1825 My New Daming

Chapter 141 Military Advisor, Taijun Said. (Please subscribe, ask for a monthly ticket)

At the end of February in the seventh year of Taiping, Ming Dynasty, Korea, Pusan, Choyang Waguan.

The so-called Caoliang Wakan is a Japanese-style city town covering an area of ​​more than 33 ping (about 100 million square meters). It was funded and built after the approval of the King of Korea, and it was dedicated to the trade between Japan and North Korea.Later, because the business was so good, it also contributed a lot of tax revenue to the Kingdom of Korea, so Waguan expanded several times, from the initial 100 ping to 33 ping, which is one square kilometer. In fact, it is only a small area. land.

As luck would have it, this Japanese pavilion is located on the opposite bank of the Jueying Island base of the Ming Navy, and there is a narrow and busy strait between Jueying Island and the strait. Very convenient.

It's really no one that a Japanese museum has become neighbors with a military base aimed at preventing Japanese and preparing Japanese.

But the location of Jueying Island is so good that the Ming Navy is really reluctant to change places.This island happens to be guarding the south gate of Busan. As long as a few forts are built in the south of the island, the enemies who attempt to invade Busan can be kept out.Moreover, the terrain in the southern part of Jueying Island is quite dangerous, and it is not easy for the enemies coming from the sea to land or bombard them.

In addition, Jueying Island is only one or two hundred kilometers away from the Japanese mainland, and a warship traveling at a speed of ten to twenty knots can reach the northern coast of Kyushu or the outside of the Kanmon Strait in ten hours.

If it were an airship, it would take at most two hours to drop incendiary bombs on the Japanese!

Therefore, the Ming Navy identified Jueying Island and invested a huge amount of money in its construction. It not only repaired forts, ports, barracks, warehouses, airship landing pads and other facilities, but even paved the railway.

As for Caoliang Waguan, although it is not comfortable to be a neighbor with the Ming Navy, and the Ming Navy also built a fort on the north shore of Jueying Island, set up a cannon to aim at Caoliang Waguan, and even forced the Marine Corps He was sent to Choryang Wakan on duty, and on the grounds of confidentiality, Choyang Waguan was forbidden to send telegrams and phone calls. But Waguan still refused to move.

There are two reasons for not moving, one is because the spending power of the officers and men of the Ming Navy and their families in the Jueying Island base is too strong!
The second reason is that although the Choryang Wakan was governed by the Tsushima Clan of Japan, it was built on the land of North Korea after all.The various restrictions imposed on Japan by the Ming Dynasty did not apply to the Choryang Wakan—coal, cotton, petroleum products, iron materials, and copper materials were all free to enter the Choryang Wakan.So Choryang Wakan not only has well-developed commerce, shipping industry, and service industry, but also has a large number of handicraft workshops.

More than ten days have passed since the Jiyi Sea Battle, and the relationship between Ming Dynasty and Japan is still blurred, but the streets of Choryang Wakan are still as bustling as ever. It is even more lively than before.

Because many Ming merchants who originally traded in Nagasaki received advice to evacuate, and a considerable number of them went to Choyang Waguan in Busan. Some merchants who have been engaged in Sino-Japanese trade for many years are often in Shanghai, Nagasaki Stores have opened in Choyang Wakan in Busan.Compared to withdrawing to Shanghai, it is much more convenient to withdraw to the Choliang Wakan.

In addition, some Japanese businessmen also saw that the signs were not good, so they went directly to the Choyang Wakan in Busan-although the current Japan has been established a long time ago, it is not Japan after the Meiji Restoration after all.Because it was General Tokugawa who was the pillar of the samurai family who led the founding of the country, General Tokugawa naturally could not deprive the samurai of their privileges and bring the revolution to the samurai.It is impossible to implement any "conscription orders" or "abolition of sword orders", and it is impossible for the shogunate to implement J-nationalist education on civilians who were not samurai.

In today's Japan, serving in the military is a privilege, not an obligation.Only warriors are qualified to serve as soldiers to defend the country.It is justifiable for a businessman or craftsman of civilian origin to run away when in danger.

Therefore, under the cloud of war, Busan Wakan has become more prosperous than before.
When the night gradually shrouded the inside and outside of the Japanese Pavilion in Caoliang, piles of dock workers and handicraft factory workers lined up, led by the foremen, crossed the narrow road inside the Japanese Pavilion, and went to the outside of the Japanese Pavilion. The collective dormitory built on the site of the Koreans went away—Wokan’s site was very small, and every inch of land was expensive inside, so the dormitory for the small workers could only be located outside the Waguan.Those Japanese workers who had worked hard for a whole day lined up obediently in a neat line, one after another, they walked towards the exit of the Wakan.If someone wearing the uniform of the Ming Navy happened to pass by them, these Japanese workers would not only give way, but would also bow deeply!
Because in their view, the officers of the Great Ming Dynasty are undoubtedly equivalent to high-level warriors!
Although the Ming Dynasty Marine Corps is on duty in the Waguan, the vassals of the Tsushima Zong family are in charge of security.According to the requirements of the Ming Dynasty Navy, warriors who entered the Caoliang Waguan could not carry firearms, only knives.So these samurai dressed in uniform and with the family crest printed on their clothes are in charge of the daily affairs of the Caoliang Pavilion.When the lights on the street in Wakan were turned on one by one, Zong's retainers with knives began to patrol the street back and forth.Under their management, the order of this prosperous, crowded, and at first glance a bit messy Japanese-style town is always surprisingly good.

The "custom area" of Choliang Wakan takes up about a quarter of the entire Waguan area. Very delicately built small buildings are lined up in rows on both sides of the street. voices and wild laughter.

Rickshaw pullers from Japan, wearing uniforms with their own names (only first names, no surnames) printed on them, lined up neatly at the entrances of the Choryang Hall, waiting for calls from customers.There are also four-wheeled carriages passing by on the stone-paved road. Most of these carriages belong to the senior officers of the Ming Navy. Wherever they pass, not only the Japanese civilians along the way will bow deeply, but even the samurai of the clan will bow to the carriage. .

Obviously, on the side of Caoliang Waguan, the Ming Empire is the undoubted celestial kingdom!

Zhuge Weidao was sitting in a carriage at this moment, looking curiously at the street outside.Wang Wen and a young man in his 20s with a moustache and a green official uniform of the Ming Dynasty sat side by side across from Zhuge Weidao, and beside Weidao sat his personal maid Ali.

"Military division, Mito Qi Zhao (Tokugawa Qi Zhao) said that Japan is willing to support each other with you. As long as you are willing to take Japan forward, the Tokugawa shogunate is also willing to measure Japan's manpower and material resources for your military division. .

Mr. Gongfang has given the character of Tokugawa Miao to Xiaokong of the Daihei family. Although the character of Tokugawa Miao is far inferior to your surname of Zhuge, the military adviser, Japan is now the world of Tokugawa after all.After Xiaokong got the name of Tokugawa Miao, the son she gave birth to you can become the heir of the Dahei family with a little work, and the Dahei consortium will be your property in the future!
In addition, Mr. Gongfang also said that the shogunate navy can follow your orders to fight against the barbarians, and you can also send [-] elite warriors to follow you to send troops to foreign lands and conquer the Quartet!As long as you say a word, the power of Japan can be used by military divisions! "

The one who is using the generous terms of "measuring Japan's manpower and material resources to be used by you as a military advisor" is the one with the mustache in the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty - he looks like a traitor, but he is definitely not a traitor, because he is not He is not Han, nor does he have Ming nationality, but a feudal lord with dual identities in Japan and North Korea. His name is Zong Yixi. Zoubiao, who proclaimed himself a minister, is almost a family slave of the three surnames, and the Caoliang Woguan here is his property.

(End of this chapter)