.One Hundred and Forty-six, "official army" with their own thoughts (continued)

One hundred and forty-six, "official army" with their own thoughts (continued)

In fact, from the day when he sent troops to Beijing to serve the king, Shimazu Nori never thought about being a loyal minister in the court, but always thought about how to open the shogunate and become a general.

However, it is not easy to do this. In addition to overthrowing the old shogunate and making a seat, the most important prerequisite is to be able to suppress the court, and secondly, to be able to suppress the other powerful vassals.

In this island country where the imperial power has been declining for thousands of years, the warriors of various vassals are only loyal to their lords. At most, they have a little respect for the court that never pays them a salary. They even mock and contempt behind their backs.

However, among the common people, especially among the country people in remote places, the emperor and the court still have a huge potential influence. For example, as soon as the imperial decree was issued, rural tyrants like Xiangle Zongsan brought their own dry food and brought the farmers from a village to "respect the king"... If the mass base of the court cannot be destroyed at least in a short period of time, the regime belonging to the samurai would be difficult to consolidate - indeed, there are probably very few samurai who are sincerely loyal to the court, but there are many ambitious people who want to disrupt the situation by the banner of the court, just like him now.

However, as far as the current overall situation is concerned, this pitiful and ridiculous little court seems to have almost no possibility of firmly standing.

In Shimazu Norishi's view, the Edo Shogunate, which originally ruled this country, was indeed suffering from internal and external troubles, corrupt and chaos. Even the puppets of Westerners could not be done well, and eventually caused a self-destruction and collapse... It can be said that it was a self-defeating and a self-destruction and failure.

But how vigorous and vigor can this Kyoto court, which claims to be rejuvenating and leading the country to a prosperous and powerful road, have the vitality of revitalization?

Look at the civil and military officials in the court now, who are there?

Those nobles and nobles who claim to be noble family are almost the same as the same as the country's worms. They only know how to make money, use their power for personal gain, solicit bribes and accept bribes, and corruption has become a trend. In just two months after the court announced the resumption of power, they have already made millions of dollars, wives and concubines, and even began to squander and compete... But what have these noble children done?

It seems that they are very busy, and they have to interfere in everything. They have to ask about everything. They have to eat and get the slap in everything. Once there is a little unhappiness, they will immediately report to the emperor's ear and slander it in every way... But the problem is that this kind of hard work is completely used in the wrong place. After more than two months of busy work, it has been a bit of money. It is simply because the regime has not helped the court to gather the control of the local government. The central government's control over the place is not weak, but it has no at all.

Not to mention the top priority of pacifying the people's hearts and stabilizing the foundation - all the people in the capital are about to die

And the Emperor Renxiao, who dreamed of Wang Zheng’s retro all day long, always spoke the words of sages and did dirty things that were unkind and unfilial. But he was not even a hypocrite. He was always very fond of achievements and lacked responsibility. He often pursued small profits but ignored the overall situation - even if he wanted to be a tyrant, he did not do this.

If you want to slaughter billions of people, your hands are full of blood, the world is terrifying and your power is invincible... How can this tyrant be easy?

Emperor Renxiao was always so stingy about the ministers who were really working for him outside that he was reluctant to give anything, but his various requirements were ridiculously high, and he was always mean and rude and did not care about the friendship between the king and the ministers. He was unlimitedly generous and indulgent to the eunuchs who served him, and he was so horrible that he was so fond of. He even turned a blind eye to such a huge basket of weapons and ammunition. He had no intention of self-discipline. He claimed to be a saint and wise ruler, but he was taboo to advise, and repeatedly trapped loyal ministers to death without reflecting on them...

After a few months, those foreign warriors who had a glimmer of hope for the "Saint King's Reign" were now heartbroken - they destroyed their families and raised troops, exhausted to death but no one cared about them, died on the battlefield without any pension or posthumous gifts, and even had their family property embezzled by the ministers and ministers in the court... And if they were a little fault, or just had their savings full and jealous, they would be caught and questioned harshly...

With such a king and such a court, who would have the intention of swearing to be loyal to death?

Through this period of close contact, the warriors have seen the true face of this "saint king". The despicable behavior of blatantly tearing down the preferential terms agreed in advance and forcing all the old shogunate to resign and accept land also made the old shogunate ministers who tied up the generals of the conquest and came to join but were tragically demoted to the river. Then, through the tragic experience of the leader of the Akatsuki team, the tragic experience of the donkey being removed from the grave, the tax-free imperial edict that went back on his word, and the tribute taxes that were about to be forcibly "pre-collected" in the next two years, it should also make those ignorant commoners feel completely desperate about the court.

Seeing the "peerless saint" on the throne completely cleared the future path step by step, Shimazu's heart was truly infinitely happy.

——The most painful and angry thing in this world is not that you can’t see any hope at all. It’s that you have given you a beautiful hope that is within your reach, and then you destroy this hope in front of you.

To put it more specifically, the way to control the people in this world is either to fool the people to the end and not give the people any thoughts, until they are exhausted and starved to death; or they are to open up the wisdom of the people, keep pace with the times, strive to innovate, and truly create a vigorous new spirit of dynasty.

The most taboo thing is to draw a fragrant pancake and drool all over, but in the end they turn against each other and even take away the last bite of thick chaff in your hand...

Once the psychological gap is amplified to this point, even the numb and ignorant people will be filled with anger, their endurance exceeds the limit, and then they will be completely exploded.

At that time, since the Tokugawa family abandoned the world and the court turned against the public opinion, and could not count on it, then who could intimidate the heroes and stabilize the country except for the Shimazu family governor who had noble blood, outstanding achievements and great military power?

The imperial court officials were indeed wise, and they were wary of him and his 20,000 Satsuma Karma, who were under his command, so they allowed him to go to the cold Hokuriku Road and stay away from the base of Kyushu Island. However, this war was sparse and the undisastered Ouyu, the Hokuriku land, the grain, horses and iron ore were produced in a lot of money, which was a hundred times higher than the barren land of Satsuma. As long as they could be occupied and sorted out, they would not become the new foundation for the Shimazu family to conquer the world?

Looking back on history, after the old turtle that founded the Tokugawa shogunate was moved out of the ancestral land of Okazaki Castle in Mikawakura, it took root in Kanto within a few years, and then successfully swept the world in one breath?

As for the other military leaders in Kyoto's anti-shog army camp, which seems to be competing with the Shimazu family, it will be even more unfamiliar.

Although the Changzhou vassal was the first to rise up, there were many internal differences. Except for the chief general of the "Shock Army", Soichiro Hiro, who was humble from a humble background, lacked foundation, and was eager to expand his power, so he brought thousands of people to Beijing to meet, the other Changzhou tyrants who had families and businesses were all shackled in the vassal and were unwilling to go out for an expedition. Don't expect them to provide any support to Soichiro Hirohiro Hiro - with the deep blood feuds that had been formed during the previous civil strife, it would be nice to not stab the knife in the back.

The Tosa family, the Hibimae family, the Saga family and other vassal states did not participate in the Battle of Kyoto. They took advantage of the opportunity of the shogunate adjustment to respond after the war and quietly smuggled hundreds of troops into Beijing to join in the fun of fighting. However, when the shogunate reacted, they immediately cut off the sea route, and the guys who had already entered Beijing became abandoned sons, but the number of people was small and the equipment was poor. They were sent by the court to the outskirts of Osaka to confront the shogunate army, but they did not pay food or pay, had no food or clothing, and were in a very miserable state.

Among these unlucky princes, the other vassal states just lost some extra idle people, but they did not hurt any vitality. But the most unlucky Tosa Domain, because it was on Shikoku Island, too close to Osaka and the coastline was long, so it was used as a training range by the Far East Fleet of the Naseril Empire in the past two months, and sent warships to bombard every day and landed from time to time to time to raid. However, the Tosa Domain's army was exhausted by the sea, but still could not stop the sneak attack. At present, the vassal is already a port, and the town is destroyed. Half of the lord castle near the sea collapsed, and the fisherman cannot go out to sea. The only warship in the vassal was captured by the naval gang... In short, it was even more tragic than the Satsuma Domain.

There are some ronin samurai who "spontaneously fight for the king" and bandits, bandits, hooligans and ninjas who cannot tell the origin. Although the total number is tens of thousands, it is basically a small group of more than a dozen people and dozens of people. There is no need to expect the equipment level and combat effectiveness. It is worse than the Akatsuki team of the Akatsuki Group of the Akatsuki Group to dare to go to Kanto to create a new situation. Instead, he gathers all over the world to fight houses near Gyeonggi, and often has bloody fires. It is difficult to keep them quiet for a few days, let alone work together.

Although under the secret match between some ministers, these bleak salted fish seem to have recently awakened and have shown signs of forming a waste alliance to confront the Shimazu family. But even if all the other troops in the capital were assembled, at most, there would be only 30,000 people, not even the opponent of the 20,000 Satsuma Army. What's more, waste is waste. These guys have been in contact for so many days, but they can't even recommend a leader. Instead, they have fought several consecutive games in the mansion of a certain minister... So Shimazu Nori didn't take them seriously at all.

Alas, only 20,000 troops were stranded in Kyoto, and the food was consumed very much. The surrounding suburbs were almost robbed by various wild samurai, so it was very difficult to raise the food and fodder of Shimazu Army. This time, the military rations that went on the expedition seemed to have to be able to find a way after they set off... Shimazu Nuzhi thought so regretfully, the autumn harvest season has just passed, and in a while, you should be able to taste the Gokumi rice on Echigo.

Another trouble is that the Satsuma kids born in the south of his command seem to not adapt to the climate and environment of the Kinki region. In recent days, people in the army often feel weak and weak, but they can't see any obvious symptoms, probably because they are not adapting to the local environment. They are going to drive north and go further away from their hometown. I hope this situation will not be more serious...

...

Of course, although Shimazu was full of confidence and thought about the great future in his heart, he became more and more respectful and respectful, and bowed down in the hall with all the generals, listening to the "Haichi" that Emperor Renxiao inspired them to fight for the enemy:

"...The situation is so difficult, and the saint wants to be in harmony with the world. Therefore, I hope that all of you will encourage each other to eliminate the bad habits of arrogance and laziness in history, and strive to serve the country with sincerity and sincerity in serving the country. It is important to respect this-"
Chapter completed!