Last time, I mentioned that the Chinese in Japan sent back a large amount of important information about the imminent invasion of the Japanese invaders, preparing for the next self-defense counterattack and aiding Korea to resist Japan.

The Fujian side learned that although Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Japanese "shogun" did not pursue the "Shimazu family" because of the incident of the "Shimazu family" because the Ryukyu Kingdom had relayed the matter of the "Imjin War", and learned that although the Japanese "shogun" Toyotomi Hideyoshi had not pursued the "Shimazu family" because of the incident with Xu Yihou, another incident that happened to the "Shimazu family" made Toyotomi Hideyoshi furious.

Shortly before Japan was about to launch a full-scale war against Korea, Umekita launched a rebellion in 1587 with the "Shimazu family", so that the "shogun" Toyotomi Hideyoshi had to mobilize 250,000 troops to conquer "Kyushu Island". Toyotomi Hideyoshi relied on his strength to force Shimazu Yoshihisa to surrender, and ordered the eldest Shimazu Ryubo to resign from the position of "family governor", and made the second eldest Shimazu Yoshihiro as the "family governor", and also supported the pro-Toyotomi force - Ijiin Tadashi.

However, these measures did not dispel the hatred of the Toyotomi regime of the Shimazu family as a whole, especially the people of Shimazu Province, such as Ume Kitakuzane, who pinned their hopes on Shimazu Suihisa, who was the latest of the four Shimazu brothers to return to the Shun Toyotomi regime.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi naturally sensed the dissatisfaction of the people of the Shimazu family with him, so when he went to Korea, he found an excuse to order the troops of Ume Kitaka Kunikan, who ostensibly responded to the call, to stay in Higo Sashiki, while Shimazu Ryubo was responsible for participating in the defense of Nagoya Castle.

It is said that on the surface, Shimazu Buryu was involved in the town guard, but in fact, he was taken hostage in Nagoya Castle. On June 15, 1592, Mei Bei Kunikan and others probably felt that the opportunity had come, so they raised troops on the spot and rebelled in Sashiki, which is known in history as "Mei Bei Ichichi".

The size of the rebel forces numbered in the thousands, and it didn't take long for the Ume North army to capture Sashiki Castle, Yatsushiro Castle and other cities, which were the fiefdoms of Kato Kiyomasa at that time, but Kato Kiyomasa himself had already crossed the sea to Korea to participate in the war of aggression.

There was a local man named "Yasuda Yaemon" in Sashiki Castle who surrendered to Umekita Kunikane, and Ume Kitakuni was very happy and held a banquet for Yasuda Yaemon, but Yasuda Yaemon surrendered by fraud, and after getting the opportunity to get close to Ume Kitakunikan, he killed him to death.

Soon, Yasuda Yaemon was also killed by others. Despite the importance of the location of Sashiki Castle, Yatsushiro Castle, and Nagoya Castle, after the death of Umekitokuke, the Ichikukan army became leaderless and dispersed in an uproar soon after.

From June 15, when Mei Beiguo raised troops to rebel, to June 17, Mei Beiguo was killed, and the "Mei Bei Yi Hang" lasted for a total of 3 days. Mei Kitakuzane's fate was naturally miserable, because after his death, his head was cut off, and then Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered his head to be hung in the most prominent position in Nagoya Castle.

Mei Beiguokan's wife, including his relatives, was also put to death. And in Nagoya Castle, Shimazu Ryubo was lying on the ground in plain clothes and pleaded guilty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, this is not the first time since the invasion of North Korea, there was only the Xu Yihou incident before, but fortunately this matter was not pursued too much.

But for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the nature of this Meibei is much more serious than Xu Yihou's leak. At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi told Shimazu Ryubo that the list he had seen involved in Umekita Ichikyu included Shimazu's old henchmen, and the number exceeded 300!

Shimazu Ryubo was first taken aback when he learned about it, he didn't know about Mei Bei's previous rebellion, he didn't expect the third brother Shimazu Suijiu to choose to rebel at this time, but he thought about it carefully, although Shimazu Suijiu hated Toyotomi because of the pain of losing his son, but he was also a very smart person and knew the seriousness of the matter, so the planner related to Meibei's rebellion was not like Shimazu Suijiu.

Just as Shimazu Ryubo was struggling, Toyotomi Hideyoshi interrupted him and said that he and the Shimazu family could be pardoned for their sins, but Ryubo had to take down Shimazu's head, because Toyotomi Hideyoshi had already determined that Shimazu was the mastermind behind Umekita Ichiku.

At this point in the story, let's first introduce the life of Shimazu. He was the third of the Shimazu brothers and was born in 1537, the same age as Toyotomi Hideyoshi. When the four brothers were young, their grandfather Shimazu Tadaya had an evaluation of the four brothers.

His grandfather said that Shimazu Yoshihisa (Ryubo) had the talent to rule three states (Satsuma, Osumi, Hinata); Yoshihiro Shimazu has the potential to become a hero; Shimazu Ihisa is good at using soldiers; And Shimazu was evaluated by his grandfather for being good at perceiving the current situation.

Shimazu actually played the role of behind-the-scenes commander in Shimazu's house, and rarely came forward in person, because many of the campaign decisions that Shimazu Ryubo participated in when he was the master of the house in the past were actually consulted with Shimazu Toyohisa. It can be said that Shimazu is an indispensable "military advisor" of the Shimazu family.

In 1575, Shimazu traveled to Kyoto, Japan, saying that he was going to learn the "tea ceremony", but in fact he was to gather information, especially about Oda Nobunaga at that time. And Shimazu is indeed more sensitive to changes in the situation than the other three brothers, after all, in the early days of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Kyushu Expedition", Shimazu was the first of the four brothers to propose to take the initiative to surrender to Hideyoshi.

If it weren't for the death of his beloved son Shimazu Tadashi in the Battle of the Root Tabula rasa in the "Kyushu Expedition", which made him hate the Toyotomi army, perhaps Shimazu would still be able to serve as a peace intermediary between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Shimazu family, but the death of Shimazu Tadashi made him a staunch opponent of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's regime.

Shimazu even lost his mind for a long time, and during the peace talks between Shimazu Ryubo and Toyotomi, he sent someone to assassinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It is precisely because Shimazu Hidehisa had a case of assassinating Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and there were many Shimazu Hideyoshi followers among the participants of Meibei Ichiku, so this made Toyotomi Hideyoshi give Shimazu Ryubo an order to kill Shimazu Hideyoshi.

Shimazu Ryubo naturally couldn't bear to kill Shimazu for a long time, but if he dared to disobey Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who lived in the "Taiko", I am afraid that Shimazu's family business would not be able to be protected. So, Shimazu Ryubo could only do so. He first tried to trick Shimazu into coming to Kagoshima. Shimazu was in the middle of the plan at first, but after discovering that something was wrong on the way, he wanted to return to his fiefdom - Miyanoshiro, but unexpectedly, Shimazu Ryubo had already sent troops to block the third brother's way back to the fiefdom.

Shimazu realized that he had been ordered to be arrested, so he could only flee, but where could he flee to? He could only settle at "Hiramatsu Shrine". Soon, however, the pursuers arrived. Shimazu wanted to continue to escape, but suddenly, his body suffered a stroke, and he immediately collapsed to the ground. Since the pursuers were all Satsuma natives, they all knew Shimazu's age, and they couldn't bear to harm him.

Although you have to obey the rules and can't kill people when you enter the territory of "Hiramatsu Shrine", Shimazu asks the pursuers to cut off his head, otherwise the family will not be protected. As a result, Shimazu faced death for a long time and left a death poem: "Qing 蓑 (せいさ) めが soul (たま) のありかを 人問わば いざ白雲の 上と答へよ." Translated into Chinese, it is roughly "If someone asks where is the soul?" The answer is that the soul is on the white clouds. ”

On August 25, 1592, Shimazu was beheaded by a samurai named Jiji Harada at the age of 55. Then, the head of Shimazu was ordered to be sent to Kyoto for exhibition. Later, Shimazu's "family general" (Shimazu Tadanaga) found a way to take back Shimazu's old head.

After Hideyoshi's death, Shimazu was buried at Shingakuji Temple. Fortunately, although Shimazu's beloved son, Tadashi Shimazu, had died resisting the "Kyushu Expedition" launched by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Shimazu Tadaharin had a son, and Shimazu Tosahisa's grandson and grandson Shimazu Tsunehisa eventually inherited the family business.

By the way, the real reason why Shimazu launched the rebellion was not to avenge the dead son Shimazu Tadako, because Shimazu knew that once the Shimazu family was submissive to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, there were still many forces that opposed the actions of the Hideyoshi shogunate.

Sooner or later, these people will become a destabilizing factor, and if they break out at that time, it is likely to cause Hideyoshi to destroy the entire Shimazu family, so it is better to carry the "black cauldron" by himself. In this way, as long as Toyotomi Hideyoshi eliminates himself, he will be relieved that the remaining Shimazu family will be relieved.

After all, Shimazu did this for the sake of the future safety of the Shimazu family. Among the "Satsuma Military Academy" in modern Japan, Shimazu is more popular than his second brother, Shimazu Yoshihiro. Even Saigo Moritaka, who is known as "Japan's last samurai", admires Shimazu very much.

The above are the two things that happened in the "Shimazu family" in the "Satsuban" on the "Kyushu Island" in the early days of the "Imjin War". This is related to the rebellion of the Ming Kingdom (Ming Dynasty of China) against the various "daimyos" in Japan, that is, the "local feudal lords", and even after the "Imjin War", they spared no effort.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty of China had openly sent troops (Ming Army) to intervene in the Korean war. For example, in 1593, Xu Yu, a spy sent by the Ming (Ming Dynasty) to Japan, once mentioned: "Guan Bai (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) has seized 66 states, and the states he has seized will detain his children as hostages, so that the chieftain will invade Goryeo, which is actually a place of death."

All countries have given in for the time being, but hatred has not been forgotten. and the tone of the reply between the monk Xuanlong and Yu, Yijiu and so on, even have the meaning of evil success and failure. Yu is in the writing and answering room, and there is also a slight opportunity to tempt. Xu Yu pointed out that in the process of unifying the 66 states (states) of Japan, the daimyo of each country had to give hostages to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Hideyoshi also ordered these "chiefs" (daimyos) to invade Korea, but the daimyo were dissatisfied with Hideyoshi.

For example, the former head of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Yoshihisa (Shimazu Ryubo), was dissatisfied with Toyotomi Hideyoshi. And Xu Yu, a spy who infiltrated Japan, was supported by Xu Fuyuan, the governor of Fujian at the time. After receiving information from Xu Yu, Xu Fuyuan formulated a strategy of dispatching officials and troops to directly attack the Japanese mainland in 1594, and reported it to the imperial court, hoping to gain the support of the courtiers, preferably the strong support of the emperor Laozi.

Xu Fuyuan's plan is not detailed for the time being, but one of them is to plot against Shimazu Ryubo to rebel against Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and it is best for Shimazu Ryubo to overthrow Toyotomi Hideyoshi and become the head of Japan, so as to end the protracted war of "aiding Korea and resisting Japan" in advance with the participation of the Ming Dynasty and save expenses for the imperial court.

The spheres of influence of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Japan's various "daimyos" are intertwined and intricate, and they affect the whole body. At that time, even Xu Yihou proposed to the Fujian magistrate to join forces with Shimazu Ryubo to attack Toyotomi Hideyoshi. However, Xu Fu's plan to expedition to the Japanese mainland was vetoed by Shi Xing, the "Book of the Ministry of War". Later, the Ming Kingdom and Japan entered the period of peace talks, and this plan was completely vetoed.

Xu Fuyuan was also transferred out of Fujian. So, did the Ming Dynasty make any progress in plotting against Shimazu Longbo? There must be! For example, in 1595, Shimazu Ryubo sent a man named Xuanlong to follow Xu Yu to Fuzhou. At that time, Xu Fuyuan had already been transferred out of Fujian, and after several bargains, the "Xuanlong" was finally returned to Japan, but the plan to unite with Shimazu Ryubo to fight against Toyotomi Hideyoshi was also lost.

However, things are not so simple, because according to the historical materials of the Shimazu family, this Xuanlong, who followed Xu Yu to Fuzhou, was actually a "counter-espionage" that lurked to the Ming Kingdom (Ming Dynasty) as the Shimazu family, and there was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's support behind this.

It turned out that Toyotomi Hideyoshi had already known about the Ming (Ming Dynasty)'s anti-plot and would also plan it (from "Zheng Han Lu"), which also shows that although the Shimazu family was dissatisfied with the Toyotomi regime at that time, they still chose to support the former when comparing and considering the Toyotomi regime and the Ming (Ming Dynasty).

At the time of the "Imjin War", the contest between Japan and the Ming Dynasty (Ming Dynasty) was not only in the frontal war on the Korean battlefield, but also in the spy war between the two sides. During the seven years of the "Imjin War", there were many such spy war stories, and the stories that happened between the Shimazu family and the Ming Dynasty were not limited to these.

At the end of the 16th century, although the plan of the Ming (Ming) and the Shimazu family to overthrow the Toyotomi regime, the central government of Japan at that time, failed, at the end of the 19th century more than 200 years later, the Shimazu family succeeded in overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate, the central government of Japan, under the control of the British.

Then, the Shimazu family and other "daimyos" who opposed the shogunate formed a new government in Japan with the support of the Western powers, and carried out a capitalist transformation led by the "Wao" (Meiji Emperor), also known as the "Meiji Restoration". Since then, Japan has begun to "break away from Asia and join Europe" and embark on the road of Western capitalism, but "if you want to conquer the world, you must conquer Asia; and conquer Asia, we must first conquer China" has become an "established national policy"!

Therefore, starting from Japan's "Meiji Restoration", after consolidating the centralization of power of the "Wa King" with the "culture of shame" and "bushido spirit", the "Chrysanthemum Empire" poured out had the "national anthem" - "Jun's Generation": "Chiyo 8000 に, さざれ石の." 巌となりて,苔の生すまで。 Translated into Chinese, it means "My emperor is prosperous, thousands of generations." The gravel is rocky and covered with moss. This "National Anthem" reflects Japan's ambition to conquer the world!

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