Zheng Yuelin looked at the emperor shyly, she didn't expect that after talking about the difficulties of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor would be actually interested in doing this? She felt more and more that she didn't know the emperor very well, it seemed that the emperor was different from the rest of the world, as if he already liked to face pressure, the more stressed he was, the more he could calm down, such an emperor made Zheng Yuelin admire from the bottom of her heart, and she also felt very happy.

"Your Majesty ......" Zheng Yuelin groaned and took the initiative to kiss Zhu Youzhen.

Huang Taiji did not stop acting, Huang Taiji is a political genius, this is beyond doubt, it can be said that the founder of any dynasty must be a political genius. This is also an unfairness of the founders and peacetime monarchs, the fallen emperor, no matter how much he has paid, people can't see it, and they will be criticized in various ways, so capable, why should he fall? With this one argument, you can push people against the wall.

Huang Taiji summoned Dolgon, "The royal family of North Korea was arrested by Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen to the Ming Dynasty, and now the people all over North Korea hold two views, one is pro-Ming, one is not pro-Ming, these two are the same number of people, now Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen will hold several pro-Ming ministers in North Korea in his hands, this is that he has the advantage, but we have to move, immediately set up a Korean governor's office, support a person with a false name among the common people to serve, we will control it, we can't let Chongzhen take advantage of alone, At least half of the Korean population had to be brought over, and in addition, it was necessary to find a way to get the Japanese and Dutch to intervene, and the Japanese pirates were often in Jeju, Tsushima, and Busan. Activities in the Gwangju area. This is backed by the government! ”

Dolgon's horror was at what he heard. But I also admired it very much, I didn't expect Huang Taiji to think of such a way to win over the Koreans, in Dolgon's opinion, it is possible, but there is no need to exert too much effort, while fighting and touching, this is the old way. And to enlist the Japanese to intervene, it is even more unnecessary, right? In the eyes of the Japanese at Eight Flags, they are not even as good as dogs.

"Your Majesty, is it necessary to pull the Japanese to intervene? Now it's the Tokugawa Ieko Shogunate, and they're busy with the Shimabara Amakusa Rebellion, and the small country of Projectile is still in chaos, where is the strength? If we repelled the Ming army, how would we share their share? "Dolgon was reluctant.

Huang Taiji sighed slightly and pointed at Dorgon, "You're still ignorant. It's a waste of all the effort I've put into you, and I have high hopes for you. Let more people help, use it up, and get a piece of the pie, isn't it simple? When the time comes, North Korea will be in our hands, will the Ming Dynasty be strong? Or are the Japanese strong? Don't you understand? There are Dutch people who can intervene, and if the Tokugawa family intervenes, as long as there are 30,000 or 50,000 people, the situation will be very different, and Chongzhen will have to move closer and withdraw his troops! ”

Dolgon admired, "The courtier is not familiar with the situation in Japan, what should I do, please tell the emperor about it?" ”

Huang Taiji nodded, "The attitude is good, I don't know if it doesn't matter, the key is not to understand." Remember, the world is big! Don't be afraid of having many friends, although we are in the Northeast, I have never relaxed my surveillance of Daming, and even Daming's neighbors. I'll tell you about the current situation in Japan. ”

The Tokugawa shogunate was also known as the Edo shogunate. It was built in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu, a shogun of the Seiyi Shogun, in Edo (present-day Tokyo), Japan. Until 1867, when Tokugawa Yoshinori was forced to declare the return of the emperor (i.e., the return of the Great Shogun), a total of 15 generations of shoguns lasted 265 years. The strongest and last samurai zhì organization. After that, Japan basically ended the era of shogun and shogunate rule, and provided the political premise for Japan to embark on the capitalist road.

Tokugawa Iemitsu (August 12, 1604 – June 8, 1651) was the third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. The eldest son of the second shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada, consolidated the rule of the Tokugawa family and implemented a policy of seclusion and seclusion.

In the third year of Kanei (1626), Hidetada and Iemitsu led Date Masamune and many other daimyo Kamiroku to meet Emperor Gomizuo and Nakanomiya Kazuko at Nijo Castle, and were promoted to Minister Zuo.

Jiaguang and the eldest brother of the same father and mother, Tadashi, are not close, and do not trust him, but trust his half-brother Masayuki, after the death of his mother Chongyuanyuan, Tadashi appeared disorderly, and his father Hidetada asked him to spare Tadashi, but he said that Tadashi (Ieyasu six men), Tadanao (Yuki Hideyasuko) Tadashi did not end well, and later Tadacho committed suicide by seppuku, and Iemitsu was very remorseful.

In the eighth year of Kanei (1632) of Rinnoji Temple, Hidetada died, and the dual government was lifted, and the government was established by the shogun himself. The system of the old man, the year sent, the gatorship, and the big eye payment was established, and the current shogun of the shogunate was designated as the supreme authority.

In the 12th year of Kanei (1635), the laws of the samurai family were revised to impose a stipulation on the princes that they were obligated to attend and give an account. Monopolizing the interests of Nagasaki trade, strengthening Catholic suppression, and the Shimabara War in the 14th year of Kanei (1637), four years later, the policy of seclusion was completed. Because of these things, the Tokugawa shogunate's series of power policies were considered "arbitrary politics".

The Shimabara and Amakusa Rebellion was a great rebellion against the expropriation of the shogunate and feudal domains and the persecution of religious beliefs, but its failure also contributed to the final completion of the shogunate's system of seclusion.

At the end of the Muromachi shogunate, Catholicism spread rapidly in Japan as the Portuguese and then the Spaniards arrived. By the eighties of the sixteenth century, there were more than 200 churches in the east and Satsuma in the west, with about 150,000 believers.

At the beginning of the 17th century, Tokugawa Ieyasu founded the Edo shogunate. Faced with the growing power of Catholicism, Ieyasu felt threatened and ordered a "ban on Christianity." At this time, the Shimabara Domain on the island of Kyushu was headed by Matsukura Shigemasa, who carried out a brutal and bloody suppression of Catholics. After Matsukura Shigemasa's death in 1630, his son Matsukura Katsuie succeeded him as the lord of the domain, which was even more brutal. In the Karatsu Domain, a close neighbor of the Shimabara Domain, to which Amakusa Island belonged, Catholics were also treated inhumanely.

Since the 11th year of Kanei (1634), natural disasters have occurred in the Shimabara and Amakusa areas, and the people have been unable to make a living. Under the brutal rule of the shogunate, the Shimabara War, the largest peasant uprising in the Edo period, finally broke out.

Under the leadership of Amakusa Shiro, the rebels quickly occupied Hara Castle in the southern part of the Shimabara Peninsula and erected a cross on the castle with a banner painted with a cross and an icon. According to statistics, more than 37,000 Shimahara and Amakusa peasants took part in the uprising, of whom more than 13,000 were combative.

On December 9 and 12, the shogunate received news of the peasant uprisings of Shimabara and Amakusa successively, and urgently sent Itakura Shigemasa as a special envoy to Kyushu to suppress the rebels. After Itakura arrived in Kyushu, he launched two attacks against the rebels, both of which failed. Therefore, the shogunate sent Matsudaira Nobutsuna to Kyushu to supervise the war. After receiving this news, Itakura felt that the shogunate did not trust him. On New Year's Day of the 15th year of Kanei (1638), before Matsudaira Nobutsuna arrived in Kyushu, Itakura launched a surprise attack on the Hara Castle rebel army. Under the fierce resistance of the original city rebels, the Itakura army was defeated, losing more than 3,900 people, and Itakura Shigemasa was killed in battle. After Matsudaira Nobutsuna arrived in Kyushu, he took the defeat of Itakura as a lesson and changed his tactics, besieging but not attacking, trying to wait for the city to run out of food, and the rebel army automatically collapsed. At the same time, the shogunate begged the Dutch to bombard the original castle, but it was still ineffective, and this begging for foreign aid to betray the nation was reviled and despised by the rebels. The shogunate tried its best, and the Catholic flag still fluttered at the head of the castle.

However, due to the siege of the city, there was a shortage of food, and the combat effectiveness of the rebel army declined. On February 28, 1638, the shogunate army launched a general attack on the rebel army with more than 100,000 troops. Amakusa Shiro and all his subordinate rebels died heroically. The peasant uprisings of Shimabara and Amakusa were declared unsuccessful.

"Has the Tokugawa shogunate ended the war now?" After listening to Huang Taiji's introduction, Dolgon asked.

Huang Taiji nodded, "Exactly, this is an opportunity, such a backward country will not pose a threat to us, so we must try our best to draw the Japanese in as our allies." (To be continued......)