The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

East Ezo, West Ezo, Toshima Ezo, Tokaku Ezo, etc. obtained materials and weapons from the Ming Dynasty, and became a huge threat to the shogunate. The Ezo people who used to suppress and fight can now invade Japan by boat from time to time. On the mainland, a brutal revenge was carried out.

The Japanese country has used extermination methods against the Eni people for a long time, so that only tens of thousands of Eni people are left in later generations. Now that the Eni people have the ability to retaliate, they will naturally not show mercy. They will return all the suffering they have endured for generations to the Japanese people.

Facing the Ezo people who are well-armed and not afraid of death, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu is miserable. The Ezo people who have the support of the Ming Dynasty and the Ezo people who do not have the support of the Ming Dynasty have undergone earth-shaking changes. They are no longer weak in the past. opponent.

"General, we can no longer give in."

The elder below reminded him. After hearing this, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu was speechless and his expression was still hesitant.

The Ezo people are fierce. If your army fights the Ezo people, even if you defeat the Ezo people, your strength will be greatly reduced. Your own small army will be wasted on the Ezo people. Now that your brother is back, how can you? It’s not like I’m powerless to resist.

However, the recent number of raids by the Ezo people and the fact that they are going further and further into the interior have affected their judgment. Too many soldiers want to take revenge.

Finally, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu made a decision.

They sent out their troops to attack the Ezo people, causing the Ezo people to suffer a few defeats and retreat to their islands, not daring to offend the Japanese mainland again. But the shogunate's letter for help arrived.

Ashikaga Yoshitsugu and others were shocked when they learned the news of the defeat at the front.

No one thought that they could easily defeat the Ming Dynasty. The purpose of this counterattack was to make the Ming army retreat in the face of difficulties. After all, the Ming army had no supplies on the mainland and everything needed to be transported across the sea. Even the Ming Dynasty had to bear such high consumption. Not worth it.

"Brother, what's going on with them? They clearly promised to be safe." Ashikaga Yoshitsugu said dissatisfied.

"The Navy of the Ming Dynasty."

The person below explained.

In any case, it is what Ashikaga Yoshitsugu must do to save the shogunate. Only by the existence of the shogunate can the power of the Japanese country be gathered. Otherwise, even he himself will be powerless and will eventually fall apart.

"Is the emperor still in the hands of eldest brother?"

"When the general retreated, he sent someone to pick up the emperor."

Ashikaga Yoshitsugu breathed a sigh of relief. If the emperor fell into the hands of the Ming army, the Ming army would use the emperor's appeal to collapse the shogunate's resistance, which would have a great effect.

Not daring to delay any longer, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu led his army south. As for the Ezo people, they were only a minor problem. After surviving this disaster, they would come back to deal with the Ezo people.

In the northern part of the Japanese main island, the army withdrew.

There are more and more Ezo people.

The most injured are the common people. In fact, their land belongs to the ancestors of the Eni people. The Eni people have been expelled by the Japanese for many years and have shrunk to the north, even to the point of extinction.

Such hatred is by no means some artifice of trying to win over and divide people. It must be a life-or-death kind that only pursues revenge from top to bottom.

Higashi-Ezo, West-Ezo, Toshima-Ezo, and Tokaku-Ezo began to slaughter the enemy.

In places where there were castles, the remaining samurai formed a group to protect themselves. But places without castles suffered. Villages one after another were wiped out by the Ezo people, leaving no one alive.

Under the leadership of Higashi Ezoyama Motokiyo, the Ezo people broke through Tanesato Castle for the first time, and relied on gunpowder obtained from the Ming army to blow up the earthen stronghold. So the method of using gunpowder to blow open the city wall quickly spread among all the Ezo people.

It only took three months from looting the countryside to starting the massacre of the city, but the consequences were very serious.

There is no shortage of supplies and weapons, and gunpowder can also be obtained continuously from the Ming army. The entire Ezo clan, regardless of gender, old or young, joined this battle for revenge, and their desire for revenge was very firm.

Even if the Japanese people in various places have begun to resist, facing the organized and more advanced Ezo army, even if they exhaust their efforts, they often end up with failure.

Killing one thousand enemies and damaging eight hundred. Although the casualties of the Ezo people were not so serious, the number of Ezo people was already much smaller than that of the Japanese. For this revenge, the Ezo people also suffered a lot. .

But no matter how great the pain, the Ezo people did not flinch.

They are the Ainu, the local indigenous people.

The destruction of Shichinohe Castle, Sanhe Castle, Hachinohe Castle, Ishikawa Castle, Oura Castle, and cities one after another represented the victory of the Ezo people. The revenge here was over, and they began to continue southward, with the intention of killing all the Japanese people in one go.

On the other hand, the shogunate not only asked Ashikaga Yoshitsugu to lead the army southward for support, but also asked various places to supply grain and troops, and at the same time sent envoys to meet with the Ming Emperor to seek peace.

Of course Zhu Di would not agree and said to the Japanese envoy.

"For many years, the Ming Dynasty gave the shogunate ample preferential treatment, but the shogunate imprisoned the emperor, bullied the Ezo and Ryukyu people, repeatedly invaded and harassed the Inu Kingdom, etc. It never respected the upper dynasty and regarded the vassal system as child's play."

"Since this year, we have invaded the Dog Slave Kingdom on a large scale and have made moves to destroy the Dog Slave Kingdom. That's why I, the Ming Dynasty, raised troops to attack Buchen. Since the heavenly soldiers and generals have arrived, how can you just make peace with them?"

After hearing the Ming Emperor's accusation, the shogunate's envoy tried his best to explain.

If you can't get it on the battlefield, how can you expect to get it at the negotiation table? It's not the Qing Dynasty, so the shogunate's envoys are destined to return disappointed.

Knowing the Ming Emperor's attitude, the shogunate no longer had any luck.

The country of Japan has eight territories.

Hokkaido is still the territory of the Ezo people, but it has been suppressed by the shogunate army all year round.

Tohoku, the area between the main island of Japan and Hokkaido across the sea. Then there are Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu.

Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkaido are islands.

Kyushu had been divided by the Gounu Kingdom to the Ming Dynasty and was renamed Zhuzi. The four countries were nominally classified as dog slave countries, but in fact they also fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

The southern tip of the Japanese mainland is called China, and it is now the territory of the Inu Kingdom. Due to the war, Kinki fell into the hands of the Ming army, and the civil and military forces of the shogunate retreated to the central region.

The central region is bounded by Kanto to the south and Tohoku to the north.

The Aomori region in the northernmost part of the Northeast was massacred by the Ezo people. The remaining Akita, Yamagata, Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima areas could not count on the shogunate's army. In order to save their lives, they had to organize their own manpower to fight.

Therefore, the supplies and young people in the Northeast region cannot be counted on. The local area is too busy to take care of itself and will not pay attention to the request of the shogunate. This means that the shogunate now only has two regions, Central and Kanto.

The period when Kanto truly prospered should be counted as the Edo period.

The Edo shogunate regarded Edo as its center of governance, and later changed it to Tokyo, which became the Kyoto of later Japan. Such treatment was not only due to political reasons, but also the rise of Edo heroes was accidental and inevitable.

The Kanto Plain in Kanto is the largest plain in Japan. Its geographical characteristics are flat terrain, warm and humid climate, and fertile soil, which is suitable for agricultural and industrial development. In the past, the population and culture of Japan were concentrated in the southern region. With the development of productivity, it gradually expanded northward. In fact, at the beginning of the 15th century, the Kanto region already had the foundation for a leap forward.

That is to say, everything is ready but the east wind is needed. The Edo tycoons who emerged in later generations commanded the shogunate and took control of the political power of the Japanese country. They relied on the developed Kanto Plain. Even if they lost the battle, they could quickly regain their strength if they had food in hand. .

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The Kanto region has enough ability to support the shogunate, but the shogunate does not have enough prestige in the Kanto region. Why should it give the shogunate the white grain of food?

Because the central region is close to Kinki, the shogunate has a great influence in the area, and it is more supportive of the shogunate, while the Kanto region has little political power in the shogunate and Gyeonggi, and is looked down upon.

In order to win over the Kanto region, the shogunate promoted officials on a large scale to win over local powerful people. Based on this, the local powerful people happily gave money and food and pulled out their own troops.

If you want to develop industry, you must have a unified and stable social environment.

This is a theory put forward by Western scholars.

The same was true for Japan in later generations. The influence of the Japanese emperor was strengthened, and various places collapsed. After unifying Japan's social environment, Japan successfully carried out the industrial revolution.

Everything has pros and cons.

A unified society will make the social division of labor more detailed and the development of productivity more efficient. However, the requirements for organizational strength are very high. If the imperial court's economy goes bankrupt, the consequences will be great.

On the other hand, although the situation of local separatism is not conducive to the development of social productivity, the upper and lower limits are not large.

This is why a vassal state in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period continued to fight for a long time, and was able to persist until the young and strong were defeated, and was able to win over the old, weak, women and children. However, in countries in the later stages of unification, when the imperial government's economy failed, it instead Not an army came out.

The brutal behavior of the Inu Kingdom army in Kinki and the capital forced the daimyo in the central and Kanto regions to choose to support the shogunate. Therefore, after suffering a disastrous defeat, the shogunate, in addition to recollecting the defeated troops who escaped from the front, added the daimyo from various places. In support, an army of 70,000 to 80,000 people was reassembled.

Although an army of 70,000 to 80,000 people gathered around them, there was no unified order and morale was inconsistent. It was not the same as the nearly 200,000 troops in the hands of the shogunate.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the 200,000-strong shogunate army in the past could not defeat the Ming army, let alone the 70,000-80,000 miscellaneous army now. Failure is only a matter of time.

No one thought that the Ming army would fail.

From Ming scholars to the common people, everyone believed that the Ming army was very victorious, including businessmen.

At the exchange meeting held by Heji, hundreds of small and large businesses participated. Zhang Bo, who is in his sixties, is much more low-key than when he was young. The reporter asked curiously: "Although many businesses do not have the brand of Heji, they actually belong to Heji." Or are He Kee’s affiliated companies located in all regions and every piece of overseas land?”

Zhang Bo responded with a smile: "We are old friends of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau. We have always been the vanguard of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau, and we are all contributing to the development of the Ming Dynasty."

The reporter did not continue to ask further questions and stopped as soon as possible.

With the prosperity of the newspaper industry, the traditional method of relying on local submissions could not keep up with the development of the situation. Newspaper banks began to have their own reporters who specialized in collecting news from all walks of life.

The imperial court was not stupid about the importance of newspapers. It knew that it was related to public opinion, so it also had strict management of reporters. Every reporter must obtain permission from the newspaper industry and must meet the qualifications to become a reporter.

No one dares to underestimate the influence of journalists, not even Zhang Bo will be easily offended.

Many commercial houses wanted to start newspapers, but the court did not let them go. There were policies from above and countermeasures from below. There were many tabloids of various types in crowded places such as docks and train stations.

Compared with regular newspapers, these tabloids are more eye-catching. They contain all kinds of content, which makes people surprised.

Zhang Bo, a manager from the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau, was a self-made genius. He learned the advantages of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau thoroughly and gave full play to his own advantages, learning the essence of the Korean stock market.

He Kee is no longer an ordinary trading company, nor does it belong to any one person.

When it comes to comprehensive business systems such as coal and iron, shipping, shipbuilding, grain, cotton, herbal medicine, etc., shareholders involve many people. Although Heji was founded by Zhang Bo, it no longer belongs to Zhang Bo.

Relying on his ability and prestige, Zhang Bo was still selected as the helmsman of Heji.

"The actions of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau in Japan are actually a good opportunity for us."

domestic.

The exchange meeting held by Heji was large-scale. On the second day, small-scale exchanges began. Not only were representatives from Hezhong, but also the Korean business group, as well as some Jin Yiwei who were dressed up in force.

The Ming Law is getting thicker and thicker, and no organization or individual is allowed to violate the Ming Law.

The sanctity of the law has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people under the indoctrination of His Royal Highness for decades.

Although Jin Yiwei doesn't want to miss anything, he can only do things within the framework of the law, rather than doing it arbitrarily.

Even Jin Yiwei could not enter the closed-door meeting.

Zhang Bo said with a smile when he saw his old friend Wang Ren.

Not many people are qualified to participate in the closed-door meeting. It used to be mainly a group of people from China, but now some new people have joined, mainly Korea Lianji Trading Company. No one can deny the achievements of Korea Lianji Trading Company.

Compared with the suppression and contempt of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau, the domestic business gangs were the first to extend a hand of friendship, and the two sides hit it off immediately.

"Indeed, as you said, both the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau and our trading company are contributing to the Ming Dynasty, in no particular order. Since the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau wants the Japanese country, we will give it to him."

They are all old foxes. Wang Ren responded to Zhang Bo with a smile.

No matter how large the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau is, there is an upper limit. If the Ming Dynasty develops slowly, it will naturally not be enough for the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau. However, the development of Nanyang, even the conquest of Japan, and the construction of overseas enclaves have already surpassed the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau. Ability.

Daming Industrial Bureau wants to eat them all, unless Daming puts down the pace of development and waits for Daming Industrial Bureau to digest it before developing.

The imperial court will not allow it, and neither will social development.

The tough attitude of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau did not arouse the opposition of the private commercial banks. The private commercial banks did give up the fight for the interests of the Japanese country. Instead, they went south in a large scale, represented by Heji, Hezhong, Lianji, etc., and developed overseas islands.

In addition to building Juedao's infrastructure, it also relocated people to Juedao to participate in the construction of Juedao, explore local coal mines and other energy sources, accelerate local mining production, and play a supporting role in Nanyang's railways and development.

Based on this, Zhu Gaochi had no objection and had no reason to object. However, the imperial court also began to strengthen the bureaucracy on Juedao. The private businesses did not care about this and concentrated on construction.

The power of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau was extended. With the administrative means in Goryeo and the dominance of the Japanese state, the current and future interests were guaranteed. And the power of private commercial banks began to go overseas. (End of chapter)