The actual ruler of the Tokugawa shogunate is Tokugawa Hidetachi.

But Tokugawa Hidetachi was not the general of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The real general of the Conquering Yi was Tokugawa Ieki, son of Hidetachi Tokugawa.

Because Tokugawa Hidetachi studied Tokugawa Ieyasu two years ago, he abdicated the throne to Tokugawa Ieki, and moved out of the general's mansion and lived in the Imperial Office.

Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetachi is equivalent to the "Supreme Emperor" of the Tokugawa Shogunate. However, Tokugawa Hidetachi is not the "Supreme Emperor" without power, but the "Supreme Emperor" with actual control of the Shogunate.

Tokugawa Hidetachi didn't know that he had aroused revenge from the Ming Dynasty because he allowed Nagasaki's Daimai Matsuura clan to drive away the Ming Dynasty merchants.

Now he has only just learned about the brutal acts Matsuura Fan had carried out when he drove away Ming merchants.

However, Hidetachi Tokugawa didn't care much about this.

Because in this era, most rulers have not paid enough attention to the consciousness of civilian lives.

Therefore, Hidetachi Tokugawa did not think that the Ming emperor, who was far away in the sky, would raise troops to attack him because some overseas Chinese business travelers were slaughtered.

In addition, Tokugawa Hidetachi naturally would not severely punish the Daming because of the military Daming. Moreover, this Daming still supports his Daming.

But Tokugawa Hidetachi obviously did not know much about the current Ming Dynasty and the current Ming Emperor.

Because of this, a few days later, Tokugawa Hidetachi learned that Nagasaki was pruned by the Ming Dynasty, and even Nagasaki Daimai Matsuura's clan was destroyed by the clan, so he was very shocked.

"Damn Ming people! How could they treat me Yamato like this! This is simply an offense to this general! A great offense!"

Therefore, Hidetachi Tokugawa drew out his knife and slashed hard, breaking a corner of the desk.

"General, they are revenge! Because Matsuura's family killed their overseas Chinese businessmen, they did this. According to what they heard, the reason why they shouted that they would not seal the sword for ten days was because our Matsuura's family slaughtered the overseas Chinese businessmen of the Ming Dynasty for one day, and they wanted to revenge for a period of time! But it is not clear yet whether this was the instruction of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. If so, then what did the Emperor of Ming Dynasty want to do? Is it an opportunity to annex our Japanese state, so I used this tough method to anger us, or is there another reason?"

During the Tokugawa Ieyasu era, the Tokugawa family's worship of Ida Masatori, who followed the Tokugawa family, said to Tokugawa Hidetaki at this time.

After hearing this, Tokugawa Hidetachi looked solemn: "Since we say this, we must endure it and not give the Ming emperor the chance to launch an army to attack us! We must not have any disrespect to the Ming people in the future, so as not to give the Ming emperor the excuse to attack us."

"That's true! In addition, people should be sent to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Nagasaki's affairs were caused by Matsuura's unauthorized actions and had nothing to do with the shogunate!"

Masamune Ita continued to reply.

Hidetachi Tokugawa nodded. He was no longer angry at the Ming Navy's revenge against the Nagasaki Japanese. Instead, he quickly regained his rationality and knew that if he wanted to safeguard his ruling interests, he had to adopt a policy of appeasement. Therefore, now Masamune Ida suggested that he send someone to bring a letter to the Ming Emperor and take the initiative to explain the matter, but he did not object.

Therefore, Chen Xin did not receive large-scale revenge from Japan after occupying Nagasaki.

On the contrary, the Tokugawa shogunate also took the initiative to bring food and grass to Chen Xin for the sake of demonstrating its good-neighborly and friendly attitude. Dataka Masamune and other daimyos also took the initiative to show their kindness to Chen Xin and wanted to give their daughter to Chen Xin, just as Zheng Zhilong, who had great strength in the sea in history, also got the opportunity to offer his daughter to the Japanese daimyo and married the Japanese daughter and Zheng Chenggong for this reason.

But Chen Xin was not Zheng Zhilong, he was just a military general under Zhu Youxiao, not a prince. Zhu Youxiao only gave him and his navy the privilege of not following military discipline to foreign people, but did not give them the privilege of not caring about internal military discipline. Therefore, Chen Xin naturally did not marry these daimyos and only collected food and grass from the shogunate.

Chen Xin's behavior gained the favor of Tokugawa Hidetachi.

Because what Tokugawa Hidetachi was worried about was that Daming and the Ming Navy colluded, and then attempted to challenge his general's authority.

Therefore, in the next step, Hidetachi Tokugawa did not organize the shogunate army to recover Nagasaki and drive away the Ming navy led by Chen Xin, but instead prevented other Daming who cares about the dignity of the Japanese country from sending troops to Nagasaki.

But what Tokugawa Hidetachi didn't know was that the Ming Empire, which began to become commercially capitalized, has now become extremely aggressive due to the transformation of production relations, especially after the emperor and the officials in power were big capitalists. Moreover, this aggressiveness is not transferred by human will, because the current Ming Empire needs markets, raw materials, and a large amount of cheap labor. Otherwise, the new textile technology of the Ming Dynasty will no longer be the driving force for the revival and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, but the fuse that led to the social turmoil of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Tokugawa Hidetachi will find that even if he chooses to appease, the Ming Dynasty will come to him and force him to do many things he is unwilling to do.

Just like North Korea now.

North Korea is now the most loyal younger brother of the Ming Dynasty.

But it does not mean that the Ming Dynasty will let him hide behind the scenes and live a free and easy life.

After the Ming Empire, whose social nature changed, showed his fangs of plundering from the outside, he was destined to re-brand the rules as a new type of world overlord.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty only asked his younger brother to pay tribute to him, and then did not interfere with each other and each managed his own people.

But now the Ming Dynasty has more demands on its younger brother.

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Seoul.

"This, this is great. Why did the Celestial Empire conquer Japan? It even wanted me to go to the North Korea. Will this anger Japan?!"

North Korean king Li Nai was shocked after receiving the decree from Zhu Youxiao asking him to send troops to Japan.

Naturally, he did not want to send troops to Japan, although Japan brought great humiliation to him more than 30 years ago, and even though his North Korean navy performed well during the Japanese turmoil in the Ionchen period, not as bad as the army.

But as a ruler who just wants to be peaceful, Li Nai did not want to seek revenge on Japan.

It’s not just that Li Yu didn’t have the intention to seek revenge on Japan, but most of the North Korean literati and officials didn’t have the intention to seek revenge on Japan, and they just wanted to have a peaceful life.

Just like during the Song Dynasty, among the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were only a few people who wanted to fight the northern expedition to avenge the national humiliation.

Of course, we cannot say that the Korean monarchs and ministers are stupid, but it happens that they are too smart and know that going to Japan is a thankless thing, a labor force, a waste of money and food, and even a revenge from Japan.

Therefore, at this moment, when the imperial edict of Emperor Zhu Youxiao to demand North Korea's expedition arrived, Li Nai and his monarch and ministers felt very embarrassed.

Jin Liu followed up and asked Guo Mu, who had been proclaiming the imperial edict: "As the king said, is it a wise plan to go to Japan? After all, it is just the lives of some merchants. Why did the Celestial Kingdom promote the conquest? And if it really wants to go to the expedition, it will cost money and food. And our North Korea is a small vassal country, which is really unbearable!"
Chapter completed!