A sore blow losing all 25 ships, I sincerely hope Ming does not notice your weakened navy during this time. Are you still paying to colonise Taiwan? If so, replacing those ships is not going to be easy. Hopefully Range has something in mind.
Ouch
Maybe you can squeeze some cash out of somebody to help the navy
Or maybe not...
A sore blow losing all 25 ships, I sincerely hope Ming does not notice your weakened navy during this time. Are you still paying to colonise Taiwan? If so, replacing those ships is not going to be easy. Hopefully Range has something in mind.
The nation certainly seems to now have a hero in Mikumo, good of Range to have salvaged the man's reputation. However the fact remains that Japan is not in an overly enviable position at present, she truly needs to rebuild her fleet.
manna from heaven for the mandate of heaven (yes i know it was chinese... just roll with it)
Good stuff. Verily proving a neglectful ruler does often prove hugely beneficial.
I remeber the good old days where benign negelct provided 100 ducats.
I hope you can handle this.
That last line is worrying. I think Range has the measure of Oda though. Good results otherwise, three new vassals and Range now held even more highly within the Emperor's esteem. The plan to now take Malacca seems a sound one, hopefully it will be captured soon.
Oda overplayed his hand...Range must be sure not to do the same or his intestines will long to return to their warm stomach cavity instead of being spilled on the dusty (why is it always dusty, isn't this Japan? isn't it always all neat and tidy?)ground