People in the Song Dynasty were lawless

Chapter 411 Bringing the Island Country to the Dinner Table of the Song Dynasty
Zhao Jun's words were sobering.

In the Constitutional Court, everyone suddenly understood why Zhao Jun was so hostile to Japan.

It turns out that the national character of this country is so inferior.

He wants to invade the enemy all the time, but he still maintains a disguise on the outside, which is simply difficult to guard against.

The room fell silent for a moment.

Because Zhao Jun's principles are simple and vulgar, they can easily understand them.

So everyone is thinking about this passage.

After a while, someone asked: "But now that the Song Dynasty is powerful, how can the Japanese dare to offend the Song Dynasty since they admire the power?"

Zhao Jun smiled and shook his head: "In later generations, there was a very famous book called "The Chrysanthemum and the Knife". It was written by an American cultural anthropologist commissioned by the U.S. government."

"It aims to analyze Japan's society and nationality, using the two symbolic elements of "chrysanthemum" and "knife" to reveal the contradictory character of the Japanese people and the duality of Japanese culture.

If they were in that position, they might also think of taking things back and using them in exchange for technology, instead of being a bunch of useless Da Song artifacts.

"We, the Song Dynasty, are not willing to provoke war, but we are not afraid of war. The Japanese have made a mistake and their death is coming."

Today, Japan provides millions of taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of gold to the Song Dynasty every year.

Before launching the war with the Ming Dynasty, he also completed the transformation from cold weapons to hot weapons. In addition to muskets, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had the confidence to clamor for the unification of the Three Kingdoms.

Combined with his understanding of the small life in the previous life, and by sending out spies from the Imperial City Division, he finally understood the bad nature of this nation.

"As I said before, first of all, Tsushima is in our hands."

"Ah."

Everyone was puzzled.

The Japanese nation is actually not very resistant to reform.

"So this is the disadvantage of this nation. Now that the Song Dynasty is powerful, they will not offend us, but they will pretend to be respectful on the surface, but secretly endanger our interests."

"Oh? Harm our interests?"

Not to mention the Meiji Restoration in later generations. Once their national power became strong, they would make no secret of their ambitions to invade abroad.

"However, how will they harm our interests? Will they close the country and not trade with us?"

"A more intuitive expression is that if their opponents are very strong, then they will be polite and humble towards you. But once you are weak, they will immediately show their fangs and pull out the back of their swords to stab you."

But the problem is that the current prosperity of the Song Dynasty makes it difficult for them to make such a decision, unless the Japanese nation is really like Zhao Jun's analysis.

"If this is true, then the plan to attack Japan will have to be advanced."

Zhao Jun continued: "Only in this way can Japan control the financial resources, and then continue to practice deception against us, find ways to steal systems, knowledge, and technology from us, strengthen itself, and complete reforms. Once the reforms are successful, hum."

"This shouldn't happen. They are not so bold now."

He said with a sneer.

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "They still have to show humility to us. They are stealing from us. How dare they close the country?"

Yan Shu said in a deep voice: "If it infringes on the interests of our Song Dynasty, our navy of the Song Dynasty will not agree."

"If my guess is correct, Japan will most likely choose to be humble externally in exchange for our favorability. Internally, it will strike hard and quickly take back those gold and silver mines."

Although it would take a long time for the internal agents in Japan to spread the news, he asked Song Caisujian and others to have a deep understanding of Japan and record their internal situation, and they had already figured out everything.

“Such as loving beauty but being martial, being polite but aggressive, loving novelty but being stubborn, being obedient but not tame, etc.”

Just like Japan in later generations, before World War II, faced with the shock of modernization in Western countries, it was submissive and willing to abandon its isolation and serve as a trade transit point for Western countries.

"At this point, everyone is united."

No matter in any era, wanting to escape from the earthquake-prone island country will always be the biggest desire of this nation.

There is a high probability that this action is still as he guessed. On the surface, he remained respectful to the Song Dynasty, but in fact he wanted to take back the resource benefits, take the opportunity to steal technology and systems, innovate again, and covet the mainland.

Just like they completed the Dahua Reform before launching the war with the Tang Dynasty, making the Japanese dare to invade North Korea after they thought they were strong.

At the end, Zhao Jun tapped the table gently and said: "This is the nature of this nation that has been formed over thousands of years, and it is also a historical necessity."

Several people also said it.

"That is?"

"good."

But when they became stronger through the Meiji Restoration, they immediately showed their ferocious minions and began to be on an equal footing with Western countries. They even thought they were strong and invaded the mainland to disrupt the world structure.

Hearing this sentence, everyone's face became serious.

Therefore, now that such an opportunity is placed in front of the Japanese, I don't believe that they will not be tempted.

Everyone nodded in thought, feeling that although Zhao Jun might have been overly worried, it was not completely unreasonable.

Therefore, after summarizing some news that should have come back from Japan some time ago, Zhao Jun believed that as long as Xiaori saw how powerful the Song Dynasty was today, he would definitely take action.

Song Shou also said: "Now that Song Dynasty is very powerful, we are not afraid of any challenges. They can give it a try."

Moreover, this number continues to grow. The senior officials of the Song Dynasty have long regarded it as a cake, and naturally they cannot afford to lose this part of their interests.

Yan Shu raised another question.

Zhao Jun continued to talk and analyzed carefully: "Tsushima Island has a unique geographical location. Once it is controlled, it will not only control the lifeline of Japan, but also control the trade between Song, Gao and Japan and the only way for Japan to invade North Korea."

"Although the increasingly developed trade in the Iwami area has brought benefits to Japan, such as the influx of a large number of handicrafts, as well as grain, ironware, tea, silk, porcelain, etc., making the lives of Japanese high-level officials more comfortable, they have more than just thoughts. These are the ones.”

"Their long-standing desire is to invade the mainland. Their most obvious ambition is the Korean Peninsula. Even the Central Plains is their coveted target."

"And when we control Tsushima, we directly cut off their Mingmen, which is the channel between them and the Korean Peninsula. It will definitely feel uncomfortable to have Mingmen controlled by others, so they will definitely find ways to take back Tsushima. "

"But what should we do if the enemy is strong and we are weak?"

"It's very simple. Many gold and silver mines have been discovered in Japan recently. Most of the minerals produced by these gold and silver mines have flowed into the Song Dynasty. This is definitely intolerable to them."

"So if I were a senior executive in Japan, I would definitely attack the local wealthy families who control the mining areas and take the minerals back into national ownership."

"Then use the money produced from these minerals to come to the Song Dynasty to purchase various technologies and knowledge. By the way, you can also secretly learn from our system and carry out in-depth innovation."

"Anyway, Japan has no shortage of sulfur. Once they possess gunpowder technology, their national power will be greatly improved. Then the Korean Peninsula will become their primary target, and they will encroach step by step, trying to move from the island to the mainland."

This theory is indeed what Japan has wanted to do for thousands of years, including later generations and the battle during the Tang Dynasty, which also proved this. As a time traveler from later generations, Zhao Jun has never forgotten the country of Japan.

Therefore, he secretly conducted many investigations into this country over the years. He found that Japan's superficial compliments to the Tang Dynasty actually harbored evil intentions.

He found that Japan was always coveting the Korean Peninsula and even coveted the land of China.

The long and narrow island gave them an extreme sense of insecurity, and getting out of the island became their lifelong hope.

"Well, what Han Long means is that the existence of the Song Dynasty blocked their way north?"

Yan Shu understood what he meant.

"Yes."

Zhao Jun nodded and said: "To put it simply, the battle between us and Japan is about the fate of the country. If they want to come out, we will stand in front of them. Therefore, in the future between us and them, the only way to go is to fight to the death."

"Well"

Everyone showed solemn expressions and nodded slightly.

"I just finished talking about Tsushima Island, let me continue to talk about the second one, which is actual benefits."

Zhao Jun continued: "In addition to Tsushima Island, I, the Song Dynasty, also control many minerals in Japan. These minerals were marked by me and were discovered by us. Although they are on their land, we also paid It cost a lot.”

"In the early stages of investment, we hired local people to mine, exchanged interests with their local wealthy families, and exchanged our specialties from the Song Dynasty for the minerals in their hands. It would have been an act of kindness not to rob it directly."

"But for those in power in Japan, they definitely don't want their own resources to be taken away by us, so they will definitely find ways to take the resources back."

"This is the second conflict of interest between us and them. Therefore, all things considered, as long as those in power in Japan are not fools, they will definitely choose the method I just mentioned, which is to flatter them on the surface, secretly seek minerals, strengthen themselves, and then covet them. North Korea’s national policy.”

"If my prediction is correct, I guess they are already sending people to our Song Dynasty at this time. It is estimated that within two months at most, we may be able to see the one that appeared in the Tang Dynasty but has never been seen in our Song Dynasty. I sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty."

After he finished speaking, he touched the tea cup next to him and took a sip.

In fact, Zhao Jun still has something to say.

The reason why he took a roundabout way to obtain the mining rights of Iwami Silver Mine and Sado Gold Mine from Japan instead of grabbing them directly was because he found that it was not easy to grab them.

Although the Song Dynasty's national power was strong at that time, its military force was low. It was bullied by the Liao Kingdom and Xixia, and it was really unable to expedition to Japan.

Even if we forcefully attack Japan at this time, it may not be worth the gain.

Therefore, the correct approach should not be to rob, but to propose cooperation.

However, it is not cooperating with Japanese high-level officials, but with local wealthy families in Japan.

Going down and up has always been a traditional performance in my childhood.

The small island country can be divided into dozens of countries, local powerful families emerge in endlessly, and various rebellions are naturally endless.

For example, it is now the late period of the Fujiwara family's rule, and there have been rebellions such as the Battle of the First Nine Years and the Battle of the Last Three Years, which are enough to prove that there were constant internal conflicts in Japan at that time.

Therefore, the best strategy is to take advantage of this contradiction to ensure the Song Dynasty's own interests, then divide Japan, and wait until the time is right in the future to annex it.

"Oh?"

Knowing that Japan might send people over in the near future, Fan Zhongyan said, "What are you going to do, Hanlong?"

"Just do whatever you want."

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "We don't give them anything they want. We give them Confucian books and educate them hard."

"Why not give them gunpowder? Just like the Liao Kingdom, wasting their national power?"

someone asked.

"The reason why the Liao Kingdom does not restrict the development of firearms is because the Liao Kingdom must obtain raw materials through us. We indirectly make a lot of money, and it also drags down their national power. The reserves are completely controlled by us, and there is no need to worry at all."

Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "But Japan is a raw material producer of gunpowder. They have no shortage of nitrate, sulfur and charcoal. If you give them gunpowder, they can produce it themselves, and their reserves are unlimited. They will not be choked by us. It is a good thing for us. kind of threat.”

"Is that so?"

Fan Zhongyan frowned and said, "But even if we don't provide the gunpowder count, they might find the Liao Kingdom."

Zhao Jun put down the tea cup, looked at everyone with a smile and said: "So I sent Ning Haijun to Japan, firstly to intimidate them and let them open their eyes to see the power of the Song Dynasty. Secondly, to ensure our own interests and prevent them from "Yang serves and Yin violates."

"If things really develop in the direction I suspect, then the appearance of the Ning Navy will definitely give Japan a heavy blow. Even if they buy the technology of the Liao people, they will still be vulnerable to our artillery. Even if it does not appear, I think situation, that’s just right.”

His smile became brighter as he spoke: "The navy of the Song Dynasty was stationed at the port of Japan for a period of time. It was treated as a foreign visit to accumulate ocean-going experience. Anyway, in the future, it will go to Southeast Asia, even Africa, and go around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe. Look, you can’t just stroll along the coast.”

Everyone looked at each other and then burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha, Hanlong is very thoughtful."

"Although it costs a lot of manpower and material resources to go to sea for an army of 5,000 people, but according to Hanlong, these expenses are worth it."

"Hanlon still won't make a mistake without aim. If that's the case, then we'll just wait for the good news."

Many prime ministers became happy.

Before, they thought that Zhao Jun suddenly sent Ning Haijun to Japan because of his personal resentment against Japan. Now it seems that his vision is still so long-term.

Only Zhao Jun picked up the teacup and took a sip, revealing a smile.

This time when Ning Haijun went out, five thousand people had to eat horse chews. In addition, the trip lasted for several months, so the cost was definitely not a small amount.

But compared to the huge interests of the Song Dynasty in Japan, that is naturally nothing.

It means spending a small amount of money to do big things.

And most importantly, Ning Haijun will be like a sophon, blocking Japan's technology and inciting them to fight among themselves.

By then Japan will be in civil strife for a long time and it will be impossible for it to develop.

In the future, when the technological level of the Song Dynasty improves again, all ships in the navy will be replaced by steam power, or even internal combustion engines and petroleum power will appear.

Then Japan, a country that was kept in captivity, would naturally be served on the dining table of the Song Dynasty and become a not-so-exquisite dish.

This day may be a long time coming in the hereafter.

but now.

But it's not far away anymore.

(End of this chapter)