Located in Kokura Castle in Bunzen Province, it is now the political center of Kyushu Island and the seat of the Kyushu Administrative Office under the Kingdom of Japan.
Although Japan today has achieved a combination of public and military affairs, a centralized government still does not exist.
Even if the royal court of Japan began to implement the examination system for official positions, it would not be possible to transform Japan from a country to a state in a very short period of time through a series of reforms such as returning the books and abolishing feudal lords and setting up counties, as happened during the historical reform movement. The feudal country with separate feudal systems was transformed into a unified capitalist country.
The reason is very simple. The feudal forces in Japan are still strong. Before the merger of the public and military forces, the Tokugawa shogunate had just passed to the fourth generation. In fact, Mitsukuni Tokugawa and Masayuki Hoshina, who are in power, are both the third generation of the Tokugawa family. The abilities of these figures are not comparable to the decadent shogunate and rulers of various vassals in the Tokugawa era.
Moreover, within the Tokugawa family, the forces supporting feudalism and separatism still exist, and their influence is not small.
The former top boss of the shogunate, Hoshina Masayuki (Xu Masayuki), who led the Tokugawa family's army to defeat the Toyotomi rebels, was the leader of the feudal faction.
In order to appease Masayuki and the feudal faction, Tokugawa Mitsukuni, who had become king, had to appoint Masayuki as the governor of Kyushu. And the eleven kingdoms in the Kyushu region (including Iki Kingdom and Tsushima Kingdom) were all placed under the rule of the Kyushu Administrative Office. Among them, 260,000 koku of Bunzen Kingdom (the kingdom where Kokura Castle is located) ), Bungo Kingdom's 230,000 koku, and Satsuma and Osumi's 610,000 koku, all returned to the direct leadership of Shosuma.
Xu Zhengzhi, who holds the position of Kyushu leader and 1.1 million stone seals, and also has a Japanese surname, has extremely high local prestige in the eleven countries of Kyushu. Since a year ago, he has been respectfully called Ogura Kōkō.
However, this Lord Ogura Kōkata, who is the master of the eleven kingdoms of Kyushu, has now left his home of Ogura Castle and condescended to go to Nagasaki to meet an extraordinary guest - Chongqing County of the Ming Dynasty. Wang Zhu Cihuan!
Incredible! The Prince of Ming Dynasty is also the younger brother of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty!
This status is nothing in Yingtian Mansion. There are dozens of princes in Yingtian Mansion, and Zhu Cixiang's biological brother is over 100, so what is it worth?
A bare-faced prince only had 5,000 acres of land and a royal palace, which was the level of a big landowner.
But it’s amazing when you get to Kyushu, Japan!
Xu Zhengzhi, the Ogura Duke of Japan, was also the Japanese Duke of the Ming Dynasty. He was one level lower than the Chongqing County Prince! And his daughter Tokugawa Gao was just Emperor Zhu's concubine...that is, a concubine, and her status was also inferior to that of the emperor's younger brother.
If Mr. Ogura doesn't take the visiting Prince of Chongqing, the brother of the Ming Emperor, seriously, doesn't it mean that he is telling everyone that Mr. Ogura's Japanese Duke and his daughter's daughter, the Ming concubine, are nothing special?
In order to show his nobility, Duke Xu Zhengzhi of Ogura had to hold up Zhu Cihuan, the escaped prince of the Ming Dynasty, in front of the Kyushu warriors.
The large group of samurai and followers, carrying countless gifts, followed Lord Ogura and left the castle located in the northeast of Kyushu Island, near the Kanmon Strait, and came to Nagasaki City in a mighty manner.
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"Xu Zhengzhi, the governor of Kyushu in Japan, is coming to Nagasaki to pay homage to the prince. Now the team has passed Nishisaka Hills and will arrive this afternoon... You, you'd better organize it, and I will make arrangements for you. For a moment, you can’t damage the face of the Celestial Empire, right?”
"Supervisor Chen is right. You are the prince of the Ming Dynasty. In terms of title, you are above Mr. Ogura. He is just the Japanese Duke of the Ming Dynasty!"
The people talking to Zhu Cihuan in the Princess Pavilion on Dejima Island in Nagasaki were Chen Yongxi, the political supervisor of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Nagasaki, and Xie Xun, the garrison officer of the Ming Dynasty navy stationed in Nagasaki.
Nagasaki City (including the Goto Islands) south of Nishisaka Hills (including Nishisaka Hills) now belongs to Tokugawa in name only, but in fact it is governed by officials sent by the Ming Dynasty.
The highest civilian official sent to Nagasaki by the Ming Dynasty is called the Political Supervisor, and is now held by Chen Yongxi, who came from the Daiwang system. The garrison stationed in Nagasaki City is not the Army, but the Marine Corps. The garrison officer is Xie Xun, who once served as the chief instructor of the Japanese Red Iron Artillery Corps.
This morning, Wen Yiwu landed on Dejima Island, which was originally used to house Dutch merchants, entered the Western-style building known as the "Princess Pavilion", and reported the good news to a depressed Ming Dynasty prince who was extremely depressed.
The down-and-out prince is of course Zhu Cihuan. He arrived in Nagasaki three days ago. He didn’t want to stay for a long time, and he didn’t have the nerve to stay for a long time!
Nagasaki City is now crowded with "stock disaster victims" who came from Shanghai. There are thousands of households, most of them bringing their families with them, hoping to start a new life in the New World.
And their old lives were ruined by the damn stocks... The downfall of some of them must be related to the Chongqing Stock Exchange!
Didn’t he get tricked into entering the market at a high position by some people from the Chongqing Stock Exchange, pay off a loan to buy stocks, and lose everything?
He just believed in the background of the Chongqing County Prince and gave the money obtained from mortgaging land and real estate to the Chongqing Stock Bank for investment...
This is truly an encounter with an “old friend” in a foreign country!
The King of Chongqing was so thin-skinned that he wished he didn't even get off the ship and left immediately after replenishing supplies. But he never expected that his princess fell ill due to seasickness due to depression and a bumpy journey, and was unable to cross the ocean at all.
So Zhu Cihuan had no choice but to shamelessly ask Chen Yongxi for help.
Chen Yongxi didn't believe that the Chongqing King would come to Japan at first. He thought he had met a liar, so he informed Xie Xun to send troops to capture the person.
Xie Xun led his troops on board the ship, only to discover that Zhu Cihuan was probably the real Prince of Chongqing - not to mention the Prince's seal, robes, and tokens, and that this noble demeanor was not something ordinary people could fake.
Therefore, Xie Xun did not dare to make a mistake, and immediately invited the prince and his family to rest in Dejima's "Princess Pavilion". Just when he was about to conduct further investigation, Chen Yongxi received a text from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yingtianfu, informing him that the king of Chongqing would go to America and might stop in Nagasaki.
So Chen Yongxi immediately sent someone to notify the Japanese Duke Xu Zhengzhi and asked him to come to pay homage, while he went to the island to pay his respects to Zhu Cihuan.
And because Zhu Cihuan came here on the run, and his wife was ill and couldn't get up, he was completely lost and didn't want to see anyone, and he even made himself miserable.
It would be okay if Xu Zhengzhi didn't come, but now he comes to visit with generous gifts... How could the prince of Ming Dynasty be so dishonorable?
So Chen Yongxi and Xie Xun were extremely anxious. Just when they were trying to persuade the King of Chongqing to cheer up, one of Chen Yongxi's subordinate officials had already arrived from Nagasaki City, and he also brought a long gift list. .
"My lord, look, I have prepared generous gifts..." Chen Yongxi presented the gift list with both hands.
Zhu Cihuan took it and unfolded it. His expression changed. He looked again and saw that he had already stood up. He blurted out: "This, this...is this too much? How many return gifts should I prepare?" "
"Your Majesty, don't worry about returning the gift. It's all taken care of by the little one." Yao Daqiao on the side quickly answered.
"Yes, but this is too much!" Zhu Cihuan still shook his head, "Gold, silver, samurai swords, lacquerware, silk... I'm afraid it's worth tens of thousands of taels, right?"
"More than tens of thousands, the gold alone is 1,000 taels," Chen Yongxi said. "All the gifts are worth about 20,000 taels... You don't have to give that much in return. Ten thousand taels is enough."
"Twenty thousand taels, you can still make another ten thousand taels..." Zhu Cihuan took a breath, "Well, isn't the censor caught as a corrupt official?"
Chen Yongxi thought for a while and asked, "My lord, do you have an official position?"
"Official position? No..." Zhu Cihuan was Prince Yiguangban. He sighed, "I am not qualified to investigate for the imperial censor..."
The worst thing turned out to be not that he was investigated for corruption by the Censor of Hell, but that he was not qualified to be investigated at all!
"That's no problem," Chen Yongxi said with a smile, "Your Majesty, even if you accept gifts... and after receiving the gifts from Mr. Xiaocang, you can still receive gifts from others. Is there any gift from Mr. Xiaocang?" The young lord will also come to pay his respects. If the prince still wants to stay in Tokyo, he may be able to receive another gift from the King and Queen of Japan."
