Edo Castle Honmaru, between Shippo.
The "wise king" of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu's body and bones were getting worse day by day. In fact, his health had never been better. He could make do with it in his youth, but he didn't know how to cherish it and fell in love with "Public Ways", so that Heirs are few. The "general is not in a hurry, but the wet nurse is in a hurry" Kasuga Bureau had to expand Daou and select beauties in an attempt to straighten Iemitsu.
Not to mention, as long as the skill is deep, the iron hook can be broken into feet. Under the unremitting efforts of the Kasuga Bureau, the general who loves all religions finally turned into a dissolute general.
Especially when a person reaches middle age and realizes that his heirs are few and likely to be extinct, Iemitsu begins to ignore hard work, work extra hard, and even take medicine... Finally, his body is completely destroyed, and he is about to die. .
However, his efforts finally had some effect. Now he has three sons who can inherit the position of shogun - the somewhat imbecile "Stupid Lord" Tokugawa Ietsuna, and the "Inugakata" Tokugawa who loves small animals. Tsunayoshi and Tokugawa Tsunashige, the relatively normal lord of the Koshu domain.
But these three sons are all very young. The oldest son was born in 1641 and is only 8 years old this year. With Iemitsu's current body, I probably won't be able to wait until he reaches adulthood...and Ietsuna is still so stupid, it's really annoying!
When Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Abe Tadaki, Hota Masamori, Abe Shigeji, Matsudaira Nojoju and other five people entered the Shippo Room, the Aizu Domain Lord Hoshina Masayuki, who was in charge of Ietsuna's education, was reporting his work to the general with a sigh.
Of course, the work was not done well. Although Masayuki Yasukina worked hard and tried his best, Ietsuna was too stupid to learn anything!
Masayuki Hoshina, who himself has the blood of Tokugawa Ieyasu (he is Ieyasu's grandson and Hidetada's illegitimate son), is about to cry just thinking about it. What's going on with the Tokugawa family? All the branches and branches are full of heroism. For example, he is tall, mighty, and powerful. If he was born in the Warring States Period, he would definitely be a general. There is also Mito's Hikari, who is smart and can learn everything well. If he was born in troubled times, he would be a resourceful strategist. But these boys from the general's family...
"My lord, I heard that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty opened an elementary school for nobles, and also personally compiled "Elementary School Arithmetic" and "Elementary School French". It is said that it can enlighten wisdom. Otherwise, let the Ming Dynasty Embassy in Uraga Port hand over these two books. The book was sent to teach the young master?"
If you don't study well, blame the textbook...
"Can it inspire wisdom? Hurry up and ask them to send it!" Iemitsu immediately became energetic after hearing the news.
Now he gets angry when he sees the Mito family's nakedness! So smart and old, he is 22 years old this year and he even has a son. If Ietsuna can be as smart as Tokugawa Mitsuhiro, then you can rest assured.
After dismissing Masayuki Hoshina, who was as strong as an ox, Ietsuna waved to the five seniors and told them to sit closer to prevent him from speaking loudly.
He needs to keep his spirits up now. There is a beautiful woman to deal with tonight - it is so tiring to be Japan's general conquering the barbarians! If I had known I was so tired, I should have given Tadanagi the job...
"How is it?" the general asked softly.
"My lord, I have already asked the Ming Dynasty envoy Duke Luo in person." Songping Chengshou, a veteran of the Sixty Thousand Shi family, replied, "He said that Kuwu Island is what our country calls Huatai Island. The territory of the Ming Dynasty also belonged to the Yuan, Jin, Liao and other dynasties before. According to records, mink skins and gold were abundant there!
Recently, the Qing Dynasty has been active along the Whale Sea coast. It has established two deputy general offices in Vladivostok and Nurgan, and deployed more than 20,000 elite troops, obviously to obtain precious furs and gold. "
"What?" the general asked, "is there really gold?"
Now is the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate. The Aikawa Gold and Silver Mountain on Sado Island is continuously providing wealth to the Tokugawa family. The 4 million Shi Tianling of the shogunate can also turn over a large amount of rice every year. This wealth was enough to support the rule of the shogunate, but the Tokugawa shogunate also faced a huge hidden danger, that is, there were too many rogues and samurai left over from the troubled times. Over the past thirty years, these wanderers and warriors have produced many descendants. Due to the large number of people, only a small part could be appointed, and the rest were in poverty, and it was inevitable that they would be dissatisfied with the Tokugawa Shogunate.
If the Tokugawa Shogunate had enough financial resources to hire most of them, then Japan would truly be stable!
"There should be gold..." Matsudaira Nobuyoshi replied while looking at Matsudaira Nobutsuna from the corner of his eyes.
Matsudaira Nobutsuna said coldly: "It's not surprising that there are some gold mines on such a big island, but Huatai Island is so far away, and the climate on the island is also very cold, and it is impossible to farm, and it cannot support a large number of miners to live on the island. Moreover, supply will be very difficult after the army arrives on the island.”
"Oh." Tokugawa Iemitsu was a little disappointed, "You mean you won't send troops to recover?"
"Of course not!" Matsudaira Nobutsuna shook his head and said, "War is necessary... Even if there is no gold on Katai Island, the shogunate has to fight! Because the shogunate has included Katai Island into Japan. How can we give up so easily? Even if we cannot acquire the entire island, we should establish several strongholds in the southern part of Huatai Island.
In addition, there have been too many ownerless samurai wandering around in recent years, and there are many such people in the Edo castle towns! If these people could be sent to the battlefield thousands of miles away through the conquest of Huatai Island, Japan would be much more stable, right? "
Matsudaira Nobutsuna has already seen that Iemitsu will die soon, and the Tokugawa shogunate will be in a dangerous situation with a young master in power. If there is a foreign war, it can attract the country's homeless people to go on expeditions and perform meritorious service. Regardless of the outcome of the expedition to Katashima, the Tokugawa shogunate would benefit.
General Tokugawa asked: "Such a troop dispatch will probably cost a lot of money, right?"
"Money is not a problem!" Matsudaira Nobutsuna smiled, "That is an island full of gold and mink skins! The gold mines and hunting grounds on the island can also be converted into stone highs and given to samurai who have made meritorious service."
"In this way..." Iemitsu still felt that it was not safe, "Can we win?"
"Yes!" Matsudaira Nobutsuna smiled, "It only depends on how much you win... Matsumae Clan lost the entire Karata Island. If the shogunate can regain a part of it, it is a victory."
"Okay!" Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded, "Then prepare to send troops... In addition, the Ming Kingdom and the Qing Kingdom are mortal enemies, right? If we want to go to war with the Qing Kingdom, can we form an alliance with the Ming Kingdom?"
"Form an alliance?" Nobuyoshi Matsudaira did not expect the general to have such an idea, "In the name of the imperial court or in the name of the shogunate?"
This is a problem!
"Let's test it first!" Tokugawa Iemitsu said, "Such a thing cannot be accomplished overnight!"
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When the "Japanese-Qing Mink War", known as the "Prelude to the Eastern World War", was rapidly breaking out step by step, driven by the forces of all parties, at the same time, the Ming Emperor Zhu Cixiang was fighting with a thirteen-year-old who was quite inadequate. , little girls who were more than twelve years old, walked together on the city wall of Nanjing. This little girl's skin is as white as jade, her eyes are thin and long, and she has a graceful figure. Compared with Zheng Chagu and Fei Zhen'e, the beauty of the two emperor Zhu Emperor's harem was much inferior, but it was not inferior to Wu Sanmei and Ning Xiangyu. But what attracted Emperor Zhu the most was the little girl's intelligence - otherwise? This is an underage girl! Emperor Zhu didn't have any lustful intentions. He went to Longjiang Wharf personally to pick up the twelve-year-old girl named Dongguo out of love for her talent. He also personally sent her to live at Jinling Girls' School. Read.
The so-called Jinling Girls' School is half of Guixuan Primary School founded by Zhu Cixiang, and the other half is called Bei'anmen Nei Primary School. Both primary schools are located inside the Imperial City of Nanjing, occupying the territory where the Habayashi Zuowei and Habayashi Youwei barracks are located. Looking at each other across Bei'anmen Street.
According to Zhu Cixiang's original plan, after Dongguo Gege came to Nanjing, he would arrange for her to live in Laoshan Palace. However, he did not expect that the girl asked many mathematical questions in her letter to Zhu Cixiang. This made Emperor Zhu very happy. This is a common language!
So he took her to Nanjing City and arranged for her to attend Jinling Girls' School.
