The war on the entire island of Honshu was ended in less than three months.

All the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom who were divided in various places were either slaughtered by the Ming army and their families confiscated their land, or they voluntarily surrendered and donated their land to save the life of a dog.

In fact, almost all of the smooth wars in the Japanese Kingdom were expected by Zhu Han.

In this era, the military strength of the Wa State was hundreds of years behind the Ming army, and it was impossible to block the offensive of the Ming army.

But.

Although the territory of the Wa Kingdom is not very large, the local Wa country has a large population.

It belongs to the most populous area around Daming.

If the Japanese people are completely wiped out, both physically and mentally, it will take a lot of energy.

Guo Zixing and Mao Gui are both reckless martial artists, and it is still okay to lead troops to fight, but there are some deficiencies in using them to do these things.

But.

Zhu Han didn't plan to send another person, so he directly made a suggestion to his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang and let Guo Tianci take full responsibility for this matter directly.

Guo Tianci has a relatively stable personality, and he has studied at the Yingtian Military Academy in the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the Wa Kingdom has been pacified, as for how to govern it, it is already a trivial matter in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion.

"After all, the Wa Kingdom is separated by a sea, and only one Guo Zixing is left as the king, isn't it too wasteful?" Zhu Yuanzhang said suddenly.

Guo Zixing, the king of Yang, has a fief equivalent to ten counties in the Wa Kingdom, and all the military and political powers in the territory are at his disposal.

Zhu Han understood that the elder brother was worried that Guo Zixing would dominate the Japanese country in the future, and future generations would be in danger of separating one side in the future.

"Although the Wa Kingdom is not big, it is not small, only one Guo Zixing is sealed, it is indeed a little less, we can seal Liu Futong's son, Zhang Shicheng and others to the Wa Guo Island, and then put some important ports and cities into the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court, no matter what in the future, there is no need to worry about someone dominating the Wa Island family!" Zhu Han said with a smile.

Liu Futong's son, Zhang Shicheng, Mr. Guan and others have all been raised by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han with a vacant position.

But.

These people are all old, and they all have the ability, so it is a waste of manpower to let them be rice worms in Yingtian.

Zhu Han felt that dividing them into the Wa Kingdom would not only improve the reputation of the Great Ming Dynasty, but also allow them to deter the Wa Kingdom, which could be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"Yes, this method, we think it's good!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

The holy decree of the Ming court soon spread to the Wa archipelago.

Guo Tianci bypassed his father Guo Zixing and Mao Gui and became the political envoy of the Ming Dynasty on the Japanese archipelago.

According to the plan sent by Zhu Han to govern the Japanese people, Guo Tianci can actually do it step by step.

At Zhu Han's suggestion, the Ming Dynasty formally established a Japanese political envoy in the Japanese Kingdom, and Guo Tianci served as the first Japanese political envoy.

After all, the Japanese archipelago and the Ming Dynasty face each other across the sea, and the risk of maritime transportation is unpredictable, so it is necessary to completely assimilate the governance of the Japanese State to ensure that nothing goes wrong in the future.

The first step in ruling Japan was to transfer all the administrative power from the daimyo who had been divided into one side and into the possession of the imperial court.

In the Battle of the Kyoto Plain, the Ming army almost swept away the feudal lords of the Wakos.

In this way, the control of the separatist strength of various places is almost completely completed by pushing the boat down the river.

The capture of Ashikaga Yoshikan, the shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, and the surrender of the Emperor of the Northern Empire of the Wakoku Empire, completely brought the legitimacy of the Wako's regime to the bottom.

The Ming Dynasty exercised comprehensive rule over the Japanese archipelago, whether in the cities or villages, and all the Japanese people who were willing to cooperate with the Ming were evaluated, and then awarded official positions.

And for those who resisted the Ming Dynasty and tried to use the status of the Japanese nobles and refused to obey the management of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Han's guidance and suggestions were also very simple.

That's one word.

Kill!

No matter what his identity was in the original Japanese court, as long as he violated the taboo of the Ming Dynasty, he must be killed to make an example.

According to Zhu Han's order, the surrendered daimyo lords of Japan could be killed immediately if they resisted.

Under the ruthless iron fist of the Ming army, the large and small forces of the Japanese did not dare to resist in the slightest.

It took a short time for the Ming Dynasty to establish a complete set of orderly ruling order on Wa Island.

The Ming Dynasty organized an auxiliary army composed of Japanese people on the island to directly administer the localities.

This army is naturally the Emperor-Ming Cooperative Army, referred to as the Imperial Cooperative Army.

The commander of the Imperial Allied Army, served by Hojo Yoshima.

Of course, Hojo Yoshimasa was his previous name, and now his name is Seo Yoshizane.

Like the name Xu Yizhen, the Ming Dynasty also has an important means of ruling Japan, which is sinicization.

Zhu Han has sent someone to make a clear rule that all Japanese people who want to serve in the Ming government or the army must abandon their original Japanese names and use Chinese names instead.

Otherwise, we will not be hired.

Moreover, under the ruling order established by the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese people who could obtain the qualifications of Han names and surnames were all of the upper class.

Ordinary civilians of the Wa Kingdom have no surname, only one name, and now after the Ming Dynasty comes, they are still in the status of untouchables, and if they want to get a Han name, they have to pay some price.

Once an ordinary Japanese person has obtained the qualification to take the Han name and surname, it is equivalent to him getting rid of the status of a pariah and can take his own place in the ruling order established by the Ming Dynasty.

They are qualified for sinicization.

Either join the Imperial Association Army and shed blood and sweat for the Ming Dynasty to suppress the rebellion of the Japanese State.

Either join the Grange of the Daming Government and become a farmer of the Daming Grange.

Either your daughter or sister marries a Ming garrison soldier, and the whole family can be qualified for sinicization.

Zhu Han established this set of differentiated sinicization policies,It's because there are too many people on the Japanese archipelago.,If the Ming Dynasty absorbs everyone,It will be a very huge project.,And it's not reasonable for so many people to be sinicized.。

Although the Ming Dynasty ruled the Japanese archipelago directly, it was also a kind of colonial rule.

Since it was colonial rule, it would inevitably exploit the locals, so that the Ming could obtain enough wealth to supply the army and local officials.

And if all the Japanese people have become citizens of the Ming Dynasty, then who else will the Ming exploit?

Therefore, for the Japanese people, it is necessary to sinicize and win over a part of it, and then go together to rule and exploit the other part of the Japanese people.

Ordinary Wa people are ruled, and if they want to change their tragic fate, they must make their own efforts.

This kind of effort is naturally to cooperate with the Ming court.

Whether it is to contribute to the Ming Dynasty or to marry the Ming soldiers, they will all be qualified to be masters in the Japanese archipelago.

But even so, for Zhu Han, the population of the Wa Kingdom Islands is really too much.

Today, the population of the Wa Kingdom is almost 7 million.

Compared to the Central Plains, this is already about the same as the population of Huguang in the south of the Yangtze River.

The land area of the Wa Kingdom is far less than that of Huguang and Jiangnan.

The Ming Dynasty had to do everything possible to further reduce the population of the Wa Kingdom.

Therefore, among the methods that Zhu Han came up with, in addition to winning over and dividing the Japanese people, he wanted to do everything possible to relocate the Japanese population.

Zhu Han ordered that about 100,000 strong men and women should be recruited in the Wa Kingdom every year to serve as laborers or mercenaries in the war areas such as Nanyang, the Great Southwest, and the Northwest, so as to consume the population of the Wa State.

For this method, Guo Tianci also implemented it very thoroughly.

Guo Tianci has no sympathy for the Japanese people, and he also knows Zhu Han's real purpose for doing this, so he is naturally very

Support.

For ordinary Japanese people, participating in the recruitment of the Ming government is not a matter of being bullied and cheated, but a good opportunity to change their fate.

After all, not everyone is eligible to join the "Emperor Ming Army", or to have a beautiful daughter and sister to marry a Ming soldier.

More ordinary Japanese people, if they want to change their miserable inferior fate, they have to do the hardest and most dangerous work for Daming.

Ming Dynasty Japanese Envoy Division, Edo Prefecture.

As the most prosperous city in the Wakoku archipelago, Edo also has the largest number of poor people.

It was rainy, inside a dilapidated thatched house.

Kotaro Nohara frowned, looking at the rain outside the window, and his heart was depressed.

He was originally an inferior samurai of the Muromachi shogunate.

In the battle of Kyoto, because of his quick escape, he saved a small life.

However, the Muromachi shogunate then fell, and all of his possessions and status as a samurai were lost.

The land and houses were confiscated and confiscated by the Ming court, and as for the status, the Muromachi shogunate was gone, and these samurai were naturally worthless.

What's more, in the Imperial Association Army organized by the Ming Dynasty, the samurai of the previous dynasty were not accepted at all, and only ordinary people from simple backgrounds were recruited.

Kotaro Nohara is unwilling to let go of his self-esteem to work as a coolie, so life at home is getting more and more difficult.

"There is no rice left at home, so it is better to sell this piece of my clothes, and it can be exchanged for two days' worth of food."

A weak voice came from behind Kotaro Nohara.

This is his wife, Ami, who was originally a rich and noble samurai wife, but now she is about to go hungry.

Kotaro Nohara couldn't help but feel even more pain in his heart, not knowing how to face the difficulties in front of him.

He lost everything, his wife suffered and starved, and even his son Nohara Shinbei, who was less than five years old, was hungry and sallow.

All this is because the Ming army conquered Japan!

But.

Kotaro Nohara didn't dare to say anything inferior.

Even if it's in your own home.

Because of the powerful combat power of the Ming Dynasty, it has already made Nohara Kotaro afraid to the bone marrow, and he does not dare to have the slightest disrespect.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty had a large number of imperial allies on the Japanese archipelago, and these people not only maintained law and order, but also worked part-time as secret agents to spy on all the Japanese intelligence who dared to offend the majesty of the Ming Dynasty.

If anyone is exposed, it will be the end of the whole family's death.

"This dress is already the only one left, and it can't be sold anymore!"

Kotaro Nohara resolutely refused.

Then, as if determined, he turned and walked into the house, taking out his family heirloom katana.

When his wife Ami saw this, her eyes immediately widened in surprise.

"Husband, are you planning to sell swords?"

Kotaro Nohara nodded sadly, "I'm not even a samurai anymore, what's the use of keeping it anymore?"

This kind of thing was originally a status symbol of the shogunate samurai, and the price was not cheap in the first place.

Now that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are pouring into the country, everyone wants to capture a Japanese knife and take it back as a souvenir, and the price is increasing step by step.

If Nohara Kotaro's family heirloom katana is sold, it can be exchanged for three months' family rations.

I'm about to starve to death, so naturally I won't worry about anything anymore.

Kotaro Nohara held his katana in his arms, for fear that others would see that he was going to sell the katana, so he hid it tightly.

Braving the light rain, he came to Edo Castle.

After hanging around for a long time in front of the new shops opened by several Ming merchants, Nohara Kotaro did not make up his mind.

He knew that if he sold the katana, it would be a sign that he would never redeem it in the future.

However, Kotaro Nohara was cold and hungry, and he couldn't make him linger at all

Yu is too long.

Finally.

When the light rain has gradually stopped.

Kotaro Nohara gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

He was just about to step into a shop.

Suddenly.

Not far away came a shout.

"Good news!"

"Good news! The Ming Mansion Recruitment Order!"

"Enough rice, eat it all!"

"There is also a settling-in allowance of five taels of silver, and a monthly salary of one tael!"

For the Wa people, this is almost quite a lucrative condition.

Kotaro Nohara was immediately attracted as well, and followed the crowd to the stall.

Kotaro Nohara didn't know Chinese characters and couldn't understand Ming Chinese.

However, next to this recruitment order, there is a short and fat Japanese translator who is explaining this recruitment order over and over again.

Half a day later.

Kotaro Nohara finally figured it out.

Daming is recruiting two positions, one is a laborer who works as a coolie, and the other is a hired samurai who cuts people!

Needless to say, Kotaro Nohara naturally took a fancy to the hired samurai.

"The settling-in fee is five taels of silver, that is, ten Ming silver coins, which can make Ami and Shinbei not have to go hungry for a year!"

"Moreover, I still have a salary of one or two silver every month, and I can save some money!"

Kotaro Nohara immediately made up his mind to participate in this recruitment order of the Ming Dynasty.

After receiving a note from the chubby translator, Nohara Hirotaro went to the side and lined up according to the number.

The first step in recruitment is naturally the preliminary registration, that is, to take a look at the general situation, and don't get into any disability or intellectual retardation.

Finally, it was the turn of Nohara Kotaro, an official wearing a mighty Ming military attache uniform, sitting on a Taishi chair, on the left was a clerical officer with a pen to take notes, and on the right was the short and fat Japanese translator.

"What's your name?"

The Japanese interpreter asked Kotaro Nohara through his nostrils.

If it was in the past, this *** businessman-turned-Japanese translator would never dare to do this, otherwise, Kotaro Nohara would have cut off his head with the katana in his hand.

It's just that the current Nohara Kotaro is almost hungry, and others can't tell what kind of samurai he is.

"Kotaro Nohara!"

"Ah! You have a surname, and you are a samurai?" The fat translator looked surprised.

If it weren't for the sight of the Ming soldiers around him, he would almost instinctively kneel down in fright.