Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 639
gentry.

Especially the lower class gentry have always been in cahoots with the upper class gentry.

Everyone likes to play monopoly these days.

After the gentry gained power in the officialdom, they formed some kind of party, and then began to pull their own relatives to form a small township party under the big party, and eventually either controlled the government or resisted the imperial power.

But in the final analysis, most of the time it is not good.

The drama of fighting for power gradually rose within the Black Flag Qing Dynasty, but because the high-level leaders at the helm highly recognized the imperial court, the upper beam was straightened, and the lower beam had to look at Liang's face if it wanted to tilt it.

At most, it's just messing up the place.

Japan is different.

Their taxis used to be tied to daimyos. After all, these scholars, literati, and Confucians were either the sons of concubines of daimyos, or the children of relatives or feudal vassals.

Daimyo is not necessarily for them to study, but only with a certain social status and some capital in their hands can they study here.

There are not no scholars with commoner status, but they are very few, and they are very unpopular.

And the social system built by the shogunate and the daimyo has completely blocked the upward channels of most people, including these scholars who have read poetry and books.

They read books from the Central Plains Dynasty, and they can't say they understand everything about the Central Plains Dynasty system in the book, but they also know a general idea.

But they live in the four islands of Japan.

It's almost dark.

Mouth may be chanting according to the content of the book, "Learn the art of writing and martial arts, and the goods and the emperor's family".

But I knew in my heart that the pinnacle of my life would be a vassal.

Received hundreds of shi wages.

Confess wife and son?Use your talents and learning to govern the country and the people?

Can't even dream.

But as soon as the imperial examinations appeared, the relationship between the daimyo and all the literati in his fief was severed immediately, and the vassals were shaken by it.

The two officials here who have been officials in the Black Banner court have been approved by Zhu Youjian, and they have been able to display their talents and knowledge, and promote their own theories in the official and newspapers.

On the other side, in the entire four islands of Japan, almost all literati are preparing for the scientific examination of talents formulated by the Black Flag court.

There are five test locations, one in Kyushu, one in Shikoku, two in Honshu, and one in Hokkaido.

The imperial examination does not care about ethnicity and class. Of course, those who are enslaved are not included.

Strictly speaking, filthy, non-human, tribal people, etc. can also take part in the imperial examination, as long as the local daimyo they live in is closely related to the black flag government, and they really write a hundred characters at will as the basic condition for entering the examination room.

Of course, what awaits them is more 'voluntary enslavement'.

Many big names around Edo did this in response to the household registration system divided by black flags.

Let the people who have been at the bottom of society for generations and have been enslaved for a lifetime put shackles on themselves, otherwise where can they find low-end labor?

And Zhu Youjian is waiting with great anticipation for these filthy and inhuman struggles.

Also waiting for the high-level shogunate who surrendered to the black flag to return to Edo.

The former veteran, Abe Tadaaki, stuck to Nagasaki Port for a long time, and finally handed over a well-functioning and largest seaport city in Japan to the Black Flag, and assisted the Black Flag Army in Kyushu Island in the process of taking over the city.

Only then did Zhu Youjian give him the opportunity to persuade him to surrender and the olive branch to serve in the new dynasty.

The persuasion went well.

Originally, the last remnant soldiers of the shogunate were already on the verge of collapse. They had been asking for help from many former pro-fan daimyos and genealogical daimyos who surrendered to the black flag, but they didn't get any response.

On the contrary, the Tokugawa family in Kofu, which is closer to Fukushima, was sent too many letters. Fearing that the Black Banner court would suspect it, they asked for troops to join the Black Banner Army that besieged Fukushima.

Now when Tadaaki Abe came, he only led the two little surnames a few steps and knelt down, and slowly entered the camp of the remnants of the shogunate army.

The shogunate surrendered that very day.

Before the shogunate retreated steadily, except for one Matsudaira Naozheng, there was no daimyo who died for the country.

In this surrender, two shogunate vassal daimyo committed suicide and asked their sons to surrender instead. On that day, all the shogunate elders including Tadaaki Abe committed seppuku. Many of them committed seppuku, including Sakai Tadakatsu and Sakai’s family. More than 700 shogunate samurai committed suicide, and the corpses were all over the mountain.

And the only ten-year-old shogunate general Tokugawa Ietsuna was confused and panicked, and the only remaining son of the shogun, Sakai Tadanao, led him down the mountain by the hand, and knelt down to ask for surrender.

Now he is on his way to Edo.

"It's pretty easy to die."

Zhu Youjian praised the painful suicide behavior of seppuku before, but now he is a little annoyed when he looks at the surrender list.

The main high-ranking members of the shogunate are dead, and all of them are placed on Fukushima's "All Scriptures Mountain".

It is not good to chop them at will.

The sticky place has been guarded these days, and there is no one who secretly extended a helping hand to the shogunate.

This disappointed Zhu Youjian, who was thinking of picking out a dozen people and cutting them to pieces in Edo.

"Master, why don't you have nothing to say?"

"The prince's methods are vicious."

"I dare not! I made a slip of the tongue! I slap my mouth!!"

Wang Zhien slapped himself across the face, and Zhu Youjian shook his head angrily: "Stop! We'll talk about it when someone comes. Go outside and see how the exam room is being built."

"Thank you Lord Ron! The servant is going!"

Edo is changing with each passing day.

The Black Banner Court has been in place for less than a month, and the reconstruction work that was delayed due to the war is proceeding very smoothly.

At present, many berthing points have been built in the wharf, and the treasure ship can directly dock and dock. The frame of the shipyard has been built, and the shipbuilding can be started only after the output of the wood and steel factories increases.

Sea transportation lines are also constantly coming and going.

The circulation of goods, many goods from Liaodong are also sent to the four islands of Japan, which also makes this brand-new Edo wharf full of people, workers and porters wandering in it, and the industrial chain is rapidly formed.

Coupled with the reconstruction, the number of jobs surged, and the surrounding population flooded in. In just a few months, the population of Edo exceeded the population before the fire.

No matter how fast the rebuilding work could be, the shacks in Edo covered the entire plain.

As long as the black flag fleet arrives, the amount of goods transported will immediately make the whole Edo jubilant and turbulent.

Seeing that it is the autumn harvest, most of the fields in Liaodong are newly developed, and the output is increasing year by year. Many large farms and officials in Liaodong are desperately producing old grain in order to stabilize the price of new grain.

Japan has just finished fighting, and food prices are high, both officially and privately.

Before the black flag took down the four islands all the way, it proved its strength.

Then the shipment of grain by boat was simply too rich for the four islands whose autumn harvest was affected by the war.

It's ridiculous to be rich.

(End of this chapter)