Chapter 379 Sweeping across Kyushu and Hai Ruili’s new rules
Nagasaki was originally a fishing village. In fact, it became Nagasaki Port today because the Ming Dynasty government-owned and private companies came to Japan to trade. As a result, Nagasaki Village gradually turned into Nagasaki Port. There is even a grain industry bureau established by the Ming Dynasty Grain Industry Bureau here. Town.
Lu Boring and his personal guards first entered the Grain Bureau Town.
Wang Zhe, the head of the Grain Industry Bureau Town, greeted Lu Bo as soon as he came: "Deputy Commander, you have worked hard all the way. Now the Ryuzoji clan has not suspected our plan. What I have always told them is that our army is just After temporarily stationing in Nagasaki, we will send troops to conquer Oda Nobunaga within three months. Therefore, they are still willing to make deals with us. I wonder if the army needs to purchase anything additional, so I can ask them to arrange it!"
"No, now that the navy has stationed in Nagasaki, it will not be a problem for the army to use Nagasaki as a springboard to directly occupy Hizen. We can just grab it when the time comes. Why spend money to buy it now."
As Lu Ti spoke, he saw Chen Yu, a member of the Imperial Guard stationed in Nagasaki, appear. Lu Ti took advantage of the opportunity and asked, "Chen Bai Hu came just in time. What is the current situation in Hizen Country? How many soldiers are there to fight? Please tell me. If possible, before Qi Shuai leads the army, our navy will destroy the Hizen country first, and then the army can go directly to China to deal with the Maori clan. "
"Nowadays, the main forces in Hizen include the Ryuzoji clan, the Otomo clan, the Shaoer clan, and the Matsuura clan. Now, the Ryuzoji clan is mainly fighting against the Otomo clan. Ryuzoji Takanobu has just joined forces with Morimoto to attack Otomo Sorin. Now We are preparing to send troops to build the front..."
Chen Yu, a member of Jinyiwei Baihu, replied.
"In this case, you send one of your people as a guide and lead my officers and soldiers to Zhuqian first."
Lu Boring gave an order.
Lu Boring is the deputy commander of the army, so he can naturally command the Jin Yiwei who are responsible for military intelligence and reconnaissance in Japan.
Chen Yu, a member of the Jinyiwei Hundred Household, said yes, and immediately ordered his general, Qimude, to serve as a guide for Lu Tiang's marines.
This morning.
Lu Bor then rushed to Chiqian with 5,000 marines.
The current guardian of Chikuzen is Otomo Sorin, a top daimyo who owns territory in the six countries of Bunzen, Bungo, Chikuzen, Chikugo, Hizen and Higo.
But now Otomo Sorin is facing the joint attack of Ryuzoji Takanobu and Mori Motonari. Therefore, Otomo Sorin's defeat is inevitable.
Lu Boring also learned from Jin Yiweimude the basic situation of some daimyo on Kyushu Island at this time.
Lu Ti was also surprised that there were so many countries like Japan in such a big place at this time. When he arrived at Chikuzen, Ryuzoji Takanobu, Mori Motonari and Otomo Zonglin had already started to fight in formation.
But the arrival of Lu Bo's five thousand Ming army also surprised these three daimyo who were about to fight.
"General Lu, your army can only stay in Nagasaki and Hirado to replenish supplies, and then go to Kansai to punish the rebels who usurped the Muromachi shogunate. You cannot enter our Hizen interior."
Ryuzoji Takanobu was the daimyo who welcomed the Ming army to Nagasaki and went to Kansai through Nagasaki to suppress Oda Nobunaga. However, he did not want the Ming army to go deep into his territory. After all, he could not guarantee that these Ming troops would come to him. Will the people inside the territory take the opportunity to seize their own political power?
Lu Boring then said: "Ryuzoji Takanobu, you are really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, and you don't know a good heart. I am grateful that you are very friendly to the Celestial King, so I specially brought five thousand officers and soldiers to help you attack Dayou Zonglin. But now it seems that you don’t need our assistance. In this case, we will go to Dayou Zonglin. I believe that he will definitely be willing to give us more benefits.”
Lu Boring said and ordered Mu De to contact Dayou Zonglin.
Seeing this, Ryuzouji Takanobu was also worried that the Ming army's joining would give Otomo Zonglin a boost, so he couldn't help but stood up and shouted: "General Lu, please stay! I welcome Master Wang to come and help!"
"Very good, I have no other requirements, general. Five hundred Japanese women! And a certain amount of provisions!"
Lu Boring said hurriedly.
Ryuzouji Takanobu knew that the Ming Dynasty liked Japanese women, but he did not expect that Lu Ti would directly ask for 500 Japanese women. However, he thought that he could not lose the opportunity to eliminate Otomo Zonglin because of the intervention of the Ming army, so he agreed: "Okay, I promise you! I will send five hundred Japanese girls to the general within a month!”
Lu Ti nodded and ordered his troops to set up camp, and asked Mu De to prepare to contact Otomo Zonglin, while he sat on a hillside and watched Otomo Zonglin fight against the coalition forces of the Ryuzoji clan and the Maori clan.
At this time, Japan was still in the age of matchlocks, and there were no powerful cannons. Therefore, these daimyo mostly fought against each other, using the loyalty of the samurai to fight to the death. They basically compared who was less afraid of death.
Lu Wei could see that these famous warriors were very brave, even braver than the Ming army. However, the Ming army had weapon advantages and high combat literacy. The literacy rate was as high as 90%, especially the navy with a higher literacy rate. Marines have an advantage when fighting in groups, but they may not be as good as these warriors when fighting alone.
Otomo Sorin was defeated, and it was obvious that the addition of Motonari Mouri made Ryuzoji Takanobu stronger.
However, Lu Bor took advantage of the situation and led the Ming army to occupy Chikuzen first, and directly entered Fukuoka, demanding that Ryuzoji Takanobu not enter Chikuzen again.
For this reason, Lu Tong carried out a murderous military warning in Fukuoka, asking Ryuzoji Takanobu to stop advancing on Chichizen, otherwise other Chikuzen counties would also be massacred.
Only then did Ryuzoji Takanobu realize that he had led a wolf into the house, but he did not dare to offend the Ming Dynasty, and was even afraid that the Ming Dynasty would interfere with him to kill Otomo Sorin, so he had to follow Lu Bor's instructions and abandon Chiqian and attack Fengqian instead. country, and even presented Lu Bor with five hundred Japanese girls as promised, and also presented two hundred more Japanese girls, in order to get Lu Bor to promise to allow his Ryuzoji clan to legally occupy other countries guarded by Otomo Sorin.
Although Lu Bor accepted these 700 Japanese women, he did not make any promises.
Ryuzoji Takanobu had nothing to say and continued to attack Otomo Sorin.
But Lu Yi also seemed to see the weakness of the Japanese country in front of the Ming Dynasty, and he increasingly ignored the Japanese country's name.
"Lu Shuai, Qi Shuai has led the main force to land in Nagasaki, and is now sweeping across the Japanese pirates in various parts of Nagasaki. Three concentration areas have been set up to accommodate Japanese women. Now Qi Shuai requests that you immediately approach Nagasaki and fight for ten days. Within, together with the 2nd Guards Army, we conquered Bunzen, Bungo, Higo, Kagoshima and other areas, and completely cleared Kyushu!”
At this time, Lu Bor received Qi Jiguang's military order and nodded: "Please rest assured, Commander Qi, we will quickly approach Kagoshima!" After saying that, Lu Bor ordered: "The first occupied area should be Toyozen, Ryuzoji Takanobu may not know the purpose of our army yet, so he immediately sent out The 4th Marine Regiment went to Toyozen Tagawa County and told them that a Japanese girl from our Imperial Imperial Army in Fukuoka was missing. I suspected that he had fled into Tagawa. Therefore, the 4th Marine Regiment was specially ordered to go to Tagawa Castle to search! The city garrison opened the city gate and let Wang Shi go in to search!”
Lu Boring directly thought of this reason. He believed that Ryuzoji Takanobu's people could not refuse to agree. Of course, if Ryuzoji Takanobu did not agree to let his troops go in and search, he would naturally have more reasons to attack Tagawa County.
However, Ryuzoji Takanobu refused the request of the Ming army to enter Tagawa County to search for Japanese women. The reason was that he was worried that the Ming army would enter Tagawa County, occupy Tagawa County like they occupied Fukuoka, and carry out a bloody policy against the Japanese people in Tagawa County.
Lu Bor also directly declared war on Ryuzoji Takanobu, asked Otomo Zonglin to cooperate with him, and said that after the Ming army left, all the territory of the Ryuzoji clan would be given to Otomo Zonglin.
The Japanese state, which was in the Warring States period, had no national cohesion and could not unite to fight against the Ming Dynasty. This gave the Ming army the best conditions to use the borrowed knife tactic to kill.
Otomo Zonglin could not refuse Lu Bo's temptation to give him the territory of the Ryuzoji clan after the Ming army left, so he resolutely chose to send troops to help the Ming army attack the several kingdoms guarded by Ryuzoji Takanobu.
Soon, the Ryuzouji clan abandoned the city and the land, and the entire Bunzen Kingdom fell into the hands of the Ming army and Otomo Sorin again. At this time, Qi Jiguang's main force was also advancing to the south and east of Kyushu after clearing Nagasaki.
Ryuzoji Takanobu eventually fled to Kagoshima and committed suicide in Kagoshima.
Qi Jiguang's main force also joined forces with the Marine Corps led by Ming Army Lu Bor in Songpu County.
At this point, Lu Boring will be mainly responsible for sea raids and cutting off the Japanese pirates' outlets, and looking for landing points in China (Japanese place name), while Tang Kekuan will lead the main force of the Ming Army to eliminate the forces of Otomo Zonglin and completely wipe out the remaining Japanese pirates on Kyushu Island.
Qi Jiguang began to study the next military strategy for China.
During this period, a group of daimyo-level Japanese pirate prisoners were also escorted back to the country for a prisoner dedication ceremony. After all, the reason why the Ming Dynasty conquered the Japanese country was because the Japanese country harassed the southeast.
On this day, the Supreme Emperor Zhu Houzhao sat on the high platform behind Emperor Zhu Zailei and witnessed the prisoner presentation ceremony of twenty-seven Japanese daimyo.
Gao Yi, the Minister of Punishment, read out the verdict, and Emperor Zhu Zailei expressed his agreement. Immediately, the twenty-seven Japanese lords were escorted down and beheaded with a click!
Zhu Houzhao took a special look at the civil servants present. Some civil servants with Jiangnan gentry backgrounds obviously had more solemn expressions. This kind of eradication of Japanese pirates clearly let them know that it would be difficult for their family to take advantage of the split of the Japanese country to become independent from the Ming Dynasty in the future. They colluded with Japanese pirates to carry out smuggling.
But no matter what, at this time, both civil servants and military generals had to praise the emperor and the emperor for their martial arts.
"Your Majesty, killing prisoners is an ominous thing. Therefore, I think it is not necessary to hold this prisoner presentation ceremony in the future. The Japanese pirate leaders brought back from the Japanese country can be directly transferred to the rebels of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Rites will then preside over the ceremony and let the Ministry of Justice be the leader. Public execution in front of the officials and the people is too bloody! It is also a simple and economical way to prevent your majesty from being too tired!"
Chen Yiqin, the Minister of Rites, stood up at this time and proposed a ban on this prisoner sacrifice ceremony.
"No! When the new emperor ascends the throne, he needs to promote civilized and martial arts. Japanese pirates have always been a nuisance to our Ming Dynasty. Now we can eliminate Japanese pirates and ensure peace for eternity. This is a matter that will shine through the ages. How can we not do it! If we don't offer prisoners, then Xinke Don’t hold the hairpin ceremony for Jinshi. Since we want to streamline administration, we can’t just reduce the ceremony of martial arts without reducing the ceremony of civil affairs! ”
Yang Lin, the censor of Zuodu, objected, but Chen Yiqin could not say anything further.
Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly when he saw this. He naturally knew why Chen Yiqin and others were unwilling to hold a prisoner dedication ceremony. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty was no longer a time when civil servants suppressed military affairs. Military generals were no longer under the control of civil servants, so they could naturally compete with them, even in the court. Fighting against each other.
Seeing this, Xu Jie could only sigh slightly. He also knew that it was no longer the time when the civil servant group was the dominant one. The military general group, which was backed by the big chaebols and the common people, was not only on an equal footing with the civilian officials, but also waited for Qi Jiguang's triumphant return as a general. If he becomes prime minister, military attachés will completely outnumber civilian officials in the future.
What makes Xu Jie even more angry is that there are idealistic civil servants like Hai Rui who only see the justice he insists on and don't listen to anyone else. Now the emperor and the emperor are naturally extremely wise, but because of this, Hai Rui is like this The civil servants repeatedly opposed the Jin gentry.
Hai Rui was indeed fighting against the Jin gentry in Jiangnan at this time, and he was not instigated by anyone. He just instinctively discovered that in Jiangnan there were not only families like Xu Jie who were embezzling people's land, but also many Jin gentry with prominent backgrounds who were embezzling people's land. It is serious. A large number of mulberry farmers and cotton farmers are in a weak position in the competition for land resources. They are even forced to change from petty bourgeoisie to workers because of the loss of land.
Not only that, Hai Rui also found that the rights and interests of workers in many cities and towns cannot be guaranteed, and even some workers with relatively high benefits and salaries will be oppressed by the gentry, because once these workers lose their jobs, they will have no source of income, and these gentry control They own most of the trading houses and even form chambers of commerce.
If a gentry wanted to punish a worker, he could directly ask the major commercial banks controlled by the chamber of commerce not to hire the worker, forcing the worker to have no other choice.
Because of this, many workers committed suicide, especially some middle-aged workers whose families were burdened but could no longer provide cheap labor.
Many officials also helped the gentry, which further intensified the opposition between the gentry and the workers.
Hai Rui is naturally different from those civil servants. He used more autonomy to directly start pilot reforms in Yingtian to strengthen the protection of workers' rights and interests, encourage the establishment of trade unions, encourage workers to hold property rights, and even directly formulate laws to protect workers' rights and interests. and local regulations that favor workers.
"Any worker who is dismissed during the contract period and does not apply for resignation voluntarily will be compensated for one year's salary as liquidated damages! Governments at all levels are obliged to establish free re-employment training institutions. Anyone who employs less than 30% of Ming citizens and uses them in large numbers White slave and black slave Commercial houses will be taxed three times! Special factories can apply to this official for special application! Anyone who occupies private land, no matter who it is, will be subject to civil judgment by the prosecutor. Not only will their land be returned, but they will also be compensated for the loss of their land income..."< br>
Zhu Houzhao carried out pilot reforms to increase local autonomy in Yingtian. After all, the production relations in Jiangnan were ahead and more complex than other places. South Zhili could be allowed to independently carry out some pilot reforms first, and then be implemented nationwide.
Therefore, Governor Yingtian can enact some local regulations and appoint officials below the provincial level (excluding provincial level) through collective voting of the leadership team. This is also an attempt to integrate with the modern political system. Therefore, Hai Rui can pass Yingtian The Provincial Legislative Committee establishes some local regulations and implements effective management of the corresponding Tianfu.
But it was obvious that Hai Rui's actions seriously violated the interests of the gentry and businessmen, and also directly interfered with Jiangnan's free economy. Even the hiring and dismissal of workers by these businessmen had regulations in place.
Therefore, on this day, Zhu Houzhao received a telegram from the emperor's son Zhu Zailei: "Father, it's not good. A group of students from Nanzhili crowded outside the Ming Dynasty gate and asked the court to remove Hai Rui!"
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