Chapter 523: The Leek Country (I)

The bloody slaughter is temporary after all, and when the pouring rain falls, all the marks will disappear.

Japan is still the island country that lies on the sea, and Minoru is still the supreme authority in Japan.

To be precise, with the fall of the Ashikaga shogunate, the death of Kanhito and Fushimi Miya, and the demise of the court system, Minohito became the king of Japan in the true sense of the word.

However, the military conquest of Japan had only just begun.

All the daimyo in various places were exterminated, and more than half of the governors and daimyo chose to surrender, thus becoming the privileged class of the new Japan, which was already an old trick of the Meilian.

Support a group and kill a group.

After the entire territory of Japan was basically stabilized, Zhu Gaochi signed an agreement with Japan on behalf of the Ming Dynasty.

It's the Ming Dynasty, not the Ming Union.

Japan has joined the Minglian, so in the future to assume the obligations of the Minglian and the allies, and at the same time can also enjoy the rights of the Minglian and the allies, Zhu Gaochi and Shiren signed the Ming Dynasty, which is also a clause between the Minglian and the allies and Japan.

The terms are simple, with only two points.

1. As the main leader of the Ming Dynasty, Japan needed to pay a symbolic war indemnity of 10 million taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty after the war.

Second, Japan should unilaterally undertake the construction of road administration in the Ming Dynasty within five years.

It's as simple as that.

This is a vastly different from what everyone had imagined in advance, and Zhu Yunwen's harsh arrangements for Japan.

What is the significance of the first clause of having or not having it?

10 million taels of silver For Japan, not to mention the emperor's royal family and the national treasury, just find a place with strength, and the daimyo with silver mountains in the territory can get it.

As for the second article, although it will require Japan to send a large amount of labor to the Ming Dynasty and bear the construction costs, the impact on Japan's national capital is also extremely limited, and it is impossible to destroy Japan in this way.

When did the monarch become so merciful?

Zhu Gaochi couldn't understand it, and Xue Ke and other military attachΓ©s naturally couldn't understand it, but they knew that the emperor must have other arrangements.

No one dared to ignore what Zhu Yunwen had settled, even if it didn't seem reasonable at the time.

After Japan's post-war problems were basically dealt with, Xue Ke left 50,000 garrisons in Kyoto, 10,000 sons of the Ming Dynasty and 40,000 soldiers, and then led the army to accompany Zhu Gaochi and Gao Su to return to China.

Before the New Year, triumphant Nanjing.

On behalf of Zhu Yunwen, chief of the General Staff, Zhu Di held a grand welcoming ceremony for Xue Ke's triumph.

"The celebration banquet is set up in the Fifth Military Mansion, Your Majesty has been getting busier and busier recently, and I don't have time to participate."

On the way to the palace, Zhu Di said to Xue Ke in the car, although the latter was a little disappointed, but he was still very regular: "State affairs are important, I only hope that the monarch's father can take care of the holy bow more." ”

"Otherwise, in one or two years, it will be the forty years of the Emperor Ming, and the development and planning of the entire Ming Federation will have to be managed by the monarch's father.

Zhu Gaochi, who was sitting on the side, sighed: "I saw my father before I left Nanjing for Japan, and my temples were all white, and I looked older than you, my father." ”

Zhu Di, who is almost sixty, is still with black dense hair at this time, and his spirit is tight.

"Without a monarch father, how can there be today's Daming."

Zhu Di lifted the curtain, pushed the window of the wheel, looked at the picturesque scenery of Nanjing City, and sighed: "Now as soon as I go out and see the Nanjing City in front of me, my mother is like a dream." ”

Several people in the carriage laughed, but when the laughter stopped, they fell silent again.

It was not easy for Emperor Lao Tzu to carry the Ming Dynasty to this day.

With this feeling, several people were no longer so happy, Xue Ke just gave Zhu Di a general introduction to what he saw during the Japanese campaign, and the chariot drove into the palace and went all the way to the Qianqing Palace.

In order to deal with state affairs more conveniently and shorten the communication time of government affairs and military affairs, Zhu Di and cabinet ministers were specially approved by Zhu Yunwen to enter the palace by car and go directly to Qianqingmen.

Of course, when passing through the Chengtian Gate, the brocade guards who enforced the palace ban had to take a look at who was in the wheel.

When a few people walked into the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yunwen did not sit on the desk to approve the manuscript as a few people thought, but was walking around the palace with a strange object.

This thing has a single wheel at the front and back, and is connected by two iron beams in the middle, and there are bearings and chains connected to the single wheel hook.

Seeing Zhu Yunwen having fun, several people couldn't help but be happy.

"Your Majesty is so Yaxing."

didn't need Zhu Di to speak, Zhu Yunwen, who was walking around the hall, also saw the four people, stopped and straddled his legs from the car, handed over the object to Shuangxi, and beckoned to a few people: "Don't see the courtesy, come and sit." ”

Several people were also accustomed to the politeness of the emperor who did not pay attention to etiquette as he got older, so they did not take it seriously, and they all gathered around, and Xue Ke was also quick-mouthed, so he asked.

"The object that the monarch just rode on is so new, what is the name of it?"

"The Academy of Sciences made it, and I gave it a name, called a bicycle."

Zhu Yunwen took the tea sent by Shuangxi, took a beautiful sip to quench his thirst, and said with his eyebrows fluttering: "With this thing, it will be more convenient for ordinary people to travel in the future, and they don't have to queue up to borrow horses from the post house, but the speed is much slower than that of horses, and they can be used to buy vegetables or something." ”

In the past few years, the strange things made by the Academy of Sciences have gone to the sea, and several people have immunity, and they don't think it's a big deal, so they ignore this little thing very casually.

"The Marquis of Yongcheng has won a great victory this time, I didn't come out to greet him, so don't be surprised."

After they all sat down, Zhu Yunwen opened his mouth first, but said no to Xue Ke, making the latter stand up nervously and dare not say anything.

Why didn't he pick up Xue Ke in person, it was also Zhu Yunwen who was now deliberately downplaying the influence of the army in Daming or the Explanation Union, to put it bluntly, it was time to suppress the military.

It is not to emphasize literature over force, but to suppress force.

With the development of science and technology and the rapid expansion of the military industrial force, the restriction of the Ming Dynasty's foreign wars is no longer whether the soldiers are brave and whether the commander's command ability is outstanding, but the transportation capacity.

No matter how the battle can be won, the difference lies in the speed and slowness of the end, and the number of results.

In another two years, with flintlock pistols and artillery arrays with their backs, if they still can't win the backward alien race with only machetes and spears, then the generals of the Ming Dynasty should learn from the Japanese to commit suicide.

When victory becomes the norm, then the gold content of military merits must be appropriately reduced and reduced, Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, can not greet the triumphant commander with great fanfare as an emperor, which will invisibly increase the influence of the military in the Minglian system and cause unnecessary troubles.

Fight well, the reward that deserves to be rewarded, that's all.

"For the specific reward, I have already asked the Imperial Commander to draw up an edict, and the Marquis of Yongcheng can wait for the edict with peace of mind."

Zhu Yunwen didn't seem too interested in some of Xue Ke's observations and processes in the day, and he revealed it after a few words, and instead chatted with Zhu Gaochi about some post-war things.

"I'm going to give Shiren a queen."

To Shiren, send a queen?

Is this considered a kiss?

Several people were a little confused, and they all became happy after hearing Zhu Yunwen's next sentence.

"I have arranged for the Imperial Front Division to find him, find a widow with a son for him, let him be the crown prince, and then let him let Xue Ganren be the emperor."

Good guy, Shiren is only fourteen or fifteen years old this year, and he was arranged to give way to the Zen position, which made several people laugh lightly.

"Can the Japanese be willing?"

Laughing and laughing, Zhu Gaochi is still a little hesitant to steal the country, after all, if you stuff a child into Japan and become the king directly, wouldn't you treat Japan as a fool, the key is that a fool is not so stupid.

"I've thought it all through."

Zhu Yunwen smiled and threw out a bombshell: "When our own children become kings, I will be exempted from all agricultural taxes in Japan, and from now on, the Japanese authorities' farmers, fishermen, livestock and other producers will not have to pay any taxes." ”

After a few people were taken aback for a short time, their hearts were steady.

Don't expect the emperor to be so kind to foreign races, once the emperor is so generous, it will mean that there are more vicious plans and arrangements in the future.

Sure enough, he couldn't feel the look of surprise from a few people, Zhu Yunwen was a little disappointed, and smashed his mouth: "I thought you would dissuade me." ”

could see this kind of old child's appearance from the emperor's face, and several people immediately burst out laughing.

"Your Majesty, don't sell it, you will definitely not let our Ming suffer a loss."

"If you are smart as a courtier, I don't have any sense of accomplishment."

Zhu Yunwen shook his head and sighed, but his eyebrows were very relaxed, and when he saw that he couldn't scare a few people, he no longer hid it, and simply said his thoughts.

"In addition to these industries, all handicraft workshops, technical production, shipbuilding, iron parts production, and other manufacturing industries in Japan are subject to a tax of 80 percent, and all military production that exceeds the scope of security authority, such as gunpowder and weapons, shall be convicted of conspiracy to split the Ming Alliance.

For the mining of silver mountain, gold mountain and other mineral industries, only one percent tax is levied.

All other taxes related to business activities by the Japanese authorities will be abolished, and a specific pricing scheme will be implemented using the guide price system. ”

At this moment, several people were instantly dumbfounded.