On the eighth day of February in the second year of Tianqi, Qiao Yiqi, the plenipotentiary representative of the Ming Emperor, and Tsuchikawa Toshikatsu, the representative of the Tokugawa shogunate, completed the exchange of the "Niuguan Treaty" at Port Arthur.
Two days later, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty, the shogunate returned Kyushu Island and its affiliated islands to the Ming Dynasty, and compensated the first military expenditure of 20 million taels of silver.
Since then, the series of wars in Kyushu and Honshu between the Ming Dynasty and Japan in the second year of the Apocalypse have completely ended. Later generations called this war the "Jiazi Sino-Japanese War."
Long before the signing of the Niuguan Treaty, the Kaiyuan Civil Affairs System dispatched a large number of manpower to Kyushu to prepare for the subsequent large-scale immigration, reclamation, trade and many other matters.
Stimulated by policies such as salt introduction and tax cuts, in order to earn high profits, wealthy businessmen in Shandong, Shanxi, Beizhili, Liaodong and other places took notice and voluntarily transported their hoards of grain and cloth to Weihai in Shandong, Kuandian in Liaodong, and Yiju in North Korea. Waiting places.
A steady stream of supplies enters North Korea from border ports to Busan, Incheon and other places, and then is transported across the sea to Kyushu to assist local food supplies that are on the verge of collapse.
During the first month and February, there was constant traffic between cargo ships on both sides of the Tsushima Strait. Every day, thousands of koku of rice, wheat, and cotton were loaded and unloaded on Iki Island. After being concentrated in the Hizen Domain, they were sent to various parts of Kyushu.
After the Battle of Kyushu, the population of each domain suffered losses. Among them, Tsushima, Iki, Hizen, Nabeshima and other domains were almost wiped out by the Koreans, with few living people left.
The vacated land needs to be re-divided. Except for part of it that will be awarded to leading parties like Satsuma, most of the cultivated land will be allocated to the pioneering groups (young and strong villagers who came across the sea) for farming.
The number of the first pioneer group is estimated to be 20,000.
Along with the food and supplies came boats of young farmers and teachers.
On the fifth day after the signing of the "Niuguan Treaty", 8,000 refugees and more than 100 private school teachers had gathered in Liaodong and Shandong, waiting to land in Kyushu.
Everyone is full of hope and hopes to open a new world on Kyushu Island.
The refugees are between the ages of 15 and 45, and they are all young laborers, including both young men and women.
According to the standards set by the Department of Civil Affairs, those who want to come to Kyushu Island to build a new home must be honest, obey orders, be in good health, and must not commit any crimes.
The Kaiyuan training officer repeatedly preached to the refugees that the land rent received from farming in the Japanese country was the lowest.
Specifically, only 50% of the land rent will be collected in the first year, 40% in the second year, and after the third year of planting.
After three years of planting, the land rent will always be 30%.
Senti and others took the trouble to explain to the refugees that from now on, the villagers would only have to pay 30% of the land rent every year. Apart from the land rent, there would be no other exorbitant taxes.
Attracted by land and money, people everywhere in Beizhili were in a state of excitement.
In just ten days, the number of refugees gathered at Tianjin Port and Weihaiwei waiting to go to Japan to "build a new home" reached more than 100,000, maybe more.
The Civil Affairs Department went through layers of selection and finally selected 15,000 people.
All refugees who pass the screening must also receive basic combat training, which requires them to master the skills of using a spear and be able to fire flintlock guns independently.
Together with more than 100 private school teachers, more than 15,000 people boarded the lucky ships in batches and arrived in Kyushu one after another. Since the first Ming Dynasty immigrant lucky ship that docked at the Hizen Domain was named "June Flower", it was called "June Flower" in history. The first immigrant's heartbeat was "June flowers blooming in the border areas".
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Liu Zhaosun was not used to calling these people the pioneer group because the name would remind him of the Japanese civilians who immigrated to the Northeast from Japan during World War II.
Of course, these more than 10,000 refugees cannot completely control Kyushu Island.
Liu Zhaosun ordered to mobilize troops from the Fourth and Fifth Guards Corps and the Mongolian, Jianzhou, and Korean ministries to gather a total of 20,000 troops, led by Qi Jin, the commander of the Fourth Guards Army. They will be stationed at key points in Kyushu.
Along with the villagers and soldiers came hundreds of shopkeepers from Liaodong Trading Company.
These people have been operating trade in various parts of Liaodong for many years, and in the past few years have promoted and expanded the operating model of Liaodong Trading Company to all provinces of Ming Dynasty. For these business talents, there is no essential difference between Jiuzhou and Yangzhou.
When doing business in the Japanese country, except for the difference in language, everything else was basically the same as in the Ming Dynasty.
What to do or what to do.
Moreover, according to the fourth paragraph of the Treaty of Ushikoku, the Liaodong Trading Company enjoys the lowest tariff treatment when buying and selling at the four treaty ports of Honshu and Shikoku. In fact, the tariff system established by the shogunate in Nagasaki will soon be replaced by the Kaihara Army. control.
It can be expected that a huge part of Japan's future foreign trade share will be monopolized by Ming Dynasty.
Of course, in return, Marquis Pingliao would also give his ally Portugal a piece of the pie.
After this battle, the central part of Honshu was severely damaged, the fields were barren, the people were in exile, and a famine was probably inevitable.
According to the first paragraph of the "Niuguan Treaty", Ming Dynasty, as a friendly suburb of Japan, is separated by a strip of water and blood is thicker than water. Of course, it will help this neighbor to the east.
Whether it was daimyo credit or mineral deposit mortgages, Marquis Heirayo had ten thousand ways to control the precarious supply and demand market of the shogunate.
By then, silk, porcelain, tea, and rice from the Ming Dynasty will be further dumped on Honshu and Shikoku vassals.
Due to the small land and poverty of the island country, except for a few tattered samurai swords and copper ore, there were basically no equivalent goods to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and trade had to continue.
Consider that the sense of smell of capital and markets is a hundred times more sensitive than the best hunting dog.
Therefore, in the end, the only people in Japan who could trade with the Ming Dynasty for a long time were people...
Although Ping Liaohou has a tough attitude towards population trade, he has always firmly resisted it.
However, the power of capital and market cannot be competed by human power. With the signing and implementation of the "Niuguan Treaty", many more terrifying things will happen.
Perhaps, during the lifetime of Marquis Pingliao, the shogunate will complete the globalization of the customs industry of the island country three hundred years ahead of schedule.
The only variable is the caravans of the four countries of England, France, Spain and the Netherlands.
However, Ping Liaohou judged that the Europeans did not dare to fight with the Kaiyuan Army for trade with Japan.
Of course, this is just his judgment. Liu Zhaosun is not a god. In fact, his judgment often makes mistakes.
In accordance with paragraph 7 of the "Niuguan Treaty", Qi Jin sent two thousand soldiers to garrison Shijian Yinshan to assist local miners in mining silver mines.
The Stone Silver Mine (いわみぎんざん) is located in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. It is the largest silver mine in Japan in the late Warring States Period and the early Edo Period. According to Shimadzu's description, the mine's annual output was about one million taels at its peak.
The main funds when Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Korea came from here.
After the Battle of Sekigahara, Iwami Ginzan was accepted as a direct jurisdiction by the Edo shogunate and was stationed in Ginzan for management.
In the early Edo period, the stone silver mines had begun to gradually dry up, but they still produced an annual output of 400,000 taels, providing the shogunate with financial resources to promote the overseas trade of Zhuin Ships.
In addition to military control and commercial extraction, cultural means are also essential.
According to Ping Liaohou's design, when five hundred private school teachers arrive in Kyushu, they will begin to fully implement Ming Mandarin in all schools in Kyushu, teach Ming Mandarin to Japanese young children, and teach them various Chinese etiquette systems.
When the military and commercial affairs stabilized, the Japanese people in Kyushu must wear Ming clothes, speak Ming official dialect, and take Ming imperial examinations just like the people of Ming Dynasty, so that these descendants of Xu Fu, who have forgotten their ancestors for many times, can bathe in the royal teachings and know who their ancestors are.
Of course, even if the culture of the island country is inherently strong, and even though there are already good people like Satsuma Domain, Kyushu Island has a population of more than six million after all, and this combination of punches will not be completely smooth sailing.
Marquis Pingliao ordered to summon Kang Yingqian to rush to Jiuzhou as soon as possible, and emphasized in the Tang newspaper that he would entrust Lao Kang with important tasks.
Liu Zhaosun remembered that he had promised Kang Yingqian to be the king of the southwest.
It's a pity that the She'an Rebellion has not been settled for a long time, and the Southwest King cannot be made. However, it is not bad to let this old subordinate who is dedicated to conspiracy and power to make achievements in Japan.
He asked Kang Yingqian not to think about Emperor Tianqi's abdication, but to focus on solving several major cases in Kyushu and taming the samurai (samurai reading) class of each vassal in Kyushu.
For specific techniques, we can refer to the literary inquisition created by the Qing Dynasty in Jiangnan.
Considering that the Japanese country has a history of thousands of years, it has been secretly competing with China since the Tang Dynasty, always waiting for the opportunity to bite you, so dealing with them cannot be truly assimilated by simply coercing and luring them.
Therefore, burning books and entrapping Confucians is also indispensable...
At present, the limit of Kaiyuan's military projection is only 20,000 people. If there are more, Kaiyuan's defense in Liaodong and Beizhili will face the dilemma of being stretched.
As a result, the Satsuma and Higo clans that surrendered to Kaihara formed the Imperial Cooperation Army (full name Satsuma Higo clan to assist the Ming emperor in managing the local army), which was responsible for assisting the Kaihara army in maintaining public order in various places.
According to the requirements of Ping Liaohou, all soldiers stationed on the island must learn the Japanese language.
This move will facilitate future dealings with local Japanese people. Proficiency is not required, but at least you must be able to speak the following sentences:
"立ちstopまる! (Stop)!"
"こんにちは! (Hello)!"
"Gun を撃ってkillさない! (Hand in the gun but not kill)!"
"All the pork, duck, and pork in the previous case will be released! (Lead the way, hand over the chicken, duck, and pork)!
Finally, Liu Zhaosun decided to rename Jiuzhou and add it to the Ming Dynasty, becoming the fourteenth province of the Ming Dynasty. The name of the province is not yet certain.
Sun Chuanting and Yuan Chonghuan urged not to list Kyushu as a separate province.
"It must be divided into at least three parts, or divided into three prefectures, and placed under the jurisdiction of Liaodong."
Yuan Chonghuan quoted scriptures and analyzed the original intention of the Yuan Dynasty to implement the provincial system:
"The mountains and rivers of Jiuzhou are in a convenient shape, making it easy to separate and dominate. Since the Yuan Dynasty, the provinces have been aimed at military control without regard to mountains and rivers as boundaries, and regardless of the livelihood needs of the people, so there is a situation where the north dominates the south. "
Marquis Pingliao nodded slightly, and Sun Chuanting took over the conversation and added:
"For example, the province of Henan unites the south of the Yellow River and the north of the Yangtze River, but in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, it is bounded by the southern foot of Yimeng Mountain and adjacent to the "belly" of the Zhongshu Provincial Directly Administered Area, so there is no danger to defend."
"Hanzhong was assigned to Shaanxi, which opened up the north of Bashu and made it impossible to defend. This is to use the north to control the south."
Qiao Yiqi concluded: "Only by eliminating the need to defend against danger and separatist rule, can Kaiyuan better control Kyushu."
After considering the opinions of all parties, Ping Liaohou finally decided to divide Kyushu Island into three prefectures and fifteen counties. At the same time, Kang Yingqian, Shimazu Zhongheng, and Yuan Chonghuan served as the first prefects of the three places respectively.
