Ishiyama Honganji Temple was already the largest military station of the Date Army in, and there were no more than 15,000 regular garrisons, and it was heavily defended on all sides. At the same time, Ishiyama Honganji Temple also served as a prison location, and people continued to send it after the Battle of.

The once prominent figures, the arrogant and domineering heroes of the local area, the samurai who wield swords and guns, the ronin who wander around and cause trouble, and more are the devout Honganji believers who do not want to turn back. There was no torture, no interrogation, no persuasion. The attitude of the Ida family towards these captives is to ignore them, and every day everyone has a bowl of coarse grain and a small spoonful of coarse salt, and there is no food, and they will not starve to death, and they will not have enough to eat. The slow state of hunger mercilessly tormented everyone's hearts, and at first they discussed escaping.

Trying to escape, under the tight defense, and the state of starvation, they were unable to do any high-intensity physical activity, and the heads of the dozen or so people in the lead were still hanging in wooden cages, and no one was willing to try.

Life in prison can be said to be like a year, and these people soon lose the ability to judge the day, and they just survive in prison. No one knows what the days will be in the future, whether they will be pulled to Rokujo Kawara and slashed or sent to the mines to work as coolies.

Suddenly, there was food and vegetables, which made the captives, who had been numb and sluggish, show a strong stupidity, they thought that this was the so-called decapitated rice, and they had to eat and drink well before the decapitation, not knowing that their spring was coming.

The captives of Ishiyama Honganji were restless.

At the Kokutoji Temple in Kyoto, the Red Lady walked into the more heavily defended Kokutoji Temple under the leadership of Kuroda Kanbei, and met the Wajin who had impressed her at Okayama Castle and did not look like a Wato.

Date Masahiro, the leader of the Japanese people, was still a local powerhouse that day, crisscrossing the two roads of Shanyin and Shanyang, and today he entered the Kyoto of the Japanese Kingdom, invincible and famous, while the Red Lady was defeated and compromised in the struggle with Wang Ao.

The red lady is still Wang Zhi's adopted daughter and Wang Ao's righteous sister, such an aura has become weaker and weaker, her reputation is not as good as before, and the number of people under her command has decreased greatly. Today, she is deeply caught in the conflict of many interests, which makes her exhausted and exhausted.

This time, the red lady took the initiative to visit Date Zhengheng, she wanted to make a last stand, and it was also a deal that Wang Ao made with her, of course, if she couldn't persuade Date Zhengheng to tie up with her, she would also lose everything.

From her cognition, Date Zhengheng is the most unlike Japanese people, with no inferiority complex and no strong self-esteem after getting rich. She knew that this trade was going to be a very difficult negotiation, and there was no way back.

She has no way out, only to break the boat. In fact, she had already made up her mind, whether or not Date Mashiro accepted her strategy to lend her troops, if she succeeded in convincing Date Mashiro, then she would turn over, and if she failed, she would find a place to live.

Zhengheng held a banquet and entertained them, and ceremoniously introduced them to the retainers. Wang Zhi's name can be said to be thunderous in the Wa Kingdom, and his daughter's visit made them very happy, thinking that Wang Zhi sent his daughter to congratulate the Date family's Shangluo.

Wang Zhi's name is like thunder, but no one knows that Wang Zhi is already in prison, and his life and death are uncertain, if he knew, I am afraid that he would not show this appearance, but would look at them with a kind of eyes that beat the water dogs.

The red lady really deserves to be the daughter of Wang Zhi, she behaves calmly, speaks and acts decently, and talks happily with the top and bottom of the Date family, but behind the bright smile, there is unspeakable bitterness. She couldn't say what she meant on the spot, which made her hold back in her heart.

The red lady originally wanted to test it in private, but she never thought that Date Zhengheng would not give him any chance, which made her unable to let go. Since you, Date Mashiro, deliberately alienated us and didn't give us a chance to speak, then we will say it openly in front of everyone.

The red lady put down the wine glass, and said in a crisp voice like a yellow warbler: "I don't know what the Date family, which has a population of tens of millions, plans for the next step after Itasan unifies the Wa Kingdom at a young age?" Do you really want to get drunk and dream of death? ”

Everyone's faces changed slightly, and they all looked at Zhengheng. Zhengheng is only twenty-five or sixteen years old this year, and it only took eight years to change from a local tyrant to the first Fengyun in the Japanese country.

You must know that the Wa Kingdom governs the country by force, and there are all samurai who can go into battle and cut people, and they want to put their swords and guns into the warehouse, and the horses are put in Nanshan, which is a very ridiculous thing in itself. Zheng Heng smiled bitterly, he originally wanted to alienate the red lady through the banquet and prevent them from making any excessive demands, but he never thought that the red lady's words would sting everyone's weakness. This lets him know that if the matter is not resolved, one day the matter will erupt.

The red lady saw that the eyes of everyone present suddenly focused, and knew that her words had reached their hearts, which made her mind lively all of a sudden, but the old man in gray sitting under her was even more sad, once the ambition of the Japanese people was released, it would be difficult to retract it. It's just that the red lady has been cornered, and there is only one way to go dark, even if this road makes her infamous through the ages, countless people will poke her backbone, and she will not hesitate.

The Date family unified the Wa Kingdom, and led hundreds of thousands of people who grew up in the troubled times, and their youth and youth grew up in the troubled times of the Warring States Period, even their fathers and grandfathers lived like this, and it was too difficult for them to put down their swords and guns and learn to be a martial arts cultivator. Historically, why did Toyotomi Hideyoshi launch a war of aggression against Korea, could he really not see that it was difficult to shake the Ming Dynasty with his strength alone? Do you really think that he made a mistake in judgment before the war, and after attacking Korea, the Ming court will not send troops to rescue. A tyrant who walked from the bottom to the gods, Toyotomi Hideyoshi will be a mediocre person, he saw that after the unification of the world, people could not adapt to the arrival of the new era, and he was ready to move, and countless people wanted to return to the troubled times of the Warring States, and his Toyotomi regime was likely to fall apart. After thinking about it again and again, Toyotomi Hideyoshi did something that ordinary people would do, and the internal contradictions were resolved externally.

In the war of aggression against Korea, under various reasons, Toyotomi Hideyoshi failed, and the road of foreign expansion could not be passed, and the contradiction was still not resolved, so how can this contradiction be resolved? I can only go down the path of civil war.

Zheng Heng often tosses and turns for this matter, and the hard work he has built up from the end of the world, if there is no way to release their blood, I am afraid that it will soon fall apart, is it really only the old road of foreign aggression?

This is also the reason why Shoheng did not follow the old path of the Kamakura Shogunate and the Muromachi Shogunate.

Now that he has occupied one-third of the territory of the Wa State, he has the political core area of the Wa State, as long as he is willing, I am afraid that there will be countless people who will kneel and lick, as long as he is willing to change his usual strategy to ensure the safety of their territory and property.

Since Genji first created the shogunate regime after the Genhei War, the Wa Kingdom has undergone more than 400 years of evolution, during which the public family repeatedly seized power, the samurai family grew step by step, and the period attracted light several times and reunified, but whether it was Kamakura or Muromachi shogunate, all of them were changed soup rather than medicine, and the central government relied on prestige rather than strength. Now, since the Onin Rebellion, it is not easy for a stirring figure to appear again in the Wa Kingdom, and the troubled times have ushered in the dawn of peace, and a political system that is necessary to adapt to it is inevitable. The biggest difference between Date Masahiro and Minamoto Yoritomo and Ashikaga Takashi was not his humble background and status, but the foundation of the regime he wanted to establish, and his direct domain was far greater than the number of vassals.

The troubled times of the Warring States period are a great era of change, a dark age full of smoke, in such an era, all established rules will be ruthlessly destroyed, and there is only one law of survival left between heaven and earth, and that is the law of the jungle.

The troubled times are coming to an end, and what the unifiers now have to think about is how to change people's minds, and the concept of samurai hierarchy that has been passed down for hundreds of years has been integrated with the cultural ideas of the Wa Kingdom, and has penetrated into the soul of every Wa people, just like the pillar of the great river, even if there is a shocking storm, do not want to move it in the slightest.

Shoheng was not a great wisdom who turned the tide and made radical reforms to change the samurai culture, he often behaved as a strange person among the samurai, and no matter how he changed, he was a samurai in his own position, and all the unusual behaviors he showed on the basis of consolidating the samurai power can be explained. is different from ordinary people, it is the reason why he can become a person in the world so quickly, which is also one of the reasons why he is a strange story.

Zheng Heng slowly spoke: "The territory of the Ming Dynasty is more than thirty or forty times that of the Wa State, the population is more than ten times, and the financial resources are more than 100 times, not to mention that the number of troops is as high as five or six million, even if most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled and unable to fight a war, but with the advantage of population and finance, they can form a huge army in a short period of time." Besides, the Date family is not a monopoly in the Wa Kingdom, and there are several daimyo families with millions of stones, so it is really delusional to think about external expansion without beating them down. What's more, it is a foolish thing to use force in the hands of others. ”

Zheng Heng first praised the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and what he said was generally not wrong. The perception of the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty in terms of data is too great, and looking at such data can scare people to death. In this era, there were only three islands, Honshu Island, Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, Hokkaido is not considered a national land, that is to say, it is much smaller than the modern Japanese Kingdom, and the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the master of the Han Dynasty, whether it is in terms of land, population, finance, etc.

What's more, whoever it is, will keep the army firmly in their own hands, and where it will be lent to others. As soon as Zheng Heng finished speaking, the atmosphere in the venue changed, and those who could sit here were not stupid, so they used force in his hands, and looked at the red lady and others with anger in their eyes.

The red lady was stagnant, Zhengheng's words made her a little speechless, it seemed that she didn't say anything to death, the Date family did not completely give up foreign expansion after the unification of the Japanese country, but everything had to wait until after the unification of the Japanese country. Even external expansion must be carried out under the direct leadership of the Date family, no matter what happens to the red lady.

However, the red lady still needs to make a final effort, she reluctantly smiled and said: "In your opinion, the contrast between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty is huge, and once a war starts, it will inevitably attract a large number of enemies, which is not good for the Wa Kingdom." In the official public opinion of the Ming Dynasty, the war that is now taking place on the southeast coast is a war of aggression against China initiated by the Japanese state, and it is a national war. In their view, the Wang Zhi clique and the Wa State are one and the same, and there is no distinction between them. Even if a small number of people in the Ming court know that there is little relationship between the two, for the sake of political correctness and the needs of public opinion, they will inevitably spare no effort to involve the two together. People are blindly obedient, and once the two are not clearly involved, it is impossible to explain clearly. After the defeat of the Wang Zhi clique, the Ming court will definitely take action against the Japanese state for the sake of political correctness, and strategically speaking, economic blockade will be a practical and effective method. ”

The Red Lady also made a lot of sense, the Ming Dynasty from the official to the people, for the needs of politics and public opinion, will not say that the outbreak of the southeast coast is a strict maritime ban caused by the backlash of interest groups, so that it is not a foreign invasion, but an internal rebellion. The Ming Dynasty spared no effort to publicize, the image of the Wa State will plummet, and the title of the Wa Kou and the culprit will always be worn on the head of the Wa State, and it will not be taken off, and it will be worn forever for the rest of the world.

Zhengheng didn't refute it, he knew that what the red lady said was right, from the political correctness of the sea ban and the needs of public opinion, linking the Japanese and the Japanese is a matter of more advantages than disadvantages, and it is a matter of great benefits.

Seeing that Zhengheng fell into silence, the red lady continued to say: "Who said that the dynasty will definitely be able to win?" ”

Everyone looked at each other speechlessly, with the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is not a matter of being able to catch the woes on the southeast coast, even if they are Wa, but they are inferior and worship from the bottom of their hearts when they treat the powerful country on the other side of the sea.

The red lady turned a blind eye to everyone's gaze, and continued to speak to herself, saying: "The Ming Dynasty is powerful, but the opponent it has to face is also quite powerful, and the descendants of the Yuan Kou attacked by the Mongols have regained their strength, and there is a Zhongxing communist lord Altan Khan. In the year of Gengwu, about ten years ago, Altan Khan paid tribute to the Ming courtiers, hoping to expand and increase the trade, but the Ming court refused and killed the envoys. As a result, Altan Khan raised tens of thousands of troops and drove straight into the city, and the Ming court had to sign an alliance under the city and agree to Altan Khan's request for trade. The Gengwu Revolution made the Ming court reluctantly agree to the tribute market, but the actual implementation delayed the repentance, and whenever the Altan Khan repented, he would raise troops to the south to plunder, forcing the Ming court not to dare to slack off. (To be continued.) )