Chapter 182: Speculation on National Strength

"Your Majesty, according to the information obtained by the Spaniards during their missionary work in Japan, the whole of Japan has been ruled by a military aristocratic group with the surname Tokugawa, and the whole country has entered the age of peace for more than a hundred years!

Even though the ruling class of Japan resembled the backward feudal feudal feudal system, with vassals such as daimyo in each region, and their own armies and subjects, the Tokugawa clan had an overwhelming military advantage and ruled over the daimyo throughout the country. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is conservatively estimated that if Japan really gathers all its troops, the number of people can reach hundreds of thousands! ”

"Hundreds of thousands?!"

In addition to Zhao Dutian, Wang Qiming and Xue Ziyong were shocked and looked at Zhao Dutian in unison, originally these two people were not very inclined to use troops against Japan thousands of miles away, when Black Eagle said Japan's mobilization ability, these two people naturally retreated in their hearts, if it weren't for their loyalty to the emperor of the Han Empire, the two of them would have retorted and continued to use troops against Japan!

Zhao Dutian ignored the gazes of the two generals, and asked Black Eagle with a little confusion: "Hundreds of thousands of troops? It can't be that the Spaniards deliberately deceived our intelligence. ”

Black Hawk continued to explain with a blank face: "No, in fact, this number is only an approximate estimate of the Spaniards and Portuguese who had the most contact with the Japanese, the whole of Japan has a population of at least tens of millions, and the system of Japan is not quite the same as the feudal system of the Manchu Qing and the European Middle Ages, because Japan is often in times of turmoil and war, the great nobles of their country are very fond of cultivating the force loyal to themselves.

The Japanese call it the scholar class, and the Shinong business is the national rank set by the Tokugawa family, and the scholar is the highest class and has a noble status, but ......

At present, in Japan, many samurai and others of the noble class have been dismissed in large numbers because of the reasons why the daimyo in various places have saved financial expenditures, and these samurai who have been dismissed in the past generations and have a strong skill, plus the taxi class controlled by the local feudal clans and the Tokugawa family itself, can account for 10% of the total population of the country!

According to this data, as long as Japan has a complete mobilization system, it can pull up hundreds of thousands of soldiers who can go to the battlefield! ”

Zhao Du Tianyi said to the two generals beside him: "Perfect mobilization system, the two generals should know what this means, with the low efficiency of the Japanese feudal system, when we defeat the nest of the Tokugawa family in Japan, they will not be able to fully mobilize these samurai classes scattered among the people!" ”

"However, the Japanese government is not able to mobilize a large number of samurai classes, but their own troops, including the number of temporary mobilizations, should exceed 100,000."

Wang Qiming said worriedly.

Even if 100,000 people were all armed with cold weapons and even dung forks, as long as this group of people was not the scum of the peasants who were about to collapse at the touch of a button, it would not be enough for the expeditionary force of 10,000 people to return home......

Wang Qiming thought to himself.

"No, no, no, you have only heard of the feudal system, but you have not really understood it, especially the feudal system in Japan, what we need to face can never be the entire Japanese army, we don't even need to completely wipe out the Tokugawa family, when the time comes, our expeditionary force only needs to win one or several victories, and the Tokugawa family will be forced to land, as long as the Tokugawa family's military strength declines, the Japanese themselves will fight with themselves!

This is the 'superiority' of the sub-sealing system, and of course, the 'superiority' of ours!

Black Hawk, apart from the exaggerations from the Spaniards and Portuguese, there are not many garrisons in Yokohama, where we preset to land. ”

Black Eagle was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, according to the reports of our few intelligence spies in Japan, Japan's military strength is very weak, and there are probably less than a thousand permanent military personnel in Yokohama Port......

However, we can't go deep into the interior of Japan, and the Tokugawa family is very strict with the movement of the people, and if it is not for the wandering samurai class, they are not allowed to move around! ”

Zhao Dutian frowned slightly: "Our elite scout, can't he be a samurai?" ”

Black Eagle's face was a little embarrassed: "Your Majesty, we have also worked hard, but we have just begun to infiltrate Japan, and it is difficult to squeeze into the samurai class that the Japanese regard as noble, because the assessment of samurai is very strange and strict, and they ...... Their samurai even have a strange tradition of suicide, and it will be difficult for our people to keep up with the Japanese aristocracy ideologically for a while, and will not be able to truly integrate into their system......"

Suicide?

When Xue Ziyong heard this word, he immediately thought of a question at the military level: "Your Majesty, do you want to add the Great Han Guards to the third batch of expeditionary forces?" If a group of soldiers don't even care about their own lives, even if they fall behind, the battlefield will burst out with unimaginable combat effectiveness! ”

"This is not needed for the time being, the Han Guards are the foundation of the empire, as long as it is not a last resort, I don't want to let the Han people kill and wound too much."

Wang Qiming, Xue Ziyong, and Black Eagle have a warm heart, and their emperor's bias towards the Han people is vividly remembered by everyone, which is also the fundamental guarantee for the unanimous unity of the Han Empire and Zhao Dutian's words!

Everyone's expressions were naturally taken into Zhao Dutian's eyes, and he quietly jumped away from the topic and asked Black Eagle: "Is there any movement in European countries?" ”

"There are very few military movements, and all the countries of Europe are resuming production to lick the wounds of war, and the biggest change is that of Queen Maria Theresa of Austria, and the size of the Austrian army is expanding to regularization!

In addition, Queen Maria Theresa established a spionage-like organization called the "Chastity Council", which directly obeyed Queen Maria Theresa's orders, and penetrated into all the territories controlled by the Holy Roman Empire......

Sinful 'men and women'. ”

Black Hawk continued with a slightly strange expression: "Your Majesty suspects that this is a secret service established by Queen Maria Theresa, although the main task of these Austrian 'agents' is not to monitor officials, but to actively capture mistresses and playboys......

However, its organizational form that penetrates deep into the people can be transformed into an institution similar to that of the Imperial Jinyi Guard at any time!

This made Queen Maria Theresa's rule over the Kingdom of Austria even more handy!

Just ......"

"Just what?" Zhao Dutian said with some displeasure.

"But the act of this chastity committee for the arrest of mistresses everywhere caused great resentment among the plebeians and the nobility......" (To be continued. )