Of course, there will be no suspense about Yang Feng's marriage, and after Liang Du commanded the envoy to have a long talk with Hei Ba in the Jinyiwei prison that night, the next day, this Japanese businessman who was inspired by justice, confessed his mastermind very simply......

"Mitsuhisa Shimazu!"

Yang Feng slapped the table angrily. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"A local prince of the Wa Kingdom dared to build slaves without permission, and tried in vain to invade the Ming Dynasty, he simply didn't know whether he was alive or dead!"

Then he shouted.

According to Heihachi's confession, he was the domestic slave of Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the lord of the Satsuma Domain, specializing in maritime trade, Shimazu Mitsuhisa was ambitious and had a deep relationship with Jiannu, and the two sides even agreed to cooperate in invading the Ming Dynasty, including Sonny and others who came south and Gong Dingyu planned to lead the Dutch East India Company fleet to blockade the Yangtze River, and it was also their joint decision to find a way to kill the Ming Emperor. In addition, they also wanted to lure Li Zicheng to recruit soldiers from the Wa Kingdom, and the Shimazu family and several feudal lords who conspired with him sent samurai to be hired, and when the number was sufficient, they killed Li Zicheng in one fell swoop and captured Jiangsu and Zhejiang, while Haoge launched a counterattack from Liaodong, and finally divided the north and south simultaneously, and the Ming Dynasty was bounded by the Huai River, and each accounted for half.

All in all, this is a plan that can be described as very arrogant.

(Shimazu: I'm wronged!) ）

"Your Majesty, that's not all."

The person in charge of interrogating Jin Yiwei said: "According to his confession, Shimazu Mitsu has already invaded Ryukyu and forced the Ryukyu king to submit to him, but it is too remote for the imperial court to know so far!" ”

"What? Quickly summon Shen Tingyang into the palace! ”

The emperor angrily slapped the dragon case again and said.

An hour later.

"Crusade against the Wa Kingdom?"

Shen Tingyang, a waiter of the Nanjing Military Department who had just taken office, exclaimed.

"It's not a crusade against the Wa State, but a crusade against the Wa State Satsuma Domain's lord Shimazu Mitsuhisa, a prince of a small country, who dared to invade the Ming Dynasty and colluded with Jiannu in a vain attempt to invade the Ming Dynasty, and even participated in Gong's conspiracy to kill the king. I originally wanted to entrust this matter to Nan'anhou, but now that the war at Hukou is tight, he can't get out, and there is Aiqing who is familiar with the situation of the Japanese kingdom in the court, thinking that Shimazu Mitsuhisa is just a small city lord who is arrogant and arrogant, I decided to let Aiqing supervise the division, transfer the forbidden army Zhang Mingzhen's water division, and add an infantry brigade and a mortar battalion of the Dangkou army, and go to the Japanese country to crusade against Shimazu Mitsuhisa. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, that Shimazu Mitsuhisa is a vassal of the Tokugawa family, if the imperial court raises troops to fight, the Tokugawa family will inevitably send troops, and there are many feudal domains on Kyushu Island, and their feudal lords will also send troops. Navigation is a trivial matter, from Ningbo to Kagoshima is only 1,500 miles of waterway, at this time it is already late autumn, the sea storm period has passed, the northwest wind prevails, the back and forth are oblique crosswinds are suitable for navigation, Kagoshima coast is also ice-free, this distance is only three or five days voyage, but the number of troops is indeed a little less. ”

Shen Tingyang said frankly.

In fact, he cherishes this opportunity very much, what he is looking forward to most now is to be able to obtain the emperor's favor like Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong, with the emperor's favor, not only the official and the knight, but also the formation of the Nanyang Company monopoly to the Nanyang shipping, in the island of Taiwan to mine sulfur and gold panning, it can be said that the gold and silver mountains to move home, the son is the emperor's son, and it is even said that he may be crowned the king of the county. Anyway, he also wants to do this, this time the emperor asked him to lead troops to attack Shimazu Mitsuhisa, that is to give him a chance to show his ability, if he can complete it well, then the Shen family will be the next Zheng family.

But......

But there are too few soldiers!

Zhang Mingzhen's 10,000 sailors, although not all of them are big ships that can sail the Wa Kingdom, but this problem is very easy to solve, Zheng Zhilongbu and all the large warships of the Zhejiang Navy Division under his command before are unable to reach the mouth of the lake because of the draft, so they are all near Nanjing, and there is no problem for the various departments to add up to 200 large ships that can sail the Wa Kingdom. All the cannons of Zhang Mingzhen's department are cast in the north, and the performance even exceeds the cannons of the Dutch, although most of them are small cannons because of the problem of the ship itself, but the warships of the Japanese country are enough, and at this time, the Tokugawa shogunate basically abolished the naval martial arts, and it was not the time to invade Korea that year, and even Zheng Zhilong's pirate team may not be able to fight, so it is not a problem for the Ming army to drive over.

But an infantry brigade taking Kagoshima is a bit of an exaggeration.

"Aiqing and Zhang Qing discussed this matter, if they feel that it is a little difficult to take Kagoshima, then take Tanegashima first, and then establish a port base on the island, where the place is spacious, and there is a certain amount of products, and there is no shortage of fresh water, one brigade should be enough to control the whole island. I am still continuing to expand the army, and it is estimated that I will be able to arm the Dangkou army in four towns next spring, and it is estimated that Zuo Liangyu will also solve it, and the troops will be much more abundant, and I can give you more troops, and I will build a large warship of the red-haired people next, the materials have been prepared, and the dock has been built, and it is estimated that the first batch of such ships will be built next spring. ”

Yang Feng said.

He never thought of a brigade to conquer the Satsuma Domain, but one town is enough, according to his latest establishment, a town under four infantry brigades and a cavalry brigade plus an artillery brigade, if necessary, you can also transfer the invincible general artillery from the heavy artillery brigade to support, don't the Japanese like to call the country collapse? It also lets them see what a real national collapse is, but at this time he definitely doesn't have the extra troops to do this, after all, the civil war is far from over, so his goal is to grab Tanegashima.

It is true that a brigade cannot take Kagoshima, but it is enough to take Tanegashima.

After occupying Tanegashima, they can build an advance base there, and when Shen Tingyang and they build the base, there will be enough troops on the domestic side.

Yang Feng's expansion has not stopped.

He is not short of soldiers, but the production of Dangkou is limited, but after two years of development, the output of the major arsenals in the north has increased to 7,000 per month, after the capture of Suzhou, there is also a production of Dangkou, plus there is also a factory in Nanjing, at the end of the year he can ensure the production capacity of 10,000 per month. In fact, two and a half brigades can be armed every month, and a town can be armed in two months, and the rest is only the training of recruits, and recently a large number of veterans of the Dangkou army have been transferred back to the north to serve as officers for the recruits, and a large number of recruits have been supplemented to the front line, which is also the reason for the slow pace of the Ming army's attack on Wuchang.

At the current pace of expansion, it will be easy for him to expand his army to six towns by next spring.

That's when he can do whatever he wants.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Shen Tingyang said immediately.

It doesn't matter if you hit Tanegashima, as long as you don't let Shimazu Mitsuhisa know the news and mention that you will go to the island to send additional soldiers, then what the Ming army needs to face after landing is nothing more than a few hundred soldiers......

When the Tokugawa shogunate receives the news, studies the situation clearly, and then discusses countermeasures, and then mobilizes the naval army to go south for reinforcements, it is estimated that it will be the New Year, and this has to be under the condition that the Tokugawa family is willing to take care of the life and death of the Shimazu family, if the Ming army is only teaching Shimazu Mitsuhisa a lesson, rather than further thinking about the Wakoku, then maybe the general of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu, will be very happy to watch Shimazu Mitsuhisa being beaten to death by the Ming army, and then he will happily go to collect the land of the Shimazu family after the Ming army leaves.

In this way, the plan for the crusade against the Satsuma clan was decided.

The rest will be handed over to Shen Shilang.

In addition, there is Zhang Mingzhen, and there is also the General Staff of the Dangkou Army, and the three of them work together to determine and implement the entire plan.

Looking at Shen Shilang Yang Feng, who was full of ambition to leave, showed a smile, this kind of thing of beating the Japanese country, no matter what, is very happy, of course, just beating up, not destroying the Japanese country, he will definitely not destroy the Japanese country, why should he destroy the Japanese country? It is better to go to Nanyang to destroy the country if he has that energy, and the reason why he attacked the Japanese country is not only to satisfy his own evil taste, but also to a large extent for a bad purpose.

Slave trade.

Slave trafficking.

His land policy doomed the land in the hands of those clans and lords to become a chicken rib, after all, one percent of the land rent can not collect much things, then the only way for these people to solve the problem is to use slaves, this is their only choice, but the people in the country are not allowed to be slaves, so they can only choose to buy, and even some people have begun to do so. That is to say, the next Ming slave trade will be very prosperous, but the black slaves are too far away and the price will be very high, and the Nanyang slaves are also far away, and they have to pass through the Spanish and Dutch first, they will not miss this good business, not to mention that the distance in the South Seas is not close, and it will take nearly 4,000 kilometers to transport from the East Indies to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

But what about the Wa Kingdom?

Eight hundred km.

The closer the distance, the lower the mortality rate and the cheaper the price!

So where else could there be more suitable as a source of slaves for the Ming Dynasty than the Wa Kingdom? Build a base in Tanegashima, and then beat up the Japanese first, and then you can trade slaves.

As for how to sell ......

This one is just as simple.

Pirates, this can be there, the ghost of pirates hovering along the coast of the Japanese country, from time to time to land to attack a certain village, and then loot the population This kind of thing will happen often in the future, just like in the past there was always a harassment of pirates along the coast of China.

Acquisition, this is also okay, the country is indeed divided into four levels of agriculture, industry and commerce, but don't forget that there are many filths below the fourth level, I believe that those samurai who are short of money to spend, will definitely give full play to their fine traditions in the Warring States Period, do some people who are generally not very fond of mentioning in later generations to take jobs, use their noble katana to catch a few filthy more when needed and send them to the slave traders, and then exchange some of the things they need, anyway, those filthy and not human, noble samurai sometimes try to cut a few knives.

Kidnapping tickets, this is also fine, you must know that there are lawbreakers in any country, they can do anything for the silver, of course, including when the moon is dark and the wind is high, take a sack to put an unlucky cargo and stuff a small boat on the seaside.

……

It can be said that there are means.

However, there is one thing that these slaves have to be operated on first.