Daming: I help my wife be the empress

"This Wanli, did you forget the battle plan just in the name? This admiral will send an order for him to withdraw the troops!"

Jiangbei ship, in the command room.

Seeing the defeat of the shogunate army through the bird's-eye view of the Flying Eagles, and seeing Wan Li leading the soldiers chasing after them, Zheng Cai was "angry" on the spot.

Yan Yingyuan next to him hurriedly said: "If Wanli can defeat the army and go straight to Edo, it will not violate our combat purpose. If we can control Edo in this way, it will be even more beneficial to our subsequent negotiations.

Therefore, I feel that we should send troops to support Manli as soon as possible, and strive to invade Edo in one fell swoop and control the city. "

After Yan Yingyuan finished speaking, the communication team under the command room on the other side came to report, conveying Wanli's request for instructions to take the opportunity to invade Edo.

The military situation was urgent, and Zheng Cai was already inclined to take the opportunity to control Edo - as a general who led the army abroad, he naturally wanted to complete the feat of capturing a country's capital, even if Edo could only be regarded as the deputy capital, it would be enough to shine in the annals of history.

So he asked anxiously, "What's Lu Dujian thinking?"

Lu Ruoteng looked at the aerial view of the drone on the tablet, and then said: "This time is indeed a good opportunity to invade Edo in one fell swoop, but Wanli must be careful not to get caught in street fighting and control the city gate and other troops. Just support."

"Haha, that's how it should be."

Zheng Cai laughed out loud, and immediately issued a series of military orders.

All of a sudden, the entire Dongyang Navy moved.

This time, the Dongyang Navy is said to be the soldiers and horses of the three towns in the past. In fact, in order to carry out ocean exploration, the number of troops is still overflowing, and the total number is close to [-].

Each of the squadrons has a marine corps of [-] people, plus an admiral directly under the marine corps, and the marine corps of the entire Dongyang Navy has as many as [-] soldiers!
In addition, the navy can also land and fight, but the land combat capability is not as strong as the marines, but it is more than enough to deal with the shogunate army.

On the Edo side, because of the sudden death of Matsudaira Nobuzuna, who served as the general general, when the shogunate broke into the city, no one could stop and restrain it, allowing Wanli to successfully occupy the east gate.

Among them, a small number of courageous military officers gathered warriors to attack the Ming army soldiers led by Wan Li, but they were all easily killed.

As the Ming army's follow-up landing troops came to help one after another, they successively controlled several other gates of Edo before sunset, and easily controlled Edo Castle...
Therefore, the battle against the shogunate army was defeated too quickly, and the Ming army took control of Edo Castle even faster. The purpose of the shogunate leader to send Takechiyo Tokugawa Iemitsu out of the city was not realized.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, Tokugawa Ietsuna and his sons, officials of the shogunate, and a considerable number of pro-vassals and genealogical daimyos living in Edo were also trapped in Edo Castle.

The Japanese feudal lords under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate were divided into three categories: pro-vassal daimyo, genealogical daimyo, and foreign daimyo.

The pro-vassals mainly refer to the vassal lords of the Tokugawa family and the vassals who are related to them by blood, such as the famous royal family Owari, Kii, and Mito.

The genealogical daimyo refers to the daimyo who followed the Tokugawa family before the Battle of Sekigahara, which is equivalent to the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, also known as hereditary daimyo.

The external daimyo refers to the daimyos who surrendered to the Tokugawa family successively after the Sekigahara War. Many of these daimyos surrendered only in name, but they were still the objects of the Tokugawa shogunate’s guard against it, and it was difficult for their families to enter the ruling center of the Tokugawa shogunate. , and the territory is mostly located in the border of Japan, so it is also called foreign domain.

It can be seen from this that the Tokugawa shogunate army mainly came to aid the pro-fan daimyo and genealogical daimyo.

Nowadays, a considerable number of pro-vassal and genealogical daimyos are trapped in Edo Castle. Even if these feudal leaders want to send troops to "King Qin", they will have many scruples.

In addition, the shogunate officials and samurai were all beaten by the Ming army in the battle of Edo Wharf, and they were worried that the Ming army would directly destroy the Tokugawa shogunate and Edo Castle.

So the next day, Sakai Tadakatsu, then the head of the Tokugawa shogunate, came to beg for peace from the Ming army.

After three days of detailed discussions, they finally agreed to sign tomorrow's Treaty of Edo.

The treaty has ten articles, roughly as follows:

Article [-]. Japan completely withdrew from Ezo Island, and publicized to the whole country that Ezo Island was the territory of Ming Dynasty and should not be invaded again.

Article [-]. Japan evacuates all citizens in Ryukyu and shall not infringe upon the interests of Ryukyu.

Article [-]. Japan recognizes that Tsushima Island and its affiliated islands are owned by Ming Dynasty, and they are now returned.

Article 4: Japan set aside [-] square kilometers in each of Kagoshima, Shimonoseki, Osaka, Sendai, and Mutsu port areas, and leased them to Ming Dynasty at a price of [-] Ming Yuan per year. This is the Ming Concession.

Article 9: Nine trading ports of Edo, Nagoya, Osaka, Shimonoseki, Toyama, Sendai, East China Sea, Kagoshima, and Tosashimizu were opened to Ming Dynasty.

Article [-] allows Ming to send diplomatic officials to Japan to establish embassies and consulates in Japan.

Article 1000 allowed the Ming Dynasty to send troops of no more than [-] people to each concession.

Article [-]: In case of negotiation and litigation by the people of Ming Dynasty in Japan, it shall be handled by Ming Dynasty. (That is, Ming has consular jurisdiction in Japan.)
Article [-]: Tariffs at treaty ports with Daming need to be negotiated with Daming.

Article 1000: Compensation for Daming's military expenses and compensation for the losses caused by the previous occupation of Daming's land totaled 500 million taels of silver. (500 million taels can be paid first, and the subsequent [-] million taels and related interest must be paid within ten years.)
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After the specific content of the "Edo Treaty" was negotiated and before it was officially signed, Tokugawa Iemitsu just woke up again.

Sakai Tadakatsu hurriedly reported Edo's control by the Ming army and the treaty-related matters, and urged Tokugawa Iemitsu to agree to sign the treaty.

Sakai Tadakatsu is not unaware that Tokugawa Iemitsu is now critically ill and it is difficult to be a director, and it is even more difficult to accept such a drastic change.

But it is really difficult for him to bear the name of "traitor" after signing the treaty.

After all, it is the Tokugawa family, not his Sakai family, that rule Japan today.

If Tokugawa Iemitsu doesn't wake up again, he is ready to help Tokugawa Ietsuna succeed him to the general position first, and then let him sign this treaty.

As for getting him to sign it, that's impossible.

Tokugawa Iemitsu seemed to be more energetic than the previous few times when he woke up this time. After Sakai Tadakatsu finished speaking, he first looked at Abe Tadaaki and asked, "Does Abe-kun think like Sakai-kun?"

Abe Tadaaki sighed, and said, "General, we have no choice now. This treaty is the result of our hard work with the envoys of the Ming Kingdom."

Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at his brother at the side again, and asked, "Masayuki, what do you think?"

Baoke said with a sad expression on his face, "General, there is a saying in the Han people, it is 'It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge', and there is also an allusion of 'Goujian lays his salary and tastes his courage'.

Now that the Ming army controls Edo, our lives are at stake.Whether it is for the sake of preserving the Tokugawa family, or for revenge in the future, we can only sign this treaty first. "

"Where's Matsudaira-kun?" Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at Sora again, and suddenly realized, "Oh, Matsudaira-kun was shot to death by Mingren with a cannon."

There was silence in the room.

Leaning slightly, Tokugawa Iemitsu said: "Bring Iezuna."

After a while, Tokugawa Ietsuna was brought over.

The ten-year-old Tokugawa Ietsuna already knew a lot of things, and he knelt by the couch when he came.

"Come on, watch father sign this contract."

After Tokugawa Iemitsu finished speaking, he tried his best to sit up, and using the writing brush prepared on the low table, he signed his name on the official document of the "Edo Treaty", and stamped it with the seal of the Japanese general who conquered barbarians.

After signing, he threw away the brush and tightly held Tokugawa Ietsuna's hand, his pale face full of sternness.

Tokugawa Ietsuna felt his little hand hurt from being grabbed, and seeing his father's expression goodbye, he almost cried.

Tokugawa Iemitsu stared at Tokugawa Iemitsu as if he didn't see it, and shouted, "My son, don't forget the shame of today, you must take revenge, take revenge!"

At the end, Tokugawa Iemitsu seemed to have exhausted all his strength, suddenly froze, and then fell down.

"General!"

For a while, the Tokugawa shogunate burst into tears.

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In the seventh year of Zhaowu, April [-]th.

The Ming Dynasty signed the "Edo Treaty" with Japan, which opened the door to Japan.

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