"Daozi, I really can't blame our little mother for this matter... Although she has a bit of a young lady's temper, she is still a very good person and takes good care of you. The Dahei family's marriage is also a good one, it's up to you to decide I went to Dahei's flight attendant, and she managed to talk about the marriage. Although it's not officially engaged yet, it's almost done. Now you let her push it forward, it's true..."
After listening to Zhuge Weixue's ramble, Zhuge Weidao understood at least one thing. The relationship within the Zhuge Wuxiang Hou family is very harmonious, and there are no family fights that people like to see. Even the stepmother Guo Rong and her two eldest sons who are not much younger than her can work together.
This is actually a matter of course. The original Zhuge Weidao made it clear that he had a high IQ and a high emotional intelligence. Otherwise, he would not have been able to coax the Grand Duchess Natalie to death and make herself a soft meal of the Empress Dowager Zheng in China.
And Zhuge Weixue's EQ and IQ are not low - he is already the chief secretary of the Prime Minister in his thirties. Is that what a person with low IQ and low EQ can do?
As for Guo, she may not be as monkey-minded as Zhuge Weixue or Zhuge Weidao, but she also knows that the higher they climb, the more beneficial it will be to her and her son, so she has been trying her best to help Zhuge Weidao. But she didn't expect that it would lead to such a result. Could she not be angry?
"Brother, what should I do?" Zhuge Weidao had no choice but to ask his elder brother for advice.
Zhuge Weixue did not answer directly, but stood up and walked to the door, pushed away the servant who was guarding there, then closed the door, returned to his original seat, and whispered to Zhuge Weidao: "Second brother, There is actually nothing wrong with your previous plan... There are indeed many benefits for you to marry Daheikong home. Not only can you get a lot of dowry, but you can also use marriage to establish a close connection with Dahei's family, and then use various Use coercion and inducement to choke the Dahei family. In this way, two of Japan's four largest chaebols will be from Ming Dynasty!
Don't underestimate the influence of these chaebols in Japan. There is a saying in Japan that the wealthy businessmen of Osaka are angry and the princes of the world are frightened. Although it is a bit exaggerated, all of Japan's top shogunate ministers and lords of the lords cannot make ends meet and must constantly borrow money from wealthy businessmen to live a decent life. So as long as we control Japan's wealthy businessmen, we can control Japan's feudal lords, and if we control Japan's feudal lords, we can suppress those lower-level samurai who are ready to move. As long as the lower-level samurai in Japan suppress it, East Asia can rest easy. "
Although Zhuge Weidao "doesn't remember" Japan's four major chaebols, he does know something about Japan's "combination of public and military affairs, and powerful feudal lords discussing politics" - this matter is included in Ming Dynasty's high school history textbooks. This reform is actually based on the Ming Dynasty's "discussing political affairs and electing emperors" system, and combined with Japan's national conditions.
Since the reform was carried out during the period when the three powerful generals Ietsuna, Tsunayoshi and Ienobu were in power in the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, the reform plan was obviously biased towards the Tokugawa shogunate.
First of all, in terms of the method of generating the emperor, the Tokugawa shogunate legitimately absorbed the advanced experience of the Ming Dynasty and also adopted the imperial election system. The imperial council selected an emperor with "both political integrity and talent" from the families of several princes. Moreover, Japan's imperial election system is more advanced than that of the Ming Dynasty. If someone is elected in the Ming Dynasty, they will work for life, and they will work until death without retirement. And Japan’s electoral monarchy has a term of office! After being elected, you can only serve as emperor for ten years before you have to retire to become a monk and become the emperor. Moreover, the emperor's children cannot participate in the election for the next emperor - yes, they are children, not sons. Because there have been female emperors in Japanese history, concubines (princesses) can also run for emperor.
Secondly, the shogun was also appointed by the emperor after being recommended by the feudal council. This is similar to the way the Ming Dynasty's cabinet was formed. But the difference is that the left and right ministers of the Ming Dynasty's cabinet are all on a tenure system. Although they can be re-elected, the procedure is still the same. Gotta get by. The shogun, on the other hand, is appointed for life. Once selected, he will work until death. It is much harder than the emperor...
Of course, not just anyone can be elected as shogun. Only candidates who are descendants of the shogun family, the Tokugawa family, and the Tokugawa family, who are from the three noble families, can run for election.
Thirdly, most of the imperial court and public houses that originally relied on the emperor merged with the shogunate and the feudal council. Only a handful of them became officials of the Imperial Household Ministry and continued to serve the imperial family and the prince's family.
Fourth, the Xiongfan political system also referred to the Ming Dynasty’s political system. The government system of the Ming Dynasty was based on the joint discussion between noble ministers from aristocratic families and local eminent persons. Among them, the eminent officials were recommended by the eight great aristocratic families and other noble families, while the eminent officials were recommended by the local government based on the amount of taxes paid. As for Japan's political affairs, the feudal lords of the "Three Hundred Domains" under the Tokugawa Shogunate and the heads of the Five Regents and Nine Tsinghua families discuss politics together - that is to say, when the political meeting is held, there are three hundred members of the Wu family. The feudal lord with a sword, there are fourteen tender-skinned ministers here...
Finally, through this reform of "integration of the public and military, and powerful vassals discussing government", Japan's centralization of power has also been strengthened to a certain extent. The new shogunate army and shogunate navy were established, and the customs, customs and major mines across the country were consolidated. Have it firmly in hand. At the same time, the shogunate also grabbed a lot of wealth by supporting imperial merchants to develop industries and monopolize the export of special industries (Japanese women), forming a situation where the shogunate and wealthy merchants strictly controlled the Japanese economy.
The various vassals that were excluded from the colonial and profit-making industries, especially those "foreigners", were as poor as anything. They all couldn't make ends meet and could only borrow money from wealthy merchants to survive.
However, these foreign lords are not the poorest. Even poorer are the hundreds of thousands of lower-level samurai... Of course these people are not willing to be reduced to low-level civilians, but Japan does not have enough jobs to provide them. The positions that can be provided to them - the shogunate and the official offices of each domain, as well as the new army of the shogunate, the navy of the shogunate, and the army of each domain are too few compared to the number of these middle and lower-level bushido. So they had no choice but to stay stuck there, looking forward to fighting every day. If they really couldn't go out to fight, then they could just fall behind the scenes!
Therefore, these Japanese samurai are the most troublesome, not only for the eight major families in the Ming Dynasty, but also for the Japanese shogunate and chaebol. Because Japan is now semi-surrounded by the Ming Dynasty. Korea and Ryukyu are all vassals of the Ming Dynasty. Luzon is an overseas province of the Ming Dynasty. Sakhalin belongs to the Ming Dynasty. Onikata Peninsula (Kamchatka Peninsula) also belongs to the Ming Dynasty. Only the Pacific side was not covered, but Japan's naval strength was limited and it was impossible to expand across the Pacific.
And to challenge the Ming Dynasty... Not to mention how strong the Ming Dynasty's military strength is, the economic losses that the Japanese shogunate and chaebol will suffer are enough to make them feel distressed.
However, in Zhuge Weidao's view, the shogunate and the chaebols could not suppress the poor and unruly samurai below. Because the force the shogunate relied on - the officers and soldiers of the shogunate's new army and shogunate navy, also came from this poor and tyrannical samurai class.
Moreover, it is impossible for the shogunate to give them a decent life. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of families with a population of perhaps two to three million. How can they afford to support them?
Therefore, there must be a battle between Ming Dynasty and Japan!
Only when the Ming Dynasty completely eliminated the samurai class in Japan could the Japanese problem be satisfactorily resolved.
However, Japan's chaebol...the group of profiteers who are shameless enough to sell their own girls to make profits, can accept the traitors of the day.
After all, merging Japan would mean sharing Ming Dynasty's resources and wealth with more than 30 million Japanese, which is completely uneconomical. It is most cost-effective to let Japanese slaves rule.
Just as Zhuge Weidao was thinking of this, his good eldest brother suddenly laughed: "Second brother, why don't you and Grand Duchess Natalie discuss it carefully and marry the eldest daughter of the Dahei family back to have a baby? Anyway, you are in good health. , I can handle it.”
"Is this still possible?" Zhuge Weidao looked at his eldest brother, "She is a young lady from one of the four major chaebols...can she be willing to be a junior?"
Zhuge Weixue smiled: "You are not the daughter of General Tokugawa. It is common for ladies from Japanese chaebol families to serve as concubines. It's just that your previous status was not enough for others to treat you as a concubine. But now you are a military advisor... ....The status and power held by the Zhuge family’s military advisors are not inferior to those of Japan’s Yusanjia and Yusanqing masters! Moreover, you are good-looking and especially pleasing to women. I think this matter is what to do!"
"That's it, can we do it?" Zhuge Weidao thought to himself: "One Natalie, one Nalandili, one Queen Mother... I can't handle it anymore, and add a big black lady. ! I won’t make mistakes in my life, right?”
