Akagi Gangxian respectfully bid farewell to Zhong Jiajia, for these Japanese, the elders did not put much energy, not that they were not vigilant, the problem is that they are all the same, the Japanese upper-class people's mastery of Sinology makes the Chinese from later generations embarrassed, just like the elites of various Mei organs who speak Northeast dialect in later generations, compared to this, compare with the ...... of the year.

Therefore, in terms of how to keep secrets, the elders completely gave up the strategy of strict defense, but took the path of the United States in the future, that is, in addition to the top-secret weapon manufacturing, various military plans, etc., all other aspects, completely open, do you like intelligence, newspapers, almanacs, a huge amount of information is all for you to see, just analyzing this information will exhaust you, and when you analyze it, the army of elders may have already had a barbecue party in your capital.

In fact, in the past many years, not no one has thought about the long skills of the master to control the elders, the elders of the division to control the elders, but unfortunately, their own knowledge is not enough to see through the bustling prosperity, the complex social system, almost everything, in the past era, human beings have long had ideas, but the accumulation of technology, the accumulation of wealth, what is needed is time and opportunity.

Didn't the ancients know the benefits of street lamps, at least in the Ming court, there were such facilities, but ordinary states and counties were not enough to afford such expenses, and even if there were, I was afraid that most of them would go into the pockets of officials.

Moreover, what is needed is real institutional self-confidence, at least not to be seen through the truth, in later generations, even if it has experienced many disgraceful defeats, from the Opium War to the First Sino-Japanese War, because of China's size and economy, at least it is respected as a big country, and it is very normal for the country to fight at war in that era, and the United States was burned down by the British, so don't you still live there.

The First Sino-Japanese War was a war in which the bottom pants were completely pierced, and the essential reason why China was truly reduced to a so-called semi-colonial country is this.

The Opium War can be explained by the fact that the Qing Dynasty as a nomadic country is not good at naval warfare, and it is really impossible to find the main force for the British invading army that is flowing around the country, and the Second Girl War can be explained as the Anglo-French alliance is very annoying, and there is a civil war here while I am here, but there is no excuse for the First Sino-Japanese War, and it has been recuperating for so many years. But there has been no arms embargo trick.

A bad student, through various means, packages himself as a good student and mixes in a very awesome class, but he may only need an exam or a few words to reveal his true form.

Akagi Gangxian did live a full life in the imperial capital, not to mention the abundance of food here, the women on the street were full of charm, and even the products in those military stores were enough for him to satisfy.

Of course, the military store does not sell standard arms, and even too sharp swords are not sold, but in order to promote consumption and prepare for large-scale armed immigration in the future, what is sold here is a variety of equipment other than weapons, which is basically the same as the equipment of the core army of the Elder Army, whether it is the tactical vest or the portable water bottle, it is very compelling, not to mention the camouflage equipment, in order to verify what the clerk of the military store said, Akagi Gangxian also made a special trip outside the city, and found a place to verify how the camouflage uniform is.

In fact, he was also very excited, this camouflage uniform with a katana is almost a perfect killing weapon, and what kind of diving goggles, as well as compressed biscuits, are too suitable for a samurai.

In fact, after arriving at Haruko's rented apartment, Akagi Tsuyoshi hurriedly changed into the suit without military rank and marked "civilian", and pretended to be forced in front of the fitting mirror with a katana.

"This thing is just too suitable for samurai, we have to find a way to buy more."

"Brother, it seems that the silver taels that the general prepared for you are not enough to purchase such a thing."

"I have to see if I can make my own, and I don't know if those craftsmen have the ability."

Japan's cloth dyeing skills have not been very good, the reason why ukiyo-e is a bewitching and strange route, the reason is that it is difficult to follow a realistic and simple style, Japan as an island country with underdeveloped resources, fuel is by no means a large amount.

I can't even eat, so what kind of instant noodles can I eat.

Just like the embarrassing deeds of the beautiful machine devils created by a certain fruit party in later generations, the elders unintentionally, but they cultivated a lot of camouflage samurai and camouflage devils.

Of course, Akagi Gangxian is only out of excitement, after the original closure of the country, the shogunate for its own interests, for foreign knowledge and products are very rejected, this is also normal, a group of priests directly set off an Amakusa Shiro rebellion in Japan, and it turns out that those peasants are really not bad, compared to them these costly samurai, as long as the Japanese peasants have the courage to use simple bamboo guns, they can already fight, although the Amakusa Shiro Shiro Shizhen rebellion was finally crushed, but the shogunate up and down fully understood, It was a lost war, and weapons, experience, and even faith bonuses from abroad were ready to inspire the peasants to continue their rebellion.

The tax of Japanese peasants is much more ruthless than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is only pressed by a mountain of Confucian masters, and the samurai and ministers of Japan are much more ruthless.

This is also the ultimate goal of Akagi Gangxian to come to the imperial capital, the effect of the lockdown order is not good, on the one hand, there is indeed a demand in business, on the other hand, Japan needs to export something, so in this process, Westerners stuffed an elephant in the eye of this needle, and the shogunate was actually quite bitter.

Of course, it was not difficult to suppress Kyoto, but the local vassals were not so easy to deal with, in fact, the biggest flaw in the lockdown was the local feudal domains that were eager to gain strength from Westerners against the shogunate, and Japan's demand for China was also amazing.

Historically, Japan's largest channel to obtain overseas steel sources is China, at this time, the ships in the south of the Yangtze River are mostly sold to Japan with porcelain, raw silk, silk and tea, and the ships in the north are mainly iron and fur, and the profits are at least one or two times, and what can be transported back to the fans, knives and other things, it is not bad to make profits, although many in the south are monopolized by Zheng Zhilong, but the northern ships in the past, Zheng Zhilong still dare not stop, because the people who can go to Japan to do business before are basically the backstage of the imperial capital boss or Jinyiwei, What do you want to do as a pirate?

This era was relatively quiet in Japan, but the crisis was already on the horizon, and the biggest problem was that the southwestern feudal clans were secretly colluding with Westerners.

The South Seas are dominated by the Spaniards and the Portuguese, the Dutch East India Company is the last, the Dutch naval strength has far surpassed those old empires, the Republic as the core of the Netherlands is actually a super large company, basically composed of merchants composed of chambers of commerce, and the European banking guilds, the Dutch maritime companies are also restraining each other, as much as possible to maximize the benefits.

In a short period of time, the Netherlands had tens of thousands of merchant ships, in fact, tens of thousands of ships ready to arm, and the number of warships was also the highest in Europe.

Later, Britain, which dominated the seas and had colonies all over the world, had just freed itself from the constraints of the Spaniards and began to catch up.

In Asia, the Dutch East Indies colony of what would become Indonesia, Ceylon, Dutch India, etc., and a few years later the Dutch occupied Taiwan, and a few decades later occupied Malacca, controlling the waters of the South China Sea, when the country known as the coachman of the sea was at its peak.

It also has many colonies in the Dutch West Indies and Dutch New Guinea.

The decline of the Netherlands was due to a series of defeats in the Anglo-Dutch naval war, but this large-scale naval war that spread across the globe would not be settled for decades and would not have much impact on Dutch power in Asia.

The Spaniards owned the Philippines, the Portuguese had small colonies such as Malacca and Macau, and Spain also had a strong maritime power in Asia, and had a considerable army and colonizers in the Philippines.

Britain has just entered Asia, at this time the British are more interested in India, the crown jewel of the British Empire is not fake, later generations of people called the British king the British Queen, in fact, it is simply misinformation, since India broke away from the British colony, the British Queen has long lost the Indian Queen's dedication.

These whites competed and cooperated with each other, and after discovering new natives, according to their strength, they slaughtered when they were weak, and controlled when there were many people but were ignorant, and these large and small countries with China as the core had become grammatical, but they were not easy to fight, and any Western colonizer lost the desire to colonize this place after going around Japan.

A master at watching people put on dishes.

But they did not give up their infiltration, and the clergy who had been funded in Europe were encouraged to come to China to preach, and these people were more virtuous than their juniors, that is, a little, but they had already made countless waves around the world, and later when the South and North Vietnam were divided, they could fool a large number of North Vietnamese people to run to South Vietnam, and the death march along the way was also a pioneering achievement.

As for Japan, the priests who are becoming more and more difficult to be stopped can hardly be dealt with except with the Lockdown Order, but your shogunate is locked down, and our feudal clans play their own, and they have accumulated a lot of strength through trade.

At this time, China's export of three artifacts, raw silk porcelain tea, naturally swept thousands of armies, hundreds of years of Chinese use these three trade artifacts to make a lot of money, those Europeans fought to the death, bumped thousands of miles on the sea, laid down a large number of colonies, used all means and methods to plunder a lot of wealth, in addition to a large amount of gold poured into Europe, at least about 300 million taels of silver poured into China, a large amount of silver is because of the trade surplus because of this trade three treasures.

Of course, Japan's demand for China also came from these three things, but for the shogunate alone, these pleasures could be satisfied in private trade, and the shoguns of the shogunate would care if the poor ghosts under their rule had tea to drink.

The real question is the latest demand, that is, how to deal with those annoying southerners.

The Japanese have always had a problem with their worldview, and the white colonists sailed from the south and said they were southerners.

War is always about people plus materials against another group of people plus materials.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi entered Korea, he was held down by a partial division, and his descendants were killed alive, and the guys who did not work hard benefited, and finally the Tokugawa shogunate won his world.

One of the biggest problems is that Japan's overseas sources of steel are largely dependent on Chinese sales, but now, barbarians from the south have brought new technology and can sell some steel.

Of course, this kind of talk is not enough to inform the elders, but for Akagi Tsuyoken, finding a package solution that can continue to suppress the feudal domains at the right cost is the biggest point.

Although the shogunate controlled a large amount of land, the burden was also heavy, and the public houses in Kyoto had to feed the surveillance, the merchants of Osaka had to deal with it, the samurai had to eat and drink, and preferably the women, and everyone reached out to the shogun to ask for money.

In a sense, Tokugawa Iemitsu really has a little bit of eloquence, at least during the changes of the Ming and Qing dynasties, he didn't intervene, and he didn't repeat the mistakes of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which can be regarded as powerful, but when he found that there were some new things in the imperial capital, he naturally ran over as soon as possible.

Akagi Gangxian arrived in the imperial capital, and let the old sister lead the way, first went to the Northern International Shooting Range in the imperial capital, where as long as you give money, you can shoot at will, of course, are all various types of rifles, Akagi Gangxian tried these guns, and was dizzy by the price of this gun afterwards, in fact, these rifles can be called good and cheap, but they can't stand the cost increase caused by the large amount.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi implemented the system of separating soldiers and peasants, ordering the samurai to live in the city and follow the lord to fight at any time, but it also caused the samurai to be completely dependent on the feudal lord, and most of the samurai were middle- and lower-class people, and if they could not rely on a rich and powerful lord, their lives were often barely maintained in poverty.

In addition to the quilt and pot, the little samurai's house also had a large stone, because when he felt cold, he could lift a stone to keep warm.

The number of samurai grew much faster than the shogunate's revenues.

This reason is almost the reason for the fall of the shogunate.

In the old time and space, there were a large number of ronins under the rule of Tokugawa Iemitsu, and the attached lord was fired for committing a crime, or the lord's financial difficulties had to be reduced, and the low-level samurai could only become ronin, and some went to work for forces such as the underworld.

Many of these ronins were secretly promoted by the shogunate to become Japanese robbers, and on the original historical trajectory, Zheng Chenggong, a Chinese-Japanese mixed-race, recruited thousands of Japanese samurai as thugs, which can be regarded as alleviating the crisis.

And now, Zheng Zhilong is transforming into a Fujian Yuanhua Trading Company, fighting a war?

(End of chapter)