Located in Ogura Castle in Bunzen Province, it is now the political center of Kyushu Island and the seat of the Kyushu Governorate, which is part of the Kingdom of Japan.

Today, Japan has achieved a combination of public and military forces, but there is still no centralized government.

Even if the Japanese royal court began to implement the system of examination for officials, it would not be possible to transform Japan from a feudal country into a unified capitalist country in a very short period of time through a series of reforms such as the return of copyrights and the abolition of feudal domains and prefectures, as was the case during the Historical Reform Movement.

The reason is simple, the feudal power in Japan is still strong, and the Tokugawa shogunate has only just reached the fourth generation before the combination of public and military forces. In fact, Tokugawa Mitsukuni and Hoshina Masayuki were both in power in the third generation of the Tokugawa family, and the abilities of these characters were not at all comparable to those of the shogunate and the rulers of the various feudal domains, which had long been decadent in the late Edo era.

Moreover, within the Tokugawa family, the forces that support the division of feuds still exist, and their influence is not small.

The former number one boss of the shogunate, Hoshina Masayuki (Xu Masayuki), who led the Tokugawa army to sweep away the Toyotomi rebels, was the head of the feudal faction.

In order to appease the Masayuki and feudal factions, Tokugawa Mitsukuni, who had already become king, had to appoint Masayuki as the governor of Kyushu. In addition, the eleven Reitsuku provinces in the Kyushu region (including Iki Province and Tsushima Province) were placed under the rule of the Kyushu Prefecture, and the 260,000 koku of Bunzen Province (the Reiku Province where Okura Castle was located), the 230,000 koku of Bungo Province, and the 610,000 koku of Satsuma and Osumi were all returned to the Naokokoku.

Xu Zhengzhi, who has the position of Kyushu governor and 1.1 million stone seals, and also has a Japanese national surname, has a very high prestige in the eleven regions of Kyushu, and has been respected as Ogura Gongfang since a year ago.

However, this Lord Ogura Gongfang, who is famous in the territory of the eleven kingdoms of Kyushu, has now left his old nest Kokura Castle and deigned to go to Nagasaki to meet an amazing guest - Zhu Cihuan, the king of Chongqing County of the Ming Dynasty!

It's amazing! The king of Daming County is still the younger brother of the son of Daming!

This identity is nothing in Yingtianfu, there are dozens of princes in Yingtianfu, and Zhu Cihong's younger brothers are over 100, what can it be worth?

A bare-plate county king is only 5,000 acres of Lutian and a palace, that is, the level of a big landlord.

But when you get to Kyushu, Japan, it's amazing!

Xu Zhengzhi, the prince of Ogura in Japan, is also the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and he is one level lower than the king of Chongqing! And his daughter, Tokugawa Taka, was just Emperor Zhu's concubine...... is also a concubine, and her status is also inferior to that of the Son of Heaven's own brother.

If the Duke of Ogura doesn't take the visiting Emperor of the Ming Dynasty's younger brother Chongqing County King seriously, wouldn't it be equivalent to telling everyone that the Duke of Ogura and the princess's daughter, the Ming concubine, are nothing great?

In order to show his nobility, Kogura Gongfang Xu Zhengzhi had to hold Zhu Cihuan, the king of Daming County, high in front of the Kyushu samurai.

The samurai and retinue of the brigade, carrying countless gifts, followed the Kokura Princes out of the castle located in the northeast of Kyushu Island, near the Kanmon Strait, and came to Nagasaki City.

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"Japan's Kyushu governor Xu Zhengzhi is coming to Nagasaki to meet the prince, and now the team has passed the Nishisaka Hill, and it will be there this afternoon...... You, you better sort it out, and the official will also arrange it for you, you can't damage the face of the Celestial Empire, right? ”

"Inspector Chen is right, you are the county king of my Ming Dynasty, in terms of title, he is still above the Duke of Ogura, he is just the Duke of my Ming Dynasty!"

Talking to Zhu Cihuan in the Princess Pavilion on Dejima in Nagasaki were Chen Yongxi, the administrative superintendent of the Ming Dynasty in Nagasaki, and Xie Xun, the garrison officer of the Ming Navy in Nagasaki.

The city of Nagasaki (including the Goto Islands), south of Nishisakagaoka (including Nishisakagaoka), now nominally belonged to Tokugawa Taka, but in reality was governed by officials sent by the Damei.

The top civilian official sent to Nagasaki by the Ming Dynasty is called the overseer, and now Chen Yongxi, who came from the acting king system, is in charge. The garrison stationed in Nagasaki City was not the Army, but the Marine Corps, and the garrison officer was Xie Xun, who had served as the chief instructor of the Japanese Red Iron Artillery Army.

This Wen Yiwu landed on the island that was originally used to house Dutch merchants this morning, entered the Western building known as the "Princess Pavilion", and reported the good news to a depressed and down-and-out prince of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the down-and-out prince is Zhu Cihuan, he arrived in Nagasaki three days ago, he didn't want to stay for a long time, and he didn't have the face to stay for a long time!

Nagasaki City is now crowded with thousands of families who have fled from Shanghai, most of whom want to start a new life in the New World.

And their old lives have been ruined by damn stocks...... There must be some people who are downcast and related to Chongqing stock banks!

It was not fooled by the tooth people of the Chongqing stock bank to enter the market at a high level, repay the loan to buy shares, and lose all the money!

It is to believe in the background of the king of Chongqing, and hand over the silver obtained from the mortgage of land and real estate to the Chongqing stock bank for investment......

This is really a "old knowledge" in a foreign land!

The king of Chongqing was thin-skinned, and he couldn't wait to get off the ship, so he left directly after filling up supplies. But he never expected that his princess would fall ill due to depression and a bumpy journey, and she would not be able to cross the ocean at all.

So Zhu Cihuan had no choice but to be cheeky and ask Chen Yongxi for help.

And Chen Yongxi didn't believe that the king of Chongqing would come to Japan at first, and thought that he had met a liar, so he informed Xie Xun to send troops to take people.

Xie Xun led the troops on the ship, only to find out that Zhu Cihuan was likely to be the real king of Chongqing - not to mention the prince's seals, robes, and tokens, and this noble bearing was not something that ordinary people could pretend to be.

So Xie Xun didn't dare to make a mistake, and immediately asked people to invite the prince's family to the "Princess Pavilion" on the island to rest. As soon as he wanted to conduct further investigation, Chen Yongxi received a letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ying Tianfu, informing him that the king of Chongqing would go to the Americas and might stop in Nagasaki.

So Chen Yongxi immediately sent someone to inform Xu Zhengzhi, the Duke of the Wa Kingdom, and asked him to come to visit, and he went to the island to greet Zhu Cihuan.

And because Zhu Cihuan came on the run, and his wife was too sick to get up, he was completely dispossessed, and he didn't want to see anyone, and he made himself depressed.

It wouldn't be fine if Xu Zhengzhi didn't come, but now people came to see him with generous gifts...... How can the prince of the Ming Dynasty be so undignified?

So Chen Yongxi and Xie Xun were in a hurry, and just when the two of them were trying to persuade the king of Chongqing to cheer up, one of Chen Yongxi's subordinate officials had already come over from Nagasaki City, and he also brought a long gift list.

"Lord Wang, look at it, people have prepared generous gifts...... Chen Yongxi handed over the gift list with both hands.

Zhu Cihuan took it casually, unfolded it, his face changed, and when he looked at it again, he had already stood up, and blurted out: "This, this...... That's too much, right? How many gifts do you have to prepare? ”

"Lord Wang, don't worry about the return gift, it's all wrapped up in the little one." Yao Daqiao on the side hurriedly answered.

"But, that's too much!" Zhu Cihuan still shook his head, "Gold, silver, katana, lacquerware, silk...... I'm afraid it's worth tens of thousands of taels, right? ”

"It's not just tens of thousands, it's only 1,000 taels of gold," Chen Yongxi said, "All the gifts are worth about 20,000 taels...... You don't have to give so much in return, 10,000 taels is enough. ”

"20,000 taels, you can still earn 10,000 taels...... Zhu Cihuan took a breath, "This, this won't be caught by Yushi as a corrupt official, right?" ”

Chen Yongxi thought for a while and asked, "Lord Wang, do you have an official position?" ”

"Official? There is no ......" Zhu Cihuan is the prince of Yibaban, he sighed, "This king is not qualified to check the ...... of the imperial history"

The worst thing turned out to be that he was investigated for corruption by the royal history of Hades, but that he was not qualified to be investigated at all!

"Then it's no problem," Chen Yongxi said with a smile, "The prince can accept the gift...... And after receiving the gifts from Kogura, you can still have other people's gifts to receive. There are also many feudal lords under the Kokura Princess, and they will also come to visit. If the prince still wants to stay in Tokyo, it is estimated that he can receive another gift from the king and queen of Japan. ”