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Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen stood up suddenly, his mind was full of paste at this time, although he complained about Zheng Yuelin in his heart, but it seemed that now Zheng Yuelin was the only one who could give him ideas, and hurriedly came to the door and took the message in Xu Guowei's hand.

"At this stage, retreating is wrong and wrong, advancing is not strong, the emperor is in a dilemma, the concubines should not have any ideas, but after thinking about it, I still want to tell the emperor what I think in my heart, it is advisable to withdraw from Chiba first, and instead capture Osaka Castle, besiege the Japanese Kyoto without attacking, encirclement and reinforcement tactics, it is advisable to mobilize Korea, Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, half of each army, North Korea can draw 15,000 troops, Shikoku Island can be transferred 5,000, Kyushu Island can be transferred 10,000, Shikoku Island army is based on Tokushima, The Kyushu army was stationed in Nagasaki and Kitakyushu, and it was not the time to occupy the entire island, and the conquest was insufficient, but the defense was more than enough, and the emperor forced the Japanese to fight a decisive battle near Kyoto, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese, so the Japanese war still had a turning point. Although the grain that the emperor transported back from Japan was only more than 200,000 stones, if he used these grains for military supplies, it was better to use them to recruit refugees and raise reserve troops first. ”

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen read the message with tears in his eyes, and blamed himself fiercely for the mentality of complaining about Zheng Yuelin just now. Although Zheng Yuelin's number of words is small. But the words are sincere. Can you imagine what she's doing behind my back?

At this moment, Zheng Yuelin's status has been compared to Empress Yi'an Zhang Yan, and the relationship between Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and Empress Zhou has accumulated over time, but from this moment on, no one can surpass Zheng Yuelin in his efforts, this is what he knows. For a man, the most important thing is always a career, without a career, what kind of feelings do you talk about? Want to be Jia Baoyu?

Although Zheng Yuelin pointed out a way for herself, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was still hesitating, what would it be like to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese? What would happen if the battlefield was changed from outside Edo Castle to outside Kyoto? He didn't know.

But according to Zheng Yuelin's deployment, there is no problem in taking the first step, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen hurriedly asked Xu Guowei, who was waiting beside him, to issue a holy decree! "Immediately order the DPRK. Half of the army was drawn from the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, and the army of Kyushu was put on standby in Kitakyushu and Nagasaki. The army of Shikoku Island is on standby to hold on to Tokushima, and all the troops drawn from it will rush to Osaka Castle immediately! The army must be assembled within five days! You go and give an order, let Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng come over immediately, the army will be gathered, put things in place today, and march to Osaka City overnight! ”

Xu Guowei quickly recorded every word the emperor said, agreed, and hurriedly went down to arrange, this time with the emperor, Xu Guowei's life was not easy, he was willing to be the same as Yang Qicong, he only needed to take on the vigilance task every day, he ran before and after every day, watching the emperor worried, watching the army depressed, very depressed.

Yang Sichang and others soon rushed to the emperor's temporary command room, the generals and soldiers during this time, in the whole month did not rest, day after day of fighting, the army lost 10,000, the Imperial Forest Army was not hit by anything, but the militia only 15,000, plus the 5,000 of the Imperial Forest Army, can barely make up 20,000 troops, this is a big blow to Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, although the Japanese have been killed and wounded ten times the number of men and horses, at least more than 100,000 casualties, but people are in the homeland, there are more than 400,000 troops behind them, It is equivalent to winning more and more!

"Your Majesty, if you withdraw the troops at this time, the original strategic plan will be more difficult to realize, and the impact on morale will be greater, why don't you grit your teeth and take Edo Castle in one fell swoop?" Lu Xiangsheng spoke, and the others all lowered their heads and did not have any opinions.

Yang Sichang, Chen Qiyu and Chen Xinjia, who supported the emperor's views at the beginning, don't know what to say now? How did this man take Edo Castle? However, as Lu Xiangsheng said, the withdrawal of troops at this time is indeed another heavy blow to morale! Although Edo is the seat of the heavily guarded shogunate, Kyoto is the place where the emperor is located. Isn't there a heavy army? And if Kyoto is really defeated, there will be more than one emperor in Japan!

This is also what Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen did not think about in advance, there is really more than one emperor in Japan, the current Japanese emperor is Emperor Kanei, a female emperor, and Emperor Kanei's father, Emperor Gomizuo, is still young, it was Emperor Gomizuo who gave up the throne to Emperor Kanei, in Japan's law, the emperor is similar to the high priest of the palace, it is a symbol of identity and glory, and any person in the imperial family, as long as he agrees with the standard, can serve as the emperor at any time.

Emperor Gomizuo is the third son of Emperor Goyosei, and his mother is the son of the female Gogoe Konoe. His name was Masahin, and he accepted the abdication of Emperor Goyosei in 1611. Originally, Emperor Go-Yonari intended to give up his position to his younger brother, Prince Tomohito Hachijonomiya, so the relationship between Emperor Go-Mizunio and his father was not harmonious.

Emperor Goyosei's abdication was due to Tokugawa Ieyasu's will, because the shogunate was first established, it needed the authority of the imperial court as a backing, and the imperial court needed the financial assistance of the shogunate, so it had to submit to the authority of the shogunate. In 1619, Emperor Gomizuo was reported to the then shogun Tokugawa Hidetada because his favored female official had given birth to a son and a daughter, causing Hidetada's strong dissatisfaction. In 1620, due to the imperial court's need for financial aid from the Tokugawa family, the emperor had to marry Tokugawa Kazuko, the daughter of Hidetada.

In the fourth year of Kanei (1627), the Purple Clothes Incident occurred, and the Imperial Court did not consult with the shogunate in advance for the sake of finances, and Emperor Gomizuo allowed dozens of monks from Daitokuji Temple and Myoshinji Temple to wear purple clothes. However, the shogunate's decree on the birth of monks, and the purple cloth edict of Kyoto's Daitokuji Temple and Myoshinji Temple were invalid. made the court very faceless; In the 6th year of Kanei (1629), the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu actually sent his nurse Kasuga Bureau to meet the emperor, but because the Kasuga Bureau had no official position, he went to meet the emperor (the brother-in-law of the Kasuga Bureau was the Imperial Court Secretary Sanjo Nishishijo. And the father of the Kasuga Bureau is Toshizo Saito, a subordinate of Akechi Mitsuhide. The previous husband was the daimyo Inaba Masari). He was considered a great shame by the emperor and felt that the shogunate did not take his authority seriously. So in the same year, the angry emperor gave way without warning to the imperial daughter, Prince Kokonai, who was only less than seven years old, for Emperor Meisho. This was to cut off the shogunate's ambition to inherit the throne with his own grandson.

Emperor Meisho was the seventh of the eight female emperors in Japanese history and was active during the Edo period, when the emperor system was declining. She is the second princess of Emperor Gomizuo, and her mother is Nakanomiya Tokugawa Kazuko. Xingzi, a young female first palace. Because her maternal grandfather was Tokugawa Hidetada, the second shogun of Edo, she succeeded to the throne at the age of seven. At the age of twenty, she gave up the throne to her younger brother, and compared to the previous female emperor who dominated the political arena in the Nara era, her actual status at this time was only equivalent to that of a priestess of Jingu. Because she was a noble emperor, and no one could marry her, she could only live alone in the palace until she was 73 years old.

Emperor Meisho was born on November 19, 1623, and those who are familiar with the history of Japan's Warring States period should be familiar with the name Motowa, and "Motowa Yanwu" can even be seen as a sign of the true end of the Warring States period in a sense. Emperor Meisho's father is Emperor Gomizuo, and his mother is Minamoto Kazuko, so don't be fooled by the name of "Genkazuko". She was actually the daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (Tokugawa Ieyasu's granddaughter). Emperor Ming Zheng's young name was Xingzi, so he was also called Prince Xingzi before he ascended the throne. By the time Koko was born, the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate was already very solid, and in 1615 the "Forbidden and Public Laws" had been enacted, which ostensibly stated that the emperor should give priority to the practice of learning and mastery of waka, but in fact it was to limit the emperor's interference in politics. The only power of the Emperor to be recognized in Article 17 of the Act is Article 8, which gives the Emperor the right to determine the era name according to the "precursor of the dynasty."

When Koko was born, her father, Emperor Gomizuo, was 28 years old, and her mother Kazuko was 17 years old, generally speaking, there is no possibility that Koko will ascend the throne in a short period of time, not to mention that the emperor has a high possibility of having another male heir, and even if he doesn't, it will be years before the emperor dies at the age of 28. In 1625, his sister Prince Akiko was born, in 1626 his younger brother Prince Takahito was born and made the crown prince, and in 1628 Prince Takahito died and his brother Wakamiya died (died of illness shortly after birth).

Listing the above chronology of the birth of Emperor Gomizuo's heirs, I also want to explain that Emperor Gomizuo has two sons born after Xingzi, but they have not grown up, and Xingzi has a chance to ascend the throne, which is also a creation to make people.

Originally, Xingzi could live the life of his princess in peace, but soon the famous "Purple Clothes Incident" occurred. "Purple clothes" is a symbol of honor and status granted to monks, and it is clearly stipulated in the "Forbidden and Public Laws" that the imperial court cannot grant purple clothes privately, but the awarding of purple clothes to monks is a major economic source for the imperial court, so Emperor Gomizuo awarded purple clothes to more than 70 monks at one time. Of course, I felt that this was not only an economic consideration, but also an attempt to challenge the authority of the shogunate. In 1627, Tokugawa Iemitsu instructed the Kyoto Shogunate's representative Itakura Shigemune to announce that anyone who violated the purple clothes in the "Public Laws" would be dismissed from office and punished. The imperial court said: "In the future, we will not do such ineffective things again."

The incident came to an end for the time being, but the "Kasuga Bureau Worship Incident" that followed completely changed Prince Kokonai's life. Kasuga Bureau is the daughter of Saito Rizo, the nurse of the three generations of generals Tokugawa Iemitsu, this fact will be mentioned when introducing Saito Rizo in the "Wild Hope" series of games, at that time I was still wondering, isn't it the general's old mother, which general doesn't have a lot of them, and then I went deeper into it, and I knew that this old woman is not simple, and the things about the Kasuga Bureau are enough to write a special article to introduce.

Shortly after the "Purple Cloth Incident", the Kasuga Bureau, at the behest of the shogunate, approached Beijing to meet with Emperor Gomizuo, but it was always stipulated that only those who held official positions "from the bottom of the five" could enter the palace and be promoted to the emperor. Of course, it is impossible for the Kasuga Bureau to have more than five official positions, but under the pressure of the shogunate, Emperor Gomizuo had to meet with her.

Later, many of the high monks who had received the purple robes of the imperial court were exiled for refusing the shogunate's orders. After the "Purple Cloth Incident" and the "Kasuga Bureau Worship Incident", Emperor Gomizuo felt greatly insulted, but he was unable to carry out other rebellions, so he announced his abdication, and Prince Kokonai, who was related to the Tokugawa family, was able to ascend the throne, becoming the 109th emperor in Japanese history, Emperor Akimasa. The year was 1630, and Prince Kokonai was only 7 years old. Emperor Meisho reigned for 13 years, and in 1643, Emperor Meisho's half-brother, Prince Soegonomiya, was already 11 years old, and Emperor Meisho decided to abdicate the throne to him, and he was the 110th Emperor of Homitsu. Ming Zheng became Emperor Taijo and received 5,000 koku of rice per year from the shogunate.

After his abdication, Emperor Meisho lived for more than 50 years, and successively experienced several dynasties of Emperor Gomei, Goxi, and Lingyuan. He died in November 1696 at the age of 73.

Because the status of the emperor of Japan is far inferior to that of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it is almost like a prince, which is also one of the reasons why the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen did not dare to focus his attack on Kyoto, even if there is Zheng Yuelin's advice, first mobilize the army, what to do next? Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen did not make up his mind.

"Lu Xiangsheng, hurry up and gather the army and prepare for retreat, no, we are not retreating, we want to tell the soldiers, we are going to change the direction of attack, as for the specific attack? Don't talk about it yet! Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen glared at Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng touched the emperor's gaze, and hurriedly knelt down to receive the order, Lu Xiangsheng did not want to contradict the emperor, but he was unwilling to withdraw like this after the army paid so many lives, and the people who fought the war would not be willing to work in vain, this is not just 'labor', this is the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen asked Yang Sichang and others, "Do you think I sent troops to Japan, is it right or wrong?" ”

Yang Sichang knelt down and replied, "Any will of the emperor is correct, if it weren't for the fact that the Ming Dynasty is now in the north, central, and south, three places, little Japan should have been taught a lesson a long time ago." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen smiled bitterly, "Yang Sichang, even you have learned to be cunning, do you want to say that the timing of my dispatch is wrong?" (A pie-in-the-sky event, cool phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)