In the second year of Ernee in Japan, that is, the 145th year of the Chongzhen Emperor era implemented in China, and in 1773 of the Western calendar. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, Japan was in a relatively prosperous period, the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune implemented the Tokugawa Shogunate's enboage reform, to a certain extent to save the Tokugawa shogunate's vitality, the ninth shogun Tokugawa Ishige continued to implement this reform, but the latter lacked ability, compared with his father, the Tokugawa shogunate's rule in Japan did not continue to improve, but deteriorated, but the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate reform still existed. Tokugawa Ishige was born with a weak constitution, and he died at the age of fifty.

The current shogun, Tokugawa Ieji, is already the tenth. It has been thirteen years since the 10th year of the Hori (1760) succession, but the luck of the Tokugawa family has fallen, that is, there are no good birds. Tokugawa Ieji prefers to play chess rather than handle government affairs himself. When he first inherited the throne, he was able to devote himself to managing politics with Matsudaira Takemoto and others, but after Tanuma Yiji became an old man, Tokugawa Isaharu formed a government affair entrusted to Yiji, and he buried himself in things such as shogi, which he liked.

"My lord, Tanuma Yoshiji is now gradually being isolated by the shogunate's important ministers." Tang Feipeng warmly entertained Xiao Jian in front of him in his luxurious residence in Edo, a big man who had just stepped down from Guangdong, and this time he came to Japan with a heavy responsibility.

"Although there is Western learning [Orchid Studies] in this Japan, the Xianxue is still Zhu Zi Confucianism. Confucianism, heavy agriculture and suppression of business. In addition, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Edo shogunate, was born in Shoya (village representative, one of the three local servants), and the Edo shogunate's governance philosophy has a strong agricultural color. In Japan, samurai business was looked down upon. However, Tanuma Yoshiji was seriously injured by the peasants, and if he took commerce as the first priority to improve the shogunate's finances, he could only be said to be in the same boat as the merchants and filled his pockets. ”

Xiao Jian nodded faintly when he heard this, Tang Feipeng has done a good job in Japan in recent years, although there is strong support from China for Chen Han, and he has made every effort to supply all kinds of high-end luxury goods needed by the Japanese magnates, but Tian Nush Yiji is also a figure who cannot be bypassed.

This man came to power six years ago and made significant changes to promote trade in Nagasaki, while exporting copper and seafood (dried abalone, sea cucumbers, shark fins) to replace the large outflow of gold and silver, and to facilitate the import of gold and silver. In addition, he recognized the Chamber of Commerce, increased the amount of money (similar to corporate tax), and expanded the monopoly system to promote the shogunate's own business.

At the same time by the planned development of Ezo and trade against Russia. At this time, Russian exploration ships had already begun to appear in Japanese waters, and the Japanese scholar Kudo Heisuke also wrote the "Red Ezo Wind Theory", which advocated national defense. Tanuma Yoshiji had always hoped to protect Japan from the Russian threat through the establishment of official diplomatic relations and trade with Russia. Like the Manchu dealings with Russia in Kyakhta, they were constrained by bilateral interests. ”

"Tanuma Yoshiji's policy ideas are contrary to Japan's current political ideology, so Tanuma Yoshiji's reputation is very stinky." And Tang Feipeng's establishment in Japan so quickly is inseparable from a series of reforms by Tanuma Yoshiji.

"I'm a businessman. In the past dynasties of the Celestial Empire, how many times have you heard that a businessman can become a guest of honor as the prime minister of the dynasty? Even Tang Feipeng himself had a little contempt for Tian Nush Yiji, thinking that he was too down. It is not false at all that outsiders attack Tanuma Yoshiji for corruption and bribery, and the extravagant life of Ueda Yoshiji is very Zhang Juzheng's demeanor.

Japan is willing to export copper, Tang Feipeng bought copper on a large scale, and China will never be too much copper. Especially for the minting of small coins, how much copper will be used to cover the world?

At a time when copper production in Yunnan has almost ceased production, and copper mining in Jiangxi has just begun, China needs a large amount of copper.

At the same time, he also purchased high-quality natural sulfur from Japan again and again, which is cheaper than Taiwan's, and the quantity is also large. In this way, Tang Feipeng's true face was almost leaked out, but by the time everyone could determine the origin behind Tang Feipeng, the Fu Han army had already captured the entire southern country. The Tokugawa shogunate was lame in the brain to expel Tang Feipeng.

In the early years, the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of Chen Han, who still took beef and mutton as treasures, have now begun to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, bird's nest, shark fin, sea cucumber and abalone. Every year, a considerable part of the high-end mountain and seafood imported into the capital comes from Japan. This is not to say that these are not produced along China's coastal areas, but because of the war, China's production of dry seafood has not been completely restored, and it is unable to form a 'trading market' with abundant and concentrated supplies.

The Internal Affairs Department can purchase a single cent of seafood of guaranteed quality from Japan with one point of effort, but it takes two or three points of effort to acquire the same amount of sea goods in China. Although the ratio of supply and demand for Japanese seafood has been decreasing with the recent recovery of the domestic industry, the Chinese market is too large. Tang Feipeng will not lose anything in business.

For Tanuma Yiji, Tang Feipeng doesn't care who is standing behind him, the meaning of his existence, and the meaning he represents, that is, a living golden galaxy. Moreover, Tang Feipeng was already his guest before he revealed his true line, so he had no reason not to be very friendly to the current Tang Feipeng.

Not to mention that when the Manchus were shy in their pockets, they brazenly entered North Korea and used the wealth of North Korea to make up for their own anemia. Although this move was only the disaster of the Qing Dynasty, it also caused Japan to feel a chill.

Japan is just a body of water away from North Korea.

Tensions spread from the Mutsu, Hazen, and Hango domains in northern Honshu to Kyushu and Shikoku.

Tokugawa Isaharu had no intention of playing his favorite game of Go anymore in those days, and held meetings with the shogunate ministers and daimyo from all over the country, even though the daimyo of the feudal kingdoms on the western coast of Japan were all foreign daimyos, and the Tokugawa shogunate had to give up their previous suspicions under threat. As a result, they became worrisome.

In any case, the whole of Japan is very concerned about the changes in China's political situation.

From the rise of the Han army to the growth of the army, from the division of the land of the four wars in southwest Henan, to the sweep of the south of the Yangtze River, the attitude of the Japanese towards it was first to see the liveliness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then to be stunned, only to feel that there was a hallucination in front of them.

It's amazing, it's terrifying. It's like an ant who married the elephant back home, and a few days later got the elephant pregnant. It's too shocking, there is wood? It's only been a few years, huh? The Fu Han army completed the transformation from the army to the emperor's foundation. And the battle between the Fu Han army and the Qing army was almost a sure victory. Attack everything, defend like gold!

Since Toyotomi Hideyoshi made a move on North Korea more than 100 years ago, but was knocked back by the two sticks of Yu Yong in the Ming Dynasty at the end of the period, Japan has never had a moth, and has honestly shrunk on three small islands, closed off the country, and lived its own stable life. They despised the Manchus, but they were no strangers to the great events that took place in China.

Since Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, he has leveled the two quasi-departments and destroyed the Dzungaria; Pinghui Department, Dingding Xinjiang. The Qing Dynasty martial arts are thriving!

Even in Japan, they all know the name of Qianlong's prosperous era, but at the peak of such a dynasty, in just a few years, he was beaten by a rebel army and was dying. Xiao Jian didn't know how curious and respectful Japan was for the Fu Han Army!

Japan, which admires Zhuzi's Confucianism, is not like a hundred and twenty years later, when it scoffed at everything that China had to offer. Their magnates may have contempt for the Manchus, but they began to have absolute respect for Chinese culture. And the specific expression of Chinese culture is no longer than the word 'Han'.

Just three words of the Han Army can win a certain amount of respect from Japan. And Chen Han also completed an incredible miracle!

Of course, this is not to say that the Japanese will take China on their heads and think that they are inferior to China in everything. Japan is not Korea, it is no longer a vassal state of China, and after being hit twice by Wanli, Japan will live its own life behind closed doors.

Today, China's influence on Japan, apart from a little economic factor, is all left with historical and cultural factors. If Xiao Jian had arrived in Edo on an open and honest ship at this time, he would have received the highest courtesy from all over Japan.

"I have come to Japan for two reasons, first, my official and his entourage, as well as your ministry, to have a comprehensive and systematic understanding of Japanese society. From public opinion and people's livelihood to commerce, handicrafts and foreign trade, from finance to the number and life of the samurai class, to the contradictions between local daimyo and the Tokugawa shogunate, and between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Japanese emperor. The military strength of the local daimyo and the military strength of the Tokugawa shogunate...... "It can be said that this is a comprehensive survey of Japanese society. That's a lot of work! There must also be Tang Feipeng's cooperation.

"Second, you're going to see Tanuma Yoshiji. Tell the shogunate the news that the Russian cavalry has appeared in the Great Northwest and that Russia has stood opposite our Great Han. Then he said to Tanuma Yoshiji that the king was very dissatisfied with the fact that the king of Japan dared to claim the title of emperor. There is also a small island in Japan, which is named after 'Kyushu', which is ridiculous. And the Japanese Satsuma Domain, the lord of a district, dared to oppress the Ryukyu, a vassal state of the Upper Kingdom, which is extremely hateful! "I didn't say that I wanted the Japanese emperor and Kyushu Island to change their names, but they just leaked the news. Then point out that the Tokugawa shogunate's eyes are a thorn in the flesh of the Satsuma Domain, and they dare to oppress the vassal states of the upper country, and they are going to be unlucky. It's up to the shogunate to choose!

Kyushu Island is a gathering place for Japan's foreign daimyos, and the so-called 'foreign daimyos' in Japan are the daimyo who were forced to surrender in the Battle of Sekigahara, and some of them have strong strength, such as the Maeda Toshiya domain of the Kaga Domain, the Shimazu Tadatsune domain of the Satsuma Domain, and the Date Masamune domain of the Sendai Domain.

In the original time and space, because most of the territories of the daimyo were outside the sea, during the period of Japan's lockdown, it was the easiest place to communicate and contact with foreign forces, such as Choshu and Satsuma, and the cultural, political and military were the most influenced by the West, and the military strength was strong, and they all became the main force of the downfall. But it's not a hundred years now!

Chen Ming thought about the Japanese with bad taste, how would the Tokugawa shogunate react to his 'dissatisfaction'?

The war in the South Seas has gradually subsided, and if the South Sea Fleet left its main forces in Singapore and Sulu, it would be a counter-suppression of the Netherlands and Spain. Chen Ming is not like provoking a war now!

He has already made the Military Intelligence Bureau deploy in the South Seas. Before completely turning the other cheek with Spain and the Netherlands, the Fu Han army needed to get the rubber tree seeds in their hands first, or in large quantities. Moreover, the naval division units of the Fu Han Army are now in a period of replacement.

A large number of old ships were dismantled and used as target ships.

The first batch of small flying shear bow sailing ships are in the process of intense manufacturing, medium-sized Western-style sailing ships have been manufactured, and shipbuilding technology has spread, several large shipyards in the Fu Han Army are manufacturing medium-sized sailing ships of more than 500 tons and less than 1,000 tons, the combination of large sailing ships and watertight compartment technology, as well as the application of flying shear bow, etc., are still in the 'experiment'. Of course, the training of the operators of the Western-style sailing ships of the Fu Han Army is also in full swing.

At this time, Chen Ming could deal with Japan without pressure, but he didn't want to get involved with Spain and the Netherlands.

In the future, the bilateral struggle will still control large-scale conflicts, various proxy and bribery wars, and the Fu Han army will gradually expand its control area and influence in Nanyang on the basis of not fighting much.

As for the Netherlands and Spain, they have already suffered the bitter fruits, but they still dare to 'do' the expansion of the Fu Han army?

Tang Feipeng has already understood his mission, from today he will no longer be a simple businessman, but still the link between the shogunate and Chen Han, and put on a layer of 'official' brilliance in addition to the identity of a businessman.

Tang Feipeng is not too happy about this, compared to being an official, he is more willing to continue to live like this in the past few years.

"Master." Sakato Ichiro walked respectfully to Tang Feipeng with small steps, knelt down and whispered to him.

A smile appeared on Tang Feipeng's face, "It's okay." Things are going to come little by little. Thank you! "What's wrong with some people not enjoying it? Won't others just take it? Today they enjoyed the women's body, tomorrow they sang the girls, and the day after tomorrow there will be a mixed bath for men and women......

This place in Japan is really Tang Feipeng's paradise.

In addition to doing legitimate business in Japan, Tang Feipeng opened a theater in Osaka, Nagasaki, Kyoto and Edo, which were full of collected beauties and women, and Tang Feipeng was the most lacking.

The next day, Tang Feipeng came to the door to ask to see Tian Nush Yiji, and as expected, the two talked secretly in the afternoon. Then Tang Feipeng walked out of Tian Nu Yiji's house with his front foot, and Tian Nu Yiji hurried to the general's mansion with his back foot.

When Matsudaira Yasufuku, Abe Masayo, and Itakura Katsukiyo hurried to the shogun's mansion, they saw Tokugawa Iyoji with a dignified face and Tanuma Yiji sitting with his hands down.

Tokugawa Isaharu is still immersed in his inner troubles, and the content of Tanuma Yiji's report is too exciting, and he doesn't want to be stimulated. Let the emperor abdicate the throne and change the name to 'Wang', the name of the island of Kyushu, and punish the Satsuma domain......

The Tokugawa family is about to blow up.

Although he would love to see the Satsuma clan fall into bad luck, how could he, as Japan's shogun, sit back and watch this happen? The emperor changed the king, Kyushu changed its name, do you want the face of the Tokugawa shogunate? Do you want Japan's dignity anymore?

It doesn't matter if Tokugawa Isaharu himself steps down, the shogunate's dominance will be greatly shaken.

"General!"

Matsudaira Yasufuku, Abe Masayou, and Itakura Katsukiyo saluted Tokugawa Isaharu respectfully. Tokugawa Isaharu waved his hand at Tanuma Yiji, "This matter was told by Tang Feipeng that Tanuma Yiji, let him tell you in detail." ”

Matsudaira Yasufuku, Abe Masayou, and Itakura Katsukiyo all flashed a touch of dissatisfaction on their faces. Tokugawa Isaharu was too fond of Tanuma Yoshiji. I'm afraid that the three of them are tied together, and they can't compare to a low-level samurai Tanuma Yiji.

But after Tanuma Yoshiji narrated the matter in an unhurried voice, the three old middle schools, Matsudaira Yasufuku, Abe Masayou, and Itakura Katsukiyo, couldn't care about anything else, and their faces were all condensed with disbelief and deep depression!

The Chinese imperial court's perception of Japan was unreliable, and what it lacked was ridiculous. During the Ming Dynasty, they made the shogun the king of Japan many times, and I don't know if they really didn't know that there was an 'emperor' in Japan, or if they turned a blind eye.

China's canonization of Japanese titles is consistent - the king of Japan, the king of the county. The same as the king of Korea. Of course, during the Ming Dynasty, Joseon was too good at kneeling and licking, and was given the title of prince with the same prince, that is, the prince of the county, and enjoyed the treatment of a prince.

However, Japan called itself 'Emperor' in the Tang Dynasty, which was obviously influenced by the titles of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian Emperor and Empress Heaven, but in any case, if this emperor was really changed to 'King of Japan', the prestige of the Tokugawa shogunate could be said goodbye.

"Your Excellency, this matter is very important, in the opinion of the minister, you should gather the lords of the world and discuss together!"

If you want to lose your prestige and destroy your reputation, then everyone will come together, and then the Tokugawa shogunate will be able to secure its position. Matsudaira Kofukudo! (To be continued.) )