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Boom, boom, and hurried footsteps sounded in front of the door. Tokugawa Iekei looked up from a pile of Zhu Jishi's writings or books translated by him, rubbing his eyes. In the middle of Edo Castle, there are very few people who make such a loud noise when walking, so something big must have happened.

This year, he is 56 years old, and he has been Japan's shogun for 10 years, but for the first four years of his reign, the shogunate was still in the hands of his father, Tokugawa Ieki, who was the Grand Imperial Governor. It was only in the past few years that he was really in charge of running Japan. Although he had not been in power for a long time, Tokugawa Iekei knew very well what kind of mess he had inherited. The Tokugawa shogunate, which had existed for more than 200 years, was facing an unprecedented crisis.

On the one hand, the closed coastal defense system pioneered by Tokugawa Ieyasu and Tokugawa Hidetada seems to have reached the point where it is difficult to maintain! Even such a behemoth as the Manchu Qing Dynasty was opened by the Western powers with strong ships and cannons, let alone a small island country like Japan?

On the other hand, the two generations of generals Ieyasu and Hidetada, Weishenme, wanted to choose the coastal defense system of the country, and Tokugawa Iekei was very clear! As Zhu Jishi said in "The Founding of the First Army", it is to prevent "Westerners from exploring the truth and colluding with others".

Because Japan's system is extremely peculiar, it is a situation where the two heads are juxtaposed! On one side was the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, and on the other side was the emperor's court in Kyoto. Although the shogunate held the actual power, they were in title the emperor's courtiers. And in history. Once the shogunate's control weakened. Soon ambitious samurai and daimyo will jump out. Under the sign of honoring the emperor, the curtain is down. Both the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates had encountered such troubles, and now it was the turn of the Tokugawa shogunate to face this problem.

Moreover, the Tokugawa shogunate faced one more problem than the Kamakura shogunate and the Muromachi shogunate, and that was the Western colonists who were increasingly invading the east. In the early days of the Tokugawa shogunate's seizure of the world, the Western colonists began to collude with the powerful feudal lords in the country, but fortunately, the Tokugawa shogunate adopted a timely policy of seclusion to ensure peace for more than 200 years. But now, the shogunate is weak, and the great powers are far stronger than they were more than 200 years ago! If the Great Powers collude with the powerful feudal clans in Japan and the frustrated samurai. The world of the Tokugawa shogunate was about to be stormy.

Therefore, Tokugawa Iekei was unwilling to open the country in his heart. But without the founding of the country, can the Tokugawa family withstand the pressure of the Western powers? If you are taught a lesson by the Western powers and then sign a treaty, you will be forced to open the country like the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The powerful feudal and frustrated samurai in the country still did not oppose the shogunate as a "Japanese traitor"? When the time comes, if you openly collude with the emperor and secretly collude with the powers, how will the Tokugawa shogunate still live? Don't the Tokugawa family want to perish?

Therefore, Tokugawa Iekei has really been lamenting all night in the past few years, and he is about to die in a hurry - he died in a hurry in history! And just when he was cornered, Zhu Jishi's name and writings spread from China to Japan. Everyone who has seen it thinks it makes perfect sense! So someone gave these books (all pirated) to Tokugawa Iekei, and Ieke took a look. If he had insight, he instructed Masahiro Abe to secretly send someone to Hong Kong to meet Zhu Jishi. As a result, he brought back books such as "The Founding of the First Army" and "The History of the Fall of India". After reading it, Jiaqing liked it to the point that he couldn't put it down, that is, he had to take a copy of "The Founding of the First Army" and put it under his pillow when he went to bed at night - where is this book, it is simply the world of the Tokugawa family!

The reason is also very simple, because the national consciousness of the Japanese is quite strong! In history, there were samurai who fell and enemies who opposed the emperor, but there was no traitor who betrayed the country to seek glory! A series of writings by Zhu Jishi actually exposed the ambitions of the Western powers towards Japan! It sounded the alarm to all the powerful feudal and frustrated samurai who wanted to use the West to support the fall of the curtain - there would inevitably be civil strife after the fall of the curtain, and the result of civil strife and the intervention of the West Shili would inevitably be the demise of the Japanese state!

In other words, the fall of the curtain is equivalent to the destruction of the country! And to protect Japan, it is necessary to support the Tokugawa shogunate...... What a haode truth! This is more true than real gold! Zhu Jishi, who can explain this truth clearly, is really a great saint!

Therefore, this Tokugawa Iekei was not only able to memorize the "Theory of the Founding of the Nation of the First Army" backwards, but also required all the feudal lords and the shogunate banner himself to recite the "Theory of the Founding of the First Army". The book was printed as a pamphlet and distributed on the streets of Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka. As long as you carry a knife and look like a samurai, you will be given a copy......

And the Japanese samurai who read this book "The Founding of the First Army", whether they are in the curtain or looking forward to the fall, have no way to raise objections.

Because there is indeed no way to refute the great truth put forward by Zhu Jishi in "The Theory of the Founding of the First Army".

The first is "the use of the country", who can say that it is wrong? Do you want a bunch of Japanese samurai to say that they don't want the spirit of bushido, and all believe in Western democracy, well, no, they believe in Western Catholicism? Who is going to say that there will be no "heavenly punishment" for people?

The second is the "Western threat theory", these white ghosts are definitely bad guys! So many ancient countries in the East were destroyed by them and became colonies. If any Japanese person wants to believe that the West is here to "help" Japan become the leading country in Asia, then his mind must be funny. The samurai masters of Japan are all smart, and they will never be deceived!

Again, it is to point out the way to Japan, to strengthen the army first, and then to settle the country, Zuihou to open the country. That's the truth! Now that imperialism is forced to the doorstep, no matter how strong the army is, the present of India is the tomorrow of the Japanese samurai! Who is willing to be a slave to the country? Moreover, if the shogunate wants to strengthen the army, it must follow the example of the West Law to run a new army, at least tens of thousands of new troops, right? This is the opportunity for the big guy to serve the country, it must not be wrong, right? As for Ann, it must be safe, and why is it uneasy to be disturbed? If tiny Japan cannot be united as a nation, how can it resist the aggression of the Western powers? Even those feudal lords of the powerful southwestern domains who were dissatisfied with the shogunate did not dare to refute it, otherwise they would be suspected of traitors......

Since the truth put forward by Zhu Jishi has been regarded as the truth by the entire Japanese samurai class, then they naturally want to praise this descendant of the emperor who is rebelling against the Qing Dynasty. What Zhu Sage, what Chinese Sage, what peerless great man, what the great savior of the Chinese people, what kind of guide to the Oriental countries, etc., were all thought up by these Japanese and detained on Zhu Jishi's head.

In a matter of months, proposals for reform along the lines of the "Songun Theory on the Founding of the Nation" flew like snowflakes to Edo. Tokugawa Iekei was even more rare in his kindness, announcing that he would carry out the "Songun reform", and before this reform, he also sent an envoy to Hong Kong to invite Zhu Jishi to visit Japan. On the one hand, it cheered for the shogunate's reform platform; On the one hand, the Tokugawa shogun still had a lot of Taoist ideals that he didn't quite understand, and asked Zhu Jishi for advice in person.

However, the envoy has been gone for a while, and this Zhu Jishi is nowhere to be seen, and I don't know if he can be invited?

"General! General, Sage Zhu is here! ”

Outside the door came the voice of Masahiro Abe, the old middle of the shogunate, and then the sliding door was opened by the two little surnames, and the old middle Abe, who was sweating profusely and panting, rushed in from the outside, knelt in front of the general and bowed.

"The Western ship that Zhu Shengren is riding has arrived at Edo Port, is the General going to greet him personally?"

"Welcome, of course!" Tokugawa Iekei stood up suddenly, "Sage Zhu is not an ordinary Confucian student, he is a descendant of the Chinese Zhengshuo, a descendant of the Ming Dynasty, and there is also a Lanfang country in Nanyang, and he is the king of a dignified country!" The status is not below me as a general, and I can be equal to the emperor, how can I not greet him personally? ”

"Hai, General, my subordinates are going to gather the Black Mother-clothed and Red Mother-clothed people." Masahiro Abe thought for a while, and then asked, "General, where is the residence of the Zhu Shengren arranged?" ”

"Arrange it in the Mito Domain, Mito Qi Zhao's guy is the truth of Zhu Shengren when he opens and closes his mouth, so let him entertain him."

"Hay." Masahiro Abe bowed, and hurriedly left to arrange for the general to meet him. (To be continued......)