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Chapter 264 Japan: People’s Heart and Land Treaty

Japan, Edo...

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A train stopped at Edo Minami Station. The doors were wide open, and people were getting off and on.

Most of these people were farmers from nearby, and many of them came to Edo Castle to work.

In fact, Japan's industrialization process has not been slow since the arrival of the Han Dynasty. Compared with the surrounding Qing Dynasty and North Korea, it has been extremely fast.

But this kind of speed is also relative, that is, the speed under the command of Han State.

For example, the Kanto Railway in front of us spans the entire Kanto and Kansai regions. The main trunk and branch lines are more than 1,300 kilometers long. It is the only and most prosperous Kanto Railway in Japan.

From construction to rail standards and even railway personnel training, everything was completed with the help of the Han Railway Company of Han China, and the project was contracted by Beihai Company.

The only difference from Japan may be that the land belongs to Japan, half of the shares belong to the shogunate, and the rest has nothing to do with it.

Oh, maybe the people doing the work are Japanese.

As for the rest, it really has nothing to do with Japan.

Japan's current industrialization basically focuses on two major items, one is the textile industry, which is mainly the raw silk industry, and the other is re-export trade.

What is left are some small factories related to people's livelihood. Due to the intentional restrictions of the Han Dynasty, they can only satisfy the domestic market of Japan at most and cannot enter other surrounding markets.

Re-export trade actually means that Chinese goods transit through Japan or undergo final processing to earn a small profit.

As for the weaving industry, it was essentially controlled by the Han, and it was nothing more than sharing part of the profit with the Japanese.

It turns out that Japan's textile industry is actually very similar to the textile industry of the Qing Dynasty. Most of them are homespun cloth woven by farmers themselves, which is popular in Japanese rural towns.

The price is low and it is considered a kind of fabric that Japanese people can afford.

This textile model, rich in local flavor and characterized by small-scale peasant economy, was completely changed, or rather destroyed, after the arrival of the Han Dynasty.

The production speed of Han's large machines is far from comparable to that of Japan. The cloth produced by ordinary Japanese weavers in a lifetime cannot match the output of a machine in a month or even two weeks.

The advantage in output has also brought about an advantage in price. With the two magic weapons of output and low price, Han-made machine-made fabrics have basically swept across Japan, without any rival.

Under such huge changes, Japan's small textile farmers even experienced large-scale bankruptcies.

There were even cases where small textile farmers set themselves on fire to boycott Han-made machine-made fabrics.

Under the control of the shogunate, the famous Hyogo Incident also occurred in Hyogo Prefecture.

The so-called Hyogo Incident was actually a rebellion by a group of textile farmers who had suffered huge losses at the instigation of local forces.

Occupying the county government, seizing fire guns, and killing Han merchants were the norm after the incident began.

This trend once swept half of Kanto and was in full swing.

At the end, Saburo Kogisaburo, the leader of the rebel army and a former textile businessman, even said:

"Respect the king and fight the Han, provide relief to the mourning people, destroy the false curtain, welcome the emperor, and prosper the great peace!!"

The slogan "Two Crosses" spread throughout Japan through Nippon Electric, which was established less than half a year ago. (The Japanese telegraph system was built with the assistance of the Han State, and most of the shares are in the hands of the Han State)

Suddenly, Japan changed drastically! !

Local daimyo who were dissatisfied with the exclusive power of the shogunate were ready to take action, especially the Satsuma clan in Kagoshima and the Choshu clan in Honshu.

At the peak, he even shouted:

"March into Kyoto, assist the Holy Emperor, destroy the tyrants, and prosper Japan."

In other places, they are also pampered and want to divide the shogunate to enrich themselves and seize benefits.

Under such circumstances of internal and external troubles, Shogun Tokugawa Ieki followed the advice of Han advisor Zhong Jingtong.

Defeat the bandits with regular soldiers, and control the world with the power of thunder! !

At the same time, a proclamation was issued, enumerating the ten major crimes of rebels, including taking advantage of chaos to cause trouble, poisoning the world, harming Japan and enriching one's own family, and using the emperor's false edicts as false excuses.

The great thing about this appeal is that the Han Dynasty is basically not mentioned in the entire article. It is basically focused on rebellion, false edicts, and political chaos.

So much so that Takeuchi Jun, a master of contemporary Japanese literature, wrote in his novel The Turbulent Years: "The rebellion that occurred in the 10th year of Longwu was said to be a rebellion by textile farmers, and some said it was a local lord who took the opportunity to cause trouble, but in the final analysis It’s just our struggle. Facing the behemoth of Han, we Japanese have no choice but to struggle..." (Japan used the Han calendar at this time)

After the memorandum was published, troops were naturally sent out. Among them, the Edo Guards Brigade, known as the Tigers of Edo and the Courage of the Shogunate, naturally bore the brunt and became the biggest highlight of the entire war.

During this rebellion that lasted for twelve days, the Edo Guards Brigade first united with the Nagasaki Regiment, severely inflicting heavy losses on the 100,000-strong rebel army, and then led the army south to sweep away the rebels supported by local daimyo. It is said that Hikari died directly in There are as many as 40,000 Japanese in this department, which can be said to be notorious.

(Except for the 20,000 local daimyo rebels in the so-called 100,000-strong army, the rest are farmers and are vulnerable)

Later, under the escort of the Han Nanyang Fleet, they landed on Kagoshima, destroying the century-old foundation of the Shimadzu family.

Later, under the help of other daimyo on Honshu Island who had taken refuge with the shogunate, the Choshu clan was defeated.

All the thorns were removed, and the other daimyo also submitted their submission forms and paid protons one after another.

Subsequently, the shogunate followed the advice of Han advisor Zhong Jingtong and divided the entire Japan into forty-three counties and two prefectures.

(Excluding Kyoto in later generations, after all, it already includes Edo and Hokkaido)

After the regional division, Japan also completed de facto unification in the hands of Tokugawa Ieki. This is why the Kanto Railway was built so smoothly and is expected to continue to be built.

Although Tokugawa Ieki was nearing his twilight years and looking old at this time, he was hailed as a wise king who surpassed Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the hearts of many Japanese. This was the main reason.

At this time, the power of the shogunate reached the highest level in the history of the shogunate. Government orders could reach the two prefectures and forty-three counties. The Tokugawa shogunate, or the entire Japan, was already under the influence of the Han Dynasty, and was flying towards an unknown future.

Every rotation of time and space is an era! !

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"Selling newspapers selling newspapers!!"

"Five warships from the Han Pacific Fleet arrived at Edo."

"It is reported that the largest warship in the fleet, the Xiang Yu, weighs five thousand tons and uses the latest steam and artillery technology..."

On the streets of Edo, a newsboy wearing a patched Chinese stockings and a peaked cap that had been popular in Han Dynasty for several years loudly shouted out today's news.

"Si Guoyi is indeed a great country, but it is stronger than us!!"

"Yo Xi, the Han navy must be here to protect us this time. It is an honor for us Japanese people!!"

"Father, look, what a big warship."

On the pier of Edo, a group of people kept cheering at the five Han warships docked in the port.

"Qingnan, remember, you are not allowed to speak Japanese anymore, and you are no longer called Qingnan, you are called Qingnansheng, do you understand?"

"Got it, mother!!"

A little boy looked at his mother Qingzi and nodded heavily.

And his mother Qingzi looked at the warship opposite, feeling a little sad. She didn't know whether the Han officer who promised to marry her was still there. What if she found him and he didn't admit his debt? ?

Is it possible that they are mother and son? !

Looking down at the four-year-old Qingnan, Qingzi didn't know what to do. It wasn't until she turned back and saw the huge Xiang Yu battleship that she felt better.

After all, no matter what, even if he died in Han, it would be better than dying in terrible and disgusting Japan.

In fact, people who think like Keiko are not uncommon.

In current Japan, there are many rumors about Han.

Why, even a homeless man in the Han country lives better than the rich in Japan? The people of the Han country are more qualified than the Japanese, and the men of the Han country are more responsible.

Even the height of Japanese men is ridiculed by some Japanese women.

They pinched their fingers slightly, leaving some space, to mock the shortness of Japanese men.

Of course, including physically! !

At present, the most arrogant people in Japan are precisely this group of Japanese women. In the words of Japanese writer Shun Takeuchi, this group of people is:

"Looking down at your own country, you are a charming man who respects himself and is completely crazy, as crazy as a prostitute!!"

And apart from these Japanese women, the Japanese elite are not much better.

Especially Osaka and Edo, which have the most extensive cooperation with the Han Dynasty, in the words of Shun Takeuchi:

"This group of people regard themselves as the conscience of Japan. When they hear about Japan, they compare themselves with Han. If they can't compare, they start talking about what is civilization and what is advanced, completely ignoring the reality of Japan..."

“In their minds, Han Guo’s trash cans are of higher quality than donations from Edo Infants and Nurseries.”

"The buttocks of these people are not only crooked, they are simply sitting on the wrong stool. They always talk about civilization, then advancement, then benevolence and righteousness, and finally humanity. In the final analysis, it boils down to one sentence... Japan is not as good as Han, and Not as good as Han!!”

Takeuchi Shun scolded those people in his book, but that didn't stop him from wearing Han's plush suits every day, drinking six-star fortress wine, and riding shockproof rubber processed by Han's Don Juan when he went out. carriage.

And all this is provided by hundreds of thousands of passionate young Japanese people who buy his masterpieces.

Irony and reality are always so similar. In Japan at this time, anyone who opposed the Han Dynasty could be labeled as corrupt and uncivilized in the eyes of that group of people.

There was even a Japanese middle school student who was sent a feces stone just because he opposed his teacher's theory of Han unification in class, and was scolded as a stinkstone in the latrine, which was smelly and hard. (The theory of Han unification is very popular in Japan at present. The bottom line is that the Japanese cannot rule Japan. The more unification the country becomes, the more backward it becomes. It is better to switch to the more advanced and civilized Han country and respect Liu Peng as the emperor of Japan.)

Even in the end, Osaka Boys' High School in Japan forced him to issue a so-called apology statement and asked him to reflect.

In such an environment, it is difficult for Japan’s new generation of young people not to be affected.

The so-called Han Soul Society, Han Football Club, Three Kingdoms Society, Civilization Society and other societies with Chinese characteristics appeared in today's Japanese middle schools and universities.

Japan's number one troll, Takeuchi Shun, naturally couldn't let go of this opportunity to gain fame, so he chased after this and scolded:

"They put the child into the black soy sauce and soaked it completely black. After crawling out, they didn't even wipe it off. A group of people were still applauding nearby. It looked good. It looked good. When passers-by saw it, they didn't know why and asked: Isn't it ugly? , after the bystanders heard this, they beat the passerby without explanation, and finally asked the passerby to write a letter of repentance, acknowledging the nobility of black!!"

Published in The Chaotic Era of Takeuchi Shun, a famous Japanese editorial critic, writer, and educator.

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Shogunate...

On the top floor of a nine-story building modeled after the Chinese style, a meeting related to Japan's future is being held.

In other words, it was not a meeting, but a movie shooting.

Director: Liu Peng.

Protagonist: Han, Japan.

Filming location: Edo, Ezo Island.

Actors: Wen Shanxiu, Minister of the Shogunate, Zhou Jinsheng, Foreign Minister of Han Dynasty.

Extras: Officials from both countries.

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"Your Excellency, this is the best condition. Seven million Chinese dollars is the final price to buy a small island with nothing."

Zhou Jinshan looked at the shogunate minister Wen Shanxiu opposite and said with a serious expression.

Then he added:

"According to the construction and stronghold of the Ezo shogunate, we are willing to pay an additional one million. This is the best price."

Looking at the shameless Zhou Jinshan in front of him, even an old man like Wen Shanxiu felt that what he just said was too shameless.

What does it mean to be a small island and what does it mean to have no resources?

An island with such a large area, equivalent to eight Penglai islands, turned out to be a small island in the mouth of Zhoujin Mountain. Wenshan Xiu really wanted to open the other person's head to see what was inside.

The so-called lack of resources is no longer the case after the coal mines are mined. What's more, Wen Shanxiu also knows that the local fishery is very developed, at least not inferior to that of Japan.

Such a large island with fishing grounds, vast area, and coal mines seemed worthless to Mr. Zhou.

In desperation, Wen Shanxiu could only say:

"I'm sorry, this price is really unacceptable. If I really agree, if I really agree, I will definitely die miserably. Either I will be killed by those radicals, or I will be ousted from power by the adults in the shogunate..."

Wen Shanxiu finally added:

"Ezo Land is our inalienable sacred territory of Japan...yes, get the price!!"

Zhou Jinshan looked at the important minister of the shogunate in front of him, frowned, thought for a while, and finally said: "I personally can add one million more within the allowable range. This is the bottom line!!"

"No, it's too little. You must know that Ezo is my Japan..."

"1500000!!"

"No, it's hard for me to agree to such a price, Mr. Minister!!"

Wen Shanxiu shook his head and directly rejected Zhou Jinshan's three offers again.

After hearing this, Zhou Jinshan looked a little ugly. The price had actually almost touched the bottom line given to him by his superiors.

After looking at Wen Shanxiu, Zhou Jinshan immediately said: "Your Excellency, Minister, you should know the importance of this treaty to our two countries. It is related to the trade, economic, and cultural exchanges between the two countries..."

Zhou Jinshan talked about a lot of things, but it boils down to one sentence: just set a price that everyone can accept, and don't be too greedy, as that will not be good for the relationship between the two countries.

After hearing this sentence, Wenshanxiu naturally understood Zhou Jinshan's meaning, but he also understood that this was the last chance. If he didn't make more points, I'm afraid he would not be able to deliver a message to the wise king Tokugawa Ieyei.

"Master Zhou, please wait a moment. I want to go out to discuss with others."

"Please..."

Wen Shanxiu suddenly stood up, said something to Zhou Jinshan, bowed, and led people out of this Han-style conference room.

After Wenshanxiu left, Zhou Jinshan also started talking with others.

"I think it's enough to add another five hundred thousand. Ten million, that's about the shogunate's annual fiscal revenue!!"

(At this time, the shogunate’s fiscal revenue was 15 million Chinese dollars)

"No, I think half a million is not enough. Add one million more and it should be almost enough."

"What, one million, good guy, I have to add half a million to the calculation. If you add one million in one go, you are really taking the court's money as improper money!!"

"I didn't say it, you said it yourself

of……"

Listening to the noise slowly rising from the surroundings, Zhou Jinshan's expression became increasingly ugly, and then he slapped the table with a "pop" sound, and everyone stopped.

"Shut up, everyone. This is someone else's territory. Who knows if there is surveillance."

"If something goes wrong with this, you are all sinners!!"

Zhou Jinshan's few words made everyone unable to lift their heads.

On the other side, the people of the shogunate were also discussing. They said they were discussing, but in fact they were seeking the opinion of the monarch Tokugawa Ieyei.

"I think 12 million is realistic and they won't have much resistance."

"No, I think it should be 15 million. This is in the interests of the General!!"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!!"

"Don't make any noise, the general's handwriting is here..."

Suddenly, a word made everyone shut their mouths firmly, and their expressions were extremely serious.

After receiving the handwritten letter, Wen Shanxiu's expression changed slightly, and finally he notified the Han side to restart negotiations.

"I think the standard should be 14 million, which is exactly 1 million less than our country's annual income. It can also show sincerity to the Han Dynasty."

Wen Shanxiu looked at Zhou Jinshan and said.

"No, I think the price of ten million is just right..."

"Fourteen million!!"

"Thirteen million..."

"Twelve and a half million!!"

"Twelve million..."

make a deal! !

In the end, the price was set at 12 million Chinese dollars.

A few days later, the Han Dynasty and the Tokugawa Shogunate formally signed the Han-Japan Land Land Treaty.

The treaty stipulates that Han will exchange Japan's sovereignty and legal rights in Ezo Territory for 12 million Chinese dollars, as well as the local construction population.

Tens of thousands of local Japanese could join the Han or the shogunate as they wished.

(Basically, they join the Han Kingdom)

There are also some other bits and pieces.

The signing of this treaty meant that the Han State officially extended its tentacles to the Far East and Northeast Asia. The Han State's national power was once again extended and its territory expanded again.

In mid-July, the Han cabinet ordered the establishment of Beihai Province, which was approved by the Imperial Parliament.

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