Chapter 936: Trembling with Fear

"Conquer the Li Dynasty!"

"Conquer Joseon!"

"Conquer the Li Dynasty!"

Wa.

Edo.

The sentiment among the people of Wa supporting the war has been particularly intense during this period.

All sorts of people have begun to flood the streets, singing the praises of Mizuno Masashige's war in the Li Dynasty. Only through war can Wa be saved; only through conquest can Wa be saved! In these days, this line of reasoning has begun to ferment in Wa, and it has become unstoppable.

The Tokugawa Clan.

The Tokugawa Shogunate.

By this historical stage, the Tokugawa Shogunate had already ruled Wa for over a hundred years. Since the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 established the dominance of the Edo Shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu was appointed Seii Taishogun by the Emperor and established the shogunate in Edo. Later, in 1605, in order to establish the Hereditary System for the shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu was determined to abdicate in favor of his third son, Tokugawa Hidetada. At the time, he successfully thwarted the opposition of the Toyotomi Clan and the Emperor. Since then, although the Emperor in Kyoto still held lofty prestige in Wa and was nominally the supreme ruler of the country, in reality, the actual power was completely in the hands of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

How prosperous was Edo at that time? Perhaps few people could imagine it. In the early eighteenth century, the population of Edo exceeded one million, reaching 1.3 million at its peak, making it the largest city in the world at the time. Meanwhile, the Longyan Dynasty was just then mired in civil strife, and with the situation not yet stabilized, the populations of some of its cities were not as large as Edo's.

:

Of course.

Edo.

It also became the largest city in the world at that time!

Tokugawa Ienari.

He sat in the shogunate at this moment, with obvious worry flickering across his face.

Nominally, the capital of Wa was still Kyoto.

But in reality, Edo had already become the nation's political center, economic center, and military center.

Facts have proven that the policies of Matsudaira Sadanobu were the ones that were completely wrong.

From a historical perspective, the geographical location and climatic conditions of Wa itself were completely unsuitable for large-scale farming. Added to this, in recent years, the arrival of the Little Ice Age meant that this policy of developing agriculture with the strength of the entire nation brought a devastating blow to Wa. A nationwide great famine lasted for several years, and peasant uprisings occurred repeatedly.

He was the eleventh Seii Taishogun of the Tokugawa Clan. It must be said that during the era of Tokugawa Ienari, Edo had already begun to show an unstoppable downward trend. After taking office, Tokugawa Ienari dismissed Tanuma Okitsugu and appointed Matsudaira Sadanobu as Roju (a high-ranking administrative official). After Matsudaira Sadanobu took office, he immediately overturned the mercantilism of Tanuma Okitsugu and changed it to prioritizing agriculture and suppressing commerce; the Kansei Reform of the shogunate thus began.

However.

Historical records state that when Tokugawa Ienari was young, he had habits different from others; he would make crabs and chickens trample each other and watch them fight to the death, which shows that this person was cruel and cold-blooded.

Just at this moment.

Tokugawa Ienari had already begun to lose patience with Matsudaira Sadanobu.

What kind of person was he?

The Emperor in Kyoto even sent a letter, which was unprecedented.

The meaning was very supportive of the Mizuno Clan's decision to conquer the Li Dynasty, and if possible, to conquer more places!

The Mizuno Clan had emerged.

He did not expect that, as the son of Mizuno Tadakuni, Mizuno Masashige would unexpectedly unite Edo in such an unconventional way. The peasants stopped rebelling, the merchants stopped smuggling, and the feudal lords stopped scheming against each other; one by one, they began to shout, "Conquer the Li Dynasty, conquer the Li Dynasty."

Although this was not a bad thing.

However, the current financial situation of Edo was not healthy. Was fighting a war such a simple matter?

Tokugawa Ienari, meanwhile, was filled with anxiety.

The whole nation was crying for war.

Good heavens.

With two hundred thousand troops setting out, Tokugawa Ienari felt that all of Edo would be skinned alive!

Weaponry and Equipment, War Horse, provisions, medicinal herbs—did everything not need to be prepared in place?

This Mizuno Masashige too; whenever he asked for reinforcements, it was two hundred thousand!

"Great General."

Within a short period, quite a few people came in to report, and several officials beside Tokugawa Ienari were also engaged in intense discussion.

"Great General, Mizuno Masashige has sent another urgent letter!"

"Great General, the cities near the Li Dynasty have already prepared troops and horses. It is just the provisions..."

And Tokugawa Ienari did a calculation.

Another two hundred thousand setting out.

The Shogunate era.

Others acknowledged that the Tokugawa Clan was the strongest, but if you wanted to use the troops and horses of my clan to fight a war, you had to provide at least the basic financial subsidies, right? These generals were not fools.

Mizuno Tadakuni also advised from the side.

Tokugawa Ienari took a deep breath: "Prepare the provisions and transport them to the Li Dynasty at the fastest speed; as for the other troops and horses, support them first!"

All of Edo was on the verge of danger.

"Great General, we cannot hesitate any longer!"

But they believed that they could win!

The people of Wa were gamblers by nature.

The crowd was overjoyed.

This time, Wa was truly staking everything on one throw!

And compared to the tight-fisted situation in Wa.

The Prince of Wei was very happy recently.

"Yes!"

While saying it was improper, he still could not help but go over to look at that box of Silver Note, and only then did he have people carry it to the back hall.

"Regarding the matter of the Prince of Wei sending troops..."

"Ahahahahaha, twenty million gold? Twenty million gold? Oh my, oh my, this truly makes this Mandarin feel embarrassed; how could this be allowed, how could this be allowed?"

Facing the Chief Manager of the Yinzhou Chamber of Commerce in Qingzhou, this dark-faced, bearded Prince's face was blooming with smiles.

"That is so, that is so. Sir only feels that when a great army is mobilized, the consumption is vast, so some subsidies are merely a gesture of goodwill."

The Chief Manager accompanied him with a smile.

The Chief Manager of Qingzhou chuckled.

The Prince of Wei deliberately glared at him: "You people in Liangzhou, are you really treating this Mandarin as an outsider? Hmm? This Mandarin and Vice Minister Liu are already people on the same boat! If one prospers, both prosper; if one suffers, both suffer! If Vice Minister Liu is in trouble, even without this silver, Qingzhou would still send troops to press the border! You are being too distant, far too distant!"

One hundred and fifty thousand troops!

That very day, the Prince of Wei decisively dispatched his second fiercest general, Chen Zhen, to lead one hundred and fifty thousand troops, rushing toward Liaodong under the guise of a military exercise and spring-summer training.

The Prince of Wei laughed heartily: "Good! Summon General Chen for this Mandarin!"

Twenty million gold!

Li Tun was stunned silly.

The Westerner Party and the Southern Faction, were they not the same?

The entire Longyan gasped.

The entire Li Dynasty was likewise in an uproar.

Wasn't the order to kill Vice Minister Liu sent over by you people in Longyan?

How is it that now, you are pressing the border with a great army again!

This

What is the meaning of this?

Good heavens.

You say it is a military exercise, but the place for that military exercise is only separated from the Li Dynasty by a single Yalu River, alright!

Is not

What is the meaning of you conducting shallow-water landing exercises?

The entire Li Dynasty was trembling with fear.