Chapter 35: The battle between yellow and white living space
"Your Highness, the shogunate should not object to recruiting foreign students, setting up embassies, leasing ports, etc."
Matsudaira Kaori said.
Before that, there was an embassy opened by the Dutch in Edo.
Although Japan is closed to the outside world.
But he has contacts with the Dutch.
Now the Dutch are unable to maintain trade lines with Japan, and the Dutch are replaced by the Chinese who are more acceptable to the Japanese.
Therefore, these three items usually do not pose any big problems - especially now that the young general of the Tokugawa family is already Zhu Daohua's fanboy.
But to recruit Japanese samurai to fight abroad...
Matsudaira Iori pondered for a moment and asked, "His Royal Highness Prince Ming, I wonder how many warriors you want to recruit?"
Zhu Daohua smiled and said: "The recruitment of Japanese samurai is currently mainly used for local operations in Nanyang. The equipment, military pay, etc. are all responsible for the Ming Dynasty Army Department, including reorganization and establishment, officer promotion and training, etc. For the time being, three brigades with a strength of 10,000 people will be established."
"so much!?"
Matsudaira Ieri and Tokugawa Hariguo couldn't help but exclaimed.
Is it much?
Zhu Daohua smiled.
There are too many places to fight in the future.
Southeast Asia, North and South America....
Only 10,000 people are definitely not enough.
Boss Zhu knows that Japan is a very vicious dog.
Because there are hundreds of thousands, maybe even no less than a million warriors in his country.
Most of these samurai were so poor that they only had one sword.
All he could think about was external expansion and war.
Moreover, in Zhu Daohua's view, on the one hand, these Japanese samurai have a high level of education. If an army is formed based on Japanese samurai, it may have the highest literacy rate in the world. On the other hand, these samurai have certain martial arts skills.
Although martial arts is of little practical use on the battlefield.
But the role of martial arts training is not only to train the skill of slashing people, but also to exercise courage. A little Japanese who gestures with a samurai sword every day is more cruel than the Han farmers in the mainland.
So using this samurai army to do some of the dirty work... just right.
For example...the native population in Nanyang is too large.
It is necessary to physically do some work on optimal population allocation.
Zhu Daohua does not intend to leave this task to the Ming army...
on the other hand.
In Zhu Daohua's view.
Japanese samurai are equivalent to Chinese scholar-bureaucrats.
It is the elite force of the Japanese nation, and most of the backbone of the Japanese reformists in later generations were samurai.
therefore.
Let these warriors form a tight queue to be shot and used as cannon fodder.
It might as well consume some of the Japanese elites - with the experience of later generations, Zhu Daohua had long regarded Japan as the only Eastern country that could threaten the order of the Chinese Celestial Empire.
When Matsudaira heard that Zhu Daohua wanted to recruit 10,000 Japanese samurai at one time.
What I was thinking was: The poor samurai in Japan must be going crazy with joy now.
Once the news gets out.
Anyone who objects to samurai going abroad to fight.
No one will be punished by these poor warriors as "thieves of the country".
It is different from Zhu Daohua's idea of consuming samurai as consuming the potential of the Japanese nation.
What Matsudaira Iri thinks is
If we could send those poor warriors out of the country with one sword and one life, who think about killing the national thieves every day...
Then wouldn’t the Tokugawa family’s empire become stronger?
For the shogunate.
The biggest unstable factor in the country is the poor samurai who carry swords every day.
Although all of them were hungry and skinny.
But they all dreamed of respecting the king and fighting off the barbarians, and made great achievements.
Every time the curtain falls, the participation of these poor warriors is indispensable.
If you send them abroad.
Then there are many less unstable factors in Japan.
If the powerful vassals in some places want to overthrow.
There are also a lot less people shouting together.
The samurai class, a growing population in Japan.
In fact, it was also a huge trouble for the Tokugawa shogunate.
To know.
In later generations, Japan's original desire for external expansion came from these crazy samurai.
So, if there is any chance to solve this trouble.
I'm afraid the shogunate will not object.
"How much? Mr. Matsudaira, this is not much at all."
Zhu Daohua stood up and pointed at the world map behind him.
"Please see, this is China, this is Japan, here is Nanyang, here is Europe, Africa, South America, and North America!"
"Did you see anything on this map?"
Zhu Daohua asked.
Matsudaira Iori was slightly startled.
Zhu Daohua didn't wait for his answer and continued.
"Europeans have dominated the world. In addition to their native Europa, the Portuguese and Spanish have occupied South America, the French and the British have occupied North America, and the Russians have continued to expand eastward for hundreds of years, expanding from Eastern Europe to On the eastern coast, Africa is now a colony of the French and British. The Dutch and Spanish have been operating in Southeast Asia for more than a hundred years, and the British have already extended their clutches into India!"
"Matsuhira-kun, we have been surrounded! Surrounded by a group of white people with tall noses and dark eyes!"
Zhu Daohua is instilling into Matsudaira Iori the reactionary and racist remarks about the "battle between yellow and white living space" that he is about to publicize.
There are very obvious differences in the looks of East Asians and white people.
So from the looks point of view.
It is an objective fact that the two sides are not of the same race - at least in the absence of biological research and genetic technology, it is easy to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy based on their appearance.
"The total population of white people in Europe is approximately more than 100 million, while our Chinese race, including China, Japan, Korea, Annan and other countries, has a total population of no less than 400 million! However, in this limited world, white people account for nine out of ten , and our Chinese state only accounts for 12/10!"
"If we don't stand up, our Chinese race will surely be extinct in the future!!"
"China and Japan are the two strongest nations of the Chinese race. They must join hands and unite. As a country of warriors, Japan must also become the sharp sword of the Chinese race, fighting in all directions, overcoming obstacles for the Chinese race and expanding its living space!"
Some racist remarks made Matsudaira Iori couldn't help but nod his head.
Look at it from the map.
What Zhu Daohua said is true.
White people have expanded to their doorsteps.
Japan is also feeling great pressure.
This is a real existential threat.
And if Japan alone were to resist the Western countries, it would definitely be unable to do so.
Therefore, Zhu Daohua agreed with his statement that China must be used to fight against the West.
But China and Japan join hands...
First of all, Zhu Daohua must really become the king of China.
"Your Majesty, China is now occupied by the Qing Tartars..."
"I will drive out the Tartars and restore China within five years!"
Zhu Daohua showed a confident smile on his face and spoke firmly
Five years.
In Zhu Daohua's opinion...
Still a very conservative estimate.
