Wanli Youming

Chapter 469 Killing the Landlord

Chapter 469 Killing the Landlord

The sound of gunfire came from the Ming army.

It turns out that the Ming Dynasty's military stationed in Dongying has long had its own early warning system, in order to prevent greedy Japanese warriors, because seeing that the Han people can farm, they can't help but want to slaughter and loot.

Specifically, it is to set up mounted police and infantry police in various areas inhabited by Han people, so that they can be quickly reported to the surrounding officers and soldiers.

These Japanese warriors ran away as soon as they heard the sound of the guns, and did not choose to fight Gao Zijia again.

Gao Zijia heaved a sigh of relief, and after glancing at the bloody Yanling knife in his hand, he quickly threw the knife on the ground.

After a while, Gao Zijia came back to his senses and helped Wu Qian who was trembling.

And this Wu Qian already had disheveled hair, disheveled clothes, and was crying like rain. After Gao Zijia helped her up, she even hugged Gao Zijia and wailed.

thump!

Goooo!

At this time, the sound of falling into the water and the crowing of chickens came from outside.

Gao Zijia looked at the sound, and saw that the Japanese warriors who went to his chicken coop to grab his own chicken just now had been beaten to death by the Ming army with eagle-billed guns, and all fell into the water. The chickens that were on the ground also flew up.

Wu Qian, who has been in charge of tending the chickens for a while, hurried over to pick up the chickens.

And Gao Zijia also walked towards this side, and picked up the Yanling Saber in his hand again.

"Yes! You dare to kill people!"

At this time, an official army was speaking to Gao Zijia.

Gao Zijia just smiled.

Because the officers and soldiers arrived in time, the bold and greedy Japanese warriors did not cause much damage to the new Han village.

At least the Han people like Gao Zijia in the inner circle of the village did not suffer any economic losses.

It's just that a few Han people were killed outside, and some food was robbed and left.

But this is also the reason why Daming first garrisoned troops in the Wa country and set up government administration before immigrating.

If the pure Han people migrated here by themselves, without the backing of a powerful country, they would only be fat sheep slaughtered by the natives.

Because people will not respect you just because you are better at farming, they will only try their best to squeeze you like domestic landlords, and they will even be more rude and barbaric.

Historically, the Ming court had no motivation to expand abroad, regardless of the life or death of the Han people who migrated, so most of the Han people who migrated were destined to be slaughtered.

In addition, most of the Han people who migrated out did pay more attention to farming to make money than to dominate and expand, and even preferred to fight each other and squeeze their compatriots, so there was no expansion of Han civilization.

In fact, any expansion of civilization needs the support of a ruling class behind it.

But now Dongying has the Ming Dynasty garrison, and there are also officials who are in charge of various orders here. It is not the case in history that the Han people migrated overseas without their own court or even being abandoned by their own court.

Therefore, what the greedy Japanese warriors did would only lead to serious revenge for the entire Japanese landlord class.

Even if only a few Han people were lost.

But for the local Ming officials and the Ming army who are related to their own vital interests, it is a great provocation.

Xing Jie, the governor of Dongying, was quite furious when he learned about this, and told Liu Cheng'an, the general in Yuan Jing's mansion:

"When the imperial envoy arrived, something like this happened in Yuanjing's mansion. What if the imperial envoy told the court that the education was not effective? Immediately send troops to attack these Japanese pirates!"

After Liu Cheng'an led the army, he went to Hizen Liuchuan Castle, which is the closest to Yuanjing's mansion.

Although it will be difficult for the Ming Dongying officials to find out which Japanese warriors came to plunder the Han family villages, basically as soon as there is such a provocation, the Ming officials will directly attack the daimyo closest to the place where the incident occurred, and directly think that these The daimyo is the culprit.

Because these big names are basically in the city, with fixed residences and fixed industries, they are easy to suppress.

Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty only need to question these famous names.

What's more, the daimyo near the place where the accident happened is the master of the nearby Japanese warriors, so he is also obliged to ensure that the Japanese warriors under his command do not come randomly.

The Urachi family, the daimyo of Yanagawa Castle, was suppressed as a result.

All members of the Puchi Clan's nine clans, including the samurai retainers in the city, except for the patriarch Puchi Yizhong, regardless of gender, were escorted out, ordered to kneel on the ground, and accepted beheading.

These people can be regarded as all the Japanese landlords in the entire Liuchuan County area.

And they are now forcibly suppressed by the Ming army, so they are naturally very dissatisfied.

"It was you who robbed our land, why are you blaming us now, you robbers, you deserve to die!"

Because of this, Puchi watchman cursed at the Ming army in red helmets and red armor in front of them, but he did not deny that he had nothing to do with the warriors who robbed the Han people.

"cut!"

However, An Zhaoyu, the Ming general who was in charge of suppressing Liuchuan City, didn't say much at this time. He just waved his hand and ordered these Japanese landlords to be executed.

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

Therefore, Puchi watchman saw the heads of Japanese landlords like himself fell to the ground one after another, and was stunned in place.

And not long after, his own eyes turned black and he fell to the ground.

After all the Japanese landlord class in Liuchuan County were suppressed, only tenants and ordinary Japanese slaves remained in the entire Liuchuan County.

Because the class contradictions in the Japanese country were very sharp in this era, after Daming slaughtered the Japanese landlords, he did not need to suppress ordinary Japanese, but instead needed relief.

The reason for the relief is firstly to obtain the land of these Japanese landlords, so that these ordinary Japanese people will not be coerced by other daimyos, and organize them to fight against Daming in the name of dividing the land; secondly, Daming needs them to mine minerals.

Moreover, the cost of helping these Japanese people is not high, just a meal of crude meals based on corn and sweet potatoes will do.

Because the daimyo samurai who ruled them were too hard to squeeze them in order to fight for hegemony, and heavy taxes and heavy labor often made them hungry.

However, Daming will still give them some wages, so that they can also get rich through labor and be able to consume, so as not to cause the cheap cotton cloth of their own Daming to be unsalable.

Therefore, these ordinary Japanese people were basically willing to accept the relief and arrangement of Ming Dynasty, and were taken to mine minerals.

A down-and-out ronin named Amakusa Ryuichi was taken from Yanagawa Castle to the Daming Dongying Mining Area for mining for a month, and when he received his wages, he burst into tears and asked the old miner here, Morita Takeshi:

"Why do they care more about our dignity!"

Morita Takeshi said: "Because they come from the Ming Dynasty, they came to save us!"

Amakusa Ryuichi was convinced of this, and then raised his head and cried:

"I'm so lucky to be redeemed by the Celestial Dynasty, so I don't have to go hungry to tend the fields of the Lord's family."

To the ordinary Japanese who were taken away, Daming was like a savior.

But as far as the housekeeping of Longzhaosi, the Patriarch of the Puchi Clan, Daming was clearly a domineering bandit, he actually directly suppressed the lord of the Liuchuan feudal clan under his jurisdiction.

However, although Longzaosi's housekeeper hated him in his heart, he didn't dare to say a word about it on the surface. He only urged his retainers internally to control his warriors and not to provoke Daming.

His retainers were also quite helpless, because they often had difficulty controlling their warriors from being greedy.

Puchi Yizhong, the lord of Liuchuan City, knelt down in front of Dongying Governor Xing Jie with aggrievedness and helplessness, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said in Japanese:

"Forgive me! Forgive me! I really don't know where we have offended your country. I am willing to offer money to forgive the sin. Please ask for a price."

(End of this chapter)