With the end of the first five-year recovery period after the war, the Northeast issue has basically been stabilized, and food and oil are abundant in various places. The imperial military grain depot and Changping warehouses in various places also have sufficient surpluses, even if
It's okay to start a war.
This period in history roughly corresponds to the last years of Shunzhi. The weather and natural environment were already in the process of improving, and the intensity of the Little Ice Age was gradually weakening. Now the Ming Dynasty has finally been able to take full advantage of this wave of natural dividends.
In addition, when it comes to Shunzhi, I have to make a digression. Fulin died at the age of twenty-one, five years after surrendering to the Ming Dynasty. He lived five years longer than his elder brother Hauge.
No one doubted whether Fulin was murdered, and everyone thought that he died of natural causes - and there was a precedent for this kind of thing. When Zhao Kuangyin wore the yellow robe, he seemed to be so polite to Emperor Zhou Gong Chai Zongxun. Emperor Zhou Gong was an eight-year-old child, and finally
Didn't he live for another thirteen years and "died of natural causes of illness" at the age of twenty-one?
No one in the world had doubted the death of Emperor Zhou Gong. In this case, Fulin's death due to old age at the age of twenty-one was perfectly fine, and no thorns appeared in the process.
All the budding movements were killed by the Ming Dynasty Thunder. Anyway, the size of the Han people in Northeast China is now five times that of Manchuria and Mongolia. Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong are not vegetarian in building military camps in border areas. They just harvest the unstable parts of the people.
One crop.
After the situation was completely stabilized, at a year-end meeting at the end of the 15th year of Longwu, Zhu Shuren finally planned to deploy some new actions.
It’s enough to recuperate and recuperate. Occasionally, you should maintain your activity intensity on a small scale and stretch your muscles and bones.
He would not mess with a large-scale war, but as a follow-up extension of the war of conquest of Manchuria and Mongolia, it would still be possible to hold some nepotistic forces who were previously unclear about their involvement in the puppet Qing Dynasty accountable and not magnify the problem.
Did it.
The first person Zhu Shuren thought of who needed to be punished was some small forces in the Fuso area who were said to have violated the Ming ban and the Fuso shogunate ban ten years ago, trading with the pseudo-Qing Dynasty without authorization, and providing strategic support to the pseudo-Qing Dynasty.
One thing must be clarified here - it is not because Zhu Shuren, as a time traveler, has any special hatred and discrimination against the Fusang people, so he is looking for trouble. But at this time during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Fusang people of this era did indeed do something good.
The problem was grasped by Ming Dynasty due to various butterfly effects.
For this reason, during the local supervising debriefing process at the end of the year, Zhu Shuren recruited his younger brother Zheng Chenggong, who had been operating in the Liaodong Peninsula and Dajuan Island for five to ten years respectively, and told Zheng Chenggong his demands.
I wanted to take advantage of Zheng Chenggong's close relationship with the Fuso people to send a message to the other party, asking them to seriously deal with those traitors who "broke the Ming Dynasty's trade embargo against the Qing Dynasty in the past few years and provided the Qing Dynasty with strategic materials to deal with the Ming Dynasty."
When Zheng Chenggong first heard this request, he was still very confused: "When did the Fusang people support the puppet Qing Dynasty? They are not even close to each other. The trade along the coast of the Ming Dynasty is controlled by you and our family, the prince. The Fusang people are surrounded by
It is impossible to trade with the Qing Dynasty by land, right?"
However, Zhu Shuren had already obtained the evidence: "Why didn't you support it? The reason why Emperor Hauge of the late Qing Dynasty was able to return to the area under the jurisdiction of General Jilin to hold on and delay after the fall of Liaodong, which caused the Ming Dynasty to spend several more years to completely defeat the enemy.
One of the important reasons for cleaning up is that the Ezo barbarians of Fuso provided Ezo rice seeds to the pseudo-Qing!
In addition, I heard that the Ezo people not only live on Ezo Island, but also in the southern part of Kuye Island to the north of Ezo Island! The source of the rye seeds that Hauge obtained back then, according to my investigation, seems to be related to the Ezo people.
related!
Although these Ezo barbarians may not provide much food at the beginning, the seeds of new species are of great value! These things will multiply exponentially and will eventually have a major impact on the fate of the country and the pattern of the world!
If the Ezo barbarians hadn't violated the Ming Dynasty's Qing-related trade embargo on neighboring countries, causing the Qing Dynasty to reestablish a foothold in settlements on land that was originally unable to grow food on a large scale, the Ming Dynasty would have paid such a high price to win the victory.
The last remnants of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty?
Therefore, this account must be settled, and the Ezo people must at least pay a price equal to the loss in the final decisive battle between the Ming Dynasty and Hao Ge! They need to pay for the casualties in the final battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty! Otherwise, Hao Ge would have died in Shenyang.
Tooru has nowhere to run!"
This statement seems to be strong words, but it really makes sense logically.
It took Zheng Chenggong a long time to understand what his eldest brother was saying. At first, he subconsciously wanted to argue: The Eni people had no contact with the Ming Dynasty at all, and they had no agreement, so how could they breach the contract?
But he quickly thought: The Ezo people did not have an agreement with the Ming Dynasty, but the Fuso shogunate had an agreement with the Ming Dynasty. Although it was not a strict paper treaty, it was at least a gentleman's agreement.
Fuso has been closed to the outside world. Over the past few decades, there have been many restrictions on foreign trade. Only the Ming Dynasty, some North Korea, and the Dutch were granted trade contracts. Trade that is not included in the contracts is illegal.
Since the Ming Dynasty and the Fuso Shogunate had reached a tacit understanding, it was based on "the Fuso Shogunate can definitely fulfill its internal management commitments to the outside world, control its subordinates from messing around, and cannot make any money just for profit." Therefore, there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to specialize in
No explanation of details! It was because of trust that Ming didn’t say much!
Now, since the Fuso shogunate cannot control the Ezo people, Ming Dynasty will come to help control them!
What's more, Fuso's shogun has always been officially named "General Zhengyi", which means Ezo. It shows that even the emperor of Fuso has known since ancient times that the area they rule is a local "civilized area", excluding those "civilized areas"
"Barbarians", so the shogunate wanted to "conquer the barbarians", and this "barbarians" were never completely conquered, so they were not subjects of Emperor Fuso.
Therefore, it can indeed be said that Hokkaido and Fuso in the 17th century were two countries in legal terms! Similar to the relationship between the Ming and Qing Dynasties! One was relatively civilized and the other was relatively barbaric.
Since Fuso couldn't control the barbarians in the northern part of its archipelago, which caused the barbarians to collude with the barbarians in Northeast China, and also jeopardized the Ming Dynasty's process of pacifying the traitors, then the Ming Dynasty would help the Fuso people to control the Ezo people and wipe out the Ezo!
What's more, in terms of ethnic composition, the Ezo people at that time were closer to the aboriginal people of Kuye Island further north, and farther away from the main ethnic group of Fuso Island.
Zheng Chenggong felt that the prince's request was very reasonable and was not a blind attempt to be militaristic. He humbly accepted the task, but asked again out of caution:
"Then what if the Fuso shogunate doesn't accept this warning and still wants to solve the problems that the Ezo people can't control on their own?"
Zhu Shuren: "Then there is nothing to say. Our Ming Dynasty has no choice but to convince people with reason - and I will let the Fuso Shogunate know that the more it refuses to accept our Ming Dynasty's courtesy, the more accounts will be settled!
As far as I know, the Satsuma clan of the Fuso people forced Ryukyu, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, to pay tribute to it more than thirty years ago! Over the past thirty or forty years, I heard that Ryukyu has gradually been replaced by Satsuma.
The vassal encroachment is actually gradually equivalent to the subjugation of the country!
If the Fuso Shogunate does not allow me to resolve the Ezo rebel forces on our own, then we will also settle the issues of Ryukyu and Satsuma Domain! If we still resist, then we will find another excuse! I believe the Tokugawa family will understand the current affairs!
The more you resist them, the more crimes you will be accused of! The more profits you will lose in the end! Only by admitting your mistakes can you stop the losses in time!"
Zhu Shuren also knew that as time came to the second half of the 17th century, the troubled times in Fusang Kingdom had ended.
However, the population within Fuso has expanded and the situation of samurai overstaffing has not yet occurred. It is estimated that it will take at least another hundred years before the samurai will be dissatisfied with the Edo shogunate because they are multiplying more and more. The current national identity within Fuso is
A relatively intense period.
Therefore, if it were the early Ming Dynasty, or the later 19th century in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the chances of winning against Fusang would be higher. But now in the 17th century, attacking Fusang would most likely drag the Ming Dynasty into the quagmire.
The Ming Dynasty has only been completely peaceful for five years, so it should not be rashly involved in such a big quagmire.
For the time being, only in terms of Ming Dynasty's absolute control, cutting off a little bit of interests is the way to minimize the cost and maximize the benefits. Although it will not be possible to attack Honshu Island, it will not be able to obtain the main strategic resources of Fuso (in fact, Fuso has no strategic resources.
It is a gold, silver, and copper mineral resource that is found in volcanic islands, but not others)
Moreover, both Sado Gold Mountain and Iwami Silver Mountain have been discovered to be mined. The peak production of these two places was around the beginning of the 17th century, that is, thirty or forty years ago, when the Edo shogunate had just unified Fuso. Now it has
Weiwei started to go downhill.
Fuso people will definitely risk their lives to protect this kind of cash cow. The price to capture it is too high. However, the benefits are far less than those of picking up leaks when these mines have just been discovered and their potential has not been fully exposed.
But even if we don't take the main island of Fuso, if we can take Ezo, take back Ryukyu, or even take Kyushu as a punishment, it will be very beneficial to the future strategic situation of the Ming Dynasty.
Because Zhu Shuren has developed the Northeast and managed it well, he will definitely make good use of the Northeast's estuaries in the future. The respective estuaries of the Tumen River and Songhua River must be used, and Vladivostok near the Tumen River estuary must also be developed.
This resulted in the Ming Dynasty needing the northeastern ports to not be blocked by the first island chain when breaking through the Sea of Japan. If Kuye Island is captured and then Ezo is captured, then the waterway between Ezo, Kuye Island, and Chiba Islands will be completely
It became the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty.
In the future, when it develops into the era of modern civilization, Ming Dynasty will also be able to break through the first island chain in the direction of the Sea of Japan from its own absolute territorial waters.
At the same time, if the original development inertia is followed, if the Ming Dynasty only holds one Damuan Island, it is not safe enough to completely break through the first island chain in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, because in the waters on both sides of the Damuan Island, the Ming Dynasty
The existence is not strong enough.
But if Ryukyu, which was just destroyed by Fuso a few decades ago, is taken back, and by the way, if Kyushu is taken back punitively, the situation will be completely different. By then, the sea area from Taiyuan Island to Kyushu will be occupied by the Ming fleet.
Free access to your own backyard on the first island chain.
In contrast, ships from other countries, after entering the civilized era, will no longer be able to enter the East China Sea or the Yellow Sea from places like the Miyako Strait. The entire East China Sea will be wrapped up and become the absolute inland sea of the Ming Dynasty.
The three places that Zhu Shuren is interested in were not of great value in the era of land power. However, with the logic of world development and entering the era of sea power, the importance of these strategic security guarantee points will become more and more prominent.
It just so happened that the Fuso man opposite had not yet awakened and was not in much pain after being cut, so he completed the resection surgery. It would be a matter of "since ancient times" in the future.
As for how to deal with Fusang in the future, that can be left to future generations, and I believe in the wisdom of future generations. If the Fusang people continue to collude with other forces to fight against the Ming Dynasty, of course they will be further punished.
But there is no reason yet, so Ming Dynasty can stick to the principle of "I will not offend others unless they attack others". This is to prevent Ming Dynasty from becoming inferior and enjoying the benefits, and being unable to apply the brakes when it is over-expanded.
With the dead leaves of Kyushu, Ryukyu, and Ezo in hand, even if the Ming Dynasty had to deal with Fuso again, it would no longer have to cross thousands of miles of sea for an expedition, and the logistical difficulty would be reduced countless times.
There is only a strait between Ezo and the main island, and Kyushu and the main island, which is only a short dozen to dozens of miles apart. If it really wanted to take action, Ming could completely hoard enough troops and food in Kyushu and Ezo in advance, and then take action.
There is no need to cross the sea again during the war.
If they can't win in this way, then Zhu Shuren can only wonder if the IQ and execution ability of the descendants are too poor. Their ancestors gave them such a good hand, so it shouldn't be a problem.
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After Zhu Shuren gave his instructions, the specific execution was of course left to Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen.
These two people are basically at the top of the Ming Dynasty's military marquises, and Zheng Chenggong is only in his thirties, and Zhang Mingzhen is only in his forties and less than fifty. They are also Zhu Shuren's early confidants, so who doesn't want to give it a try?
I am striving to be granted the title of Duke of the country during my lifetime.
Zhu Shuren started his career in the south, so he had many naval generals among his early confidants. These two people were representatives of the naval power. For the future development of sea power in the Ming Dynasty, and also to encourage the aspiring young people of the Ming Dynasty to march into the sea in the future, they should acquire some naval generals.
Being granted the title of Duke can also have the effect of inspiring future generations.
In Zhu Shuren's mind, apart from these two people, there was only one Li Dingguo left who had the hope of continuing to make contributions and become a public official after the unification of the Ming Dynasty.
Zheng Chenggong planned the rhythm of the operation and made preparations for a solution by force. Then he dispatched his younger brother who stayed in Fuso, Tagawa Nanzaemon, according to Zhu Shuren's request.
As the intermediary between the Ming Dynasty and Fuso for the first time, he brought a message to Tokugawa Ietsuna, the fourth shogun of the Edo shogunate.
Although Tagawa Shichizaemon's surname is that of his mother's Tagawa clan, he still regards himself as a Han after all. He is even more proud of his paternal lineage, Zheng Zhilong. Therefore, when he offered conditions to Tokugawa Ietsuna, he did not feel that he was betraying his country.
The original relationship between the Zheng family and the Edo shogunate was not bad. After all, they had monopolized Fuso's trade with China for many years. The negotiation proposed this time was considered to have a reason.
After Tokugawa Ietsuna heard the news, he was indeed shocked, but he did not dare to embarrass Tagawa Nanzaemon.
"What? The Ming Dynasty actually accused the Ezo barbarians of having maintained transactions with the Puppet Qing Dynasty for many years and violated the Ming Dynasty's embargo?"
"Ezo rice is not considered a strategic material! It is just a rice variety that can be grown in cold areas. How can the local authorities be blamed for the spread of species?
Besides, hasn’t the Puppet Qing Dynasty been defeated by the Ming Dynasty now? Why bother to settle old scores like this! Although Ezo rice was planted by Hauge’s Puppet Qing Dynasty at the beginning, it is now cheaper for you Ming Dynasty. Isn’t the Ming Dynasty also in the Northeast?
Do you plant a large amount of Ezo rice outside Sekiswan? Calculating it this way, I, the Ezo people of Fuso, are still kind to the Ming Dynasty!"
Of course the Ming envoy could not accept the Fusang people's argument.
The Ming Dynasty immediately stated righteously that even if it was based on the principle of reciprocity, Fuso's Satsuma clan dared to seize Ryukyu, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, thirty years ago, forcing Ryukyu to pay tribute to Satsuma instead, and even gradually annexed Ryukyu.
And the current state of Ezo cannot be considered as the actual control of the Fuso shogunate. At most, it is a vassal that has surrendered in name! And since the shogunate cannot control this vassal, causing it to collude with the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty must take care of it!
Totally reasonable and legal!
After saying these words, Zhang Mingzhen led the Ming Dynasty's Northern Fleet and prepared to attack Ezo on his own.
The Ming Dynasty's Southern Fleet led by Zheng Chenggong was preparing for war on Daiyu Island, keeping an eye on Ryukyu and Satsuma.
Once the Edo shogunate dares to support and counterattack the north, Zheng Chenggong will retaliate in the south!