Edo Castle was full of weaknesses in wooden houses (there was no cement at that time, and there were few stones in the Waji), and everyone knew it, but ordinary princes could not threaten Edo, but these Ming people had this ability!

If you really want to burn it, everyone can only be happy.

The man who mended the sword was the "old man" Yashiro Hiraizumi, who was sent to the Southeast Fleet to contact the Ming people, and he recounted what he saw: the cannon giant ship, the sturdy officers and men, these are not counted, the main thing is a meal he ate on the warship.

Didn't I say earlier that Yan Changwu had an explanation when he came, asking his subordinates to greet this old man well, but his subordinates' understanding was too poor, and he actually invited this old middle school to the soldiers' canteen instead of the officer's cafeteria to eat.

But Yatsushiro Hiraizumi was very satisfied, and what he ate was white rice, pork jerky, and beef jerky!

Yatsushiro Hiraizumi has seen the world and knows how rare it is to be able to have a hot meal on a warship.

The Southeast Fleet took control of the island and obtained water, so it used transport ships to deliver clean water and ensure hot food!

Whenever possible, I will do it, and I am not afraid to spend money.

And then there's beef jerky!

In the East, the working Uncle Niu is respected, from the Wa Kingdom to the Ming Kingdom, although it is not necessary to kill a cow with the consent of the government, but who dares to kill the cow indiscriminately, the Tai Guild will beat people with crutches.

This Southeast Fleet actually let soldiers eat beef jerky?!

In fact, the ratio of beef jerky to pork jerky in the diet is three to seven, after all, pork is easy to obtain, but beef jerky is beef jerky!

In addition, seeing the officers and men eating at the restaurant was very natural, there was no such undesirable phenomenon that the leaders were cautious when they came to inspect and ate and rolled their eyes.

They usually eat these things!

This meal made Yashiro Hiraizumi's face very exciting, and when he came back to talk to everyone, the high-level Japanese people were silent.

It is reasonable for nobles and high-ranking officers to eat white rice, and to eat white rice for ordinary soldiers, and to fight and eat beef jerky!

You can't say that people are young master soldiers, everyone is strong enough to learn Wu Song to fight tigers, obviously the training is very sufficient!

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After the two sides reached a consensus within themselves, the signing of the "Tose-Edo Shogunate Treaty of Friendship and Commerce" was a matter of course.

Each has its own gains, and the Japanese people have been guaranteed security, and the southeast government has cooperated with them to ensure the smooth implementation of the policy of closing the country from the Japanese state, and will definitely not cause trouble to them.

In addition to helping Ryukyu regain its lost territory, the Southeast Province obtained the exclusive right to trade!

That is, the transaction between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming people, only the southeast province is recognized, and other Ming ships come over, and they are all recognizable!

Silver only collects goods from the Southeast Province!

This is the shogunate's strategy of cutting through the chaos and simplifying the complex.

There were too many trade partners, and the minds of the people were disorganized, and they did not work together with the shogunate, and as long as the towns of the Wakoku clan with different ambitions paid a high price, the Ming people sold weapons to them, which was not conducive to the rule of the shogunate.

After the Southeast Province and the Shogunate made an agreement, then no one else could come, only the Southeast Province could do trade, they should not break their trust and trade with the Japanese Domain, as far as the other side of the force came, it was relatively easy to find, as soon as the foul was made, the Shogunate could find trouble with the Southeast Province, and the Southeast Province would have nothing to say.

Although Yan Changwu used troops to deceive, he was not tired of deceit, but once the two sides signed an agreement, it was different.

As for not allowing other Ming people to come, that's a matter for the Southeast Mansion.

Well, just a trader, wouldn't the Southeast Mansion sell it at a high price if it wanted?

First of all, the agreement on the annual commodity price is agreed between the two parties, and the agreement is to abide by it, rather than the southeast government can sell it at whatever price it wants.

Then there is the exclusive right to trade for the Ming people, the Ming people are a trader in the southeast province, and in addition, there is also a trader, that is, the Dutch, who is licensed to trade with the Dutch.

The RP of the Dutch was good, they were a Protestant country, unlike the Spaniards and the Portuguese, who were keen on proselytizing, and the Dutch were mercantile and only talked about money regardless of religion, so the shogunate traded with the Dutch.

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The agreement was signed by the supreme rulers on both sides and officially entered into force with seals, with the result that there were dissatisfaction on both sides.

The shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, signed, but he was also a bachelor and didn't say anything.

Some of the subordinates below complained, saying that it was a compensation for land cession, which was very disgraceful.

We didn't lose, so we gave things to others for nothing?

However, the mainstream public opinion of the shogunate still spoke highly of this agreement, which optimized the diplomatic situation of the shogunate, and the southeastern government, which had a strong maritime power, promised to only want silver and not want to find trouble, and stepped forward to restrain other Ming people, so as to save the shogunate from offending Ming people when they went to manage Ming people, thus ensuring the smooth implementation of the shogunate's policy of locking the country.

Postscript: After two years of trade with the Southeast Prefecture, it was found that the Southeast Prefecture strictly abides by its commitments, only trades with the Shogunate, and does not do anything harmful to the interests of the Shogunate (that is inevitable, Yan Dashao spoke highly of the Shogunate's lock-up policy, wholeheartedly supported the Shogunate, and assisted the Shogunate in cracking down on bad feudal towns that wanted to break through the Shogunate's lock-up policy, good people!) ）。

So, in a good diplomatic situation, the shogunate officially closed the country!

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The officers and men of the Southeast Province were so confident that the Satsuma Domain was powerless to fight back, and after they saw the "Ataka ships" of the Wa Kingdom in Edo Bay, although these ships were tall and mighty, they were top-heavy and slow-moving, and the captains of the fast cruisers of the Southeast Province boasted that they could completely torture them!

A while ago, when we were only fighting the Satsuma Domain, some people took medals and silver dollars, and everyone was red-eyed, and they were eager to fight, and many people advocated "touching" with the Edo Japanese people, anyway, now the fine tradition of our army is to fight if you can fight, and if you can't fight, you will strategically transfer troops (my Great Southeast Prefecture will not escape), and there will be absolutely no victory and no defeat!

As a result, the boss actually signed a peace and friendship agreement with the Japanese people?

There were many discussions in private, and the mood in the troops, Yan Changwu knew about his own channels, he was pleased with the belligerence of the troops, and he also knew that he wanted to solve them, so he appointed Chen Xinji to hold a meeting to teach those big soldiers a lesson.

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The conference room of the "Southeast Mansion" was a little crowded, Chen Xinji sat at one end of the long table, and the senior officers of the fleet, the captains and deputy captains of the ships were seated upright, and the military caps were placed on the table.

The officers had strict etiquette, and the conference room was silent.

It also depends on who presides over the meeting, Chen Xinji is definitely qualified!

Although he was not in charge of military orders, he was in charge of military affairs, and his final position in military history was "He is one of the founders of the Imperial Navy!" "He participated in almost all the construction of the army: personnel, supplies, ship construction, etc., in the early days of the navy, the salary scale was signed by him, and the money for the construction of each warship was allocated by him!

If Yan Changwu is the Taizu, then he is equivalent to the Prime Minister of Zhou.

And he always had the post of army director, and he is now a general! In order to control the senior officers, when he called the name, the officers who called him answered loudly, otherwise he would be beared, and there would be nowhere to redress his grievances.

"Calling everyone here today is to unify our thinking and make everyone realize the necessity of the agreement we have signed!" Chen Xinji spoke straightforwardly.

"Because!" He picked up a piece of paper and said, "The latest military information!" ”

"On the fifth day of the first month of May, our cruiser Kaohsiung No. 35 clashed with two armed Dutch merchant ships on 'Green Island', and found that they did not receive our order flag, Kaohsiung No. 35 wanted to arrest the ship according to the law, the other side resisted, and the artillery battle with our side, Kaohsiung No. 35 is good!" Chen Xinji gave a thumbs up.

He raised his voice and said: "Sink one of the opponents and capture one, but the deputy captain of the Kaohsiung 35 is killed!" ”

"Besides, on May 6th, the Quanzhou royal family received our order flag, but was robbed by the pirate Li Kuiqi on the trip to Batavia (the Yuehai and Yuehou regions he went), and the robbery is robbery, because we have not extended the control area to the Guangdong region, but Li Kuiqi threw our order flag into the sea in front of the Wang family, and then released the Wang family!"

Chen Xinji slapped the table heavily and said: "The two things are by no means isolated, you say, is it important to fight the Japanese invaders, or is it important to our hometown?!" ”