Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 642 Preparing to Conquer the Wa Country
The current Ming Empire has become so powerful that no country can compete with it in this era.

But Zhu Youjian, as the emperor, could not let the empire fall into slack because of this, and even became a Bodhisattva to save all living beings.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian must always set goals for Ming Dynasty, let the imperial officials have a goal, and even use the realization of this goal as the standard to determine whether a cabinet minister or even himself, the emperor, is successful.

And now the next goal of the empire is to conquer the Wa country.

In Zhu Youjian's view, if there was no goal of conquering the Japanese kingdom, the empire would fall into the pursuit of enjoyment and comfort, and lose its aggressiveness, allowing domestic rulers to exploit the interests of the domestic people, which intensified internal conflicts within the empire.

Confucian literati always use militarism to criticize a warlike king, but it also curbs a king's aggressiveness and prevents the progress of Chinese civilization.

But now Zhu Youjian wants to change the people of the empire from the mode of reciting poems and prose while beating the bones and sucking the marrow of the people, so that they can always keep moving towards their goals.

As soon as the conquest of Joseon was over, the imperial media began to promote stories about why the empire wanted to conquer Wa.

First of all, it is naturally the hatred left over from history, directly asking the citizens of the entire empire, why the Japanese pirates were able to come to Daming to wreck the Ming people during the Jiajing period, and now that the empire is the most powerful era, why can't they send troops to retaliate against the Japanese kingdom.

For this reason, all the past events of some Japanese pirates who harmed the people of Ming Dynasty were specially disclosed, so as to arouse the public's emotions.

These are naturally controlled by Dongchang. Zhu Youjian's instructions to them are to make the people of Ming Dynasty hate the Japanese pirates to the bone, and even to the point where the people marched and demonstrated to demand that the Imperial Marshal's Office send troops to conquer the Japanese country.

In addition, the imperial media also began to publicize how much money the Ming court gained after conquering North Korea. At the same time, they also reported many stories about going to North Korea to make a fortune. How much benefit will Japan bring to the empire.

In this way, some business groups that did not get enough profits in North Korea or wanted to get more benefits also began to hope that the empire would continue to conquer the Wa country.

A large number of academicians of the Hanlin Academy also began to study the country of Wa, and began to analyze the social situation and historical situation of the country of Wa.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian is very encouraging. Sociological research should not only focus on the study of Confucianism, but to learn more about other regional cultures is beneficial to the expansion of the empire and the advancement of Chinese civilization.

In many cases, due to the tolerance of the Central Plains Dynasty, the political forces around China did not really have awe of the Central Plains Dynasty in their hearts.

Although it is called Tianchao in words, in its heart, it is only regarded as a fool who can blackmail a fortune at any time, especially in the past few hundred years when the civil official group has been in charge of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The current Japanese country does not know that Ming will take revenge on them, and they may have more fanatical elements who fantasize about destroying Ming in the future, just like Toyotomi Hideyoshi back then.

But no matter how you say it, the current Ming Empire is no longer the country that was ruled by Confucianism until it only knew how to bully and oppress the common people internally. The current Daming Empire is an aggressive and predatory empire.

"Now the emperor of Wa country does not have any power, and the ruler is the Tokugawa shogunate, but this Tokugawa shogunate only rules a quarter of the area, and the rest of the area is dominated by daimyos of different sizes, that is, vassal regimes. It can be said that, The Wa Kingdom is not a unified centralized imperial court, and it is not difficult for us to eliminate the Wa Kingdom.”

Li Yan, Deputy Privy Envoy of the Generalissimo's Mansion, Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Ministry of War said so.

"As far as I know, in addition to the emperor, generals, and daimyo, the Wa Kingdom is mainly composed of four parts: warriors, farmers, handicraftsmen, and merchants. Among them, warriors are the most reliable retainers of the rulers of the Wa Kingdom. They pay attention to loyalty and trust, and are also the most cruel , it was these warriors who poisoned me in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty during the reign of King Sejong, so I believe that none of these warriors who are loyal to their generals and daimyos should be spared!"

Li Dingguo, the new Deputy Minister of the Army, said at this time.

"Samurai and above can't be spared. In addition, Japan must be more ruthless to North Korea. This is a nation that is unhappy if you don't abuse it. Therefore, a bloody massacre is needed in Edo, the capital of the shogunate. , not less than six months, I want it to become a scar that will never be erased in the Wa country."

Zhu Youjian thought of Nanjing in [-] in the original history, so he wanted the Japanese country in this time and space to suffer such punishment once.

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Today's Wa country has implemented the policy of closing the country to the outside world. In order to avoid being colonized by Westerners, only Ming businessmen were allowed to trade in Nagasaki at first.

However, now that Daming has also shown colonial expansion behavior, and the Zheng Group has begun to request the establishment of a base in the Wa Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom has also begun to realize that Da Ming seems to have signs of monopolizing its own trade, so it also banned Da Ming five years ago. Trade with Japan, and even the Tokugawa shogunate sent troops to force the Zheng Group away.

And Zheng Zhilong's Zheng Group is just an ordinary business arm of the Ming Dynasty, and he is not willing to spend his own financial resources in order to defeat the entire Wa Kingdom.

Moreover, the Zheng Group also knows that the north of Taiwan is the sphere of influence of the Ming court, and the court can conquer Batavia south of Taiwan, and if the Zheng Group establishes a sphere of influence north of Taiwan, it can only be found by the Ming court. The reason is removed.

For this reason, the Daming Zheng Group also gave up the use of force against the Wa Kingdom.

Now it is only left to the Ming court, and the Navy Department of the Grand Marshal's Mansion will send troops to conquer the Wa country in order to achieve more benefits in the Wa country.

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In the conquest of Japan, Zhu Youjian sent Zheng Chenggong to command the navy, while Li Dingguo led the Seventh Army to assist him in land operations. Among them, Yan Yingyuan and Liu Kongzhao were in charge of the logistics of the entire war against Japan.

On this day, it was a day when the clouds were high and the wind was clear. A battleship from the Ming Dynasty appeared in Nagasaki, Japan, and landed. Nagasaki was the direct jurisdiction of the Edo Tokugawa Shogunate.

According to the plan of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, this place will be the location for the first attack of the Ming army.

The commander of the battleship of the Ming Dynasty made Fei Dongjun send people to Nagasaki, and found the authorities in Nagasaki, Japan. He said that a navy soldier was missing when the Ming fleet was chasing the pirates, and this navy soldier fled into Nagasaki. The Ming Navy requested to go ashore and search.

The Nagasaki authorities did not expect that Ming’s navy would appear suddenly, and they also said that a missing soldier would go to the city to search. Although they could guess that the Ming army’s side might be an excuse, and it was true that they wanted to open Nagasaki’s trade, they did not dare to offend Daming. , had to quickly send someone to inform the Edo shogunate.

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