As soon as the ship arrived in Nagasaki, the first to board the ship was to check the forbidden books.

The four Japanese in charge of the inspection looked at the large boxes full of books, and they were all dumbfounded.

These large boxes of books were collected and "sent" to the Japanese by Liu Yu at a lot of expense.

Carefully selected, its heart can be "Jia".

The geometric originals of Christian proverbs, the doctrine of warding off evil spirits, the encyclopedia of rituals and religions of Zhu Zi's science and religion, and the translations of "Treatise on Government" and "On Free Will" given to him by Hannibal......

Either it was carefully selected dross, or it was a deliberate binding of Christianity to geometry and other realities, or some enlightenment ideas that could scare the shogunate feudalism into a cold sweat.

A few years ago, a man named Nakone Motogui boldly suggested to the shogunate: all the calendars and the methods of the Tang Dynasty are negligent and difficult to use, and after the Western calendar began to enter the Tang Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, there are many things that have been clarified. The religion of Jesus is strictly forbidden in this state, and books with the words of God and Matteo Ricci were burned in Nagasaki, and there are very few books that are useful for the study of the calendar.

After this suggestion was adopted, a large number of books from the West and the East were introduced to Japan.

In addition, after the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Dashun did not use Zhu Zi's science, but learned more Western learning.

It is precisely because the west is not lit and the east is bright, the flowers bloom in the wall and the fragrance outside the wall, many dull and inflexible Zhu Zixue Confucian students fled to Japan, and Zhu Zi's science has become more and more prosperous in Japan in recent years.

However, with Ogi Sheng's exegesis, practical studies, and the lifting of the ban on Western books, Zhu Zi's science was also greatly impacted in Japan.

Liu Yu "couldn't bear" to see that Zhu Zi's science was also affected in Japan, and he also felt "regretful" that Japan lifted the ban on books such as "Geometric Originals" and "Taixi Water Law".

Especially after the lifting of the ideological ban in recent years, there are also a lot of reflections on the moral degradation and hedonism caused by the lifting of the ideological ban in the late Ming Dynasty.

Then there are books such as the theory of government and the theory of free will, which made the shogunate full of fear of the West.

These books are not visible to the common people, and they will definitely be sent to Edo first, and the Confucian scholars in Edo will evaluate them, and Liu Yu will not be afraid that they will enlighten their minds.

Although it is not said that it can make the local natives "get the Bible and lose the land" like the Europeans did in colonization, the ossified Zhu Zili science is happy to see Liu Yu spread in Japan.

After all, it is possible to mess up Japan: Zhu Zi's theory is an ideology, then the legitimacy of the shogunate is in great question.

As long as Dashun can continue to move forward, the distance is so close, it is completely possible to bring Japan back to the era of chaos. The shogunate lost power, the daimyo became independent, and enough external forces could maintain this balance.

The more radical John Locke's books were made more closed to make the shogunate afraid.

The people who checked the banned books were already familiar with Liu Yu's fleet, and they also joked with Lin Yunwen, saying that they might have to bury their heads in reading so many books for months.

These ships do not have trade letters, but because they are familiar, they can enter the port.

It didn't take long for Nagasaki to detain Liu Yu's boxes of books.

After meeting Liu Yu, he arranged for someone to accompany Liu Yu to Edo Castle.

This route is the route of the Dutch to visit Edo every year, and the time is just right, the Dutch start in February of the solar calendar every year and return in about May, which happens to be staggered with Liu Yu's time.

He didn't want to deal with the Dutch for the time being, and he didn't want any conflict.

The Dutch have a very strong ability to make rumors, and they have the opportunity to visit Edo once a year, so they may not know how to corrupt themselves with the shogunate.

The Dutch are much more addicted to gambling than Liu Yu, and they are also more daring than Liu Yu.

During the Hirayama Changchen incident during the previous Apocalypse, the Dutch dared to directly arrest the Japanese ship, betting that it contained Spanish Catholic missionaries.

At the risk of being attacked for "piracy and seizure of Japanese ships", he won the gamble in one fell swoop, and took the opportunity to explain the merger of Spain and Portugal, which caused Japan to cut off trade with Portugal.

Whether it is the grasp of the opportunity or the daring to gamble everything, Liu Yu is full of wariness of the Dutch, at least for now does not want to clash with the Dutch - before the Hirayama Changchen incident, the Portuguese had been talking about the piracy of the Dutch. If the Dutch had lost the gamble that time, and there were no missionaries on board, the Dutch would have basically no chance to trade in Japan.

After all, it was a Japanese ship, and if it was seized and inspected casually, the Japanese shogunate must have muttered in his heart: the Portuguese are right, this is not a pirate, what is this?

However, the bet won.

Now, after more than 100 years of wind and rain, the Dutch can go to Edo every year. It is said that the shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune was also an enlightened man, and when he met the Dutch, he asked a lot about navigation and the like without a bamboo curtain.

Liu Yu knew that if he clashed with the Dutch now, he would definitely not have an advantage. Being able to see each other every year is not the same as going to great lengths to see each other.

After passing Okura, the group changed boats and sailed along the sea along Okura to Osaka, where they landed and traveled overland to Edo.

Along the way, Mantou and others were dressed as servants who followed, and the steamed buns were proficient, and the samurai who accompanied Liu Yu and monitored Liu Yu at the same time did not see any problems, but praised that "the servants of the Tang people are far more respectful and delicate than the Japanese."

Liu Yu and others also recorded some sensitive sights and experiences along the way, such as ordnance, morale, forts, and key charges, in Hanyu Pinyin, which is impossible for the Japanese to understand.

Maps of the coastline, routes in the Seto Inland Sea, reefs, islands, etc., are also drawn on white paper with green onion and ginger juice.

After arriving in Edo, Liu Yu went directly to Shi Shiyong's house.

This skilled boy army spy is now mixing well in Edo, as a "royal" samurai instructor, teaching some samurai bannermen in Edo Castle how to ride and shoot.

There is a special residence in Edo City, and Shi Shiyong was sent by Liu Yu after all, and it is natural to live here with him.

As soon as they met, Liu Yu was happy first.

Shi Shiyong was wearing a kimono with a sword hanging from his waist, except that he did not shave the head of the moon generation, and poked the dress of a samurai alive.

"Brother Heisei!"

"Brother Shouchang!"

Although he lived in Edo for several years, the emperor thought that it was useless to believe in it, so he asked his wife to live with him.

Western women are not allowed to live in Edo Castle, nor are they allowed to follow Western women, but Tang women are not among them, especially Shi Shiyong, who has won enough to live here with his wife. The two of them spoke in Chinese on weekdays, and there were some Confucian scholars in Edo City who fled here back then, but they finally did not forget the local accent.

Shi Shiyong was extremely excited to see Liu Yu, but he didn't show all the excitement, and there were outsiders around, so he only expressed the excitement of meeting acquaintances.

"Why did Brother Shoutsune come to Edo?"

"Ah, the shogun. For the time being, I will live here with Brother Heisei first, and it is estimated that I will return in half a month. Brother Heisei is good here? ”

"Okay, very good."

Shi Shiyong smiled and called his wife tea, and then told him about teaching the samurai to ride and shoot.

The smart man knew what to say, and he didn't say it too bluntly, so he told Shi Shiyong about the armaments and other things he had collected.

The speaker has a heart, the listener has an intention, the two chatted for a while, and news also came from the Japanese side, asking Liu Yu to meet the general three days later.

As soon as the people left, Liu Yu said: "Brother Heicheng, this is also my first time in Edo, I don't know if I can wander outside the city?" If you can, why not go out and see the scenery? ”

Shi Shiyong knew that it was inconvenient to talk in the house, so he took Liu Yu out for a walk.

Knowing that someone would follow and watch, Shi Shiyong first took Liu Yu to see the elephants that have recently become popular in Edo City. A few years ago, the Vietnamese Nguyen family sent the first elephant in Japanese history to Japan, and in order to allow the elephant to "meet the emperor", he also gave the elephant an official of "four white elephants from Quang Nam".

According to Liu Yu's understanding, maybe only the fourth-rank officials are qualified to see the emperor? He was the most ruthless and told the story of "Wei Yigong is a good crane", and Shi Shiyong laughed unbridledly.

After laughing, he led Liu Yu to wander around, until he chose an empty place where no one was around, and Shi Shiyong said: "I don't know if I know everything and just describe?" Or do you ask me to answer? ”

"Let me ask you. As you can see, how do the Japanese people feel about me? ”

Shi Shi shook his head with a wry smile and said, "It's not good." Some people who fled here back then still think that our dynasty is a rogue and that it is not right to win the country. ”

Liu Yu also smiled: "This is all." The Japanese people thought that the Ming Dynasty was the right country, and they did not dare to attack North Korea and take the Ming Dynasty without seeing the year of Renchen. It's okay to deceive fools, don't worry about this. ”

Shi Shiyong sighed, helpless.

Having said that, there are also many people among the Japanese who are angry about not agreeing to the puppet beggar back then. At that time, Emperor Taizong followed Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan's matter, and never completely destroyed the pseudo-Ming, with the help of the pseudo-Ming to borrow troops, denounced it as a traitor, and some Confucian scholars who fled here also resented the evaluation of the word 'traitor'. The evaluation of the country is extremely poor. ”

"Besides, the merchants who went to Nagasaki to trade said anything in order to get a trade card. Naturally, the Japanese people were praised violently, and there were many 'transgressions' in their words, which further encouraged the arrogance of the Japanese people. ”

Shi Shiyong is not a businessman, but a secret agent, and he looks at the problem from the perspective of the imperial court. What's more, because he is a person close to the emperor, he takes things like "trespassing" very seriously.

The people he came into contact with on weekdays were many descendants of Confucianism who fled here back then, which can be regarded as an attitude of starving to death and not eating Zhou Su.

This hidden hostility can be clearly felt through contact.

The relationship between Dashun and Japan is very poor.

There was no official contact at all, and there was some unofficial trade in Nagasaki.

At that time, for the sake of legitimacy, Dashun used Zheng Boke's means of Duan Yuyan, obviously he could destroy Nanming first, but he never destroyed it, just to force Nanming to borrow troops from foreign countries.

Borrowing troops from foreign countries cannot be discussed in the same way.

Asking the Ryukyus, Burma, Korea, etc. to borrow troops, this is the fulfillment of feudal obligations by the vassals, and it is understandable.

But if you ask Japan and the Holy See to borrow troops, this can be used to make a big fuss.

By borrowing troops, he used radical ideology to criticize Nanming, and the ideology of the Yongjia Yongkang school deliberately supported by Dashun completely crushed the legitimacy of Nanming.

This is political wisdom.

Huang Zongxi once said that when the Song Dynasty died in the past, Zhang Shijie sent envoys to borrow troops, and Chen Yizhong also went to Zhancheng to borrow troops. Therefore, the situation at that time was no different from Song. Moreover, Tang also borrowed back the Falcon soldiers, and the word traitor needs to be reconsidered.

At that time, there were also people in the Southern Ming Dynasty: "If Japan succeeds, the islands will be cut off with it." The sea is dry, not the Yangtze River, even if the island is cut, how can he compete with me for the Central Plains."

This matter is not easy to evaluate, and it is at the end of the road, so naturally we cannot expect a feudal dynasty with a family to have any national consciousness.

Liu Yu is well aware of the shamelessness of the ruling class and does not feel that there is anything to make a fuss about.

But the subsequent letters of borrowing from the army led to a big problem.

"Compliment Japan's great country, everyone is righteous, everyone is brave, everyone trains the bow blade, everyone is accustomed to boats, the earth is adjacent to the Buddha country, and the king knows the sky...... Talking about the cry of seven days, begging to borrow three thousand teachers. ”

"Stealing the great power of Japan, the prestige is great, and the countries are covered; Respect the recital, invite 3,000 soldiers: one to connect the friendship of lips and teeth, and the other to avenge the monarch's father. Bow to Dwy and send troops to help. ”

At that time, there were many letters of borrowed soldiers, and there were different attitudes towards different countries.

For vassals like the Ryukyus, it was an attitude of letting the vassals fulfill their feudal obligations.

And these letters of borrowing from the army used three very taboo words.

"Great power".

"Friendship of lips and teeth".

"Seven days of crying".

The former is easy to say, but the latter's friendship and the cry of the seven days of chatting are equivalent to comparing the relationship between Japan and China to Qin and Chu.

This makes Japan very inflated, and it thinks that it is on an equal footing with China.

Of course, as far as this matter is concerned, Liu Yu's "equal diplomacy" seems to be almost the same, and the eldest brother does not talk about the second brother.

In terms of traditional ideology alone, engaging in equal diplomacy, Liu Yu bears the hat of "traitor" and "Qin Hui", and he is not wronged.

But there's something else to it.

Within the East Asian system, there is no equal diplomacy, because it is all within the Chinese cultural circle.

Engaging in equal diplomacy with France, Russia, and Britain stems from the fact that they are not countries in the Chinese cultural circle, so even if they are equal, they can't do anything because they can't win "orthodoxy".

The tributary system can be converted into the Westphalian system, but within the scope of the tributary system, there can only be one orthodox emperor, and this orthodox emperor must not be a Westerner.

Reciprocal diplomacy between China and Japan also involves an issue of "orthodoxy."

If everyone is a prince, and Japan thinks that since the Celestial Empire recognizes that they are "crying for seven days" as a relationship between Qin and Chu, then why is China the orthodoxy of the Son of Heaven?

To engage in foreign exchanges, Dashun's title here is "Son of Heaven".

In other words, it was not China that interacted with the Western countries, but the entire empire of China and its surrounding vassals that interacted with the Western countries.

The emperor of Korea was the Son of Heaven, and the emperor of the Ryukyus was also the Son of Heaven, and when he interacted with foreign countries, he crumpled the entire Chinese cultural circle.

When the treaty with Russia was concluded, Liu Yu also wrote very clearly: vassal states are not qualified to directly negotiate and contact with Russia, and when this vassal state signed the treaty, Liu Yu included Japan, and Russia also accepted it. Anyway...... Russia couldn't reach it, and it was very refreshing when it was signed.

Although it is impossible for Japan to compete for this orthodoxy for the time being because of its strength, the idea of "I am also orthodox" is very popular internally.

In addition, some Confucian scholars who fled back then settled in Japan, which adds a few points of argument to this reasoning. On the one hand, Dashun "won the country unjustly", and it was a country won by the uprising of hungry people; On the other hand, Dashun gave up Zhuzi's science, but instead added a lot of content to Western studies, and it seemed that Dashun lost his "orthodox" qualifications.

There are also many widows who have fled here, advocating "orthodoxy in Japan". Japanese Confucian scholars gradually accepted this idea, and although they were powerless to invade, they closed the door and were self-reliant.

Liu Yu has been planning the war against Japan, on the one hand, to make money, and on the other hand, it is also the time for the Great Shun to transform from the tributary system to the Westphalian system, and this vassal scope includes Japan.

Shi Shiyong said these things are exactly what Liu Yu wanted. He wished that Shi Shiyong would be very dissatisfied with this, and wait for him to add fuel and vinegar when he returned in the future.