"Chance?"
Tokugawa Ieqi and Matsudaira Sadanobu looked at each other.
They also know the situation in Japan now.
Due to the success of the Ming Dynasty, many samurai hoped that Japan could also be founded.
And many people also believe that Japan is now ready to be a country.
The first priority is of course safety.
The Ming Dynasty has a close relationship with Japan, and the Ming Dynasty is now the world's largest hegemon, and it is also the father of the Eastern countries.
Therefore, Westerners no longer dare to be so unscrupulous in the Eastern Sea.
With safety guaranteed.
Of course, Japan no longer needs to seize the country - but the Tokugawa shogunate certainly supports seclusion.
Locking the country can bring benefits to the shogunate.
It is easy for some uncontrolled powerful vassals to appear in the founding of a country.
But now the voice of founding the country is so loud.
The Edo shogunate could not refuse directly. They only said that they were still discussing it and planned to delay it for a while.
Just based on Japan’s current domestic call for founding a country.
Procrastination can't last long.
In fact, Japan is not at peace either.
Except for the samurai causing trouble.
There were also local bandits, bandits, and water thieves, and various peasant rebellion movements emerged one after another.
no way.
Japan is too poor.
Too poor to take the blame, it is almost instinctive for the surviving farmers to rebel and cause trouble.
This is true both at home and abroad.
It’s just that traditional agricultural societies like the Ming Dynasty, Korea, and Japan are more prominent.
In addition, countries such as the Ming Dynasty and North Korea implemented a centralized system of counties and counties, and the local force was relatively weak. Therefore, when peasant movements broke out, local governments were sometimes unable to resist them, and large-scale unrest that threatened the central government soon formed.
And Japan is a situation where there are many vassal states in various places.
If you have to compare it with Chinese history, it looks a bit like the enfeoffment of various countries during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
At the center is the dual system of emperor and general,
All local vassals must have independent armies and independent finances.
Therefore, there is enough force in the local area to suppress the unarmed peasant army. There is no need to be like China, North Korea and other countries. When the peasant army has established a solid base and begins to have well-trained professional soldiers, the Central Army can Too late.
Therefore, although the peasant movement is surging.
But the main contradiction in Japan is the contradiction between local vassals and the shogunate.
The ruling class has always been firmly in the hands of the Wu family.
But how to open the country, there is a lot of discussion from top to bottom.
Matsudaira Sadanobu looked at Xie Youren, the Consul General of the Ming Dynasty in Japan who was accompanying him as a non-voting guest, and asked in a serious tone: "What is an opportunity for Japan!"
"An opportunity for Japan to integrate into the Chinese system!" Tokugawa Mitsuki said, "Today, around the world, European white barbarians have stolen North and South America. This is the land given by God, and our Chinese race should fight for it!"
This is Emperor Zhu’s theory.
It has a great influence in Japan!
Even more influential than in China.
Now among the saints worshiped by Japanese samurai.
Emperor Zhu also began to become one of them.
"So where are the opportunities for Japan?"
Tokugawa Iashi asked.
"In New Japan!"
Tokugawa Miki looked at her brother.
Tokugawa Ieharu was actually her cousin. The previous head of the Tokugawa family, Tokugawa Miki's father, Tokugawa Ieharu, had no children and could only adopt Tokugawa Ieqi.
Tokugawa Ieharu died six years ago, and Tokugawa Ieharu became the new shogun and took charge of the shogunate.
At the same time, Lao Nakamatsu Taira nobu, as the minister of Tuogu, actually controlled the power.
But as Tokugawa Ieki grew older, Matsudaira Sadanobu grew older.
Power has been tilted more toward the Tokugawa family.
"Japan is a small country with a large population, and there are great celestial powers like the Ming Dynasty around them. If they want to compete for hegemony, they will be attacked by the celestial dynasty. This was the case at the Battle of Baijiangkou in Watang and the Battle of Korea in the Renchen year."
Tokugawa Miki said.
"Even if Japan has millions of warriors, it cannot compete with the Ming Dynasty."
Tokugawa Ieqi and Matsudaira Sadanobu also nodded when they heard this.
Of course they agree with this statement.
But there are too many samurai in Japan.
These educated warriors who are good at killing people don't have many options, so it's normal for some careerists to be involved.
Many Japanese samurai believe that Japan should expand abroad like the Ming Dynasty.
But where can Japan expand?
Coveting the western continent?
Isn't this seeking death?
This is the way to die!
It is absolutely impossible for Matsudaira Sadanobu and Tokugawa Ieqi to accept such a proposition.
Not to the west.
What about to the east?
I'm afraid it won't work either.
Because the Ming Dynasty has already set its sights on North America.
During this time, there were more and more Ming ships traveling between Edo and Hawaii, and the Ming Dynasty had begun to look for a location to establish a military port in Hawaii.
And they also signed a "military port lease treaty" with the king of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
It is said that a military port for the Ming Dynasty's North American West Coast Fleet will be established at a place called Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor.
What a good name.
You can make a fortune just by listening to it.
But it has nothing to do with Japan.
Tokugawa Ieki did not dare to expect Japan to be able to maintain a navy as large as the Ming Dynasty.
Even if the Ming Dynasty did not immigrate to North America.
Japan cannot afford large-scale immigration from North America.
There is no way, Japan is too poor - in fact, it is not that Japan is too poor, there are still many wealthy businessmen in various parts of Japan, and many wealthy businessmen are guests of local lords.
exactly.
It was the Edo shogunate and the Japanese imperial court that were too poor.
Needless to say, the Japanese court was just a bare emperor and couldn't afford it at all - if they could afford it, they wouldn't have to rely on the Edo shogunate to pay for it.
As for the Edo Shogunate.
The Tokugawa family is indeed worth several million.
He is the highest among all the feudal lords in the world.
But relying on the income from farming, it was already very difficult to support the samurai in the domain.
If you want to raise a big navy.
That would be even more impossible and unrealistic.
"Therefore, the crazy ideas of those crazy samurai will only bring disaster to Japan!"
Tokugawa Miki's words are really forward-looking - isn't this the case in history?
Of course.
Historically, China has been weak.
Although Japan was destroyed.
But at least it felt good.
In this time and space.
I'm afraid there's no chance of even having fun.
"If Japan wants to expand, it must expand within the Chinese system and strictly abide by the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty!" Tokugawa Miki said. "However, Japan is not a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. To integrate into the Ming Dynasty system, it must remove the emperor and become a vassal to the Ming Dynasty. With the bravery of Japanese warriors and the large population of Japan, Japan will definitely become the first vassal state of the Ming Dynasty in the future!"
"Under this premise, my new Japan can be opened to the old Japan, and Japan will have a brand new future in South America!"
"Where are the emperor and the general?"
"The emperor must vacate the throne. As for the general, he is still a general, but he must be a vassal to my son. My son will be the king of new Japan and the old Japan. In the future, my son's sons will be the kings of the new and old Japan respectively!"
Tokugawa Miki's words shocked even Xie Youren.
The king of old and new Japan?
Why?
Is this woman really so favored by the emperor?
Xie Youren frowned.
(End of chapter)
