Xinshun 1730

Chapter 424
The gunfire outside had gradually subsided. Zhaoren lowered his head, looked at the knife in his hand, recalled Wu Fangrui's taunt that he was "not qualified to talk about society", and gradually felt that the knife in his hand was a little heavy.

What made his heart churn was Wu Fangrui's last few words, Zhaoren really didn't even have the qualifications to call the door.

If the shogunate wants to fight, it will establish a new king and fight to the end just like after the change of the civil castle.

But if he didn't want to fight, he wouldn't establish a new king. Instead, he asked Zhaoren to talk to Dashun—the shogunate was about to fight to the death, but the emperor surrendered first—and then it was logical to stop fighting.

In the Zichen Palace, the voice gradually became quieter, and finally fell into a panic-stricken silence, even the gunshots and shouts outside had dissipated.

Zhaoren thought for a while, and asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

"Where did you come from?"

"Yonago, who was in Tottori a few days ago, arrived in Kohama four days ago, and broke the city in one hour. I led the forward and galloped through the starry night, with the army behind."

Wu Fangrui felt that there was nothing to hide, so it was better to say it directly.

Zhaoren already knew the news that the Dashun Army had breached Kochi Castle and messed up Tosa. With this psychological expectation, he was not too shocked to hear the news that Shichen had breached Xiaobin Castle.

After considering the distance between Tottori Yonago and Xiaohama, Zhaoren nodded silently, and asked, "General Shunguo, can you leave first? I want to talk to Guan Bai."

Wu Fangrui didn't hesitate either, and turned and left directly.Whether he is dead or not, he has already done what he should do, but he doesn't know if he will die when he walks into the Zichen Palace again.live?
The general and the interpreter left the Zichen Hall, Zhaoren glanced at the Jianxiang waiting to be chopped off, the Jianxiang shook his head, and knelt down on Zhaoren's head.

This may be a rare conversation between the emperor and Guan Bai without the eyes and ears of the shogunate, but I never thought it would be such an occasion before.

"I've already made up my mind to die, but General Tang's words seem to make sense. Death at this time is meaningless."

"If Tang State's conditions are acceptable, I'll discuss it, which may be the best result. If the conditions are not acceptable, it will not be too late for me to die."

Zhaoren spoke out what he was thinking, hoping that Yiyi Jianxiang would give him some advice, or he might strengthen his mind.

Yiyi Jianxiang pondered for a while, and said, "Tang is invincible. Kyoto is not Edo, but Tang's army can attack the imperial palace, where can't it go? But, what does Tang really want?"

Zhaoren said with a wry smile: "In the past, in the summer of the fourth year of Zhengde, Xinjing Baishi changed the currency system and established commercial regulations."

"In this year, Tang merchants abused our merchants and untouchables, and those who resisted were punished. After that, copper prices soared, and the mutual market was not good. Nagasaki people might not be able to make ends meet, and often sold them privately at sea. Tang merchants also landed ashore to invade, and the natives refused. Take weapons and rob them."

"In autumn, Tang Shang and barbarian ships arrived at Zhuhai. Zhuqian, Nagato, Xiaokura and other vassals prepared for the army. Reported to Arai Shiraishi, Junmei said: Our country is martial, and it is known to all countries. Now that we have been insulted so far, Naiguo's style He! So I suggest strict precautions. Since then, there has been no incident of Tang merchants landing ashore and invading."

"Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen are the cheapest. The Tang Dynasty fought for the untouchables. They called benevolence in their mouths and took profits in their hearts. If it is the profit of merchants, they may not be willing to occupy an inch of land. Junmei once said: Rice cloth is like hair, gold and silver are like bones, and hair is like hair. It can be regenerated, but the bone cannot be restored. This statement can be said, but it cannot be said.”

"If you can exchange gold and silver for an inch of land without losing it, that would be great."

"If the people of the Tang Dynasty took soil and did not ask for gold and silver, I would die."

"Warrior needs soldiers and land, but gold, silver and copper coins may not necessarily be used."

For decades, the only one in Japan who can be called a famous minister and has a strategic vision may only be Arai Shiraishi whose influence has been left to this day.

But even Arai Shiraishi is only a strategic vision of the classical era.

The line is wrong, the more knowledge you have, the more reactionary you are, and you are talking about people like Arai Shiraishi.

The route is still to maintain the system of locking the country first. Judging from this route, Arai Shiraishi's methods are really first-rate.Everything we do is to maintain the four-people system of "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce".

But the route is wrong, the more you do, the more mistakes you make.

The result of Arai Shiraishi's messing around for a long time is that Holland is catching up with his own bad things and Dashun is also sleeping, otherwise it would not be left in the history books: [Autumn, Tang Shang, barbarian ships to Zhuhai.Zhuqian, Nagato, Xiaokura and other vassals prepared for the army.Reporting to Arai Shiraishi, Junmei said: "Our country is martial, and it is known to all nations."Now that I have been insulted so far, what is the situation of Naiguo!Therefore, it is recommended to strictly guard against the records of].

As long as Dashun wakes up, or the Netherlands is not affected by the South China Sea bubble, and there is no major uprising in Southeast Asia, the records in the history books will become "the king's beauty minus the Nagasaki trade, resulting in the invasion of the Southern Barbarians and the rampage of Tang merchants, all of which are sins." .

Zhaoren's vision is just that way, but he can also understand the premise of Arai Shiraishi's saying that "rice cloth is like hair, gold and silver are like bones, hair can be regenerated, but bones can't be regenerated", which is normal trade.

If it is not normal, then whether it is gold, silver or rice cloth, relative to the territory, they can all be given up.

However, there is another thing besides the territory.

"Besides that, there is one more thing, I'm afraid the Emperor of Tang Kingdom will be concerned about it." Zhaoren called Emperor Dashun the Emperor of Tang Kingdom for the first time, and Yi Yijianxiang understood the implication.

Back then, Shiraishi Arai and Cho Dae-yi of North Korea had a long fight because the king was still called a maharaja.

At that time, the Korean mission arrived in Tsushima, but they still refused to follow. In the end, Zong Yifang called the army and said that if you don’t follow, then I have no choice but to let the samurai help you.North Korea followed suit.

When Zhaoren was arguing with Wu Fangrui before, he said that you must start with this and end with this.Now thinking about what they did to the North Korean mission back then, I am afraid that Dashun will follow suit, and if they do not follow, they will use the army to force them to follow.

Whether Dashun will start and end like this in the future is still unknown.But what we can know now is that Japan is afraid that it will start with North Korea in Tsushima and end with Dashun today.

Zhaoren thought of this, and finally spoke about the most crucial thing.

"In the fifth year of Xiangbao, Tokugawa Zongyao presented the "History of Japan". Among them, the Tang Dynasty is "Biography of Zhu Fan", and the royal family of this country is recorded in "Benji". The Emperor, the Son of Heaven."

"Since the Tang Dynasty sent troops in the name of Ryukyu tribute, I'm afraid that the "History of Japan" must be the first thing to talk about. If this matter cannot be decided, I'm afraid that the follow-up discussion will be unsustainable."

"Is it the matter of the minister? Is it a battle to the death? In the Song Dynasty, 'the minister's words' will be left behind for thousands of years. I really don't want to bear this legacy."

Ichijo Kaneka took a deep breath, and asked back: "When Emperor Gomizuo, the emperor went to Nijo Castle to see Tokugawa Iemitsu, isn't that insulting? How is it compared to Jingyasu?"

One of the more ugly stories, Jianxiang hasn't told it yet, but if I really want to tell it, there are more disgusting things.

Zhaoren was at a loss for words for a while, and wondered whether there was any difference between Mizuo Emperor going to Nijo Castle to "visit" Tokugawa Iemitsu and "Chen Gouyan".

In Zhaoren's view, there are some, and there are none, purely from the perspective of the royal family, it seems to be the same.

Yiyi Jianxiang continued: "If your majesty wants to kill the country, you should bear this infamy and ask for the stability of the shogunate. If the Tang people don't attack the powerful vassals in the southwest, wouldn't they be defeated? If the shogunate loses all its authority, wouldn't it be chaos? Now, how can we take revenge for our great humiliation?"

"If there are many vassals, there will be those who understand the Tang Dynasty, those who understand the Netherlands, and even those who believe in Qiezhidan religion."

"Duke Zhou was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was courteous and modest. If Tang Zong died after the Weishui alliance, there would be no great cause to destroy the Turks. What is his name?"

"Today in Japan, only the shogunate can take on the heavy responsibility of living hard."

The shogunate is not a good thing, but now only the shogunate can take on this great task.No matter how bad the centralization and unification is, even in name, it seems to be better than a lot of vassal states when it comes to resisting foreign humiliation.

Especially when the military strength of the "outside humiliation" is far stronger than that of the inside, if the outside force is still bone arrowheads and wooden bows, and the inside has iron weapons and firearms, then there is not much difference, but there is no "humiliation" at all.

Now, only the shogunate has the ability to integrate Japan alone, and only the shogunate is willing to suffer.

Dashun is not far apart, and under the premise that North Korea is a vassal, the distance is actually the distance from Tsushima to Fukuoka.This is completely different from the situation in which Western countries have not yet gained a firm foothold in Southeast Asia, and after Arai Shiraishi's New Deal, they are thinking about the founding of the country with gunboats but cannot gather troops.

Tsushima is only a hundred miles away from Fukuoka. Under such circumstances, it is unwise to "restore the king's government" or "respect the king and throw away China".

Whether this era is sleeping or pioneering, you only need to see how much the country cares about geography.And geography in this era is always closely related to navigation, and also closely related to the degree of awareness of external intelligence.

Even if Yiyi Jianxiang doesn't understand this truth, he also understands another truth:
Japan is not special either, and there will be no shortage of Shi Jingtang.

If the authority of the shogunate is lost, anyone in Fukuoka, Shimadzu, and Changzhou can be Shi Jingtang.

Even if Tokugawa Yoshimune is greedy for his own merits, saying that it was his own idea to plant sweet potatoes to resist the Xiangbao famine, claiming that Samoyana was his own request, and that "Sweet Potato Relief Book" was his request for translation, but it still cannot be avoided after all. According to the records in Japanese history books:

[Firstly, Ryukyu tributed sweet potatoes to Satsuma, and Liu Yu, a native of Tang Dynasty in Nagasaki, also sent several boats to present "Sweet Potato Relief Book".I'm sorry, but there are many people who rely on it to avoid hunger. 】

Now that Tokugawa Yoshimune said that Liu Yu is a treacherous person, it can be seen that Dashun's thoughts on Japan had been planted several years ago, nearly ten years ago.

It is impossible for Dashun not to know the situation in Japan, and it is impossible not to know that after the Sekigahara Battle, those people in the Western Army did not survive by the mercy of the Tokugawa family, but relied on their own strength to force the Tokugawa family to let them continue. For the feudal lord.

At this time, if the authority of the shogunate is lost, and people who want to be "Shi Jingtang" are afraid that they will have to wait in line.Some people even "want to be Shi Jingtang but can't".

Ichijo Kaneka is very aware of the current situation, and the best outcome is peace talks, allowing Japan to maintain the old balance.

Whether it's hard work or hard work, or accumulating strength, there is always a need for a leader.At this time, no one except the shogunate can afford such a heavy responsibility.

If Dashun continued to hold on, if he didn't want to beat the descendants of the Western Army back then, he would just hit the genealogy daimyo and pro-vassal daimyo, or even just hit the banner of the shogunate, so what should we do?
Now Dashun's attitude has clearly sent a signal: I can go to Kyoto, and I can also directly attack the territories directly under the shogunate.The steps have already been given, so don't be ashamed. At that time, if you really support the rebellion against the Southwest Qiangfan's shogunate on the grounds of 'returning the king's government' and 'returning the great government', then you will be toasted and fined.

The problem is that Dashun is close at hand, just like Dashun used the reason that Ryukyu was invaded by Satsuma to attack Japan. It's just Dashun's balanced strategy - taking history as a mirror, Donglu used the banner of revenge for Emperor Chongzhen, but actually doing it is another matter.

After clicking on Zhaoren, Zhaoren also knew that this was not a casual talk.

Looking at the empty Zichen Palace and hearing the quietness outside, he knew that the outer city of the Imperial Palace had been completely controlled by the Dashun Army.

"So, as the general of the Tang State said, you need to know the small rituals, but you must also know the great righteousness. Even if the Tang people asked to delete "Da Nihonshi" and change "Benji" to "Aristocratic Family", they must agree. Only in this way can the Is it righteous?"

Yiyi Jianxiang nodded, then shook his head again.

"Your Majesty, if the shogunate is able to sacrifice one's salary and taste one's courage, it is a great righteousness to achieve the revenge of three thousand Yue Jia swallowing Wu. If the Shogunate fails to do so, but Wuhou has returned to Qishan six times without success, His Majesty can only end up like Song Gao and Ming Ying." reputation."

"It's just, who can know what will happen in the future?"

(End of this chapter)