I'm really not doing business

Chapter 836: Creating something out of nothing
Hai Zhongshi was completely different from Hai Rui. Hai Zhongshi recognized that integrity was a virtue, but what was the use of integrity? His family was penniless and he had nothing. He could not leave anything for future generations, nor even for the Ming Dynasty. He only left a monument in history.

In Hai Zhongshi's eyes, Hai Rui's noble morals are of no use at all!

The conflict between Hai Rui and Hai Zhongshi is not only a family conflict, but also reflects the structural contradiction between public and private at the turning point of history.

The "public" that Hai Rui insisted on was an idealized moral imperative and a noble morality;

The "private" that Hai Zhongshi pursues is a realistic choice driven by economic rationality and interests.

Who is right and who is wrong? It seems that there will be different answers depending on your standpoint.

Zhu Yijun did not like Hai Zhongshi and did not want to leave Hai Rui's legacy to this unfilial son. His father had been bedridden for a long time, and Hai Zhongshi took advantage of Hai Rui's good name and reputation to do business everywhere. However, some government offices chose to turn a blind eye because of Hai Rui's great influence.

According to the investigation conducted by Xu Jue, Hai Zhongshi has been very close to Li Dan from Quanzhou Prefecture recently.

Li Dan from Quanzhou Prefecture was a famous merchant in the Ming Dynasty. He mainly dealt in betel nuts, Siamese rice, cotton, cotton cloth and other items, all of which were cheap goods.

In the past, Li Dan wanted to smuggle cheap goods, but the Ming Dynasty’s customs declaration was too slow and the merchants enriched themselves, resulting in the actual tax rate being much higher than the nominal tax rate, even higher than the private market. It was expensive and troublesome, so many merchants chose the private market.

Now Li Dan is indeed engaged in legal business, but with the relationship with Hai Zhongshi, who knows whether Li Dan will engage in illegal business, such as opium, ayahuasca, raw silk, etc., which are strictly prohibited by the court.

Zhu Yijun chose to let the Hai family of Qiongzhou select another child with both good character and morality to come to Beijing. In this way, neither Hai Zhongshi nor the new child who inherited Hai Rui's legacy would be able to ruin Hai Rui's reputation.

Because Hai Zhongshi ruined Hai Rui's reputation, the emperor deprived him of his inheritance rights. All government offices knew that the emperor would not allow others to ruin Hai Rui's reputation or use his good name to make money, so they would not do so.

Hai Rui's good reputation and his morality are among the most precious treasures of the Ming Dynasty. They are the embodiment of the Han Dynasty's loyalty and good deeds from generation to generation, and the greatest secret of the timeless prosperity of this ancient land of Central Plains.

Wang Qiansheng's plan to be promoted to the Chief Censor of the Censorate ultimately failed, as the cabinet voted two ways, with Zhang Juzheng and Shen Li opposing and Wang Chonggu and Zhang Xueyan in favor.

Zhang Juzheng opposed Wang Qian holding multiple positions. Wang Qian could only hold one of the two positions, Yanxinglou Trading Company and the Censorate. If Wang Qian was willing to give up Yanxinglou, he could hold the Censorate. Zhang Xueyan recognized Wang Qian's ability and thought he could hold both positions.

Shen Li believed that Wang Qian was not virtuous and could not convince the public. After all, his status as a juren was obtained through cheating.

Wang Chonggu's approval was very unexpected. Originally, Wang Qian wanted to avoid suspicion when he was promoted, but Wang Chonggu, under the banner of promoting the virtuous regardless of relationship, still put up a floating vote.

The cabinet had different opinions, so the matter was brought to the ministry for discussion. Both the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites disagreed with Wang Qian's promotion. In the end, Wang Qian's promotion to the Chief Censor of the Censorate fell through.

Of course, Wang Qian did not make things so embarrassing for the cabinet ministers, court officials, and Beijing officials, nor did he make things difficult for the emperor. He persisted for less than a day, gave up his extravagant hope of promotion, and took the initiative to submit a memorial to decline the offer, so that everyone had a way to step down and there was no need to argue endlessly about the matter.

To sum up Wang Qian’s memorial, he was not that important.

The matter of appointing the Chief Censor of the Censorate entered the process of being recommended by the court.

The cabinet quickly shortlisted three candidates and submitted them to the emperor for his approval.

"I have discovered something interesting. The ministers in the eyes of the cabinet ministers, the ministers in my eyes, and the ministers in the eyes of the Jinyiwei and Dongchang men are completely three different people." Zhu Yijun checked the resumes of the three people and came to a conclusion.

If you look at the problem from different angles, you will reach different conclusions.

For example, the first candidate recommended was Xin Zixiu, the governor of Baoding. In the eyes of the ministers, Xin Zixiu was definitely the best candidate. Xin Zixiu and Hai Rui were good friends and they exchanged letters frequently. Anyone who could be recognized by Hai Rui was naturally not a treacherous minister or a traitor.
But in the eyes of the factory guards, Xin Zixiu was very inappropriate and looked a little unclean, because he had good relationships with all parties, maintained close relations with the Qingliu, and frequently interacted with the wealthy families. Many of his family members were related to the wealthy families. The Fanzi said that Xin Zixiu was clinging to the powerful to destroy the law, which was already a very serious accusation;

But in the eyes of the emperor, Xin Zixiu was not good enough. The reason for his failure was that he was incompetent. He was just a good guy. He could not do the job of Chief Censor of the Censorate, which would offend people. Instead, the Minister of Rites was more suitable for him.

Zhu Yijun looked for a long time and chose Lu Guangzu as the Left Censor-in-Chief and Xin Zixiu as the Right Censor-in-Chief.

Lu Guangzu, a person who really wants to make progress.

Lu Guangzu became a Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing, on the same list as Zhang Juzheng. Lu Guangzu had a very deep foundation and was closely connected with both the Jin Party and the Zhang Party.

When Zhang Juzheng's father passed away, Lu Guangzu was also in mourning. The emperor asked Lu Guangzu to return to the court to serve and share some of the opposition to the seizure of his lover's favor with Zhang Juzheng.

Without saying a word, Lu Guangzu scolded the lowly scholars who did not allow him to be reinstated in the Southern Court, and returned to Beijing happily to take up his post as the Minister of the Dali Temple.

For eleven years, Lu Guangzu never caused trouble for the emperor. When the emperor wanted to kill someone or behead someone, he would instigate Wang Chonggu to give His Majesty a blank imperial edict, allowing His Majesty to kill people reasonably, legally and in accordance with procedures, rather than creating an unjust case.

Lu Guangzu's reasons were very sufficient, Your Majesty was very wise, and he believed in Your Majesty's ability to control himself.

To oppose the blank imperial seal, one must first oppose Your Majesty's wisdom. This falls into the logical circle that the emperor cannot be wrong, causing a group of scholars and officials to call Lu Guangzu a yes-man.

In general, in the eyes of the ministers, Lu Guangzu was capable enough, but too flattering. He was not suitable to be the director of the Censorate, a noble government office. However, there were indeed no suitable candidates in the Ming Dynasty at the moment. If there were, Hai Rui would not have made an exception to recommend Wang Qian.

The Ming Dynasty had to skip a group of people, the Jinshi from the 26th year of Jiajing to the 41st year of Jiajing. These people were not loyal enough, not loyal to the emperor, the court, the country and the people. The risks and potential threats of letting these people come to power were extremely great.

The Ming Emperor's appointment surprised the cabinet, but the cabinet quickly approved the new appointment unanimously. After discussions by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites, there were not many objections, so the matter was settled.

The Ministry of Rites did not object, and it was impossible for it to object. The Ministry of Rites' senior official, the cabinet minister Shen Li, has gone from being a stubborn person to a flatterer for a long time. The eldest brother did not laugh at the second brother, but opposed it on the grounds that Lu Guangzu was flattering. Should Shen Li also be impeached?
In this way, Lu Guangzu became the new Chief Censor of the Censorate.

On the last day of May in the sixteenth year of the Wanli reign, the Ming Dynasty's Kaigu Dianjian, or Wine Festival, was to be held. Before May, in late April, the entire capital city became bustling, and even the air was filled with the aroma of wine.

At the same time, merchant ships that departed from Matsue Prefecture in early April also arrived at the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office. A large number of goods flowed to Japan, which also meant that countless Japanese slaves and women flowed to the Ming Dynasty and Southeast Asia.

In April, the trade winds changed, and hundreds of ships competed for the current. The busy maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty began again. Even the violent and frequent hurricanes in the western Pacific could not stop this busyness.

The Ming Dynasty sent Gao Qiyu, a special envoy to Japan, who never left Ying'en Hall during this period and had been negotiating peace with Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Kyoto.

Any peace negotiation will be protracted and will inevitably be accompanied by mutual testing and confrontation to determine each other's strength. Generally speaking, what cannot be obtained on the battlefield, cannot be obtained at the negotiating table.

The interactions between countries are entirely based on interests, rather than benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. If you don't understand this clearly, you will not be able to enter the Honglu Temple as a Han envoy in the Ming Dynasty.

Only military victory can lead to effective control. For example, during the negotiations, Toyotomi Hideyoshi would not ask for temporary control of Korea, which was then driven out to sea by the Ming Dynasty; Toyotomi Hideyoshi would not ask for the ownership of Tsushima Island during the negotiations, because the Ming army actually occupied Tsushima Island.

This is the basic principle of general negotiation, the principle of effective control. Whoever occupies it owns it. This has been the case throughout history without exception.

Of course, there are also unexpected events, such as betrayal. If the Ming Dynasty directly sold Korea to Japan, the Koreans would cry for their parents, and Japan would probably wake up laughing in its dreams.

This is possible. After all, people like Zhao Nanxing think that Ming's invasion of Korea to fight is a waste of resources and a reckless war that will put the world in danger.

For example, Sima Guang advocated exchanging land for peace. He used the last years of his life to return all the land that Wang Anshi had opened up in Xihe to Western Xia. The originally precarious situation of Western Xia was immediately stabilized.

To expand territory, one needs military victory, which seems to be correct nonsense, similar to having water in the fire hydrant.

However, despite the military defeat, the Xixia people gained four extremely important strongholds: Mizhizhai, which controlled the Wuding River Basin; Jialuzhai, an important ferry on the west bank of the Yellow River, guarding the east defense line; Futuzhai, controlling the Dali River channel; Anjiangzhai, the core camp of the Huanqing Road defense zone;

Western Xia came back to life from the brink of death.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun was very wary of Zhao Nanxing and his ilk, and even crossed out their names from the list of Jinshi to prevent them from gaining power. These lowly scholars had no ability to do anything, and it was easy for them to do bad things.

Zhu Yijun's attitude towards lowly Confucian scholars has always been to kill them whenever he can. There is really no excuse to kill them. If he finds one, he will exile him, and it would be best if he never allows him to return to the court.

"Grand Herald, aren't we going too far by doing this?" After reading the negotiation terms, Li Chengli felt that Gao Qiyu was not just asking for too much, but was trying to get something for nothing.

Gao Qiyu fabricated something out of thin air and demanded that Toyotomi Hideyoshi go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to pay homage to the emperor before he could receive the title from the Ming Dynasty.

The reason was very sufficient. The Ming Dynasty was deceived by Oda Nobunaga and appointed him as the king of Wa. After he gained a foothold, he immediately plotted treason and invaded Korea.

If Toyotomi Hideyoshi wanted to be enthroned by the Ming court, he had to go to the Ming capital in person to pay homage. Otherwise, if the Ming court enthroned Toyotomi Hideyoshi and he invaded Korea again, how would the Ming Dynasty respond?

Everyone knew that if Toyotomi Hideyoshi went to the Ming capital, he would die without a burial place. His Majesty never cared about his own reputation, and he didn't care about the lives of the Japanese.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi couldn't go, so he had to pay the price.

Gao Qiyu launched a trick of creating something out of nothing and drew out a void card, making Toyotomi Hideyoshi overwhelmed in dealing with it.

"Is it too much?" Gao Qiyu shook his head and said, "I didn't move their Japanese king to Ming Dynasty. I let him sink into the sea on the way. It was already very subtle. Too much? How is it too much?"

Gao Qiyu's words surprised Li Chengli a little, but then he was relieved. Gao Qiyu was a scholar, and it was natural for a scholar to be so cruel.

The King of Wa that Gao Qiyu mentioned was actually the Emperor of Wa, also known as Yamashiro-kun.

Before the Ming Dynasty established the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office, it had no knowledge of the Japanese system and the role of the emperor. It believed that the Japanese emperor was the monarch of Yamashiro Province, and that the Muromachi shogun appointed by the Ming Dynasty was the supreme ruler of Japan.

However, after the establishment of the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office and extremely in-depth understanding, it was figured out that Yamashiro-kun, the King of Japan, and the Emperor were actually the same person, and that the Emperor was the supreme ruler of Japan.

On the bed, there is a guy who claims to be the emperor!
Ever since they learned that the King of Wa and Lord Yamashiro claimed to be the Emperor of Wa, the Ming Dynasty scholars and officials were all upset. The Ministry of Rites checked the classics and found that the King of Wa had already called himself the Emperor since at least the Sui Dynasty. For example, during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, the Japanese envoy Ono no Imoko (male, Chinese name Su Yingao) secretly wrote a sentence in the letter from the Emperor of the West: "The Emperor of the East respectfully pays homage to the Emperor of the West."

Gao Qiyu's previous plan was to move the Japanese Emperor to the Ming Dynasty and then sink his family into the sea, but considering the difficulty of execution, he decided to wait and see.

Gao Qiyu looked at Kyoto outside the window and said with a frown, "The current situation in Japan is very bad. Korea lost 80,000 soldiers, the country is losing population, land is abandoned, the gap between the rich and the poor is becoming more extreme, and the Paradise Cult is rampant."

"On the one hand, Japan is in a state of extravagance and prosperity, and these port cities seem to have never been affected by the wars; on the other hand, it is extremely poor, and the contradiction between a large population and a small land area, which should have been alleviated with the loss of population, has not been alleviated."

"Division, division, opposition and destruction, Japan is destroying Japan."

"Your Majesty, ask me, did Oda Nobunaga commit suicide? I don't know, but it's probably true."

Li Chengli asked curiously, "If the Grand Master is the Prime Minister of Japan, is there any good solution?"

Gao Qiyu nodded and said, "Yes, one, invade Korea and Ming Dynasty again, and win the war. In this way, all the internal contradictions of Japan will be greatly alleviated with the victory of the war. After all, external expansion will gain enough population, land, and wealth;"

"Second, we should isolate ourselves from the outside world and live our lives behind closed doors."

These are the two prescriptions Gao Qiyu prescribed for Japan. Invasion is extremely difficult, as the Ming Dynasty's weapons and training have formed a huge generation gap; closing the country to the outside world seems to be a good strategy.

If one of these two methods is successful, Japan can completely get rid of these difficult situations and be reborn from the ashes.

But it could not be carried out. The Ming Dynasty would not allow Japan to close its doors to the outside world. In addition to mining Japan's silver mines, the Ming Dynasty also had to mine human mines. How could the Ming Dynasty mine human mines if it closed its doors to the outside world?
The cheap and inferior firearms, textiles, porcelain, tea, writing brushes, inkstones, and other goods of the Ming Dynasty poured into Japan. This was the beginning of the journey.
The Japanese daimyo provided sufficient silver. If silver was insufficient, they would provide Japanese slaves and women in exchange for these goods. These slaves and women would be transported to plantations in Southeast Asia. This was the medium term.
The plantations produced agricultural products such as sugar, rubber, tobacco, palm oil, and mineral raw materials such as gold, silver, copper, and iron, which were returned to the Ming Dynasty. This was the return journey.

The triangular trade cycle of outbound, mid-haul and return journey has been thoroughly established.

Even if the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had a change of heart and closed the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office and allowed Japan to close its doors to the outside world, Japan would not be able to do so. A circular trade route had already been formed, and even Your Majesty would find it difficult to destroy it. This was driven by the power of profit.

Even if the law does not allow it, some people will do it secretly.

The widespread presence of brokers and compradors in Japan accelerated the cycle of this triangular trade.

These brokers and compradors and the daimyos behind them were the biggest consumers of Ming merchants' outbound trips. They were one of the reasons for the emergence of Japanese slaves and Japanese women. The life in Japan was really too miserable, so miserable that people would rather be slaves or Nanyang girls than escape from this hell.

There are four reasons for the emergence of Japanese slaves: war, punishment, superstition and famine, and the Japanese brokers and compradors expanded the impact of these four reasons.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi simply could not refuse the Ming Dynasty's request. He could neither win a military victory nor have the Ming Dynasty have any traitors to cooperate with him in recovering the lost territory of Tsushima Island after a military failure. He was even less able to close the country to the outside world. He now needed the Ming Dynasty's enthronement to consolidate his position.

How to obtain the title from the Ming Dynasty without going there became Toyotomi Hideyoshi's top priority.

Gao Qiyu said to Li Chengli, "In times of famine, when people are desperate, they will mortgage themselves in exchange for food. This phenomenon has become more common, especially at a time when the traditional Japanese family values ​​have not yet been completely disintegrated by the Paradise Religion."

"When a family is in danger, one member of the family will step forward and sell themselves to the highest bidder, willing to go anywhere or accept any identity. Only in this way can they rescue their parents or other relatives from danger."

"And these Japanese slaves, who were born with the belief of sacrifice, believed that all their sacrifices were worthwhile because their parents, wives and children had food."

"But when Japan completely collapsed, the food obtained by selling oneself would usually return to the pockets of meat eaters in various ways, and this sacrifice became meaningless. This undoubtedly accelerated the spread of the Paradise Cult in Japan."

"The shogunate, the nobles, the daimyo, and the comprador economy in Japan, these meat eaters, saw it clearly. They stood much higher than the poor coolies and knew very well where the problem was, but they did not stop it. Instead, they condoned it because they wanted to maintain their status and gain benefits at the same time."

"So, apart from invading Korea again and closing the country to the outside world, Japan actually has another way out, that is, the princes and generals will rise up in rebellion."

Gao Qiyu prescribed a third remedy: to rise up in rebellion. This was the only feasible way for Japan to achieve nirvana. The egg was broken from the inside, ushering in a new life.

The only one who can save yourself is yourself. This is the lesson the Ming Dynasty has learned from thousands of years of history.

"Hiss, Grand Herald, what should we do if the Japanese really rise up in rebellion?" Li Chengli immediately became alert. He sympathized with the Japanese's plight, but he did not intend to interfere in the Japanese slave trade. Li Chengli was even more wary of the birth of a united, new Japan with more consensus!

This is not in the interests of the Ming Dynasty.

"Isn't this the meaning of the existence of people like Toyotomi Hideyoshi?" Gao Qiyu smiled obscurely.

Li Chengli couldn't help but shudder, and immediately stood up and said, "I'm going to inspect the defense of Ying'en Hall!"

"Why are you leaving? Come back and talk!" Gao Qiyu said hurriedly when he saw Li Chengli was about to leave.

"His Majesty said: Don't let us warriors learn bad things from you scholars!" Li Chengli left in a hurry without looking back, and made up his mind not to talk to Gao Qiyu if possible.

He didn't quite understand why Gao Qiyu recognized Toyotomi Hideyoshi's rule. Gao Qiyu even planned to ask Toyotomi Hideyoshi to be crowned king.

When Li Chengli understood Gao Qiyu's plan, his bones trembled. Your Majesty is right. These scholars read too many books.

Maintaining Toyotomi Hideyoshi's rule in Japan completely blocked Japan's path to rebirth through uprising, and kept Japan in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal purgatory.

What made Li Chengli's scalp tingle the most was that during the entire peace negotiation process, Gao Qiyu always stood on the moral high ground and did not do anything bad.

"Well, let's chat more." Gao Qiyu smiled and continued to deal with various reports. He wanted to find clues from the reports and grasp the overall direction of the peace talks.

Gao Qiyu looked at the report in front of him with a look of surprise, and then he smiled. Given the current situation, all Toyotomi Hideyoshi could do was to cut his own flesh and agree to the Ming Emperor's condition of stationing troops in the mine.

As the monsoon changed in April, the Ming navy immediately became extremely active and the Ming army's offensive began.

Moreover, the Ming army attacked everywhere without any hidden dangers, because the Japanese pirates on Tsushima Island had been completely transformed into Japanese slaves and sent to Nagasaki.

The Koreans hated the Japanese pirates to their core. Now their skills were very good. It only took them three minutes to pick a pair of bells. Even arresting people did not require the Ming army to do anything. The Korean army led by Yi Sun-sin was arresting people all over the mountains and plains.

The person holding the knife just holds the knife, while the others lift the Japanese onto the fixed frame and secure it.

The man holding the knife pulled his trousers, cut with the knife, squeezed, and twisted the bell a few times. The bell fell off as soon as he cut it. He tied a knot, applied some iodine, and sewed it casually in a few seconds. With a light push, it was the next one. After three days of not drinking water or eating, a brand new Japanese slave without worldly desires was produced.

A knife catcher can knock out 98 pieces a day, working on an assembly line. The survival rate is over %. There are times when he makes mistakes, but no one cares.

This efficiency enabled the Ming Dynasty to complete the cleanup of Tsushima Island as quickly as possible. Afterwards, it migrated men from Shandong and Korea and led the Japanese to reclaim wasteland, build roads, and construct ports on Tsushima Island.

Shen Li, the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, advocated that if the Han people did not multiply, even if they had thousands of vast territories, they would still be a wilderness of barriers. The speed of the kingship of Tsushima Island would be even faster than that of Suiyuan.

Every time the Japanese invaders passed through Guihua City and headed for Womagang to plant potatoes on the Xianbeilian steppes, Sanniang would organize border residents, Hu people, and former Wanhu people to watch the migration of the Japanese invaders.

The third lady repeatedly told these households: Don't be a rebel no matter what, don't offend His Majesty, look at these Japanese slaves! The Ming Dynasty has plenty of ways to conquer the distant lands, and the reason why it didn't do it is because His Majesty is kind!
On April 24, the 16th year of the Wanli reign, Nagato Castle, controlled by the Japanese daimyo Mori Terumoto, was attacked by the Ming army and fell the next day.

According to battle reports from the front lines, on the day of Nagato Castle, tens of thousands of divine fire crows soared into the sky, landed in the castle, and exploded with a loud bang.

The Japanese had never seen such a scene before, and they fled from Nagato, shouting "Heavenly fire".

Mori Terumoto was the daimyo who preserved his strength the best after the invasion of Korea, but he did not survive a single day at the hands of the Ming army.

Qi Jiguang was also very surprised at the power of the Divine Fire Flying Crow. In fact, he was not particularly interested in this kind of firearm with a long range but relatively small power. This batch of Divine Fire Flying Crow was also sent to the front line by the Institute of Gewu for verification testing, mainly to verify stability.

The power of this thing, just as Qi Jiguang had expected, was actually very ordinary. The explosion scattered phosphorus, which set all the wooden buildings in Changmen City on fire, making the noise seem too overwhelming.

The blow this thing caused to morale was beyond everyone's expectations, including the Japanese.

The fall of Nagato Castle completely destroyed the Japanese people's determination to resist to the death, and the entire Japanese country was in a state of complete panic.

Before resisting, the Japanese must think about a question: how many Divine Fire Flying Crows does the Ming Dynasty have?
"Grand Herald, Toyotomi Hideyoshi has sent an envoy to deliver a letter of surrender." Admiral Huang Bin, the eunuch, walked into Gao Qiyu's room with a smile on his face and placed a letter of surrender in front of Gao Qiyu. Regarding the mining rights that were of most concern to the Ming Dynasty, Toyotomi Hideyoshi agreed to the Ming Dynasty's garrison.

Gao Qiyu picked up the surrender letter, read it for a long time, and said with a smile: "It's very interesting. Now it's probably not enough to just hand over the mining rights. Toyotomi Hideyoshi has to hand over the King of Japan in his entirety."

Gao Qiyu opened his mouth wide and continued to create bargaining chips and exert extreme pressure, trying to get as many benefits as he could. Toyotomi Hideyoshi came from a very humble background and was a poor farmer. In order to establish his authority and obtain the status of Taiko Kanpaku, Toyotomi Hideyoshi showed great respect to the emperor and treated him with great courtesy in exchange for the surname Toyotomi.

There was no way Toyotomi Hideyoshi would hand over the emperor to the Ming Dynasty, so this was another extreme pressure.

"What does the Grand Herald want this time?" Huang Bin asked curiously.

Gao Qiyu said with certainty: "Of course it is to help with the military expenses. The Ming garrison helped them defend the mines, so isn't it natural for them to pay the military pay?"

It is useless for the Ming Dynasty to have this emperor. It will waste food and cause trouble. It is better to get some tangible benefits. Even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi respected the Emperor of Japan, it was out of necessity. He did not take the Emperor of Japan seriously. The purpose of Gao Qiyu's trip was to exert extreme pressure a little bit and strive to get more benefits.

He was unwilling to stay in such an uncivilized place and be an emperor. He wanted to go back to be a wise ruler and make progress.

(End of this chapter)