Things in the world have always been changing, and Emperor Zhu Youzhen would never have thought that he was in Tianjin, and Huang Taiji was in Korea, and then Huang Taiji would think of finding the Japanese to be allies.

How did Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen know about it, and he didn't know what attitude he would take?

There is one thing that Huang Taiji himself does not know, that is, Chongzhen hates the Japanese more than any ethnic group in this world, if Zhu Youzhen wants to destroy an ethnic group, it will only be the Japanese!

The whole nation is peeling and pulling grass, and it can't stop Zhu Youzhen's resentment that can't be tolerated by heaven and earth!

After listening to Huang Taiji's explanation to himself, Dolgon suddenly opened his mouth and gave Huang Taiji a very respectful etiquette, "The emperor is a genius in the sky, and the five bodies admired by his subordinates are thrown to the ground." ”

Huang Taiji looked at Da Yu'er and Hai Lanzhu beside him, and was also very satisfied with Dolgon's fart, this fart, he ate it!

"Don't admire me, as long as you pay more attention to the affairs around you, you can do it too! The Japanese and the Chinese seem to be natural rivals! That's what we're trying to do. However, the interests of the DPRK do not need to be divided too much, and this business is very cost-effective! Huang Taiji then analyzed the reasons and methods for Dolgon to come to Japan.

The Edo shogunate pursued a policy of "closing the country", which led Japan to be backward and sluggish, and was once invaded by Western powers, but in fact, the situation in Japan was not the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, and the shogunate's "lockdown" had a process of initiation, which did not start with Tokugawa Ieyasu. The so-called "lock-up of the country" of the Edo shogunate was actually the Nanban trade.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi was alive, he decreed that Catholic missionary work was strictly forbidden and that no Japanese should believe in such a foreign cult. Wait until Hideyoshi dies. Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to strengthen foreign trade. The ban was not reaffirmed at first, and not only that, but he also gave preferential treatment to British and Dutch merchants who had recently sailed to Japan. Ieyasu once appointed the British navigator William Adams as his trade advisor, and gave the Miura Peninsula 250 koku of Yuroku, so Adams became one of the shogunate flags, and took a Japanese name called Miura Press, which means pilotage and navigation in Japanese.

Encouraged by similar measures by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the princes of various regions also vigorously developed the Nanban trade. Date Masamune sent his retainer Tsunecho Zhikura to Europe to meet with the Pope of Rome and the King of Spain and ask for trade. It is said that Chang Chang himself was baptized directly by the pope and granted Roman citizenship.

In January and February 1638, 124,000 Shogunate troops led by Shogunate Gunaka and Izu Mamoru Matsudaira Nobutsuna came to the castle at the "Spring Castle" on a hook-shaped peninsula in eastern Nagasaki, Kyushu, but the defenders of the castle were 30,000 Christians, farmers and a small number of townspeople (merchants) who usually had hoes and shovels and pickaxes in their hands, and two-thirds of them were women, children, and the elderly. Incredibly, the leader of the army of more than 30,000 believers turned out to be a 16-year-old boy. He is Amakusa Shiro Shizhen.

On one side are more than 120,000 well-trained regular troops, and on the other side are old and weak soldiers with only more than 10,000 people who can actually fight. The shogunate army was outnumbered by the crowd, and it was clear that the outcome was clear. It was for the "Shimabara Rebellion".

However, the city of the cultist army could not be attacked for a long time. It turned out that Shigemasa Itakura, who was sent by the shogunate, was killed in the Battle of New Year's Day, in which the shogunate army suffered more than 4,000 casualties and the rebel army suffered less than 100 casualties. This time, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, sent by the shogunate, came again to continue the siege.

The peasants rose up when they had no way to live, which disrupted the feudal order of the shogunate, and in their view, it was "a rebellion". So, how did the "Shimabara Rebellion" happen? It all started with the spread of Christianity to Japan. Catholicism first arrived in Japan in 1549 and landed in Kagoshima. Catholicism and Christianity have been deeply rooted in Kyushu for nearly 90 years. The main reasons why churches in the Kagoshima area are so popular are: for example, the remote location is not easy to control in the central government; The land here was barren, the harvest was not abundant, and the lords had heavy taxes; In addition, the suppression methods of the lord shogunate were too cruel and so on.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi pacified Kyushu, he took a fancy to a beautiful woman with a horse collar and wanted to bring her back to Osaka, but this woman was a devout believer, and she insisted that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's practice violated the doctrine of monogamy. Of course, Toyotomi Hideyoshi already had Nene and more than 300 beauties, but the world at that time was that the strong could do whatever they wanted, and an ordinary woman dared to disobey the order of "Sekihaku", and the angry Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued a ban on religion is said to be related to this. In addition, the reason why the ban on religion at that time was incomplete was that on the one hand, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was busy fighting in the south and the north, and on the other hand, the priests were secretly protected by the lord of the Shimabara Peninsula, Arima Harunobu. Later, after Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's descendants at the Battle of Sekigahara, he executed Arima Harunobu. However, because Arima Naosumi, the son of Arima Harunobu, grew up beside Tokugawa Ieyasu and married Tokugawa Ieyasu's great-granddaughter, Tokugawa Ieyasu asked Arima Naosumi to inherit his father's 40,000 koku-takuroku to become the lord of Shimabara. Flattered and grateful, Naojun Arima, although he was also a believer, resolutely quit the religion in order to repay Tokugawa Ieyasu's kindness, and vowed to eradicate God and Christ. From this point on, the Shimabara cultists began to suffer. Naojun Arima went on a killing spree, burned those who did not want to abandon the religion alive, and asked other believers to watch the scene. But as a result, the believers who were not afraid of death increased their courage even more. The shogunate saw that Naojun Arima could not cure the cultists, so they transferred him to Hinata (Miyazaki Prefecture), but many of his subordinates were reluctant to leave their hometown, preferring to become ronins and common people, and these people later became the force of the rebels.

Replacing Naojun Arima as lord of the island was Toyogo Mamori Matsukura Shigemasa, who was a famous man who built a castle, and of course he was not satisfied with Hino River Castle here, so he built a large number of buildings and asked for money and work. In this way, the people of the island were doubly miserable -- they were not allowed to believe in religion and had to pay for their work endlessly. Those who did not want to abandon the religion were not only doused in soup, burned, and thrown into the sea, but also thrown into the sulfur crater of Unzen Hot Springs and smoked alive. Not only that, but the tax is also extremely harsh, planting a tobacco, half of the harvested tobacco leaves must be paid; The eggplant planted should be expected to bear several fruits, and sometimes the harvest is not good, and all the harvested must be handed in.

Just when people no longer have any life, a legend spreads in Shimabara and Amakusa. It turns out that around 1614, when he was forced to leave Japan, a priest prophesied: "In 25 years, when there is a tendo who is reincarnated as God, who is proficient in doctrine and magic, he will surely save you." Later, a person appeared, and he was Shiro Tokisada, the son of the samurai Masuda Yoshiji of Amakusa Island, who was 16 years old. Thousands of people in suffering gathered around him, forming a powerful force.

After the war, Shimabara and Amakusa became almost no man's land, and the shogunate had to ask many farmers from Sanuki (Kagawa Prefecture) to move here. The shogunate considered the "Shimabara Rebellion" to be a rebellion of the believers and decided to ban religion altogether. The following year, in 1639, Portuguese ships were forbidden to sail; Two years later, the Dutch Merchant House was moved to Nagasaki and foreign sailors were forbidden to travel with Japanese sailors, thus beginning a 260-year policy of seclusion. During this period, with the exception of Dutch, Chinese, and North Korean ships, contact with other countries in the world was completely cut off.

It is a miracle in the history of peasant revolts that the peasants used the power of faith to rebel against the feudal regime of the shogunate in an organized and large-scale manner, and under the command of a 16-year-old boy.

There were many contradictions between the Protestant countries of England and the Netherlands and the old Catholic countries of Spain and Portugal, which had arrived earlier, so the former slandered in front of Ieyasu.

The Catholic missionaries were spies sent by the Spanish and Portuguese kings who tried in vain to turn Japan into a colony. Ieyasu was dissatisfied with the Catholic Church's promotion of God's omnipotence and thus diluted the authority of secular lords, and then saw that many Kyushu princes had obtained large quantities of goods and weapons through trade with Western and Portuguese countries, and believed that if they were allowed to develop unchecked, they would shake the foundation of the shogunate's rule.

From then on, religious persecution expanded into trade restrictions, with the Portuguese being expelled, then the British, and finally banned Spanish ships from sailing in the first year of Kanei (1624). In addition to the seals, Japanese ships must also obtain a "letter from the old man" before they can go to sea, and all Japanese living in foreign countries are strictly forbidden to return to China and will be executed if they return.

Japan basically cut off the Nanban trade, with the only exception being the Dutch, the Dutch East India Company set up a branch in Japan, promising the shogunate that it would never spread Christianity, and as soon as the Dutch merchant ships arrived in Japan, the director of the merchant hall immediately submitted the "Dutch Wind Tale" to the shogunate, reporting the overseas situation. However, even the Dutch were only allowed to build trading houses on the island of Dejima in Nagasaki, and were not allowed to set foot in the interior of Japan, and even Chinese ships were only allowed to anchor in the port of Nagasaki.

Where there is oppression, there will inevitably be resistance, and the shocking "Shimahara and Amakusa Rebellion" broke out against the background of banning religion and locking up the country.

"As long as we let out the rumors, it is clear that the court intends to seize Nagasaki, Tokugawa Iemitsu will definitely not sit idly by, the Dutch and the Ming court are even more contradictory, how to learn to use the opponent's contradictions, this is the most powerful place, the Han Sun Tzu's Art of War does not say that the army is strategic? We are now in a stalemate with the Ming court in Korea, and whoever comes at this time will change the balance of the war, and who will not be tempted? Huang Taiji confidently looked in the direction of Japan.

Dolgon nodded and said, "The younger brother understands, the emperor can rest assured, and the younger brother will arrange it immediately." (To be continued......)