Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 521
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None of the vassal lords and daimyos present at the scene would have thought that Tokugawa Iezai would be so generous—even though Wa Kingdom is not a big place, there are quite a few vassals that have been divided out, and the envoys who went to study abroad in Daming The number of places is fixed. Originally, each feudal clan was allocated one or two quotas, but now Tokugawa Iezari actually said that each feudal clan would be given five quotas for sending Ming envoys?

Shimadzu Hisamitsu and Matsudaira Nobunobu felt something was wrong the more they thought about it.

Tokugawa Jiaqi is as sharp and slippery as a dog's chicken with sesame oil on weekdays. It is possible for him to find a way to search for the number of envoys in the hands of various feudal lords, but let him take it out on his own initiative. The number of Ming envoys was allocated to the feudal vassals, which seemed somewhat magical. After all, more quotas for each feudal clan meant that the shogunate or the imperial court had fewer quotas.

If it was put in the past, before Tokugawa Ieqi did not plan to usurp the throne, it could be understood that the quotas were snatched from the Japanese court, but Tokugawa Ieqi is now ready to usurp the throne. Once successful, these quotas are real. loss.

After thinking about it for a long time, Shimadzu Hisamitsu simply asked, "General, are there any requirements for these quotas?"

However, what Shimadzu Hisamitsu and the feudal lords and daimyos did not expect was that Tokugawa Iezari shook his head and sighed: "There are no conditions, or the only condition is that the selected people must have education talent."

Tokugawa Iezari also expressed his feelings.

As early as the fifth year of Ernst & Young, that is, the 41st year of Qian Deaf in the Qing Dynasty, Sima Jianghan’s teacher Hiraga Gennai had already improved the Leiden bottle, and even produced the first friction generator in the Wa country. In this state, Hiraga Gennai's "Lanxue" elements naturally became non-mainstream.

In particular, Hiraga Gennai also wrote "Farting Theory": "Sounds are divided into three grades. The sound of 'pop' is the top grade, the shape is round, and the sound of 'porf' is the middle grade, and the shape is flat and the sound of 'hiss' It is inferior, and its shape is slender." After discussing the shape of the fart sound, Hiraga Gennai took the fart sound artist in Edo at that time (with shamisen and cock crowing ensemble) as an example, and praised him as "ancient and modern". There is no one else who has come up with such an idea and bothered about it."

Non-mainstream, coupled with writing such absurd articles as "Farting", Hiraga Gennai also became more and more frustrated.

Later, Hiramoto Kanuchi said with a slight self-mockery: "I am engaged in things that are not understood by the public. Since the friction generator, I have invented many things that Japan did not have before. Some people see this and call me a liar. I am twisted." Exhausting your brains and mind, but you are criticized, and you buy wine with good intentions, but it is not satisfactory.... Simply change the name of "エレキテル (friction generator)" to "へレキテル (fart generator)", and do fart yourself It's just a male disciple."

The main reason for this situation is that Hiraga Gennai was born in a family of lower-level samurai in the Takamatsu clan.

In the seventh year of Ernst and Young, that is, in the 43rd year of Qiande in the Qing Dynasty, Hirano Kanei's method of making a friction generator was cheated by a craftsman.

In the eighth year of Ernst & Young, that is, in the 44th year of Qiande in the Qing Dynasty, Ping Yuanhe undertook a yard maintenance project for a daimyo. During this period, he drank with two carpenters who visited him all night. However, he found that the important architectural design drawings that were originally in his arms were missing. Hiraga Genuchi thought that the workers had stolen his construction drawings, so he forced two carpenters to question, and the two sides refused to give in to each other. Accidentally stabbed the worker to death with a knife.

After the misunderstanding was resolved, Yuannai regretted it unceasingly. He wanted to apologize but was stopped by his disciples. In the end, Yuannai was imprisoned because of this incident.One month after being imprisoned, Hiraga Gennai died in prison. One said that he had tetanus, and the other said that he went on a hunger strike to apologize, and eventually died of weakness.In the end, they killed both of them.

However, the architectural blueprint was not in Gennai's arms, but exposed from the gap in his belt. After that, Gennai became insane and died in the cold prison of Kodenmacho.

Hiraga Gennai’s funeral was his one and only friend Sugita Genbaku. Gennai’s tombstone was engraved by Gennai with the following words: “Woohoo, an extraordinary person, who likes extraordinary things, behaves unusually, why did he suffer such an extraordinary death.”

The so-called "suffering such an extraordinary death" means that Hiraga Gennai should not be punished for killing two carpenters.
Sima Jianghan, who studied under Hiraga Gennai, was also not accepted by the mainstream of the Japanese country at that time. Even if Sima Jianghan became a Ming envoy and successfully reproduced a steam engine, it was useless. The Japanese court still did not pay attention to Sima Jianghan. Sima Jianghan, who was forced to have nowhere to go, finally chose to join the shogunate, and Tokugawa Jiaqi was just picking up a huge advantage for nothing.

Iezai Tokugawa, who has been to Daming personally, knows the importance of the steam engine very well.

But what is so frustrating is that Hiraga Gennai, who was born in a low-level samurai family, can produce a fart generator, and Sima Jianghan can reproduce a steam engine, but the high-ranking nobles selected by the Japanese court and the shogunate did not even produce a fart. In addition to reciting poems and singing songs, each of them is looking for flowers and willows, with them and without them, they are exactly the same as birds.

As the saying goes, the ass determines the head. If Tokugawa Iezari did not intend to usurp the throne, then the number of dispatched envoys would be a sharp weapon to disturb feudal lords and daimyos everywhere. It is not simply a tool to win over feudal lords and daimyo.

It's just that Tokugawa Jiaqi also knew in his heart that the distribution of the number of dispatched envoys was impossible to be fair and just.

After secretly sighing in his heart, Tokugawa Ieqi looked around at the feudal lords and daimyos again, and said in a deep voice: ""

To put it bluntly, the Japanese country, which was blown to the sky and the earth by countless hopeless people, is actually similar to the situation in Tianzhu. Tianzhu has castes, and the Japanese country also has classes.

For example, why do those ronin samurai who lost their masters stay as ronin instead of looking for a job?
This also means that if Tokugawa Jiaqi wants to completely complete the blockade, he must first get rid of those ronin.

Chikuzen, Chikugo, Buzen, Bungo, Hizen, Tsushima, Hyuga and other feudal lords also responded, while the other feudal lords and daimyos couldn't help frowning.

This difference in geographical location naturally makes the development of various feudal clans unbalanced. Some feudal clans are richer, while others are poorer.

And the difference in the degree of wealth and poverty will be directly reflected in the number of ronin in each domain.

The poorer the fan, the more ronin in the fan.

More importantly, the Satsuma clan and Chikuzen, Chikugo and other vassal lords actually have a common name: Kyushu vassals.

These vassals were originally dawdling in Kyushu Island, and the Satsuma vassal even sent troops to take Ryukyu, forcing the Ryukyu king to pay tribute to Japan.

If you want to say that you are reconciled, you will definitely not be reconciled. Shimadzu Hisamitsu, Chikuzen, Chikugo and other feudal lords have not thought of rebelling, at least they have to find a good place, right?
Then Hisamitsu Shimadzu and the others moved to Ezo in a hurry, completely giving up Kyushu Island.

More importantly, which side do these samurai and ashigaru obey?
Let them obey the orders of the feudal lord and ignore the Tokugawa family, what would the shogunate think?They hold each other back and talk about it, and pay off the rogue!
Asking them to obey the orders of Tokugawa Iezari, wouldn't that be the same as handing over the military power to others?

This is even more unacceptable to all the feudal lords than directly spending money to support Tokugawa Ieqi!

After Tokugawa Iezari's words fell, all the feudal lords present breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time couldn't help being suspicious.

As we all know, apart from being lustful, Tokugawa Iezai's biggest problem is greed for money. The problem of his sons and daughters' excessive money-making can be said to be inherited from Tokugawa Iezari.

Now, is it that such a money-grubbing and lustful bastard didn't choose to raid the feudal clans wantonly, but instead said that the shogunate would send people directly, and the feudal clans only needed to prepare "slightly" some food and a few guides?

Just when all the feudal lords and daimyos were hesitating secretly, Shimadzu Hisamitsu glared at the feudal lords viciously, and cursed: "Baga! You bloody red deer! Now it's about a few samurai and foot soldiers." When we were young? If we don’t cooperate with Your Excellency the General to wipe out those ronin, and wait for Guanggejianren to win, how can he let us go!”

Hearing Shimadzu Hisamitsu's scolding, Matsudaira Nobuobu, the Patriarch of the Kawagoe Domain among the Kanto Musashi clans, was about to explode, but inadvertently saw Tokugawa Iezari glaring at Shimadzu Hisamitsu viciously, and then restored his calm smile. He smiled plainly.

Matsudaira's confidence suddenly became vigilant.

Shimadzu Hisamitsu, the Ezo red deer, is as poor as a dog and still wants to send samurai and ashigaru to help Tokugawa Iezai, and now he is the first to jump out and scold all the feudal lords, completely acting for the Edo shogunate He is a loyal dog who does not hesitate to shed the last drop of blood, but Tokugawa Iezari seems very unhappy?
After thinking about it secretly, a bright light flashed in Matsudaira Nobuobu's head—thinking about it better, Tokugawa Iezai might really want to wipe out those samurai, and now his performance with Shimadzu Hisamitsu is nothing more than In acting, the purpose is to attract all the feudal lords to the bait.

If you think about it in a bad way, maybe Tokugawa Iezari's real purpose is not to wipe out those ronin at all, but to come for them, the feudal lords!Once the samurai and ashigaru of the shogunate enter the territory of each domain in large numbers, it will be difficult to say what will happen later!

Thinking of this, Nobuo Matsudaira's expression turned ugly, and he glanced at Hisamitsu Shimadzu again, and said loudly: "Patriarch Shimadzu is right, now is an important moment for us to work together and overcome difficulties together. We can't look forward and backward at this time!"

As Shimadzu Hisamitsu and Matsudaira Nobuobu expressed their positions successively, the other vassal lords immediately had no way out. Whether they wanted to understand or did not want to understand, they had to follow Shimadzu Hisamitsu and Matsudaira Nobuobu to express their positions, expressing Each will send samurai and ashigaru to help the shogunate clear up those ronin.

Just as Matsudaira Nobuobu thought, the reason why Tokugawa Jiaqi proposed that the shogunate should send samurai and ashigaru to clear up those ronin is, on the one hand, it is true that they really want to clear up those ronin, so as to avoid any accidents in the follow-up blockade .

But on the other hand, Tokugawa Jiaqi has the idea of ​​coercing the princes to force the court-if the two bastards, Guangge Jianren and Kanomiya Huiren, dare to send people to mess around on Tokugawa Jiaqi's territory, Dechuan Jiaqi Chuan Jiaqi was going to slaughter several small feudal lords and daimyos of the Kinki feudal clans first, causing chaos in the territory of Guanggejianren and his son.

As for sending ninjas or getting some patients who have already suffered from leprosy to cause harm on the site of Guanggejianren and his son, Tokugawa Jiaqi really has no such idea for the time being.

Because the current situation is clearly dominated by the Tokugawa family, and the possibility of success is also very high. The Tokugawa family, who has already begun to dream of being a king, naturally does not want leprosy to spread around Kinki. After all, no matter how poor he is Diseases, leprosy, and the spread of these things are placed there, and no one can guarantee that they will be able to escape.

It's a pity that Tokugawa Iezai's original plan was well-planned, but now it is destroyed by the two puppies Shimadzu Hisamitsu and Matsudaira Nobuobu.

The Tokugawa family resented secretly in their hearts, but they forced a smile on their faces: "Then it's settled, for those rogues who are causing disasters, we must vigorously eliminate them. If you are unable to catch them, you will always You can send someone to the shogunate for help, don't force it."

After all the feudal lords thanked them willingly or unwillingly, Tokugawa Jiaqi changed the subject again and talked about his previous experience in Daming: "You all know that Jiaqi has been to Daming before, and in Daming stayed for a long time."

All the feudal lords and daimyos present couldn't help being a little confused, not knowing what this bum of De Chuanjiaqi wanted to say.

Tokugawa Jiaqi said self-consciously: "During the Ming Dynasty, what Jiaqi felt most deeply was the knowledge of the Ming people. Even if they were naive, they could more or less know a few words. Even the Qing Dynasty Most of the old people in the era can write their own names, let alone those young people."

All the feudal lords and daimyos continued to be confused - Daming is Shangguo and the father of Waguo, isn't this a matter of course?
Hisamitsu Shimadzu tentatively asked, "What does the general mean?"

Tokugawa Iezari did not directly answer Shimadzu Hisamitsu's question, but instead clapped his hands and ordered outside the door: "Bring it here!"

Tokugawa Jiaqi said self-consciously: "During the Ming Dynasty, what Jiaqi felt most deeply was the knowledge of the Ming people. Even if they were naive, they could more or less know a few words. Even the Qing Dynasty Most of the old people in the era can write their own names, let alone those young people."

All the feudal lords and daimyos continued to be confused - Daming is Shangguo and the father of Waguo, isn't this a matter of course?
(End of this chapter)