The envoy was startled and hurriedly explained: "The Great Emperor has misunderstood! The Sendai Domain did not dare to be the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, absolutely not! ”

"It's good to understand."

The envoy breathed a sigh of relief and continued to pluck up his courage and said, "I wonder how the Great Emperor will settle our Sendai Domain after taking over Edo?" ”

Zhu Cihong said lightly: "You Sendai Domain, let's go to Ezo." ”

Ezo is the Hokkaido province of Japan, with mountains and volcanoes accounting for 40% of the mountains, and was largely undeveloped in the 17th century, and is not part of Japan's territory.

Prior to this, the Ezo people who entered Honshu Island had been the target of conquest by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the shogunate's position as the shogun was a temporary high-ranking officer position created by the Yamato Imperial Court to fight against the Ezo people.

When the Ezo people were driven out of Honshu, the name of the general of the Seiyi was abandoned for a time, and it was picked up and used intermittently for hundreds of years.

In recent decades, when the Russians were exploring the Far East, the Tokugawa shogunate sent people to Ezo for national defense purposes.

Let the Sendai Domain go to the place where birds don't poop, and the messenger was anxious: "My housewife and the mother of Emperor Ming Zheng are sisters, I hope the emperor will look at the face of his relatives and leave a better fief for the Sendai Domain......"

If he can be an envoy, the intelligence work will definitely not be bad, he has long inquired about the relationship between the Ming Emperor and the Ming Emperor, and hopes that the Sendai Domain will at least mix with a pro-domain daimyo.

The relationship with Empress Mingzheng, Zhu Cihong did not deny it, nor did he intend to hide it, after all, the child was innocent......

He laughed and said, "You will inquire, so I canonized Date Zhongzong as the general of the Ming Dynasty, and ordered his men to move to Ezo on the same day." ”

Zhu Cihong seemed to change his face, and then said: "If he is willing, after I collect Edo, let your master rush to Edo with only ten followers, thank me, how to choose, let him do it himself!" ”

Hearing this, the envoy was a little stupid, he had never seen such a tough character since he was so old, and Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't dare to do anything to the Sendai Domain back then, at most, he just detained the first feudal lord in Edo for various reasons, and put it back after two years of good food and drink, and he didn't dare to touch anything in the fiefdom.

Why did the emperor of the Ming Dynasty play exile as soon as he opened his mouth?

We've pulled up 50,000 horses, so you have to respect at least that!

"His Majesty the Great Emperor ......"

"Don't get out of here!"

Maori scolded, raising his fist again.

The messenger was afraid of being beaten again, so he hurriedly bent down and slipped away.

Emperor Ming didn't take the Sendai Domain in his eyes, and if he stayed any longer, he might be killed.

The envoy also knew that the Ming Emperor did have this capital, and the more than 200,000 shogunate troops in the decisive battle of Sekigahara were not the opponents of the Ming army......

The envoys of the Sendai Domain fled in the wilderness, which made the daimyo of the feudal clans very relieved, and they all agreed that Erwuzai should deal with it like this!

However, some people were worried: "Will this make them jump over the wall in a hurry and take refuge on the side of the Tokugawa rebels, and the two gangs of traitors will act together to guard Edo?" ”

Maori Outline laughed and said, "If the old thief Date forcibly enters the Kanto Plain, General Ben will go and raid his old nest in Sendai Castle and rob all their women!" Let them Ida's skewers! ”

"General Xiu is wonderful!"

Zhu Cihong looked at the babbling Maori outline, and didn't care, this dog is a good dog, very good at licking, so be arrogant.

This kind of person can't hide his thoughts, and he is better than those daimyo who don't know what to think all day long.

For the Sendai Domain, Zhu Cihong is iron-hearted to suppress, Japan is such a big place, and it is always necessary to squeeze out a little more to reward the loyal dogs.

The dog is only happy when it is full of food, and it wags its tail willingly.

Driven out the envoys, Zhu Cihong began to arrange the final decision to unify Japan, march into the Kanto Plain, and liberate all of Japan!

At present, there are still three relatively powerful forces in Japan, one is the Sendai Domain; the second is the old middle Matsudaira Nobutsuna left behind by the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, with tens of thousands of people in his hands; The third is to divide the troops to attack Tokugawa Tsunashige in Kofu.

Before the decisive battle of Sekigahara, Sakai Tadashi sent Tokugawa Tsunashige and Tokugawa Yorinobu with 60,000 men to recover Kofu.

Kofu is the fief of Tokugawa Tsunashige, and the nest is occupied, and this time he came with tens of thousands of troops, which is quite a bit of the feeling of the Monkey King returning from learning art in "Journey to the West".

They came in a surge, and they didn't even have time to camp in the city, so they launched an attack on the Ming army of Kofu Castle at the first time, threatening to enter the city to rest at night.

The reality is cruel, the Ming army took advantage of the defense of Kofu Castle and beat the shogunate reinforcements with powerful firepower, and the corpses under Kofu Castle were piled up like a mountain, and blood flowed into a canal.

After leaving nearly 10,000 corpses behind, Tokugawa Tsunashige finally came to his senses, and he felt that it should be because the army had not rested well, so he set up camp and fought again in the coming day.

The next day, in another battle, the shogunate army lost 2,000 corpses and touched the city walls.

On the third day, there was another battle, and the shogunate army lost 4,000 corpses and touched the battlements.

On the fourth day, Tokugawa Tsunashige felt that he should be able to kill the city wall, but what he didn't expect was that the Ming army actually went out of the city and took the initiative to attack!

The shogunate army, which did not react for a while, was directly stunned by the Ming army, and Tokugawa Yorinobu, the lord of the Kii domain, was captured......

Tokugawa Tsunashige ran for more than ten miles, and while gathering men and horses, he sent eight waves of messengers to Sekigahara to ask for reinforcements.

It can be seen that he is in a hurry.

However, within two days, Tokugawa Tsunashige received the news that the shogunate army had lost the decisive battle at Sekigahara, and the whole person was stupid.

However, he still had a trace of illusion in his heart, thinking that this was fake news, after all, an army of nearly 200,000 people, even if it was a pig, was not so easy to defeat!

A few days later, Tokugawa Tsunashige's illusions were shattered, and he saw with his own eyes a large number of defeated soldiers who had fled from Sekigahara, looting all the way like lost dogs, and some of them who were not afraid of death dared to rob the horses of his army!

Tokugawa Tsunashige had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat to Edo by bypassing Kofu and taking a small road, where he joined forces with the old middle Matsudaira Nobutsuna.

After all, even if they were lucky enough to recover Jiafu, they would not be able to resist the Ming army in their prime.

On November 10, Zhu Cihong ordered the army to advance by land and sea to capture Edo and completely destroy the Tokugawa shogunate!

Li Shaoyou led the appeasement army by land, starting from Sekigahara and marching along the Nakasendo Road to the area north of the Kanto Plain.

Zhu Cihong led the main force of the Ming army by sea and landed in Edo Bay, while Xu Qingshan stayed in Kyoto.

After the decisive battle of Sekigahara, the overall situation of Japan was decided, and the capture of Edo and the Kanto Plain was the last step of Zhu Cihong's unification of Japan!

As expected, the Tokugawa shogunate had no fight.

Even if the three of them are together, there are only 100,000 people, and they are all miscellaneous armies that have fallen into some weapons, not to mention that the three forces have their own ideas, and it is difficult to achieve a unified opinion.

The purpose of Zhu Cihong's visit to Edo this time was to bring together all the daimyo forces in Japan after the war, announce rewards and punishments to them, reshuffle the Japanese forces, and establish a new system, including the establishment of Japanese provinces, the abolition of the emperor system, and the use of 100 family names by the Japanese......