"Hahaha! Good! Good! Good! Emperor Longqing stroked his palms and laughed, applauding repeatedly.

Today is actually a double happiness, before the meeting with Hosokawa Motokatsu, there is a minister who reports that he has discovered a new continent that has not yet been explored!

And the Japanese can be used as a springboard to the New World, because to go to the New World, the only way to go to the New World is to cross the Pacific Ocean with the warm current tide from the North Japan's Honkai!

The development, colonization, and even occupation of the New World had to go through Japan. And now that the country is unified, the tribute is called a vassal, there is no longer a Japanese raid on the sea, the safety of the merchant ship can be guaranteed, and it can be used as a transit station and supply port!

"Hmm... You are Yuan Aiqing's eldest son? "Emperor Longqing is now looking at Hosokawa Motokatsu, a junior, and feels very cordial, they came at the right time!

"Yes! Yuan Huiyuan is my father! Hosokawa Motokatsu saluted again, Terumoto was his father's previous name. In Japan's book, it is very common to change the name and surname, but in the Ming Dynasty, it can not be changed casually, this is the so-called people's name, the shadow of the tree.

"Good! Lang Jun is talented, like his father! Message! Feng Yuan Hui Yuan for the day 'this king! Awarded the Golden Seal to the Temperance Widows! "Emperor Longqing shook his sleeves, and the ministers knelt down and bowed, shouting our emperor Shengming!

After Ben Nagong became a minister, Emperor Longqing held a banquet to entertain the envoys to the Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the table full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, Hosokawa Motokatsu and his party really saw the demeanor of a great country, because Hosokawa Nobumoto often taught them that how big the territory is, how rich the food is!

For the next three months, Hosokawa Motokatsu lingered in Kyoto, which really opened their eyes. The people of the market were all better dressed than the big names on their side, and the market was filled with a variety of goods and delicacies, as well as the fierce army and sharp weapons, which were a hundred times stronger than their standing army!

"If it's really as my father said, don't compete with the Ming Empire." I don't know if I don't see it, I was startled when I saw it, and Hosokawa Motokatsu came to the conclusion through various comparisons: If the Japanese and Ming go to war, the chance of winning is zero!

In fact, this is also the purpose of Hosokawa Nobumoto to let them come, he doesn't want his juniors to have a kind of megalomania similar to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and only by bowing down to his subordinates can he cultivate eternal health.

Although it is good here, but it must be said goodbye in the end, this time on the return trip, Emperor Longqing also specially approved two commercial sand ships! Because the two Nanban warships of the Hosokawa family were shipwrecked on the way here.

"OMG! This... Is this really just a merchant ship? "Hosokawa Motokatsu never dreamed that he would step on such a large sea ship, looking at its size, it is estimated that the carrying capacity is **1,200 tons).

Sand boat, a kind of anti-sand flat-bottomed wooden boat used for navigation in the Ming Dynasty, has a unique structure, square head, square tip, flat bottom, shallow draft, and has the characteristics of wide, large, flat and shallow. Its bottom is flat and can sit on the beach, not afraid of stranding, the draft is shallow, the influence of the tide is relatively small, it can sail in the sea area of the sandy seabed, it can also be navigated in rivers and lakes, and it is also safe in the wind and waves.

The sand boat has many masts and sails, the mast is high and the sail is high, and the draft is shallow, and the resistance is small, so the sand boat can not only sail with the wind, but also sail against the wind, and even sail against the wind and water.

And its carrying capacity is large, the general sand ship carrying capacity is 4,000 to 6,000 stone, about 500 to 800 tons. In the 15th century, Zheng He went to the West seven times, and there were large groups of sand ships accompanying him, as baggage ships or cargo ships full of goods.

The way back was surprisingly smooth with a large ship pressing the waves, and it was back at Matsuura Port in less than a month.

Then Hosokawa Motokatsu was not low-key, so he sailed the ship into the Japanese 'Ben Inland Sea, and was so shocked that Murakami Motoyoshi, who was patrolling the Seto Inland Sea, was like a great enemy, and his own ironclad warship was compared to the front, and it was a child who was not waist-high.

However, when Murakami Motoyoshi saw his own flag on the ship, as well as Hosokawa Motokatsu himself, he breathed a sigh of relief, and he had planned n tactics in his mind just now, but... None wins.

Entering Kyoto Nijo Castle, looking at this is already the premier mansion in Japan, but Hosokawa Motokatsu, who has seen the world, sighed slightly, this pattern is at most a rich man's courtyard in Daming.

"Yuan Sheng, what's wrong? I've sighed since I came back, but this trip is not satisfactory? The Ming Empire did not accept us? Hosokawa Nobumoto set up a table of tea in the backyard, and originally wanted to drink tea and chat slowly, but he didn't wait for the tea to open, so he asked directly.

Tianhai, who was in charge of making tea on the side, also looked at Hosokawa Motokatsu with a puzzled face and stopped what he was doing.

"No, on the contrary, it's very smooth, the child just has a feeling, this trip to the Ming Empire..."Hosokawa Motokatsu took what he saw and heard along the way, and went through it in detail, and heard Hosokawa Nobuyuan nodding again and again, which he had already expected.

But Tianhai was dumbfounded when he heard it, cold sweat ran down his neck, as smart as him, the strength of the day and the Ming Dynasty were judged by comparison!

"I'm going to promulgate another national policy..."Hosokawa Nobumoto said this, and Motokatsu and Amami looked at it curiously, what can be called a national policy is generally to be followed from generation to generation.

"From now on, a sea ban will be imposed, prohibiting the Japanese 'from going abroad in person, and prohibiting those who are abroad' from returning to China. Only the port of Kaipu was opened for foreign trade, and the target was limited to the merchants of the Ming Empire. Hosokawa Nobumoto immediately threw out the policy of closing the country to the outside world, and Yuan Sheng and Tianhai looked at each other, thinking that it was a bit too much.

"First of all, you must have no objection to befriending the Ming Dynasty, right?" Hosokawa Nobumoto was not in a hurry, and began to explain step by step, which was mainly to teach Hosokawa Motokatsu, after all, the family business in the future needs to be inherited by Motokatsu, and the national policy also needs to be implemented from generation to generation.

"Yes! Father! Hosokawa Motokatsu remembered the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't even dare to think about the heart of fighting.

"Then, the plague of the Japanese must be eradicated!" Hosokawa Nobumoto stretched out a finger: "One of the national policies of this country can minimize the number of people who go to the sea to become Japanese criminals; secondly, to expel all the people who are living abroad; There is only one trading port in the third place, and there are cards in other places, so that there is no place for the Japanese to sell their stolen goods. ”

"The Wako have become lonely ghosts with no base, and we don't recognize them as the Japanese themselves, so ... Naturally, no one wants to be a widow. Moreover, it can also deal a heavy blow to pirates in your own country! Hosokawa Nobumoto said it in a straight way, so that Yuansheng and Tianhai nodded again and again, and they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this national policy.

On the contrary, it is really a century-old national policy that benefits the country and the people! I want to talk about "Mortals Through the Law of Survival" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~