Not every escapee from the Southern Song Dynasty was willing to leave his hometown and live in Japan or even become a Japanese citizen.
They still have a strong hometown complex in their hearts, but they are forced by current events or family patriarchs to leave their hometown and seek refuge in Japan.
The Tianwang Army organization took advantage of their thoughts and successfully opened up a situation within them. On the condition that they were allowed to return to their hometowns and live a normal life afterwards, they obtained a group of "inner ghosts" who escaped from the Southern Song Dynasty to pass on information to them.
Through this relationship, they opened up the information channel to the upper class of Japan, and were able to understand Japan's political and military trends, as well as some secrets that outsiders could not know.
There are people in Fan Li and Zhang Zeli's families who are willing to cooperate with the Skynet Army. They don't want to betray the family, but they really want to return to their hometown after the Ming Dynasty's crusade against Japan.
They really miss their hometown.
Japan's intelligence collection on the Ming Dynasty was very problematic. After all, Quanzhou and Guangzhou were too far away from China. However, the Ming Dynasty directly set up an intelligence organization in the capital of Heian, which could directly detect a large amount of information about the Japanese ruling class.
Therefore, how the Japanese ruling class viewed the Ming Dynasty, as well as the entire Ming Dynasty’s revolutionary actions, including how they used the Southern Song Dynasty’s escapees and the ideological trends against the Ming Dynasty to consolidate their power, were all discovered by the Skynet Army, and then summarized in detail and sent to Returned to Zhongdu.
Su Yonglin had been busy with many affairs before, so he didn't care about these small things and put them aside without paying much attention to them.
When the news from Hu Wei came and he realized that he could launch a crusade against Japan, he looked for some information and learned these interesting things.
He was not angry at what Taira Kiyomori did, nor did he think that these things were worthy of his anger. Instead, he had a relatively good evaluation of Taira Kiyomori, thinking that he was a somewhat capable person.
"Taira Kiyomori has political skills. He made full use of the escapees from the Southern Song Dynasty and Goryeo. He used their characteristics of rootless duckweeds to conquer them for his own use. He also used their cultural advantages to influence the top Japanese people and successfully divided the top Japanese people. The power makes it impossible for them to unite against themselves.
This person now has the undoubted highest real power in Japan. He has an advantage at the central level and controls almost half of Japan's ruling countries at the local level. He not only has political advantages, but also economic advantages. To say that other forces in Japan no longer have Someone you can compete with. "
"He is quite capable."
Xin Qiji looked through some information and said slowly: "If this battle is just to obtain silver and gold, there is no need to dispatch a hundred thousand troops. But if our goal is not just this, a hundred thousand troops are needed. What do you do?" Treat it?"
"In the past, my idea of attacking Japan was mostly for gold and silver, but not anymore."
Su Yonglin pointed to the world map and said: "To capture the Japanese islands, we can first obtain the population of Japan. According to estimates, they have a population of at least five million. Excluding the exploiting classes, there are more than four million.
Their appearance is not much different from ours. As for language and so on, the education system will be similar anyway. Liaodong and Northwest China are in great need of population, and it is difficult for us to mobilize internally. This group of Japanese is the best choice.
In addition, when we want to further develop the channel to the mainland across the sea, it will be much easier. The channel will be shortened a lot, which will reduce a lot of consumption for us, right? "
"Is it feasible to transfer their population to Liaodong and the Northwest? Wouldn't it be a problem of raising tigers?"
Xin Qiji looked at Su Yonglin and hesitated: "After all, we are not our own people. If we give them a place to live in a place that already lacks a population, we may be in danger of overthrowing."
"As long as they look alike, as for their origins, it's easy to make up."
Su Yonglin smiled: "Back then, Xu Fu took three thousand boys and girls eastward to Penglai Island to seek the elixir of immortality for Qin Shihuang, but they never returned. Now, don't some people think that Xu Fu went to Japan?
We can use this as a basis to teach the Japanese survivors about the past and convince them that they are descendants of the Qin people, have the same culture and race as us, and are just returning to their homeland this time.
Anyway, they are basically illiterate and have no culture at all. Whoever educates them first will be able to gain their recognition. It doesn’t take much effort for these people. After one generation, they will be our own people.
By then, the northwest and Liaodong will have more than four million hard-working people, and the level of development will be greatly improved. Judging from the current situation, this is very beneficial, and the advantages definitely outweigh the disadvantages. "
Xin Qiji thought for a while and felt that what Su Yonglin said made sense. For a piece of white paper, who wrote on it was the most important, and the white paper itself was not important.
If you hold on to education, you will hold on to the future. A generation later, there will be no Japanese, only the citizens of the Ming Dynasty.
This doubt was lifted, and a new doubt was born.
Xin Qiji looked down at the world map, his brows not widening.
"The news about the New World across the sea is not optimistic. Do you value it so much? Based on what is known so far, the New World does not seem to be of that great value. It is probably not appropriate to go to war for unknown things."
Su Yonglin shook his head.
"When a baby is just born, no one knows what it can do. We need to be patient. What's more, this is a plan that has been prepared for five years. Whether it is gold and silver now or gold and silver in the future, Daming is very need."
Xin Qiji was noncommittal about this.
Later, at the internal meeting of the Executive Committee, Su Yonglin's suggestion was not opposed, and even Xin Qiji himself did not explicitly object. Of course, Su Yonglin also admitted that Xin Qiji's concerns were not unreasonable.
Unlike the numerous and large-scale mineral veins discovered by the Nanyang expedition fleet on Liuqiu Island and the Luzon Islands, the Beiyang expedition fleet was ill-fated.
The first voyage of the Northern Ocean Expedition Fleet lasted for one year. When they came back, according to their stories, they probably arrived in Alaska and saw a barren snowfield.
At that time, the fleet encountered two small-scale sea storms, causing considerable losses. Many people were sick and frostbitten. The morale of the fleet was low. After building a docking base locally, they returned.
Interestingly, they brought back some captured seals and a pure white polar bear, which is considered the biggest gain of this expedition.
Although this big guy died soon after arriving in the Ming Dynasty due to acclimatization, his pure white bear skin will have extremely high value after being made into clothing or handicrafts, and can be sold abroad at a good price.
Despite this, it is impossible for a bear skin to make up for the losses of this voyage, because the losses were indeed relatively large and there were many criticisms. If it were not for Su Yonglin's support, the Beiyang expedition fleet might not have made a second voyage.
The second voyage had the experience and preparations of the first and successfully arrived in Alaska. This time they found groups of Inuit here.
The fleet members were surprised to find that the Inuit's appearance was too similar to theirs. For a moment, they thought they were at a relative's home. However, the other party lived so far away from the mainland of China that they really didn't know what was going on.
The Inuit also did not become hostile to the Ming people because they looked similar to them and did not behave hostilely. Instead, they tried to communicate with them.
The two sides exchanged calls and gestures for a while, and finally the Inuit tribe understood that the Ming people had no ill intentions in setting up a residential base here, and it was just to stay. They had to sail further afield and rest here.
Chen Zhenxian, the leader of the fleet and the first person in charge of the Navigation Department of the World Liaison Department of the Renaissance Church, took some members of the fleet to show some food on the fleet to the Inuit people.
This is some cured meats and pickled vegetables, as well as vegetables and a small amount of fruits specially grown on the ship, as well as a large number of bean sprouts, as well as tea leaves they carry with them, etc.
The Inuit people have never seen these foods, but this does not prevent them from realizing that these are foods.
They carefully accepted the food given to them by some people in the Ming Dynasty, and selected some people to eat the food to observe their reactions.
When these people were pleasantly surprised and said that the food was extremely delicious and did not feel any discomfort at all, the Inuit were convinced of the friendliness of the Ming people.
Then, in order to express their gratitude and friendship, they also took out their food and presented it to the people of Ming Dynasty.
It was winter and the weather was freezing, so the Inuit presented various kinds of fish, seal meat, and their unique delicacy, pickled puffins.
Chen Zhenxian knew about other meats, but he was a little curious about pickled puffin, because these things exuded a stinky smell.
It is worth mentioning that Chen Zhenxian has very strong taste.
He is from Jiangnan, and his hometown has the habit of making pickled food. He likes the smelly and fragrant food, so unlike others, he is not attracted to this kind of dark and smelly food at the first time. Stay away.
He asked the locals how to eat this kind of food. The locals grinned, held the pickled puffin against their buttocks, squeezed and sucked it, and then looked intoxicated and satisfied.
Chen Zhen later said that he had actually done a good job of psychological construction at that time.
But when the weird juice actually entered his mouth, he still felt an extremely stinky smell rushing straight to his forehead, causing him to fall to the ground and vomit.
Strong words, really heavy words!
Of course, the Inuit people don't think that they are not friends if they can't eat this kind of delicacy. Not everyone among them can be so heavy-mouthed, and there are many people who vomit after eating this stuff.
So some Inuit people choose to pluck out their feathers and eat meat instead of eating the weird juices in their bodies.
On the contrary, the food brought to them by the Ming Dynasty people was more in line with their tastes. What surprised them the most was the salt and briquettes brought by the Ming Dynasty people for fuel.
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