Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1050 Rushing into Edo Bay

In Edo Castle, the Tokugawa shogunate has been paying close attention to the movements of the Ming fleet.

The Shimadzu family is quite good among the foreign daimyos, and they are also good at the navy. Tadakatsu Sakai informed the Shimadzu family of the movement of the Ming army fleet. He believed that with the strength of the Shimadzu family, the Ming army would be able to Hit a snag, and even defeat the Ming army.

If, as the shogunate thought, the Ming Dynasty had to find the shogunate in the end, then the shogunate could come out to clean up the situation.

In Edo Castle Honmaru, Tokugawa Ietsuna's palace, Tokugawa Ietsuna and many shogunate leaders kneeled in the hall, more than a dozen people were together, but the hall was unusually quiet, as if some great event had happened.

"Twenty warships from the Ming Dynasty actually defeated 150 ships from the Satsuma clan, and almost the entire Satsuma navy was wiped out!" Tadakatsu Sakai gasped.

The shogunate was always paying attention to the news of the Ming army fleet. The information about the naval battle in the Osumi Strait and the Ming army’s bombardment of Torajumaru was quickly transmitted back to Edo Castle, which surprised all the shogunate officials. They did not expect such a result. .One of the most powerful daimyos in Mizukami in Japan failed so easily and so thoroughly.

"What do the warships and large tubes of the Ming Dynasty look like?" Bao Ke Zhengzhi was also dumbfounded after reading the information.

Since the shogunate issued the decree to lock the country, except for the Nagasaki area, which can still contact the outside world, Japan has actually been in a closed state.

In their hearts, they only thought that the Ming Dynasty was still in the same state as the Conquest of Korea, and it was even worse. After all, the Ming Dynasty was captured by the barbarians, and even the barbarians could not beat them, so the strength of the Ming Dynasty was naturally declining.

Although the shogunate wanted to trade with China, they never thought about how far Japan was from the Ming Dynasty. They couldn't imagine how different the Ming Dynasty was from Japan and how strong they were.

The results of the naval battle in the Osumi Strait undoubtedly shocked the top leaders of the shogunate.

Just when the high-level shogunate was discussing in Edo Castle, the Ming Dynasty had already signed the "Mingsa Treaty" with Satsuma. If the treaty could be implemented, the Satsuma Domain would become a place where Ming Dynasty's goods were dumped, and eventually it would gradually become a semi-colonial status.

Of course, the Satsuma clan is only a local government in Japan, and this treaty is obviously illegal. If the Ming Dynasty wanted the treaty to be implemented, it had to ask the central government of Japan to recognize the treaty.

The fleet stayed in Satsuma Bay for a few days, and after marking the details of the treaty one by one, Qian Bingdeng signed the treaty with Satsuma Fanzheng on behalf of the Ming Dynasty.

During the period, the Ming army returned the body of Shimadzu Tadaro and released the captured [-] Satsuma soldiers. However, after some of the warriors were released, they heard that the Shimadzu family had signed an indemnity treaty with the Ming Dynasty and admitted failure. Those who had already conceded defeat gathered at the pier, and instead of attacking the Ming army, they chose to perform seppuku collectively to express their grief and indignation.

This made Man Dazhuang and other Ming army generals not understand. They were secretly shocked that these warriors were really cruel. A total of [-] warriors performed seppuku on the pier collectively, and their intestines flowed all over the floor.

Samurai suicide is like drinking water, so Qian Bingdeng signed the treaty, loaded with 10 taels of cash, and immediately left Satsuma with the fleet.

This suicide performance is shocking. Japan is a place with poor mountains and bad waters, full of unscrupulous people. When samurai walk on the street and want to try their knives, they can kill untouchables at will. When they go to the street and collide, they may draw their swords at each other , extremely difficult to manage.

Throughout Japan, there are 50 million samurai, all of whom are ruthless characters who despise the lives of others and are not afraid of death themselves. It is not easy to occupy this country.

The Ming Dynasty has never thought of occupying Japan right now. The goal of the Ming Dynasty is only to obtain the Japanese market. A country with more than 2000 million people is enough to support thousands of workshops.

After the fleet left Satsuma, it arrived outside Edo Bay within a few days.

In Miura County, the samurai on the Uraga Fort discovered the huge Ming army ship that had left from a long distance away, and came outside Edo Bay again.

Ten three-masted gunboats braved the wind and waves ahead, and Man Dazhuang, Qian Bingdeng and others stood on the tower of the Yingyuan, their red cloaks were blown by the cold sea breeze, whistling.

At this time, the mainmast was on the watchtower, and the soldiers on the watch suddenly shouted down: "Commander, Uraga Fortress asks us to stop the ship and not enter Edo Bay!"

The last time the Ming army, out of politeness, hoped that the Tokugawa shogunate would come forward to resolve the attack on the mission, but the Tokugawa shogunate did not make a statement, and even hoped to suppress the matter and let the Ming Dynasty suffer a dumb loss. When the team comes again, naturally they will not give the shogunate any more face.

Manda Zhuangwen said, picked up the binoculars, looked at the fort, the garrison of the shogunate was waving semaphore, and several small boats in Uraga Port also rushed out, as if they were about to intercept the Ming army fleet.

"What should the governor do?" Xu Junsheng also saw the movement of the shogunate army, so he asked.

Man Dazhuang put down the binoculars, sneered, and said, "Ignore them, just rush in!"

The Ming Dynasty and the shogunate said that there was no conflict at all. The purpose of the mission at the beginning was to conduct friendly business with the shogunate. In this way, they directly broke through the checkpoints of the shogunate, rushed into Edo Bay, and drove the fleet directly to the city of Edo. Extremely impolite behavior, but Man Dazhuang said so, but no one objected.

Qian Bingdeng felt that this was inappropriate, unethical, a bit arrogant and domineering, and a bit bullying, but he didn't say anything to stop it, because he knew that doing so would help the Tokugawa shogunate accept the conditions of the Ming Dynasty.

His Royal Highness the King of Chu said that this is probably what it means to practice domineering internally and domineering externally.

"What if the shogunate attacks us?" Xu Junsheng asked with a smile.

Man Dazhuang smiled and said, "They dare not, if they dare to strike first, we will naturally fight back!"

On the Uraga fort, the samurai waved the flag for a while, but the Ming army fleet did not respond, and the huge fleet directly broke through the checkpoint of the shogunate.

The samurai on the fort stared dumbfoundedly at the fleet rushing by. Several small early ships were almost overturned by the waves raised by the three-masted gunboat. The samurai stood on the small boats and watched in amazement as the huge warship sailed into Edo Bay. .

In November of the third year of the Ming Dynasty, on November [-]th of the first year of Japan’s commitment, Man Dazhuang, the governor of the East China Sea Division of the Ming Dynasty, led ten three-masted gunboats and ten lucky boats, broke into Edo Bay, and took the ship The fleet was moored on the sea outside Edo Castle, and the cannons on the ship aimed at the Edo Castle on the shore maliciously. The whole of Japan was shocked, and the ten gunboats were called "Tang Ships" by Japan.

Faced with the Ming army breaking into Edo Bay and pointing guns at Edo Castle, the Japanese shogunate was in chaos. Bells rang in temples and temples outside the city, women and children cried miserably, rich people were about to flee to the countryside, and more people flocked in. Shrines, clapping hands to pray to the gods, begging for the revival of the "Kamikaze" to protect Japan.

At this time, the shogunate officials finally saw the Ming ship that defeated 150 warships from the Satsuma clan, and they knew that the navy of the Ming Dynasty was no longer the navy of the Conquest of Korea.

At that time, Japan could barely compete with Ming warships, but now it is absolutely impossible for Japanese warships to resist Ming warships.

Tadakatsu Sakai, the chief of the shogunate, saw the Ming army testing artillery at sea, and he understood that Japan was too far behind the Ming country. Combat is a face-to-face battle. Now the Ming army is not seen, and the guns are coming. Besides, the Ming ships are galloping across the sea, and the north and south are unobstructed, but the Japanese troops are blocked by mountain roads. Moreover, even if [-] banner warriors are gathered in Edo City, it will not be possible at all. Unable to defeat Ming warships.

Tadakatsu Sakai and Masayuki Hoshina had no choice but to invite Wu Shizhao out and let him return to the Ming Ship, expressing their willingness to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty.

When the missions of the Ming Dynasty were negotiating with the shogunate, in the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Kingdom of Jin, a major event happened each.On the side of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong of Fujian, without reporting to the imperial court, killed the Spaniards first and then acted later, framing the Spaniards for attacking the merchant ships of the Zheng family and starting a war with the Spaniards. The Zhejiang navy took the initiative to go south to help the war and blocked the Spaniards in Manila Bay.

After the loss of Sichuan, the strength of the Kingdom of Jin was greatly reduced. The Zhungeer tribe took advantage of the autumn and the horses were fat, and went south to plunder the Kingdom of Jin. Hauge had no choice but to contact Dorgon. The two countries reached an alliance and decided to wipe out the Jungar tribe together. Moxi was suddenly turbulent.

(End of this chapter)