Under Kumamoto Castle, the sound of siege gunfire has temporarily stopped.

However, although the sound of gunfire was heard, the attack on Kumamoto Castle did not stop.

Soldiers with loud voices, selected from various daimyo men, marched to and fro under Kumamoto Castle in groups of 100 people, shouting loudly where the guns could not reach the castle, spreading the news of the shogunate's capture of Kagoshima Castle to the castle.

The loud shouting outside the city was no less than the shelling of mortars.

The news that the Shimazu family's family business that they had worked so hard for hundreds of years had been burned down was faster than the wind and more lethal than artillery fire. The morale of the defenders facing the 100,000 shogunate army in Kumamoto Castle became more and more demoralized.

One trades off the other.

In the camp of the shogunate army outside the city, there was constant singing and begging for war.

Countless samurai came to the general Matsudaira Nobutsuna's tent and demanded that Kumamoto Castle be conquered quickly, and the remnants of the two families of Nabeshima and Kayama who were trapped here were wiped out in one go!

For the completely different expressions of the group of people under his command, Matsudaira Nobutsuna knew in his heart that this was just seeing that the defending army horses on the opposite side had become a lone army, and the lost dog without backup had the opportunity to beat the water dog, who could let it go?

The general Matsudaira slowly glanced at the daimyos, and his eyes were unprecedentedly stern: "This time, my shogunate went south to Kyushu to oppose the party, and relied on the help of friends, with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, no shortage of grain and grass, and full of horses. Today, we will wipe out the last rebellion of the Shimazu army in Kumamoto Castle! Front-to-head duel, the violent tiger Feng He, you must fight to the death, there are those who retreat from the battle, this official is ordered by the general to be here, and he will not be spared! ”

Tokugawa Yoshinao was the first to raise his arms and shout: "Fight the rebellion!" ”

Many bannermen and officials of the shogunate family also shouted: "Kill all the traitors!" ”

All the daimyo knelt down together in front of Matsudaira Nobutsuna, and threw themselves to the ground. One by one, they shouted: "Kill all the traitors!" Kill all the traitors! Kill all the traitors! Kill all the traitors! ……”

In the midst of the chorus of chanting, Matsudaira Nobutsuna sat high: "Gentlemen! Don't kill indiscriminately! According to the agreement between our army and the Nanzhong Army, except for the male Ding Yuanfu in the family of the traitor, the rest of the soldiers and civilians are not allowed to kill a single person in vain! Those who have a good basis for rebellion can send it to His Royal Highness Li in exchange for something useful! ”……

"Shengmao-kun, this is the death of heaven! It's not that our army is not heroic in battle! ”

"Yes! How could there ever be such a shameless tactic in the art of war? Sneak attack the opponent's fundamental land with a fleet and burn the opponent's city with rockets? ”

"The so-called success is also Xiao He defeat Xiao He, our strong strength comes from the Nanzhong Army, and now the defeat is also from the Nanzhong Army."

"Drink it up. The road is desolate. I don't know what the future holds. ”

After bathing and changing clothes, sitting opposite each other and drinking, Nabeshima Katsushige and Kayama Kumori committed suicide by seppuku.

The remnants of the army had no intention of fighting, and opened the gates of the city and surrendered to the shogunate army.

The tide in Kyushu has subsided.

"Your Highness, this is the farewell letter of Kayama Kumori and Nabeshima Katsushige. The letter was quite unconvinced. Claiming that our tactics are not based on the mysteries of the art of war. It is a victory without martial arts, and it violates the rules of the samurai. ”

Someone sent the seized letter to Matsudaira for his perusal.

"Joke! He's still from a martial arts family! is embarrassed to claim that he is familiar with the mystery of the art of war. I don't even understand such a simple truth as Ming Xiu Plank Road and secretly crossing Chen Cang, how to lead troops to fight? How can this generation be undefeated?! ”

Having said that, Matsudaira Nobutsuna is still worried, if it weren't for the help of the Nanchu Army fleet, highlighting Kagoshima with surprise troops, and burning the city with rockets, I don't know how many samurai will fall under this Kumamoto Castle, and how much blood will flow in this land of Kyushu?

"After you go back, you must show the general, the world prohibits unauthorized construction of big ships! Only the shogunate can build some big ships, otherwise, what if the main force of the shogunate is outside and there are soldiers near the Edogawa? ”

That being said, when Matsudaira Nobutsuna led Tokugawa Yoshinao and others to enter Kumamoto Castle, which was known as the fortified city of the world, he was stunned by the tragic situation in the city.

Everywhere were the ruins of the shells, the beams and pillars that had been burned by the fire emitted puffs of green smoke, and the streets were littered with motionless soldiers, not knowing if they were still alive. The wounded soldiers who had been hit by the guns were concentrated in several shrines and temples, and through the walls, the screams of the wounded were terrifying.

According to the pre-designated defense zone, the ashigaru mothers of the daimyo looted on a large scale, and from time to time there was the sound of slamming doors, broken objects, women's cries and moans, and the sound of swords slashing on flesh.

"Bastard!"

Matsudaira-sama was furious.

This group of guys, even if it's robbery, don't you know if it's organized?

Don't you know that after the entire population and all the streets are numerically controlled, they will be robbed again? Isn't it a simple matter to want a few women, as long as the women of the whole city are gathered in one place, what kind of women don't have it?!

Also, this city was conquered by the shogunate army, and of course the jade silk children in the city are owned by the shogunate, even if they want guns, they should be distributed uniformly after the shogunate robs them! Even the Yuan Kou of the year also had a Ulus system to distribute the spoils of war!

"My lord, the siege of the city has been hard for several days, and the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, so they need to stretch out well. Adults still have to be sympathetic to the military's heart. ”

Speaking of casualties, Matsudaira Nobutsuna immediately stopped talking.

From the time of the landing in Kyushu, the biggest and fiercest battles were fought under Kumamoto Castle.

"To quell the Kyushu Rebellion, although my shogunate army won a big victory, there were many casualties, so we must recuperate after this battle!"

Everyone was darkened, indeed, the price of this victory was too high. After the news of Kagoshima Castle being attacked by the shogunate army, the various ministries began to quietly check the losses in this battle, while being jealous of Kuroda Tadayuki's good luck and lamenting their bad luck. In the siege battle of several days, not counting the volunteer team composed of those ronins, not counting the peasants and ordinary people who were temporarily brought in to make up the number, there were nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers in each army who were sent to the camp of the Nanzhong Army.

If you count the casualties, you can only count the samurai Ashigaru who are registered, and more than 6,000 people were killed in the armies of the various daimyo from all walks of life. More than 4,000 people were disabled due to injuries.

A large reason why Kuroda Tadayuki was sent to attack Kagoshima was that he lost more than 4,000 troops in the battle to attack the north of Kumamoto Castle.

The southern part of Kumamoto Castle, which Tokugawa Yoshinao was responsible for attacking, was a fortified area of Kumamoto Castle, and the loss of troops and casualties amounted to more than 10,000 people.

And those volunteer trooper ronins who were pulled by various daimyo to be used as cannon fodder, the number of dead is even more a mystery.

It's just that the Soul Pagoda and Wanzhong Tomb were erected in several temples in the north of the city, and the bones of these ronins were gathered here. Decades later, there are still children and passers-by who can occasionally pick up mutilated and rusty knives and bamboo gun heads at the site of the battlefield.

Not since the Battle of Osaka has there been such a fierce battle in Japan.

However, inputs are directly proportional to outputs.

Heavy casualties. More seized.

Looking at the mountain-like belongings copied from Kagoshima Castle, the old nest of the Shimazu family. Looking at the long list of seizures, from Matsudaira Nobutsuna down, everyone's eyes were red.

How to distribute the huge results made everyone stare at Matsudaira Nobutsuna. There are those who pay bribes in private. There are those who work hard. Even those who draw long knives during deliberations threaten them.

The benefits are in front of you. Everyone forgets their own identities and the intricate intricacies of their relationship with each other. For the distribution of the spoils of war, almost caused a fire and.

In desperation, the general Matsudaira had no choice but to take Huayu to come forward to suppress the field. "If you dare to move, our Southern Chinese Army will immediately send troops to exterminate it!" On the one hand, he ordered someone to take the Nanchu Army Clipper to Edo, and invited the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu to come out and preside over the spoils distribution meeting.

Since Li Huayu was invited out, everyone first put down the matter of how to divide the spoils, and took out some of the captured things in their hands to trade with the Nanzhong Army.

"I took seven thousand captives!"

"There are five thousand six hundred women in the hands of the ministers."

"What are you guys, I have 30,000 men in my hands!"

The feudal lords have already explained to their subordinates that they must not kill people indiscriminately. What is a person? It's wealth! What a fortune that can be exchanged for things!

According to some statistics, the shogunate army of 150,000 people actually captured more than 700,000 prisoners! How many of them were real prisoners of the Shimazu Army and their families, Li Huayu didn't bother to ask. I only know that even those ronins and farmers who have signed labor contracts, if they come to Fusang this time, they will at least get back millions of people.

"Daddy wants to build roads, this time he shouldn't worry about the lack of labor at hand!"

However, when General Tokugawa Iemitsu arrived in Kyushu, he presented a large gift with both hands.

"The capture in Kagoshima Castle, I, the shogunate, sent Sancheng to His Highness as a reward for the army!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu knew very well that this was purely generous to others. Use the hundreds of years of accumulation of the Shimazu family to thank the Nanzhong Army and win over the eldest young master of the Nanzhong Army. And then let him help him suppress this group of proud soldiers.

And the reason is very sufficient, if it were not for the continuous delivery of food and salary by the Nanzhong Army, these more than 100,000 troops would only be afraid of running out of food. If it weren't for the help of the South Central Army with artillery and ships, how could they conquer Kagoshima in a battle?

So, Li Huayu started human trafficking on the spot, and used his share of the seized goods to exchange for the prisoners in the hands of the adults.

"Lord Shogun, Lord Tokugawa, Lord Matsudaira, what the lord of the domain covets is not actually the wealth of the Shimazu family."

It was Liang Kuan's words that woke up the dreamer.

"The wealth accumulated by the Shimazu family in hundreds of years may not be more than half of what has been accumulated in the past twenty years, and there is no gold and silver growing under the ground of the Shimazu family, how can he accumulate so much wealth? It is nothing more than the proceeds of trade with our South and China. A few days ago, the general also hung a heavy reward, and all those who have made meritorious contributions can obtain the qualification of a treaty port with our southern Chinese army. This is what the feudal lords have been fighting for. ”

In front of several leading figures of the Tokugawa shogunate, Li Huayu followed Liang Kuan's words to analyze the shape in front of Tokugawa Shogun.

"The seized property can be divided according to the ratio of 40% of the shogunate and 60% of the daimyo of each family. After that, the award will be evaluated in detail. The first thing was to send their respective armies back to their original defensive areas, and the feudal lords returned to Edo with the shogun. ”

"In this way, those who listen to the greeting will have a port, and those who do not listen will not have it."

"And then?"

"Those who are brave in battle and have large casualties can have them, but those who retreat from battle have few casualties."

"But, in any case, several feudal lords of the former Kyushu, especially Tadayuki Kuroda. Although this person is a foreign daimyo, he is loyal to the shogun, and he will fight bravely to climb first in every battle, and he is also the one who conquered Kagoshima, please look at the face of his subordinates and others, and reward him with a port, so as to complete the plan to cut the feudal domains of Kyushu! ”

Taking advantage of the Kyushu Boom to completely weaken or even eliminate the southwestern feudal domains was a secret of the shogunate's top leadership. However, after a campaign, it seems that in addition to Shimazu, Nabeshima, Kayama, Matsukura, Ryuzoji, Kato and other families. Like the Kuroda family, although there were heavy losses. It's quite a loss of vitality, but it's not good to move him.

That's it! The fact that the First World War brought Minami-Kyushu under the direct jurisdiction of the shogunate was also considered to be a lot of money. As long as the power of the treaty ports was firmly in the hands of the shogunate, the feudal feudal lords were encouraged to export their population to the south. I don't think there will be any more Kyushu trends!

Thereupon. With the encouragement and connivance of the shogunate. In the years that followed, various daimyo enthusiastically devoted themselves to the activities of exporting population. This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.

Over the next few days, the Tokugawa shogunate's elders and officials engaged in bargaining and endless quarrels with the daimyos.

According to the plan designed by Li Shouhan and his son for the shogunate. The shogunate threw a multiple-choice question in front of the various daimyos who had contributed to the suppression of the rebellion.

Choose stone height or cross height?

If you choose Ishitaka, you can adjust some land on the territory of Kyushu for the shogunate to carry out a dazzling transfer of seals, giving everyone more fields. However, if you choose Shigao, you can't enjoy the benefits of opening a treaty port, so you can only send the products in your own territory to someone else's port to sell, so that the neighbor's daimyo can pick a layer of skin from it and take a tax.

Similarly, if you choose Kantaka, you will be able to enjoy one or two treaty ports according to the unified arrangement of the shogunate, and you will receive a portion of the taxes from the treaty ports as a pension for the feudal lord. Of course, this pension was paid by the Shogunate Treasury at the time of the Hajj.

The daimyo quarreled with each other over the size of their merits and the number of casualties, and with the old and middle commissioners of the shogunate over whether they should enjoy the open port. Some of the smarter ones even went to Li Huayu's camp and sent the details and quantities of various local products, the depth of each bay, the currents, the reefs, the wind direction, the geography and many other details.

And for these people's expressions, Li Huayu is an attitude, "Accept the courtesy." Nothing to do. He naturally laughed at the information and intelligence related to the national economy and people's livelihood, but it was far from enough for him to intercede with Tokugawa Iemitsu for these daimyos.

His main concern was to transport his spoils, the large number of young and middle-aged laborers, back to the various parts of the South.

"Please send a ship to transport the supplies and basic tools of 10,000 people, and I have 10,000 young people here who plan to transport them to the ten states for reclamation."

"After the grain ship comes, you can't go back, and you can stuff as many people into the cabin as you can carry as much grain as you can!"

"What? Too crowded in the cabin? It's about the same as canned fish? Easy to die? You won't stop a few times along the way and resupply one or two in the Ryukyus, etc.? And then unload some people in Taiwan and go to Liangguang? ”

"Tell the Governor of Luzon that now this time I have replenished his population with 50,000 people, so that he will remember to hand over at least 100,000 stones of jaggery sugar and 5,000 tons of copper ore to the General's Mansion next year!"

Groups of refugees are driven into the cabins, where they will be transported to Luzon, the Ten States, Taiwan, Manraka, and even further afield.

This migration lasted for five or six years, and the people of Kyushu were arrested on charges of the remnants of the Kyushu Rebellion, and then sent to the Nanchu Trading Company in exchange for various goods. It wasn't until a few years later that the shogunate issued a document prohibiting the daimyo from capturing the remnants of the Kyushu Movement in Kyushu.

But by this time, Kyushu's population had already plummeted. The Kuroda family's domain is relatively good, and the rest of the country is already ten rooms and nine empty, and it is difficult to see young and middle-aged people under thirty and over twelve.

And more to come.

"Big young marshal, these are the list of soldiers of the new attached battalion we recruited in Fusang, all of them are the retainers and warriors of the previous defeated feudal towns, who are skilled in martial arts and qualified physically."

Liang Kuan placed a thick stack of Ronin's statistical list on the table in front of Li Huayu. Looking at Li Huayu, who was working at the desk and constantly writing letters to government officials everywhere, there was a hint of joy in his eyes.

In the past few months, Li Huayu has begun a rapid transformation from a slightly young man with a hint of youth, and this speed can be observed by the naked eye.

"It's still an adult, and it's better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. The eldest young marshal walked down this trip, and after he went back, he was afraid that the eldest lady would be happy. ”

The main purpose of recruiting ronins as a new annex is to show goodwill to the shogunate and eliminate the unstable factors under the shogunate as much as possible. Second, it is also to supplement his own lack of cannon fodder.

At present, the naval division of the Nanzhong Army has gone farther and farther, and there are strongholds in Tianzhu, Kurumus and other places, and the farthest stronghold is the Green Island, which was newly received from the Portuguese Restoration Army. These places need troops to be garrisoned!

Faced with the huge temptation of 200 stone of good japonica rice every year, and the huge temptation of 600 stone japonica rice settlement fee immediately after passing the physical examination and signing the contract, those ronin people flocked to it. What's more, after the war, these guys, who had no skills other than dancing knives and guns, immediately had no source of livelihood. There are such good places to go, fools don't go!

Here is the Nanchu army in full swing on the dock to transfer the population, there is the shogunate and the daimyo have a cordial, friendly, frank and direct exchange, the whole of March, just like this.

Just as the last cherry blossom was falling, Li Shouhan's handwritten letter was delivered by a fleet of ships transporting the loot.

In addition to praising his son's growth, Shouhan clearly told his son not to stay in Japan any longer, except for the necessary clerks, the rest of them quickly returned to Guangzhou.

"I have something else for you to do!" (To be continued......)