Chapter 1742 Japanese pirates riot along the coast


    Chapter 1740: Japanese pirates riot along the coast


    Japanese pirates are the thiefs of the Japanese Kingdom, so they are called Japanese pirates.


    Japan, that is, Japan.


    Originally, the Han people had no likes and dislikes about Japan, the East China Island Country, but they thought it was one of the small countries around them, so not many people cared about it at all.


    But it was not until three years ago that the Japanese delegation came to Luoyang for a pilgrimage, and challenged the heroes of the Han Dynasty in more than 30 aspects, including piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, and essays, and civil and military affairs. This made the Han people realize the ambitions of this East China Island Country.


    Of course, this time the Japanese delegation suffered a crushing defeat. Only three of the thirty challenges were won, and the other twenty-seven were defeated.


    This incident inspired the people''s sense of national pride. Later, because most Japanese people were short, most of the people jokingly called Japan Japan, in order to satirize the Japanese people for being overestimated and being chariots.


    The pilgrimage three years ago, the real purpose of the Japanese mission was to obtain technology from the Luoyang court, but it was not successful in the end. It could only transfer the target to obtain it from the major princes.


    But the major princes were not stupid, and it was impossible to give it to a small country for nothing. In the end, the Japanese mission could only spend money to buy it.


    The other princes were not as strict as the Qin army. Each prince had the technology that was good at, but the technology that belonged to him was naturally impossible to sell, but the public could sell it.


    Under the heavy purchase of the Japanese mission, the princes could not resist the temptation and sold a large number of skills to the Japanese mission.


    In the end, the Japanese delegation bought papermaking from Cao Wei, forging steel from Zhao Song, shipbuilding from Sun Wu... and also sought a large amount of new grain from the Ming army.


    Although the Japanese mission spent a lot of gold and silver, it returned to Japan with a lot of technology.


    These technologies are not top-notch in Dahan, they can only be considered secondary, but they are the most advanced technologies in Japan.


    Soon, the power of the Yema Tai Kingdom, which belonged to the delegation, that is, Oda Nobunaga, surged due to these technologies, and even exceeded the sum of other vassal states.


    Japan is not just a country, it is just that Japan is the largest country, so it is qualified to represent Japan.


    In addition to Ematai, Japan also has more than ten forces including Tokugawa Ieyasu, Akichi Mitsuhide, Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, Mori Motozu, Sanada Yukihiko, and Masamune Ita.


    Overall, the situation on the four islands of Japan is actually even more chaotic than that of the Han Dynasty.


    Under Oda Nobunaga''s governance, Yema Taiwan''s national strength grew rapidly, and Oda Nobunaga also took advantage of the great increase in national strength and began to annex the surrounding countries, step by step on the journey of unifying the four islands of Japan.


    Supported by advanced war technology and strong national strength, Oda Nobunaga captured nearly half of Japan''s territory in just one year, forcing other princes to join forces to fight against his family.


    At the same time, Oda Nobunaga, who was powerful, changed the Ematai to the Japanese Empire and replaced his wife Ematai Queen Himeha, becoming the first emperor of the Japanese Empire.


    The major princes of Japan also realized that the Yema Tai would become so powerful because they obtained the advanced technology of Shenzhou, so they also sent them to Zhongyuan to purchase technology, which was also the year when Japan and China-Turkey exchanges were the most frequent.


    The princes of the Central Plains were naturally willing to use backward technology to exchange for the gold and silver in the hands of the princes of the Japanese to seek development.


    But even if the princes of the Central Plains were willing to sell, under the iron hooves of Oda Nobunaga''s army, the princes of Japan would not have much time to develop.


    In addition, after a great war, the Japanese princes'' alliance and Oda Nobunaga both suffered losses, and the Japanese Empire''s recovery speed was faster than that of the Japanese princes'' alliance. Once the Japanese Kingdom completely recovered, other princes would not survive.


    Therefore, in order to protect themselves, the princes of Japan, who had no choice, came up with the bad idea of ??plundering the Central Plains'' money and food to quickly restore the trauma of the war.


    In the transaction with the princes of the Central Plains, the Japanese princes also knew clearly that the princes of the Central Plains were also in a warlord battle, and as long as they moved fast enough and ran away after the robbery, the princes of the Central Plains would not care about them at all. Can the princes of the Central Plains still send troops to cross the east to Fusang and conquer the East to the East Island?


    Although the power of the Central Plains princes was strong, they could not directly threaten them, while Oda Nobunaga''s threat was close at hand.


    With this mentality, the Japanese princes led by Tokugawa Ieyasu and Akechi Mitsuhide decided to send troops to disguise themselves as pirates and go to the Sanhan and Central Plains to plunder money and food.


    "Everyone, among the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, the coastal states were only Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou and Jiaozhou. Among them, Jiaozhou was too far away, so only five states could be robbed by us."


    Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at the other alliance members below and said in a deep voice: "In order to prevent conflicts caused by interests, we will still draw a separate area and grab each other. How much we can grab is their own ability."


    "This is a good idea."


    The great princes such as Akechi Mitsuhide and Kenshin Uesugi agreed one after another, but the other minor princes naturally did not dare and would not have any objections.


    "good."


    A glimmer flashed in Tokugawa Ieyasu''s eyes and he smiled faintly, "Since that''s the case, then Yangzhou will belong to my Tokugawa family."


    "Why?"


    Takeda Shingen, who had some grudges with Tokugawa Ieyasu, was the first to stand up and oppose it, saying, "Among the five prefectures of You, Ji, Qing, Xu and Yang, Yang, Yang is the most stable state, and the people must be the richest. If you Tokugawa family want to occupy Yangzhou as a plundering area? It''s too greedy."


    "Yeah yeah…"


    Other princes agreed.


    Seeing this, Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately frowned and said, "Since that''s the case, then my Tokugawa family will only plunder the area north of Yangzhou. Is this OK?"


    “This is almost the same.”


    Takeda Shingen nodded with satisfaction, then pointed to Xuzhou and Jianghuai areas and said, "This place belongs to my Takeda family."


    "I want the area south of Yangzhou." Akechi Mitsuhide hurriedly said.


    "Then my Maori family will be in charge of Jizhou." Maori Yuan also rushed to speak.


    "The Ida family is responsible for Qingnan." said Masatori.


    Soon, except for Youzhou and Qingbei, all other areas were divided up.


    The reason why no one chose Youzhou is because compared with other regions, Youzhou is too poor and has little money to make.


    The reason why no one chose Qingbei was because Qin Hao and Yuan Shao, the first and second princes of the Han Dynasty, had territory in Qingbei, so they did not dare to provoke them easily.


    Kenshin Uesugi took it too late. All he wanted to choose was occupied by others. All the rest were Youzhou and Qingbei. After hesitating for a long time, he finally chose Qingbei, which was richer. After all, the timids were starving to death and the courageous ones were so bold that they were starving to death.


    Even Maori Yuan dared to steal Jizhou, why didn’t he dare to steal Qingbei?


    After Uesugi Kenshin chose, Sanada Yukihiro chose Youzhou, while Hojo Tsunagi could only choose the poorest Sanhan.


    ?The fourth update is coming, and I still owe two chapters in total, and I finally have to pay it back.


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    (This chapter ends)