Coercion, see coercion.

The Japanese peasants, who were able to get by a little, were actually reluctant to rebel. But they had no choice, their houses were burned down by the rebels, their food was taken away by the rebels, and they had to rebel together to survive.

Twenty-four villages, with the participation of more than 10,000 peasants, swept towards Tsurumaru Castle.

They did not learn from the Datong Ji to divide the land, but declared that the peasants owned the land. Whoever owns the land belongs to whomever it is, and the land is no longer the lord's, but belongs to the peasants themselves.

The uprising was not only huge, but also extremely fast, and before Shimazu Yoshimasa could gather troops, the peasant army was already approaching the city.

Hundreds of armed villagers and ronins are the absolute main force of the peasant army. The rest of the peasants carried bamboo guns and sticks, and some simply carried hoes to the battlefield.

This kind of rabble, put fifty years ago, the Shimazu family was able to easily solve it.

But now the whole of Japan is almost the same, the horses are put in Nanshan, and the knives and guns are put into storage. The lords and nobles only knew pleasure, and the samurai were unemployed and became ronin, and they were simply capable of suppressing the uprising. What's more, since being beaten by the Datong Army, the Shimazu family has completely laid down.

How did the more than 1,000 peasant uprisings in the more than 200 years of the Edo period settle?

Quite simply, agree to the demands of the peasants, and the peasant army will disperse on its own. When the rumors have passed, it is the same to kill the leader at the time and raise taxes again.

This time it is different, with the guidance of "Datong Collection", farmers need to obtain land yields!

Shimazu Yoshimasa urgently recruited the castle ronin to defend and promised to continue to hire them after the war.

But the ronins have already suffered a loss, and those who helped fight the Datong army back then are still ronins after the war. And those who helped the Datong army fight, some were hired as samurai after the war.

Who to help, at a glance.

Moreover, those ronins in the castle town have long been in contact with the peasant army, and they themselves have the will to rebel.

Soon after the siege began, the defenders of the city counterattacked, and the peasant army took the opportunity to enter the city. Only a few of the nobles of the Shimazu family escaped, and the rest were all killed.

Immediately, the peasant army began to attack the whole of Kagoshima.

The momentum is very smooth, but the hidden worries are also very large, and it has been split into three forces.

The first force wanted to learn from the "Daido Collection" to obtain land and force the shogunate to reform its land policy, which was also the core force of the peasant rebel army.

The second force, most of which are coerced, do not want to kill the lord, they only hope that the lord will do good governance and reduce the annual tribute. Although the lord Shimazu Yoshimasa was killed, his sons ran away twice, and they could welcome the escaped back as the new lord.

The third force is the ronin of Joshita Town. They belonged to the class of city scholars and naturally looked down on the townspeople. But this uprising was led by the villagers. Moreover, the ronin don't need land, they just want to find a stable job.

As the peasant army swept through half of Kagoshima, internal divisions became more and more serious.

The shogunate summoned the entire army to suppress it, and managed to gather enough 150,000. But more than half of them were still on the march, and the daimyo troops who were close to each other were already fighting the peasant army in the water.

The peasant army had 100,000 troops, but the shogunate army had only 40,000 troops, and the confrontation was fought for half a month.

Suddenly, the shogunate sent officials over and announced a reduction in the annual tribute of the Kagoshima peasants.

When the news broke, at least sixty percent of the peasant army was unwilling to fight again. Even those peasants who wanted to obtain land felt that as long as they could reduce their annual tribute, there was no need to fight with the imperial court.

A month later, another 20,000 shogunate troops arrived on the battlefield.

Seeing that there were more and more officers and soldiers in the imperial court, there were also more peasants who hoped to harvest when they saw a good situation. Instead, the ronin became more "determined", desperate to win the battle, let the shogunate know their worth, and wait until the battle was over to find a job.

The villagers and the city soldiers united, but the village officials and peasants were mostly warless.

At the time of the decisive battle, a samurai team composed of village soldiers and castle warriors bravely rushed to kill as if they were dead, and defeated the shogunate army in a small area. However, looking at the entire battlefield, most of the peasant armies were in rout, and were defeated by the shogunate army without warning.

The villagers and city soldiers had no choice but to flee, taking with them more than 1,000 revolutionary peasants and fleeing into the mountains to avoid being hunted down by the shogunate army. And on the spot, they transformed into bandits and bandits, and from time to time they went out to the mountains to rob, specializing in robbing rich people in the countryside and shops in the city.

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Edo, shogunate.

The shogun, Tokugawa Ietsuna, was sick again, and he sat on the top coughing repeatedly, not caring what the old people were saying.

Ten years ago, the shogunate had a fairly rich family.

However, a fire burned down Edo Castle, and the reconstruction of the city drained the shogunate's finances. In particular, in the process of reconstruction, the old and middle schools took the opportunity to embezzle, which made the rule of Japanese officials even more corrupt.

This time to exterminate the peasant army, the shogunate also had no money, and let the lords figure it out on their own.

Foreign lords wanted to get military expenses, so they had to rob them themselves, and several major cities in the Satsuma Domain were looted.

"This peasant upheaval is different from the past." Sakai Tadashi said.

These two years were the era when Sakai Tadashi was in full power.

This powerful minister is not willing to just be the old middle, and he makes himself the elder, that is, the leader of the old middle. It is equivalent to the previous only one group of cabinet ministers, and everyone sat on an equal footing, but Sakai Tadashi made himself the first assistant.

Tokugawa Ietsuna, the shogun, had nothing to do about it, and he had long since become an ornament.

Hisashi Hiroyuki was a close confidant of Sakai Tadashi, and immediately said, "What does Your Excellency mean?" ”

Sakai Tadakiyo said: "The royal family, the Chinese family, the scholar family, and the common people, the four peoples are clearly distinguished, how can the four people be equal? The imperial family and the daimyo owned the land, which was also given by God, so how could it be distributed to the peasants? "Daido Collection" will shake the foundation of the shogunate, and it is the enemy of all the daimyos, and it must be banned by order! ”

"Your Excellency is very right." The old middle school nodded one after another.

This peasant uprising was so terrifying that in the past, at most the county was killed, but now even the lord is killed. Moreover, it is said that the four people are equal, and the peasants are still clamoring to own land.

Sakai Tadashi also said: "Nowadays, smuggling is serious in various places, and it is necessary to close the country to prevent the inflow of the "Datong Collection." As before, only trade in Nagasaki was allowed, and foreigners were not allowed to come ashore. Merchants from China were only allowed to live on the outlying islands and were not allowed to set foot on Japanese soil. ”

Lao Zhong, who came from the coastal area, was very unhappy, but he didn't dare to attack on the spot.

In the past, Sakai Tadakiyo connived at smuggling because he had not yet fully taken power. Now, not only is the power leaning towards the government and the opposition, but there is also an extremely legitimate reason for locking up the country, which is enough to unite all the daimyos.

Whoever dares to oppose the closure of the country is a national thief!

When the time comes, the coastal daimyo may wait and see, and the inland daimyo will definitely be willing to crusade against the no-ministers.

As for Sakai Tadashi himself, doesn't he want to smuggle profits?

Hehe, you can make money without smuggling, who is engaged in smuggling? After the closure of the country, they could only trade in Nagasaki, which was equivalent to the shogunate's monopoly on maritime trade. Sakai Tadashiyo, who holds the power of the shogunate, will make more money than before!

And among these veterans here, even if some of them are from the coast, they can also get some of the monopoly trade.

Those who really have enough motivation to oppose the lockdown are not here at all.

The shogun's uncle, Masayuki Hoshina, was the staunchest supporter of smuggling, and had already lost the political battle. He handed over all the power in his hands, did not hold any position in the shogunate, did not have to live in Edo, and could return to the fiefdom to enjoy his old age in peace.

Baoke Masayuki even ignored mundane affairs, didn't even care about his own smuggling, sat in the study all day long, read and wrote, and personally compiled the "15 Articles of Aizu's Family Motto".

When people are old, they just want to work together and educate their children and grandchildren.

Sakai Tadakiyo, who was originally kneeling, knelt down straight at this time and said, "Please reaffirm the Shogun, reaffirm the decree of closing the country, expel all Gentiles, and severely crack down on the smuggling of each family." ”

Tokugawa Ietsuna wanted to speak, but he coughed and said weakly: "You have full authority to deal with this matter." ”

So, under the command of Sakai Tadashiyo, the daimyo from the inland region were assigned to fight smuggling. With a small group of elites, they went to the ports of the coastal daimyo, and when they saw those wearing Hanfu, they were expelled, and the shops built by the Han people were confiscated.

In the future, no smuggling will be allowed, and only trade will be carried out in Nagasaki.

In order to avoid offending the Celestial Empire, the Japanese shogunate expelled all the Dutch from the islands. The Dutch houses and shops were confiscated and sold to the Han at low prices, and the Dutch trade was dispensable anyway.

At the same time, raising the trade quota between China and Japan can not only appease China, but also allow the old and Chinese people to make more money.

This time the country was closed to the country, and the power of Japanese businessmen participated.

Wealthy merchants from Kyoto, Osaka, and Edo almost monopolized Nagasaki trade because of their cooperation with the shogunate. Smuggling broke this monopoly, and the three major merchant groups secretly lobbied and smashed a large amount of silver to buy off Laozhong, and Sakai Tadakiyo got the most silver.

All but the Chinese merchants who traded in Nagasaki were expelled.

Merchant ships after merchant ships, carrying Chinese merchants and men, returned to the coastal areas of China. Including the people of the Four Seas Trading Company, they were also forcibly expelled, but for the sake of Emperor Zhao's face, the Nagasaki trade volume of three ships per year was specially given to the Four Seas Trading Company.

Sakai Tadashi felt that he had enough face to give, and the Chinese emperor would not be angry because of this.

Li Quan was about to go south to explore the ocean, and the trade winds had already arrived, but he saw his ship returning from Japan, and his Japanese springboard to the Americas was locked.

Japan is a big market, and there are too many Chinese goods to eat.

This lockdown will affect not only maritime merchants, but also land merchants, factory owners, workshop owners and related practitioners.

And without saying hello in advance, everything happened too suddenly, and many goods destined for Japan were blocked in Chinese ports and could not be delivered.

The political envoys of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Shandong provinces went to the imperial court one after another, asking the emperor to send someone to question the Japanese shogunate.

These political envoys did not think of starting a war with Japan. For the sake of people's livelihood and the dignity of the Celestial Empire, it is enough to ask a question, and by the way, force Japan to increase its trade quota, and it is best to open another port.

After reading the report, Zhao Han said: "The garrisons of Shenyang and Nanjing have not fought for a long time, and each has transferred a division to prepare for war. After the beginning of spring next year, the Shenyang army will set off from Lushun, and the Nanjing army will set out from Shanghai, and will not fight anywhere else, but will directly attack Edo! ”

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