Yugali, born in Kyushu, Japan in the 12th year of Wanli, was named Izumo. He is an advocate of Imperial Ming Dynasty, a firm follower of Eunuch Wei's thoughts, an excellent army general, and one of the founders of the Emperor's secret organization, the Revival Society.

He called himself the land of the imperial path, Fusang Iron Man, regarded fame and fortune as a cloud of fame and fortune, and put life and death outside, which was watched by the Emperor Ming inside and outside. He was quite friendly with outstanding generals of the Imperial Army in the "Meiji era" such as Tadhoven Shimazu, and jointly launched the "336 Mutiny" in Kyoto, forcing the pseudo-Emperor to abdicate the Emperor Ming inside. - Excerpted from "Biography of the Imperial Generals", an official edition of the Hanlin Academy.

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The speculation about entering the wilderness is correct. Behind the leaflet incident is indeed the Ming Dynasty Imperial Army. The spreader of the leaflet is the "Chrysanthemum Warrior".

The "Chrysanthemum Samurai" consists of the captured soldiers of the first, third and fourth troops of the former Japanese invading Asahi. Because the clothes they wore were embroidered with a chrysanthemum, and each of them wore a steel dagger engraved with the word "Wei", it is also called the "Chrysanthemum Samurai" within the Imperial Army.

The loyalty of the chrysanthemum warrior is unquestionable and his abilities are also strong. As the flower of the empire, the retainer of Wei Gongliangchen, the maritime eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, every chrysanthemum warrior followed the head of the family to fight south and north, and also guarded their heads in the middle of the night with sharp blades in hand.

Therefore, Zhong Ling and his ability brought them back to their hometown.

More than a year ago, the chrysanthemum samurai soldiers secretly returned to their hometown with the Japanese mission. They were active on the four islands of Japan in the manner of sparks that could start a prairie fire, and cooperated with the large-scale battle against Japan that the Imperial Army was about to launch.

Eunuch Wei affectionately called them "my family's fifth column".

Yukari, who was born in Kyushu, took him back to his hometown after breaking up with his friend Hijiro.

On the one hand, Oshima actively contacted the Catholic anti-shog army in Kyushu. On the other hand, Oshima also joined Yan Siqi and others to obtain money and weapons support from the Imperial Army headquarters to better carry out the anti-shog movement in Kyushu.

It was at this stage that Oshima, Hijiro and others jointly formed the Fuxing Society and became the actual leaders of the Fuxing Society in the Kyushu region.

In more than a year, Oshima has developed more than 500 members in Kyushu, and directly mastered a Catholic anti-straitor army with less than 3,000 people.

Members of Oshima and the Fuxing Society have become the backbone of this anti-shog army. Although their strength is far from enough to face the Japanese army in the Satsuma clan, and they cannot be compared with the standing army of the shogunate, they have been able to win in some small-scale battles and are now gradually growing through continuous combat accumulation.

The leaflet incident in Hinata was done by Oshimabe.

In the territory of Hinata, the Oshima tribe defeated a local government's anti-suppression team and killed more than 100 Japanese troops. Therefore, the officials of the Hinata tribe who were not clear about the details of the Oshima tribe called him "the stray dog ​​of Kyushu."

It means this is a very difficult and very cunning enemy.

Now, with the narrative of Entering Freedom, things have changed.

The country's old Qingshui Xiuyi immediately determined that behind the leaflets that spread evil rumors was the Ming** team, which called himself the "Imperial Army".

The important officials also started to clamor and curse the insidiousness of the Ming people. They actually sent chess pieces to sneak into Japan to destroy the situation early. Even the Catholics who were raising troubles in the country were likely to be inciting the Ming people behind their backs.

"Is the emperor's personal army?"

Tadaoshi Shimazu thoughtfully, waved his fan and signaled everyone to be quiet.

There were several anti-strait troops in Kyushu, but even though the shogunate was repeatedly strict, Tadaoshi did not send out the Shimazu family's main formation to encircle and suppress those anti-strait troops.

As his father Shimazu Yoshihisa, who swallowed his breath on his sickbed, said, the Tokugawa family has always distrustd Satsuma, and both Ieyasu and Hidetachi are weakening the power of the Shimazu family. Therefore, what the Chinese say about raising a bandit is not necessarily a good choice for the Shimazu family.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that there were forces against the shogunate in Kyushu, Hidetaka, who was known for his insidiousness, would have taken action to reduce the vassals again after the purge of Kyoto.

Therefore, the Shimazu family needs the downfall army, at least, they cannot be defeated too quickly.

"Sir, we cannot sit idly by and we must send troops to Ryukyu. Otherwise, once the troublemakers in the country know that the Ming people's army is approaching our Satsuma, they will make more fierce."

The important official Miura was a firm war pro-war faction, not only because his family had great interests in Ryukyu, but because he was engaged in intelligence work, he knew that the threat to the shogunate and the threat to Satsuma was equal, especially the back of the anti-shogunate army in Kyushu might be the Ming army.

Because if that imperial army really wants to attack Japan, they will definitely choose to attack Satsuma, which is closer.

At that time, those anti-straitors will be natural allies of the Ming** team.

Tadahoshi Shimazu refused to comment, but asked: "Who is the commander of the Ming people? Do you know anything?"

The issue of family governors once again stumped the senior officials. At this time, the general Rio Yigui hesitated for a moment and looked up and said, "Sir, the specific situation is not clear, but last year I heard from the Chinese in Kagoshima that their emperor sent an eunuch south to open the sea. Maybe the commander of the Ming people was this eunuch."

When Okamura heard this, he thought of something and hurriedly said, "I remember something when Rio Yoshi-kun said this. The old man from the Edo family told me that Akian Murayama wrote a letter to him last year, which stated that a very powerful young official with military power appeared on the southeast coast of the country. He had a nickname called East Asian Tiger Eunuch... It is certain that this East Asian Tiger Eunuch accommodated a group of Murayama's subordinates."

"Nani?"

"East Asian Tiger Eunuch?!"

When everyone heard the nickname, they were stunned and then burst into laughter. The important officials who were not unfamiliar with Chinese history knew that eunuchs were eunuchs, and eunuchs didn’t have that thing.

To put it bluntly, Chinese eunuchs are like Japanese little surnames, and they are even worse than small surnames. At least, small surnames must be with Daming, but can eunuchs do it?

Miura smiled and said, "How can a man who has gone to power be described as a tiger? If so, can our vassal lord be called Lord Dongya Long?"

Miura's words made everyone laugh again.

Tadaoshi Shimazu did not laugh, his face was even a little solemn, as if he was thinking about something in his heart, but he did not reveal it in front of his subordinates, but waited for everyone to finish laughing and said to Miura: "You must find out the details of this tiger eunuch."

"Hayi!"

Miura got up and walked outside the hall, waved and summoned a samurai to whisper to him, and then walked into the chamber again.

There are many Chinese businessmen in Kagoshima. As long as you are willing to spend money, it is not difficult to know the background of Ming officials.

In the hall, the senior officials of the family who were in charge of the war had already begun to discuss the issue of sending troops to Ryukyu.

Raniya, who was in charge of internal affairs, frowned loudly, and he said to everyone loudly: "Everyone, if we send troops, how many troops will we send? You must know that the loss of the Huashan tribe that captured Ryukyu is too great, so it is difficult for us to mobilize an army that can compete with the Ming** team. Moreover, this is an expedition, and the consumption of money and food is astronomical, and our finances are difficult to afford."

"Yes, Lord Arigu is right. If we draw a large army to expedition to Ryukyu, the country will inevitably be empty. Those anti-strait troops will definitely take the opportunity to attack our important towns. In that case, will we still need to transfer the expedition troops back?"

“…”

Almost all the officials in charge of civil servants disagreed with the expedition to Ryukyu because they did not have much chance of winning and the gain was not worth the loss.

"Sir, you don't need to mobilize the entire vassal system. As long as I give me 5,000 troops, I can defeat the so-called Ming Imperial Army and regain Ryukyu!...3,000, only 3,000!"

Okamura obviously wanted to avenge his friend, Kawayama, and his son, and his eyes turned red. He looked at the officials who opposed the troops and were very annoyed.

Aino shook his head and said, "Master Okamura, this time our opponent is not the cowardly Ryukyu people or pirates, but a regular army of the Ming Dynasty... The king of Huashan has been broken, which shows that the combat power of the Ming** team is far above my Satsuma. We have no confidence. Are we planning to send troops for a long time?..."

Okamura said disdainfully without waiting for Omiya to finish his speech: "The Ming** team came from afar. The more people their army were, the more fragile the food supply was. As long as our soldiers were brave, the Ming people would be difficult to last."

Okamura's words attracted the support of important officials of the war-oriented faction, and the hall caused another wave of war. You should know that in history, Japan has never been captured by troops from the mainland.

When Qingshui Xiu looked at the head of the family, he found that the head of the family seemed to have intentionally asked the senior officials of the family to discuss whether to send troops, and had no intention of interfering and stopping everyone.

He didn't say anything.

It was not until the furious Okamura and the people started arguing that Tadaoshi Shimazu looked at Shimizu Yuichi.

Qingshui understood the meaning of the head of the family and sang: "Everyone, if we send troops, no matter how much chance of victory we have, first of all, we will face the fact that the Ming army will be angry with Satsuma for this and then put the target of attack on us?"

"Ming is a giant beast. In the Guanbai era, Ming Dynasty only sent some troops and let Guanbai's army sigh. It is difficult to advance northward. Our Satsuma soldiers are only more than 10,000, so how can we be an opponent of Ming? I advise you to be rational and never destroy our foundation because of a momentary impulse."

“…”

The cautious speech of Kiyomizu-yi and other cautious delegation made the important officials of the war faction speech silence for a moment: Yes, if the Ming army does not send troops, the Ming army may not attack Japan, but if the Ming emperor is really angry, will Satsuma really need to resist a big country?

At this time, Tadahoshi Shimazu finally spoke, and he said, "Are you sure we will receive support if we face the great revenge of Ming Kingdom?"

The important officials were silent.

"Ryukyu is too far from Samoa. The intervention of the Ming people means that we have lost the opportunity to rule Ryukyu, but this does not mean that Samoa and the sea will be divided. If we touch the giant beast of Ming because of momentary anger and temporary interests, we may not have the kamikaze protected us."

After Shimazu Tadaeyoshi said that, he ignored the old and important officials of the family and turned around and walked to the screen, and then led by Xiao's surname to a secret room.

In the secret room, three people were kneeling.

Two people are typical Ming Dynasty clothing, while one person is Japanese clothes.

The three of them looked up at the Satsuma lord who was stepping into. One of them smiled slightly and pushed a letter in front of them to the Satsuma lord.

"If you can swear allegiance to our Emperor Ming, you will be appointed as the commander of the brigade of the First Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army. The Imperial Army promises not to infringe on your interests and signs a military alliance treaty with you to ensure that your territory is not invaded by the tyranny of the shogunate."
Chapter completed!