In terms of the depth of cooperation, that is, the technology transfer related to the purchase of equipment and equipment, the decision on which parts to directly purchase finished products, and which key basic industries to open up correspondingly, the countries of Taixi are divided into several different types.

The first is Britain and France, in which the cooperation between France and the Ming Dynasty was deep enough before that.

Therefore, the two countries will continue to refine the original cooperation plan, sign a new detailed additional clause, and then directly start the relevant technology transfer at a relatively fair price.

Therefore, this time, the French side does not need to negotiate with a special serious and formal manner, and the relevant personnel who were originally stationed in France can directly relax the corresponding technical support restrictions.

Before the signing of the naval treaty, the British side had already decided to accept the same level of cooperation as the French because of Charlotte's pressure on the British parliament and government.

Under the threat of the Ming War in Grenville's bluff, the British Cabinet and Parliament made a decision at that time and sent the plan of cooperation to Charlotte and the Ming Honglu Temple.

The two sides have actually completed cooperation negotiations, but there is no formal agreement yet.

Therefore, what the British representatives have to do now is to turn the established cooperation facilitation into a formal treaty document, and the two sides will complete the actual signing procedures.

Then, at the same time as Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte's joint venture company in the UK was established, the content of technology licensing and transfer was gradually released to the corresponding company.

Technology transfer and joint ventures take time to start a business, and it will be a gradual process.

As long as this process is carried out step by step, the follow-up British local side will gradually integrate into the Ming system.

All in all, in the case of Britain and France, there are actually no formal negotiations, or rather, formal negotiations have been completed, so the progress is certainly the fastest.

The clerical staff can sign the contract directly after the documents are ready.

Then there are small countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark, which have limited areas and populations, and industrial autonomy is not high in the first place.

After the start of the second industrial revolution, the country could not afford to maintain an independent industrial system.

Even if it does not open key industries to the Ming Dynasty, it must be opened to the countries of Taixi.

It is better to open up to Da Ming, and it can also improve the relationship with Da Ming, and then strengthen his position in Taixi.

Their resistance to foreign capital and power is relatively low.

So the goal of these countries is actually to get as much support as possible.

Naturally, the progress of the negotiations is relatively fast.

Then there were the countries that Prussia, Austria, and Lucia had cooperated with the Greats to a certain extent.

Now, if they simply buy finished weapons and equipment and finished warships, then there are not too many conditions attached.

Production and delivery can begin directly by signing a commercial order.

But if you want some or all of the technology transfer, then you have to look at the direction of the UK.

Because there were no special conditions like Charlotte's, and there were no special conditions of the Anglo-French Incontinental War, these countries had more autonomy in how they cooperated.

The sovereigns and ministers of the vast majority of countries, as well as the bourgeoisie of their own countries, would not have chosen the depth of cooperation with England and France, which had been determined in this particular state.

Their final choice is basically partial cooperation, the introduction of the most lacking and backward technology in their own country, and the opening up of as few and as few industries as possible.

This process takes time to bargain slowly, and of course the negotiation progress is much fuller.

Finally, Spain and Portugal, which still have a certain strength and have not cooperated with the Ming Dynasty before.

The two sides must first complete actual contacts and win each other's trust through a series of means before they can begin formal negotiations.

In the process of formal negotiations, the vigilance and vigilance of the Ming Dynasty were also higher than those of Prussia and other countries.

Their negotiations are also of course the slowest.

However, according to their actual situation, the diplomats of the Ming Dynasty expected that the way they finally chose to cooperate was estimated to be not much different from that of Prussia and other countries.

In the end, most of them will adopt the shipbuilding plan provided by Daming, and purchase a large amount of equipment and weapons and technology.

However, it is not difficult to say when it will be completed.

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When Niu Jian led the team to Taixi, Zhu Jingyuan himself also took his family to say goodbye to his grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother, and set off for Edo to take office.

When Niu Jian arrived in Paris, Zhu Jingyuan's family also arrived in Edo Castle.

Edo Castle is located on the Kanto Plain in the middle of Japan's main island of Honshu.

With a total area of just over 16,000 square kilometers, this plain is about the size of a prefecture-level city, but it is already the largest plain in the Japanese archipelago.

After all, this is an archipelago of hills and hills.

It was originally the seat of Tokugawa Ieyasu's Edo shogunate, and after it was incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, it became the capital of Edo Province.

Seven years ago, during the reform of the dissolution of the feudal domain, it became the residence of the newly established Edo Prince's Envoy.

It is now the capital of the newly established Edo Province.

At the same time, it is also the capital of Japan in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, Tokyo.

Therefore, compared with other Ming people, Zhu Jingyuan's mentality towards Edo City is even more special.

From the moment I entered Edo Bay on the passenger ship I was on, I was careful to observe the situation inside and outside the Edo Castle area.

After the ferry docked, Zhu Jingyuan greeted the principal officials of Edo who had come to greet him, and then took a car to the Edo Palace.

Since the Japanese archipelago and the Korean Peninsula were both listed by Zhu Jianyan as the native provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the kingdom that had nominally remained after the withdrawal of the feudal domain seven years ago was completely abolished.

However, the palace of the King of Edo is still there.

The palaces of the feudal kings of the Ming Dynasty were originally the preferred place to receive members of the royal family.

When Zhu Jingyuan arrived in Edo, of course, he also lived directly in the palace.

After a day's rest, Zhu Jingyuan formally met with the local officials in Edo again and went through the handover and inauguration procedures.

Then Zhu Jingyuan, as when he was in the Lion City, did not directly do his job as a political envoy and senator.

Instead, look at the data report first to get a holistic view of the local situation.

Compared with when he was in the Lion City, Zhu Jingyuan also went down to visit.

After a week of continuous observation and understanding in the capital, Zhu Jingyuan came to a conclusion in his heart:

"Japan is probably really gone......

From outside Edo Bay to inside the Edo Palace, from the Sanji Yamen of Edo Province to the private merchant houses, Zhu Jing did not feel any exotic customs here.

The cities and towns around Edo Bay, the people and buildings of Edo Castle, the residents and pedestrians inside and outside the city, are all completely indistinguishable from the cities of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention this palace, it is completely a mixture of the northern and southern gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

There is a large area of rockery garden, there are spacious and bright mountain pavilions, and there are magnificent pavilions and pavilions around......

just doesn't have any Japanese elements that Zhu Jingyuan was familiar with in his previous life.

And it's completely non-existent inside and out.

Under normal circumstances, even in China, there has always been a tradition of following local customs.

The management of remote places by the Central Imperial Court usually takes into account and takes into account the actual local situation, and makes some targeted localized adjustments to policies and systems.

Therefore, the border areas of the Ming Dynasty already have a certain exotic style.

In other words, even within the scope of the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, different provinces and even prefectures and counties may have completely different characteristic buildings and customs.

Officials or ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, when they go to other places to take up their posts or travel to settle down, will also habitually find some special souvenirs, and will also pay special attention to and adapt to local customs.

But there seems to be no one here in Edo, at least those Japanese elements that Zhu Jingyuan is familiar with, which are completely invisible here.

Japan, like other areas around the Chugoku Dynasty, had a long history of cultural influence.

But like the rest of the surrounding area, Japan has its own unique characteristics.

Even North Korea, which claims to be a small China, is significantly different from the Ming Dynasty in terms of official uniforms and civilian clothing and architecture.

Not to mention that Japan, as an island nation, is more independent than other surrounding areas, and its own characteristics are already more diverse.

However, there is no trace of the typical Japanese garden design element "dry landscape" here.

Before the Renwu Dynasty, the most representative lacquerware and knives that had been exported to the Ming Dynasty for a long time are now completely missing.

It is as if the culture and customs of Japan have been completely washed away.

In this regard, Zhu Jingyuan actually has a certain amount of mental preparation.

Because this place in Japan was taken care of by Emperor Sejo.

Under normal circumstances, if the Japanese archipelago was originally part of the Ming Dynasty, then not to mention the folk architecture of Edo, even the Edo royal palace would probably have some "Edo style" design.

Lacquerware and knives, which were already important export products, are unlikely to disappear into thin air.

This is the case in the Lion City and Coconut City in the south, Yingzhou and Tiannan overseas, and the north and south of the New World, where there are many local special cultural elements.

Even, even in places that have been colonized by the Tessie countries, the traces left by the Tessie colonists have only been diluted, not completely eliminated.

Zhu Jingyuan lived in a castle in Mengxian (Mombasa), and he was going to build a world city in Xintianfu, and asked a French architect to design a Tessie-style palace and garden.

But things in Japan are now completely gone.

According to the historical records that Zhu Jingyuan has learned, the process of Emperor Sejo's conquest of the Japanese archipelago was very different from the conquest of other regions.

The first is the complete elimination of the aristocracy, voluntarily surrendering to avoid death at most, and not accepting any other conditions.

The traditional Japanese feudal lords and samurai, even if they surrendered directly to the Ming camp from the beginning of the war, were forcibly relocated from the Japanese mainland.

After abolishing the original identity privileges, changing the name and surname, and messing up, he was sent to Nanyang, Tiannan, and Yinzhou to open up wasteland.

Then there was the deep transformation of the institutional and cultural aspects after the conquest.

Book burning, temple demolition, and flat graves.

Today, there are no buildings older than 200 years old in the entire Japanese archipelago.

The original various shrines have been converted into monk temples and Taoist temples, and monks and Taoist priests have been specially moved from the Ming Dynasty.

Japan's original Shinto religion and monks were forcibly returned to the world and sent overseas to open up the wasteland.

In Japan, the so-called emperors and ministers refused to surrender, of course, they were killed on the battlefield, and those who were willing to surrender were abolished like the local daimyo and samurai.

I moved overseas to open up the wasteland and farm, and the courtyards, shrines, and tombs of their homes were all demolished and leveled.

Finally, there is the blood tax on immigrants and the exchange of cages for birds.

Recruit young Japanese men as soldiers, open up overseas colonies, and buy Japanese women as slaves to replace the slaves and maids in the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, the Ming court officials continued to migrate the Ming people from the Ming mainland to the Japanese islands.

Before the Industrial Age, the culture and history of various ethnic groups was, for the most part, the history of princes and generals.

Before the rise of the Enlightenment, the change of court in various countries had little to do with ordinary people.

In that historical environment, after the collapse of the original aristocratic class, the original commoners still had a certain chance to inherit the original culture if they obtained aristocratic status.

If the foreign conqueror's force or culture is not strong enough, after conquering a place, it will also be influenced by the local culture, and the local culture will be retained.

But in turn, the local aristocracy was eliminated as a whole, and the foreign conquerors were unusually strong in force and culture.

The point is that if the ruler still consciously "cleans up" the local culture, then future generations should have to rely on archaeology if they want to find the culture of this ethnic group.

During the Qing Dynasty, there were also Ming Dynasty costumes and robes, and now the Japanese archipelago does not even have these things.

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, Emperor Shizu was mostly a liberal arts student, so he was more sensitive to civilization and cultural matters than himself, so he did it very thoroughly.

None of the policies toward the Japanese archipelago were temporary, but long-term actions that lasted for more than a hundred years.

Emperor Sezu apparently left his last words, asking future emperors to continue to transform Japan according to his request.

Finally, the last transformation so far, in fact, Zhu Jingyuan directly participated.

The Great Food Country directly participated in a new round of large-scale migration of a semi-official nature.

The large-scale development of the eastern part of Mozhou and the industrialization of the Great Food Country recruited all the people of the surrounding feudal states of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Koreans and the He, who are closest to the Ming people, are the key targets of recruitment.

Even ordinary people can speak the words of the Koreans and the He, and the groups that are most likely to obtain higher status and income after arriving in the Great Food Country.

When Zhu Jingyuan checked the local data, he paid special attention to the relevant information.

At present, there are only about one million people living in Edo.

The entire Japanese archipelago is estimated to be no more than 3 million, accounting for only one-tenth of the total population of the entire Japanese archipelago.

And these three million people are still completely enlightened.

After the Ming Dynasty conquered the Japanese archipelago, merchants, officials, translators, and so on arose from among the common people.

They are highly bound to the existing Ming group, and they are also the richest among the local natives, and there is no way to move them all away by recruiting workers.

If you want them all to leave completely, you have to use official coercion.

However, in Zhu Jingyuan's opinion, these people are no different from the Ming people now.

Their first two generations were not nostalgic for the past at all, because they lived like a person after the Ming Dynasty came.

The descendants did not know what the emperor and the general were, but only knew that they were the Japanese people of the Japanese archipelago of the Ming Dynasty.