Chapter 765 "The Righteous Army"

As the leader of the "Righteous Army", Yamauchi Fengchang waited patiently outside the gate of Chen Xie's residence for a whole day, and finally saw a woman in the military uniform of the Ming Empire walking over. The woman who can appear here at this time is naturally Chen Xie's personal guard ninja.

"Are you Toyomasa Yamauchi of the Tosa Domain? How did it end up here? "The female ninja's question is very polite, with an expression that I don't worry about you. Yamauchi Toyomasa bowed decisively ninety degrees: "Hey, it's Yamauchi Toyomasa down there, because he made an appointment with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to trade here, so he was fortunate to appear here." ”

A group of Ming businessmen around Yamauchi Fengchang had a much more relaxed attitude, and they all spoke unhurriedly, "Song Zhao of Songjiang Mansion of Daming Dynasty", "Kong Ning of Hangzhou Mansion of Daming Dynasty", "Zhang He of Dengzhou Mansion of Daming Dynasty" ....... These people have a relaxed mentality, not because they are awesome, but because of their identity as Ming merchants. Behind every businessman here, there is a member of the local council.

The courage of these people is not ordinary, and the cannon was fired, and Song Zhao, who was the leader, said to Yamauchi Yifeng, hurry up and revolt on the battlefield, otherwise you will be finished. Toyomasa Yamauchi of the Tosa Domain is not the current head of the family, he is the son of the head of the family, Nakatoyo. The Tosa clan has always been synonymous with poverty, and its financial difficulties have not been resolved. Catching up with the boom of human trafficking, they also followed this business together. After the outbreak of the Shogunate War, the Tosa clan was a wall grass, and historically, they were pro-shogunate. In the early days of the war, he did secretly collude with the shogunate, asking for money, food, and arms. Tokugawa Iemitsu was also very interesting, and gave a lot of them, hoping that they could help in the war. Unexpectedly, the shogunate's army fought a battle with the combined forces of the Choshu and Satsuma domains near Kyoto, and the 30,000-strong army was defeated. I just threw Kyoto away. At this time, the Tosa clan immediately changed its course, and the wall grass was not done, and immediately joined the side of the downfall. Of course, even if they join the side of the downfall, their attitude is still very ambiguous, and if there is a benefit, they will share a little. Things that don't benefit are dragged on.

Changzhou and Satsuma, the two main forces that fell to the curtain, didn't care about these wall-head grasses at this time, they all had the same mind, first destroy the shogunate, and then go back and then teach these bridgehead grasses to be people, as long as they don't make trouble.

Chen Xie landed in Sakai Port, and Yamauchi Toyomasa happened to send more than 100 "commodities", and the trading object was Song Zhao. The deal is done, and I don't wait for him to leave. The fleet was killed. Originally, he planned to leave immediately, but after thinking about it, he decided to stay and see, there are more than 2,000 defenders in Sakai Port, how can they resist it, and it will be urgent to defeat him and run again.

Who knew that the tide of battle would change too quickly, and the defenders of Sakai Port placed their main force on the battery on the hill near the port, which happened to be the main target of the naval guns. After an hour of intense artillery fire, more than 1,500 defenders were blown apart. Heavy casualties are all trivial, the toughest Choshu samurai. They all made the move of dropping down and turning around and running.

Yamauchi Toyomasa was really dumbfounded, and when he went back to pack his things and was about to run away, he met Song Zhao, this businessman from Songjiang Mansion was gathering his companions to prepare to do internal response, but he didn't expect Yamauchi Toyomasa to send it to the door, so what else is there to say, some encouragement. Toyomasa Yamauchi, who was already frightened by the heavy artillery fire, quickly made a decision. On the one hand, he sent someone to deliver a letter to his family, and on the other hand, he kept his own hundred retinues, and gathered together with the five or six hundred thugs gathered by the Ming and Korean merchants, and directly killed the defenders of the port. The defenders who were already in a mess. Seeing that Yamauchi Toyomasa was quite happy, he thought that reinforcements were coming, but he didn't expect the platoon guns to fire at them, and he was caught off guard.

In this way, an infantry regiment had just landed, and a group of merchants from the Ming Dynasty and Yamauchi Toyomasa came out and surrendered under a white flag.

Chen Xie found that there were too many things he couldn't understand, one of the four great feudal clans in his memory. How did you become so undisciplined and betray the country and the nation? However, many things are actually not difficult to understand, the reason is very simple, the gap is too big. Otherwise, in the 21st century, the US imperialists are still stationing troops in Japan? At the end of the day, it's still a fist. Especially in Japan at this time, the prestige of the emperor fell to the ground and was trampled on by the daimyos. The joint efforts of various powerful feudal clans to bring down the curtain are just to use the banner of one emperor after another. After all, in this era, there is no Sakamoto Ryoma, no Ito Hirobumi, no Saigo Takamori, no Yamaguchi Tomo, no .......

A Japan that has not awakened is surrounded by a great empire with high mountains and mountains. When this invincible empire comes across the sea, things like national consciousness become cheap. A country where the majority of its citizens do not have a sense of belonging to the country is undoubtedly deplorable. Just like China in modern history, it has created a miracle that the number of puppet armies exceeds that of invading armies.

When Yamauchi Toyomasa was led into the door, he saw not Chen Xie sitting on a tatami mat, but Chen Xie who had a set of sofas on the tatami mats and then sat on the sofa. "Toyomasa in Yamauchi, Tosa Domain, I've met Lord Kamikoku."

Looking at Toyomasa Yamauchi, who was subdued to the ground, Chen Xie felt a little scratching his head, his original plan was to implement the so-called fight against local tyrants in Japan to divide the land, take back the rights of all the big names, and unify the rights in his own hands. Now that there are so many Japanese leading parties, they can't chill people's hearts and add unnecessary trouble to themselves, right?

"Get up, sit." Chen Xie stretched out his hand lightly, raised it weakly, and motioned for him to get up. Yamauchi Fengchang did not sit on the sofa, but knelt directly and waited for Chen Xie's lecture with a straight face.

"Dongying must be unified, just like the Ming Dynasty, centralized power, not the current warlords from all walks of life." Chen Xie opened his mouth unhurriedly, his eyes staring at Toyomasa Yamauchi's reaction. This guy listened very carefully, and at the same time said "Hi" very simply: "Understood!" ”

"I can't stay in Japan for long, so it's important to see who holds the power of the new Japan and how it will be held. I don't know, can Yamauchi-kun give me some reasonable advice? When Chen Xie threw out the question again, there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. Those who know him well know that this is not a good thing.

At this time, Chen Xie's real thoughts in his heart were very simple, no matter what party led the way or not, no one could stop him from implementing new policies in Japan. If this guy is not interested, Chen Xie will not kill him now, let him go, and then defeat these so-called Japanese daimyo with dignity.

Chen Xie's mentality quickly returned to normal, and there was no need to dwell on it, because he was here to crush him, so do I need to be embarrassed by your thoughts and feelings? Even if the Yamauchi family refuses to give up the qiē in their hands, there will always be other people who will give up and get something else from Chen Xie's hands.

Toyomasa understood that Japan needed to change and could not continue like this, otherwise the country's vitality would be exhausted in the civil war. His Excellency is rich from all over the world, so naturally he will not covet this small interest of Japan. Therefore, even if the Yamauchi family loses the current qiē, Your Excellency will compensate us. "Toyomasa Yamauchi is really a smart man, and he quickly found an answer that he thought was reasonable. Chen Xie looked at his expression quietly, very sincerely.

"Well, so be it, I see what you mean." Waving his hand, Chen Xie didn't mean to get up, what kind of attitude of Corporal Lixian, there was no one at all. It's a pity that instead of being dissatisfied, Yamauchi Toyomasa became more and more respectful, knelt on the ground again, slowly retreated to the door, and then bowed out.

"Really, you don't give me any excuses, why am I embarrassed?" Chen Xie showed a helpless expression, muttering to himself with a cup of ginseng tea, and Ah Xi, who came out of the door, answered: "Then don't make excuses, leave it to the slave and maid." When the woman said this, she seemed to be talking about killing a chicken.

Chen Xie didn't look back, just shook his head slightly: "Forget it, Japan always needs people to govern it, and killing people can't solve too many problems." It is still from education and people's livelihood, which is the fundamental way. ”

The news from the Edo direction finally arrived, which Chen Xie was quite dissatisfied, and the first regiment of the mountain brigade took the initiative to attack several times, and in the face of the Choshu Domain, which had superior forces, it could only fight a short contact battle, and withdrew if it could not take advantage. In turn, the Choshu clan did not make any next move after the attack of the dense fog and kept holding the camp. In this situation, even if a regiment has obvious advantages in equipment, it is difficult to make a difference. The Japanese are not stupid, they have a strong ability to learn, and the Choshu Domain not only has a camp, but also digs trenches.

Chen Xie's dissatisfaction was that the shogunate army on the Edo side was completely blind and deaf if he didn't take the initiative to attack, and even if he didn't take the initiative to attack, he couldn't keep up with the intelligence side. Especially the information that was sent recently, Chen Xie was almost happy when he saw it. When the Satsuma clan will withdraw its troops, the Edo side doesn't know at all.

Sakai Port quickly returned to order, and in the afternoon sun, the docks were still busy. If it weren't for the ubiquitous checkpoints, it's hard to imagine this being a war zone. The biggest change on the dock is the people, and the samurai lords who used to be seen everywhere in the past are now not visible. The lives of ordinary people and businessmen were not greatly affected.

In a barracks near the wharf, more than 500 "volunteers" are lining up to take turns getting haircuts, bathing and changing clothes, and they will undergo two months of training before appearing as Sakai Port police. It is not easy to become a police officer, and in the past five days, the easiest way for them to prove their innocence is to find three shops as guarantees.

The composition of these people is very complex, some eat the news meal on the docks, some are wandering wild warriors, and some are thugs of merchants. After the army took over the port of Sakai, these men were charged. Some people were taken away by the boss, and some chose to stay. Others wanted to stay, but were driven away. (To be continued......)