His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Celestial Empire will come to Japan in person? When they heard the news, both Tokugawa Tadanaga and Naotaka Ii were very surprised. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, they quickly calmed down, as the crown prince of the Celestial Empire, and the nominal commander of this war, whether it was to sign an agreement or show off the military might of his country, he came justifiably and very normally.

If the Prince of Dahan had come in person, they would have to go to Kyoto this time - although they had surrendered to the Dahan, in the eyes of others, they were still sinners of the Tokugawa family, and it would be a great thing for them to secure their position if they could take the opportunity to welcome His Royal Highness the Prince of Dahan and gain his approval.

"In that case, I will definitely go to Kyoto to listen to His Highness's instructions!" As soon as they thought of this, both of them immediately changed their previous hesitation and very respectfully asked to go to Kyoto.

After giving them orders, Zhou Pu sent them on their way to Kyoto the next day, while he stayed in Nara Castle for the time being, continuing to issue proclamations, stabilize order throughout Japan, and accept the surrender of the daimyo in various places.

Although the scale of this war was very large, the Han army's advance was very fast, and it only took three months to decisively defeat the shogunate, and at this time, although many places received a notice from the shogunate to ask for help, they could not be rescued at all—or they did not dare to refuse to come to the rescue, so in the end, it evolved into a war in which the Han followed Kyushu and then landed in Honshu, directly attacked and finally attacked the Kanto region, and most places were not involved by the Han army at all.

In order to reduce the cost of time and casualties, and to create a situation of subjugation before His Royal Highness the crown prince came down, Zhou Pu began to constantly urge the wealthy families in these places to surrender quickly, such as the Maeda family, the Uesugi family, and the Date family, as well as the two daimyo who ruled the entire island on Shikoku Island, the Wasuka family of the Tokushima Domain and the Yamauchi family of the Tosa Domain.

Both of them were daimyo confirmed by the shogunate and ruled almost the entire island of Shikoku, but after the Han Dynasty came over, they wisely chose to watch from the sidelines, like the other families, and finally saved their wealth, and Zhou Pu believed that under his own pressure, these two families would also rush to the front of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to bow down.

Since the Han landed in Kyushu, from Nagasaki Kurume, to Himeji, to Osaka and Kyoto, to Nara, and finally to the Tama River, the Great Han has won all the battles with dignity. These brilliant victories not only allowed the Han to defeat the shogunate, but also gave Zhou Pu undisputed prestige in Japan, and Zhou Pu was now so complacent that he did not believe that anyone would dare to disobey his orders.

Under the efforts of Zhou Pu and Zhao Song, the originally chaotic order of the Japanese archipelago slowly moved towards pacification, and under the coercion of the Han Dynasty, the forces and wealthy clans in various places that had not directly fought with the Han Dynasty clearly expressed their submission.

And after the rapid pacification of Japan, the time has finally come for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to visit Japan in person.

One morning in early autumn, His Royal Highness the Prince of Dahan and his entourage of officials arrived outside the port of Pusan, ready to board a ship bound for Japan. Because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not yet arrived in person, they are all gathered in twos and threes now, chatting and waiting for His Highness.

Some of these officials were assistants who assisted His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in this war, and some were civil officials who were prepared to be temporarily seconded to them to handle local affairs in response to the request of the Japanese court. The former were high-spirited because of the victory in the war, because they knew that after making such a feat this time, the imperial court would definitely have a reward after returning to the capital, and the latter was also full of ambition, because they knew that they would be able to be officials after arriving in Japan with the help of the Han Dynasty, and some of them were even thinking about how to take the opportunity to secretly make a fortune from it.

Because of these reasons, they all have a very comfortable feeling, and everyone is in high spirits, just waiting for the ship to sail.

At this moment, His Royal Highness the Prince of Dahan, who was sitting in the carriage and preparing to go to the port of Busan, was not as relaxed as his officials.

It's not that he's not satisfied with the war, it's not that he's not satisfied with the exploits of his subordinates, it's just that as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he knows that defeating his opponent militarily is only the beginning of all problems, and there are still many problems waiting for him to deal with and solve.

"So, my father is planning to forcibly introduce paper money in Japan?" In the galloping carriage, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince calmly asked a young official next to him.

"This is indeed what Your Majesty meant." The young official replied respectfully, "The ministers were sent by the imperial court for this matter, and they never dared to make a mistake. ”

This official's name is Yu Yingchao, an official of the Ministry of Finance, who has been dealing with financial matters before, because he assisted the Minister of Finance Pingyuan Hou Chenhong to establish the Dahan Bank, so he is very optimistic about the prime minister, and is considered one of the most promising young officials in the Han Dynasty, and he is now the manager of the Dahan Bank.

"This matter is very important, please be cautious and not neglected!" After receiving his affirmative reply, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not surprised, but solemnly told him again, "The results obtained by the soldiers in the bloody battles of the front, we can't easily squander them!" ”

"Your Highness, please rest assured, the ministers have been participating in the research and planning for this matter for a long time, and they have made all preparations, even the banknotes used at the beginning have been prepared." Yu Yingchao immediately lowered his head and replied, "As long as we can act without being restricted, the ministers have the confidence to achieve their mission, and they will never dare to chill the soldiers!" ”

"That's good." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince nodded.

In the planning of the Han court, they will grab a large amount of precious metals such as gold and silver from Japan, and even copper as an important strategic material will be transported to the Han Dynasty in large quantities, but this will bring a problem - Japan will obviously have a large outflow of precious metals.

The massive outflow of precious metals, if nothing is done, will bring about a soaring price increase, and then almost all the officials and citizens of Japan will fall into extreme poverty, and they may not be willing to starve to death, and there will definitely be chaos everywhere, so that the repressive pressure of the Han people will be exhausted.

If the Han wants to plunder Japan at the lowest cost, then it can't just think about killing and robbing them all like ordinary barbarians, as a country with a population of 10 million, if they have to be killed, the Han will have to spend a huge amount of military expenditure to be pacified, and it will completely lose its original intention.

Therefore, how to maintain the general stability of Japan and at the same time allow the Han to extract as much benefit as possible has become a problem in front of the Han court and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

In order to cope with this possible situation, after discussions between the prime minister and the relevant cabinet ministries, it was decided to set up a special Han government office in Japan, the Currency Administration, after the two countries began to sign a peace treaty, and to be responsible for gradually using paper money to maintain Japan's currency and economy in the face of a large loss of precious metals, so as to prevent the country from a total collapse.

China has a long history of using paper money, but the previous dynasties did not have a very strict financial operation, they like to issue paper money indiscriminately, and finally make the credit of paper money worthless, and these lessons were of course learned by the Han court, Yu Ying Dynasty they will go to Japan, specifically responsible for using paper money to stabilize prices, maintain the value of paper money.

Yu Yingchao and others were ready to put paper money on a small scale first, with the credit of the Han Dynasty to endorse, every time they took gold and silver from Japan, they slowly put paper money according to a fixed rate, until Japan finally used paper money as the main circulation to deal with the dilemma of the loss of precious metals.

Of course, while assisting Japan to stabilize the economy, the currency bureau will also become the institution that controls the Japanese economy - at that time, the power to issue paper money is all in the hands of the Han Dynasty, how much to issue, how to issue it will be decided by the Han court, and the entire economy of Japan will become a vassal of the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, the ambition of the Han court was not limited to this, they also wanted to make the currency administration in Japan an experimental institution, accumulate experience in using paper money to maintain a country's economy, and finally gradually implement the circulation of paper money to supplement and replace gold and silver currency in the Han Dynasty - especially His Majesty, who was very interested in this.

Although I don't understand why my father is so interested in paper money, since this is my father's will, of course, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will fully cooperate, and the situation in Japan really needs an organization to stabilize the situation of a large outflow of precious metals, so he also has high hopes for this currency political situation.

Because Japan's economy is the most prosperous business district from Osaka to Sakai City, the currency government will be installed in Osaka in the future, and the circulation and issuance of banknotes will be controlled at any time through the information they have, and the prices and economy of Japan will be remotely controlled.

At that time, the embassy stationed in Kyoto, together with the currency administration in Osaka, and the garrisons in various places, they can be said to be a three-pronged combination of military, economic and diplomatic affairs, and become the three pillars of the Han Dynasty's domination and control of Japan, and through these arrangements, the Han will also be able to firmly control the country in his hands, just as he did with Goryeo today.

After negotiating with Yu Yingchao and others, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finally came to the port of Busan, and under the respectful gaze of the officials, he took the lead in boarding the sea ship.

Transported by a large number of warships, the fleet left the mainland in a mighty way, and then after a nearly two-day voyage, they arrived in Osaka. At this time, Zhou Pu had already come to Osaka City, waiting for the arrival of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Because of Zhou Pu's prior arrangement, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and others received a warm welcome in Osaka, not only Zhou Pu and local officials, but also many citizens were also in various places, wanting to see the true face of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Celestial Empire.

However, after his experience in Goryeo, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had long since lost sight of this vanity in front of people, and he felt a little tired, so he did not stay in Osaka for long, and soon left for Kyoto, Japan.

Zhou Pu also moved forward with His Royal Highness the Prince, and the more than 1,000 Han officers and soldiers he led with him to march all the way to the army also became the honor guard of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Han Dynasty this time.

After two more days of stop-and-go bumps, this mighty force finally arrived in Kyoto.

Because the shogunate did not abandon Kyoto after a fierce battle in the previous war, Kyoto was not damaged by the war, and it remained roughly the same as before, except that the Tokugawa family's Nijo Castle was burned down, and after the Japanese court returned to Kyoto, everything was quickly restored, and the city's appearance slowly returned to prosperity.

The Japanese Imperial Court also regarded the Celestial Prince's welcome as a top priority, and had been preparing almost since the end of the war, sparing no effort to please His Royal Highness, and with their efforts, the whole of Kyoto was lit up with lights, and in conjunction with the lush summer and early autumn season, it was almost like coming to a garden.

Under the clear blue sky, the outskirts of Kyoto are already in an uproar, and people have gathered here to wait for His Royal Highness the Celestial Crown Prince to arrive.

Just as the time was about to come to the predetermined moment, a thick red cloud appeared outside the sky, which was bright and blind, and a flame ignited in everyone's sight.

In order to show off the might of the army, the Han army that came with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today specially lined up the marching phalanx for the purpose of review, and the officers in front were wearing brand new uniforms, riding on horses, sitting upright, and wearing various dazzling medals on their chests, and every copper button on the uniform was dazzling.

And each soldier was also full of energy, revealing a full of spirited faces, as if they were rejoicing in the honor of being with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Each of the horsemen polished their gear to a shiny finish, and their horses were carefully cared for, and their coats shone like satin.

Looking at this mighty army, although they knew in their hearts that this was just a guard, everyone couldn't help but breathe a little shortly - in the past few months, the military might of the Han Dynasty has been thoroughly engraved in the hearts of almost everyone, making these obedient Japanese subconsciously fearful.

Under everyone's gaze, a carriage pulled by four pure white horses galloped along the wide road by the woods. Around the carriage were a large group of uniformed attendants and guards on horseback. The identity of the people in the carriage was identified in an unmistakable way.

As the distance got closer and closer, the rumbling hooves of the horses became louder and louder, and finally seemed to step on everyone's hearts. It wasn't until everyone began to hold their breath respectfully that the carriage finally stopped.

Then, under everyone's watchful eyes, the door of the carriage opened, and a young man led the way out of the carriage, while several people from behind also rushed out.

When the young man stood on the ground, he quietly glanced at the people in front of him, his attitude was calm, but it contained inexplicable majesty, and at the moment when he stood still, almost everyone knelt down and saluted His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Celestial Empire in this form of pleasing and sincere convincing.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not moved, but just waved his hand calmly, signaling everyone to be exempt, and then he himself walked directly forward.

The person who greeted him, the leader was naturally the former emperor of Japan, the current monarch Masahito, this middle-aged man because he had shaved before, so although he started to grow his hair again, but the hair was still only a short section, and after wearing the monarch's robe, it looked a little nondescript.

After seeing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince come down to him, Zhengren didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly kowtowed to him again.

"Chen Zhengren, meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"The lord of the kingdom, please rise." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately put his hand on him and asked him to get up, and at the same time looked at him with a smile, "Lord, now that your country has been eliminated from the riots and the traitors have been conferred, your country has returned to the hands of the lord, and I also ask you to govern clearly in the future and raise all the people!" ”

"The Heavenly Empire's kindness to the ministers, the ministers will not be redeemed if they die." Zhengren kowtowed slightly, and then staggered to his feet, looking at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with gratitude, "Life and life will always be the Heavenly Empire!" ”

Both of them knew that this was just a scene, and Masahito's heart didn't like to grovel to the big man even more, but they both spoke the scene well, showed enough harmony, and also showed the difference in status between the two countries at the first time.

The Japanese are generally short, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a strong physique, and he has not lacked food since he was a child, so although he is only fourteen years old, he is about the same size as Masahito, and because of the experience of these days, he has a little more heroic spirit, and when he stands with Masahito, he completely dwarfs Masahito.

The prince of China and North Korea is worthy of the dragon and phoenix among the people! Even the ministers of Japan have many people who think so.

After the initial ceremony greetings were completed, under the leadership of Masahito, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and other large groups came to Kyoto. At first, Masahito wanted His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to live in his palace, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince no longer wanted to live in the same place with the monarch because of his previous experience in Goryeo, and at his request, Zhou Pu specially found him another residence - Kyoto Daitokuji Temple.

Founded during the Kamakura period in Japan, Daitokuji Temple is one of the largest temples in the vicinity of Gyeonggi and a fundamental center of Zen Buddhism, especially known for its tea ceremony culture. During the wars after the Kamakura period, Daitokuji Temple was burned down in the war, but the famous Daido Daitokuji Temple was rebuilt at the age of 80 after decades of wandering and preaching. To this day, Daitokuji Temple still preserves the remains of Master Ikyu.

Taking this temple with Zen Buddhism and Han style as his stay, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also quite satisfied.

And it was here that he summoned the Japanese daimyo who came to Kyoto to worship one by one, whether it was the Shimazu family, the Mori family, who had surrendered long ago, or the Uesugi family, who later joined the Maeda family, the Date family, and even the former enemies, Tokugawa Tadanaga and Ii Naotaka, the representatives of the Tokugawa family, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince received them very gently and left a deep impression on them.

The Great Han fought cruelly and ruthlessly, but if he obeyed them, he was so gentle and drizzling, and it was really unpredictable.

It was also in the Dedaiji Temple that the peace talks between the Han and Japan were also in full swing.

At the very beginning of the negotiations, the Han first established itself as a suzerainty and made Japan a vassal. No one objected to this, because when the Japanese court borrowed troops before, such a plan had already been made, so now it is just a matter of fulfilling the promise, and the other daimyo do not matter, in their opinion, as long as they can keep their own territory, it does not matter if there is an additional Han court on their heads.

And after getting the title of suzerain, the Han immediately put forward a request to cede Nagasaki Castle as a Han territory, as well as to open up the trade between the two countries, and use Nagasaki as a commercial port, and no one objected to this article - the imperial court never obtained these territories so it didn't care, and the other daimyo didn't care, Kyushu Island was now in the hands of the Shimazu family, and they had no interest in arguing with the Han for the sake of the Shimazu family.

And the next conditions were not so smooth, just after the previous conditions were negotiated, the Han officially proposed the cost of this military dispatch and compensation, and demanded that the entire Japanese country compensate the Han 30 million taels of gold and silver.

This huge amount frightened the imperial court and the daimyo present, although they had thought that the Han would definitely ask for a large amount of money, but this figure was still beyond their expectations, and they all said that the amount was too large for the local people to afford.

Even the Japanese Imperial Court, which had promised to make every effort to repay the Han Dynasty, changed its tone, saying that such an amount was really unattainable, and asked the Celestial Empire to show leniency and reduce it as appropriate.

Dahan originally called for these things, how can it be reduced now? Just when the negotiations began to stalemate, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince appeared in person, and his attitude had changed greatly compared to when he first arrived, coldly reprimanding the Japanese court and the daimyo for seeming to be loyal and obedient, but in fact treacherous and hypocritical, and despising the Han people.

Under the personal rebuke and threats of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, everyone began to recall the horror of the Han army, although some were unwilling, and they had to accept the conditions put forward by the Han.

But accepting this condition does not mean that they will be able to get the money.

After years of suppression by the shogunate, the daimyo and the Japanese court were very poor, and their finances were already in difficulty, so how could they have so much money in their hands to compensate the Han? Even the shogunate itself, because of the great war in the past few months, the finances were on the verge of collapse, and the treasury was already empty, and it could no longer afford to compensate the Han.

However, this was not at all difficult for the negotiators of the Great Han, who had prepared the means for the situation beforehand, and demanded the takeover of all the gold and silver mines in Japan before the indemnity was paid, as well as the local customs and the imposition of a special trade tax, by which they could accumulate the indemnity with the aim of paying it off within thirty years.

Although this solution was a realistic solution, it still aroused the opposition of some daimyo - Japan's gold and silver mountains were unevenly distributed, most of them were in the hands of the daimyo in various places, and these mines were the lifeblood of their territory's finances, and they were easily unwilling to give them up.

The officials of the Han Dynasty, on the other hand, were very strong, and they made it clear that the matter was non-negotiable and that it had to be resolved in accordance with this method, and even more secretly and constantly threatened to raise troops against these wealthy clans if anyone dared to resist. At this time, because it was not their own business, the Japanese court and some other daimyo chose to avoid it, which made these dissenting daimyo even more isolated.

After a few days of insistence, when the Han officials, who were already a little tired, "If you don't give it, our Han army will take it by itself", these daimyo finally agreed to the conditions put forward by the Han, and reluctantly handed over the mines in their territory to the Han to manage and operate.

Under the planning of the Han Dynasty, these gold and silver mines will be transferred to the hands of the Currency Administration Bureau in Osaka and become the assets of the Dahan Bank, and the gold, silver and precious metals produced by them will also be continuously transported to the Dahan Bank in the name of "Sui Gong", so as to support the continuous vigorous development of the country's economy, and also allow those in charge of the Dahan Bank to get enough benefits from the war to support them to continue to maintain their desire for war.

The Currency Administration itself will also serve as an economic institution and begin to try to run an economic structure in Japan that relies on paper money to support it, so as to accumulate reliable experience and solutions for the future currency reform of the Han Dynasty.

When all these conditions were negotiated, all the expectations of the Han Dynasty for Japan before the war had been realized, of course, this was not obtained by negotiation but by the force of the Han army and navy, and with the efforts of the Han army, an island country that had been isolated overseas and refused to accept the king for many years was finally pulled into the system of the Chinese Empire and became a vassal state of the Han Dynasty.

Seeing that he had achieved such a feat, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was very satisfied.

However, he also knew that the conquest of Japan was just the beginning, and for the sake of their Zhao family's Han and the people of China, their father and son still had a long way to go.

When leaving the capital, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince once made a poem, one of which is "Don't teach the island to steal the sun, only our country will be mighty", but he has learned enough geographical knowledge He knows that although the Han has now dominated the side, it is still too far from reaching the point of "the power of the country in all nations", but he is confident, he is full of ambition, and he firmly believes that as long as he follows the path of his father, the Han will be able to come to this point after all.

Even if his generation can't do it, his son, his grandson...... They can do it – all of which, of course, is premised on keeping the country at its strongest force.

And with the population and wealth of Dahan, he believes that as long as he is on the right path, this is definitely not a delusion.

Just after the peace treaty was signed, he made a request to the Japanese court and the daimyos to hire a large number of ronin samurai and take them to the sea to fight.

And this request was immediately agreed to by them for unknown reasons - in the Warring States period, the samurai under the daimyo of each feudal clan were greatly inflated, and after the country was peaceful, these multiplying samurai became a big problem, because there was not enough place and Yulu to settle them, as early as the shogunate period, the shogunate's important ministers felt very troubled by these ronin, and now the daikan wanted to take them, these daimyo felt relieved.

They didn't know that these ronins would become cannon fodder when the Great Han fought with the Spaniards and various enemies in the future, and even if they knew, they probably wouldn't care.

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Because I am busy with work and because I have some new ideas, after the code word is updated, I will not talk a lot of gossip and communicate with everyone before.

Today's article on Japan is finished, and it is the first day after the end of the holiday, and there are not many things to do, so I will say a few words.

I've made a lot of new attempts in the Japanese chapter, not only for this book, but also for the next one, this kind of change and attempt is much more tiring than writing according to my own heart, and there are successes and failures in attempts, and I will keep learning from successful experiences and experiences, and I will avoid failures.

This nearly a year of trying has made me understand that especially white is not suitable for writing gorgeous and slender things like wind and snow, and I am still suitable for writing accumulation, iron-blooded, wind-blooded, wind-sand, forest-cold, etc., then, I will write what I am suitable for.

The reason why I tried it is because from the evil Ming to the Ming Wufu, although the readers like it very much, but it is very difficult to adapt the copyright, and Lao Bai also wants to come up with a TV series and a movie with a game or something, so I tried to change, I want to write what scribes and civil officials in the next book, tossing until now I understand, this road does not work.

Go to his copyright adaptation, I still write what I'm good at, readers like to read is the only truth, I have been using this sentence to educate others, but I am ashamed to be confused.

Having said so much, I don't know if I rely on these words in exchange for everyone's support, whether you support it or not, it depends on how Lao Bai's new book is, if you like to read it, you will support me.

Over the next few days, I will write a chapter or chapters on and off to describe the new dynasty in the book, soothe myself, change back to my accustomed way of writing, and finish the book.

If nothing else, the new book will be written about Border Town....... (To be continued.) )