At the end of February in the seventh year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, Choryang Japanese Museum in Busan, North Korea.
The so-called Choryang Wakan is a Japanese-style town covering an area of more than 330,000 square meters (approximately one million square meters). It was founded more than a hundred years ago by Tsushima who submitted vassals to both the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Joseon Kingdom. Zongshi, which was funded and built with the approval of the King of Korea, was dedicated to trade between Japan and Korea. Later, because the business was so good, it also contributed a lot of tax revenue to the Joseon Kingdom, so the Japanese Pavilion was expanded several times, from the initial 100,000 square meters to 330,000 square meters...that is, one square meter Kilometers are actually just a tiny place.
As luck would have it, this Japanese pavilion is located on the opposite bank of the Jueying Island base of the Ming Navy. It is separated from Jueying Island by a narrow and busy strait. There are also railway bridges and road bridges across the strait, allowing people to pass through. Very convenient.
It's really unusual for a Japanese museum to be a neighbor of a military base designed to prevent and prepare for Japanese invaders.
However, the location of Jueying Island is so good that the Ming Navy is reluctant to change places. This island happens to guard the south gate of Busan. As long as a few forts are built in the south of the island, enemies who want to invade Busan can be blocked. Moreover, the terrain in the southern part of Jueying Island is quite dangerous. Whether enemies coming from the sea want to land or shell, it is not easy to succeed.
In addition, Jueying Island is only one or two hundred kilometers away from the Japanese mainland. A warship with a speed of more than ten or twenty knots per hour can reach the north coast of Kyushu or outside the Kanmon Strait in ten hours.
If it were an airship, it would take at most two hours to drop incendiary bombs on the Japanese!
Therefore, the Ming Navy identified Jueying Island and invested heavily in its construction. Not only did it build forts, ports, barracks, warehouses, airship landing sites and other facilities, it even built a railway.
As for the Choryang Japanese Museum, it was not comfortable to be neighbors with the Ming Dynasty Navy. Moreover, the Ming Navy also built a fort on the north shore of Jeeyeong Island, set up cannons and aimed at the Choryang Japanese Museum, and even forcibly captured the Marine Corps. He was sent to the Choryang Japanese Museum on duty, and on the grounds of confidentiality, the Choryang Japanese Museum was prohibited from receiving telegrams and phone calls...but the Japanese Museum in Choryang was still unwilling to move.
There are two reasons why we did not move. One is because the spending power of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty Navy and their families in the Jueying Island base is too strong!
The second reason is that although the Choryang Japanese Museum was governed by the Tsushima Domain of Japan, it was built on Korean soil after all. The various restrictions imposed by the Ming Dynasty on Japan did not apply to the Choryang Japanese Museum—coal, cotton, petroleum products, iron materials, and copper materials could all be freely entered into the Choryang Japanese Museum. Therefore, Choryang Wakan not only has developed commerce, shipping industry, and service industry, but also has a large number of handicraft workshops.
Now more than ten days have passed since the Battle of Ji Yin, and the relationship between Ming Dynasty and Japan is still blurred. However, the streets of Choryang Wakan are still as bustling as ever...even more lively and prosperous than before.
Because many Ming Dynasty merchants who were originally trading in Nagasaki received the advice to evacuate, a considerable number of them came to the Choryang Japanese Museum in Busan. Some merchants who have been engaged in trade between China, Japan and Korea for many years often settled in Shanghai and Nagasaki. They have opened stores in Busan Choryang Japanese Museum. Compared with evacuating to Shanghai, it is much more convenient to evacuate to the Choryang Japanese Museum.
In addition, some Japanese businessmen also saw that the situation was not good and went directly to the Choryang Japanese Museum in Busan. Although Japan was opened long ago, it was not the Japan after the Meiji Restoration. Because the person who led the founding of the country was the Tokugawa General, who was the pillar of the samurai family, the Tokugawa General naturally could not deprive the samurai of their privileges and bring the revolution to the samurai. It is impossible to impose any "military conscription order" or "abolition of sword orders", and it is impossible for the shogunate to implement Japanese nationalist education for civilians who are not samurai.
In Japan today, serving as a soldier is a privilege, not an obligation. Only those with a samurai background are qualified to serve as soldiers to defend the country. It is only natural for merchants or craftsmen who were born as civilians to run away when they encounter danger.
Therefore, under the cloud of war, Busan Japanese Museum has become more prosperous than before...
When night gradually enveloped the inside and outside of the Japanese temple in Choryang, piles of dock workers and workers in handicraft workshops lined up, led by the foremen, through the narrow road inside the Japanese temple and headed outside the Japanese temple. The dormitories built on the territory of the Korean people were gone - the Japanese hall's land was very small, and every inch of land was very valuable, so the workers' dormitories could only be located outside the Japanese hall. The Japanese workers who had worked hard all day were docile and lined up in neat lines, one after another heading towards the exit of the Japanese Pavilion. If someone wearing the uniform of a Ming Navy officer happened to pass by them, these Japanese workers would not only give way, but also bow deeply!
Because in their view, there is no doubt that the officers of the Ming Dynasty are equivalent to high-level warriors!
Although there are Ming Dynasty marines on duty in the Japanese palace, the people responsible for security are the feudal lords of the Taima Zong family. According to the requirements of the Ming Dynasty's navy, samurai entering the Choryang Japanese Hall were not allowed to carry firearms, but only swords. Therefore, these warriors, who wear uniform colors and have the clan crest printed on their clothes, are responsible for the daily affairs of Choryang Hall. When the lights on the streets in the Japanese mansion came on one by one, Zong's retainers carrying knives began to patrol up and down the streets. Under their management, this prosperous, crowded, and at first glance a bit chaotic Japanese town is always in surprisingly good order.
The "custom area" of Choryang Japanese Museum occupies about a quarter of the entire Japanese museum area. Very exquisitely built small buildings are lined up on both sides of the street. When night falls, all the music coming from inside is string music. sounds and wild laughter.
Rickshaw pullers from Japan, wearing uniforms with their names printed on them (only first names, no surnames), lined up neatly at the entrances of Choryang Pavilion, waiting for patrons to call. There are also four-wheeled carriages swaying past on the stone-paved road. Most of these carriages belong to senior officers of the Ming Dynasty navy. Wherever they pass, not only the Japanese civilians along the way will bow deeply, but also the samurai of the clan will bow to the carriages. .
Obviously, here at the Choryang Japanese Museum, the Ming Empire is undoubtedly the supreme power of the Celestial Empire!
Zhuge Weidao was sitting in a carriage at this time, looking curiously at the street outside. Wang Wen and a young man in his twenties with a mustache and wearing a blue Ming Dynasty civil service uniform sat side by side opposite Zhuge Weidao, and beside Weidao sat his personal maid Ali.
"Military advisor Mito Saiaki (Tokugawa Saiaki) said that Japan is willing to support each other with you. As long as you are willing to lead Japan forward, the Tokugawa shogunate is also willing to use Japan's manpower and material resources for your use, military advisor. .
Master Gongfang has given the Tokugawa Miao character to Xiao Kong of the Daikoku family... Although the Tokugawa Miao character is far inferior to your military advisor's Zhuge surname, Japan is now the Tokugawa world after all. After Sora gets the Tokugawa name, the son she gave birth to for you can become the heir of the Daikoku family with a little work. From now on, the Daikoku consortium will be your property, military advisor!
In addition, Mr. Gongfang also said that the shogunate navy can follow your orders to fight against the barbarians, and can also send 10,000 elite warriors to follow you to send troops to foreign lands and conquer all directions! As long as you say a word, the power of Japan can be used by military advisors! "
Siluke
The one who is wooing Zhuge Weidao with the generous offer of "measuring Japan's manpower and material resources for your use as a military advisor" is the mustache wearing the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty - he looks a bit like a traitor, but he is definitely not a traitor, because he is not a traitor at all. He is not a Han Chinese, nor does he have the nationality of the Ming Dynasty, but a vassal lord with dual identities of Japan and Korea. His name is Zong Yixi. The memorial form of professing the title of minister was almost a domestic slave with three surnames, and the Caoliang Japanese Pavilion here was his property.
