"Oh? What's going on?"

When they met, Yang Zhen noticed the beaming looks of Qiu Guangyi and Chen Shunong, but at that time he thought they were happy to see him, but he didn't expect that there was other good news.

"When I returned to the Governor, after I joined Commander Lin's fleet in June, I discussed with Commander Lin that I wanted to go and capture Fujiang Island and use it as an outpost for the Governor's army to invade the Wonu Kingdom.

"It happened that Goto Mori, the lord of the Goto clan on Fukue Island, had sent someone to Seogwipo to purchase food and herbs. At that time, he sent a message to ask him to exchange Fukue Island for food and medicine, but Goto Mori

Refuse to agree.

"So on the first day of this month, the subordinates, together with Commander Lin, led a fleet to reach Fukue Island, the headquarters of the Goto clan. Goto Mori, the head of the Goto clan, led his troops to retreat to a stronghold on the island and refused to surrender.

"On the evening of the fourth day of the lunar month, Beizhi and Lin Tongyu joined forces to set up heavy artillery, bombarded the mountain stronghold, and occupied the camp above. At that time, Goto Shengli had committed seppuku and died.

"However, his son Goto Morikiyo gathered the remaining Goto troops that night and fled to Uku Island in the north of the Goto Islands. After hearing the news, the subordinates separated their troops from Hayashi Tongyu, and Hayashi Tongyu personally led them.

The fleet went in pursuit.

"On the morning of the sixth day of the lunar month, Lin Tong's fleet caught up with the remaining members of Goto Mingqing and surrounded them in a cottage on Ujiu Island. Just yesterday evening, Lin Chongfan rushed back and said that Goto Mingqing

We have run out of ammunition and food, and we have already surrendered on the ninth day of the lunar month!"

"Okay, okay, okay! This is really gratifying, gratifying! You did a good job, a good job!"

After listening to Qiu Guangyi's explanation of the ins and outs of their capture of the Five Islands, Yang Zhen was suddenly surprised and happy, beaming with joy, and couldn't help but praise Qiu Guangyi and the others.

Qiu Guangyi and the others were able to capture the Five Islands with their own strength, which Yang Zhen did not expect.

For Yang Zhen, this was an unexpected surprise.

Although Yang Zhen vaguely knew that when the daimyo of the so-called Warring States Period of the Japanese Nu Kingdom fought and fought for territory, each other had very few troops at their disposal.

Of course, saying that they were fighting between village chiefs may be a bit of a mockery, but it's a bit understatement.

But among them, there are indeed not many famous names who can easily summon tens of thousands of troops.

In fact, the current Wonu Kingdom has not even captured Hokkaido in the north. It only governs several large islands such as Honshu Island, Shikoku Island, and Kyushu Island, as well as some small surrounding islands.

But just like this, under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate, under the Wonu Kingdom, there were nearly 300 feudal lords led by hereditary daimyo.

These include the so-called vassal daimyo who have been directly owned by each branch of the Tokugawa family for generations, and the so-called generational daimyo who surrendered to the Tokugawa family or sided with the Tokugawa family before the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Those so-called foreign daimyo who surrendered to the Tokugawa family only after they eliminated the Toyotomi clan.

For the three different types of feudal lords, the Tokugawa shogunate adopted three different strategies.

Its basic purpose is to treat the vassal lords of the same clan well, grant them many privileges, and then rely on die-hard genealogy daimyos to allow them to participate in running the shogunate affairs.

The last step is to find ways to suppress those foreign daimyo who are not die-hard retainers, and to impose various restrictions and weakening on them, both covertly and covertly.

Although the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate has only taken a few decades, this policy has already achieved great results.

Take the Goto Domain owned by the Goto clan as an example. After hearing what Qiu Guangyi said, Yang Zhen immediately understood the situation and concluded that the Goto Domain is a typical appearance that eats shit and cannot keep up with the heat.

Name.

And he must be a relatively weak one among the foreign daimyo under the Tokugawa shogunate of the Japanese slave kingdom.

Because the Goto Clan's administrative office on Fukue Island didn't even have a serious castle or castle, only the so-called Ishida Jinya.

The reason why Yang Zhen was so sure was that he knew in later generations that after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, when the second generation general Tokugawa Hidetada was in power, in order to control and weaken the strength of the various feudal lords under his rule, he issued a very famous order

"One country, one city order".

This means that a vassal state can only have one city, that is, the city with defensive functions where the daimyo lives and is where the vassal hall is located. Only one city can be retained, and all the remaining cities under the vassal must be demolished and abolished.

The so-called "cities" of the Wonu Kingdom are actually small castles built by the various feudal lords in the Wonu Kingdom during the Warring States Period to protect themselves.

This kind of mountain city has nothing to do with the so-called cities in the Ming Dynasty. It is more like a military fortress where the feudal lord ruled the surrounding territories.

As for the retainers, samurai, servants of the feudal lords, as well as various commoners or untouchables in the territory, they lived below the castle according to their proximity and class.

The place where these people live is called a castle town.

Castle towns have streets, markets, shops, residences, etc., and some are quite prosperous, but they cannot have city walls.

Moreover, in the mountain castle where the feudal lord lived, the height of the walls, the size of the castle, and the number of standing guards that the daimyo could recruit were also clearly regulated.

Once a daimyo goes beyond the regulations of the Tokugawa shogunate, he will soon be attacked by other daimyo armies recruited by the Tokugawa shogunate.

This kind of specific regulations are determined based on the level or rank of the feudal lords in various places.

The different grades or grades of the feudal lords in various regions were the "stone heights" stipulated by the Tokugawa shogunate based on the size of the territory held by the feudal lords in each region or their closeness to them.

Just like the official rank of the Qin and Han Dynasties in China, the salary of a county governor was two thousand dan and the salary of a county magistrate was 600 dan. The Wonu Kingdom also used the number of stones to express the rank of the feudal lords.

Generally speaking, the larger the territory under jurisdiction, the greater the population within the jurisdiction, and the more rice produced, the higher the corresponding number of stones of the feudal lord's daimyo, which also means the higher his rank, the taxes he can collect, and

The more soldiers you can recruit.

As for the Goto clan led by the Goto clan, a foreign daimyo living in the remote overseas islands in the southwest of the Wonu Kingdom, it would be good if it could have a stone height of 10,000 to 20,000 koku.

According to the regulations of the Tokugawa shogunate, only those with a rank of 10,000 koku or above can be called daimyo, and for a territory of 10,000 koku, the annual tax revenue can be up to 5,000 koku. Even if fully mobilized in wartime, only 800 ashigaru people can be recruited for military service.

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If it were normal times, the lowest-ranking feudal lord daimyo could recruit samurai and military ashigaru as standing soldiers in their own territory, and the maximum number would be 400, and he would not be able to support more than that.

Of course, this situation actually existed before the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in the so-called Warring States Period of the Japanese slave kingdom. However, after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, this situation was fixed.

At noon that day, when Yang Zhen led the fleet into the port, disembarked from the ship, entered the harbor city of Seogwipo, saw Lin Chongfan again and specifically asked Lin Chongfan about the rank of the Goto Clan of the Fukuang Domain, his heart was filled with confusion.

Understood.

The rank of the Fukue clan led by the Goto clan is only 12,600 koku, and it is indeed one of the lowest-ranking Japanese slave foreign daimyo.

According to the regulations of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Goto clan's territory of 12,600 koku means that the population within the Goto clan's jurisdiction is likely to be less than 10,000, and the "annual koku" it can collect from the common people of the territory every year

The maximum amount of "tribute" is six thousand three hundred stones.

Even if he could collect the annual tribute in good years, in addition to the Goto clan's own consumption, the retainers, samurai and various standing military services he could afford would not exceed 500 ashigaru.

people.

Perhaps, this is the fundamental reason why Qiu Guangyi and Lin Qingye destroyed the Goto clan in one fell swoop just by relying on their own strength.

After all, if you take into account the impact of the plague that spread from Hirado Island on the Goto clan, they may not even be able to maintain a standing force of 500 people.

Correspondingly, Lin Qingye, the commander of the three naval forces in the front and south of the Li Dynasty, still has a fleet of more than 2,500 troops.

At the same time, Jinhai Town greatly expanded the Second Marine and Land Battalions on Yingzhou Island, and there were basically ten sentries with 3,000 men.

In addition, most of the 25,350 households currently settled on Yingzhou Island have completed spring plowing.

If Qiu Guangyi and others are willing and have the equipment, they can recruit thousands of young men from every household in the villages to join the expedition at any time.

Of course, Qiu Guangyi did not dare to do this.

But even so, with more than 5,000 troops, they raided the Goto clan, which only had a few hundred standing troops and was already short of food. Naturally, it was a matter of great difficulty.

Of course, no matter how disparate the strength of the two sides was, and no matter what the specific situation of the Goto clan was, Yang Zhen, Qiu Guangyi, Lin Qingye and the others were still very happy that they could capture the Goto Islands before they arrived.

That night, Yang Zhen stayed in the inner city of Seogwipo Port, which has been continuously expanded since last year.

Seogwipo, where Qiu Guangyi now leads the main force of soldiers and horses on Yeongju Island, was not originally a densely populated place on Yeongju Island.

In fact, before they took over, the most populated place on Yeongju Island was the so-called Jeju County on the northern coast of the island.

Although that county town is not big, it was the place where the administrative office of the Li Dynasty was originally located on the island. The original conditions were better than those here in Seogwipo.

However, when Qiu Guangyi, Guo Xiaowu and others came to station on Yingzhou Island, they were well aware of Yang Zhen's intentions and knew that the so-called borrowing of the island was just a means of taking over Yingzhou Island without any blood. It would be impossible after the five-year period.

Really returned to the court.

Therefore, after they landed on the island and took over the place, they sent An Yixin, who treated the natives and Koreans even more harshly on the island, to the fallen former county and specifically asked him to be in charge of hunting down the unruly natives on the island.

As well as the matter of repatriating the Koreans on the island to their country.

These things were originally not easy to deal with. After all, although there were not many Koreans on the island, the forests in the south and north of the island were finally settled. Including the displaced people and fishermen, there were still seven or eight thousand households.

If not done well, it will cause large-scale resistance.

However, coincidentally, at that time, word suddenly spread on the island that there was a potential risk of an outbreak of pimple plague.

The immigrants who came to the island even described the symptoms of the rumored pimple plague and the Black Death as extremely miserable, frightening the people on the island.

Later, the Nagasaki red barbarians, Goto family retainers, etc., who were not too far away from here, sent people to the island to ask for help because of the tragic plague.

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Therefore, from the end of last year to the spring of this year, not only were all the court officials on the island emptied out, but other court officials on the island were also rushing to leave.

As a result, the former Jeju County in the north of the island suddenly lost its former glory and the popularity it once had.

Especially after An Yixin was transferred earlier this year, the place became a deserted place where people left the city.
Chapter completed!