March of the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty's restoration.
Mid-April, 1796 AD.
On the streets of Edo.
Edo, Japan, during its halcyon days, was probably one of the only major cities in the world with a population of over one million.
The streets are crowded with people in various costumes.
Businessmen dressed in elegant silk clothes, all with smiling faces wishing to get rich, stood from the street to the door to solicit customers.
Samurai armed with samurai swords swaggered through the city and appeared at the entrances of major shopping malls.
These dojos are actually schools.
Not just teaching swordsmanship.
There is also knowledge.
Including the blood of the West, Mingxue, military science, Confucianism, etc.
Cities on the same level as Edo include Kyoto and Osaka in Japan.
Demographically speaking.
Today's Japan is probably one of the top five most populous countries in the world. The only countries with a larger population than them are the Ottoman Empire, Ming Dynasty, Russia and other countries - because France has the largest native population among Western countries, with only more than 20 million. .
And India is now a fragmented state and colonies of various countries have just been occupied separately. If India were a unified country, their population would definitely exceed Japan.
But now India is just a geographical concept.
The Mughal Empire lost so much territory, it is really hard to say whether the population still exceeds 30 million.
The characteristic of Japanese politics is the dual system of emperor and shogun.
The Edo shogunate assumed power.
But the imperial court in Kyoto is not just a puppet. They actually hold the "divine power" of Japan.
The emperor is the incarnation of God in the human world.
So no one will try to remove the emperor and his family from power.
And those times when the shogun's authority is weakened.
The titular court will begin to have more visibility.
Jumping up and down.
Fight for benefits.
The Edo shogunate era started by Tokugawa Ieyasu passed through the first forty years.
As those old people who had gone through the troubled times of the Warring States Period passed away one after another.
The politics of the shogunate also gradually began to shift towards civil governance.
Confucianism began to be more integrated into the doctrine of Bushido.
During the Warring States Period, the royal family and ministers all starved to death.
By the Edo period, not only were they able to eat well, but their status gradually became more prominent.
If history continues on its original trajectory.
The prestige of the Japanese imperial court will further rise as the prestige of the Tokugawa family declines.
And with events like the "Black Ship Seizure", there will be more impact on the status of the shogunate.
This resulted in the emergence of larger-scale "respect the king and repel the barbarians" activities and the "integration of public affairs" movement.
As the movements of "respecting the king and repelling the barbarians" and "integrating the public and the military" became larger and larger.
The power of the rebel faction is also growing.
And it is precisely because of the emperor, the nominal supreme ruler of Japan.
Those poor samurai whose status was so low that they could only kill with one sword finally gradually stepped onto the highest stage of Japanese politics during the overthrow movement in the mid-19th century, mastered the highest power in Japan, and turned Japan and the entire Asia into a place where they could display their talents and The stage of ambition.
Compared with those "children of the Eight Banners" who were born in noble families and were superior.
This kind of careerist who comes from the bottom and has great ambitions. At the same time, his large number of people can bring out enough talented people, which is definitely a more dangerous existence - both for their own country and Japan's neighboring countries. in this way.
And the ultimate end to the madness of these low-level samurai careerists can only be achieved by relying on the most powerful weapons detonated by humans.
As for Emperor Zhu.
What he has to do is to suppress the ambitions of these lower-level samurai and allow the lifeless upper-class Japanese society to continue to hold power.
In this way, when Japan is founded as a nation in the future, it will not embark on the wrong path of aggression and expansion and become a dangerous militaristic machine.
When Tokugawa Miki arrived at the port of Edo with Zhu Yizhen in her arms, the eyes of the sixth prince in her arms were rolling around, and she had no idea that his mother was going to make him the king of these thirty million people. And the effort to do.
It was a squadron of the Ming Navy that sent Tokugawa Miki back to her natal home in Edo to visit her relatives.
This gesture shows that
Tokugawa Miki came as the concubine of the Ming Emperor.
When she walked off the boat with Zhu Yizhen in her arms.
All the big shots in Edo Castle have come to greet him.
The current head of the Tokugawa family, Tokugawa Miki's brother Tokugawa Ieqi, Lao Nakamatsu Taira, Tanuma Matsuzaburo and other high-level shogunate officials have already arrived.
After a grand welcome.
Tokugawa Miki did not go to live in the Tokugawa family's mansion, but lived in the Ming Dynasty Embassy in Edo.
That night.
Tokugawa Ieqi, Matsudaira Sadanobu, Tanuma Matsuzaburo and others entered the embassy in four-wheeled carriages.
Xie Youren, the Consul General of the Ming Dynasty in Japan, personally welcomed them into the museum at the door.
The sea breeze is gentle and the spring breeze brings warmth.
On this spring day when the weather is getting warmer.
A banquet has been set up in the embassy reception room.
Tokugawa Miki was already sitting at the table with Zhu Yizhen, the sixth prince of the Ming Dynasty who had just turned one year old, in her arms.
"Brother, Mr. Matsudaira, Mr. Tanuma, please take a seat. Today is a casual banquet, so there is no need to be polite."
The three visitors all looked at the child in Tokugawa Miki's arms.
"He is the sixth son of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the general of the Japanese Armed Forces of the Ming Dynasty, and the future king of the new Japanese fiefdom!" Tokugawa Miki said looking at the eyes of the three people.
"New Japan"
The three of them looked at each other.
About New Japan.
Ming officials were already angry with them.
The Ming Emperor will assign one of his sons to be king in South America. The purpose is to reward the Japanese warriors for their pioneering contributions!
And the territory is huge.
It is said that it is a plain several times larger than Japan. If the entire Japanese population migrates there, there will be rich people!
When it comes to the current domestic conflicts in Japan, they are actually similar to those in the Ming and Han Dynasties - there are many people and little land!
No!
Japan's contradictions are even more acute.
There should be many people and very little land!
Because the portions Japanese eat now are too small.
Basically, a mouthful of rice and a piece of kelp is a meal.
This is placed in Han Dynasty.
One meal of those tall Han Chinese is enough for an average Japanese to last for a day or two - it's no wonder that Japanese people are getting shorter and shorter.
Nutritional intake is right here.
After the rise of the Ming Dynasty, there will be at least two pressure outlets, Liaoning and Nanyang.
I heard that we will expand into North America in the future.
At that time, the contradiction between the Han people and the lack of land will be greatly alleviated.
And what about Japan?
Thirty million Japanese people are crammed into this tiny island.
Even now Japanese people eat so little.
It is almost impossible to support such a large population! !
therefore.
After hearing that there will be a New Japan in the future.
The three people's eyes lit up.
Tanuma Matsuzaburo stood up in a hurry and asked: "New Japan is the fiefdom of Duke Yi Zin, why is it named after New Japan?"
"It doesn't have to be in the name of New Japan. I just see Japan's difficulties and give Japanese paintings a chance!"
(End of chapter)
