Chapter 61: Speaking of Japan
Zeng Gongliang, although he is a southerner, is tall and resembles a northerner. Later, he also moved his family to Bianjing, and regarded himself as a northerner, and was a representative of the conservative faction of scholars. Unexpectedly, after Han Qi and Fu Bi died, Sima Guang invited him out. Zeng Gongliang is a politician, military strategist, arms expert, thinker, and poet, and he is a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and his qualifications are older than Han Qi and Fu Bi. The book "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" made him even more famous. He was also the first prime minister of Zhao Ji, and later he was sick, so Zhao Ji let him become a minister.
"Holy Lord, it seems that the Political Affairs Hall has reached some kind of agreement with the Guoben Cabinet and the Shangmeng Cabinet, so they will work together so together in the pacification of the Southwest Yi War. According to the news from the Shadow Guard, Wang Xianggong, Sima Xianggong and others often gather in the Civilization Academy to discuss what to do in secret. The grapevine said that after moving the capital to Shangjing, there may be a general election. Liu Qi saw Zhao Ji's serious expression and hurriedly said.
"General election?" Zhao Ji just drank all the tea in his mouth squirted out, and said secretly: "This is not the United States of the future, and there is still an election?" I, the emperor, still haven't agreed? Could it be that Wang Anshi wants to enable the election system of the four universities in advance and put himself aside? ”
"In addition to the general election, because the Great Song Dynasty lacked copper and iron, and Dali, Northern Liao, Western Xia, and Jiaozhi had a tight grip on the export of copper and iron. After the relocation of the capital, the Shoji Hall sent a scholar from the University of Su to visit Japan. It is expected that trade agreements will be modeled after those of other countries. Seeing Zhao Ji's embarrassment, Liu Qi hurriedly changed the topic and said.
"Su Shi is going to visit Japan? Now the whole of Japan is going crazy! Zhao Ji said with a smile.
A historian once said that in the 11th century, the whole of Asia was the century of Su Shi. Especially in East Asian countries, from the princes to the common people, they are all die-hard fans of Su Shi. The countries also sent envoys to squat in Bianjing, as long as Su Shi has a new work, it will be transmitted back to China by them immediately. The madness of Goryeo and Japan is even more breathtaking, and this madness is still worshiped by Su Shi on the day of Su Shi's birthday.
"Yes. This time, Japan brought a gift list worth hundreds of millions of yuan, a full 500,000 catties of sulfur, 500,000 catties of copper, 500,000 catties of silver, and 10 liters of Dongzhu, and countless other goods. The maritime merchants of Shangjing, Mingzhou, and Mizhou were all going crazy, and they rushed to Japan in a frenzy, and then transported these gifts for Japan. The government hall had to ask Su Shi to go to Beijing on behalf of the Ministry of Rites to greet the Japanese envoy who gave gifts. Liu Qi said without exaggeration.
"What? Hundreds of millions? It's nothing, and maybe it's not worth a lot of money in Japan. Zhao Ji was surprised at first, and then he figured it out.
The merchants of the Great Song Dynasty generally went to Goryeo, Japan in the first half of the year, and then went to the Nanyang countries in the second half of the year. With a trip once a year and a small amount of transportation, the price difference between the two countries is very large. The annual tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty is less than 100 million guan, and Japan can send a gift list of 100 million guan, is Japan richer than the Great Song Dynasty? In this era, commercial exchanges simply cannot affect a country's livelihood as later generations do. The business laws of later generations are not applicable in this era.
Since the establishment of the Maritime College by Tiangong Academy, Shen University has made three major inventions: longitude and latitude navigation charts, navigation compasses, and star-pulling sextants. These three inventions are the captain's treasures. Sixty large businessmen successively purchased the right to produce and sell these three inventions, and opened more than 100 workshops in Mingzhou, Shangjing, and Quanzhou for production. Not to mention the dividends of the workshop, just by selling the production rights of these three inventions, Tiangong Academy got more than 10 million yuan. With these three inventions, the sea has been at the mercy of maritime merchants ever since. In order to transport the Japanese gift list, the maritime merchants made three trips back and forth. Liu Qi continued.
Liu Qi's meaning, Zhao Ji understands. Since then, there has been no huge price difference between Japan and the Great Song Dynasty. In order to conclude a trade agreement with the Great Song Dynasty this time, and in order to make Su Shi make an envoy to Japan, it can be said that it spent a lot of money. For the first time, Zhao began to like Japan, and even thought it was a lovely country.
In fact, during the Song Dynasty in history, only Japan's relationship with the Song Dynasty could be described as intimate. The Yuan Dynasty attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, and Japan has always supported the Southern Song Dynasty, and a steady stream of goods were transported from Japan to the Southern Song Dynasty to resist the great unification of the Yuan Dynasty. After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, for this reason, Kublai Khan sent two troops to Japan.
Speaking of the three major inventions, Zhao Ji knows it. The longitude and latitude nautical chart was an invention of the Arabs in this era, but Zhao Ji couldn't remember the specific time. Because of this invention, the Arabs dominated the entire Indian Ocean. Later, he was learned by the people of Venice, and through the hands of the Italians, he was transferred to Spain. Unexpectedly, Shen Kuo could use the latitude and longitude lines used to draw a map of the world for navigation.
The navigation compass is actually a compass, although it is not popular, and there is no special production process, but as long as it is a navigator, it will make one by itself. The rudimentary compass is not an instrument, but a method, a method that uses a magnetic needle. It has gone through the development process from Sinan, to the compass, and then to the magnetic needle.
Later history records that the compass was indeed an invention of this era. Shen Kuo even calculated the magnetic declination angle and drew a star map. The astrological chart he drew is the earliest astrological chart in history. It should not be difficult to make a sextant using the Big Dipper for navigation.
Because he was familiar with the history of Wang Anshi's reforms, Zhao Ji knew that Shen Kuo was a money-loving person, and for the sake of money and official position, he betrayed Su Shi and single-handedly made the biggest literary prison in the Song Dynasty - the Wutai Poetry Case. Now he is the head of the Tiangong Academy, and the merchants have given him so many dividends, as the greatest scientist of the eleventh century, I am really sorry for his title if he does not make some inventions.
Thinking that the Great Song Dynasty was about to open the Age of Discovery, Zhao Ji couldn't help but sigh: "The unification of the Yuan Dynasty has dealt a great blow to Chinese civilization. This is not only the case with the Yuan Dynasty, but also with every change of dynasty. There are so many things missing! ”
"Has the government concluded a trade agreement with Japan? When did Su Shi go to Japan? Zhao Ji calmed down, and he wanted to go to Japan for a while, but he never went to it in later generations, because there was a history that made Zhao Ji very disgusted with Japan, and now he wants to take a look.
Thinking of how he treated the Japanese envoy when he was in Keelung, Zhao Ji realized that he was too influenced by later generations. The attitude towards Japan was incompatible with that of the Song Dynasty of this era.
"An agreement was signed. The agreement stipulates: 1. Japan allowed the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty to explore minerals in Japan and establish mines, and the king of Japan made the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty as great names. Second, the Great Song Dynasty and Japan only engaged in single-line trade with the king of Japan in copper and iron products. In other respects, free trade is allowed. Third, Japan sent 500 boys to study in the Great Song Dynasty every year, and 50 officials went to the four universities for further study. Fourth, Japan's annual tribute goods are 100,000 guan, and the Great Song Dynasty gives Japan 100,000 guanjiao coins every year. Fifth, Japan prohibits the use of gold, silver and copper coins, and all Jiaozi trade is used. Liu Qi took out a secret report and read it aloud.
"Good, good, good." Zhao Ji smiled happily.
With these agreements, Japan has since become the source of raw materials and sales market for the Great Song Dynasty. Not only that, but assimilation of Japan, it is estimated that it is possible. Zhao Ji was in a particularly good mood.
"At the end of the year, the government hall will move the capital to Beijing, and in the spring of the sixth year of Xining, Su Shi will set off for Japan. Also going with Xue Yi, the commander of the Haiwei Army in the seventh town of Shangjing, the two clans of Ampei and Qingyuan in northeast Japan rebelled, and the political affairs hall sent 3,000 elite Haiwei troops to help the Japanese king in the war. Liu Qi continued.
"King Ming, what do you think of this agreement?" Zhao Ji thought that he couldn't understand this agreement with the ideas of later generations, so he immediately asked Liu Qidao.
"The last general thinks that Japan will make a lot of money this time. However, the gift list of hundreds of millions of yuan is also fair to Da Song. Liu Qi said without hesitation.
"Oh, how do you say?" Zhao Ji thinks that under this agreement, Da Song has made a lot of money.
First, the Great Song Dynasty owned the mining rights in Japan, which was tantamount to gradually controlling the Japanese raw material market...... Second, it is tantamount to controlling Japan's arms production. The third is tantamount to the gradual assimilation of Japan. Fourth, this article is like a transaction, which has no substantive meaning, and is equivalent to the frequent exchange between the two countries. Fifth, it is tantamount to controlling the currency of Japan. If there is any currency depreciation or something like the Great Song Dynasty, Japan will have to pay for it.
"Each of these is conducive to the development of Japan and the strengthening of the rule of the Japanese king. The Japanese feudal towns were strong, but the monarchy was weak. There were rebellions of the Ampei and Kiyogen clans in the northeast, the Fujiwara clan in the southwest became increasingly powerful, the Tokugawa clan in the central part of the country supported their own troops, and the central Minamoto Yoshiji clan gradually controlled the government. As soon as this agreement was signed, the king of Japan had the support of the Great Song Dynasty. The dispatch of 3,000 elites to help the war was to promote the support of the Great Song Dynasty for the Japanese king. The merchants of the Great Song Dynasty became daimyo and would only follow the Great Song court to support the Japanese king. The latter three agreements almost connected Japan and the Great Song Dynasty, and from then on, Japan would be as prosperous as the Great Song Dynasty. Japan's millennium dream is about to come true. Liu Qi replied.
"I'm going to be confused, and if I'm one with the Great Song Dynasty, won't I lose the country?" Zhao Ji couldn't figure it out, he really couldn't figure it out.
"Japan is still created by Xu Fu, a former Qin scholar, however, the East China Sea **, has been isolated from the Central Plains, although Japan has many tributes, sent more envoys, and learned the etiquette and culture of the Central Plains, but it is still not greatly influenced by the barbarians in Japan. In order for Japan to prevent monstrosity, it must be integrated with the Central Plains. The Japanese royal family and nobles are all descendants of Middle-earth, and if the royal family declines, it is the real dead country. Japan sent hundreds of millions of yuan in gift orders and obtained these agreements, and Japan will inevitably become more civilized from now on. Liu Qi always thought that Zhao Ji knew everything and was the strongest of the strong, but he couldn't help but wonder when he found that Zhao Ji didn't even know common sense, but the emperor asked, it was not okay not to answer.
There has always been a custom in Japan, that is, whenever the Song boat arrives in Japan, Japan will select the most beautiful Japanese girl who can sing and dance well and send it to the ship, asking the Song people to be able to spring breeze. And when Song Chuan returned to China, many Japanese girls also asked to follow all the way, if nothing else, just to be able to sleep for the Song people.
After they were happy with the Song people and became pregnant, these pregnant Japanese girls were all treasured by Japan in the Great Song Dynasty and sent back to China to give birth in a fast boat. This was the national policy of Japan at that time, with the aim of increasing the Chinese bloodline and preventing the monstrosity of the human race.
When such a Japanese girl gets married, her parents will proudly proclaim: "My daughter has lived with a Song person, and the child in her belly is from the Celestial Empire and is a Song people...... Shared a bed. ”
So, what is the final fate of the children born to these "degree" women? Basically, the women didn't wait for them to give birth. The local daimyo would marry the pregnant women back home. If you give birth to a boy, you will be the heir to the family, and if you give birth to a girl, you will be hired by the princes before she is weaned. Hired as the next daimyo main room.
It was not for nothing that the ancient Japanese called the aristocracy "Chinese".
By the time the Mongols invaded Japan, the Japanese had actually completed a major blood change, and the Japanese feudal lords in office at that time were basically the descendants of the Song people, so they had a deep hatred for the Mongols who died in the Song Dynasty.
This history was not only recorded by the Japanese people, but also recorded in the "Qingbo Magazine" of the Song people: "The Japanese kingdom was floating on the territory in a boat, and there were three or twenty people in a line. Women are all covered, meet Zhongzhou people, choose Duanli to recommend sleep, the name of the species"
Not only the Japanese have the custom of "degree species", but also all the countries in Southeast Asia have similar customs. Especially in Vietnam, this trend is even worse than in Japan. In ancient times, most of the countries in Southeast Asia were black people, but in later generations, they were basically yellow people, and the proportion of Chinese was very high.
It is a pity that in later generations, due to the invasion of Western nationalism, the countries in the Chinese Confucian civilization circle are on the same page. Even at the expense of de-sinicization and distortion of history, this is really a great irony!
However, these are all things that Zhao Ji doesn't know, Zhao Ji knows the degree, but he doesn't know the degree to this extent. Although Zhao Ji has the memory of the original Zhao Ji in this life, his consciousness and worldview are those of later generations. It's normal not to know such common sense! It can be seen that under the invasion of Western civilization in later generations, the civilization consciousness of Chinese civilization has been completely lost!
Zhao Ji vaguely remembered that the slogan of the later Japanese war against the Qing Dynasty seemed to be: drive out the Tartars and restore China. Later, this slogan was adopted by Sun Yat-sen. It's just that Japan was too westernized under the Meiji Restoration, and this slogan was later replaced by the slogan of Western colonialism of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity".
"Holy Lord, Gou Zhizhou asks to see you." Li Xiang'an approached Zhao Ji and said.
"Let him in!" Zhao Ji put aside the affairs of Japan and decided not to interfere too much, and let the government affairs hall handle it with full authority.
"Wechen knocks on the saint, this is an edict from the political affairs hall." Gou Hongshe handed over a book.
Zhao Ji opened the order book and looked at it, and the content was to reprimand the civil and military officials in Taizhou for following Zhao Ji for messing around: without going through the political affairs hall and the military department, he sent troops to the Tiansun Kingdom without going through the military department, and even enslaved the people of Mingzhu as slaves, which was really a nonsense act and lost the face of the Great Song Dynasty. After some reprimands, the commander of the Eighth Zhenhai Guard Army made Bai Bolang demoted, Gou Zhizhou was fined for half a year, and ordered to be corrected immediately.
"What does Gou Zhizhou think should be done?" Zhao Ji said a little embarrassed. The decree of this political hall can be said to have scolded him, the emperor.
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