It wasn't until nearly a month later that Chen Jisheng, Li Xingzhong, Li Gui and others negotiated and reached a condition with the Tsushima clan that they were sent to Beijing and the Forbidden City by Bi Denghan, deputy of the Jinyi Guard of Yingzhou Town, and his party.

Those who crossed the sea with Bi Denghan to come to the Ming Dynasty were also the old monk Guibo Xuanfang, who was the most trusted to Zong Yoshicheng, the lord of the Ma Domain, and Yanagawa Tiaoxing, the old family of the Tsushima Domain.

Guibo Genfang and Yanagawa Choxing, as the chief envoy and deputy envoy of the Tsushima Domain this time, before coming to the Ming Dynasty, had been to Seoul, North Korea in this era, and also went to Edo Castle, where the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Tsushima Domain belonged, and they could be regarded as the most well-informed figures in the Tsushima Domain.

However, when they followed Bidenham by boat through Phi Island, then crossed the sea and landed in Tianjin, and then took a spacious four-wheeled carriage from Tianjin, and at a surprising speed, along the newly completed Beijing-Tianjin official road, and came to the city of Daming Jingshi, Gui Bo Xuanfang and Liu Chuan Tiaoxing knew in their hearts that there was such a majestic and magnificent city in this world!

"The Heavenly Empire should be like this!"

"This is what the capital of a great country should look like!"

Rao is two people are well-informed, but they have never seen a city of this scale.

And since they landed in Tianjin, what they have seen and heard along the way has been an eye-opener for the two.

It was also at this time that the two of them realized that the defeat of the small Tsushima Domain in the hands of such a Celestial Empire was not wronged at all.

On the contrary, after the two of them followed the carriage into the capital of the Ming Dynasty, they were secretly glad that it was an honor for the Ma Zong clan to be able to pay tribute to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of which, it's not that these two people haven't seen the world, and the Tsushima clan couldn't even carry the Korean army back then, and it is precisely by paying tribute to the Korean king again and again in history that they can be regarded as surviving until now.

If there is a thigh like Daming that the Heavenly Empire can hold them, what else do they have to hesitate about?

In the past, the reason why the Tsushima clan never paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty was because they did not have this qualification.

During the Wanli period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi rose in the chaos of Japan's Warring States Period, which was also the most powerful time in Japan before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and the Wanli Emperor once thought of wooing Toyotomi Hideyoshi and sent an envoy to prepare to canonize him as the king of Japan.

This was the only attempt in history by the Ming Dynasty to give Japan the opportunity to include it in the tributary system of feudal vassals.

However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was arrogant to the extreme, believing that it was a humiliation for the Wanli Emperor to crown him king of Japan and put him on the same level as the king of Korea and the king of the Ryukyus, so he refused to accept it.

After that, the Ming Dynasty army under the Wanli Emperor defeated Japan under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which attempted to occupy Korea and then used Korea as a springboard to occupy China, and the Ming Dynasty turned a blind eye to the Japanese archipelago.

And Japan was also closed off from then on, and did not dare to look west for the next 300 years.

As for the feudal states under the Japanese shogunate such as the Tsushima Domain, the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty did not look at it squarely at all, and naturally they never had the will to send people over to dig the foot of the Japanese wall.

If it weren't for the current Emperor Chongzhen, who had previously taken the opportunity of the Korean envoy to congratulate him to make a big fuss, and asked Li Xingzhong to lead the Dongjiang Sailor to ask for the crime, then the Ming Dynasty and Japan might still develop in peace.

So why did Emperor Chongzhen do this now?

At this time, the Tohoku Jianyu had not been eliminated, and the thieves in the northwest were still threatened, so why bother to provoke the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan by making extraneous branches?

You must know that the shogunate at this time has just closed the country, don't bother it, wouldn't it be better to let it go further on the road of locking the country?

For Japan, Emperor Chongzhen has complicated feelings, but as long as he can destroy it with confidence, he will naturally never be soft.

It's just that he knows that before he eliminates Jianyu, pacifies the thieves, and straightens out the interior, there is a huge risk in destroying Japan, and he won't do it.

This is also the reason why in this life he once ordered the Yingzhou Town Guard to control the ships of the sailors under his command and not to harass the Japanese mainland easily.

Because, now is not the time to attack Japan.

However, not attacking Japan does not mean that he cannot prepare for an attack on Japan in the future, especially since there are things that he needs very much on the Japanese archipelago.

That's silver, a lot of silver.

Just west of the northern waters of Tsushima Island, the Iwami Domain, once the name of the Iwami Domain during Japan's Warring States Period, had the world's largest silver mine for 300 years from the 16th to the 19th century.

Of course, during the Chongzhen period, neither the Western explorers who went to the Japanese archipelago again and again in search of the Silver Islands, nor the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, did not realize this.

But Emperor Chongzhen, who came from later generations, knew it clearly, but in this situation, he had no way to say it to anyone else.

Before the collapse of the Muromachi shogunate in Japan, the quality of Iwami Kuni's silver mines and high production had been discovered by some knowledgeable daimyo in Japan.

Therefore, as soon as the Sengoku period in Japan arrived, Iwami Province became the object of competition among various powerful daimyos.

Because of this, this Iwami country quickly perished, first becoming the territory of Oda Nobunaga, and after the death of Oda Nobunaga, this place of Iwami Domain became the territory of the Mori clan.

After the rise of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Mori clan was attached to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the place of Iwami was returned to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and it was by relying on Iwami's silver mines that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was able to buy a large number of muskets, and unification Japan, not to mention, it was impossible to conquer Korea, and then conquer China.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi collapsed and Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan again, the Mori clan lost this territory, and Tokugawa Ieyasu took Iwami as a direct domain of his shogunate and brought it under his control.

However, although the Japanese people of this era knew that there were silver mines in this area, they did not know the scale of this silver mine, nor did they know that Iwami was not the only one in the area where they had been mining for hundreds of years.

The Dutch East India Company, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards, who repeatedly sent ships north in search of Treasure Island or the Silver Islands, were able to deduce from the fact that Japan continued to flow large quantities of silver that Japan must have hidden a large amount of silver that was easy to mine, but they did not know the location of this silver mine.

In particular, the gold mines on the island of Hokkaido were also not known by many people in this era.

Although many Japanese lumberjacks have picked up large pieces of placer gold in many mountain streams in Hokkaido, it has not spread.

Moreover, at this time, the Tokugawa shogunate itself had not yet begun to send troops north to seize Hokkaido, which was still called Ezo Island at this time.

Fortunately, no one in this era knows these things, but now this Emperor Chongzhen knows a rough idea.

Although there is no way to say these things to people, with his current emperor's respect, it is possible to let the sailors of the Dongjiang go to Tsushima Island to ask for the guilt, and take the opportunity to push the forces of the Ming Dynasty's sailors further north from Yingzhou Island, and without arousing the vigilance of the Tokugawa shogunate, to the north of the Tsushima Strait, closer to the coast of the Iwami Domain.

If this matter is opened, of course, it is not a difficult matter, although it was proved afterwards that Emperor Chongzhen did underestimate it, but if all the forces of Dongjiang Town are pressed up, it is not difficult to destroy it all.

The real difficulty in this matter lies in not too much irritation of the Tokugawa shogunate and arouse the vigilance of the Tokugawa shogunate, but also not let Anton Hou Mao Wenlong and Pyongyang Bo Liu Xingzuo know about it too early.

As the saying goes, you can't have the heart to harm others, but you can't do without the heart to prevent people.

Now this Chongzhen Emperor has no plans to clean up these two people one day in the future, but he can't guard against them a little.

One is that they are worried that they will not be able to bear it and make a big plan, which will not only stimulate the Tokugawa shogunate and create a strong enemy for themselves, but also once the attention turns to Japan, it is easy for the later Jin country to pick up the cheap.

The other is also worried that they have really gotten the silver mine and regenerated their dissenting minds.

Therefore, all these things, Emperor Chongzhen has been hidden deep in his heart in the past few years, even after Mao Weizhang went to occupy Yingzhou Island according to the emperor's reminder, Emperor Chongzhen did not say a little bit about him.