Ming: I am fake, walking on thin ice

Chapter 209: False Emperor: I will capture them all, including the Demon Queen
Japan, Kyushu.

Ning Rongrong stood on the high platform, her eyes swept over the ten thousand soldiers below, and said in a deep voice:
"We are only here to do business, but the Otomo clan killed our compatriots for no reason and imprisoned a group of our brothers. This is intolerable!"

"Brothers, go ahead and rescue our compatriots and avenge their dead! I have already informed the Shimazu clan, the Ryuzoji clan and several other daimyo. We are only here for revenge and have no intention of getting involved in the disputes in Japan."

"They can only watch. If they dare to make any unusual moves, they will be destroyed together!"

Her voice was cold and majestic. After giving the order, 10,000 soldiers set out and marched towards the Otomo clan's territory. Looking at the surging army going away, she stood in the wind with a slight smile on her face.

This is the beginning of her fight for supremacy in Japan!
The so-called revenge for her compatriots was just a carefully planned scheme to find a reason to go to war with the Otomo clan. This was the plan suggested by the false emperor in the letter to her.

The daimyo in various parts of Japan are fighting each other now, which is an opportunity, but she is an outsider and it is easy to be attacked by everyone. Therefore, she must take it step by step, starting from Kyushu.

Find a reason to attack the Otomo clan, first occupy the Otomo clan's territory, and then target the Shimazu clan and the Ryuzoji clan, there are only a few powerful daimyo in Kyushu.

After taking control of Kyushu, we will gradually erode other regions. In the letter, the false emperor detailed how to manage it, saying that we should use barbarians to control barbarians and use the traitors of Japan to govern Japan.

Ning Rongrong looked at the letter and muttered in her heart: "How does this guy know so much? It's as if he has done it before."

In fact, the false emperor had only read history books. The Age of Discovery and the subsequent empires that began to colonize all used the same tricks.

……

Ten days later.

Usuki Castle, the headquarters of the Otomo clan, had been captured by the Natsu army. The head of the Otomo clan, Otomo Yoshinaga, was captured and he regretted that he should not have offended the Naning clan in the first place.

The cause of this incident was that the Ning family strongly supported the Shimazu family, sold them supplies and arms, and restricted the Otomo family. Therefore, the Otomo family captured the Ning family's people and killed several of them in the battle.

He never expected that the Ning family would actually send troops to attack him, with an army of 10,000, which was more than the main force of his Otomo clan, and the Xia army's weapons and equipment were more advanced.

Usuki Castle was bombarded by artillery for a day and then it collapsed completely. The Xia army entered the city and all 6,000 elite soldiers of the Otomo clan were annihilated. Otomo Yoshinaga couldn't believe it. He boasted of being a good fighter and had fought with the Shimazu clan and the Ryuzoji clan for decades to divide Kyushu into three parts, but he was defeated by a woman from the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty!"

Bai Wuqi slapped Otomo Yoshinaga on the shoulder, knocking him to his knees. Otomo Yoshinaga's eyes were about to burst, and he wanted to stand up, but the slap on his shoulder made him unable to stand up.

At this time, a woman came in, wearing a long green dress, cold as ice. The generals of the Xia army in the hall bowed together: "Master Ning!"

Ning Rongrong raised her hand and her cold eyes fell on Otomo Yoshinaga. Bai Wuqi quickly introduced: "This is Otomo Yoshinaga, the head of the Otomo clan. He was the one who ordered the killing of our people."

"Then why keep him around?" Ning Rongrong waved her hand, "Drag him away and chop him up!"

Bai Wuqi was slightly stunned, and then ordered his men to drag Otomo Yoshinaga away. Otomo Yoshinaga was shouting incoherently, probably cursing at someone, in Japanese, and no one could quite understand him.

scold!
Otomo Yoshinaga's cursing stopped abruptly, and then a smell of blood drifted in with the wind.

The daimyo of Kyushu, Otomo Yoshinaga, is dead!

The news quickly spread throughout Kyushu, and both the Shimazu clan and the Ryuzoji clan were panicked.

Didn't the Ning family say they only wanted revenge? Why did they occupy Usuki Castle now? Their two families had long wanted to capture Usuki Castle, but they had never been able to do so.

In their opinion, the next target of the Ning family is them. From now on, the situation in Jiuzhou is still a three-way confrontation, but one of the three has changed.

...The capital of Ming Dynasty.

It was already autumn. After the morning court session, Zhu Qizhen did not ride in a sedan chair as usual. Instead, he walked on the imperial road, facing the biting cold wind.

All around, towering palaces and pavilions loomed in the mist, and dewdrops condensed on the glazed tiles, occasionally dripping, making a crisp sound that was particularly loud in this quiet morning. The copper bells hanging on the eaves swayed gently in the wind, making a distant and desolate ding-dong sound.

"Another year!" Zhu Qizhen sighed.

He hurried back to the Qianqing Palace and entered the warm room, where he instantly felt warm. The floor heating of the Ming Dynasty was not inferior to the modern heating in the previous life, and seemed to be even warmer.

"Your Majesty, this is the secret report from the Ning family from Japan." Cao Jixiang said, holding a box.

Zhu Qizhen took it, opened the box with his special key, and took out the memorial inside. Not every minister had the right to make secret reports, and he only gave it to Liu Dingzhi, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and Wang Lai, the governor of the river, and Ning Rongrong.

The secret report was delivered through a special box, the key of which was unique to the emperor and the person to whom it was reported. Zhu Qizhen opened Ning Rongrong's report and glanced at it quickly.

Ning Rongrong said in the memorial that she had conquered the Otomo clan in Kyushu. Although the battle lasted only ten days, it was actually planned for several months and the attack was launched only after they had all the information.

This battle shocked the whole country.

The Shimazu clan and the Ryuzoji clan had already begun to guard against her, but the two daimyo did not dare to attack her rashly. There was no other way, she was very powerful, and they did not dare to provoke her.

Next, she will annex the entire Kyushu as planned.

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment, thinking of writing back to her later, telling her not to be anxious, but to first figure out how to use the Japanese to govern the Japanese in the Otomo clan's territory, and then expand after figuring it out.

If she shows up again now, it won't just alarm Kyushu, it will alarm the entire East, and then those daimyo will join forces to deal with her. This thing is like the Three Kingdoms. If you are not strong enough, don't be the first to stand out.

He continued to read the letter. Ning Rongrong mentioned Junshan Society at the end of the letter because Zhu Qizhen asked her about the man with a dog-head mask in the last letter.

The reason why Ning Rongrong poisoned Zhu Qizhen was because a man wearing a dog-head mask revealed Zhu Qizhen's true identity to her, so she did it.

In the letter, Ning Rongrong said that she didn't know whether the man with the dog-head mask was a member of the Junshan Society, but she saw the man with the dog-head mask get on a carriage when he left. At that time, the curtain of the carriage was opened, and a woman wearing a rat mask was sitting inside. The man with the dog-head mask seemed to be very respectful to the woman with the rat mask.

Zhu Qizhen frowned after reading the letter.

Rat mask?
He had seen it before and had a deep impression of it. It was the masked ball held by the Demon Queen. The Demon Queen wore a rat mask. But Shuangxi said at that time that the Demon Queen had exchanged it with her, and the rat mask was Shuangxi's.

Oh my god, is it double happiness?

That girl looks naive and silly, not like him.

It’s the demon queen!
Only the Demon Queen has the ability to gather the so-called Junshan Society.

Zhu Qizhen's heart trembled!
Of course, all this is just speculation. Maybe the masks at the ball were just a coincidence, because everyone wore masks that night, including all kinds of animal masks.

"But what if she is really the Demon Queen?" A cold light flashed in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up coldly, "Then I have to find out what she wants to do. The ultimate target must be me, to let that Wala student come back to replace me. Haha, then I will take advantage of their tricks and catch them all in one fell swoop."

He pondered for a while and immediately summoned Shi Biao, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

(End of this chapter)