Daming 1805

Chapter 429 Japan is probably really gone

Specific to the depth of cooperation, that is, which equipment and equipment purchase related technology transfer, which parts directly purchase finished products, and which key basic industries to open correspondingly, the countries of Thailand and the West are divided into several distinct types.

The first is the United Kingdom and France, and the cooperation between France and Ming has already gone deep enough before that.

Therefore, the two countries continue to refine the original cooperation plan and sign a new additional clause on the details, so that they can directly start the transfer of related technologies at a relatively fair price.

So this time, there is no need for serious and formal negotiations on the French side. The relevant personnel originally stationed in France can simply release the corresponding technical support restrictions.

Before the signing of the naval treaty, because of Charlotte's pressure on the British Parliament and the government, the British had already confirmed that they had accepted the same level of cooperation as France.

Under the threat of the Great Ming war, which was bluffed by Grenville, the British cabinet and parliament made a decision at that time, and sent the cooperation intention plan to Charlotte and Honglu Temple of the Ming Dynasty.

The two parties have actually completed cooperation negotiations, but they have not yet signed a formal agreement.

So what the British representatives have to do now is to turn the established cooperation convenience into a formal treaty document, and the two parties complete the actual signing procedures.

Then, while the joint venture between Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte was established in the UK, the content of technology authorization and transfer was gradually released to the corresponding companies.

Both technology transfer and joint venture business launch will take time and will be a gradual process.

As long as this process is followed step by step, the British local side will gradually integrate into the Ming system.

All in all, in the case of Britain and France, there is actually no formal negotiation, or the formal negotiation has been completed, so the progress is of course the fastest.

The clerical staff can directly sign the contract after completing the documents.

Then there are small countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark, which have limited area and population, and their industrial autonomy is not high.

After the start of the second industrial revolution, the country was already unable to maintain an independent industrial system.

Even if the key industries are not opened to Ming Dynasty, they must be opened to Western countries.

It would be better to open up to Daming, but also improve the relationship with Daming, and then strengthen his position in Taixi.

Their resistance to foreign capital and power is relatively low.

Therefore, the negotiation goal of these countries is actually to obtain as much support as possible.

The progress of the negotiation is naturally relatively fast.

Next are Prussia, Austria, Lucia and the countries that have cooperated to a certain extent with Daminyong.

Now if they simply buy finished weapons and equipment and finished warships, there are not many additional conditions.

Directly sign a commercial order to start production and delivery.

But if you want some or all of the technology transfer, you have to refer to the direction of the UK.

Since there is no special condition like Charlotte, nor the special situation of the Yinzhou war between Britain and France, these countries have more independent choices in the way of cooperation.

The monarchs and ministers of most countries, as well as the bourgeois in their own countries, will not choose to cooperate with the United Kingdom and France in such a special state.

Their final choice is basically partial cooperation, introducing the most lacking and backward technology in their own country, and opening up as few and unimportant industries as possible.

This process takes time to bargain slowly, and of course the progress of the negotiation will be much slower.

Finally, Spain and Portugal, these countries still have some strength and have not cooperated with Ming Dynasty before.

The two sides must first complete the actual contacts and gain mutual trust through a series of means before formal negotiations can begin.

During the formal negotiation process, the vigilance and vigilance of Daming is also higher than that of Prussia and other countries.

Their negotiation progress is of course the slowest.

However, according to their actual situation, Ming's diplomats expected that the cooperation method they finally chose was not much different from that of Prussia and other countries.

In the end, most of them will adopt the shipbuilding plan provided by Ming Dynasty and purchase a large amount of equipment, weapons and technology.

But it's not hard to say when it will be completed.

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When Niu Jian led the team to Taixi, Zhu Jingyuan himself took his family, said goodbye to his grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother, and set off for Edo to take office.

When Niu Jian arrived in Paris, Zhu Jingyuan's family also arrived in Edo Castle.

Edo Castle is located on the Kanto Plain in the central part of Honshu Island, Japan.

The total area of ​​this plain is only over 6000 square kilometers, barely the size of a prefecture-level city, but it is already the largest plain on the Japanese archipelago.

After all, this is an archipelago of mountains and hills.

It was originally the seat of the Edo Shogunate of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and became the capital of the Edo Kingdom after it was incorporated into the Ming Dynasty.

Seven years ago, during the withdrawal reform, it became the resident of the newly established Edo Chief Commissioner.

It is now the provincial capital of the newly established Edo Province.

At the same time, it is also Tokyo, the capital of Japan in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

Therefore, compared to other Ming people, Zhu Jingyuan's attitude towards Edo Castle is more special.

When I entered Edo Bay from the passenger ship I took, I was paying attention to the situation inside and outside Edo Castle.

After the passenger ship docked, Zhu Jingyuan greeted the main officials of Edo who came to greet him, and then drove to the Edo Palace.

Since the Japanese archipelago and the Korean peninsula were both listed by Zhu Jianyan as the mainland provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the kingdom that remained in name after the withdrawal of the domain seven years ago was completely abolished.

However, the palace of King Edo is still there.

The palaces of the vassal princes in various parts of the Ming Dynasty were originally the first choice for receiving members of the royal family.

When Zhu Jingyuan arrived in Edo, of course he lived directly in the palace.

After resting for a day, Zhu Jingyuan formally met with the local officials in Edo again, and went through the handover and appointment procedures.

Then Zhu Jingyuan was the same as when he was in Lion City, he didn't go directly to do his work as the chief envoy and counsellor.

Instead, look at the data report first to understand the local situation as a whole.

Compared to when he was in the Lion City, Zhu Jingyuan went to visit them specially.

After a week of continuous observation and understanding, Zhu Jingyuan came to a conclusion:
"Japan is probably really gone..."

From outside the Edo Bay to the Edo Prince's Mansion, from the Sansi Yamen in Edo Province to the private commercial halls, Zhu Jing didn't feel any exotic customs here.

The cities and towns around Edo Bay, the residents and buildings of Edo City, the residents and pedestrians inside and outside the city, are all completely indistinguishable from those of the native cities of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention this palace, it is a mixture of the northern and southern gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

There are large-scale rock gardens, spacious and bright Xieshanshui pavilions, and magnificent pavilions around...

It just doesn't have any Japanese elements that Zhu Jingyuan was familiar with in his previous life.

And it's completely absent from the inside out.

Under normal circumstances, even in mainland China, there has always been a tradition of going to the countryside and doing as the Romans do.

The management of remote places by the central imperial court usually takes into account and takes into account the actual situation of the local area, and makes some targeted localized adjustments to policies and systems.

Therefore, the border areas of the Ming Dynasty already had a certain exotic flavor.

In other words, even within the scope of the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, different provinces and even prefectures and counties may have completely different characteristic buildings and customs.

Officials or ordinary people of Ming Dynasty, when they took office in other places or traveled and settled down, they would also habitually find some special souvenirs, and pay special attention to and adapt to the local habits.

But Edo seems to be completely absent here, at least those Japanese elements that Zhu Jingyuan is familiar with are completely absent here.

Japan, like other surrounding areas of the Central Dynasty, was once under the cultural influence of the Central Dynasty for a long time.

But like other surrounding regions, Japan also has its own unique characteristics.

Even North Korea, which has a small Chinese name, is obviously different from Ming Dynasty in everything from official uniforms to folk clothing and architecture.

Not to mention that Japan, as an island country, is more independent than other surrounding areas, and has more local characteristics.

But the typical Japanese garden design element "karesansui" can't find any trace here.

Before the Renwu Dynasty, the representative lacquerware and knives that were exported to the Ming Dynasty for a long time are completely gone now.

The native Japanese culture and customs seem to have been completely washed away.

Zhu Jingyuan was actually mentally prepared for this.

Because this place in Japan was taken care of by Emperor Shizu.

Under normal circumstances, if the Japanese archipelago was originally a part of Ming Dynasty, let alone the folk architecture of Edo, even the Edo royal palace may have some "Edo-style" designs.

Lacquerware and knives, which are already important export products, are even less likely to disappear out of thin air.

This is the case in the Lion City and Yecheng in the south, Yingzhou and Tiannan overseas, and the northern and southern continents of the New World, where there are many local special cultural elements.

Even in places colonized by Western countries, the traces left by the Western colonists have only been diluted, not completely eliminated.

Zhu Jingyuan once lived in a castle in Meng County (Mombasa), and he will build a world city in Xintianfu, and find a French architect to design Thai-Western style palaces and gardens.

But the Japanese stuff is completely gone now.

According to the historical records that Zhu Jingyuan has learned, the process of Emperor Shizu's conquest of the Japanese archipelago was completely different from the way he conquered other regions.

The first is the complete elimination of the aristocratic class. Voluntary surrender can at most avoid death, and no other conditions will be accepted.

Japan's traditional feudal lord daimyo and samurai, even if they surrendered directly to the Ming camp from the beginning of the war, would be forced to move away from Japan.

After abolishing the original status and privileges, changing the name and surname to disrupt the situation, they were sent to Nanyang, Tiannan, and Yinzhou to open up wasteland.

Then came the deep transformation of the institutional and cultural levels after the conquest.

Burning books, tearing down temples, and clearing graves.

Now in the entire Japanese archipelago, there is no building over 200 years old.

All kinds of original shrines have been converted into monk temples and Taoist temples, and the monks and Taoist priests are specially relocated from the Ming Dynasty.

The original Shintoism and monks in Japan were forcibly returned to vulgarity and sent overseas to open up wasteland.

Japan used to have the so-called emperors and ministers, those who refused to surrender were of course directly killed on the battlefield, and those who were willing to surrender were all abolished of all identities just like the local daimyo and samurai.

I moved overseas to open up wasteland and farm. The courtyards, shrines, and tombs of their homes were all demolished and leveled.

Finally, there is the immigrant blood tax and vacating the cage for the bird.

Recruit young Japanese men as soldiers, open up overseas colonies, and buy Japanese women as slaves to replace the native slaves of Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, the officials of the Ming Dynasty continued to migrate the people of the Ming Dynasty from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty to the Japanese archipelago.

Before the industrial age, the culture and history of each ethnic group was the history of princes and generals most of the time.

Before the rise of the Enlightenment Movement, the relationship between the change of imperial courts in various countries and ordinary people was not great.

In that historical environment, after the original aristocratic class collapsed, if the original civilians obtained the status of aristocrats, they still had a certain chance to inherit the original culture.

If the force or culture of foreign conquerors is not strong enough, they will be influenced by the local culture after conquering a certain place, and then the local culture will be preserved.

But in turn, the local aristocratic class was eliminated as a whole, and the force and culture of the foreign conquerors were extremely strong.

The point is, if the ruler still consciously "cleans up" the local culture, then later generations should have to rely on archaeology if they want to find the culture of this ethnic group.

During the Qing Dynasty, there were still Ming Dynasty costumes and Taoist robes, but the Japanese archipelago does not even have these things now.

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, Emperor Shizu was mostly a liberal arts student, so he was more sensitive to civilization and cultural issues than himself, so he did it very thoroughly.

The policies against the Japanese archipelago are not temporary, but long-term actions that have lasted for more than 100 years.

Emperor Shizu obviously left his last words, asking future emperors to continue to reform Japan according to his requirements.

The last, the last renovation so far, is actually Zhu Jingyuan's direct participation.

A new round of large-scale immigration of a semi-official nature directly participated by the Great Food Kingdom.

For the large-scale development of the eastern part of Mozhou and the industrialization of the Great Food Kingdom, although all the people of the neighboring kingdoms of the Ming Dynasty were recruited.

However, the Koreans and the He people who are closest to the Ming people are the key recruitment targets.

The Koreans and the Ho tribe, who even ordinary people know how to speak well, are the groups that are most likely to obtain higher status and income after arriving in the Great Food Country.

When Zhu Jingyuan checked the local data, he paid special attention to relevant information.

At present, the population of pure indigenous people in Edo is only about 100 million.

The entire Japanese archipelago is estimated to be no more than 300 million, accounting for only one-tenth of the total population of the entire Japanese archipelago.

And these 300 million people are all fully enlightened.

After the Ming Dynasty conquered the Japanese archipelago, merchants, officials, translators, etc. emerged from ordinary people.

They are highly bound to the existing Daming group, and they are also the wealthiest among the local aborigines. There is no way to remove them all by recruiting workers.

To get them all to leave completely, they have to use official coercive means.

But in Zhu Jingyuan's view, these people are no different from Daming people now.

Their previous two generations also had no nostalgia for the past at all, because it was after Daming came that they lived like human beings.

The descendants don't know what the emperor and the general are at all, they only know that they are the Japanese clan of the Japanese archipelago of Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)