Last time, it was mentioned that the Ming Dynasty in this time and space wanted to obtain a large amount of silver nearby to relieve the financial pressure, and wanted to invade the Wa Kingdom according to the plan of the ancestors, so they first spied on intelligence.

In 1592, the Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi gathered almost all the "daimyos" (feudal princes) of the "Kyushu", "Shikoku", and "Chugoku" regions (Honshu Island) to invade the Korean Peninsula. The "Daimyo" from all over the country responded to the call one after another, but one "Daimyo" not only showed a very negative attitude towards the invasion of Korea, but also someone in his family leaked the news of Japan's plan to invade the Ming Kingdom (Ming Dynasty of China) on a large scale before the war, which shocked the whole Ming Dynasty!

This family also launched a rebellion against Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, which daimyo in Japan would dare to make such a big deal? It turned out to be the "Satsuma" Shimazu family.

Satsuma's "Shimazu Family" in the "Imjin War" several representative events are related to the main cause of the "Minjin War" - the Chinese doctor Xu Yihou. The sixteenth head of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Yoshihisa (Shimazu Ryubo), had a personal doctor named Xu Yihou, and Xu Yihou was also called "Xu Sanguan".

Xu Yihou was a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi, with a profession of "Jianghu Langzhong", and went to Guangdong to practice medicine in 1571. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Hainan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Liaoning and other coastal areas were frequented by the Japanese invaders, especially the economically developed "Pearl River Delta" and "Yangtze River Delta" regions. At that time, Xu Yihou was arrested by the Japanese in Guangdong, and then he was taken captive to Japan and sold as a "house slave".

Since almost every "daimyo" in the "Kyushu Island" area supported the "Wako" to a greater or lesser extent, it is also possible that the Wako after the abduction of Xu Yi were supported by the "Shimazu family", so Xu Yi was taken to "Satsuma". When Xu Yi later arrived in Japan, he found that there were many Chinese who had been exiled here like him.

During the Ming Dynasty, many Chinese settled in Japan, some of them immigrated to Japan, some went to Japan to do business, and some were taken captive as slaves by the Wu Kou like Xu Yihou. In short, the number of Chinese living in Japan is very large, and the proportion of 3 out of 10 people in Japan is Chinese!

These data are from the intelligence gathered by Xu Yu, a Ming (Ming) spy who infiltrated Japan during the "Imchen War". Xu Yu once said: "The people of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces were taken captive to Japan to live together, and among the 66 prefectures, three out of ten have lived there for a long time and are familiar with Japanese ......feelings."

Xu Yu's memora also mentioned that most of the Chinese in Japan originated from Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong. The Chinese who were taken captive to Japan by the Japanese were basically only slaves at first. Since it took a long time for many people to get rid of their "untouchable" status and become "normal people", this led to a very large number of Chinese slaves in the "Satsumafan" area.

Zheng Shungong, a subordinate sent to Japan by Yang Yi, the "governor of Zhejiang" during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, recorded the situation of Chinese slaves in the Shimazu family of "Satsumafan" at that time in the "Japan Yijian": "There are about 100 families living in this (Gaozhou) continent, and about 2 or 300 people of our people have been driven into slaves." Therefore, according to Zheng Shungong, there were 2~3 Chinese slaves per Japanese household in "Satsumafan" at that time, which shows the large number of Chinese slaves in Japanese society at that time!

After coming to "Satsumaban" in the south of Japan's "Kyushu Island", Xu Yihou was favored by the local "daimyo" (feudal lord) "Shimazu Yoshihisa" because of his proficiency in medicine, so Xu Yihou should not have been a "slave" for a long time, but directly received the treatment of local indigenous people and was called "Japanese".

It is precisely because Xu Yihou was deeply used by "Shimazu Yoshihisa", the ruler of "Satsuma", that he was elected as the local "Satsuma Chinese Leader" and became the "umbrella" of the local Chinese. And "Shimazu Yoshihisa" (Lombau) hated the "pirates" because he knew that Xu Yi was kidnapped because he met "Japanese pirates" and was forced to leave his hometown. After he gained power, Xu Yihou asked "Shimazu Yoshihisa" to severely punish "pirates" in his territory.

As a result, "Shimazu Yoshihisa" ordered the "big pirates" Chen Hewu, Qian Shaofeng and others (all "Chinese pirates"). After the death of these pirate leaders, the rest of the party basically fled to Vietnam, Thailand and Burma to continue to plague the locals and "Nanyang Chinese merchants".

Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi raised his army to launch an expedition against the "Satsuma Domain of Kyushu Island", and "Shimazu Yoshihisa" was forced to submit to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and changed his name to "Shimazu Ryubo" after becoming a monk. The "head of the Shimazu family" also changed from "Shimazu Ryubo" to "Shimazu Yoshihiro", while Xu Yihou still lived in "Satsumaban" and worked for the Shimazu family. In 1591, the twentieth year of Xu Yi's later arrival in Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had unified Japan, began preparations to invade the Ming Kingdom.

At that time, most Japanese Chinese only thought about life, so they didn't care about themselves. There were even local Chinese who directly joined the Japanese army, and later met and fought with the Ming army on the "Korean battlefield", and there were not even a few people with names and surnames.

However, Xu Yihou is different from these people, even if he has lived on Japan's "Kyushu Island" for more than 20 years, although he has long been accustomed to everything in the local area, and he has married a wife and had children there, he may not return to China (Ming Dynasty) in this life, but he still cares about the motherland (Ming Dynasty).

Therefore, in September of that year, Xu Yihou tried to send a letter to the Ming State (Ming Dynasty) and told the "Ming government" (Ming court): Japan was about to invade the Ming Dynasty. He did not receive a reply to the two letters he sent in September 1591, and he was worried that the letters would not reach the Ming court.

So, Xu Yihou asked his fellow countryman in Japan, Zhu Junwang, to personally send the letter back to the Ming Kingdom (Ming Dynasty). Zhu Junwang, like Xu Yihou, was a native of Jiangxi, and Zhu Junwang was exiled to Japan in 1577 when he was doing business in Vietnam. Because Zhu Junwang could write Chinese characters, he made a living copying Buddhist scriptures in a monastery in "Satsumafan", and successfully escaped the tragic fate of being sold into slavery.

Once, Xu Yihou happened to visit Zhu Junwang's temple and heard Zhu Junwang speak his hometown, so the two met. In this way, Xu Yihou temporarily accepted Zhu Junwang as an apprentice to facilitate his own goals. Since then, Zhu Junwang has lived in Xu Yihou's house.

At that time, it was not easy for the Chinese in Japan to return to China, because in addition to hiding from the Japanese side of the layers of investigation, they also had to overcome transportation and other problems. However, the Ming government would not necessarily believe them, and might even arrest them on charges of "complication".

However, at Xu Yihou's insistence, Zhu Junwang still helped him send the letter back. In this letter, Xu Yihou not only mentioned Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambition to attack the mainland (Ming Dynasty), but also wrote down the combat methods of the Japanese Warring States Army at that time.

However, one of Xu Yihou's neighbors, who was also a Chinese in Japan, reported that Xu Yihou had written a letter to the Ming Kingdom (Ming Dynasty), and let "Asano Nagamasa", who was listed as one of the "Five Commissioners" along with "Ishida Mitsunari", personally arrest Xu Yihou and bring it to "Toyotomi Hideyoshi".

However, there was a theory at that time that after Xu Yihou was arrested, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had people arrange a pot filled with boiling water in an attempt to boil Xu Yihou to death, and "Shimazu Ryubo" asked Tokugawa Ieyasu to intercede with Toyotomi Hideyoshi in order to find a way to rescue Xu Yi.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi finally released Xu Yi for the sake of Tokugawa Ieyasu's face. Therefore, this statement is also included in the Japanese "Wikipedia".

However, there is also a theory that according to the records of Jiang Xin, a Korean who was exiled to Japan during the "Imjin War", that is, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi heard that Xu Yihou had told the Ming (Ming) about his invasion plan, he behaved very generously, and said that Xu Yihou was originally a Ming country, and the complaint was reasonable.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi also rebuked the Chinese after denunciating Xu Yi, saying that they were all Ming people (Chinese), but he denounced other Ming people. In the end, Xu Yi was later acquitted. Therefore, after research, many people feel that the second article, that is, the statement recorded by Jiang Xin, is closer to the facts.

Let's start with the first statement. Tokugawa Ieyasu pleaded with Toyotomi Hideyoshi for the sake of Shimazu Ryubo's doctor Xu Yi, not to mention how dramatic it was, if Toyotomi Hideyoshi insisted on killing Xu Yi, at that time, whether it was Shimazu Ryubo or Tokugawa Ieyasu, no matter which daimyo could not stop the "alliance leader" from going his own way.

Moreover, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was originally wary of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Shimazu Ryubo, if these two people interceded for Xu Yihou like this, I am afraid it would only increase Toyotomi Hideyoshi's suspicion of them. Jiang Xin also recorded that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's retainers once suggested that he send surprise troops to attack the Ming mainland (directly invade the Ming Dynasty), just like the Japanese army in later generations attacked the "Pearl Harbor" of the United States. However, this suggestion was rejected by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, saying that he hoped to face off with Ming Guo and not engage in a sneak attack. This also explains why Hideyoshi didn't care about Xu Yihou's leaking his invasion plan.

Either way, Xu Yihou was not pursued by the Japanese government at the time. In the first month of 1592, Zhu Junwang finally came to Fujian Province of the Ming Dynasty by boat after nine deaths, and went straight to find Zhang Ruji, a Fujian officer, and submitted Xu Yihou's report to the Ming Dynasty officials.

Xu Yihou's report was eventually praised by Ming officials. At the same time, Fujian began to strengthen its guard against a large-scale invasion by the Japanese invaders, and Fujian became one of the first provinces in the Ming (Ming) Dynasty to know that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was going to invade his own country.

At that time, not only Empress Xu Yi, but also many Chinese in Japan also tried their best to convey the news of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's large-scale invasion back to China, such as a person named "Su Ba". At that time, he was already a samurai under the command of "Matsuura Zhenxin" of the "Kyushu Daimyo", but "Su Ba" also wanted to pass on information privately, but his education level was too low and he couldn't write. Therefore, he could only find a way to let himself run back to China in person and tell the whistle orally.

In fact, the Ming Kingdom (Ming Dynasty) not only had important military information sent by Chinese in Japan such as Empress Xu Yi and Su Ba, but also learned from the "Ryukyu Kingdom", one of the neighboring countries (vassal states), that Japan was going to invade Chinese mainland, because the Ryukyu Governor Shi Zhengyu also sent people to inform the Fujian side.

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