Mao Liyuan was wearing a purple robe woven of Shu brocade, humming a small tune, and was sitting there looking at the account very proudly, he was full of the fragrance of osmanthus flowers. This brocade robe and this osmanthus fragrance dew were all purchased from the Han merchants at a high price. Dressed in Shu brocade and rubbing flower dew, he felt that he was a successful and noble imperial count.

At this time, the accounts he was looking at were the accounts of the original 180,000 stone high territory of the Matsue Domain, which was cut off by him.

"The Count is so interested!"

A voice sounded in his ears, and Mao Liyuan looked up sharply, just in time to see Feng Sheng's smiling face.

"Admiral Feng!" Mao Liyuan hurriedly got up, he could put up a stand in front of those Japanese daimyos, but he would never dare to put a shelf in front of this Jinyi Admiral.

"You and I are ministers in the same palace, so you don't have to be so polite." In Feng Sheng's smile, there was always a cold that Mao Liyuan was afraid of. "Your Majesty has summoned you, please ask the Earl to follow me to the saint."

"Thank you, Admiral, for your notice." Mao Liyuan was both expectant and a little nervous about the emperor's summoning. At the emperor's wedding before, he deliberately provoked Matsudaira Naomasa, induced him to duel, and then cut off his head with a knife, and provoked him to take out the territory of the Matsue Domain to gamble. At that time, the emperor witnessed and agreed, but some time had passed, and the emperor had not issued a formal decree to take over the spoils.

"Congratulations in advance, Earl, Your Majesty will hand over the territory of the Songjiang Domain to you in a moment."

Mao Liyuan became excited, and his breathing was a little short.

"And there is more than this, Your Majesty will fulfill your promise and allocate a part of the territory directly under the Tokugawa family to you, and according to the prior agreement, Your Majesty will increase your territory to one million stones. Coupled with the eighteen stones you won in this bet, your territory will be 1,180,000 stones in the future, congratulations! Feng Sheng smiled indifferently.

"Thank you, Lord Admiral, for your notice."

"Is it just a verbal thank-you?"

"Ahh Oh, there are a few singers down there who are delicate and beautiful, and such beauties must be given to a hero like the Admiral. I'll have someone send you to your house later? ”

"Hahaha, it's just a joke with the earl, but it's a pity, the laws of the empire, I don't dare to really accept the count's beauty, it's a pity, a pity!" Feng Sheng shook his head and said.

"This, it's just a little care, nothing else."

"Whether it means anything else or not. None of this is allowed. ”

After speaking, Feng Sheng no longer paid attention to this widow, he looked down on this old guy in his heart, and relied on his hands to dye his own people's blood to ascend to the throne, shameless.

Before entering the emperor's palace, Mori met with three other counts, Nabeshima Katsushige, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, and Matsuura Dong. The faces of the three of them were all uncontrollable excitement, obviously. The three of them also got the news that they were about to be sealed to the million-stone territory.

When the four of them arrived, Feng Sheng led them into the palace.

But at the palace gate. The four of them were stopped by the guards.

"Untie your swords and hand over your spears!"

When the four of them saw Feng Sheng passing, the guards didn't ask him to hand over his weapons, but the four of them were stopped, and they were suddenly a little unhappy in their hearts.

With just a little hesitation, the guards over there had already raised their guns and pointed them at them. The faces of the four suddenly darkened. But he dared not speak out in anger, and finally had to hand over the katana and pistol on his body, and finally the four of them each received a bronze medal, which was a temporary pass, and was required to hang it around their necks.

Finally. It was only through the heavy guards that the four of them met the emperor.

Bow down.

"Flat."

The four people in front of you are also the only four daimyo left in Japan.

The other more than 200 daimyo in the west were either beheaded or surrendered when the Han army captured them, but those who surrendered did not receive the same treatment as the four Nabeshima people, and they were deprived of their status and abolished the feudal domain.

Those daimyo in the east originally received special preferential treatment because of Xingzi and relatives, and were given knighthoods and titles. It's a pity that they were only the lords of the Han Dynasty for a few days, and they were all wiped out by the emperor at the banquet on the wedding day because of the sneak attack of the Sekigahara of Tokugawa Iemitsu's 5,000 banners.

For those daimyo who were killed, their feudal domains were naturally abolished, and their domains were confiscated.

The whole of Japan has been pocketed by the Han Dynasty, more than 30 million stone high territory, and now there are only these four feudal lords left, Liu Jun originally promised to give them a million stones, he did not plan to cross the river and demolish the bridge immediately, unload the mill and kill the donkey.

Originally, it wasn't the Tokugawa iemitsu who died, so now there should be more than a hundred daimyos. At least on the surface, Liu Jun originally planned to find a reason that Tokugawa Iemitsu refused to come to Kyoto after the wedding, so he was convicted of a crime, and then confiscated the 4 million stone territory directly under the Tokugawa family, and the 2.6 million stone territory of the Tokugawa family's 80,000 banner samurai.

In the future, if you find another opportunity, you can also confiscate more than one million stone territories of the three families.

Who knows, Tokugawa Iemitsu actually died like this, so that Liu Jun saved the trouble of finding various reasons, and directly killed them all. The daimyo of the feudal clans were killed in Kyoto, and the elites of the feudal domains were defeated and captured in Sekigahara, and when Tokugawa Iemitsu committed suicide, there was no large-scale resistance, and some sporadic resistance was ruthlessly destroyed by the Imperial Enshrinement Army.

"I promised you that I would be rewarded for your allegiance to me."

Then, Liu Jun waved his hand, and immediately a close attendant stepped forward and presented an edict to each of the four people.

In this edict, each person received a seal of 1 million koku, of which Maori Yuan also received 180,000 koku from the Matsue Domain, and the territory reached a height of 1,180,000 koku.

However, when the four of them opened their edicts, their faces were a little unnatural.

Because the emperor moved them to Ezo.

The Ezo land, also known as the land of the Ezo people, is located in the northernmost part of Japan, Hokkaido. This huge island covers one-fifth of Japan, but it is still unexplored.

It was not until the middle of the Muromachi period that Japan began to operate in southern Hokkaido. Later, the ancestors of the Matsumae clan gained the upper hand in the wars against the Ezo people, and gradually gained a foothold in southern Hokkaido. It was not until the time of Matsumae Hirokei that he obtained the right to approve the Ezo land from Toyotomi Hideyoshi and became independent from the Anto family, after Hideyoshi's death. The Matsumae family moved closer to the Tokugawa family and received recognition of their territory.

Because rice was not produced in Hokkai, the Matsumae Domain was included among the feudal domains of the Edo Shogunate, but it did not have a daimyo of Ishitaka. They received exclusive trading rights with the Ezo people from the shogunate, and at the same time granted the Matsumae family the status of Hachimoto.

Up to this time, the Matsumae Domain was nominally only the southern region of Ezoji. In fact, however, it has almost monopolized the entire North Sea Island, and has even begun to set up trading posts and fishing points on Sakhalin Island in the north.

The current lord of the Matsumae Domain, who had also died at the Kyoto wedding, was now confiscated and belonged to the Han Empire.

And now the emperor is going to give the Ezo land to the four people of Nabeshima, and the entire Ezo land is divided into four parts, east, west, north and south, each of the four families occupies a piece, and each person receives a landmark stone with a height of 1 million stones, and the stone of Maori Yoshishi is more than 180,000 stones.

The four looked at each other. No one expected the emperor to come to this trick.

Hokkaido is a remote and bitter cold place, a place of ice and snow, except for the Ezo people, there are not many Japanese, and there is not even rice production in that place. In the past, there was no stone height, but now the emperor opened his mouth and said that this broken island is worth 4.18 million stones, who is this coaxing.

But Liu Jun came up with another reason. Because Hokkaido is one-fifth of Japan's, and Japan originally didn't count Hokkaido. All the stone heights add up to more than 30 million stone heights. In this case, Hokkaido should be worth 8 million, but even if the production is low, it should be more than 4 million stone at half.

Hokkaido does not produce rice, but it does produce fur, trees, medicinal herbs, ores, corn, potatoes, and other crops. Therefore, it is converted into more than 4 million stones. It's still undercounted at all.

Of course, after the more than 4 million stones were divided into four families, the four families also had to be sealed again.

First of all, they divided their own families, and also divided their own retainers and samurai, and after the layers of separation, there were not many people who were really directly under the government. Just like Japan, there are more than 30 million stones, and the Tokugawa family is only 4 million. The four families really led directly only about 100,000 stones.

But there were only 100,000 direct collars left, and now they are still on that desolate island in Hokkaido

The four of them just wanted to say that the emperor was hiding the bow of the bird and killing the donkey, but they didn't dare to say this disrespectful word. However, no one is willing to accept such an outcome.

This is not a seal, this is a derogatory seal, especially for the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain, although they lived in Saikaido in the past, their family also has more than 700,000 stone high.

The Maori clan is the same, it is not as brilliant as it was in the early years when it was more than a million stones, but there are still more than 300,000, but now they are going to move to that desert island, and they will vomit blood when they think about it.

"I know that you may be a little dissatisfied in your heart, thinking that I am secretly rising and degrading. But I tell you, this is not the whole reward. ”

"One million stone in Hokkaido is just the first prize. I have also prepared for you a territory, a territory that is richer and greater than your original territory. ”

Hearing the emperor say this, the four of Nabeshima Katsushige couldn't help but show some hope again.

Liu Jun walked to the screen on one side, where there was a map of the world.

"This is South Vietnam, which has been the territory of China since the Qin and Han dynasties, and it is incomparably richer, no worse than Japan."

The four of them looked at the long strip-shaped Nanyue country along the South China Sea, the terrain of Nanyue is somewhat similar to Japan, both are narrow and long, and they are all coastal.

It's just that Japan is an island country in the East China Sea, while Vietnam is a coastal country in the South China Sea. But in terms of speaking, Vietnam is indeed more affluent, where the land can be harvested three times a year, and everything you grow can have a good harvest.

It's just that now it's the territory of the Later Li Dynasty.

"I originally planned to recover South Vietnam after the Japanese peace of affairs, but South Vietnam dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head, and actually colluded with the small country of Donghu to take the initiative to provoke our Han Dynasty. I can't bear this. I have decided to send troops to South Vietnam, and the four of you should lead the Imperial Allied Army as the vanguard. ”

"When you go to war in South Vietnam, you can keep 10% of the land and money you have seized, except for the population. If the four of you can destroy the country of South Vietnam, then you will get one-tenth of Vietnam's population and money, and one-tenth of South Vietnam's land will be far more than four million stone of rice. ”

"Even if you only conquer half of the territory of South Vietnam, or even a third of the territory, the land you can get will be far more than a million stone high."

"The more you fight, the more you can get, whether you take a million stones of new territory or fifty stones or even two million stones, it depends on your ability."

The expressions on the faces of the four Nabeshima were very rich, both excited and a little embarrassed.

South Vietnam is about the same size as Japan, but its population is far inferior to that of Japan, which has a population of more than 20 million. However, at this time, South Vietnam was still in a rather chaotic period, with the Mo Dynasty and the Li Dynasty standing side by side, and at the same time, there was the Li Emperor Zheng Zhu in the Li Dynasty, as well as the division of the Northern Zheng and Southern Ruan, and even the Vu clan in the north.

In terms of population, the Mo clan in the north only has a small land, which can be ignored, but the northern part of the Hou Li Dynasty controlled by the Zheng clan has no less than four or five million people, and the population of the Ruan clan in the south is only more than one million.

It is estimated that the entire South Vietnam has a population of about 5 million, but the South Vietnamese sides have a lot of troops and their strength is not weak, especially they know that the Nguyen clan in the south also has a deal with the South Barbarians and has a large number of firearms and artillery.

"However, there are only 8,000 imperial allies."

Liu Jun laughed, "I also consider this matter, each of the four of you can build an army, and you can recruit up to 30,000 soldiers in the territory." In addition, I will send you to escort you by navy and take you directly to the coast of South Vietnam for landing, and there will be a Foreign Legion to support you. ”

"Your four military towns, plus one army of foreign mercenary legions, a total of five armies of 150,000 horses, and another fleet as sea support, no less than 200,000 horses, are you not confident that you can defeat the South Vietnamese? If you don't have the courage, then it doesn't matter, the most important thing in the Han Empire is the heroic soldiers, they are happy to go to Nanyue, but at that time, Nanyue will not have your share. ”

Nabeshima Katsushige gritted his teeth and said ruthlessly, "Your Majesty, if you want to expand the recruitment of troops and horses, the ministers are still short of armaments, and the ministers ask Your Majesty to draw out ordnance, especially flintlock muskets and artillery, and ask Your Majesty to transfer a group of officers to the army to guide tactics." ”

Liu Jun smiled slightly, "Accurate." ”

After getting the emperor's firecracker artillery and the officer's dispatch, the four of them couldn't help but get excited, if they had the support of the Imperial Navy, the support of the foreign mercenary corps, and the sharp musket artillery, as well as the command of excellent imperial officers, then after their expansion, they would still have confidence in fighting South Vietnam.

If they can take South Vietnam, then they will have a territory in Hokkaido, and they will have another rich territory in South Vietnam.

The four of them thanked each other, and Feng Sheng in the palace asked Liu Jun, "Will there be any trouble in this?" Why don't you just abolish these last four feudatories? ”

"Isn't it good to let these Japanese people go to the forefront of the empire and consume the South Vietnamese barbarians first? What if they were given four military towns, what if they were expanded to 120,000 men, and even if they were given another batch of muskets and artillery, after they left Japan, do you think they would be able to come back? ”

Killing people without seeing blood, and still allowing these Japanese people to fight and kill the enemy for the empire is really high, Feng Sheng couldn't help but secretly sigh that the emperor is really a step higher than him.

But he didn't have a problem with that, it was also a waste use, otherwise, they wouldn't have to exist anymore.

"Your Majesty, what if they really capture South Vietnam?"

Liu Jun shook his head, "Wouldn't it be better if they could really take South Vietnam, the empire would take South Vietnam into its pocket." As for these Japanese people, without Nanyue, there can still be Donghu and Champong, Cambodia and Ayutthaya and Nanzhang, and even Bangladesh and Mughals, as well as the Nanyang island countries, and even the Spaniards and Dutch! ”

Feng Sheng smiled and stopped talking, yes, how many people can the four feudatories have, let them expand into four towns, and build an army of 120,000 people to fight in South Vietnam, even if they can defeat South Vietnam, but there are still so many enemies to fight, all the way down, these Japanese will die one day!

In short, once they leave the Japanese archipelago, they will never want to come back in this life. (To be continued.) )