Just when Lan Yu broke through three cities in two days, south of Heian Kyo, was Sakai Port.
"Your Highness, although Monk Daoyan is helping to mediate in the Northern Dynasty shogunate, I think we still need to make some preparations." Gao Qi reported to Zhu Su in the Yamen of the Sakai Port Concession, which had begun to take shape.
"After the Huai Liang coup and the fire in the imperial palace, the power of the Southern Dynasty declined extremely, and many big names attached to the Southern Dynasty defected to the Northern Dynasty shogunate."
"The rest of the people must also be in panic. If the shogunate abandons General Lanyu and attacks us first, we may not be able to resist. You can't let me wait for these five thousand people to stand in front of the Japanese, right?"
"It's better to assist Fujiwara first, rectify people's hearts, and gather a usable army composed of Japanese people, so that we can deal with emergencies."
"Sir, you suddenly have this intention. Could it be that the move of 'recognizing your ancestors and returning to your clan' has already paid off?" Zhu Su asked curiously.
Gao Qi was a standard scholar, and he had never trusted those rude Japanese names. There must be a reason why he would suddenly suggest recruiting those Japanese people to form an army.
"Haha, Your Highness has a keen eye." Gao Qi smiled upon hearing this. "It's really effective."
"Today, there are thirteen famous Japanese families who are willing to respect me, Huaxia, as their ancestors. They have all made sacrifices to heaven and earth. With the help of my ministers, they have compiled a genealogy."
"Like the Fujiwara family, they took the initiative to burn away the Japanese clothes, took the initiative to tie their hair in the right fold, and wore my heavenly clothes."
"I think these people, although they still have both ends of the spectrum, can still be relied upon a little bit."
"There are already thirteen families?" Zhu Su was a little surprised. In his opinion, the samurai daimyo in the shogunate were more die-hard than the Gongqing family.
Gao Qi and Fujiwara went to Japan for a long time and won over many ministers, but very few military officials were willing to defect to them. On the one hand, the conflict between the samurai and the minister is profound. The minister thinks that the samurai are vulgar and shameless, while the samurai thinks that the minister is arrogant.
On the other hand, it was also because the education that samurai received was old-fashioned and hard to convince. That is to say, it was only after these Ming armies demonstrated their strength and established the "Yingzhou Xuanwei Division" that Japanese warriors took the initiative to "recognize their ancestors and return to their clan" and "commit themselves to China."
After all, anyone with a discerning eye can now see which one has a more promising future, working for the "Hou Guishan Japanese King" or the "Da Ming Yingzhou Xuanwei Division".
"In that case, let's summon these great names and warriors." Zhu Su stood up. "It has been a few days since the imperial edict approving the establishment of the Xuanwei Department in the country came. Although I am temporarily in charge of the Yingzhou Xuanwei Department, I am still a bare commander, and the Xuanwei Department is just an empty shell."
"It's time to reward based on merit, select talents to enrich Xuanwei Si Yamen, and do something great."
Thanks to the strong support of the powerful Fujiwara family, Zhu Su was now a prominent figure in the Southern Dynasties. After his summons, the nobles of the Southern Dynasties did not dare to disobey, and they all came to the Sakai Port Concession in time to attend the meeting of the Ming Dynasty.
This is the first time this group of Japanese have entered Sakai Port. They see that this originally deserted place has now become prosperous in the hands of these Ming troops: three high cement walls have risen from the ground, and the black tigers on the walls have become prosperous. Squatting guns made this originally undefendable port completely impenetrable; countless box-shaped cement houses were dotted here and there, which looked extremely solid; the huge port was docked with the "giant ships" from the Ming Dynasty, and warehouses larger than imagined and neatly arranged The uniform Ming army gave this group of small Japanese people a "Ming shock" that they had never experienced before.
This place is no longer the Kingdom of Yamato, it has become the Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty! If this is the magic of the land, no wonder the ten thousand people from the Kusunoki family were thrown in, but there was not even a splash of water.
On the steps of the Yamen of the Sakai Port Concession, sat respectively the fifth son of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, King Wu Zhu Su, and the new generation of Japanese King of the Japanese Nu Kingdom, the Houguishan Japanese King, who was granted the title by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Go Kameyama Japanese King was a short, middle-aged man. He had been suppressed by Emperor Chokei in his early years, so he developed a cautious temperament.
This Japanese king looked extremely flattering. Coupled with his unremarkable face and short height, although the Japanese have always been taught that "the emperor is the god of the world", this newly appointed god compared with the handsome fifth prince of the Ming Dynasty next to him, gave people the impression of only The four words "unsightly".
The filter that the Japanese had for the Emperor's family was easily shattered.
In the future, this country of Yamato will not all become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, right?
Some wise men among the Japanese thought this way uncontrollably.
"I invite you all to come here today because I want you to witness the establishment of our Yingzhou Xuanwei Division Yamen in the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Su stood up, looked down at the many Japanese nobles below, and then unfolded the story of Lao Zhu from the Ming Dynasty. Imperial decree.
Most of the daimyo and nobles among the Japanese were fluent in Chinese, so there was no need to go to the trouble of translating. After Zhu Su read out the imperial edict, he said to the many Japanese people below: "According to the sacred decree of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, I now temporarily assume the position of the first commander of the Yingzhou Xuanwei Department."
"The reason why the Xuanwei Division was established is because I, the Emperor of Heaven, discovered that in this land of Japan, there are many remnants of our ancestors."
"We, the Ming Dynasty, are the kingdom of heaven. Since our remnants are living overseas, there is no reason to ignore them. Therefore, we established the Xuanwei Department and set up concessions to make decisions for the remnants of our Ming Dynasty with the power of Heaven."
"If any of you have ancestors who are the remnants of my Chinese people, you can come forward and let me, the Xuanwei Department, register you and make a register. After the register is made, you will be my people of the Ming Dynasty."
"In the future, if your life and property are in danger, I, the Ming Dynasty, will protect you. Even though you are overseas, you can still inherit the glory of the Ming Dynasty Emperor!"
Gao Qi and Fujiwara were the first to shout, leading a group of Japanese people to shout long live the Ming Dynasty. Then Zhu Su came forward and awarded officials and rewards to the Japanese who were willing to admit that they were Chinese survivors. Many Japanese received the titles of Hundred Households, Thousand Households, and even Commanders.
As for Fujiwara, he was awarded the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Xuanwei Division of Yingzhou in the Ming Dynasty, commanding many foreign survivors and assisting the Japanese king in reorganizing the government.
Seeing the head of the Fujiwara family put on the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty, with an excited and trembling look on his face, a daimyo who had not yet become a naturalized man and was just here to watch the ceremony couldn't help but asked: "What is the official position of this commander? Why is Fujiwara-sama like this?" Excited?"
"He is someone who even rejected Guan Bai improperly! Is this Ming official position more rare than Guan Bai?"
"What can Guan Bai do? The entire Japanese country is wrong, and Yingzhou is only a province of the Ming Dynasty." The answer was a daimyo wearing Han robes. This person is like a "great Mingtong", who speaks clearly and eloquently. "In this way, the so-called Guan Bai is just a state official in the Ming Dynasty. There are so many in the Ming Dynasty that they are not worth mentioning."
"But the capital commander is different. This is a real military attache. There is only one capital commander among several guard posts. In total, it is more than the shogun's command force. Why wouldn't Mr. Fujiwara like it?"
"If you do well, you may be granted the title of uncle or marquis in the future! That is when you truly become a noble of the Ming Dynasty!"
"The nobles of the Celestial Dynasty." These words made many people fascinated. They had long heard that the Celestial Dynasty was prosperous, and the nobles of the Celestial Dynasty were even more noble than they could imagine. At this time, someone asked: "Based on this, what official positions do we city lords have in the Celestial Empire?"
"To have an official who lives in the city, he should be a "fourth-grade" or "fifth-grade" official, right?"
"Officials? Haha, how is that possible!" the minister from Da Mingtong said disdainfully. "As for the cities in our Japanese country, the population in Daming is not even that of a village."
"You city lords, with great names, are just village chiefs, just arresting heads."
(End of chapter)
