On behalf of the shogunate, Hayashi Goose Mine came to Kagoshima again.

He took a whole delegation of envoys with him to China on a ship, to Nanking to meet the emperor. It is nothing more than a reaffirmation of the relationship between the two countries, the clarification of this misunderstanding, and the intention to set an annual limit on Sino-Japanese transactions.

There is no doubt that Japan is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty.

During the period of Emperor Jianwen, the Muromachi shogunate held a grand ceremony to receive the edict in Kyoto's Kitayama Kinkakuji Temple, and it was after accepting the canonization edict of the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Di ascended the throne, the Muromachi shogunate took the initiative to send envoys to congratulate, and in the national letter, he called himself "the source of the Japanese king". The following year, Zhu Di sent an envoy to Japan, re-canonized, and gave the "King of Japan" a turtle-shaped gold seal. In order to show his sincerity, the Muromachi shogunate killed more than 2 Japanese leaders in front of the Ming envoys.

When the Tokugawa shogunate was in power, Japan was formally unified, so he wanted to repair relations with the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that a few years after China and Japan fought the Korean War, the Ming monarchs and ministers have always been wary of Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate had no choice but to continue to convey goodwill, and relations between the two countries were getting better day by day, but every time there was a substantial breakthrough, the "Japanese pirates" would inevitably come out again to make trouble, so that Sino-Japanese relations would immediately fall to the freezing point Historically, Japan was inclined to support the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it was very unaccustomed to the Tartar barbarians who emerged from the ravine. There is also the influence of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, including Zhu Shunshui, many Ming Dynasty remnants took refuge in Japan, and even became lecturers of the shogunate, constantly instilling the Manchu Dynasty with cruelty, barbarism, and lack of faith.

This kind of influence was very far-reaching, and the samurai of all generations of Japanese did not recognize the Manchu Qing as the orthodoxy of China, and of course did not accept Japan as a subject state of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, Japan has always been China's "mutual market", which means that the status of equal status does business.

The Manchus wanted to take Japan as a vassal state, and as soon as they entered the customs, they released their goodwill and returned the shipwrecked Japanese many times. However, the Tokugawa shogunate did not appreciate it at all, and still regarded the Manchus as barbarians, and even called Japan a little China.

Now that the new dynasty of Datong was established, the two countries did not have much grudges, and the Tokugawa shogunate took the initiative to ask for the seal a few years ago.

Liu Xiangke stood at the bow of the boat, smiled and put his hands in his hands, pointed to the shore and said, "Your envoy, please watch." “

Lin Efeng's expression was very embarrassed, because the Datong Army on the shore was withdrawing, while the people around Tsurumaru City were kneeling and begging the Datong Army to stay.

What is this?

In fact, it's not so mysterious, don't talk about the military and civilians. The Datong army has come to this point, just a fair trade with the people,

Instead of burning, killing and looting, they are also maintaining law and order in the castle town.

And these behaviors are enough to bring the local people to their hearts!

What's more, the Datong army also used to give porridge to the people here, and spent money to hire local women to help the soldiers wash their clothes. These are real benefits, especially the 500 women who washed clothes, and the whole family came to kneel on the dock, crying and begging for the Datong army to stay.

Lin Efeng has been familiar with Confucian classics since he was a child, and at this moment he said with a smile: "The teacher of true benevolence and righteousness is also." The people ate pot pulp to retain the king, and today they know that it is not a lie. “

Those wild warriors who defected to the Datong Army are now also kneeling together.

Shiro Miyazaki climbed in front of Li Dingguo, hugged the thigh of the unequaled general of the Tang Kingdom and cried: "General, please take us away, we will definitely be loyal dogs of generals for generations!" “

The ghost head is forty-eight, and he has been kneeling on the shore and keeps kowtowing to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo's acceptance of these people is nothing more than to facilitate the war, and he has no right to bring them back to China. Seeing that the other party was so humble and loyal, he was inevitably a little embarrassed and moved, and said: "The samurai of the Shimazu family, there are a lot of casualties this time. I have recommended you to the current Governor, and Shimazu has agreed, so you can all be his samurai from now on. ”

Shiro Miyazaki said, "We only want to be samurai to the shogun!" “

Fighting with the Datong Army, the treatment is better than being a samurai of the Shimazu family, and they still want to take advantage of it to soar.

Li Dingguo said: "In this way, there are still some extra cotton armor in the army, and each of you will be given a pair." Maybe it's too lenient, and you can find your own craftsmen to make it smaller. As for weapons and horses, I have no right to be the Lord and reward them. Farewell, everybody! ”

More than twenty sets of cotton armor were brought down from the ship and given to these wild warriors.

The wild warriors got the cotton armor, and while they were happy and excited, they respected Li Dingguo even more. Until Li Dingguo boarded the boat, they were still kneeling on the shore, crying and kowtowing.

Back in Fuzhou, the Japanese envoy followed Liu Xiangke to Nanjing to meet the emperor.

Li Dingguo rested in Fuzhou, and at the same time replenished the casualties nearby. In fact, the number of casualties was not large, more than a dozen died before and after, and more than a dozen were forced to leave the army due to serious injuries.

Next, Li Dingguo is going to Hainan Island, where he will familiarize himself with the tropical climate for two months.

Liu Xinyu and Ding Jiasheng's two Guangxi divisions will also go to the border of Vietnam to present troops, and the three divisions will attack Vietnam together.

As for Huang Mo, he led a division to sit in Yunnan to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, and he could rush to the battlefield in Vietnam at any time to support.

On the way back to Beijing, Lin Efeng took the initiative to chat with Liu Xiangke, wanting to test the attitude of the Chinese side.

Liu Xiangke said with a smile: "The shogunate issued a trade order, which is an internal affair of Japan, and my country will not interfere." Well, the shogun of the shogunate may shoot himself in the foot. This kind of thing is very familiar to Qianming. ”

"Alas, it is!" Lin Efeng was extremely emotional.

However, it was Zhao Han's encouragement of maritime trade, which led to more and more merchant ships going to Japan, which far exceeded the shogunate's food volume.

Although the shogunate traded through the Sandu merchants, not all of the Sandu merchants could participate.

You have to have a good relationship with the shogunate to get an official license, and the number of foodies for these wealthy merchants is also limited.

As a result, Tokugawa Iemitsu planned to set a trade volume that would limit the number of goods allowed to trade in Nagasaki each year.

This kind of thing has happened in history.

After Kangxi destroyed the Zheng family, he felt that Sino-Japanese trade was profitable, so he issued the "Exhibition of the Sea Order", allowing ordinary people to go to sea to do business, and the number of Chinese merchant ships going to Nagasaki to trade increased several times.

The Tokugawa shogunate could not eat so many goods, so it issued the "Decree of Sadake", which set an annual trade quota for Nagasaki:

The total trade volume of Chinese merchant ships shall not exceed 6,000 per year, and that of Dutch merchant ships shall not exceed 3,000 per year.

In the early days of the Tokugawa shogunate, it was about equal to more than one tael of silver, and it was estimated that there should be 7,500 taels of silver for 6,000 kan.

The annual trade volume between China and Japan is actually limited to 7,500 taels, which is making fun of everyone?

Naturally, it was impossible for the Chinese merchants who had gone too late to carry out official trade to bring their goods back.

It will inevitably give rise to large-scale smuggling, and the Tokugawa shogunate is equivalent to getting the script of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, official trade began to be fraudulent, and the shogunate deceived and misrepresented the amount of transactions.

The Tokugawa shogunate immediately tightened its control, and instead of specifying the amount of trade per year, it set the annual trade between China and Japan

80 ships. In the past 20 years, due to the large outflow of copper from Japan, the limit of 80 ships has been reduced to 30.

At the same time, efforts should be made to crack down on smuggling.

At that time, I don't know how much Chinese maritime smuggled people, but the Dutch East India Company had detailed accounts, far exceeding the amount of Japanese trade stipulated by the shogunate.

What really relieved the Tokugawa shogunate was that the Qing Dynasty itself began to impose a sea ban.

Kangxi stipulated four major treaty ports, but in fact there were more than 100 treaty ports at that time, and the coastal provinces were not strict in controlling maritime trade. Qianlong was very powerful, all of them were closed, and they were only allowed to go to sea from Guangzhou. In fact, it was to follow the example of Japan, leaving only one treaty port to facilitate the control of the imperial court.

Now that China's maritime trade is thriving, the stricter the shogunate's regulations, the more rampant the smuggling trade will be in the future.

What's more, the two feudal clans of Hirado and Satsuma also had to pay huge war reparations. Even if they risk seppuku,

They will also support smuggling, so that the reparations can be paid as soon as possible, and the shogunate can still provoke a war because of this?

Arriving in Shanghai to change ships, Liu Xiangke and the Japanese envoys took the opportunity to get off the ship to rest Liu Xiangke went straight to the Shanghai Post Post and said to the post man who sold the newspaper: "Give me a copy of the official newspapers in the past few months."

The "Datong Monthly", which could not be sold out in the same month, could continue to be sold at the post station and returned to the central government after three months.

The postman smiled and said, "It just so happens that the upper authorities haven't come to take back the newspaper, and they have it in the last three months." “

Lin Efeng followed Liu Xiangke, but he didn't know what "Datong Monthly" was, so he also paid for three newspapers.

The first newspaper was published before Li Dingguo led his army to sea, and it was particularly thick compared to the past. It was actually used in five pages to print the territory maps of the Han, Tang, Yuan, Ming, and Tong.

The map template uses the "Complete Map of the World" in the Wanli period to intercept the part of Asia, and then draw the territory of China in the past dynasties according to historical materials.

None of these can be printed with movable type, and all of them are engraved by craftsmen.

The territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties is particularly vast!

The territory of the Datong New Dynasty is very small, only Liaoning in the northeast, Yanshan in Hebei, Hetao and the Western Regions are not incorporated, and even Qinghai and Tibet are marked as the territory of Gushi Khan.

Lin Efeng repeatedly compared the five maps, and suddenly felt inexplicably afraid.

The Chinese emperor published and distributed the map of the territory of the past dynasties to the world, what is the idea of still need to guess?

Liu Xiangke was full of smiles, and he could imagine how readers across the country would react when this issue of the newspaper was released.

Liu Xiangke opened the second newspaper again, this time there was only one map, but it was an abbreviated version of "The Complete Map of the World". Most of the people in the country who read books had not been able to touch the world map before, and for the first time they knew the vastness of the world through newspapers.

Flipping through the latest issue of the newspaper, there is no map, only an excerpt from the "Datong Constitution" and a report on the Datong Army's dispatch to the Ryukyus.

Liu Xiangke read an excerpt from the "Datong Constitution", and was stunned after only a few paragraphs, and subconsciously turned around to look at Lin Efeng.

Lin Efeng was still looking at the world map, until he returned to the boat, he read an excerpt from the "Datong Constitution", and sighed after being stunned: "It is worthy of a generation of heroes, as soon as the "Constitution" comes out, the world will be a world of great contention!" “

The butt decides the head, and these two Confucian diplomats, coincidentally, set their sights on what the Constitution encourages to open up to the outside world.

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