"Yaga!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu's anger instantly covered the entire palace, and he glared at Matsuura Jinshin, feeling that he had been tricked.

And the Matsuura Zhenxin in front of him is helping Zheng Zhilong to tease him wantonly and play with his accomplice!

"I'm going to kill this thief!"

The green tendons on the back of Tokugawa Ieba's hands were exposed, and a fierce murderous aura enveloped Matsuura Zhenxin, who didn't dare to hesitate for a moment, and immediately said: "Zheng Zhilong hopes that the general will issue an edict to reprimand the Satsuma Shimazu family!" ”

"Because the Ryukyu Kingdom is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is weak, it should not be controlled by the Shimazu family."

After speaking, he didn't dare to make any extra movements, and slammed his head on the ground, quietly waiting for fate to come. Now he really feels like he's dancing on the edge of a knife.

Although Zheng Zhilong's four conditions ......, he did not completely humiliate Japan and the shogunate.

The silence in the hall could be heard, and everyone subconsciously held their breath, and the atmosphere did not dare to have it.

It wasn't until Tokugawa Iemitsu breathed a sigh of relief that the sword in his hand did not fall, and everyone in the hall breathed a sigh of relief.

Matsuura Shinshin is a messenger, he is just a messenger. All the hatefulness is Zheng Zhilong's, and Matsuura Zhenxin himself is not at fault. Especially in the Nagasaki incident, Matsuura Zhenxin was not only not at fault, but on the contrary, he was meritorious.

The dignity and authority of the Tokugawa family had already been touched, and at this time, Shogun Iemitsu killed Matsuura Zhenshin and the daimyo of the foreign domain for no reason, wouldn't it be nothing to do?

"Get out, get out!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu's voice was like a cold winter wind, and everyone didn't dare to say a word, and they retreated one after another. Then looking at the empty hall, Tokugawa Iemitsu threw the knife on the ground weakly, and he spread it to the ground, sitting weakly. Now he didn't want to maintain any general's prestige.

Zheng Zhilong and Matsuura Zhenxin, like a devil who is good at touching people's heartstrings, fluctuated his mind several times, one tight, one loose, one tight, and now Tokugawa Iemitsu doesn't even have the strength to be angry.

The edict held the Shimazu family, and regarding the Ryukyu Kingdom, it was obvious that Zheng Zhilong was going to attack the Satsuma Domain.

As the leading powerful feudal domain in the western country, the Satsuma domain has always been one of the thorns in the side of the shogunate.

If Zheng Zhilong can cut off the shackles of the Satsuma Domain on the Ryukyu Kingdom, not only will he cut off one of Shimazu Mitsuhisa's arms, but the detachment of the Ryukyu Kingdom, which is more than 100,000 koku high, will inevitably bring a heavy blow to the Satsuma Domain.

But more importantly, as long as this thing works well, it will help Iemitsu to restore the dignity and authority of the shogunate.

He had a feeling in his heart that although this condition was proposed by Zheng Zhilong, it was also said to be to choke the Ryukyu Kingdom, but it was possible that it was to give himself a sweet date to eat.

Slapping a sweet date is a common method used by the strong against the weak.

Zheng Zhilong is considered to be a strong man, but the shogunate is by no means a weak man, so Zheng Zhilong is even more to befriend the shogunate.

That's what Tokugawa Iemitsu thought, so he doesn't have the strength to be angry now.

was overjoyed by Zheng Zhilong, and he was really a little physically and mentally exhausted.

"Matsudaira Nobutsuna ......"

It took a while for Tokugawa Iemitsu to clean up his mood and shout loudly to the outside.

Immediately, Matsudaira Nobutsuna's echo sounded: "Please command, Shogun." ”

"You go to see Zheng Zhilong and talk to him well."

Whether it is the previous three proposals, or the later proposal, they need to be discussed in detail before they can be finalized.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna was the most powerful minister under him, whether it was to quell the Shimabara Rebellion, or to complete the system of seclusion, to reorganize the duties of the shogunate, to formulate the temple shrine commission, the survey and other post systems, Matsudaira Nobutsuna's figure has repeatedly flashed.

"Hey!" Matsudaira Nobutsuna lowered his head fiercely.

……

On the sea, not far from Edo Imperial Castle, on one of the largest fortune boats, Zheng Zhilong was talking about academic knowledge with his cheap son, Tagawa Nanazaemon, who had changed his name to Zheng Ping.

Zheng Ping will definitely come to Japan in the future as 'Tagawa Nanazaemon', but that is not now.

Zheng Zhilong has already understood his understanding in these days, how to say, this child is not bad, whether it is physique, culture, or personality, this child is already good. After all, he lived in the Hirado Domain in his early years, and later moved to Nagasaki, so he must have seen a lot in such a place.

I know that the world is not only the acre and three points of land in front of me.

But he obviously still knows very little about overseas, and there is some meaning of "knowing it but not knowing why it is".

And academically biased towards the Four Books and Five Classics, after all, this is the tendency that Zheng Zhilong showed earlier. I still have some exposure to mathematics and some knowledge of business. In terms of personality, there is no fortitude from Zheng Senlai. Because he grew up under the careful care of the Tagawa clan from childhood to adulthood, while Zheng Sen left his mother early.

Zheng Zhilong sometimes thinks about Zheng Chenggong's character flaws in history, and feels that family factors really have a great impact on children's character formation.

Zheng Chenggong's character flaws are definitely related to the fact that he left his mother's care at a young age and needed to live independently on his own.

Thinking about it, although Zheng Zhilong loved Zheng Sen very much earlier, he would definitely not show it so explicitly. Because of strict fathers and mothers, this is the standard configuration of Chinese families. Although Zheng Sen has been very good since he was a child, this will only make Zheng Zhilong pin more and greater hopes on him, so that he will not be 'fatherly like a mountain' all the time.

But in the course of Zheng Chenggong's life, he only has a strict father and no loving mother.

When his mother wasn't around, Mrs. Yan wouldn't get close to him.

In his own life, there is no one who cares for him and considerates him from beginning to end, and there is no one who shelters him from the wind and rain. Everything has to be done by Zheng Chenggong himself, a person who has grown up like this, his personality is not strong, and he is not good at blowing up his hair - he is angry when he doesn't like it, and the specific manifestation is that he can't tolerate things that don't go with his will, and he is impulsive about things, because he is used to breaking out when he encounters a little unpleasant thing, such as being very strict with his subordinates, and harsh rewards and punishments.

Because if he didn't, he wouldn't have survived.

But what about Zheng Ping? This is a person who has been immersed in the sea of maternal love since he was a child, and the rigidity of his character and his external aggression are naturally far less strong than Zheng Sen. But Tian Chuan's family didn't blindly spoil him, and he didn't raise Zheng Ping to be a mother's treasure man, Zheng Zhilong felt that it was really rare.

The husband has been separated for more than ten years, and the eldest son has left when he is seven years old, leaving only a second son in infancy. It's not that she's out of money.

Zheng Zhilong sends him money every year.

"You know the Netherlands, you know Portugal, you know Spain, you know Tianzhu, you know Europa, but do you know the history of the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spaniards? Do you know the history of Tianzhu? Know the entire history of Europa? Know the history of the whole world? ”

"So, you're going to school."

"There are a lot of subjects in the school, and history is one of them, and there are constantly Chinese history, Japanese history, Korean history, and Europa history. Reading history makes one wise. Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; Taking people as a lesson can make you aware of the gains and losses. ”

"In the future, you will also be the sole monarch of the party, don't forget this sentence."

Zheng Zhilong chattered a lot, Zheng Ping listened very carefully and was very excited. The subtext in Zheng Zhilong's words is already very clear, thinking of the news that his eldest brother revealed to him, Zheng Ping doesn't like it very much.

"Mathematics is also very important, at least you have to be able to read the account books, and the province is blinded, isn't it? It makes your mind think things more thoroughly. ”

"Another is geography. How big is the world we live in, and you only look at how many benefits they have brought, and you don't want to know how far they have gone, and what they have done along the way before coming to China? ”

"There is a part of the geography course that needs to be combined with history, and when you have learned both courses, you will find that the 'world' in your own eyes is no longer the same."

……

Zheng Zhilong didn't realize that he also had the potential to chatter, but his long-winded words made the three of Tagawa's mother and son very happy. Especially the 'newcomers' Tagawa and Zheng Ping, they would never have dreamed that Zheng Zhilong would be so considerate and always so friendly.

The sense of alienation between the two and Zheng Zhilong disappeared quickly, and Zheng Ping kept smiling all day long, only to feel that such a day was really beautiful.

In his heart, Zheng Zhilong fulfilled his desire for everything that the word 'father' represented.

However, the Tagawa clan was still a little worried, and when she heard her eldest son say that Zheng Zhilong was going to ask the shogun for a daimyo, she was dumbfounded. This completely broke her cognition, how else could the 'daimyo' do this?

Even knowing that the place Zheng Zhilong asked for was only a desolate Ezo land, she also had a sense of unreality.

But then there is worry......

The Ezo people in Ezo are very savage. Her son went to the north of Ezo to be a daimyo, such a remote and bitter cold place, not to talk about the change in the lintel of the identity, but only to talk about life, she is really worried.

"Everything has to be done step by step."

Zheng Zhilong stroked his mustache and said: "The Tokugawa family's rivers and mountains are not swallowed in one bite, otherwise how could Tokugawa Ieyasu have the nickname of an old turtle?" How can my son Zheng Zhilong spend his whole life in Ezo to fight against the Kou? ”

The Tokugawa shogunate's current system of participating in the Hajj is very disgusting to the local daimyos, and his wife and children are all hostages in Edo, and he spends a year in Edo, half in Edo, and half in the domain. In addition, the shogunate did not allow boats, but there are many mountains in Japan, and transportation is particularly inconvenient. Some daimyo who traveled long distances could take a long time on the road, and the time they could spend less than a hundred days in a year could be spent in the domain.

This regulation is restricting the rights of the daimyos. In general, the daimyo generally spent only one-third of their time in the territory, and the other two-thirds were either in Edo, on the way to Edo, or on the way back to the territory. Especially those foreign daimyo with remote territories, there is not much time left for a year to go back and forth. Of course, for those daimyo who were closer to Edo, the shogunate also extended their time in Edo - in short, the shogunate reduced the time the daimyo spent in the domain as much as possible.

The daimyo was absent from the domain for a long time, and the power of the feudal government could only be handed over to the retainers. As a result, at the end of the Edo period, some daimyo were overshadowed by the retainers. Although the number of retainers is generally large, because their territory is small, a single retainer is not capable of holding power alone.

Moreover, the pilgrimage confession was a kind of military service, and the daimyo would usually bring a large retinue to Edo, and the shogunate would not give them a return for an eldest son, and the daimyo had to travel at his own expense. This was a big financial burden for the Daimyo, and it greatly suppressed the Daimyo's financial strength.

Zheng Zhilong would not ask his son to go to Edo every year to be tricked by monkeys, so he specially ordered this, on the grounds of suppressing Ezo and preparing to guard against the northern invaders of Tsarist Russia, he only entered Edo once in five years to visit the Hajj.