Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

The negotiations failed, so Fushimi Miya Shuhito and his party could only leave the barracks in despair and returned to Kyoto in a hanging basket.

In fact, even they themselves knew that the price of one thousand taels of gold and ten thousand taels of silver was too little.

But the problem is, this money is the limit of what their emperor's lineage can get now, it's really the limit.

Their emperor is really poor and has been poor for many years.

After the Onin Rebellion, the Muromachi Shogunate's strength was greatly reduced in that turmoil, and it was unable to suppress the daimyo across the country. This ushered in the so-called Warring States Period of Japan.

If the monarchs of other countries are released and see the world is in chaos and the heroes are divided, they should order their troops and horses to reunite the world.

But the Japanese emperor had no such idea at all. Even if they had, they did not have the strength. The political form of the shogunate had been in Japan for hundreds of years. The emperor of Japan had been the mascot for hundreds of years, and he did not have even a little bit of real power in his hands.

The Japanese emperor didn't even think about regaining power. They were used to this model of a virtual emperor.

Everything has advantages and disadvantages. The fact that their positions can be passed down from generation to generation is related to this system.

They shamelessly claim to be the descendants of some kind of Amaterasu and put themselves on the altar, and the shogun is also fueling this, making the emperor a god.

This so-called god does not govern the country, but leaves the power of governing the country to the shogunate. In addition, there is no imperial examination in the Japanese country, so it cannot be said that there is no such thing. It can only be said that the influence is extremely small, so small that it can be ignored.

Therefore, the Japanese country is still a primitive and backward feudal system with seriously solidified classes, and their political form of the shogunate is actually a bit like holding the emperor hostage to order the princes.

The emperor is a god and does not govern the country, so even if there is turmoil in the country, the Japanese will not blame the emperor. They will only think of overthrowing the shogunate and building a new shogunate.

In addition, the Japanese country has always had a tradition of military politics. The military suppressed the literati, so everyone would only compete for the position of the general who conquered the barbarians and establish their own shogunate. No one thought about overthrowing the emperor. Maybe I thought about it, but couldn't find a suitable excuse.

Therefore, the change of shogunate is similar to the change of dynasty, and the person sitting in that seat will always be the emperor's lineage.

In this regard, what else could the Emperor of Japan be dissatisfied with?

However, this kind of satisfaction was limited to the Taiping era. During the Taiping years, the shogunate was powerful and could subdue nobles everywhere. It would also allocate silver to support the emperor and his family. Although it was not much, it was definitely enough.

But now in such troubled times, it is difficult for the Muromachi shogunate to protect itself. Those big names are beating each other to death, and they want to fool each other. Who cares about who the emperor is?

In addition, many nobles and ministers left Kyoto and returned to their own fiefdoms, and then became one of the daimyo who fought against each other.

Now the Emperor couldn't find anyone to borrow money from.

Today's emperor thinks about it day and night, hoping that the daimyo of the separatist faction will fight each other more fiercely, quickly determine the winner, establish a new shogunate, and then someone will continue to support them.

By the way, the enthronement ceremony will be reorganized, and the coffin of the incoming emperor will be replaced with a thicker one.

The current Emperor Gokashiwara just ascended the throne a few years ago. Five or six years have passed and he still has not collected the money to hold the enthronement ceremony.

When the previous emperor died, he had no money to bury him. In the end, his body was laid to rest for many days. Seeing that it was impossible to release him, he would be reduced to bones, so he had to find a thin coffin and hastily bury him.

This is the current situation in Japan.

The Muromachi shogunate existed in name only, and countless daimyo in the country were fighting for the right to establish a shogunate.

Both humans and ghosts are showing off, but the emperor is the most uncomfortable.

Not only was it uncomfortable, but he was about to receive the most vicious beating.

"Zhang Shuai should be relieved now. Kyoto does not have many troops. The official said before that he would give them two choices. One is to send out a large army and let us retreat in the face of difficulties; the other is to show sincerity, and this Fushimi Miya Shuhito Choosing the latter shows that there is no army in the city."

"So taking this opportunity, we will attack the city as soon as possible. No matter what, Kyoto is still the capital of the Japanese country. The Ming Dynasty that is surrounded by separatist regimes may know the news that our troops are besieging Kyoto, and they will definitely send troops to reinforce. By then, It will inevitably only increase losses.”

Zhang Mao nodded, "What you said makes sense, but wait a little longer until the dispatched scouts come back and confirm again, so that I can feel at ease and let the soldiers have a good rest."

After saying that, he paused for a moment and leaned forward, and asked: "If we capture this capital, will we massacre the city?"

After hearing this, Xia Yuan was silent for a moment and then said: "Okay. But I think that after capturing this capital, I should renegotiate a strategy."

"Change your approach?"

"Well, our strategy of killing wherever we go now can certainly relieve our anger, and it can certainly rob a lot of property, but this is not a long-term solution. Although Xiaguan really wants to completely destroy the Japanese country, it is difficult to do so. .”

"Nowadays, the civil war in Japan is serious, and the names of separatist regimes are everywhere. If we can defeat them one by one, or even two or three, it will not be difficult to destroy their country and their species.

But although our current style of play can intimidate the enemy chieftains, this move. In short, if this continues, sooner or later these famous names in the Japanese country will be forced to unite. When the time comes, they will fight to the death, and the tens of thousands of soldiers of our Ming Dynasty will Being in a foreign country, whether you can win or not is a matter of uncertainty."

Xia Yuan said it very euphemistically, but in fact it is difficult to have a chance of winning, or even almost no chance of winning. The Ming army's tactics are too extreme now, and they are completely aiming for the destruction of the country and the species.

This kind of strategy would, secondarily, force all the daimyo of Japan to unite, but it might also force the ordinary people of Japan to unite to deal with the Ming army.

At that time, what the Ming Dynasty's tens of thousands of troops faced would not be the famous names of the Japanese country, nor the Japanese army, but the millions or even tens of millions of people in the entire Japanese country.

Faced with an absolute disparity in numbers, if Ming Dynasty wanted to continue the war, it could only rely on a steady stream of domestic reinforcements. However, the terrain of the Japanese country was fragmented, with few plains and many mountains and jungles. Such a landscape requires mountain warfare and dense forest warfare. When the Japanese were fighting this kind of battle, who knew the terrain better than the Japanese themselves?

Ming Dynasty was inherently at an absolute disadvantage.

Therefore, in the end, the more likely result is that the Ming Dynasty took the first step and was dragged down by the war.

Xia Yuan thought a lot these days. He admitted that he didn't understand military matters and took it for granted at first, but fortunately it was not too late now.

He bowed to Zhang Mao sincerely and said, "The proposal made by this junior was just the pedantic opinion of a scholar, not a plan for the country. This is the fault of this junior."

Zhang Mao smiled and said, "Even if you don't mention it, I'm afraid I have to tell you about changing your style of play. Massacre is not a way of fighting at all. So what style of play do you think should be changed?"

"Support, win over, and accept as a dog."

PS: On the last day of the May Day holiday, I originally planned to take a short vacation, but I found a reward of more than 10,000 coins from a rich man. Well, I came back and updated it.
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