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However, although it was a slow shot, in an hour, thousands of iron projectiles were fired.

In fact, half an hour after the bombardment began, a white flag had already been flown inside the city, but because of the smoke and the dust after the rammed earth buildings were broken up, the Xuan army outside the city did not see it at all.

When the gunners were tired and sweating, Chen Xin ordered to stop firing, and the entire Kagoshima Castle fell into a ghostly silence.

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, the dust slowly settled, and everyone noticed that the white flag was hanging from the castle tower, which was originally the tallest building in the city.

"Uh, when did this thing hang up?"

"I didn't pay attention."

"It was too much smoke before."

"I'm afraid there are no living people in this small building with a white flag."

"There must be no one left, it's the tallest building in the city, it's the best to fight, I watched the artillery brothers greet there one by one, and almost dozens of cannons were fired."

"Shhhh It's over, and there's absolutely no one left. ”

"Then, is it too late to go up and surrender now?"

All the officers looked at Chen Xin in unison, waiting for orders.

In fact, Chen Xin had already seen the white flag on the opposite side, but he didn't deliberately ignore it.

After hundreds of years of the Warring States Period, the Wa Kingdom fought against each other, and the consumption of the economy and population was very severe, and since the rise of Oda Nobunaga, the Wa Kingdom has actually been overwhelmed.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi seized power, it was also to solve the domestic contradictions, that is, the problem that there were too many samurai to divide the feuds, and he crossed the sea to conquer Korea, although he was finally defeated and returned, so that the old turtle of the Tokugawa family seized power, but after the loss of troops and generals, it also laid a foundation for the stability of the Edo shogunate.

Now, more than a decade has passed since the Tokugawa family seized power in Osaka, and the samurai of the older generation of the Wa Kingdom have gradually withdrawn from the stage of history, and the people have only begun to recover their economy.

Chen Xin hoped that he could completely divide and destroy the Wa Kingdom in this excellent period, so he did not want to leave those ancient daimyo who had ruled this land for nearly a thousand years to come out and make trouble for themselves.

Those daimyo who were relocated by the Edo shogunate to other places did not have much prestige in the local area, and those who knew each other could stay, but families such as Satsuma and Nagasu who had been operating on this land for hundreds of years had to be cut down and eradicated.

At this time, a cavalryman from afar came to the banner where Chen Xin was. "Report to the general, according to the order, 10 samurai companies have been transported to the port and are running towards this side. ”

Chen Xin smiled, he really fell asleep and came to the pillow, and the report sent by the captain said that the company formed by these Japanese warriors was very useful, and the execution was very thorough after the order was given, but there was a bit of a thirst for killing, Chen Xin did not dare to let his army be infected with this kind of problem, but these warriors were willing to do dirty work, which saved Chen Xin a lot of trouble.

"Order the samurai company to enter Kagoshima Castle and search for the remnants of the enemy, I don't want a single person to escape from the castle."

"Yes."

"In the name of the Zhenguo General's Mansion, the people are reassured, and the people want to live and work in peace and contentment."

"Can't."

"Here."

"You go and meet the merchants of Kagoshima Castle Town, appease them, and then sign a munitions contract with them, and buy from them some of the supplies that our army will be able to provide when they are stationed here. The most important thing is to find a way to ask who can get the copper, which is the bulk of our purchases. ”

"Yes." Kan Shu first received the order, and then asked, "General, didn't you say that there are a lot of copper mines in the Wa Kingdom?" Why don't we dig our own mines and spend money to buy them from these merchants? ”

"Because of time, we are not not mining, but buying copper at the same time as mining, you have seen yesterday's new rifle, once our army is fully equipped with this rifle, it will be greatly enhanced, and the new rifle needs a lot of copper.

However, the time required to open a mine is measured in years, and even if we take over all the mines in the Kyushu area directly, it is not known when production will resume. We need to buy copper from other parts of the country through the connections of these merchants before we can produce enough copper ourselves. ”

Kan Shu's face was serious, "I understand, my subordinates will definitely do their best to facilitate this matter." ”

The next period of fighting was all about bullying.

In this era, the speed of communication was very slow, and they could only rely on manpower, animal power, and ships to transmit news, and the Xuan army relied on the reconnaissance and communication advantages of the falcons in the sky, and was able to gallop freely in the vast territory of the Satsuma Domain, concentrate superior forces, reasonably allocate time and place, and encircled and annihilated the retainers who came to reinforce the Shimazu family order.

After defeating all the enemies, of course, it is the old method, showing the measurement of land, counting the population, and then collecting villages and villages, 10 households as a group, 500 households as a village, 10 villages as a township, setting up a township office, and establishing administrative, public security, educational, military and other institutions internally. The lands of the samurai and nobles who were killed were given to the landless tenants.

The merchants were also impressed by Chen Shin's unrestrained business strategy, and these people turned their backs on their country without discipline and began to obey Chen Shin's rule and serve the Xuan army, and all kinds of goods flowed into Kyushu Island from the area under the control of the Edo shogunate of the Japanese kingdom.

Chen Shin transferred dozens of armed guard companies from the northern part of the country to replace the field troops on local alert duty, and the female soldiers rotated every three months to six months and could enjoy a short vacation. With the ferocity of these female soldiers, they are completely able to suppress the security of the Kyushu region.

Taking advantage of the current gathering of large armies, Chen Xin decided to solve the cultural problems of the Wa Kingdom.

First, an administrative order was issued to make Chinese the official language, and all people changed their surnames and names, and then a large number of Chinese teachers were transferred from northern and southern Korea to the townships to carry out literacy and language education, and teach all children under the age of 18 Chinese.

Chen Xin also thought of a bad trick, that is, to link language and taxation, if the head of each household can use fluent Chinese for conversational communication, then he can reduce the tax by 10%, and if he can use 500 commonly used Chinese characters proficiently, he can also reduce the tax by 1%.

The policy of the Wa state towards the peasants was to exploit them brutally and strive to protect them.

Efforts to protect the shogunate and daimyo are said to reduce the bankruptcy of small farmers and maintain social stability.

Cruel exploitation is said to be to try to squeeze the peasants on the premise of ensuring that they do not go bankrupt, for example, to pay taxes, most of the land taxes in the Japanese state are "four public and six people" and "five public and five people", and in some extreme cases, it can reach "seven public and three people".

If the head of the household can write and communicate fluently in Chinese, then he can reduce the tax by 2 percent, which is like pie in the sky, and the farmer will not be moved.

As a result, the peasants in Kyushu were so motivated to learn Chinese that they not only managed to squeeze into the school to attend classes, but also pulled their own children to learn Chinese and Chinese characters.

Of course, there will be opponents of any reform, and the Japanese will naturally be no exception, but Chen Xin has no sympathy for these Japanese people at all, and any opponents will be dragged to labor education, and those who dare to rebel will be killed.

Coercion and inducement go hand in hand, but for a few months, Kyushu is full of voices in Chinese, and although he is not fluent in stammering, he can fully understand the meaning of what is being expressed.

Kan Shu felt very new to all this, "General, can you rule here for a long time?" ”

Chen Xin shook his head, "Of course it can't be so simple, we still have a lot of work to do in the future, we not only have to rule here for a long time, but also completely assimilate the people here." ”

"Assimilation? Our army is no more than 10,000 people, but in Kyushu, there are hundreds of thousands of Japanese people. ”

"Don't be discouraged, as long as we can persevere and not let the Tokugawa family fight back, we will definitely be able to accomplish our goal."

"So, Shogun, how do you reply to the letter of inquiry sent by the Edo shogunate?"

"Find a good writing, find some reasons casually, and explain the legitimacy of our occupation of Kyushu."

"Shogun, I'm afraid this will anger the people of the Tokugawa family."

"Don't be afraid, just do it.

Through infiltration, bribery, and probing, the Military Intelligence Division finally analyzed that now was the time when the shogunate was at its weakest, and that it was impossible for them to organize a large army that threatened us in a short period of time.

What's more, the navy has not been idle recently, they have already raided several large shipyards in the Japanese country, burning their stored dry ship materials, at least for a year, the Japanese country will not be able to cross the sea to attack. ”

"Okay, the subordinates will find a suitable person."

Chen Xin watched Kan Shu go away, thought carefully for a while, and wrote down a series of orders.

The Kyushu Coast Guard was set up with some fast crabs from the navy, which was responsible for anti-smuggling and vigilance along the coast of Kyushu, and blocked the passage of Japanese troops from Honshu and Shikoku to cross the sea by boat. With the help of the falcon, this is not difficult to do, and the navy can do the job to the maximum extent with the least number of ships if it is carefully arranged.

A part of the samurai company was sent to form a marine corps, and ships were dispatched to form an attack fleet, and the marines were carried to raid and harass the Tokugawa family's "kinship" and "geneayo", focusing on destroying the economy of these daimyo domains, but it was absolutely forbidden to attack the "outside".

This was to weaken the strength of the Tokugawa clan and at the same time increase the contradictions between the Tokugawa clan and the daimyo of the Gokugawa clan, and at no time did Chen Shin want the enemy to unite and the divided enemy to attack.

Although it is unlikely to have much effect in a short period of time, Chen Xin believes that the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom are not willing to be lonely, and with the continuous conflict between themselves and the Tokugawa family in the future, once the Tokugawa family shows signs of decay, these people will pull up the anti-flag and take the initiative to fight for the position of the general of Zhengyi.

The tradition of fighting for hegemony in the Warring States period, which has lasted for hundreds of years, will not be changed by more than ten years.