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Chapter 1044 – 1040【Surrender Loses Half】

Chapter 1044 1040【Surrender loses half】

Sakai Takayoshi is under house arrest for the shogun. He must cover it up and not send too many soldiers to watch.

There are more than 300 daimyos and banners led by Tadaaki Abe. They rushed in with their sabers in hand, and a group of daimyo ran in front of them, who were in charge of guarding the samurai guarding the shogun, and they didn’t know what to do in an instant.

Are you going to shoot at a group of big names?

Killing so many big names, no matter what happened afterwards, the samurai who shot must be punished and executed.

The samurai had to lay down their weapons and get out of the way, allowing Tadaaki Abe to lead people into the Great Tenshu.

Tokugawa Ietsuna heard the movement, and shouted inside: “Sakai Tadakiyo is a traitor, please rescue me quickly!”

A group of daimyo were even more excited, and ran in with their knives in hand, welcoming the shoguns, pro-vassals, and genealogists out.

Tokugawa Ietsuna regained his freedom, and was so wronged that he cried directly. He held Abe Tadaaki’s hands and said that he would reward loyal ministers.

Tokugawa Mitsuki asked: “Has the Tang army attacked the city?”

Abe Tadaaki nodded and said, “The outermost city wall has been breached.”

Tokugawa Ietsuna was shocked, and hurriedly said: “Hurry up and surrender, otherwise the Tang army will kill all the Tokugawa family and support the Supreme Emperor to regain power.”

“The Supreme Emperor?” Abe Tadaaki was taken aback for a moment.

Tokugawa Mitsuki explained: “The Emperor Taishang is in the hands of the Tang army. It is because of this that Sakai Tadakiyo wants to put the General under house arrest.”

The crowd hurried out of the Great Sky Guard, and were about to send someone to ask for peace, but they saw a samurai running up: “The city wall has fallen again!”

Abe Zhongqiu asked quickly, only to find out that the third city wall was gone.

Tokugawa Ietsuna’s legs were so frightened that his legs were weak, he didn’t care that the two walls inside were stronger and more dangerous, he only knew that half of Edo Castle had been occupied by the Tang army, so he hurriedly said: “Uncle, you know the general of the Tang army, you should hurry up and see it yourself.” Please surrender.”

Mitsuki Tokugawa had no choice but to bite the bullet and take orders.

Tokugawa Ietsuna said again: “Also, arrest the traitor Sakai Tadakiyo!”

This shogun, although weak and sick, doesn’t care about anything, but after all, his status is there.

He personally ordered, no one dared to defy.

Not long after, Sakai Tadaki and a few confidantes were escorted over to kneel on the ground.

At this moment, the two sides have temporarily ceased fighting. The shogunate defenders are deploying the second wall of defense, and the Datong Army is also preparing for the next attack.

Mitsuki Tokugawa came down with a rattan basket hanging, and walked towards the Datong army alone.

Soon he was arrested and went to see Huang Fei, who asked, “What are you doing here?”

Tokugawa Mitsuki explained: “That day, I brought a letter to the city. The general intended to offer the city to ask for peace, but was put under house arrest by the treacherous minister Sakai Tadaki. Now that the general has been rescued, the shogunate is willing to negotiate peace. Your Excellency, please suspend the attack.”

Huang Fei sneered: “I am halfway through the siege, and you actually asked me to stop? Who will uphold justice for my dead and wounded soldiers?”

When the Datong Army occupied the third city wall, they were bombarded by artillery shells from the commanding heights. Now the casualties have reached more than 110 people.

If you really want to storm the remaining two city walls, the final casualties are likely to be thousands, or even two thousand, because the difficulty of attacking the city is also multiplying. When Tokugawa Ieyasu built the city, he put in so much effort that no one in Japan could break through Edo Castle.

Huang Fei didn’t want to add fearless casualties, but he had to do enough.

Tokugawa Mitsukaki said quickly: “The shogunate will definitely pay heavily to the warriors of the Chinese dynasty who died heroically in battle.”

“Is the old man short of that little pension? You can’t live after death!” Huang Fei became more and more angry.

Tokugawa Mitsuki could only bow his hands together: “Please calm down, General.”

Huang Fei accepted as soon as he saw the deal: “Peace talks are fine, let the shogun come out in person to ask for surrender, otherwise I will fight in by myself today!”

“Please wait a moment.” Tokugawa Mitsuki went back and returned.

Hearing that he was going to surrender himself, Tokugawa Ietsuna never dared to, and kept shaking his head there.

Tokugawa Tsunashige persuaded: “My lord, even if you don’t go out, Tang Jun will come in after you surrender.”

Tokugawa Ietsuna thought about it carefully, and it was indeed such a truth, so he went out with his daimyo in fear.

Huang Fei also came to the scene in person. Seeing that Tokugawa Jiazuna was just bowing, he immediately sneered: “I am a general, and you are also a general. I am the victor and you are the loser. Why don’t you kneel when you ask me to surrender? This is like asking for surrender.” Does it look like?”

Tokugawa Ietsuna didn’t understand Chinese, he could only write Chinese characters, and Tokugawa Mitsukyu hurriedly translated.

Want to kneel down by yourself?

Tokugawa Ietsuna turned to look at the daimyos, under the watchful eyes of everyone, he really couldn’t hold back his face.

Once you kneel down, not only will you lose your prestige, but the shogunate and your children and grandchildren will also lose face. From now on, the daimyos of the feudal domains will not be so easy to manage, and the daimyos will no longer take the shogun seriously.

What if you don’t kneel?

Tokugawa Iezuna left the city to surrender, but the surroundings were all Chinese troops, so could he go back swaggeringly?

Tokugawa Ietsuna felt extremely humiliated, gritted his teeth, knelt down and kowtowed and said, “Iegang, please surrender!”

When the daimyos behind saw this, they all knelt down too, and knelt down on the ground.

“Get up.” Huang Fei let out a bad breath and calmed down.

Tokugawa Ietsuna hadn’t fully stood up when he heard Huang Fei say, “I’ve occupied two city walls, and the terms of the peace talks are different from before.”

Tokugawa Ietsuna’s heart tightened, he squeezed out a smile and said, “Just ask the general.”

Huang Fei said, “This is out of my control.”

Dai Sheng, a diplomat of Honglu Temple, stepped forward and said, “Let’s go to the castle tower of Edo Castle to talk.”

Edo Castle, the Great Castle, the power center of Japan.

Huang Fei sat in the main seat, followed by Dai Sheng, and the shogunate of the defeated side could only sit down.

Dai Sheng said: “The shogunate’s stubborn resistance caused our army to suffer heavy casualties. First, the families of the dead and injured soldiers must be compensated; second, those who ordered to defend to the death must be severely punished!”

Tokugawa Ietsuna quickly said: “Sakai Tadakiyo and his treacherous party all committed seppuku!”

Dai Sheng continued: “16 million military compensation, not a penny less. If the cash is not enough, it will be converted into gold. If the gold is not enough, it can be paid in installments, but the delayed silver will have to pay interest.”

“Didn’t you say 6 million kan before?” Iezuna Tokugawa’s heart was bleeding.

Dai Sheng asked: “Can negotiating in the city be the same as negotiating outside the city?”

Sixteen million guan, that is four million taels of silver, the shogunate is not enough to sell the iron, so I am afraid they have to start with the rich merchants in Sandu.

Tokugawa Ietsuna couldn’t refuse, so he could only say with hatred: “Angel, please continue to talk.”

Dai Sheng said: “Before, only ten ports were required to be opened, but now Japan must fully open the sea!”

Tokugawa Ietsuna nodded: “Yes.”

Dai Sheng said: “The rest of the terms remain unchanged.”

Tokugawa Ietsuna breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Hoopoe would speak loudly again.

No matter how outrageous the terms, Tokugawa Iezuna couldn’t refuse. Because the Datong Army controls the two emperors, they can cut down the Tokugawa family in Edo Castle at any time, and then bring the emperor to control the power.

At that time, civil war will definitely break out.

Those daimyos who support the Tokugawa family, as well as the Tokugawa family’s pro-vassals and generations, will inevitably fight with the daimyos who “support the emperor”.

After the two parties signed the contract, it was time to watch the seppuku ceremony.

Tokugawa Ietsuna hated Sakai Tadaki to death, and he was not allowed to use the wrong person in the ceremony.

There was no intermediary, and the whole process was brutal.

Sakai Zhongqing held the ribs with trembling hands, rubbed it several times, and finally stabbed it into the lower abdomen. He wanted to pull the knife again to end the pain early, but his hands couldn’t exert any strength. Reluctantly pulled it to the side, already crying in pain. Slow down and come again, just opened a small hole, and the pain was so painful that I dared not move anymore.

Huang Fei looked bored: “Don’t worry about it, just cut it with a knife.”

Tokugawa Ietsuna hurriedly chose a wrong person, and let Sakai Tadakiyo, who was curled up on the ground, knelt down again. A sip of sake was sprayed on the blade, and compared to the neck, the light of the blade flashed, and the head fell to the ground.

Sakai Tadakiyo’s son, and those confidantes, lined up to commit seppuku.

The Sakai family was completely liquidated afterwards, and the fiefdoms were assigned to the relatives of the Tokugawa family, and a small part of them became the direct jurisdiction of the shogunate.

Abe Tadaaki was promoted to the boss because of his meritorious service in rescuing Kaka.

Abe Tadaaki belonged to the reformers. He didn’t think about drastic reforms, but believed that samurai and ronin should work. Especially ronin, they can no longer idle around, but how to arrange work is not easy to figure out.

The old man quickly issued a decree, announcing that the ronin can engage in any job, as long as the ronin has the heart to do business, the big names from all over the place will not be able to stop him.

To be honest, it means a lot, but it has little effect.

At the same time, Abe Zhongqiu began to investigate the rich merchants in Sandu. Except for the wealthy merchants who were covered by the shogun, other wealthy merchants suffered heavy losses, and were frequently labeled as colluding with Tadaki Sakai, forcing the wealthy merchants to hand over enough gold and silver for atonement.

The search for merchants with such great fanfare is all to pay war reparations.

Four million taels of silver, a hard-working businessman, the shogunate can still take it out.

It’s just that after this battle, the prestige of the shogunate was greatly lost, and the local lords no longer took the shogunate seriously. Although he still complies on the surface and comes to live in Edo every other year, and his family members also live in Edo for a long time, but in private, the obedience and injustice are even more serious.

Four million taels of war indemnity, which is a huge amount in Japan at this time. The rich merchants gave more than half of it, and the shogunate had to pay for the rest. It was already in financial distress, and now it has to step up its efforts to exploit the people.

The increasingly heavy taxation has made Japanese insightful people more and more dissatisfied with the shogunate, and at the same time feel that they should learn from China in an all-round way.

It is very interesting to say that all the “culprits” are China. But the Japanese do not hate China, but worship China’s strength more and more. Even those big names are more enthusiastic about buying Chinese products, and they even ask Chinese merchants about Nanjing fashion.

The former progressive daimyo Abe Tadaaki became the representative of backward daimyos, but his **** decided his head after he became the boss. He had to maintain the stability of his rule. He frantically suppressed people of insight, and dozens of books were added to the list of banned books. However, he also knew that Japan should learn, so he sent twenty envoys to Tang Dynasty in one go, and sent those young people to study in Nanjing.

Learn what?

Of course it is to study steam engines and the like, only to study technology, not politics.

Another person was injured, that is the lord of the Matsumae domain.

He ate and drank delicious food in Hokkaido, and somehow saw a Chinese warship, saying that Hokkaido had been incorporated into China. As for him, the feudal lord, he was temporarily appointed as the magistrate of Ezo, and he must immediately take a Chinese name.

(end of this chapter)