After Zheng Chenggong completely wiped out the forces of several major powerful feudal lords in Kyushu, it would take several months to completely occupy Kyushu.

It's like even if Sadamm is killed, there will be a mountain of small armed forces in Iraq, which will be very disturbing. The so-called "thieves swarming" refers to this situation.

It will not be possible for the war to officially end in a moment and a half.

However, from the perspective of the Edo shogunate, since the end of June, the battle and the destruction of Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the Edo side has completely abandoned treatment.

The follow-up two sides fought and talked one after another, talking while fighting, and running in the conditions, all of which belonged to the garbage time of the war.

It dragged on until the end of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and seeing that the summer and autumn typhoon seasons were completely over, this did not consume Zheng Chenggong, and a few more fragmentary small feudal domains were lost on the island of Honshu.

The Edo shogunate finally sued for peace with the Ming Dynasty in a posture that was actually very low, but slightly reserved in face.

Expressing the formal recognition of the Ming Dynasty's rule over Kyushu and Ezo is completely reasonable and legitimate, and there will never be disputes in the future,

And admit that "Ezo has not belonged to the territory of Fusang since ancient times, and Fuso only traded with these barbarians, and has not been able to achieve rule" - Zhu Shuren did not let the Fuso people directly admit that "Ezo has been undisputed since ancient times and belongs to the territory of China", which is too fake, so as long as the other party admits that it has never belonged to the territory of Fusang.

Anyway, in the East Asian cultural circle, there is only one orthodoxy in the Ming Dynasty, and other barbarian lands, as long as they do not belong to other civilized countries, it is logical for the Ming Dynasty to use Chinese orthodoxy to civilize them and let them belong to them.

To put it bluntly, as long as it is not the territory of other civilized countries, the Ming Dynasty's enclosure is tantamount to "occupying the terra nullius first", which is the same as dealing with the Indians and the Maori, and the indigenous barbarians have no concept of a state.

(Note: The Indians here specifically refer to the bulk nomadic fishing and hunting savage tribes that have not formed a state, and do not target the Inca Empire and the Azquet Empire, which have established civilized countries, and do not intend to offend the indigenous people of civilized countries)

Finally, the Edo shogunate also had to admit that the characterization of this war was not "the Ming invasion of Fuso", but the crime of hanging the people, "repaying grievances with straightforwardness, and repaying virtue with virtue; If anyone sins against me first, we will punish him. ”

All the guilt was caused by the sinners who annexed the Ryukyu vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, such as the Ezo private merchants and the Satsuma Domain!

In the eyes of the traditional old-school bureaucrats, if the war is won, the land will be won, and the country will be destroyed, and what treaties are needed? Has there been such a thing since ancient times?

However, Zhu Shuren insisted on cultivating such international law habits in China as well, because he knew that the current era was close to modern times after all, and the West had already engaged in the Westphalian system more than ten years ago, and the rudiments of modern diplomacy had taken shape.

If the Ming Dynasty doesn't keep up, the future will not be able to "declare war on all the Western powers" like Cixi, right? No matter how strong the Ming Dynasty is, even if there is Zhu Shuren's hanging, it is only temporary, if the system construction does not keep up, after all, it will not be able to make enemies with all foreign countries at the same time.

Therefore, the rules of the international order should still be used, but the Ming Dynasty can join in the formulation of the rules, and even promote a set of international negotiation guidelines legislated by the Ming Dynasty in the future, instead of resting on its laurels and giving up the right to set international standards in vain.

This final war treaty against Fuso should be regarded as a practice.

Now that it has entered the 1660s, it is less than 30 years since the Manchu Qing and the Rakshasa signed a certain treaty between the Manchus and the Rakshasas in parallel time and space.

After the Ming Dynasty reaped enough permanent legal benefits, it could give the Edo Shogunate a little sweetness on the issue of actual withdrawal, at least let the Edo Shogunate give an account internally, so as not to cause history to deviate from the original track too long in advance.

Zhu Shuren knew very well that he did not want the Edo shogunate to fall because of this, let alone the Fuso people to reflect internally and work hard because of this "loss of power and humiliation of the country", and he did not want Fuso to be completely united because of foreign enemies and to honor the king and modernize in advance.

It is best for the Ming Dynasty to let Fusang maintain the state of all forces having their own ghosts.

It's like the best way to control Iraq is never to kill Saddam, after you kill it, you can't even find a negotiation partner, and you have to face the warlord forces everywhere in person, isn't that uncomfortable for yourself, the lessons of the later generations of the Chinese people in Iraq have been profound enough.

In order to prevent the Edo shogunate from falling, in the final stage of the negotiations, the Ming Dynasty also acquiesced to the Edo shogunate's two sets of internal and external propaganda, and did not dismantle the Edo shogunate.

For example, when the Ming army withdrew from the Choshu Domain and Hiroshima Domain, which had been washed into ruins, as well as the Oshu Domain, Yushu Domain, and Sendai Domain in Hokuriku, in fact, of course, the Ming Dynasty itself did not want to fight, and took the initiative to retreat from the quagmire, and there were no more casualties on both sides.

However, the Ming Dynasty also allowed the Edo shogunate to propagate the withdrawal internally, describing it as "the heroic Fuso army led by the Edo shogunate regained lost territory, successfully repelled the Ming army, and saved the country at a critical moment of Fuso's life and death, preventing the loss of more land."

Anyway, this kind of propaganda is only said in Fuso, and it is in Japanese, and it will not lose the face of the Ming Dynasty and damage the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in the international community.

And the Edo shogunate wants to protect this face, and it is not in vain, when the Ming withdrew the army, it asked the Edo shogunate not to divide the princes who hated the Ming into these vacated territories.

In the end, the territory of the Choshu Domain, as well as part of the Hiroshima Domain, became the territory of Mitsuyuki Kuroda, a lackey of the Ming Dynasty and a traitor of Fuso. Kuroda Mitsuyuki finally took refuge in Zheng Chenggong as an internal response, and at the same time, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, who was pitted by him, died without proof of the death of the high-level, and actually made Kuroda Mitsuyuki's success a good death.

The Edo shogunate did not catch him with any improper real evidence, and there was no need to punish him to give an account to the people of Fuso, coupled with the external pressure from the Ming side, Tokugawa Ietsuna had to pinch his nose and admit it.

There are several such operations, but they are not as obvious and typical as Mitsuyuki Kuroda.

All in all, when the Ming Dynasty withdrew its troops in the final battle, it also planted several mines in Fuso, so that the Edo shogunate was still unable to command the whole country, and the princes who were secretly wary of the shogunate were still cultivated.

Such Fusang, as long as it cannot be reunited in the future, will never be a threat to the Ming Dynasty, and it will be useless for the population to recover.

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The armistice treaty between the Ming Dynasty and Fusang was finally signed on the eighth day of October in the fifteenth year of Longwu, and the Ming side spent another month gradually withdrawing troops, and sending the text of the treaty back to China by sea and reporting to the imperial court.

By the end of the fifteenth year of Longwu, everything had finally settled, and the territory that should be taken had been completely obtained, and at most in the next year or two, it would have to be cracked down on bandits piecemeal.

When the news was transmitted back to China, the government and the opposition were naturally excited, and fireworks were burning inside and outside Nanjing, and the monarchs and ministers were happy.

Although the degree of celebration was not as enthusiastic as when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was destroyed, it could be felt by everyone in the people. But in fact, it is already more inspiring than when other enemy countries except the Manchus fell—

The reason is that after all, Fusang and the Ming Dynasty have a feud, and this enmity may be greater than that of the Mongols, because after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols actually did not pose any threat to the Ming except for the Wara branch, and most of the time the Ming beat them.

The scourge of the Japanese invaders lasted for one or two hundred years in the Ming Dynasty, and it was only after the opening of the sea ban in the late Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty's own maritime power became stronger that the Japanese invaders gradually declined. As far as the old Ming people are concerned, they still have an impression of the harm of the Japanese Invaders.

Now I have heard that the country of the Japanese Invaders has been beaten down, and the island with the most Japanese pirates has been occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and the joy of the people of the whole world is real, especially in the south, which is more affected by the scourge of the Japanese than in the north.

Under such a popular foundation, Zhu Shuren lived behind the scenes and decided to reward the decisive heroes of the Pingwei War, and the resistance was almost non-existent.

Even if after the death of Zhu Shuren's biological father Shen Tingyang, the household department is now managed by someone else, and there are some complaints about the payment and amount of rewards, no one can stop Zhu Shuren's will - although Zhu Shuren was nominally worried at that time, and did not personally come forward to inquire about any specific government affairs.

After the New Year in a blink of an eye, when it came to the Lantern Festival in the sixteenth year of Longwu, the imperial court finally discussed the results of the reward of the Fusang War.

Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen, the two early henchmen of Zhu Shuren, finally climbed to the point of sealing the country.

One of them took Kyushu Island, the other took Ezo, and each of them inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army, and the north and south roads combined to kill and annihilate more than 400,000 Japanese troops (including the peasant soldiers who were temporarily pulled),

Coupled with the blessing of the merits of the Ming Dynasty of "killing the Japanese Invaders", and they had already reached the top of the marquis' circle in the war to destroy the Qing Dynasty, they were only one step away. It is also logical to complete the duke's "realm breakthrough" this time.

Compared with the previous four princes, Shen Tingyang is Zhu Shuren's biological father, and his officialdom qualifications are very good, and Shi Kefa is the first assistant of the cabinet, and he was the signboard when he rebuilt the imperial court in Nanjing. Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong are also fierce generals for many years, and they were in high positions in the early years of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Therefore, the four princes who were sealed when the Qing Dynasty was destroyed were not strictly speaking, but more of his elders, allies, and colleagues.

After five or six years of development, now this second wave of Guogong has finally been promoted by Zhu Shuren from a lower position.

Their entire resume is mixed with Zhu Shuren, basically they didn't receive much from the national favor of the Chongzhen Dynasty, at least before Zhu Shuren himself entered the office in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, they were basically reckless or grassroots military positions, and their loyalty was more iron-clad.

And Zhu Shuren wants to be crowned a duke, of course, he will not only be a general who fights on the front line, but also a person who is in charge of power and dispatch in the rear and coordinates the overall situation.

This time, the main merit and promotion in the rear was Zhu Shuren's cousin, Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the military department.

Zhang Huangyan also belonged to the previous war to destroy the Qing Dynasty, and he had already made a lot of contributions, his troops also defeated Azig twice, sniped Azig himself, and finally supervised the Neihuang-Daimyo Battle in Guannai.

It's just that in the final stage of pursuit in the grassland outside the Guanwai, Zhang Huangyan has been promoted to the military department, and he is not suitable for a civilian position to pursue thousands of miles in person, so he did not go to the front-line supervision.

So much so that when the final Qing Dynasty was settled, Zhang Huangyan was promoted a lot and was young, so he naturally wanted to press the title to show fairness, and also block the world's mouths, so as not to be said by the world that Zhu Shuren was crony.

Now, five or six years have passed since the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, and it has been twenty-one years since Zhu Shuren himself crossed into this world, and this year it is thirty-eight.

Zhang Huangyan is two years older than his cousin, and he is not confused when he is just old. A military secretary who has passed the age of 40 has served for enough years, and it is completely reasonable to be a national prince.

The final result of the treatment, after the canonization of the three princes, Emperor Longwu Zhu Changshu issued an edict that in the next 20 years, it was tentatively decided that Kyushu, Ezo, Withered Leaves and other places should be managed according to the law of military tun management outside the Guan, and the generals with real power would be responsible for local affairs, and the system was completely different from that of the Central Plains provinces.

Of course, in order to prevent the division of feudal towns, these powers must not be hereditary, so those managed territories are not fiefdoms, only the titles of the princes can be hereditary.

Previously, Cao Bianjiao, Huang Degong, Zhu Wenzhen and others, because they were already old, Emperor Longwu's will would allow them to "supervise Jilin/Horqin and other places for life", and they also knew that their lifespan would be more than 20 years at most.

And this time, Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong are obviously a generation and a half younger than Huang Degong and others, and their natural lifespan can live for a long time. If, after twenty years, there are no obvious signs of a big tail, then the preferential treatment can be extended, at most for the rest of their lives.

In addition, Zheng Chenggong obtained the de facto governance of Kyushu Island and the seizure of power by life and death, and at the same time, he also returned part of the power of civil administration and other powers of Dayuan Island to the imperial court, but only retained the private property of the Zheng family in Dayuan Island.

Zheng Chenggong didn't feel that there was anything to lose by this, because he was already very satisfied that he could be crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, and he felt that he was glorifying his ancestors. It's not a big deal to change a piece of land, it should be one of the bargaining chips for the young man to seal the country.

It is impossible for Zhang Huangyan, who is only a civilian, to be promoted to local real power, but he is already the secretary of the military department, and he does not need to be released.

After sealing the title of the Duke of the Kingdom, Emperor Longwu directly made Zhang Huangyan the second assistant of the cabinet, second only to Shi Kefa, so that he just replaced the second assistant vacant after the death of his distant uncle Shen Tingyang.

It can also ensure that during the period when Zhu Shuren was nominally worried, the Zhu Shuren family had a complete and stable control over the real power of the imperial court.

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After the baptism of the Battle of Fusang, the strength of the Ming army was further run-in, and the power structure of the Ming civil and military forces, because of this series of meritorious service opportunities, transitioned to the new generation of young people.

If it is said that in the later stage of the previous war to destroy the Qing Dynasty, except for Zhu Shuren himself, most of the others were a group of fifty or sixty-year-old veterans who were holding important positions in the cabinet department.

After this time, there was finally a large group of young people who were just in their early forties, and even Zheng Chenggong, who was only thirty-five years old, took the position.

With such fresh blood and team, Zhu Shuren's prestige has been further consolidated. In addition, after the war, the Ming Dynasty did need a period of recuperation, recovery and consumption, and digestion of the territory. So for two whole years after that, Zhu Shuren didn't make any big moves, and the court didn't change the law.

However, there is no slackening in the aspect of climbing science and technology and developing production, and new things that benefit the people through innovation are still emerging one after another.

Two years later, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty due to the loss of war was basically completely recovered, and Zhu Shuren also ended the low-key time when his biological father died, and he could show his strength again.