In recent months, in addition to consolidating his rule in the occupied territories, Chen Xin has sent a large number of samurai disguised as tigers to various parts of the country to recruit unemployed samurai. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Originally, the samurai were the vassals of the daimyo who were in charge of fighting wars, and the lord would distribute rice equivalent to the rank of the samurai on time as a.

However, after the Edo shogunate ended the Warring States period of the Wa Kingdom for hundreds of years, and formally unified the Wa Kingdom, it implicitly suppressed and weakened the daimyo in various places, and multiple means caused the economic embarrassment of the "foreign" daimyos.

In the case of peace, the daimyo who were straining their finances began to find ways to reduce the number of retainers and their salaries, which resulted in a large number of unemployed and unemployed samurai who possessed the strength and reputation of the samurai and did not have the treatment of the samurai.

These samurai have a superior status, but their lives are extremely embarrassed, and the Wa Kingdom is a country that pays great attention to face, and these embarrassed "unemployed samurai" are dissatisfied with the current social environment of the Wa Kingdom, and most of them are grateful for the recruitment of Chen Xin, a "great name from other countries".

Chen Xin, who has the advantage of buying cheap entrained grain from Daming Caoyun, likes these "cheap cannon fodder" that can be bought with a little grain.

At the beginning of the assembly of soldiers, more than 3,000 Japanese warriors had been recruited, and the initial reorganization was carried out, and they directly took 100 people as a company, under the full management of a tiger ben, a total of 32 companies.

These people were not yet fully trusted, so for the time being, they fought with the swords they carried with them, and were handsomely equipped with two-year arquebuses.

On the other hand, the Edo shogunate only got the initial news from a few escaped fish.

With only a little bit of information, Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't tell what kind of forces were entrenched in the Kitakyushu region and how many people there were, so the shogunate has not made any big moves for the time being.

However, Chen Xin knew that it was absolutely impossible for the Tokugawa family to be without action.

The Tokugawa family was able to win the position of the Great Shogun of the Shogun from the hands of more than 300 princes of all sizes in the Wa Kingdom, and ruled the entire Wa Kingdom.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Edo shogun, divided more than 20 "kin-domain" daimyo belonging to his own relatives into the richest places in the whole of the country, and the farmland they occupied accounted for about one-third of the total output of the country.

More than 100 allies of the Tokugawa clan during the previous conquest of the world, known as the daimyo of the "Shoyo", occupied smaller, but strategically important areas, which occupied a little more than half of the land of the Wa Kingdom.

And the "foreign" daimyo who submitted after the final battle were once allies with each other, but they were separated by these relatives and genealogies, and those who were once mortal enemies were divided together.

Then the right to trade with foreign countries was withdrawn, and foreign ships could only trade in the two territories established by the shogunate, which weakened the financial resources of the daimyos.

And that's not all, Tokugawa Ieyasu also created a system whereby all daimyo had to live in Edo, the place where the shogun was, for one of the two years, and that their relatives had to live in Edo for a long time as hostages. The daimyo had to bear the living expenses of their relatives in Edo, the maintenance of their homes, and the expenses they spent on the road, and these huge expenses further weakened the daimyos' financial resources.

Although Tokugawa Ieyasu is dead, and the current shogun is the third generation, Chen Shin does not believe that as a descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Iemitsu will do nothing.

I'm afraid there are already a large number of spies on their way here, and there may be envoys heading for the daimyo feudal kingdoms in southern Kyushu.

Now, first of all, it is necessary to carry out anti-espionage work.

Originally, Chen Xin wanted the Military Intelligence Department to be in charge of this anti-espionage, after all, they already had a group of local people from the Japanese Kingdom, and there were also powerful action teams such as the Shinsengumi, which could easily carry out the arrest mission, but from the historical experience gained from later generations, Chen Xin knew that the spy agency could not be a single company.

Although the current important positions within the Military Intelligence Department are controlled by Hu Ben, there is no need to worry about his problems, but a good system will be beneficial to his successor, so after thinking twice, the anti-espionage work in the occupied area is still handed over to the secret service that was split from the Confidential Division.

Secondly, it was necessary to intercept the envoys of the Edo Shogunate, which was simple, and the Wa Kingdom had long begun to restrict the shipbuilding industry under the compulsory order of the Edo Shogunate, and now all of them are small ships of less than 70 tons, except for some large ships built by the Shogunate.

The Edo Shogunate had ruled the Wa Kingdom for decades, and it was absolutely impossible for the envoys of the Tokugawa family to still maintain the simplicity of the wartime period, and when they came out to read the order of the shogunate to conquer the country, they must have taken a large ship.

This is convenient, the eagle falcon in the high altitude vision is very broad, as long as a few rotate, in the open sea, search for a few large ships, it is much simpler than searching for a small army on land, and when the falcon detects a suspicious target, order the navy to dispatch one or two fast crabs, it can also solve this trouble.

In the end, it was necessary to try to clean up the several feudal states in the southern part of Kyushu Island while the shogunate did not know the specific situation on Kyushu Island and had not yet mobilized its army.

Recently, the Shinsengumi have completed the infiltration of the castles where the 11 daimyo in Higo, Hinata, and Osumi are located, and as soon as the army arrives, they will be able to implement the decapitation tactic, so that the samurai in these territories will lose their main family and the dragons will be leaderless.

The captain was already experienced in this area, and Chen Xin handed over the post of command of the former enemy to him, and formed a detachment composed of 3 infantry squadrons, an artillery company, a reconnaissance and search company, 2 ranger companies, and 15 samurai companies, and the captain was fully responsible for the strategy of the three kingdoms of Higo, Hinata, and Osumi.

And Chen Xin needs to take the rest of the troops to find a way to deal with the Satsuma Domain as soon as possible, which is a more tricky strong domain.

After the Edo shogunate unified the Wa Kingdom, Tokugawa Ieyasu issued an order of "one country, one city".

At that time, most of the samurai under the daimyo accounted for less than 1% of the young and middle-aged population under their command, and those who were not unemployed and continued to receive their salaries lived near the castle where their daimyo was located, and the rest of the samurai were scattered among the countryside if they were too humble to support their families or simply "unemployed".

Among these daimyos, there is a special case, and that is the Satsuma Domain.

The Satsuma clan has always been one of the strong feudal clans, and by the time of the "Curtain Fall Movement" in the future, it was the main force behind the fall of the Shogun.

Satsuma was a daimyo of more than 700,000 stone fiefs a long time ago, and he has been fighting against various daimyos, and finally he was defeated and was reduced from a fief of 100,000 koku, but the shogunate was also afraid that if it was pressed too hard, it would make Satsuma desperate, so he didn't dare to go too far with Satsuma's feudal cut.

Satsuma has always adopted a system that distinguishes it from other daimyos, such as the "outer castle system", in which the Satsuma clan had a large number of "outer castles" in addition to the residence of the daimyos, and in these "outer castles" a large number of "village warriors" gathered, and these "village warriors" also had the status of "samurai".

With the addition of these "villagers", the "samurai" of the Satsuma Domain were able to reach 40 percent of the young and middle-aged population.

This is a very difficult and powerful domain, and Chen Xin is not sure that he will be able to clean up this feudal country, but he landed in Kitakyushu because of the cross-sea conquest and the long supply line, which is a taboo in war.

In order to find a solid base first, he can only deal with the nearest island of Kyushu to his territory first, and the enemy of the Satsuma Domain must be eliminated, otherwise when the war with the Edo shogunate officially starts, let him make trouble in the back, and how to fight.

In order to ensure that the next battle with the shogunate could be carried out smoothly, on the 3rd of October, Chen Shin personally led the army to land in the territory of the Satsuma domain.