It's just that Ashikaga Yoshimachi is too young now.
Apart from anything else, at least in recent years, it is impossible to truly control power.
After all, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is still alive, and it is impossible to shake the actual power of the shogunate. If Ashikaga Yoshimitsu cannot deal with a teenage son like himself, then his life will be in vain.
Ashikaga Yoshimochi was still too young to see the true nature of the matter.
In his mind, if he were the adopted son of the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty, his status would be infinitely higher. He could almost stand and sit with his father, and even compare to the emperor.
But besides making Ashikaga Yoshimitsu even more fearful, such a status has no meaning.
Officials of the Ming Dynasty have not yet entered the Japanese government, which means that the power of the Japanese government is incompetent. The only thing that the Ming can do is to continuously annex the territory of the Japanese government.
Ashikaga Yoshimochi's idea of using Zhuying Yoshiko's identity to act can only be said to be very naive, but it is in line with the vision he can see at his current age.
Of course Zhu Ying can see through these.
Fame is illusory, but military power is real.
"Nowadays, our Ming Dynasty is developing rapidly, especially at the military level. I have established a military academy in the capital of the Ming Dynasty specifically to cultivate military talents."
"Although you are a bit young for your age, you can barely reach it. I intend to negotiate with your father. In order to promote the friendship between the two countries, we will open a special recruitment class of the Ming Military Academy this year to allow Japanese nobles to Anyone of similar age to you can participate.”
"About this matter, you should have a good talk with your father when you go back, and then tell him that this is why I called you here today."
Zhu Ying has put in a lot of effort, which is equivalent to helping Ashikaga Yoshinori to build a team of confidants in the future.
It is conceivable that when the Ming Dynasty opened its quota to the Japanese country, many Japanese nobles would definitely flock to it. It was worthwhile to send their sons to the Ming Dynasty to learn the most advanced military knowledge in the world.
The nobles who can compete for these places must be the powerful nobles of the Japanese country, and those who go there are basically the eldest sons or legitimate sons of the family who are of appropriate age.
Among his peers, although Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has deliberately cultivated his legitimate son Ashikaga Yoshitsugu, it is undeniable that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's status as shogun is the most noble among the Japanese countries.
Moreover, after leaving Japan, people like Ashikaga Yoshimitsu will have no influence at all. In addition, if Ashikaga Yoshimitsu cannot gather all his team members after leaving for a foreign country, Zhu Ying will have no need to support him.
After a few years, Ashikaga Yoshimichi grew up, and together with the sons of nobles who followed him to the Ming Dynasty, he would naturally become the mainstay of the Japanese country in the future.
Then it will be much easier to divide the power of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
On Ashikaga Yoshimichi's side, he heard that the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty did not mention anything about recognizing him as his adopted son, and his face showed obvious disappointment. This was completely inconsistent with what he had imagined.
But after hearing the following, his expression gradually changed, and his eyes that were originally a bit decadent also lit up.
The last sentence sounded a bit strange. He obviously came here on his own initiative to ask for a meeting, but the Ming Dynasty grandson said that he summoned him.
In just a blink of an eye, Ashikaga Yoshitomichi immediately understood the profound meaning of the Ming Dynasty Grandson's words, and immediately kowtowed again: "The ministers of the small country would like to thank His Highness the Great Grandson of the Heavenly Kingdom."
Zhu Ying waved her hand: "Okay, no courtesy, that's it for today. Come with your father tomorrow to discuss it in detail."
Ashikaga Yoshimochi held back the excitement in his heart and said, "I sincerely comply with the decree of His Majesty the Great Grandson of the Heavenly Kingdom."
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"You mean that kid secretly visited the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty?"
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the mansion sat on his knees and listened to the report of the servants below, and asked calmly.
Different from the architectural culture of the Ming Dynasty, the meetings of the Japanese state were mostly in the back room, and there was no layout like a palace and a lobby.
This kind of meeting is more private in comparison, like a conference room in later generations.
"Ashikaga-sama, this is indeed the case." The servant replied affirmatively.
At this moment, in the back room of the mansion, there were many confidants including General Si Bo.
Hearing this answer, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu smiled and said: "It seems that our shogun wants to have a good relationship with the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty, so that he can use the power of the Ming Dynasty to suppress us, hahaha!"
As Ashikaga Yoshimitsu laughed, these confidant generals also laughed.
They ridiculed Ashikaga Yoshimochi for not being able to understand the current situation, but they didn't know how to really intervene in the situation.
Moreover, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu wanted to inherit Ashikaga Yoshitsugu's idea. This was something that all the family heads who followed him knew very well.
In terms of status, even though Ashikaga Yoshimichi has recognized Hino Yasuko as his mother-in-law, this is only to legitimately inherit the shogunate.
Ashikaga Yoshitsune is the real legitimate son, and cannot be compared to the fake legitimate son Ashikaga Yoshimochi.
Behind him, there was the support of the Hino family.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's left hand, and Shiba Yishou as Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's confidant, is Hino Yasuko's father, Hino Shiyasu, the head of the Hino family.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's first wife, Hino Yasuko, is Hino Shiyasu's sister. This shows how important the Hino family is to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
The Hino family not only had great military power, but also were very rich in money.
Without the strong support of the Hino family, it would not have been so simple for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to recapture the Muromachi shogunate.
Including the subsequent Northern and Southern War, the Hino family also played a vital role in it.
Like everyone else, Hino Ziyasu also laughed, but the look in his eyes was quite intriguing.
Because he also has a little daughter, who is now over seven years old, named Hino Eiko.
At this age, it was just right to marry Ashikaga Yoshimochi.
Ashikaga Yoshitsugu is too young, and with so many things happening in Japan now, Hino Shiyasu still values Ashikaga Yoshitoshi somewhat. No one knows what Ashikaga Yoshitsugu will be like when he grows up.
There is an old saying from the Hino family, which in Chinese means: a cunning rabbit has three holes, and eggs are not placed in one basket.
Multi-line investment has always been Hinoya’s traditional style.
It is precisely because of this that the Hino family has such a status.
So Hino Shiyasu was planning to marry his youngest daughter to Ashikaga Yoshinori.
As for Ashikaga Yoshitsugu, it doesn't matter much. After the situation becomes clear in a few years, if Ashikaga Yoshitsugu can take on the responsibility of the Muromachi shogunate, he may even combine the throne of the emperor and the shogunate into one.
It will be the same when he has another daughter and marries Ashikaga Yoshitsugu.
No matter who wins the final victory, the Hino family will share the wealth with the winner.
After laughing, everyone returned to the previous discussion.
The Japanese worship the strong, and at the same time they will learn everything from the strong.
The current Ming Dynasty is what the Japanese need to learn from. After long-term discussions and research, they found that the current Ming Dynasty seems to be no less powerful than the Tang Dynasty, or even stronger.
The Tang Dynasty was known as the place where all nations came to dynasty, with a vast territory and extremely prosperous military and economy.
Looking at the current Ming Dynasty, they expelled the Tartars, made an alliance with the Northern Yuan Dynasty to relieve border worries, went south to destroy the Annan army, and forced the captured city to cede the city without spending a single soldier.
Sea routes were opened to promote commerce, and merchants from all over the world gathered in the Ming Dynasty.
During the most powerful period of the Tang Dynasty, the total military strength was more than one million. However, less than thirty years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there are already more than two million soldiers.
Not to mention that the current Japanese country can only give up even Kyushu Island to others.
The more this is the case, the more Japanese nobles feel that Ming Dynasty is worth relying on and learning.
When Ashikaga Yoshimitsu usually gathers his confidants to discuss matters, in addition to some Japanese politics, in most cases he discusses how to reform the Japanese army, territory, and even the government.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu himself was a reform-oriented ruler and once controlled the Muromachi shogunate
After the Imperial Household, he took drastic measures to reform various legacy bad habits. It was precisely because of his courage in reform that he was able to win the final victory in the battle between the Northern and Southern Emperors.
Now facing the Ming Dynasty, naturally many more reforms and improvements will be needed.
Otherwise, the increasing pressure will eventually make the entire Japanese country unable to resist, and eventually they will all become the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Kyushu Island is currently being ceded, it also buys Japan a lot of time.
Especially in terms of mineral deposits, Ming Dynasty sent thousands of craftsmen to develop, transport and process them.
This makes the energy to truly rule Kyushu Island continue to increase.
The peace covenant was just to maximize profits, including sending high-yielding crops, but it was actually just a convenient move by Ming Dynasty.
After ruling Kyushu Island, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably bring high-yield crops to Kyushu Island for planting, and the Japanese country will also be able to obtain the seeds of these high-yield crops.
Today's high-yield crops are just a favor of the Ming Dynasty.
Currently, the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese Kingdom are preparing for a military competition to see who can develop faster.
Of course, this does not mean that the Japanese country will be compared with the entire Ming Dynasty. If this is the case, it is better to surrender them all as soon as possible, and at least they can still be rich.
They only need to compare with these feudal kings on Kyushu Island.
In fact, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is still very confident in the feudal kings.
Because their actions are difficult to get the support of the Japanese people on Kyushu Island, especially when they are vigorously developing mineral deposits.
Mining in this world is an extremely dangerous thing. It doesn't mean that people will die, but how many people will die.
Take now, for example, while vigorously developing mineral deposits, mine collapses will basically occur every once in a while.
Those who do the most dangerous and tiring work at the lowest level of the mine naturally cannot be soldiers or craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty.
They were all done by the people of the Japanese country, and they were corvees within the vassal state.
All Japanese people on Kyushu Island had to serve as corvees for mining.
Under such circumstances, the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the local Japanese people was very acute and irreconcilable.
Without imposing corvee labor, it would have cost a lot of money, hiring ships to mobilize workers from the Ming Dynasty, and paying high wages and subsidies for mining.
Moreover, if a Ming worker dies due to a mine collapse, he will have to pay a high pension.
Are you crazy if you don’t use the ready-made corvees and transport workers from the Ming Dynasty?
Obviously the four feudal kings are not crazy and are very sober, so the people of the Japanese country on Kyushu Island are now suffering terribly.
Even the noble status of labor in the prime of life has no effect. Except for a very small number of Japanese nobles who have status and are useful to the feudal kings, no one else can escape.
Under such circumstances, many Japanese people from Kyushu Island would naturally flee to Shikoku Island or Honshu Island.
However, such an escape was very difficult. The Ming army had already been stationed to prevent escape, and the involvement system made the Japanese even more frightened.
If there is a runaway in the family, the whole family will sit together, the wife and daughter will be included in the feudal jiefang division, the son and brothers will be demoted as sinners, and they will be sentenced to life-long hard labor with tattoos on their cheeks.
Therefore, for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, it was the former Crown Prince of Yan that made him more afraid.
If all these feudal princes were to behave like Prince Yan, then Ashikaga Yoshimitsu would be very worried.
Although the lives of the Japanese people on Kyushu Island are very difficult, the people's hearts have always been with the Japanese country, and this is enough.
One day, the Japanese people on Kyushu Island will rebel. Once the war between the Japanese country and these feudal kings actually begins, these Japanese people who are usually bullied will be the best sword in Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's hand.
In fact, Zhu Ying had already discovered these situations after he came to Japan and had a casual look.
Unlike Annan, Japan has too many mineral deposits. With the current industrial level of mining, the risk is extremely high compared to future generations.
To get a mine, we still need the support of the Japanese people on Kyushu Island.
Zhu Ying is not even qualified for this choice. You can't become a saint if you are blind.
If you let your own people do it, why don't you hang yourself from the tree with a crooked neck?
The primitive accumulation of capital always has a certain smell of blood.
This is a historical necessity, and no one can change it.
And for the Japanese country, Zhu Ying felt that it was very good and there was no need to change at all.
As for the Japanese people's uprising in the future, let's just suppress it. What else can it be like?
Someone has to do the dirty work.
Ashikaga Yoshimochi didn't stay with Zhu Ying for long, and came back after just a few words.
When he heard that his father was discussing matters with many confidants in the back room, he asked his servant to report that he had something important to tell him.
"Hmph, I want to see what kind of support this scoundrel gets from the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty. He just came back and couldn't wait to show off to me and let him in."
There was indifference in Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's tone. Even though Ashikaga Yoshimochi was his biological son, his preference has now been given to his legitimate son Ashikaga Yoshiji.
Now Ashikaga Yoshimochi's identity as shogun has become a thorn in his side.
It's just that now that he has become the Taizheng Minister, his legitimate son Ashikaga Yoshitsugu is only two years old, and it is impossible for others to be the shogun, so he can only let Ashikaga Yoshimochi be the shogun first.
Shiba Yishou and other confidants also had playful smiles on their lips. At the same time, they were also curious about what kind of promises and support Ashikaga Yoshinori had obtained from the great grandson of the Ming Dynasty. To act in such a hurry, there was no city government at all.
Including Hino Shiyasu, obvious disappointment flashed in his eyes when he heard the news that Ashikaga Yoshimochi came to pay a visit.
He was considering whether to marry his youngest daughter Hino Eiko to him.
