The main contents of the "Edo Armistice Agreement between Japan and Japan" are as follows:
First, the emperor of Japan canceled his title of emperor and changed it to king of Japan, expressing his surrender to the Ming Dynasty and never betraying him. The Tokugawa family were hereditary generals of the Japanese country. Together with the Japanese king, they could only succeed to the throne after being canonized by the Ming Dynasty.
Second, Japan ceded the territory of Satsuma Domain to Ryukyu Kingdom and the remaining territory of Kyushu Island to Ming Dynasty. The Japanese on the island were allowed to sell their belongings that they could not take away within two months and leave Kyushu Island. As for the Japanese who had been captured, they had to serve five years of hard labor to atone for their sins. After the service period is over, he can return to Japan.
Third, the Japanese country compensated the Ming Dynasty for its military expenses and other related expenses, with a total amount of 20,000 taels of silver.
The payment shall be made in eight installments: the first payment of 50 million taels shall be paid within six months after the swap is approved by this Treaty; the second payment of 50 million taels shall be paid twelve months after the swap is approved by this Treaty. The remaining balance shall be paid in six equal installments and shall be paid annually; the unpaid balance shall be subject to an annual interest rate of 0.5% per hundred; however, whenever the amount due for compensation is paid in full or in part in advance, Listen to the Japanese country.
If the silver cannot pay the debt in full, it can be replaced by gold, copper, sulfur and other materials at a discount.
Fourth, when the Japanese state opened up all areas, it not only allowed the people of the Ming Dynasty to come and do business, but also provided them with the most preferential treatment. If the Ming people are involved in Japanese lawsuits, the trial of the Ming people should be handed over to the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese cannot convict the Ming people!
Fifth, in order to communicate with the Japanese country, a special envoy was stationed in Edo. Japanese were not allowed to enter the area where they lived without permission, and the Ming army was also responsible for security responsibilities.
After this treaty is signed on the Japanese side, it still needs the consent of the Ming Emperor.
After Lan Tianbao discussed with the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the right minister of the Ministry of War, he reached the following matters with the Japanese side.
That is, Tokugawa Ietsuna, the crown prince selected by the Japanese king Sogegu and Tokugawa Iemitsu, set off for the Ming Dynasty capital to pay an audience. At the same time, he paid the first batch of 50 million taels of silver, including part of sulfur, gold and copper, and escorted him to the capital together. . In exchange, the Japanese on Kyushu Island can return to Japan across the sea from now on.
In this era, the price of defeat is often the destruction of the country. The signing of this agreement guaranteed the independence of Japan. Although the conditions were very harsh, Tokugawa Iemitsu accepted it, which at least ensured that his Tokugawa family would always be able to control the power of Japan.
Regarding this agreement, the right minister of the Ministry of War who participated in the negotiation was actually doubtful, so he asked the commander of the Jinyiwei who was leading the matter.
Lan Tianbao said to them with a smile at that time: "If the Japanese country is destroyed and all the Japanese people become the common people of our Ming Dynasty, our Ming Dynasty will still have to bother to manage it. It is not worth it at all in this barren land. But through this method now , we can still take away the wealth of this Japanese land, and the Tokugawa shogunate will take the blame for the evildoers. Moreover, our Ming Dynasty’s goods also have a place to sell them. Isn’t it good to continue to earn the wealth here? Of?"
"Master Lan is so wise. He has such an ingenious idea, which can be a model for me to conquer other countries in the future after the Ming Dynasty!" The right minister of Tobe was the happiest, and gave a thumbs up sincerely.
Only asking, not paying, can also drive domestic sales. Everything is explained, how good it is!
In fact, this kind of thing also happened in ancient times. For example, after the Jurchens seized the northern territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, they also supported a puppet emperor. But at that time, there were no such detailed regulations at all, and it was very casual.
It is also because of this that Wu Ganzhong admires him very much.
After hearing this, Lan Tianbao shook his head with a smile and said, "I don't have such knowledge. I only learned a few things by listening to the casual chats of the state officials."
At this time, there was only one Duke among Ming officials, and that was Duke Xing.
When Wu Ganzhong and others heard that this novel method came from Duke Xingguo, they suddenly realized it, so it was not surprising at all!
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Zhang Mingwei, who was far away in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, naturally didn't know the situation here. After all, it is too far and the message transmission is too slow.
In this era, it can be said that one of the things that can bring about the biggest changes is transportation, and the other is communication.
The same is true. In the past few years of Ming Dynasty, the focus has been on these two aspects.
The formula of cement is public. After several years of use, not only the cement factories affiliated to the imperial court have formulated better cement formulas, but even the cement factories owned by individuals in some places have also made gains in formulas. It has obviously greatly promoted the improvement of transportation in Daming.
The railway is not very smooth in the south, mainly because of rivers, flooding in places every year, and the threat of typhoons.
However, in the north, especially in the Central Plains with plain terrain, development is rapid.
The train from the capital side extends all the way to Luoyang, and then turns northwest from Luoyang, passing Tongguan, to Chang'an.
The technology of this era has no special method for dealing with high mountains and ridges. The so-called road building in the mountains is fine for people to walk on trails, but railways are really not good.
Therefore, the railway to Guihua City and Baotou was ultimately a railway built on the grassland starting from Zhangjiakou. The railway from Zhangjiakou to the capital has never been completed because of the numerous mountains and passes through Badaling, Juyongguan, Shacheng, Xuanhua and other places.
All these railways, those under construction and those that have been built, are the result of huge investments by the court. It can even be said that basically half of the national treasury revenue in these years has been invested in infrastructure construction.
Except during the busy farming season, the common people and young laborers from all over the country have to go to work to build railways.
Of course, now that the court has money, it no longer uses labor, but dispatches labor through hired labor.
Although the wages are actually pitiful, compared to labor, it is definitely a gift from the court and comes from good governance.
During this process, many problems were encountered.
Some of these problems can be solved by ourselves if they can be solved locally. If it cannot be resolved, it can only be reported.
On the court's side, if it can be solved, it will be solved by itself. If it cannot be solved, it can only be reported to Duke Xingguo.
It has to be said that in the first few years of railway construction here, in addition to the smooth construction of flat roads, there were many difficulties encountered due to the complex terrain of Ming Dynasty, and there were very few engineers with railway construction experience. Many things required Zhang Mingwei's help. Take action personally.
An extremely common example is that the railway from the capital to Liaodong was once blocked by the Luanhe River. Because the lower reaches of the Luanhe River are wide and fast, the riverbed has deep sediments, the geological structure is complex, and the bridge piers have been built and collapsed many times, everyone was at a loss and could only report it.
It happened that Zhang Mingwei checked the information of later generations. In the original history, when the railway was built here, engineers from Britain, France, Germany and other countries were unable to do anything about it, but it was solved by Zhan Tianyou, the first man in China's railways. His solution was the pneumatic caisson construction method. This method is also used for the first time in human history.
Therefore, Zhang Mingwei taught this method and solved this problem.
While he was busy with the railway, the laying of telephone lines also involved a lot of Zhang Mingwei's energy.
However, compared to railways, the laying of telephone lines is easier.
In about a year, telephone lines began to be set up in various places at the same time. Therefore, by the middle of the 21st year of Chongzhen, calls from the capital could reach many places.
However, we also encountered many problems, such as phone lines being stolen, burned, washed away, etc.
When problems occur, solve them.
Overall, it greatly shortened the transmission of messages throughout the Ming Dynasty.
Originally, the 800-mile expedited journey from Nanjing to the capital required five days and five nights, which was considered the limit, before the news could be delivered.
Now that there are telephones, there are only some places where there are no calls. For example, except for the Yangtze River, where messages need to be delivered manually, other places are just a matter of phone calls.
While Zhang Mingwei was busy with these things, he very clearly realized that one of the biggest problems was that there were too few available talents.
A simple example is the telephone.
Needless to say, between cities, even within the same city, there are many wealthy households who have this fashionable demand.
Generally speaking, a big city like the provincial capital definitely needs a phone company and a factory that can manufacture various phone components.
However, breaking one familiar person into three is not enough.
It can even be said that the restriction of talents has seriously hindered the vigorous development of scientific and technological civilization in the Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Chongzhen certainly knew this.
Because Emperor Chongzhen attached great importance to joining the new imperial examination in the first year and regarded this matter as the top priority of the year.
The emperor paid attention to it, and it was Xing Guogong's knowledge. After learning it, not only could he become an official, but he could also make a lot of money. It can be said that it was a good thing to gain both fame and fortune.
In particular, after two years of promotion of pinyin literacy, it has become much easier to popularize reading and literacy.
In addition, there is no reason to provide free official schools for the locals who have returned to their native land. Han Chinese localities do not provide free official schools. With the increase of the imperial government's fiscal revenue, all localities have opened free official schools for the most basic reading and literacy. Enlightenment.
All of these make new learning more and more popular.
Against this background, unconsciously, there was a tendency for latecomers to come to the fore and overthrow Confucianism.
Most people have benefited from the vigorous development of this new learning, but some people are very critical of this phenomenon.
However, today's Xingguo Duke has a high position and a high reputation, not to mention that Xinxue is valued by the emperor and supported by the people. Therefore, these people who couldn't stand it finally chose to go to the feudal state.
For example, the King of Zhou in Luzon was in great need of scholars. Most people were unwilling to go, so these people just went.
Emperor Chongzhen didn't mind this at all. What he needed most now was new talents who could create wealth.
No, at the family banquet, he was complaining to Zhang Mingwei: "The imperial court's income is more than 20 million taels of silver a year. This was something that was unthinkable before, but the Minister of the Ministry of Finance is still asking him every day. I cry for poverty!"
