First, Zhu Yuanzhang's group training
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang listed 15 countries, including Japan, as "countries that do not conquest", for reasons that can be found in his "Records of ancestral teachings": limiting mountains and seas, secluded in a corner; obtaining land is not enough to supply, obtaining its people is not enough to make orders, if it does not speculate on itself, to disturb our side, it is ominous.
This means that These 15 small countries such as Japan are far away from Daming across the mountains and the sea, and if they are destroyed, they will also have to pay money to provide for them, let alone educate the local people, which is purely a loss of money. If they dare to come and harass us Daming without measuring their own strength, it will be their disaster: see one kill one!
Zhu Yuanzhang's words are not bragging at all, he has this confidence and confidence. But I am afraid that what Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect was that he was "punched in the face" by later generations because of this sentence. Because he forgot that there was only one Zhu Yuanzhang in the world, he ignored that the fortress was always breached from the inside.
More than a hundred years later, in 1501 AD, a baby boy was born in a family in Shexian County, named Wang Zhi. According to Wang Zhi's mother, Wang Zhi, she dreamed of a meteor falling into her arms before giving birth to Wang Zhi. And the most bizarre thing is that next to this meteor there is an old man with a top hat.
At that time, Wang Shi put down a sentence: This arc star is also shining on Hu and not in Hu! That is, this is a lone star in the sky, which will be noble in the Hu people's country and return to the Hu people's country!
What is a Hu person? As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, there were regulations: Dongyi, Xirong, Beidi, Nanman, And Zhonghua! According to this regulation, these four barbarians should be called Hu people. It's just that their characteristics are different.
Dongyi, one man and one bow, archery master, is still hunting.
Xi Rong, ten people swinging, a gang of robbers, nomadic quartets.
Beidi, a dog and a fire, a proper savage, has not yet been civilized.
Nan Man, it seems to be a hand on it, grasping a worm. I suddenly remembered "Brother A san" (India), I want to be calm...
So where is Wang Zhi's "Lone Star of Heavenly Fire" in the final guise of the Hu people's country?
2. Armed Japan
In August 1543, tanegashima, japan, astronomy 12 (1543 AD), a large ship from the sea that the locals had never seen before, and after landing, a group of people with red beards and blue eyes jumped down, which shocked people.
A man named Nishimura had the courage to talk to these people, but no one knew what the other person was talking about. Just then, another person came out of the big boat, looking kindly, because it was black hair and black eyes. The man came and hugged his fist: "Contemptible Daming Wang Zhi." ”
Nishimura understood, it turned out to be the messenger of the Heavenly Dynasty! But why is he with these "alien species"? The answer was soon revealed, the big ship was a Portuguese ship, who wanted to sail to Daming, but lost his way to here. And Wang Zhi's exact identity is not a heavenly envoy, but a private person on the sea, of course, calling a pirate is more accurate.
The boss of Tanegashima is called Yao Gong, and after learning the news, due to the presence of Wang Zhi, he naturally wants to receive him. As a result, I saw a terrifying thing called "artillery" (European rifle), and as soon as the finger was hooked, the long pipe burst into flames, and the distant target was immediately shattered!
Yao Gong likes not to want, this is more useful than bows and arrows, long knives! So he tried to buy it and asked Wang Zhi to mediate from it. Wang Zhi nodded and sold for 2,000 taels of silver, and two "artillery" fell into the hands of the Japanese. Since then, Tanegashima has become the birthplace of Japanese firearms.
Then the Japanese mastered the manufacturing technology and began to produce it themselves. "Artillery" was very prominent in Japan during the Warring States period. As for Wang Zhi, he has become the loveliest friend of the Japanese people!
Wang Zhi statue of Japan
3. Disturbing Daming for 15 years
With the boom of Wang Zhi's pirate business, Daming finally started, so the "Jiajing Great Wokou" period arrived. And the real leader of the Wokou is Wang Zhi!
From 1553 (in the real sense) to 1567, when it was suppressed by Qi Jiguang, the 15-year Wukou Rebellion became a weight that Daming could not bear: Yingtian, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Hangzhou and other places, none of the richest places of the Ming Dynasty were spared. Wang Zhi used this to blackmail the Ming Dynasty: open the sea ban! Even offered to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty to make money together!
Although the Ming Dynasty desperately suppressed it, as long as Wang Zhi was there, the Wukou would not be able to kill them. Because Wang Zhi commanded japan as his lair. So-called: Self-proclaimed King hui, deployment of official subordinates, Salty has a name. Control is the key, and the thirty-six islands are all at their command! (From "Wang Zhi Biography")
Although many records prove that most of the Wukou were Ming Dynasty people, belonged to Wang Zhi's subordinates, and had average combat strength. But what constitutes the real combat strength of the Wokou is the continuous team of Japanese samurai directly recruited by Wang Zhi using his influence in Japan: the Wokou are good at using long swords, the armor is expensive and short, and its ships are larger than the Hiroshi ships... Swing the fan to command, blow the conch as the trumpet.
So, why was Japan's military so fierce later? So much so that during the Wanli period, he fought with Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Korea for 10 years? Look at what Wang Zhi is doing at this moment, this is equivalent to making Daming a sparring partner in Japan, and improving Japan's weapons, tactics, weapons and so on in an all-round way! And all this is caused by Wang Zhi's own selfishness, which is equivalent to him fully arming Japan!
Therefore, although Wang Zhi was a Ming Dynasty person, he was commemorated by Japanese statues, and the importance of his role is self-evident. Although Wang Zhi said before he died: "If I die alone, I am afraid of suffering two people in Zhejiang." Because he believes that from now on, wokou will lose his restraint and will be more unscrupulous. But apparently this was his own exoneration.
Because Wang Zhiruo is there, it is even more difficult to quell the rebellion of the Wokou! He was able to continuously replenish the real Japanese samurai, constitute a real combat force, and continuously provide various materials, so that he used money to bribe officials and civilians along the Coast of Daming to obtain intelligence, etc., which was the most terrible place for Wang Zhi!