Chapter 1742: Japanese pirates invade coastal areas
Chapter 1742 Japanese pirates invade the coast
Chapter 1740: Japanese pirates invade the coast
Japanese pirates are thieves from the Japanese country, so they are called Japanese pirates.
Japanese country, also known as Japan.
Originally, the common people of the Han Dynasty did not like or dislike Japan, an island country in the East China Sea. They just regarded it as one of the small countries around them, so not many people cared about it at all.
However, it was not until three years ago that the Japanese envoys came to Luoyang for a pilgrimage and challenged the heroes of the Han Dynasty in more than 30 aspects of civil and military skills such as music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and song. Only then did the people of the Han Dynasty realize the ambitions of this East China Sea island country.
Of course, this challenge to the Japanese mission failed miserably. They only won three out of thirty challenges and failed in the other twenty-seven.
This incident inspired the people's national pride. Later, because most Japanese people were short, people often jokingly called Japan the Japanese country, in order to satirize the Japanese people for overestimating their own capabilities and being like a mantis.
The real purpose of the Japanese mission during the pilgrimage three years ago was to obtain technology from the Luoyang court. However, they failed in the end and had to shift their focus to obtain it from the major princes.
But the major princes are not stupid, and it is impossible to give it to a small country for nothing. In the end, the Japanese mission can only spend money to buy it.
The blockade of technology by other princes is not as strict as that of the Qin army. Each prince has a technology that he is good at, and it is naturally impossible to sell the technology that belongs to him, but the public technology can be sold.
Even though the Japanese mission paid a lot of money for the purchase, the princes still could not resist the temptation and sold a large amount of skills to the Japanese mission.
In the end, the Japanese mission bought papermaking technology from Cao Wei, steel forging technology from Zhao Song, and shipbuilding technology from Sun Wu... and also purchased a large amount of new grain types from the Ming army.
Although the Japanese mission spent a lot of gold and silver, they returned to Japan with a lot of technology.
These technologies are not top-notch in Dahan, they can only be regarded as second-level, but they are the most advanced technologies in Japan.
Soon, the Yamatai country to which the mission belonged, that is, the force to which Oda Nobunaga belonged, saw its strength surge due to these technologies, even surpassing the sum of other vassal states.
Yamatai is not the only country in Japan, but Yamatai is the largest country in Japan, so it is qualified to represent Japan.
In addition to Yamatai, Japan also has more than ten forces including Tokugawa Ieyasu, Akechi Mitsuhide, Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, Motonari Mouri, Sanada Yukishige, and Date Masamune.
Generally speaking, the situation in the four islands of Japan is actually more chaotic than that of the Han Dynasty.
Under the governance of Oda Nobunaga, Yamatai's national power grew rapidly, and Oda Nobunaga also took advantage of the increase in national power to begin to annex surrounding countries, and step by step embarked on a journey to unify the four islands of Japan.
With the support of advanced warfare technology and strong national power, Oda Nobunaga captured nearly half of the territory of Japan in just one year, forcing other princes to join forces to fight against his family.
At the same time, the powerful Oda Nobunaga changed Yamatai into the Japanese Empire and replaced his wife, Queen Yamatai Himiko, as the first emperor of the Japanese Empire.
The major princes of Japan also realized that the Yamatai Society became so powerful because they obtained advanced technology from China, so they also sent envoys to the Central Plains to purchase technology. This was also the most frequent exchange between Japan and China. Year.
The princes of the Central Plains were naturally willing to exchange backward technology for the gold and silver in the hands of the Japanese princes to seek development.
Even if the Central Plains princes are willing to sell, under the iron heel of Oda Nobunaga's army, the Japanese princes will not have much time to develop.
In addition, after a great war, both the Japanese Princes Alliance and Oda Nobunaga suffered losses, and the Japanese Empire recovered faster than the Japanese Princes Alliance. Once the Japanese Kingdom fully recovered, it would be difficult for other princes to survive.
Therefore, in order to protect themselves, the Japanese princes had no choice but to come up with the bad idea of plundering money and food from the Central Plains to quickly recover from the wounds of the war.
In the transactions with the Central Plains princes, the Japanese princes also knew clearly that the Central Plains princes were also in a warlord melee, and as long as they moved fast enough and ran away after the robbery, the Central Plains princes would not care about them at all. Can the princes of the Central Plains still send a large army to cross Fusang eastward and attack Japan Island?
Although the Central Plains princes are powerful, they cannot directly threaten them, but the threat of Oda Nobunaga is close at hand.
With this mentality, the Japanese princes headed by Tokugawa Ieyasu and Akechi Mitsuhide decided to send troops disguised as pirates to plunder money and food in the Sanhan and Central Plains areas.
"Everyone, among the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, the only coastal states are Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and Jiaozhou. Among them, Jiaozhou is too far away, so only five states can be plundered by us. "
Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at the other alliance members below and said in a deep voice: "In order to prevent conflicts caused by interests, we should all demarcate an area and grab what we each have. It is up to each of us to grab as much as we can."
“That’s a good idea.”
The big princes such as Akechi Mitsuhide and Uesugi Kenshin all agreed, but other small princes naturally did not dare and would not have any objections.
"good."
A flash of light flashed in Tokugawa Ieyasu's eyes, and he said with a faint smile: "In that case, Yangzhou will belong to my Tokugawa family."
“Why?”
Takeda Shingen, who had some grievances with Tokugawa Ieyasu, was the first to stand up and object, saying: "Among the five states of You, Ji, Qing, Xu, and Yang, Yangzhou is the most stable state, and the people must also be the richest. You Tokugawa Isn’t it too greedy for the whole family to just occupy Yangzhou as a plundering area?”
"Yeah yeah…"
Other princes agreed one after another.
Seeing this, Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately frowned and said, "If that's the case, then our Tokugawa family will only plunder the area north of Yangzhou. Is that okay?"
“That’s pretty much it.”
Takeda Shingen nodded with satisfaction, then pointed to the Xuzhou and Jianghuai areas and said: "This place belongs to my Takeda family."
“My Mingzhi family wants the area south of Yangzhou.” Mingzhi Mitsuhide said quickly.
"Then my Maori family will be responsible for Jizhou." Maoliyuan also rushed to speak.
“The Date family is responsible for Qingnan.” Date Masamune said.
Soon, except for Youzhou and Qingbei regions, all other regions were divided up.
The reason why no one chose Youzhou is because compared to other areas, Youzhou is too poor and there is not much money to be made.
The reason why no one chose Qingbei was because Qin Hao and Yuan Shao, the first and second most powerful princes in the Han Dynasty, all had territories in Qingbei, so they did not dare to provoke them easily.
Uesugi Kenshin started late. Everything he wanted to choose was taken by others. The only ones left were Youzhou and Qingbei. After hesitating for a long time, he finally chose the richer Qingbei. After all, he was starving to death and was a coward. The most daring ones.
Even Mao Liyuan dared to rob Jizhou, why didn't he dare to rob Qingbei?
After Uesugi Kenshin made his choice, Sanada Yukishige chose Yushu, while Hojo Tsunari could only choose the poorest Sanhan.
The fourth update is here, and I still owe two chapters in total, which I will finally pay off.
(End of this chapter)