Chapter 11: Emperor Feng Luming (Sixth)

On the surface, he had planned to make a fool of Song Xiance, but in fact, Zhu Yinglong was angry that he would give this big trouble to himself now. Zhu Yinglong himself had not yet thought about how to deal with the affairs of the Japanese royal family. After all, this is the spiritual leader of others. Killing now is definitely not good for occupying Japan. Song Xiance is also a smart person and knows that the emperor cannot be a villain. Although Xingzi is the Japanese Emperor, he is the spiritual leader of Japan. She is just a puppet and a puppet that lifts the thread, and there is also a crown prince, who is much more important than her current emperor, and they are still in the hands of Song Xiance.

The purpose of Song Xiance sending this female emperor was to guess the holy intention. If Zhu Yinglong wanted to eradicate the Japanese royal family, such a thing would definitely not be allowed to escort people back. If he did it himself, he would definitely be executed on the spot. Song Xiance was not afraid of blood on his hands, but was afraid that he would be wrong, which would make Zhu Yinglong unhappy. After all, he is not alone now and has integrated into the core of the power of the Ming Dynasty. He does not seek to go further, but he does not end up being a rabbit and a dog cook!

Sometimes, it is not good that his subordinates are too smart, and Zhu Yinglong smiled bitterly in his heart. If he hadn't been a later generation, with the thoughts of those emperors, these people would not have a good ending. This seems to be an eternal law!

The trouble is still my own, Zhu Yinglong has to worry about this matter.

Since it was not a local war, after Hong Seungchou captured Edo Castle, he decided to fight the decisive battle with the Tokugawa Shogunate, attracting the shogunate army together, and then fighting an annihilation battle, destroying all the military strength of the Tokugawa Shogunate in one fell swoop.

Hong Seung-chou's confidence was based on his well-equipped equipment. After capturing Edo Castle, he did not immediately launch a full-scale attack on Japan, but instead ceased to recuperate, and even suffered several defeats in small-scale conflicts. This made the Tokugawa Shogunate, who escaped from Edo Castle, feel that the Ming army was just like this. Moreover, Hong Seung-chou suffered more than 10,000 casualties in the attack on Edo Castle, and the total force was less than 50,000. Tokugawa Ie-koi finally escaped and ascended to heaven without pursuing troops, taking a breath, and then mobilized troops in the name of the shogun General. This time it was not a domestic civil war, even the northern foreign vassals who had never listened to the orders of the shogunate had sent troops to come. In less than a month, Tokugawa Ie-koi actually gathered 150,000 troops. After a brief running-in, he swore to send troops to seize Edo Castle!

Within this month, the southern part of Honshu Island, most of Kansai, and Shiguo all fell into the trilateral coalition, while Song Xiance occupied two-thirds of the territory alone, and 100,000 reserve troops continued to enter the Japanese land. When Amakusa Shiro and Shimazu family found something wrong, it was too late. They were leading wolves into the house. The equipment and training of the 100,000 reserve troops were far more powerful than the elite troops in Japan. With the support of the reserve, Song Xiance was relieved to leave two divisions to station in Kyoto, and ordered Zhao to lead the sect commander, bringing more than 20,000 elite troops, as well as all the cavalry and artillery to rescue Hong Chengchou.

There are many princes in Japan and they have to fight one by one. It is not only time-consuming but also laborious, so they just made a fuss. Therefore, Hong Chengchou and Song Xiance formulated such a decisive battle plan. In addition, they did not intend to eliminate the shogunate army at once, but instead erode the opponent's strength bit by bit, but did not hurt the opponent's muscles, so that the opponent could make a wrong judgment, constantly concentrate the troops, and then achieve the goal in one battle!

Tokugawa Iemitsu was not Hong Chengchou's opponent, and was gradually dragged into a huge trap. First, he mistakenly thought that Hong Chengchou's shells were insufficient, because when attacking Edo Castle, Hong Chengchou almost bombed Edo Castle. Without supply, Hong Chengchou's shells were less and less. Of course, this was what he did on purpose. Without the threat of artillery, the morale of the shogunate army suddenly increased. The Ming army suffered a considerable casualties in the head-on confrontation. Then Hong Chengchou deliberately shrank his defense and lured the shogunate army to surround him step by step.

When Tokugawa Iemitsu saw the dawn of victory, he was even more excited to mobilize his troops. When the shogunate army almost reached the limit of 200,000, Hong Chengchou and Song Xiance cooperated inside and outside to launch a full-line counterattack. Hundreds of artillery fired and roared like a shocking roar. Tens of thousands of shells fell into the positions of the shogunate army, with heavy casualties and ghosts crying and howling.

Under the attacks inside and outside, the shogunate army was besieged in a narrow area, and what awaited them would be a ruthless massacre!

In this battle, the "butchers" were renamed, and the shogunate army was killed and bloody, with heavy casualties, and less than one-tenth of them survived.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was trampled into meat paste by war horses during the chaos. Hong Chengchou ordered all the relevant people of the Tokugawa family to behead them without leaving any one. After this battle, the Tokugawa family was basically exterminated, and there was no opponent in Japan to compete with the Ming army. Soon, Hong Chengchou led his army to sweep the north and completed the occupation of nearly 80% of the territory of Japan!

The war report was sent to the capital, shocking the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Ming Dynasty. Many people in the court were not optimistic about it before the expedition to Japan. They believed that what the Yuan Dynasty could not do when it was so powerful back then was so powerful that the Ming Dynasty could not do easily. However, the facts made these people shut their mouths, and the harvest of the army in Japan made the Qingliu who clamored for military force and would perish all day long, completely closed their beaks. The army's military expenditure for attacking Japan not only earned back in the war, but also made a full pot. This time, the Ministry of Finance gave a budget of 20 million silver dragon yuan, and the plan was to be more than a year.

But now it has basically been completed in less than half a year. So much military expenditure has not been used yet. Of course, if the pensions of the soldiers after the war are included, 20 million may not be enough. This is also one of the main reasons why the Qingliu people in China oppose it. However, the army was not very casualties in Japan, and the actual deaths of less than 20,000 were less than 20,000 yuan per soldier. Even if each soldier had a pension of up to 500 silver dragon yuan, it was only 10 million. The wealth obtained from the army from Japan was more than ten times that of this number, not counting the value of precious metals, utensils, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., as well as the total value of the ten expeditions to Japan, it would be enough.

Zhu Yinglong can now understand why later countries will be impatient to start a war once a financial crisis occurs. Therefore, this is a good way to transfer internal conflicts to external conflicts. But more importantly, war means plunder. Under such amazing temptation of wealth, who is not moved? At least Zhu Yinglong saw the mountains of jewelry, jade and antique calligraphy and paintings, his eyes turned green!

Hong Chengchou and Song Xiance brought back thousands of years of collections of the shogunate and the Japanese imperial palace. Because of the suddenness of the war, the treasure houses that replenished these things were not damaged and were basically preserved intact. They are now all from the Ming Dynasty.

Some of these things were picked out and rewarded to the meritorious ministers, and the rest were all put into Zhu Yinglong's pockets. As for precious metal utensils such as gold and silver, those with valuables were kept, and those with no value were all handed over to the treasury. As for what they did, it was the affairs of the Ministry of Finance and the Imperial Central Bank.

The war of destruction of Japan also had a huge impact on Europe. Hundreds of years have passed, and the shadow of Genghis Khan on the entire Europe and the Roman Holy See has not been completely eliminated. The more they understand the Ming Dynasty, the more they feel fear and fear. Especially when the Ming Dynasty has almost exploded, the Netherlands, known as the "mass coachman", felt huge pressure. Although their strength in Asia is also increasing, the Ming Dynasty's strength is stronger than him. There is news that the Ming Dynasty is preparing to establish a Pacific Fleet, which means that the entire Pacific Ocean will be the back garden in the future. Maritime powers such as the Netherlands, Spain and Britain will either unite to oppose the Ming Dynasty or rely on its existence!

The strength of the Ming navy gradually made him dominate foreign trade. From the original Netherlands and other countries to the Ming Dynasty, they took the small head, but they took the small head in time, and the benefits they gained were far more than before. However, Zhu Yinglong still underestimated the greed of these people. Although the Netherlands saw the strength of the Ming Dynasty, he did not want to see the Ming Dynasty have a fleet that confronted it. After the war, it was equivalent to saying that the Ming Dynasty ruled the entire East China Sea. When the Ming Dynasty announced the change of the East China Sea fleet to the Pacific Fleet, the Sino-Dutch Pacific Navy broke out!

This naval war broke out in June of the 17th year of Chongzhen. Due to trade disputes, the Netherlands and other countries demanded renegotiation with the Ming Dynasty and signed new trade clauses, and required restrictions on the Ming Dynasty's merchant ships to directly pass through the Strait of Malacca from the Indian Ocean, bypassing the Cape of Good Hope to Europe, and other clauses that made the Ming Dynasty give up many interests. Zhu Yinglong naturally disagreed. His purpose was to achieve the goal of controlling Europe through trade and economic aggression, as well as colonization. Although colonialism is cruel and bloody, the Ming Dynasty adopted a relatively mild approach, which scared European countries because the Ming Dynasty

A moderate approach is actually a win-win situation. It not only achieves the goal of controlling the colony, but also achieves the effect of controlling the hearts of the people. The rapid expansion of the colony is astonishing. Australia, South Asia, Africa, Central and South America have seen the shadow of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty also helped them resist the slave trade, causing heavy losses to European countries. This is really terrifying. The European monarchs became scared. They quickly united and planned to force the Ming Dynasty to stop its current approach and give up some of its interests. Zhu Yinglong obviously would not agree. The negotiations broke down and the naval war broke out!
Chapter completed!