Three years is a very short time, from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, it can only account for one percent, and from the entire history of China for thousands of years, it is not even a small wave.

However, three years is a long time, and the entire court high-level of the Ming Dynasty has shuffled the cards, and the group of important ministers who were originally old and serious died, retreated, and replaced them with a group of equally stable but relatively radical bigwigs.

Three years have changed a lot, the only thing that has not changed is that the Ming Dynasty has never stopped expanding outward, whether it is a large area north of Beishan or the distant Cape of Good Hope, it has been included in the Ming Dynasty.

The current Ming Dynasty is like a gluttonous head that can never be satisfied, greedily devouring all the land and interests it can see.

If you have to say that there is no shadow of the Ming Dynasty in the war, there are probably only a few places left.

The Wa Kingdom is one, because the Queen of the Wa Kingdom is about to become the concubine of the Liao King of the Ming Dynasty, Ezo Island as a dowry officially included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will also officially garrison the army on Ezo Island in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen and set up the Governor's Palace.

America is also considered a place, because Daming doesn't have the energy to look so far now, although Emperor Chongzhen has long been staring at America and drooling.

Europe is also a place, because Europe, with the joint efforts of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, has opened the wide-eyed staring mode, and maybe one day it will open because of a little more glance in the crowd.

The Ottomans are also counted as one, because if they want to reach the fiefdom of the British duke, they must first dig the Suez Canal and reopen it, and this project will not be completed in ten or eight years, and it is naturally impossible for the Ming Dynasty to start at this time.

The last special place is the Mughals.

The Ming withdrew a large number of garrisons from the Mughals, retaining only defensive garrisons in the occupied territories, much to the great relief of the Mughals.

Then Daro Siqiao, Ozer Langbu and Shashua started the Mughal version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The conscience of heaven and earth, the Mughal people beat people's brains into dog brains, and it really happened to the three sons of Shah Jahan, and it has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.

At most, Jia Yi said that he was very tired, not only to translate "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but also to translate a large number of "Water Margin" and make changes to most of its content, and then let the Mughal Three Kingdoms fight each other while being busy quelling the emerging rebellion.

The whole world came over like this in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, people outside the Ming Dynasty were busy opening films and beating each other, and the people of the Ming Dynasty were busy farming, reading, and preparing for war, and a harmonious and stable prosperity scene appeared under the rule of Emperor Chongzhen.

The country closest to the Ming Dynasty is the one that feels the deepest.

Although the Tokugawa shogunate had long been busy closing off the country, the barbarians in the West were still running to the Wa Kingdom, looking for all opportunities, such as preaching, such as doing business, even in the face of the continuous suppression of the Wa Kingdom, these people did not give up.

But since the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, those Western barbarians seem to have disappeared, according to their own words, that is, there is a war in the country, and they want to go back.

Although Tokugawa Iemitsu did not personally go to those countries where the West was barbaric, he was still able to figure out the key to all these changes.

Because the entire Wa Kingdom is now also overwhelmed by the pressure of the Ming Dynasty - even if the Ming Dynasty did not directly smash the field, but with the continuous annexation of Korea, Ryukyu and the Nanyang Domains, the form of the Wa Kingdom is becoming more and more difficult day by day.

So Tokugawa Iemitsu was very sad.

I'm also a big Ming.,Although I can't do the same as Korea and the Ryukyus.,But I'm always much stronger than other foreign domains, right?

The simplest example is that when I was playing Retreat and Closing the Country, I never thought about turning Daming's father away, so why do I feel so sad now?

Is it necessary to have a seal attached to the last seal of the Japanese state?

Faced with Shen Hao's request to meet him, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran into the palace of the Wa King and discussed it with Masahito, and then took his men to Kyushu Island.

The land area of the Wa Kingdom is really a little small--from Shen Hao sent people to inform Tokugawa Iemitsu, and then waited until Tokugawa Iemitsu arrived on Kyushu Island, and a total of three days had passed.

Faced with a variety of dishes, Tokugawa Iemitsu felt a little unsavory, from the beginning to the present, Shen Hao has been persuading himself to eat, but he didn't mention half a word about business.

It wasn't until he finished eating a meal that he didn't know what it tasted like that Shen Hao wiped his hands and said with a smile: "General Tokugawa, Shen will leave for Daming tomorrow to report on his work." Everything on the island of Kyushu needs your attention. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded, and said with a pause: "Congratulations to Shen Jun, Tokugawa has also prepared some gifts for Shen Jun, and there are some that need to be dedicated to the Son of Heaven." Tokugawa is a foreign minister, and it is difficult to enter Beijing without an edict, so everything has to be asked to Shen Jun? ”

Shen Hao said with a smile: "This is easy to say, Shen will definitely live up to the trust." General Tokugawa is the uncle of the queen of your country, and after the queen of your country and my king of the Ming Dynasty get married, the general Tokugawa will be a relative of the country, and the two countries will be a good family. As a family, everything is easy to say. ”

Tokugawa Shomitsu nodded again in thanks - believe in your ghost!

After the two laughed and exchanged a few polite words, Shen Hao continued: "Speaking of the marriage between the queen of your country and my King Liao of the Ming Dynasty, Shen suddenly remembered that when he was in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, His Royal Highness the King of Liao was going to marry the queen of your country. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu's face, which was still smiling just now, suddenly froze, and then said with a smile: "Yes, I'm going to get married next year, I'm really happy for Xingzi." ”

Shen Hao nodded with a smile, and continued: "Speaking of which, Ezo Island is the dowry given by your country to His Royal Highness Xingzi, and in the future, it will be jointly owned by His Royal Highness King Liao and His Royal Highness Xingzi.

But there are still many barbarians on that island, and after the wedding of His Royal Highness King Liao and His Royal Highness Xingzi next year, they will continue to lead troops to eliminate those barbarians? ”

Seeing that Shen Hao had already exhausted the dagger, Tokugawa Iemitsu no longer pulled some useless things, but sat up straight and looked at Shen Hao: "What does Governor Shen mean?" ”

Shen Hao said: "Those who are courtiers always have to share their worries for the king, there are many barbarians on Ezo Island, Shen is uneasy, and General Tokugawa is the general of the Japanese Expedition......"

Tokugawa Iemitsu naturally heard Shen Hao's words, nodded and said: "If Tokugawa leads the troops to clean up, it's okay, but this Ezo savage is cruel and killing, and he wants to clean it up, unless he has a force like the Ming Dynasty, with the strength of the Japanese country, it is really not enough?" ”

Shen Hao took a sip of the teacup slowly, and said with a smile: "Speaking of troops, the warriors of the Wa Kingdom are also very good, if they are equipped with my Ming weapons, and then trained by my Ming officers, I don't know?" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu's heart suddenly despaired, and the shadow in his heart began to expand unlimitedly—finally, did he still start to reach out to the army?

Since the Kyushu Island Lend-Lease Act, the entire Wa country has been living in the shadow of the Ming Dynasty, and it is no exaggeration to say that the life of any Wa country person must not be able to avoid one thing - the Ming Dynasty.

From the moment almost any Japanese person was born, it is very likely that the Wen Po who delivered the baby was trained by the Ming people, and it was possible that the snacks and drinks were sold by the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

When they grow up and start working, they are likely to be shops or industries controlled by Ming merchants, and until they die, they may have to be buried according to the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty.

For more than ten years, the entire Ming Dynasty has infiltrated all aspects of the Wa Kingdom, except for the shogunate and the military have not been infiltrated by the Ming Dynasty, and the rest of the places have faintly the shadow of the Ming Dynasty.

Even the court, in fact, is not without the shadow of the Ming Dynasty in it, especially after the marriage contract between Xingzi and the King of Liao was set in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the influence of the Ming Dynasty on the Wa Kingdom was even greater.

Even, even the people of the Wa Kingdom began to agree that the Ming Dynasty was the master of the whole world - of course, the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty were in-laws, and these Wa people were probably similar to family children, much more noble than the talented minions!

It doesn't matter if one or two people have this kind of thought, after all, the population of the Wa Kingdom is not too small, and life has improved in recent years, especially when those samurai who worked as overseers in the Ming Kingdom come back and publicize it, it is normal to have this kind of messy thought.

But when the whole country began to slowly agree with this idea, it became very scary, especially when I even had a trace of recognition......

Looking at the table in front of him, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally resisted the urge to lift the table, nodded and said, "Presumably, after equipping the military equipment of the Ming Dynasty, the army of the Japanese Kingdom will also go to a higher level?"

It's just that it's okay to ask the officers of the Ming Dynasty to teach the Japanese army, after all, the Japanese warriors are more wild, and it is difficult to train them, and if they make the Ming officers angry, it will not be good. ”

Shen Hao squinted his eyes and said, "General Tokugawa is also a great talent who reads poetry and books, don't you hear about Sun Wuzi's old affairs?" ”

Sun Wuzi's old affairs, of course, Tokugawa Iemitsu knew that the palace maids who trained King Wu, let go of the first order because the order was unclear, and if the second order did not work, he would behead the captain, and said the famous sentence "The general is in the army, and the king's order is not accepted" in front of King Wu.

Shen Hao's meaning is the same, after the instructor of the Ming Dynasty came, it didn't matter whether the warriors of the Wa Kingdom were trained or not - if they killed a few leaders, the rest would naturally be honest.

The reason is that it is such a reason, and it will definitely be able to subdue the samurai of the Japanese kingdom by doing so.

Tokugawa Iemitsu believed that even if he didn't use such a move, the officers of the Ming army would definitely be able to subdue the Japanese samurai, because the Japanese army now looked at the Ming army as well-behaved as his grandson looked at his grandfather......

But after agreeing like this, Tokugawa Iemitsu was still unwilling in his heart: "Even so, it's not easy to pacify Ezo before the marriage of King Liao next year?" Why don't you let the samurai of the Wa Kingdom use the equipment of the Ming Dynasty first, and then make plans after the Ezo is pacified? ”

Shen Hao said with a smile: "If it is only based on the warriors of the Japanese Kingdom, I am afraid that I may not be able to pacify Ezo in the thirty years of Chongzhen, and if I add the teachings of my Ming officers, I am afraid that I can completely pacify Ezo in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen at most."

Of course, in order to make the Japanese samurai adapt, and to prove that the Japanese can go further under the teaching of our Ming officers, it is better to select some samurai to set up another battalion, and the Ming officers will teach them, and then promote them after they are trained, what does the Tokugawa shogun think? ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu endured it again and again, and finally exhaled and said: "Okay, depending on the governor, after Tokugawa returns, he will select capable samurai, and after the Ezo is pacified, the samurai of this battalion will become the dowry of His Royal Highness Koko." ”

Shen Hao is very satisfied, as long as he can plant a seed in the army of the Japanese State now, with the ability of Jinyiwei and those people in Dongchang to brainwash, he is not afraid that the warriors of this battalion will not become the diehards of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially after the samurai training of this battalion is completed, it will be used as a basis to spread to other Japanese armies, and in the end, the entire Japanese army will become a supernumerary military force of the Ming Dynasty, and the entire Japanese country still has to run?

After greeting Tokugawa with the teacup, Shen Hao continued: "Speaking of which, there is another thing to make a fortune, I wonder if General Tokugawa has considered it?" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu is now full of the army and military power, and the future of the entire Wa Kingdom, where is he still in the mood to care about whether to make money or not, at the moment he just sighed lightly and asked, "I don't know what the governor said?" ”

Shen Hao said: "I, Daming, recently excavated the Suez Canal on the Ottoman side, and General Tokugawa must know about it?" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded and said, "Yes, our country also sent thousands of samurai to the Ottoman side to serve as overseers, so naturally I have some understanding." ”

Nodding, Shen Hao continued: "Then General Tokugawa must also know that my Daming is still short of laborers?"

Of course, it is not to let the people of your country do labor, after all, they will be a family in the future, and since I will not let the people of Daming do this kind of thing, I will naturally not let the people of your country do it.

What the Doge meant was that the people of the Wa Kingdom had two choices, one was to go to the Ottoman side to do some light work to earn money, and the other was to form another group of warriors and find laborers. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu shook his head and said, "It's naturally excellent to go to find laborers, but where should I find them now?" Further north of the North Mountain? To the west? Or where to look? ”

Shen Hao smiled and said, "To the west of the Ottomans, there are many small countries over there, and it's not easy to find laborers?" As long as the warriors of your country are trained by our Ming officers and equipped with the weapons of my Ming Dynasty, presumably those barbarians are no match for the warriors? ”

Thinking about the Baiyi he had seen before, Tokugawa Iemitsu said proudly: "Of course, with those mere Baiyi, naturally it is impossible for me to be the opponent of the Yamato samurai." ”

After finishing speaking, Tokugawa Iemitsu was a little discouraged: "However, there is still a problem here. ”