Xinshun 1730

Chapter 343

This call-to-action is not a call-to-action, and the announcement is not what Liu Yu wanted.

He probably knows half of the allusions in it, Han Gaomingzu, Liu Yu and Zhu Wen, of course he knows.Akechi Mitsuhide has heard that the enemy is at the Honnoji Temple, which is quite famous.

However, he doesn't know what Ping Jiangmen is doing, but since he is tied with Liu Yu and Zhu Wen, he is probably a fellow.

I asked again, and learned that the God Toshō who said, "Compassion for widows, widows, and loneliness is the foundation of benevolent government" is Tokugawa Ieyasu's posthumous name. I thought it was okay, and it has local characteristics.

At first glance, the whole article is at the level of a rural scholar, with little righteousness, superstition and natural disaster warnings, followed by burning account books, burning usury IOUs, subdividing land, canceling privileged merchants, and other things that are enough to attract the bottom people.

It may be that there is a rhyme in it, but Liu Yu's Japanese of Er Dao still subconsciously translate the article into Chinese in his head before understanding it, and there is no rhyme.

In the last part, the land of benevolence and righteousness that imitated the construction of the Utopia is a bit elevated, which means that it has a goal, and it can also attract some middle-level or down-and-out warriors.

Considering that those who study and practice martial arts will be harmed, and they have not yet been hit by the dumping of cheap goods in Dashun, causing all the people below the middle level to go bankrupt and desperate.

But this is enough to scare the shogunate.

In fact, it is useless, but pretending to be useful will make the shogunate think it is very dangerous.

Take this call to action, which is not a call to action, and the notice is not a notice, and leave first. When you return to the camp, distribute these things to the translators and ask them to copy them overnight.

The pillar industry of the industry and commerce of the Tosa domain is the paper industry. Tosa paper is very famous. There is no shortage of paper here, and the price is also low. The source of paper for copying these things is very stable.

Shi Shiyong read this article together with some staff officers, and wondered: "My lord, is this thing useful? It may be said that cutting trees into soldiers and raising poles, but the country of Japan is very different. Farmers and soldiers are separated, and farmers are prohibited from fighting. No matter what I say, merchants can carry cannons when they go out to sea. Japanese peasants are forbidden to use weapons, and warriors are training soldiers. I am afraid it will be difficult."

Liu Yu made a look of surprise and asked, "What do you want? I'm not crazy. How could I think that these few words can make the Japanese people win Liang Jingcong and welcome Wang Shi?"

Although Shi Shiyong had been a spy in Japan for a long time, he had come into contact with the samurai class, and basically he was a samurai with at least 150 shi.

He didn't know much about the lives of the people in the Japanese country, and Edo was similar to Bianjing in the Song Dynasty. It was a city bred by sucking blood from all over the country, and life in it was different from that in the countryside.

But he still knew that some things were not so simple, and he felt that it would be impossible for Liu Yu to achieve great things with this article.

Even... small things are enough.

"My lord, I don't think you want the Japanese people to win Liang Jingcong. But...the Japanese don't have so many poor scholars. This article can only be understood by the 'bad guys' from above. I don't think it's useless."

He told the truth. Before Tokugawa Yoshimune's reform, there were really not many Terakoya, and most of the literate people were from the samurai class.

Liu Yu smiled and said, "That's why I created such an article about parallelism, workmanship, vulgarity, and elegance. Rebellion doesn't have 'scholars', how can it be successful? Even if the high school champion won the election Scholars, who rebelled? It’s not elegant or parallel, so a scholar with a low culture can understand it. This is called facing the audience. When the Seventh Prince rewards those craftsmen, can’t he only speak vernacular? If you speak classical Chinese, then Isn’t it playing the piano to a cow? It’s the same reason.”

"In the eyes of the shogunate and the daimyo, the common people are just sesame seeds, which can be squeezed out as they please. But the shogunate is afraid of Catholicism, because Catholicism can make these sesame seeds stick together. For the same reason, the shogunate is afraid of 'aspiring Confucian scholars' and ordinary people." Let’s do things together without worrying about farmers making things up by themselves.”

"Of course, the Japanese don't have an imperial examination, and the so-called scholar has someone else. Do you think that the local people can't get things done?"

These people all shook their heads, thinking how could it be possible?
As far as the situation in Kochi City is concerned, they have already seen it clearly. It is estimated that there are more than 1000 people guarding it, and the terrain is dangerous.

If the navy and the marines want to capture it, it is possible, but it takes too much time and the casualties will not be too small.

The farmers here have never held a weapon at all, and they all thought that even if Liu Yu had the ability to train soldiers, it would take at least a year and a half to train a group of mobs into an army capable of capturing Kochi City.

Liu Yu smiled, and asked someone to fetch the Kochi City defense map drawn by hot air balloon observation.

If you take Kochi Castle on the small hill as the center, the east and south sides are the residential areas of the castle town.

There is a natural river fork in the northwest, but it is stagnant water, so it is used as a natural moat.After passing the fork of the river, it is the main city of Kochi City.

The only disgusting thing is that besides a river fork, there is a section of swamp about 40 feet, [-] meters between the river fork and Kochi City Tucheng.

He pointed to the northwest side with his finger, and said: "I don't need the Japanese peasants to be soldiers, nor do I need them to cut wood into soldiers. I only need to spend money, and they dare to take money. Relying on firewood and earthen bags, the guns Under cover, fill this section of trench and swamp."

"Consultants, do you think that if this can be achieved, Kochi City will still be difficult to attack?"

One sentence awakened these staff officers. Purely in terms of tactics, their vision is very vicious.But they never considered this tactic, because they thought that this tactic of filling trenches and swamps from the side could not be done, and there were not enough people.

Now Liu Yu pointed out the problem directly. He didn't need the Japanese farmers to charge with him to seize the mountain city and grab the grain.

Under the cover of artillery, there is almost no danger, but if we only rely on the Marine Corps, there must be not enough people.

Several staff officers just glanced at it, and immediately said: "It is very feasible. As long as the trench and swamp are filled up, Kochi City can be captured with bamboo poles. There is almost no slope protection against shelling in the northwest, and the Japanese would not have thought that we would come from here. Attack over there, after all, we don’t have many people.”

"It's just, how sure is your lord that Japanese peasants dare to take your money?"

Liu Yu stretched out his hands and made a cross with his two index fingers.

"Ten percent."

"Everyone, think about it, if you were the shogunate and the daimyo, if you saw five or six hundred people land in one place, entangle the people, incite public opinion, gather thousands of people, and even capture the castle, what would you think? "

"Do they dare to mobilize all the warriors to fight? There must be more warriors left to guard the place. With the separation of farmers and soldiers, there are only three to four hundred thousand warriors in total."

"Three-quarters of them stayed behind, and one-quarter was recruited into the shogunate army, but no more than [-]."

"I have proved that I can land in Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, and even Edo, then they will gather their forces and divide them into at least five mobile regiments to defend separately. If they can't be grouped together, the army will not need to send too many troops. , Only by fighting this battle can we make money."

"The second reason why I incited the local people to rebel is to destroy the shogunate and the rule of the daimyo. Have you forgotten the past years of 'unity with the captives and the suppression of the bandits'? The 'captives' can still be united, and the 'bandits' must be destroyed. I have been told For one thing, the Japanese must reserve more samurai to guard the city, fearing that the people will make trouble. So how much strength can his mobile corps gather? Will they choose to negotiate peace with us? Or continue to fight desperately, hitting all around our coast Spread such words?"

"Three things will be negotiated in the future, and our dynasty will insist on the principle of benevolence and righteousness as the terms, and the shogunate will not dare to accept it. For this reason, we want an extra three to five million taels in exchange for us not sending more leaflets, books to the Japanese country, and not allowing them to take them in." Japanese students who went to China to study privately. The extra three to five million taels were put into the navy, even if it was a first-class ship of three to four million taels, ten ships could be built, wouldn’t it be wonderful?”

"Since I am in charge of the navy, the matter of asking for money in the future will not fall on me? You have to squeeze more money to get more. Naturally, to squeeze money is to hit it where it hurts. This trick of mine will help It directly poisoned the heart of the shogunate. If you don’t give money, you will increase the amount of poison.”

What these staff officers considered was only tactical considerations, and they didn't think about asking for money in the future.

As for Liu Yu, all his goals revolved around one thing, money.

Only by getting more money can the emperor and the court be convinced that the war turned out to be fucking profitable.

The household government wants money, either for disaster relief, or for relief, or for benevolence and righteousness, but it can't do without money.

The emperor wanted money, either to make up for the rotten flesh of the Jianghuai River, or to cultivate the power of the direct line, or to reward the soldiers to regain the morale of the army.

Liu Yu wants money, either for the construction of the navy, or for inflation to make cellar silver an unwise choice, so as to leverage more currency into social circulation.

Everything is about money.As for the disintegration of Japan, Liu Yu has no interest.

Once Dashun completes this step first, Japan will completely lose its chance, and there is no need to work hard to completely destroy it: a lion cannot treat a sheep as a tiger just because it was hit by a sheep when it was sick, and waste more money. energy.

He explained his true thoughts a little bit, and everyone thought about it for a while, wondering in their hearts, secretly thinking that this is a real poisonous plan.

However, there were a few people who couldn't bear it and still had conscience, and asked, "Master, this is to kill and not to be buried. After the instigation, once we leave, they will die."

Liu Yu laughed and said: "Since religion is banned in this dynasty, it can be said that there has never been any savior. They can walk their own way. Let me tell you this, just as far as Confucianism is concerned, let's come this once, the shogunate A decree will be issued, stipulating that non-Zhuzi theories should not be spread, banning Mencius, banning Yangming, and banning ancient Confucianism. Of course, such good things as Zhuzi’s learning should be shared with others. Wouldn’t there be no grievances? Only when there are thoughts and hopes can there be grievances.”

None of them had a background in imperial examinations, and none of them had seriously studied Zhu Zi's theory. They had contempt for this school of thought in their hearts.

This had nothing to do with Liu Yu, but was caused by Dashun's overall environment.

The stimulation of the near collapse of the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty caused great Confucianists to complain in all kinds of ways. They kept saying that Cheng Zhu would be broken, and Confucius and Mencius would be broken.

Hearing Liu Yu's analysis that Japan will definitely ban all kinds of theories in the future, and may even delete Mencius and only learn from Zhu Zixue, everyone laughed.

"My lord, this is a dead end plan."

Someone finally got a taste of it, thinking that this move is really vicious, drinking poison to quench thirst, the ultimate goal of doing this is to turn the whole country into a large rural area that cannot move.

Now the outside world is changing three times a day, so it must be weak.

But all of this was not forced, but as Liu Yu analyzed, the shogunate would take the initiative to do it.If all goes well, then maybe you can really ask for a little more compensation.

For every penny more, the Navy will get an extra share, and the future of these senior officers in the Navy will be brighter.

After thinking about it for a while, this seemingly meaningless thing became meaningful in the eyes of the officer.

In fact, they didn't care about the life and death of the people of the Japanese country. As for benevolence and righteousness, they didn't care too much. They followed Liu Yu all day long, and Liu Yu didn't talk about the kind of benevolence and righteousness that is empty to empty.

It turns out that if you don't care, you don't want to take care of it.Knowing that this matter is of great significance now, especially when it concerns the military expenditure of the navy in the future, everyone is in high spirits.

"What does your lord mean, that these notices will be posted everywhere tomorrow?"

"Post posting is necessary, but if it is just posting posting, it is not very useful. Farmers are illiterate. They just spread out and preach everywhere. Something needs to be done to let farmers see that we really really want to Carry out 'benevolent government'."

Counting the time, Liu Yu stretched out two fingers and said: "20 days, we still have 20 days at most. We must accomplish this major event worth at least ten first-class battleships within these 20 days. You must do well. There are a lot of trainee captains in Weihai waiting to be fed."

"This matter is boring and requires a large number of officers to preside over it, so we must not slack off."

(End of this chapter)