Xinshun 1730

Chapter 360 The enemy is at the Honneng Temple

Chen Qinghai was impassioned, but Liu Yu still didn't answer, but silently stared at the dark blue sea, watching the swaying waves splashing out pearl-like foam and then annihilated, without saying a word for a long time.

During the silence, I wanted to laugh, thinking that these military cadets were still too young after all.

Naval cadets who can fight, have land, money, hereditary territory, and culture, but are still separated by the sea, and want to invest money in trade and factories, are sealed overseas across the sea?Emperor Dashun was indeed a Han Chinese, but first of all he was an emperor, and even if he thought about it, he knew that it was absolutely impossible to agree to such a thing.

Behind him, the shouts of hoisting and setting up the sidesail came one after another, and the silence amidst the noise never lasted too long.

"Zhao Tuo closed the five ridges and four passes, and then he became a separatist regime. The Japanese kingdom faced each other across the sea, but the naval officers who knew naval warfare wanted to seal it across the sea? Zhou Gong's wisdom has indeed established the foundation of China for a thousand years, but the emperor of Qin, Han and Wu are not surnamed Ji. Qinghai, Qinghai, think about it, is this possible?"

After saying such a sentence, Liu Yu didn't say any more, and went straight back to the cabin, leaving Chen Qinghai alone on the deck, frowning and thinking, and only let out a sigh for a long time.

Back in the cabin, Liu Yu spread out the pen and paper, compiled his itinerary after separating from Ryukyu and Zhao Baiquan into a memorial, and rewrote about Tosa.

For the emperor, what he cared most about was whether he could win the war.

Secondly, in Liu Yu's opinion, it should be Tosa's business.

Just like the "prophecy" that Liu Yu told the emperor many years ago, such a thing did happen in Japan at this moment, but it may also happen in China.

He hoped that through this incident, the emperor would be impressed.

Under the premise that it is impossible to pretend that the outside world does not exist, we must either solve the problems of poverty and high land rent among the people at the bottom, so that when external forces come, there will be a wave of followers, or we will continue to strengthen the navy. , to ensure that no one will use Liu Yu's tactics to play Tosa on the southeast coast, strangling external forces out of the beach.

Choose one of the two, and the emperor would be able to tell the difference, which is easy to do and which is difficult; which is a temporary solution and which is a permanent cure.

What happened in Japan can be regarded as a lesson for Dashun: the premise of locking the country is to have a strong navy that can choose to open the country and lock the head, otherwise it is unilaterally waiving the battle card, which is only in the novel.

The matter of the Japanese can be a teacher of Dashun.

The Son of Heaven and his fellow feudal lords should be learned from sorrow.

Seal the completed memorial and hand it over to the two fast boats, letting them return first.I have to lead the fleet to Tosa, join the marines there, and complete the drawing of some coastlines.

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In Edo Castle.

Tokugawa Yoshimune had no second person by his side, and the news brought back by Tadashi Ooka was very bad, cutting off the possibility of the two tigers competing for food, so he had no choice but to carefully examine Liu Yu's letter again.

Many of the contents of the letter cannot be made public for others to read. When discussing the plan of the two tigers competing for food that day, they only talked about Liu Yu's conspiracy.

Tokugawa Yoshimune knew that the real content should not be shown to outsiders.

The most unsightly part of the letter, if only judging from the tone, seems to be Liu Yu who softly mentioned the Three Caves of the Rabbit in Edo, but the content is not what it used to be.

"There may be a saying: Tokugawa Ieyasu is like Sima Yi. However, no matter how he does things, he has achieved something in the end. It has been passed down to this day, and it has been a hundred years. If you inherit the foundation, you should think carefully about it."

"The ancients said: Take history as a mirror. Have you not seen the Kamakura shogunate?"

"Mengyuan attacked Japan, and the Kamakura shogunate won but lost. Now that I am coming to attack, you can only defend after all."

"Even if you win, what can you do? Those who have made great achievements in battle will be rewarded? If rewards are only for defense, and there is no extra land and population, what rewards will they get? If you reward the land directly under your jurisdiction, how will you be able to suppress the foreign name in the future?"

"It's directly under the banner, and they fought against the Dashun army. They suffered heavy casualties. How can we survive in the future? If you insist on fighting, I'll step aside from the other daimyos and fight against the shogunate. Isn't this a very simple matter?"

"If you want to award rewards, you need land and population. I think it can also be used to attack the court? Your navy, has it passed Tsushima Island? The defensive battle has military exploits but no land rewards. You don't want to step on the sickle The footsteps of the Cang Shogunate?"

"Besides, the Duke is only the general who conquered the barbarians, and the other big names still have a legitimate reason to live in the capital. You should think about it carefully."

"The Kamakura shogunate resisted the Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty, Japan survived but Kamakura perished; King Xuan of Zhou conquered the army with six divisions, five tyrants prospered and seven heroes stood up."

"The so-called mourning for future generations without learning from it will also make future generations mourn for future generations... Please think carefully."

"Secondly, if Japan switches, the Celestial Dynasty can choose to switch in places directly under the shogunate such as Nagasaki, or in places such as Satsuma and Hirado. Let's think about it carefully. Is it better for you to take the initiative to switch in places under your direct control? Or Choose in Satsuma, Changzhou and other places?"

"If you pay tribute, you will be a vassal of the Celestial Dynasty. Just like Ryukyu, a small country with less than a thousand soldiers, how can the Celestial Empire intend to annex it? If you pay tribute, if the name is not good, the Celestial Empire will help you put down the rebellion; if you don't The switch of the tribute is to have the great army of the Celestial Dynasty to help the foreign daimyo and the government to return it, so as to rectify the etiquette and law of the world."

"Think of it! Think of it!"

It is precisely these contents in the letter that it is doomed that Tokugawa Yoshimune cannot reveal all the contents of the letter to others.Every sentence here is full of danger. Even the Dutch may not be so clear about the situation in Japan, but Liu Yu's letter firmly grasped this contradiction.

Tokugawa Yoshimune knew very well that this was almost the same as what Liu Yu did in Tosa, that is, he told you how to fight, but you were helpless.

Satsuma, Changzhou and other feudal clans, are they loyal?Yoshimune Tokugawa knew it well.

The banners are all gone, can those big names be suppressed?Tokugawa Yoshimune is still very clear.

Dashun wants the tribute, the shogun’s tribute, or the one from Kyoto, is there any difference?Tokugawa Yoshimune is still very clear.

Under the policy of closing the country, Nagasaki is directly under the jurisdiction. As the only trade customs, the profits are all earned by the shogunate.If Dashun chooses to trade with Satsuma, Changzhou and other vassals, if the shogunate cannot achieve a monopoly, can it still get all the benefits of trade?
This ebb and flow may be true as Liu Yu said: Kamakura shogunate defeated Meng Yuan, so what?King Xuan of Zhou rejuvenated and attacked Zhu Rong, so what?

Every year, I bitterly hate pressing the gold thread and making wedding clothes for others.

He entered the shogunate from a side branch, or some people called him "Ieyasu No. [-]", and he still has some abilities.But the son he made was almost thirty and still peed his pants, slurred his speech, and habitually gritted his teeth and remained silent.

Without this incident, Tokugawa Yoshimune thought that with his own reforms, even if the son he established was a waste, it would be enough to hold him back.

But now, with such a huge external force as Dashun, if it is true as Liu Yu said, all the banners directly under him will be wiped out, and the Warring States Period may reappear.

At that time, whoever can establish a good relationship with Dashun will achieve great things.As far as building a good relationship with Dashun, which one is not the first to get the moon from Satsuma Shimadzu and Changzhou Mori?

Foreign enemies are hard to defend, but internal thieves are the most worrying, and subordinates are sometimes more terrifying than enemies.

Ooka Tadashi's plan of two tigers competing for food is no longer possible, so far it is known that it will fail.

Know yourself and the enemy, fight a hundred battles without slack.Liu Yu started planning a few years ago. Tokugawa Yoshimune read the Tang Renfeng storytelling books over the years, how much does he know about Dashun?

Shi Shiyong taught all the methods of riding and shooting, but Dashun didn't care because they had sharper firearms.The battle of Tosa is not only the "benevolence and righteousness" killing the heart, but also killing people with firearms. This battle is really impossible to fight.

He read Liu Yu's letter carefully again, staying silent on the last paragraph of the letter.

"What the public is worried about is not the heavenly dynasty, but the inner vassal."

"Why don't you take this opportunity to weaken the inner vassal? The flag doesn't move, but the Satsuma, Changzhou and other vassals are called to raise troops, and the heavens will get rid of them."

"Those who are needed by the Celestial Dynasty have their status and righteousness."

"What I seek is not land, but goods; it is not prosperity, but switches."

"Using the power of the celestial dynasty to eliminate the powerful vassals and cut off their wings, what harm will it do to you?"

"If not, the flag of the public will be lost, and Satsuma Changzhou and other vassals will take advantage of the trend of Dashun to smuggle arms or train new troops privately..."

"The enemy is in the Inneng Temple, not in the Tianzi Division."

Although Liu Yu left Tokugawa Yoshimune with the impression of being a cunning and disgusting liar, I have to say that the few words in the letter really moved Tokugawa Yoshimune's heart.

Murder with a knife?
Using Dashun's knife to weaken Changzhou, Satsuma and other feudal clans?
Since I have a relationship with Liu Yu, maybe I can send my confidants to contact Dashun secretly.

Measure the wealth of the shogunate and win the favor of the celestial dynasty.

The feudal clans in the Southwest are inherently tyrannical, and let them compete with Dashun... As long as Dashun really does not ask for land, this is simply a perfect opportunity to weaken the opponent.

The Tokugawa family has a foundation of more than a hundred years, and they don't need to rely on leading resistance to gain righteousness and become a true leader, because he is already a leader.

The one in Kyoto is famous but has no power, his expenses are only one hundred thousand shi, and he can't afford to raise soldiers and horses.

Under the policy of separating peasants from soldiers, the threat to rule is those foreign daimyos.

As long as Liu Yu doesn't send troops to land everywhere and repeat Tosa's incident, then under the policy of separating peasants from soldiers, peasants will not be able to turn the sky in ten lifetimes.

The success of Tosa's affairs was not because of the tyranny of the five princes and five people, but because Liu Yu's soldiers beat Tosa's samurai to death.If there is no external force, even if the public is six and the people are four, the common people are still sesame seeds for oil extraction?Under the sword hunting order, I haven't even touched a weapon, so why fight a samurai?
Kyushu Island...Kyushu Island.

Some strategies do not need to be predicted. If Dashun wants to fight, it will definitely land on Kyushu Island, not anywhere else.Either to North Korea or to Ryukyu, Liu Yu may lead thousands of soldiers to scatter around, but once there are tens of thousands of soldiers, it must be Kyushu.

On the island of Kyushu, under the direct jurisdiction of the shogunate, there is only Nagasaki, which is used as a port for trade.The rest are all fuel-inefficient lamps, and it's not a bad idea to take advantage of Dashun to get rid of them.

But, does Dashun really not want land?

He took out Liu Yu's letter again and read it carefully. After several times, he suddenly understood.

Even if you want land, so what?
The cities on Kyushu Island were not originally under the jurisdiction of the shogunate!

And Liu Yu just gave him another chance to be justified and not to resist: Tosa learned from the past, let the city lords from all over the city stand firm in the city, and the shogunate army was divided into several teams for mobile defense.

In this way, even if the army is not assembled to go to Kyushu for a decisive battle, those people will not say anything, and they will not feel that the shogunate is using a knife to kill people.Or go to Kyushu with the banner of thousands of people, even if you lose, it will not shake the foundation.

And if there is a decisive battle between the samurai under the direct control of the entire shogunate, even if Liu Yu lands everywhere to encourage a fight, once the battle is defeated, it will be as Liu Yu said: make wedding clothes for others.

This general who conquered barbarians had a bad name.

Soldiers are the foundation of maintaining rule.

(End of this chapter)