Because of the urgency of the situation, the shogunate sent the news of Edo to the front line on a fast horse at all costs, and it took less than half a month to send the news to the shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna, who had set his temporary residence in Osaka Castle.

After reading the letter that Oudoudou sent him, Tokugawa Ietsuna was almost angry and vomited blood, he never imagined that his old nest would be attacked by the Xia army, and the bustling Edo port was destroyed, and even now threatened him, asking him to go to the Xia army's military camp with the emperor to ask for surrender.

It's a shame!

Although Tokugawa Ietsuna was born with a low intelligence, it didn't mean that he would agree to the conditions of the Xia people like this, he knew very well that if he took the emperor to the Xia army camp to ask for surrender, then the face of the entire Tokugawa shogunate would be lost to him! The dominance of the Tokugawa shogunate would also be shaken as a result.

How could he accept it?!

However, if he refused, the Xia army sailors anchored in Edo Bay would not hesitate to fire terrible shells at Edo Castle, although Edo Castle had been severely damaged in the "Meiri Fire" ten years earlier, but it was just an accident, and there was no comparison with the destruction of Edo Castle by the Xia army, and if the Xia army destroyed Edo Castle, the Tokugawa shogunate would still be ruined......

At this point, Tokugawa Ietsuna fell into a dilemma.

However, the changes of the daimyo of the feudal lords mentioned by his Oudoudou in the envelope to him also attracted the attention of Tokugawa Ietsuna, in fact, he had heard about it for a long time, but he only wanted to drive the Xia army out, and deliberately ignored this, and now that Tokugawa Tsunayoshi brought it up again, he had to pay attention to it.

Tokugawa Ietsuna did not dare to make a decision on his own, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to recall the elder Sakai Tadashiyo and the elder Hoshina Masayuki back to Osaka, and carefully discuss the conditions of the Xia army, he could not watch the Xia army shell Edo and raze Edo to the ground.

The stakes were so high that Sakai Tadashiyo and Hoshina Masayuki did not dare to slack off after being summoned by the shogun, and returned to Osaka Castle without stopping, and after meeting Tokugawa Ietsuna, the latter explained the threat to Edo Castle and the conditions of the Xia army with a heavy face.

After speaking, he said: "The Xia people are cruel, I must think about the people of Edo Castle, if the Xia army is allowed to shell Edo, not only will the majesty of the shogunate be swept away, the people will be ruined, and the consequences will not be borne by the shogunate." ”

The two elders looked at each other, and Sakai Tadashi was the first to speak: "When the general said this, didn't he already have an idea in his heart?" Our navy has become cowards hiding in the harbor, and no one can stop the Natsu people's navy from threatening Edo, and the only option is to obey the conditions of the Natsu people if they want to avoid the misery of Edo. ”

Masayuki Hoshina was silent on the side, Tokugawa Ietsuna listened to the elder's words, a look of disappointment flashed on his face, he looked at Masayuki Hoshina again, and said, "Uncle, do you think so too?" ”

Masayuki Baoke was silent for a while before he said, "General, this is indeed a difficult thing to decide, but isn't the path in front of us already clear?" The war with the Natsu should be over, and our enemies are the feudal lords and daimyo of the country, and as long as the rule of the shogunate can be stabilized, there is still a chance that the lost territory seized by the Natsu will be able to regain it. Seeing that Masayuki Hoshina also replied like this, Tokugawa Ietsuna could only sigh, if his heart was wavering before hearing the answers of the two, then after getting the choice of the two, his heart was also firm.

"Well, I will personally go to Kyoto to meet His Majesty the Emperor." He slowly stood up from the tatami mat and said in a deep voice: "Send envoys to the Xia army to beg for peace, let them stop the attack, and end this war that costs people and money." ”

Sakai Tadashi and Hoshina Masayuki glanced at each other, and they both saw a little helplessness in each other's eyes, they could only bow their heads together and say, "Hi." ”

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After this small meeting of only three people, Masayuki Hoshina personally went to the front as an envoy to beg for peace with the Xia army, and Tokugawa Ietsuna also drove out of Osaka Castle to Kyoto to meet the emperor.

On the way to Kyoto, he also sent an envoy to Kyoto in advance to report the matter to the emperor, although the emperor was actually nothing more than a puppet-like existence, Tokugawa Ietsuna still had to be respectful to him on the surface.

The current Emperor of Japan is Emperor Lingyuan, who was born in 1654 and is now only a 13-year-old boy, but when he learned that the shogun was coming to Kyoto and asked him to go with him to the summer army camp to ask for surrender, the young emperor did not show a panicked look.

He calmly dealt with the envoys of the shogunate, telling them that he would go to the camp of the Xia army with the shogun, and the attendants and officials of the imperial palace around him persuaded him not to risk his life, but Emperor Reigen firmly refused their persuasion and waited for the shogun to come.

On March 25, the 14th year of Takean, the shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna arrived in Kyoto, and he entered the imperial palace in full costume to meet the emperor, explain his intention to the emperor, and ask the emperor to go with him to the summer army camp for the sake of the safety of the Edo people.

Emperor Lingyuan readily agreed, and with only a few attendants, he got into the car prepared by the shogun, and left Kyoto with Tokugawa Ietsuna, heading for the front line of the Western Battlefield.

On the side of the Xia army, after the surrender of Masayuki Hoshina, Su Fuke, who was stationed in Hiroshima Castle to command the front line occupation, agreed to the Japanese request and ordered the officers and soldiers on the front line to cease fighting and wait for the arrival of the shogun and the emperor.

Su Fu didn't expect the shogunate's reaction to be so fast, but he was not surprised that the shogunate would choose to sue for peace, no matter what, Edo was the residence of the shogun, densely populated, no matter what the shogunate considered, it was impossible to let the Xia army bombard Edo Castle, the only variable was just the time for them to react.

The news of the Japanese side's request for peace was also quickly spread, and it was well known in the Xia army, that the 130,000 troops of the first, fourth, and seventh towns of the Xia army were basically stationed in the Chinese region, and confronted the Japanese army, which was also a large number - after the seventh town entered the war, the Xia army took the three reichi of Aki, Iwami and Izumo in one go, and Iwami Ginzan, one of the goals of the war, also completely fell into the hands of the Xia army.

It can be said that the Xia army won a great victory in this war, and the officers and men of the army were a little relieved after learning the news that peace negotiations were about to begin, and they could not wait to return to the mainland, return to their hometowns, and meet their wives and children at home. The same is true for Su Fu, he has not seen his wife and children for more than four years, and he still remembers that before the expedition, his wife had just been pregnant for three months, and now his son has begun to babble, and it is estimated that when he returns to Jiangning and stands in front of his son, he is completely equivalent to a stranger.

As soon as he thought of his wife's handwriting in the family letter, Su Fu was a little excited, and he, like the soldiers in the army, was also like an arrow.

On April 18, the 14th year of Wu'an, under the escort of the Xia officers and soldiers, the shogunate and the emperor's chariot finally arrived at Hiroshima Castle, and after Hiroshima Castle was occupied by the Xia army, the reform of the abolition of the feudal domain began, and the original Japanese-style castle was abandoned, and another new city was trimmed in the coastal area, and most of the people moved into the castle.

Tokugawa Ietsuna and Emperor Reigen saw such a city full of Chinese style, from Hiroshima Castle, the residence of the lord of the Aki Domain, to the castle of Akifu, which was facing the rulers of Japan with a new look, Tokugawa Ietsuna looked at the scene in front of him, although his heart was itching with anger, but there was nothing he could do, he could only grit his teeth and endure the anger in his heart, and drove into the city with the chariot under the escort of the honor guard temporarily selected by the Xia army.

After the shogun and the emperor entered Hiroshima, they immediately began negotiations with the supreme commander of the Xia army, the shogun Susuke of Jinto, and Tokugawa Ietsuna simply admitted to Susuke that he surrendered, asking for an end to the war, and said that he was willing to cede land and pay reparations in exchange for the advent of peace.

The shogunate's indemnity for the cession of land was naturally the lost territory occupied by the Xia army at present, including the entire Kyushu Island and the five requirements of Nagato, Iwami, Shufang, Izumo, and Aki, and paid an indemnity of one million taels of silver for five years, and paid tribute to the Xia Dynasty from then on.

At first glance, the conditions of the shogunate may sound very lucrative, but in reality only the war indemnity of five million taels of silver, which was paid for a total of five years, was the main thing, and the land ceding could be completely ignored, and the tribute was not of any real benefit to the Xia Dynasty.

Therefore, after listening to the conditions of the shogunate, Su Fu quickly began to refute and gave a new condition - he demanded that the shogunate pay an indemnity of two million taels of silver to the Xia Dynasty every year, and the period was also maintained at five years, open trade with the Xia Dynasty, abolish the edict expelling Chinese merchants, return the confiscated property in full, and compensate the victims, and abolish the title of Japanese emperor, change it to the Japanese king canonized by the Xia Dynasty, and allow the Xia Dynasty sailors to be stationed in Yokohama.

The first few articles are good to say, the last two abolish the title of emperor and allow the Xia Dynasty sailors to be stationed in Yokohama, immediately poked at the weakness of the Japanese side, Tokugawa Ietsuna immediately expressed opposition, Yokohama is the gateway to Edo, if the Xia army is stationed there openly, then Edo is not always in the range of the Xia army's threat?

There is also the abolition of the title of emperor, the emperor has been a symbol of Japan since the beginning of Emperor Jimmu, and rashly abolishing the title of emperor and changing the title of king is to completely throw Japan's face on the ground and rub it, not only the shogunate could not agree, but also the daimyo of the feudal lords everywhere could not agree.

But Su Fu's attitude was resolute, he thought that there was only one Son of Heaven in the world, and that was the Great Xia Emperor of Jiangning, and the Japanese Emperor was just a small country, how could he dare to arrogant himself as the emperor? He also threatened the shogunate that if the shogunate refused his conditions, the war would continue, and the Hokuyo naval division would launch an indiscriminate shelling of Edo until Edo Castle was completely razed to the ground, and it would not be up to the Japanese to decide when the war would end.

For Su Fu's naked threat, Tokugawa Ietsuna almost bit a mouthful of steel teeth, but he still couldn't do anything about it, Su Fu's words were right, Japan is just a small country, how can it resist the attack of Great Xia, if the Xia Dynasty insists on destroying Japan, Japan will have no power to fight back.

Therefore, after a difficult decision, Tokugawa Ietsuna finally agreed to Su Fu's conditions, and the two sides drafted two Chinese-Japanese bilingual treaties, Su Fu very happily signed his name and stamped the seal of the general of Zhendong, and Tokugawa Ietsuna was like a mourner, he signed his name with red eyes, stamped the seal of the general of Zhengyi, and then fainted directly at the scene.

At this point, the Sino-Korean-Japanese War came to an end.

The peace agreement, known as the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Hiroshima of 1667, reads as follows:

1. The Japanese side ceded Kyushu Island and its affiliated islands, Nagato, Iwami, Shubo, Izumo, and Aki to the Xia Dynasty, and relinquished its sovereignty over the place.

2. The Japanese side shall pay two million taels of silver to the Xia Dynasty every year as war reparations for a period of five years, and shall not be overdue in arrears.

3. The Japanese side goes to the emperor and surrenders to the title of king of Japan, and the king of Japan needs to be a vassal to the emperor of the Xia Dynasty and canonized by the Xia Dynasty.

4. Japan opened all its treaty ports to the Xia Dynasty, allowing Xia Dynasty merchants to carry out commercial and trade activities without restriction and without hindrance.

5. The Japanese side repealed the "Edict on the Expulsion of Chinese Merchants", returned the confiscated property, and compensated the victims.

6. The Japanese side allowed the Xia Dynasty Navy Division to set up a naval division base in Yokohama, but had no choice but to stop or destroy it by any means.

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The news of the victory of the war against Japan and the signing of the Treaty of Hiroshima soon reached the mainland, causing a boil in the DPRK and China, and the hundred officials praised this victory in the war against Japan, believing it to be a great victory to teach the rebellious subject countries a lesson.

Subsequently, the imperial court began to reward the soldiers who performed well in the war against Japan, and all the officers and soldiers of the first, fourth, and seventh towns were richly rewarded, and the generals also received different rewards.

Among them, Chen Zhaojun, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, fired the first shot of the war against Japan, and shelled Edo Port, forcing the shogunate to negotiate peace, remembering great merits, and being promoted to the hereditary prince of the town, rewarding thousands of acres of land and gold in his hometown of Chaozhou.

Su Fu, the general of Zhendong, commanded the Sino-Korean coalition army to conquer Japan, achieved a great victory, and forced the Japanese side to sign an unequal treaty.

The rest of the Yiguo Gong Hao Shaoqi and Yasukuni Gong Yuan Zongdi also had rewards, but their titles had all risen to the top, so they were mainly rewarded with money, and their age was about half a hundred, so they returned to Jiangning to live a good life.

In addition to the Tongcheng Marquis Tengyun who was appointed as the commander of the Zhuzi capital before, the Xingping Marquis Dang Shousu was appointed as the commander of the newly established Zhongjin Bu Political Envoy Division, and the Marquis of Qi, He Zhen and Fuhou Tan Wen were transferred to the Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate as deputy governors, and Renshou Marquis Tan Yi was transferred to the Ili Metropolitan Division.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that Nagato, Iwami, Shubo, Izumo, Aki and other places were merged into the establishment of the Nakatsubu Political Envoy Division, the name of which was taken from the Nakatsu Province, one of the local etymologies of China, and the place names of the five prefectures under its jurisdiction remained unchanged:

Akifu, Hiroshima.

Nagato Mansion, Fuzhi Governor's Mansion.

Zhou Fang Mansion, Fu Zhi Mountain Pass.

Iwami House, Fuji Hamada.

Izumo Prefecture, Fuzhi Matsue.

In the future, if the entire region of China can be included in the imperial court's territory, perhaps the political envoy will increase the scope of the jurisdiction, but many years may have passed by then.

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