Chapter 962: The Man Behind the Scenes

The fleet of the Ming army's sailors rode the wind and waves all the way to the sea, and after a few days of sailing, they arrived at the port of Ningbo.

Knowing that Li Yuntian had actually captured the Japanese who had plundered Nanzhili from the Japanese Kingdom, and that there was also a feudal lord of the Japanese State who harbored and sheltered the Japanese Invaders, the entire Ming Dynasty was shocked by this shocking news.

Since Emperor Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty has been using a passive defense strategy in the face of the attack of the Japanese invaders, and dozens of coastal defense stations have been arranged along the coastline of the Ming Dynasty to block the invasion of the Japanese invaders, but the actual effect is worrying.

It is rare for Li Yuntian to take the initiative to go to sea to suppress the Japanese invaders, and at most he goes to sea to pursue the Japanese who plundered the coastal state capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Since these arrested would-be criminals were committed in Songjiang Mansion, Li Yuntian had Shimazu Mingyun and others escorted to Songjiang Mansion for trial, and Shimazu Mingyun and other important people involved in the case were sentenced to hanging, execution, and beheading, and they could take their lives in the autumn after being verified by the Criminal Department.

The families of those Japanese criminals were also implicated, and they were sentenced to the crime of exile of 3,000 miles, and they will go to the bitter cold land in the northwest to spend the rest of their lives, which is simply a painful torment for them living in the Japanese country, and the wind and sand in the northwest alone will make them suffer enough.

However, what is surprising is that Shimazu Mingyun's family was not exiled to the northwest, but was sent to Qiongzhou Island in the South China Sea.

Although the living conditions on Qiongzhou Island are also very bad, compared with the northwest, not only the climate is more suitable for the people of the Japanese country, but also the safety can be guaranteed.

The reason for this is because Shimazu Mingyun took the initiative to dedicate Qingshui Castle, and also told Li Yuntian that he would send his subordinates to loot Songjiang Mansion.

In fact, Shimazu Mingyun did not think about sending troops to loot Songjiang Mansion before, after all, Li Yuntian had already led his troops to recover Xiaoliuqiu Island, the base camp of the Japanese pirates at sea, which gave him a lot of shock.

However, there was a person who came to persuade Shimazu Mingyun, saying that the Ming Dynasty seemed to be determined to eliminate the Japanese invaders on the sea this time, and it would be even more difficult for the Japanese or the subordinates sent by the Daimyo of Kyushu Island to plunder in the future, so it was better to take advantage of Li Yuntian's unstable foothold on Xiaoliuqiu Island to make a big deal in the Ming Dynasty and make a lot of money.

The other party gave two reasons to make Shimazu Mingyun excited, one reason is that because Li Yuntian recovered Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island, the precautions of the coastal state capital of Daming must be lax, and the other is that the blame can be put on the head of the Japanese Invaders, so that the outside world thinks that it is the revenge of the Japanese Invaders.

Moreover, the other party also swore that he had already contacted the inner Ying of the coastal state capital of Daming, and at that time he could assist Shimazu Mingyun's people to enter the county seat, and then they could plunder at will.

Under the temptation of huge interests, Shimazu Mingyun was moved, as the other party said, with the intensification of the Ming Dynasty's efforts to clean up the Japanese invaders, especially after the loss of Xiaoliuqiu Island, an important Japanese base, the plundering of the Ming Dynasty will be more difficult.

Therefore, Shimazu Mingyun decided to take advantage of the fact that the Ming Dynasty had not yet finished clearing out the Japanese Invaders, and anyway, the Ming people would also push the matter on the heads of the Japanese Invaders.

In addition, even if the people of the Ming Dynasty knew that the affairs of Songjiang Mansion were done by him, Shimazu Mingyun did not believe that the Ming Dynasty would cross the ocean to come to our country to arrest him, after all, the two Eastern Crusades of the Yuan Army ended in a fiasco, so he was not afraid of the Ming Dynasty.

Shimazu Mingyun's analysis is actually not wrong, if it is left to other Ming officials, it will definitely be blamed on the Japanese to do the looting of Songjiang Mansion, and then it will not be done, even if there is intelligence that the looting is related to Shimazu Mingyun, it will not be investigated, let alone propose to go to the Japanese to find Shimazu Mingyun.

It's a pity that Shimazu Mingyun met Li Yuntian, and he made a big mistake, that is, he shouldn't go to Songjiang Mansion to loot when Li Yuntian was going all out to clean up the Japanese invaders, this is undoubtedly a provocation to Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian will definitely free up his hands to teach him a lesson, otherwise where is the face of the dignified Ming Zhongwu King?

When Shimazu Mingyun learned that Li Yuntian had led the Ming army to arrive on Ryukyu Island, he was immediately shocked, and then regretted sending troops to Songjiang Mansion to plunder, because he realized that he might be in big trouble this time, and God knows that Li Yuntian really led his troops to the Wa Kingdom to find his grandson.

However, after all, the Satsuma Domain was a strong vassal of the Wa Kingdom, and the Yuan army failed in the two Eastern Crusades that year, so Shimazu Mingyun was confident that he would defeat Li Yuntian who came to Xingshi to ask for his guilt, how could he arrest those retainers he sent to loot and send them to Li Yuntian, so how could he serve the public, and where was his face?

But then the development of the situation was completely beyond Shimazu Naruto's imagination, just when Shimazu Naruto actively contacted the daimyo of Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island and Honshu Island to fight against the invasion of the Ming monarch, and sent people to the shogunate for help, Li Yuntian ran to Kyoto and turned the tide of the war in one fell swoop, so that Shimazu Naruto lost foreign aid and had to fight alone.

Determined to win, Shimazu Naruto made the decision to ambush the Ming army at Red Bird Mountain, wanting to solve the Ming army led by Li Yuntian once and for all, but the result was very different from what he expected, he was ambushed by the Ming army at Red Bird Mountain, so that the whole army was annihilated, and he had to let Shimazu Narumi Kaeki of Shimizu Castle surrender.

If he could give Shimazu Mingyun a chance to start over, he would never send someone to the Songjiang Mansion of the Ming Dynasty to loot, and then meet such a terrible opponent as Li Yuntian, as if his words and deeds were controlled by Li Yuntian, and he became a prisoner in Red Bird Mountain in a daze.

The people who bewitched Shimazu Naruto and plundered Matsue Prefecture originally lived in Shimizu Castle, but when the news of the arrival of the Ming army's fleet on Ryukyu Island came, he disappeared inexplicably and fled without a trace.

At first, Shimazu Mingyun thought that he was scared away by the Ming army because he was cowardly, and he was quite contemptuous of him, but it was not until he became a prisoner that he realized that the hateful guy must have known that Li Yuntian was terrible, so he fled in advance to avoid trouble.

To tell the truth, Shimazu Naruto now hates this guy who encouraged him to send troops to Matsue Mansion to plunder, if it weren't for him, how could the Satsuma Domain suffer such a catastrophe?

So Shimazu Mingyun definitely wants to confess it, on the one hand, he wants the other party to get the punishment he deserves, and on the other hand, he also wants to make meritorious contributions to his family to find a way out, after all, his family Xiaoquan was arrested by Li Yuntian, and no one can save them except Li Yuntian.

When Li Yuntian heard the name of the person who instigated him to send troops to loot Songjiang Mansion from Shimazu Mingyun, he couldn't help but feel quite surprised, and at the same time felt a little pity, if he had been caught on Xiaoliuqiu Island last year, Songjiang Mansion would not have suffered such a catastrophe.

It was none other than the one who encouraged Shimazu Mingyun to go to Songjiang Mansion to plunder, it was Domoto Munemitsu, who had a premonition that the situation was not good when Li Yuntian recovered the chicken coop port on Xiaoliuqiu Island last year.

Because Domoto Zongguang took refuge under the command of Aoki Mingxin, Li Yuntian once asked Aoki Mingxin in Shimizu City, but unfortunately Aoki Mingxin did not know the true background of Domoto Zongguang, after all, the people in this line of work will keep their life experience strictly secret, secretive, and no one will inquire into anyone's details between them.

In Aoki Akito's view, Domoto Munemitsu is generous, bold, and has made a lot of friends under the opening of money, and is a very sophisticated and sleek person.

Moreover, Domoto Somitsu sometimes can't help but exude a sense of the officialdom of a superior person, although he seems to be trying his best to hide it, but Aoki Mingxin has been crawling in the world for decades, and this bit of eyesight is still there.

Although Aoki Mingxin suspects that Domoto Somitsu is the son of a family of eunuchs who suffered in the Ming Dynasty, the hero Mo asks the source, as long as Domoto Somitsu is loyal to him, he doesn't care about Domoto Somitsu's past.

Aoki Akishin didn't know where Domoto Munemitsu had gone, he hadn't seen Domoto Munemitsu since Xiaoliuqiu Island was recovered by Li Yuntian, and judging from the current situation, Domoto Munemitsu went to take refuge in Shimazu Narumun.

Judging from the fact that Domoto Munemitsu didn't go to Aoki Akiro after leaving Shimazu Mingyun, this guy must have other places to take refuge, but it was difficult to find out where he went for a while.

Keiko Yamaguchi and the people from the Kyoto Affairs Office of the Shobudo were all told by Li Yuntian to secretly visit the Domoto Soko, although it is still unclear the details of the Domoto Somitsu, but now at least there is a clear goal, as long as the identity of the Domoto Soguang can be found out, then many things will be revealed.

The auxiliary ministers of the capital heard that Li Yuntian's expedition to the Wa Kingdom had brought a vassal king of the Wa State, so they wrote a letter to Li Yuntian, asking Li Yuntian to escort Shimazu Mingyun and others to the capital to parade through the streets to publicize the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty and inspire the people.

After receiving the letter, Li Yuntian couldn't help but sigh that Shimazu Mingyun was lucky, in this way, Shimazu Mingyun might save a life, it depends on whether he is clever or not, you must know that those civil and military ministers in the court have always liked to give benevolence to those "overseas barbarians" who have not yet been civilized, hoping to influence them, and they will give special preferential treatment to "vassal kings" like Shimazu Mingyun.

Things turned out to be as Li Yuntian expected, Shimazu Mingyun went to the capital and confessed his crime cleanly, and begged for forgiveness from the Great Tomorrow, anyway, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was the overlord of the entire East, and even the shogunate generals accepted his canonization, so it seemed logical and not shameful for him to intercede with the orthodox emperor.

After experiencing the First World War of Red Bird Mountain, Shimazu Naruto was deeply shocked, and he was already disheartened, without his previous ambitions, and only wanted to be safe and secure with his family for the rest of his life.

As for the Satsuma Domain, the moment Shimazu Narumu made up his mind to make Shimazu Narumi surrender, he knew that the Satsuma Domain had drifted away from him, and no one wanted to be the lord of the domain with a man who had lost the battle and surrendered to the enemy.

The orthodox emperor was young, and the matter of Shimazu Mingyun was naturally resolved by the auxiliary ministers, and after the deliberation of the auxiliary ministers, it was decided to exempt Shimazu Mingyun from the death penalty and let him live with his family, so as to show the virtue of the Ming Dynasty to the overseas barbarian countries.

So Shimazu Mingyun was lucky to save a life, and later went to Qiongzhou Island with his family, and lived a good life on Qiongzhou Island.