Sakai Tadayoshi placed the shogun under house arrest, and he had to be secretive and not send too many soldiers to watch.
There were more than 300 daimyo and hatamoto led by Abe Tadaki. They rushed in with their swords raised. A group of daimyo ran in front. The samurai responsible for guarding the shogun suddenly didn't know what to do.
Are you going to shoot at a group of famous people?
After killing so many famous people, no matter what happened afterwards, the samurai who fired the gun must be charged and executed.
The samurai had no choice but to put down their weapons and get out of the way, allowing Abe Tadaki to lead his people into the castle.
Tokugawa Ietsuna heard the commotion and shouted inside: "Sakai Tadaki is a traitor, please get me out quickly!"
A group of daimyo became even more excited. They ran in with their swords in hand and welcomed out the shogun, the feudal lord, and the generals.
Tokugawa Ietsuna regained his freedom. He was so aggrieved that he cried. He held Abe Tadaki's hands and said that he would reward his loyal minister.
Tokugawa Mitsuaki asked: "Did the Tang army attack the city?"
Abe Tadaki nodded and said: "The outermost wall has been breached."
Tokugawa Ietsuna was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "Hurry up and surrender, otherwise the Tang army will kill all the Tokugawa family and support the Emperor Taishou to regain power."
"The Supreme Emperor?" Abe Tadaki was stunned for a moment.
Tokugawa Mitsuaki explained: "The Emperor is in the hands of the Tang army. It is because of this that Sakai Tadakiyoshi has placed the shogun under house arrest."
Everyone hurriedly walked out of the main castle, and when they were about to send someone to sue for peace, they saw a warrior running towards them: "Another city wall has been lost!"
Abe Tadaki asked quickly and found out that the third wall was gone.
Tokugawa Ietsuna was so frightened that his legs were weak. He didn't care that the two inner city walls were stronger and more dangerous. He only knew that half of Edo City had been occupied by the Tang army. He hurriedly said: "Uncle, you know the generals of the Tang army. Hurry up and personally
Go and ask for surrender."
Tokugawa Mitsuhiro had no choice but to bite the bullet and accept the order.
Tokugawa Ietsuna added: "Also, arrest the traitor Tadaki Sakai!"
Although this shogun was frail and indifferent, his reputation was there after all.
He personally ordered it, and no one dared to disobey it.
Not long after, Sakai Tadakiyo and several of his confidants were escorted over and knelt on the ground.
At this moment, the two sides have temporarily ceased fighting. The shogunate defenders are setting up the defense of the second city wall, and the Datong Army is also preparing for the next attack.
Tokugawa Mitsuo hung the rattan basket down and walked toward the Datong Army alone.
Soon he was taken to see Huang Fei, who asked: "What are you doing here?"
Tokugawa Mitsuhiro explained: "I brought a letter to the city that day. The shogun intended to offer the city for peace, but was put under house arrest by the traitor Sakai Tadakichi. Now that the shogun has been rescued, the shogunate is willing to negotiate peace, please suspend the attack."
Huang Fei sneered: "I'm halfway through attacking the city, and you actually asked me to stop? Who will do justice to 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 we really want to storm the remaining two walls, the final casualties are likely to be thousands, or even 2,000, because the difficulty of siege is also increasing exponentially. When Tokugawa Ieyasu built the city, he spent a lot of time and effort.
No one in Japan can conquer Edo Castle.
Huang Fei did not want to increase the fear of casualties, but the posture must be sufficient.
Tokugawa Mitsuaki said quickly: "The shogunate will definitely provide generous compensation to the Chinese warriors who died bravely in battle."
"Do I need that pension? You can't survive after death!" Huang Fei became angrier as he spoke.
Tokugawa Mitsuhiro could only bow his hands and say, "Please calm down, general."
Huang Fei also accepted it and said, "Peace talks are fine. Let the shogunate come out in person to ask for surrender, otherwise I will fight in today!"
"Please wait a moment." Tokugawa Mitsuhiro returned to reply.
When he heard that he had to ask for surrender in person, Tokugawa Ietsuna never dared to do so and kept shaking his head.
Tokugawa Tsusashige advised: "Sir, even if you don't go out, the Tang army will come in after you surrender."
Tokugawa Ietsuna thought carefully and realized that this was indeed the case, so he took the daimyo out with fear.
Huang Fei also came to the scene in person. Seeing that Tokugawa Ietsuna was just bowing, he immediately sneered: "I am a general, and you are also a general. I am the victorious general, and you are the defeated general. Why don't you kneel when you ask me to surrender? It's like asking for surrender.
What does it look like?”
Tokugawa Ietsuna didn't understand Chinese and could only write Chinese characters, and Tokugawa Mitsuaki quickly translated.
Want to kneel down by yourself?
Tokugawa Ietsuna turned around and looked at the daimyo. Under the gaze of everyone, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
Once you kneel down, not only will you lose your prestige, but the shogunate and his descendants will also lose face. From now on, the daimyo of each domain will not be so easy to manage, and the daimyo will no longer take the shogunate seriously.
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But what if I don’t kneel down?
Tokugawa Ietsuna went out of the city to ask for surrender, but he was surrounded by Chinese troops. How could he go back so arrogantly?
Tokugawa Ietsuna felt extremely humiliated, gritted his teeth, knelt down and kowtowed, saying: "Ietsuna, please surrender!"
When the daimyo behind him saw this, they all knelt down and knelt on the ground.
"Get up." Huang Fei let out a bad breath and calmed down.
Before Tokugawa Ietsuna could stand up completely, he heard Huang Fei say: "I have occupied two walls, and the terms of the peace talks are different from before."
Tokugawa Ietsuna's heart tightened, and he forced a smile and said, "General, feel free to bring it up."
Huang Fei said: "This is not my responsibility."
Hoopoe, the diplomat of Koroji Temple, stepped forward and said, "Let's go to the castle tower of Edo Castle to talk."
Edo Castle, Grand Castle, the center of power in Japan.
Huang Fei sat in the main seat, followed by Hoopoe. The defeated shogunate could only sit down and hold hands.
Dai Sheng said: "The shogunate stubbornly resisted, causing our army to suffer heavy casualties. First, we must compensate the families of the dead and wounded soldiers; second, we must severely punish those who ordered to defend!"
Tokugawa Ietsuna quickly said: "Sakai Tadaki and his traitors all commit seppuku and commit suicide!"
Dai Sheng continued: "Sixteen million dollars of military compensation must not be less than a penny. If the cash is not enough, it can be converted into gold. If the gold is not enough, it can be paid in installments, but interest must be paid on the delayed silver."
"Didn't you say 6 million kan before?" Tokugawa Ietsuna's heart was bleeding.
Hoopoe asked: "Can negotiating within the city be the same as negotiating outside the city?"
Sixteen million guan, which is four million taels of silver, is not enough for the shogunate, so I am afraid they will have to turn to the wealthy merchants of the three capitals.
Tokugawa Ietsuna could not refuse and could only say with hatred: "Angel, please continue speaking."
Hoopoe said: "Before, only ten ports were required to be opened, but now Japan must fully open the sea!"
Tokugawa Ietsuna nodded: "Okay."
The hoopoe then said: "The rest of the terms remain unchanged."
Tokugawa Ietsuna breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that the hoopoe would open his mouth again.
No matter how outrageous the terms were, Tokugawa Ietsuna could not refuse. Because the Datong Army controlled two emperors, they could kill the Tokugawa clan in Edo City at any time, and then bring the emperor to control the power.
By then, a civil war will definitely break out.
Those daimyo who supported the Tokugawa family, as well as their direct vassals and descendants, were bound to fight with the daimyo who "supported the emperor."
After both parties signed the contract, they watched the seppuku ceremony.
Tokugawa Ietsuna hated Sakai Tadaki to death and forbade him from using the wrong person in the ceremony.
He didn't even introduce the wrong person, and the whole process was cruel.
Sakai Tadaki held his ribs with trembling hands, rubbed it several times, and finally stabbed it into his lower abdomen. He wanted to pull the knife horizontally again to end the pain early, but his hands could not use the strength. He reluctantly pulled it to the side, and he was already crying in pain.
After a while, I tried again, only to open a small opening, but the pain was so painful that I dared not move anymore.
Huang Fei looked very bored: "Stop messing with it, just chop it off with a knife."
Tokugawa Ietsuna quickly chose the wrong person to intervene and asked Sakai Tadaki, who was curled up on the ground, to kneel down again. He sprayed a mouthful of sake on the blade of the knife and gestured to his neck. The light of the knife flashed and the head fell to the ground.
Sakai Tadakiyo's son and his confidants lined up to commit seppuku.
The Sakai family was completely liquidated afterwards, and the fiefdoms were assigned to the close vassals of the Tokugawa family, with a small part becoming the direct jurisdiction of the shogunate.
Abe Tadaki was promoted to elder for his meritorious service in rescuing the enemy.
Abe Tadaki was a reformist. He did not think about carrying out drastic reforms, but he believed that samurai and ronin should work. Ronin in particular should no longer be idle, but it was not easy to figure out how to arrange work.
This man quickly issued a decree declaring that ronin could engage in any job. As long as ronin was determined to do serious things, no daimyo from anywhere could stop him.
To be honest, it means a lot, but has little effect.
At the same time, Abe Tadaki began to investigate the wealthy businessmen of Sandu. Except for the wealthy businessmen who were protected by the shogun, other wealthy businessmen suffered heavy losses. They were often labeled as colluding with Sakai Tadaki, forcing the wealthy businessmen to hand over enough gold and silver to atone for their sins.
Such a large-scale raid on merchants was all to pay war reparations.
The shogunate could still come up with four million taels of silver despite the hard work of merchants.
However, after this battle, the prestige of the shogunate was greatly lost, and the local lords no longer took the shogunate seriously. Although they still obeyed on the surface, they came to live in Edo every other year, and Iemaki also lived in Edo for a long time, but privately
It is more serious to violate the law.
Four million taels of war compensation was a huge amount in Japan at this time. Rich businessmen paid more than half of it, and the shogunate had to pay for the rest. It was already in financial distress, and now it had to step up its efforts to exploit the people.
The increasingly heavy taxes made Japan's knowledgeable people increasingly dissatisfied with the shogunate, and at the same time they felt that they should learn from China in an all-round way.
It’s interesting to say that the “culprit” of all the problems is China. But the Japanese do not hate China. Instead, they increasingly admire China’s strength. Even those famous people are more keen to buy Chinese goods and even ask Chinese merchants about Nanjing fashion.
The once progressive daimyo Abe Tadaki, after becoming a daimyo, his butt determined his head. He had to maintain the stability of his rule, but instead he became a representative of the backward daimyo. He crazily suppressed knowledgeable people and added dozens of banned books to the list. However, he
He also knew that Japan should learn from it, so he sent twenty envoys to the Tang Dynasty to send those young people to study in Nanjing.
What to study?
Of course, I am learning about steam engines and the like. I am only learning about technology, not politics.
Someone else was injured, and that was the feudal lord of Matsumae Domain.
He had a good meal and drink in Hokkaido, but he saw a Chinese warship out of nowhere and said that Hokkaido had been incorporated into China. As for him, the lord of the domain, he was temporarily appointed as the magistrate of Ezo Prefecture, and he wanted to give a Chinese name immediately.