Chapter 2374 Yamata Orochi''s betrayal
Chapter 2371: Yamata Orochi''s betrayal
The entire process of Uesugi Kenno surrendering to Qin was naturally not as calm as it seemed. First of all, she had to know the attitudes of the other people in the Uesugi family.
After a series of tests, it was discovered that Kenshin Uesugi discovered that under Zhou Yu''s Huairou strategy, the Uesugi family was not resistant to surrendering to Qin. In the true sense, there were only a few people including her.
That''s right, Kenshi Uesugi is actually a deadly fighter. If she hadn''t been extremely determined to resist Qin, the Uesugi family''s resistance would not have been so great no matter what.
But as a death-fighting battle, Kenshi Uesugi had the idea of ??surrender because he and she had penetrated the essence of this battle.
This is a war without any hope. The sacrifice and efforts between the two sides are completely disproportionate. Even if they continue to fight, it will be nothing more than a vain sacrifice.
Kenno Uesugi does not want her new citizen to continue to sacrifice so meaninglessly, so her ideas will change.
But when he discovered that some of the people in Uesugi''s family realized this earlier than her, Kenshi Uesugi was actually a little mixed, and of course he was more moved.
Even though the retainers knew that resisting was a path of no return, they were still unwilling to leave and were willing to follow her all the way to the darkness. Then Kenshi Uesugi could not let them go to a dead end.
Negotiations between the two countries are imperative.
Although Kenshi Uesugi has surrendered his will, he also knows that he must not kneel down easily, otherwise it will only make people look down upon, and he will not receive any respect after surrender. Only when her back is strong enough can she win more benefits for the military and civilians of the Uesugi family.
Therefore, Kenshi Uesugi still maintained the hawkish practice on the surface, but asked the doves to go to the Qin camp to show that she was unwilling to surrender, but there were many people in the Uesugi family who wanted to surrender, and she was forced to initiate negotiations by her ministers.
Therefore, if the Uesugi family wants to open the city to surrender, the Qin army also needs to show sincerity.
Kenshi Uesugi dared to conclude that Zhou Yu would definitely want her to surrender. After all, there are still 30,000 defenders in Toyama Castle, and the Uesugi family still has a lot of troops in other places.
For the Qin army, accepting the surrender of the Uesugi family can not only minimize casualties, but also receive a war-friendly army, which is obviously a benefit without any harm.
As expected by Kenshin Uesugi, Zhou Yu and Guo Jia were overjoyed when they learned that the Uesugi family took the initiative to send envoys to negotiate.
Although they were sure to conquer Toyama Castle and even destroy the Uesugi family, the losses they paid were too great, so it would be better to win without a fight.
Even though Kenshi Uesugi was reluctant to surrender, since he sent an envoy to negotiate, this was a good sign in Zhou Yu''s opinion. If it was done well, it might really be able to conquer the Uesugi family.
Of course, even if Zhou Yu can make the decision to agree to all the conditions put forward by Kenshin Uesugi, he will not be able to really agree to all of them.
This is not because Zhou Yu is stingy, but because he cannot mess with the beginning. What should I do if other forces in Japan learn from Uesugi Kenshin and don’t surrender if I don’t agree?
So it must be negotiated.
After receiving the envoy from the Uesugi family, Zhou Yu immediately sent an envoy into the city and passed on all the conditions he agreed to and what he did not agree to to Kenshin Uesugi.
Zhou Yu sent an envoy into the city, which was not only a expression of sincerity, but also a test of Kenshin Uesugi''s attitude, seeing that she was really reluctant or pretended to be reluctant.
If you are really reluctant, then Zhou Yu would have to keep a little locked during negotiations. Otherwise, once he was completely angry and said he was unwilling to surrender, it would have really backfired.
If you pretend to be reluctant, it means that Kenshin Uesugi is just relying on this to gain more benefits for the Uesugi family''s military and civilians. Then Zhou Yu is more confident, and there is no need to promise him so many privileges.
Kenshi Uesugi also guessed Zhou Yu’s intention, so the next meeting with Master Qin will be related to the future of the entire Uesugi family. It is time to test her acting skills.
Kenshin Uesugi lurked beside Zhou Yu and worked as a maid for more than a year. Her acting skills are naturally perfect.
When facing the Qin envoy, she fully interpreted the image of a monarch who would rather be broken than be a complete one, but was forced to negotiate under the influence of her ministers.
Anyway, the Qin envoy did not see any flaws and told Zhou Yu truthfully.
After Zhou Yu and Guo Jia learned about this, they were more inclined to relax their conditions. They first surrendered the Uesugi family and pulled them onto the chariot of Daqin.
But one of the conditions for Uesugi Kenshin surrender was that after the Uesugi family surrendered, the Qin army would rule by Qin law, in other words, to become the people of the Qin Dynasty and have the same treatment as all Han people in terms of law.
Zhou Yu and Guo Jia could not make the decision in this condition, after all, the Qin Dynasty had not even revoked the order to massacre the Japanese.
Even if the Qin Dynasty assimilated all the Japanese into Han people in order to rule Japan after the Qin Dynasty, they would give them the same legal status as the Han people, but now Zhou Yu and Guo Jia really cannot make this decision.
The two sides started fierce negotiations around this issue, but Kenno Uesugi won''t give in, and she decided not to give in to this point.
The fallen Jiuzhou Island and the western region seem to be less different from before under the rule of the Central Plains Alliance, but in fact there is no guarantee.
Once the Qin army is in need, whether it is food, wealth, or men and women, they must serve the Qin army, which is actually no different from slaves.
If Kenshino Uesugi surrenders in this way, she will be the sinner who drags the whole country into the pit of fire, so she must strive for her status after surrender no matter what.
Kenshi Uesugi''s determination forced Zhou Yu to retreat. Although he could not make this decision for the time being, he could do his best to help the Uesugi family.
In short, let the Uesugi family surrender first and then say nothing else.
In the end, after three days of negotiations, Kenshin Uesugi officially signed the letter of decline and opened the city to surrender to the Qin army headed by Zhou Yu.
At the surrender ceremony, Zhou Yu took the surrender book from Kenshin Uesugi, as well as the seal and household registration list of the Uesugi family, and couldn''t stop ecstasy.
The most difficult opponent he encountered since he came to Japan was Kenshin Uesugi, and now this opponent has finally surrendered.
The surrender of the Uesugi family is completely different from the Otomo Maori family.
The surrender of Otomo Maori was completely forced into a desperate situation and had to surrender, which was limited in helping the Qin army.
But after Kenshin Uesugi surrendered, the remaining twenty cities of the Uesugi family would also give up resisting Kaicheng''s surrender.
The Qin army not only can obtain a large amount of territory without spending one soldier, but will also add 50,000 or 60,000 to the help of the Qin army. The situation in Japan is very good.
"General Uesugi, Zhou admires your actions of giving up your family''s personal interests and fighting for the people." Zhou Yu said with admiration.
He and Kenshino Uesugi are old opponents, and both sides know each other very well.
This time, Kenshin Uesugi would rather sacrifice the interests of the Uesugi family than fight for the interests of the people. This completely changed Zhou Yu''s impression of him, and his respect and favorability in his heart also increased a lot.
"I promised that Zhou would definitely comply with your conditions, but Zhou really couldn''t make the decision on the status of the people for the time being, but he would definitely do his best to help you fight for it." Zhou Yu said seriously.
Kenshin Uesugi nodded: "With your words, I feel relieved. I believe that after learning about the efforts of the Uesugi family, His Majesty the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty will definitely accept the ordinary people of the Uesugi family."
Kenshino Uesugi knows her weight. She can''t help all the Japanese people to win the same status as the Han people, but at least she must prevent the Uesugi family from becoming slaves.
Zhou Yu''s eyes were full of surprise, and he asked again: "General Uesugi, aren''t you afraid that Zhou would just promise you verbally, but in fact he didn''t do his best?" Uesugi Kenshi shook his head: "You are Zhou Yu, a gentleman. Once you say something, it''s hard to pursue. How can you speak without trust?"
Zhou Yu''s eyes were even more surprised. He didn''t understand where Uesugi Kenshin''s trust came from, and he seemed to know him very well, but there should be no other communication between him and him except for war.
As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Yu began to look at Ken Shin-Usugi. After observing closely, he actually gave him a lot of extremely attributed feelings, and he looked more and more familiar with him, but he couldn''t remember who he was. It was so strange.
"General Uesugi, have we met other places except on the battlefield?" Zhou Yu asked with a serious face.
Uesugi Ken''s heart trembled. After hesitating for a while, he said bitterly: "You still discovered it."
As he said that, Kenshin Uesugi took off his helmet and put down his coiled hair. After the three thousand worries fell, his temperament immediately became different, revealing an extremely feminine and beautiful face.
Zhou Yu was stunned at first when he saw this, but when he saw his face clearly, his eyes widened, completely stunned, so shocked that he couldn''t even say anything.
"This is not, how could it be, it''s you? Shang Shanshan?"
"That''s right, Shang Shanshan is Kenshin Uesugi."
Kenshin Uesugi said, his voice becoming more delicate, not as neutral as before.
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Zhou Yu suddenly felt as if he was struck by lightning, and took several steps back, holding the table behind him, looking scared.
"Wait, let me slow down, let me slow down."
The iron-like facts were in front of me, but Zhou Yu still looked incredible.
"Is Kenshi Uesugi actually a woman? And the monk Shanshan is the same person? How is this possible?"
"Kenshi Uesugi is a woman, and many people in the Uesugi family know that when I was trapped, I pretended to be a Han girl Shang Shanshan in order to escape, but I didn''t expect to become your maid."
"So you stayed by my side, indicating that you pretended to be a maid, but in fact you were trying to find out the information?"
As he said that, Zhou Yu showed a sudden look and smiled bitterly: "If you say so, the reason why Japan can learn in advance that the news of the Central Plains coalition''s conquest of Japanese troops was the information you spread?"
"That''s right." Kenshin Uesugi nodded.
As things have developed to this point, she has even surrendered to Qin. There is no need to hide the secrets she has done before from Zhou Yu. It is better to speak them out generously and take the initiative to gain his trust and understanding.
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Zhou Yu no longer knew what to say, and he was completely confused.
In just a few short sentences, the amount of information revealed was too large, and he had to slow down.
First of all, Kenshin Uesugi was originally a woman. She disguised herself as Shang Shanshan and lurked by her side, spending more than a year with her.
As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Yu felt a cold sweat appearing on his back, and at the same time, he felt even more doubtful in his heart, that is, why didn’t Uesugi Kenshin kill him?
At that time, he and Kenshino Uesugi were hostile. If the other party wanted to murder him, there would be many opportunities.
Zhou Yu did not ask Uesugi Kenshi again because these are meaningless. After all, he is still alive now, and Uesugi Kenshi has become colleagues with him, but the look at Uesugi Kenshi became complicated.
"Governor Zhou, I also have a question below. I hope you can answer me truthfully." Kenshin Uesugi said seriously.
Zhou Yu nodded and said, "You ask."
"If the Uesugi family''s resistance was not so strong, would you still agree with those conditions?"
Zhou Yu said without thinking, "Absolutely not."
“Sure.”
Kenshin Uesugi smiled bitterly, but he was relieved after many people.
Faced with a huge monster like Daqin, weak is the original sin, while the Uesugi family will die, so her decision was not wrong, at least she saved all the military and civilians of the Uesugi family.
"You may be resentful now, but decades later, when this country is completely assimilated by the Qin Dynasty, you will definitely be grateful for your decision today, and the descendants of the Japanese will also be grateful to you."
Zhou Yu said confidently, and he would only tell Uesugi Kenshin because she was a daimyo who would really consider the lower class civilians.
"When the Japanese people are not as alive as a dog, they can only live like a human being if they become Han people."
Hearing Zhou Yu''s words, Kenshin Uesugi subconsciously wanted to refute, but the boss with his mouth was speechless because Zhou Yu was talking about the facts.
Kenshin Uesugi''s voluntary surrender allowed Zhou Yu to complete the combat plan ahead of schedule. His next goal was the Jiafei gold mine of the Jiafei Kingdom, but before this, the Uesugi family''s resources would be integrated.
The Uesugi family owns five places: Echigo, Echigo, Echigo, Nodo and Kitashino.
Zhou Yu only captured the two countries of Echizen and Echizen and China. In addition, more than 20 cities in the Three Kingdoms surrendered without fighting. The food, wealth, and surrendered troops in these cities all need to be accepted by the Qin army one by one.
According to statistics, the total population of the 43 cities of Uesugi countries before the war was 530,000, but now there are more than 400,000 left.
In this battle, nearly 130,000 soldiers and civilians in the Uesugi family died.
This is also the battle with the least killings but the biggest losses since the Qin army landed in Japan.
Since then, the territory controlled by the Qin army in Japan has reached as many as eleven countries.
Among them: the population of the three countries of Kyushu Island is 350,000, the population of the six countries in the western part of Honshu is 250,000, and the population of the five Uesugi countries is 400,000.
There are nearly one million Japanese people under the rule of the Qin Dynasty.
The Uesugi family surrendered a total of 66,000 troops. Zhou Yu disrupted the organization and trained the organization and set up 22 battalions, each with 3,000 people, to control the 66,000 Qin army.
As for the candidates for each battalion, the Han generals were half divided by the surrendered generals, so as to win the trust of the surrendered generals and increase the surrendered army''s vigilance and identity.
While Zhou Yu was sharpening his sword, the situation in the Kinki Plain also underwent an astonishing change.
The most surprising thing is that in the fight against the three-country coalition forces of the Wei, Song and Wu, Yamata Orochi, who made great achievements in the country, actually betrayed Oda Nobunaga.
(This chapter ends)