Chapter 466: Killing the Landlord

The sound of the gun came from the Ming official army.

It turned out that the officers and soldiers stationed in Dongying of the Ming Dynasty had already had their own set of early warning systems, in order to prevent greedy Japanese warriors, because they saw that the Han people would farm, they couldn't help but come to slaughter.

Specifically, it is to set up mounted police and infantry police in various Han inhabited areas, so that they can be quickly reported to the surrounding officers and soldiers.

As soon as these Japanese warriors heard the sound of guns, they hurriedly ran away, and did not choose to fight Gao Zijia again.

Gao Zijia breathed a sigh of relief, and after glancing at the bloody Yanling knife in his hand, he hurriedly threw the knife on the ground.

After a while, Gao Zijia came back to his senses and picked up Wu Qian, who was trembling.

And this Wu Qian was already messy, disheveled, and crying so much that after Gao Zijia helped her up, she directly hugged Gao Zijia and cried.

Thump!

Cuckoo!

At this time, the sound of falling water and roosters was already heard outside.

Gao Zijia followed the sound and saw that the few Japanese warriors who had just gone to his chicken pen to grab their chickens had been beaten to death by the Ming officials and soldiers who had rushed over, and they all fell into the water, and the chickens they were holding in their hands also flew up.

Wu Qian, who had been in charge of tending to the chickens during this time, hurriedly ran over and went to pick up the chickens.

And Gao Zijia also walked over to this side, and picked up the Yanling knife in his hand again.

"Yes! How dare you kill!"

At this time, an officer of the army was saying a word to Gao Zijia.

Gao Zijia just smiled.

Because the officials and troops arrived in time, the bold and greedy Japanese warriors did not cause much damage to the new Han village.

At least Gao Zijia, the Han people in the inner circle of the village did not suffer any economic losses.

It's just that a few Han people were killed outside, and some food was robbed and left.

However, this is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty first stationed troops in the Wa Kingdom and set up official management before immigrating.

If the pure Han people migrated over by themselves, without the backing of a strong country behind them, then they would only be fat sheep slaughtered by the natives.

Because people will not respect you because you are better at farming, they will only try their best to squeeze you like the landlords in China, and they will even be more rude and barbaric.

Historically, the Ming Dynasty had no incentive to expand externally, regardless of whether the Han people who migrated out lived or died, so most of the Han people who migrated out were slaughtered.

In addition, it is true that most of the Han people who migrated out paid more attention to farming and making money than to hegemony and expansion, and even preferred to fight with each other and oppress their compatriots, so there was no expansion of Han civilization.

In fact, any expansion of civilization requires the support of a ruling class.

But now Dongying has a Ming garrison, and there are also officials such as Fu who are in charge of all kinds of order here, not the situation in history where the Han people migrated overseas and did not have their own court to manage or even were actively abandoned by their own court.

Therefore, the greedy Japanese samurai only led to serious retribution against the entire Japanese landlord class.

Even if it was just the loss of a few Han Chinese.

However, it is a great provocation for the local Ming officials and Ming troops who are related to their vital interests.

Xing Jue, the governor of Dongying, was quite angry when he learned about this, and instructed Liu Chengan, a general stationed in Yuanjingfu:

"Seeing that when the Qin mission arrived, such a thing happened in the Yuan Jing Mansion, if this made the Qin mission play the court and say that the education was not effective? Raise an army now to fight against these pirates!"

After Liu Chengan led the troops, he went to Hizen Liuchuan Castle, which was closest to Yuanjing Mansion.

Although it will be difficult for the Ming Dongying officials to find out which Japanese warriors came to loot the Han villages, basically as soon as there is such a provocation, the Ming officials and soldiers will directly crusade against the daimyo closest to the place where the incident occurred, and directly believe that these daimyo are the culprits.

Because these daimyo are basically in the city, with fixed residences and fixed industries, they are very easy to suppress.

Therefore, the Ming officials and soldiers only need to ask these names for sin.

Not to mention the vicinity of the accident site

The daimyo was originally the master of the nearby Japanese samurai, so he also had the obligation to ensure that the Japanese samurai under his command did not mess around.

The Daimyo Urachi clan of Yanagawa Castle was suppressed as a result.

The entire nine clans of the Urachi clan, including the samurai retainers in the castle, except for the head of the clan, Uraike Masushi, both men and women, were escorted out and ordered to kneel on the ground and be beheaded.

These people can be regarded as all the Japanese landlords in the entire area of Liuchuan County.

And now that they are being forcibly suppressed by the Ming army, they are naturally very dissatisfied.

"It was you who robbed us of our land, why are you blaming us now, you robbers, you deserve to die!"

Because of this, Puchi scolded the Ming army wearing red armor in front of them, but did not deny that he had nothing to do with the samurai who plundered the Han Chinese.

"Slash!"

However, at this time, An Zhaoyu, the Ming general who was responsible for suppressing Liuchuan City, did not say much, only waved his hand and ordered the execution of these Japanese landlords.

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

Therefore, Pu Chi saw the heads of the Japanese landlords like himself fall to the ground, and he was stunned.

And not long after, he himself fell to the ground with black eyes.

After all the people of the Japanese landlord class in Yanagawa County were suppressed, only tenants and ordinary Japanese slaves remained in the entire Yanagawa County.

Because the class contradictions in the Japanese state in this era were very acute, the Ming Dynasty did not need to suppress the ordinary Japanese after killing the Japanese landlords, but needed relief.

The reason for the relief is to get the land of these Japanese landlords, so as not to let these ordinary Japanese people be coerced by other big names, and organize them to fight against the Ming Dynasty in the name of dividing the land; The second is that the Ming Dynasty needs them to mine minerals.

Moreover, the cost of providing relief to these widows is not high, so they can just take care of the crude rice based on corn and sweet potatoes.

Because the daimyo samurai who ruled them in order to compete for hegemony, they were too ruthless, and heavy taxes and heavy labor often left them without enough to eat.

However, Daming will still give them some wages, so that they can also get rich through labor and be able to consume, so as not to cause their cheap cotton cloth in Daming to be unsalable.

Therefore, these ordinary Japanese people were basically willing to accept the relief and arrangements of the Ming Dynasty, and were taken to mine minerals.

[In view of the general environment,

A down-and-out ronin named Amakusa Ryuichi was taken from Liuchuan City to the Daming Dongying mining area for a month after receiving his salary, he cried directly, and asked the old miner Morita Takeshi here:

"How do they care more about our dignity!"

Morita Takeshi said, "Because they are from the Heavenly Empire, they are here to save us!"

Amakusa Ryuichi was convinced of this, and then raised his head and cried:

"I am so lucky to be redeemed by the Celestial Empire, and I no longer have to go hungry to serve the Lord's field."

For the ordinary Japanese who were captured, Da Ming was like a redeemer.

However, for the head of the Urachi clan, the Ryuzoji Clan, Daming was obviously a domineering bandit, and he directly suppressed the lord of the Yanagawa Domain, which he ruled.

However, although the housekeeper of Longzao Temple hated it in his heart, on the surface, he didn't dare to say a word about it, and only urged his retainers internally to control their samurai and not provoke the Ming Dynasty.

His retainers were also helpless, as they often found it difficult to restrain their samurai from being greedy.

At this time, the lord of Liuchuan City, Puchi Yizhong, was very aggrieved and helpless and knelt in front of Xing Jue, the governor of Dongying, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said in Japanese:

"Spare your life! Spare your life! I really don't know where we have offended your country, but I am willing to give you money for forgiveness, and I ask you to offer a price."