"Sakai Tadashi, a minor minister of the feudal kingdom, greets His Majesty the Holy Emperor!"
The shogunate envoy Sakai Tadashi straightened the Confucian crown on his head and knelt down to Zhu Youxiao very reverently.Although the Ming Dynasty is now the invader of the Wa Kingdom, and is invading the Wa State in an all-out way, intending to annex its country, but because the Ming Empire is too strong, Sakai Tadashi naturally does not dare to have a slight dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty, and can only be grateful to the Ming Dynasty and respect the Emperor of the Apocalypse."
Excuse me!"
Zhu Youxiao replied."
Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Sakai Tadashi then stood up.Zhu Youxiao then asked, "What do you want to see me?"
”"Your Majesty, my general knows that his talents and virtues are shallow, and he is not worthy of ruling the land of the East, so he has taken the initiative to move east to the place where the Americas are strong, in order to carry forward the Confucian civilization in the land of barbarians, but the shogunate is weak, and the guns and cannons have always relied on the supply of the Celestial Empire, so I still ask the Celestial Empire to support it, so that the 200,000 shogunate troops can make meritorious contributions to the Celestial Empire in the Americas!"
Sakai Tadashi said.Zhu Youxiao had already guessed that the shogunate had sent people to ask for a meeting with him in order to continue to maintain the arms trade so that he could maintain its military superiority over the Western colonists in the Americas.For Zhu Youxiao, this money is naturally not earned in vain.Anyway, the casualties were not his own Han people, but the Western Fan and the Japanese devils, Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "Support can naturally be supported, you can negotiate with the cabinet for specific matters, Lu Aiqing, you are responsible for this matter!"
”"Obey the order!"
Lu Xiangsheng stood up at this time."
Your Majesty the Holy Emperor Xie, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
The shogunate had already accepted the edict of the Ming Emperor before, so it was not too much for Sakai Tadashi to call Zhu Youxiao our emperor.Soon after Lu Xiangsheng sent someone to negotiate with Sakai Tadashi, he informed Zhu Youxiao of the shogunate's intentions, saying: "The Tokugawa shogunate means that it hopes to order our rifled guns directly, saying that now Xiyi has also improved the smelting process after seeing our Oriental flintlock pistols, and replaced them with flintlock pistols with a low mute rate, so the flintlock pistol has little advantage in front of Xiyi, so I hope to order Daming's rifled guns, and hope to introduce rifled gun manufacturing technology, and send a group of Ming firearms technicians to serve as consultants.
He even wanted me to send a group of officers to help them practice the new tactics after the rifled guns were loaded. ”Zhu Youxiao sneered after hearing this: "The ambition of this shogunate is not small!
”"What Your Majesty said is that, in the opinion of the ministers, rifled guns can be given!
Xiyi's firearms have indeed improved, according to the relevant information of the West investigated by Jinyiwei, the emphasis on scientific research over there has never been weaker than my Daming!
Therefore, if the Japanese want to maintain an advantage in front of Xiyi, at least a slight advantage, they do need to have better firearms, but the rifled gun can only give me the Ming Dynasty primary front-loading rifled long rifle, and even the projectile is best a spherical bullet; But technology can't be given, my Ming guns remain advanced, the most important thing is not the principle of firearms manufacturing, but the steel smelting process, only my Ming smelting process can make the barrel cheap and very good quality!
If you give them the technology, it is naturally equivalent to giving them the smelting process. ”Lu Xiangsheng replied.Zhu Youxiao nodded after hearing this: "The rifled gun can be sold to them, and it can only be a front-loading rifled gun, but I heard that the front-loading rifled gun has been discontinued, so let people specially design a front-loading rifled gun for these Japanese people, reopen a factory, and specialize in manufacturing this rifle, as for the technicians, naturally they can't be sent to them, and the officers can send them, not to help them guide their tactics, but to install an eyeliner in his shogunate!"
”"Your Majesty!
In the opinion of the ministers, it is better for officers to be biased towards political and military affairs, rather than to know anything about technology, and to be strong-minded to avoid being bought by the shogunate with various temptations. ”Lu Xiangsheng replied."
Aiqing is thoughtful, let's do it quickly.""
Yes!"
On this day, Lu Xiangsheng called Sakai Tadashi to the cabinet, and conveyed Zhu Youxiao's meaning to Sakai Tadashi, and gave a picture to Sakai Tadashi: "This is a firearm specially designed by the imperial court for your shogunate, you can take a look." ”Sakai Tadashi was naturally disappointed when he heard that Da Ming refused to give the rifled gun making technology and refused to send technicians, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he only asked: "This gun seems to be much longer than the active rifle of the Heavenly Dynasty Wangshi, and it is longer than the flintlock pistol, dare to ask Ge Lao, can this really maintain the weapon advantage in front of Xiyi?"
”"Naturally, this firearm is designed for you by Song Gong (Song Yingxing), the oldest in my science and engineering education, it is very long, plus the bayonet, it is far higher than the height of your Japanese people, it can make up for the lack of height of your Japanese people, the accuracy and range are much higher than the flintlock pistol, if you don't believe it, you can try the gun when the time comes."
Lu Xiangsheng replied.After hearing this, Sakai Tadashi couldn't help but say: "It would be great if Song Gong could go to my shogunate to guide him personally!"
However, thank you to the Celestial Empire for your help!
”After Sakai Tadashi tried the gun, he was also satisfied, and first took out the five million yuan silver coins deposited by the shogunate in the Daming Bank, and delivered it to the Daming Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, as a deposit for this batch of firearms, and also took the 5,000 Ming shogunate guns produced first to the Americas."
The Ming Kingdom is still wary of us, and would rather re-produce the guns they eliminated than give us new guns, or even the technology to make rifled guns."
Sakai Tadashiyo talked to Tokugawa Ietsuna after meeting Tokugawa Ietsuna.After hearing this, Tokugawa Ietsuna sighed: "That's it!
If you want to be strong, you still have to rely on yourself, Ming Guo just wanted to profit from us!
In the past, in my native Japan, the daimyo in various places had no respect for my shogunate because of the intervention of the Ming Kingdom, so even if my shogunate wanted to make the rise of the Japanese country, it was powerless, but now it is different, the Americas are far away from the Ming country, and there is no restriction from the daimyos, we must take this opportunity to strengthen ourselves, first from the Western Fan to profit, and then use the seized to strengthen themselves, not to squander, the Ming Kingdom can have today, I have carefully studied, It was all because their emperor used most of the wealth he seized on technology research and development to improve the knowledge and wealth of his people, and repeatedly used an iron fist to suppress the powerful bureaucrats in his country who tried to defy this political idea!
So that Mingguo can now maintain a technological advantage over us!
”Sakai Tadashi also nodded and said, "Judging from the minister's experience of studying abroad in the Ming Kingdom, this is indeed the case!"
I am willing to do everything in my power to help the shogun rebuild a strong Japan in the Americas!
”"Definitely!
Sakai-kun!
”Tokugawa Ietsuna said in the tone of a friend, and then he got up and said, "When the officers sent by the Ming Kingdom have trained our army to maturity, they will use this new firearm to rob the Xiyi here!"
Give the best treatment to the Ming officer who was sent, send the most beautiful Japanese girl of my shogunate to serve him, even you, see him and be treated with my attitude, so as to hope that this officer can say good things about us in front of the Ming Emperor, so as to paralyze the Ming Emperor and make him not know our ambitions!
”"Understood!"