"Examination?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna still frowned, "Boss, how many people do you plan to recruit? There are hundreds of thousands of samurai who have no family fortune to inherit... I'm afraid recruiting a few hundred people won't solve the problem. What a problem!”
"Then recruit 20,000 people!" Tokugawa Mitsukuni gritted his teeth, "We can let them form a new army to crusade against the rebellion in the Western Kingdom! As long as we can put down the rebellious parties of Toyotomi, Shimazu, and Mori, we can gain at least 100 Ten thousand stones is enough to feed 20,000 new troops!"
This imperial examination is also a bit miserable. Only if you pass the exam can you become a soldier...but it is better to be a soldier than to be a rogue!
"But what to do now?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna said, "Now that the shogunate's finances are tight, how can it afford to raise 20,000 new troops? And to build a new army, you need guns, gunpowder...it all costs money. !”
"You can borrow it!" Tokugawa Mitsukuni said, "Borrow money from the bank of China... With 1 million taels, we should be able to build a new army of 20,000 people."
"The Celestial Empire may not be willing to borrow it, right?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna said, "The Celestial Empire would only be happy to see Tokugawa Tokugawa and Toyotomi Nishi..."
Tokugawa Mitsukuni shook his head and said: "No, if Nishi Toyotomi does not have 3,000 Spanish people to join, China may sit back and watch. But now... China will not allow Spain to take root in Japan. .
Moreover, the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty was extremely ambitious and had long wanted to expel the Western forces from Nanyang, but he suffered from insufficient military strength... The Celestial Dynasty did not have that many warriors! So I have always wanted to recruit soldiers in our country. This time we held the imperial examination and gave the Chinese Empire an opportunity to recruit soldiers on a large scale! "
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"Your Majesty, this is a memorial from the Tokugawa Shogunate, in the name of the King of Japan, Minamoto Ietsuna!"
As soon as Grand Duke Luo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, received the memorial sent to Wuhan by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials who stayed in Yingtian Mansion through the Zuotong Administration Department, he excitedly went to the East Lake Palace to see it.
At that time, Emperor Zhu was dancing with the young pony Mancini in the Western Pavilion of the East Lake Palace - dancing a very strange European court minuet. It looked a bit like two penguins dancing to the out-of-tune dance music played by the eunuch's foreign band. Bounce.
If Mary Mancini hadn't agreed to be a model for Zhu Cixiang, who had recently become interested in sketching, for an hour, Zhu Cixiang wouldn't have danced the penguin dance with her!
When Grand Duke Luo arrived at the Xiyang Pavilion dance floor, Zhu Cihong and Mancini had just finished dancing and were sitting and drinking afternoon tea - milk tea prepared by Mancini himself, which was very sweet and delicious.
This kind of milk tea has also become popular in Europe recently. It is said that Louis XIV liked the taste of Mancini milk tea very much. Under his leadership, milk tea quickly became popular among the French aristocracy and is now spreading to Germany, the Netherlands, Spread across Italy.
"Did you use the name of the King of Japan?" Zhu Cixiang sipped the milk tea and smiled, "What did the memorial say?"
Grand Duke Luo had already sat down on an armchair, and then took a cup of milk tea from Marie Mancini. Before he could drink it, he heard Zhu Cixiang's question.
"Your Majesty, Minamoto Ietsuna's memorial said that Japan is going to hold the imperial examination. I hope we can send someone to guide it."
"Japan... imperial examination?"
"Yes!" Luo Dagong said, "If it hadn't been for this matter, I wouldn't have been in a hurry to see you."
Zhu Cixiang nodded: "It is indeed a good thing... Japan has finally taken this step. North Korea and Annan have already opened imperial examinations like ours, so Confucianism can flourish and the country can be peaceful.
However, Japan has Confucianism but no imperial examinations, so Confucianism is not prosperous, the country is unstable, civil strife continues, warriors fight with each other, and the common people are uneasy. It is really like a hell on earth! "
Emperor Zhu said that Japan is a hell on earth, which is well-founded!
Whether it is Zheng Jiangong who has stayed in Japan for many years, or Tokugawa Taka and Takada Miho who came to Emperor Zhu's harem from Japan, they all said that Japan is a hell for farmers - what do so many samurai in Japan eat? What to drink? What are you using to play geisha and raise a mistress? In the final analysis, we still have to eat the farmers! Moreover, this group of samurai are all professionals in killing people, and they are not afraid of peasant rebellion at all. If the peasants don't rebel, they may be caught and tested with swords. If they dare to rebel, they will be chopped into pieces?
So Japanese farmers are living in hell! The reason why they can live "stablely" in hell is because the people in hell have developed an effective method to control population growth and alleviate the contradiction between man and earth-the inheritance of the eldest son and the father-in-law service.
The former basically deprives the non-eldest male of the family of his inheritance and reproduction rights! In ordinary farm families, those who are over 10 years old and are not the eldest male will usually leave home and go to the town to make a living. This is called Ding Zhi Fong Gong, and they become cheap labor force in commerce and handicraft industry.
Japanese industry and commerce, which was severely suppressed under the feudal system, actually did not have the ability to absorb these surplus rural labor forces. Therefore, the vast majority of non-eldest men who work in the public service cannot collect enough money to start a family and start a business until they die, and in the end they have to live alone...and their sacrifices have brought about the stability of Japanese society.
Of course, inheritance by the eldest son does not only exist in ordinary civilian families, but also in most samurai families. Because most samurai families don't have much wealth to pass on, non-eldest sons often become country warriors or swashbucklers, and they become a destabilizing factor in Japanese society!
In other words, the eldest son of a peasant family who could not kill people became a cheap labor force. He did not get married or have children, and he served in office until death, which made the Tokugawa Shogunate's An Tai. And the eldest son of a samurai family who was good at slashing people wandered around the country with a big sword. Whenever he got the chance, he would cause trouble and make the shogunate suffer!
For such a country, it should not be wrong to say that it is hell.
"Your Majesty," Grand Duke Luo still knows a little about Japan. He also knows that Japan is a hell and the reasons for the formation of this hell. "I am afraid that just relying on the imperial examination is not enough to solve the dilemma of Japan's middle school, right?"
"Isn't there still a Celestial Empire?" Zhu Cixiang smiled, "Grand Duke, why do you think Tokugawa Mitsukuni asked for guidance in the name of Ietsuna? Do you think he really doesn't know how to administer exams?"
Yes, Tokugawa Mitsukuni is so smart, but he still doesn’t know how to take the exam? It's nothing more than using difficult problems to eliminate most people... But the problem is that those eliminated professional hackers still have to make a fuss!
In fact, the biggest headache for Mitsukuni now is not Toyotomi Saijun, but the increasing number of people who specialize in killing people in Japan and have no way to arrange it!
"Your Majesty, you mean..."
Zhu Cixi smiled and said: "In the past few years, the Tokugawa shogunate has been very submissive, and I am very satisfied! Now they have begun to imitate the imperial examination system of the Celestial Empire, which shows that they sincerely want to seek refuge. So what reason do I have for not helping? When the Tokugawa shogunate encounters The difficulty is that there are too many warriors and there is no way out... I just give them a way out!
It's nothing more than 40 taels of silver a year. If you recruit someone worth 100,000 or 80,000 yuan, it's only 4 million a year. It is still very cost-effective to use in Nanyang! "
It turns out that the purpose of Tokugawa Mitsukuni's memorial to the Celestial Dynasty was to imply that the Ming Dynasty court participated in the Japanese imperial examination - the Tokugawa shogunate recruited a group of officials and an army of samurai through the imperial examination, while the Ming Dynasty took the opportunity to recruit a group of failed candidates. A non-eldest samurai goes abroad to be cannon fodder...
In this era, the losses in land battles in Nanyang were calculated in this way. How many people died in the battle was another matter. Various diseases would wipe out half of you first!
How could Zhu Cixiang be willing to let the new army he finally pulled together go to Nanyang? Moreover, the ordinary New Army simply cannot bear such a mortality rate. Only the Jiubian Youth Army can bear it. And the Jiubian Youth Army is so precious, how can it be consumed like this?
Moreover, Emperor Zhu also wants the Jiubian Youth Army to go to the New World to conquer the world!
They don't have much to worry about in the Ming Dynasty, so they can serve in the New World for a long time, and their training level is high. They can support several of them, so they are most suitable for going to the New World.
As for the Nanyang side, we still have to use worthless Japanese samurai to attack it!
Zhu Cixiang had already stood up and smiled and said to Grand Duke Luo: "I have long wanted to fight in Nanyang, but I just couldn't bear the lives of the new army.
Well now, with the Japanese samurai charging into battle, the land of Nanyang will be owned by the Chinese Empire sooner or later! "
