I have to say that Xiao Yungui still admires the spirit of the Japanese to seek advice with an open mind, and the respectful and shameless attitude of the Chuan Lu Shengmo and the Yixing group people made Xiao Yungui satisfy his vanity, after all, the strength of the Taiping Army made the Manchus feel only fear and only curse, and although the British, French, and American powers were surprised by the strength of the Taiping Army, they only felt that the Taiping Army had learned from them, and people in Western countries such as Britain, France, and the United States would only admire those who had really defeated themselves on the battlefield.

And the humility and courtesy of the Japanese greatly satisfied the addiction of being the boss, at least the Japanese will only praise Xiao Yungui as the virtuous king of the Taiping army, and will not say that he is the Prince of Wales of China like the British. At the same time, the Japanese also let Xiao Yungui see the real Confucian spirit of learning, the spirit of dying at the end of the day has disappeared under the centuries of foreign rule in China, and the Confucian students of the whole country are studying for the utilitarian service, talking about the three-year Qing prefect and 100,000 snowflakes of silver, but the Confucian students of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have forgotten the essence of Confucianism's true learning and application to the world.

If the Confucian scholars under the Manchu Qing Dynasty could have half of the Japanese spirit of studying, they would not have been bullied like this by the foreign powers, let alone beaten like this by the Taiping army. That's because the Manchu Qing Dynasty was emasculating the real Confucianism from the very beginning, turning it into a tool for ruling the scholars and the people of the world, rather than the real Confucian way of governing the country. The real Confucianism is not just the three outlines and five constants, but also the lack of application and learning, the Confucianism of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has become a feudal ideology that took decades for the Chinese people to get rid of. It is a pity that after getting rid of this kind of thinking, the Chinese people found that Chinese without Confucianism can still be called Chinese? So in the period before Xiao Yungui's crossing, the people began to study Confucianism again, hoping to find Confucianism again, I have to say that this is a national tragedy that once spread Confucianism to Shijie.

Japan, on the other hand, is sometimes paranoid and narrow-minded. However, it is undeniable that they have always inherited the essence of Confucianism, learning and application to the world, so the fact that Japan was able to stand up after several times of decline is not explained by the tenacity of the Japanese alone.

After seeing this kind of learning spirit of the Japanese, Xiao Yungui began to worry about whether his jihua could be realized, after all, the few bigwigs of the Japanese Shogunate Sect can be more powerful, and they don't need some extraordinary means, but they are afraid that the shogunate will still not be able to compete with the army of the Shogunate.

So after Xiao Yungui discussed the reform of the shogunate with Chuanlu Shengmo, he revealed the intention that he could send someone to Japan to personally guide the reform of the shogunate, which made Chuanlu Shengmo overjoyed, after all, it is better for someone from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to go to Japan in person to guide than to go back after only learning some fur.

Since we talked about sending people to Japan. It involves the issue of diplomatic relations and cooperative relations between the two countries. What Xiao Yungui didn't expect was that Chuanlu Shengmo said that he would definitely report the current situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the shogunate when he went back, and he was very willing to go to the shogunate and ask the shogunate to recognize the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Chuanlu Shengmo said that according to the current situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It is highly likely that the shogunate will recognize the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Xiao Yungui couldn't help but cry and laugh a little, he couldn't imagine that Japan had become the first country willing to recognize the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But he is not uncommon. Hurriedly resigned on the grounds that it was necessary to report to Tianjing, but the cooperative relationship between the two sides could be completed by the Navy Political Department.

In other words, Xiao Yungui didn't need Japan to recognize the founding of the country, and he didn't want to play any alliance with Japan too early, so that if the great powers did anything against Japan, he would still be surrounded by it. For the sake of Japan, Xiao Yungui is not so stupid. Chuanlu Shengmo's disappointment flashed, and then the two talked about cooperation.

The biggest factor in Xiao Yungui's choice to cooperate with Japan is that Japan is close to Sakhalin Island and Temple Street. It was only a few days from Hakodate Port (present-day Hakodate) in Hokkaido to North Sakhalin Island. Once Japan opened the ports of Nagasaki and Hakodate to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as it did with the United States, the Taiping Navy in Shanghai and Ningbo could escort merchant ships to Nagasaki for some commercial transactions, and then purchase grain, fresh fruits, and vegetables on the spot in Japan, and depart from Hakodate and go north directly to supply Temple Street and Sakhalin Island. Then the fleet could bring ginseng, furs and other things from Sakhalin and Temple Street back to Japan or Shanghai to trade, and at the same time, the fleet could maintain trade with Japan for a long time, and this way of combining trade routes and supply routes was the most reasonable and cost-effective.

And China's sea ships can definitely reach Japan, and even under the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there are sea ships that have been trading in Nagasaki Port for a long time, so there is no reason why the Taiping Navy can't do this. For this reason, Xiao Yungui specially asked several admirals such as the Taiping Navy Tongbao Monk and Tang Zhengcai to come to Suzhou to inquire in detail about the feasibility of this route. Several admirals came to the unanimous conclusion that the reason why the Taiping Navy was not suitable for ocean voyages was that the hull was too small and the supplies and goods it could carry were not as good as those of foreign ships, but if they could stop in Nagasaki, Japan, the Taiping Navy fleet would definitely be able to run along the sea line of Shanghai, Nagasaki, Hakodate, and Miaojie.

As a result, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Navy, the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Rites jointly negotiated a detailed charter, and Zuihou unanimously agreed that it was necessary for Japan to open the ports of Nagasaki and Hakodate to trade in order to ensure the supply of Temple Street, Sakhalin Island, and Dalian.

When Xiao Yungui unhurriedly said the conditions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Kawaro Shengmo didn't seem to feel too embarrassed, Nagasaki Port has been open to China, Korea, the Netherlands and other countries for a long time, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a rebel army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but in the minds of the Japanese, they felt that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Han regime, was more Zhengshuo, and the opening of Nagasaki Port to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not a problem at all. The Hakodate Port in Hokkaido was also opened to the United States early in the morning, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom needed the opening of the Hakodate Port because of the northward resistance to Russia.

And the conditions of Chuanlu Shengmo are also very simple, that is, to learn from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to improve the way of governance, and Japan needs the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to export Western science and technology, send personnel to Japan for guidance, and so on.

Of course, Xiao Yungui is happy to send people over, it is very necessary to guide the reform of the Japanese shogunate, and at the same time, Bai Zetang and the Intelligence Department also need to extend their tentacles to Japan, and even Xiao Yungui plans to send a few bigwigs who are idle in Suzhou, and the bigwigs of several gangs such as the Guandao Gang and the Ningbo Gang are now idle in Suzhou, Mu Yinghong and her father Mu Guandao even asked his daughter to ask for some errands in front of the West King.

Although Xiao Yungui has not yet accepted Mu Yinghong, every time he goes to Shanghai, Mu Yinghong and Zhou Xiuying still serve themselves very comfortably, and now since Hong Yuner has no objection to raising a child outside, Xiao Yungui is also thinking about getting a golden house in Shanghai in the future, so Mu Yinghong's father still has to take care of it.

It is very necessary to send a few Shanghai gangsters to follow the fleet to Japan, and let Mu Guandao and others establish a Chinese gangster shili in Japan, since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wants to trade with Japan for a long time, it is necessary to have its own shili in the port and treaty port to ensure its own interests, in Shanghai and Ningbo, there is the protection of the Taiping Army, and their own merchants can be guaranteed, but there is no shili in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Japan to protect their own merchants, It's also good to get a few Chinese gangs over there to protect their businessmen, and by the way, bully the North Koreans and the Dutch.

And Bai Zetang and the Intelligence Department also have their own tasks, just as Xiao Yungui was worried about, if the masters of the Shogunate Sect were too high, Xiao Yungui would not mind letting Bai Zetang's dead soldiers kill them in advance in Japan to ensure that the shogunate could live longer. The responsibility of the Intelligence Department is also very clear is to collect all kinds of intelligence on Japan, just like the preliminary work done before the Japanese invasion of China, Xiao Yungui hopes to know everything about Japan, including where the Japanese emperor sleeps every night.

When he knew Japan's every move, and affected Japan commercially, militarily and politically, Xiao Yungui was confident that he could completely turn Japan into the little brother of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, if he could not control Japan by then, Xiao Yungui would not mind direct military intervention, I believe that by then the Manchu Qing Dynasty had been overthrown by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Xiao Yungui was confident that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would definitely have this ability at that time.

Chuanlu Shengmo did not really realize the ulterior motives of the King of the West, just like in the early years of the Republic of China, people naively thought that Japan would help China, and there were many, many international students studying in Japan, and even Mr. Lu Xun also studied in Japan. It wasn't until Japan invaded China that most people came to their senses, and it turned out that Japan had always harbored evil intentions. Now it's just a change of direction, and it's become that Xiao Yungui is calculating Japan.

Therefore, after the two sides negotiated the general direction, the officials of the Chuan Lu Shengmo and the West Temple Rite Department discussed the details of the specific regulations, and in order to handle Japan's affairs well, the West Temple Rite Department specially opened a Japan Division, which was responsible for handling Japan's foreign affairs like the special departments of several other countries.

Regarding Japan's trade, Xiao Yungui specially discussed with Zhu Changling, Wei Helin and others, and Xiao Yungui was uneasy and even wanted to purify the opium and buy it in Japan. However, in view of the need to win the trust of Japan in the early stage, the idea of selling pure opium products was temporarily put on hold, but matches, cigarettes, soaps, and other items produced by private factories in Shanghai definitely had a market in Japan, and even in the wild temple streets and Sakhalin Island, these goods were definitely profiteering. When the Russians traded with the herdsmen of the northeast and northwest, they were very unkind and unequal in exchange, and it was an incredible profiteering that a box of Russian matches could be exchanged for a cow in those places.

In fact, a few days before the showdown with Bao Ling and others, the Taiping merchant ships, cargo ships and navies of Shanghai and Ningbo had already gone to sea, and their destination was Nagasaki, Japan. (To be continued......)