Wanli 1592

Chapter 240
Complying with Xiao Ruxun's angry shout, the surrounding Ming army once again raised their firecrackers and swords, and stared at Maeda Toshiie aggressively. Suddenly, the rumble of drums and the roar of soldiers came from the camp behind Xiao Ruxun. Staring at Toshiie Maeda viciously, with fierce aura, astonishing momentum and full of vigor, even Tokugawa Ieyasu who has been pretending to be a turtle has not been able to accept all this calmly without changing his face.

This is the Ming army that defeated and destroyed his hope of dominating the world, how could he not hate it?How can you not complain?
It's just more fear. The loss of 3 people has taken away his courage to fight against the Ming army. At least now, at least in the past few years, he does not have the courage to fight the Ming army again.

To put it bluntly, the moment the war drums sounded, Maeda Toshiie softened, and his family had only tens of thousands of elites. According to the elite level of the Ming army, he had no chance of winning if he really wanted to fight. After all, Tokugawa Ieyasu’s example Right in front of him, in other words, it's certainly not good for Tokugawa Ieyasu to have a chance to rest, but doesn't he need the time to rest?Doesn't the remnant forces of the Toyotomi family need a little rest time to integrate the interior?

Thinking of the current messy situation within Toyotomi, Maeda Toshiie really has no confidence to say that he can easily clean up the internal centrifugal forces and external enemies. The forces within Toyotomi have not been reshuffled after a major devastation. Suppressed, but the contradiction has not been resolved, a lot of things need to be dealt with, and it can't be resolved for a while. If you continue to fight with Tokugawa Ieyasu, there may be some terrible accidents.

Maeda Toshiie remained silent and did not continue to object, but he did not seem to accept it either.

Xiao Ruxun decided to sing for a while.

"Your concerns are also clear to the governor, but under the current situation, which one of you can continue to fight? Nearly 20 young men were destroyed in North Korea. How many funerals do you have to deal with? The food shortage after the war, you two How much effort does it take to deal with it? Although Ben Du is strong, he wants what Da Ming should get. Da Ming has no interest in Japan. After the fight is over and the culprit is killed, as long as you pay compensation, Da Ming will not pursue it. The key lies in whether you can make the proper gesture!"

Seeing Tokugawa Ieyasu and Maeda Toshiie cast their eyes on him, Xiao Ruxun continued: "The Governor knows that the two of you have deep grievances that are difficult to resolve, so he separated the two places. The Tokugawa clan set up the fief in the west. The Chen family is on the east side, and there are some daimyos acceptable to both of you as a buffer in the middle. In this way, you don’t need to contact directly, and there will be no friction. And the Ming army is watching Ishimi. How good is that? Wouldn’t it be good not to fight? Is it? Ben Du hates fighting the most."

The heat is almost up.

"It's all said here, and you two should stop disliking each other. Fighting wars, fighting back and forth, it is the people of the world who are suffering. You need the people of the world to cultivate the fields and pay taxes. The people will fight for you. If it’s gone, who will farm the land? Who will do business and pay taxes? Isn’t it good for peaceful development? Daming also backed down a step. This Shijian country is still yours, but it’s only leased to Daming for 50 years. During this period, Ming will handle everything. After 50 years , Shi Jianguo will give it back to you!"

With that said, Xiao Ruxun handed the pen to Maeda Toshiie and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

"Sign it, as long as it is signed, this war that should not have happened should be over, and the Toyotomi family will play your emperor, give the Tokugawa family a high-ranking official, and a fief, no smaller than his previous fief , who are the rest of the people should be sealed together, appease me, the people of the Toyotomi clan will take over the old fiefdom of the Tokugawa clan, which is equivalent to changing the fiefdom. Everyone takes what they need and enjoys it in peace. Taiping, from now on, stop fighting, stop fighting, and sing songs about wine, isn't it beautiful?"

Tokugawa Ieyasu has long been moved, and there are other thoughts in his heart. After looking at the 400 million silver and the so-called 50-year "lease" by Iwamikuni, he made up his mind and signed his name. By the way, the names of a series of Dongguo daimyos in the alliance were also signed, and then stamped with a seal.

Maeda Toshiie saw Tokugawa Ieyasu signing very happily, and panicked, thinking that if the Tokugawa clan signed it but he didn't sign it, if Xiao Ruxun was unhappy and directly formed an alliance with the Tokugawa clan, wouldn't he be out of luck? ?
But the "lease" of 400 million taels of silver and Shi Jianguo, this... This is really unacceptable, but he thought about it, Tokugawa Ieyasu also took on the same thing, and he also had to pay 400 million taels of silver and Shi Jian Seeing the country's lease, this kind of thing is not undertaken by him alone, even if it is infamy, it is shared by two people, and there is a Toyotomi Hideji who is taking advantage of it. Thinking about it this way, Maeda Toshiie also feels a little more relaxed.

Ieyasu Tokugawa has already signed, and if he doesn't sign, he will become the target of public criticism. The so-called keeping the green hills is not afraid of no firewood, and we can wait until the wings harden in a few years.

Thinking this way, Maeda Toshiie hesitated for a long time, and finally signed his own name and Toyotomi Hideji's name, and stamped the seal. At this point, the "Daming-Japan Mutual Assistance and Friendship Treaty" has officially entered into force and has legal effects. If the Japanese side Violating its terms, the Ming army would have reason to directly launch a war.

Ishimi was "lease" to Daming by Japan's top leadership in the form of law, which is tantamount to acquiescing to Daming's 50-year silver mining rights in Japan. With the addition of three islands, the Ming army is enough to build a line of defense at sea, making Japan It cannot continue to set its sights on North Korea.

After the signing of the treaty, under the arrangement of Xiao Ruxun, Japan was divided into two parts based on the actual land currently occupied by Toyotomi Tokugawa. In the Iyo country in the Shikoku area, the remaining areas belonged to the Toyotomi clan, and Xiao Ruxun did not interfere in the self-enfeoffment of the Toyotomi clan, while in the self-enfeoffment of the Tokugawa clan, according to Tokugawa Ieyasu's plea, Xiao Ruxun personally carried out the division.

Tokugawa Ieyasu got the Hizen Higo Chikuzen Chikugo Shikoku as the territory, and it is still a million stone daimyo, while the remaining 20 daimyos are evenly distributed in other areas, and each person's level is around [-] stone , Guaranteeing Tokugawa Ieyasu's status as the leader.

Tokugawa Ieyasu expressed his satisfaction, saying that he will definitely obey Xiao Ruxun's arrangement in the future, and will arrange the internal affairs as soon as possible. To start a formal trade with Daming, you can legally go to Fujian, Zhejiang and other places to do business with Daming. Of course, you will also open your own ports to do business with Daming merchants. Moreover, Daming merchants do not need to pay customs duties and will be subject to Tokugawa protection.

It was a foregone conclusion.

(End of this chapter)