Chapter 777: Destroying the Domain

There are many things that people in this era can't understand at all, but for Chen Xie, it doesn't matter if he understands or not, just do what I say. For the Ming cabinet, the focus of their attention is definitely not on the European powers, but on the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the first consideration is Chen Xie, the biggest threat to the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty. Thousands of miles away in Europe, who can take care of it.

What exactly is Chen Xie trying to do? It must be said here that a diachronic figure gave Chen Xie inspiration. The man was British, and his name was Hurd. The British, who was in charge of the Qing Customs, while constantly helping Britain strengthen its influence on the Qing Dynasty, created the only government agency that had anything to do with the word "incorruptible", the Qing Dynasty Customs.

In modern history, the great powers used finance to control China mainly through borrowing and mortgages, which slowly eroded the customs of the Qing Dynasty, all the way to the salt tax. The most typical case is Yuan Shikai's big loan for the aftermath (everyone goes to find the information for themselves).

Doesn't the cabinet ask for money? Well, where does this money come from? Let Chen Xie pay out of his own pocket and hurt his own interests to meet Daming's needs, Chen Xie will not do this kind of thing. So the question is, how to solve this contradiction. Chen Xie's idea was to take control of the customs and negotiate to solve the problem. Now there is no customs in the Ming Dynasty, only the shipping department, because of corruption, smuggling has become a common practice, and the shipping department in Tianjin and Fujian has no possibility of income growth. Since your people can't do this well, leave it to me, and make sure that the annual income of the imperial court is much higher than the current income, and even the trend of slow growth year by year.

Well, once a compromise is reached on this matter, neither Chen Xie nor the imperial court will have anything to lose. As for those whose interests are at the expense. It will be cleaned up in a year at most. There must be people who resist, but it is useless, and when the absolute strength crushes over, they either kneel to survive or disappear. Even if he is a terrible person, after the cabinet and Chen Xie reached a compromise. The result of the rebellion is a doom. This is Chen Xie's plan, first control the customs, and then use guò finance to erode every corner of the Ming Dynasty, until the country's economic lifeline is all charged, this ancient empire will naturally follow Chen Xie's baton to act. As for such a thing as a military conflict, it is inevitable according to the nature of human urine. If you don't hit it a few times, you won't be honest. Chen Xie had long been ready to fight, that is, to force this big country to take the initiative to demand change within the country through external pressure.

Once there is that day. Change is naturally reborn, not the current formality. It should be that most people want the country to carry out a change, and according to Chen Xie's prediction, the first place to have a conflict should be in the coastal provinces, of which Jiangnan is the most likely. The root cause is naturally education, and the compulsory education model promoted by Chen Xie can change a generation in ten years at most.

Chen Xie predicted. At present, this relationship with Daming can be maintained for a maximum of fifteen years. And then a war is bound to break out. The reason is simple, the huge benefits are enough to make people lose their minds.

Qian Qianyi and Shi Kefa left, and the result was quite satisfactory, as long as they could negotiate, for the Ming Cabinet. That's the good news. These old guys are all smart people, and they are worth a lot of money, if they want to move their cake in an ordinary political task, so many people can join forces and kill their opponents in minutes. Pity. They are facing Chen Xie, the strength is too strong, as long as Chen Xie is not happy, the result of not playing every minute is that the mountains and rivers change color, and the city head changes the king's flag. It's a blessing that such an opponent can sit down and have a good talk.

Daming's problem is temporarily solved, and the next step is negotiation and internal reshuffle. It is necessary to eat ugly people and become the first victims. On the issue of the Ship Division, the Cabinet members are like mirrors in their hearts, so why don't they wait for a suitable opportunity? To put it mildly, in the past, the beneficiaries of this piece were from the emperor to the bottom, a long line. Ordinary people don't want to touch it, if you look at it more, it will lead to death.

Shimazu father and son, who had been waiting for a week, did not wait for the opportunity to meet Chen Xie, but waited for the arrival of Tokugawa Iemitsu. At the door where Chen Xie collapsed, when the two sides met, there was no atmosphere of tension. They all bowed to each other respectfully, and then each found a place to sit in the corridor of the courtyard and wait for the summons.

The three giants of the Eastern Ying Kingdom came, and it was not surprising that Toyomasa Yamauchi also arrived, and he was also polite first, and found a place to sit on the bench in the corridor.

The curling green smoke rises slowly from the incense burner, it is Li Xiang who plays the piano, a song "Flat Sand Falling Geese", the clear sound is in the ears, the window is far away Mount Fuji, you can see the white snow on the mountain, the scenery is excellent, standing with your back hands, relaxed and happy.

"You need to be calm when there is a big event! Master, can the piano sound be pleasing to the ear? When Li Xiang stopped, the smile on her face couldn't be hidden at all. Speaking of which, her piano skills have never had a chance to play by Chen Xie's side, which can be regarded as suffocating her. Today is considered to be a raised eyebrow, and after Chen Xie called, let her play the best song. As one of the people who knew Chen Xie's secrets the most, Li Xiang certainly knew that the Zen edict of the "emperor" had been sent to Chen Xie's case, and it depended on Chen Xie's meaning when the ceremony would be held.

"Now is not the time!" Chen Xie turned around and shook his head with a smile, Li Xiang thought about the problem too simply. Although the so-called Big Three have surrendered, Japan's problems cannot be solved by taking it for granted. In Japan, where the civil war has been fought until now, incomplete statistics show that there are more than 400,000 samurai and no less than 2 million family members. After Chen Xie took over, it was inevitable to reassign the title. The result is naturally that some people are happy and some are sad, and this process is bound to be bloody. Just look at the Meiji Restoration, Saigo Moritaka has become a rebel, which shows that once fundamental interests are involved, there are many people who take risks.

Chen Xie's change to the Eastern Ying Kingdom was not a capitalist reform like the Meiji Restoration, but one thing was figured out, that is, it was to centralize power and nationalize resources. In this way, the interests of the samurai class with fiefs will be dealt a heavy blow. The purpose of Chen Xie's centralization of power was not to engage in capitalism in Japan, but to promote the market and accelerate the country's integration into the circle of Han culture. In general, in the future, the official language of Toei was Chinese, and eventually one day Japanese was extinct, and like the Indian language in the United States, it became a dialect spoken by a very small number of people. Of course, this process is relatively long, and three or four generations are inevitable.

"The slave family can see it, this king, the master is not uncommon." Li Xiang stood up with a smile, took the hot towel from the maid's hand, and wiped Chen Xie's face with gentle movements. Chen Xie, who was enjoying it calmly, returned to sit on the sofa, and when he picked up the cigarette, Akiko Asamiya, who was kneeling beside him, immediately turned on a kerosene lighter.

"Let them go back, I'm not in the mood to see them today, tell them, three months from now, I don't want to see the so-called domain of Zài still exist in the land of Mishima! Those who resisted, killed, exiled by their families, and surrendered, came to Edo in person to wait for disposal. When Li Xiang recorded quickly, Akiko Asamiya had a pained expression on her face, but she was still smiling. Glancing at the half-open arms of this "fertility tool", ignoring the pinched deformed meat ball, Li Xiang asked respectfully: "Master, what else needs to be added?" ”

Waving his hand, Chen Xie said that there was no more, and when Li Xiang retreated, the last thing he saw was Chen Xie's hand on Asamiya Xianzi's head was pressing. Ah Xi, who was kneeling at the door, bowed and pulled the door open, as if he didn't hear the whimper of the woman inside.

Although he can't understand the master's inexplicable compulsion of the Dongying man, Ah Xi will still regard the master as his only object of allegiance. In the past, whether it was the Japanese generals or the powerful, in Ah Xi's mind, they were not even worthy of shining the shoes of their masters.

The sound insulation effect is very poor, Ah Xi and Ah Yue on the other side exchanged a look, and they could see the jealousy in the eyes of the other side. That's right, it's jealousy. They have received special training since childhood, and they are infertile for reasons that cannot be said. If it weren't for that, where would there be those women inside.

The breathless ** became more and more high-pitched, and suddenly stopped, like a chicken with its throat cut. Akiko Asamiya, who was like a mess of mud, was carried out by two maids with blankets, and there was hope on her face in addition to satisfaction.

The division of labor of the three giants is clear, and their respective territories must be cleared in three months. Chen Xie didn't want to see Dongying and the meaning of the "domain" was very clear, and his will was very resolute. In the future, Japan will only have prefectures and prefectures under the governance of the cabinet, and the three giants know very well what to do.

After explaining, Li Xiang turned around and said lightly: "Take them to the dock to get the equipment, each family has the equipment of an infantry division and the corresponding instructor." Sue sù those instructors, training the army in war. ”

The expressions of the three giants are not very good-looking, it is obvious that the army that everyone can put on the table in the future is the same, and it is not the same as in the past, if you want to use private money to support the army, other income is a big problem. At least in the short term, there is little hope that the Big Three will want to cultivate power in private.

The new equipment is a rifled front-loading Mini rifle, which is a big improvement compared to the previous smoothbore gun, the artillery is still a smoothbore gun, and the tactics are still lined up to shoot, but the combat effectiveness has been greatly improved. Knowing that Chen Xie didn't plan to increase the strength of Dongying's army too much, these three giants could only accept it obediently.

While receiving the new equipment, a fleet docked at the port of Edo, and the first to disembark were two young men, chatting as they walked. "The telegraph lines in Liaodong and North Korea are easy to handle, but the work of laying cables on the bottom of the sea is not easy to do." Young Chen Fan, with a little more wind and frost on his face, frowned when he spoke.

"Your job is good, there is no time limit. My work is troublesome, half a year, to turn the general's mansion into a city that never sleeps, and I have to do things on that high platform, the time is tight and the task is heavy, and it takes a month just to make a plan. "The man who was traveling with him looked like he was getting older, and his skin was much darker, and he looked like a person who had been working in the field all year round. (To be continued......)