"Little Guizi, you're here just in time."

After seeing this smooth guy, Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood today, "You didn't have a meal, right? Come and have a meal with me."

Zhu Youxiao rarely eats with people other than the queen, but because of the hard work and great contributions of this little son, I will be generous today.

"Ah... I thank Your Majesty!"

How could Xiao Guizi get such courtesy? He was so moved that he wanted to cry and hurriedly thanked him.

He knew that in the current Ming Empire, only Sun Chuanting, Yan Yingyuan and Li Dingguo, the only civil and military officials who could accompany His Majesty to eat with him were Sun Chuanting, Yan Yingyuan and Li Dingguo.

Now that I have added myself, why aren’t I very excited?

The king and his minister had lunch silently and took a short rest. Zhu Youxiao asked someone to make a pot of Qingshen tea and talked with Xiao Guizi while drinking.

"Your Majesty, I have already investigated the general situation in Japan."

Xiao Guizi knew that His Majesty the Emperor disliked the person who was slow to be slow, so he reported straight to the point, "The main source of this information was the general situation that the Military Intelligence Bureau found out after the return of the merchants who went to Japan for transactions."

"Of course, there is also a considerable amount of intelligence that our Royal Military Intelligence Agency has found during this period. The basic situation has been compiled and written in these manuscripts."

"Oh, I want to see the specific situation of these Japanese pirates in the country."

Zhu Youxiao was very curious about the Japanese pirates of this era. He felt very frustrated and helpless about Japan in his previous life. Now he has the opportunity and is ready to beat the other party.

He has prepared a lot of routines for Japan's future arrangements.

It must be enough for the other party to drink a pot.

He took the stack of manuscripts handed over by Xiao Guizi and read them carefully:

The Edo Shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa Shogunate, is the third national-level military regime in the history of Japan.

The Tokugawa clan has Edo as its core and opened the shogunate to rule the world, so it is also called the Edo shogunate.

The Tokugawa Shogunate was built in Edo by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the general of the expedition. The Shogunate was originally a camp where the general handled military affairs during the war.

But soon, Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the emperor and gained the actual rule of Japan.

The Tokugawa Shogunate ruled the form of the shogunate system: under the general, there was a big old man, and the old man controlled the national government affairs. If the year sends it, it would be a big man, and the old man was appointed to assist the old man, and the big man was responsible for monitoring the Daming, as well as the shogunate's direct samurai, and the Mu family.

Set up temples and temples, surveys, and Edo-cho three followers, and manages temples, shogunate finances and Edo municipalities respectively.

In major cities such as Osaka and Nagasaki, the country set up its own countries to control local direct territories and set up offices in Kyoto to monitor the Japanese royal family and temples.

In the more than 200 princes granted by the shogunate, the vassal lords had the power to administer, judicial and collect annual tributes, and the samurai served in the military service of their respective vassal lords.

This shogunate during the Edo Shogunate period was not a puppet. On the contrary, the Japanese pirate Emperor was a puppet.

The government affairs of Japan were all decided by the Tokugawa family, the general of the Edo shogunate.

In recent years, in the face of the increasingly powerful Catholic forces that have become increasingly powerful among the Japanese pirates, the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu felt a threat and ordered a full-scale ban on religion.

At this time, the Shimahara vassal family on Kyushu Island was ruled by Matsukura Shimasaki. After receiving the order from the shogunate, Matsukura Shimasaki carried out cruel and bloody suppression on the Catholics.

In the Kawatsu family, the Kawatsu family, which belongs to Amakusashima, Catholics were also severely suppressed.

There is no way. This Catholicism, which Westerners deliberately used to soften and corrupt the spiritual will of the Japanese people, is too harmful.

If the shogunate does not take action, it will take a few years for the entire country to be flooded by Catholicism, achieving the goal of Westerners killing people with soft knives without blood.

In recent years, not only did the Ming Empire have frequent natural disasters, but Japan has not had a good time.

Various natural disasters have occurred in Shimahara and Amakusa areas for several consecutive years, with large-scale reductions in grain crop yields, and countless people starved to death.

At this time, the governor of the Matsukura family who was responsible for managing the two places: Matsukura Katsuki, this is a cruel and ruthless guy, who is comparable to those corrupt officials of the Ming Empire.

Just last fall, a great famine broke out on the Shimahara Peninsula and its Hokouku Amako Islands in the south.

However, Matsukura Katsuya still collected annual tributes according to the old rules and brutally executed dozens of farmers who could not afford annual tributes.

It would be fine if it was executed in general. On Kyushu Island in Japan, in which year, the vassal lords did not execute a few farmers who did not pay tribute taxes in accordance with the "public six people and four people" ratio?

However, these farmers have another identity, who are secretly believe in Catholicism.

After Matsukura Katsuya arrested these believers, he held a "painting" ceremony for them.

The so-called "step drawing" refers to throwing a wooden sign engraved with the crucifix on the ground, so that those who suspect Catholics can step on it with their feet.

Most of the people who are willing to obey will not be Catholics. Even Catholics have the intention to repent. Otherwise, these arrested people will be sentenced to burn.

This method was not created by the Matsukura Katsuya, but was developed by the Tokugawa Shogunate and promoted it everywhere, specifically used to identify Catholics and good people. It is a very effective method.

However, these arrested Catholics seem to have firm beliefs. They are all brainwashed by Westerners and have lost themselves. They firmly refuse to hold a stitch, so they are sentenced to stolen.txt

This ignited the conflict that the two sides had long been backlogged.

Both are foreign daimyos, the Matsukura family is not as good as the Shimazu family. They have neither the advantages of force and property as well. They also have to be at a disadvantage among the southwest vassals when they attend the shoguns.

So the very poor Matsukura Katsuya could only make a decision on the farmers, and their tax collection standards were the highest in Kyushu.

In this way, the opposing parties who are originally incompatible with water and fire can imagine how serious the years of conflicts have accumulated between each other.

According to the Intelligence Bureau, it will take no time for a peasant uprising similar to the Ming Empire to break out in Shimahara and Amakusa.

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After receiving the general information of Japan, Zhu Youxiao was of course happy to do the robbery and beat the dogs in the water.

Especially for Japanese pirates, it’s so cool to take advantage of the situation!

"When you are sick, you will die." Zhu Youxiao would not know what kind of courtesy means to deal with Japan.

It is just right to set out as soon as possible and take advantage of the chaos in Japan to occupy all the large and small islands of Yingzhou.

The Royal Military Intelligence Bureau of the Ming Dynasty spy on Japanese pirates' intelligence, the focus of the investigation is Nagasaki Port, Osaka Port and Edo Castle.

Nagasaki Port and Osaka Port are the only two ports in Japan that are open to the outside world, while Edo is the political and military center of Japan. The importance is unknown.

Zhu Youxiao discussed with Zhong Chuxiang, Wu Xilin, Zhang Guangzhe and others, and the joint fleet set off immediately the morning after tomorrow to strive to occupy Japan as soon as possible.

However, at this time, the population of Japan exceeded 10 million, and the Japanese pirates were always fierce, so they did not lack the will to fight to the end.

Due to the influence of the Han empires of all dynasties since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Japan has completely become a civilized country of agriculture, and has been able to eliminate the biggest shackles of the population growth, and the population growth rate is extremely fast.

Japan, with such a large population, is also counted in the world today. It is not possible for the Royal Joint Fleet to occupy Japan in a comprehensive manner.

Not only do you have to bring enough ammunition and logistics supplies, it will take at least two or three months.

During this period, Japan's population was mainly concentrated in the central and western parts of Honshu Island, among which the Kanto Plain area was the most densely populated.

Edo, where the shogunate is located, is the largest city in Japan, with a total population of at least 500,000.

Even in the current Ming Empire, except for the newly built large port cities, only the population of Beijing, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places exceeds that of Edo Castle.

After the Dahua Reform, Japan began to have written and civilized records. Its land area is about the size of three Zhejiang, with a population of about twice that of Zhejiang, and now its population is about 11 million.

Nowadays, Emperor Hou Guangming is the nominal ruler of Japan, but the real power of Japan is in the hands of the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Japan is not a truly centralized country. It has more than 200 princes of all sizes in its country, and each prince has independent political, economic and military power.

The Tokugawa Shogunate is the largest prince of Japan, and its territory accounts for about 30% of the country.

In addition, all the princes of all sizes must be controlled by the shogunate.

Nowadays, more than 200 princes in Japan have the power to maintain their troops.

Some large vassals had more than 100,000 troops, while some small vassals had no army and had to rely on the protection of the vassals.

The strongest military force in Japan is of course the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The Tokugawa Shogunate had about 150,000 permanent troops, which was composed of all professional soldiers, but these soldiers were called Samurai.

Once Japan is attacked and the country is in danger, the shogunate can also summon more than 100,000 foot soldiers, namely light infantry, within a few months.

If the troops of the princes from all over the country are gathered together, Japan can even form a huge army of more than 500,000.

Of course, most of such armies are farmers carrying hoes. Although they are not afraid of death, their combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning.

Since Japan did not border the territory of the Ming Empire, fighting against Japan was limited by naval transportation and logistics support capabilities.

The transportation capacity and overseas logistics support capabilities of the Ming Empire Navy now can only ensure that the soldiers of the two royal fleets can carry out cross-sea combat.

With the strong strength of the Royal Navy of the Ming Empire, it is not difficult to land in Japan and occupy some areas.

However, it will take a long time to occupy and destroy their resistance with less than 200,000 soldiers from the joint fleet.

After all, the Japanese pirates have too many populations and the reserves are still sufficient.

Moreover, this nation is full of wolf nature and slave nature, and can be called the most extreme bipolar nation. Once its wolf nature is stimulated, it is possible for the whole nation to have troops, and it will be an army of millions!

Although most of the troops carrying hoes and sickles are extremely terrifying.

In view of this, Zhong Chuxiang, Zhang Guangzhe and Wu Xilin all believed that fighting against Japanese pirates should be carried out in two steps:

First, concentrate superior forces, capture Edo with lightning speed, and eliminate the actual central government of the Japanese pirates - Tokugawa Shogunate.

In this way, the princes in various parts of Japan will fall into a passive situation of fighting each other because they lose unified command, thus becoming a mess of sand, reducing the difficulty of occupying Japan.
Chapter completed!