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After more than half a month, the eldest grandson Wuji took a boat to Kyoto.

The Emperor of Japan gave him a banquet, entertained him well, and offered to continue negotiations the next day.

The eldest grandson Wuji was naturally full of promises.

Early the next morning, after seeing the new conditions proposed by the Japanese envoy Ishihara Jiro, the eldest grandson Wuji severely reprimanded Japan for its insincerity, and ceded to the Great Zhou that it was such a remote and cold island, which was simply fooling the Zhou State.

"Lord Ishihara, your conditions like this are completely playing our Da Zhou as a monkey! Don't forget: we don't have to negotiate! Now my Zhou State has unified the Central Plains and has 10,000 troops. As long as Your Majesty sends half of your army to attack Japan, you will all have no way to do. The eldest grandson Wuji said with a stern expression.

Jiro Ishihara was taken aback, and he also knew that Japan's national strength was completely incomparable with the Celestial Empire. If the negotiations broke down, he would have to apologize in front of the emperor.

So, he hurriedly saluted respectfully and said, "I'm confused." I wonder what conditions the eldest grandson wants? As long as we can do it, and it is not a difficult condition, there is no ambiguity! ”

At this time, the eldest grandson Wuji took out a few pages of notes, handed them to Ishihara Erlang and said: "These are the twenty-one conditions personally issued by the emperor of our Great Zhou Kingdom, you can take a look!" ”

Jiro Ishihara took the pages of the note with trembling hands, and then looked at it carefully......

After reading it, he couldn't help but gasp. It's not that he feels that the conditions are harsh, but that he feels relaxed.

The "Twenty-one Articles" proposed by the eldest grandson Wuji did not want to cede land and ask for money. Instead, he proposed a number of reform provisions for Japan's domestic and foreign affairs.

The most important of these are: first, it is clearly stipulated that Dashu banknotes and coins will be used as legal tender in Japan; It is used as the settlement currency for the daily transactions of the Japanese people, and other foreign copper coins and copper coins issued by Japan itself are not allowed to circulate. For copper coins already issued in Japan, the Great Zhou will be responsible for replacing them with the same value of the Great Zhou banknotes and coins.

Jiro Ishihara felt that there was almost no need to write this article. All kinds of copper coins are now popular in Japan, including those of the Great Zhou, Nanyang, and Western Regions.

Of course, because the merchants of the Great Zhou came to trade the most, the Great Zhou banknotes were also the most widely circulated, after all, they were easy to carry, and they could be exchanged for gold and silver in the money houses opened by the Zhou Dynasty at any time. The copper coins engraved in the Western Regions, Nanyang and Japan are inferior to the Da Zhou coins in terms of weight and fineness, and the people do not like them. The currency of Daeshu can be regarded as the hard currency of the Japanese market. Now the eldest grandson Wuji proposed to use the banknotes and coins of the Great Zhou Dynasty as the only currency in circulation, and was willing to recycle and exchange the currencies of other countries in Japan.

Second, it stipulates that Chinese is the official language of Japan, and vigorously advocates the surname Xi, so Da Zhou will build several new schools in Japan to teach Japanese people to learn Chinese for free. There are a variety of classes for children from six-year-olds to adults. At the same time, priority is given to those who can speak Chinese for the promotion and appointment of officials in Japan.

Jiro Ishihara also thinks that this is not a big problem, and six or seven out of ten people in Japan are now learning Chinese. The reason is that there are a large number of merchants in the Great Zhou in Japan, and they employ a large number of Japanese people to help them operate. And their wages are much higher than those of their compatriots who fish and farm.

People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places. In this way, those Japanese who were not hired by the merchants of the Great Zhou Dynasty naturally flocked to it. In order to work under the merchants of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there is no reason not to learn Chinese seriously. If these Japanese have the opportunity to learn Chinese for free, so that they can save money and the trouble of looking for teachers everywhere, they will only ask for it, and how will they object.

As for the promotion and appointment of officials in Japan, priority is given to those who can speak Chinese. This is even more normal in the eyes of Jiro Ishihara. At present, the living customs and political system of the Japanese are very close to those of the Great Zhou, and the foreign exchanges are mainly based on the Great Zhou, and most of the domestic affairs are related to the Great Zhou merchants who operate in Japan. Giving priority to promoting people who can speak Chinese as officials is naturally a matter of course.

First, the legal system of the Great Zhou Dynasty was fully introduced, and all Japanese criminal, civil, and commercial laws were subject to the laws of the Zhou Dynasty. In order to facilitate Japanese officials to grasp the laws of the Great Zhou, the Zhou Dynasty will send a large number of personnel to the Japanese government at all levels to serve as advisers, responsible for guiding Japanese officials to use the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty to handle administrative affairs and adjudicate cases.

The condition of this article made Ishihara Jiro feel even more that this was Da Zhou taking care of Japan.

If the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty can be introduced in their entirety, the problem of which country's law prevails in civil disputes between the two countries can be avoided due to the different legal systems.

At the same time, with the rise of maritime trade, the number of commercial and civil cases in Japan has increased dramatically, and many of the types of cases are also very new, which is also a headache for Japanese officials.

If the Great Zhou sent officials to guide them in handling cases and handling administrative affairs, wouldn't it have made the Japanese officials feel a lot more worried?

If this condition is placed in future generations, no country will dare to agree to it, because it would mean the total fall of sovereignty. But in the seventh century AD, not to mention Japan, even the people of the Central Plains could hardly understand how important the nature of currency, law and language was for a country's sovereignty and autonomy.

Although the eldest grandson Wuji is the smartest man in this era. But at that time, he was also a little puzzled by this condition instructed by Yuming.

Because of these conditions, it seems that Da Zhou will not only not get any benefits from Japan, but will also lose a lot of money.

Moreover, in his opinion, it is difficult to send a large number of officials to Japan.

In the eyes of the surnames and people of the Central Plains, even places like Lingnan belong to a wild land where birds do not lay eggs, and Japan is even more of an uncivilized small foreign country. Who would want to be a "consultant" there?

However, Yu Ming's words later made the eldest grandson Wuji suddenly open.

Yu Ming said: "This time to pacify the Tang Dynasty, in Guanzhong alone, thousands of officials surrendered to us. I dare not be completely assured of the loyalty of these people, and I cannot trust them as much as our former officials. But if they are not appointed, I am afraid that they will be dampened again and lose their centripetal force to the imperial court. Therefore, the best way to deal with it is to send it to Japan. Let them teach Chinese to local children and instruct local officials to handle cases using the Great Zhou Law. This kills two birds with one stone! ”

After hearing this, the eldest grandson Wuji came to his senses, and by acting like this, there were fewer people and officials in the Great Zhou region who were dissatisfied with Yuming, and of course they would settle down. Moreover, these people are all people who think that the Great Zhou is the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and after being sent abroad, let them teach Chinese, instruct Japanese officials, and accelerate the sinicization of Japan, but they are just making the best use of them.

He couldn't help but admire Yuming even more. secretly thought that his talent was still far behind His Majesty, and he would have to follow him in the future.

At this time, Jiro Ishihara and the Emperor of Japan were completely unaware of how much this condition had changed Japan. I didn't even think that if I did this, would Japan still be called Japan? Except for having an emperor, what is the difference between it and a province of the Great Zhou?

Therefore, after the meeting was held, the emperor was glad that he could not cede the land and pay reparations. Therefore, I readily agreed and immediately expressed my willingness to sign.

After the agreement was signed, the eldest grandson Wuji and Hu Sizheng returned to the Central Plains, while Zhou Tao stayed behind on the island of Hokkaido, which had just been ceded to the Zhou dynasty, and used it as a base for the advance of the Great Zhou Dynasty to take Japan.

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After the destruction of the Li Tang regime in Guanzhong, the Zhou Dynasty had unified the whole country, and its territory exceeded that of the Sui Dynasty. At present, the external force that poses the greatest threat to the Great Zhou is the Turks.

At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, after the Turks were divided into the Eastern and Western Turks by Pei Ju, they had always been strong in the ****** and had the upper hand in the internal disputes of the Turks. However, with the defeat of ******'s two southward attacks on the Central Plains, and the internal division was fragmented, the Western Turks gradually surpassed the ****** in strength, and began to penetrate eastward beyond Jinshan.

When Yuming attacked Li Tang, although Li Yuan had sent an envoy to meet with the Western Turkic Khan, hoping that he would send a large army south to attack the Zhou Dynasty in order to share his own pressure.

But the Khan did not hesitate to refuse Li Yuan's request. Because he understands that even if he sends a large army south now, at most he will be able to occupy the territory of the Hetao and the northeast of the river, and he will not be able to penetrate deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains. It will not play a big role in saving Li Tang.

On the contrary, the situation in the prairie has become clear, and his own family is dominant, and only Xue Yantuo, Tiele and other departments are still resisting. As long as he takes advantage of Yuming's inability to go north and annihilate these two disobedient tribes first, then he can unify the steppe again and establish a great Turkic empire that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Xing'an Mountains in the east.

At that time, there will be as many as 10,000 people under his command, which is roughly the same as the strength of the Zhou Dynasty. But his soldiers and horses are all cavalry, and after going south to the Central Plains, he will fight if he can, and run away if he can't beat him, how can the Zhou army take himself?

Therefore, he ignored the war in the Central Plains and devoted all his forces to the war to exterminate the two tribes of Xue Yantuo and Murwei. And the hard work paid off, and he did get miraculous results in this way. It took the Western Turks half a year to finally defeat the Xuyantuo tribe on the coast of the Beihai Sea, and then completely annihilated the army of the Murwei people near the Xing'an Mountains, unifying the entire steppe.

As a result, the Khan also began to gather the armies of various ethnic groups and reorganize near the Turkic tent, preparing to attack the Central Plains in a big south.

Yuming has experienced two Turkic wars to the south, and is very concerned about the movement on the steppe, and the intelligence department has bought many Turkic merchants and herdsmen to report the wind and grass on the steppe at any time. With such a big operation and such a large gathering of people, the Turks naturally could not hide from the eyes and ears of the Ministry of Intelligence.

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