While fierce struggles were launched within the Tokugawa Shogunate, the anti-shog faction was also not idle and was actively carrying out activities.

However, the situation in Japan is obviously unfavorable to the anti-shog faction. The lord of the Choshu tribe, Mori Hide, died last year, which also caused the anti-shog faction to fall down a tall banner. Now the Choshu tribe cannot take on the heavy responsibility of falling down, and others have their own ulterior motives. The anti-shog faction was once facing a split situation, but like the Sendai tribe, the Saga tribe, and the Yonezawa tribe are both at the end of the rat. On one hand, they strengthened cooperation within the anti-shog faction, and on the other hand, they came to communicate with the shogunate privately, without completely tearing their faces apart. They even hoped to ease with the shogunate and try to get along with each other.

However, in the face of the increasingly powerful backshoku sentiment of the Shogunate, the anti-shoku faction had to reunite. The banner of the overthrow of the Shogunate had been fought out. At this point, everyone knew that it was basically impossible to turn back completely. Even the Sendai clan, Saga clan, and Yonezawa clan did not dare to fully believe the promises of the Tokugawa shogunate. Because there were still many strong voices in the shogunate, the unification of the anti-shoku faction could not be maintained.

At this moment, Toyotomi Yuzhong, who was taking refuge in China, also frequently moved in Japan and met with several major names of the Anti-Mao faction. Because all the major names in Japan know that Toyotomi Kaoru has been adopted as a concubine by Shang Yi, and the current situation is also very unfavorable to the Anti-Mao faction, so Toyotomi Yuzhong's value in the eyes of the Anti-Mao faction has also increased greatly.

Therefore, Toyotomi Yuzhong conveyed to the Anti-Straits that China would fully support the Anti-Straits. This statement also greatly boosted the spirit of the Anti-Straits and the emotions of all parties were much more stable. Toyotomi Yuzhong told the Anti-Straits that they could sell them 10,000 muskets, 300 cannons and other weapons, which made the Anti-Straits ecstatic.

Because after two wars with China, Japan also had a new understanding of the war. Relatively speaking, the Japanese were indeed more acceptable to new things than the Chinese, so their emphasis on firearms has also been raised to a very high level. Both the shogunate and the major names were actively making muskets and cannons. However, Japan's manufacturing technology was still very backward at this time. As long as it made old-fashioned mesh guns, it could not be made. The shogunate purchased three thousand muskets and three hundred cannons from the Netherlands, which was a great stimulation to the Anti-Suku faction.

Now that China has promised that it can be sold to the Anti-South League 10,000 muskets and 300 cannons, which is three times as much as the Netherlands sold to the Shogunate. The members of the Anti-South League have also made unanimous decisions and agreed to buy and sell them from China. They also proposed that they hope to buy more weapons from China.

Therefore, the first foreign arms deal in Chinese history was quickly negotiated. After 10,000 muskets and 300 cannons were sent to Japan, the leader of the anti-shog faction, the three major vassals of the inverted camp were divided into 2,000 muskets, 60 guns, Sendai, Saga, and Yonezawa, each of which was divided into 1,500 muskets and 40 guns, and the other muskets were divided into several other small vassals.

After obtaining this batch of arms, the anti-shog faction finally calmed down. On the one hand, its strength has increased, and on the other hand, it has the open support of China. With this protective umbrella, I believe that it can put enough pressure on the shogunate, so that the shogunate dare not launch a war easily against the anti-shogunate. It is best to maintain the status quo. Although the two sides are in opposition, they have not launched a war. The anti-shog faction also knows that their strength is not enough, and they do not want to really pull China into Japan.

But what the Anti-Sutra did not expect was that it was this batch of arms that just ignited the fire of the Japanese civil war.

The news that the Shogunate faction purchased arms from China soon reached the shogunate. Because Japan was originally only slap in the face, there was something that could be spread throughout the island immediately. In order to scare the shogunate, the Shogunate faction deliberately made a big fuss, fearing that the Shogunate would not know how the general trend of the Shogunate faction was close to China. In the near future, China would send troops to Japan to help the Shogunate attack on the Shogunate.

This caused an uproar within the shogunate, and the already fragile balance between the strong and the opposition was even more precarious.

The hardliners immediately launched a fierce attack on the compromise faction. The strong responsibility was the appeasement policy of the compromise faction, which made the anti-shog faction increasingly increasingly popular. Now the anti-shog faction has joined forces with China, and the shogunate has reached the most dangerous moment. If effective actions are not taken as soon as possible, the shogunate will undoubtedly perish. The hardliners believe that the action should be adopted is to take action before China has not sent troops, and then prepare to resist China's invasion.

The situation has developed to this point, which has also caused great headaches for the leader of the compromise faction, because now the entire shogunate is shouting for war. There are even many young samurai who are asking Matsuhira Nobuzu to change his position at the door of his mansion on the way and immediately fight the decisive battle with the anti-samurai faction. Although these samurai was severely scolded by Matsuhira Nobuzu, it still brought him quite heavy pressure. In private, Matsuhira Nobuzu told Abe Tadaki Abe: "Sakura Tadashi Sakai will definitely put Japan in a desperate situation."

It turns out that although from the perspective of official positions, Tadao Sakai is the old man, and Nobutsu Matsuhira is the old master, who is one of Sakai Tadao Sakai, but this is because Tadao Sakai's qualifications and origins are higher than Nobutsu Matsuhira. He is the grandson of Tadao Sakai, one of the four kings of Tokugawa. He was born into a famous family and a hero, so he suppressed Nobutsu Matsuhira in his official position. However, in terms of prestige and actual ability, he was not as good as Nobutsu Matsuhira. The nickname "Wisdom Izu" is not for nothing, and fourteen years ago, Nobutsu Matsuhira led his army to quell the Shimahara Rebellion.

In the Tokugawa Shogunate, everyone actually regarded Matsuhira Nobutsu as their family, better than Sakai Tadaokaku. When Tokugawa Iemitsu was alive, he was also lazy about Matsuhira Nobutsu. He discussed major state affairs with Matsuhira Nobutsu. After the Battle of Tokyo, Matsuhira Nobutsu went on a mission to China to sign a peace agreement with China. Later, when sending troops to help the Qing court and participating in the Central Plains War, Tokugawa Iemitsu had a wrong opinion and was led by Sakai Tadaokaku. As a result, Sakai Tadaokaku returned to defeat, Tokugawa Iemitsu again paid attention to Matsuhira Nobutsu. Therefore, in the current Tokugawa Shogunate, Matsuhira Nobutsu won the trust and support of most middle and high-level officials. Important national affairs can only be implemented if Matsuhira Nobutsu nodded and agreed.

Because of this, Tadao Sakai was very jealous of Matsuhira Nobutsu. This battle was caused by the fact that the two had different political views, and on the other hand, Tadao Sakai wanted to take the opportunity to drive Nobutsu Matsuhira from the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Of course, taking a tough stance is also a common idea of ​​Tadashi Sakai. Because Tadashi Sakai has always aimed at his grandfather Tadashi Sakai, he dreamed of building achievements and leaving his name forever. Therefore, when sending troops to help the Qing court and participating in the Central Plains War, Tadashi Sakai was not Fu He Tokugawa Ieki, but he really hoped to use this battle to establish his martial arts honors and also promote Japan's reputation. Although the Japanese army sent troops and returned in a crushing defeat, Tadashi Sakai did not recognize the form between China and Japan, and believed that the reason why the Japanese army failed was because the weapons were not as good as the Chinese army. If both sides used the same weapons, the Japanese army would definitely defeat the Chinese army.

After returning to Japan, Tadao Sakai strongly suggested that Japan should build more muskets and cannons. This time, buying arms from the Dutch was also the first suggestion of Tadao Sakai Sakai. Of course, these practices were indeed necessary, so Nobutsu Matsuhira did not object, but unlike Tadao Sakai, Tadao Sakai believed that this would defeat the Chinese army, Nobutsu Matsuhira only regarded these actions as a means to strengthen the defense of Japan or the Tokugawa Shogunate, and it was impossible to defeat the Chinese army by this.

Matsuhira Nobutsu's knowledge and mind were far higher than Sakai Tadaoka, and Sakai Tadaoka only fought with the Chinese army. As an envoy, Matsuhira Nobutsu stayed in China for more than a month. Not only did he understand the military strength of the Chinese army, but he also conducted a relatively comprehensive examination of China. Although Shang Yi only occupied the six provinces of the Yangtze River at that time, the result of Matsuhira Nobutsu was still that Japan's current comprehensive strength could not be an opponent of the Chinese army. If Shang Yi wanted to destroy Japan, it would be enough for up to five years. Of course, this was not considered the sporadic resistance after Japan was occupied, but by then Japan had actually destroyed its country.

Therefore, after Matsuhira Nobutsu returned to China, he strongly advocated maintaining good relations with China and never be enemies with China. Tokugawa Iemitsu decided to send troops to help the Qing court, and he also strongly opposed it and was once idle.

However, Matsupi Nobunaga still did not change its original intention, and took advantage of the convenience of Japan's business with China to comprehensively collect various information and situations in China, and fully utilized the advantages of Japan's good at learning. After several years of research, he actually understood China's political and economic situation. It was Shang Yi's proposal that China should fully move towards the ocean and participate in the trade competition in the era of navigation. It also touched Matsupi Nobunaga quite a lot. In addition, the books introducing European countries published by China also opened Matsupi Nobunaga's eyes, because Japan is an island country and has a natural sensitive understanding of the ocean. Moreover, Japan's situation is very similar to that of Britain and the Netherlands in Europe. It has a small territory and lacks resources. If you want to develop, you can only go to the ocean in all directions and learn from China's opening of the sea and being able to lock in the country.

In dealing with China, Matsudai Nobuka also advocates full dependence on China. When necessary, you can surrender to the central country like North Korea and become a vassal state of China. Only in this way can Japan live safely by the giant dragon of China, avoid forcing itself to be strong, and being an enemy and confrontation with China is definitely a dead end.

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