Chapter 217: Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance between Ming and Wa

In the room, when Ashikaga Yoshinaga, who was covered in scars, saw the text, his pupils suddenly dilated.

Even if it was a scar on his body, he couldn't care about it at the moment, and shouted angrily:

"No, even if I, Ashikaga Yoshinaga, died in the Ming Dynasty and died in your hands, I would not write this letter."

"Aren't you afraid that the world's people will laugh at you when you are the kingdom of the Heavenly Empire do such a despicable thing?"

Ashikaga Yoshinaga's yelling attracted Li Jin in the living room.

After hearing Ashikaga Yoshinaga's words, Li Jin sneered disdainfully:

"Is a despicable people like you worthy to preach morality with others?"

"You Ashikaga family is taking power by taking advantage of the situation, and you are playing with your emperor in the palm of your hand, the so-called emperor is just your plaything, and you are the rebellious ministers and thieves."

"Obviously he is just a powerful minister, and he actually sent someone to pretend to be an envoy from Wadao to come to my Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, in a vain attempt to deceive my Ming Dynasty, you untrustworthy and unrighteous people."

"The most hateful thing is that you dare to send your warriors to the waters of our Ming Dynasty to plunder our Ming people's people and merchant ships, which is an unforgivable crime."

"You people who don't know what shamelessness is, what qualifications do you have to accuse us of Daming?"

Li Jin had nothing to say about Ashikaga Yoshinaga, but Ashikaga Yoshinaga, as a native of Washima, naturally knew the harm of that letter.

If this letter is really allowed to reach Wajima, I am afraid that their Ashikaga family will be in danger of being destroyed in an instant.

What's more, the Ming Dynasty actually wanted to send troops to garrison Wajima, and it was impossible for Ashikaga Yoshinaga to agree to this kind of ill-intentioned behavior.

He felt as if he had fallen into a great conspiracy, and the official in front of him was not at all the same as the officials he had seen.

His aggressive eyes made Ashikaga Yoshinaga feel creepy when he touched it slightly.

Daming is definitely going to attack Wajima, if this document is released, Daming will be able to arrive justifiably, anywhere on Wajima.

This is the biggest crisis that threatens the survival of Wajima.

Even if their Muromachi shogunate is destroyed, it will be the Wajima people who will benefit in the end, but if the Ming Dynasty is also involved, can a chaotic Wajima still be the opponent of the Ming Dynasty?

Thinking of this, Ashikaga Yoshinaga couldn't help but feel his hairs stand on end, and he swore that he was unwilling to write that letter.

Li Jin saw Ashikaga Yoshicho shaking his head like urine, grinned, and chuckled:

"I thought you were a smart person, but now it seems that I think I think highly of you."

"Jiang Baihu, go and take this letter to Saito Taichi, and tell him that the Ming Dynasty intends to support him to be the new generation of Fuyi generals."

"I believe that Saito Taichi will definitely be more cooperative than the one in front of him."

"No, you can't do that."

Ashikaga Yoshinaga jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and cried out in horror:

"Master Li, please, you can't do this."

"If we do that, a lot of people will die in Wajima, many, many people."

Ashikaga Yoshinaga has been with Saito Daichi the longest time, so he naturally knows Saito Taiyi's character.

But it was knowing that made him even more desperate, because he knew that Saito Taichi would never refuse Li Jin's request.

And Li Jin heard Ashikaga Yoshinaga's almost begging tone, and still maintained a faint smile on his face, but the tone was cold and made people fall into an ice cave:

"No matter how many people die on Wadao, what does it have to do with our Ming Dynasty?"

"Since you are not willing to cooperate, I can only find other people, I believe that there will definitely be more people in Wadao who are willing to cooperate with Daming."

"We are outsiders, we just hope to be able to trade with Wajima, and trade needs to have a stable trading partner."

"Since it is a trading partner, whoever can bring benefits to Daming, we will find whom, as for the identity of that person, we Daming don't care at all."

"What do you say? Ashikaga-kun. ”

Ashikaga Yoshinaga looked entangled, he knew that Daming's purpose was definitely not so simple, but now, people are swordsmen, and I am fish and meat.

Ashikaga Yoshinaga could only continue to hypnotize himself in his mind, believing that Daming only had a request for trade.

Even if he didn't agree to him, Saito Taichi would agree to him, and at that time, with Saito Taichi's character, Wajima would only die more.

For the sake of the survival of the people of Wajima, if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?

Ashikaga Yoshinaga finally overcame his inner reason in the entanglement again and again, and roared in a low voice:

"I am willing to be Daming's trading partner."

"In place of the Ashikaga family, I promised to be Daming's trading partner."

After all, Ashikaga Yoshinaga is a member of the Ashikaga family, the family and the country are all over the world, and there is a family to have a country, not to mention, the people of the Ashikaga family have always believed that their Ashikaga family represents the entire Wajima.

Li Jin didn't care what Ashikaga Yoshinaga thought, he only needed a temporary partner.

This person can be anyone on the island, as long as he opens a gap for Da Ming slightly, Li Jin can quickly expand the gap and eventually tear the island apart.

After receiving the promise of Ashikaga Yoshinaga, Li Jin was happy in his heart, and laughed:

"There is an old Chinese saying that those who know the times are the heroes."

"Ashikaga-kun is the handsome man of Wajima."

Subsequently, Li Jin handed the inscription in his hand to Ashikaga Yoshinaga, and then said:

"I wish us a happy cooperation."

Ashikaga Yoshinaga squeezed out an ugly smile on his face and said:

"It's a pleasure to work with."

Ashikaga Yoshinaga was given pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and began to translate Li Jin's rebellious text in his room.

After Li Jin finished this matter, he lay on the table again, writing and drawing, not knowing what he was writing.

Jiang Zhen stepped forward curiously, but saw four big characters written on it:

Treaty of Shimonoseki.

....

In the blink of an eye, the time of the day passed in a hurry.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened, looking at the two pieces of paper in front of him, and his eyes were full of incredulity.

"It's... This, this..."

"How did Li Jin do this?"

I saw that what was placed in front of Zhu Yuanzhang was the Wajima Thief Essay created by Li Jin and Ashikaga Yoshinaga today.

It is clearly requested in the text that it is hoped that the daimyo of Wajima will rise up and attack it, and the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, Emperor Daigo.

Originally, Li Jin wrote about the Muromachi Shogunate, but now that the Ashikaga family of the Muromachi Shogunate wants to cooperate with him, then he must take out another force on the island.

The current Wajima is divided into the Northern and Southern Dynasties, of which the Northern Dynasty was controlled by the Muromachi Shogunate, while the Southern Dynasty was controlled by Emperor Daigo.

Li Jin didn't care who was attacking, but the request for the Ming Dynasty to send troops to quell the rebellion mentioned in the text was very important.

As long as the Ming Dynasty intervenes, then the power of Wajima will become a three-legged power.

And the Ming Dynasty can be left and right, slowly encroaching on the gold and silver mines of Wa Island, and then fighting to raise the war, and finally swallow the entire territory of Wa Island.

This plan had to rely on another copy that Li Jin sent to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Treaty of Shimonoseki, that is, the Ming and Japanese Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance.

In this treaty, it was stipulated that in order to request the Ming army to send troops to quell the rebellion, the Muromachi shogunate was required to provide the Ming with one million taels of silver per year as military expenses.

In order to reward the Ming for his counterinsurgency war against Wajima, Wajima should pay 50 million taels of silver at a time to compensate for the military expenses consumed in this counterinsurgency operation.

Of course, Satsuma County, as well as Iwami County, were leased to the Ming Dynasty for 99 years as a concession, so that the Ming garrison could help the Wajima counterinsurgency at any time.

At the same time, Nagato, Kyoto, Kanto and other places were opened as treaty ports, so that the Ming Dynasty could have friendly exchanges with Wajima.

The people of the Ming Dynasty enjoy privileges in Wadao, and they do not need to pay taxes to do business, but only need to pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty.

If the law is violated, it should be extradited back to Daming and tried in Daming, and Wadao has no right to punish the people of Daming.

Of course, there are some other agreements, and there are 21 articles in the full text.

Although the name of the treaty is called the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, Zhu Yuanzhang really didn't see it, what friendly measures did this have for Wajima?

Of course, at the end of the recital, Li Jin also wrote that this treaty could only be signed after the war was waged against Wajima.

All these things that are written now will become the set goals after the war.

In other words, before the war began, Li Jin was already thinking about the disposal of Wajima after the war.

After Zhu Yuanzhang read it, thinking about the above content, he felt that Li Jin was a bit of an idiot.

Thinking about it from another perspective, if he was allowed to see such content, he would rather do his best to fight the army in the country and break the net with Li Jinyu than sign such a treaty.

Not to mention the loss of power and humiliation of the country, once this kind of treaty is signed, the day of the country's demise is not far away, in this case, it is better to give it a go, rather than live in humiliation, it is better to die in a vigorous battle.