Chapter Ninety-Three: Japan Today

Twenty years of orthodoxy, near the end of the wind and snow.

Xu Youzhen also came from North Korea in the wind and snow.

Zhu Qizhen ordered Xu Youzhen to meet him more than once.

Xu Youzhen explained the situation in North Korea one by one.

Naturally, it is good news but not bad news.

In fact, Korea is a big country anyway, and it has almost always maintained its independence since the North and South Koreas. With its own cultural traditions, it is not so easy to destroy the country.

Military conquest became much easier because of Li Yao's problem.

Politically, he was ruthlessly beaten by Seo Youzhen, and now it seems to be calm, but it does not mean that the will of the North Koreans to resist has disappeared.

In the mountainous areas of northern and southern Korea, how did the people who had been resisting continuously, who were called thieves by Xu Youzhen, persevered under difficult natural conditions.

Among them, naturally, there are supporters.

It is easy to occupy Korea, but it is difficult to destroy Korea.

Of course, it's not that Xu Youzhen did something wrong, if it weren't for Xu Youzhen, the two classes of nobles in North Korea would be systematically eliminated. Today's North Korea will never be so peaceful.

However, there have always been hidden dangers in North Korea today.

This hidden danger will be hidden unless it will take a few decades for all North Koreans to have a blurred memory of North Korea.

At that time, the new generation will consciously change from Koreans to Ming Dynasty Koreans.

A lot of times, it's always time to smooth it out.

Therefore, more than 50,000 people from the Cao Yi Department of the Beijing Battalion have been stationed in Seoul, and although they have begun to return to China in batches, they have also increased the corresponding Hebei recruits.

That is to say, the Ming garrison in North Korea is about 100,000 people, although the combat effectiveness of the guard army is not very good, but the management of public order is still possible.

Not to mention, the two provinces of North Korea are also divided into Liaodong Province.

This kind of undercurrent, some Xu Youzhen knows, and some Xu Youzhen doesn't know. But he made a decision in front of Zhu Qizhen to report good news and not bad news.

Zhu Qizhen is also accustomed to listening to the good news below at a discount, and magnifying the bad news to listen.

As for how much discount or how many times it should be magnified, it will vary from person to person.

Officials also have honest people who will not inject water or cover up, but there are very few such people.

The situation in North Korea that Zhu Qizhen understands is all the situation in the Ming Dynasty, which is like this, it looks like a good thing and full of flowers, but in fact, under this cluster of flowers, how much silt has accumulated, Zhu Qizhen does not know.

However, Zhu Qizhen was able to make a preliminary judgment.

There has been no major event in the DPRK in the past three to five years, and it will probably be able to pass peacefully.

After all, this is not the afterlife, only the upper class has the idea of a country, and many ordinary people below do not have so many ideas.

Of course, in the midst of such a big change,

Silently, the so-called Hangeul established by King Sejong in Korea was abolished by Seo Youzhen.

Xu Youzhen did not report such a trivial matter.

After determining the situation in North Korea, Zhu Qizhen inserted the topic into the topic and said: "Do you understand the situation in Japan? ”

Xu Youzhen was thinking about a hundred battles, and he was figuring out Zhu Qizhen's thoughts.

If Xu Youzhen knows Japan, this is lying.

Although Xu Youzhen has been in and out of North Korea many times, she also knows nothing about the situation in Japan. The closest he was to Japan was probably by boat through the Tsushima Strait.

But if Xu Youzhen doesn't know anything about Japan, it's not comprehensive.

Although it is an exaggeration, it is not completely fictional, but all people with ambition pay attention to the collection and summary of ordinary information.

Ask about the local customs and customs, the local history, and see the national story in a country. It is an official management of the topography of mountains and rivers.

There are very, very many people who do this.

Xu Youzhen's character is another matter, but he is definitely an elite person of ancient scholars, although he has not focused on understanding the situation in Japan, but North Korea and Japan are neighbors, and many things are involved in each other.

Xu Youzhen has put a lot of effort into North Korea and doesn't know anything about Japan, so it's impossible.

A thought arose in his heart, and he secretly said: "Could it be that Your Majesty wants to use force against Japan?" ”

Thinking about this for a lifetime, Xu Youzhen immediately decided to secretly advise. The first thing he had to think of was himself, and if he wanted to use force against Japan, then Korea would definitely be a heavy military force and would bring a great burden to North Korea.

I am afraid that the current situation in North Korea will not be maintained.

This is going to be a bad thing.

And Xu Youzhen also speculated that the emperor wanted to use force against Japan, probably because he wanted to make a sum of money from Japan, but in Xu Youzhen's view, Japan seems to be very weak, but in fact, it is not very easy to deal with.

Xu Youzhen said: "The minister has some understanding of Japan, the Japanese Ashikaga family upholds the power of Japan, Japan seems to be weak and strong, not to be taken lightly, the Ashikaga family itself is the product of the union of feudal towns in Japan, so the Ashikaga family is not strong, but there are tens of thousands of people who serve the public, speaking of which, they are not defeated by General Cao's army." ”

"However, it is the Ashikaga family, not Japan, that is weak."

"Since the Ashikaga family established its rule over Japan, in the past 100 years, there has not been a single day of peace, the Ashikaga family has been empty, the power is independent, the sven is trampled, and the samurai are used to do things, from top to bottom, they are all capable of reckless military force. The children of the Wu family in Japan, the weak crown kills people to test their courage. ”

"The feudal towns in various places, the daimyo are independent, and they resist the shogunate."

"Just looking at the Ashikaga family, Japan is weak, even if Korea attacks Tsushima, the Ashikaga family will abandon it, but if you talk about Japan, it may not be weak. In the opinion of the ministers, even if the army attacked Japan, it would not be possible to defend it unless hundreds of thousands of Japan. ”

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Qi Zhen was in a trance, and felt that what Xu Youzhen said was the Japanese Warring States Period. In fact, he is not wrong, if you look at the division of history, today's Japan, not counting the Warring States period, the authority of the Ashikaga family, has not collapsed, but a few decades ago, after Ashikaga Yoshimitsu who was named the king of Japan by Taizu, the Ashikaga family has been in decline.

When the Ashikaga family can't maintain the situation in Japan.

At that time, it was the beginning of Japan's Warring States period.

However, it is only the inevitable change from quantitative to qualitative change.

The rule of the Ashikaga family was thought to have laid the groundwork for Japan's Sengoku period.

Xu Youzhen's evaluation of Japan today is based on his judgment based on historical literacy, and Japan, from the daimyo below to the shogunate, is presented in political militarization.

In other words, the politicians who control the army anyway must be military figures.

Moreover, almost all of Japan's tax revenue is invested in the military, because under Japan's special environment, only military power can have political authority.

It's like the period of the Five Dynasties in China, it seems that the Khitan went south and broke through Bianliang, isn't the Khitan strong in this era? But it still can't stand in the Central Plains.

It is because China during the Five Dynasties period has been completely militarized, and all materials are inclined to the military aspect, although weak but strong. It was also the Jin State that captured Bianliang, but the Song Dynasty at that time had been peaceful for a long time, and the military was deserted, although it was strong and weak.

Similarly, Xu Youzhen didn't want Zhu Qizhen to move the idea of attacking Japan, after all, it was impossible for the imperial court to dispatch hundreds of thousands of troops while fighting the thorns. Go to Japan and guard it.

Zhu Qizhen listened and was a little disappointed.

Although based on political interests, Zhu Qizhen also understands that attacking Japan is irrational in this era. But in every Chinese's heart, there is an impulse to step on Tokyo.

Although there is no Tokyo in this era.

If Japan is really unbearable, Zhu Qizhen doesn't mind taking the time to solve it.

Looking at the current situation, we can only let it go.

He said quietly: "I want to have something to do in Japan, what should I do?" ”

Xu Youzhen said: "In the opinion of the minister. It can be eaten but not swallowed, and it can be slowed down but not taken urgently. ”

Japan's strongest is also the weakest.

The strongest thing is that he is fully militarized, and all social resources are concentrated on the military. This made Japan's war potential very large.

The Wanli War to Aid the Japanese shows how amazing Japan's war potential is to unite under one regime.

But this is the biggest weakness of Japan today.

All of Japan's military preparations are not based on the outside, but on the inside, and from this point of view, the advent of Japan's Warring States period is also an inevitability.

If the external contradictions are greater than the internal contradictions, Japan may be able to burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, but when the internal contradictions are greater than the external contradictions, it is a different story.