Wang Yue patted him on the shoulder intimately and said with a smile: "That's right." ”

Li Xuezhu, who accompanied the translator throughout the whole process, was a little faintly sympathetic to the Japanese man in front of him, no matter what, he was also a general, the uncrowned king of Japan, who was fooled and lame by Wang Yue like this, of course, he was actually lame.

After sending away Tokugawa Iemitsu, Li Zixiong asked puzzledly: "Commander, the land of the Wa Kingdom is occupied, so why keep this general?" ”

Wang Yue said lightly: "Don't get excited, take your time, in the future, this concession in the Wa Kingdom, we must make something out, and we must make an image project, so that the people of the Wa Kingdom know that the Ming Dynasty is invincible, and being able to live in the Ming Dynasty is the same as being able to live in heaven." There is another issue that is very important, that is, the problem of language, the official language of the Ming Dynasty, must be promoted in the Wa country, and Japanese is such a thing, it is better to throw it into the historical garbage heap as soon as possible. ”

Of course, Li Zixiong didn't know that such a small country as Japan rose rapidly after the Meiji Restoration. Who would have thought that the Jurchens, with a population of only one million, could enter the Central Plains? Three hundred years later, in the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan received an indemnity of 200 million silver from China. After that, Japan, which was constantly sucking blood from China, occupied half of China in one go.

Therefore, at least in Wang Yue's lifetime, he must assimilate this nation in an all-round way, otherwise he will inevitably fight back in the future.

As for the idea of destroying the country and killing everyone, Wang Yue would not have it. How long do you have to kill this more than 10 million people? It's better to keep it as cannon fodder and make the best use of it.

After Tokugawa Iemitsu returned to Edo, there was one more important thing to do, and that was to arrange for an envoy to go to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.

Usually, when the vassal states pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, they bring some worthless things to fool the Ming Emperor and exchange them for a large amount of treasures and silver.

This time it won't work, you have to show some sincerity to pass the test, this is what Wang Yue has instructed.

Japan has not paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years, and the significance of this tribute is to reaffirm the relationship between the two vassals, which can be regarded as a political activity.

Of course, the current Japan has actually evolved into three countries, and Amakusa Tokisada and Matsuura Kushin will also send envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

The canonization of the emperor of the Central Empire has a special significance for the kings of the surrounding countries, and those who have been canonized by the emperor are the rightful lords of a country.

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On April 25, after the signing of the "Twenty-one Articles", Wang Yue's memo was also sent to the Beijing Division, along with the backup documents of the three treaties.

"The Japanese shogunate has no way, brutalizes my Ming merchants, burns the goods of my starting city, and ignores the prestige of my Ming Dynasty. The minister Wang Yue, waved his army to the east and landed on the Wa Kingdom, first broke the more than 400,000 Japanese rebels, and then fought with the Shogunate coalition army in the barrel narrow, and the successive battles were victorious, killing a total of 500,000 Japanese troops, and the Tiance Army immediately approached Edo Castle to .......

…… The shogunate was afraid of our great prestige, and had already given up resistance, and signed a treaty with his ministers, the "Treaty of Friendship between the Two Countries of Tomorrow", referred to as the "Twenty-one Articles", which was presented to the emperor. ”

Xie Baoqing, the second assistant of the cabinet and the secretary of the military department, shook his head and read out Wang Yue's recital in court.

The officials in the court listened to Wang Yue's recital in amazement, and one by one they opened their mouths wide and couldn't close them at all.

As soon as Xie Baoqing's voice fell, Huang Shijun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty, this, this is impossible, there are many doubts about this performance." ”

Japan was defeated in this way, it is indeed a bit unbelievable, although this country is small, its military strength is not weak, and the three major expeditions of Wanli have taken the strength of the old nose.

Shoufu Zhou Yanru also bowed his hand to Chongzhen and said: "Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that Wang Shaobao's performance should not be trusted. When the Japanese invaded Korea, they often dispatched 200,000 troops, and Emperor Xian mobilized more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, which lasted seven years before he won the battle.

Now, fifty years have passed, and the minister has heard that the Japanese population has been colonized, and the number of troops is greater than in 10,000 years. With such a large number of troops, it is indeed unbelievable that the Wa Kingdom surrendered in less than three months. ”

Tian Weijia, the secretary of the ministry, also said: "The minister seconded the proposal, thinking that Meng Yuan took hundreds of remnants of the destruction of the country, crossed the sea twice to conquer the Japanese country, and the army reached more than 100,000, but the whole army was still annihilated. The Tiance army went out to conquer the Japanese country with less than 30,000 troops, but it was able to destroy 500,000 enemies, which is appalling, appalling! ”

"The minister seconded the proposal, which is quite strange at this time!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

The Tiance Army is indeed powerful, but it is difficult for most officials to believe that Japan will be destroyed in three months.

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, please be calm, didn't Wang Aiqing send a treaty with the Wa Kingdom?" Listen to the content of this treaty. ”

It was Xie Baoqing who read out the treaty: "Tomorrow's Treaty of Friendship between the Two Countries:

Article 1, Japan removed the name of the country, and later called the Wa State, the world was a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and the power of diplomacy, treaty-making, and declaration of war was handed over to the Ming Dynasty instead.

Second, there is no longer an emperor in Japan, and the emperor is renamed the king of Wakoku (so the following clause is called Wakuni);

Article 3, the Wa Kingdom ceded Tsushima Island to Korea, and Ceded Oki Island and all affiliated islands to the Ming Dynasty; Lease Osaka Castle to Daming in perpetuity, and the rent is five hundred taels of silver per year.

Article 4 recognizes that Ming citizens have the privilege of living, traveling, operating industry and commerce, and mining throughout the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty had the power to garrison troops to protect the expatriates and supervise the Japanese state.

Article 5, the Ming State set up a consulate in the Ming Dynasty, and the citizens of the Ming Dynasty enjoyed extraterritoriality, and the decision of the Ming Consul in the Ming Dynasty was the final judgment in the case of disputes between the Ming and Japanese merchants and the people.

Article 6, Iwami Silver Mountain was ceded to the Ming State, except for the Ming Dynasty, no country or individual (including the nationals of the Ming State) shall dig gold, silver and precious metal minerals in the territory of the Ming State.

Article 7: The Japanese government hired Ming citizens as political, military, and financial advisers. Ming and Japanese co-founded police and factories.

Article 8, the construction rights and management rights of all roads and seaports throughout the territory of the Japanese Kingdom were transferred to the Ming Kingdom.

……。 ”

The general content of this treaty, Xie Baoqing has seen it in the starting point city, although the current one has been partially changed, but he has a certain psychological preparation.

The officials in the court listened to it, and there was a commotion again, everyone is a reader, and they are very familiar with history, but in history, I have never heard of anyone playing like this.

Especially when I heard that Japan paid 20 million taels of silver, everyone didn't bite off their tongues, how much is the annual income of the Ming court?

Ruthless, really ruthless, if this treaty is implemented, Japan will become an empty shelf.

The content of the other two treaties signed with Amakusa Tokisada and Matsuura Kushin is also similar.