Qi Jiguang was not dazzled by the tactical victory in front of him. Instead, like the War Department of the Japanese Empire in modern times, he suddenly threatened to destroy China within three months because of the victory in front of him.
He maintained enough rationality in terms of strategy and did not dare to violate the strategy set by Zhu Yijun and the Privy Council to conquer Japan rather than destroy it, so he decided to give up as soon as possible.
Of course, after all, the Ming Dynasty was a truly centralized system, and Qi Jiguang did not have the guts to go against the ruling party's strategy.
Therefore, Qi Jiguang released Arima Harunobu and asked him to deliver the news to the daimyo of Kyushu that the Ming Dynasty wanted to negotiate peace.
After knowing the news, the three lords of Shimazu, Otomo, and Ryuzoji breathed a sigh of relief. They had all been prepared to fight in a scorched earth and destroy all their jade, but now that the Ming Dynasty is willing to negotiate, they are naturally willing.
After all, they actually don't want to pay the price of broken jade, because even if they succeed, it will be cheaper for Toyotomi Hideyoshi and others.
So, a few days later, Shimazu Iehisa, the representative of the Shimazu family, Takahashi Shoun, the representative of the Otomo family, and Nabeshima Naoshima, the representative of the Ryuzouji family, all came to Hirado Castle to negotiate with Qi Jiguang.
Qi Jiguang conveyed his negotiating conditions to them, including the recognition of the three kingdoms of Hizen, Hyuga, and Osumi under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
This condition was naturally added by Qi Jiguang on the basis of the request of the Privy Council, in order to facilitate the negotiation, so naturally the lion had to ask for the land of the Three Kingdoms at the beginning.
These three families were naturally unwilling and strongly demanded concessions.
Qi Jiguang insisted not to give in at first, but finally gave in. The three families also felt that they could go back and negotiate with each other in order to save face, but they did not know that the conditions they agreed to were still above the bottom line conditions required by the Ming Dynasty's ruling party.
The final conditions are set as:
First, the three families recognized Hizen Country as Ming Dynasty territory.
Hizen Province was the Matsuura Peninsula, the later Japanese state, plus Hirado Island, Iki Island, and Tsushima Island.
Second, the three families need to hand over a gift of three million taels of silver to show their goodwill with Ming Dynasty and to compensate Ming Dynasty for the military expenses of this investigation.
Gift money is the name for a kind of compensation that the Japanese daimyo needs to collect after conquering other daimyo. Qi Jiguang also asked them for compensation according to the tradition within the Japanese country.
Third, the three companies need to develop three ports to trade with the Ming Dynasty.
Fourth, the three families did not have the power to punish the overseas businessmen and nationals of the Ming Dynasty.
Fifth, the three families promised not to plunder the Ming Dynasty, and if it was found that the Japanese pirates were committed by retainers of the three families, they were willing to make compensation, and as a sign of this, they were willing to hand over Matsuura Takanobu, the chief culprit who caused trouble in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, and his He was a family retainer, and the day of handing over was the day when the Ming army stationed in Satsuma Domain withdrew.
Here, the Matsuura family naturally became the victims.
But this is also the fault of the Matsuura family themselves. Because they tried to collude with Ming pirates and wealthy gentry bandits to plunder the interests of the Ming Dynasty's southeast, they did things that were unworthy of Ming Dynasty and gave Ming Dynasty an excuse to accuse them.
Although there are also these three forces who enjoy the benefits of the Matsuura family's robbery.
In the end, the Ryuzouji family general Matsuura Takanobu and his family retainers were designed to capture him alive and handed him over to the Ming army.
Therefore, Qi Jiguang sent Ma Gui to escort Matsuura Takanobu and others with the terms and documents and the confiscated 3.5 million taels of silver back to the country for business, while he continued to garrison Hirado City to rectify Hirado's trade.
The reason why it was 3.5 million taels was because in addition to the 3 million taels of gift money lost by the three families, there was also 500,000 taels of silver copied from the warehouse of the Hirado Matsuura family.
Because of Iwami Ginzan, the Japanese daimyo of this era had no shortage of silver. Otherwise, Japan would not have become the third largest consumer market in global trade in this era, and the main trade routes of the Portuguese and Dutch would have become They also sold Chinese goods to Japan.
As for large daimyo like Shimazu and Otomo, their annual income was around two million taels. It was not difficult for them to come up with one million taels, so these daimyo quickly handed over the gift money.
The Ming Dynasty only sent more than 30,000 officers and soldiers to conquer the Japanese, and had no intention of destroying the Japanese. The total military expenditure was less than two million taels, so after getting this silver, it can be regarded as making a profit in this war without losing any money. .
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Forbidden City.
While Qi Jiguang was waiting for the expedition against Japan, Zhu Yijun took his sister Princess Yongning to meet the unengaged descendants of the Qi family at Donghua Gate.
"You no longer have to worry about marrying someone who is not a good person, but you can choose a member of your general family as your husband. However, as a princess, you have to bear some responsibilities when you are honored by the world like me, so now you can only choose the most suitable one. A descendant of the Qi family who is a relative of the emperor."
Zhu Yijun spoke to Yongning.
Princess Yongning, who was already twenty-eight years old and showed great intelligence, only nodded, and then secretly glanced at the descendants of the Qi family below the city.
Zhu Yijun said: "You have read their articles and talents. Now look at their faces and tell me who you like."
Yongning's face immediately turned red and he lowered his head.
Empress Du, who was already pregnant with Liujia, couldn't help but smile. Then she took Yongning's hand and said, "Can you tell me where you are going later?"
Yongning still just nodded.
"How's it going? Is she determined?"
After Empress Du came to Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yijun put down the chapter in his hand and asked curiously.
Queen Du smiled and asked: "Your Majesty, you really want to marry off your royal sister?"
"Of course not. It's just that the more I don't want to face it, the more I take it seriously, but it's really not a big deal."
Zhu Yijun said.
Queen Du sat down on the right side of Zhu Yijun: "It's still Qi Xingguo."
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun nodded: "According to what the Director of Ceremonies reported, this person likes to be quiet and taciturn, and likes to observe the stars and objects. I read the article he wrote in accordance with my order to express his aspirations, and he said that there is a perfect reason for all things in the world. , He wants to explore the ultimate truth of everything in the world, and it sounds like he likes to get along with things rather than people, and he should be a boring gourd."
Qi Jiguang had five sons, namely Qi Zuoguo, Qi Anguo, Qi Changguo, Qi Baoguo, and Qi Xingguo.
Although Qi Jiguang himself had a high level of education and could write poems such as "Being a Marquis is not my intention, I hope Haibo is peaceful" and often sang in poetry with great talents like Wang Shizhen, the name he gave his son was not The choice is not so formal.
From the names of Qi Jiguang's sons, we can see that he is really patriotic and hopes that his sons can contribute to the country.
But what Zhu Yijun had to admit was that Qi Jiguang's sons all ordered the wrong skills. None of them were suitable for traditional civil servants and generals. They all ordered other skills.
For example, Qi Changguo, who later had the highest official position and has more detailed records, although he later won the military examination and became an official in Jinyiwei, Zhangnan Town Fusi, he was promoted to Governor Tongzhi because he was good at making ordnance. During the Chongzhen period, he built a new chariot and performed meritorious service before he was promoted to the rank of Governor and Tongzhi.
As for Qi Xingguo, the fifth son of Qi Jiguang, whom Princess Yongning was interested in, his interest was in physics rather than combat and career. It is no wonder that he has not been able to go very far in officialdom in history.
In this era that does not attach much importance to scientific research and development, Qi Jiguang's sons will undoubtedly disappoint Qi Jiguang.
Zhu Yijun couldn't help but wonder whether Qi Jiguang's sad and depressed mood in his later years was related to the fact that his sons were useless in the eyes of traditional military commanders like him, and felt that it was difficult for the family to prosper again.
However, Zhu Yijun didn't mind that the children of the Qi family were unwilling to follow the traditional path of civil servants and military generals. It was also possible to engage in natural science research, which would just make up for the Ming Dynasty's lack of talents in this area.
Zhu Yijun is just worried that Qi Xingguo may have a boring personality.
"But he's good-looking."
Queen Du replied at this time.
Zhu Yijun suddenly realized: "I understand, let him do it."
Therefore, Zhu Yijun asked the imperial minister to issue a decree to marry Princess Yongning and Qi Jiguang's fifth son Xiang, Qi Xingguo, and named him the governor of the Houjun Governor's Mansion, Qian Shi, and gave him a residence in the imperial city.
One day not long after Zhu Yijun issued the decree to confer the marriage, Zhang Hong walked in quickly, came to Zhu Yijun and said: "Your Majesty, there is an urgent message from Busan. Our Japanese army has won consecutive victories and has captured the territory of Hizen. I will send you the news." I successfully negotiated with the native chief of Kyushu and received a gift of three million taels, plus an additional 500,000 taels of property confiscated from the guilty chief! In addition, the entire family of Japanese pirate leader Matsuura Takanobu, who colluded with Wang Zhi in the past, has been escorted back to the court!"
