In fact, the Fallen Curtain Alliance has always had a channel to communicate with Ming officials.For example, Mao Lixiu met Zhu Yousong through the Confucian scholars he raised, and had business cooperation with Zhu Yousong.And now Mao Lixiu also met Zhang Youyu, a Ming official, through Zhu Yousong.After Mao Lixiu saw Zhang Youyu, he consciously bowed to the ground and said: "Mao Lixiu, a pariah in a small country, apologizes to his subordinates for misunderstanding and shelling the nobles of the Celestial Empire, and we are willing to accept any compensation request from the Celestial Empire unconditionally, and only ask the Celestial Empire to forgive our crimes." ”Maori Xiu knew that he could not try to prove that he had not shelled the Ming army at this time.Because since the Ming Kingdom itself said that these fallen coalition forces had killed the Ming people by artillery, then they had to admit it and not quibble.After all, the Ming people themselves don't lie.Who made the Ming Kingdom have absolute strength now.Zhang Youyu saw that Mao Lixiu was so sincere and sensible, so he smiled and said: "General Mao, please get up, since you have come to the door to ask for guilt in person, we will not give you a chance to reform your ways; According to the meaning of the saint, if you want to forgive you, you need to compensate three million taels of silver as a compensation for the fallen soldiers of my Ming Dynasty; In addition, you need to allow me to garrison the Ming in your Choshu Domain, so that we can rest assured that you will not offend again; Also, I hope that you will promise to treat Confucian scholars well, and to allow and encourage the spread of Sinology, to set up a Chinese academy, and to encourage scholars in your jurisdiction to learn Chinese characters. ”"This."
Maori Xiu responded with some embarrassment."
You can go back and think about it."
Zhang Youyu said."
Yes, retire next."
Mao Lixiu said and left Zhang Youyu's place."
It's all this time, and I don't know how to lift it, Your Majesty has already reinstated the decree and agreed to the fusilier pistol worth five million silver coins purchased by the shogunate army."
Qi Biaojia walked out from behind the screen at this time and said to Zhang Youyu.Zhang Youyu said with a smile: "Everyone will have illusions, and he Maori Xiu will naturally not be willing to be my puppet so easily." ”"Well, but in the future, these big names will understand, sinicization is an irreversible trend, if they want to keep their wealth, they can only be the dogs of the Han family, and they can only accept sinicization, otherwise they can only pay the price for their ignorance."
Qi Biaojia nodded and said."
The next deal of firearms, I'm afraid it will have to be a deal with the Fallen Curtain Alliance."
Zhang Youyu suddenly said this.And Qi Biaojia just smiled slightly.Next, because of the help of the Ming army, the shogunate army replaced with new equipment purchased from the Ming Dynasty, and won successive battles, regained many lost territories, and drove the Shogunate Alliance back to the Kyushu area.Even the Satsuma Domain's general, Hisataka Kayama, was captured alive and executed by order of Tokugawa Iemitsu.In this way, Mao Lixiu couldn't sit still at all, and had to ask to see Zhang Youyu again, and agreed to all the requests made by Zhang Youyu before.In addition, Mori Shu begged the Ming to give them the help of the Shogunate Alliance, so that they could keep their homes and avoid being killed by the Shogunate army."
My Han culture has always been benevolent, and everything is benevolent, since you are invited for your own homeland, and your heart is to the king, we will naturally not ignore it, when the Li family was in danger of being destroyed, my temple will be benevolent and issued an order to help it, and now it is the same, this official will ask for my great tomorrow for you."
Zhang Youyu said accordingly.The Maori Show expressed his gratitude.Not long after, Zhu Youxiao reissued an order to allow the Fallen Curtain Alliance to purchase Daming firearms, and allowed the officers and soldiers of the Daming Naval Division to join the Fallen Curtain Alliance in their personal names and personal wishes to carry out humanitarian rescue.The reason why it is a personal name is to make the rhetoric sound better and avoid bad explanations of the matter.And then, because the army of the Shogunate Alliance also used the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and with the help of the Ming commander, and the Shogunate Alliance was highly motivated to defend its sphere of influence, the Shogunate Army finally suffered a crushing defeat in its attempt to attack the lair of the Shogunate Alliance.The Tokugawa shogunate's offensive was thus thwarted.When Tokugawa Iemitsu learned of this, he was furious, drew his knife on the spot, slashed at the air in front of him several times, and yelled, "Excessive!
Excessive!
With the Ming Kingdom here, my shogunate can't even do substantive unification!
”"General, please calm your anger, we must accept this fact now, and we are powerless to change, Ming Guo is the force that really determines the fate of our Wa Kingdom, what we need to think about now is how to make Ming Guo think that our shogunate is a person who can continue to cooperate, for the interests of the entire Yamato nation, we are no longer able to protect, and we can no longer make decisions for all Wa people, our fate can only be a puppet, or an abandoned puppet."
The important minister Date Munejun said at this time Tokugawa Iemitsu.After the Ming Dynasty took the initiative to expand its interests in the Japanese state, and even fully intervened in the internal affairs of the Japanese state, the national character of the Japanese state will naturally awaken, which is inevitable.Naturally, their ruling class would not willingly watch the Ming dominate on their own turf.Just like after the Black Ship Incident in history, there will be a Restoration in the Wa Kingdom.Everyone in the current ruling class of the Wa Kingdom, including Tokugawa Iemitsu himself, would also be dissatisfied with the current Ming Empire.Date Sojun was the same, but what he had to remind Tokugawa Iemitsu now was that they had no way to fight against the Ming now, they could only compromise and even flatter him.Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but put away his knife when Date Sojun said this, and smiled bitterly: "Puppet!
You are right, we can only be puppets now, and even try to be the most satisfactory puppet of the Ming people, so that the Ming people can be satisfied, and we can have the qualifications to continue to rule the Japanese people for the Ming Kingdom. ”Saying that, Tokugawa Iemitsu said again: "But this is really resentful, I want to cut my stomach every minute now!"
In this way, we can ignore the shame of our Yamato nation!
”Burst!
The important minister Yagyu Zongju suddenly slashed into his abdomen, endured severe pain, and looked at Tokugawa Iemitsu: "The general is right, since the safety of the shogunate is now under the control of the Ming Kingdom, even if the minister is superb in martial arts and proficient in learning, he has no value to the shogunate, rather than watching my Yamato being so oppressed by the Han people, it is better to commit suicide by seppuku!"
Goodbye General!
”As he spoke, Yanagi pulled the knife back, and the whole person fell to the floor.Tokugawa Iemitsu and Date Munejun watched this scene and were silent for a long time.…… Zhu Youxiao looked at the food bills imported by the Japanese State for the purchase of Ming munitions and the silver compensation slip of the Fallen Curtain Alliance, and was silent for a long time.He knew that the Ming Dynasty was making so much money now, and it was the result of hegemonism that he had successfully taken advantage of the civil strife in the Japanese State.After thinking of the scene that he saw in later generations at the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese Invasion of China, Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "It's better to make profits from outside the world!"
The Ministry of Edicts and Officials praised the Ming officials who participated in the movement of the fall of the Japanese Kingdom, and the officials were promoted to one level, and their wives were added to the shadow by one level. ”