The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

It's just that Ashikaga Yoshichi is too small now.

Among other things, at least in recent years, it is impossible to truly control power.

After all, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is still alive, and the actual power of the shogunate is impossible to shake. If Ashikaga Yoshimitsu can't even deal with his ten-year-old son, it will be considered a waste of life.

This is because Ashikaga Yoshichi was too young to see the essence of the matter.

In his heart, if he was the adopted son of the great-grandson of the Ming Dynasty, his status would be infinitely high, and he could almost sit and sit with his father, and even be compared to the emperor.

But such a status, besides making Ashikaga Yoshimitsu more jealous, has any meaning.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty have not yet entered the Japanese government, which means that the power of the Japanese government is not dry, and the only thing they can do is to continuously annex the territory of the Japanese.

Ashikaga Yoshichi's idea of ​​using the identity of Zhu Ying's adopted son to act can only be said to be very naive, but it is also in line with the vision he can see at his current age.

Of course, Zhu Ying can see through these.

Fame is false, but military power is real.

"Now our Ming Dynasty is developing rapidly, especially on the military level. My Palace has established a military academy in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, which is designed to train military talents."

"Although you are a little young at this age, you can barely reach it. I intend to negotiate with your father. In order to promote the friendship between the two countries, I will open a special recruitment class for the Daming Military Academy this year, so that the nobles of the Japanese kingdom People your age take part."

"About this matter, you should talk to your father after you go back, and then tell him that this is why the palace called you here today."

Zhu Ying also took a lot of thought, which is equivalent to helping Ashikaga Yoshichi to build a confidant team in the future.

It is conceivable that when Daming opened quotas to the Wa Kingdom, many nobles from the Wa Kingdom would definitely flock to it, sending their sons to Daming to learn the most advanced military knowledge in the world.

The aristocrats who can compete for these places must be the powerful aristocrats in the Wa country, and the eldest sons or legitimate sons of the family who go are basically of the right age.

Among his peers, although Yoshimitsu Ashikaga intends to vigorously cultivate his son Yoshimitsu Ashikaga, it is undeniable that Yoshimitsu Ashikaga is now the most noble shogun in the Japanese kingdom.

What's more, after leaving the Wa country, people like Ashikaga Yoshimitsu will not be able to influence them at all. In addition, if Ashikaga Yoshimitsu can't take over his team, then there is no need for Zhu Ying to support him.

After a few years, Ashikaga Yoshichi has grown up a bit, and together with the sons of the nobles who followed him to Daming, he will naturally be the mainstay of the future Wa Kingdom.

It will be much easier to divide the power of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

On Ashikaga Yoshichi's side, when he heard that the grandson of Ming Dynasty did not mention the matter of recognizing himself as his adopted son at all, his face showed a very obvious loss, which was completely inconsistent with his imagination.

It's just that after hearing the back, his expression gradually changed, and his originally decadent eyes also brightened.

The last sentence sounds a bit strange, obviously he came here to ask for an interview, but the grandson of Daming said he was the one who summoned him.

In just a split second, Ashikaga Yoshichi immediately understood the deep meaning in the words of the grandson of the Ming Dynasty, and immediately kowtowed again: "The minister of the small country thanked His Royal Highness the grandson of the kingdom of heaven."

Zhu Ying waved his hand: "Okay, excuse me, that's all for today, come with your father tomorrow and we'll talk about it in detail."

Ashikaga Yoshichi held back the excitement in his heart: "I would like to obey the order of His Royal Highness, Grandson of the Heavenly Kingdom."

"You mean that kid, secretly went to visit Daming Grandson?"

Fuchu Ashikaga Yoshimitsu knelt and sat on the head, listening to the report from the servants below, and asked in a calm tone.

Different from the architectural culture of Ming Dynasty, most of the meetings in Wa Kingdom are in the back room, and there is no layout like palaces and halls.

This kind of meeting is a bit more private in comparison, like a conference room for later generations.

"Master Ashikaga, that is indeed the case." The servant replied affirmatively.

At the moment in the back room of the mansion, there are many confidantes including General Shibo Yi.

Hearing this answer, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu said with a smile: "It seems that our shogun wants to establish a good relationship with the great grandson of Ming Dynasty, so that he can use the power of Ming Dynasty to suppress us, hahaha!"

As Ashikaga Yoshimitsu laughed, these confidants also laughed.

They ridiculed Ashikaga Yoshichi for not being able to understand the current situation at all, but they didn't know how to really intervene in the situation.

Moreover, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu wants to pass on the idea of ​​Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, which is something that all followers of the Patriarch are very clear about.

In terms of identity, even Ashikaga Yoshichi has recognized Hino Yasuko as his mother, but this is only for the legitimate succession of the shogunate.

Ashikaga Yoshinori is the real son, not the false son of Ashikaga Yoshichi who can compare.

After that, there was the support of the Hino family.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's left hand, and Shibo Yoshimitsu, as Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's confidant, is the father of Hino Yasuko, the head of the Hino family, Hino Ziyasu.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's main wife, Hino Yeko, is the sister of Hino Ziyasu, which shows how important the Hino family is to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

The Hino family not only has a lot of power in the military, but the key is that they are very rich in money.

Without the strong support of the Hino family, it would not have been so easy for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to regain the Muromachi shogunate.

Including the Northern and Southern Dynasties War that followed, in which the Hino family also played a vital role.

Like everyone else, Ziyasu Hino laughed along with him, but the look in his eyes was quite intriguing.

Because he also has a young daughter, now more than seven years old, named Hino Eiko.

At this age, it happens to be able to marry Ashikaga Yoshimo as his wife.

Ashikaga Yoshinori is too young, and so many things have happened in Wa country now, Hino Ziyasu still has a bit of value for Ashikaga Yoshinori, no one knows what Ashikaga Yoshinori will be like when he grows up.

There is an old saying in the Hino family, which means in Chinese it is the three caves of the cunning rabbit, and don't put all eggs in one basket.

Multi-line investment has always been the traditional style of the Hino family.

It is precisely because of this that the Hino family has such a status.

So Hino Ziyasu is planning to marry his youngest daughter to Ashikaga Yoshichi.

As for Ashikaga Yoshinori, it doesn't really matter much. After a few years, when the situation becomes clear, it is true that Ashikaga Yoshinori can assume the position of the Muromachi Shogunate, and even integrate the throne of the Emperor and the Shogunate.

It will be the same when I have another daughter to marry Ashikaga Yoshinori.

No matter who wins the final victory, the Hino family will share the wealth with the winner.

After laughing, everyone returned to the previous discussion.

The Japanese worship the strong, and at the same time learn everything about the strong.

The current Daming is exactly what the Japanese need to learn from. After long-term discussions and research, they found that the current Daming seems to be as strong as the Tang Dynasty, or even stronger.

Datang claimed that all nations came to Korea, with a vast territory and extremely prosperous military and economy.

Looking at the current Ming Dynasty, expelling the Tartars, making an alliance with the Northern Yuan Dynasty to relieve the border worries, and going south to destroy the Annan army, a decree forced Champa to cede the city without a single soldier.

The sea road was opened to promote commerce, and merchants from all over the world gathered in Daming.

During the most powerful period of the Tang Dynasty, the total army strength was more than one million, and now the Ming Dynasty has less than [-] years since the founding of the country, and has more than two million soldiers.

Not to mention that even Kyushu Island in the current Wa country can only be handed over to others.

The more this is the case, the more the Japanese nobles feel that Daming is worth learning from.

When Ashikaga Yoshimitsu usually convenes his confidants to discuss things, except for some Japanese politics, most of the time it is to discuss how to reform the Japanese army, territory, and even the government.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu himself was a ruler who tended to reform. After he took control of the Muromachi Shogunate, he drastically reformed various legacy bad habits. It was precisely because of his courage to reform that he was able to win the final victory in the struggle between the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Facing Daming now, naturally many more reforms and upgrades will do.

Otherwise, the increasing pressure will eventually make the entire Wa country unable to resist, and eventually all of them will be reduced to the territory of Ming Dynasty.

Although it is said that Kyushu Island is ceded now, it also bought a lot of time for Wa Kingdom.

Especially in terms of mineral deposits, Daming dispatched thousands of craftsmen to develop, transport and process them.

This makes the energy to truly rule Kyushu Island continue to increase.

What kind of peace covenant is just for the purpose of maximizing benefits, including sending high-yield crops, which is actually just a convenient move by Daming.

After ruling Kyushu Island, Ming Dynasty would definitely bring high-yield crops to Kyushu Island for planting, so the Wa country could also get the seeds of these high-yield crops.

The current high-yield crops are just the favor of Daming.

The current Ming Dynasty and Wa Kingdom are preparing for a military competition to see who can develop faster.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the Wa country is compared with the entire Ming Dynasty. If this is the case, it is better to surrender as soon as possible, at least you can get rich.

They only need to compare with these vassal kings in Kyushu Island.

In fact, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is still very confident about the vassal kings.

Because it is difficult for their behavior to get the support of the Japanese people in Kyushu Island, especially in the case of vigorously developing mineral deposits.

Mining in this world is extremely dangerous. It doesn't mean that people will die, but how many people will die.

Take the present as an example, while vigorously developing mineral deposits, mine caves will basically collapse every once in a while.

Those who do the most dangerous and tiring work at the bottom of the mine can't be Ming soldiers or craftsmen.

They are all done by the people of the Wa Kingdom, and they belong to the corvée within the feudal kingdom.

But all the people of the Japanese country in Kyushu Island must serve corvee for mining.

Under such circumstances, the conflict between Daming and the local Japanese people was very sharp and irreconcilable.

If corvee is not collected, it is difficult to spend a lot of money, hire ships to transfer workers from Daming, and pay high wages and subsidies to mine.

And if a worker in Daming died due to a mine collapse, he would have to pay a high pension.

Don't use the ready-made corvee, go to transport Daming workers, crazy?

Apparently, the four vassal kings are not crazy, and they are very sober, so the Japanese people in Kyushu Island are suffering unspeakably.

Even the status of aristocrats has no effect on the labor of the prime of life. Except for a very few Japanese nobles who have status and are useful to the vassal kings, none of them have to run away.

Under such circumstances, naturally many Japanese from Kyushu fled to Shikoku or Honshu.

However, such an escape is very difficult. The Ming army has long been stationed to prevent escape, and the implicated company system makes the Japanese even more frightened.

Whenever there is a fugitive in the family, the whole family sits together, the wife and daughter are included in the Jiaofang Division of the vassal, and the sons and brothers are demoted to sinners, and the cheek tattoos are punished with life-long hard labor.

Therefore, for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, it was the former Yan Wang Shizi who made him more afraid.

If these vassal kings acted like the prince of Yan Wang, then Ashikaga Yoshimitsu would be very worried.

Although the life of the Japanese people in Kyushu Island is very hard, the hearts of the people have always been on the side of the Japanese country, and this is enough.

One day, these Japanese people in Kyushu Island will revolt. Once the Japanese country and these vassal kings really start a war, these Japanese people who have been bullied on weekdays will be the best sword in the hands of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

In fact, after Zhu Ying came to Wa country to take a look around, he had already discovered these situations.

The difference from Annan is that there are really too many mineral deposits in the country of Wa. With the current industrial level of mining, the risk of future generations is extremely high.

If you want mines, you still need the hearts of the Japanese people in Kyushu Island.

Even Zhu Ying is not qualified for this choice, and she can't be a madonna in her head and let her own people do it. It's better to go to that crooked neck tree and hang herself to death.

The primitive accumulation of capital always has some bloody smell.

This is a historical inevitability, and no one can change it.

And for the country of Wa, Zhu Ying thinks it is very good, and there is no need to change it at all.

As for the uprising of the Japanese people in the future, let's suppress it, what else can it be.

The dirty work has to be done by someone.

Ashikaga Yoshichi didn't stay with Zhu Ying for long, and came back after a few simple words.

Hearing that his father was discussing matters with many confidants in the back room, he asked his servant to report, saying that he had something important to tell.

"Hmph, I want to see what kind of support this scoundrel has received from the great-grandson of Ming Dynasty. I just came back and I couldn't wait to show it off to me and let him in."

There was indifference in Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's tone, even though Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was his own biological son, but his preference has now been given to his legitimate son Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

Now that Ashikaga Yoshihito holds the status of the shogun, he has become a thorn in the side.

It's just that now that he has become the Minister of the Taizheng, and his son Ashikaga Yoshitsuru is only two years old, it is impossible for others to be the shogun, so the only way is to let Ashikaga Yoshimochi take charge first.

Shiba Yoshinobu and his confidantes also had a playful smile on their mouths, and at the same time, they were also curious about what kind of promise and support this Ashikaga Yoshichi had received from the grandson of Ming Dynasty. He had to act in such a hurry, and there was no city at all.

Including Hino Zikang, when he heard the news that Ashikaga Yoshimochi came to see him, obvious disappointment flashed in his eyes.

I was thinking about whether to marry my youngest daughter Eiko Hino to him.