Xinshun 1730

Chapter 453 The Heaviest Chain

He raised the cup high, and Zhao Baiquan raised his cup cooperatively and waited.

People on the Japanese side didn't know for a while whether they should forcefully smile and raise their glasses to "celebrate the happiness of the people" or should refuse to drink this glass of wine.

People's correct thoughts don't fall from the sky. Whether it is Dashun or Ming Dynasty, they have never thought about the issue of "silver outflow".Because there is no practical experience, no matter how imaginative the officials are, they can't think of such a thing as the outflow of silver. In the eyes of pragmatic people, there must be something wrong with their minds.

But Japan is different.

Since more than a hundred years ago, gold and silver have been crazily outflowed, coupled with the recasting to increase the content of precious metals, it eventually led to the largest deflation in Xiangbao.

Arai Shiraishi had noticed the outflow of precious metals decades ago, not because he had a more strategic vision than the officials on Dashun's side, but because the officials on Dashun's side really didn't have the opportunity to practice their true knowledge.Even North Korea, a second-hand businessman, can transport five to six tons, seven to eight tons of silver to Busan a year, not to mention the Netherlands and China.

Now Liu Yu, who jumped out of this moment, obviously aimed at Japan's gold and silver, but wanted to say something like "the people are blessed". Zhaoren, Matsudaira Huizhen and others really didn't know what to say.

In later generations, these words can be described as bandit logic.He beat you up and said it was for your own good.

But now, it's just that the taste of father is too strong.

However, as long as it is within the tributary system, the market has to face the situation that the market is too strong. This is a situation that must always be faced.

These people were all waiting for Zhaoren's attitude, Zhaoren paused for a moment, then he could only raise his glass and drink the bitter wine.

After drinking this glass of wine, it is actually a tacit agreement to sign the contract.Since the treaty had to be signed, Matsudaira Huizhen also wanted to numb Dashun's side and pretend to be obedient, letting go of the shame and swallowing this cup of unpalatable wine.

The taste was so bitter that these people couldn't speak.

Liu Yu put down his wine glass with great interest, and said, "Just now when I mentioned the change of the Yuan, I thought of the fact that the Dutch were removed from the trading house in Hirado because of the Era. Westerners use Jesus to date the year, which is not the same as the Chinese Empire. system."

"Although Japan has been locked away for a long time, it has Nagasaki, so it should know the world affairs. There are big Kyushu, small Kyushu, and Kyushu Island in the world. The Celestial Empire belongs to only one corner of the big Kyushu."

"Westerners are becoming more and more powerful, and Japan also knows about it. The Spaniards preached everywhere, the Portuguese bombarded Hirado, the British tried to switch trades, and the Swedes once lived in Japan. I also heard about it; Arai Shiraishi interrogated Italy missionary, and knew Rome."

"Therefore, in today's time, it should be like the Spring and Autumn Period. Respect the king and fight against barbarians, and achieve the common prosperity of the celestial dynasty and the vassals; break the momentum of Western expansion."

"Japan's tribute is also beneficial. For example, in the year of Renchen, North Korea is a vassal, and it is invaded by Feng Chen. Why doesn't the Celestial Dynasty send troops to rescue?"

"If you pay tribute to the Celestial Dynasty, you can still keep the ancestral temple and protect the folk customs. However, if the southern barbarians invade, the country will be destroyed. When I visited Edo in the past, I used to cast a ruler to General Yoshimune. During the period, there were many cases of Westerners destroying the country and massacring the country."

"Let me ask you in today's world, who can stand against the Westerners, who is better than the Heavenly Dynasty?"

"The Heavenly Dynasty is benevolent and righteous. The Son of Heaven ordered me to negotiate peace. The conditions proposed are not for profit. It is just to seek justice for Ryukyu, plus some military expenses for sending troops. It is really not much."

"You guys think that I'm the kind of person who values ​​profit over righteousness. My heart really hurts. What I want is nothing more than a place with a strip of water, wind, moon, and sky, which can resist the invasion of the West and preserve the culture of the millennium. This is true righteousness. .”

"It may be like the big country of America, with tens of millions of people and hundreds of thousands of armored people. Now that the country is destroyed, the whole family is gone, and even the script of the ancestors, no one in the future will know it."

"It can be learned from the facts."

"The only way to break it is to surround the Celestial Dynasty and protect the world together. I am not trying to build up the ambition of others and destroy my own prestige. Even if the Celestial Dynasty has warships, it is not as good as one hundred Westerners."

"During the Wanli period of the previous dynasty, Westerners only had a foothold in Nanyang. Now, for more than a hundred years, there has been one death in Rigong, and now it is too late."

"In the face of strong ships and powerful guns, Japan is no match for Dashun's navy, so how can it alone defeat the Westerners' warships that are hundreds of times stronger?"

Putting the nonsense of the so-called "Great East Asia" co-prosperity nonsense, I changed it a little to explain the significance of the Tribute Dynasty.

Consciously or unintentionally mentioning the power of Western warships, it sounds like a threat, but it actually has a deeper meaning.

When Zhao Baiquan heard Liu Yu's words, he thought that Ying Suobo's words were not very good.This dynasty was able to win so smoothly, all because of the benefits of the navy ships.

Now it is said that the Westerners also have ships, which are even a hundred times stronger than those of the Chinese Empire. Although this is to scare the Japanese people, it is only afraid that the Japanese people have other ideas and even try their best to build ships.

I thought in my heart whether I should speak up and find a way to remind Liu Yu, but I didn't have any other ideas for a while.All he can think of is nothing more than the nonsense that the polite government can say, which is the destiny and the righteousness, but in the past two years, he has experienced the incidents in Ryukyu, North Korea, and Tsushima, which greatly affected his three views. Shocked, I began to doubt whether this set of things was really useful.

He didn't know that Liu Yu was not afraid of Japan's shipbuilding at all, but wished for Japan's attempt to build ships.Throw limited money on a fleet that is bound to fail.

After talking about the great significance of the tribute for a long time, they knew that they had ulterior motives, but the people on the opposite side listened to it a little bit.

Regardless of whether it is Dashun or Japan, they are acting like paramecium to the outside world at this time, and they can only respond to stress: from the Longqing switch to the Japanese lock-up; from the ban on religion to trade, they are all feedback after being stimulated .

It's just that considering the distance is too far, it's too late when we wait to occupy India and Southeast Asia, and really start to be able to stimulate East Asia.

At this time, the excitement of the Westerners is not too great.

What Liu Yu has been doing is to imitate a Westerner since Westerners cannot come for the time being.

Let Dashun see if the Westerners' warships and firearm formations are capable of fighting against Dashun, and whether Dashun can resist it.

The purpose of attacking Japan for the government is to use these people trained by myself to fake a visible and tangible stimulus for Westerners.

This stimulus is effective.

It is effective not only for Dashun, but also for Japan.

After listening to Liu Yu's words, Zhao Ren also fell into deep thought. Although he wondered whether Liu Yu had exaggerated the size of the Western navy—Dashun's navy forced Japan to be powerless to defend, a hundred times the size, what would that be like—— But it did get feedback after stimulation.

It's just that Liu Yu's rhetoric feels a little too strong.

However, what Liu Yu said next shocked Zhao Ren and the others.

"The Celestial Dynasty has the desire to destroy the country this time. It is only because the Son of Heaven is benevolent and puts the overall situation first, so he continues to fight like this. What he does is to fight against the West in the future."

"Maybe you don't believe it, but that's the case. Doesn't the Celestial Dynasty know about Japan's political situation? Taking history as a mirror, what kind of situation has never been seen before?"

"The Changzhou Domain is not Kagoshima, so why do you have to attack the Changzhou Domain? It's just to deter the southwestern feudal clans."

"To deter the feudal clans in the Southwest is only to keep the shogunate stable. Otherwise, there may be chaos in the Warring States period in the past, and the blood of the people will flow into rivers, or the feudal clans will make friends with the Western barbarians and act independently."

"Once upon a time, Takayama Shigetomo, as a daimyo, gave up everything and left Luzon just to believe in religion. Others such as Date Masamune, Konishi Gyocho, and Otomo Zonglin are all members of the Chietchitan religion."

"If the authority of the shogunate is lost and the chaos of the Warring States Period recurs, not only will the people's blood flow into rivers, but there will also be a catastrophe of colluding with the Western barbarians."

"Therefore, the Celestial Dynasty neither fought against the shogunate's flag, nor insisted on abolishing the ritual system established by the shogunate. Both are righteous."

"But you don't understand the suffering of the Celestial Dynasty, and you only think it is a crime that the Celestial Dynasty wants to inflict. Those present here include the royal family, ministers, and senior middle school and academic leaders of the shogunate. I don't have to deny it. .”

"At this time, peace talks are in the best interests of both the shogunate and the public. Does the Celestial Dynasty have no talents? Is it true that no one proposed to support the southwestern feudal clans, disband the shogunate, and return the royal government?"

"I don't know the number of people who are eager to fight in the court. I fought against the insults of the people, so I won this condition. You still have a lot of scruples. But don't think about it, how many officers expect to be promoted in this battle? Like Hagi City In a joint battle, there is only victory but no defeat. Who among the ministers of the Celestial Dynasty does not want to make meritorious service? Since the war started, there have been only a few hundred casualties, so is it really impossible to fight?"

After speaking, Songping Huizhen was horrified, recalling Dashun's various actions since the start of the war, it seemed that such a process really happened.

Could it be that, because of the lockdown, he could only get news about the outside world from Dutch storytellers, after all, he didn't know as much as Dashun?

Perhaps, has the situation in the outside world really reached this point?Why did the Celestial Dynasty want to unify the forces around it for confrontation?
I wanted to say something, but couldn't say a word.

To Matsudaira Huizhen, these words are true.

Indeed, peace talks are now most beneficial to the shogunate. Even after Dashun captured Empress Zhaorentian, he did not immediately demand peace talks, but fought the Changzhou domain. Isn't this a step down for the shogunate?

In the end, it was the southwestern vassals, not the shogunate, who demanded peace talks; all the vassals also agreed that the emperor's northern hunting was not a crime of the shogunate, and they wrote a document to establish this as evidence; it was also the vassals' unanimous request that a new king should not be established. Continue to fight.

And the turning point of all this lies in the battle of Hagi Castle.

Before the First Battle of Hagi City, all the feudal clans in the Southwest were waiting to see the prestige of the shogunate wiped out, maybe they really hoped that Dashun would weaken the shogunate.

The Battle of Hagi Castle also proved that in Yonago, Dashun was fully capable of defeating the troops of the Okayama Domain and annihilating the samurai directly under the shogunate of the Osaka Castle Dynasty, but Dashun did not do that.

It sounds like that's it.

But Matsudaira Huizhen still has a lot of vigilance in her heart. The shogunate that Liu Yu deceived back then slipped away. According to Tokugawa Yoshimune's private statement, the reform of coinage did alleviate Japan's money shortage problem, but no matter how you look at it, it seems that it is for the future. Prepare for compensation; the sweet potato famine relief has indeed saved many people in the famine, and stabilized the one after another in various feudal clans, but I am afraid that they can still pay for rice in order to have no money in the future.

This kind of person is the most terrifying.

Song Pinghui said in his heart, if it is a lie, it is not a lie, whether it is coins or sweet potatoes, they can really alleviate the problem.

When we can alleviate the problem, what we think about is the demand after a few years or even ten years.

If it's just a simple deception like Zhang Yi's tongue, you can always recognize it at a glance; I'm afraid that this kind of deception is really for your own good, and you have indeed gained benefits. The benefits you get today may be returned several times in the future.

Carefully recalling the more than [-] conditions put forward by Liu Yu, Matsudaira Huizhen thought, which of these conditions is the scariest?

It's just that he couldn't figure it out, none of these conditions was the most terrifying, whether it was a switch, compensation, or tribute, none of them were the most terrifying.

The most terrifying thing is hidden in the result that Matsudaira Huizhen and the Tokugawa shogunate want most - Dashun, who will try to protect the shogunate system.

It's just that this kind of horror is for Japan.

Teru-sada Matsudaira is not Japan, nor is the Tokugawa shogunate, nor is Akihito.That being the case, they naturally cannot see the result they want most, which is the heaviest chain in Japan's future.

(End of this chapter)