As the heads of Dhoni and his son were sent to the Tianjin Palace, the Battle of Pingliao was basically over. The reason why it is basic is that military victory also needs to be guaranteed by reasonable political arrangements. The politically reasonable arrangement is, of course, to implement secondary feudalism in Jianzhou and Heilongjiang.
There is nothing much to say about Jianzhou Jiedushi and Heilongjiang Jiedushi. They will definitely be named Zhu in the future. Even if Ajige and Dongzhu can't have another son, Emperor Zhu's son is enough... If it is really not enough, Emperor Chongzhen is very willing to let his son go to Jianzhou and Heilongjiang.
However, the Zhu family cannot take all the benefits of Jianzhou and Heilongjiang. Who will be the lackey after eating them all? Such a large area of sparsely populated and bitter cold land cannot be managed by wandering officials, right? That kind of place is not something that ordinary civil servants can handle. They have to be capable people who can kill people on horseback and deceive people when they dismount. Where can Emperor Zhu find so many people?
So Zhu Cixiang has to continue to use the Manchu nobles. Not only the Manchu nobles, but also the Mongolian nobles and the Lama nobles on the snowy plateau in the future. Maybe there will be nobles from other places who will follow the Ming Dynasty - who What if Emperor Zhu wants to revive the Celestial Dynasty? Throw away the Celestial Empire, live a small life on your own, and be a nation-state that cares about itself will not be that troublesome.
Of course, after abandoning the Celestial Empire, the circle of Chinese civilization will disappear. The circle of Tianfang Sect and Christian civilization will take the opportunity to expand, and finally surround the Chinese civilization.
If it were the late Qing Dynasty, it would be a more pragmatic choice to abandon the illusory Celestial Dynasty and become a nation-state.
But Zhu Cixiang is in charge of a great tomorrow that has embarked on the road of capitalism! The population, tax revenue, and GDP are greater than those of the Christian and Tianfang circles combined.
Under such circumstances, actively shrinking the circle of civilization would be irresponsible to future generations...
Emperor Zhu also had to consider the problem that Wei Zheng said that the Yi Di were "strong and banditry, weak and humble". After repeated weighing, Emperor Zhu modified the Tokugawa Shogunate's method and used it.
Stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade. Although the Tokugawa family in history produced many useless generals, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the old turtle who founded the shogunate, is definitely a man of talent. The second-generation general Hidetada and the third-generation general Iemitsu are also masters in regulating the vassals. . Are they afraid that they will not be able to deal with the nobles of Manchuria and Mongolia with the methods they have learned over the past three generations? Now the Ming Dynasty's military advantage over Manchuria and Mongolia is much stronger than the Tokugawa Shogunate's over the southwestern vassals. Are you afraid that you won't be able to handle them?
Of course, the Tokugawa shogunate's methods sometimes failed. For example, the Tokugawa shogunate himself almost failed!
"Your Majesty, the current war situation in Japan is very unfavorable to the Tokugawa shogunate! After the war in Kagoshima Bay, a large number of surviving Spanish soldiers fled to the shore and immediately joined the Shimadzu army. Later, the Shimadzu family A batch of artillery was also salvaged from Kagoshima Bay and modified for use in land warfare. Although these Spaniards were in the navy, they were also proficient in land warfare, especially good at using firearms, and also proficient in siege techniques. After receiving their help, the Shimadzu army greatly increased its strength. First, it defeated the pro-Tokugawa coalition forces of Kuroda, Nabeshima, and Tachibana in several battles on Kyushu Island, and pushed the front to the vicinity of Nagasaki. Later, it crossed the sea and entered Honshu, Japan, defeated the shogunate army commanded by Masayuki Hoshina, the lord of Aizu Domain, in the Battle of Hagi Castle, and took advantage of the situation to invade the territory of Hiroshima Domain. When I left Japan, Toyotomi, with Shimadzu and Mori armies as the main forces, The army has besieged Hiroshima Castle, the domain hall of the Hiroshima Domain. There are also rumors that the Hiroshima Asano family has fallen to the Toyotomi side..."
Wei Zaode, who was reporting to Emperor Zhu on the domestic situation in Japan in the Tianjin Palace, had just returned from Japan. This "Ming Zhuge Liang" was supposed to go to America, but he was stuck in Japan and refused to go eastward, saying he was pregnant. Seriously ill. But in reality? Now my face is red and full of energy, but where is the slightest sign of illness?
Moreover, Emperor Zhu also received a report that during Wei Zaode's stay in Japan, he was unable to give birth due to illness, but instead gave birth to several sons and daughters... It seems that the Tokugawa shogunate took good care of him!
But Zhu Cixiang didn't get angry, because when Wei returned to China, he brought back the Tokugawa high school girl... It's really rare for a Japanese high school girl to be so beautiful.
In addition, Emperor Zhu also knew that Mr. Lu Zhenfei could no longer stand it any longer and had to let Wei Zaode return to serve as the chief assistant - it is not easy to be the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty now, because below him is the richest man Zheng, the second richest man Shen, and above him is Zhu The richest!
The two people below had to suppress him just enough so that the one above him could not worry about the government all the time - Zhu Cixiang governed the country by focusing on the big and letting go of the small. He only wanted to have a lot of soldiers and money, and let go of other things as much as possible. Therefore, there must be a first assistant who can do odd jobs, and this first assistant must not be from the South.
Because the richest man Zheng and the second richest man Shen were both from the south. Among the cabinet ministers were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Grand Duke Luo, and the old and immortal leader of Donglin, the Minister of Rites, Qian Qianyi, who was also from the south. If there is another southerner as the first assistant, then the pattern of the North-South system will be broken...
"I didn't expect the Spanish navy to be so powerful in land warfare..." Zhu Cixiang muttered, turning to look at Baoke Zhengjing, who came with Wei Zaode. He is Gao Mei's biological brother, and he looks serious - Masayuki Hoshina really knows how to choose names! If a daughter has a good name, she will grow taller. My son’s name is Zhengjing, and he looks pretty serious.
Now that his father has been defeated again and again by the Shimazu family, he has no choice but to take the opportunity of sending his sister off to get married to ask Emperor Zhu for help.
"Serious!" Zhu Cixiang called out the serious name of Hoshina, "Did the Tokugawa Shogunate agree to designate Nagasaki Town and the Goto Islands as Takahime's territory?"
Gao Mei should have arrived in the Ming Dynasty a long time ago, but the reason why she kept delaying it was because Zhu Cixiang demanded the territories of Nagasaki, Goto Islands, and Tanegashima as Gao Mei's "Tangmuyi".
This matter was difficult for the Tokugawa family to accept. After all, Gao Ji's "Tangmuyi" was actually Zhu Cihong's territory. This is equivalent to the Tokugawa family ceding Japanese land to the Ming Dynasty...
Therefore, the two sides have been wrangling over these territories, and Takahime can only wait in Nagasaki. It wasn't until Masayuki Hoshina was defeated in the Battle of Ogiro that he had to make substantial concessions - the shogunate demanded that Tanegashima be taken back to the Goto family as a fiefdom, and then Goto and Nagasaki would be handed over to the Ming Dynasty (actually already in In the hands of Ming Dynasty), and it is not the territory of Tokugawa Gao alone.
"Your Majesty," Hoshina Masamasa had already learned Chinese in Nagasaki and was now talking to Zhu Cixiang in Chinese. "The shogunate believes that the land of Nagasaki and Goto can be used as a soup town for all the Tokugawa princesses who will enter the Ming Dynasty court in the future. It’s not Tang Muyi who belongs to Gao Ji alone.”
"That's okay." Zhu Cixiang nodded, "In this case, I can recruit some Kyushu warriors in Nagasaki to form a new army to assist the shogunate... Seriously, you are Gao Ji's brother, why not Let’s follow it as the new Nagasaki army!”
"New Nagasaki Army?" Hoshina was stunned for a moment, "Your Majesty, is this army the shogunate's army?"
"Of course not," Zhu Cihong said, "This army will be supported by taxes collected from Nagasaki Town. It is naturally Takahime's army...and after they complete their mission of supporting the shogunate, they will also be used for other purposes. aspect, such as the siege of Manila.”
It is of course incorrect to use Japanese mercenaries in the war in Nanyang...but the reality faced by Emperor Zhu is also very difficult.
When fighting in the wilds of Nanyang, the probability of contracting the disease is too high - it is impossible to attack a city in a relatively clean city! Malaria, the most terrifying enemy in Southeast Asia, is spread through mosquito bites. Troops fighting in the wild are too susceptible to the disease. If we have to construct and fight under the castle for a long time, one-third of us will die from illness. Zhu Cixiang was not willing to send a large number of expensive Ming troops to fight in Nanyang. A hundred and eighty thousand people died of illness. The land for compensation alone had to support millions of acres... so he still used cheap and high-quality troops. Japanese mercenaries!
Anyway, there are a lot of ronin in Japan, and the Tokugawa family will not feel bad if they die a little more.
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