Beijing, Xiyuan, Qionghua Island.

"Mr. Okubo, I reiterate to you once again the position of the Great Ming Dynasty vis-à-vis Japan: First of all, the Ming Dynasty will guarantee Japan's sovereignty over the islands of Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and other small islands decided by the Ming Dynasty!

Second, the Ming Dynasty did not take a position on the ownership of Ezo Island, but strongly opposed Japan's use of force to change the status quo of Ezo Island. Daming believes that the Ezo issue can only be resolved through peaceful negotiations between relevant parties, including Japan, North Korea, and the Yang family. Daming was not a party to the Ezo issue, but he was willing to facilitate a peaceful resolution of the Ezo issue.

Third, the Ming believed that Sakhalin Island and the Japanese side called Huatai Island were not Japanese territory, and that the sovereignty of Huatai Island belonged to the Yang family of Sui Guogong, and the Ming Dynasty would guarantee the Yang family's sovereignty over Huatai Island!

Fourth, the Ming court believed that the overthrow and struggle in Japan were not conducive to peace and stability in the western Pacific region, and might even give rise to a serious problem of Japanese pirates, which was also not conducive to the livelihood of the people in Japan. However, in line with the principle of non-interference in Japan's internal affairs, the Ming Dynasty would not directly send troops to quell Japan's internal strife. The Ming Dynasty would only endeavour to confine Japan's internal disputes to the indisputable Japanese sovereignty of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku.

Fifth, in order to reduce the intensity of civil strife in Japan as much as possible and to avoid the spillover of the Japanese unrest. The Ming Dynasty will impose strict import and export trade controls on the Japanese archipelago from the beginning of June of the 12th year of the Republic of China!

The Ming Dynasty will strictly control the import of gunpowder, saltpeter, iron and various weapons and equipment to Japan.

The Ming Dynasty will control Japan's foreign trade, and from the beginning of June of the 12th year of the Republic of China, all merchant ships entering and leaving Japan will be subject to a permit system, and only merchant ships holding the license issued by the relevant Yamen of the Ming Dynasty will be allowed to enter the coastal waters of Japan.

Sixth, in order to ensure the normal conduct of trade between various countries with Japan, and also to ensure that Japan could continue to carry out cultural and technological exchanges with the outside world during the period of civil strife, Daming suggested that the warring parties in Japan designate a number of seaports as "free ports", and all Japan's foreign trade could be carried out through several free ports. Daming will set up consulates in all free ports and encourage Ming merchants to open trade halls in free ports to promote trade and exchanges between the two countries.

Seventh, the Ming Dynasty did not take any position on the fact that the people were appointed by the Japanese court, shogunate, and princes and even became lords in Japan. If the citizens of the Ming Dynasty participated in the internal struggle of Japan, all the risks arising therefrom would be borne by themselves, and the Ming court would not ask about them!

Eighth, in order to ensure that Japan's civil strife would not spill over, in order to better manage Japan's foreign trade, in order to crack down on piracy along Japan's coast, in order to prevent Western powers from taking advantage of Japan's internal strife to make trouble and interfere, and to protect Japan's rights and mediate disputes in Japan. The Great Ming General's Mansion decided to set up the Zhendong General's Mansion in Nagasaki, the territory of the Yang clan in Japan."

The Japanese Tokugawa shogunate sent the envoy Okubo Tadashi to sue for peace with the Ming Dynasty, and today he finally got his wish and met the actual controller of the Great Ming Dynasty, the great general Lu Shangshu Li Yat-sen.

Although it was only an informal meeting, and there were not many people involved, he was the only one on the Japanese side, and there was only one Zheng Zongming on the Ming side except for the general himself, but it was always good to see the main master.

However, to his great disappointment, General Li did not even give him a chance to speak, but directly asked Zheng Zongming, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to announce to him a "Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty" that could not be regarded as an unequal treaty, but could only be regarded as a unilateral decision of the Ming Dynasty.

However, this "treaty", which disappointed Okubo, was not without positive significance for the stormy Tokugawa shogunate. Because this treaty made it clear that the Ming had no ambitions for the Japanese mainland - and rightfully so, the Ming had already dominated the Western Pacific and the North Pacific after inflicting heavy damage on the Spanish Armada!

Just cross the Pacific Ocean and you'll reach several infinite new worlds!

So the rotten land in Japan is completely out of the eyes of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty's support for the Japanese Emperor's "Imperial Rebellion" was mostly a retaliation for the Tokugawa Shogunate's participation in the "Eleven-Power Alliance" against the Ming Dynasty.

But since the Ming had no intention of ruling Japan, the Ming was not prepared to invest too much in the Japanese issue. Therefore, after bribing Japanese mercenaries and supporting the rebellion of the Japanese emperor, they began to seek to avoid the spillover of Japan's civil strife - during the period of civil strife in Japan after the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate and the Muromachi Shogunate, China's richest southeastern coastal region was plagued by the problem of Japanese pirates that overflowed from the Japanese Civil War. The Ming Dynasty, which now has a powerful navy and controls most of the Pacific Ocean, seems to have adopted a strategy to lock in Japan's internal strife on the Japanese mainland.

"Your Excellency the General," Okubo Tadashi finally got an opportunity to ask General Li a question after listening to the draft of the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty read out by Zheng Zongming in Chinese, "The foreign minister hopes to fully understand the true position of the Ming Dynasty on the civil conflict that has just broken out in Japan. Will Da Ming really remain neutral all the time? Won't Daming consider providing support to the Yang clan in Kitakyushu? Yang is a relative of the general, right? ”

Li Zhongshan smiled: "What if it's a relative?" His Majesty the Emperor of Daming and Kangxi are also relatives, and my two ladies and I are still the princesses of Wu Zhou! If the Tokugawa shogun thinks that I will support the Yang clan in Kyushu to seize Japan because I accepted the Yang family's daughter as a concubine, then the Tokugawa family can also send a dignified daughter to the Ming Dynasty and establish a marriage relationship with the Ming royal family and nobles. ”

Okubo Tadashi was stunned, he didn't expect Li Yat-sen to answer his question like this. What the hell is this Ming general thinking? Do you want to get a few Japanese little flower girls to change their tastes, or do you want to infiltrate or even assimilate Japan through marriage?

China is the source of Japanese civilization and can be said to be the father of Japanese civilization! After Japan obtained some of the fruits of Chinese civilization, it began to implement the national policy of self-isolation from China, and since the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the fundamental reason why Japan began to implement the line of seclusion lies in this.

And now, after the Chinese civilization dominates the sea around Japan, it will inevitably have a huge impact on the Japanese civilization that originated from China, in this case, if the generals and princes in Japan intermarry with the magnates of the Ming Dynasty, then the process of assimilation of Japanese civilization will inevitably accelerate!

Even in the future, many samurai from the Ming Dynasty would become princes in Japan through marriage or some other means, like the Yang clan in Kitakyushu. There is even a possibility that a samurai from the Ming Dynasty will open a shogunate and become a shogun!

Li Yat-sen also seemed to see Okubo's thoughts, so he said to him with a smile: "Mr. Okubo, the era of Japan's lonely hanging in the sea of Shenzhou is over!" The Ming had no intention of ruling the Japanese archipelago, and would not take strong measures to force Japan to submit to the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty hopes that Japan can return to the big family of Shenzhou civilization in the future, and Japan's policy of locking down the country since the fifth generation of our country is completely wrong, and Japan should not ignore the source of her civilization! It is impossible for Japan to break away from Shenzhou, it was impossible in the past, and it will be even more impossible in the future!

In addition, the Ming did not expect Japan to become a unified country with a county system, in fact, the Ming Dynasty itself is also currently implementing the parallel system of counties and states. Therefore, returning to the Shenzhou family will not affect the interests of the Japanese princes. Mr. Okubo, you are also a prince of Japan, right? ”

"Ah, the foreign minister was originally the lord of the Karatsu domain of Japan," Okubo replied, "but the foreign minister's Karatsu was occupied by the Yang clan, so the foreign minister is now . . . Only a nominal feudal lord. ”

Li Zhongshan nodded with a smile and said, "It is impossible to go back to Tangjin, but the Zhendong General's Mansion can help you think of a way, maybe you can make another feudal Ming Although it will not interfere in the civil war in Japan, it is only natural to help relatives and friends!" And I also hope that there are some friends in the Tokugawa shogunate who can be at the top of the house. Okubo, would you like to be my friend? I'm willing to help my friends and family! ”

This is to win over!

Okubo Tadachao didn't expect that General Daming would be so straightforward to woo him. As an important minister of the Tokugawa family, Okubo Tadashi stood up without hesitation, and then bowed to General Li: "Thanks to the general's wrong love, the loyal dynasty is very honored, the loyal dynasty has a daughter, the small character A Ying, twenty-eight years old, dignified appearance, to be in the boudoir, if you do not give up, I am willing to give it to the general."

The meeting with Tadashi Okubo went very smoothly. The harvest is also quite rich! Li Yat-sen's "Sustainable Pit Day" plan seems to be very feasible!

An island country with a population of 20 million, full of samurai, very rugged terrain, and limited resources, of course, cannot be accomplished by plowing the court and sweeping the caves through a large amount of investment in a short period of time.

If you really want to do that, there is a chance that you will lose everything, and even if you completely control Japan in the end, the price you pay will be too high!

And colonial expansion. It is also to benefit from the original.

Therefore, the method that Li Yat-sen is taking now is to "pit" Japan slowly, sustainably, and through various low-cost methods! In this process, the Ming Dynasty can also hire mercenaries from Japan for foreign expansion, and even through marriage, succession, personal conquest and other means, some "Ming warriors" can be put on the throne of Japanese daimyo, and some of the princes of Japan can also be sinicized - anyway, Japanese samurai are more casual on the issue of "recognizing father" and "recognizing ancestors". Even characters like Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu will misunderstand their fathers and ancestors!

Thinking of this "genius" pit day plan, Li Yat-sen walked to Yingtai after the meeting with Okubo.

On Yingtai Island, there is an old friend waiting for Li Yat-sen to meet!

This old friend is the former Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty, and the current wanted criminal Aixin Jueluo of the Ming Dynasty. Cinnabar. Changning!

On the same day, Prince Gong Changning and his sworn friend Bahai, under the cover of Yang Xiaomi, who was "desperate", successfully escaped from the battlefield of Linqingzhou, did not dare to return to Beijing, but fled to Prince Gong's fiefdom in Shandong, Dengzhou Mansion, and then fled back to Liaodong by sea from there.

However, Prince Gong has not been at ease in Liaodong for too long, and under the nest, An has finished his eggs? The Qing Dynasty is gone, how can Prince Gong's territory in Liaodong be stable? By the beginning of the twelfth year of the Republic, with the landing of the Ming army on the Liaodong Peninsula, Changning and Bahai once again embarked on the road of escape - Bahai fled to Vladivostok on the coast of the Whale Sea, while Changning fled to Beijing because of a letter written by Yang Xiaomi. I also met my sister-in-law on Yingtai Island.

Of course, he can only see his sister-in-law once now, and he can't do anything wrong.

And when I saw my sister-in-law, I couldn't meet the two alone, because there were also Yang Xiaohuan and Li Zhongshan's "Teacher Natalia" to accompany them!

When Li Zhongshan arrived, Chang Ning and Yang Xiaomi were in tears! And Yang Xiaohuan and Natalia are still comforting and enlightening on the side.

"King Gong, don't be sad, it's really good on the Rakshasa country! I'm from the Rakshasa Kingdom. It's a vast place, and the land is rich, so there's no disadvantage except that it's a little colder. By the way, there are a lot of hairy girls like me in the Rakshasa country! ”

The one who calls herself "Mao Mei" is Natalia, the nickname "Mao Mei", of course, was given to her by Li Zhongshan, and she didn't feel anything wrong, Mao Mei is Mao Mei, General Li is her master, you can call her anything!

"King Gong, your second brother Fuquan is now the concubine of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and he is also the Grand Duke of Izyum, and his wife Princess Sofia is also the regent princess of the Rakshasa Kingdom. He is now under one man, above ten million! If you go to him, you will really not have to worry about it in this life! ”

Yang Xiaohuan was talking about Fuquan's good deeds, and at the same time peeking at his sister-in-law Yang Xiaomi

Yang Xiaomi looked a little sad, but she was not particularly sad, as if she had accepted the arrangement of fate, she just sighed and said: "Fifth master, although Fuquan is in a high position in the Rakshasa Kingdom, there is only one Guanyin Bao by his side, and he is really a little weak. If you bring more people over this time, your second brother's position will be consolidated."

Hearing Yang Xiaomi's persuasion of him, Prince Gong Changning had no choice but to sigh and say, "Sister-in-law, here and Rakshasa are thousands of miles away, I really don't know how to get there?" After I went, I was afraid that we would never see each other again. Sister-in-law, you have to take care! ”

"Hmm," Yang Xiaomi nodded.

Natalia changed the subject: "Although the Rakshasa is far away, it borders the Ming Dynasty, and if you don't want to take the land route, you can also reach the Rakshasa by boat." Now the Ming Dynasty has passed through the Pacific Ocean, and then the Aztec Republic has opened up the shipping route to the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean! The shipping lanes in the Pacific Ocean are very open, and the Caribbean and the Atlantic are slightly problematic. However, as long as you take the ship of the Roman Catholic Church, you can still reach the Rakshasa safely. ”

When Prince Gong heard this, he could only smile bitterly.

General Li of the Ming Dynasty is really thoughtful! Even his escape route from Rakshasa had been arranged.

It looks like he won't be able to leave anymore!

Just as he was thinking about this, the roll call of the general's escort sounded outside.

Li Yat-sen is here!

A group of people hurriedly got up to greet each other, Li Zhongshan walked in, saw Chang Ning giving himself a thousand, hurriedly stepped forward to help him, and then took his hand and said with a smile: "Fifth master, these days have been hard, and the family is okay?" ”

"Okay, it's all right" Chang Ning nodded.

It's really okay, it's just a bit ruined. However, his own wife and children are still alive, but his brother Kang Mazi doesn't know who stabbed him to death? Grandma Bumu Butai and nephew Baoqing don't know who kidnapped them?

"It's all right," Li Zhongshan nodded, "Fifth Master, how are you going to go to Rakshasa?" By sea or by land? The sea route is farther, but you can learn a lot and travel to the New World and European countries. By the way, the great president of the Aztec Republic, Geng Juyi, is Geng Jingzhong. You can get together with him. ”

"Really?" Chang Ning was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "I didn't expect it to be him, then I'll go to Rakshasa by sea!" ”

(End of chapter)