Chapter 612: The Bane of Japan's Changes

The war brought heavy disasters to Europe, and also caused a large number of Europeans to flee, and the Americas were undoubtedly the first choice. Secondly, because of some propaganda, a considerable number of Europeans who were willing to take the risk came to Asia with their families. This is also one of the reasons why the population of Xinghai City has grown rapidly in Europe in the past year or so. Among them, the population brought by the merchant ships of the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and other countries is mainly due to the fact that in Xinghai City, Europeans with crafts are very popular, especially craftsmen in shipbuilding, who will pay a lot of money for introducing a person to work in the shipyard.

Therefore, many European businessmen, when they come from Europe, will fool some craftsmen who fled because of the war, bring them here, charge a referral fee, and then don't even have to go so far to Daming, they can get through the relationship of the guò shipyard in Xinghai City, and directly purchase the goods they want here, the price may be a little higher, but they can run back and forth one more time a year.

The Europeans who came to Xinghai City soon found that it was indeed very good, because the military recruited a lot of Europeans to wage war against the natives, and the treatment was also very high. At least much better than fighting a thirty-year war in Europe. It's not too hard to fight the natives, and many people rush to do the work of mercenaries. One of the most important is that if you serve in the army for more than three years, you can become a citizen of Daming Xinghai City. What a citizen is, everyone does not understand, but it does not prevent Europeans from working for silver.

The private communication between Chen Xie and Knight went quite smoothly. In the end, the two sides reached an agreement, and the Ming Dynasty offered the Kingdom of the Netherlands a "new" flintlock musket and a three- or six-pounder gun, and the price of the rifle was based on the silver coins issued by the Ming United Bank, and the price of each rifle was 30 silver coins, and the price of the gun was 500 silver coins. In fact, the sale of this artillery must be a one-shot deal. Chen Xie understands this very well. Europe already has the ability to imitate these two types of artillery, it depends on whether they can think of bronze as a material. Of course, this may also become a pitfall, that is, after the Europeans saw that the Ming Dynasty used steel to make these two lightweight infantry guns, they rushed into it and thought about solving the material and technical problems inside. Then there is a toss-up. Abandoning the tradition of European bronze cannons, Chen Xie hehehe.

Because of the distance, the number of rifles in the first batch was relatively large, a total of 5,000 guns, and the number of artillery pieces was not large, only 30 guns each. Chen Xie didn't care about this, because he still had potential buyers. Spain and Portugal, two countries that stand in opposition to the Netherlands, are also in need of arms.

The final delivery date was set at the end of the year. I guess the negotiations should be over. In fact, Chen Xie has hoarded a large amount of arms in Xinghai City, and he can deliver them immediately, but he is just unwilling to do so, and he wants to satisfy the other party's appetite.

Negotiations have never been achieved overnight, and the deputies on both sides, in a "friendly" atmosphere, are engaged in a war in which the smoke of gunpowder cannot be seen. Especially on the issue of the Kaliman Islands, the dispute between the two sides is very fierce. The Dutch demanded that the whole of Kaliman be their colony. The representative of Xinghai City smiled and said that it was impossible to talk about it. Everything else is negotiable. When it comes to this issue, it will be unpleasant. A month later, when the two sides sat down again, they revised some conditions and made some concessions. Still unable to agree.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen received a reply from Chen Xie, and the content was very direct: Tokugawa family light, Cao Cao and Wang Mang of Japan. The more chaotic Japan is, the better it will be for the Ming Dynasty. Since it is begging for sealing. Why not?

Chen Xie's meaning is very simple, that is, this Tokugawa Iemitsu needs a righteous name, that is, the canonization of the Ming Dynasty. With this canonization, he could compete with the emperor in terms of political status. At least with the people of Japan, there is an explanation, I am the emperor of the Ming Empire canonized something. As for the Emperor, do you have a canonization? You say you're the ruler of Japan for all ages, why don't I see it? You're so awesome, why doesn't your family's Amaterasu Okami know?

Anyway, this is what it means, Chen Xie can be sure that as long as he gets the canonization of the Ming Emperor, Tokugawa Iemitsu will definitely try his best to make his political status as a great general no less than that of the emperor, and become a thing of the past that can be said in terms of etiquette. As long as the Japanese can accept a king or general canonized by the Ming Dynasty, he will have a reason to dilute the legal status of the emperor, and no matter how bad it is, he can mix up with everyone. It can't be replaced, and the king of one word side by side can be expected.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was able to give birth to such ambitions, thanks to Chen Xie's "punishment" of Japan. The current Japanese samurai class does have a kind of atmosphere, that is, to learn from the Ming Dynasty and move closer to the Ming Dynasty. Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, it has been fashionable for Japan to learn from China. During the Song Dynasty, it was directly perverted to send women to China to borrow seeds.

For a while, it was obvious that it was very weak, and there was the so-called invasion of Korea by the Japanese and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. But now it's different, the Ming Dynasty drove the fleet to Japan, and the whole of Japan felt that it was not the same thing. The Ming Dynasty is different from the past cognition, and it was useless to say in the previous book that the Ming Taizu set Japan as a country that was not conquered. The Japanese mission visited Daming, and the whole of Japan attached great importance to it. The ministers below the emperor even went to private talk to various feudal clans because Tokugawa Iemitsu got rid of the emperor's own group. The purpose is to deny the "justice" of Tokugawa Iemitsu, and even has the intention of organizing a group to go on his own. It was only because the emperor was too hard to come up with such a capital for travel expenses and tribute, that he needed the support of various feudal clans.

Does anyone support the emperor? Yes, the Choshu Domain and the Satsuma Domain supported it. Why? Quite simply, interests. The Nagasaki trading port of the Satsuma Domain was seized by Tokugawa Iemitsu, and of course it was very unhappy. The Changzhou Domain has always been strong, who wouldn't want to do this kind of thing in Shangluo? So, this is not going to work. What if Daming supported the emperor? So, isn't there a turning point for many things? Will Japan be able to catch the ship of the Ming Dynasty, get out of this small island, and open up another world?

These are the thoughts of people of insight in Japan, and Tokugawa Iemitsu would not think so. As a person with vested interests, what worries me most is the instability of the political situation. That's why he didn't hesitate to buy arms to arm the army at a cost, and sent people to Daming to kneel and beg for canonization. Some reasonable and unreasonable demands of Chen Xie can also be agreed to.

With Chen Xie's reply, Zhu Youzhen knew what to do, and he didn't care about Japan's life or death. The next day, he summoned Sakai Tadashi and other representatives of the mission, and expressed his willingness to canonize Tokugawa Iemitsu, but what kind of name should be canonized?

The Japanese mission, which had been waiting in the post house, was actually very anxious, and went to beg for this and that twice in three days. The little silver he brought with him was all given away. Seeing that more than two months have passed, and the emperor has not yet been seen, can it be said that things have changed. What about the promised personal reception?

So when I received the notice to come to visit, the entire Japanese mission was crazy. But then the even greater good news came, which was to ask them, what name do they want? Happiness comes suddenly, and misfortune comes even more suddenly. Sakai Tadakatsu, who was overexcited, fainted directly to the ground and suffered a stroke. The imperial doctor took action and finally saved his life, and this matter dragged on for a while.

In the end, Zhu Youzhen felt that the Japanese mission had stayed for too long, and he couldn't always eat free meals. Simply, a holy decree was issued to the Japanese mission, canonizing Tokugawa Iemitsu as the Commander of Japan. I don't say anything about rights and responsibilities, it's just such a title, you can go back and play it yourself.

The unlucky Japanese mission returned to Japan with Sakai Tadakatsu, who was still recovering. After this news spread, the whole of Japan was not good. Especially the various clans, who have ideas in their hearts, feel that this thing is not right. In the past, everyone had the opportunity to go to Luo, but now you are carrying back the name of a Ming canonization, isn't this cutting off everyone's road to progress?

In fact, it is no accident that the Edo shogunate of Japan has existed for more than 200 years, especially historical necessity. But hasn't history been changed? The invasion of the Ming Dynasty shocked Japan. A large number of Japanese citizens flocked to Liaodong and Nanyang in the Ming Dynasty in search of a new life, which had a huge impact on Japan.

It can be said that the canonization of a Ming Dynasty has buried the bane of Japan's changes. A group of feudal clans who planned to learn from the Ming Dynasty got together and felt that in order to kill the rule of Tokugawa Iemitsu, they had to have a name for righteousness. Without the overthrow of the shogunate, there would be no progress or development in Japan. So the emperor was remembered by everyone, and the slogan was "Respect the king and hoe adulterous".

Originally, someone proposed to call it "Zun Wang Ming", but there are many smart people, and immediately remind everyone not to get involved with the Ming Dynasty. People are here to settle accounts, if it weren't for the dispute between the merchant representatives of the shogunate who planned to break the contract and lead to zhì, why did people come to your poor place to ask for a lease? Isn't it just for the sake of buying and selling?

The various Japanese feudal domains, led by the Nagasu and Satsuma domains, began preparations for military operations against the shogunate and the restoration of the emperor. This matter will definitely not be able to bypass Daming. Therefore, I also sent someone to find Su Haochen. Crying about how the shogunate is, how the emperor is, anyway, Tokugawa Iemitsu is a chaotic minister and thief, and everyone will be punished.

Where would Su Haochen care about the life and death of the Japanese people, and he didn't say yes or no, in short, he was pretending to be stupid. Uh-huh, yes, there is no clear answer. After sending the anti-shogunate alliance people, he immediately wrote to Chen Xie, asking what to do.

Chen Xie replied to the letter, helping both sides, it is important to make money, and the most important thing is that the shogunate cannot fall. (To be continued......)