Surrounded by mountains and rivers, it is quiet.

Zhu Jishi, the great emperor, followed his Japanese imperial concubine, Tokugawa Akiko, through the rocky paths, which were full of respectful and solemn kimono female officials. Zhu Jishi looked around with some curiosity, the architectural style of this Ojin Palace City is completely Chinese-style garden, and it is a royal garden of the Ming Dynasty at all!

This Tokugawa Akiko really built a "Summer Palace" in Japan!

Zhu Jishi's trip to Hawaii was over, and the negotiations with Prince Albert and Viscount Palmerston were also smooth, and finally a "Hawaii Secret Treaty" was signed, the content of which was of course related to the United States, stipulating the positions and obligations of the four countries of Daming, France, Great Britain, and Mexico and their vassals in the future American Civil War, as well as the draft of the distribution of interests after the war...... Speaking of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, of course, we can't fail to mention the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Kingdom of Siam and the Empire of Japan, which are three somewhat special existences.

These three kingdoms, in the eyes of the international community, are all subject countries of the Ming Empire! However, these three countries never accepted the official canonization of the Ming Dynasty, and they still maintained independent diplomacy - this clearly violated the principle of "no diplomacy in a vassal state". But to say that these three kingdoms are not vassals of the Ming Dynasty doesn't seem to be very opposed. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom now calls Zhu Jishi "Uncle Tianshu True Holy Emperor", a generation higher than Hong Xiuquan, and is obviously the number one person in the world who worships God! And the Kingdom of Siam, which is the only one who obeys the orders of the Ming Dynasty, has even privately asked for canonization, and this vassal seems to have made up his mind.

As for Japan, the situation is a bit complicated, the name of the female emperor of Tongzhi is very large, and there is a day before the emperor character, which seems to be a little older than the emperor of Zhu Jishi. It's just a big one. and the Son of God. Of course, I can't pull my face down and call Daming a minister...... In fact, there is nothing to be called a minister. But Emperor Zhu crowned her a female king at most, which would be a downgrade and damage the emperor's face. Therefore, the Tokugawa shogunate did not want to stir up controversy in vain, and the matter of the minister's title was not mentioned. However, the national policy of keeping up with the footsteps of the Ming Empire at home and abroad is unwavering, and in the last war against Russia, it sent 70,000 or 80,000 troops to follow and help the war, and it also showed excellent performance and made great contributions. It's like a vicious dog raised by the Ming Empire. This time, Zhu Jishi had already negotiated with Britain and France on the price of sending troops to the United States, and on the way back from Hawaii, he naturally had to stop in Japan.

The Ming Empire wants to fight, how can the small Japanese Empire not send troops to help? Even if the Tokugawa shogunate didn't have this idea, the millions of unemployed samurai in the country would not have agreed-everyone was looking forward to the stars, the moon, and this day!

"Your Majesty, I can send troops to Japan...... 100,000! While leading Emperor Zhu to visit the "Otsu Palace", Tokugawa Akiko had already calculated the scale of sending troops to help the war.

"100,000? So much? Zhu Jishi stopped and looked at Tokugawa Akiko, who had been raised from Lori to a.

"Hay." Akiko nodded slightly. "Your Majesty, the biggest problem facing Japan at the moment. It's the samurai who are unemployed! If you can really send 100,000 troops to the Americas, it will really do Japan a great favor. ”

"Samurai...... Unemployment? Is it because of the combination of public and military? "Zhu Jishi has not paid much attention to Japan's affairs in the past two years - this country has almost been fooled and lame by him!

Uh, really lame! The problem in Japan is similar to that in Mexico, which is the large real estate system. The Tokugawa clan owned one-eighth of Japan's land, and the 300 largest landlords owned more than 70 percent of Japan's land, while the common people, who accounted for about 90 percent of the population, basically did not have an inch of land. Needless to say, the sharp class contradictions and so on, these large landlords alone have no enterprising spirit, and only know how to live a good life as officials, and do not invest in industry and commerce to promote economic development, which is enough to give the Tokugawa shogunate a headache -- in contrast, those small and medium-sized landlords of the Ming Dynasty (even the big landlords cannot be compared with Japan, there is a 10,000 acres of land is already incredible), after the age of the imperial examination, there are more people who put their minds on management.

And another thing that caused the shogunate even more headache was that a large number of low-level samurai were unemployed in the process of "public and military integration"!

"Your Majesty, before the merger of the public and military forces, there were 450,000 samurai in all of Japan who received their salaries." Tokugawa Akiko said with a bitter face, "And after the combination of the public and military, the shogunate can't afford to raise so many samurai anyway, and now the shogunate has to pay more than 10 million yuan a year just for debt interest!" The disposable income is less than 15 million yuan, but it has to support 180,000 officials and 70,000 troops, and life is really miserable. ”

Bitter to the extreme? Zhu Jishi looked around, this garden was covered magnificently to the extreme, and the female officials who served were all dressed in brocade clothes, not to mention Tokugawa Akiko himself, who couldn't take down tens of thousands of silver dollars inside and out.

Mingzi pouted and looked at Emperor Zhu with a melancholy expression, as if he was complaining, "The shogunate only has this little financial resources, so nearly 200,000 samurai have been laid off, although the daimyo and banner have hired some samurai after returning the copyright, but there are still too many unemployed, plus the original ronin, I'm afraid it's not under 900,000!" If it weren't for the fact that some warriors had found jobs in Daming and Mexico, this number would have increased by tens of thousands. ”

900,000 samurai with one sword and one life, it's really enough to pierce your hands.

"How can there be so many?" Zhu Jishi was a little surprised.

"Including samurai who are underage and too old to become a warrior, as long as men with samurai status are included, there are about 1.2 million in all of Japan! Among them, there are no less than five or six hundred thousand in the prime of life. Now there are more than 300,000 people who have no way to arrange, what a hurry! ”

Zhu Jishi shook his head, "Didn't you develop New Japan and Ezo Island?" ”

"There aren't many people arranged." Akiko shook her head and said with a wry smile, "Samurai are not farmers and herdsmen, most people dream of becoming a military officer or joining the army, and it would be very troublesome if they didn't fight all the time." ”

Is it no wonder that the impulse to expand in Japan's history was so strong, probably to find a way for these hundreds of thousands of unemployed samurai?

Fortunately, the Ming Empire was no longer an industrial power that Japan could offend......

However, these hundreds of thousands of stabs and deaths have to be arranged, otherwise it will be a scourge sooner or later.

"Then prepare to recruit 150,000!" Zhu Jishi thought for a while and said. Of course, he knows that the North of the United States is not so easy to deal with, and in the end it is an industrialized country with a population of more than 20 million! And it's also a country of mobs where everyone has guns, and it's possible to mobilize an army of 3 million. If the South wants to win, it needs at least 2 million troops! It is impossible to get together so many people by relying on the population of the south. Unless it's a land exchange for soldiers!

"Can you really arrange that much?" Akiko Tokugawa immediately showed a happy expression. Although there are more than 300,000 unemployed samurai in the prime of life, some of them have fathers and brothers who have already died, and they will not starve to death. The real prime-aged samurai who have no food and clothing are only a dozen or two hundred thousand.

"150,000 can definitely be arranged, but ...... After this battle, I am afraid that they will not be able to return to Japan. ”

Tokugawa Akiko was stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhu Jishi in some surprise: "Can't come back?" Does the emperor mean that they will all die in battle and become gods? ”

"No, not that much. I'm saying that the survivors among them will become Americans, Akiko, you don't have a problem, right? ”

"Becoming American?" Tokugawa Akiko was stunned and stunned, looking like she didn't quite understand.

Zhu Jishi smiled and said: "Now the population of the southern United States is very small, less than 6 million, but the land occupied is more than seven or eight times that of Japan, and almost all of it is flat land that can be cultivated. In addition, the western United States is much more empty than the south, and the land is seven or eight times the size of Japan, with a population of only 1.5 million...... It's much easier to survive there than it is in Japan. ”

"Oh, that's right." Akiko Tokugawa laughed, "That's great, if we can get all the unemployed samurai from all over Japan to go to the United States, the world of family luck will be able to sit back and relax." ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, "There is a chance, Mingzi, I will definitely help with this favor, there is a lot to be done in the Americas!" (To be continued......)