Chapter 390: Prime Minister Wang's own sons
The result of Tong Taishi's trip to the East was of course very successful.
The main reason is that the Wa Kingdom also asked the Great Song Dynasty at this time, because the Jurchen pirate group has begun to attack the Wa Kingdom, ten days before Tong Taishi arrived in Hakata, Daoyi had just attacked the city, fortunately, the Great Song merchant ships in Hong Kong were carrying weapons, and they repelled the Daoyi together with the Wa naval army......
However, the latter turned around and went to the Guanmen Strait.
Then they landed in the area of Kokura, burning and looting along the way, and even approached Dazaifu.
The poor warriors of the Japanese kingdom are like being cut grass in front of these swords who have fought a hundred battles......
There is really no resistance.
Their bows and arrows are too weak, and it goes without saying what kind of goods the bow is, at this time they don't even have a bow, or they are still with the bow of their grandfather's bamboo bow, bamboo and wood chips are glued together with fish maw glue, and their katana is a joke to cut the iron futu.
And they are not accustomed to using weapons such as hammers.
They do have a ghost gold rod, but I don't know how many people can use it on the battlefield.
In the face of the Tiefutu infantry who landed in the south, and they were also armed with three-eyed guns, those unlucky Japanese warriors had no choice but to break their jade, and in the end, it was the Hakata Great Song Dynasty armed merchant ships that attacked the back road from the sea, and these guys who had swept half of Chikuzen retreated calmly with the harvested prisoners, money and food. However, because the main purpose of the Great Song armed maritime merchants was only to protect the residential area of Hakata, they did not risk attacking them, but just sat back and watched Tsushima Island, which had been bloodied and occupied by them before they withdrew.
In fact, they had already started harassing.
And not only on the island of Kyushu, but even as Wang Yue said, a fleet of Jurchen ships even reached the territory of the Ezo people.
In fact, they have traded with Ezo in the past.
A hundred years ago, they were already able to attack the coast of the Wa Kingdom on a large scale, and after obtaining advanced shipbuilding technology and weapons, they were even more unstoppable, and they also had the support of the Koreans, in fact, the Daoyi also had the Koreans as servants. In short, the Jurchen pirates, who were based on Tsushima Island and backed by the support of the Koreans, had begun to panic the west coast of the Japanese kingdom.
Even the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants withdrew.
They used to be in Hakata just because it was convenient.
In addition, Dazaifu, the highest official government of the Wa Kingdom on the island of Kyushu, is located to the east of Hakata.
But now Hakata is no longer safe, and they are not in business to protect the Japanese state.
Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants of Hakata have hurriedly withdrawn to Kagoshima, where Fangjin is the second largest port after Hakata, but Nagasaki in later generations has no sense of existence at this time, and the Tong Taishi who arrived in this case is like a savior stepping on the colorful auspicious clouds, and then after the Great Song warship performs a salvo, the Japanese people are simply excited.
Eventually, he sailed through the Kanmon Strait, a warship, led by the Wakuni Navy, and turned north into the Seto Inland Sea until he reached Heiankyo.
The rest is simple.
Because on the same day that he arrived in Heiankyo, Toyi washed Izumo in blood again.
The people of the Wa Kingdom, who had been stunned, welcomed Master Tong and accepted his requests as if they had grasped a life-saving straw.
First, the port of Goto was leased to the Great Song Dynasty to station a naval division to protect the Great Song merchants in the Wa Kingdom, to avoid Daoyi attacks on the trade routes of South Kyushu Island, and by the way, to protect the southern coast of Kyushu Island. In addition, the entire west coast of the Wa Kingdom is under the threat of Daoyi, and only their own sailors cannot protect the long coastline at all, so the Great Song Dynasty stationed a naval army on the five islands without worrying about Daoyi going around to the south.
Second, all the coastal ports of the Wa Kingdom were open to the Great Song Dynasty, so that if necessary, the Great Song naval warships could dock and help them defend against the Daoyi, including the ports on the east coast.
Third, the Great Song Dynasty sold a batch of new armor and firearms to the Wa Kingdom to help them train a strong army, and then conquered Ezo in the north to cooperate with the Daoyi, so as to prevent the Daoyi from using the Ezo as a springboard to attack the land and even the east coast from the land. And this is almost inevitable, because the Jurchens went to Ezo to play a land attack from north to south, and finally conquer the entire Wa kingdom in one fell swoop.
Mosquito meat is also meat.
Although the Wa State and the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty cannot be compared, for the Jurchens at this time, there is still this one left who can start.
And this purpose is so weak.
In this way, the general of Zhengyi was finally born.
In fact, this position was often established before, and the earliest general of the Seiyi was the general Sakaue Tamura Maro in the early Heian period three hundred years ago, which was the legendary martial god of the Wa Kingdom, but this position was only the general of the unified army of a frontier of the Wa Kingdom, and the re-established General of the Seiyi was also, and this position eventually fell to the head of the Hei family, Taira Tadamori, who was originally a close confidant of Emperor Toba.
The old immortal Emperor Shirakawa has finally died.
Emperor Toba, who was originally pressed by him, is now the de facto ruler of the Wa Kingdom.
I just don't know if there is a tamamo front in his harem.
The base of the Heike family is Ise, and it is inevitable that they will be responsible for dealing with Ezo, in fact, at this time, the area controlled by the Wa Kingdom in the north is to the north of the Kanto Plain, and the Kanto Plain is still very barren at this time, Izu is even a place of exile for criminals, and the area controlled by the Ezo people is to the Fukushima area. The Genji with the same name as the Taira clan is mainly Kawachi Genji, that is, the Osaka area, but at this time, the Kawachi Genji is temporarily in decline because of family cannibalism, and the head of the Genji is Yoshi, and the current official position is not high, and his grandson is the founder of the shogunate period, Minamoto Yoritomo.
As for the remaining extraterritoriality, it is not worth mentioning.
If these vassal states of Annam have become official vassals, then the Wa State has already begun to enter the semi-colonial era.
Actually, it's not just the Wa Kingdom.
The Champong, Boni, Chenla, and Sriwijaya in Nanyang have actually entered the semi-colonial era.
Great Song ......
In fact, the Ming Dynasty, overseas businessmen all hang the Ming banner, because the Ming Dynasty system and the Great Song Dynasty are slightly different, the Great Song Dynasty is actually based on the militia uniform land system, plus the combination of commercial center cities, but the Ming Dynasty is completely free capitalism, all places are commune system, and there is no industrial and commercial prohibition, it is all Wang Yue's gloves What else is the prohibition?
However, the treatment of Ming merchants in the Great Song Dynasty was the same as that of the subject countries.
And the fleet of the South Seas is also the Ming Navy.
The countries of Nanyang know very well that this flag cannot be provoked, so these businessmen who run out hang the dragon hugging the sun and moon flag of the Ming Dynasty and do business overseas as Ming merchants.
They trade freely in the ports of Nanyang, enjoy extraterritoriality, purchase industries, engage in talent exchanges, collude with the monarchs and nobles of these subject countries, try every means to oppress the people of the subject countries, and do not even pay tariffs, they are all subject countries of the Great Song Dynasty, brothers, what does it mean to pay tariffs? The EU has no tariffs, and of course Daming and these same Great Song vassal countries do not need to pay tariffs, and their merchant ships go to Daming without tariffs......
If only they could get to Daming.
However, it is true that there are merchants from these subject countries who go to Daming, although there are not many of them, but there are indeed them, after all, Daming is like a pumping machine, sucking out the population from all over the country.
Of course, go to the Great Song Yes.
But that's not called tariffs, it's called contributions.
When they went to the Great Song Dynasty as a merchant of a subject country, it was to worship the kingdom, and it was a gift from the Great Song Emperor to set foot on the land of the Great Song Dynasty, so they had to pay contributions at the port, and they could pay taxes as they did for the rest of the trade.
However, there is no tariff for Ming merchants to trade in the Great Song Dynasty, which is the privilege of the Great Song Emperor to the Ming King, after all, the identity of the Ming King is different, in addition to the Han State, Xi State, and Liao State, and this is also the privilege of His Majesty the Great Song Emperor.
As a result, businessmen are competing to join the Ming Dynasty, even if they don't go to the Ming Dynasty at all, they will spend money to buy some land vouchers, and then use these land vouchers to apply for a piece of wasteland in the Ming Dynasty, and with this land, they will become the people of the Ming Dynasty, which is the only way to become the people of the Ming Dynasty. However, if there is wasteland, it must be cultivated, so they will also buy a few serfs and send them, send someone to take care of them, and then open up the wasteland to plant sorghum soybeans and the like, anyway, they will not lose money, and eventually increase the amount of arable land in the Ming Dynasty.
So in recent years, Daming's economy has really grown by leaps and bounds.
Originally, the entire Ming Dynasty had a population of only a few hundred thousand, but now in just a few years, because of the influx of a large number of immigrants, it has exceeded two million.
In fact, the number of slaves and maids is two and a half million.
It is completely relying on Wang Yue's unsparing support, in order to allow more people to pour into the Ming Dynasty, he even took out the treatment of not paying grain for life, and the court gave the militia no grain for ten years, and he took the land voucher to go to the Ming Dynasty to open up the wasteland for the rest of his life, until the next generation inherited the grain. However, such a result must be the lack of financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty, but the wealthy Prime Minister Wang Cheng does not care about this, the money he earns in various industries in the Great Song Dynasty will make up for the deficit of the Ming Dynasty by casually plucking the roots.
is completely sucking the blood of the Great Song Dynasty to raise the Ming Dynasty.
Even in order to encourage Daming's fertility, even giving money for giving birth to children began.
Of course, everyone understands this.
After all, Da Ming and Han Guo are the sons of Prime Minister Wang.
Da Song is not his after all, and it is understandable for him to support his own son in policy.
As for Liao, Xi Guo, although he is not his own son, he is basically the same, at least he is a fake son, and a fake son is also a son.
What's more, the sons also have heavy responsibilities, and the Ming Dynasty is currently on the front line of dealing with the Jurchens, because of the abundant financial resources, the garrison of the Ming Kingdom and the National Defense Army of the Ming King have advanced the battlefield to the banks of the Songhua River, and the Ming cavalry and the Jurchen cavalry often cross the ice of the Songhua River in winter to attack. The eastern front has also attacked Kebao Prefecture by sea and land, and then set up Andong Mansion there, and attacked north along the Songhua River, and both sides have advanced the battlefield to the area of Changbai Mountain.
Of course, mainly for the purpose of picking ginseng.
Relying on Wang Yue's talent for hype, the ginseng of the Great Song Dynasty is becoming a miracle medicine sought after by the whole people, originally this kind of thing was just a better medicinal material, but now it has been hyped up in no way inferior to later generations, and all kinds of real and false effects are flooded with newspapers everywhere. Even a patient who had just died, poured a bowl of ginseng soup into it and immediately came back to life, and the exaggerated thing of being able to run and jump appeared in the newspaper in a grand manner, anyway, it was blown, and at this time it was all serious old ginseng, and the effect should still be there.
After all, those rich people are not fools.
This thing has basically been mythologized by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is not completely hype, and it will not be like this without real effect.
Of course, no matter what, it is true that the skyrocketing price of ginseng has led to the appearance of armed ginseng in Changbai Mountain.
Just like those Americans who went to Alaska to pan for gold, the Ming visitors who were attracted by the huge profits of ginseng, wearing plate armor, carrying three-eyed guns and even shoulder-mounted bazookas, fully armed, went deep into the jungle of Changbai Mountain, looking for the treasure of their dreams.
These are also an important part of the new population of the Ming Dynasty, because if you want to enter the mountains and forests, you must first have a permit.
And the permit was only issued to the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the gold diggers also have to open up the wasteland in the Ming Dynasty.
And the other son, Han, has already completed the reception of Khotan at this time, plus Yiwu, it can be regarded as a big country in the Western Regions, spanning three thousand miles.
It's not three thousand miles from Hami to Khotan.
Although it is estimated that there are 2,800 miles of desert in these 3,000 miles.
The rest of the Liao State and the Xi State are the main force to clear the grassland at this time.
The cavalry of the two countries repeatedly went north to plough the court and sweep the caves, at this time they had forced the Tatar department, Wang Jira and other departments to surrender, and then jointly attacked the Mengwu, the latter was devastated after the defeat back to Mobei, although it was not to be said to be destroyed, but it was also in a difficult situation in the siege of all parties, including the Western Liao army that stayed behind, and was forced to move north step by step, and even began to enter the nomadic area of the Hulang people.
The latter is Uliangha.
It's just that it is called Hu Lang Gai on the map of Liao, and it is also a vassal of Liao.
This is all for the Great Song Dynasty to be at the forefront.
Therefore, they must be supported in policy, and even immigrants must be enriched, so Prime Minister Wang Cheng even made the pretense of public welfare and private interests, and the imperial court subsidized the sorghum wine, soybean oil and cotton sold to the Great Song Dynasty from these places, and then increased taxes on rice wine in the inner estate, and even forced the official banquet of the imperial court to drink sorghum wine, which made the court ministers who were accustomed to rice wine complain.
In fact, after the monopoly of power, Prime Minister Wang Cheng is gradually going against the grain, issuing various orders with strange painting styles.
For example, the restriction of dowry, such as the prohibition of marriage before the age of fifteen, and so on.
Eating fish is also encouraged......
Although the canned food is still very low due to transportation problems.
After all, because of the cost relationship, at this time it is the canned crockpot, and it is good to say this winter, but it will definitely not last long in summer.
However, aquatic products are not only canned.
And it is not only the coast that can catch fish and make canned food, as long as these things are tax-exempt, there will always be merchants who will try to turn them into necessities for people's tables, because by this time the war has ended, military spending has dropped significantly, and the public land laws in various places have been gradually completed, the industrial and commercial cities have prospered, and the imperial government has been freed from borrowing to live, and even began to repay loans.
The imperial court had enough money to provide subsidies or tax cuts for certain industries that were specifically supported.