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This is the screaming sound of two women, in the Yanwu Pavilion (that is, a gym) on the edge of the Qingliang Pavilion of the East Lake Palace, Tokugawa Takashi is playing against a girl who is the same age as her, competing in martial arts! It's not about punches and feet, it's not about kendo, it's about spearmanship. There were no real spears, and both women were armed with long, thin wooden sticks wrapped around one end of a round ball of cloth stained with white powder.

However, the two of them did not stab or knock each other with sticks, but posed and shouted loudly from time to time.

Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanmei sat side by side, watching intently, but the two of them had very different gazes!

Wu Sanmei is an expert and understands marksmanship, so she is looking at the two of them, nodding while watching - the shape is good, obviously she has practiced real kung fu.

Zhu Cihong is not interested in playing tricks, but he is still very interested in the figures and faces of the two women. Both women wore kendo uniforms tied up, and the already tall Tokugawa showed off his slender waist and long legs. And the girl who played against her was short, but her chest was strong and straight. The two little faces are tense, the tall girl has a long face, thin eyebrows and tall eyebrows, and she is really a bit heroic. The other girl had a round face, big eyes, and a round star, looking super fierce.

Both of them are beauties, and they are quite good at posing, and they don't play twice after they are posed, so the two pairs of beautiful eyes stare at each other.

Zhu Cihong touched his beard and admired it with a smile, but Gao Mei didn't look at it...... Let's look at that short girl. I'm a little shorter, more than 1.50 meters, and it's not too short among the Japanese in this era. It's just that this girl looks fierce again, gritting her white teeth, her eyes are wide open, and it is said that she also has a good martial arts, what kind of treasure is the heir of the Takada faction, named Takada Miho, she has a grandfather who is good at playing with big guns, called Takada Gun and Guard. This Takada learned gunsmithing from his grandfather and father as a child, and he has already obtained the true inheritance.

Originally, she was going to let her enter the Great Olympics and protect the stupid princess, but she caught up with Gao Mei to marry far away, so she was arranged by Tokugawa Mitsukuni to be a maid and came to China together.

Gao Mei is also a girl who likes to play with guns and sticks, and she gets along, and the two often learn together, and somehow let Wu Sanmei bump into her. As soon as the third sister and Zhu Cihong talked about it, there was today's exhibition match.

But Zhu Cihong didn't see what martial arts this Japanese little girl had at all? Instead, there was a little evil impulse. What is the identity of this Japanese little girl? Is it a female officer? Is it a palace maid? If it's a female official, it's a bit troublesome, and if it's a palace maid, then it's called bullying......

Emperor Zhu looked a little engrossed, forgetting that he was watching the competition, at this moment, Gao Tian Miho suddenly screamed, and the long stick in his hand poked out like lightning, Gao Mei hurriedly shook the long stick and wanted to set up the opponent's long stick, but it turned out to be half a beat slower, and there was an extra white spot on the chest of the blue kendo uniform.

"Good!" Wu Sanmei shouted hello.

Zhu Cihong was taken aback, why was it so fast? Could it be that this little girl really has two hits? It's better not to bully people. Go back and make a will, and promote her to be a waiter!

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong nodded with a smile and spoke in Japanese: "Mixi, little girl Gaotian, yours, come here!" ”

"Hay!" Miho Takada could really understand Emperor Zhu's "Japanese", so she quickly put down the wooden stick, jumped up and down to Zhu Cihong, knelt down and kowtowed, and then prostrate in front of Zhu Cihong.

Looks pretty good......

"Yours, head up!" Emperor Zhu said.

"Hay!"

Miho Takada responded, straightened up and knelt in front of Emperor Zhu, her small chest standing tall.

Zhu Cihong smiled and beckoned to Gao Mei: "Sister Gao, you come over too!" ”

Tokugawa Takaya immediately put down his spear, and when he arrived in front of Zhu Cihong, he saluted like Miho Takada, and then knelt down, and like Miho, he looked up at Emperor Zhu with a small face.

"Sister Gao," Zhu Cihong directly called Tokugawa Taka's nickname, "Your brother's serious recital was sent to Wuhan yesterday, and he has already recruited a full 10,000 samurai in Nagasaki for me!" ”

"10,000 samurai? How are there so many? Tokugawa Takashi was taken aback, "Nagasaki and Goto don't have many stone heights." ”

The stone height of the Goto archipelago is 10,000 koku, and Nagasaki is a commercial city, so the tariff income is a lot, but the tariff is to be handed over to the shogunate, and it does not belong to the Tokugawa Takakan Yumue. Therefore, Nagasaki plus the five islands is a total of 100,000 koku high, and the actual income is between 40,000 and 50,000 koku.

With such an income, he simply can't afford to support 10,000 samurai.

Zhu Cihong smiled: "What I have is money, and I will raise a Japanese samurai in Nagasaki for a salary equivalent to that of a samurai-level new army soldier in my dynasty, which is almost 40 taels of silver a year." ”

"That's 400,000 taels!" Tokugawa was moved for a while, "Your Majesty has spent money for the Tokugawa family!" ”

Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said with a smile: "I didn't recruit ronins in Nagasaki entirely to help the Tokugawa family, while helping the Tokugawa family, I also had to organize several samurai regiments for operations in the South Seas. ”

Recruiting Japanese samurai to fight in the South Seas...... Definitely not true!

Therefore, Zhu Cihong also hesitated for a while, and only recently encountered the fierce resistance of the Pattani Sultanate because of the exchange of land with Siam, so he had to make up his mind to implement it on a large scale.

And the incorrectness of this matter is not only the recruitment of Japanese samurai to fight in the South Seas, but also the arrangements after the battle.

Zhu Cihong said: "After the completion of the Pattani crusade, there will be 1,000 warriors in Pattani who can be hereditary!" ”

How incorrect!

Emperor Zhu not only wanted to use Japanese samurai, but also gave a part of the captured land to meritorious samurai, allowing them to settle and multiply in the Nanyang region.

Of course, it's not right to do that...... Forget about the war, the land should not be given!

The land should be distributed to the native landless peasants! This is certainly the right thing to do, but it doesn't actually work.

Because what is about to happen in the South Seas is a clash between two civilizational circles!

The clash of civilizations is sometimes not only brutal, but also protracted. Victory in the conflict can only be achieved if the brutal side remains for a long time.

And in the circle of civilization of the Celestial Empire, who is the most cruel?

Is it China's landless old peasant? Everybody knows they can't. They have to be cruel enough, how can they be members of the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty in history? If it was a peasant of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, or a peasant of the Two Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms, maybe it would work.

But the peasants of the Ming Dynasty ...... Most of them don't. Some people may say that the combat effectiveness of Hakka farmers, yes, the Hakka people are very powerful, but not the Hakka people in the late Ming Dynasty, but the Hakka people in the late Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, the ferocity of the Hakka people and the ferocity of the Japanese samurai are fundamentally two types.

The former is the working class, and farming is the main business, and the fight is just to fight for a piece of land that can be cultivated, so that it is more appropriate for them to go to the Gulf of America, where there are few people and more land, or to the territory of Siam and Jinou Army.

And the latter is the ruling class, and cutting people and repression is their main business! Placing them on the outskirts of the Celestial Empire's civilization circle should be able to play the same role as the Dzungar Ministry.

As for letting the veterans go to the forefront of the South Seas...... What did they do wrong? Why do you want to be sent to that kind of miasma?

In addition, except for the soldiers of the Nine Sides Boys' Army, most of the soldiers of the Ming army were uneducated, unlike those Japanese samurai who were Yunwen Yunwu. Moreover, these Ming army retreats not only had no culture, but also did not have firm religious beliefs, and they might have followed the enemy when they went to Nanyang.

In contrast, the Japanese samurai of this era were still more determined if they were paired with the flower monks of Honganji.

Emperor Zhu finally said to Tokugawa Gao: "Sister Gao, you are the lord of Nagasaki, and those people are nominally your retainers, you have to go to Nagasaki, accept their oath, issue them with a fortune, and appoint the old family regiment to preside over the feudal army." ”