Toyotomi Hideyoshi, nicknamed "Monkey", shouted with great arrogance when he faced the angel who announced the canonization of him as the king of Japan in the Ming Dynasty: "Lao Tzu can be the king of Japan if he wants to be the king of Japan, and he still needs you to seal it?!" ”

As a result, after North Korea drained his blood and exhausted his elite troops, Tokugawa Ieyasu, nicknamed "The Turtle", took advantage of the situation. Today, the third generation of Tokugawa Iemitsu of the Tokugawa shogunate, is very much looking forward to the day when he can be canonized as the king of Japan! Although his current position is no longer shakeable by the strong support of the Nanyue Army, the shogunate's title of the shogunate of the Shogunate seems to be much worse than that of the Japanese king.

Therefore, the two adults who greeted the Nanyue Army this time, Tokugawa Iemitsu had enough money. Not only to express his loyalty in front of the Lord of the Southern Yue Army, but also to show off his backstage and backing in front of various foreign daimyo and public ministers in the country.

Of course, in front of the emperor, Tokugawa Iemitsu was still extremely respectful. His ninja and the Imperial Eyeliner also spread the news that the son born to the Emperor was most likely the blood of the Li family. Otherwise, why is it that every time a decent person from Nanchu comes to the Wa Kingdom, he will visit the emperor and ask to see the emperor's son. If you say that they are visiting as a courtesy, why do almost everyone leave a large amount of money, food, clothing, and supplies?

With all kinds of apprehensions, Tokugawa Iemitsu presided over a ceremony attended by the emperor's mother and son to welcome the two adults of Nanzhong with tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and graciously invited Xu Huanshan and Shi Lang to stay in his humble house to fulfill the friendship of the landlords.

"Our country is lonely overseas, the land is barren and the people are poor, and it is rare for the things produced to be able to enter the eyes of the two adults. However, this way of drinking tea has not changed since the Tang Dynasty. The lower official dared to invite the two adults to drink tea and talk. ”

In Tokugawa Iemitsu's tearoom, Iemitsu's classmates changed their image. The general Zhengyi changed his dress into civilian clothes, and even invited the two adults to change their official uniforms.

There are many schools of tea ceremony in Japan, the oldest of which is the Senkiryu lineage, which has been inherited from Sen no Rikyu and has a history of nearly 100 years. There are several proud disciples under his seat. All of them have formed their own unique style and genre. Oda Yurakusai, a well-known tea craftsman known as one of the "Rikyu Seven Philosophers", is Oda Nobunaga's biological brother. When Oda was 69 years old, he retired from government and transformed a monk's retreat in Kenninji Temple in Kyoto into a tea room, which was designated as a national treasure by later generations of Japan. Another disciple of Sen no Rikyu, Yoshida Oribe, in order to cater to Toyoshi Hideyoshi's taste, improved the tea ceremony at Sen no Rikyu's place, and diluted the elegant and low-key nature of the original "idle tea". The addition of exaggerated and colorful elements that many samurai loved, resulting in a unique samurai tea ceremony called Oribe-ryu.

This tearoom of Tokugawa Iemitsu, since it was used to entertain the two distinguished guests of the Southern Yue Army, naturally could not be as narrow as a dog hole. In the tea room, screens, beds and other objects are cleverly divided into special areas such as beds and stoves. The interior is equipped with alcoves, hearths and various wooden windows, and a "water house" is arranged on the right side for boiling water, tea making, tea tasting utensils and cleaning utensils. There are several calligraphy and paintings of celebrities with lofty artistic conception hanging between the beds, and bamboo vases are hung next to them. There are a few budding flower branches in the bottle, which is a good embellishment of the seasonal characteristics.

I saw that the two adults had already taken their seats. Jiaguang was a little relieved, and with a light blow of his hands, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who was sitting at the door waiting, immediately nodded in understanding, and then a faint fragrance came with the wind, and several women in twelve costumes held lacquer plates in their hands. The utensils made of lacquer are beautiful and ornate, but on the plate are several utensils used to boil water and make tea.

According to the rules of the tea ceremony, the host brings the tea ceremony utensils, lights a fire and boils water, and the guests can only enjoy the furnishings and decorations in the tea room, calligraphy, paintings, flowers and other decorations. After the water boils, the guests of honor kneel opposite each other in order. Start drinking tea. The host serves dessert before the tea, and then the host toasts tea to the guest of honor, and after the guest of honor tastes tea, the other guests can taste the tea in order. Not only is the tea ceremony relatively long, but it also can't talk about worldly topics such as money, politics, and business, but only some natural topics.

But who are these three? One of the two guests is Liang Guogong's confidant, a little friend who grew up with a bare buttocks, and the other is his fast son-in-law, a sailor general in charge of hundreds of ships. The master is the shogun who holds the supreme power of the Wa Kingdom, and they have always made rules, how can they abide by these red tapes? What's more, at today's meeting, drinking tea was just a pretense, and both sides had something to discuss.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang, the tea drinking habit in the Central Plains has changed from cooking to boiling water to brewing tea, which can probably only be explained by Zhu Yuanzhang's background in soil buns. However, it is precisely because of this method of drinking tea that the vitamins in the tea are retained to the greatest extent. The fleet of Zheng He, the prince of the Three Treasures, went to sea several times and traveled far away, and there was no sepsis like the European turtles.

Xu Huanshan and Shi Lang were naturally not interested in this way of boiling water after grinding tea leaves into powder, but they could only drink them with grinning teeth.

"Your Excellency the Governor, if the palace is like this, what will the general have to bring you here?"

Putting down the delicate porcelain bowl with a sigh of relief, Xu Huanshan made up his mind in his heart that he must make a pot of tea and drink a few cups happily when he goes back. Hearing Tokugawa Iemitsu ask like this, he didn't know where to start for a while.

On the other hand, Shi Lang, who only had a superficial taste of this matcha, relieved him: "My father ordered me to lead the sailor to the sea, in addition to escorting Uncle Xu to lead the men and horses to Fusang to recover the territory that has belonged to me since ancient times, and to prevent bad people on the road from seeing wealth and having bad intentions, I specially came to your place to pay a visit." ”

Regarding Shi Lang's words, Xu Huanshan nodded approvingly, in the end, he was the eldest son-in-law chosen by the lord! Definitely worthy of that girl! Look at this shameless look, you can say such absurd and shameless words so righteously and justifiably. I really got the true inheritance of the lord!

Jiaguang, who was sitting in the master's seat opposite Shi Lang, was also speechless for a while, Nima's! The territory since ancient times, and you are still worried that there will be gangsters robbing you on the road and you will escort you with a sailor?! What little pirate who is not long-eyed dares to come and rob a large fleet of tens of thousands of horses, hundreds of ships? Not to mention that there are thousands of cannons on board? Don't tell me that you are here with hundreds of gunboats to serve as bodyguards for these tens of thousands of people, to prevent people from jumping out and blocking the road and robbing them. You can use these thousands of cannons to drive away the pirates who collect the money to buy the road, right?

"In addition to this matter, there is another matter to discuss with the Tokugawa shogun."

When Shi Langyun lightly told the decision of the Nanyue Army to use the Wa Kingdom as a transit station and springboard in order to recover Fusang's hometown and reclaim this vast land to facilitate a large number of immigrants, he was suddenly shocked that Tokugawa Iemitsu's brain had a feeling of downtime. (You can look at the map of the Pacific Ocean, and in fact if you go to the west coast of the American continent, you don't have to take the southern route or the northern route.) The Wa Kingdom was a necessary foothold, especially in the era of sails. ）

Although he knew that the Nanyue Army had such a large fleet of men and horses killed at one time, it was definitely the largest plotter, but he never thought that they would plan to include the entire Wa Kingdom as a link in the strategic chain.

"The meaning of the father of the family is to choose a place to build a camp in the coastal area of the Japanese kingdom, or buy or rent it. It is used for people who travel to and from Nanzhong, Central Plains, and Fuso to moor and rest. However, my father also said that General Jiaguang, as the sole legitimate representative of the Japanese state, if our Nanyue Army cannot get the general's consent and support in this matter, then we will have to find another way. ”

Don't! When Jiaguang heard Shi Lang's words, his heart was like a bowl of sweet and sour poured on the hot charcoal fire, sour, sweet and hot!

The blessing of trade with the Southern Yue Army. He was a much more comfortable general than his father and grandfather. Not only is the government treasury abundant, but the social order is good. The price of goods in the market is stable, and in previous years, there was a rush for rice. It hasn't been in years. The daimyo are also much more well-behaved, and they no longer have the ambition to compete for the people of the world, so they just bury their heads in their own one-third of an acre of land.

If at this time, the Nanyue Army leased and purchased land to build houses in the coastal areas of the Japanese Kingdom, it would be equivalent to opening multiple ports. And there will be a lot of people moving around here!

The so-called demand generates the market, and trade has brought a large number of people from South China to China, and these people have such and such needs. And as a landlord, he will naturally try his best to be satisfied. However, in this process, it is inevitable that there will be some discordant things. For example, in order to make wine suitable for the taste of the **** uncle, Ise buys grain at a high price. This has led to food shortages in other regions, such as the prevalence of human trade in order to obtain enough prostitutes, and forced overtime labor in order to obtain profits. However, these are all overshadowed by the prosperity of the city, and all you can see is pavilions and laughing citizens.

"We will carry out centralized and closed management of these people who stay in your place for a short time, and use the Nanzhong Law to restrain them." Shi Lang faithfully relayed what Li Shouhan taught him.

What seems to be a word of benevolence and righteousness is buried in a serious unequal treaty. These personnel of the Nanyue Army who stopped in the Japanese state will only be punished by the laws of Nanzhong, and the legal system of the Japanese state cannot control them. This is called extraterritoriality.

"As for the taxes arising from the trade with the common people and merchants in the leased land, we will allocate half of them to the shogunate, and the shogunate will distribute them uniformly."

Hearing this, Jiaguang couldn't wait to emulate those Guanning Army generals who were in Tashan back then, and knelt down to call Shi Lang his godfather!

Although he didn't know how much land the Nanyue Army would lease and how many people would be accommodated in these places every year to live for a short time, he knew very well that if he could get the Chenglong fast son-in-law and confidants of Li Shouhan, the Duke of Liang, to make such a formal proposal with him at this time, it could be inferred that this number would not be small!

Think about it, even if there are only 50,000 people a year, how much income will it bring to the Wa Kingdom?

It's just the origin of the sweet and sour feeling in my heart. As for the spicy feeling, it comes from Shi Lang's sentence, "You are the representative of the only legitimate regime of the Japanese state that we identify, if you don't agree, then we can only find another way." ”

Think of a way, think of a way? If he Tokugawa Iemitsu did not agree to the establishment of a leased land in the Japanese country by the Nanyue Army to provide a place for recuperation and supplies for tens of thousands of people in the past, as long as the two important ministers of the Nanyue Army in front of him released the news, not to mention that those external daimyo were going to blow up, I am afraid that even the daimyo of the pro-feudal clan and the daimyo of the genealogy will be in turmoil, and at that time. If the Nanyue Army chooses a willing person among the several daimyo of the Tokugawa family to come out and be the leader, it will be enough to agree to it instead. What could be easier than a change of general? And the cost is low!

Anyway, the country is so big, it's such a place, whether it's **** or a general, it's not so much about letting others oust you from power. As a result of a different head, it is better to sit firmly on the throne of the general. Instead of letting you sell it, why doesn't Lao Tzu sell it himself?!

Moreover, Lao Tzu only needs to be the lackey of the Li family, but he is the representative of the Li family in the country, and his status will only be more stable! You people just have to stay honest in front of Lao Tzu!

Thinking of this, the Tokugawa family suddenly smiled.

"Since the lower official is valued by the prince of the kingdom, he is regarded as the representative of the only legitimate power of our country, and exercises great government on behalf of the emperor. Naturally, I have to contribute to the grandfather of the country. What's more, the Nanyue Army has helped our country to quell the turmoil many times, and the Kyushu tide has been personally dispatched by His Royal Highness Mengda, and this friendship has always been remembered by Jiaguang. ”

Jiaguang's words, if translated in human language, probably mean that since you say that I am the boss of this Japanese country. Naturally, I want to follow your heart. However, if there is a rebellion similar to that of the Shimazu family in Kyushu. You'll have to help me calm down, too.

This is also the meaning of the father. In the future, if someone dares to covet the position of the Tokugawa family's Zhengyi general and change the internal power structure of the Wa Kingdom, I, the Duke of Liangguo, will be the first to refuse! Shi Lang patted his chest proudly and made a guarantee to Jiaguang.

Xu Huanshan, who was slightly closed on the side, laughed wildly in his heart.

"Shi Lang, this kid, is cunning! Why are some people worried about the power of the Tokugawa family and changing the power structure? The Li family was the first to refuse, what if the Tokugawa family wanted to be this general of the expedition? What if the Li family plans to knock down the Tokugawa family?! ”

Taking advantage of the presence of the daimyos, Tokugawa Iemitsu summoned them and informed them that the Nanyue army was to set up camps in various parts of the country so that the people of the ships could have a place to anchor and rest. As expected. These big names, who were still holding a shelf just now, suddenly became mercenary stares in the market, and when they quarreled, those wild cubs would be ashamed of themselves when they saw it.

Everyone's goal is only one, that is, to grab the quota of this leased land, just like when they grabbed the treaty port! There is no way, these daimyo have been eating a lot of oil at the treaty port over the years, and if they can upgrade their treaty port to a leased land, it will be the blessing of Amaterasu!

"Port of Yokohama!" "Kobe!" "Fukuoka Port!" "Hakodate Port!" "Hiroshima Port!" "Kawasaki Port!" "Kure Harbor!" "Nagasaki Port!" "Port of Nagoya!" "Osaka Port!" "Otaru Port!"

The daimyo instantly transformed into Mama-san, who was in the place of Fengyue, and tried their best to sell the natural harbor in their hands. There is no way, the so-called building near the water gets the moon first, since it is a business, then the sea is naturally the first to get it. Therefore, the natural nature of the coast and the excellent harbor is the monkey that catches the most moon. Remittances, trade, merchants' and sailors' spending, and the taxes that can be shared, which one is not eye-catching?

This income and money, the flow of people and goods, will quickly make those otherwise barren coastal areas prosperous. Just like Kagoshima back then, walking on the street, you can see restaurants and teahouses written in Chinese characters everywhere and even Yihongyuan, and the combination of high, medium and low grades is reasonable, whether you are a sailor seeking a living at sea or a wealthy businessman, you can find a place that suits you and relax your body and mind.

Of course, if the people of the Japanese country have nationalist sentiments, then the reality of the current Japanese country will definitely be like thunder. The streets are full of Chinese characters, people are proud to speak Chinese, and even some places recruit workers who require them to know Chinese. In the market, the grain is white rice from Nanzhong, the cloth is the cloth from Nanzhong, and even an iron nail, a bag of sugar, and a handicraft are imported from Nanzhong. What is this called, the old Marne predecessors have long defined the sex, this is a colony, a proper colony, and it is the evil of imperialism.

But the problem is that now Marne's grandfather still doesn't know where it is, and the imperialism in South China is far more cunning than the sun never sets. At the same time as a large number of commodities were imported, a large number of raw materials were purchased, and the purchase price was relatively reasonable, which also left enough space for the officials and people of the Japanese State to survive. Compared with the tax collection standards of the official six and the fourth people, the Nanyue Army is to keep the purchase price low, and it is an absolute conscience price. Although this greatly reduced the interests of the merchants in Nanzhong and made them slanderous, in the face of Li Shouhan's iron law, no one dared to defy the law. As a result, the people of the Japanese state lived freely under the de facto colonial treatment.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was very pleased with the enthusiastic performance of his daimyos.

However, to say that he has no selfish intentions in this matter is also to tell nonsense with his eyes open.

After Shi Lang and Xu Huanshan proposed this land lease plan with him, Iemitsu immediately ordered people to contact the relevant daimyo and quietly replaced several barren lands under the name of the shogunate.

These pieces of land are located in the Tsugaru Strait between Honshu and Hokkaido, the Soya Strait between Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands, and the Osumi Strait in the south of Kyushu. (To be continued.) )

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