Kyoto, Japan, a military camp in the northwest on the outskirts of Japan.

Like the regulations of the Ming army's camp, the barracks of the Japanese "Imperial Army" are also a row of barracks, with a large room for every team of ten people, in the form of a large shop, and can burn the kang in winter.

Today is the day when the Japanese Emperor Shaoren inspected the Japanese army camp, I heard that the Emperor Tianwu of the Ming Dynasty likes to inspect all places, Shaoren in order to learn from Zhu Cihong closely, he often goes out for a walk, especially the military camp.

The newly formed Japanese "Imperial Army," both in terms of its establishment and training content, was completely in accordance with the system of the Ming army, and was guided and trained by 20 officers from the Ming Dynasty.

Shaoren, who was dressed in military uniform, stood on the viewing stage, watching the training of the imperial army soldiers equipped with "brand-new" weapons in the audience, with a smile on his face and a pride in his heart.

He turned his head to Lao Li Xiaoliulang, the envoy to the Ming Dynasty, and said, "Maoli, you did a good job on this errand, and I will crown you as a 10,000-stone daimyo." ”

Mori Korokuro said excitedly: "Thank you for your grace Your Majesty the Emperor!" ”

Shaoren was in a good mood, and said a few more words to Maori Korokuro, and suddenly said: "By the way, this time to envoy Daming, did you mention the matter of my imperial sister to the emperor?" ”

Maori Korokuro was stunned, to be honest, he had forgotten about such for a long time.

The negotiations with the Ming Dynasty were swift, and the Japanese mission stayed in the Ming Dynasty for less than three days, and the excited Mori Korokuro thought about returning to China as soon as possible to prove his ability to the emperor.

Now that the emperor suddenly asked about it, Mori Korokuro naturally did not dare to report it truthfully, and he was worried that the emperor would take back the reward in anger.

So, the old clever ghost replied with a smile: "Mention, the emperor just accepted the Portuguese princess as a concubine, and said let's wait first." ”

"Oh? Accepted the princess of Portugal. ”

A meaningful smile appeared on Shaoren's face: "His Majesty the Great Emperor is really a person with a temperament, not afraid of old customs, and daring to innovate!" ”

His heart relaxed slightly, since the Ming Emperor can accept the Portuguese princess, then the matter of the imperial sister should be fine!

These soldiers of the imperial army, wearing armor, carrying waist knives, and holding muskets in their hands, showed the heroic spirit of soldiers, and the more Shaoren looked at it, the more satisfied he became.

These officers from Daming are really good and well-trained! Under their training, the Imperial Army is decent, and it is believed that it will soon form a strong combat force and make immortal contributions to the battle of Japan's reunification!

Shaoren inspected for more than an hour, reluctantly left the barracks and returned to the imperial palace.

Kyoto is located in the western part of Japan, Edo is located in the middle of the Kanto Plain of Japan, the two places are separated by 900 li, the emperors of the past dynasties lived in Kyoto, and the Tokugawa shogunate was in the Tokugawa family's sphere of influence in Edo for political reasons.

The emperor's guard of honor was large, and the people avoided it wherever he passed, and Sakuhito once again felt the honor of being the emperor.

Through the curtain, Shaoren saw the prosperity of Kyoto City, and there were many shops on both sides of the road, especially some grain shops and raw silk shops, and business was booming.

It is worth noting that most of the grain shops and raw silk shops have Chinese characters written on them, and these are basically shops run by Chinese merchants from the Ming Dynasty.

Shaoren didn't know that the grain stores all over Japan were basically the industry of the Daming Royal Group.

In recent years, the Royal Group's grain stores have been selling grain at low prices in Japan, which are 10% lower than the previous Japanese market prices, and they have been buying raw silk at high prices on a large scale throughout Japan.

The propaganda work of the Royal Group is very good, and the pyramid scheme of later generations has a fight, they advocate to the Japanese people all over Japan to change rice to mulberry, saying that there are experts to guide mulberry farming, and the raw silk bags produced are sold to Daming, which can make a lot of money!

As a result, in just one year, Japanese farmers shoveled the wheat seedlings in the fields on a large scale and changed them to mulberry fields, specializing in silk.

Because the silk produced per mu of mulberry field is several times higher than the grain harvest per mu of farmland, in the second year, the Japanese farmers who chose to try it made a profit, and the industries under the Royal Group also had integrity.

By the third year, agriculture had undergone a drastic change throughout Japan, and silkworms were basically cultivated in various parts of the countryside, and spinners and hand-spinning wheels were everywhere.

Daming opened up overseas markets and carried out large-scale overseas trade, which required a large amount of raw silk to make silk, and Daming to ensure that there was enough food in the country, and could not use too much arable land to raise silkworms.

Therefore, the cunning and treacherous Zhu Cihong came up with the strategy of multinational companies, arranging their own business activities from the global strategy, establishing subsidiaries in Japan, using Japan's human resources and raw material resources, and processing and selling the raw materials to the Japanese in Japan, or transporting raw silk raw materials back to the Ming Dynasty to produce silk and sell it to Western countries.

In this way, the Imperial Group not only controlled the grain market in Japan, but also used raw silk to maximize profits.

This kind of thing is not only done by the royal group, but with the encouragement of the imperial court, a large number of merchants from the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty poured into the Japanese market to buy Japanese farmland at low prices, and Japanese farmers gradually became tenants of Ming merchants and took silkworm breeding as their business.

Because the Ming Dynasty did not allow land to be bought and sold, while Japan's land privatization could be bought and sold, and the policy was soft, as long as the money was given, it was okay, which attracted the profiteers of the Ming Dynasty to form groups to go to sea to buy land.

There are also smart people in Japan, and some learned people have seen this way and have a premonition of a strong crisis, and they have constantly made suggestions to Emperor Shaoren, saying that if Chinese businessmen are allowed to toss in this way, Japan's own economy will completely collapse and be completely in the hands of others!

However, the young Shaoren was an ambitious emperor, and after several correspondences with Emperor Tianwu, his confidence was greatly increased, and he knew that in order to restore imperial power, he must have a strong army loyal to him!

If you want to build a strong army, you must invest a lot of money, which is a truth that children understand.

The emperor's source of income was mainly due to the huge commercial taxes paid by the grain merchants and raw silk merchants of the Ming Dynasty, after all, the land in Japan was basically in the hands of the feudal lords, and the taxes paid were very low.

If the emperor wants to be supported, he must not suppress them, but must always win over them.

Therefore, for the sake of his dream, Emperor Shohito not only continued to maintain the status quo, but also repeatedly issued decrees to encourage the Japanese feudal domains to change rice to a national policy.

He even bluntly said: "The rice I eat is all grown by the Ming Dynasty, so you don't need to say much, just eat it!" ”

Shaoren is not a fool, on the contrary, he followed Zhu Cihong to learn to govern the country, became more and more intelligent, and had long-term considerations.

He felt that the change from rice to mulberry in Japan would inevitably lead to an increase in land annexation.

The impoverishment of the samurai class, which held political power, and the enrichment of the machito class, which lacked political power, and the polarization of the machito class with the development of the commodity-money economy.

As far as the townspeople (townspeople and merchants) were concerned, they were rich and noble, but the shogunate still ruled according to the status system of the former Shinongshang, so the townspeople became dissatisfied and wanted to overthrow the shogunate.

In just a few years, things really developed as Shaoren thought, and some people of insight in Japan began to put forward the "theory of equality of duties of the four peoples" and waved the banner of equality spirit of "learning from the Ming Dynasty to abolish the four peoples, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, they are all regarded as peers", which pushed the movement to a climax.

The main force of the Shogunate Movement naturally moved closer to the Emperor's faction supported by the Ming Dynasty, because the Shogunate was frantically suppressing merchants in order to maintain its rule.

Shaoren, on the other hand, had the foresight to learn from the Ming Dynasty's new policy of Tianwu as early as last year, and abolished the social hierarchy of Shinong, industry, and commerce in the emperor's sphere of influence.

In this way, more and more talented and wealthy people gathered around the Japanese Emperor Shaoren, and the strength of the emperor and the shogunate gradually changed.

In addition to the purchase of a large amount of arms from Daming this time, Shaoren is very confident that he will completely complete the great cause of reunifying Japan within three years!