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The victory of the Ming Zheng naval division was not enough for the Zheng lord to gain absolute initiative on the battlefield, and just as the two sides of the Annam Civil War continued to fight each other around the line of the Yokoyama Great Wall, the consequences of Ming Zheng's ingestion of Ezo finally surfaced, and after several months of presentation and operation, the Edo Shogunate Council finally made a decision.

In fact, as early as June, Matsumae Shima Morihiro personally went down to Edo from 6 Ao Nan to cry about the invasion of the Ming people. However, for the old and middle school people who were born in the genealogy of the daimyos, the Matsumae family was just an explanation of the qualifications of the banner of the Ichijie district [Note 1], and it was only a passer-by on the map of Japanese politics, and the Lianghama group was just an ordinary commercial organization in Omi, which could not be compared with the world-famous wealthy merchants in Kansai and Kanto, and its influence in the shogunate was very low, and the Ezo land was too remote, so the shogunate was not prepared to make a big deal about it at first.

However, Matsuzen Kihiro lobbied everywhere, first talking about the Daimyo Shimazu family, who had an armed conflict with Ming Zheng because of the ownership of the Ryukyus, and suffered huge casualties and economic losses as a result. Although the Shimazu family is on the outside, the head of the family, Jitoyo, has just married Takehime, the adopted daughter of the shogun Tsunayoshi, so it can be regarded as a member of the Tokugawa family, and the status is naturally not comparable to Matsumae.

Next, the two hama groups also contacted the Kansai Haoshang Group. On the one hand, although Ming Zheng had already opened private merchants to trade in Japan, because the Ming and Zheng officials firmly controlled the prices of foreign trade products from the source, the prices of silk fabrics, which were the most important to Japan, remained high, and the Kansai Haoshang Group suffered great losses; On the other hand, the Kansai merchants instigated the Nagasaki government to detain Zheng Zhi, Zheng Rou and others, although they helped Zheng Kezhang in a certain way, but they gave Zheng Kezhang a slap in the face in terms of etiquette.

Since the contradictions between the two sides have tended to intensify, under the plea and instigation of the two hama groups, the Kansai Haoshang Group has been half passive and half active behind the scenes. As a result, the results of the new round of discussions at the Laos-China meeting and the agreement reached at the previous meeting have come to a 18o degree U-turn.

On August 19, the 11th year of the reign of Emperor Taishun and the 11th year of Japan, the Nagasaki Shogunate, on behalf of the shogunate, submitted a letter of state to the Ming Zheng at the Japanese Merchant House, which clearly stated four demands: "Ming Zheng withdrew his troops from Ezo and returned the entire island to the Matsumae Domain, compensated Matsumae Domain with 40,000 taels of silver, the Japanese side set the price of goods arriving in Japan, and transferred the sovereignty of the Ryukyus". The Nagasaki government also claimed that if Ming Zheng did not agree to these conditions, the shogunate would send troops to retake Ezo on its own, and that trade between Ming and Japan would be banned from the future.

As for the dreamy request of the Japanese side, Zheng Kezhang naturally refused. In his opinion, the so-called threat of the Japanese side to interrupt the trade between Ming and Japan is too ridiculous, and in fact the trade between Ming and Japan can no longer be interrupted, even if the channels of direct communication between the two sides are forced to block, Ming Zheng can continue to sell Ming goods in Japan through the entrepot trade between North Korea, Japan, and Ryu and Japan, which is controlled by the Ming side, but the Japanese side will have to bear the additional cost of re-export, and it is the Japanese themselves who suffer.

As for the possibility of the Japanese army attacking Ezo, although it is not impossible, Zheng Kezhang is not afraid, after all, Ezo is north of 6 O, and a single supply problem should give the shogunate a headache, not to mention, in today's Japan, the pirate daimyo has long become a landlubber, and there is no sea control, whether the Japanese can land 6 Ezo Island is still a question, even if Ming Zheng Shuishi negligently landed 6 Ezo Island, it can basically only end up with a result that there is no return.

It was based on the above two considerations that Zheng Kezhang ignored the ultimatum of the shogunate.

Of course, strategic contempt and tactical emphasis. On September 22 of that year, before Zheng Kezhang toured Hunan and Guangdong, he formally authorized the Privy Council to immediately order the Beiyang Detachment of the Oriental Fleet to occupy Tsushima and Iki as a retaliatory act once it was confirmed that the shogunate had sent troops to Ezo or that Japan would confiscate Chinese merchant goods and drive away Ming and Zheng ships.

In addition, in order to cope with the possible war between Japan and Japan, the Admiral's Office of the Toyo Fleet was moved to Ezo Valley, and the Consulate General's Office of the Hokuyang Detachment was temporarily located at Ishikari River Castle. The Ezo Jitsu Gofu also received an additional 60,000 kan of internal funds to expand the five ports of Hakodate, Tokachi, Kushiro, Nemuro, and Muroran, with Hakodate, Kushiro, and Muroran as the main ports, and Tokachi and Nemuro as the backup ports. In order to ensure the preservation of Ming Zheng in the East Ezo Land, the whaling team of the Naval Arsenal Academy was also ordered to move to Kushiro.

Ming Zheng had already prepared to deal with it, but at this time, the Japanese side did not receive a response from Ming Zheng for a long time, and the number of merchant ships going to Japan by Ming Ming also showed a sharp decline, so the shogunate judged that Ming Zheng may have rejected his request. According to the contents of the note sent to Ming Zheng, the shogunate should immediately impose diplomatic relations and commercial sanctions and military strikes against Ming Zheng.

However, when the time came, there were people within the shogunate who were shaken again.

Some people will be surprised, the arrow is ready to be on the string, how can anyone still waver, are these people pro-Zheng? Or were these shogunate bosses bought by Zheng Fan? Actually, that's not the case at all.

The reason is simple, the shogunate ran out of money.

In the Motoroku period of Japan, the world was in a state of chronic financial crisis, from prosperity to chronic financial crisis.

In the early Edo period, the world was peaceful and agricultural production was booming, but by the Genroku period, the cultivated land area had increased to more than three times that of the end of the Warring States period, and during this period, the Tokugawa shogunate adjusted the annual tribute standard of "six princes and four people" during the Warring States period to "four princes and six people" in order to consolidate its rule. The area of cultivated land increased, the annual tribute decreased, and the peasants had money in their hands. When there was money, consumption increased accordingly, which stimulated the development of commerce and the city, and the production of gold, silver and copper mines in the hands of the shogunate remained high, and the shogunate once accumulated 6 million taels of gold and silver during the Ieko period of the three shoguns.

However, the economic prosperity has fostered a culture of extravagance and waste, and for the sake of pleasure, Japan imports a large number of foreign goods, which produce very little, and Japan itself does not have enough goods to export. In the 50 years from the first year of Qing'an (1648) to the 11th year of Yuanlu (1698), the Ming and Zheng sides alone obtained 1,337,400 taels of gold and 192,200 taels of silver from Japan.

However, for Japan, the gold and silver that flowed into the hands of Ming Zheng and the Dutch had accounted for a quarter of Japan's 100-year gold and silver mining since the sixth year of Keicho (16o1), and the mining of gold and silver mines in Japan had been exhausted one after another, so this gold and silver outflow situation could not last long.

If the outflow of gold and silver was only a long-term hidden danger, the poverty and extravagance of the fourth shogun Etsuna and the fifth shogun Tsunayoshi caused a financial crisis in the shogunate. In the eighth year of Genroku, in order to ensure the shogunate's use, Tsunayoshi agreed to Kandai to carry out the construction of Hagiwara Shigehide to mint bad coins, and the shogunate obtained millions of taels of income through this, but the market immediately experienced hyperinflation and soaring prices.

In this situation, more than 7,690 Banners and the Imperial Family, who were the backbone of the shogunate, fell into a difficult situation. In order not to shake the foundation of the shogunate, there had been a mention of relief for it at the Laochu Conference.

Relief costs money, and so does war.

Whether relief or war was more important was debated among the top leaders of the shogunate.

Those in favor of sending troops believed that they should take advantage of the current financial abundance of the shogunate to fight a war, so that the shogunate's martial might could be promoted internally, and the common people, samurai, and even daimyo who should be dissatisfied with the change of currency could be deterred, and it could also force Ming Zheng to lower the price of imported goods and completely solve the import problem of Afurong.

Opponents, however, believed that losing the battle with Ming Zheng would shake the foundation of the shogunate's rule, and that if he won, he would not earn a penny, and that Ming Zheng would not want at most Ezo, a desert island with little production, and that once Ming Zheng became angry and cut off Chinese commodity imports, Japan would have a complete shortage of goods when the Dutch had been forced to withdraw from the Nagasaki Merchant House due to Ming Zheng's force. Rather than further exacerbate the discontent of the people at that time, it is better to spend the money on relief. As for Ming Zheng's rudeness, anyway, Ezo is not the main island of Japan, since Ming Zheng wants it, it is better to simply sell it to the other party, or exchange it for a certain period of time to reduce the price of imported goods.

The conciliators believed that the shogunate could follow the example of the Shimabara Rebellion in the pacification of the Shimabara Rebellion, and let the daimyo of the Northern 6 dispatch a coalition army in the form of military service, and even the ships that boarded the 6 and transported could be reciprocated by the merchants. In this way, the shogunate was able to provide relief to the Banner and the Imperial family while sending troops into battle.

Although the pro-conciliators were more sympathetic to the conciliators' remarks, they were the same as the opponents on the issue of sending troops, arguing that the shogunate must take the lead in the war in Ezo, in which case the shogunate would have to send a certain amount of force and control the overall situation, and the money would still have to be spent, but only a little less. Regardless of how much money is spent, the opposition insists that this is to take advantage of the Shimazu family and the Kansai merchants, and is not in the fundamental interests of the Kanto merchants and the shogunate.

The public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother said that the mother was reasonable, and the results of the discussion had not yet come out, and time had been quietly left. At the beginning of October, the first snow had already begun to fall on 6 Oku and Dewa, not to mention that Ezo further north was already freezing and snowy. In such a harsh environment, not to mention the shogunate army, even the daimyo of the feudal domains, who were accustomed to the bitter cold of the northern 6, could not send troops to the battle.

Since there will be no troops this year, the arguing Lao-Chinese Conference can only reach a resolution on the relief of the flag book and the imperial family, of course, there must be a lot of controversy about the specific amount of relief, as for breaking off diplomatic relations with Ming Zheng and starting a war, since Ming Zheng pretended to be deaf and dumb to the shogunate's national letter, the shogunate naturally had to treat it as if the other party was still considering, and it would be delayed after the spring ploughing of the next year.

[Note 1] Hajimoto: The Matsumae family did not obtain the qualification of 10,000 koku daimyo until 1715.

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