Xinshun 1730

Chapter 403 Ambition Has Already Appeared
After a short rest, the fleet set sail on the second day and rushed towards Busan after merging the merchant fleet outside Liugong Island.

North Korea has a naval force, but after so many years of not fighting, it is already rotten.

When the squadron arrived, the North Koreans were taken aback. The appearance of these ships was very different from the ships they knew, until the small boats on the ship let down the people and told the panicked North Koreans that they came from after the Celestial Dynasty. , which made North Korea feel relieved.

Zhao Baiquan did not disembark. As a member of the Chinese government, he represented the Chinese government.If the North Korean side did not come to welcome him, he would not be able to disembark. There was no angel who took the initiative to go to the vassal officials, so he had to do the opposite.

Zhao Baiquan did not disembark, but the Marine Corps disembarked. After landing, they directly surrounded the Caoliang Waguan near the Busan Tower of later generations.

Waguan, Tangrencho in Nagasaki, and the corresponding trading halls in the Thirteen Banks of the Qing Dynasty are actually similar things.

"Foreigners" can only be within the specified range and cannot leave, which is convenient for jurisdiction and control.

Waguan is divided into two parts, east and west.

The western part is similar in function to an embassy, ​​and the reception etiquette and mutual visits of envoys are all held in the west.

On the east side is the place where merchants in the mutual market sell and buy goods.

The entire Waguan is not too big, with a total of [-] square meters.Ping is the unit area in Japan, and two tatami double beds are one ping.

There are four to five hundred people permanently stationed in the museum, including monks, translators, and those who come to North Korea to study Chinese medicine.

In addition, there are many Confucian scholars in it.

There is no official contact between Japan and Dashun, so North Korea is a transit place for Chinese culture, and some people who study Sinology also study Confucianism here.

At this time, there is a great Confucian in the Waguan, Yusen Fangzhou.

He is also one of the ten sages of Zhu Zixue Mumen, and he is the teacher of Arai Shiraishi.Personally speaking, this person has two anecdotes.

One is that he likes men. After the North Korean envoys arrived in Japan, they saw the young boy in the fireworks field and found it difficult to understand.

The second is that when he was in Nagasaki, a Chinese businessman chatted with him in Chinese and occasionally spoke Japanese a few times, and was praised as "Your Japanese is good".

Yusen Fangzhou has been presiding over the affairs of Korea. Under the recommendation of his teacher, he served in Tsushima Fan very early.A Korean language school was opened in Tsushima to train a group of people who can work in Wakan.

His elder brother Arai Shiraishi has been dead for more than ten years. He is supposed to be seventy years old, so he should quit. allow".

It's just that news suddenly came from the shogunate not long ago that Dashun had captured Tosa and might invade Japan.

Although I don't know where Dashun's army will appear from now, Tsushima Island is too important, so Zong Yiru, the lord of the Tsushima Domain, invited him out of the mountain, and hoped that he would go to the Caoliang Wakan to communicate with North Korea and inquire about Dashun's movements .

The news was not so accurate. People in Mafan only knew that Dashun captured Tosa, but they didn't know how it was fought.

Yusen Fangzhou is seventy years old, but he still went out to Choyang Wakan in Busan, trying to communicate with the envoy of Dongnae Prefecture, but he didn't get any useful news.

He has never had any doubts about "what should be done if Confucius and Mencius attack in the future". Although there are some contradictions with Arai Shiraishi because of the title of "king" or "majesty", he still integrates Arai Shiraishi's "Japan Center" On" concept.

Different from Zhao Baiquan’s view of the inappropriate titles of “majesty” and “king”, Yusen Fangzhou believed that “the shogunate’s self-proclaimed king is an arrogance”, not the emperor of China, but the one who arrogated to live in Kyoto.

Arai Shiraishi believes that "Zhonghua or China is what the Tang people called themselves. Japan does not need to learn from it, and it should not call them China. Just use the two characters Zhiyona."That is, it is a geographical concept, not a central concept of a cultural empire.

On this point, Yusen Fangzhou agrees.

At this time, the "History of Japan", which had been basically completed, also compiled the emperor as "Benji" and China as "Biographies of Zhufan", and also recorded the records of Wu and Tang's "tributary" to Japan. And clearly use the word "tribute".

By the way, I also put China's "Biography" at the end of [Biography of Zhu Fan], because Japan can affect Ryukyu, North Korea, Ezo, etc., but it cannot affect China, so it is thrown at the end; The Netherlands and other countries are thrown at the end.

Arai Shiraishi misinterpreted: Hua is a cultural concept.For Japan, Japan is Hua, and the rest are barbarians; while the word China itself represents the center of the concept of "Hua", so it cannot be called that, but a place name.

I believe in Confucianism, so I can be Hua, and my surroundings are barbarians.I can be Hua, and you can be Hua, but you call yours and I call mine. We don’t affect each other, and each of us closes our doors and creates the world by ourselves.

On this point, Yusen Fangzhou has no doubts.

After hearing the missionaries who smuggled into Japan, Arai Shiraishi found inspiration from the split between the Eastern and Western Roman Churches in the past.

China has China's world, and Japan has Japan's world; China's world regards Japan as a vassal, and Japan's world also regards China as a vassal.

Coupled with Zhu Zixue's concept of "turning barbarians into summer", it can be said that the distorted theory of "Little China" and "Hua Yi" with Japanese characteristics has basically taken shape.

This distorted theory is a theory of "closing the door and enjoying yourself", because the two sides are separated by an ocean, and official communication is limited.

But once the distance of the sea can be easily crossed, then this can easily be changed into an aggression theory by the devil.

Liu Yu's foundation in Confucianism is insufficient, so he can only look at Arai Shiraishi's trade credit card policy from the perspective of "restricting the outflow of precious metals".

However, Yusen Fangzhou has a solid foundation in Confucianism, so he views the trade credit card system in this way: Japan issues credit cards to Chinese merchants to allow Chinese merchants to trade, which is actually similar to China's provision of a tribute for each vassal for several years.Therefore, under the trade credit card system, Japan is the center, while China is the vassals.

It is "I allow you to come, you can come; I don't allow you to come, you can't come", so, who is the center of the world?

It's just that these small actions of self-indulgence are meaningless in front of Weihai's naval warships; when the navy can cross the sea, as long as you still accept the cultural concept of "Hua", then in this world, there are and can only be A Middle Kingdom.

Or, give up the right to interpret culturally by yourself, and accept the only correct officially designated Confucian faction and method of interpretation—if you want to explain yourself, you can win the Eastern version of the "Protestant War".

Or, give up the concept of "Yichangxia" by yourself, whether you close your door and believe in Christianity or Bushido, don't get mixed up with the interpretation of the concept of Hua, completely separate, and get rid of Han culture.

Of course, this is under the condition that there is no external influence.

Whether it is Annan, North Korea, or Japan, as long as the concept of China is not shattered, as long as China does not close its eyes and pretend to be ignorant of external affairs, there are actually only two options.North Korea can also choose the second option, as long as it can win the Celestial Dynasty after the tribute is cut off.

In fact, many things in the court have not been clarified. If these issues are clarified, those imperial examination officials will actually choose not to die.

On the contrary, when the time comes, these people of the Real School will become the school of compromise and signing the contract, accepting as soon as it is good, wanting profit but not righteousness.

At this time, the Dashun army surrounding the Waguan are all from the Real School.

The shining bronze cannon glared dazzlingly in the sun, and the closest connection with the former Dashun, which was a purely celestial dynasty, was only the banner with the words "Dashun Army Brave Victory" written on it.

This is not the characteristic of the Weihai Navy, or even the characteristic of Emperor Taizong of Dashun after the Jingxiang War, but the characteristic of Xi'an after the establishment of the system.

Many of the weapons of the Dashun Army unearthed in later generations are engraved with slogans such as "Dashun Army, the brave win"; The gunstock with those letterings when it was built means.

At this time, there are not many slogans left, such as "Dashun Army Brave Victory" on the banner at this time, it's the same if you cut off Dashun and just replace it with another one.

The blue military uniforms and red-tasseled felt hats of the Marine Corps, matched with black bayonets, were lined up neatly, and the drums were beating.

The people in the Japanese hall panicked. They tried to make some resistance, but they didn't have many weapons in their hands. The North Korean government was very strict with them.

This time the incident happened suddenly, not long after the news from Tosa came, Yusen Fangzhou also quickly came to the Wakan, wanting to collect information.

Who would have thought that after only a few days of arrival, the troops of the Dashun Army had already overwhelmed them, the efficiency was really fast.

At this time, running around is undoubtedly a dead end. Looking at the warships on the sea, I also know that there is no chance to run.As soon as Dashun starts a war, North Korea will immediately become the most loyal vassal. It may not be possible to fight a war, but it is still possible to catch the people in the Waguan who are running around.

Yusen Fangzhou, whose hair had already turned gray, had already realized that North Korea was probably not notified of Dashun's expedition this time.

Otherwise, North Korea will definitely take action, either arrest them or drive them away.

There is not much news from the shogunate, but what I heard from Zongyi Juna seems to be related to what the Shimadzu family of the Satsuma domain did in Ryukyu.

It's just that Dashun's actions are so fast, Fangzhou Yusen couldn't help thinking of a word.

If you want to add a crime, why don't you have any trouble?
I'm afraid Dashun has already made up his mind, and the Ryukyu matter is probably just a cover.

If this is the case, I'm afraid it's not good.

But it would be even more terrifying if it wasn't for the fact that there is no excuse for the crime... Dashun went to Tosa not long ago, and the troops can be dispatched in such a short period of time. The speed of mobilizing and dispatching troops is unmatched by Japan anyway , which is even more terrifying.

Under the impatience of what to do, Yusen Fangzhou ordered everyone not to be impatient, and he was going to ask what was going on.

With the support of his disciples, he stood up and walked towards the door.

The soldiers outside the gate lined up at a distance, Yusen Fangzhou felt like a hero facing thousands of troops alone, and was about to speak forward, Xiao Wang Situ said a few words first, asking why he came here.

However, within a few steps, an officer from the Dashun Army shouted: "Old man in front, stop. If you go any further, you will be shot!"

The shout was in Chinese, obviously the officer didn't care whether the other party understood it, but Fangzhou Yusen could understand it.

He shouted in very standard official language: "This is the land of Korea, not Japan. Didn't you hear that Mr. Wuyi's annotation of "Spring and Autumn" said: Voice crimes lead to crusades, and hidden masters plunder the land and invade. Your country wants to punish you It is a crime to attack Japan, North Korea is not guilty, and the subterranean army plunders the territory, isn't it an invasion?"

The officer who led the team also went to camp school, so he was quite surprised to hear such standard official language here, and then said: "Is it the king's land under the whole world, the emperor's division travels in the king's land, what is an invasion?"

Yusen Fangzhou took another step forward, and when he was about to explain the reasoning again, he saw the officer shouting directly: "Raise the gun! Get ready!"

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The soldiers in the formation raised their muskets almost at the same time, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at Yu Senfangzhou who was still going forward.

Yusen Fangzhou, who had already taken a step, stopped, and then heard the officer shout: "Old man, since you understand official language, that's the best. Go and tell the people inside that if you don't come out and surrender within a quarter of an hour, we will Just fired. Tell the inside, surrender quickly, and you can be sent back to the Japanese country. Otherwise, it will be regarded as resisting the heavenly soldiers, and all of them will be slaughtered. Seeing that your legs and feet are inconvenient, I will give you 5 more minutes, go quickly."

Waved at Yu Sen Fangzhou, the two cannons in the distance were already adjusting their angles, Yu Sen Fang Zhou choked back the words that had reached his throat, looked at the two cannons that did not make sense, cursed secretly, and trembled again Walk back tremblingly.

Looking at Yusen Fangzhou's back, the staff officer took out his pocket watch to check the time, and muttered: "A bunch of cowards, send an old man out? The young ones have all shrunk?"

The artillery officer next to him had already measured the distance and angle, flipped through the newly edited artillery table, and shouted: "Flower bomb, lead wood 37 inch [-], angle [-], get ready!"

(End of this chapter)