Ming Zuo

Chapter 1148 Split
The forces on Kyushu Island consist of the following parts.

Among them, Nagasaki is directly under the shogunate, and it is managed by the Nagasaki Executive Office.

In addition, after the Tsushima Sea Battle, the Tokugawa shogunate snatched the Hyuga Kingdom from the Satsuma Domain, but it has not been fully digested.

The Satsuma, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Saga, and Karatsu domains belonged to foreign daimyos and had the most distant relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate.

The Kokura Domain and Nakatsu Domain of the Bungzen Kingdom, the Funai Domain and Takada Domain of the Bungo Kingdom, the Kurume Domain and the Yanagawa Domain of the Chikugo Kingdom are genealogical daimyos, and they can be regarded as loyal ministers of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

However, in the battle of Shimabara Peninsula, these genealogical daimyos all followed Matsudaira Nobutsuna to ruin most of their power, which can be said to exist in name only.

As a result, half of Kyushu Island has become blank.

Chonghua intends to use these places to win over foreign daimyos and prompt them to confront the Tokugawa shogunate.

The changes in the battle situation, the foreign daimyo are always concerned.

After seeing that more than [-] shogunate troops were completely wiped out, all the foreign daimyos were extremely excited.

They finally saw the hope of rebelling against the Tokugawa shogunate.

Therefore, after receiving the invitation from Chonghua, all the big names sent important people to Nagasaki one after another.

To Chonghua's surprise, Arima Naosumi from the Nobeoka Clan of Hinata Kingdom also sent someone.

"The Ma family has always been at odds with the Tokugawa shogunate. Taking advantage of Xia's victory, the Patriarch has already pledged his troops to raise troops, and the shogunate is at odds with the shogunate."

Arima Naosum is the direct son of Arima Harunobu, who was originally the sworn enemy of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Arima Harunobu was ordered by Tokugawa Ieyasu to commit seppuku because of protecting Catholics, and his territory was changed to Nobeoka Domain in Hyuga Kingdom.

Since then, he has been oppressed by the Satsuma clan, and he has never been able to hold his head up.

When the Tokugawa shogunate sent troops to quell the Shimabara Rebellion, it also ordered Arima Naosumi to send troops to participate.

Seeing that the failure of Matsudaira Nobuzuna was inevitable, Arima Naoichi ran away, and quickly raised troops, becoming the first daimyo in Japan to resist the Tokugawa shogunate.

However, Arima Naosumi knew very well that with his own weak strength, he was definitely not an opponent of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Therefore, he quickly sent envoys to Nagasaki, hoping to get the support of Xia Guo.

"Anyone who opposes the Tokugawa shogunate is a friend of Xia Guo. You can speak directly to Nobeoka Fan if you want anything."

The messenger was very excited.

"The head of the family requested to take over the Hyuga country and the former Shimabara family, so as to accumulate strength and continue to fight against the shogunate."

"no!"

Nobeoka Fan's request was actually opposed by two forces.

One is the Satsuma Domain, and the other is the Shimabara Rebel Army.

"Hyuga Kingdom has always been the territory of our Satsuma clan, but it was occupied by the Tokugawa shogunate for some reason, and now it should be returned to our Satsuma clan."

Shimadzu Hisakyo's attitude is very firm.

The Satsuma domain has been seriously injured and urgently needs more territory to restore its strength.

The Nobeoka clan actually wanted to snatch the Hyuga Kingdom, which was naturally opposed by the Satsuma clan.

What the Shimabara Rebels opposed was...

"Now that Shimabara and Amakusa are under our complete control, we don't want to suffer any exploitation from any daimyo anymore."

After a bloody battle, the Shimabara Rebel Army has now completely occupied the Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Island, and is preparing to go north to recapture the Saga Domain.

If Mashi wants to make a comeback, Amakusa Tokisada will never agree.

Chonghua also did not approve of Yan Gangfan's approach.

"The minions of the shogunate are now at the end of the road, and there is a large area of ​​Kyushu Island that can be re-divided. We are all allies, and there is no need to kill each other."

He set the tone for this matter and got everyone's approval.

Next, Chonghua began to preside over the allocation of those blank territories.

"The Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Island were brought down by the rebels, so they should naturally belong to them."

He looked at Hisakyo Shimadzu again.

"Now that the Kumamoto Domain has been destroyed, the territory is divided equally between the Satsuma Domain and the Shimabara Rebel Army. In addition, the Hyuga Kingdom has returned to the Satsuma Domain."

His eyes filled with tears of excitement, and Shimadzu quickly prostrated himself on the ground.

The Satsuma clan not only took back the Hyuga Kingdom, but also got half of the territory of the Kumamoto clan, far exceeding its heyday.

This is a gift from the Xia Kingdom.

Satsuma's loyalty to the Xia Kingdom has grown even deeper.

Amakusa Tokisada and the others were also very satisfied.

Both Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Island are relatively barren. With the fertile land of the Kumamoto Clan, as long as it is well managed, it will surely prosper.

Seeing the ugly face of the envoys of the Yangang clan, Chonghua threw them a big gift.

"The Ma family is trapped in Nobeoka, and there is no future to speak of. It is better to move northward, and the two countries of Buzen and Bungo can be your territories."

The envoy of the Yangang clan was taken aback for a moment, and then he was overjoyed.

Nobeoka Domain is just an inch of land, how can it be compared with Buzen and Bungo?
Nobeoka clan's dissatisfaction was completely eliminated.

"Thank you, Lord Shangguo, for your impartial handling. From now on, the Ma family will follow the lead of the Xia Kingdom, and will never change their resolve."

Among the big names present here, it can be said that Ma Shi is the weakest one.

Without the presidency of Xia Guo, such a large territory of Fengqian and Fenghou would definitely not be able to fall on their heads.

It will definitely take a long time for the Ma family to manage these two newly occupied lands as solid as gold, and this requires the support of Xia Guo.

It can be said that in terms of loyalty to the Xia Kingdom, the Ma family definitely ranks first.

The remaining Fukuoka Clan, Chonghua is also very grand.

"The Saga Domain, Chikuzen, and Chikugo Kingdoms will be handed over to the Fukuoka Domain. We still need to manage it carefully and treat the people well, so that no more things will happen to the disabled people."

Kuroda Tadayuki kowtowed to Chonghua with tears running down his face.

Expanding from a land of one feudal clan to a land of three kingdoms, the strength of the Fukuoka clan will expand rapidly.

Given time, Kuroda Tadayuki would be fearless even facing the Tokugawa shogunate alone.

When the territory was being redistributed in Nagasaki, Mitsuhiro Mori rushed over.

"The shogunate wanted to be an enemy of Xia Guo, and searched for ships everywhere. They also ordered the Changzhou Fan to hand over the Murakami navy, intending to be unfavorable to Xia Guo. The Changzhou Fan did not want to be an enemy of Xia Guo, which angered the shogunate. Ooku The general has ordered Osaka's army to march westward, intending to attack us. I also ask Shangguo to have mercy on my painstaking efforts of the Changzhou Domain and send troops to rescue."

Among all the foreign daimyos, if you want to say that the most difficult to deal with the Tokugawa shogunate, then it must be the Changzhou Domain.

Therefore, when Xia Guo declared war on the Tokugawa shogunate, Changzhou Fan had already made up his mind to sit on the sidelines, waiting to see the Tokugawa shogunate suffer.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna was besieged on the island of Kyushu, and Tokugawa Iemitsu was very anxious.While building an army, raise warships at the same time.

Without the Satsuma clan, the Murakami navy absorbed by the Changzhou clan is an important force.

The Changzhou Fan wanted the Tokugawa Shogunate to be wiped out, how could it be possible to provide help in such a situation.

This made Tokugawa Iemitsu furious.

Across the sea, there was nothing they could do to the Xia Army on Kyushu Island, so how could they allow the Changzhou Fan on land in Honshu to provoke them?
Tokugawa Iemitsu ordered Sakai Tadakatsu to lead an army of [-] in Osaka to march westward against the Choshu Domain.

Mao Lixiuyuan knew that the strength of Changzhou Fan alone would never be able to withstand the attack of the shogunate.

At this time, his face was completely torn, so he sent Mao Liguang across the sea to ask for help.

The hostile relationship between the Tokugawa shogunate and the foreign daimyo officially became clear.

(End of this chapter)