"Xianggong, our goods are too conspicuous, and many people in Kyoto are now figuring out how to trade those goods." When Li Yuntian was lying on the recliner with a leisurely face and closed his eyes to recuperate, Lei Ting walked over with a plate of fruit and a smile.

Compared with Li Yuntian, the magnates in Kyoto valued the goods he brought with him, and since the tributary trade between the Ming and the Wa Kingdom had been suspended, this was a rare trade opportunity.

Therefore, since Li Yuntian arrived in Kyoto City, those powerful people in Kyoto City have been doing everything possible to inquire about how Li Yuntian is going to trade those goods.

The results of the inquiry were a little disappointing to the magnates, because sixty percent of the goods had already been divided equally between Ashikaga Yoshihito, Hosokawa Katsumoto, and Yamana Toyotoyo, and they could only get their hands on the remaining forty percent, which meant that Ashikaga Yoshihito and the three would make a lot of money in this trade.

In order to get a piece of the rest of the goods, the magnates of Kyoto City tried their best to get news from Li Yuntian's entourage, wanting to know what goods Li Yuntian wanted so they could prepare.

"The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, if Xianggong can use a little small profit to make the people of the Wa Kingdom give up supporting the Satsuma Domain, then it is a very cost-effective deal in Xianggong's opinion."

Li Yuntian opened his eyes with a smile, picked up a red apple from the tray held by Lei Ting, took a bite, and said with a smile while chewing:

"Although the imperial court implemented a blockade strategy against the Japanese state, the prime minister felt that knowing himself and knowing that the other side could survive a hundred battles, rather than knowing nothing about him, it was better to understand him thoroughly and implement a dividing strategy against him, so as to better control it."

"Xianggong, my Ming Dynasty is rich in materials and vast territory, and in the eyes of the civil and military officials of the imperial court, it is the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, how can I put an overseas barbarian state like the Wa Kingdom in my eyes." Lei Ting laughed when she heard this, the biggest difference between Li Yuntian and other powerful people in the Ming Dynasty is that he has a long-term vision and attaches great importance to overseas states, and he does not despise them because they are now wild and uncivilized, which can be said to be a precautionary measure.

"It is precisely because the Ming Dynasty is the kingdom of heaven that it has to shoulder the heavy responsibility of leading the countries of the world, rather than being complacent." Li Yuntian shook his head helplessly when he heard this, it was the Ming and Qing dynasties that closed off the country, arrogant and arrogant, disconnected from the outside world, lost the opportunity to contact the industrial revolution, and finally fell into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country in front of the strong ships and cannons of the great powers, which can't help but make people feel embarrassed.

Lei Ting deeply sympathized with what Li Yuntian said, now the Ming Dynasty has gone up to the princes and generals, down to the peddlers and pawns, all of them regard themselves as the upper country, where to consider the things that will happen thousands of years later, you must know that there is no flower for a hundred days, and no matter how strong the empire is, there will be a day of decline.

"Xianggong, the concubine has probed, the contradiction between Hosokawa and Yamana is becoming increasingly intensified, and the eastern daimyo and the western daimyo of the Daozhì Wa Kingdom are in opposition to each other, and in the long run, a large-scale conflict is likely to break out between the two sides."

Then, Lei Ting remembered something and said to Li Yuntian with a smile, "As far as the concubines know, the focus of the dispute between the two sides is the heir of the next shogun. ”

It turned out that after Ashikaga Yoshihito became the shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, he had no children in his early years, so he took his younger brother Ashikaga Yoshinari as his heir and Hosokawa Katsumoto as Ashikaga Yoshinari's protector.

Unexpectedly, the day after Ashikaga Yoshihito became the heir of Ashikaga Yoshihito, his wife gave birth to a son, Yoshikei, so Ashikaga Yoshihito took the mountain name Chitoyo as his protector.

Since Ashikaga Yoshinari and Ashikaga Yoshinori were both legally the sons of Ashikaga Yoshihito, both were qualified to succeed as shoguns, which made the protectors of both sides, Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochitoyo, fight openly and secretly for the position of heir, making it inevitable that the shogunate, which was originally relatively harmonious, would split.

In addition, the power of the guardian daimyo of the Wa Kingdom continued to grow, and in order to weaken their power, Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochitoyo began to intervene in the inheritance dispute of the daimyo guardians, and the power of the guardian daimyo gradually split.

To this day, the conflict between the shogunate and the local daimyo has intensified, centered on the confrontation between Hosokawa Katsumoto and Toyo Yamana in Kyoto Castle.

"Ssangyong Duo Yan!" Li Yuntian smiled when he heard this, and said, "It seems that the Wa Kingdom is going to experience a big turmoil this time, and neither Hosokawa Katsumoto nor Yamana Mochitoshi will give up their control of the shogunate." ”

"Xianggong, since Ashikaga Yoshihito is already the actual ruler of the Wa Kingdom, why is the shogunate not the Ministry of the Wa Imperial Court?" Lei Ting nodded, and then looked at Li Yuntian with some puzzlement, she was very puzzled about the relationship between the shogunate and the imperial court.

It stands to reason that the shogun became a puppet because he controlled the actual power of the Wakoku, but the shogunate was not among the major ministries and yamen of the Wakoku court, and the shogun's position in the ministry's yamen was not the highest, which is really incomprehensible.

Take Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period as an example, after he controlled the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he became the prime minister and even the king of Wei.

However, the shogun of the Wa Kingdom was very strange, although he controlled the military and political power of the Wa Kingdom, he did not control the various ministries and yamen of the Wa Imperial Court, but used the shogunate to give orders, which made her very puzzled.

It is no wonder that Emperor Hongwu wanted to canonize the shogunate as the "King of Japan" instead of the emperor, because in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, the shogun who exercised the power of the military power of the Wa State was the emperor of the Wa State.

"Maybe he doesn't want to be charged with murder and betrayal." Li Yuntian couldn't help but smile when he heard this, in fact, he also felt incomprehensible about the national conditions of the Japanese State.

In his opinion, the shogun's actions were undoubtedly "raising tigers", and although the emperor's power had been hollowed out by the shogunate, he was only the nominal leader of the Wa Kingdom, but after all, he was the orthodoxy of the Wa Kingdom, giving the rising local daimyo an excellent reason to rebel against the shogunate.

In fact, it was for this reason that the Shogunate Movement took place in the later Wakuni Kingdom, in which the Satsuma Domain, led by the Choshu Domain, expelled the last shogun, and the emperor was able to return to power.

In fact, the shogunate was originally only the shogunate of the Wa Kingdom, and its shogun was appointed by the emperor.

However, in the three periods of the history of the Wa Kingdom, the Kamakura Shogunate, the Muromachi Shogunate, and the Edo Shogunate, the shogun replaced the emperor and ruled the Wa Kingdom in the way of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes", which gradually evolved into a system of government unique to the Wa Kingdom.

It is worth mentioning that since ancient times, the Wa Kingdom had a history of military involvement in politics, and the daimyo with great power often opened the shogunate with the ambition of becoming a shogun, and became the supreme command body of the military.

The shogun, who formally sought the authorization of the emperor, was in fact an institution that used military rule to conduct feudal fiefdoms and override the imperial court of the Japanese state.

Like the Wakoku court, the shogunate had its own administrative system, but unlike the Wakuni court officials, the people who served in the shogunate usually did not hold official positions appointed by the Wakoku court, but were merely retainers of the shogun.

Generally speaking, the retainers of the shogunate were the elders, the elders, the elders and the subordinates of the Kyoto office, and so on, and although they did not hold public positions in the Wa Imperial Court, they held real power.

The next day, Li Yuntian, accompanied by Ashikaga Yoshihito, visited the places of interest in Kyoto City, and among the many people who accompanied him, he paid special attention to Ashikaga Yoshinari and Ashikaga Yoshikei, two people who were in the whirlpool of the struggle between the Japanese and the government.

Ashikaga Yoshikei is only a teenager now, and although he is still a teenager, he is meticulous in dealing with people, and it can be seen that he is usually not less trained.

Since Ashikaga Yoshinari and Ashikaga Yoshinori are both the sons of Ashikaga Yoshihito, in Li Yuntian's view, he is the prince of the Kingdom of Japan, so he specially prepared a gift for each of them, among which Ashikaga Yoshinori as the eldest son received a gift that is naturally more valuable than Ashikaga Yoshikei, who made him the son of Japan.

Faced with Li Yuntian's move, Hosokawa Katsumoto, who supported Ashikaga Yoshinari, was secretly happy, while Yamana Mochito's brows furrowed slightly.

Previously, the question of Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochitoyo's heirs to the shogun was only a fight with each other, and the Wa Kingdom lacked a third party to intervene.

However, Li Yuntian's arrival completely broke the political pattern of Kyoto City, and he became a third-party force that affected the heir of the shogun.

Obviously, the Wa Kingdom, like the Ryukyu Kingdom, was a vassal state that was canonized by the Great Tomorrow Prince, and since the shogun accepted the canonization, he had to regard the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain.

Although in the past, due to the thousands of miles of ocean between the Wa State and the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty could not effectively control the Wa State, and the Wa State had twice defeated the Yuan army of the Eastern Expedition, so the Wa State had no reverence for the Ming Dynasty, but only paid attention to the tributary trade between the Ming and the Wa State.

Over the years, with the prosperity of overseas trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Nanyang countries, the Ming Dynasty's sailors have also developed by leaps and bounds, and their sailors are more powerful than when Zheng He went to the West.

What is particularly important is that the Ming Dynasty has set up a special naval division for the first time in history, which is not only used to escort the fleets of Nanyang overseas trade, but also to conduct naval operations.

Whether it is the Ryukyu Kingdom or the Satsuma Domain of our country, it is simply vulnerable in front of the powerful Ming army and naval divisions, especially the sea ships of the Satsuma Domain in the port of exit, which were sunk by the Ming naval divisions in a short period of time and suffered heavy losses.

You must know that the Satsuma Domain is the most powerful feudal state in the Wa Kingdom, and it does not even have the slightest strength to fight back, which shows that the combat effectiveness of the Ming Army's naval division is very terrifying.

Due to the destruction of the sea power of the Satsuma Domain, the Ming Army's naval division captured the most important prefecture of the Satsuma Domain without much effort, and suddenly fell into passivity, and had to hastily gather forces to fight a decisive battle with the Ming Army's naval division on land.

Although the Wa State was quite confident in land warfare, and the Yuan army failed to gain a foothold after landing on the two eastern crusades that year, the Ming Dynasty was different from the reinforcements, it was a Ming army, not a ragtag force composed of Song soldiers and Korean soldiers who surrendered under the Yuan army, so it was stronger than the Yuan army's combat effectiveness.

After all, the Xiaowu army led by Li Yuntian once defeated the cavalry troops of the Yuan army head-on on the battlefield of Liaodong, and the remnants of the Northern Yuan tribe fled in despair, and ran away to Mobei for refuge.

If the Japanese army faced the Yuan cavalry on the battlefield, and it was the elite cavalry of the reinforcement army, then the Japanese army would have no chance of winning.

Therefore, in the eyes of those high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Kyoto City who knew about the Great Ming Formation, especially those who knew Li Yuntian's past achievements, it would be difficult for Satsuma to win against the Ming army and sailors this time.

Moreover, once the Ming army naval division firmly held the water castle and waited for reinforcements, then the Ming naval division with artillery and muskets would bring a disaster to the army of the Satsuma clan besieging the city.

It was precisely because of the strong combat effectiveness shown by the Ming army's naval divisions and Li Yuntian's brilliant achievements in the past that Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Chitoyo felt jealous in their hearts.

Both of them clearly knew that not long ago, Li Yuntian supported the son of King Shangba Zhi of the Ryukyu Kingdom to inherit the throne of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and if Li Yuntian's support could be obtained to make Li Yuntian recognize Ashikaga Yoshinari or Ashikaga Yoshikei as the son of Japan, then in the future, when conflicts broke out between the two sides, Li Yuntian would be helped, which was a factor that the two valued the most.