Nanking.

"Xingong, the Beiyang Naval Division has captured Oki Island."

Stilwell sent the report of the war of the Japanese Kingdom, which had been postponed for half a month, to Yang Qing.

"How's the fight?"

Yang Qing said.

"It can be regarded as no fighting, but during the attack on Iwami Ginzan, there was a skirmish with the Japanese army, but the landing marines never stayed far from the range of naval guns. The Japanese army's counterattack on Tokura was repulsed, and our casualties were less than twenty, but Totoura was a small pier at the foot of the mountains, and our men faced the mountains when they landed, and the Japanese army and armed miners controlled the mountains and forests, and only one battalion of the marines could not attack in depth at all, and finally took the initiative to evacuate Tokura and turn to Oki Island. As for Oki Island, it can be said that the soldiers are bloodless, the height of the Oki Clan's stone is less than 10,000, and it is just a big Huangzhuang Zhuangtou here, what else can he do in the face of the attack of the Beiyang Naval Division except surrender? However, the navy did have some windfalls on Oki Island. ”

Stilwell said with a smile.

"What's the catch?"

Yang Qing said.

This result is normal, at this time Oki Island actually belonged to the Matsue Domain, and the lord of the domain was Matsudaira Naomasa, the grandson of the old turtle, and belonged to the Tokugawa family's pro-clan daimyō, but the real territory of the Matsue Domain was Izumo Province, and an island like Oki Island was a vassal. The real ruling family, the Oki clan, is a wall-to-wall grass, anyway, no one can care about his broken place, Ishitaka Qianqian is really a village head, whoever wins on Honshu Island will take refuge in whom, such a person will not surrender in the face of the huge fleet that covers the sea, will he still resist heroically or cut his stomach?

Can the number of his troops exceed the number of warships at sea?

"Oki Island was exiled by the Wa Kingdom, and there are quite a few Kyoto ministers on the island who were exiled by the Tokugawa family, and it is said that there are also on Sado Island."

Stilwell said.

"You want to play a puppet game?"

Yang Qing said.

"It's good to reuse the waste."

Stilwell said.

"No, you don't know what the Emperor of the Wakuni means, why didn't the shogun who was arrogant dare to replace him? Of course, it is common to depose the emperor, and it doesn't matter if he insults the emperor, but no one dares to replace him, even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi is strong, let alone replace the emperor, he can't even get the regent, and in the end he can only ask for a guanbai. Because in their ideological system, the emperor is a god, although the god does not need to take care of the affairs of mortals, but no matter how strong a mortal is, he cannot replace the gods, and his existence represents the Wa Kingdom as a nation. But we don't need Wakoku to be a country, what we need is for Wakoku to continue to maintain its current state, so the name of the emperor cannot be strengthened in the minds of the common people of Wakoku.

What we need is for them to forget about the emperor.

In this sense, the Tokugawa family was our friend, and the shogunate system ensured that the Wa kingdom would be torn apart, and any shogun who tried to forcibly take over the power of the daimyo would be besieged. Just like in our Spring and Autumn Period, you can dominate, but you can't worry about Zhou Tianzi, because the existence of Zhou Tianzi ensures the legal basis for the existence of the princes, so the shogunate system ensures the fragmentation of the Wa Kingdom, and the fragmentation of the Wa Kingdom ensures that we can easily control it.

Although this does not prevent us from beating him up first, it is for his own good!

Throw those ministers into the sea!

Tokugawa Iemitsu will understand that we will actually be friends with him! ”

Yang Qing said.

Any act of helping Kyoto to increase its prestige is foolish, and the name of the emperor needs to decay over the years rather than be remembered again, and the moment when the name is re-glorified is the moment when the Wakoku people rise again. Yang Qing will not let the rule of the Tokugawa family collapse, and beating Tokugawa Iemitsu is also for his good, in order for him to know who is the boss, but as long as he understands this, then he will become a good friend of Yang Qing.

Just like our Qing Dynasty is a good friend of the great powers.

Yang Qing didn't want the Tokugawa family to fall, what he wanted was the Tokugawa shogunate and the material resources of China, and the same as the Tatar Qing who was the favor of the country, but also the material resources of the Japanese country and the favor of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the bright future of the Tokugawa family.

As long as they can do this, then Yang Qing can protect them, and as long as the shogunate does not fall, the situation of the Wa State can be maintained, and it is also impossible for the Wa State to rise, Yang Qing only wants this, as for the annexation of the Wa State, he will not do this kind of stupid thing.

Why did you annex the Wa Kingdom?

What is there to annex in that place? Even if you want a military trade base, you can use the concession to solve it, and even if you want a population, you can also use the sale of Japanese slaves. Even gold and silver can be plundered in more advanced ways, and a direct influx of gold and silver often leads to inflation, but dumping of industrial products can boost the economy.

In short, there is a more clever way to knock out the bones and marrow of the Japanese kingdom, so why annex them and give them light?

Wouldn't it be better for them to be forever in the dark?

In short, the affairs of the Wa Kingdom can be left to Zheng Chenggong to play slowly, first take Oki Island, constantly harass the coast of the Wa Kingdom, and at the same time hoard supplies and troops on Oki Island. Trapping Iwami Ginzan and causing Tokugawa Iemitsu to continue to increase his troops to Iwami in order to drain the army in the core area of the shogunate, when the main force of the Tokugawa family was gradually attracted over, the Ming army landed directly on Sado Island. And using Sado Island as a base to advance and then attacking the core area of the shogunate in the central part of Honshu Island to force it to accept various conditions, this is Yang Qing's entire strategy. As for how this strategy is put into action, he doesn't care, that is Zheng Chenggong needs to be responsible, and this is just a trivial matter for him.

It wasn't something he had to put in a lot of effort.

"Zhang Xianzhong: How is the sales of treasury bonds there?"

Then Yang Qing asked.

"Well, it's said that there are many birds!"

Stilwell used a figurative word, slightly awkwardly.

"Xin Gong, in fact, without them, you can almost make up this money, so far there are seven million, and three million is basically not a problem with King Gui. In this way, there is actually a difference of five million, judging from our sales in various places, we can almost get one million in the end, and the fundraising of temples around the country is still in progress, although the harvest is not as much as it was at the beginning, but one million should still be received. In other words, the final gap is three million, according to our past plan, these three million are from Zhang Xianzhong and King Jingjiang. King Jingjiang basically won't have a problem there, after all, King Gui has already accepted it, if King Gui doesn't help, he won't have much ability to resist, but just Zhang Xianzhong, the two million are actually not important. ”

He went on to say.

Because of knocking on King Gui's this, the ransom dilemma of the Son of Longxing has changed qualitatively, if it was almost impossible before, it is only a matter of time now.

The final gap is also Zhang Xianzhong's.

But only two million is nothing, you can make up for it by casually moving a penny, and you don't have to fight with Zhang Xianzhong for this. The latter will definitely not be easy to submit, he is different from King Gui and King Jingjiang, King Gui's geographical location in Guangzhou is not good and easy to threaten, King Jingjiang's strength is limited, and the 10,000 new troops in his hands cannot really dare to resist. But Zhang Xianzhong hid deep enough in Chengdu, and the strength of his 200,000 troops could not be considered weak, if he resisted, it would really not be easy to solve.

Especially those Sichuan gentry and he can be regarded as one.

This has to be said to be very speechless.

Now the Sichuan gentry sincerely support this former bandit and rogue, and Zhang Xianzhong's performance is completely in line with the Holy Lord Mingjun in their minds. The privileges of the gentry remain unchanged, and the Sichuan Township Examination continues to take the Bagu Wen, although they cannot be admitted to the Jinshi, but the people who raise the township examination can directly become officials......

In short, everything is still in place.

The only change was that the generals under Zhang Xianzhong joined the ranks of the big landowners.

Guangsun Kewang himself has occupied more than 500,000 mu of fertile land in Chengdu, even Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu are all 100,000 mu, but because Sichuan has fewer people and more land, their enclosure has not caused much impact. After all, Sichuan fed 40 million people at the end of the Tatar Qing Dynasty, but there were still few major famines, and it was estimated that there were not even 10 million at this time! There is wasteland everywhere that can be cultivated, and those who are unwilling to be tenants can open up wasteland, and because of his special background, Zhang Xianzhong, who knows the situation of the people, encourages wasteland. He also encouraged rent reduction, especially after Yang Qing shoehorned Huangzhuang over, eighty percent of the land rent in Sichuan was gone, and seventy percent was already top-level fertile land.

So at this time, Sichuan already met the standards of the classical version of the prosperous era.

At least it won't be worse than the middle of Wanli.

Those gentry now sincerely support Zhang Xianzhong.

"I gave him so many preferential treatments, but I didn't want him to be disobedient, tell him that the two million in Sichuan must be sold before October this year, and if it can't be sold, then I will personally take someone to Chengdu to find him!"

Yang Qing sneered.

He really didn't care about two million taels.

In fact, at that time, it was estimated that the problem of the Wa Kingdom was basically solved, and he would not let Tokugawa Iemitsu's indemnity be less than five million, and as long as King Jingjiang went to war, the latter could not easily get over with only one million. That is to say, by the end of the year, he will not only be able to scrape together 15 million, but also the war expenses of this year and the disaster relief in Shandong will all be paid for. But even so, he still has to force Zhang Xianzhong to buy these two million treasury bonds, if he doesn't buy him, he will really solve it by force, he can tolerate Zhang Xianzhong's secession in Sichuan, but the latter must respect his authority.

Sichuan is only a province of Daming, this province can use another system, this is not a big deal, even if many reforms in the area actually controlled by Yang Qing are far from complete.

Sichuan can only be said to be delayed.

However, Sichuan is not a country of its own!

This is a matter of principle, Yang Qing must always remind the Sichuan gentry that it is his magnanimity to allow them to play by themselves, not to let them break away from the Ming Dynasty, they are still a part of the Ming Dynasty, and they have no right to stay out of the things that need the power of the whole Ming Dynasty to do.

If they don't do it......

Then you'll have to beat them up.