After explaining this matter, Xiao Ruxun thought of another important matter.
"By the way, there's also the Satsuma Domain in the Kyushu region of Japan. I don't know where that place is, but you can ask about a person called Xu Yi Hou there. He's a citizen of my Daming. Last year, he united with a few righteous men to send a very detailed warning of the Japanese pirates' invasion to the Governor of Zhejiang. Although he's trapped in Japan, his heart is still in Daming. If you can contact him, ask him to help Daming. Ask him if he knows any experts in the construction of Wocheng. It would be good to kidnap one or two."
Zhou Qi was puzzled. "Xu Yi Hou? The name sounded familiar … but was he an expert in Building Wall City? What does the Admiral need them for? "
"You've seen the Wocheng in Pusan, haven't you? What do you think? "
Zhou Qi blinked and said, "It's indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. It's somewhat similar to the forts in the southwest of my Daming."
"Indeed, it's similar to my forts. Forts first appeared at the end of the Han Dynasty. Because of frequent wars and the changing of political regimes, people built them to protect themselves. They became more prosperous during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. However, China has a tradition of unification since ancient times. Once the unification is complete, the forts are useless and most of them are demolished. Therefore, nowadays, forts only occasionally exist in the southwest chieftain's land, which I can't get.
As a result, I'm helpless in the face of Japanese pirates in Wocheng. I feel deeply uneasy. Therefore, I must know how to break into Wocheng. If that's the case, I'll need the help of someone familiar with the architecture of Wocheng. Daming can't find them anywhere, so I can only go to Japan to find them. Pay a high price, and if that doesn't work, I'll kidnap them! They'll be of great use in the future. "
After listening to Xiao Ruxun's words, Zhou Qi nodded. "Since the Admiral has this request, I'll do my best to fulfill it. I won't disappoint you."
"Thank you."
After sending Zhou Qi away, Xiao Ruxun began to think about how to negotiate with the Japanese. Negotiations between the winner and the loser also needed to pay attention to methods. The most practical international negotiation technique was to raise high and then put it down gently. First, ask for an exorbitant price, and then slowly retreat step by step, so that the loser would think that he had done his best and gained a big advantage. In fact, what the winner wanted in the beginning was the last part.
Forget about Sado Island, but the Ishikami Silver Mountain produced too much silver. Unless the Great Ming Dynasty had the idea of completely destroying Japan, Japan would never agree to cede all the profits from the Ishikami Silver Mountain. However, according to the proportion, it was still possible to ask Japan to provide a certain amount of silver every year. That way, the Japanese would not be left with nothing and would have to fight to the death with the Great Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the Great Ming Dynasty had to make Japan bleed so that it could no longer concentrate all its forces to invade a certain country and create the conditions for completely annexing the archipelago in the future.
Then he could use the methods that modern Europe used to deal with the Qing government.
Ceding part of the land, opening the port to trade, extraterritorial rights, war reparations, tariff reduction or even exemption for Daming's goods entering the Japanese market, one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, and so on.
Of course, this was based on the premise that the old fox, Tokugawa Ieyasu, was leading Japan. Hideyoshi, the madman, would never agree. He would only fight until he died.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun wanted to add fuel to the flames of the civil war in Japan.
With a three-pronged approach, he would trap Japan in the sixteenth century.
At the same time, the Imperial Bodyguard's intelligence network began to be activated. In Japan, the news that the Japanese had been completely defeated and had retreated to Pusan to be besieged by the Ming Army was spreading. No one knew where it came from. Anyway, the news had spread all over Feizen and quickly spread to the surrounding areas. Hideyoshi, who lived in Nagoya Castle, inevitably heard a lot of rumors.
When these rumors first spread, Hideyoshi didn't believe them at all. He only thought that the news was spread by the remnants of those who wanted to rebel. They wanted to shake the military's morale. He wrote letters to the daimyo to appease the people and sent people to arrest those who spread the rumors. For a while, the rumors disappeared, and the people calmed down.
However, this wave of rumors was very strange. Most of the people who spread the rumors had been arrested, and many of them had been beheaded. This time, when the incident happened, Hideyoshi sent people to arrest them again. Many were arrested, and many were beheaded. However, the rumors did not die down like before. Instead, they became more and more intense.
Even though Toyotomi Hideyoshi's mind and spirit were in a very abnormal state, he still believed that he had won a great battle. His army was wantonly attacking the Ming Kingdom, and half of the Ming Kingdom was already under his rule. In the face of such rumors, he was extremely angry at first, followed by a murderous rage. When he was alone, he thought of some details that made him very uneasy, but he also felt terrified when he thought about it.
That's not right. Let's not talk about President Little Nishi. Why hasn't there been any news from Kato Kiyomasa? That's not normal.
Even if they fought into the Ming Kingdom, the distance should be a little further. Shouldn't the letters from home have been sent back? There shouldn't be no news at all, right?
Hideyoshi began to wonder about President Little Nishi and Kato Kiyomasa, who only existed in the battle reports of the Yukita Hideki family. Like him, Kuroda Rusui also had doubts about Kuroda Nagamasa, who only existed in the battle reports. He had learned the truth long ago. Although there was a moment when Kuroda Rusui had the idea of killing his way to North Korea to seek revenge on Xiao Ruxun, he calmed down and calmly analyzed the current strange situation. He decided to say nothing and do nothing. He just hid in his study room and cried secretly, missing his son.
Kuroda Rusui was no longer as loyal to Hideyoshi as he used to be. He had other ideas, but the existence of Tokugawa Ieyasu did make him very afraid. This leader of the daimyo, the powerful daimyo of Dongguo, must have known that Hideyoshi had been defeated in North Korea. What would he do then?
In all fairness, Kuroda Rusui would not be Hideyoshi's man of sacrifice. It was destined from the moment he was announced to own 100,000 stones. But after all, he had been branded too deeply by Hideyoshi's faction. If Tokugawa Ieyasu gathered the daimyo of Dongguo and officially rebelled, what should he do?
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's direct subordinates suffered heavy losses in North Korea. Not only did they lose soldiers, but they also lost key personnel. Just the loss of President Konishi and Kato Kiyomasa was enough to hurt Toyotomi Hideyoshi, not to mention the other losses. The information he obtained made him tremble in fear. He did not believe that Tokugawa Ieyasu did not feel the same way.
They were infected by Hideyoshi's arrogance and had forgotten how powerful the great empire was. It was an existence that Japan could not defeat.
How would the great empire, which had been provoked and angered, treat them? How would they treat the whole of Japan?
Kuroda Rusui thought more deeply, but many people could only see the present.
Almost at the same time that Hideyoshi issued the second order to arrest the slanderers, a letter from the family of Ukito Hideo, the commander-in-chief of the North Korean Army, arrived in the hands of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. This letter reached Hideyoshi's hands unimpeded. Hideyoshi eagerly opened the letter and read it. When he read it, he was overjoyed.
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