On the Beijing-Tianjin cement road leading from Tianjin to the capital, dozens of luxury four-wheeled carriages walk very leisurely on the spacious cement road.

Although it was already a cold winter moon at this time, the sky was freezing, the cold wind was howling, and the sky was mixed with small snowflakes, and the drowsy sky looked like it was about to snow.

However, the flow of people on the cement road in Beijing and Tianjin has not been affected in the slightest, but as the New Year approaches, the road has become busier.

At a glance, the road winds to the end, the dense flow of people and vehicles on the road, the flow of people goes to the far right, the traffic flows to the left, and the order is orderly, like a torrent heading towards the direction of the capital.

On the other hand, the direction from Beijing to Tianjin is also dense and busy.

"This four-wheeled carriage is really good~"

"It's very comfortable, and there is not a trace of bumps."

Inside a four-wheeled carriage, Shimazu Tadamasa opened the curtains to let in the cold air outside.

The carriage was really hot, because a pot of fire was placed in the middle of the carriage, and the fire was burning, which made the carriage look very stuffy.

"The most powerful thing is not this carriage, but this cement road, and cement is really a divine object."

Emperor Go-Kashiwahara nodded solemnly, looked at the spacious cement road outside, and said.

"I heard that this thing was like mud at first, but after a day or two, it was as solid as bluestone, and it was the most suitable for building bridges and roads, pouring cities, and building buildings."

Shimazu Tadamasa nodded and said.

"Write this down, this cement method, we must also master it."

Emperor Go-Kashiwahara nodded slightly, and then said to Shimazu Tadamasa.

"Yes~"

Shimazu Tadamasa nodded hurriedly, and then took out a notebook and a pen in his arms, and wrote this down solemnly.

This book is densely packed with a lot of things, such as shipbuilding, fishing, four-wheeled carriages, honeycomb coal stoves, etc., which are obviously things that they want to learn.

This year's war also hurt and subdued the Japanese country.

In the past, although I felt that the Ming Dynasty was relatively big, I didn't think that the Ming Dynasty was so powerful, and even because there were Japanese robbers rampant on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty for a long time.

So much so that on the side of the Wa State, there are many ambitious people who even put forward a mainland plan, the so-called mainland plan is that the Wa State should use Korea as a springboard to attack the Ming Dynasty and occupy a piece of land of its own on the huge continent.

Although the Ming Dynasty is big, it is not strong, and the grassland people in the north have been constantly oppressing the Ming Dynasty, and I don't see how the Ming can help the grassland people in the north.

Their wandering warriors turned into Japanese pirates rampant on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, and they have always been unclean, which makes the Japanese people feel that the Ming Dynasty is not strong.

Then this time in the first battle, the 50,000 army of the Ming Dynasty was fiercely rubbed on the ground, whether it was the powerful Ming Dynasty, Ouchi, Otomo or the Uesugi family, they were easily swept away by the Ming army.

Or maybe the shogunate army, the current ruler of the Wa Kingdom, was also defeated by the Ming army and had to sign an alliance under the city.

Not only did it cede Iwami Province, but I heard that now Iwami Province has discovered a super-large silver mine, and it can easily mine tens of millions of taels of silver every year.

It also leased Hyogo Nozu, and there are still 10,000 Ming garrisons here in Hyogo, and the Ming sailors are still cruising in the Seto Inland Sea and Tokyo Bay in the Wakoku Kingdom.

also paid 15 million taels of silver to the Ming side, and even the king of the Japanese Dynasty had to be canonized by the emperor in the future to be considered legal and valid.

It can be said that the defeat of the Japanese country in this war was completely complete, and it was also a convincing defeat.

There is really no way, the army of the Ming Dynasty is too strong.

Terrible artillery, powerful warships, and iron cavalry like a torrent of steel, in the face of such a powerful force, the samurai of the Wa Kingdom had to surrender, no matter how powerful they were.

The merits of the Japanese are obvious.

As long as you can beat me, you are better than me, I will learn from you.

At this time, the country of Wa, whether it was the daimyo who supported the Wa King in various places, or the shogunate, were silently learning from the Ming side, wanting to become as powerful as the Ming Dynasty.

This time it was an official mission, the scale was extremely large, and there were usually a large number of Japanese people who followed the Ming merchant ships to Daming, came to Daming to study, travel, and find the root of the Ming Dynasty's strength, so as to learn by themselves.

"Da Ming is too big~"

Emperor Go-Kashiwahara had a map in his hand and couldn't help but say.

"Yes, Daming is indeed very big, but the world is also very big."

"Daming's current expansion strategy has been very obvious, occupy the North Golden Continent from the north, then occupy Australia from the south, and then occupy the South Golden Continent, so that the entire Golden Continent will belong to the Ming Dynasty, and the Pacific Ocean will become the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty."

"To the west, the Ming Dynasty is constantly advancing to the north and west, and it is said that Liu Jin, the Marquis of Liaodong, proposed to go all the way west from the land, open up the land route to Europe, and occupy the entire vast land."

Shimazu Tadamasa nodded solemnly and said.

"If Daming completes this strategy, Daming's territory will become extremely terrifying, and the whole world will almost be occupied by Daming."

When Emperor Go-Kashiwahara saw it, he couldn't help but gasp and exclaim.

"Yes, Daming is very big, not only their own territory is big, but they also have enough population and strength, plus Daming itself is in a favorable position."

"Once this dragon takes off, the world is subjugated to its feet."

Shimazu Tadamasa also said with a sigh.

The more you understand the strength of Da Ming, the more you will feel powerless.

The Wa Kingdom is ambitious, but the Wa Kingdom is not unified now, and the shogunate, the local daimyo and the emperor are intertwined with each other, and no one obeys anyone.

The shogunate still wanted to maintain its rule, and it is said that this time Yin Shizhong came to Daming, and his main task was to buy arms and weapons.

The daimyo in various places were also ambitious, some wanted to replace the shogunate, some supported the emperor, and some fell on both sides, in short, the Wa kingdom at this moment did not come together.

What's more critical is that the attitude of the Ming Dynasty is very clear, that is, I hope that the Japanese State will always maintain such a situation, and arms and weapons will be sold on both sides, and whoever has the strength to unify the Japanese State will be immediately attacked by the Ming Dynasty.

"This is a new era, the era of great navigation."

"In this era, wealth and land will come very easily, I heard that last year, the ten ships that came back from the Golden Continent brought back 30 million taels of gold and silver, as well as many crops from the Golden Continent."

"I heard that the yield of any crop can yield dozens of stones per mu and feed a large number of people."

"This should be recorded, our people are poor, and we can introduce these Golden Continent crops from the Ming Dynasty and promote them."

Emperor Go-Kashiwahara said with a sigh.

At the same time, I also have an incomparable desire in my heart, eager to unify the Japanese country, concentrate the strength of the Japanese country, move towards this magnificent era, and seize a piece of land belonging to the Japanese country in the world.

"The minister has already written it down."

"Your Majesty the Emperor, don't be discouraged, where there is a will, there is a way, the cauldron is broken, the one hundred and two Qin Passes belong to Chu after all, the hard work is not worth it, the salary is worth the guts, and the three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu."

"Maybe it's a great opportunity for us as well."

"The world is very big, we may be able to secretly build a strong army outside the Wa Kingdom, and when the time is ripe, we will transport the army back to the Wa Kingdom, and then unify the entire Wa Kingdom in one fell swoop."

"As long as we are like the Ming Dynasty, we implement a strong centralized power and gather the strength of the entire Japanese state, we can also develop and grow rapidly."

"When the time comes, the world will be so big that there will eventually be a piece of land that belongs to our country."

Shimazu Tadamasa looked at Emperor Kashiwahara and said in a very firm tone.

The current problem of the Wa Kingdom is that there is no unity, and the rotten shogunate rule has hindered the development of the Wa Kingdom, but the shogunate is very strong, and the daimyo in various places are ambitious, and no one is subject to anyone.

That's the key.

Without unification, the forces will naturally be dispersed, and there is no way to concentrate on doing great things, let alone snatching meat from the mouth of the Ming Dynasty in this era.

"I'm just afraid that when our country becomes stronger, the whole world will have been swallowed up by the Ming Dynasty, and the speed of the Ming Dynasty is too fast."

"Now their power has expanded to Nanyang, and the countries of Nanyang have always been vassals of the Ming Dynasty, with the Ming Dynasty as the mainstay, and the expansion of the Ming Dynasty here is almost effortless."

"By next year, it is estimated that they will expand to Australia and the Southern Golden Continent, such a huge land, in the blink of an eye, fell into the arms of the Ming Dynasty, it is really a little unwilling."

"I heard that the land here in the Golden Continent is very fertile, full of gold, and the natives here are the descendants of Yin Shang, their development is extremely slow, and they are still in the tribal stage, they can't even make iron tools, and the population is very sparse."

"In such a place, if our Wa Kingdom dispatches 10,000 samurai, it is enough to easily conquer dozens of times the land of our Wa Kingdom."

Emperor Hou Kashiwahara sighed and said, thinking of Daming, he felt helpless.

When such a powerful country embarks on the road of expansion, its appetite is not something that can be satisfied casually, and it is estimated that it can only satisfy the appetite of the dragon when the world is completely eaten.

"Your Majesty, maybe we can form an army now, it doesn't need to be too big, a few thousand people are enough, the Pacific Rim is not good, but there is still a lot of land in the South Asian subcontinent, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, and we can also seize it."

"Anyway, let's give it a try."

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