Chapter 757: Osaka
"At this time, there is no need to worry, Your Majesty's official will explain it, so you don't have to worry; Although the Wa Kingdom is a country that is not levied by Taizu himself, but since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom has repeatedly invaded, if I am not punished, how can I show the prestige of my Heavenly Empire? Li You guessed that the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang designated the Wa Kingdom as a country not to be conquered was because he remembered the experience of Meng Yuan encountering kamikaze during the two conquests of the Wa Kingdom, which made him quite afraid of going to sea for expeditions, and the Central Plains at this time did not understand the benefits of going to sea, so he had such an order. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
And now the Japanese State directly sent a large army to invade Korea, so that the Ming Dynasty spent a lot of effort to calm down, coupled with the previous Japanese invaders repeatedly harassed the eastern coastal area of the Ming Dynasty, the court has no good impression of the Japanese State, and now Li You has not used many imperial soldiers and horses to attack the Japanese State itself, maybe Wanli will also be happy to see it.
Of course, Li You estimated that the Wanli Emperor would agree to his request In addition to the above reasons, there was also an inhumane reason, that is, the Wanli Emperor had been trying to canonize his beloved Zheng Guifei's son Zhu Changxun over the years to replace his eldest son Zhu Changluo as the crown prince, but unfortunately he was repeatedly opposed by the ministers and failed to make the trip; Li You's attack on the Wa Kingdom may have helped him divert the attention of some important officials of the imperial court and temporarily relieve him from these troubles.
Although Li You knew this, he could not show it anymore, he first wrote a battle of Luliang, the battle of Pusan, and the capture of Tsushima Island, and then wrote in detail about the current situation of the Japanese state, in order to show that his expedition looked dangerous, but in fact it was quite safe, if the Japanese began to have civil strife, he would lead the army to take advantage of the situation, if the Japanese country did not have chaos, he could also lead the fleet to return safely.
At the end of the recital, he wrote the most interesting thing of the Wanli Emperor, that is, the famous Iwami Silver Mountain, Iwami Silver Mountain is the largest silver mine in today's Wa Kingdom, the mining volume was once as high as one-third of the global production, according to Zong Yoshitomo, the previous Iwami Silver Mountain production was as high as one million taels a year, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's main economic source when he invaded Korea came from this silver mountain, after the Mori Terumoto surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Iwami Silver Mountain became the joint management of the Mori family and the Toyotomi family, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also accumulated a lot of wealth as a result.
The Wanli Emperor was extremely enthusiastic about the mining matter, he not only sent a large number of eunuchs to the Ming Dynasty to loot the mining tax, and even thought of sending eunuchs to Luzon to find gold mines, of course, this incident has not happened yet, but this is enough to show that the Wanli Emperor's desire for gold and silver, there is Iwami Yinshan is enough to arouse his interest, so as to let Li You attack Japan.
As long as Li You can win the war and deliver countless gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty, then Emperor Wanli will definitely support his expedition, so Li You will appear so confident; After quickly writing a letter and arranging for a competent person to send it to the capital by boat, Li You went to bed.
On the second day, he got up and inspected all parts of Tsushima Island, but he saw that the Korean soldiers who followed Li You to the island went around robbing the money of the Japanese people and bullying their women, just like the Japanese soldiers who invaded Korea at the beginning, and the military discipline of the Ming army and the Zheng family army under Li You was better, of course, this may also be because Zong Yizhi took out all the savings of Tsushima Island to meet the needs of the divine soldiers of the Celestial Empire.
Li You didn't bother to stop this, anyway, it wasn't the people of Daming who they were harming, and besides, Tsushima Island was the closest to North Korea, and now these Japanese people who looked like victims might not have done the same thing on the land of North Korea, and the deepening of hatred between these two countries was only good for Daming.
After inspecting Tsushima Island, Li You did not immediately start attacking the Japanese mainland, but stayed here to train the Ming army, the Zheng army, and the Korean army that came with them.
Fortunately, Li You has Qi Jiguang's "Liuru" training skills, and these soldiers have gradually changed their appearance in a short period of time; In addition, after studying with Dingyuan Hou Banchao for a period of time and leading the Guiyi Army, the Khotanese Army, the Gaochang Restoration and the Ganzhou Uighur Expedition for many years, Li You was already very familiar with how to drive the combined army to fight, so although there were many twists and turns in the training process of these three armies, he skillfully handled them.
Zong Yizhi and his retainers couldn't help but be surprised to see that Li You had made this combined army seem to have been reborn in such a short period of time, and once again admired the ability of the famous generals of the country, and they did not dare to have any more dissenting intentions at the moment, and gradually became confident in Li You's victory in the invasion of the Japanese mainland.
They even had such thoughts, now that the Japanese civil strife is imminent, and the heavenly soldiers of the kingdom are attacking at this time, they will not have the opportunity to reap some great benefits; In view of this situation, it is not without benefit for his Tsushima Domain to take the lead in submitting to the Heavenly Soldiers of the Kingdom, as long as he does his best to cooperate with Li You, maybe after the armistice between the two countries, he will gain a lot of benefits because of the cooperation during this time, and expand the territory of the Tsushima Domain.
Therefore, Zong Yizhi and others served Li You's army more and more submissively, and they tried their best to loot supplies on Tsushima Island to supply Li You's army, and would rather be hungry themselves than the heavenly soldiers of the kingdom to be well fed and well-fed; But after all, Tsushima Island is barren and does not produce much, and Zong Yizhi's years of accumulation are about to bottom out, so he is becoming more and more anxious, desperately using his connections to find out the news of the main island of the Japanese Kingdom, hoping that Li You's army can leave Tsushima Island as soon as possible and start attacking the Japanese mainland.
At the moment when Munyoshitomo felt extremely anxious, his retainers finally arrived at Osaka Castle and spread the news of what had happened on Tsushima Island to the ears of Toyotomi Hideyori, the Five Elders, and the Five Commissioners.
Speaking of this, Li You still has a little regret, in the previous two battles, the three warring countries fooled Shen Weijing now seems to have been executed by the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it seems that it is particularly interesting for him to serve as this envoy to Osaka Castle to meet Tokugawa Ieyasu These people, but now Li You can't find a similar manpower, so he can only let Zong Yizhi's retainers complete this task.
After receiving the news of the Tsushima clan's retainers, the five elders and the five commissioners got together again and began to discuss the countermeasures for the matter.