The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 772 Taking Hokkaido

Huang Sheng looked at the brothers of the Zheng family and said: "The long-cherished wish of your fathers back then will be fulfilled by you today. Taking down the country of Wa is the ultimate goal, but it cannot be accomplished overnight. There is no rush. Start with taking the land of Ezo, and every time you take down the country of Wa The islands are managed and become supply places, and the Wa country will surely lose if one goes up and down the other.”

Zheng Yiguan's wife is Tagawamatsu, the daughter of Emperor Tagawa Yuhuang, the family official of the Hirado domain. Both Zheng Sen and Tagawa Shichizaemon are of Japanese descent.

Zheng Sen became excited when he heard Nan Wang's voice revealing that he wanted to completely seize the Wa Kingdom. That was the place his father coveted!But he is also very clear-headed. Although the Wa Kingdom is not big, it is not too easy to provoke. In history, Meng Yuan, who had poor soldiers and ransoms, was once deflated in the Wa Kingdom.

His father conspired with Yan Siqi to rebel, just fantasizing about taking over the Japanese kingdom and achieving hegemony, but unfortunately he was unsuccessful and almost lost his life.

He saluted and said: "His Royal Highness, I am familiar with the geography of the Japanese country and the Japanese language. If I am willing to take the country as a pioneer, I will definitely fulfill my mission."

Zheng Sen is the appointed heir of Zheng Yiguan and the chief admiral of the Beishang Fleet. It is easy for him to state his willingness to attack the Wa Kingdom.

Huang Sheng nodded to Li Guozhu, and Li Guozhu explained the plan just discussed.

The first time I had face-to-face contact with Huang Sheng to talk about the formation of troops, Zheng Sen felt convinced that "Nanming" was powerful, but the lord Huang Sheng was neither arrogant nor impetuous. invincible position.

Of course Zheng Sen knew that the strength of the shogunate army in Ezo was limited, and Ezo was poorer and backward due to long-term exploitation, oppression, and blockade by the Tokugawa shogunate.

The equipment in Eizo is poor, even there are not many iron weapons, and the combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning. The Zheng family cooperated with Li Guozhu to win there and establish a base camp.

What's more, the Eizo have not been completely assimilated by the Wa people, and they have no national concept at all. After landing and gaining a foothold, they will adopt the "Nanming" ethnic policy to Sinicize them.

With common interests, the three parties hit it off, and Li Guozhu happily became the main general. In addition to his own more than [-] warships, armed merchant ships, and Zheng Sen's small [-] ships, there were no fewer than [-] musketmen who could land and fight.

Li Guozhu and Zheng Sen will join forces to take down Hokkaido and occupy it forever. Of course, it doesn’t have this name at all, it belongs to Ezo.

"Nanming" does not need to send troops to participate in the attack on Hokkaido, but only needs to provide some weapons and supplies to the Li and Zheng coalition forces. Of course, what Li Guozhu and Zheng Sen are most interested in is not weapons and supplies, but the canonization they will get.

Huang Sheng promised that after the coalition forces of Li and Zheng successfully seized Hokkaido, Li Guozhu would be awarded the first-class title of Beihai Bo, and lead the fourth-rank Beihai Futai official position to participate in the governance of the island of about [-] square kilometers that was renamed Beihai Fu.

Zheng Yiguan will get rid of his name as a pirate and bestow honor on "General Beihai".

Ezo is vast and sparsely populated, and the shogunate army has been repeatedly attacked by rioting Ezo and now they can't control it at all. It is not a challenge for the two armies of Li Guozhu and Zheng Sen to jointly seize it.

However, it is a bit embarrassing for this place to be stable and stable for a long time. Without him, the population is insufficient, and the Yezo are barbaric and disobedient. It will not take a while for Wang Hua to tame.

Both Li Guozhu and Zheng Yiguan went to the Wa country to make a fortune, and they kept in touch with famous names from all over the country, and they knew the geography and folk customs of the Wa country too well.

In the past few years, Li Guozhu and the "Huaxia Navy" have joined forces to continuously weaken the strength of the general who conquered the barbarians, and supported Amakusa Tokisada's armed separatism in the Shimabara area.

Now the people of the country of Wa are struggling with swords and soldiers, taking this opportunity to take down the land of Yezo, the general of the country of Wa must have no time to take care of him, but how can we digest this place, and how can we achieve long-term peace and stability?
Li Guozhu spoke honestly in front of Huang Sheng. He made his concerns clear, and asked Nanwang how to arrange after the occupation of Yezo.

The reason why Huang Sheng chose to win the island of Hokkaido was because he had to consider the population balance of Liaodong and North Korea after the war, and people of slave blood might not be able to kill them all.

Those who voluntarily surrender still have to leave a way for them to survive. It is more than enough for some Jiannu, Tazi, and Goryeo Aha troops to come to Hokkaido to deal with Ezo. Immigrant their families to settle here, and the initial population problem will be solved.

Many Han people in the hands of Li Guozhu and Zheng Yiguan also immigrated here, and the Hokkaido area was colonized by the Han people-led Baojia model.

Strictly adopt the "Nanming" ethnic policy to manage the society, and in just 20 years, the entire Ezo land will be completely transformed into the "Beihai Prefecture" with the Han nationality as the main body.

When Huang Sheng revealed the next plan, Li Guozhu, Zheng Sen and others suddenly realized that the Southern King did not take the Qing army who was about to face off at all seriously, and was already considering finding a way for the captives and surrendered troops.

These former pirates knew that after this battle, everyone would be cleansed, and they would become civil servants and generals of the "Nanming" and go home to worship their ancestors.

Huang Sheng cheered everyone up, and said meaningfully to the leaders of the Zheng family: "Everyone go to Beihai to take down that island and then settle down with the status quo? How many islands are there in Japan? The people of Japan have already become kings, and they admire them. In the Han civilization, it should not be difficult to transform the Wa people into obedient citizens, right?"

The Zheng Yiguan Group used a lot of ronin. These people's strength and loyalty are impeccable, and their discipline is not a problem. They follow the Zheng family to fight in the Indian Ocean without any complaints.

Nan Wang gave some hints, and Zheng Sen, who had great ambitions, immediately understood. His heart was racing for a while, and he knew that in the near future, he would have the opportunity to take over the entire Wa Kingdom with hundreds of millions of people.

Seventeen or eighteen-year-old Tagawa Nanazawaemon is a Japanese expert. He is the adopted son of Zheng Yiguan to the Tagawa family.

Nan Wang promised to give the Zheng family a pirate official status, and hinted that he could seize the entire Wa kingdom on the premise of obtaining the Ezo land as a foothold, which made this kid inexplicably excited.

Tagawa Qizaemon knelt down and said: "His Royal Highness, the boy is familiar with the customs of the Japanese country, knows that the Japanese people yearn for the Great Tomorrow Dynasty, and also knows that the ministers of the Tokugawa shogunate named the Japanese country are actually the thieves of the Japanese country. Cao Cao, the last emperor to make the princes. I, "Nanming", attacked the Tokugawa shogunate, and I must have the help of the Taoist!"

A young man dressed as a Japanese pirate spoke in standard Huang's official dialect, and quoted scriptures in a polite manner, which was very eye-catching.

(End of this chapter)