Chapter 35: The Struggle for Yellow and White Living Space

"Your Highness, the shogunate should not object to recruiting foreign students, setting up embassies, leasing ports, etc."

Matsudaira Ieri said.

Before that, there were Dutch embassies in Edo.

Although Japan is closed to the rest of the world.

But he had dealings with the Dutch.

Now the Dutch could not afford to maintain trade routes with Japan, and the Dutch were replaced by Chinese who were more acceptable to the Japanese.

Therefore, these three are usually not too much of a problem - especially now that the young shogun of the Tokugawa family is already a fan of Zhu Daohua.

But to recruit Japanese samurai to fight abroad ...

Matsudaira Ietoshi pondered for a moment and asked, "His Royal Highness King Ming, I don't know how many samurai you want to recruit?" ”

Zhu Daohua smiled: "The recruitment of Japanese samurai is currently mainly used for local operations in Nanyang, and the equipment and military salaries are all responsible for the Ming War Department, including the reorganization and establishment, officer promotion and training, etc. For the time being, three brigades with a number of 10,000 people will be formed. ”

"So much!?"

Both Matsudaira Ietoshi and Tokugawa couldn't help but exclaim.

Is it much?

Zhu Daohua smiled.

There are too many places to fight in the future.

South Seas, North and South America....

10,000 people is certainly not enough.

Boss Zhu knows that Japan is a very vicious dog.

Because there are hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of samurai in his country.

Most of these samurai were poor enough to save only one sword.

The idea is to expand externally and to fight wars.

Moreover, in Zhu Daohua's view, on the one hand, these Japanese samurai have a very high level of education, and if an army is formed on the basis of Japanese samurai, it may be the army with the highest literacy rate in the world, and on the other hand, these samurai have certain martial arts.

Although martial arts are not very useful on the battlefield.

But the role of martial arts training is not only to train the craft of slashing people, but also to exercise courage - a little Japan who holds a katana every day is more cruel than the Han farmers in the mainland.

So do some dirty work with this army of samurai ... It's just right.

For example... There is too much of a native population in this part of the South Seas.

It is necessary to physically carry out some work on the optimal allocation of the population.

Zhu Daohua doesn't plan to hand over this work to the Ming army....

On the other hand.

In Zhu Daohua's opinion.

The samurai of Japan are the equivalent of the scholars of China.

It is the elite force of the Japanese nation, and the backbone of the Japanese Restoration in later generations, most of whom were born as samurai.

Therefore.

Let these samurai line up in a tight queue to fight in line and shoot as cannon fodder.

It would be better to consume a little of the Japanese elite - with the experience of later generations, Zhu Daohua has long regarded Japan as the only eastern country that can threaten the order of the Chinese Celestial Empire.

When Matsudaira Ieri heard that Zhu Daohua was going to recruit 10,000 Japanese samurai at one time.

What I thought to myself was: those poor samurai in Japan must be crazy at this moment.

Once the news gets out.

Whoever is against the samurai going abroad to fight.

Who is afraid that they will be "punished by heaven" by these poor warriors.

It is different from Zhu Daohua's idea of consuming samurai as consuming the potential of the Japanese nation.

Matsudaira Ieri thought so

If you can send those poor samurai who are swords and lives, thinking about the thieves of heaven every day...

Wouldn't the Tokugawa family be stronger?

For the shogunate.

The biggest destabilizing factor in the country is the poor samurai who carry swords on their shoulders every day.

Although they are hungry and skinny.

But one by one, they dreamed of respecting the king and making contributions.

Every time the curtain falls, the participation of these poor samurai is indispensable.

If you send them out of the country.

Then there are a lot of unstable factors in Japan.

If some local strong feudal clans want to launch the curtain down.

There are also a lot of guys who shout together.

Japan's growing samurai population.

In fact, it was also a huge trouble for the Tokugawa shogunate.

To know.

The primitive desire for Japan's foreign expansion in later generations came from these crazy samurai.

So, if there is a chance to solve this trouble.

I'm afraid the shogunate won't object.

"How? Mr. Matsudaira, that's not much at all. ”

Zhu Daohua stood up and pointed to the world map behind him.

"Look, this is China, this is Japan, here is the South Seas, here is Europa, Africa, South America, North America!"

"Did you see anything on this map?"

Zhu Daohua asked.

Matsudaira Ieri was slightly stunned.

Zhu Daohua didn't wait for him to answer, and continued.

"The Europa people have dominated the world, in addition to their native Europa, the Portuguese and Spanish occupy South America, the French and the British occupy North America, the Russians have continued to expand eastward for a hundred years, and have expanded from Eastern Europe to the eastern coast, Africa is now a colony of the French and the British, the Dutch and the Spanish have been operating in the South Seas for more than a hundred years, and the British have extended their grip into India!"

"Matsudaira-kun, we're already surrounded! Surrounded by a group of high-nosed and deep-eyed white people! ”

Zhu Daohua is instilling in Matsudaira Ietoshi the reactionary and racist remarks of the "battle for the living space between yellow and white" that he is about to hype.

There is a very clear difference in the appearance of East Asians and white people.

So judging by the looks.

The fact that the two sides are not the same race is entirely objective - at least in the absence of biological research and genetic technology, it is easy to distinguish enemies from me by their appearance.

"The total population of white Europeans is about 100 million people, and the total population of China, Japan, Korea, Annam and other countries is no less than 400 million! However, in this limited world, white people occupy eight or nine out of ten, and I, China Shenzhou, only account for one-tenth or two! ”

"If we don't wait to get up, in the future, we will wait for the Chinese Shenzhou race, and there will be a disaster of extinction!!"

"China and Japan are the two strongest countries of the Shenzhou race, and they must work together to unite, and Japan, as a country of samurai, will also become the sword of the Shenzhou race, conquering the Quartet, cutting through thorns and thorns for the Chinese race, and expanding the living space!"

A racist remark made Matsudaira Ieri nod his head again and again.

From the map.

What Zhu Daohua said is true.

Whites have expanded to their doorstep.

Japan is also feeling the pressure.

This is a real threat.

And if Japan is used alone to resist Western countries, it will definitely not be able to do it.

Therefore, Zhu Daohua said that China must be used to fight against the West, and he agrees.

But China and Japan hand in hand ....

First of all, Zhu Daohua must really become the king of China.

"Great King, China is now occupied by the Qing Tartars..."

"This king will expel the Tartars within five years and restore China!"

Zhu Daohua showed a confident smile on his face, and his tone was firm

Five years.

In Zhu Daohua's view...

It's still a very conservative estimate.