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Masayuki Hoshina came out of the Honmaru Temple, and without any delay, he boarded a fishing boat with a few people and hurried to Yokosuka again. No matter what happens next, Geng Jingzhong must be stabilized first. Edo Castle could no longer withstand the bombardment of the Mawei warships again, and many people feared that the Mawei Army would attack again, so they dragged their families and fled to Fusao Castle in Tokyo, the inland capital.

In the ensuing negotiations, Hoshina Masayuki tried his best to reduce some of the indemnities and not open Edo as a treaty port, and he grinded his tongue for several hours. In the end, Geng Jingzhong only agreed that the time of the compensation could be extended by two years, but the total amount was not constant. Several treaty ports must be opened, which is the main purpose of Geng Jingzhong's expedition.

Geng Jingzhong's toughness was something that Baoke Masayuki did not expect. He originally thought that it would take more time to talk about the content of the treaty, but who knew that Geng Jingzhong would not give an inch. In fact, these treaties, except for the large amount of 10 million taels of gold, are not a problem. The opening of a few treaty ports would not have any effect on their rule in the short term; As for the ban on Shintoism, it was just an order, and it was easy to do. And providing 20,000 war horses, there is no big problem for several surrounding cities to get together.

According to the terms of the treaty, they were to raise the first batch of five million taels of gold within ten days. Five million taels is one hundred and sixty tons (one catty is equal to sixteen taels in ancient times), which is equivalent to a solid large gold nugget with a length, width and height of two meters! The gold was packed into special large wooden boxes, and there were a total of 100 large wooden boxes. In Edo Castle. There are more than 100 such large chests in the inner palace of the Tokugawa family. This is also the accumulation of decades of the Tokugawa family.

Negotiations lasted from late evening to late at night. Geng Jingzhong became impatient, and the first "Edo Treaty" in the history of the Japanese kingdom was finally signed. The general content of the treaty has not changed, and Geng Jingzhong has insisted on it as it is. The time of the reparations was extended by two years, and the interest was waived, and the rest remained the same. In addition to the above genuine paragraphs, there is a small condition attached.

The things of the Wa Kingdom, the others can't get into Geng Jingzhong's eyes, only the katana is very good. This is not to grow the morale of others and destroy their own prestige. Since the late Tang Dynasty, the sword of the Wa Kingdom has been ahead of the sword of war with China. Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty also wrote a special song "Song of the Sword of the Wa Kingdom":

Kunyi Road is far from being reopened, and it is rumored that who can be poor when cutting jade.

The treasure knife is close to the country, and the more Jia De's cangs of the sea are east.

The fish skin is attached to the fragrant wood sheath, and the yellow and white idle miscellaneous fish and copper.

Hundreds of gold into the hands of good deeds, admiration can be demons.

It is rumored that the country lives on a large island, and the soil is fertile and the customs are good.

First Xu Fu deceived Qin Min, and collected medicine to drown the old boys.

Hundreds of five kinds of living with it, so far the instrument is exquisite.

The contributions of the previous dynasties were repeated, and the scholars often worked in words.

Xu Fuxing's books were not burned, and hundreds of books still exist today.

Lingyan is not allowed to spread to China. No one in the world knows ancient texts.

The great collection of the first king is ruined, and the waves are vast and there is no access.

It's grateful. Rusty short knife He Zuyun.

Generally speaking, it needs to be made by the knife worker, quenched, and polished, and then the knife worker is equipped with a white wood handle sheath to preserve the blade for sale, and the knife handle, sheath, and other knives are equipped as another line, decorated by a special metalworker (Gong worker), and each has a famous teacher. In the history of the Wa Kingdom, there were factions of swordsmiths, and some were exclusive craftsmen of the shogunate and daimyos.

The forging process is generally the ratio of the handle of the knife and the blade of the country is one to four, the handle of the knife is held in both hands, the chopping is powerful, and the bending distance is 17 millimeters under the tip of the blade, and the power here is the greatest when chopping, which is very in line with the principle of mechanics. The material of the Wa Guo knife is steel, which is called Hegang or jade steel; Yugang is made by the traditional soil method of the Wa Kingdom. This is a low-temperature steelmaking method with a furnace temperature of no more than 1,000 degrees Celsius. This method seems primitive, but compared with the high-temperature steelmaking method of the 21st century, it can make good steel with pure quality. However, the steel smelted at high temperatures is softer and easier to shape, while the steel smelted at low temperatures is harder and more difficult to make.

I remember that in the TV series "Kangxi Dynasty" that I watched in later generations, the gift given by the shogunate to the crown prince of the Qing Kingdom was three well-crafted katanas, which shows that the swords of the Wa Kingdom are indeed quite good. It was based on this article that Geng Jingzhong asked the Wa Kingdom to provide 50,000 samurai swords, which were specially used for battle among the katanas, and were also necessary for the samurai of the Wa Kingdom wearing armor. The value of a katana is not only not less than the value of a war horse, but also higher.

Since this was an additional proposal, the 50,000 knives were counted as goods purchased by Geng Jingzhong from the shogunate. Each katana is worth two taels of gold, and fifty thousand is one hundred thousand taels. This thing is really expensive enough, in Fujian, such a war knife will be sold for sixty taels of silver, that is, six taels of gold. Transporting these goods back is a triple profit, which is why maritime merchants are happy to trade at sea.

In the next ten days, the Tokugawa shogunate continued to raise war horses and swords, and the five million taels of gold were not shipped out at once, so as not to make Geng Jingzhong think that their shogunate was very rich and felt that the treaty was less. Geng Jingzhong and others cruised in the bay of Wakoku with the Mawei warship, and the northern part of the main island of Wakoku is also the northern part of Edo, Sendai Castle, Ishinomaki Castle, and Mito Castle; south of Edo, Shizuko Castle and Hamamatsu Castle; These cities were all near the bay, and the bay where they were located was all visited by Geng Jingzhong's Mawei fleet.

Everywhere they went, more than 100 warships of the Mawei fleet fired a salvo of artillery, bombarding an open space on the coast. After such a large circle, there was really not much ammunition left on the battleship, and on average, there were less than three rounds per gun. But the value of this action, Geng Jingzhong's purpose is also very simple, that is, to deter those daimyo of the Wa Kingdom and let them know the strength of his Mawei fleet.

"Shizi, we've been out for a month, and the soldiers are all homesick!" The Tokugawa shogunate's compensation had now been loaded onto the battleship, filling the empty cabin to the brim. Finally about to leave for home, Wang Zhenbang was completely relieved. After all, this is in another country, even if there is no sailor who can match it, it is still necessary to always be mentally vigilant against the sneak attack of the water ghosts of the Japanese country. It's been a long time, and it's also quite tiring.

"Hehe, I'm afraid it's not the soldiers who are homesick, but you yourself are homesick!" Geng Jingzhong sat comfortably on the chair, holding a tall glass with wine in his hand, glanced at him and said with a smile.

"It's true that I'm a little homesick, but what I just said is also true, the soldiers are indeed a little homesick, and I've heard more than one person say that." Mr. Wang Zhenbang nodded, then shook his head and said.

"Don't worry, we have to stay in the country for a few more days. By the way, Tian Xin, do you have any news about them? Geng Jingzhong asked in a deep voice.

"Nope. On the day we first arrived in Edo, the Tokugawa shogunate had already issued an order for the daimyo on the island of Kyushu to jointly send troops against us. However, according to the calculation of time, when the major allied forces arrived at Kagoshima Castle, they should have appeared in Nagasaki, or they had already found the Ryuzoji clan directly. Wang Zhenbang said what he thought.

"Yes, on the second day of our fleet's departure, they also went to the territory of the Ryuzoji clan by boat, and even if the Ryuzoji clan received an order from the Tokugawa shogunate, they would not necessarily do anything to Tashin and them. After all, our strength is there, and he has to think carefully about the fate of offending us. Geng Jingzhong drank the wine in the glass in one sip, and then said confidently.

Leaving Tian Xin and Gu's group and sending them to the fourth strongest daimyo Ryuzoji clan on Kyushu Island was another plan that Geng Jingzhong and Li Guangdi had already discussed. The Shimazu family has been destroyed, and it is not realistic for Geng Jingzhong to want to occupy this territory, but it is very good to unite a local force. Governing the Japanese with the Japanese is a trick learned from the Japanese of later generations, and it is just to treat the body of others in the way of others.

As for why he found the Ryuzoji clan all of a sudden, one is because the strength of the Ryuzoji clan is good, and the other is because Nagasaki Port is within his family's sphere of influence. The United Dragon Temple Clan is just more beneficial to Geng Jingzhong. On the island of Kyushu, there is only one treaty port in Nagasaki, so the Ryuzoji clan has become the object that must be wooed. In order to obtain long-term trade benefits, it is necessary to ensure the normal operation of the port, and it is not possible to travel at will.

This time the battle of the Japanese can be reflected, when the Shimazu family was attacked, the samurai of the Shimazu family were weak. At the beginning, those so-called elites were fierce and desperately charged, but later in the process of being pursued by the horsetail soldiers, they staggered one by one and had no combat power. This is not all because they were killed, but because many high-ranking samurai were addicted to smoking, but they couldn't take two puffs in time, so that their hands and feet were weak, and they could only be slaughtered by the horsetails.

The conquest has been won and the treaty has been signed, so it will be possible to transport the Ascension Immortals to the Wa Kingdom on a larger scale in the future. The price of Shengxian San can't be as low as before, it is purely a loss-making transaction, and it must be greatly increased in order to make huge profits.

The treaty signed this time stated that the Japanese would only be able to trade with China in the future, which would inevitably offend the Dutch. Although Geng Jingzhong was not afraid of the Dutch entrenched in Batavia, it was still a problem to deal with after all. It is better to directly pass on this trouble to the Wa State, but the Dutch will not make much of a move, after all, their strength in the Far East is not strong, but there are many enemies. So Geng Jingzhong wanted to give the territory of the Shimazu family to the Ryuzoji clan to support the Ryuzoji clan, and let his family's army stop the Dutch in the name of the shogunate, so as not to provoke him.

There is also one that makes the Ryuzoji clan strong and can also fight against the Tokugawa shogunate. The Ryuzoji clan occupies the territory of the Shimazu family, and the future development will definitely be more smooth, and it will also be of great benefit to the interests of the Mawei army in the Wa Kingdom. Of course, the premise of this qiē is that the Longzao Temple clan did not do stupid things and could listen to the construction of Tian Xin and others, otherwise Geng Jingzhong would not mind destroying one more daimyo of the Wa Kingdom. (To be continued......)

PS: Chapter 1, a little rushed, sorry brothers!