"Opportunity?"

Tokugawa Ieki and Matsudaira Shonobu looked at each other.

Now they know the situation in Japan.

Due to the success of the Ming Dynasty, many samurai wanted Japan to be founded.

And many people also believe that Japan has indeed reached the conditions for opening up the country.

The first thing is, of course, security.

The Ming Dynasty has a close relationship with Japan, and the Ming Dynasty is now the world's hegemon, and it is also the father country of the Eastern countries.

Therefore, Westerners no longer dare to be so unscrupulous in the eastern seas.

With the guarantee of security.

Of course, there was no need for Japan to close itself off – but the Tokugawa shogunate certainly supported it.

Locking the country would bring benefits to the shogunate.

The founding of the country was prone to the emergence of some uncontrolled strong vassals.

But now the voice of the founding of the country is so loud.

The Edo shogunate did not want to refuse directly, but said that it was still under discussion and planned to delay it for a while

It's just that Japan is now calling for the opening of the country.

Procrastination is that it can't be delayed for long.

In fact, Japan is not very peaceful.

Except for samurai trouble.

There were also mountain thieves and water thieves in the localities, and various peasant rebellions emerged one after another.

No way.

Japan is too poor.

The poor can't open the pot, and the surviving peasants are almost instinctive to rebel and make trouble.

This is true both in China and abroad.

It's just that traditional agrarian societies such as the Ming Dynasty, Korea, and Japan are more prominent.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty, Korea and other countries practiced a centralized county system, and the local armed forces were relatively weak, so when the peasant movement broke out, the local people were sometimes unable to resist it, and soon a large-scale turmoil that threatened the central government could be formed.

Japan, on the other hand, is a country of feudal states.

If you have to find a comparison with Chinese history, it is a bit like the division of the countries during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

In the center is the dual system of the emperor and the shogun,

All the local feudal domains had to have their own armies and finances.

Therefore, there is enough force to suppress the unarmed peasant army at the local level, and there is no need to wait for the peasant army to have a solid base and start to have well-trained professional soldiers, as in China, North Korea, and other countries.

Therefore, although it was all the peasant movement that was surging.

However, the main contradiction in Japan was the contradiction between the local feudal domains and the shogunate.

The ruling class has always been firmly in the hands of the samurai.

But how to open the country, but there are many discussions from top to bottom.

Matsudaira Dingxin looked at Xie Youren, the consul general of the Ming Dynasty in Japan, who was accompanying him, and asked in a somewhat solemn tone: "What is it. Japan's Chance! ”

"Japan's opportunity to integrate into the Chinese system!" Tokugawa Mitsuki said, "Now that the world is all over the world, Europa Baiyi has stolen and occupied North and South America, this is a heaven-sent land, and my Shenzhou race should fight for it!" ”

This is the doctrine of Emperor Zhu.

It's a big impact in Japan!

Even more so than in China itself.

Now among the saints worshipped by the samurai of Japan.

Emperor Zhu also began to become one of them.

"So where is the opportunity for Japan?"

Tokugawa Ieki asked.

"In New Japan!"

Tokugawa looked at his brother.

The Tokugawa family is actually her cousin, the previous head of the Tokugawa family, that is, Tokugawa Mitsukie's father, Tokugawa Ieji, has no children, and can only inherit from the Tokugawa family.

Tokugawa Isaharu died six years earlier, and Tokugawa Isashi became the new shogun and took charge of the shogunate.

At the same time, Lao Nakamatsu Ping, as the minister of the orphan, actually controlled the power.

But as Tokugawa Ieki grew older, Matsudaira became old.

The power has been tilted more in favor of the Tokugawa family.

"Japan is a small country with a large number of people, and there are also heavenly kingdoms such as the Ming Dynasty, if there is a desire to fight for hegemony, it will be attacked by the Celestial Empire, the battle of Baijiangkou in the Watang and the battle of Korea in the year of Renchen are all like this."

Tokugawa Mitsuhime said.

"Even if Japan has a million samurai, it can't compete with the Ming Dynasty."

Tokugawa Ieqi and Matsudaira Dingxin also nodded when they heard this.

They certainly agree with that.

But there were too many samurai in Japan.

There is not much way out for these literate samurai who have good skills in slashing people, so it is normal to bring out some careerists.

Many Japanese samurai believed that Japan should expand externally like the Ming Dynasty.

But where can Japan expand?

Coveting the western continent?

Isn't this looking for death?

This is the way to die!

Matsudaira and Tokugawa Ieki would never have accepted such a claim.

Not to the West.

What about to the east?

I'm afraid it won't work.

Because the Ming Dynasty has set its sights on North America.

During this time, there were more and more Ming ships traveling between Edo and Hawaii, and the Ming Dynasty began to look for a place to establish a military port in Hawaii.

And he also signed a "military port lease treaty" with the king of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

It is said that a military port for the North American West Coast Fleet was to be established in a place called Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor.

What a good name.

You can make a fortune when you hear it.

But it doesn't have much to do with Japan.

The Tokugawa family did not dare to expect Japan to be able to afford a navy as large as that of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if the Ming Dynasty did not immigrate to North America.

Japan can't afford to spend a lot of North American immigration.

No way, Japan is too poor - in fact, Japan is not too poor, there are still many wealthy merchants in various parts of Japan, and many wealthy merchants are still guests of the landlords.

To be exact.

It was the Edo shogunate and the Japanese court that were too poor.

Needless to say, the Japanese court was a bare-bones emperor who couldn't afford it at all—if they could, they wouldn't be expecting the Edo shogunate to pay for it.

As for the Edo shogunate.

The Tokugawa family did have several million stone heights.

It is the highest among all the feudal domains in the world.

However, with the income from farming, it was already difficult to support the samurai in the domain.

If you want to raise a big navy.

That would be even more impossible and unrealistic.

"Therefore, the wild ideas of those mad samurai will only bring disaster to Japan!"

Tokugawa Mitsukie's words are really forward-looking—isn't that historical.

Of course.

Historically, because China was weakened.

Although Japan has been wiped out.

But at least it's cool.

In this space-time.

I'm afraid that there is no possibility of even having a good time.

"If Japan wants to expand, it must expand within the Celestial Empire system and strictly abide by the rites of the Ming Dynasty!" Tokugawa Mitsuhime. "However, Japan is not a Ming domain, if you want to integrate into the Ming system, you must remove the emperor and call yourself a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, with the courage of the Japanese samurai and the large population of Japan, Japan will become the first domain of the Ming Dynasty in the future!"

"And under this premise, my new Japan can be opened to the old Japan, and Japan will have a new future in South America!"

"What about the emperor and the general?"

"The emperor must remove the throne, as for the shogun . He is still a general, but he must be a vassal to my son, and I will be the king of the new Japan and the old Japan, and in the future, the children of my son will be the king of the old and new Japan respectively! ”

Tokugawa Mitsuki's words made Xie Youren startled.

The king of old and new Japan?

Why?

Is this woman really so favored by the emperor?

Xie Youren frowned.

(End of chapter)