Chapter 18: The History of the Death of the Wa Kingdom
"Captain, you find some of these Japanese slaves and Dongyi slaves who are originally women, negotiate a price with them, and then promise the crew that you can reward them every time they dock."
"But before that, you have to tell them: during the journey, if anyone dares to disobey the order and do something to those Japanese slaves and Dongyi slave women, not only must they severely punish everyone in that person's group, but also cancel the reward of being able to vent after docking."
"Then group the crew according to their duties, and announce that you will look at the performance of each group during the voyage, and only the two best groups can vent."
The eyes of a dozen people in the cabin lit up.
Sometimes, no matter how severe the punishment is, it can't frighten some people who are already on top, even death. But no matter how high he is, he can't deal with the large number of people around him who know him well.
With the cancellation of the venting order, those who dare not disobey the order in the first place, but are desperate for rewards, will be motivated to restrain those who are prone to recklessness.
Then a reasonable competition mechanism can also improve the overall work efficiency of all crew members of the ship, and even force them to exert more than 100% subjective initiative.
It won't cause outrage yet, because there will be people who will actually get the reward, and those who don't get the reward will only resent those who fought harder than them, not the captain.
"Liu Yifeng, if you haven't signed a contract, I really want to buy you and stay with me to do things."
Liu Yifeng saluted the official of the Maritime Safety Bureau who affirmed him and did not say anything.
In fact, this is not his wisdom, this is the system that later generations of capitalists came up with, commonly known as: involution, but at that time the employees were involved in bonuses, or performance and the like.
As for how much the crew will be involved in the future and how painful it will be, that's none of his business.
Liu Yifeng only cares about one thing now, that is, the details revealed by the captain when he told him just now: Fusang seems to have not been conquered, but it has been completely defeated by the Ming Dynasty.
South Fuso and North Fuso, these two places are obviously the islands of Kyushu and Hokkaido.
The captain and the officials of the Maritime Administration also mentioned Edo and Kyoto, but from the details of their words, it seems that Kyoto is still in the hands of the Japanese. Edo was probably only a small city at this time, and what the officials of the Maritime Administration said felt like the Ming Concession.
The captain and they went to eat, Liu Yifeng returned to the kitchen, starting from the chef to the crew, one by one to try it, but unfortunately these people belong to the bottom people, and basically don't know much.
On the other side, the port of Edo outside Edo Castle, which he was studying, entered the port with the Zheng He-class, which had left them one step ahead of them in Jinshu, escorted by two other Zhenghe-class.
"Brother Yang, this is Edo City?"
"It should be, you saw the castle in the distance, I heard that it was built 1,000 years ago, when the Japanese sent Tang envoys to imitate Tang Chang'an City."
"It's a pity, Tang Chang'an City was destroyed."
The three of them were silent, and they felt extremely depressed that their ancestors' demeanor could no longer be seen in their own homes, and that they had to go to other small barbarian countries to see this.
"No, Changbai, you are wrong, that castle was not built by the Japanese people, it was built by us based on the physical buildings left by the Japanese and domestic documents."
"Lord Song! Are you feeling better? ”
"Sangui, Xin'er, thank you for your concern, at least I can get out of bed today."
Yang Changbai directly held Song Yingxing's arm, feeling the weakness of this body and was very worried. The road from Jinzhou to Fusang was calm, but Song Yingxing was still seasick and fainted and couldn't get out of bed.
The official of the Maritime Safety Bureau on the same ship had already expressed to Yang Changbai very tactfully: The sea conditions will only be more complicated on the subsequent journey.
They all began to worry that Song Yingxing would not be able to hold on, and if something went wrong at sea, how would it be good for them. I could only change my itinerary halfway, and I was supposed to stop at North Fuso, so I chose to stop at Edo Castle, the most prosperous city on the four islands of Fusang, and let Song Yingxing adjust his body.
Song Yingxing didn't know what the other people on the same boat were thinking, and he was still telling the history of Edo Castle: "This was originally the private domain of a Japanese shogun named Tokugawa Ieyasu. After we landed, he surrendered without even resisting. ”
"When we told him about the blockade of the main Japanese force in the mountains of central Goryeo, he was so frightened that he begged Daming for forgiveness on the spot, saying that he was willing to take us to Kyoto to destroy the puppet emperor of the Japanese people."
Speaking of this, Song Yingxing looked at the young man holding his other hand and said, "Xin'er, you should be very clear about the rest of the matter." ”
Yang Changbai and San Gui both looked at their companions, the young man named Xin'er's full name was Sun Xin, and his father was the hot-hot general of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, who was storming Sun Chuanting in the Western Regions.
In that year, the official of the Ministry of Rites who landed in Japan with the navy was Sun Chuanting's father, Sun Yuanzhen.
When the Japanese invaded Goryeo with the strength of the whole country, the Ming Dynasty was already preparing to fight to the death with the Tatars and Warat in the north.
Out of various considerations, the cabinet and the imperial court agreed to His Majesty's policy of first the north and then the south, and only stated that they would not send troops to the occupation of Goryeo by the Japanese state, and also provided a large amount of financial support to the Korean resistance forces free of charge, hoping that the Japanese state would fall into the mud of Goryeo and not harass the northeast.
Who would have thought that Goryeo's gang of Dongyi slaves would not succeed enough and lose more than anything, and they really deserved to be destroyed.
The country has been destroyed, and those ruling classes are still exploiting the support of the Ming Dynasty. In the end, it fell into the hands of the low-level soldiers who really carried their heads and fought with the Japanese people, and it was actually 3 people who had a weapon, and 20 people could not get together a complete pair of armor, so that people at the level of the squad leader could barely eat enough.
Not only did he fail to hold back the Japanese people, but he angered the puppet emperor of the Japanese people, and he ordered the slaughter of all the members of the Lee royal family and most of the ruling class of the Lee family in the Pyongyang royal palace under house arrest, and then threw their bodies in the palace and burned them to ashes.
In a real sense, the ashes of the upper echelons of the Lee family were raised.
In this way, forget it, for the sake of the old enemy in the north, Da Ming endured. Unexpectedly, the side effect of appeasement was that the puppet emperor of the Wa Kingdom was actually delusional and wanted to directly attack Shuntianfu by sea and land.
It is said that at the court meeting that year, His Majesty recited the letter of persuasion written by the puppet emperor in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, and laughed angrily.
In the more than 200-year history of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet and the imperial court have never been so united, regardless of faction, civil and military, completely angry, and issued more than 100 orders in a row.
The Northern Army went directly south to enter Goryeo through Jianju, and the predecessors of the Western Army, Ningxia Town and Gansu Town, went north to take over the defense line of the Northern Army, and military households in various places began to mobilize to prevent the Tatars in the north from taking the opportunity to move south.
The southern army was divided into three routes, blocking the Japanese navy with the main force of the navy on the upper road, and completely annihilating the Japanese navy at the cost of a Zheng He-class serious injury. The middle road Dengju capital was assembled, and directly landed in Busan, re-taking the route of the Japanese invasion of Goryeo, and driving the Japanese people north. The lower road assembles from all over the Yangtze River Delta, directly lands in today's South Fusang, and sweeps the leaves all the way to occupy the whole territory of South Fusang.
The entire counterattack lasted only a month, the Japanese navy was completely wiped out, and more than 200,000 main forces on the Goryeo Peninsula were caught between the north and the south, including their puppet emperor, all of whom were compressed in the central Kumgang Mountain Mountains.
At this time, the outcome has been decided, and Da Ming is not in a hurry to gnaw the hard bones in King Kong Mountain, just surround them. The barren Mount Kongo simply can't support these 200,000 people.
"However, His Majesty and the cabinet may have mistaken information and mistakenly believed that Edo Castle was the capital of the Wa Kingdom, and they landed from Edo, and only after landing did they know that Kyoto was the capital of Fuso."
Sun Xin's explanation made Yang Changbai and Sangui enthusiastic, my Ming is really invincible in the world!
"At that time, my grandfather suggested attacking Kyoto directly by land, and at that time, there was no militia in the territory of the Japanese country, only some people who claimed to be samurai, and all the guns were scattered. Grandpa and they entered Kyoto in this way, and under the leadership of that Tokugawa Ieyasu, they captured the members of the puppet imperial family, and the Wa Kingdom announced its surrender. ”
Song Yingxing took over the topic: "Later, that Tokugawa Ieyasu ascended the throne as king, became a subordinate of my Ming Dynasty, handed over the whole of Goryeo, and ceded South Fusang Island to us. ”
Sun Xin asked, "Lord Song, I don't understand something. ”
"Say."
"At that time, we could have occupied the entire territory of the Japanese Kingdom, so why didn't we occupy it?"
Song Yingxing smiled and explained, "Xin'er, what year did the Northern Expedition start?" ”
Sun Xin and Yang Changbai, the two older ones, seemed to understand something, and the anxious Sangui could only urge the two to explain quickly, and Song Yingxing fulfilled his wish:
"After all, Goryeo is connected to Liaodong on land, and it is only 2 or 3 days away from Dengzhou Mansion by sea and land, so His Majesty and the cabinet saw that the Li family couldn't even find a side line, so they simply merged it directly into my Daming."
"And immediately after dealing with the Japanese state, it will be a decisive battle with the northern Tatars, and the entire territory of the Japanese country will be occupied, and the finances will not be able to keep up."
Now Sangui also understood.
The Tatars were not weak Japanese people, and the Northern Army actually fought very hard during the Northern Expedition. In the end, even His Majesty personally marched out of Xuanfu and entered Monan, only to annihilate the main Tatar force in Monan and lay down the key battle of the Northern Expedition.
Although the Wa people were well managed, those clowns who were called samurai had been resisting the Ming Dynasty, and the financial resources consumed to occupy the entire territory of the Wa Kingdom were too heavy.
"Actually, at that time, we only defended the area of Black Chicheng on Nanfuso Island, and the rest of the city was only occupied nominally, and the Japanese people were still autonomous."
Song Yingxing said: "But now, the entire South Fusang Island is under the control of my Ming Dynasty." Even if we leave voluntarily, the slaves will kneel and beg us to stay. ”
"Why?"
"Because my Ming Dynasty can not only let them have enough to eat, but also let them be masters in front of other Japanese people in the Japanese country."
At this time, the three Zheng He-class ships entered the port and began to berth, and everyone saw the group of people in the port.
At the top of the line was an official wearing the official uniform of the Maritime Safety Bureau, and several officers wearing the uniforms of the Southern Army, and the leading general was an officer from the fourth grade.
They all got the news in advance to greet Song Yingxing.
After all, regardless of the fact that Song Yingxing is a celebrity in front of His Majesty, he is also an official of the fourth grade, older than all the officials in Edo, even if he is about to be demoted to Dongshan Prefecture, it is not because the two of them are offended.
Behind the Ming officials, there were more Japanese people, one of whom was wearing a special Japanese costume and followed behind the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau and the general of the Southern Army with an extremely flattering attitude.
Song Yingxing pointed at him and said to his three students, "Did you see that widow?" He is the grandson of the Tokugawa Ieyasu, the current Wa King: Tokugawa Iemitsu. ”