Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Great Chess Game (1)

The unintentional words of the superior are often interpreted by many people, and some can interpret the thoughts of the superior well, but more are over-interpreted, and the interpreter is often smug. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

If these interpreters have authority, they will see their interpretation as the only answer and publicize it.

Kuroda Kanbei has always thought highly of himself, believing that he is one of the most intelligent people in the world, but now listening to Masahiro's unintentional words, and thinking of Masahiro's recent abnormal behavior, all indicate that there is a huge plan in progress.

Originally, Kuroda Kanbei thought that the purpose of Masahiro's personal expedition to Kyushu was to pocket all the land of Kyushu, but now it seems that it is just a premise of the big plan, and the bigger plan has been quietly formed in the idle chess played inadvertently.

When Kuroda Kanbei turned his attention to the Shimazu family, he immediately thought of Tanegashima Tokiyao in Tanegashima, who played an important role in the "Iron Cannon".

But now that I think about it, there's a lot of it to do.

The translator of the Ming Dynasty, Wufeng, is also a person, he is the One Piece who gallops on the East China Sea. Tanegashima Tokiyao, a small feudal lord who was only sixteen years old, had a world of difference between the two.

Besides, the Portuguese ship was blown by the wind and stranded to Tanegashima Island, and there was a "richest and most powerful Japanese in the East China Sea" as an interpreter on board, so who could it be said that the coincidence was falling?

Tanegashima Tokiyao was a retainer of the Shimazu family, and the Shimazu family was the first force to use iron cannons on the battlefield, so it would be unreasonable to say that the Shimazu family did not participate in this matter.

It is more likely that Tanegashima Shiyao was just carried to the background board in front of the curtain by the Shimazu family, and the Shimazu family, like the Hirado Matsuura family, had already colluded with the Gomine Wako group a long time ago, but the Hirado Matsuura family did it more obviously.

If it is said that the Shimazu family and the Goho Wako group have long been colluded together, it should be said that the Shimazu family is also a collaborator of the Goho Wako group in the Kyushu region, then it is reasonable.

When Masahiro arrived in Kyushu, he shouted and shouted and killed, but he was friendly to the two forces, the Hirado Matsuura family and the Satsuma Shimazu family, because they were both connected with the Wufeng Wako group, so it was associated with the intention of Masahiro was already very obvious.

However, there were some differences in the way Masahiro dealt with the Hirado Matsuura family and the Satsuma Shimazu family, and after sending Katayama Hengcho to defeat the Arima clan, he slowly marched to Hirado Port, in order to knock Matsuura Takanobu, who had a deeper collusion with the Goho Wako group, and for the Shimazu family, who had a more secret relationship, he took the way of letting the Shimazu family send his second son to be a hostage.

When Kuroda Kanbei thought of the Hirado Matsuura family and the Satsuma Shimazu family, he immediately began to speculate about the attitude of Masahiro towards the Goho Wako clique, and yes, no one of the lords of the Wa Kingdom could bypass the Goho Wako clique that was rampant in the East China Sea.

Now, although Wang Zhi, the owner of Wufeng, has been beheaded by the Ming State, causing the Wufeng Wako Group to invade the Ming State on a large scale, and its control over the East China Sea has been greatly reduced, its influence is still huge.

Historically, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was in power, the Wufeng Wako group had been defeated by the Ming Kingdom, and the power of the Wako in the East China Sea had declined, and the Zheng group had not yet risen to the point of being in decline.

The banner of the Wufeng Wakou Group is still very loud in the East China Sea, because Wang Zhi, the owner of Wufeng, has a good godson, and this godson is now the king and hegemon in Nanjing City, who knows if he will be the founding monarch of the next dynasty?

As soon as Kuroda Kanbei thought of the Goho Wako clique, he began to weigh the relationship between the two sides, and the major impact that it might have on the current situation and the political interests sought by the political balance. If these influences are unfavorable and bad, it indicates that it is very unfavorable for the Date family to forge ahead. Because at sea, the strength of the Date family is not the strongest.

Once there is a conflict between the two sides, it will be very unfavorable for the Date family, once the naval battle is lost and the other side is severely damaged, the consequences are unimaginable, and the storm will swallow them up.

Kuroda Kanbei's thoughts flickered, and he thought that he had guessed why Masahiro would personally sit in Kyushu, but he didn't move in Ogura Castle, Masahiro was guessing the bottom line of the two sides, guessing the future relationship, one wrong step, one step ahead. How to play this big chess game related to the future development of the Date family in order to achieve the greatest benefits and benefit the Date family is really a test of a person's courage and courage, in other words, he is afraid that he has already been scared to the point of retreat.

Kuroda Kanbei raised his eyes to look at the political balance, he thought very highly of himself, although he was respectful and humble to the political balance on the surface, but in his heart, he often put himself in the position of the political balance and thought that he would not do worse than the political balance. But now it seems that he is the biggest fool in the world, and he thinks that he has seen through the future trend of the Date family and the Wa country, but he doesn't know what to do, and the more he thinks about it, the worse it is.

Kuroda Kanbei quickly calmed down, he knew that this was the reason that he was a minister and that Zhengheng was a king, but from his uneasy eyes, he had not adjusted from the shock just now, and hesitated for a moment before asking: "My lord, you said that the Shimazu family will play a greater role?" ”

Zhengheng glanced at Kuroda Kanbei and felt a little strange, but he didn't ask, just took out a copy of the stack of notebooks on the table, and said, "You first look at the money and food needed to maintain an army of 200,000 people." ”

Kuroda Kanbei took the notebook, looked at it carefully, and looked up for a long time before he looked up and said, "Yes, the minister has read it." ”

Zhengheng said solemnly: "What do you think?" ”

Kuroda was stunned, and then thought of the big game of chess of Zhengheng, and then compared it with money and grain. If it is said that the conquest of Kyushu from the island of Honshu would require a huge amount of money and grain, and the tax payment from the first year of Tensho to the third year of Tensho would be reduced by half for two years, then the consumption of an army of 200,000 would increase exponentially if it was to expand the territory and maintain a large army of 200,000 people, and I am afraid that it would be exhausted in a few years with the equivalent of the Wa Kingdom.

Feeding the war with war is just talk, if you really go to the battlefield, it is just common sense to clear the wilderness, and the two sides will soon consume all the wealth and food on the battlefield if they fight on the battlefield.

Only a quick victory is the best policy, and only a madman who has lost his mind will think that a national war that will decide the fate of the country will be resolved quickly, and once it turns into a protracted war, it will be torment for both sides.

Kuroda Kanbei was silent and asked, "What is the Lord's idea?" ”

Zhengheng was silent for a moment, and said quietly: "The population and territory of the Wa Kingdom are so large, it is already very difficult to maintain a standing army of 200,000, maintaining the rule and forging ahead, and choosing an opponent has become a science. ”