After landing in Kaga, the Ming army spent five days resting and recuperating before starting to divide their forces.

As the so-called soldiers are fast, they must quickly capture the four countries of Kaga, Noto, Echizen, and Vietnam-Chugo before Japan reacts and reorganizes its armaments for war.

Fan Guang and Fang Ying led 20,000 Ming troops, and 3,000 troops from Hatakeyama Yoshisuo surrendered to attack Yuezhong in the north.

Xu Yongning, Wu Zhong, and Zhang Ning led a Ming army of 20,000 to attack Echizen in the south.

Xue Xilian and Huang Song led an army of 20,000 to build a military port in Kaga and build a barracks to provide support for the follow-up army.

Because the sea is vast and difficult to reconnoitre, news from both tomorrow and Japan will lag behind.

From the perspective of the Muromachi shogunate, the situation at the moment is as follows:

The Ming army requisitioned the main warships to Pusan, intending to storm the port of Hakata. The shogunate had already requisitioned 50,000 troops from the daimyo and sent them to Chikuzen, Toyozen, Nagato, and Shubo, thus greatly strengthening the defense of Hakata and other ports.

According to the experience of fighting against Dayuan that year, although the Ming army was strong, it was difficult for the Ming army to successfully land and gain a stable foothold.

Even if you find a corner to complete the landing, you can see that there are mountains on three sides, and if you go by land from Hakata Port to Kyoto, you will be separated by mountains for thousands of miles, and you will not be able to climb them all in your life.

Kublai Khan, the Great Yuan Emperor, was ambitious to conquer Japan, but was overwhelmed by Japan's terrain.

The Ming army tentatively attacked Tsushima Island, and was defeated and embarrassed.

The Japanese mainland is a hundred-fold magnified Tsushima Island, so can the Ming army capture it? ’

Therefore, the Muromachi shogunate was full of confidence, and it was generally believed that the great emperor was good at great achievements and had courage and no strategy. In the end, it will inevitably be like Kublai Khan, the Great Yuan Emperor, who will sink into the sand and regret defeat.

With this consensus, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the general of the Muromachi shogunate, under the instigation of his relatives such as the nurse Ima, brazenly gathered nearly 10,000 pirates, secretly financed ordnance and food, and ordered him to divide his troops into two routes and raid Nanjing and Shandong.

Because Ashikaga Yoshimasa had previously sent his confidant Arima to take care of the family as a special envoy to Beijing to negotiate with the Ming Emperor.

In this process, the Arima family learned a lot of inside information about the Ming court through special channels.

Arima returned to Kyoto with his family, and he reported it carefully, and Ashikaga Yoshimasa and his henchmen made a bad move:

Let the Emperor of the Back Garden write a handwritten letter, respectively contact Zhu Qizhen, the abolished emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jianshen, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, and Kong Yanjin, the holy prince of Shandong, to persuade them to jointly overthrow the current son.

Then let the nearly 10,000 pirates divide into two routes, raid Nanjing all the way, kidnap the abolished emperor Zhu Qizhen and the crown prince Zhu Jianshen, raid Shandong all the way, kill Confucius, and kidnap Kong Yanjin, the holy prince of Yan.

If successful, Zhu Qizhen and others will be abducted to Japan, and their throne will be restored, so that the Ming Dynasty will follow Japan's example of the separation of the North and South Dynasties.

In this way, he returned the favor to the other and retaliated against the Ming Emperor for inducing the Muromachi Shogunate to aid the dynasty on a large scale, and indirectly contributed to the conspiracy of the Kamakura Princes to establish their own shogunate.

If it fails, it doesn't matter, it's just a matter of dying thousands of pirates. And even if it fails, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably have internal strife, and the emperor and the deposed emperor and the crown prince will be suspicious of each other, so that the government and the opposition will be in turmoil, and the Ming army may not be able to support the Japanese offensive.

The more Ashikaga Yoshimasa thinks about it, the more he is happy, in a word: the risk is small, the benefit is great; Buy and leave, make sure you don't lose money.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa still cares more about Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Jianshen's father and son, and as for the addition of Kong Yanjin, the sage of Yansheng, it is because of the strong lobbying of the nurse to participate in the bureau.

Now, the participation in the bureau is so hard to agitate, it is to take people's money and eliminate disasters with people.

I'm a very money-greedy woman, and it doesn't matter where the mysterious power that lobbied among the elites in Kyoto came from, as long as the money was real.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa, twenty-one years old this year, is not yet a full-fledged ruler. Because he couldn't grasp the real power before aiding the DPRK and resisting the Ming Dynasty, he was inexperienced and destined to be played by the great tomorrow.

Originally, he was going to get married this year and marry the sixteen-year-old 'Jade Beauty' Tomiko Hino, but the continuous war delayed Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

……

On the first day of October, the weather turned cold.

Zhu Qiyu hugged the brocade quilt and leaned against the window to watch the scenery. There is a stunning beauty on the left side of the quilt, and a stunning beauty on the right, moist and smooth, very warm.

Qianxue and Suxi sat at the coffee table, guarding a pile of paperwork and writing and marking carefully.

Zhu Qiyu stared at the bright and mirror-like Yuquan Lake for a long time before turning around and asking, "Have you added any new Fengtian Jingnan loyal ministers recently?" ”

Qianxue replied: "No, before and after, a total of fifty-four loyal ministers of Fengtian Jingnan appeared. They were 'invited' by Jinyiwei to Fengtianjing every day, and they got together to discuss how to act on behalf of the heavens, do the right thing for the heavens, and oust their husbands from the throne to relieve the wrath of the heavens.

There are only so many ministers in the Manchu Dynasty, and the ministers who dare to stand up against their husbands have already stood up, and the rest will not openly oppose their husbands for various reasons. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Then wait, when the time is right, I will send them to Nanjing to be loyal to King Yi and the crown prince."

After killing this last batch, it should be completely quiet, and we will change the prince next year. ”

"What is the right time?"

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "The heroes of the world must see roughly the same." I will go to raid Japan, and Ashikaga Yoshimasa will also come to raid the Ming Dynasty.

Raid on raid, and the opportunity comes out. ”

"Where will Ashikaga Yoshimasa raid?"

Zhu Qiyu smiled faintly: "How do I know that the coastline of the Ming Dynasty is so long, and Ashikaga Yoshimasa can't listen to my orders."

Anyway, I will transfer another 20,000 Yan Wei and 10,000 Shenji Battalions to the south, of which 25,000 will go to Qingzhou and 5,000 will go to Dengzhou.

Then he ordered the cabinet to send a message to the southern and northern Zhili and the provinces of Shandong, Zhejiang, and Fujian to strictly guard against the invasion of the Japanese invaders.

When it was discovered that the Japanese had landed, the local governor and governor immediately mobilized troops to besiege and kill them. The soldiers are fast, and there is no need to repeatedly ask the court. ”

Qianxue nodded, and asked again: "Yiwang's birthday is coming, let's give him a gift in the last year, this time the lacquered gold screen made by Yang Xun is the whole map of the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately Japan has not yet beaten it."

There is also the crown prince who played, asking for a birthday day, to go to Xiaoling to pay homage to King Yi, the husband is allowed or not? ”

"Xu, there are still forty days before the birthday festival, let him go then. Although King Yi has committed a great crime against the country, we can't stop the prince from fulfilling his filial piety. It's the last year, let it be him.

Let's send someone over and send some things to the prince, don't look too cold as an uncle. ”

Qianxue said with a smile: "Don't worry, husband, the fleet that gave gifts to the prince set off half a month ago, and now it should be almost Nanjing along the canal."

We prepared gifts worth fifty or sixty thousand taels in one go, and we definitely took them. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded again and again: "Very good, very good, you are still competent as aunts." ”

Thanks to Xiaobu Ding for a reward of 5,000 points

(End of chapter)