"ah......"
"Hi......"
These were the screams of two women. In the martial arts pavilion (which is a gym) next to the Qingliang Pavilion of the East Lake Palace, Tokugawa Takashi was competing with a girl of her age to compete in martial arts! It's not a competition of fists and kicks, nor a competition of swordsmanship, but a competition of spear skills. There were no real spears. Both women were holding long, thin wooden sticks with a round cloth ball wrapped at one end and stained with white powder.
However, the two of them did not stab or hit each other with wooden sticks. Instead, they were posing and scolding loudly from time to time.
Zhu Cixiang and Wu Sanmei were sitting side by side, watching intently, but their gazes were focused very differently!
Wu Sanmei is an expert and knows how to shoot, so she is looking at the two people's poses and nodding her head while looking at them - the poses are well done, and she has obviously practiced real kung fu.
Zhu Cixiang had no interest in playing tricks, but he was still very interested in the figures and faces of the two women. Both women were wearing tied-up kendo uniforms, and Tokugawa Kao, who was already tall, showed off her slender waist and long legs. The girl who was playing against her was short, but her chest was strong and straight. The two little faces were tight. The tall girl had a long face, thin eyebrows and high eyebrows. She was quite handsome indeed. The other girl had a round face and big eyes, glaring round and round, looking very fierce.
Both of them are beauties, and they are both good at posing. After posing, they don't even act twice, just staring at each other with their beautiful eyes.
Zhu Cixiang stroked his beard and admired it with a smile. The tall girl stopped looking... let's look at the short girl. He is a little short, about 1.50 meters by visual inspection, which is not considered short among Japanese in this era. It's just that this girl looks a little more fierce, with white teeth gritted and eyes wide open. It is said that she is also good at martial arts. She is a descendant of the Takada sect of Hohoin style. Her name is Takada Miho. She has a grandfather who is good at using big guns. What Takada Gun Matabei. This young boy, Takada, learned the art of spearmanship from his grandfather and father, and has already acquired the true heritage.
She was originally supposed to be allowed to enter the Great Ao to protect the stupid father-in-law, but as a result, Gao Mei got married far away, so she was arranged by Tokugawa Mitsukuni to be a maid, and they came to China together.
Gao Mei is also a girl who likes to use guns and sticks, and she gets along well with her. The two often spar together, and Wu Sanmei bumps into her somehow. As soon as Sanmei and Zhu Cixiang talked about it, today's exhibition match was born.
But Zhu Cixi didn't see any martial arts skills in this Japanese girl? Instead, I had a little evil impulse. What is the identity of this Japanese girl? Is it a female official? Is it a palace maid? If it is a female official, it will be a bit troublesome. If it is a palace maid, it will be called bullying...
Emperor Zhu looked a little enchanted, forgetting that he was watching a martial arts competition. At this moment, Takada Miho suddenly let out a squeal, and the long stick in her hand came out like lightning. Gao Mei quickly shook the long stick and wanted to grab it. The opponent's long stick was deflected, but it was half a beat too slow, and there was a white spot on the chest of the blue kendo uniform.
"Okay!" Wu Sanmei shouted.
Zhu Cixiang was shocked, why was it so fast? Could it be that this little girl really has a lot of tricks up her sleeve? It’s better not to bully others. Let's go back and tell her to promote her to be a chosen servant!
Thinking of this, Zhu Cixiang nodded with a smile and spoke in Japanese: "Yaoxi, Miss Takada, yours, come here!"
"Hai!" Miho Takada could really understand Emperor Zhu's "Japanese". She quickly put down the wooden stick, jumped up to Zhu Cixiang, knelt down and kowtowed, and then crawled in front of Zhu Cixiang.
Looks pretty good...
"Yours, raise your head!" Emperor Zhu said.
"Hai!"
Miho Takada responded, straightened up and knelt down in front of Emperor Zhu, her small breasts high.
Zhu Cixiang smiled and waved to Gao Mei: "Gao Mei, come here too!"
Tokugawa Takaya immediately put down his spear, and when he came to Zhu Cihong, like Takata Miho, he first saluted, then knelt down, and like Miho, he looked up at Emperor Zhu with his little face raised.
"Mei Gao," Zhu Cixiang directly called Tokugawa Gao by his nickname, "Your brother's serious memorial was sent to Wuhan yesterday. He has recruited a full 10,000 warriors for me in Nagasaki!"
"10,000 samurai? Why so many?" Tokugawa Gao was surprised, "There are not many Shigao in Nagasaki and Goto."
The stone height of the Goto Islands is tens of thousands of stones. Nagasaki is a commercial city and has a lot of customs revenue. However, the customs duties are paid to the shogunate and do not belong to Tokugawa Gao's Tang Muyi. Therefore, the total height of Nagasaki and Goto is only 100,000 shi, and the actual income is between 40,000 and 50,000 shi.
With such a small income, it is impossible to support 10,000 warriors.
Zhu Cixiang smiled: "I have plenty of money. I will pay a salary equivalent to the samurai-level new army soldiers of our dynasty to recruit a Japanese samurai in Nagasaki, which is about 40 taels of silver a year."
"That's 400,000 taels!" Tokugawa Gao was moved for a while, "Your Majesty spent a lot of money for the Tokugawa family!"
Zhu Cixiang waved his hand and said with a smile: "I am not recruiting rogues in Nagasaki solely to help the Tokugawa family. While helping the Tokugawa family, I also want to organize several samurai groups for combat in Southeast Asia."
Recruiting Japanese samurai to fight in the Southeast Asian battlefields... is definitely incorrect!
Therefore, Zhu Cixiang also hesitated for a while. Only recently due to the land exchange with Siam and the fierce resistance of the Pattani Sultanate, did he have to make up his mind to implement it in a big way.
What is wrong with this matter is not only the recruitment of Japanese samurai to fight in Nanyang, but also the arrangements after the battle.
Zhu Cixiang added: "After the Pattani expedition is completed, 1,000 warriors will get hereditary territory in Pattani!"
How incorrect!
Emperor Zhu not only wanted to use Japanese samurai, but also granted part of the captured land to meritorious samurai, allowing them to settle and multiply in the Nanyang region.
Of course it is wrong to do this... Forget about fighting, the land should not be given!
Land should be distributed to local landless farmers! This is certainly the right thing to do, but it doesn't actually work.
Because what is going to happen in Nanyang is a conflict between two civilizational circles!
Sometimes conflicts between civilizations are not only cruel, but also long-lasting. Only the side that remains cruel for a long time can win the conflict.
And in the circle of Chinese civilization, who is the most cruel?
Are they landless old farmers in China? Everyone knows they can't do it. They have to be brutal enough. How come there is the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty in history? If you are a farmer from the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, or a farmer from the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, maybe you can do it.
But most of the farmers in the Ming Dynasty couldn't do it. Some people may talk about the fighting power of Hakka farmers. Yes, the Hakkas are very powerful, but they are not the Hakkas in the late Ming Dynasty, but the Hakkas in the late Qing Dynasty.
Moreover, the ferocity of the Hakka people and the ferocity of the Japanese samurai are basically two different types.
The former are the working class, and farming is their main occupation. The fight is just to fight for a piece of land that can be cultivated. It is more suitable for them to develop in the American Gulf where there are fewer people and more land, or in the Kingdom of Siam and the Ca Mau Army.
The latter is the ruling class, and killing people and suppressing them is their main business! Placing them at the outermost edge of the Celestial Civilization Circle should be able to play the same role as the Zhungeer tribe.
As for letting the retired veterans go to the forefront of Nanyang...what did they do wrong? You actually have to be sent to that kind of miasmatic place?
In addition, except for the soldiers of the Jiubian Young Army, most of the soldiers in the Ming Army were illiterate, unlike those Japanese samurai who were civilized and martial. Moreover, these Ming army retreaters not only had little culture, but also had no firm religious beliefs. They might have followed the enemy when they went to Nanyang.
In contrast, the Japanese samurai of this era are relatively firm if paired with the flower monk of Honganji Temple.
Emperor Zhu finally said to Tokugawa Gao: "Mei Gao, you are the lord of Nagasaki, and those people are your retainers in name. You have to go to Nagasaki, accept their oaths, pay them salaries, and appoint The clan leader who presides over the feudal army."
