Huang Sheng had already planned when he was in Shengjing, and all the silver and military rations he lent to Dolgon went to the Wa Kingdom to get them. He had long heard that the Wa Kingdom was a divided country, and although there was an emperor on the surface, it was the powerful shogun who actually held power. This is like the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty, when Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

This is the case with the current Wa Kingdom, which is not a large country, but it has a large population, and there are a hundred and ten vassal states on four small islands. Although they were nominally subordinate to the shogunate, in practice each feudal lord had a great deal of autonomy.

Since there were many vassal states, there was no unified and strong central court. How could a general who only relied on a general who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes resist the attack of the Three Guards?

In particular, the new army, which had just been formed last year, showed its face on the Korean battlefield as soon as it appeared, and defeated the Manchu Eight Banners three times.

It was bitterly cold outside the gate, and the north wind was cold, blowing on his face like a knife, Huang Sheng couldn't help but tighten the mink hat on his head.

Cheng Mingjiu is still preoccupied.

"Let's persecute the marquis so much, in case, in case he can't help ......"

Huang Sheng smiled and shook his head, "Why is Cheng Junmen worried?" When Chen Qiaoyi was dressed in a yellow robe, when did Song Taizu turn his face? It just so happens that the Marquis of Zhenyu recently intends to teach the Japanese people a lesson, so we can take the opportunity to act. ”

Now many people in the Three Guards can see that although the Marquis of Zhenyu has gained de facto dominance in Jiangnan, he does not seem to have any intention of standing on his own. When it comes to relations with Beijing, he is always vague and noncommittal.

This can be very bad for Nanjing and the core figures of the Three Guards. Among them, the core representative of the business community is Huang Sheng, as for the Three Guards, from Lu Jiu to Cheng Mingjiu, including Mi Yan, who is not in a hurry.

Even Zheng Sanjun and Jiang Yueguang, who have been ministers of the Ming Dynasty for many years, rolled up their sleeves to participate in it, especially Jiang Yueguang, who was in charge of the Hanlin Academy. This person has now replaced Gao Hongtu as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department.

At this time, he was on his way to Seoul on a sea boat for the first time in his life.

After Cheng Mingjiu and Huang Sheng met and discussed in Jinzhouwei, the two of them immediately went their separate ways. Seven days later, the Ming Dynasty garrison in Korea took a sea ship to Honshu Island on the grounds that the Japanese invaders had plundered the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty.

On the one hand, an ultimatum was issued to the shogunate, demanding reparations and food, and if the other side was willing to apologize, the two sides could naturally strike and make peace. However, the requirements put forward by the Ming army were really difficult for the Japanese shogun to grit his teeth and bear, so he had to choose to fight.

Moreover, although the Ming Dynasty was mighty on the mainland, after all, the soldiers never affected the Japanese mainland. Although the war between the Wa State and the Ming Dynasty did not take advantage of it, it was the Wa State attacking after all, and the Ming State defending.

Although the Ming State finally insisted on the last, the Wa State never recognized it and was defeated by the Ming army. The whole country was almost unanimous in their perception of this, so they could only respond forcefully to the provocation of the Ming army stationed in Korea.

As a result, the Ming War broke out without warning at the end of the year. However, this big battle is like a thunderstorm in the middle of summer, it comes and goes quickly. Just as the news of the outbreak of war reached Nanjing and Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, the belligerents had already died down.

And these news were only passing by in the newspapers in Nanjing, as if the Ming army and the Japanese army had only had a small friction. But what is more strange is that the Marquis of Zhenyu did not say a word about such a major state event. This is all the more credible, as speculation that this is nothing more than a conflict friction.

After all, the people in Jiangnan still have an impression of the Japanese country in the era of burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of evil, and they do not want the imperial court to annoy the Japanese people and invite the trouble of the Japanese again.

However, those who know the inside story know that the reason why the war was downplayed was deliberately done by the Marquis of Zhen, including the turbulent internal situation in Korea, and few people in the country knew the inside story. After all, the imperial court in Beijing was the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, and if he unscrupulously provoked a border provocation in Nanjing, it would undoubtedly attract condemnation from many parties.

In order not to make the Three Guards a target of public criticism, they could only try their best to block news at home, while the Three Guards fought hard overseas.

After the 5,000 new troops sent by Cheng Mingjiu landed on Honshu Island, they almost cut melons and vegetables, and directly entered Edo. Tokugawa Iemitsu, the general of the Seiyi who was actually in power in the Wa Kingdom, was captured alive.

It is said that when Tokugawa Iemitsu was captured alive, he still thought that the Ming army was just bluffing. As for the reality of the Ming army, as early as the moment they landed, it had been clearly investigated. Isn't it beyond our power to dare to attack the Wa Kingdom with a population of 10 million with only 5,000 people?

Therefore, at the beginning, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not pay attention to the 5,000 Ming army at all, and sent several of the most powerful vassal generals to lead troops out of the city to meet the battle. In the name of the shogunate, the general requisitioned a total of 20,000 elite soldiers from the nearby feudal states, and then claimed to be 200,000 horses, and rushed up against the Ming army.

As a result, in just one day's work, the 5,000 Ming army was beating the Tokugawa shogun's "200,000 horses" in the front. Under the First World War, the whole country shook. After all, the defeat of the 5,000 people by the "200,000 horses" of the general was too shocking, and it also made the Tokugawa family lose face.

However, since the cowhide had been blown out, Tokugawa Iemitsu could not say that he had only sent 20,000 men out to meet the enemy. Otherwise, in the future, once a vassal state in the country opposes him, and he is so bluffing, who will believe it?

Besides, Tokugawa Iemitsu believed that the main reason for the defeat of the Japanese army was that the enemy was light, and as long as the whole army fought again and dealt with the law, with a mere 5,000 Ming army, what storm could be stirred up in Honshu?

It was under this ambivalence that Tokugawa Iemitsu reorganized his army and fought again, but the result was a series of defeats in several days, and the third-generation general of the Tokugawa family had become a prisoner of the Ming army before he even reacted.

After the capture of Edo, the Ming army did not carry out barbaric massacres, but only killed several of the most hostile vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate in the name of fighting against the imperial division. And the culprit Tokugawa Iemitsu opened up to him, not only did not abolish him, but still let him continue to be the general of the Edo shogunate. One of the conditions was that Tokugawa Iemitsu had to sign a treaty with a private trading company called the Gangnam Trading Company on behalf of the Wa Kingdom.

At this point, Tokugawa Iemitsu can no longer care about any decency or indecency, as long as he can save his life and maintain his status, let alone sign a treaty, even if he loses his wife and children.

However, the people of the Ming Dynasty were not uncommon with the wives and children of Tokugawa Iemitsu, but the silver, grain and people of the Wa Kingdom were rare.

In addition to food, silver and human resources were the most important things in the Wa Kingdom. Especially the latter, with the end of the Warring States period, the population began to surge after the life of the common people of the Wa Kingdom stabilized.

Therefore, without even blinking a brow, Tokugawa Iemitsu signed his name on the treaty drawn up by the Ming Dynasty and stamped it with the seal of the Great Shogun of Seiyi.

The Ming Dynasty did not immediately withdraw their troops because of the signing of the treaty, which greatly disappointed the lucky Tokugawa Iemitsu, who knew that these people should not be able to see things and would not leave, so they hurriedly sent troops up and down to collect food and silver. At the same time, he was also sighing, he knew today, why bother in the first place?

But at the beginning, who knew that the Ming army had been so powerful?

Instead of withdrawing their troops, the Ming Dynasty increased their troops to the Wa Kingdom by 20,000 within a few days of the treaty being signed. This makes the Tokugawa family sit on pins and needles, and you must know how to allow others to snore on the side of the couch? He didn't even sleep well every day.

Halfway through the first month, the Wa Kingdom made waves again, and several feudal states located in the northern part of Honshu Island rebelled in the name of the shogun's humiliation of the emperor and went south to crusade.

For a time, dozens of feudal states, large and small, united against Tokugawa Iemitsu in various parts of the country.

As the third generation of the Shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu never thought that these former obedient local feudal lords would have the courage to oppose him, but when he was furious and summoned his vassals to discuss the crusade, he was shocked to find that his combatable troops had been routed and crushed in the battle with the Ming army. In the newly signed treaty, these people will be treated as war criminals, and the first batch of 50,000 people will be sent to Liaodong to work instead of punishment.

But you can't just watch these rebellious feudal lords fight all the way to Edo, right? Tokugawa Iemitsu spread his hands and expressed helplessness. In the end, a vassal suggested that he borrow troops from the Ming people, as long as the Ming people came out, those rabble would definitely be vulnerable.

Even though Tokugawa Jiang knew that borrowing troops from the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to drinking water to quench his thirst, he was forced by the situation to make such a choice.

How do you know that the commander of the garrison of the Ming Dynasty opened his mouth widely, and the food, grass and silver money he wanted to send troops were rewarded. As a last resort, Tokugawa Iemitsu had no choice but to promise again that after the successful evaluation of the counterinsurgency, he would definitely offer it with both hands and would never regret it.

The main general of the Ming Dynasty was not verbose, only sneered a few times and said, he was not afraid that he would regret it, and at that time he would take it, what could he do? Tokugawa Iemitsu was angry and humiliated, but he had to bow his head when he was under people.

In just ten days, the Ming army defeated the allied forces of the northern feudal clans, and this time the Ming army was not as restrained as it was during the Battle of Edo, and burned all the way to the Akita domain, and several captured feudal lords along the way were treated relatively favorably.

In the end, the Ming army took a large number of prisoners back to Edo and handed them over to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the general of the Seiyi.

In order to maintain his rule, Tokugawa Iemitsu killed all the captured feudal lords one by one, and then appointed his confidants and retainers to serve as feudal lords in various places.

After the counterinsurgency and war, the internal political structure of the Japanese state changed abruptly. The Tokugawa shogunate seemed to have wiped out several major feudal lords in the north in the midst of civil strife, but in fact it was greatly damaged and its prestige was greatly damaged, and it could only continue to rely on the support of the Ming army to maintain its rule.