Chapter 417
Chapter 417
Chapter 417
Tianzheng 16th year (1588) May [-]rd
In the midst of much anticipation, Bizen Toyotomi (Ukita clan) officially moved the city from Ishiyama Castle to Okayama Castle. Hideyoshi sent someone to take care of the ceremony.
As the largest feudal clan under Hideyoshi and the strongest force in the Western Kingdom, the Bizen Toyotomi family's status in the Toyotomi family is equivalent to that of Zheng Guozhi to the Zhou royal family, and it is the last barrier for the Toyotomi clan to guard against possible enemies from the west .
When Hideyoshi was enfeoffed, he took Kinki as his basic territory, and placed a certain amount of relatives in Yinyang, Shikoku, Echizen, and Nobi as his own barriers.
However, unlike Awa's Asano Nagamasa and Echizen's Toyotomi Hideji, the million stones in Hideka's hands are the territory that Hideka has obtained by virtue of military exploits over the years.
From the beginning of surrendering to the Oda family, the Hide family has left a strong mark in Japanese history through a series of southern and northern wars, and has also left a deep reputation among the surrounding daimyos.
Therefore, when the Xiu family moved to a new house this time, all the big names around sent people to congratulate the Xiu family.
The envoys who came to Okayama saw the castle tower of Okayama Castle standing on the [-]-meter mountain in the Okayama Mountains, and they all expressed their admiration, "It is indeed the castle of the unparalleled family in the Western Kingdom. It doesn't count."
Even a samurai who had seen the construction of Azuchi Castle sighed, "Okayama Castle is quite like Azuchi Castle in the past."
Almost at the same time when Hideka Okayama Castle and Hideyoshi’s Osaka Castle were basically completed, Hidecho started building new towns in Gifu and Hideji in Kitanosho, and a wind of castle building began to blow from Toyotomi to the surrounding daimyo.
Hideyoshi was keenly aware of this trend, and planned to ask Hideyoshi to standardize the scale of cities in the world when returning to Kyoto in the near future, build different castles according to different levels, remove the complicated and useless small towns in the mountains, and realize centralized management of samurai retainers.
After the Hide family moved to Okayama Castle, the original Ishiyama Castle will not be abandoned, but the Nishimaru Castle of Okayama Castle will be rebuilt.Hideka will build a city wall called the "main structure" on the east and west sides of Okayama Castle Town, making the entire Okayama Castle an integrated defensive castle.
Until this moment of great joy, the Xiu family also officially named the two children of Anan and Fujihime Asahi Chiyo and Qianqian respectively. The sons of this generation of the family uniformly take names related to the sun.
The Xiu family is really a high-yielding monarch. They have already had 2 children (one of which is an illegitimate child) in just 4 years of official intercourse. At the end of last year, Zhizi and Ah Chu became pregnant again. The family gave birth to a child.
After taking Qing Ji as a side room at the end of last year, because Ju Ji was too young, the Xiu family often stayed in Qing Ji's room overnight. In the past few days, Qing Ji was also confirmed to be pregnant. It can be said that several women around the Xiu family have After having an heir, now the pressure is on Ju Ji's side.
In fact, not long after Ju Ji came to Okayama, the maid sent by Xiuchang who followed him discovered that Ooku in Xiu's house was different.
Under the management of the sex court, even if there is disharmony among the women's family members, they will not show it, and now almost all the concubines in the Xiu family have children, and now the pressure is on Juji's side.
Maybe she was told something by her mother before departure, after Ju Ji came to Okayama, she was very kind to Xiu's family, taking advantage of the fact that Nanhime and Fujihime had just given birth, and when Naoko and Kiyohime were pregnant, they ran to Xiu's house all day long , vowing to bring the Xiu family to justice on the spot. (She didn't know Ah Chu's existence.)
But Xiujia thinks her grade is too young. After all, she is only 13 years old this year, and she is 3 years younger than Xiujia. In the end, she really took into account the rumors outside and said, "When you grow up, we will talk about it by this time next year. .”
However, Xiujia's statement is not recognized by the mainstream in this era, which makes the maids on Juji's side complain a lot. They dare not lose their temper with Xiujia, and can only order them around in the big secret of Xiujia.
Seeing the Institute of Sex is requested by the Xiu family to manage the Xiu family's Dao. He manages other concubines. The power of Da Ao should be in the hands of Ju Ji.
In the past, there was no wife in the inner palace of the Xiu family. Seeing that the sex court could manage Da'ao under the order of the Xiu family, now that Ju Ji returns to the throne, her position seems a bit awkward.
Although Ju Ji is young, she is still very smart. She continued to grant the custody of the sex court on the grounds that she is still young and does not know how to manage the palace. However, all legal punishments must be done in front of her. face announced.
Although in name he wants to learn the law of managing the inner court from the Sex Academy, but in fact he is telling everyone that his status is above that of the Sex Academy, and even the right to see the Sex Academy is granted by him, which is considered official. Established the status of the main palace.
In addition, seeing the sex courtyard itself respects the idea of respecting the mistress. After Ju Ji arrived in place, she quickly fell under her command and took the initiative to manage other female relatives in the inner palace for Ju Ji.
The time comes to August [-]th, which is the month of taro name in Japan. Since this period coincides with the harvest season of various crops, in order to express gratitude for the blessings of nature, the Japanese will hold various celebrations. , Taro, edamame, divine wine and other offerings are offered to the gods to reward the gods for blessing the harvest, and children will come to snatch the offerings, which are called "Yuejian mud sticks".
This kind of activity is a bit like a combination of ancient Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and Western Halloween, but there is no doubt that these customs are Japanese customs that have been passed down thousands of years ago.
On such an important day, even the daimyo Hideka could not avoid the custom, and held a night banquet with his wives and concubines in the newly completed Okayama Castle.
In the eyes of later generations, the scene that feels particularly funny is that a group of elders in the hall did not dare to show the slightest disrespect to a 13-year-old baby who came late to give the lord's gift.
At the end of August, Ah Chu gave birth to a girl in Higashiyamakan, Okayama Castle Town, who was named Ting Ting by the Xiu family.
When the time came to September, Kamei Tomoki, who was sailing south to Ryukyu, finally returned, and set off with nearly a hundred ships of various sizes and 4000 armored troops.
When I came back, I actually brought back 5/6 lucky boats of about 300 materials, but the number of sergeants who returned was much less than when they set off, and nearly half of them stayed there.
After hearing the news of Kamei Tomoki's return, Xiujia immediately summoned him and asked him about the first-hand situation of Ryukyu.
When Kamei Tomo heard that Xiujia asked about Ryukyu, he became very excited, and introduced it to Xiujia Taotao endlessly, "Your Highness still overestimated the situation of Ryukyu. They have no defensive force at all in the northern islands. The brigade can break through their defenses.
That is to say, their home island, Ryukyu, is more powerful. I landed in the east of Ryukyu, and I took advantage of their lack of preparation to break through Shengliancheng, an important town in the east.
To say that the cities of Ryukyu are really different from ours, the cities in the small Ryukyu country are actually mostly built with stone walls, and the castles are built on the mountain, similar to our Hirayama Castle.
But they built a city wall 2-3 feet high with stones on the mountain. The city wall is almost perpendicular to the ground and it is not easy for ants to climb the city. .
The most important thing is this kind of stone city wall. Even if the small gold cannon and the big gold cannon are removed from the ship and bombarded, it is difficult to break through the wall. We ate a lot during the next siege of Zhongcheng and Shuri Castle. deficit. "
The Xiu family heard this and asked curiously: "Since it is not easy to attack the city with ants, and it is not easy to bombard it with artillery, then how did you take these cities?"
Unexpectedly, Kamei Tomoku said heartbrokenly, "Is there any way, there is no way at all, Your Highness! I don't know what method they used to build this kind of city wall. Such a heavy burden, this kind of stone wall city wall must collapse.
Nakamura Castle is small, we use ladders to build on the city wall and enter the city to fight the enemy, but Shuri Castle wall is so high that the ladders can’t be hung up, and the personnel can’t wait to go to the city at all. .
In the end, they relied on defeating the 3000 reinforcements gathered from all over the country outside Shuri City, deterring the Ryukyu monarchs, and this made Shuri open the city. "
Although in many film and television works, Japanese siege parties mostly use the method of hanging ropes and ants to climb the city, and it is rare to see the situation of climbing the city with ladders, but in fact this is a fallacy of film and television works.
For a small city with fence + earthen wall, ants and suspension cables are indeed the most economical and affordable way to attack the city, which is similar to the Ming Dynasty attacking camps on land.
Before the middle period of the Warring States period, most of the cities in Japan were built on the mountain.
Later, with the gradual increase of Hirayama Castle and Heping Castle, the steepness of the earthen wall and stone wall rising from the flat ground was higher than that of the mountain, and the height was greatly reduced. This made the ladder abandoned by the Japanese for hundreds of years in the long river of war to be valued again.
Therefore, starting from the Azuchi-Momoyama era, ladders appeared more frequently in Japanese siege battles, and became standard equipment for siege troops when it came to the Battle of Osaka.
But it was too late to develop siege ladders at this time. The siege ladders that have just been developed for 20 years are not as specialized as those on the other side of the sea. They are just higher ladders for ordinary buildings.
This makes the fact that these siege ladders are facing the Mizubori and the city wall of Osaka Castle a bit funny, and they can't even hang firmly on the stone wall of the city wall.
The battle of Osaka 20 years later is still like this, not to mention that the current Japanese army does not pay attention to props such as siege ladders at all.
However, the castles of the Ryukyu Kingdom are different from daimyo and Japan. They are more similar to the mountain castles in Europe, that is, relying on the mountains to build castles that are independent of the city and only protect the lord.
These castles, like the Japanese mountain castles, will build several circles of city walls relying on the mountains, but each circle of city walls is a wall that stands on top of the mountains like Europe.Unlike Japan, relying on the mountains to level the land and build stone walls outside the earthen walls.
(Similar to Badania's Castle in Mount & Blade 2.)
At the beginning, when Kamei Tomoki and others faced this kind of castle, they were also very nervous. They didn't know how to deal with it at all. They didn't know how to deal with it until they were introduced by the captured captives that they would use a tool called "ladder" when attacking the city in the Ryukyu country in the past. , Only then did the police discover that Zhongcheng City had been captured.
Zhongcheng is the land of dragon prosperity in the Kingdom of Ryukyu. The loss of Zhongcheng made Ryukyu officially pay attention to this invader army.
However, their tribal organization and mobilization form was too backward, which created an opportunity for Kamei Fuzuki and others to besiege the city. However, due to insufficient siege efforts, it was difficult to capture Shuri Castle, which was guarded by only 300 royal guards.
If Shuri keeps defending like this, and the surrounding rescue forces cut off Kamei Zimao's retreat and fight guerrillas with them, Kamei Zimao's expeditionary force is likely to be handed over to Ryukyu.
It's a pity that no lord in the Ryukyu country has such a high level of command. He actually fought a decisive battle with Kamei Tomoki under Shuri Castle, and was defeated by the First World War. All the children of the royal family were captured.
Here I want to introduce the political system. It is thanks to the system that the Ryukyu royal family resides in Shuri that they can be captured so easily.
In Ryukyu, the king is called "Master Kanashi", and his younger brothers, uncles, and ministers are all called "Prince of a certain place".
Under the princes, they serve as governors in various places. They hand over their military power to the king, live in Shuri, control their territories remotely, and send an official to their territories to inspect local affairs every year.
This system is somewhat similar to the system that the princes of the Qing Dynasty were not allowed to leave Beijing, which enabled the king to firmly grasp the power in the country and prevent the rebellion of the royal family.
But it was also because of this system that Kamei Tomoki made this expedition to Ryukyu, and none of the members of the royal family escaped, and all of them were captured.
Even if the leaders of the Zhaishe outside want to support the new king to fight against the Xiu family, there is no prince to use.
In addition, in the next battle at Shuri Castle, Kamei Izumi led his troops to kill hundreds of Ryukyu soldiers and captured hundreds of people. The first battle defeated the resistance consciousness of the Ryukyu lords, and they surrendered to the new master to seek asylum.
At this point in the conversation, Kamei Tomoki finally brought up the most important issue in this issue, "the handling of the Ryukyu royal family."
Hearing Kamei Tomoki's inquiry, Hideka asked him, "Where is the Ryukyu royal family now? Who are the Ryukyu people you brought who bowed their heads?"
Kamei Tomoki explained, "I am afraid that there will be a change, and I will imprison the entire Ryukyu royal family in Katsuren Castle. In Shuri Castle, only King Shang Yong lives alone. He sent me to convey his kindness to His Highness, and ask His Highness to allow Ryukyu to continue the country. .”
Xiujia asked again, "Since you are imprisoned in Shuri, where are the 300 guards?"
"The guards of Shuri are all the sons of the high family nobles, they are well-dressed and well-equipped, and their combat power is quite extraordinary.
I was afraid that something would happen if I left them in Shuri, so I immediately replaced them with the samurai boys I brought with me, and put on their full defensive Shuri.
And these original guard noble children were all escorted back by me in the name of asking for hostages, and 735 descendants of the leaders of the Ryukyu villages and clubs were brought back with them. "
Xiujia confirmed again, "What grades are they from?"
"Most of them are children over 20 years old, and a few have young people in their teens."
Xiujia frowned slightly when he heard the arrangement of this grade. No matter how poor Ryukyu is, it is not as poor as aristocrats, and 20 years old is already a grade with a determined mind. They want to make them the next generation through education and brainwashing. Leading the way is really difficult.
These aristocrats who are over 20 years old themselves are like chicken ribs to the Hideo family, Hideka thought about it and said to Kamei Tomoki, "Leave it to me if you are under 15 years old, and I will arrange it myself;
Those who are over 15 years old and under 20 years old, you should send them to Hongwenkan to study, and the police will demarcate the house at Erzhimaru, Shishan City, on the opposite bank;
For these samurai who are over 20 years old, you should send them to Toyama City to take care of them first. I will find someone to teach them the rules of their own family. The lord went to open up Ezo for the family. "
(End of this chapter)
Tianzheng 16th year (1588) May [-]rd
In the midst of much anticipation, Bizen Toyotomi (Ukita clan) officially moved the city from Ishiyama Castle to Okayama Castle. Hideyoshi sent someone to take care of the ceremony.
As the largest feudal clan under Hideyoshi and the strongest force in the Western Kingdom, the Bizen Toyotomi family's status in the Toyotomi family is equivalent to that of Zheng Guozhi to the Zhou royal family, and it is the last barrier for the Toyotomi clan to guard against possible enemies from the west .
When Hideyoshi was enfeoffed, he took Kinki as his basic territory, and placed a certain amount of relatives in Yinyang, Shikoku, Echizen, and Nobi as his own barriers.
However, unlike Awa's Asano Nagamasa and Echizen's Toyotomi Hideji, the million stones in Hideka's hands are the territory that Hideka has obtained by virtue of military exploits over the years.
From the beginning of surrendering to the Oda family, the Hide family has left a strong mark in Japanese history through a series of southern and northern wars, and has also left a deep reputation among the surrounding daimyos.
Therefore, when the Xiu family moved to a new house this time, all the big names around sent people to congratulate the Xiu family.
The envoys who came to Okayama saw the castle tower of Okayama Castle standing on the [-]-meter mountain in the Okayama Mountains, and they all expressed their admiration, "It is indeed the castle of the unparalleled family in the Western Kingdom. It doesn't count."
Even a samurai who had seen the construction of Azuchi Castle sighed, "Okayama Castle is quite like Azuchi Castle in the past."
Almost at the same time when Hideka Okayama Castle and Hideyoshi’s Osaka Castle were basically completed, Hidecho started building new towns in Gifu and Hideji in Kitanosho, and a wind of castle building began to blow from Toyotomi to the surrounding daimyo.
Hideyoshi was keenly aware of this trend, and planned to ask Hideyoshi to standardize the scale of cities in the world when returning to Kyoto in the near future, build different castles according to different levels, remove the complicated and useless small towns in the mountains, and realize centralized management of samurai retainers.
After the Hide family moved to Okayama Castle, the original Ishiyama Castle will not be abandoned, but the Nishimaru Castle of Okayama Castle will be rebuilt.Hideka will build a city wall called the "main structure" on the east and west sides of Okayama Castle Town, making the entire Okayama Castle an integrated defensive castle.
Until this moment of great joy, the Xiu family also officially named the two children of Anan and Fujihime Asahi Chiyo and Qianqian respectively. The sons of this generation of the family uniformly take names related to the sun.
The Xiu family is really a high-yielding monarch. They have already had 2 children (one of which is an illegitimate child) in just 4 years of official intercourse. At the end of last year, Zhizi and Ah Chu became pregnant again. The family gave birth to a child.
After taking Qing Ji as a side room at the end of last year, because Ju Ji was too young, the Xiu family often stayed in Qing Ji's room overnight. In the past few days, Qing Ji was also confirmed to be pregnant. It can be said that several women around the Xiu family have After having an heir, now the pressure is on Ju Ji's side.
In fact, not long after Ju Ji came to Okayama, the maid sent by Xiuchang who followed him discovered that Ooku in Xiu's house was different.
Under the management of the sex court, even if there is disharmony among the women's family members, they will not show it, and now almost all the concubines in the Xiu family have children, and now the pressure is on Juji's side.
Maybe she was told something by her mother before departure, after Ju Ji came to Okayama, she was very kind to Xiu's family, taking advantage of the fact that Nanhime and Fujihime had just given birth, and when Naoko and Kiyohime were pregnant, they ran to Xiu's house all day long , vowing to bring the Xiu family to justice on the spot. (She didn't know Ah Chu's existence.)
But Xiujia thinks her grade is too young. After all, she is only 13 years old this year, and she is 3 years younger than Xiujia. In the end, she really took into account the rumors outside and said, "When you grow up, we will talk about it by this time next year. .”
However, Xiujia's statement is not recognized by the mainstream in this era, which makes the maids on Juji's side complain a lot. They dare not lose their temper with Xiujia, and can only order them around in the big secret of Xiujia.
Seeing the Institute of Sex is requested by the Xiu family to manage the Xiu family's Dao. He manages other concubines. The power of Da Ao should be in the hands of Ju Ji.
In the past, there was no wife in the inner palace of the Xiu family. Seeing that the sex court could manage Da'ao under the order of the Xiu family, now that Ju Ji returns to the throne, her position seems a bit awkward.
Although Ju Ji is young, she is still very smart. She continued to grant the custody of the sex court on the grounds that she is still young and does not know how to manage the palace. However, all legal punishments must be done in front of her. face announced.
Although in name he wants to learn the law of managing the inner court from the Sex Academy, but in fact he is telling everyone that his status is above that of the Sex Academy, and even the right to see the Sex Academy is granted by him, which is considered official. Established the status of the main palace.
In addition, seeing the sex courtyard itself respects the idea of respecting the mistress. After Ju Ji arrived in place, she quickly fell under her command and took the initiative to manage other female relatives in the inner palace for Ju Ji.
The time comes to August [-]th, which is the month of taro name in Japan. Since this period coincides with the harvest season of various crops, in order to express gratitude for the blessings of nature, the Japanese will hold various celebrations. , Taro, edamame, divine wine and other offerings are offered to the gods to reward the gods for blessing the harvest, and children will come to snatch the offerings, which are called "Yuejian mud sticks".
This kind of activity is a bit like a combination of ancient Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and Western Halloween, but there is no doubt that these customs are Japanese customs that have been passed down thousands of years ago.
On such an important day, even the daimyo Hideka could not avoid the custom, and held a night banquet with his wives and concubines in the newly completed Okayama Castle.
In the eyes of later generations, the scene that feels particularly funny is that a group of elders in the hall did not dare to show the slightest disrespect to a 13-year-old baby who came late to give the lord's gift.
At the end of August, Ah Chu gave birth to a girl in Higashiyamakan, Okayama Castle Town, who was named Ting Ting by the Xiu family.
When the time came to September, Kamei Tomoki, who was sailing south to Ryukyu, finally returned, and set off with nearly a hundred ships of various sizes and 4000 armored troops.
When I came back, I actually brought back 5/6 lucky boats of about 300 materials, but the number of sergeants who returned was much less than when they set off, and nearly half of them stayed there.
After hearing the news of Kamei Tomoki's return, Xiujia immediately summoned him and asked him about the first-hand situation of Ryukyu.
When Kamei Tomo heard that Xiujia asked about Ryukyu, he became very excited, and introduced it to Xiujia Taotao endlessly, "Your Highness still overestimated the situation of Ryukyu. They have no defensive force at all in the northern islands. The brigade can break through their defenses.
That is to say, their home island, Ryukyu, is more powerful. I landed in the east of Ryukyu, and I took advantage of their lack of preparation to break through Shengliancheng, an important town in the east.
To say that the cities of Ryukyu are really different from ours, the cities in the small Ryukyu country are actually mostly built with stone walls, and the castles are built on the mountain, similar to our Hirayama Castle.
But they built a city wall 2-3 feet high with stones on the mountain. The city wall is almost perpendicular to the ground and it is not easy for ants to climb the city. .
The most important thing is this kind of stone city wall. Even if the small gold cannon and the big gold cannon are removed from the ship and bombarded, it is difficult to break through the wall. We ate a lot during the next siege of Zhongcheng and Shuri Castle. deficit. "
The Xiu family heard this and asked curiously: "Since it is not easy to attack the city with ants, and it is not easy to bombard it with artillery, then how did you take these cities?"
Unexpectedly, Kamei Tomoku said heartbrokenly, "Is there any way, there is no way at all, Your Highness! I don't know what method they used to build this kind of city wall. Such a heavy burden, this kind of stone wall city wall must collapse.
Nakamura Castle is small, we use ladders to build on the city wall and enter the city to fight the enemy, but Shuri Castle wall is so high that the ladders can’t be hung up, and the personnel can’t wait to go to the city at all. .
In the end, they relied on defeating the 3000 reinforcements gathered from all over the country outside Shuri City, deterring the Ryukyu monarchs, and this made Shuri open the city. "
Although in many film and television works, Japanese siege parties mostly use the method of hanging ropes and ants to climb the city, and it is rare to see the situation of climbing the city with ladders, but in fact this is a fallacy of film and television works.
For a small city with fence + earthen wall, ants and suspension cables are indeed the most economical and affordable way to attack the city, which is similar to the Ming Dynasty attacking camps on land.
Before the middle period of the Warring States period, most of the cities in Japan were built on the mountain.
Later, with the gradual increase of Hirayama Castle and Heping Castle, the steepness of the earthen wall and stone wall rising from the flat ground was higher than that of the mountain, and the height was greatly reduced. This made the ladder abandoned by the Japanese for hundreds of years in the long river of war to be valued again.
Therefore, starting from the Azuchi-Momoyama era, ladders appeared more frequently in Japanese siege battles, and became standard equipment for siege troops when it came to the Battle of Osaka.
But it was too late to develop siege ladders at this time. The siege ladders that have just been developed for 20 years are not as specialized as those on the other side of the sea. They are just higher ladders for ordinary buildings.
This makes the fact that these siege ladders are facing the Mizubori and the city wall of Osaka Castle a bit funny, and they can't even hang firmly on the stone wall of the city wall.
The battle of Osaka 20 years later is still like this, not to mention that the current Japanese army does not pay attention to props such as siege ladders at all.
However, the castles of the Ryukyu Kingdom are different from daimyo and Japan. They are more similar to the mountain castles in Europe, that is, relying on the mountains to build castles that are independent of the city and only protect the lord.
These castles, like the Japanese mountain castles, will build several circles of city walls relying on the mountains, but each circle of city walls is a wall that stands on top of the mountains like Europe.Unlike Japan, relying on the mountains to level the land and build stone walls outside the earthen walls.
(Similar to Badania's Castle in Mount & Blade 2.)
At the beginning, when Kamei Tomoki and others faced this kind of castle, they were also very nervous. They didn't know how to deal with it at all. They didn't know how to deal with it until they were introduced by the captured captives that they would use a tool called "ladder" when attacking the city in the Ryukyu country in the past. , Only then did the police discover that Zhongcheng City had been captured.
Zhongcheng is the land of dragon prosperity in the Kingdom of Ryukyu. The loss of Zhongcheng made Ryukyu officially pay attention to this invader army.
However, their tribal organization and mobilization form was too backward, which created an opportunity for Kamei Fuzuki and others to besiege the city. However, due to insufficient siege efforts, it was difficult to capture Shuri Castle, which was guarded by only 300 royal guards.
If Shuri keeps defending like this, and the surrounding rescue forces cut off Kamei Zimao's retreat and fight guerrillas with them, Kamei Zimao's expeditionary force is likely to be handed over to Ryukyu.
It's a pity that no lord in the Ryukyu country has such a high level of command. He actually fought a decisive battle with Kamei Tomoki under Shuri Castle, and was defeated by the First World War. All the children of the royal family were captured.
Here I want to introduce the political system. It is thanks to the system that the Ryukyu royal family resides in Shuri that they can be captured so easily.
In Ryukyu, the king is called "Master Kanashi", and his younger brothers, uncles, and ministers are all called "Prince of a certain place".
Under the princes, they serve as governors in various places. They hand over their military power to the king, live in Shuri, control their territories remotely, and send an official to their territories to inspect local affairs every year.
This system is somewhat similar to the system that the princes of the Qing Dynasty were not allowed to leave Beijing, which enabled the king to firmly grasp the power in the country and prevent the rebellion of the royal family.
But it was also because of this system that Kamei Tomoki made this expedition to Ryukyu, and none of the members of the royal family escaped, and all of them were captured.
Even if the leaders of the Zhaishe outside want to support the new king to fight against the Xiu family, there is no prince to use.
In addition, in the next battle at Shuri Castle, Kamei Izumi led his troops to kill hundreds of Ryukyu soldiers and captured hundreds of people. The first battle defeated the resistance consciousness of the Ryukyu lords, and they surrendered to the new master to seek asylum.
At this point in the conversation, Kamei Tomoki finally brought up the most important issue in this issue, "the handling of the Ryukyu royal family."
Hearing Kamei Tomoki's inquiry, Hideka asked him, "Where is the Ryukyu royal family now? Who are the Ryukyu people you brought who bowed their heads?"
Kamei Tomoki explained, "I am afraid that there will be a change, and I will imprison the entire Ryukyu royal family in Katsuren Castle. In Shuri Castle, only King Shang Yong lives alone. He sent me to convey his kindness to His Highness, and ask His Highness to allow Ryukyu to continue the country. .”
Xiujia asked again, "Since you are imprisoned in Shuri, where are the 300 guards?"
"The guards of Shuri are all the sons of the high family nobles, they are well-dressed and well-equipped, and their combat power is quite extraordinary.
I was afraid that something would happen if I left them in Shuri, so I immediately replaced them with the samurai boys I brought with me, and put on their full defensive Shuri.
And these original guard noble children were all escorted back by me in the name of asking for hostages, and 735 descendants of the leaders of the Ryukyu villages and clubs were brought back with them. "
Xiujia confirmed again, "What grades are they from?"
"Most of them are children over 20 years old, and a few have young people in their teens."
Xiujia frowned slightly when he heard the arrangement of this grade. No matter how poor Ryukyu is, it is not as poor as aristocrats, and 20 years old is already a grade with a determined mind. They want to make them the next generation through education and brainwashing. Leading the way is really difficult.
These aristocrats who are over 20 years old themselves are like chicken ribs to the Hideo family, Hideka thought about it and said to Kamei Tomoki, "Leave it to me if you are under 15 years old, and I will arrange it myself;
Those who are over 15 years old and under 20 years old, you should send them to Hongwenkan to study, and the police will demarcate the house at Erzhimaru, Shishan City, on the opposite bank;
For these samurai who are over 20 years old, you should send them to Toyama City to take care of them first. I will find someone to teach them the rules of their own family. The lord went to open up Ezo for the family. "
(End of this chapter)