Tokugawa Iemitsu really felt that Liu Zongzhou's words were reasonable, and he was willing to believe it.

He was even beginning to fantasize now that if the world submitted to his daimyo and samurai, and even the common people, they could believe in the truth that "starvation is a small matter, and a loss of temperance is a big thing".

In this way, there are not so many people who make their own shogunate.

Thinking about it again, Liu Zongzhou just said that the Ming Kingdom has done this, so it has lasted for more than 200 years.

The more Tokugawa Iemitsu felt that Liu Zongzhou would be of great help to him in maintaining his rule.

"But the appearance of a large number of hungry people, is it not because the West Factory of the Ming Kingdom took all the grain and straw in my treasury before, and in addition, it is not because the cloth is unsalable, a large number of Ming cloth is overflowing in the city, and even the upper nobles also make full use of the Ming silk Luo, resulting in the bankruptcy of a large number of Japanese merchants who weave silk Luo?! In addition, the Ming Kingdom West Factory extorted a huge amount of compensation from our shogunate, but the shogunate apportioned the financial burden caused by this to the people. So, why don't you share your thoughts on these matters? ”

At this moment, a discordant voice suddenly appeared.

The man who said this was Tokugawa Tadanaga, the half-brother of Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Tokugawa Tadanaga was obviously more willing to believe that the intensification of internal contradictions in his own Wa State was caused by the exploitation and oppression of his own Wa State by the Ming State.

Xu Du's face was ugly at this time, and then he sneered: "What does this have to do with my Da Ming." It's just that you have taken a year's worth of grain, and even if you have a hard time in the year you were taken, you have to give more land to the people. But after so many years, it's time to resume and cancel the addition. But if you don't cancel the increase yourself, do you blame us? In addition, for the cloth silk, who made my Ming cloth silk cloth good and cheap, and more popular with you Japanese people, how can we blame us? Besides, you should thank me for saving many of you from the cold! ”

After hearing this, Tokugawa Tadanaga glanced at Tokugawa Iemitsu: "So, our shogunate itself doesn't know how to be thrifty?" ”

"Hugh will mention it again!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu glanced at Tokugawa Tadashi at this time, and said a word, and then said: "Today, I only listen to Mr. Hiyama's lectures, and talk about the way of controlling the people, not about general affairs!" ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu hated his eldest brother very much, because he had to admit that his eldest brother was very disrespectful to himself, and obviously deliberately intended to mock himself for not knowing thrift and not being good at governing the country, and deliberately provoked conflicts with the Ming Kingdom first, and deliberately took this opportunity to make those retainers who were dissatisfied with his weak attitude towards Ming get close to him.

But Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't want to emphasize the contradiction with Mingguo, because he knew that offending Mingguo would end badly.

Tokugawa Iemitsu also stopped Tokugawa Tadanaga from continuing, and only asked Liu Zongzhou for advice: "Mr. Fushan, I don't know how to reassure the people and make them know etiquette and etiquette?" ”

Liu Zongzhou did not hesitate to speak: "Zi said: 'For politics and morality, such as Beichen, live in its place and all the stars are together. 'Those who have heavenly virtue can then speak the royal way, and the key is to fear independence. Therefore, the way of the saint is not to seek everything. I hope that the general will look at the time of the court, when he is close to the Confucian ministers, listen to the government, benefit from the history, ask for his independence and be cautious, then neutralize the position and education, and get it from here. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "Sir, can you say more clearly?" ”

"Be smart and upright."

Liu Zongzhou replied.

Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded and asked, "But the wisdom of the people is the hearts of the people in the world?" ”

"That's exactly what happened."

Liu Zongzhou replied.

After hearing this, Tokugawa Iemitsu said, "I will definitely get close to the Confucian ministers, sir, rest assured." ”

Liu Zongzhou smiled slightly, he suddenly found that this general of the Japanese State was very open-minded and had the style of benevolence.

At this time, Xu Du said to Sakai Tadashi, the old man of the shogunate on the side: "Why do you still keep your general's eldest brother? Are you waiting for chaos to happen? ”

"The Sword Comes"

Sakai Tadashi said: "The old general is still there, and it is inconvenient to do it for a while." ”

Xu Du nodded after hearing this: "No matter what, this person can't stay." As soon as the raw silk in eastern Zhejiang is handed over, the West Factory will send 200,000 pieces of silk next year, and we will sell the 200,000 pieces of silk by the joint firm of your shogunate. ”

"Understood! Your country has broken off raw silk, and the weaving mills under the names of the great names of the feudal lords have long been unable to turn around, and they cannot produce silk, and this silk will definitely be out of stock when it comes. ”

Sakai Tadakatsu said with a smile, and then said, "It's just that many daisuke and daimyo also blame your country for this, saying that you should teach your country a lesson, so that your country will not only cut off the export of raw silk." ”

"How to teach?"

Xu Du sneered.

"Naturally, there is no lesson to be learned, and this is contrary to the friendship between the two countries. Our generals also understand. It's okay to say that the dissatisfied Daisuke is that some daimyo are clamoring to rise up and fall because of this! ”

Tadashi Sakai.

Xu Du thought for a while and said: "As long as your shogunate guarantees the interests of my Ming Dynasty in your country, my Xichang will naturally not be willing to let such a thing happen, this time I come, Uncle Guo has authorized me to negotiate with you about the sale of a batch of firearms, take a time, you come to my Xichang concession area, I will show you, I believe you will be interested, maybe you have these firearms, you can really make your generals become the real monarch of the Japanese country, to avoid people under the banner of respecting the king." ”

Sakai Tadashi was overjoyed when he heard this: "I have heard for a long time that the firearms of the West Factory are excellent, if I can buy a batch, my shogunate will definitely satisfy your country, and I will send a big gift to your country." ”

"Is that the gift him?"

Xu Du looked at Tokugawa Tadacho.

Sakai Tadakatsu nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

As Zhang Gui said before, the biggest problem in Daming now is that there are too many people.

Under today's conditions of productivity, domestic resources are no longer sufficient to meet the material needs of all.

What's more, the internal gap between the rich and the poor is also the worst in history.

Although the gap between the rich and the poor has eased a lot after several years of domestic reforms, it has also put a lot of pressure on those in power.

The rebellion alone has happened several times.

Moreover, even then, the problem of insufficient resources has not been solved, and the key point is that a lot of new problems have arisen.

The biggest problem is that in order to solve the problem of the survival of many displaced people, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty let them engage in industrial activities, and then produced many industrial products.

These industrial products need a market, and without a market, they cannot be sold in exchange for more resources.

Therefore, on the whole, if Daming wants to return to China with more resources to solve the problem of insufficient resources caused by large numbers, it has to expand the market.

Now Xu wants the shogunate to be his own comprador of the Ming Dynasty, just to expand the market of the Ming Dynasty in the Japanese Kingdom.

Don't underestimate the size of the Japanese market in this era.

India, the Ming Dynasty, and the Wa Kingdom are the three largest markets in Asia in this era, and the main trade objects of the Dutch and other Xiyi people are in addition to India and the Ming Dynasty, which is the Wa Kingdom, which also created a commercially developed Nagasaki in this era, in addition, it also promoted the birth of Lanxue and the policy of the Wa State of the country.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty also needs to monopolize the Japanese market.

What's more, in this era, the Wa State has its own weaving workshop, because the raw silk in the south of the Ming River is the raw material for weaving products, and the main export areas are the Wa State.

And the Ming Dynasty is now going to bankrupt the country's own weaving workshop.

This will inevitably hurt the interests of many nobles of the Wa Kingdom, after all, the weaving industry of the Wa Kingdom must be controlled by the nobles.

Fortunately, Xichang had already hooked up with the shogunate, and he could suppress these nobles with the shogunate's hand.

The conversation turned back.

In addition to expanding the market, use business-based means to earn resources and return to China.

Overseas, the Ming Dynasty was more likely to directly and violently seize resources.

"Fire!"

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

On the banks of an unknown river on the island of Sumatra, thousands of natives were forced to kneel on the ground by the Ming Tiger Army.

Li Zicheng, the commander-in-chief of the Tiger Army, directly waved his hand and issued an order to kill these natives, regardless of the old and the young.

For a time, all these natives were killed.

Why kill all the natives?