In Edo Castle, female nurses recruited from the Yokohama Domain Hospital are working diligently to clean Yukoto's bedroom.

Since the child in Yu Qin's belly is the last hope of the princess, it is natural to be extremely careful now. Tokugawa Iekei grew up in Edo Castle since he was a child, and of course he knows how much ugliness is behind this magnificent scene. Although the infant and toddler mortality rate in Japan was extremely high at this time, it was unreasonable to give birth to dozens of children, and only one child with cerebral palsy grew up. And not all of these children were born to die, and some survived healthy into their teens. When Zhu Jishi visited Japan that day, he studied the cases of the general's children who died young, and believed that it was not a genetic disease that was at fault. Therefore, Lord Gongfang is now very careful, and he does not dare to let the maids in Edo Castle take care of the pregnant Yu Qinofang, but asks the Yokohama Domain Hospital to send someone to Edo Castle.

This hospital is the only official Western medicine hospital in Japan, and the director is named Masajiro Omura, who was originally from the Choshu domain, but he was not a feudal priest, but was born into a family of village doctors. In addition to studying medicine with his father, he also studied with the famous Western physician Umeda Yusai and the Confucian scholar Hirose Tanga. In 1847, in order to further learn advanced medical skills, Omura Masajiro transferred to Yokohama, opened a clinic position in Yokohama Town, and soon after was recommended by Zhu Mo, who was in charge of Yokohama Town at the time, to study medicine at Jese University in Hong Kong, and only in the second half of 1850 did he obtain his diploma and returned to Japan to become the director of Yokohama Hospital.

He was accompanied by 10 female nurses who had met too many "killer nurses" and "homicidal midwives" in Europe under the direction of Zhu Jishi, who had a nursing specialty at the Faculty of Medicine at Jeshi University. So after getting on the right track at Jese University. It was decided to open a nursing specialty. Training nurses and midwives. It's just that Chinese women in this era are generally reluctant to show their heads, especially the "small family jasper" who knows a few words, and they don't go out of the door. Therefore, the female students of the nursing department at Jese University are all daughters of the retainers of the Yokohama domain, and they are probably the first female nurses in the world to receive formal nursing training.

These ten female nurses who followed Mashijiro Omura back to Japan have now entered Edo Castle and become temporary maids of Yu Koto's side. In addition to taking care of Yu Qin's prescription, these female nurses also taught Yu Qinzhifang some prenatal exercises, and prepared daily nutritious meals for Yu Qinzhifang. At this time, the Japanese diet was very problematic, they rarely ate meat, and they had never heard of dairy products. Moreover, the diet of the upper class is too delicate, and even the rice has to be washed and washed, resulting in the loss of many essential vitamins for the human body. Therefore, the health of the prince and the senior samurai is not very good, but the low-level samurai who stuff everything in their mouths to fill their stomachs are relatively healthy.

However, the behavior of these female nurses caused a bunch of women in the Oku, especially a few of them to complain.

"It's really unbelievable, to let a pregnant woman eat such a poor food, and to raise two cows (cows) in the garden, if you don't get rid of them quickly, something big will happen sooner or later."

Angry voices sometimes reach the ears of the elders, but everyone knows that Lord Lu Dao is desperate for a healthy child, as long as he can achieve his goal. Even if it's to raise tigers in Edo Castle! Moreover, the current old middle school did not bother to ask about the internal affairs of the Oku, and they engaged in fierce debates and games over whether to allow Shugong to recruit retainers in Japan.

This day. Gongfang Jiaqing looked at Yu Qinzhifang's recipe while talking to Jiading's biological mother Yu Jinzhifang. The content of the conversation is the question of Jiading's successor, because Jiading's mind is not good and he can't have children, so he is a transitional candidate after all. If the child in Yu Qin's belly is a boy, he is naturally the heir. Otherwise, the question of the heir of the general's family will inevitably lead to another struggle. At this time, the waiter came to report that Qi Zhao had entered the city to ask for peace. Jiaqing just nodded and didn't speak.

"Is the princess alright?" Qi Zhao came in and gave a salute.

"It's going to last a few more years." Jiaqing smiled bitterly, "I can probably live to be sixty years old, but I don't want to be seventy years old, so let's strive for sixty-five years old." Qi Zhao didn't know what to say, so he was silent and didn't answer.

"What's the matter?" Jiaqing didn't have the heart to greet Qi Zhao, so he simply entered the theme.

"My lord, I came down to recruit retainers for the Shu Palace."

"Oh, a lot of people have written to the shogunate lately, and they are all in support of letting Shugu recruit retainers...... Quan Dai said, your Mito clan has always been friendly with the imperial court, why did you change your position this time? ”

Qi Zhao lowered his voice and said, "Things are a bit complicated, and you need to take into account all aspects of the situation. In particular, the Ming Dynasty's infiltration and control of Japan ......"

"Stand down." Jiaqing waved his hand and sent the waiters in the house and Yu Jinzhifang away. "The power is great...... It doesn't hurt to say to you, actually, I don't care about the Ming Emperor's involvement in Japanese politics. ”

“……”

"Qi Zhao, do you know what I care about the most?"

"Isn't the safety of Japan the most important concern of adults?"

"It is the world of the Tokugawa family, and this family business is left to us by Ieyasu Gong to our children and grandchildren surnamed Tokugawa, and it is my responsibility to keep the world of the Tokugawa family."

"But ......"

"Zhu Jishi may want to put his son-in-law on the throne of the Tokugawa clan, he may want to use the bravery of the Japanese samurai to fight for him, and he may want to turn Japan into a country subordinate to the Ming Dynasty. But...... His support for the Tokugawa family is unquestionable. ”

Qi Zhao couldn't help but sigh, it turned out that Jiaqing had long known about the Zhu family's intentions against Japan.

"Besides the world of the Tokugawa family, does Gondai Nayan want anything else?" Jiaqing suddenly said coldly.

Qi Zhao took a breath, the general's question is quite unkind, and if he talks about it any longer, he is afraid that he will tear his face.

"After listening to the words of the adult, Qi Zhao was relieved, Qi Zhao is also dedicated to assisting the princess." As he spoke, Qi Zhao changed his words and said, "I'm just worried that the retainers recruited under the Shu Palace will one day be used by the imperial court......"

"There won't be this day," Iekei said, "because the Tokugawa family needs the support of the Ming Dynasty more than the imperial court, and if Zhu Jishi doesn't want to lose Japan, he will definitely continue to support the Tokugawa family." ”

Qi Zhao said: "But now there are many samurai who hope that Japan can follow behind the Ming Dynasty and make some gains......"

Jiaqing sneered, and whispered to Qi Zhao: "There should be many poor and crazy warriors who hope to get land and rewards from Emperor Ming!"

However, I, the great shogun, only need the Tokugawa family to control Japan for generations...... Even Ieyasu only has this ambition, and those of us who are descendants can surpass Ieyasu? So don't be delusional. As for the samurai below, let them go if they want to go out, anyway, the shogunate can't afford to raise so many samurai. ”

Qi Zhao sighed again. As Iekei said, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who single-handedly founded the Tokugawa shogunate, was not the kind of lord who could lead Japan to open up territory and rise to the top of Asia. Although Japan is still young, the Tokugawa family has long been in the twilight.

When he left Edo Castle, Tokugawa Saiaki thought in his heart, "Zhu Jishi must have seen this, so he will spare no effort to support the Tokugawa family." In their China, there has never been a dozen generations of kings who have done more than the early generations of monarchs. Zhu Jishi was able to make this career precisely because he was the actual founding emperor. If Japan wants to follow in China's footsteps, it will not be able to replace the Tokugawa family unless there is a new force that can replace the Tokugawa family......"

Although Tokugawa Saiaki was a Ming Jun (the Four Great Masters at the end of the Bakugawa period), he was also surnamed Tokugawa, so he had to stand on the side of defending the Tokugawa family. So after being revealed by Tokugawa Iekei, his position also changed. The Shogunate's position on the "Shunomiya retainers" was finally unified, allowing the Prince of Shunomiya to recruit up to 20,000 samurai in Japan in the name of the Queen of the Ryukyus, and these samurai could leave Japan with their families and retinues to follow the Queen Shunomiya to move to China, and then settle in the Ryukyus after the Ryukyus recovered. (To be continued......)