Chapter 185: The Eight-Nation Alliance's Scourge of the Wa Kingdom: Return to the Future
Trembling out of Tokugawa Ieyasu's big tent, Tokugawa Hidetada saw his father's angry appearance for the first time.
But soon, Tokugawa Ieyasu's face returned to calm, and no one knew why he was able to recover so quickly, but all those who knew him well knew that he had made his final decision.
"We, agree to Corning's terms."
For a moment, everyone around them fell silent, which meant that the eight reidom countries in the center of the entire Japanese archipelago would fall into the hands of an outsider in accordance with the law.
The public will definitely be very dissatisfied with this, and they will definitely accuse the samurai of giving up their dignity as a samurai, how can they sell their land to outsiders!
But Tokugawa Ieyasu was ready to ignore the accusations from the public.
It's not like he hasn't done this kind of thing, and he doesn't have to worry about those guys who only have lip service.
In fact, the most worthy of Tokugawa Ieyasu's concern are the princes of the imperial kingdom who were originally divided. If they were unwilling to accede to Tokugawa Ieyasu's request for resealing, then they were likely to simply join Kanning.
At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu would lose not only land, but also the confidence of more princes.
Tokugawa Ieyasu seems to have foreseen the worst-case scenario, that is, the princes who had already begun to be loyal to him will be divided again, and when the Japanese archipelago, which was already close to unity, will fall back into division, and the conquest of each other may be even more serious than in the Warring States period.
It seems that this time he needs to put forward a generous enough offer to be able to induce the princes to agree to hand over their fiefdoms and then take over another unfamiliar fief elsewhere.
This is a very troublesome job, and at this juncture, the threat to Tokugawa Ieyasu may even be greater than the transportation of grain and grass in the wind and snow.
But Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't have any other choice, since he knew that Kangning's strength was not enough to cause him too much damage, but a lose-lose situation was not something he wanted to see.
In the end, he still gave the order to transfer the seal, even if the subsequent development process did not surprise him much, because those princes decisively expressed their dissatisfaction.
There are also people who are ready to join Corning, but the Corning cover shows no sign of accepting them. There were also those who were prepared to defend their fiefdoms, and even if Tokugawa Ieyasu no longer sheltered them, they would put up the most stubborn resistance when Corning took over the territory.
Unlike Tokugawa Ieyasu's sorrow, Kangning's attitude towards this is surprisingly cold, he seems to be indifferent to their latest developments, but directly and simply put pressure on Tokugawa Ieyasu, and he made it clear that if those residents are unwilling to move, he will not hesitate to detain the second wave of emissaries.
Such an attitude undoubtedly angered Tokugawa Ieyasu. But if Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't expect such a situation at first, it was obviously also a statement that he was sorry for the old fox's IQ, and he was able to send his little wife and daughter-in-law to participate in the negotiations, he must have expected that these people would be taken hostage as a bargaining chip to blackmail him.
Tokugawa Ieyasu still refused to brave the snow and supply difficulties to go to war, so he chose to enjoy the coercion of Corning, and instead passed on the threat of Corning to the princes.
However, the residents still delayed Tokugawa Ieyasu's order for various reasons. Some of them were genuinely reluctant to leave their long-established fiefdoms, while others were always looking to use the excuses they could find to get more out of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The correspondence between the two sides has heated up a lot of roads in this snowy winter. The final result was a unified evacuation of the original fiefdom in the spring of the following year.
The results of this negotiation quickly reached Kangning's hands, and it was also quickly passed through Kangning to Boss Huang.
Boss Huang is particularly happy about this, which means that he will have a solid enough base to expand his strength in East Asia.
In order to ensure the rapid development of this base area, he finally decided to start implementing that dangerous plan.
For a time-traveler like him, the golden finger was a secret that he should protect all his life, but this time, he decided to reveal the mysteries of the scriptures to a native, at least the natives he thought he had, to ensure that there were enough people who could help him deal with the increasingly complicated affairs.
The clippers brought Boss Huang's latest orders to Corning, and subsequently, Corning was taken to the Ryukyu Islands. The defense of Awaji Island and its surroundings was handed over to another henchman of Boss Huang, Xuanyuan 14.
Kang Ning is not worried that during the period of time he is away, his position will be completely replaced, after all, many of his subordinates are completely loyal to his personality, but Xuanyuan 14 should be worried that he will be vacated here.
After Kangning came to the Ryukyu Kingdom, Boss Huang invited him into his study. He knew that no matter what he saw in the study, he had to put on an indigenous expression and not reveal his true identity as a traverser.
Therefore, when he saw the familiar globe and the familiar computer, he treated these familiar things with a curious and awe-inspiring look.
Boss Huang was obviously very satisfied with his performance, and he took the trouble to show Corning the magic of these things, the earth symbolized by the globe was the place where they lived, and the globe from 400 years later marked many eastern places that were not on the Western map at that time.
For example, the Australian continent is obviously already in Boss Huang's development plan.
And that computer is a representative product of the third industrial revolution, or the information technology revolution. However, what made Kangning a little puzzled was how Boss Huang provided electricity to this guy.
And this computer still looks a little old, the display is an old-fashioned CRT, and the host is equipped with a floppy drive that Corning is not familiar with, which is obviously a relatively rudimentary product, perhaps this means that Boss Huang did not travel from his time.
Boss Huang didn't know what he was thinking, he just asked Kang Ning to close his eyes, and then quietly took a ring off his finger.
Corning felt only a tingling sensation, and he guessed that perhaps he had returned to the future, to that familiar, but somewhat unfamiliar, time.
During this time, he unnaturally remembered the past, which was beyond the previous events, and the scenes began to play out like a movie in front of her eyes, and among them, the event that caused his death was unforgettable. (To be continued.) )