Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 286 The King of Old and New Japan
"Chance?"

Tokugawa Iezari and Matsudaira Sadanobu looked at each other.

They also know the current situation in Japan.

Due to the success of the Ming Dynasty, many samurai hoped that Japan could also be founded.

And many people also believe that Japan has indeed reached the conditions for the founding of the country.

First of all, of course, is safety.

Ming Dynasty has a close relationship with Japan, and Ming Dynasty is now the world's hegemony, and at the same time, it is also the father country of the Eastern countries.

Therefore, Westerners no longer dare to be so unscrupulous in the Eastern Seas.

With the guarantee of safety.

Of course, there is no need for Japan to lock up the country-but of course the Tokugawa shogunate supports the lock-up.

Locking the country can bring benefits to the shogunate.

The founding of the country is prone to some uncontrolled strong vassals.

But now the founding voice is so loud.

The Edo shogunate is not good at rejecting it directly. It just said that it is still under discussion and plans to delay it for a while.

It's just based on the voice of Japan's current domestic founding.

Delay is not going to last long.

This Japan is actually not peaceful.

Except for the samurai riots.

There are also bandits and water thieves in the local area, and various peasant rebellious movements emerge in endlessly.

no way.

Japan is too poor.

The poor can't get rid of the pot, and the farmers who survived are almost instinctive to rebel and make trouble.

This is true both at home and abroad.

It's just that traditional agricultural societies such as Ming Dynasty, North Korea, and Japan are more prominent.

In addition, Ming Dynasty, North Korea and other countries implemented a centralized prefecture and county system, and the local force was relatively weak. Therefore, when the peasant movement broke out, the local government was sometimes unable to resist it, and it would soon form a large-scale turmoil that threatened the central government.

Japan, on the other hand, is a situation where there are many vassal states everywhere.

If you have to compare it with Chinese history, it looks a bit like the enfeoffment of various countries during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

In the center is the dual system of emperor, shogun,

All local vassals have independent armies and independent finances.

Therefore, there is enough force in the local area to suppress the unarmed peasant army. It is not necessary to be the same as China, North Korea and other countries. After the peasant army has established a solid base and began to have well-trained professional soldiers, the central army will be able to move forward. Long overdue.

Therefore, although the peasant movement is surging.

But the main contradiction in this country in Japan is the contradiction between the local feudal vassals and the shogunate.
The ruling class is always firmly in the hands of the samurai.

But how to open the country, but there is a lot of discussion from top to bottom.

Matsudaira Sadanobu looked at Xie Youren, the Consul General of Ming Dynasty in Japan who was accompanying him, and asked with a serious tone: "What is the opportunity for Japan!"

"The opportunity for Japan to integrate into the Chinese system!" Tokugawa Miki said, "Nowadays around the world, the Europa Baiyi has stolen North and South America. This is the land bestowed by God, and our Chinese race should strive for it!"

This is the theory of Emperor Zhu.

Great influence in Japan!
Even greater than the influence in China itself.

Now among the saints worshiped by Japanese samurai.

Emperor Zhu is also beginning to become one of them.

"Then where are the opportunities for Japan?"

Tokugawa Jiaqi asked.

"In New Japan!"

Tokugawa Miki looked at his brother.

Tokugawa Iezai is actually her cousin. The previous head of the Tokugawa family, Tokugawa Miki's father, Tokugawa Ieji, has no children, so he can only adopt Tokugawa Iezai.

Tokugawa Ieharu died six years ago, and Tokugawa Iezari became the new shogun and took charge of the power of the shogunate.

At the same time, the old Nakamatsudaira Sadanobu, as the minister of Tuogu, actually controlled the power.

But as Tokugawa Jiaqi grew older, Matsudaira Sadanobu grew old.

Power has tilted more towards Tokugawa Jiaqi.

"Japan has a lot of small people, and there are great kingdoms like the Ming Dynasty around. If you have the heart to fight for hegemony, you will be attacked by the heavens. The battle of Baijiangkou in Wotang back then, and the battle of Korea in the year of Imchen are all like this."

Tokugawa Miki said.

"Even if Japan has millions of warriors, it cannot compete with Ming Dynasty."

Tokugawa Iezari and Matsudaira Sadanobu also nodded when they heard the words.

Of course they agree with this statement.

But there are too many samurai in Japan.

These warriors who are educated and have good chopping skills don't have much future, so it's only normal for some ambitious people to be involved.

Many Japanese samurai believed that Japan should expand outward like Ming Dynasty.

But where can Japan expand?

Coveting the western continent?

Isn't this courting death?

This is the way to kill!
It is absolutely impossible for Matsudaira Sadanobu and Tokugawa Jiaqi to accept such a proposition.

Not to the west.

What about eastward?
I'm afraid it won't work either.

Because the Ming Dynasty has already set its sights on North America.

During this period of time, more and more Ming ships traveled between Edo and Hawaii, and the Ming Dynasty had already begun to look for a place to establish a military port in Hawaii.

And also signed a "military port lease treaty" with the king of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

It is said that a military port for the Ming Dynasty North American West Coast Fleet will be established at a place called Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor.

What a good name.

You can get rich just by listening.

But it has nothing to do with Japan.

Tokugawa Iezai did not dare to expect Japan to be able to support a navy as large as the Ming Dynasty.

Even if the Ming Dynasty did not immigrate to North America.

Japan can't afford the consumption of large-scale North American immigration.

No way, Japan is too poor—in fact, it’s not that Japan is too poor. There are still many wealthy merchants all over Japan, and many wealthy merchants are guests of the feudal lords.

exactly.

It was the Edo shogunate and the Japanese imperial court that were too poor.

Needless to say, the Japanese imperial court is a bare-bones emperor, who can't pay for it at all-if they can pay for it, they won't be counting on the Edo shogunate to pay for it.

As for the Edo Shogunate.

It is true that the Tokugawa family has millions of stone heights.

It is the highest among all feudal lords in the world.

But relying on the income from farming, it is already very difficult to support the samurai in the feudal clan.

If you want to raise a big navy.

That would be even more impossible and impractical.

"Therefore, the crazy ideas of those lunatic warriors will only bring disaster to Japan!"

Tokugawa Miki's words are really forward-looking-isn't that the case in history?

Of course.

Historically, China was weak.

Although Japan has been wiped out.

But at least it was cool.

Under this time and space.

I'm afraid that there is no possibility of even having a good time.

"If Japan wants to expand, it must expand within the Celestial Dynasty system and strictly abide by the rituals of the Ming Dynasty!" Tokugawa Miki said. "However, Japan is not a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. To integrate into the Ming system, the emperor must be withdrawn and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. With the bravery of Japanese warriors and the large population of Japan, Japan will become the first vassal of the Ming Dynasty in the future!"

"And under this premise, my son's new Japan can be opened to the old Japan, and Japan will have a brand new future in South America!"

"Where's the emperor and the general?"

"The emperor must withdraw from the throne. As for the general... he is still a general, but he has to be a vassal to my son. My son will be the king of the new Japan and the old Japan. In the future, my son's heirs will be the kings of the old and new Japan respectively!"

Xie Youren was taken aback by Tokugawa Manji's words.

King of old and new Japan?

Why?
Is this woman really so favored by the emperor?

Xie Youren frowned.

(End of this chapter)