The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 612

The two women hurriedly sat aside, Tian Chuansong quietly pulled the shoulder collar, covered the collarbone that was just exposed with the shoulders of his clothes, and then sat upright, looking elegant and luxurious in an instant, like a dignified lady.

Amakusa Shiro hurried forward, with a flattering smile on his face again.

This year in history, Amakusa Shiro led the uprising, but because Ding Yi supported Youemon, they were more than a year ahead of schedule, and they fought better than the original history.

"General Ding, three months ago, our soldiers and horses broke through the Fugang Castle of the daimyo Kuroda clan, and got 38 taels of silver, 4000 taels of gold, and some grain. We left the grain, and the other gold and This time, Baiyin was sent to Lushun by General Ruan."

"Have you reached Tomioka Castle, the feudal lord of Fukuoka in the Chikuzen Kingdom?" Ding Yi was also surprised when he heard this.

Amakusa Shiro looked proud because they broke Tomioka Castle.

The Kuroda family is a daimyo of 52 koku in the fiefdom of the Chikuzen Kingdom. It is considered a relatively large daimyo among all Japanese daimyos, and is relatively rich.

In the original history, it was also in this year that Amakusa Shiro led [-] soldiers and horses to besiege Tomioka City, but they could not be broken for a long time.

At this time, the shogunate minister Matsudaira Nobuzuna mobilized 12 shogunate soldiers and horses to rescue the siege, and Amakusa Shiro had no choice but to lead his troops back to Shimabara.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna led troops to pursue Shimabara, surrounded Hara Castle, and bombarded Hara Castle with Dutch warships. In February of the following year, Shimabara was captured and Amakusa Shiro was wiped out.

Now that Ding Yi is here, history has been completely changed.

They besieged Tomioka City around April this year, and used the new weapon Ding Yi brought from the senior officials, the scorpion cannon.

This is when Zhao Dashan got the ancient Roman weapons scorpion cannon and continual crossbow from the senior officials, and Ding Yi gave them to Youemon.

These two weapons are sharp weapons for attacking and defending the city. In particular, Ding Yi taught them to use the scorpion cannon with kerosene and throw it at the strong city like a trebuchet.

Moreover, these two weapons only need to be made of wood. Ding Yi provided the deer tendon of the senior officials and the beef tendon of Jeju.

Youemon and Amakusa Shiro immediately became even more powerful. Although there were cannons on Tomioka Castle, they built dozens of cannons and rushed up to face the cannons. After half of the scorpion cannons were knocked out, they finally wiped out all the cannons at the top of the city. It was burned, and no one dared to stand on the walls of Fugang City at this time.

They had only besieged Tomioka Castle for less than a month, and they broke through Tomioka Castle.

At this time, Youemon was more cruel than in history. After entering the city, he killed all the Kuroda clan, plundered all the wealth, and then sent it to Lushun.

At the same time, use the method taught by Ding Yi to kill the upper-class nobles, use the distribution of land and food to win over the lower-class people, and then intimidate and lure the middle-class warriors.

In a blink of an eye, his army strength has exceeded [-], and he has completely established a foothold in Chikuzen Kingdom.

Of course, at this time, as in history, the shogunate was led by Matsudaira Nobutsuna and mobilized 8 horses to besiege him.

Perhaps it was the appearance of Ding Yi that changed the direction of the entire Japan. The shogunate did not recruit 12 horses like the original history.

Amakusa Shiro got the news, and while sticking to Tomioka Castle, he came to Ding Yi for help.

They need more fire oil, sharp arrows, and armor, and a way to fight the shogunate.

After hearing this, Ding Yi thought to himself, the Kuroda family is a daimyo with 52 shi, a wealthy party, and countless grain fields, so how could he only have hundreds of thousands of assets.

The Japanese are really unreliable.

But it doesn't matter, as long as it can hold back the shogunate.

"If you can defeat the shogunate again this time, you will definitely be able to force the shogunate to the negotiating table. I don't think the shogunate can gather so many soldiers and horses again." Ding Yi said.

"Exactly." Amakusa Shiro said: "If we can defeat the shogunate this time, we will be able to completely occupy the two islands of Chikuzen Kingdom, Shimabara, and Amakusa."

"The land in Chikuzen is fertile and rich in minerals. We are all waiting for General Ding to mine them." Amakusa Shiro said with a smile.

Hmph, Ding Yi sneered in his heart, but on the surface he was overjoyed: "Very good, this time, I will definitely help you."

Amakusa Shiro was ecstatic and knelt down again.

"But." Ding Yi immediately changed his tone: "This time I am in Lushun, and I just added [-] troops, bringing my strength to [-]."

Hiss, both Amakusa Shiro and Tagawa Matsu's expressions changed drastically, and they looked shocked.

They have all seen the strength of Ding Yi's soldiers and horses, and they know that if there are 50 soldiers and horses of this kind, the [-] troops of the shogunate may not be able to defeat them.

And all of Japan's soldiers and horses combined, there are not so many.

"It costs me a lot to increase my troops, and I need a lot of money and food support." Ding Yi said lightly: "The money you brought me this time is only enough to pay for the scorpion cannons and continuous crossbows that were given to you last time."

Amakusa Shiro's face turned red, and he said in a trembling voice: "But we really don't have any money. When we defeat this wave of shogunate troops, we will have the opportunity to fight in the Bungzen Kingdom, and there will definitely be a lot of money at that time."

"You don't, but they do." Ding Yi looked at Tian Chuansong.

Tagawa Matsu and Amakusa Shiro looked at each other immediately, both of them looked confused.

"I heard from the guard at the right gate that the reason why he raised the army was because the common people were in dire straits, and people's lives were difficult." Ding Yi said loudly.

"We were also forced." Amakusa Shiro said quickly.

"That being the case, you probably don't want to be daimyo feudal lords."

"..." Amakusa Shiro stared, hesitant to speak.

If he said he wanted to do it, he must have had selfish intentions, not an uprising for the common people, and if he said he didn't want to do it, of course it would be a lie.

"The Tagawa family is my father-in-law's Matsuura feudal lord Xin's retainers. The Tagawa family has been loyal to my father-in-law for many years. They are loyal and hardworking. It's time to get the status they deserve."

"What I mean is, Tagawa contributed money, and you sent troops to conquer the Chikuzen Kingdom. The Tagawa family will be the daimyo, and the two families will form an alliance to fight against the shogunate."

A gleam of anger flashed in Amakusa Shiro's eyes, but it disappeared immediately.

We fought desperately for a long time, and finally the land belonged to Tian Chuan's family?Of course not.

But if he will, then dare to say no.

"We all listen to General Ding. When the villain came, Uemon and my sister told me that everything should be arranged by General Ding." Amakusa Shiro deliberately mentioned his sister and reminded Xia Yi, my sister, you also slept. .

Ding Yi couldn't help but give him benefits, and immediately said: "The Zhuqian Kingdom is a fief of 52 shi, and it should be given to the Tian Chuan family."

There was ecstasy on Tian Chuan Song's face, while Tian Chuan Mei looked at Ding Yi with even more admiration.

"If you can still conquer Fengqian Kingdom, the sealed kingdom over there can be given to you in the future."

Amakusa Shiro was really overjoyed. Ding Yi in front of him, like the emperor, was giving Japanese daimyo at will, but he didn't feel anything wrong, but he was very convinced.

"Thank you, General Ding, I'm afraid the shogunate will not agree." Amakusa Shiro said hastily.

The Buzen Kingdom is different from the Chikuzen Kingdom. The former is a confidant of the shogunate, or the latter Tomioka Castle has been breached, and the shogunate soldiers have not yet arrived.

Now that the shogunate soldiers and horses have arrived, they are not allowed to attack Fengqian country.

"If the shogunate refuses, let them fight until they are willing. As long as I have the support of my armor, you will be invincible and invincible." Ding Yi said sharply.

Amakusa Shiro prostrated himself on the ground, submissive with joy.

"That's the deal." Ding Yi didn't give him the chance to hesitate or object: "Tianchuan's family pays, you send troops, I send troops and armor, and together we conquer the shogunate."

"If Youemon also wants to become a daimyo, then he must continue to fight east and north to occupy more territory."

Amakusa Shiro was noncommittal, knelt down and said: "We will definitely bring more silver and wealth to General Ding."

Judging from what he meant, it was obvious that he didn't want to favor Yi Tianchuan's family, but now, he definitely didn't dare to object.

Tian Chuanmatsu was overjoyed: "I will go back and report to my father, and I will fully support you."

At that moment, Ding Yi made an agreement with Amakusa Shiro and Tian Chuan Song on the spot, and decided that Tian Chuan's family would first support 20 taels of silver to Ding Yi.

Ding Yi continued to sponsor Amakusa Shiro with kerosene and armor. He also taught Amakusa Shiro the tactics of digging pits outside the city and building blockhouses on the city to resist the shogunate army's attack on the city.

This time, Tian Chuan Yuhuang must start to pay attention to monitoring how much money Amakusa Shiro will have if he asks Tian Chuan's family to sell silver this time.

After dismissing the Tagawa family and Amakusa Shiro, the Japanese shogunate sent people to Lushun for the first time to see Ding Yi within a few days.

It turned out that the domestic uprising was getting bigger and bigger, and Tomioka Castle was destroyed, which shocked the shogunate.

Tokugawa Iemitsu sent someone over to ask for a large purchase of artillery and guns.

They said that a kind of trebuchet and continuous crossbow on the opposite side were too powerful to attack and defend the city.

Ding Yi took the opportunity to make another big profit, selling many old Ming army Francophones, General Cannons, Tiger Crouching Cannons, etc.

Throughout August, Ding Yi received several batches of Japanese and Korean guests. Because the weather was good at this time, everyone went to sea to do business, and they came to meet Ding Yi.

Ding Yi, like the old Americans of the later generations, made a fortune in war, sold soldiers and armors everywhere, sold Japanese silver, and at the same time provoked their domestic wars.
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At the end of September in the tenth year of Chongzhen, fifteen ships slowly passed by Fuzhou.

Standing on the bow of the boat, Ding Yi looked towards Fujian with mixed feelings in his heart. In the original history of the world, the current Zheng Zhilong is unparalleled in the southeast coast, invincible everywhere, I don't know how powerful he is.

But in this world, Ding Yi conquered Japan and North Korea first, and almost monopolized the sea trade between Japan and North Korea. In addition, when he was fighting against the shogunate, Zheng Zhilong was fighting with the Dutch and did not send anyone to support Songpu, so now Zheng Zhilong has almost lost Japan. Eighty percent of trade and all of North Korea trade.

North Korea was better. Zheng Zhilong didn't have much trade with that side, but Japan was once an important source of income for Zheng. After being gradually monopolized by Ding Yi, Zheng Zhilong's subordinates had a lot of opinions on Ding Yi.

Then Ding Yi took over again, which made Zheng Zhilong even more stuck in his throat.

Fortunately, merchant ships from all over the world still agree with Zheng Zhilong, and he collects the tax of passing ships, and he is also more than ten million years old.

Now Zheng Zhilong and Ding Yi seem to have a tacit understanding. Zheng seldom travels to Japan and concentrates on collecting ship taxes, while Ding Yi pays him a sum of money every year, not much, sometimes [-], sometimes [-], and sometimes [-]. Ten thousand.

Both sides remained silent, silently watching each other make money.

At the end of September, Ding Yi came to Dayuan again.

It has been almost a year since Chongzhen left Dayuan in October of the ninth year and came back now.

(End of this chapter)