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"Your Majesty, do you mean to turn 4 million stone heavenly collars into the private wealth of the Tokugawa clan?"

Sheng Haizhou's brows furrowed, as if he was thinking hard. In the past few years, he has been staying in China, attending night classes at Jeseki University, and working in Zhu Jese's industries such as Nanyang and Lan Fangxing, not only opening his eyes and accumulating work experience, but also passing the graduation examination of the Faculty of Law of Jeseki University not long ago, obtaining a diploma, and being appointed as the elder of the Yokohama clan. If he returned to Japan, he would definitely be regarded as a great sage by the shogunate - Matsudaira Kanyu, Sakuma Zoyama, and Saigo Takanaga (the old man of the Yokohama domain) who were close to him were now important ministers of the shogunate, and Tokugawa Saiaki, who had a special relationship with the Yokohama domain, was also the old of the shogunate, and Saiaki's son Tokugawa Yoshiki was now a popular candidate for the shogun's heir. Therefore, after Katsu Haizhou returns to Japan, he will definitely participate in Japan's political reform.

However, how to reform Japan's feudal politics has left all Japanese people of insight including Katsu Haishu in their minds. This is because Japan's current system of separating the imperial court and shogunate from the central and local feudal domains is clearly impossible to maintain. If it weren't for the support of the Ming Dynasty, Japan would probably have been reduced to a colony or semi-colony by now. However, it is not easy to reform Japan's political system, which has been formed since ancient times.

The theory of the combination of public and military forces, which is now popular in Japan, sounds very good, but how can it be combined? Who has the final say after the merger? Emperor or General? And what about the general's heavenly domain and the domain's domain? Do you want to hand it over? If you don't hand it over, the combination of public and military forces is virtual, and if you hand it over, can the martial arts family agree? And turned the domain into the private property of the samurai. Transform the samurai into a Chinese landlord gentry. It doesn't seem to be quite right......

"Isn't Tenryo the property of the Tokugawa clan?" Zhu Jishi asked with a smile. "All reforms must recognize vested interests and carry out reforms on this basis. If the land of the Tokugawa clan is to be deprived, then should the remaining 300 feudal domains and tens of thousands of banners be deprived? If they have to be deprived, what about the royal interests that day? If we continue in this way, it will not be an improvement, but a social revolution! Moreover, the intensity of this revolution is comparable to that of the French Revolution, and it is difficult to say whether the emperor will go to the guillotine after the last death! ”

"But in this way, the new government after the combination of public and military will not have the financial resources......" Sheng Haizhou frowned.

Zhu Jishi said with a smile: "The government collects taxes if it has no money." In normal countries, how can the financial basis of the government be based on the expropriation of private property? ”

Sheng Haizhou still frowned, if he followed the method proposed by Zhu Jishi, the combination of public and military forces might really succeed. After all, the interests of the daimyo class of feudal lords who now rule Japan are guaranteed, and more than 300 high-ranking samurai families will own more than 80% of Japan's land, while also controlling most of Japan's military power. Isn't this country of Japan a country of these 300 big landowners? Can such a country be stable and strong?

Seeing that Sheng Haizhou was still hesitating, Zhu Jishi sighed and said: "Reform the system, don't fantasize about the best results, and pursue improvements compared to the present." Japan's system is arguably the worst political system. Trying to jump from the worst to the best is pure wishful thinking. The reform of Chinese politics with our authoritarian power can only be done gradually. Small steps forward, not to mention the 300 feudal divisions of Japan? Shengqing, now that all the countries in East Asia are coveted by the threat of the West, when there is no civil strife in Japan, it has attracted the invasion of the Russians. ”

Zhu Jishi's level of fooling people seems to be getting higher and higher, and what he fools is reasonable, as if he is an old friend of the Japanese people. Rao is Shenghaizhou, such a hero at the end of the curtain was also surrounded by him. In fact, his words are true. At present, Japan's military and political power and land are in the hands of 300 feudal clans headed by the Tokugawa family. If any reform violates the interests of these 300 companies, it will certainly not be possible to carry out it under peaceful conditions, and if it is necessary to fight a civil war and make a revolution, not to mention whether there is any hope of victory, even the international environment will not allow it.

Now that there is no civil war in Japan, it has already "attacked the open ship", and if it is not dead in the civil strife? What kind of imperialism is that, but the heart of the sun is not dead!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty understands." Sheng Haizhou thought for a while, stood up, and threw Zhu Jishi to the ground, "Your Majesty should carefully follow the emperor's teachings and do your best for Japan's political reform." ”

"Then I can rest assured." Zhu Jishi said with a smile: "Mr. Qi Zhao and the general, I will send a handwritten letter, I will make the same suggestion, and I will recommend you to the shogunate...... Shengqing will certainly be able to play a great role in Japan's reform in the future. I have a piece of advice that any reform has a foundation, and the foundation of the Gongwu alliance is the Tokugawa clan and the 300 feudal clans, so without taking care of their interests, the reform of the Gongwu alliance will not succeed. ”

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Just when Wu Chunqiu, Shi Dakai and Sheng Haizhou took a regiment of brocade guards and a large number of weapons and equipment to the port of Tsuruga in Hokuriku, Japan. A colorful marching procession is marching through the land of Tokaido, Japan. This is a large army led by Shogun Tokugawa himself, with a total of forty or fifty thousand people! Among them, the new army has only about 12,000 and is the first division under the command of Sakuma Koriyama. The rest were the troops sent by the relatives of the Eastern Province and the Daimyo of Fudai, and the Banner Samurai directly under the Shogun. The 1st Division was a quasi-Western-style army, with uniform uniforms and weapons. The samurai of the armies and generals sent by the various feudal clans wore a variety of armor and banners with their own family crests, and most of the samurai looked shabby and emaciated, and looked a little malnourished, but their morale was still high.

The life of the samurai in Japan at this time was extremely poor. Ninety percent of the feudal lords and the larger banners were only 500 koku or less, and they received about 200 taels of brown rice (about 3,600 liters of brown rice or about 5,400 kilograms of brown rice) each year, and they also had to bear the expenses of the other 12 families (ashigaru, etc., based on 500 koku military service, not counting horse feed), and if each family of five people was calculated, each person could get an average of 90 kilograms of brown rice as a year's expenses. It's just not enough to eat. As for the royal family (corporal in the domain) and the ronin who did not even have the opportunity to become a priest, the life was even poorer. However, because each feudal clan attaches great importance to the education of feudal studies, these helpless samurai and ronin have received a good education in Confucianism, Chinese culture and even Orchid studies, forming a huge group of frustrated samurai!

Since the departure from Edo Castle, the army led by Tokugawa Iekei, the great shogun of Seiyi, has never stopped advancing. There are three roads from the Kanto region to Kinai in Japan: Hokuriku, Nakasendo, and Tokaido. One of the easiest places to march on the road was Tokaido, and the places of Sagami, Suruga, Enoe, Mikawa, and Owari along the way were all rich in Japan, with developed agriculture, and the roads were lined with green rice fields that grew well. Large and small towns were lined up on both sides of the road, and the Ming army advisory group headed by Zheng Hong did not spend the night in the wilderness along the way, either destroying the castle of the local feudal lord or sleeping in the mansion of the requisitioned municipal merchants. Moreover, the food arranged by the Tokugawa family is also satisfactory, and there is wine and meat at every meal, which is indeed more thoughtful than the hospitality of the Heavenly Emperor.

But what makes Zheng Hong feel the most happy is that every night, Zheng Yongyi can always bring him two Japanese girls who warm the bed, both of whom are thirteen or fourteen years old, so tender that they can pinch out the water. And it's not crying, according to Zheng Yongyi, these Japanese peasant girls have loose belts and no concept of chastity, and it is their honor to serve a Ming prince like Zheng Hong. Zheng Yongyi also told him that in fact, all the high-ranking samurai in this army could find girls to warm their beds, even the elderly Tokugawa shogun was no exception - the samurai in each place would organize young and beautiful girls to be sent to the army for a small amount of money in exchange for a few bounties, and there were even girls from samurai families...... (To be continued......)