Chapter 898 Japan (Chinese)

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‘The five peaks are coming out, and the world is obeying!’ This domineering short sentence has gradually faded away with the old ship owner Wang Zhi’s death in the late Jiajing year, and turned into yellowed memories on paper. However, life still needs to continue. Later, people either followed or resisted the route he drew, and continued to stage new history.

In his later years, Wang Zhi appointed his parent-child Wang Cheng, who had just been in the sea for a few years, to inherit his sphere of influence in the sea area of ​​"Taiwan-***-Korea-Shandong". He also knew that Wang Cheng had little experience and could not suppress those generals who had been licking blood for the entire life and were respected by the strong. Perhaps it was because of his old age, or perhaps it was because he was worried that once there were not many old friends, his huge power would be even more uncontrollable. So he did not choose the most thorough way - to eliminate the roots, but instead sent Mao Haifeng to Luzon, let Ye Bichuan and Wang Qingxi station in Taiwan, and let Wang Cheng be in charge of the Five Islands Islands Base Camp in Matsuurazu, in order to establish authority for him as soon as possible.

When Wang Zhi was alive, Ye Bichuan, Wang Qingxi and others obeyed Wang Cheng's orders very much, and even Wang Cheng ordered them to return to Hirado Island, which made Wang's father and son breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that the handover had been successfully completed. He was also worried that after the two people died, their tribes who remained on Taiwan Island would lose control, Wang Zhi did not allow Wang Cheng to attack the two and let them go back.

In the 45th year of Jiajing, Wang Zhi passed away, and the two of them immediately revealed their true colors. They no longer obeyed Wang Cheng's orders, and threatened and tempted small and medium-sized leaders from all walks of life. They claimed that the thirty-six princes "climbed to Taiwan Island". They openly claimed that Wang Chengde was not convinced and asked to re-elect the leader, and respect the strongest.

Wang Cheng was furious when he heard the news and announced that King Ye and the other two were rebellious. He ordered people to arrest their family members who were staying on Hirado Island. He found that they had already left the house and it was obvious that the other party had planned for a long time.

The clouds of war enveloped the East China Sea, and both sides adopted the method of robbing each other's fleet in order to weaken the enemy and strengthen themselves. However, in this way, the fleet entering and leaving the fleet was greatly threatened and suffered heavy losses. The Matsuura family, which formed an alliance with the Wang family, was threatened by the overlord of Kitakyushu Ryuzaoji family, had to put pressure on Wang Cheng, demanding that he immediately end the chaos and restore the safety of the route, otherwise he would have to withdraw from the *** and hand over the route to the ***.

Under pressure, in the winter of the first year of Longqing, Wang Cheng sent his clan brother Wang Sheng, generals Xie He, Fang Tingzhu and others to lead more than 300 warships to Taiwan and directly attack Ye Bichuan's nest in Keelung. The two of Ye Wang were prepared and gathered more than 200 warships to meet the enemy. Wang Cheng had no combat experience, but the Wufeng Fleet, which had strong combat power, was obeying his command; although the warships of King Ye's troops could not be compared with them in quantity and quality, they had extremely rich naval combat experience. The two sides fought fiercely for several days, and the loss was very large. Because the Ye Wang's troops were backed by the base, their energy sources were constantly supplied, and finally repelled the Wufeng Fleet, which had never been defeated in history. Wang Sheng was also killed in this battle, which was a heavy blow to Wang Cheng.

After that, the morale of the Ye Wang coalition army was high and took the initiative, basically putting the Wufeng Fleet in the country. Wang Cheng's internal and external pressure increased sharply, and doubts about his ability were also rampant. From time to time, generals defected and defected with warships. In the spring of the following year, Xie He was unfortunately killed in a raid. Wang Cheng's fleet had also lost half of it. He completely lost the courage to defeat the enemy alone and had to ask for help from Mao Haifeng, who was far away in Luzon.

At this time, Mao Haifeng was no longer the same as before. He relied on the "China-Luzon-America" ​​route and accumulated huge wealth in a few years. With good relationships with the Ming Dynasty and the Nanyang Company, he could continue to purchase new warships. In just a few years, he had already replaced his guns and became a powerful maritime force.

When drinking water and thinking about the source, Mao Haifeng was still very grateful to his adoptive father. He never dared to forget Wang Zhi's instructions before his death. After receiving silent approval, he led the fleet north to join forces with Wang Cheng, and defeated the Ye Wang coalition. However, the Ye Wang and the others were long-time generals after all. Seeing that things were not good, they led the crowd to flee far away and waited for Mao Haifeng to leave before returning to the army.

Faced with such a situation, people with a slightly delicate mind may be in a dilemma, but a man like Mao Haifeng is most suitable for dealing with this situation. He said to Wang Cheng directly, "*** is too dangerous, you can't hold on, and I can't come back to save you." Why don't we change it, go to my place, and I'll come to you."

Wang Cheng was petrified at that time. It was really a wolf at the front door and a tiger at the back door, but the situation was stronger than the people. What could he say? Don’t agree? Mao Haifeng slapped his butt and left, and the Ye Wang coalition could come back in a blink of an eye. Fortunately, Luzon’s life was really good. Didn’t you see Mao Haifeng go there for a few years? Just to be at peace, Wang Cheng could only put away his unwillingness and pack up his things and lead the crowd to the south... The people who make a living at sea are convinced of the strong. Wang Cheng is so cowardly, so they will naturally not follow him anymore. In the end, he only took half of the capable and powerful people, and they stayed behind Mao Haifeng.

Seeing this, Wang Qingxi and Ye Bichuan, in addition to secretly scolding him for taking the opportunity to pick peaches, they also no longer cursed them and sent envoys to seek peace. Mao Haifeng did not want to kill each other, so he accepted a truce. In the autumn of this year, a tripartite alliance was held in Shanghai to make peace for Wang Cheng and Ye Wang. More than a year after the war, both sides tasted the harm of killing each other in an environment surrounded by strong enemies. So they re-concluded the alliance, continued to unite the Wufeng, and decided that the three families would take turns to be the banker. The leader of the alliance was once every five years, and Mao Haifeng was elected as the first leader.

After sorting out the civil strife, Mao Haifeng focused on gaining a foothold in the ***. This was not a difficult thing, because first of all, the *** people always regard the strong as the most respected, and Wang Cheng was not tenable before because he was not strong enough. Secondly, he was Wang Zhi's adopted son and Wang Zhi's confidant general. He was very familiar with the Matsuura family. In theory, the other party should be happy to accept him as a strong man to protect the route of foreign trade.

However, difficulties do exist - the new sect leader of the Matsuura family, the Ryuzakuji family, one of the three powerful vassals of Kyushu Island, did not welcome him. The head of the Ryuzakuji family was Ryuzakuji Takanobu with legendary experience. He was a neighbor of the Ryuzakuji family. When he was sixteen, his father and grandfather were killed for rebellion to protect Daming Shao Ye Dongshang. He and his great-grandfather fled to the Chigo Kingdom. With the support of the Puchi family and Yoshitaka Ouchi family, they finally revived the Ryuzakuji family, defeated Shao Ye Dongshang, forced him to commit suicide, and replaced it and became the guardian Daimai Daimai. Through the east and west struggles, they continued to expand, becoming one of the three powerful vassals that stood in a state of Kyushu. The Matsura family, which occupied the Matsura family, had to bow down and surrender.

The special experience created the Ryuzoji Takanobu's cold, cruel, despicable, cunning, and ambitious personality. In order to realize his dream of unifying Kyushu, Ryuzoji had long wanted to annex the Matsuura family and occupy Hirado Castle. He was only worried about the powerful Five Peak Fleet, so he did not dare to attack the Matsuura family. That's why he contacted Daming from Kyushu Island and put pressure on the Matsuura family to drive the Ming Dynasty out of the ***.

The head of the Matsuura family, Takanobu Matsuura, has been a daimyo for decades. How could he not see the truth here? He confessed his predicament to Mao Haifeng and expressed helplessly that because of the other party's identity as a foreigner, he did not dare to do too much even if he had the intention to protect him.

After hearing Takashi Matsuura's difficulties, Mao Haifeng burst into laughter and said, "Don't worry, Ryuzaoji will soon change his attitude!"

As expected, the rapid rise and ugly Ryuzaoji family finally attracted the attention of the Otomo family, the overlord of Kyushu Island. In the third year of Longqing, the Otomo family leader, Tomo, personally led an army of 60,000 to set up a formation in Kaorai Mountain, and the army that obeyed Ryuzaoji's command had only 5,000 people. The army was approaching, and the people of the Himeqian who had already surrendered to the Ryuzaoji family left one after another. In desperation, Ryuzaoji could only bribe Maori Mori and attack the Otomo family's territory, Tomomaki, and then they were able to negotiate peace and stop the troops.

After this incident, Ryuzaoji's attention was attracted by Dayou's family, and his attitude towards Mao Haifeng also changed greatly because he realized that he had to support the Matsuura family and the Mingguo maritime merchants who were focused on business, so that he could get more money and get more material support faster and more than other princes, especially advanced muskets and artillery. This was definitely a great advantage that made people jealous in the Warring States Period when warring endless wars.

So he married his second daughter to Takashi Matsuura's grandson, formed a solid alliance with him, and became sworn brothers with Mao Haifeng, making an appointment to share wealth. Mao Haifeng did not expect such cheap brothers, but even for the sake of more convenient selling of arms, he did not need to refuse such requests.

In the fourth year of Longqing, Otomo's army sent another 60,000 troops to attack the Ryuzoji family. After intense preparations for the war, the Ryuzoji army was able to gather 20,000 people. Although the number was still at a disadvantage, the equipment was better than the opponent. In the end, Ryuzoji Takanobu launched a surprise attack and defeated Otomo's army. After the war, Ryuzoji Takanobu took the initiative to seek peace, and then the Ryuzoji family nominally obeyed the Otomo's family, but in fact, it had laid the foundation for the three-legged structure of Kyushu.

During the war, the Otomo family realized that the Ryuzaoji family had advanced weapons, so they sent someone to find Mao Haifeng and bought arms at high prices. Mao Haifeng naturally would not consider the feelings of his cheap brothers. No matter who the customer was, as long as they had money, various types of guns and cannons were open to supply.

As a result, the Qianye family could not sit still, so they could only open their money bags and join the arms race. Mao Haifeng's reputation spread to the major princes with the three companies' purchases. In this era, the materials were scarce but in the era of large-scale mining of gold and silver mines, and they were really poor enough to be left with money. The goods sold to Mao Haifeng, whether muskets, swords, armor, raw silk, cotton cloth, and tea, were all booked for a few years, but the payment for the goods was paid in full at the moment of placing an order, which made Mao's accountants count the money and cramps. His income was actually several times higher than when he was in Luzon. It can be seen that no matter how good the business was, you had to have the ability to do it.

In order to cope with the long-term order surplus, Mao Haifeng ordered the latest warships and armed merchant ships from the three major shipyards in China, recruiting people from the country, the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and many maritime forces, desperately expanding his strength.

Solving the lack of transportation capacity is just an excuse. His real purpose was not known to the world until eight years later in the sixth year of Wanli - everything was for the man like a demon in that Warring States Period!

***In the Warring States Period, there were only one real hero, and that was Oda Nobunaga, who was later called the "Sixth Heavenly Demon King". Compared with him, Ryuzodai Takanobu was just an incompetent bear and was not worthy of being Nobunaga's enemy at all.

The eldest son of the Oda family was absurd since childhood, loved adventure, and came into contact with new things. However, after becoming an adult, he showed extraordinary decisiveness, courage, cunning and cruelty. Of course, even before the thirty-eight years of Jiajing, even if he unified the entire Ohashi Kingdom, it was not conspicuous in the Warring States Period when "heroes emerged in many heroes". However, something that happened the following year pushed him to the forefront and never left the central stage of Warring States history again. At that time, the national strength was at its peak, and the daimyo Imakawa Yoshimoto, who was known as the "first bow of Tokaido", led 25,000 troops, known as the 40,000 army to Luo to meet the general.

The meaning of "going to Kyoto", is a more formal statement of "going to the capital". However, it is not something that ordinary people can use, but is used to describe the process of the strongest local vassals gathering troops to Kyoto to show their status. Since the road to the Uchihara must pass Ohara, Nobunaga was unwilling to surrender and decided to launch an army to fight, but the total force was only 5,000 or 6,000. Moreover, in order to deal with Saito Yoshiro in the north, he could take out the force to intercept the Imakawa army and only had three or four thousand troops.

However, Nobunaga remained silent when he failed the first battle and faced the Oda family crisis. After carefully observing the formation of the Imakawa army, he danced "Yururu. Atsushi" late at night, and then personally took the battle and led all 4,000 troops to attack the Imakawa army's main formation. As a result, the Imakawa army soldiers had not yet come back to their senses, so they shouted for a long time when the Oda army attacked: "The enemy is coming!" As a result, the general Imakawa Yoshimoto died in the formation on the spot. The news spread, the Imakawa army collapsed and fled. Oda Nobunaga won one of his many examples of victory with few more battles, which was later called the Battle of Turksama.

After the Battle of Turksama, the Imakawa family's power declined day by day. Nobunaga formed an alliance with his childhood friend Tokugawa Ieyasu and focused on completing the difficult but crucial "Mino Strategy". Finally, in the first year of Longqing, Mino Country was included in the territory. When he became the daimyo that ruled Ohashi Mino and Nobunaga, Nobunaga was 33 years old.

Rumor is that "those who obtain Mino can gain the world." After Nobunaga obtained Mino, he adopted the allusion of the Zhou Dynasty in China standing in Qishan and overthrowing the Yin Dynasty to unify the world, and changed the name of Inoguchi, the former leader of the Saito country, to Gifu. At this time, he began to use the "Tianxia Fuwu" seal and officially aimed at unifying the world!

After a series of alliances, in the third year of Longqing, Nobunaga, under the name of the world's Fuwu, supported Ada Yoshiaki Ada as the 15th General and began to "Shangluo" and quickly defeated the opponents, achieving Suiluo's success. Later, the Miyo Matsunaga regime, which was in charge of the central government's political tyrant, faced the collapse of Kuroo as quickly as Nobunaga's electric shock, and the three of them fled to Iga. The Oda regime established by Nobunaga, who supported Ada Yoshiaki as the 15th General was born.

In January of the fourth year of Longqing, Oda Nobunaga signed a letter called "Nine Ojos in the Palace", which stipulated that the general was not allowed to do anything, but in fact it was to weaken Ashigaki Yoshiaki's power and make him completely his own puppet. Ashigaki Yoshiaki was of course very dissatisfied. Although under pressure, he signed the letter and announced it to the world, he turned around and secretly united with daimyos from all over the country to resist the "public enemy of Nobunaga".

The first response to Ashikaga Yoshiki's call was Echizen's Asakura Yoshiki, and then Asai Nagamasa betrayed Oda Nobunaga and defected to his old ally Asakura. Although Oda Nobunaga joined forces with Tokugawa Ieyasu and defeated Asakura and the Asakura coalition forces, his dilemma became more and more serious - Honanji and Yanriji Temple were opposed to him one after another, and Ise broke out in Nagashima Ikki, Takeda of Kataki, and Uesugi of Echizen also responded to Ashikaga Yoshiki's call and became enemies with Oda Nobunaga; the Maori of the Western Kingdom assisted Honanji from the water, and the Asakura and Miyo family, which were not damaged, the famous "Nobunaga Surrounding Net" was formed.

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