According to the laws enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate, no one except the recognized samurai and military was allowed to possess iron weapons.

But Tokugawa Iemitsu saw the information in his hand, and it was recorded that these peasants not only possessed a large number of iron weapons, but even armor!

"These people are definitely premeditated! And there are people who are behind them to support them .... Who is it? Could it be that he is the emperor of Kyoto? ...”

Tokugawa Iemitsu set his suspicious eyes on Kyoto, not far from Edo, almost as soon as he received the news.

The emperor there was arguably the only time bomb in the current Tokugawa shogunate.

But then he shook his head and denied his speculation.

The interests of the emperor and the shogunate were the same, and it was impossible to place the object of turmoil on the peasants in any case.

The Tokugawa shogunate divided almost all the Japanese people into four main types: samurai, peasants, craftsmen, and merchants.

Now the armed forces are firmly in control.

It was the Tokugawa shogunate, represented by the samurai class, that took control of the samurai class.

The Tokugawa shogunate completely fixed its current dominance by defeating Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but because it was a little worried that it would not be able to stabilize a samurai regime independently, it was still in the name of the emperor, but in fact there was little relationship with the emperor left.

"So... Who is secretly supporting these peasants! Damn, no matter what, we have to beat this person's arrogance first, no matter what... Tell them that it is still the time when the shogunate is in charge, and it is not the turn of the peasants to call the shots! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu actually had the confidence to say this, and the main reason was that the population of the entire Wa Kingdom was about 30 million.

And the number of samurai belonging to the various daimyo and shogunate among them is nearly two million, and with such a difference in numbers.... The rule of the Tokugawa shogunate was so stable.

However, this also caused the life of the peasants to deteriorate day by day, after all, the samurai who were not engaged in agricultural production consumed far more grain than the peasants.

Moreover, the shogunate strictly limited what the peasant class could do.

For example, if you are a farmer's child... You can study depending on whether the daimyo in your area allows you to study.

But you will never become a samurai, because the path from the peasant class to the samurai class is blocked, and you can only farm... and are not allowed to engage in handicraft processing, or to engage in commercial trade.

When the harvest is good.... Barely able to survive.

However, agricultural production not only requires heavy physical input, but more importantly, the amount of harvest, and the weather must also be considered.

When the harvest is not good, the farmers have handed over nearly half of the rice harvest, and it is not just that life is relatively miserable.... Occasional famine is also a normal thing.

It has to be said that as the Tokugawa shogunate, which was still in its heyday, Tokugawa Iemitsu was still very confident, and in a short period of time, he gathered more than 50,000 samurai to form a counterinsurgency army.

First of all, the purge of all peasant rebels within the state began.

But what he didn't know was that the peasant uprising was like a spark in dry wood, as long as there was a little condition to burn....

It can evolve in a very short period of time.

Not to mention that there is a huge shadow in it.

The peasant rebel army attacked all the daimyos, that is, the feudal castles, and the first thing they controlled was the silver and grain depots inside them.

But when they were full of joy to open the doors of the so-called "exchange houses" that provided them with silver exchange services on weekdays.

Everyone was stunned...

Each bank often only has a few hundred taels, or more than a thousand taels of silver, which is not at all what a feudal city should be.

One so... Two so.

More and more daimyo were swept away by peasant rebel armies.

The peasants gradually found out.

Even the silver vaults of the daimyo often had more silver than the vaults of the exchange houses.

And when the people questioned the flow of the money they exchanged for paper money...

Almost all of the daimyo who were captured pointed their fingers at the same place.

That's Edo Castle!

More than 50,000 samurai were hastily dispatched to fight the peasant rebels on the island of Honshu, and the war lasted for nearly a month.

In the end, it attacked the peasant rebel army several times.

However, due to the support of rebel forces from Kyushu Island or Shikoku Island in the southern part of Honshu Island, they were gradually defeated.

The most critical question in the middle is:

As more and more daimyo castles were defeated by the peasant rebel army, the strength within the rebel army. The main thing is that the equipment is getting better and better.

The war continued, although the casualties of the peasant rebels were far greater than those of the samurai.

However, due to the extreme imbalance in the number of people on both sides, the Tokugawa shogunate finally put down the war of peasant uprisings. Towards the end of failure.

Ultimately.

The Tokugawa shogunate had to admit it.

The 120,000 peasant rebel army and the lost islands of Shikoku and Kyushu are already existences that they cannot regain at present.

Among the peasant rebel armies that gradually gained a foothold, they were the strongest.

It was also the most brutal group that started the uprising on Kyushu Island and gradually began to support the uprising on Honshu Island.

Originally, a team of hundreds of teenagers.

By the later period, it had grown to the level of nearly 20,000 people, and even within the peasant rebel army, it was extremely prestigious.

But this young man did not take advantage of this opportunity to seek any benefits for himself.

Instead, he gave a large amount of land, property, and other things obtained from the capture of the feudal castle to the hundreds of teenagers who followed him at the beginning.

The most important factor that allowed the peasant rebels to fight back and forth with the samurai army sent by the Tokugawa shogunate was the large number of merchant ships that came here every day on a dock on the island of Kyushu.

"Hurry up and unload! You're stupid..."

"Hey! Yes, we'll be unloading everything on board in a moment, but the question is don't we really have to pay? ”

"No... Someone has already given it to you, please remember to give all these things to the generals in the rebel army..."

"Yes, yes, yes! Definitely. ”

Behind such a dialogue, it is the Ming Dynasty that continues to secretly transport the materials needed for various wars to Kyushu Island, and more importantly...

Zhu Youzhen even specially asked the General Bureau of Imperial Ordnance of the Ming Dynasty to open up a new production line for the peasant uprising of the Japanese State, but the production was a backward Spanish-made cast iron smoothbore gun.