550. East and West
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"My lord, good news, there are continuous disasters in Huguang, Jiangxi and other places this year, and the grain in Sichuan has been relieved to Huguang, without additional military rations, the Xia army in Tuntian in the south may not even be able to fill their stomachs, I am afraid that they will not have the strength to continue to invade the north." In Ganzhou City, Feng Shuo's general Xiao Enzhu, who was in charge of espionage, reported. "The year has finally passed."
"Got through?" Before Feng Shuo could open his mouth to respond, Feng Ministry's general Ma Hushan said unevenly. "Lord Xiao is joking, you open your eyes and look at the shape under you, I'm afraid that if Xia Jun hasn't come over yet, we will be swallowed by the surnamed Hai."
"Brother Defeng, don't say anything angry." Zhao Pingdong, another general of the Feng Department, saw Feng Shuo's uncertain face, and immediately spoke to appease Ma Hu Mountain Road. "As the saying goes, it's easy to invite God and it's hard to send God, and it's also difficult for Lord Admiral to do it, if you just invite Haibu back, I'm afraid that if Xia Jun comes again, people won't come to fight hard, so it's better to endure the sea and the sky."
"!" Ma Hushan spat at the ground. "Bear with it, it's better to give Ganzhou to the surname Hai."
Feng Shuo couldn't bear it anymore, and scolded him: "Enough, let's talk about bastards, Lao Tzu picked your skin." β
Ma Hushan knelt in front of Feng Shuo all of a sudden: "Junmen, the little one follows you before and after the saddle, not to mention that there is merit, but at least there is hard work, you just look at the little hard work and let the little one tell the truth." β
Feng Shuo was angry but helpless, so he had to let Ma Hushan continue, and he listened to Ma Hushan say: "It's not that the small ones are broken, you must cut off your foreign aid from the military gate, it's just that the soldiers and horses surnamed Hai have caused too much harm to Ganzhou this year, so if you go on like this, it's better to take advantage of the fact that there is still capital to invest in the south??????"
"Nonsense." Feng Shuo suddenly interrupted Ma Hushan's words, pointed at Goshha and ordered. "Taken down, locked up, and anyone who says anything to surrender to Huaxia will be disposed of in the same way as him??????"
Dispersed his subordinates, Feng Shuo fell behind the public case in the lobby a little exhausted, and it took a long time before he ordered: "Come here, go and invite Lord Ding Gongjian, the deputy general of the Chinese Army." β
Soon Ding Gongjian appeared in front of Feng Shuo, Feng Shuo asked him to sit down, and then asked, "What did Ma Defeng say today??????
Ding Gongjian knew that Feng Shuo was moved, so he sighed: "My lord, I'm afraid this is not just what Lord Ma thinks, the whole army is a little dissatisfied with the flying and domineering of the sea department." β
"It's not that the official favors one over the other, after all, people are kind enough to help me defend the city, so it's not good to treat me lightly."
"My lord is sincere, but is Hai Youfen really kind enough to help me guard this Ganzhou City? I'm afraid that he has the idea of beggar-thy-neighbor, and he wants to block the Xia army in the line of Ganzhou in order to protect his Suzhou. But in this way, the war will be carried out under the city of Ganzhou, and Ganzhou will become a scorched earth at that time, can we expect Hai Youfen to transport food and medicine for us? β
Feng Shuo thought for a while and responded: "Judging from the fact that half of the grain and straw in the sea department are now supported by us, it is probably impossible to expect Hai Youfen to help with all his might." β
"Yes, it's impossible for the sea to help with all our might, so how long can we hold on?" Ding Gongjian shook his head. "In the same way, the Eruts are hard to count on, and the Dzungars are even more out of reach, and the Heshuotes have voted for the Chinese ?????? In this case, it is really better to drop early, and maybe it can be sold at a good price. β
Hearing what Ding Gongjian, who was his cousin-in-law, said, Feng Shuo became vigilant: "Is this the way everyone thinks in the army?" β
Ding Gongjian nodded: "In the past, there may still be people who have the intention of defending themselves, but after getting along with the sea department this year, I'm afraid most people's minds have changed, so." β
Ding Gongjian raised his voice: "The military gate, you still have to make a decision immediately." β
Feng Shuo chuckled: "If Emperor Wucheng doesn't move a single soldier, we will become Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, what a good calculation." β
After laughing, Feng Shuo gritted his teeth: "Since the military is wanted, if I, Feng someone, dare to stand hard, I am afraid that there will be no place to die." Okay, then it's a little simpler, the left is just losing the military power, but at least a rich man can still do it. β
Speaking of this, Feng Shuo ordered: "Zebo, I can't believe others, you go to Lanzhou in person, and say that I will sell them even Ganzhou and Haibu reinforcements, and ask Huaxia what price you can offer??????"
On the east solstice of December in the tenth year of Wucheng, Feng Shuo, the governor of Gansu Province in the Qing Dynasty, descended to Xia and led the Xia army into the city to encircle the Haiyou Fen Department and Zhang Yuzhang Department.
Zhang Yuzhang's troops soon knew the opportunity to surrender, but Hai Shunchang, the third son of Hai Youfen, fought to the death in the camp in the city, and was finally killed by the artillery fire of the Xia army. So far, the Xia army has successfully recovered Ganzhou, Feng Shuo has been awarded the title of county man for his dedication to the city, and the original three towns of Gansu are now only left with the Suzhou Haibu still struggling. It should be said that at this time, Hai Youfen had already understood that the general trend was inviolable, but he refused to submit on the grounds of his revenge with Huaxia.
In April of the 11th year of Wucheng in Huaxia, after receiving the guarantee of the Jungar Empire's conspiracy against Alabutan Khan, Hai Youfen simply did not even want the signboard of the governor of Gansu of the Qing court. He immediately proclaimed himself the Heavenly King of Longxi and the Great Dewei Emperor, established the country with the name Su, changed the Suzhou Prefecture to the Mandate of Heaven, and became the son emperor of the Jungger people.
For the Great Su State like a joke, Huaxia naturally will not turn a blind eye, but Huaxia has its own timetable, and is not willing to dance lightly to the rhythm of a certain aspect, let alone step into the trap that the Jungar people may set??????
At the same time as great changes occurred in Longxi, changes also occurred in Haidong Japan - in the 6th year of Emperor Hoei of Japan's Higashiyama, the 11th year of Wucheng in Huaxia, and the 10th day of January in the 48th year of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, died in Edo Castle.
In the later years of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, due to the opening of the country, Japan opened its doors and the influx of low-cost and high-quality goods from China, which greatly impacted the Japanese market, and as a result, the Japanese handicraft industry went bankrupt. The shrinkage of the city's handicraft industry and the large amount of foreign indemnities caused the further deterioration of the Japanese economy, and the shogunate's use of rice instead of copper to pay reparations caused food prices to skyrocket, and for a time the life of the city's residents, including the lower-ranking samurai, became increasingly difficult. Although Japan was able to avoid the expansion of the crisis by sending people overseas through guΓ², the trafficking of its people to Chinese merchants as slaves and maids aroused strong resentment among Japanese people of insight.
This kind of dissatisfaction accumulated, and the brunt of it was naturally the Japanese apprentices hired by the Japanese merchants.
However, due to the use of force by the Chinese side, all strata of Japanese society did not dare to vent their anger directly to the Chinese, so cursing the Tokugawa shogunate became a common scene in the daily life of the Japanese.
Although Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was aware of the situation, he was powerless to change the situation and had to leave the problem to his successor shogun.
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's chosen successor general was Tokugawa Ienobu. Tokugawa Ienobu was the eldest son of Tokugawa Tsunagi, the prime minister of Kofu, and was named Tsunatoyo because of the favoritism of the four generations of shoguns. In the sixth year of Enho (1678), the sixteen-year-old Tsunatoyo succeeded him as the lord of the domain after the death of his father, Tsunashige. In the eighth year of Enho, Tokugawa Etsuna died, and Tsunayo became one of the heirs of the shogun along with Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the lord of the Tatebayashi domain, but in the end Tsunayoshi became a shogun, and Tsunayoshi had to continue to be his lord.
Later, Tsunayoshi's eldest son, Tokumatsu, died, and Tsunayoshi, who had no heir, had to make Tsunayoshi a candidate for the sixth shogun along with Tokugawa Tsunyoshi, the husband of Tsuruhime's eldest daughter, Tsuruhime. However, Tsuruhime died in the first year of Hoei (i.e., 17o4), and Tokugawa Tsunayo died the following year, making Tsunayoshi the only candidate for the sixth shogun.
Since there was only one candidate left, Tsunataka joined Nishinomaru in Edo Castle as the shogun's adopted heir, and led the Tokugawa shogun's family to change its name to Ienobu, and Ienobu was forty-three years old at this time.
Because he was forced to be adopted by a low-ranking samurai because of his mother's low status in his early years and spent his childhood among the people, he was more close to the people and understood the sufferings of the people, but because Tsunayoshi was still there, his ambitions could not be realized, so he had to endure silently.
Now that Tsunayoshi is dead, he has become a general, and in order to save the survival of the shogunate, the family naturally sacrificed a series of reform measures, the first of which was to contact Yanagisawa Yoshihei's old position.
Yanagisawa, who knew that he was bound to become a scapegoat, obediently handed over power and went back to his own territory to live the days after retirement.
Jia Xuan, who lit the first fire, then quickly announced the abolition of the "Order of Mercy for the Living", which was admired by Tsunayoshi but had a lot of bad comments among the people.
After the order was issued, the whole country was overjoyed, and the financial pressure on the shogunate was cleared, and at the same time, the people believed that the new shogun would take action, or it might change the decline of the Japanese state.
On April 17, following the appointment of the literary attendant Arai Shiraishi as the head of the pen of You, Ienobu appointed the former minister of the Kai Domain, Mabu Quanbo, as the imperial side of the imperial court, and thus Ienobu GuΓ² made full use of the political methods of the Tsunayoshi era and initially mastered the shogunate.
IchΓ© IchΓ© recognized early on that the failure of the "Lockdown Order" was the main cause of Japan's current predicament, but the power of Huaxia was something he could not resist, so after he took control of the shogunate, he issued the "Armed Preparation Order" on the 8th and 11th of June of the 5th month of the same year, strengthening the academy, the small surname group and the new ban by allocating internal funds, and on the basis of the three, he formed a standing army of 3,000 people, and ordered the daimyo to provide the samurai of the clan to form a new armed force called "Edoban". The self-armed "Edoban" was under the direct command of the shogunate, and in fact existed as a standing reserve.
The new general's plan to reorganize the army for war was clearly seen by the whole of Japan, and the various feudal domains that had been damaged by the impact of Chinese commodities immediately followed suit and organized their own standing armies, large and small. This kind of behavior, which had been explicitly forbidden during the previous Tokugawa shogunate, was praised by the family nobu, and the shogunate even set up a ban in various places to provide private armies in the vicinity of each domain.
Of course, some of the Japanese who benefited from the import of Chinese goods secretly went to the Huaxia Honglu envoy to report to the police, so although the other side kept it secret, the Chinese side was still ready to fight Japan again??????