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Chapter 545: The filial son of the Shimazu family, loyal! Sincere!
The lord of Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Shigehiro, was not a fool, on the contrary he was very smart.

The reason why Satsuma Domain was in such a mess was simply because he did not use his intelligence and talent to govern the domain.

In other words, the Edo Shogunate's system and the Shimazu family's awkward position determined that he could do nothing.

This person's hobby of orchidology is more like a kind of helplessness indulging in the beauty of mountains and rivers.

So, when they heard the report that the Dayu angel had suddenly appeared and blew down several meters of the wall of his Dutch school, the most eye-catching semi-Western-style building in the entire Kagoshima mountain city - the Zoshikan, everyone was stunned.

"Mr. Ji, what year is it tonight?" This matter was so magical that even Shimazu Shigetaka began to feel a sense of time and space confusion.

How many years have passed? More than a thousand years, right? The Middle Earth has been enjoying peace and prosperity for a long time and has no desire to make progress. How could a, uh, Han envoy suddenly appear?

This Han envoy does not refer to the envoy of the Han people, but to the envoy of the Han Dynasty.

They are the kind of Han envoys who specifically run to the leader of the barbarians, stick their heads out to be chopped off, and then create excuses for the Han Dynasty to send troops.

Well, if you can resist killing him, he will immediately become more aggressive and even use the support of the Han Dynasty to undermine your royal power.

The person whom Shimazu Shigetaka called Yoshiko was his writing master, Kabayama Hisayoshi.

The Kabayama family originated from the Shimazu family and is one of the branches of the Shimazu family. Kabayama Hisataka, who conquered Ryukyu for the Satsuma domain, came from this family.

That is why Shimazu Shigetaka called Kabayama Hisayoshi "Kou-kun", because according to the family genealogy, although Shimazu Shigetaka was the head of the family and Kabayama Hisayoshi was a retainer, in terms of seniority, Kabayama Hisayoshi was Shimazu Shigetaka's distant cousin.

Other Japanese people may not pay much attention to this, but those who came from the west of Edo still pay some attention to it.

Kabayama Hisayoshi also found it magical. Looking at the bustling Zoshikan in the distance, he said something inexplicably, "The phoenix sings on that high hill. The parasol tree grows in the morning sun."

These four lines of poetry are from the Book of Songs, Da Ya, which talks about talented people coming into being and serving a wise ruler. This is the original source of the idiom "Danfeng Chaoyang".

The reason why Kabayama Hisayoshi said this was because he was one of the founders of the Kinshiroku school of the Shimazu clan, which had a great influence on later generations of Japan.

Historically, his grandson, Karayama Hisayoshi, was the backbone of the Jinsilu school.

Historically, Kinshiroku carried out drastic reforms during the reign of Shimazu Shigetaka's son in order to break free from the control of the shogunate and solve the financial difficulties of the Satsuma domain and the hidden dangers of foreign invasion.

Of course, the time was not yet ripe. The Kinshiroku faction, including Hisahito Karayama, was brutally suppressed by the shogunate. The feudal lord Shimazu Yoshinori, who supported them, was forced to retire. Hisahito Karayama, Yoshifu Noriyasu, and others were forced to commit suicide.

Shimazu Shigehō was also stunned for a moment. He was not only a master of Dutch studies and had a strong addiction to Dutch studies, but also had good attainments in Eastern studies represented by it.

In history, Shimazu Shigehiro was fluent in Nanjing Mandarin, and he even knew Minnan dialect. When Quanzhou merchants in Nagasaki Tang City sold luxury goods from the mainland to him, there was no need for translation at all.

Therefore, he fully understood what Hisayoshi Karayama meant.

"Mr. Ji, could it be that this Heaven-sent Holy Lord is destined to be in the Central Plains of Tang again? Why are they so lucky?"

If someone else came here, they would definitely think that these two innocent people were crazy or that they couldn't understand what they were saying.

But for Shimazu Shigehide and Kabayama Hisayoshi, this is a high-end dialogue that requires mutual understanding and a certain level of cultural quality, and it is also Shimazu Shigehide's favorite way of dialogue.

This Kabayama Hisayoshi was a complete fan of Jinsi-roku, who treated it as the Bible. He highly praised the self-cultivation and peace-making advocated in it, and believed that this was the spirit of the samurai.

Historically, driven by these people, the Satsuma samurai all had a strong sense of mission to take the world as their own responsibility.

For Shimazu Shigehiro, the statement that the end of science is theology is absolutely true.

He was fond of Dutch studies, but the financial situation of the Satsuma domain and the current situation in Japan greatly restricted Shimazu Shigehiro's studies.

He had no way of obtaining first-hand European science and technology, not even books. All he could get was second-hand technology spread by some European merchants.

It is easy to imagine how much scientific literacy these European businessmen have.

This made Shimazu Shigehiro more confused the more he studied, and he could no longer understand the true nature of things.

For example, he had recently become fascinated by European medicine, and at this time, European medicine had just emerged from the stage of cutting off hands and feet and entered the stage of using opium as a panacea.

At that time, European medicine, no matter what disease you had, would give you large doses of (poppy) extract.

If you have a cough, take opium and some cough suppressants.

I have a headache, so I take some painkillers made purely from opium.

When I feel depressed, I take some opium to get high.

I have diarrhea, so I take some opium to stimulate myself, and it seems that the diarrhea is not as severe.

Even if a child is always crying, you can take some opium and enjoy the feeling of being high!
The whole of Europe is a large medical testing ground, a complete den of drugs and evil.

But at the same time, modern medicine, such as human anatomy, began to develop rapidly in this environment, and the accurate understanding of blood, blood vessels, heart, etc. is being improved step by step.

This bizarre and bizarre world of ice and fire not only confused Shimazu Shigehiro, but also often confused European medical scientists.

Even medical scientists of later generations would occasionally marvel at the magic of the Creator or the wonders of the human body.

This completely confused Shimazu Shigehiro, who was learning from the true and false second-hand medical knowledge spread by businessmen and some doctors who couldn't make it in Europe. He could not understand this extreme separation at all.

When faced with such completely incomprehensible and inexplicable problems, even a pioneer like Newton would turn to theology and mysticism.

The same goes for Shimazu Shigehide. If we say that Newton was abducted by the consistent Christianity in Europe.

Shimazu Shigehiro's research so far has largely been caught up in a mixture of prophecies, predictions, supernatural powers, and the interaction between heaven and man.

Therefore, when Kabayama Hisayoshi said this, Shimazu Shigehiro thought of things like a saint appearing every five hundred years, or a wise man being sent from heaven to serve a wise ruler, etc.

Soon after, someone came back to report that the Han envoy was talking at the Zaoshiguan about how all under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people in the world are the king's subjects.

“Danger!” Shimazu Shigetaka wailed, almost jumping up in anxiety. “Danger, the Shimazu family is in danger, the Land of the Rising Sun is in danger!”

"Ji Gong, you need to go quickly. We can't let him continue talking. If he continues, the Shimazu family will have no reason to exist!"

He was indeed a clever man, seeing the danger immediately. Shimazu Shigehiro had a clear mind, able to reshape the character of the Japanese people and infuse them with powerful spiritual strength, bringing them into true civilization.

But there is one very strange thing, that is, his centripetal force is very strong.

Whether it is the policy of self-cultivation, governing the country and bringing peace to the world, the Four Sentences of Hengqu, or the policy of respecting the king and expelling the barbarians thousands of years ago, they all talk about one principle, that is, great unification and centralization of power!
Scholars should be loyal to the central government, safeguard national unity, make their rulers as good as Yao and Shun, and use a powerful and unified dynasty to seek benefits for the people of the world.

To put it simply, it is a central, centralized central dynasty that enables scholars to display their talents.

Only by creating such a platform can we benefit the people of the world and achieve the ultimate fulfillment of life by leaving our names in history and having our family tree open.

Zheng Jinshui's saying, "All under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people in the world are the king's subjects," can be simply put as follows: there is only one sun in my heart.

loyalty

I understand it from a Chinese perspective.

This is how it happened in history. The Han people have always been suppressed by the Bannermen, and Japan applied this pursuit to itself, to their emperor who had lost power for hundreds of years.

The most prominent manifestation of this idea is the Song of the Showa Restoration.

By around 1930, Japan had already turned to militarism as a whole.

However, in the past, Japan had never shown this for thousands of years. There had never been any scholar class that cared about the country and the people, and even among the envoys to the Tang Dynasty, this had basically never appeared.

The thoughts and temperament of the Japanese people from the Meiji period to the period before they all turned to militarism, which are familiar to later generations of Chinese, are a strange and bizarre flower.

But, that was in history, the first time in history that China could truly produce a saint.

So, there was no such worry at all, but in this time and space, Mo Zibu suddenly appeared.

Although he had many of the minor flaws of modern people formed in the decades of life that followed, and had some problems with decisiveness in killing, he was always a little confused when looking at certain cultural factors that determined the superstructure.

But Emperor Mo is, after all, a master time traveler who has received instruction in the art of being an emperor in later TV shows and movies, as well as on Tieba and Bilibili.

He knows how to identify and employ people, and is also quite tolerant. He is willing and dares to delegate power, and he also knows the direction of future progress.

Mo Zibu was not simply pursuing the rule of one family or one surname, but was focusing on the entire nation.

Among all the wise rulers in the history of China, Li Erfeng was the kind of hexagonal warrior with no blind spots. Emperor Guangwu of Han and Emperor Hongwu of Zhu were also close to this kind of hexagon.

But Mo Zibu is not like that, he is a strange irregular polygon.

If someone in the future were to give a rating, Mo Zibu would be one of those emperors who would be rated very highly in some areas and very low in others. He was an emperor whose strengths and weaknesses were very obvious.

It's not even the Qing Dynasty itself, which was too stupid, and he would most likely not succeed.

But no matter what, Mo Zibu's certain special characteristics determined that he was an emperor who could be called a wise ruler.

So, Japan is in danger now, they have been in this situation for more than a hundred years.

According to this theory, the one they should be loyal to should not be a tyrant like the Tokugawa Shogun, or the so-called emperor who is simply the rich man of the land in the mountain city.

Because these two people, no matter how you look at it, are not sage kings or wise rulers, let alone the rulers of the world.

Unfortunately, Shimazu Shigehiro, who wanted to remedy this situation quickly, chose the wrong person, or rather, he devoted a lot of energy to Dutch studies and did not pay attention to the real core at all.

Therefore, as soon as Hisayoshi Kabayama walked out of the inner city where the feudal lord lived, a group of Kinshiroku faction warriors who had been waiting for a long time gathered around Hisayoshi Kabayama.

At this time in the Satsuma domain, although the Dutch Academy was everywhere, the European cultural and philosophical theories could not take root in Japan.

In this soil that is 50% to 60% similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, a large number of warriors who learned Dutch studies still had Chinese spiritual destinations.

"This Tang envoy is truly audacious. Does he think he's Fu Jiezi or even Ban Dingyuan, and that we're Loulan or Khotan?"

"I think that Tang envoy is just a lunatic, truly arrogant. Doesn't he know that the samurai of our Satsuma domain are also Chinese who have studied the classics, not the barbarians he thinks they are?"

"Yes, we must let him know that we Satsuma warriors are not barbarians. Don't look down on us!"

Karayama Hisayoshi was still somewhat confident, but when he heard the words of the warriors around him, he immediately became nervous.

At present, these people are not aware of it at all, or they are aware of it but are embarrassed to say it out loud.

But once this window paper is broken and the thoughts begin to spread, the status of the Satsuma domain may be in danger.

But if we ignore it, the Han envoy will definitely continue to debate with the Satsuma warriors, and then make all the warriors aware of this problem.

"Bitou, what are you afraid of? Our Shimazu family is descended from the Qin clan, descendants of the First Emperor. We are truly Chinese, not barbarians. Let's go together and explain things clearly to this Tang envoy!"

What you fear will come true. Kabayama Hisayoshi looked with a complicated look. The person who spoke was Shimazu Tadamichi, the son of Shimazu Hisahara, the lord of Sadowa Domain, who was accompanied by several samurai.

Sadowara Domain was an important outlying domain of Satsuma Domain, with a population of 27,000. This year, it suffered a severe drought and could no longer survive. It was said that many people had starved to death in the domain.

Shimazu Tadamichi came to his lord to ask for help, but unfortunately, the Satsuma clan was heavily in debt and could not provide anything to support the Sadowara clan.

"Katsumaru, you are the son of the feudal lord, so be careful with your words!" Karayama Hisayoshi shouted loudly without caring whether other samurai could understand his meaning.

Shimazu Tadamichi laughed bitterly, "People are starving to death, can't they say a few words? Ji Gong, go and take a look, maybe there is a way to survive!"

He was a filial son, quite capable, and also quite restless. According to history, he would be only seventeen years old next year, but because the Sadowa Domain could no longer survive, he would lead the samurai to overthrow his father and uncles.

Now that he has discovered such a big event, Shimazu Tadamichi will not miss the excitement.

This does not necessarily mean that he will immediately surrender to Dayu or something like that, even Shimazu Tadamichi does not think of going there now.

However, China is so rich that the emperor can just give a little bit of money to the Sadowa clan, which has only 27,000 stones, to survive.

(End of this chapter)