The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 539
Originally, Youemon and his relatives planned to revolt first, gathering 800 people to set fire to houses and streets, and then organize a rebellion against the local daimyo.

This time, after Ding Yi's teachings, he first secretly contacted the oppressed people in various places, selected a route of retreat and a base, and then took up his armor and stood up to resist.

What is "the feudal lord's name, I would rather have a kind."

What "We and our families are going to survive."

Various slogans from high-end to popular.

Especially at the end, "We and our family must live on", which completely ignited the will of ordinary people to resist, and the heroic fire burned instantly in Shimabara.

The Shimabara Rebellion, which originally started in 1637, started vigorously more than a year in advance.

Uemon has Ding Yi's armor, Ding Yi's precepts and deeds, and gives full play to the shameless Ding Yi's characteristics, completely abandoning the Japanese Bushido spirit, as long as he wants to win, he can use any means.

His uprising was more successful than in history, and soon swept the entire Shimabara. The local daimyo was caught off guard and fled to Edo overnight.

It turns out that Youweimen can only burn down houses, the homes of nobles.

This time he plundered the wealth of the nobles, took out the food and distributed it to the common people, and then used the method taught by Ding Yi to immediately announce that all the fields of the nobles would be equally distributed to all the common people, and the mansions of the nobles would be distributed to the down-and-out warriors.

It also announced that all the common people are now the upper-class people of Shimabara, no longer slaves of the nobles, and have a free body.

You only need to pay [-]% of the tax to him.

In short, it is a means of winning people's hearts.

Then secretly send people to remind everyone that when the soldiers and horses of the shogunate come back, they must take back the fields and mansions they were allocated, and kill the common people and their families who got the fields and mansions.

The people on Shimahara were immediately stimulated.

They didn't expect that their fields and mansions would be taken away by nobles again, and they didn't want to pay heavy taxes. In order to protect their fields and families, they joined Youemon's team one after another. More and more people are coming, and the momentum is getting worse.

The shogunate was the same as before. At the beginning, it didn't pay much attention to it, and let the local daimyo handle it by themselves. As a result, within half a year, Amakusa Island on the opposite side also joined Emon's army.

One year has not yet arrived, and when the shogunate paid more attention, the right guards already had more than 4 soldiers and horses, which was more than the soldiers and horses of Amakusa Shiro at his peak in history.

He and the local daimyo have won repeated battles, and every time they win, they are stronger.

He was more brutal than in history, killing all the defeated soldiers who would not surrender, weakening the power of the daimyo.

Originally, he only targeted the daimyo and nobles, but after capturing the samurai, because he was also a samurai himself, he felt sympathetic and let them go again.

This time he will either force the opponent to join him, or kill all those who disagree.

Some samurai wanted to pretend to join and survive first, so Eemon used Ding Yijiao's method to let these surrendered samurai kill the daimyo and noble's cronies and family members, thus forcing them to stand on his side unconditionally.

Before the arrival of Matsuura Takanobu's ship, Youemon's forces had already gained a foothold in Shimabara and Amakusa, and began to hoard fields and build castles, train troops, build bases, and build armor, preparing for a long-term confrontation with the shogunate.

But he also quickly discovered his weakness. More than [-]% of the soldiers and horses were ordinary peasants, without organization and discipline, and their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the warrior class.

He urgently needs to ask Ding Yi for help, hoping that he will send someone to help him train elite soldiers.

For this reason, he transported property worth [-] silver this time, one is to support Ding Yi Bingjia, and the other is to ask Ding Yi to send someone to help.

But when the ship arrived in Lushun, Ding Yi was no longer in Lushun.

And Ruan Wenlong over there told them that the money can be shipped to the big officials, and the big officials are short of money.

So, Matsuura Matsutaka's boat came to Dayuan.

Zhao Dashan met Youemon's special envoy, Amakusa Shiro, who was only 15 years old.

Historically, a year later, the 16-year-old Amakusa Shiro officially raised the army and became the leader after Youemon, who was dead at that time.

This time it changed because of Ding Yi, Uemon didn't die, but Amakusa Shiro became Youemon's confidant general.

Although he is young, he is very calm and smart, and it is said that in the year before coming here, he found a Han Chinese to study hard, and his Chinese is now very fluent.

This legendary figure who became the leader of the rebel army at the age of 16 really showed his differences from others.

"Isn't General Ding here?" Shiro Amakusa looked humble and respectful, with a flattering smile on his face.

Who is Zhao Dashan? Ding Yi's number one general, Ding Yi recognized as the person most like him.

When he saw Amakusa Shiro's expression, he knew that this person was either really a loyal and honest person, or he was a villainous hero.

He calmly sized Amakusa Shiro a few times: "Master Ding hasn't arrived yet, and I don't know if he will come."

"But if you have anything to do, you can tell me first, and I will definitely pass it on to him then."

"Then can I wait for him at the master? I have something important and want to ask him in person?" Amakusa Shiro continued to put on a flattering smile.

"This?" Zhao Dashan looked troubled.

"I also ask General Zhao to help you a lot. We all know that you are the number one general under General Ding and the bravest samurai." Amakusa Shiro said, raised his hand, clapped, and patted twice.

Four Japanese came in quickly outside, carried two big boxes, put them at Zhao Dashan's feet, turned around and left.

Amakusa Shiro opened one of the boxes and swiped. The gold and silver lights shone inside, and it turned out to be a whole box of gold and silver.

"Gudong..." Zhao Dashan stared at the gold and silver in the box with a greedy face, and swallowed deeply.

A smug look flashed in Amakusa Shiro's eyes, Ming people are greedy for money and lustful, as expected.

He knew that Ding Yi had slept with his sister, and he could tell that Zhao Dashan in front of him liked money very much.

Yes, no one doesn't like money, he thought so.

"Hey, Master Ding originally ordered that outsiders are not allowed to stay in Dayuan, but you are also considered half of your own people. How about this, I am in Tainan City, and I will prepare a house for you. You can live in it first."

"Thank you, General Zhao." Shiro Amakusa was overjoyed.

"But I have to remind you that Tainan City is an important place for our garrison. You can only live alone, and everyone else has to be on the boat."

"Yes, General Zhao, don't worry."

"You are in the city, don't walk around, if you need anything, you can tell me."

"understand."

On that day, the senior officials got 10 taels of silver from Japan, and Zhao Dashan personally got gold and silver, totaling as much as 5000 taels of silver. Of course he was smarter, so he turned around and told Xu Erxian and the others that he would keep it until Mr. Ding Come back to Lord Ding.

The generals stationed in Taiwan looked thoughtfully at each other.

In the afternoon, Amakusa Shiro brought some things and asked his subordinates to carry a few boxes into Tainan City.

Approaching Tainan City, seeing the majestic Tainan City, and seeing Ding Yi's elite soldiers, the expression on his face became extremely complicated.

He couldn't help but said to Zhao Dashan who was accompanying him: "If we build such a powerful city in Shimabara, no amount of soldiers from the shogunate will be able to get in?"

Zhao Dashan laughed: "You have to have food to eat and water to drink in order to persevere for a long time."

"Hmm..." Amakusa Shiro felt that it made sense. After he entered the city, he was really honest, and he didn't go there, but he often chatted with the guards at the gate and talked about family matters.
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On the afternoon of October [-], the Dutch fleet docked on the south side of Penghu Lake for recuperation.

Penghu is Zheng Zhilong's territory, and the defenders immediately went to scold him, and they all said that they would not lend you the space.

The Dutch ignored and did not attack them.

The defenders cursed, but also did not send anyone to attack, they could only watch from afar.

The Dutch did not launch an attack immediately, but the cloud of war had already spread around the generals.

On the [-]th, the Dutch sent two warships to cruise around Penghu and Dayuan, which was equivalent to blocking the passage of Ming merchants to Dayuan and the passage of Dayuan's ships.

But everyone in the neighborhood knew that there was going to be a war here, so naturally no merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty came over, and no ships from Tainan Port came out.

Seeing that the officers did not come out with warships, Commander Kous also frowned.

If the Ming army hadn’t come out, they couldn’t have kept the blockade. He had only brought food for six months. Counting the return journey, he could only stay here for three months at most, and he had to go to Fujian frequently to replenish fresh water.

At this time, winter was approaching, and there must be fewer and fewer merchant ships coming to Dayuan. Even if it was blocked for three months, the damage to Ding Yi would be relatively small.

How to force Ding Yi's ship to come out for a decisive battle has become Kous's mind.

What if Ding Yi neither fights nor makes peace?
(End of this chapter)