Date Masamune bowed his head at this time.

He didn't expect that his iron artillery team would be defeated so quickly in front of the Ming army.

You must know that his iron artillery team is already the strongest hot weapon army among the daimyo under the command of Tokugawa, equipped with Western guns, with strong combat effectiveness, and is used as a special force.

As a result, in front of the self-generated firearms team of the Ming army in front of him, his iron artillery team was completely unbeaten, just like papier-mâché.

"Forget about caesarean section."

"Go and ask the Ming army for your own guilt."

"This is what we said, if your iron artillery team can succeed in beheading, we will let you make a great domain of 500,000 stones, but if you can't do it, you will personally apologize to the Ming army, saying that this is just your personal idea, and it has nothing to do with anything else."

The Tokugawa clan spoke at this time.

"Hey!"

Date Masamune agreed with a calm face.

Masuda Nagamori also continued to keep his face calm at this time, and said to Tokugawa Ieyasu: "At this moment, we will undoubtedly be in a more disadvantageous position when negotiating. ”

"I know!"

Tokugawa Ieyasu suddenly yelled at Masuda Nagamori.

Masuda Nagamori couldn't help but bow his head.

Tokugawa Ieyasu himself was actually depressed.

He had some hopes that he could rely on Date Masamune's iron artillery team to kill Ma Gui, so that Ming Guo was a little jealous of his strength, and then he was willing to let himself keep part of his territory and army.

But the results were so unsatisfactory.

Tokugawa Ieyasu became very irritable for a while.

In any case, because of this situation, Date Masamune had to take the initiative to tie his hands and come to Kamakura Castle to surrender to the Ming army.

"Chop!"

After Magui saw Date Masamune, he directly gave such an order.

"Yes!"

As a result, Date Masamune was beheaded.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu learned about this, he looked at the sky with tears in his eyes.

Although he knew that this would be the result, he still felt very uncomfortable when he thought that he had no way to take the Ming army now.

Ma Gui here received a will from Zhu Yijun after cutting Date Masamune.

"Your Majesty's meaning, if you want to get your own territory and a sufficient scale of private soldiers, you need to make your own merits in the great cause of the unification of Chinese civilization."

"But now, let alone dedicating everything to the great cause of civilization and unification, you haven't even done anything to correct customs and Yiwen, so do you think you are qualified to ask for a territory now?"

"Moreover, this is undoubtedly telling Ben Hou plainly that you are not willing to work hard for the unification of my Chinese civilization!"

After meeting Masuda Nagamori, the representative sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Magui also conveyed Zhu Yijun's meaning, and said that he could only accept that the Tokugawa clan would be allowed to take the meritorious service examination in the future and obtain the territory and private soldiers.

Syllable!

After Ma Gui said this, he even slapped the table, very serious, staring at Masuda Nagamori with both eyes.

Masuda Nagamori was stared at by Ma Gui and his bones were numb, and he only claimed hi.

Ma Gui then directly threatened: "Benhou only gives you five days, if after five days, you have not changed your orthodox clothes and eliminated the Yiwen style, then Benhou can only kill him, immediately attack Edo, and slaughter the Edo barbarians." ”

"I had to do it."

After Tokugawa Ieyasu learned about this from Masuda Nagamori, he sighed.

Then, Tokugawa Ieyasu said: "First change your clothes, then change your hair and headdress, and then learn to speak the official language of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Why are you looking at me?"

"Change your clothes!"

Tokugawa Ieyasu shouted directly after speaking.

Thereupon.

Throughout the Tokugawa shogunate, people large and small, began to wear hanfu and began to burn many books containing Japanese scripts.

Moreover, it didn't take long for Tokugawa Ieyasu himself to change into Han clothes, comb his hair into the appearance of a Han person, and take a group of retainers who also changed the clothes and hair accessories of the Han family, and knelt in front of Ma Gui.

Ma Gui looked at Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Japanese nobles kneeling in front of him, and only smiled faintly, and then asked Tokugawa Ieyasu and the others to get up, and said:

"You should be honored for your decision today, because by doing so, you are not only moving towards civilization, but also saving many of your Japanese people, giving them a chance to live and accept the king, instead of turning into spring mud and nourishing this land that is about to accept the king."

"Therefore, Your Majesty has made a will to show your Tokugawa Ieyasu's merit of attaching you, bestow the name of the Han Dynasty on Youde, and seal Dongying to proclaim consolation."

After Magui spoke, Tokugawa Ieyasu knelt down again and kowtowed, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

Then, Tokugawa Ieyasu stood up again, and said to Ma Gui with a smirk: "Your Majesty is so kind, the minister is eager to repay, I don't know when I can send the minister to the Mughals to contribute to the great cause of the unification of civilization in the kingdom, and repay the emperor's favor?" ”

"No hurry!"

"The imperial court will send you an order, and during this period, you will first assist Benhou to clear out the entire Benzhou bandits, so as to make the kingship of Benzhou smoother."

Ma Gui said at this time.

Tokugawa Ieyasu said yes after hearing this.

So far.

The power of the Tokugawa clan was surrendered without a fight.

The entire Honshu was completely the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and Edo was also taken into the Ming Peace.

And so it goes.

The whole of Japan was completely annexed by the Ming Dynasty.

However, although Tokugawa Ieyasu and many of his daimyo chose to surrender, there were still many Japanese nobles and samurai who were unwilling to surrender, and chose to continue to resist, insisting on fighting guerrilla warfare against the Ming army in some mountainous areas.

After all, the Japanese have been an independent cultural group for thousands of years.

Therefore, some Japanese nobles and samurai still chose to continue to resist.

Because of this, Ma Gui said that Tokugawa Ieyasu and others would assist him in suppressing bandits.

Although there will be Japanese nobles and samurai who are unwilling to give in, it will not be a problem for the Ming Dynasty.

First of all, the whole of Japan is so big, and there is not much strategic depth.

Secondly, there are so many Japanese people.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty itself has entered the army because of the steam industrial revolution, which makes the Ming Dynasty now the most important thing to do is soldiers.

Therefore, these Japanese nobles and samurai who want to continue to insist on not being able to make any waves.

"This sea will no longer be called the Sea of Japan."

After learning of Tokugawa Ieyasu's surrender, Zhu Yijun took a special look at the map and looked at the sea area between Sakhalin Island and the Korean Peninsula, and muttered to himself in his heart.

Zhu Yijun is very happy about this.

After all, in this way, the Ming Dynasty means that it is the first dynasty in Chinese history to destroy Japan.

"Your Majesty, the destruction of Japan now is only the destruction of the Rong government."

"There is still a lot to be done for the whole of Japan, especially Honshu, which has just been subsumed into Han soil, to completely become Han soil."

"The first is to immigrate and cultivate more nobles of our own tribe there, so that even if it will be divided for a period of time in the future, it will be possible to be unified again after a few years."

Qi Jiguang also told Zhu Yijun at this time about further consolidating and destroying Japan.

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Immigrating and cultivating more Han nobles is the next thing to do quickly, specifically, to move more Han people to the past and divide more vassal kings in the past." ”

"In terms of immigration, the biggest problem now is that a large number of newborn people are concealed and do not have a household, which leads to the imperial court wanting to organize a large number of people to emigrate, and as a result, many ordinary people want to emigrate, but because they are not on the yellow book, the imperial court cannot know that there is such a person, and it is impossible to move them to the indoctrination area."

At this time, Wang Xijue spoke.

Zhu Yijun said: "Presumably, the prince also knows this problem now, and let's talk about the vassal king." ”

"Yes!"

Li Chengliang said at this time: "As far as the vassal kings are concerned, the biggest problem at present is that the vassal kings are unwilling to go overseas and prefer to stay in Nanjing; At present, we can only look at the situation of King Wei's vassal situation, and if the feedback on King Wei's vassal situation is good, there will be more vassal kings willing to go overseas. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun ordered: "Give an order to Ma Gui and Xing Jue, let them ensure that after King Wei becomes a vassal in Changlu, he can let the domestic vassal kings see how worthwhile it is to vassalize overseas." ”

Qi Jiguang and others said yes.

The twenty-seventh year of Wanli, winter.

Accompanied by Ma Gui and Xing Jue, King Wei officially arrived at Hitachi and entered Ibaraki.

Because Japan was originally an area with a relatively early development of agricultural civilization, and Hitachi Province belonged to the Kanchu region where Japan's agricultural civilization was developed, so after King Wei came to Hitachi Province, he found that it was not so barren, especially Ibaraki, which was developed very early as the domain of the Daimyo Yuki Domain under the Tokugawa clan, and there were many pavilions and pavilions.

After King Wei arrived here, he was really relieved.

And now what is in front of King Wei, Ma Gui, and Xing Jue is only how to make Ibaraki more prosperous and generate more wealth.

For this reason, the governor Xing Jue directly sent troops to drive many of the Japanese people in Hitachi Province to Ibaraki, and at the same time imposed a low tax rate in Ibaraki, forcing many Han Chinese in Honshu to migrate to the city as well.

As soon as there are more people, business will naturally arise, which will increase commercial income, and it will also be able to organize mining and increase minerals.

But for Ibaraki to catch up with the rest of the country, it needs a larger population.

Therefore, Xing Jue was doing this, but he still had to go to the court and ask the court to move more people.

"How to move more people."

"Let's talk about it."

After Zhu Yijun received Xing Jue's recital, he also sent Qi Jiguang and other ruling ministers to the Qinzheng Palace for them to discuss.

Qi Jiguang said quite preparedly: "At present, it seems that the only way to make more Han people become criminals can only be used to strictly rule the country, and then forcibly move these Han people over in a way that deals with criminals." ”

"What's the strict law?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

At this time, Wang Xijue said: "Your Majesty, Yuchen thinks that in the name of banning mines, you can crack down on people who mine privately!" ”

"Today, many gentry and wealthy people are still mining privately in the Guan, and the imperial court has repeatedly banned them, so it is better to take this opportunity to move them out, cracking down on illegal mining is the purpose on the surface, and letting them go out is the real purpose!" (End of chapter)