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The military strength of the Tang army is also limited, and now most of the Tang army's military strength is concentrated in the Qing State, and the troops in Guwei are only an infantry regiment for rest, as well as German mercenaries. Bai Nan did not intend to fully enter Japan from the beginning, and under the condition that he knew that the output of the attack on Japan would not be particularly impressive, Bai Nan was ready to digest a part of the area first.

The small fleet led by Jiao Qiang caused a huge disaster just by firing thousands of shells at Edo Castle, and not many people died directly from the shelling, but the fire caused by the shelling swept the whole city. More than 100 years ago, Edo Castle was burned by a strong wind when a family cremated the body of a young girl, and eventually destroyed two-thirds of the city. In total, more than 500 daimyo residences, more than 700 Hagimoto mansions, countless samurai residences, more than 300 temples, and more than 400 towns were burned to the fire. The Nishinomaru, Castle Tower, and Honmaru Goten in Edo Castle were all burned down, killing more than 100,000 people and spreading an area of 2,574 hectares.

The fire, known as the Great Fire of the Ming Calendar (Ming Calendar is the name of the era), was one of the worst disasters in Tokyo's history and one of the three largest fires in the history of the world. In the aftermath of the fire, Edo launched an urban renewal plan, set up a number of disaster prevention measures, and rearranged the city. However, despite this, the explosion of high-explosive shells in different areas, as well as the flammable wooden defense and the lack of effective means of firefighting, eventually led to the fire eventually evolving into a scale similar to the Ming Li fire.

The fire was not completely extinguished until the next day, and as the fire spread, more than 30,000 people died and nearly half of the houses were burned. Due to the fact that the turrets and gates of the Honmaru Palace, Ninomaru, and Sannomaru were rebuilt separately, and they were sheltered by the flow of water, the shogun's residence was not completely destroyed this time.

It's just that the shogun Tokugawa Isaharu is standing on the Fujimi turret. Witness the entire city bathed in flames. That night, Tokugawa Ieji watched the fire and stayed awake all night, and when the fire finally subsided the next day, he exclaimed, "It's really like Shuraba!" ”

As the culprit of everything, after the Datang Navy completed the shelling, it did not watch such a drama as burning the Japanese at all. Instead, he left Edo Bay. Jiao Qiang also did not know that his shelling, which was of a venting nature, would bring such a big disaster to the Japanese. But even if he knew about it afterwards, he would only be more relieved.

Jiao Qiang led two frigates to join the navy's supply ships at sea, replenish a new batch of ammunition and coal, and continue his sabotage operation. It is undoubtedly infuriating to think that the Japanese invaders came from the sea and caused trouble on the southeast coast, and at this time the Tang Navy also wreaked havoc along the coast of Japan.

Jiaoqiang attacked coastal cities such as Sunfu and Osaka before and after, although it was not as effective as Edo. But it also caused a lot of damage.

Subsequently, under the direct command of Bai Nan, the 1st Brigade of the 4th Brigade of the Tang Army also joined the battle in Japan. After more than half a year of integration, the Fourth Brigade, which is mainly of Indian ethnicity, is already considered to have initial combat effectiveness. Even most of the Indian soldiers in the army were already able to communicate in simple Chinese and understand the officers' orders. Of course, they were still unable to communicate with the locals after they came to Japan, and deep anti-Japanese activists such as Jiao Qiang believed that the best way to communicate with the Japanese was at gunpoint.

The Tang army then sent troops to the daimyo territories in the northeastern region, such as the Morioka Domain and the Akita Domain, and these daimyo were not as strong as the Date family. The troops of the 4th Brigade were even more victorious than the Qing army against the German mercenaries against the Japanese army at this time. On the one hand, this has something to do with the relatively backward feudal military system of the Japanese. On the other hand, the firepower of the Tang army was too strong.

Datang's target is the entire Tohoku region of Japan, namely Dewa and Mutsu. Although this region is economically weaker than the Kanto and Kansai regions of Japan, with a population of only about 2.6 million, it is relatively large and sparsely populated, and it is easier to control. Bainan even sent some immigrants from the German Confederation directly to the occupied areas.

Moreover, the 10,000 German recruits recruited by Chu Bai in Europe were stationed and trained on Nanguwei Island. Training will also be held in Mutsu and Dewa. Bai Nan hoped that the German Foreign Legion he formed would basically free the Tang soldiers and avoid investing too much energy in Japan.

However, maintaining law and order in the occupied territories and strengthening control over them went more smoothly than Pak Nam had anticipated. After the capture of the Sendai Domain by the 1st German Regiment. The head of the Date family showed a good spirit of cooperation, and although he was still under house arrest, Date Shigemura expressed his willingness to help the Tang people, and ordered his retainers to obey the Tang people's instructions. Although some of the more stubborn retainers and samurai were fighting, most of them had already chosen to submit.

This made the Germans such as Von Tansen and Blucher very incomprehensible. Their German soldiers sacked many of the samurai's property and even suppressed many of the samurai's revolts, but the other samurai, after receiving orders from the feudal lords, honestly knelt down and did whatever you told them to do, and even offered them wives and daughters.

However, it took a little time for the Sendai people to figure out that these tall Caucasian people were actually Tang mercenaries who were actually Chinese. Only a small number of Tang officials in Sendai are the real principals, and even Feng Tansen and others are very respectful to those Tang officials, and they do what they say.

Eventually, before Datang had any discussions with Japan, the Mutsu and Dewa countries were unilaterally turned into states temporarily subordinate to Guwei, and Tai Yihua was appointed governor of the Mutsu Dewa Prefecture. There wasn't much to do in his work diary. For one, he needed to build more modern agriculture in Mutsu and Dewa. The Tohoku region is an important grain production base for Japan, and there are not many resources to dig into. And there will be a lot of immigrants here, so even if the local grain production is considerable, it needs to have a certain amount of food self-sufficiency.

In order to reform agriculture, it is necessary to reform the old ownership of the means of production, which is actually a blow to the feudal lords. Since the samurai were either killed on the battlefield or surrendered after the daimyo, they did not have much of a problem with the disposition of their property. In fact, from the Warring States period to the Edo period in Japan, it was customary for the fiefdoms of daimyo to be transferred or reduced.

However, the complete deprivation of the samurai's ownership of the land was still opposed by a large number of samurai, but the opponents would only be physically eliminated in the end, and those who were not stupid could only choose to accept their fate.

In this way, most of the land was taken over to the state government, and according to the domestic system of the Tang Dynasty, collective farms were built, and the peasants contracted land from the collective farms, and in addition to the various contract fees and taxes payable, the remaining income could be handed over to the farms for sale. Some of the more cooperative lower-class samurai, often those who did not leave their jobs, were appointed as farm managers. Although they are not familiar with the system of the Tang Dynasty, the state government will issue detailed manuals and send special personnel to provide guidance, even if they are out of shape, they will not go out of shape to any extent. At the same time, the state government has also given ordinary farmers the power to report corruption of farm cadres, and to be as fair and equitable as possible.

In addition, Mutsu Dewashu's agricultural development plan has also received domestic support, and not only will it export large quantities of chemical fertilizers from Japan, and agricultural experts will be dispatched to provide guidance, but it will also export small agricultural machinery to Mutsu Dewashu. Unlike large farms in North America, many of them are relatively small, so they cannot use large-scale agricultural machinery, but domestic agricultural machinery factories have also developed many tractors and other agricultural machinery that can be used in small fields.

Due to the abundant fishery resources in the vicinity, Datang Fishery Company also plans to open a branch here and recruit local fishermen to catch fish for it and process it into seafood.

As for industry, there are almost no mineral resources here, the cost of developing industry is high, and many Tang people are not happy to see the industrialization of Japan, even the industrialization of the Japanese region under their own rule, so it is postponed. The industrial layout of Guwei is mainly located on Nanguwei Island, where there will be a relatively complete industrial zone involving steel, metallurgy, machinery, shipbuilding, petrochemical and other aspects, because Beihai has a certain amount of coal and iron resources, and Beiguwei Island also produces oil, and there are a large number of Manchurian immigrants in the local area, which makes it have a certain industrial potential.

According to the requirements of the Far Eastern Theater, Tai Yihua then began to try to recruit the Japanese as security forces, except for some more pretentious samurai, most of the middle and lower class samurai wanted to avoid becoming peasants and merchants, but continued to become warriors, even if their social status has been canceled, but many lower-class samurai found that after joining the Tang Army, the output of Yulu was obviously more than their original fiefdom. During the Edo period, the samurai's financial situation was extremely poor, many of them lived on debt, and the daimyo would not directly support their samurai.

Even, due to the reform, the Japanese troops of the Tang Foreign Legion were widely recruited, which also opened the door for some ronins and even peasants to advance. During the Edo period, there were a large number of ronin in Japanese society, and the daimyo could not afford to raise too many samurai, and the shogunate did not let them raise them, and the quality of the ronin was also uneven. However, after the Tang people opened this opening, some ronins from other places even came to visit, hoping to get a "stable job".

A month after Jiaoqiang's bombardment of Edo Bay, the chief of the Tokugawa shogunate, Nakatanuma Yoshiji, personally arrived in Sapporo to meet with the governor Li Shengan and apologize to the Tang Dynasty. (To be continued.) )