Obai could not catch the Japanese pirate leader Zong Yicheng this time, because Zong Yicheng was not on Tsushima Island, but in Edo Castle.

He was originally an Edo native. He was born in Edo, grew up in Edo, and ascended the throne as the lord of Tsushima Fuchu Domain in Edo. He only occasionally went back to visit the domain.

However, when all the "Japanese pirates" at the Domopo Japanese Museum in Busan ran back to Tsushima, he happened to be at home. After learning the shocking news of the Japanese combined fleet's invasion of North Korea, Zong Yicheng immediately set off back to Edo to report to Germany.

Report was sent to the Shogunate.

This is a big deal!

The Japanese United Fleet is here...and the commander-in-chief's surname is Ukita!

I don’t know if he is the one who ran away from Hachijo Island?

So he had to go to Edo to report the drastic changes in Busan.

Of course, even if you go to Edo, you won't be able to see the "idiot" Tokugawa Ietsuna. Ietsuna is only 13 years old this year and is still competing with "Elementary School Arithmetic"!

And he doesn't care about anything.

Since the current generation of the lord was relatively stupid, the auxiliary uncle Masayuki Hoshina and the senior officers Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Abe Tadaki, Matsudaira Noriju, Sakai Tadakiyo and others came up with a good way to help the shogun govern.

While the general was concentrating on doing multiplication and division with his fingers, several senior middlemen were reporting on government affairs. The senior middlemen had discussed how to deal with these government affairs and reported them to the general together. As long as the general did not raise any objections.

Opinion means that you agree with the decision of the senior middlemen. The people below will act accordingly...

So it doesn't matter no matter how stupid the public is, just don't say anything - this method started from the Ietsuna era and was used until the closing of the Tokugawa shogunate. Except for a few generals with good brains, other generals have never heard of government affairs.

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What's even more exaggerated is that sometimes in order to save time, senior middlemen or side employees will report several government affairs at the same time. That is, several people report together... several people talk at the same time and report different things! In this way, the general cannot listen at all.

If you understand what they are talking about, you can't raise any objections.

Many people like to explain the constitution of the imperial cabinet, but compared with the Tokugawa generals, Emperor Apocalypse is considered to be in charge of more affairs!

But what Soyoshiri reported this time, let alone the stupid man, didn't understand. Even the extremely smart old Chinese, such as Masayuki Yasukina, Nobutsuna Matsudaira, Tadaki Abe, Noriju Matsudaira, and Tadaki Sakai, were confused. So we had to stay for a few days.

A meeting was held to discuss, and Tokugawa Yorifusa, the lord of the Mito domain, was also invited to discuss together.

"The Shimadzu family must be causing trouble!" The wise and wise Tokugawa Yorifou immediately came to a conclusion after listening to Soyoshige's report!

All bad things were done by Shimazu... The big shots in the Tokugawa shogunate always regarded Satsuma Shimazu as the villain!

"I'm afraid this matter cannot be accomplished by the Satsuma people!" Masayuki Hoshina put forward a different opinion, "According to reports from people at Domopo Merchant House, the so-called Japanese combined fleet that invaded Busanpo had a total of 20 large Chinese sand ships...

..Each sand boat has at least 200 people, and 20 sand boats equals 4,000 troops! If the Samo people mobilized so many people, we would not have known about it."

"It makes sense!" Tokugawa Yorifou nodded, "It seems that the Mori family is also involved... They are evil-minded and always want to overthrow the family!"

Shimazu is a bad guy, and Mori is certainly not a good guy either!

During the Battle of Sekigahara, An An had no good intentions. If Tosho Kami-kun wasn't so powerful, this group of people would definitely pounce on them and destroy the Tokugawa family.

After the Battle of Sekigahara, the Maori family's territory was greatly reduced, from 1.2 million koku to 300,000 koku (370,000 koku after the land inspection), which can be said to be a great loss of vitality. The Maori family also bore a grudge and went to Tokugawa, and devoted themselves to

I want to reverse the curtain.

"But what is their purpose for doing this?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna asked.

He had just returned from Satsuma Domain not long ago - he went to Satsuma Domain to investigate the escape of the Ukita Hide family. Of course, nothing was found, so he had to let Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the head of the Shimazu family, live in seclusion.

Because Mitsuhisa's son, Tsunahisa, was more suspicious (Ukita Hide's family fled, Mitsuhisa lived in Edo, and Tsunahisa took charge in Satsuma), Tsunahisa's son, Nobuhisa, was directly allowed to take the throne.

"Perhaps they are dissatisfied with the shogunate's policy of seclusion?" said Tadaki Sakai, who recently became a senior middle school student. "Recently, due to the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been voices among samurai and ronin opposing seclusion."

Japan's seoguo is not actually implemented after following China. This country has been practicing seclusion since China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The target of seoguo is actually China!

Although Japan has absorbed a lot of Chinese culture, it is not willing to be assimilated by China, so it implements seclusion.

However, during the Tokugawa shogunate period, many Japanese samurai did not know where Sokukoku came from and thought it was copied from China.

Now that China has opened up, Japan should also copy it quickly!

Why is it still locked? Is it because Mr. Gongfang is too stupid to copy it?

"A bunch of idiots!" Tokugawa Yoribo cursed, "The consequence of the founding of the Ming Dynasty was the decline of scholar-officials. The scholar-officials of the Ming Dynasty are equivalent to the samurai of our country!"

Of course there is a big difference between scholar-bureaucrats and samurai. One is civilized and the other military!

But Yorifu was right about one thing. Once Japan was founded, the samurai would definitely decline.

Because founding the country means going to the sea and participating in international competition. There are two ways for Japan to participate in international competition, one is commercial competition; the other is military expansion.

The former basically has nothing to do with samurai.

The latter... Japan is an island country! Military expansion must be based on the navy! The basis of Japanese samurai is land. It is difficult for the military aristocracy based on land to go to sea in the age of sail.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna breathed out: "It should be for the founding of the country... There are too many samurai in Satsuma and Nagasu, and there is no way out. Maybe they want to make money through sea trade!"

Masamichi Hoshina: "Where are there not many samurai? The biggest problem in Japan is that there are too many samurai!"

These middle-aged men are not stupid either!

Although Zhu Cixiang's agents had always wanted the shogunate to believe that the Satsuma clan was supporting the remnants of Toyotomi, they were not fooled.

Because the Tokugawa shogunate's military and financial resources were overwhelming compared to the few "strong feudal lords" who were not very obedient, there was no fear of someone's collapse.

“We will discuss the issue of too many warriors later,” Matsudaira said. “The most urgent task is to explain the misunderstanding to the Ming Dynasty and North Korea... We should send an envoy to China to explain to the Ming Emperor face to face, and by the way, examine the situation of the founding of China.

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"Let my Mitsukuni go!" Tokugawa Yorifusa said, "He is proficient in old and new sinology, and he can put it to good use now."

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"Enemy attack!"

"It's the Mongols..."

"How is that possible?"

"They are the Mongols, it's written on the sail!"

Before Tokugawa Mitsukuni set out, Fuchu Castle on Tsushima Island was already in chaos!

Because the Mongolian navy has already arrived, it has just carried out a round of shelling, and is now putting down the boat and preparing to land on the beach near Fuzhong City.

Fuchu Castle is located on the seaside of Minamitsushima Island, with the Ibohara Port under the castle. From the city wall, you can use a telescope to clearly see the flag of the Mongolian warship on the sea and the three Chinese characters "Great Mongolia" on the sail.

Mune Yishin (son of Yoshinari), who stayed behind in Tsushima Prefecture, also held a telescope in his hand and observed the Mongolian fleet on the sea accompanied by several retainers.

He also saw the words "Great Mongolia" on the sails of several large Western sailing ships... It was so eye-catching! It couldn't be wrong, it was the Mongols who were calling!

But... why do these Mongolians embroider Chinese characters on the sails? Why not Mongolian characters?

Also, why did the Mongols use Spanish-style galenic ships?

It’s not like Ma Zong is unfamiliar with rural celebrities. Their family has been engaged in foreign trade for generations and has seen many Western sailing ships. Of course, they can recognize Spanish-style Galen ships.

The Mongolian Navy no longer uses Mongolian characters on its flags and sails, and it does not use Mongolian Galen ships... This is a bit strange no matter how you look at it!

Could it be that the Spaniards took the name of the Mongols?
Chapter completed!