Chapter 394: The Uesugi family came forward to oppose the fight against the Ming Dynasty

On the side of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Dutch people also arrived in Tokyo.

The East India Company's Putmans manager arrived with Captain Van der Meyer to represent the Dutch East India Company.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was a little displeased, because these two people from the Netherlands were engaged in the pirate business at all, how could they represent the new powerhouse Netherlands?

Putmans smiled, and he had already learned the Japanese dialect and said directly: "General, the population of the Netherlands is small, but the empire of Acebanya, which has been fighting across the world and is constantly fighting, is retreating, and we don't plunder their ships at sea, can we see them carry goods and sell them to beat us?"

Seeing that Tokugawa Iemitsu still didn't like this kind of piracy, Matsudaira Nobutsuna spoke: "In this case, if you need an upright alliance in the East, then you should also be headed by the most dignified shogun, and you at sea and in the mountains should be the league's lieutenants."

Putmans and Van der Meer were not happy when they heard it, they saw the Japanese people as heretical, short, and barbaric, if it weren't for the Portuguese and the Ming Dynasty, how could they form an alliance with them......

Fan Wencheng flashed a smile in his eyes, and gave Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Putmans a look: "It's understandable to divide the head and deputy in the alliance, but in terms of profit in the end, the three must negotiate. As long as the interests are negotiated, as long as there is a difference in the size of the contribution, in the end, the East will have a slightly larger voice at most."

"In this way, as long as our Japanese country sends more troops, you agree that we are the master, and agree that in the end, our voice will be a little higher."

"That's what it means." Fan Wencheng replied politely on the surface, but he actually giggled in his heart, he liked these ambitious, short-sighted, and pretentious two-pole people in the Wa Kingdom.

The three-party talks are more than ten days.

Reach the division of alliances, and finally the division of forces.

Jiannu attacked the western part of the Ming Dynasty and developed to the north of Zhili and the grassland, and could occupy the north of the Yellow River at most.

The Wa State directly attacked the coastal areas, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, the northern part of Baodao, the east and other places. Wherever the land was laid, the Houjin and the Netherlands were recognized as the property of the Wa State.

The Netherlands occupies Annam, Liangguang, Yunnan and the western and southern parts of Baodao.

The Wa Kingdom and the Kiannu Kingdom divided Korea equally.

Other places to be discussed, anyway, the Tokugawa shogunate has a little more power, and the area is obviously more than the other two.

This evil alliance was officially formed.

At this time, the Japanese country had the largest number of 250000 people, and the population of the island reached more than 20 million, and the population density was far greater than that of the Ming Dynasty, so there were a large number of landless samurai and peasants, who either became ronin, bandits, or pirates and pirates.

With a wave of his hand, the Tokugawa shogunate was about to issue a notice on the island, allowing all landless samurai, ronin, and peasants to conquer the above-mentioned areas, and if they were hired as soldiers, they could also occupy land and settle down.

It seems that the Japanese are determined to win, but Fan Wencheng and Van der Meer both laughed at the stupidity of the Japanese people and were willing to be the first to be the first to go to the main force.

A month later, a large number of ronins and Japanese in the Wa Kingdom set off on their own, but each strong fan must be arranged by the shogunate.

Among them, Shimazu, Maori, Uesugi, and Yin Da are strong at this level, and the shogunate is afraid of it.

Therefore, first gather the soldiers and horses of Uesugi and Yin Da to Tokyo, negotiate everything, take the hostages, and then let them attack.

Yonezawa is the leader of the Uesugi family, the son of the famous Uesugi sister, one of the five elders of Toyotomi, and the first person to open Sekigahara's anti-Tokugawa River, Uesugi Keikatsu, who is now in his 70s, and has retreated behind the scenes to his son Uesugi Seikatsu to lead the family.

However, this time the gathering Uesugi Keikatsu came in person.

Uesugi was determined to win when he said that he would send troops or something, and even Tokugawa Iemitsu was nervous when this veteran and famous figure came forward.

His father, the second-generation general Tokugawa Hidetada, also hurried out from behind the scenes to prevent everyone in Tokyo from being shocked by Uesugi Keikatsu's momentum.

The Kanto lords on the island gathered, and several of them had 100,000 soldiers and horses, but Uesugi Keikatsu brazenly said that he would never fight with the Ming Dynasty.

In the war with the Ming Dynasty, Toyotomi Hideyoshi couldn't do it, and the Tokugawa shogunate was even more looking for death.

Although he Uesugi Keikatsu has no feelings for Tokugawa, he doesn't

I hope that the fate of the Japanese kingdom will be ruined.

Yonezawa came with 6,000 people, and the momentum and equipment were also very powerful, and there was a great sense of exhorting Tokugawa to withdraw troops with seniority and soldiers.

The Tokugawa shogunate wanted to teach the Yonezawa Banuesugi family a lesson.

But Uesugi Keikatsu said that it is not possible to bully more and less, and if you have to bully more and less to deal with Uesugi, then you can't imagine that you will encounter the Ming army.

Back then, the Ming army fought more with less and beat the main force of the Warring States, and if Tokugawa had the same people, he couldn't beat Yonezawa, what would he do to fight the Ming army?

Uesugi's words made half of the lords watch the play neutrally, and half of the loyal to the shogunate wanted to teach a lesson.

Tokugawa Iemitsu also wanted to teach Yonezawa a lesson himself.

But Tokugawa Hidetada knew that Uesugi Keikatsu was very powerful, and Sister Uesugi was an invincible figure back then.

If the same force can't defeat Uesugi, then the prestige of the Tokugawa family will be gone, not to mention the rebellion of Shimazu and Maori, and even the seemingly loyal Yin Da will also rebel.

This is a dangerous situation.

Uesugi Keikatsu is a scheming man.

He used to be one of the "Five Elders" of the Toyotomi family.

In 1600, in the Battle of Sekigahara, it belonged to the Western Army, and fought with the two armies of Yin Da and Mogami in the Tohoku region, but after the defeat of the Western Army, Uesugi Keikatsu's domain was reduced from 1.2 million koku to 300,000 koku, and the territory of Naoe Kanesu, which was originally a retainer, was transferred to Yonezawa Castle, which was the Yonezawa Domain.

In order to appease people's hearts, and possibly to maintain the façade, Uesugi Keikatsu announced that he would not lay off employees and maintain the original size of the retainer group of 6,000 people.

It must be known that in the past, these 6,000 people were raised by Uesugi in the million-stone territory of Echigo and Aizu; And now Yonezawa's land is like this, and he still has to support so many people, and he is called the poorest fan in the Wa country.

However, after the efforts of the two feudal lords, Yonezawa Shitaka reached 510,000 koku, and he was able to live a good life. However, the 70-year-old Uesugi Keikatsu has never forgotten the fall, he knows that the Wa Kingdom has always been an island country, and the Wa Kingdom cannot defeat the Ming Dynasty at all.

The shogunate led the invasion of the Ming Dynasty by the Japanese Kingdom, which was looking for death, which would bring great disasters to the Japanese Kingdom, and the Battle of Changjin Lake 20 years ago made him never forget.

With the powerful Japanese army having an absolute advantage in weapons and troops, Toyosei Hideyoshi was completely defeated and retreated, and he had no power to fight back.

Yonezawa has been struggling to maintain 6,000 retainers for 20 years, just waiting for the time to fall and regain the status of the 1.2 million stone daimyo.

He was confident that his 6,000 retainers would be able to deal with more than twice the size of the other daimyos, and that no daimyo would dare to help the shogunate in the war, and use his prestige to bluff the other daimyos.

Although the Tokugawa shogunate summoned more than 100,000 soldiers, few of these daimyo really worked for Tokugawa Hidetada and Tokugawa Iemitsu.

As long as the shogunate could not outmaneuver him with equal forces, the other daimyo would follow suit and oppose the shogunate's hasty declaration of war.