Since Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, there have been more than 500 feudal domains, large and small, and on average, there were about 270 feudal domains in each era, known as the "Three Hundred Domains of the Edo Shogunate".

The "Three Hundred Domains of the Shogunate", with the Shogun's direct domain being the largest, accounting for one-third of the entire land of Japan, is called the "Heavenly Domain", and the Shogun at the peak of his life had 4 million koku every year; Shogun down, is the three families, these three daimyo all belong to the Tokugawa family, each has an income of hundreds of thousands of stones, if the shogun has no queen, will also choose a successor from the three families (the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune later divided the three emperors). After the daimyo of the Tokugawa family, according to the boundaries of the territory, there were the Mutsu-Dewa domains, the Kanto domains, the Hokuriku Koshin domains, the Tokai domains, the domains, the Chugoku domains, the Shikoku domains, and the Kyushu domains. Originally, there was also a Matsumae Domain of Ezo, but now this Matsumae Domain is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Edo Shogunate. Among these daimyos, the Maeda family of the Kanazawa Domain, the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain, the Asano family of the Hiroshima Domain, the Yamauchi family of the Tosa Domain, the Mori family of the Choshu Domain, the Ikeda family of the Tottori Domain, the Ii family of the Hikone Domain, the Fujido family of the Tsu Domain, the Matsudaira (Echizen) family of the Fukui Domain, and the Date family of the Sendai Domain were the richest. And in addition to the Asano family, who was first cut off from the daimyo by the third generation of shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, and then completely uprooted by the current fifth generation shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the Maeda family of the Kanazawa domain is the strongest.

What Mader said about going to Honshu to play is actually to find these daimyos, and of course, if you go by the way, it is not bad to go to the jurisdiction of the shogun.

What are you looking for them? One word: rob!

He first found the Maeda family of the Kanazawa Domain.

In Japan, a daimyo has the ability to conquer the world with an annual salary of more than one million koku, and the Maeda family is the only daimyo other than the shogun to have an annual salary of more than one million koku. It is the most powerful feudal clan in Japan.

Unfortunately, however, their Kanazawa Domain is on the seashore!

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Tsunaki Maeda was the daimyo of the Kanazawa domain of this generation, but, according to the rules of the shogunate, he was serving Tokugawa Tsunayoshi in Edo at the moment. Therefore, the one who received the letter that Yu Zhong casually found a Japanese to send to Koyama Marujo (the main city of the Kanazawa domain) was the son of the Maeda family, Maeda Yoshitoku.

"What should I do?"

As the heir to the most important first powerful domain, Maeda Yoshitoku certainly knew who the letter he received came from, and even if he didn't, the twenty large warships on the seashore were enough to make him pay attention to it. It's just that the request on this letter to let him get on the ship to "chat" is really a bit difficult to accept.

"Shizi, you'd better order everyone to enter the city, and then, we will hold the city tightly, I think, those Qing people will leave soon!" Retainer Naoyuki Honda said.

"Our Kanazawa Domain is the number one powerful domain, how can we let someone else's letter be so frightened that we don't dare to close the city and defend ourselves? Honda-kun, why are you so cowardly? Another retainer, Okumura Naritoku, asked angrily.

"Okumura-kun, of course I know that the Qing people are not terrible. However, even if we have 30,000 soldiers in the Kanazawa Domain, if we lose too much because of the battle with the Qing people, we will lose more than we gain. The shogunate has been looking for an opportunity to weaken us. Naoyuki Honda said.

"I think you're making excuses for your timidity, we people from the Okumura family won't be as timid as you. Shizi, I am willing to lead the feudal army to resist those Qing people. Okumura Naritoku knelt down in front of Maeda Yoshitoku and prostrated and shouted.

"Okumura-kun......" Maeda Yoshitoku didn't know what to say for a while. The Okumura family is the hereditary retainer of the Maeda family, and its ancestor Okumura Yongfu was once known as the family's first brave general, but the governor of the Okumura family can only receive 12,000 stones, but the Honkado family can receive 50,000 stones, and there are two daimyos, so the conceited and heroic Okumura Narodori has always been dissatisfied with Honda, and nothing was fine before, but now the Qing people suddenly deceived the door, isn't this a chance to give Okumura Chengde?

"Shizi, please allow me to fight. Otherwise, I'd think you're looking down on me......" Okumura shouted with another kowtow.

"Alright! Okumura-kun, I'll leave everything to you! …… However, the Qing people came from the sea, so I only allow you to defend when they go ashore, and if they don't go ashore, you can't take the initiative to provoke. Maeda Yoshitoku said.

"Hay!" Okumura Narodori kowtowed heavily on the tatami mat, stood up and glanced at Honda Naoyuki with his face up, and went to gather the feudal army.

"Shizi, Okumura-kun is going, I'm afraid he will not be able to hold his breath and anger those Qing people!" Naoyuki Honda said as he looked at the back of Narita Okumura.

"Honda-kun don't worry. Okumura-kun, he will count it in his heart! Maeda Yoshitoku was relieved by Honda Naoto. Now that Shizi had spoken, Honda Naoyuki could only bow down and be taught, and turned to Maeda Yoshitoku and asked another question: "Shizi, how do we reply to the letter of the Qing people?" ”

"To be polite, just say that I am physically inconvenient and can't go out of the city to greet me!" Maeda Yoshitoku said.

"Hay!"

……

"Junmen, those Japanese are physically inconvenient and don't leave the city!"

Maeda's letter was quickly sent back to the seashore and delivered to Yu Zhong.

"If you don't invite someone, you don't give face! Let's find out for ourselves. Get ready to go ashore! ”

"Wow!"

……

Yu Zhong went ashore. Prior to this, Okumura Naritoku's feudal soldiers also drove to the seashore. Therefore, Yu Zhong unceremoniously plowed the beach with a cannon and gave them a sauna by the way! Okumura Naritoku, the heroic hereditary retainer of the Kanazawa Domain, was blasted into the Kingdom of Heaven before he could make a sound, and went to find Amaterasu, and the feudal soldiers he led fled in disarray after more than 1,000 casualties, and all of them hid in Koyamamaru Castle.

However, this did not change their fate, and Yu Zhong's generals led 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Naval Division ashore, and soon surrounded the main castle of Kanazawa Domain, which was not far from the sea.

didn't listen to the explanation, he only gave the Maeda family a multiple-choice question, and there were two answers, either surrender or be beaten!

As a result, Maeda Yoshitoku once again chose the wrong answer, and he chose the third answer, sticking to it.

So, Yu Zhong held a brief baptism of Koyama Marujo with artillery!

The bombardment of three hundred shells in just a quarter of an hour made Maeda Yoshide react in the shortest possible time, and he had to choose one answer again: surrender. At this time, due to too many wooden buildings, almost a third of the already small Koyamamaru Castle had been destroyed, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger......

Throughout this battle, the soldiers of the Kanazawa domain had no chance to fight the Manchurian naval division. Although Honda Naoyuki sent troops to try to counterattack, but they couldn't rush in front of the soldiers of the Manchurian Naval Division at all, not because these Japanese soldiers were not brave enough, but because Yu Zhong left the city wall, they rushed out from the city gate, they could only be used as targets, even if some people could rush out, in the face of dense muskets, bows and crossbows, there was only a dead end.

However, it was precisely because of this that Maeda Yoshitoku became extremely cheerful, and after paying compensation of 110,000 taels of gold, 350,000 taels of silver, and 20,000 koku of grain, he received Yuzhong's "forgiveness" for his previous rude behavior.

Then, Yu Zhong led his troops on board and left. At this time, Maeda Yoshitoku was able to get out of the castle, and from the outside, he couldn't help but see Koyamamaru Castle with billowing smoke.

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The Maeda family was the first, and then, Yu Zhong went south along the west side of Honshu Island, basically looking for people from city to city. Tokugawa Ieyasu originally ordered that these people should not accumulate ronins, repair cities without authorization, marry privately, or form parties; Later, the "One Country, One City Order" was promulgated, and only one castle was allowed for daimyo in various places, and there were various restrictions, just like the Maeda family, they originally had a Nanao Castle, but after the main city was moved to Koyamamaru, Nanao Castle was demolished. Therefore, Yu Zhong's method of finding is basically a quasi-child. However, although Tokugawa Ieyasu saved Yu Zhong a lot of trouble, Yu Zhong was not grateful to him for this. This Tokugawa Ieyasu actually didn't get the title deed, and the land of each domain only belonged to the lord, that is to say, Yu Zhong thought before he came, find the title deed to burn it, make Japan a mess and then take the opportunity to take advantage of the idea in vain, although he has always paid great attention to Japan, but he really didn't think of this article, where in the world is there no document such as a land deed? But there is no one in Japan today. Not only that, the Tokugawa shogunate's strict identity system and the separation of soldiers and peasants were implemented, that is, the residents of the whole country were divided into four classes, such as the peasants and merchants, which were not to be confused, and stipulated that the samurai must live in the city, and the system of peasants fixed in the countryside made Yu Zhong dare not easily send troops into the city, in order to reduce the casualties of his soldiers, he most of the time just fired cannons outside the city to force those daimyo to surrender, although because of the wooden buildings too many daimyo did not dare to defend the city in the end, however, Yu Zhong's income was also reduced a lot. Of course, there are times when he enters the city, but he will only do this when he encounters those who are not strong, that is to say, when he leads troops into the city, he often only goes in to show off his might, but his income is not very much. However, even so, Yu Zhong's trip to the south was still very fruitful.

By the time he led his team to Tsushima Island and cleaned up the Tsushima Mansion clan above, the whole army had already "earned" 530,000 taels of gold and more than 2 million taels of silver. However, just as they were in high spirits, trouble came.

"Junmen, we're running out of ammunition!"

When they first heard the news, most of the generals of the Manchurian Naval Division wept and mourned.

"You ...... You guys are so wasteful. These ammunition are money! Did You Know? Damn, this time I almost emptied the inventory, twenty ships, at least more than two million taels of silver shells, you ...... Lao Tzu has worked hard for five years! ”

"Junmen, we can't be blamed for this, it was you who gave half of the ammunition to General Yue and General Mu!" Lu Buyi said.

"There's still a lot left of that......" Yu Zhongqi said. At a critical moment, I was about to go to fight the Satsuma Domain, but I was short of ammunition. You must know that the Satsuma Domain was the first powerful feudal domain in Japan to come into contact with the West, and in terms of war strength alone, it was one level higher than the Kanazawa Domain and the Tottori Domain that had been cleaned up earlier.

"Military gate, there's a ship coming ahead!"

Yu Zhong was reprimanding a group of subordinates, and the lookout hand on the flagship suddenly shouted loudly downward.

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"Little Fan Yubin asks for peace to the military gate!"

There was only one big boat, and Yu Zhong and his gang thought it was a small fish on the way, but they didn't expect it to be their own people. But if you think about it, how can there be any sea ships in Japan today?

"Fan Yubin?" Although Yu Zhong is not familiar with this name, he is not unfamiliar with it. The eight imperial businessmen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the head of the Fan family, have done business with Mo Jing.

"The military gate has shown its might all the way, Liankejian City, Fan really admires it!" Fan Yubin is still very young, thirty years old, but this person is already the top person in China's shopping mall, although his strength is slightly inferior, but in terms of status, he is also able to compete with Shanxi Kang Siding and Anhui Wang Weiping.

"Sit! …… How did Boss Fan end up in Japan? What about copper trafficking? Yu Zhong motioned for Fan Yubin to sit down, and didn't talk to him about the war, but just asked him why he was here.

"Hehe, the military gate is expected. Fan had indeed just arrived from Nagasaki. Fan Yubin thanked him and replied with a smile.

"Nagasaki? Didn't anyone inform you? How dare you ......" Yu Zhongzheng opened a big "robbery" ring to Japan, of course, he would not let the businessmen on his side come over again, so at the same time as sending troops, he had already sent people to send messages to his own people in Mukden, Pyongyang, Osaka, Nagasaki and other places in the form of flying pigeon relays, and asked the relevant people to leave quickly, but he didn't expect that this Fan Yubin would actually stay in Japan until now.

"Hehe, in fact, Fan Mou also planned to leave early, but he ran into his own family not long after leaving, so he waited until the ship was loaded." Fan Yubin said with a smile.

"Your own family? …… What about your ship? It won't be just this one, will it? Yu Zhong asked.

"Fan's fleet has gone south, and Fan is here to greet your lord by military order!" Fan Yubin said again.

"Military orders? …… Whose military order? Yu Zhong asked.

"Taiwan's chief soldier, Nian!" Fan Yubin smiled.

……

Nian Qianyao!

Since Yu Zhong was left in Taiwan as the chief soldier of the naval division, this guy has not been idle.

Yu Zhong pointed out two paths to him, one was Ryukyu, and the other was naturally to explore the route to the southeast! However, compared with the sea route in the southeast, which still seemed very far away, Nian Qianyao still chose Ryukyu.

Ryukyu was very wealthy, and during the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, he had already sent tribute to China. According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", the number of tributes paid by Asian countries was 19 times for Japan, 30 times for Korea, 37 times for Jawa, 89 times for Annam, and 171 times for Ryukyu alone, which is almost close to the sum of all countries. In addition to tributary trade with the Ming Dynasty, the Ryukyus also engaged in relay trade with Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asian countries, and Ryukyu ships sold spices, ivory, silk fabrics, porcelain, and swords in the ports of Fuzhou in China, Pusan, and Busan, as well as in Thailand, Vietnam, Malacca, Sumatra, and Java. At that time, the Ryukyus were known as "the beam of the world with the boat". However, later, the Kingdom of Malacca was destroyed by Portugal, Sumatra, Jawa and other countries were also occupied by Westerners, and the Ming Dynasty suddenly began to ban overseas trade, and the external environment of the Ryukyuan people changed dramatically. Since then, Ryukyu's foreign trade has almost ended, and there is no shadow of their sails in Southeast Asian waters. In this way, in the 37th year of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, after Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, because Ryukyu insisted on refusing to be hired by the Edo shogunate, he sent Shimazu Iehisa, the daimyo of the Satsuma Domain of Kagoshima, which was close to the Ryukyu Kingdom, to invade Ryukyu with 3,000 soldiers and capture the Ryukyu king. Originally, the Shimazu family wanted to annex the Ryukyus directly, but Tokugawa Ieyasu was afraid that the already powerful Shimazu family would become more powerful after annexing the rich Ryukyu, and the Ming Dynasty existed in the east at that time, so it was not allowed, which is why the Ryukyus were able to be preserved. However, the Satsuma Domain continued to supervise the administration of the Ryukyus for 45 years, and the then King of the Ryukyus ceded the Amami Islands to the Satsuma Domain. Even if they no longer interfered in the affairs of the Ryukyus in the future, the Satsuma clan still forcibly took over the tributary trade of the Ryukyus to China, and the Shimazu clan forced the Ryukyu monarchs to admit that "the Ryukyus were vassals of the Shimazu clan of Sasku since then." The three Ryukyu officials, Xie Minglishan, who refused to sign the Shimazu clan's document, were beheaded. Others are under the eaves of people and can only bow their heads.

However, this situation changed after Nian Qianyao set sail to the northeast.

Nian Qianyao is greedy, tyrannical, and easy to kill, and before these, he still has one ability, that is: he can fight!

Especially after being suppressed by Yu Zhong for three years, his sudden release of nature is even more vivid.

The arrogant generals, samurai, and feudal soldiers who remained in the Ryukyus of the Satsuma clan became the first batch of unlucky people.