"Your Majesty, there is a war report from Japan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe Southeastern Navy Division has captured Kagoshima, and Shimazu Shigeo, the daimyo of the Satsuma Domain, committed suicide by breaking his stomach. ”

In October, the climate in Nanjing was already a little cold, and Chen Ming received an urgent military information from Xinjiang Flying Pigeons a few days ago, and his eyes had turned to Balkhash Lake.

Raising his head from the pile of documents sent by the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Chen Ming looked at Liu Wu with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Shigehiro Shimazu is dead? The Satsuma Domain is over, which is good news.

Chen Ming didn't know much about Japan in this era before, but as soon as he got to know it deeply, he quickly noticed Shimazu Shigeo, the lord of the Satsuma Domain.

The lord of the domain, known as 'Takanawa Shimoshogun' because of his low height, was the eighth lord of the Shimazu family in the Edo period. He is not very old, five years older than Chen Ming, and he has been in power very early, and it has been more than ten years.

As far as the internal political skills that he showed after he took over the real power of the Satsuma Domain, there was not the slightest aspect that people paid attention to, but many measures were criticized. Chen Ming values him for his political leanings and his courage to bring his imagination to life.

Before Shimazu Shigehao, the life of the Shimazu family was quite sad. It was suppressed by the shogunate several times, and the feudal debts were high and the finances were difficult. In addition, because of the peace in Japan, the military force lost its greatest value, and wealth became the standard of the Yokoliang feudal domains. The Satsuma Domain, a major prince of Japan who was famous for its strong soldiers, was directly reduced to a country man who was discriminated against.

It has been eight generations since the Shimazu Shigehiro era, and there is not a single feudal school in the domain. Most of the other feudal clans had their own feudal schools, and even had feudal schools with a long history.

Japan's feudal schools are equivalent to China's official schools, which are feudal schools designed to cultivate the sinological literacy of samurai children, and the teaching content covers four categories of ancient Chinese classics, classics and history, but special attention is paid to the study of classics and history, such as the Four Books and Five Classics, "Elementary School", "Filial Piety", "Historical Records", and "Eighteen Historical Strategies" are compulsory subjects in most feudal schools.

Although the Satsuma clan had already planned to build a feudal school, they were unable to carry it out due to financial constraints.

It was Shigehiro Shimazu's persistence and fundraising that led to the establishment of the Satsuma Domain. The 3,400-tsubo land outside the castle of Kagoshima Ninomaru was acquired, and the architectural style and facilities were modeled after the Yushima Shrine and the Shoheiza School of the Shogunate. When the school was first built, Shigehiro Shimazu ordered the construction of a medical hall to study traditional Chinese medicine, and at the same time, the "Yoshino Medicine Garden" was opened in the domain as an annex to the medical hall. In the aftermath of the Edo Medical Center, an educational norm such as the "Eight Strategies of the School Rules" was formulated. After the setback of Ryukyu Island, Shigehiro Shimazu hooked up with the Dutch and the British on the one hand, and on the other hand, with the help of the Dutch, he set up a planetarium, which was attached to the Makerkan.

Shigehiro Shimazu is the most 'poisoned' orchid daimyo today. His name really didn't have in Chen Ming's impression, but the three words 'Satsuma Domain' led by Shigemo Shimazu left too deep a mark on Chen Ming's memory.

Okubo Ritsu, Saigo Takamori, Saigo Congmichi, Oyama Iwa, Togo Heihachiro, Yamamoto Gonbei......

Before and after the Meiji Restoration, the Satsuma clan was an important force in Japan's political and military structure. Now, from God's point of view, it is clear that the direct creator of the fact of the original time and space is Shigehiro Shimazu, who is still called 'Foolish' by many Japanese people.

"Let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs send a second group of envoys to Japan, according to the previous plan." Chen Ming took the excerpt handed over by Liu Wu, and even the battle situation in the Great Northwest was no longer important. There is no second person in this world who knows the sourness in his heart at this moment.

"Burn Kagoshima castle town ......, hahaha, good, good, burn well, burn well."

Chen Ming laughed silently, how many Japanese did he care how many Japanese were burned to death by that fire? Just thinking about a fire that burned down a city in Japan makes him feel so good. Moreover, this move has seriously disrupted the course of Japanese history. The butterfly effect made Chen Ming very firmly believe that the change in the 'fate' of the Satsuma Domain would ultimately affect the fate of the whole of Japan.

Chen Ming, who roared silently, had a hideous expression like a demon.

The hatred of the previous life, Chen Ming couldn't return everything to Japan in this time and space, and the slaughter of 30 million or 40 million soldiers and civilians in the eight-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression could not be repaid for the entire Dongying Islands. But the hatred for Japan accumulated from watching anti-Japanese war movies is not so easy to erase from the bottom of his heart. Yes, training Japan in this era as a dog is also full of a sense of accomplishment and quite sour, but this refreshing feeling is not as comfortable as the burning and looting of red fruit after all. Especially after having a secret connection with the Tokugawa shogunate, he even had to take into account the feelings of the Tokugawa shogunate when he even beat Japan. How can we have the right thoughts now?

It's really brisk, all over the body. Especially after the southeast naval division suffered like this, the Tokugawa shogunate would also secretly thank Chen Ming, and they never regarded a military powerhouse like Satsuma as their own.

Historically, in the late Shogunate period, the Satsuma clan had a strong influence in both Kyoto and Edo. That's also because Shimazu Shigehiro gave birth to a large number of children in the years that followed, and then he used these children to marry foreign countries constantly, and his daughter even married the next shogun of the shogunate. But now Shigehiro Shimazu is only in his early thirties, and his eldest son is only three years old.

The relationship between the Satsuma clan and the Tokugawa shogunate has not been greatly eased, let alone directly changed. China cleaned up the Satsuma Domain, and the Tokugawa shogunate would only clap their hands secretly.

After knocking out a Kagoshima and destroying the main force controlled by the Satsuma feudal lords, the Southeast Naval Division will not sweep the entire island of Kyushu, but will reach the Kii Waterway between Shikoku and Honshu Island as soon as possible, which is an important waterway from the Seto Inland Sea into the Pacific Ocean, and the pressure on the Japanese is much greater than that of Kagoshima, but it will not go further into the Seto Inland Sea.

The two sides still have to negotiate. Only after letting the Japanese truly see the power of the Chinese sailors, and then letting them see the tragic situation of the Satsuma Domain, can they deeply remember this lesson.

Moreover, the Southeast Naval Division also had to wait for the arrival of the North Route Naval Division's fleet, and after the two sides converged, they would approach Osaka.

As for whether this will make Japan experience the pain of historical change in advance, this is much more shocking than the "attack of the black ship" to Japan, and let them "reform and strengthen" in advance. Chen Ming is not worried at all, without North Korea and China as nourishment for Japan, how strong can Japan be if it wants to be self-reliant?

Historically, Japan dug up a big piece of meat from the rotten giant elephant of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and devoured North Korea, and then it successfully stood up. Is it still possible?

A lone wolf goes back to challenge a bison that is strong on the outside, but a puppy will never challenge a tiger going down. What's more, the current era is not the same as the era a hundred years later. The presence of Westerners in the Far East is still too weak.

As a small country with limited means of production, Japan's road to independence and self-improvement can only be to slowly organize and train a modern army, and I am afraid that even the scale of the navy will be limited. Because in order to develop the navy on a large scale, Japan must first have enough money and steel.

Besides, there is also a question of whether they opened the country or not. What would happen to Japan's economy if it had been opened? And if they don't open the country, when will Japan have a strong shipbuilding capability? When will their self-efforts be truly self-reliant?

The most important thing is that the situation in Japan is one in which the shogunate and the local daimyo are in unison. There is also a royal family in between, and they may be able to develop enough power on the whole, but this power cannot be unified under the same banner.

The military force of the shogunate increased relative to that of the local feudal domains. If the former's force increases, the latter's force will also increase, otherwise the latter may be crabbed by the shogunate; And when the latter's force grows, the shogunate must also run to keep up, otherwise the shogunate may be overthrown.

No matter how strong this kind of power is, it can only be used for a while, and it cannot be stable for a long time.

Besides, no matter how strong Japan's armed forces are for a while, Chen Ming has great self-confidence, and the Japanese can't turn the sky upside down.

Chen Ming never intended to slap Japan to death, and he was not prepared to deal with Japan in the same way he dealt with North Korea. Chen Ming taught Japan a lesson, and then he would plan a path for Japan that he set. As long as Japan is obedient, Chen Han can solve all the problems faced by the Tokugawa shogunate.

This path is not 'self-reliance'. If the Japanese want to be 'self-reliant', Chen Ming will not fail to see it. If the Tokugawa shogunate was disobedient, it was necessary for the Japanese emperor to exist. Chen Han, who supported the shogunate, was not unable to support the local daimyos.

As long as the balance of power between the local feudal domains and the Tokugawa shogunate is maintained, and as long as Japan is not 'unified', Japan will always be a turtle.

As for the day when the local feudal lords will voluntarily give up their rights, and then the Japanese government will be unified, one voice will speak......

Hehe, that's too mysterious.

Man is not good for himself, and the heavens and the earth will be destroyed. For the sake of the Grand Duke can be 'selfless', but for the sake of the Grand Duke to harm himself and others, it will be terrifying. There may be no such people in the world, but they are definitely 'rare animals', and the number is very small

As far as Chen Ming knows, taking the Satsuma Domain as an example, its last lord, Shimazu Tadayoshi, had a great grudge against important figures of the Meiji era, such as Okubo Ritsu and Saigo Takamori. After the death of the previous feudal lord, Shimazu Tadashi, who became the lord of the domain, was unable to control the power of the Satsuma Domain, and the real power of the domain was held by his adoptive grandfather Saiko, his biological father Hisamitsu, his retainer Saigo Takamori, and Okubo Toshimitsu, and Tadayoshi himself. After the Meiji Restoration, together with the Choshu Domain, Tosa Domain, and Saga Domain, the Title Registry was returned. Although he was nominally the governor of the Satsuma Domain, the actual affairs of the domain were managed by Saigo Takamori. In 1871, he was made a duke after the abolition of the feudal domain. Living in Tokyo under the orders of the government is a de facto house arrest.

Therefore, Shimazu Tadayoshi himself hated Saigo and Okubo very much, and was neutral in the Southwest War in 1877. It was not until 1888 that he received permission from the Japanese government to return to Kagoshima.

Shimazu Tadashi was far more than the lord of the domain who had such an experience.

At that time, many feudal lords were overshadowed by their elders, especially many powerful and powerful lords. Because of the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of 'serving and giving advice' to stabilize the world, the daimyo of each feudal domain had to go to Edo every year to perform government affairs for the shogun for a period of time, and then return to their own territory to carry out government affairs. Japan is also typical of mountains and few places, and transportation is inconvenient. The time of the daimyo in Edo was mandatory, and the journey to Edo took a lot of time. Often, a daimyo spent only one-third of his time in the domain, and the other two-thirds of the time was either in Edo, on the way to Edo, or on the way back to the territory. Especially those who are far away from the outside of the daimyo, the territory is remote, and once you go back and forth, there is not much time left in the year. And the consequence of the daimyo not being in the territory for a long time is that the power is lost. The military and political power in the domain could only be handed over to the retainers. Over time, by the end of the shogunate, many daimyo had been hollowed out by their retainers. Of course, the number of retainers is generally large, and their individual strength is relatively weak, and a single retainer is not capable of holding power alone.

Therefore, although Chen Ming's means of counterbalancing Japan are simple, he personally believes that they are very effective.

The power of the shogunate and local daimyo is stable! As long as this is guaranteed, Japan will not be able to get rid of the reins. As for whether Japan will set off a downward change in a few decades and truly form a unified regime, Chen Ming does not care. He is well aware of his own abilities, and his political vision is far from seeing the pattern of changes in this time and space in a few decades. So he didn't think about it at all.

A few decades later, a part of Japan's elite, the samurai, should have been absorbed and digested by China. And at that time, how strong China's strength will be, Chen Ming himself can't see clearly. If China's carriage can move according to his expected track, it won't take too long, and China will be a real dragon in 20 years. At that time, even if Japan grows into a powerful wolf, as long as their brains are not stupid, they should know how to face the dragon next to them.

"Your Majesty...... why are you so concerned about this small country?"

Liu Wanyun is a hundred puzzled. In her impression, Japan is too small and too small, and looking at the huge disparity in the proportion between China and Japan, small Japan is simply not worth mentioning. The block shown on the map is not as big as '3,000 miles of rivers and mountains'. It's not worth Chen Ming's bothering at all. But as Chen Ming's pillow person, she knows very well how much Chen Ming has paid attention to Japan these days.

Liu Bangyun, who is in his twenties, is like a ripe peach, Chen Ming is full of arms in his arms, "Isn't Japan worth paying attention to?" ”

"A small country, what is there to see?" For Japan, Liu Bangyun subconsciously feels that it is a BT country. Except for some fish and seafood, pigs, sheep and poultry are not eaten. What is not a stupid country? It's no wonder that people are so short everywhere.

Chen Ming smiled slightly, his right hand stroking her smooth back. He knew that Liu Bangyun was still a bit of a 'grudge'.

In the second half of this year, several sons and daughters are going to school, and Chen Ming was going to go to the court on the day he was supposed to go, but because of the news that suddenly came from Japan, Chen Ming missed the appointment. Women are just a little petty, which touches their sensitive points, and small things will be firmly remembered.

"This country has a population of more than 20 million people......"

Despite the small size of Japan, it has always had a large population from ancient times to the present. Chen Ming vaguely remembered a post he had read in his previous life, Japan had a population of two or three million during the Tang Dynasty. For more than 1,000 years, the population has been among the top 10 in the world in many cases.

"So much?" Liu Bangyun's eyes widened in surprise.

"What? Surprised? ”

"The concubine really didn't expect it. Japan, a small land, will have a much larger population than North Korea......"

When Chen Ming heard the word 'North Korea', the corners of his mouth curled up with a smile. Someone reported that the population of North Korea exceeded 10 million, and he had the impression that the population of North Korea in this era seemed to be 10 million. However, after the reconquest of Seoul, the number of arable land, population, and taxes collected from many abandoned yamen showed that the population recorded by the government was only more than 5 million before the Manchu invasion, and the military intelligence bureau also found out about the proportion of the population that was hidden, and the total population was definitely less than 10 million, that is, 8 or 9 million people.

Of course, for North Korea, there is no need to compete for this.

Now there is a tacit understanding between North Korea and China, Li Yu is not qualified to ascend the throne of the Joseon king, but he is the only seedling left in the entire Korean royal family, so he can only wait for this Ye An An to give birth to the little prince. This is the orthodox king of Korea in the future!

So now there is only a regent in Korea, and there is no king in Korea. The already collapsed ruling power of the royal family was divided up a lot by the civil ministers and military generals below. In other words, the current North Korea has a bit of the pattern of Tang Dynasty feudal towns.

Those who held military power, such as Min Hong-ho, now moved most of the family's population to Kaesong, across the Hwanghaedo Province to the north, maintaining a strong deterrent to Seoul, which was close at hand, and the Seoul dynasty could not do anything about him. It is also necessary to supply Min Hongxun who is staying in Seoul highly.

Now the entire Seoul court is a place where powerful local spokesmen and supporters of the central government coexist. And over time, those supporters of Li Di may not evolve into new feudal towns, such as the Anton Kim clan. After suffering several blows, Andong Kim still retains a certain strength and has firmly established a foundation in Gyeongsang-do.

Li Yu himself is just a signboard, and it is only because of the shroud of China behind him that he is respected by everyone. He has now secretly handed over the watch to Nanjing, hoping to take advantage of the New Year's stall to come to Nanjing to meet him.

"Hmm......" A sudden snort spat out from Liu Bangyun's mouth. Chen Ming didn't know when the long sword had been sheathed, and soon, the endless pleasure made Liu Bangyun forget all about Japan and North Korea...... (To be continued.) )