readx;?“ The concubine really didn't know that Iwakura was so ambitious that he wanted to usurp power and seize the throne with a fake emperor! However, the whole country of Japan has already been bent on joining China, and the general trend is like this, how can he be resisted by a clown! ”

In the quiet Shanghai Palace, I heard a woman speaking in an extremely calm tone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Zhu Jishi sat in a chair, expressionless, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Kneeling in front of him was none other than Tokugawa Akiko or Gen Akiko. She had apparently recovered from her initial shock rage. After ten years in power, this woman has gradually developed a temperament that is not shocked. Behind Zhu Jishi stood Chiba Sanako, while the Empress Luo Xiangmei and the Imperial Concubine Maria. Clementina sat on the stools on the left and right sides of Zhu Jishi, looking at Zhu Jishi's face with a biased face. There were no civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty at the scene, and it was purely the specifications of a family meeting.

It was easy to wait for Tokugawa Akiko to finish speaking, and Zhu Jishi said slowly: "Akiko, what do the people in Japan think?" What do you think of the Tokugawa clan? ”

Japan's entry into China has already taken 99 steps in 100 steps, and if there is no accident this time, Emperor Zhu will personally go to Japan to attend his son's coronation. After that, the kingdom of Japan will be officially ruled by the Zhu dynasty, and Tokugawa Akiko can also serve as regent in the name of the king's biological mother, continue to hold power, and further promote the entry into China. In a maximum of one generation, the Kingdom of Japan and the Ming Empire were completely one. It's probably the same as Bavaria, Württemberg, and the German Empire. Although the names of the kingdom and the king are retained, the whole kingdom identifies with Germany, not Württemberg or Bavaria.

The significance of Japan's entry into China for the integration of the entire Greater China region. It was no less important for Germany than the reunification of North Germany. Although the resources of Japan itself are poor. The land is not fertile. However, its geographical location is of great strategic value. It can be said to be a key step in China's transformation from a traditional land power country to a super empire with equal land power and sea power. It is a key step for China to move from defending the sea to attacking the ocean!

Anyone who knows a little about naval strategy will know it. Dominating the seas is not something that can be achieved by having a strong fleet alone. Sometimes key islands, bases, and canals are worth as much as an entire fleet. For example, some people in later generations compared the island of Taiwan to an unsinkable aircraft carrier, so the Japanese archipelago is an unsinkable Pacific Fleet.

After fully integrating Japan into the Greater China system, the British Navy in 20 years will not be able to get close to the southeast coast of China, let alone attack the southeast coast of China, because the navy ships will soon transition from the age of sail to the age of steam.

And in the mid-to-late 19th century, the endurance of a steam warship with sails removed was at most five or six thousand nautical miles, which means that the combat radius was not enough for 3,000 nautical miles, that is, 5,550 kilometers. The straight-line distance from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo is about 6,200 kilometers. The straight-line distance from Hokkaido to Vancouver Island on the shore of the West Sea in North America or Beihua Port, the capital of Washington in the Kingdom of California, is more than 8,000 kilometers. Completely within the cruising range of the steam fleet. In other words, the British Navy deployed in Hawaii could not cross Japan to attack the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, while the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Dynasty could attack from Ezo Island and travel between the two sides of the Pacific Ocean freely.

This also means that even if Britain firmly controls Hawaii, it is impossible to threaten the Ming mainland, and the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Dynasty can completely sail through Ezo Island to North America without having to bear much mainland defense tasks, and then attack Hawaii with San Francisco as a base -- the straight-line distance from the west coast of North America to Pearl Harbor is only about 4,000 kilometers, which is about 2,100 nautical miles. Completely within the combat radius of a general steam battleship.

Thus. What an important position Japan occupied in the expansion of the Ming Empire into the sea. Japan enters China. It means that the Ming Empire is in a favorable position for the Pacific Ocean to attack and retreat. This is also an important reason why Zhu Jishi spends so much energy on Japan.

And now, Emperor Zhu's Japanese layout has also reached the time of final harvest - what Zhu Jishi wants is not a Japan that will become a colony, but a Japan that is completely integrated into Greater China culturally, blood, and economically.

"Your Majesty, Japan hopes for Your Majesty like a child looking forward to his parents, like a wife and concubine looking forward to her husband." Tokugawa Akiko replied carefully, "Everything is ready for Japan's entry into China, and I only owe His Majesty Chrysostom a word." She paused for a moment and looked at Zhu Jishi with burning eyes, "In today's Japan, everyone knows that His Majesty treats the Japanese with sincerity and regards the Japanese as the people of China. And everybody knows that the Yingyi are plotting against me to turn my Japanese race into their slaves for generations. Not to mention that Yingyi played a signboard of Emperor Meiji, that is, he claimed that Amaterasu would not be able to shake the determination of our Japanese people to enter China! ”

Zhu Jishi thought for a while, and nodded slightly, if it is said that the British actually don't have much thought, where can they compare with their intentions for Japan?

As Tokugawa Akiko spoke, he took out a very thick fold and asked Chiba Sanako to hand it to Zhu Jishi: "Your Majesty, this is the oath of allegiance of the Tokugawa family and 300 famous families in Japan, all of whom unanimously support Yukiyoshi as the king of Japan." ”

The oath of allegiance is not such a thing in China's political life, but it has always been popular in Japan. Now that the Tokugawa family and the 300 famous masters have handed over their oaths, it is equivalent to a courtesy to Zhu Xingyi.

"In addition, there is an uninvited invitation to the concubine." Tokugawa Akiko looked at Zhu Jishi, "The concubine hopes that Your Majesty will visit Japan with the dignity of ten thousand times, so that the people of Japan will have the honor to see the majesty of His Majesty." The concubine also hopes that His Majesty can issue an edict on Japan's entry into China at the Zichen Palace. It was announced that from now on, China and Japan will be united, and the people of Japan will be Chinese. ”

Listening to these words, Luo Xiangmei and Maria. Clementina glanced at each other, their eyes staggered.

They all thought that Zhu Jishi had brought Tokugawa Akiko to investigate the "Meiji Emperor Incident", and Jinyiwei had not given up looking for the missing emperor for the past 10 years, but all the clues were cut off. All the people involved were wiped out, except for the lady and concubine, who didn't know anything. All the evidence was destroyed, as if Emperor Meiji had really returned to heaven. And those who can get things done to this point, except for the Imperial Court, a spy organization controlled by Tokugawa Akiko, I'm afraid there is no second force in Japan, right?

Now Zhu Jishi actually has no intention of pursuing it, which shows that Chema completely trusts Tokugawa Akiko!

There was no longer the slightest hostility in Luo Xiangmei's eyes when she looked at Maria, only the sisterhood remained...... Although Zhu Heng's kid is beautiful, he is a "doll". And Maria. Clementina is older than Luo Xiangmei and Tokugawa Akiko, and Westerners are older, so there are really not a few days left for Clementina to be decrepit and relaxed. In contrast, Tokugawa Akiko is only in her early thirties, and she is naturally childlike (and of course, there is a giant R), and she looks like she is twenty-five or six at most, which is the time when the style is infinite! In case he has some three long and two short in front of Emperor Zhu, the position of the empress is not Tokugawa Akiko? At that time, Zhu Xingyi will be his son-in-law......

Of course, Emperor Zhu didn't think about the thoughts of the two women beside him, he just looked at Tokugawa Akiko and smiled with satisfaction: "Since that's the case, then I will go to Japan as originally planned!" ”

Tokugawa Akiko smiled sweetly and was about to bow down. At this time next to Maria. Clementina suddenly interjected: "Your Majesty, things in Japan have been settled, so how should the new Japan be arranged?" ”

Mingzi smiled faintly: "New Japan is the monkey in the palm of the Buddha, no matter how they jump up and down, after all, they can't escape the palm of His Majesty the Emperor!" The concubine dares to be a guarantor like the emperor, and in less than 20 years, New Japan will inevitably become New China, and in the future, it will sweep South America for the king's precursor. ”

Zhu Jishi looked at Tokugawa Akiko: "What is the reason?" ”

Akiko smiled, "Because there is a new Japan, there are no new Japanese." (To be continued.) )