Tokugawa Iemitsu accused Tokugawa Yoshinobu of deliberately preserving his strength and having different ambitions for Edo Castle to die and not save him.

And the retainers of Tokugawa Yorinobu refuted the accusations of the shogunate, and what they said was not unreasonable, if the last reinforcement army was also defeated, then Edo Castle would be an isolated city without reinforcements, in fact, it was the actions of Tokugawa Yoshinobu who rescued the shogunate, and the feudal lord should not be blamed, on the contrary, the feudal lord was the hero of the entire Tokugawa clan.

If the last support army fails, then the two Kansai feudal domains will lose their strength, and Kansai will be in danger of shaking, and Edo will become an isolated city without foreign aid, and the Tokugawa family will also fall into the hands of the Ming people after the food is cut off, so that the Tokugawa family may collapse completely, and the Tokugawa shogunate will fall apart.

Lord Tokugawa Yorinobu saved the Tokugawa Shogunate, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the savior of the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, how can he be blamed.

The two sides argued endlessly, and Tokugawa Iemitsu and Tokugawa Yorinobu were strangely silent, sitting back and watching the arguments, in fact, it also showed their dissatisfaction and vigilance against each other.

In the past six months, the voice has subsided, but the relationship between the two families is extremely cold, and Tokugawa Yoshinobu did not come to Edo to meet the general in the future, but stayed in the fief under the pretext of being unwell.

This makes the relationship between the two parties even more strained.

This time, he asked this uncle, who didn't look down on him, to exterminate the rebellion after going out to prepare for the war, and I don't know if I can invite this big Buddha.

At this moment, the small surname outside reported that Sakai Tadashi, Doi Toshikatsu, and Tsukada Masamori had received a summons to come, which was sent by Naotaka Ii to report to General Bing while sending someone to summon him.

After a few people entered, Naotaka Ii simply said that the rebellion of the Choshu Domain was attacking Aki Province and Bigo Province, and several people were surprised, none of them expected the rebellion of the Choshu Domain to be so sudden, and they didn't get a trace of news beforehand.

As soon as Naotaka Ii said his thoughts, several people were silent, and now no one knows the tension between the Kii Domain and his family, although it would be best to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, but the Kii Domain's troops are a bit hanging.

"The old minister personally went to the Kii domain to persuade Tokugawa Yorinobu-sama, and hoped that His Royal Highness the General would allow it." After a long time, Doi Toshikatsu stepped forward and bowed.

Looking at the aging Doi Toshikatsu, Tokugawa Iemitsu's eyes were sour. (To be continued.) )