Chapter 19: The Ambitions of the Tokugawa Shogunate
Liu Ru ran out with a red face in Xiaowen's stunned and suspicious eyes, and Jiang Chuan looked at Xiaowen with a little embarrassment, his mind quickly turning, thinking about what kind of reason to find to explain this matter.
At this time, Ji Biao suddenly came in and said, "Son, Xu Qinglang is here, saying that the interrogation has a result." ”
Jiang Chuan breathed a sigh of relief and gave Ji Biao an appreciative look, which made Ji Biao a little inexplicable and confused.
"Okay, let him wait in the living room, and I'll go." Jiang Chuan said in a deep voice.
Ji Biao nodded and went.
With Ji Biao's interruption, Xiaowen couldn't ask anything, so Jiang Chuan escaped.
In fact, he also knew that he didn't need to feel embarrassed, after all, this is a vicious feudal society, he is a big feudal lord, or the biggest one, it doesn't matter how many wives he wants to marry, he doesn't care about other people's opinions at all.
It's just that after all, he is a good young man who grew up under the red flag and grew up in a new society, and some things can not be changed by change.
The main purpose of coming out this time was to go to Baiyun Sect to propose marriage, but he made such an ambiguous move with other women in front of other people's maids, and he naturally felt a little empty in his heart.
After changing his clothes, Jiang Chuan came to the living room, where Xu Qinglang was waiting.
Seeing Jiang Chuan coming in, Xu Qinglang hurriedly knelt on the ground and vigorously worshipped: "The subordinate Chief Flag Officer of the Black Ice Terrace Branch in Jining City, Xu Lovers, knocked to see His Royal Highness the Regent, His Royal Highness Chitose Chitose Chitose!" ”
When he was outside before, for the sake of Jiang Chuan's identity being kept secret, he could naturally only call Childe.
Now that there are no outsiders, of course he has to pay a big salute.
"Flat. I heard that the results of the interrogation came out, so let's talk about it. Jiang Chuan waved his hand and sat on the chair, took a sip of a cup of tea.
Xu Qinglang simply told the results of the interrogation of the woman in black.
It turned out that this woman in black was indeed a remnant of the Church of Our Lady fifty years ago.
Our Lady of Lotus and her daughter, their so-called Holy Daughter, escaped when the official army besieged Jining City.
Later, they were wanted in various parts of the imperial court.
They had nowhere to hide, and eventually crossed east to Fuso and hid in Fuso.
Later, the Lotus Madonna married her daughter to Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful daimyo of the Fuso Kingdom, as a concubine. Relying on the protection of Tokugawa Ieyasu, they settled in Fuso.
It's just that the mother and daughter are still unwilling to fail, and after gradually stabilizing, they began to spread their teachings in Fusang and develop their congregation, and slowly let the Church of Our Lady also begin to develop in Fusang and have a certain scale.
Tokugawa Ieyasu later felt that the expansion of the Cult of Our Lady could also help him expand his strength, so he also supported them, so the Cult of Our Lady developed faster in Fuso.
Later, Our Lady of Lotus passed on the position of head of the sect to her daughter, who had become the wife of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and she herself lived in seclusion.
In the past few decades, the country of Fuso has also been in constant civil war, and the daimyo in various places are attacking each other. Tokugawa Ieyasu was a powerful man, and he continued to win in the wars of the Daimyo, and his strength became stronger and stronger.
Ten years ago, the Tokugawa family conquered more than 200 daimyo and unified Fuso, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's son, Tokugawa Hidetada, was worshipped by the emperor as a shogun in Edo, ushering in the era of the Fuso Shogunate's rule, and the emperor became a puppet in name only.
Later, the Tokugawa shogunate implemented a series of measures to strengthen the country, such as opening the sea ban on trade with Western countries, at the same time organizing a new army, purchasing new firearms from the English Empire, and reforming the military service and tax system, so that the national strength of the Fuso country became stronger and stronger, and the prestige of the Tokugawa shogunate also increased.
With the increase in strength, Tokugawa Hidetada's ambition also grew, and he began to be dissatisfied with conquering the small country of Fuso, and even began to set his sights on the three Koreans across the sea, and even the Ming Dynasty behind Korea.
At this time, the Church of Our Lady, which had been supported in the Tokugawa Ieyasu era, began to be restricted and attacked by Tokugawa Hidetada, because the core purpose of the doctrine of the Church of Our Lady was rebellion, and even in Fuso Province, it was restless.
Tokugawa Ieyasu supported him because the existence of the Church of Our Lady at that time was more beneficial than disadvantageous to him.
However, with the unification and stability of the Fuso Kingdom, the professional rebel organization of Notre Dame has become an obstacle and a cancer, and it must be restricted and eradicated.
At this time, Tokugawa Hidetada's younger sister, Tokugawa Minako, the daughter of the original saint and Tokugawa Ieyasu, inherited her mother's Notre Dame religion.
This woman inherited her mother's ambitions, and also saw the ambitions of her brother Tokugawa Hidetada, so she suggested to Tokugawa Hidetada that the Holy Mother Sect come to Daming to develop, use the bewitching ability of the Holy Mother Sect to develop power in the Ming Dynasty, take the opportunity to cause chaos in the Ming Dynasty, and then give Tokugawa Hidetada the opportunity to annex the three kingdoms of Korea, and even send troops to invade the Ming Dynasty.
Tokugawa Hidetada was able to become the first shogun, and naturally he was not a character who could be said to be moved casually.
After he first sent someone to investigate the situation of the Ming Dynasty, he knew that the Ming Dynasty was now in a melee, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was rampant, the rogue was raging, the court was weak, the warlords were divided, and the pirates were rampant.
Knowing this, Tokugawa Hidetada thought Minako's proposal was feasible and agreed to her plan.
After obtaining Tokugawa Hidetada's consent, Tokugawa Minako sent her henchmen to infiltrate the Ming Dynasty to make preliminary preparations.
This woman in black is the first henchman under Tokugawa Minako and the first master, called Nanzo Yunzi.
There is also a Chinese name called Jin Bihui.
This person was named the Holy Daughter of the Church of Our Lady by Tokugawa Minako, and the first stop after infiltrating the Ming Dynasty was the place where the Church of Our Lady finally failed - Jining City.
Those big men were all the right-hand men she brought from Fusang or some of the subordinates she gathered along the way.
As for the other twenty or so people, they are all good hands of the Holy Mother Sect who infiltrated from Fusang Country in batches.
But I didn't expect that as soon as I arrived in Jining City, I was brought by Jiang Chuan to serve a pot.
After Xu Qinglang finished speaking, he respectfully stepped aside.
Jiang Chuan was a little surprised by this result, but he was not too surprised.
After all, when Bai Jinxiu told him about the Notre Dame Sect before, he thought of this possibility.
The only thing he didn't expect was that there was the support of the Tokugawa shogunate behind the resurgence of the Holy Mother of Mary, which was indeed unexpected.
"The Tokugawa shogunate? The histories are strikingly similar. Jiang Chuan's fingers tapped regularly on the coffee table, and he muttered to himself.
In the history of the original time, after the Tokugawa shogunate became strong, it began to covet Korea, and finally the Ming Dynasty sent troops to aid Korea to resist Japan, and defeated the Japanese army of more than 200,000 with tens of thousands of troops in Korea.
It wasn't until the Meiji Restoration regained its strength that it began to stretch out its black hand again, and finally defeated the Qing Beiyang Navy Division in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, which was considered a shame for hundreds of years.
I didn't expect that in this era, I would follow this trend, which is really interesting.
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