The daimyo looked at each other and no one spoke. Tokugawa Ieyasu glanced at the daimyo in the room and said angrily, "We are standing in the same position! Not the same as Taige! He is now using his own headquarters to fight, but when the time comes, he will use our people to fight! The Ming Army is fierce, and we will lose tens of thousands of people. Can you lose tens of thousands? You think that I have a big family business, but I can say that I can't even afford to lose ten thousand! "
The daimyo's expressions were ugly, and their eyes were full of calculation.
"In the eyes of Taige, we are all external daimyo, and we are the key targets to guard against. If Taige wins, it may not be good for us. If Taige loses, we will be unlucky together. When the Ming Army comes, they will not care who is the direct descendant and who is not. I don't need to say this, everyone should understand, right?"
Tokugawa Ieyasu's hand kept tapping on the small table in front of him.
Everyone present was a profit animal, and no one would not understand this sentence.
"Then, you at least have to come up with an accurate method, so that we can think about it …"
A veteran daimyo spoke up.
Tokugawa Ieyasu nodded. "I understand this, and I will prepare as soon as possible. But everyone should also think about it. Once this news is accidentally leaked to Taige, we really have no way out. Either do as I say and change the world, or go down the dark road with Taige and fight against the Ming Army. Everyone should know what to choose."
At the same time, in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's residence, Kuroda Rushui carefully knelt on the soft cushion, feeling the unusual gaze of the old man opposite him, and his heart was anxious.
"Guard, tell me, how many years has it been since we sat together like this, drinking tea and chatting?"
Toyotomi Hideyoshi personally poured a cup of tea for Kuroda Rushui, and then raised the teacup and offered it to Kuroda Rushui. Kuroda Rushui hurriedly took it and said, "I can't remember the time in the mountains, but it has been about seven or eight years. Since Taige established the world, the country has been peaceful, and the people are rich. Naturally, there is no place for Rushui to use her skills."
"You're not telling the truth!"
Hideyoshi's words gave Kuroda Rushui a fright. Her hand that was holding the teacup trembled. With great difficulty, she calmed herself down. Kuroda Rushui quickly said, "Rushui wouldn't dare to lie."
"Then why didn't you tell me about the situation in Korea? Don't think that I'm muddle-headed just because I'm old. Good news comes one after another. Logically speaking, the King of Korea's letter of surrender and the Ming Kingdom's letter of pleading for mercy should have arrived by now. However, there hasn't been any news until now. I wrote a letter to ask the Hideka, but they were vague. What makes me even more puzzled is that I haven't received letters from President Konishi and Kato Kiyomasa for some time. "
Toyotomi Hideyoshi picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. He slowly said, "Konishi basically writes me a letter every half a month, and Kato writes me a letter of peace every seven days. Now, I haven't received a letter from them for almost a month. Guard, do you think something happened to them?"
Kuroda Rushui felt uneasy. These days, his eyelids kept twitching, and he always felt a little absent-minded. He didn't know why, but his years of experience instinctively gave him an ominous feeling. However, he couldn't get any effective news from his son, which made Kuroda Rushui a little worried.
Faced with the same question from Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kuroda Rushui instinctively felt that there was something wrong, but he didn't know what it was. He was familiar with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and knew that if he said something bad at this time, he didn't know how Toyotomi Hideyoshi would react. At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked calm, but in fact, the overly bitter tea was a portrayal of his uneasy mood.
He was very uneasy!
"Rushui guessed that Konishi and Kato might have already fought their way into the Ming Kingdom. It's not convenient for them to write letters, and it's not easy to send messages either. The army is marching towards the Ming Kingdom and attacking everywhere, so they don't have much time to send messages back to the country. When the situation is settled, the Imperial Cabinet will definitely receive endless good news!"
After Kuroda Rushui finished speaking, he lowered his head and carefully waited for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's reaction.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi put down his teacup.
"Hahahahaha —"
Hearing this laughter, Kuroda Rushui secretly heaved a sigh of relief. He was sure that he had passed the danger.
"I knew it. The army is advancing so fast, and North Korea has already fallen. How could they possibly win? You don't know, but yesterday, someone told me that he heard the news that the situation in North Korea is terrible. Many people have died in battle, and the army has been forced to Pusan to defend. I said how is that possible. A month ago, President Konishi was still in Pyongyang. How could it be like this in less than a month? Does he think my beloved generals are all trash? I chopped off his head on the spot! Now, it seems that you're the most clear-headed! Hahahahaha! "
Listening to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wild laughter, Kuroda Rushui's heart felt as if it had fallen into an ice cave. On one hand, he forced a smile and said, "Victory to Tokaku," on the other, he was worried about his son's fate.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not believe that he had lost the war. Kuroda Rushui was very sure of this, and the calm him was basically sure that the rumors were actually true. The situation of the North Korean Japanese Army was so bad that it could not get worse. He could not think of any other way to change this situation. The only way was to quickly retreat before the entire army was wiped out, and then send envoys to negotiate peace. This way, he could still preserve the last trace of vitality.
However, the existence of Toyotomi Hideyoshi had infinitely reduced this possibility. According to Kuroda Rushui's speculation and Kuroda Nagamasa's letter, it was easy for Kuroda Rushui to speculate the trick of the invading army. It was just to report the good news and not the bad, so that Tokaku, who was obviously in a bad state of mind, could continue to be happy and continue to live in a dream to cover up their failure.
However, they did not expect that the better their dream was now, the worse their future situation would be. They had no worse situation, right? Now that the army was defeated and was about to be wiped out, Tokaku was still dreaming that the army had begun to attack the Ming Kingdom. Moreover, Tokaku's mental state was very strange, which exacerbated Kuroda Rushui's worry.
Kuroda Rushui had never been worried about himself, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the future of Japan. For the first time, he had a sense of confusion that he could not get out of.
In contrast, Zhu Yijun's feelings were very different from Kuroda Rushui's. It could even be said that it was the complete opposite.
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