Since Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, there have been more than 500 vassals of all sizes. On average, there are about 270 vassals in various eras, known as the "Three Hundred Edo Shogunate Domain".

The "three hundred vassals of the Shogun" are the largest directly under the jurisdiction of the Shogun, accounting for one-third of the entire Japanese land. It is called the "Tianling". At its peak, the shogunsals received a "salary" of four million stones per year. The shogunsals went down to the three vassals, and these three daimyos belonged to the direct lineage of the Tokugawa family, each with hundreds of thousands of stones of income. If the shogunsals had no descendants, they would also select successors from the three vassals (the eighth-generation general Tokugawa Yoshizo and the three vassals were divided into the three vassals). After the daimyo of the Tokugawa family, according to the territory, the remaining ones were the vassals of the Kanto family, the Kanto family, the Kinki family, the Chinese vassals, and the four vassals.

Originally, there was a Matsumae family of the Edo shogunate, but now this Matsumae family is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Edo shogunate. Among these daimyos are the Maeda family of the Kanazawa family, the Shimazu family of the Satsuma family, the Asano family of the Hiroshima family, the Yamauchi family of the Tosa family, the Mori family of the Tottori family, the Ikeda family of the Tottori family, the Ikeda family of the Hiroki family, the Fujido family of the Tsubasa family, the Matsuhira family of the Fukui family, and the Ida family of the Sendai family are the richest. In addition to the Asano family being first removed from the position of Daimyo by the third-generation general Tokugawa Iemitsu, and then completely uprooted by the current Five-generation general Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the Matsuda family of the Kanazawa family.

What Mad said about going to Honshu is actually to find these daimyos. Of course, if you are by the way, it would be nice to go to the shogun's jurisdiction to have fun.

What are you looking for them? One word: grab it!

He first found the Maeda family in Kanazawa.

In Japan, Daming had the ability to seize the world if his annual salary exceeds one million stones. The Maeda family was the only Daming except the shogun with an annual salary of more than one million stones. It was the most powerful vassal in Japan.

Unfortunately, their Kanazawa Phan is on the beach!

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Maeda Tsunaki was the daimyo of the Kanazawa sect of this generation. However, according to the rules of the shogunate, he was currently attending Tokugawa Tsunaki in Edo. Therefore, the letter that Yuzhong randomly found a Japanese to send to Koyama Maru Castle (Kanazawa sect main city) was Maeda Yoshido, the prince of the Maeda family.

"what to do?"

As the heir of the most important and powerful vassal, Yoshid Maeda certainly knew who the letter he received came from. Even if he didn't know, the twenty large warships on the beach were enough to make him pay attention to it. However, the request for him to get on board the ship to "chat" was really unacceptable.

"Criminal, you'd better order everyone to enter the city, and then we will guard the city. I think those Qing people will leave soon!" said Naochi Honda.

"Our Kanazawa vas is the most powerful vassal. How can we make someone else's letter so scared that we dare not close the city and defend ourselves? Hondajun, why are you so timid?" another retainer, Narito Okumura, asked angrily.

"Okumura, of course I know that the Qing people are not scary. However, even if our Kanazawa vassal has 30,000 soldiers, if we lose too much because of fighting against the Qing people, it will not be worth the loss. The shogunate has been looking for opportunities to weaken our strength." Honta Naoto said.

"I think you are looking for reasons for your timidity. Our Okumura family will not be as timid as you. Prince, I am willing to lead the vassal soldiers to resist the Qing people." Okumura Narito knelt down in front of Maeda Yoshide and kowtowed.

"Omura-kun..." Maeda Yoshide didn't know what to say for a moment. The Omura family was a hereditary retainer of the Maeda family. His ancestor Aomura Nagafuki was once known as the most brave general of the family. However, the Omura family's governor could only receive 12,000 stones, but the Hondo family could receive 50,000 stones, and two famous names were also made. Therefore, the self-conceited Naoto was dissatisfied with Honda Naoto. It was okay before, but now the Qing people suddenly came to the door. Isn't this a chance to give Omura-kun?

"Criminal, please allow me to fight. Otherwise, I would think you look down on me..." Nakato Okumura kowtowed again and shouted.

"Okay! Okumura, I'll ask you for everything!... However, the Qing people came from the sea, so I only allow you to defend when they get ashore. If they don't get ashore, you can't provoke it on your own initiative." Maeda Yoshid said.

"Hai!" Okumura Naoto kowtowed heavily on the tatami, stood up and looked at Honta Naoyuki with pride, and went to gather the vassal soldiers in a serene manner.

"Criminal, I'm afraid that he will be unable to calm down and anger those Qing people!" Honta Naoto said as he looked at Okumura Naoto's back.

"Honta Jun, don't worry. Okumura Jun knows it!" Maeda Yoshide comforted Honta Naochi. Since the prince had spoken, Honta Naochi had to bow and receive the teachings, and then asked another question to Maeda Yoshide: "Criminal, how do we reply to the letter from the Qing people?"

"Be a little polite, I just say that I am inconvenient and can't go out of the city to greet me!" said Yoshid Maeda.

"Hayi!"

...

"Military Gate, those Japanese people are inconvenient and will not leave the city!"

Maeda Yoshide's letter was quickly sent back to the beach and sent to Yu Zhong and others.

"If you don't invite someone, you just don't give me any face! Let's find it by ourselves and prepare to go ashore!"

"twitter!"

...

Yuzhong got ashore. Before that, Nakamoto's vassal soldiers also drove to the beach. So Yuzhong unceremoniously used artillery to plow the beach and washed them a sauna! Nakamoto, a brave hereditary retainer of Kanazawa, was bombarded into the kingdom of heaven before he could speak out and went to find the great god Amaterasu. The vassal soldiers he brought fled in a panic after more than a thousand casualties and all hid in the castle of Maru Castle in Koyama.

However, this did not change their destiny. Yu Zhongming's generals led 3,000 navy soldiers to the ashore and soon surrounded the main city of Kanazawa, which was not far from the sea.

Without listening to the explanation, he only gave the Maeda family a multiple-choice question, and there were two answers in total. Either choose to surrender or be beaten!

As a result, Maeda Yoshid once again chose the wrong answer, and he chose the third answer and insisted on it.

So Yuzhong used artillery to hold a brief baptism to Maru Castle in Koyama!

The bombardment of three hundred shells in just a quarter of an hour made Maeda Yoshid react in the shortest time, and he had to re-select one answer: surrender. At this time, due to too many wooden buildings, the already small Maru Castle had been destroyed almost one-third of the fire, and the fire became increasingly larger...

From the beginning to the end of this battle, the Kanazawa clan's vassal soldiers had no chance to fight with the Manchu Naoyu. Although Naoyuki Honta sent troops to try to counterattack, they could not rush to the front of the soldiers of the Manchu naoyu. This was not because these Japanese soldiers were not brave enough, but because Yuzhong left the city wall, they could only act as targets just by rushing out from the city gate. Even if some people could rush out, they would have to die in the face of dense muskets and crossbows.

However, it is precisely because of this that Maeda Yoshide became extremely pleased. After delivering compensation of 110,000 taels of gold, 350,000 taels of silver and 20,000 s of grain, he received Yu Zhong's "forgiveness" for his previous rude behavior.

Then, Yu Zhong led his troops on board and left. At this time, Maeda Yoshidok was able to leave the city. From the outside, he could not stop looking at the thick smoke from Koyama Maru Castle.

...

The Maeda family was the first, and then Yuzhong went south along the west side of Honshu Island, basically looking for people one by one. In order to prevent Daming from gaining troops from all over the country, Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered these people not to accumulate ronin, repair the city without authorization, marry privately, or form cliques; later, the "One Country, One City Order" was issued, allowing only one city in each place to have a city, and there were various restrictions, just like the Maeda family, they originally had a Qiwei Castle, but later the main city was moved to Koyamamaru.

, Qiwei Castle was demolished. Therefore, Yuzhong's method of finding is basically to find one by one. However, although Tokugawa Ieyasu saved a lot of trouble for Yuzhong, Yuzhong did not thank him for this. Tokugawa Ieyasu did not get a land deed, and the land of each vassal was only the lord. In other words, what Yuzhong thought before coming, he found the land deed and burned it, so that Japan would be in chaos and then take the opportunity to take advantage of it. Although he has always paid great attention to Japan, it is true that

I really didn't expect this. Where is there any document like land deeds in this world? But now there is no one in Japan. Not only that, the strict identity system and the separation system of soldiers and farmers implemented by the Tokugawa Shogunate, that is, the residents of the country are divided into four levels: scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and they must not be confused. It also stipulates that samurai must gather in the city. The system of farmers fixed in the countryside makes Yuzhong dare not easily send troops into the city. In order to reduce the casualties of his soldiers, he only

It was fired outside the city and forced the daming to surrender. Although the daming did not dare to defend the city because of too many wooden buildings, Yu Zhong's income was reduced a lot. Of course, there were also times when he entered the city, but he would only do this when he met those damings with weak strength. In other words, when he led his troops into the city, he often just went in to show off his power and gained a lot. However, even so, Yu Zhong's journey to the south was still very rewarding.

After he led his team to Tsuma Island and cleaned up the family of the Tsuma Mansion, the entire army had already "income" 530,000 taels of gold and more than 2 million taels of silver. However, when they were happily grabbing, trouble also came.

"Military, we don't have much ammunition!"

When they first heard this news, most of the generals of the Manchu Navy were mourning.

"You guys... are so wasteful. These ammunitions are money! Do you know? Damn, this time I almost emptied all my inventory, twenty ships, at least two million taels of silver shells, you... I have saved it for five years with great difficulty!"

"Military Sect, we can't blame it all. You distributed half of the ammunition to General Yue and General Mu!" Lubuyi said.

"There are still a lot left..." Yu Zhongqi said. At the critical moment, he was about to fight the Satsuma family, but there was not enough ammunition. You should know that the Satsuma family was the first strong vassal in Japan to come into contact with the West. In terms of war strength alone, it is one level higher than the Kanazawa family and the Tottori family that were removed from the front.

"Military gate, a boat is coming in front of you!"

Yu Zhong was scolding his subordinates, and the looking hand on the flagship suddenly shouted loudly toward the bottom.

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"Little Fan Yubin pays his respects to the military gate!"

There was only one big ship. Yuzhong thought it was a small fish on the way, but he didn't expect that the person who came was his own. But thinking about it, there are no sea boats in Japan today?

"Fan Yubin?" Although Yu Zhong was not familiar with this name, he was not unfamiliar with it. The eight royal merchants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Fan's family head, and did a lot of business with Mo Jing.

"The military gate has shown its power throughout the journey and has conquered the city. Fan really admires it!" Fan Yubin is still very young, and Thirty-south is the year old. However, this person is already a top figure in the Chinese shopping mall. Although his strength is slightly inferior, he is also a figure who can be on par with Shanxi Kangsiding and Anhui Wang Wei in terms of status.

"Sit!...Why did Boss Fan sell copper in Japan?" Yu Zhong signaled Fan Yubin to sit down, and did not talk to him about any war, but just asked him about the reason for this.

"Haha, the military gate is expected to be good. Fan really just arrived from Nagasaki." Fan Yubin thanked him and replied with a smile.

"Nagasaki? No one informed you? How dare you..." Yu Zhongzheng opened a "robbery" verdict against Japan, and of course he would not let the merchants on his side come again. Therefore, while sending troops, he had sent people to send letters to Fengtian, Pyongyang, Osaka, Nagasaki and other places by sending troops, and asked the relevant people to leave quickly, but he did not expect that Fan Yubin had stayed in Japan for the present time.

"Haha, actually Fan originally planned to leave early, but he met his family shortly after leaving, so he just waited to load the boat before leaving." Fan Yubin said with a smile.

"My family?...whether of your ship? Isn't this one?" Yu Zhong asked.

"Fan's fleet has moved south, and Fan is here to welcome the adults under military order!" Fan Yubin said again.

"Military Order?...Whose Military Order?" Yu Zhong asked.

"Taiwan General, Nian!" Fan Yubin said with a smile.

...

Nian Gengyao!

Since Yu Zhong stayed in Taiwan as the general of the navy, this guy has not been idle.

Yu Zhong pointed him two paths, one was Ryukyu and the other was naturally exploring the route to the southeast! However, compared to the sea route that still seemed very far away in the southeast, Nian Gengyao still chose Ryukyu.

Ryukyu was very rich. When the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was in charge of tribute to China. According to the "History of Ming Dynasty", the number of tributes in Asian countries was recorded in Japan 19 times, 30 times, 37 times, and 89 times in Annan. The Ryukyu country was 171 times, which was almost the sum of all countries. In addition to the tribute trade to the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu also carried out relay trade with Japan, North Korea and Southeast Asian countries. Ryukyu ships were in Fuzhou, China, Busan, North Korea, as well as Thailand, Vietnam, Malacca, Sumatra, and Claw.

The ports of various countries sold spices, ivory, silk fabrics, porcelain, and swords. At that time, Ryukyu was known as "the bridge of all countries with boats". However, later, the Malacca Kingdom was destroyed by Portugal, and Sumatra, Jawa and other countries were successively occupied by Westerners. In addition, the Ming Dynasty suddenly began to ban overseas trade, and the external environment of the Ryukyu people underwent tremendous changes. From then on, Ryukyu's foreign trade almost ended, and there was no shadow of their sails in the Southeast Asian waters. In this way, the 37th year of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty

At that time, after Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, because Ryukyu insisted on refusing to hire the Edo Shogunate, he sent the Kagoshima Satsuma clan Daimei Shimazu Iehara, which was close to the Ryukyu Kingdom, to lead 3,000 soldiers to invade Ryukyu and capture the Ryukyu King. Originally, Shimazu Ieyasu wanted to annex Ryukyu directly, but Tokugawa Ieyasu was afraid that the already very powerful Shimazu family became stronger after annexing the wealthy Ryukyu. In addition, there was still the Ming Dynasty in the east at that time, so it was not allowed. This is why Ryukyu was able to be preserved.

Because, however, the Satsuma clan still sent troops to supervise the Ryukyu state for 45 years, and also asked the Ryukyu king to ced the Amami Islands to the Satsuma clan. Even if he no longer interfered in the Ryukyu state affairs in the future, the Satsuma clan still forcibly took over the Ryukyu tribute trade with China. Moreover, the Shimazu clan forced the Ryukyu monarch and ministers to admit that "Ryukyu was a vassal of the Shimazu clan". The Ryukyu Sanshi official Xie Minglishan, who refused to sign and seal the document of the Shimazu clan, was beheaded. Others could only lower their heads under the eaves of the people.

However, this situation changed after Nian Gengyao set sail to the northeast.

Nian Gengyao was greedy, tyrannical, and easy to kill. Before these, he had one skill, that is, he could fight!

Especially after being suppressed by Yu Zhong for three years, his sudden release of nature became even more vivid.
Chapter completed!