Killed people, robbed boats.

When the Japanese heard the news, they were not only surprised, but they did not feel that it had damaged their national dignity. On the contrary, I think this treaty has been signed by the right person.

The envoys of the Celestial Empire killed people in order to maintain the authority of the general! This murderer is justified in killing. Such a person is a person who has achieved great things.

The Japanese have the greatest fear of power in their bones. It is true that whoever is more powerful will admire whom.

After killing someone, crossing the goods, and selling the goods to the Japanese. After buying a large number of copper bars, Fang Yizhi embarked on the journey home.

When he came, his fleet had a few more ships - all robbing the Zheng family.

The mighty fleet left Nagasaki. After about 20 days, the fleet finally arrived at the port of Dalian.

As soon as the ship entered the port, the crew landed one after another, and the customs officers went on board to count the goods and calculate the tariffs, even if these ships were official ships to be taxed, this is the rule of Dalian, and even this customs was set up by Zhu Guoqiang by drawing on many rules and regulations of the customs in later generations, of course, now, this "modernized" customs is also an attempt, after all, the Ming Dynasty will definitely support free trade in the future.

The Taiping Commercial Bank, which was the investor of the trip, calculated the profits of the trip, and only the ordinary crew members went to the city to have fun.

When I read the Edo Trade Treaty, I felt a little struck by the fact that I had not been able to open a port in Edo, but it was not easy to conclude such an unequal treaty.

Actually, there is no difficulty. After all, the people of this era do not have as profound their understanding of "national rights and interests" as they did in later generations. Just like the Japanese, they actually took the initiative not to want tariffs, which is simply - self-defeating.

Looking up at Fang Yizhi and putting down the treaty, Zhu Guoqiang asked:

"The people who killed the Zheng family?"

"Yes."

Fang Yizhi replied.

"Zheng Zhilong is not a person who is willing to suffer."

Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but smile.

"However, it's nothing, it's just the Zheng family, he knows the times!"

Maybe others don't know Zheng Zhilong, but how could Zhu Guoqiang not know about this guy who descended to the Manchu Qing and was later beheaded? He has a good son!

Zheng Chenggong, he is a student of Qian Qianyi.

Should Qian Qian Yiyi write a letter to Zheng Chenggong and ask him to come to Liaodong to serve?

For Zheng Chenggong, as long as he is a Chinese with a conscience, he will have admiration for him, not only because of his recovery of Taiwan, but because of his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty. Of course, I am more afraid that it is a pity, if his Northern Expedition is successful, will the Chinese civilization still fall into the darkness of nearly three hundred years?

……

However, there are no such concerns now, and it will only take five years at most to completely solve the problem of building slaves, and the rest is the rogue......

Rogue Guy!

For the time being, let's leave it to the imperial court to deal with!

Pulling his thoughts back to reality, Zhu Guoqiang asked:

"What is the situation in Japan, have you inquired clearly?"

Fang Yizhi not only went to Japan to negotiate, he also inquired about various situations through contacts with the shoguns and daimyos.

Hearing the prince ask, Fang Yizhi immediately said:

"The situation in Japan seems to be extremely stable, after all, the Tokugawa shogunate has been open for thirty-seven years, but on the whole, although it seems to be stable, but in fact, the domestic daimyo seem to obey the Tokugawa shogunate, but in fact it is also unexistent, especially after the successive promulgation of the national closure decree, the shogunate took advantage of the Nagasaki monopoly of overseas trade, and the overseas trade profits were huge, and the local daimyo because of the monopoly of trade for the shogunate, the economy is becoming more and more depressed, in the long run, it will be powerless to shake the prestige of the shogunate, in the opinion of the minister, unless there is an external force to help, Otherwise, the shogunate's rule would only become more and more stable, and Tokugawa Iemitsu would devise various strategies aimed at weakening the feudal daimyos......"

Anyone who knows a little about the Tokugawa shogunate knows that the confession not only limited the financial resources of the daimyo but also wasted the daimyo's time, and also obtained the daimyo's wife as a hostage, and the three-pronged approach greatly suppressed the daimyo's antipathy and forced the daimyo's loyalty to the shogunate. This was an important reason why the Tokugawa shogunate was able to maintain a stable rule for more than 200 years.

But is such a "peaceful and stable" Japan in the interests of the Ming Dynasty?

The answer, of course, is no.

It seems that we still have to find a way to let Japan enter the Warring States period again. Only a war-torn Japan is in the interests of the Ming Dynasty.

"From the second shogun to the third shogun Iemitsu, in order to stabilize the rule of the shogunate, the prince has always implemented the policy of suppressing the power of the daimyo. If the daimyo expressed their opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate, or if they were dissatisfied with the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, the shogunate did not hesitate to severely punish them. If there are no heirs, they will also be subject to disposition. The method of punishment is simple and crude, that is, confiscation of Zhixing and change of territory. Especially for those who have no successor, or whose successor is unstable, the shogunate will be eager to determine that the performance of its obligations is not good. As far as the minister knows, the daimyo are being punished every year, but most of these daimyo dare not speak out, after all, the Tokugawa family has the most powerful force......"

"Just dare to be angry!"

Zhu Guoqiang said lightly.

I'm really afraid that they won't be angry, as long as they are angry, then there is room for maneuver.

Carefully looked at the simple map of Japan brought back by Fang Yizhi, looked at the fiefdom marked on it, and said with a smile:

"Now that the shogunate has a monopoly on trade, they are unwilling to open up new treaty ports, in the final analysis, it is still to monopolize the profits of overseas trade, and the profit of several million taels a year is enough to raise the Tokugawa family into the most powerful force in Japan.

方以智 says:

"I'm afraid it's not that easy, after all, the Tokugawa family is the largest in Japan, and it is also the daimyo with the strongest force. Therefore, everyone knew that if they did not follow the orders of the Tokugawa shogun, they would be attacked by the shogunate. More importantly, at that time, Japan had a territory of about 30 million koku, and the shogunate territory plus the banner domain plus the domain of the clan reached a total of about 10 million koku. Even a daimyo like the Maeda family only owns a territory of 1 million koku. Therefore, even if half of the foreign daimyo were simultaneously reactionary against the shogunate, the Tokugawa shogunate would be able to easily deal with it. ”

"That's right,"

Continuing to look at the map, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"In this case, in addition to making the Daimyo strong and wealthy and helping them through smuggling, can we recruit low-level samurai from Japan, hasn't the Tokugawa family changed the punishment and confiscated the territory at every turn over the years? There will definitely be a lot of low-ranking samurai who are unemployed, and we can hire those ronins as mercenaries. ”

In fact, the hiring of Japanese mercenaries at the end of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be a very common thing, during the Battle of Salhu, there were generals in the Ming army whose families were Japanese, and the more famous was the Zheng family, whether it was Zheng Zhilong or Zheng Chenggong, there were no less than 10,000 Japanese soldiers under his command.

They can use it, and of course they can use it themselves. It's completely possible to get a foreign army, those people go to fight the hardest and most tiring battles, or let them be cannon fodder, there are cheap cannon fodder, don't you have to be worthy of yourself?

"Shiziye, now is no more than in the past, when the shogunate forbade the Japanese to go to sea."

Fang Yizhi said:

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to operate."

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile:

"Actually, it's not that hard. There are so many ronins wandering around the country, and they are all unemployed because of the punishment of the Tokugawa family, they must be dissatisfied with the shogunate, they have changed so many daimyos, and there are at least hundreds of thousands of samurai in Japan who have become ronin, these ronins are the destabilizing factors of the shogunate, if there is an opportunity to throw these unstable factors out, Tokugawa Iemitsu will definitely not mind? ”

Zhu Guoqiang didn't say it casually, he had a super cheat from another world, and he already had a deep understanding of the situation in Japan.

There are hundreds of thousands of ronins in Japan now, as early as a few years ago, the shogunate banned ronin officials through the "Laws of the Samurai", and then implemented the ronin registration system throughout the country to strengthen the management of ronin. Ronin were even forbidden to lodge at temples and samurai mansions.

In this way, between the ronins who live in embarrassment, bear the high pressure from the shogunate, and still have hope of reviving the martial arts, there will naturally be a breath of imminent movement, don't look at the stability of Japan now, but in fact, these hundreds of thousands of ronin are the biggest stabilizing factor in Japan, what does it mean to the shogunate because of the abolition of the daimyo who lost their knowledge or fortune to the shogunate?

Tokugawa Iemitsu must know better than himself, otherwise he wouldn't have treated them with a high-handed policy.

Given the right opportunity, Tokugawa Iemitsu would not mind letting these ronins leave Japan, leaving Japan, at least without posing a threat to the rule of the shogunate.

With 100,000 ronins to form a legion, use this legion to colonize in the South Seas, crush the natives, and promote overseas expansion, it doesn't matter how many people they can survive, the important thing is that when necessary, this "Japanese army" is a new force to destroy the shogunate.

"What does the prince mean to negotiate with the Tokugawa family and ask some ronins to come over?"

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile:

"We are fighting with Jiannu, the more soldiers Han Xin has, the better, even if the Japanese are cheap, what's the harm in using him?"

If you want Japan to fall back into the civil war, you must continue to create opportunities, at the moment, Tokugawa is willing to be the good son of the Ming Dynasty, let him go, and when the time is right, with the support of the Ming Dynasty, those foreign daimyo will definitely jump back, and Japan will immediately fall into civil strife again.

At that time, Japan was no longer the Japan of the Japanese......