Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

Chapter 849: Digging The Roots Of The Japanese Country, A Steady Stream Of Japanese Slaves [Please S

Under the temptation of the Ming army's promise to confer daimyo and emperor status, the emperors of the northern and southern dynasties, local guardian daimyo, retainers, generals, and Japanese warriors who had defected to the Ming army all burst out with incomparable enthusiasm.

Especially when Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the Muromachi shogunate gathered half a million Japanese warriors to defeat the Ming army, which numbered less than 100,000 people.

As a result, the Ming army killed nearly 300,000 people and captured more than 200,000 people. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu jumped into the sea to escape, and the news that his life and death were unknown came out.

Those Japanese who had taken refuge in the Ming army, as long as they were not blind, could basically see that the ship of the Muromachi Shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was definitely going to sink.

If you don't take advantage of the sinking of the Muromachi Shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to gain more benefits for yourself, then when will you wait?!!

Therefore, under such circumstances, those Japanese who had taken refuge in various Ming armies attacked the other Lingzhiguo and Japanese on Honshu Island even more heavily.

There is no way, as long as the Ming army is dispatched, the country that is targeted by the Ming army will basically be wiped out in a wave, without even a splash.

After all, even the Muromachi Shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who had gathered 500,000 Japanese warriors, were defeated by the Ming army. How could the rest of the country, which could not even gather 100,000 Japanese warriors, withstand the Ming army? Front.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the Japanese who had defected to the Ming army could not do anything else except stand aside as cheerleaders and shout cheers, and help escort the Japanese slaves at the end when the Ming army was fighting. .

And if they can't help the Ming army, then the Ming army will naturally not count their achievements.

And if the Ming army does not count their achievements, then when the Ming army withdraws from Honshu Island and rewards are based on merit, what achievements will they have that can make the Ming army reward them as daimyo, or even reward them as emperors?!!

Therefore, for the sake of their own status as daimyo, and even as emperor, these Japanese who surrendered to the Ming army said sincerely one by one:

"The Muromachi shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu were originally rebellious officials and traitors of the Japanese state. Now that the Tomorrow soldiers have arrived during the Labor Day, it is extremely inappropriate. How can we bother the Ming army to do it themselves again!"

"I also ask all your ministers and lords to hold the battle for us, and we will personally go and bring victory to the Ming Dynasty!"

Seeing these Japanese who took the initiative to conquer cities and territories for the Ming Dynasty, Prince Zhu Biao, King Zhu Fan of Jin, King Zhu Di of Yan, King Zhu Zhen of Chu, and King Zhu Bo of Qi were also happy.

In other words, this was the purpose they promised at the beginning by offering the position of a powerful official of the Japanese kingdom, the position of a daimyo, or even the position of emperor.

Although the Ming army relied on its sophisticated equipment, terrifying thermal weapons, high morale, and elite soldiers, when attacking other Lingzhi countries, it was basically able to defeat the casualties at a ratio of 100 to 1, or even 1,000 to 1. Pressure the situation.

But once on the battlefield, it is always difficult to completely avoid casualties when the sword has no eyes.

Therefore, in order to minimize the casualties of the Ming army, even just a little, it is a very good choice to use these Japanese who have taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty as consumables for the vanguard army.

Similarly, after the 500,000 Japanese samurai army of the Muromachi shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu were annihilated, some Japanese who had originally defected to the Ming army, but still had some shady thoughts hidden in their hearts, had to give up. Had some dirty thoughts.

Originally, this group of Japanese planned to secretly cooperate with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the Muromachi Shogunate after gaining the trust of the Ming army.

Or seize and break the tall and solid city built by the Ming army from the inside.

Or when the war between the Ming army and the Muromachi shogunate begins, they will switch sides, counterattack the Ming army, and trick the Ming army.

However, the premise of all this is that the 500,000 Japanese samurai army of the Muromachi shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu can win when they attack the Ming army.

In this case, it at least proves that the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and other Japanese local guardian daimyo can defeat the Ming army together.

And they also have the ability and hope to push the Ming Military Region team out of Honshu Island!

However, after the news came out that the 500,000 Japanese samurai army of the Muromachi shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu were completely annihilated, their hopes were completely shattered.

Instead, it made them realize that the Ming army was invincible!

Therefore, the thinking of this part of the Japanese people also changed, and turned into actively helping the Ming army to conquer other Lingzhiguo and Japanese people who did not surrender to the Ming army.

On the one hand, it was so that after the Ming army withdrew from Honshu Island, they could be given generous rewards when they were rewarded based on their merits.

On the other hand, it is also a fight. Anyway, the Ming army is irresistible. If this is the case, then why resist the Ming Dynasty?

It is better to surrender to the Ming army early and let the Ming army vent its anger, so that the Ming army can withdraw from Honshu Island as soon as possible after venting its anger.

The main idea is to die early and be reborn. The sooner you surrender, the sooner the Ming army will withdraw!

Although this idea sounds a bit difficult to understand, it still has a market among the Japanese.

At least a considerable number of Japanese people agreed with this idea, and some even used this idea to persuade other places that were still resisting to order the country to protect their names.

As for the other places that were still resisting, they could not help but feel shaken after hearing the reasons for this idea.

After all, what the other person said makes sense!!!

The Ming army is so powerful that even if they all unite, they cannot resist.

If we continue to resist forcefully, more innocent Japanese people will die.

Of course, the most important thing is that these noble daimyo, retainers, generals and Japanese warriors are also likely to die.

So what’s the point of continuing to resist like this?!!

It is better to surrender to the Ming army early and end the problem. In this case, he will be regarded as a meritorious minister on the side of the Ming army.

When the Ming army withdraws from Honshu Island and rewards are given based on merit, maybe I can get more rewards for this.

Moreover, what the Ming army wanted was nothing more than surrender and venting their anger.

If the Ming army is not allowed to surrender and vent its anger, then the Ming army will remain entrenched in the Japanese country and never leave.

And all the emperors of their Japanese country, as well as the guardians of the Lingzhi Kingdom in various places, will have a Ming army like Emperor Taishang.

Their life and death were all in the hands of the Ming army.

Everyone has to act based on Ming Jun's face.

But if the Ming army gets the surrender and anger they want, then the Ming army will naturally withdraw from the Japanese country with satisfaction.

By then, Japan will once again become their world!

So is it better to compromise for the time being and send away Ming, the God of Plague, on Tu Shen Day?!!

Or is it better to continue to resist stubbornly to the end, causing more unnecessary sacrifices and causing the Ming army to stay in Japan longer?!!

A considerable number of the local guardian daimyo of the Japanese country, after weighing the situation, silently comforted themselves in their hearts, saying that they did everything for the Japanese country and the people of the Japanese country, and finally chose the former.

As for the other Japanese local guardian daimyo who still chose the latter, there were naturally other Japanese who wanted to gain Ming military glory and attacked them.

Even in order to obtain more military merits, so that when the Ming army withdraws from the Japanese country and rewards for their merits, they can make themselves daimyo and emperor, they attack their own people.

On the contrary, it is even more cruel.

At least unless he encountered Japanese warriors who refused to surrender on the battlefield, under normal circumstances, Ming Dynasty would not kill those captured Japanese warriors.

But in order to frighten the Japanese who are still resisting in other places, these Japanese who want military glory will kill and capture prisoners on a large scale!

Because these Japanese Japanese who are seeking military glory, whether in terms of their numbers or weapons and equipment, it is difficult for them to form any advantage over other Japanese Japanese who are still resisting.

Therefore, under such circumstances, when these Japanese Japanese who are seeking military glory attack Japanese Japanese who are still resisting in other places, they often pay the price of huge casualties.

Therefore, in order to reduce their own casualties, these Japanese who wanted military glory would threaten the Japanese who were still resisting by killing prisoners and instilling fear in them.

In this way, the fighting will of those Japanese who are still resisting and controlled by local orders can be reduced, thereby reducing their own casualties.

And this method is indeed effective.

At least it is true that some of the Japanese who were in charge of the country put down their weapons and surrendered in fear after hearing the news that once they resisted, the whole country would be massacred after defeat.

Of course, there were a very small number of local Japanese who were still resisting stubbornly. After hearing such news, they became more and more aroused with the same hatred and hatred, and they all expressed that they would rather die than surrender.

No matter which situation it is, Daming is happy to see the outcome.

After all, if they choose to surrender, the captured Japanese will also be sent to them.

If you choose to resist stubbornly, it will be those Japanese who want to gain military glory from the Ming Dynasty to take the lead.

Anyway, no matter what, Ming Dynasty will not suffer in the end.

Therefore, under such circumstances, there would be anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousands (bhci) Japanese prisoners every day.

They were continuously transported from all directions to Mingzhou City where Prince Zhu Biao was located, Jinzhou City where Jin King Zhu Gang was located, Yanzhou City where Yan King Zhu Di was located, and Qibo City where Qi King Zhu Shu was on Honshu Island.

In this regard, it is not that the Japanese who defected to the Ming army wondered why the Ming army wanted so many Japanese prisoners.

However, the Ming army also gave several reasonable reasons:

On the one hand, the Ming army needed many Japanese prisoners to help the Ming army, and even helped the Japanese who had surrendered to their Ming army to build tall and strong cities.

On the other hand, if you capture those local kingdoms, but do not turn all the Japanese people into prisoners and take them into custody.

So as long as the rebellious ministers and traitors gather to make trouble again, the Japanese people may help the tyrants again at any time and become bandits who help the rebellious ministers and traitors to resist the Ming army.

So in this case, the best solution is to turn all the Japanese people into prisoners and take them into custody.

When the Ming army withdraws from Honshu Island in the future, these captured Japanese people will be distributed and rewarded to the Japanese who have Ming military merit according to the size of their respective achievements.

In this way, during this period, even if there were rebellious officials and traitors who wanted to gather together to cause trouble, they would not have enough Japanese people to listen to their orders.

Although this reason is not perfect, it is enough to shut up the doubtful Japanese.

After all, the situation is stronger than the people. When the Ming army is so powerful, you are willing to explain a little to them. What else do they want?!

In fact, the reason why the Ming army wanted to turn all the Japanese people into captive slaves and take them into the state cities they built respectively.

The most important purpose is to cut off the roots of the Japanese country!

As the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes who learned "Dragon Slaying Technique" from Yan Changqing, they know very well that the true foundation of a country lies in its people!

A country without the support of a large number of people

It is like a tree without roots or water without a source. When the wind blows, it disperses.

But as long as a country still has a large number of people, it doesn't matter if the country's emperor or the upper-level ruling class are all dead.

The huge number of people at the bottom will still elect the emperor to rule them, and the corresponding ruling class!

By then, this country will continue to grow and develop after a temporary setback.

Just like Japan, if the Ming Dynasty only killed the Muromachi shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, or the emperors of the northern and southern dynasties.

Then the remaining millions of Japanese people will still elect a new emperor of Japan, or a new general of Japan.

For Ming Dynasty, this is actually equivalent to changing the soup without changing the medicine.

And what Ming Dynasty wanted was a completely destroyed Japanese state, not a Japanese state that had changed the soup without changing the medicine.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the Ming Dynasty not only wanted to kill the Muromachi shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, but also wanted to hollow out the millions of Japanese people in the Japanese country!

Without the support of millions of Japanese people, even if the Muromachi Shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu still existed, or the emperors of the Northern and Southern Dynasties still existed, they could not be called the emperor of a country, or the general.

By then, there would be hundreds or thousands of Japanese samurai at most, and there would not even be a daimyo or emperor to support them among the Japanese people [which would be nothing more than a small local gangster at best].

Even without the Ming Dynasty taking action personally, they are likely to be destroyed due to various natural disasters!

That's why the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes asked the Japanese who had surrendered to the Ming army to escort all the Japanese people who had conquered Lingzhi country to the state cities they built.

Then a small number of Japanese slaves were left to be responsible for the construction of the city on the Japanese island of Honshu, and most of the other Japanese slaves turned around and were packed into the Ming Dynasty naval fleet.

Or transport them directly back to the Ming Dynasty, and then let these Japanese slaves bear the most dangerous and heaviest corvee construction in the Ming Dynasty.

Or they were sent directly to Busan, North Korea, and these slaves were also made to undertake the most dangerous and heaviest corvee construction in North Korea.

Even the nearly one million Japanese slaves on Kyushu Island who were conquered by Chu King Zhu Zhen, and the hundreds of thousands of Japanese slaves on Shikoku Island who were conquered by Qi King Zhu Shu, have now been emptied, packed and transported back to the Ming Dynasty to work as corvees. .

On Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island, in addition to about 10,000 Ming Dynasty soldiers stationed and suppressed, there are only a few thousand to 10,000 or 20,000 Japanese left. I don’t know which one of these two islands is hiding. Inside the corner.

With more than one million, you don’t have to worry about their life and death. You can give them food as you like, live if you can, and pull them out and bury them if you can’t.

The completion progress of various national infrastructure construction in the Ming Dynasty and in North Korea can be said to be extremely fast.

Although some Confucian scholar-officials said that this move was against benevolence and righteousness, Zhu Yuanzhang was never used to it.

You say it goes against benevolence and righteousness, that’s fine!

As long as you are willing, one person can be replaced by another!

We will free as many Japanese slaves as there are in your whole family, or even in your entire clan!

At that time, your whole family and clan will bear the corvee labor of those Japanese who were released!

Let's see if you can do what Confucianism calls "sacrifice your life for righteousness". If you can't, just shut up!

If you dare to beep again, we will let you do corvee work together!

After Lao Zhu's bad words, all the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats who had objections shut up.

After all, it's not enough to shut up. The other emperors said they would send them to do corvee work, maybe they were just talking about it.

But if Zhu Yuanzhang said that he would send them to do corvee labor, then it was really possible that he would send them to do corvee labor.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang was not an emperor who cherished his reputation.

After slandering all the Confucian scholar-officials in the country, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had tasted the benefits of low-cost Japanese slaves, wrote to his son:

"Son, hurry up, the Ming Dynasty still lacks a lot of Japanese slaves for construction!"

After receiving the letter from their old man, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes transported more Japanese slaves in larger quantities and faster.

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