Liaodong.

The head of the country, Seoul (formerly Goryeo Kaegyeong), a pro-army military camp in the eastern suburbs.

At this moment, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, Liu Qi, Wang Yan, Yang Yizhong, Zhang Xian, Wang De, Niu Gao, Wang Sheng and other generals gathered on the pro-army school field.

Niu Gao asked Yang Yizhong: "Zhongzi, do you know why General Wang called us all to Kyoto?" Is it going to war with Little Japan? ”

It's no wonder that Niu Gao has this question, but Japan has really added a lot of blockages to Cai in the past two years.

If you talk about this in detail, it will be a long story.

Long story short.

After Cai still destroyed Goryeo and established the Liaodong Kingdom, he vigorously developed Liaodong and started the industrial revolution.

With Cai Zhen, the chief designer and guide who is more than 1,000 years ahead of this era, the development speed of Liaodong can definitely be described as "changing with each passing day".

Let's not talk about anything else, let's talk about agriculture first.

The hybrid rice that Cai is still personally presided over has made a breakthrough in recent years - the "still type" rice cultivated by Cai is still increasing, and on the basis of Zhancheng rice, the harvest has increased by two percent.

In addition, Cai still vigorously improved farming techniques, such as introducing advanced farming tools, such as vigorously promoting the knowledge of chemical fertilizers (the so-called chemical fertilizers are nothing more than nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, potassium fertilizer with plant ash, phosphate fertilizer with bird droppings, nitrogen fertilizer with feces and urine). For example, the promotion of wheat and rice double cropping, and so on......

In this way, after several years of operation, Liaodong already has sufficient grain reserves.

This is also the confidence that Cai still dares to move five or six million Han people to Liaodong.

Not only in agriculture, but also in industry, Liaodong has also made great achievements.

For example, three years ago, the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the "still type" textile machine.

The "still type" loom in the cotton textile industry triggered a chain reaction of invention of machines and technological innovation, which opened the prelude to the industrial revolution.

Since then, advanced machines such as screw machines and hydraulic looms have appeared in the cotton textile industry.

Soon, in many industrial sectors such as coal mining and metallurgy, there was also machine production.

With the production of more and more machines, the original power such as energy storage, water and wind power can no longer meet the needs.

At this time, Cai still launched the first generation of steam engines, the "still type" steam engine.

The use of the "still type" steam engine provided more convenient power, which was rapidly popularized, and greatly promoted the popularization and development of the machine.

Since then, Liaodong society has entered the "steam age".

In order to better manage production and improve efficiency, capitalists began to build workshops and place machine hired workers to concentrate production - in this process, the Liaodong court played a great role, and many large factories and the imperial court occupied a large share.

In this way, a new form of organization of production (i.e., the factory) appeared.

Factories have become the most important form of organization for industrial production and are playing an increasingly important role.

The development of machine production has led to the innovation of transportation, and people are trying to transform transportation in order to transport goods and raw materials quickly and conveniently.

For example, at the beginning of this year, Cai still personally presided over the successful trial of a steam-powered steamboat.

For another example, soon after, Cai still invented the "steam locomotive" and personally drove a train with 34 small carriages to successfully test it.

Since then, Liaodong's transportation page has entered an era powered by steam.

It can be said that Liaodong has developed very rapidly in the past three or four years.

Coming soon, all the people of Liaodong were in awe of Cai Yi like they feared the gods.

This made Cai Zhen's rule as stable as Mount Tai, and no one could shake Cai Zhen's dominance.

Even many people are saying that even if Cai still no longer personally manages the army, no one will have the heart to betray Cai Zhen, and even if he has this heart, he will never get the support of others.

Of course, Cai has always been a cautious person, he has never had any relaxation in the military because he is in charge of agricultural development and industrial development, on the contrary, Cai still always believes that for a ruler, the army will always come first, therefore, Cai still always maintains a firm control over the army, and will never allow anyone to shake his power.

But—

It's not that everything is still smooth for Cai.

There is one thing that makes Cai still upset - it has always made Cai still upset!

This thing is that as the development of Liaodong is getting faster and faster, Cai still has not enough money to spend, especially after Cai still moved five or six million Han people to Liaodong to make Liaodong have a population of nearly 10 million.

Well...... In fact, it is not accurate to say that Cai is still not enough money to spend.

Cai has long since turned military tickets into the common currency of Liaodong, and Cai is still highly trusted by the people of Liaodong, so Cai can still print money at will.

But the problem is that there is not enough gold and silver to guarantee the military bills, and the military tickets may collapse at any time, and even now there are signs of inflation in Liaodong.

Therefore, Cai was still in dire need of gold and silver to ensure the stability of the military ticket.

In fact, in the past few years, Cai has not been idle, he has been engaged in international trade, trade with the Great Song Dynasty, trade with the Jin Kingdom, and even grab the Maritime Silk Road of the Great Song Dynasty to trade with the countries of the Indochina Peninsula, the Great Food Merchants, and the Indian Merchants.

But even if Liaodong is so active in the international market, it cannot solve the problem of Liaodong's lack of gold and silver.

As for the reason, without it, these guys who trade with Liaodong are all short of gold and silver, and moreover, Liaodong has to trade with some guys, and sometimes they have to use gold and silver - many countries do not recognize Liaodong's military tickets, only gold and silver.

In this case, Cai still naturally wants to hit his neighbor Japan with his idea.

This is not to blame Cai still.

Who gave Japan another name - Treasure Island.

Let's not talk about other regions, just talk about Kyushu Island, which is the closest to Liaodong.

There is a world-class gold deposit in southern Kyushu with an average grade of 33 grams per tonne, with the highest grade reaching thousands to tens of thousands of grams per tonne.

This is the Hishikari Gold Mine in Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan.

And that's just the gold on the island of Kyushu.

Japan is known as Treasure Island, not only because of the large number of gold and silver mines on its Kyushu Island, but also because there are also large gold and silver mines in other parts of Japan, such as Sado Gold Mine, Ikuno Silver Mine, Iwami Silver Mountain, etc., all of which are super large gold and silver mines.

Japan has so much gold and silver, how can Cai Ying, who is desperately short of gold and silver, not worry?

In fact, Cai has been engaged in international trade with Japan for a long time.

No.

It should be said that Cai is still engaged in smuggling.

I have to explain here that Tsai still doesn't want to trade with Japan in a dignified manner.

But the problem is that Cai still sent more than a dozen envoys to Japan, saying that Liaodong wanted to engage in international trade with Japan and jointly build greater East Asia and common prosperity.

However, the Japanese side just did not respond positively.

That's right.

The foreign policy of the Japanese rulers of this era was extremely negative - they adopted a foreign policy of "self-blockade".

What made Cai still even more angry was that Japan not only did not trade with itself, but also formulated a policy of closing the country (the "sea crossing system"), and also issued a series of prohibitions such as the "purchase ban" prohibiting the purchase of Liaodong goods without permission, and the "age system" that restricted Liaodong merchants from coming to Japan too often (i.e., the "Twelve Prohibitions").

Later, Cai still learned from Wang Shoucheng why Japan adopted a foreign policy of "closing off the country".

First of all, the collapse of the Tang Dynasty made Japan begin to reflect on the cultural existence of learning from foreign countries.

Since the beginning of the Nara period, Japan has actively absorbed the culture and system of the Tang Dynasty, and as a result, it has ushered in a peak of development.

However, in the late Nara period (early Heian period), some of the Tang Dynasty's systems appeared in Japan as "unadaptable".

For example, Japan's bantian system was modeled after the Tang Dynasty's Juntian system, which was the fundamental law of the land system of the Ritsuryo system, and its content was: "All citizens over the age of six shall be given land by the government class, with two sections for men and two-thirds for women, and the official household slaves and maids are the same as citizens, and family members and private slaves and maids are given one-third of the citizens." Those who have positions, positions, and meritorious services will be given the corresponding positions, positions, and meritorious fields according to the level of their positions and the size of their merits. In addition to the mouth of the field, but also to a number of residential land and garden fields, for the world's field, if the household is not returned. Bantian once every six years. The land received is not allowed to be bought or sold, and if the recipient dies, it is taken back by the state. ”

This system is based on the first household registration and then the distribution of land according to the population.

Later, however, under the privileged intervention of the aristocracy, these fields became the private property of the aristocracy, and the peasants under the bantian system began to bear the burden of taxation after the social and economic development, resulting in a large loss of peasants and gathering crowds to make trouble.

In particular, the disintegration of the Tang Dynasty made the rulers of Japan at that time begin to reflect on the influence of foreign culture on the country.

Second, Tang culture had a certain impact on the rule of the Japanese rulers.

He sent Tang envoys to study in the Tang Dynasty, and then brought some of the advanced cultural, economic, and political systems of the Tang Dynasty to Japan at that time.

Among them, in the middle of the sixth century, Buddhism was introduced to Japan.

Slave owners and aristocrats then turned Buddhism into a political struggle.

For example, Prince Shotoku and the Soga clan used Buddhism to gain power.

Prince Shotoku gained power through Buddhism, and it was natural that he attached great importance to Buddhism, so Buddhism was enshrined as the state religion.

However, this will have a certain impact on the forces of the local sects in Japan.

And this shock will also have a backlash on the forces of Japanese domination.

Again, overseas trade brings with it the trouble of management.

Dazaifu was established in the 7th century, initially to manage the affairs of the three islands of Kyushu in the Saikaido and the departure and return of public envoys, and then began to receive foreign envoys.

By the 9th century, Dazaifu began to manage foreign trade as an agent of the imperial court.

At that time, Dazaifu was responsible for the accommodation and food expenses of foreign merchants coming to Japan, and there was no need to pay customs duties.

Don't think that the Japanese are stupid – they can greatly reduce the cost of merchants who trade with Japan, which in turn can stimulate more merchants to trade in Japan.

As an agency of the Japanese imperial court, Dazaifu had the task of procurement—its main responsibility was to use gold to purchase goods needed by the Japanese imperial court, especially the Japanese imperial family.

Due to the large quantity of purchases, most of which were luxury goods, the needs of some nobles in Japan were not fully satisfied.

As a result, as soon as the merchants came to Japan, the Japanese fought fiercely.

In this way, the price will be raised, and smuggling transactions will be generated.

Although Japan's rulers tried to limit looting and smuggling by enacting official symbols, the effect was very ineffective.

This created enormous management pressure and management problems for the Japanese rulers.

Second, and most importantly, international trade exacerbated the outflow of gold from Japan and reduced the authority of the Japanese imperial court and the Japanese imperial family.

As Japan's foreign trade gradually increased after the ninth century, the problems of management difficulties and the inability to pay for large quantities of gold became apparent.

In order to control the number of transactions, and to ensure that the Japanese imperial court, especially the Japanese imperial family, could obtain enough foreign exports to show their authority, the Japanese rulers continued to maintain a foreign trade system dominated by national trade.

To this end, the Japanese imperial court adopted a series of regulations and measures to control foreign and private transactions.

However, under the flexible circumvention of the rules by foreign businessmen, the various measures imposed by the Japanese imperial court have repeatedly failed.

For example, during the Enki period, Japan enacted the so-called "age system" to restrict the same merchant (merchant ship) from coming to Japan too often, but the merchant circumvented this control by changing his name and other methods to exploit loopholes in the rules.

In addition, although official trade is ostensibly orderly, private smuggling and other trade activities have been repeatedly prohibited.

These are the reasons why Japan has adopted a passive foreign policy.

All in all, Japan now tightly controls foreign trade.

Cai still had no choice but to send the Ministry of Commerce to organize businessmen to engage in smuggling and go to Japan to earn gold and silver.

At the beginning, the Japanese imperial court did not react positively to this, and there was a posture of turning a blind eye.

At that time, it was the honeymoon period between Liaodong and Japan.

But as the merchants of Liaodong became more and more rampant, the Japanese court also began to crack down on the merchants of Liaodong on a large scale.

Because of this incident, in the past two years, there have been repeated frictions between Liaodong and Japan.

Moreover, the friction between Liaodong and Japan is getting bigger and bigger.

Not long ago, the Japanese imperial court actually detained more than 100 merchant ships in Liaodong in one go.

People of insight have been saying recently that there will be a war between Liaodong and Japan.

Now, Cai still gathered all the main generals of Liaodong, Niu Gao, including others, naturally inevitably guessed that Cai was still preparing to start a war with Japan, otherwise it would be impossible to call all the ten generals.

After the military restructuring, Cai still divided the country's 500,000 soldiers and horses into ten compartments (that is, ten group armies) and named ten generals:

The first compartment: Yue Fei, the commander of the capital, (Wang Gui, the political commissar of the box, Guo Hao, the deputy commander, Wang Yan (small), the chief of staff, and Wang Lan, the director of the political department).

The second compartment: Han Shizhong, the commander of the capital, (Xie Yuan, the political commissar of the box, Li Bao, the deputy commander, Chen Guang, the chief of staff, and Li Dao, the director of the political department).

The third compartment: Wu Jue, the commander of the capital, (Lu Junyi, the political commissar of the chamber, Yang Zheng, the deputy commander, Yelu Dashi, the chief of staff, and Gao Lin, the director of the political department).

The fourth compartment: the capital commander Liu Qi, (Zhang Jun, political commissar of the box, Zhao Pu, deputy commander, Tuo Junjing, chief of staff, and Li De, director of the Political Department).

Fifth compartment: Wang Yan, the commander of the capital, (Yang Zaixing, political commissar of the chamber, Zhao Li, deputy commander, Fang Qifo, chief of staff, and Luo Yan, director of the Political Department).

The sixth compartment: Zhang Xian, the commander of the capital, (Zhai Xing, the political commissar of the box, Li Yanxian, the deputy commander, Yang Zhen, the chief of staff, and Yao Yu, the director of the Political Department).

The seventh compartment: Wang De, the commander of the capital, (Wu Luan, the political commissar of the chamber, Zhai Jin, the deputy commander, Fang Wuxianggong, the chief of staff, and Shao Li, the director of the political department).

The eighth compartment: the capital control of Niu Gao, (Gao Shidan, political commissar of the box, Guan Sheng, deputy capital commander, Chen Qu, chief of staff, and Dong Youlin, director of the Political Department).

The ninth compartment: Wang Sheng, the commander of the capital, (Hua Rong, the political commissar of the chamber, Zhang Qing, the deputy commander, Zhang Jun, the chief of staff, and Zhang Zigai, the director of the political department).

Pro-army: Yang Yizhong, the commander of the capital, (Liang Hongyu, the political commissar of the Xiang, Fang Baihua, the deputy commander, Wang Sanniang, the chief of staff, and Chen Jingu, the director of the Political Department).

Among them, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and seventh carriages were stationed in the key places of the four Han counties - after Cai still conquered Goryeo, the name of the four Han counties was restored, namely Lelang County, Xuansu County, Zhenfan County, and Lintun County, of course, the scope has changed.

The ninth box was stationed in Taiwan County.

The pro-army, the sixth and eighth compartments were stationed around Seoul, which was regarded as the central army of Liaodong.

Among them, they were stationed in Seoul with pro-troops and were responsible for the defense of Seoul.

And Yang Yizhong, the pro-army commander, is undoubtedly the closest person to Cai among the generals.

Therefore, Niu Gao asked Yang Yizhong about the reason why Cai still summoned these generals to Beijing......

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