Nagasaki.

Liu Jun is still in Japan, the merchant port of Nagasaki, and at this time it has become the emperor's temporary residence. The engineering units even hurried to build a temporary palace and set up several bastions around it to protect it, and the harbor was also anchored by the Fifth Detachment of the Royal Task Force, and the Sixth Detachment of the Royal Task Force was cruising in the nearby sea.

At this time, it has entered August, and it is autumn.

The Imperial Navy had been fishing in Hiroshima in an attempt to lure the main forces of the Tokugawa clan to come to the rescue, but unfortunately, Tokugawa Iemitsu seemed to have made up his mind to hold Edo and resolutely refrain from the Han army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain. Not only did he gather the militia of his own celestial domain, but he also gathered all his banners in the Edo area, and even sent someone to bring his niece Emperor Akimasa from Kyoto to Edo.

The Tokugawa clan's turtle style disappointed the lords of the Chugoku region of Hiroshima. They had to face the full-scale landing of the Imperial Allied Army on Honshu Island to fight, and the foreign army was harassing in the rear, but they did not wait for reinforcements from the shogunate for a long time.

Not long after, the Imperial Navy of the Great Han Dynasty attacked Shikoku Island after another storm at sea, and several daimyo on the island were only small feudal clans, not strong, and were quickly defeated and surrendered.

After the capture of Shikoku Island, the daimyo of Chugoku were immediately surrounded on three sides, and when the Imperial Navy and the Foreign Legion began to attack their territory, the allied forces assembled in Hiroshima finally could not sit still and began to retreat.

The Imperial Allied Army launched a fierce attack, and the Imperial Allied Army, assisted by the Imperial Navy, defeated the local Chinese coalition forces in Hiroshima in one fell swoop, followed by a great rout and a great pursuit.

Eventually, the daimyo of the local Chinese feudal lords had to surrender.

In one fell swoop, the Han army advanced to the area.

By this time, nearly half of Japan's territory had fallen, but the Tokugawa clan was still holding on to the Edo area. Faced with the possibility of the Han army attacking Kyoto next, the Tokugawa clan still couldn't shrink back.

"Tokugawa Iemitsu has won the ninja of his ancestor Tokugawa Ieyasu." Liu Jun couldn't help but be amazed by this person. In the past, the information I received was that Tokugawa Iemitsu acted arbitrarily and felt a little stubborn. But now, this guy has at least 200,000 troops in his hands, but he has been able to endure until now, which fully shows that this person is very sincere.

"The previous Privy Council chiefs of staff were unanimously convinced that Tokugawa Iemitsu would not be able to endure it for long. Once the Chugoku region is lost, they will definitely come to defend the region, and they say that he will definitely not let Kyoto fall. But now, Tokugawa Iemitsu only took his niece Emperor Akimasa and the nobles of the princess, but still did not send troops to. ”

The reaction from the Edo side was indeed unexpected by many.

"Judging from the current situation, if Tokugawa Iemitsu does not guard Gyeonggi, it is likely that he will not guard Sekigahara, and his intention is obvious, that is, to guard the Edo lair. Hold on to us to the end. ”

Sekigahara is also known as the unbroken pass.

Sekibara is a basin of four kilometers from east to west and two kilometers from north to south surrounded by Mt. Ibuki in the north, Mt. Sasao and Mt. Tenman in the west, Mt. Matsuo in the southwest, and Mt. Nangong in the southeast. It is an important road connecting Hokuriku Province in the northwest and Ise in the southeast, and it is an excellent venue for field battles. The Kanto and Kansai regions of Japan mainly refer to the Kanto region as the boundary, and the east is called Kanto, and the west is Kansai.

At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu relied on the joint battle at Sekigahara to defeat the strong with the weak. Defeat the Western Army and eventually become a man of the world.

But now. The Tokugawa clan didn't even have the courage to send troops to Sekigahara.

It can only be said that Tokugawa Iemitsu actually has some vision, and he knows that even if he comes all the way to reinforce him, it is useless. The navy of the Han Empire was an unsolvable problem, and with the imperial navy present, he would not be able to leave Edo lightly, otherwise, as soon as he left. We can steal his lair on the back foot. Now that he is holding on to Edo, it is estimated that he still has the last trace of luck in his heart, and he is looking forward to gathering the power of the shogunate and being able to hold Edo by then. ”

No, Liu Jun can only be lucky about the Edo shogunate, if you think that you can keep it like this, it is really a fool's dream.

Today's Han and Japan are fundamentally two eras of the country. Although Japan also has a population of more than 20 million, it is also one of the most powerful countries of this era, especially since Japan has been unified by the Edo shogunate for decades. But the gap between the two countries is still too big, one is still in the era of cold weapons, and the other has entered the era of hot weapons with strong ships and cannons.

Especially for Japan, an island country, there is not even a little strategic defense depth, and no matter how it defends, it is full of flaws.

But Liu Jun is not in a hurry.

The current situation is much smoother than expected, and the original plan was that it might take 10 years to completely annex Japan, but now it seems that it will be 3 years at most.

"Since the Tokugawa clan is willing to be a turtle and deceive himself in Edo, then don't worry about him. We followed our plan, step by step, encroachment, and most importantly, immigration. Everywhere they occupied, they moved the Japanese people and then immigrated from the Central Plains. ”

Most of the Japanese had to be moved, and a few remained to build roads, build cities, and mine to strengthen Han rule over the Japanese occupation areas.

"Send another letter to the Kyoshi Cabinet Motosuke, and ask them to speed up the preparation of the immigrants who will move to Japan, and the four countries will be merged into Kyushu Province, and there are currently five prefectures in Kyushu Province, and my request is that each prefecture must immigrate 100,000 people this year, and in the next few years, it will continue to immigrate, and each prefecture must reach at least 200,000 people, so that Kyushu Province must have at least one million immigrants."

The immigrants are not necessarily all Han people, but they should be mainly Han people, and some people should be moved from Sichuan-Guizhou in the southwest and Dali and Laos in Yunnan in the south-central and southern China.

Because there are ready-made feudal towns, villages, houses, etc., and the fields are all ready-made, it is much easier to emigrate to Japan than to immigrate to other frontier areas.

When people come, they will have houses and fields.

"The shops in the feudal cities can also be rented and sold, as long as there are people who are willing to come to rent, buy and do business, they can give preferential treatment and reduce some taxes."

Liu Jun planned to resettle the immigrants from the west to the east, first to resettle Kyushu, then to Shikoku, and then to the Chugoku region of Honshu and then to the region.

"Since Tokugawa refuses to show his head, let's take the region, Kyoto, and Osaka before the year, and advance all the way to Sekigahara. After taking Sekigahara. This year, the Eastern Army will be suspended, and we will wait until we digest Kyushu, Shikoku, China, and Kansai first. Next year, we will enter Chubu and Kanto, as well as Tohoku and Hokkaido. ”

"Does the Foreign Legion need to stop too?"

Liu Jun thought for a while, "They don't have to stop, let them go to the central part of the country and Kanto and other places to continue to attack, and they can't let the Japanese people be stable." ”

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing. Recently, there have been many spontaneous militias along the coasts of central Japan and the Kanto region, and they have been raiding the coast by boat. Robbed Japanese fishing villages, seized money, and even took people into slavery. ”

"Self-proclaimed militia?" Liu Jun smiled, he understood very well what was going on here, but he was just taking the opportunity to make war money and fish in troubled waters.

But he didn't plan to stop it.

"It's still the same old rule. It's okay for these militias to come and help the war on their own, but they can't come randomly. First of all, they still have to be declared by the government, apply for privateer licenses, and only after obtaining the approval and obtaining the permit can they go to the designated areas of Japan to operate. In addition, all the proceeds of their plunder had to be declared to the imperial court. And truthfully pay the share and income tax. In addition, all captured captives. The full amount must be handed over to the imperial court, and the imperial court will give the corresponding reward, and it is forbidden to sell it privately. ”

One of Liu Jun's reforms in the new dynasty was the abolition of slavery. In Liu Jun's view, slavery is the mortal enemy of the monarchy.

After all, slaves were private property, and they did not enjoy the rights of the state. Of course, there are no obligations of the State. They were not even loyal to the emperor, only to the slave owners. This situation is very unfavorable to the imperial court and the emperor, if the rich man has too many slaves, then it is very likely to become a force that cannot be defeated. Just like the clans of the Sui and Tang dynasties of the two Jin and Sui dynasties, they had a large number of slaves and formed a very strong private power.

Therefore, Liu Jun resolutely forbade slavery, private individuals were not allowed to keep slaves, and even servants could only be hired.

Prisoners of the enemy and criminals were not allowed to be sent as slaves, they were at most only prisoners, and once their sentences had passed, they were still free people.

There were many officials who thought that they should be made slaves or untouchables. But Liu Jun had already abolished the slavery system and the untouchability system, and even abolished the classification of household registration, of course, it was impossible to go backwards.

The best strategy for the Japanese is assimilation, not isolation. Isolation is only a temporary set-up of the problem, not a solution. It can be assimilated, but it can be done once and for all. Just like the Khitan and Xianbei ethnic groups in history, they were once incomparably powerful, but in the end they were completely integrated into the assimilated Han people, and there were no Xianbei and Khitan, but only a part of the Han people.

Liu Jun believes that after a few generations, there will be no more Japanese language and no longer Japanese characters, and everything in Japan and the people will disappear, they will speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, wear Hanfu, and live the same festivals and living habits with the Han people, from head to toe, from the inside to the outside, there is no trace of the shadow of the Japanese people.

Liu Jun has always believed that the Han nationality is not a division of blood, but a culture. Regardless of whether he is a Mongol, a Jurchen, or even a He, when they fully accept the Han civilization and are as different as the Han people inside and out, then they are no longer Mongol Jurchens or He, they all become Han Chinese.

Only in this way can the Han Empire be truly open and strong, as the saying goes, the sea is tolerant of all rivers, and tolerance is great. However, there is also a premise, that is, they must completely kill their past national identity, including their culture and traditions. If they are still allowed to retain the traditions of the past, and even retain their language and writing, then they are still not Han people, but just parasites hidden in the Han people, and sooner or later they will become hidden dangers.

After this generation of Japanese people migrated to various parts of the Central Plains, they could not take the imperial examination, could not join the army, and could not serve as officials. But in the next step, you can go from the army to an official, and in the third generation, you can participate in the imperial examination as an official, and then there is no limit.

"Your Majesty, after the First World War in Hiroshima, many daimyo surrendered, and these people hope to join the Imperial Army, is it permissible?"

Liu Jun shook his head.

"No, the Imperial Concord Army only maintains the size of sixteen Concords, and will never increase again. After the battle damage, it can be made up, but it will not be received additionally. Whether the daimyo surrendered or not, we don't need them anymore. According to the old rules, after screening and classifying them, they were loaded and sent to the Central Plains, where they were received and resettled. (To be continued.) )