The shrewd and thick civil officials led by Ye Xianggao, as well as the conservative and stubborn civil officials, plus the excluded Chengguo Duke Zhu Chunchen, gradually came together.

Only they can't really make a big deal.

So we have to find more foreign help.

Some looked to Shinoh, while others looked overseas.

Of course, Wang Hongyu's side is wary of them.

But at this time, the British public Zhang Weixian returned to the capital, and Liu Ruoyu, Xu Guangqi, Meng Biao and others were also specially reminded by him to beware of these guys.

The current situation is that they are not afraid of making trouble.

There is a reason to get rid of them all~

Back to the big things in strategy.

First the south and then the north, in fact, now the overall situation in the south has been decided.

The Tsushima Strait of the Wa Kingdom has been cut off by the Ming Navy, and according to Shen Yourong's report, the Kuroda family, the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom, organized troops several times to break through the blockade and converged with the Japanese army in South Goryeo, but all of them were intercepted and killed by the Ming army.

After this failed attempt, the Wakoku shogunate largely abandoned its plans to retake the Tsushima Strait.

In fact, they sent people to cross the sea, and it is said that there were always some ships that could break through under the interception of the Ming army, which had no more than 100 warships.

But there is Yan Siqi.

It had been established a long time ago, and he had a close intelligence network, and he had sheltered Shimazu and Maori, two strong people who had been targeted by the Tokugawa shogunate, and now as long as someone from the shogunate was close to the waters of Kyushu, he could get all kinds of secret reports.

With intelligence in hand, the Ming Dynasty was able to make it impossible for the enemy to reach South Goryeo even a single ship.

The Tokugawa shogunate had a headache.

At this moment, Gojin brought good news through Yoon Da Masamune of the Sendai Domain.

Houjin was willing to send 3,000 troops to the Wajima to serve the Tokugawa shogunate, pacify the Shimazu family in the southwest together, and then cooperate with the Wa army to block the possible landing attack of the Ming army.

Tokugawa Iemitsu is overjoyed.

It's really sleepy to send pillows, and he's afraid that the shogunate army won't be able to deal with the Shimazu family.

Although there are 6 million koku in Tokugawa and 700,000 koku in Shimazu, the economy and volume are crushing, but the Shimazu family is known as the most capable title of Wajima.

Tokugawa Iemitsu lost 100,000 soldiers and horses, and he really lacked confidence in the Shimazu Satsuma Domain, which had rebelled and surrendered.

This time, Houjin will send troops.

That's so cool~

Tokugawa Iemitsu was too young after all, and he was counted dead by the old fox Yin Da Masamune.

......

Half a month later, the Houjin envoy came again.

It is still Azig as the main envoy, and Fan Wencheng and Ao Bai as the deputy envoys.

They brought 1,000 soldiers and horses to arrive first, all of them were heavy armor soldiers, all of them were heavy armor transformed from the armor of the Ming army captured in Sarhu and Shenyang Liaoyang, which looked very majestic.

Later, Hauge took 2,000 people to Hokkaido and then to Edo.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was overjoyed and gathered the Kanto daimyo in Tokyo to prepare for an official crusade against the Shimazu family.

At this time, Miyamoto Musashi, a famous figure in Kansai and the sword saint of Wajima, specially brought people to Tokyo to intercede for the Shimazu family and submitted a letter of request, hoping that the Tokugawa shogunate would negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty and cut off contact with the slave bandits like Houjin and the pirates like the Netherlands.

Miyamoto Musashi has a high prestige and is very powerful in swordsmanship.

Although he was a folk figure, Tokugawa Iemitsu could not turn a blind eye to such an official request for instructions in front of a bunch of daimyo and ministers.

Tokugawa Iemitsu and Matsudaira Nobutsuna had already made up their minds to go to war, and severely punished the Uesugi family, who were killed by Gojin for opposing the war. The Wa Kingdom successively dispatched more than 100,000 ronins and more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers to invade the Ming Dynasty, and less than 20,000 of the more than 300,000 people fled back.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was now in a dilemma, continuing to fight the Ming on the island, or conceding defeat and becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, or ceding land and paying reparations, and there was no other choice.

In fact, many daimyo thought that it was better to be independent than to be brutally exploited by the Tokugawa shogunate, but the tokugawa shogunate's emaciated camels were bigger than horses, and although the Tokugawa family had no soldiers available, there was food.

The Tokugawa family is directly under 3.8 million stones, plus the core daimyo has 6 million stones, only

If you want to take out food, you can organize a large army at any time.

The samurai of the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom, all the consumption was borne by the daimyo personally, because the daimyo had limited financial resources, the retainers generally did not have enough to eat, and there was no salary, and the weapons and equipment were far from the family of the Ming Dynasty, because they did not have enough food and little training time, and their combat effectiveness was far behind.

Therefore, there is not much difference between the newly recruited retainers and the original retainers in terms of combat effectiveness, and as long as these newly recruited retainers are fed, Tokugawa Iemitsu can make up for the shortcomings of short time and little training.

The Tokugawa shogunate did have the confidence to fight in the face of its own daimyo Tokugawa shogunate, and if the treasonous Satsuma clan was not punished, the Tokugawa shogunate would lose its prestige.

The previous hesitation was due to the fact that the main force of the shogunate was gone, and the newly recruited rabble was afraid that they would be defeated in one blow when they encountered the strong Satsuma Domain, but now that there are 3,000 more powerful Gojin people willing to participate in the war, Tokugawa Iemitsu has confidence.

[In view of the general environment,

Destroy the Satsuma Domain first, so that you can deter those Kansai daimyo who have their own ghosts, so that you can effectively control the situation when fighting against the Ming Dynasty, otherwise there will be a big domain similar to the Satsuma Domain that defects on the battlefield and will be defeated.

Miyamoto Musashi had a high prestige and had many followers in the western part of the Wa Kingdom.

The Ming Dynasty imported a large number of swords from the Wa State despite the friction with the Wa government and the opposition, and from a commercial point of view, the swords of the Wa State were equivalent to the silk and tea of China, and accounted for a considerable proportion of foreign trade.

The Uesugi family, Tokugawa Iemitsu, can be exterminated, but for people with high folk prestige like Miyamoto Musashi, they can't take direct action. Because Miyamoto Musashi's prestige in the Wa Kingdom is too high, this time he submitted the *** letter on behalf of the people of the Wa Kingdom.

There are three things in the book:

The first was to ask the Tokugawa shogunate not to crusade against the Shimazu family, but to implement a policy of softness, and not to fight among the Japanese state.

The second is that the Ming Dynasty has never invaded other countries in history, this time the Ming invasion of the Ming Dynasty was the first, the Ming Dynasty should reconcile with the Ming Dynasty, and the war with the Ming Dynasty is to hit the stone with an egg, which will bring disaster to the Ming Dynasty.

Finally, he also emphasized that the Japanese should cut off their contacts with slave bandits like Houjin and pirates like the Netherlands from all aspects.

The book represents the will of the people of the Japanese kingdom and is reasonable, although the third article is a little ugly, but it is true. If you don't accept this *** book, it will be really difficult to deal with Miyamoto Musashi continuing to block the Tokugawa shogunate's conquest of the Satsuma Domain.

Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't do anything to Miyamoto Musashi, and he didn't dare to do it, so it was over to stir up public anger at this time.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna frowned and had an idea, considering that the Wa Kingdom worshiped the strong, and after the last time the Gojin people wiped out the Uesugi family with half of the people, the wind of the Wa Kingdom Kanto worship the Gojin gradually rose.

He intended to let Miyamoto Musashi kill Houjin Weifeng, and provoke Miyamoto Musashi to duel with Houjin's most powerful Aobai.

If Miyamoto Musashi kills Aobai, it will just cool down those Japanese samurai who worship Houjin and prevent them from taking refuge in Houjin.