Xinshun 1730

473 Chapter [-]
This era is quite embarrassing for Japan.

This is not the age of steam, and there is no industrial revolution yet.Even if Japan tightens its belt at this time, let women go to Dashun as prostitutes to make money and send them back, squeeze the people to death, and accumulate primitive capital, then what?

What can I do?
100 years later, you can tighten your belt, buy machines, develop industries, and keep up with the pace of the times.

Industrialization can suppress a large number of contradictions and feed more people. It is bitter before it is sweet.

What now?
The foundation of China's handicraft industry is so thick that Britain can still force Britain to sell opium to balance trade after 60 years of steam engine development.

What can Japan do at this time?
Even if the army is strong and the unequal treaties are abolished, what will happen next?

Later generations Lu Xun wrote an article called "What happened after Nora left", the society remained unchanged, either degenerated or returned.What Japan is facing at this time is precisely this kind of predicament after Nora leaves.

It is not an impossible task to abolish unequal treaties if you are really determined.But what about after repeal?
As long as there is trade, gold and silver will inevitably flow out; as long as it is closed, it will inevitably fall behind within a few decades.

The current situation in Japan is completely different from the situation after the Qing Dynasty.The most disgusting point of the One Crow Treaty is opium, not the opening of ports and the 5.00% tariff. As long as opium is not involved, even if the tariff is zero, there will still be a trade surplus of tens of millions of taels.

The British can still figure out the ghost of opium, what can Japan figure out at this time?
This is not a problem of the Japanese family, but a problem that the whole world is pondering at this time. How can we achieve a surplus in trade with China?

Faced with this almost unsolvable problem, the Swedes can be forced to go to Guangdong to steal silkworm eggs and try to raise silkworms in Stockholm, a place with a higher latitude than Heilongjiang; the French can be forced to send academicians from the Academy of Sciences to China as Missionaries, before the ban on Christianity, took the initiative to go to Jiangxi to preach, gave gifts everywhere, and wanted to steal porcelain technology; they were able to force Britain to use administrative means to ban British people from wearing pure cotton clothes.

If you don't think about trade, but think about war and conquest, this era will be a dead end for Japan.

Japan now wants to go out, and there is only one way left to swallow Dashun.All sides are locked, as long as the war starts, it will be a life-and-death battle to destroy the country, and no one will give the other a chance.

But Dashun can take advantage of Japan's terrain and feudal system to dismember Japan, which is much less difficult; Japan can only swallow Dashun, but cannot dismember it. The difficulty is beyond description.

That's why Liu Yu asked Tokugawa Yoshimune, what do you want to do after strengthening the army?War serves politics, what is your purpose?What is your strategic plan?
He thought about it for ten years, but he didn't expect that there was any way out in Japan. At this time, he was really curious, whether Tokugawa Yoshimune could say something that made him suddenly enlightened.

The ancients said that if you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening.Liu Yu doesn't have such a high level, but he really wants to get some ideas that can make him exclaim that there are others.

This question completely stunned Tokugawa Yoshimune.

Looking at the words written by Liu Yu, Tokugawa Yoshimune opened his mouth slightly, turned his head back halfway, and turned into a wooden sculpture.

Even if the world changes and Dashun has no time to look around, what then?
Build ships, train troops, and then what?
Take back the leased land, and then what?

Just like what Liu Yu said, firstly, he did not dare to use the interests of warriors, and secondly, he did not have the ability to have five loaves and two fish.

I picked up the pen, hesitated for a long time, and finally wrote the question about the Netherlands.

"Someone suggested that it might be possible to imitate Xun Wenruo's strategy of driving tigers and wolves away. Using the exclusive right to open ports and trade as a bait, he promised that the Netherlands would monopolize Japan's trade as long as they drove away your country. Mr. Liu has a strategy, and he will make a decision later, presumably. I have also considered this matter. Could it be that, in Liu Jun's view, this plan is not feasible?"

This is not the same as Tokugawa Zongwu's waiting for the world to change. To wait for the world to change, it can be summed up as "fulfilling human affairs and obeying the destiny", relying on the destiny, and personnel affairs are only preparations for the moment when the destiny comes.

Tokugawa Yoshimune knew from his understanding of the outside world that Liu Yu was far superior to the cabinet members of the shogunate, so it was impossible not to consider this issue.

He wanted to see Liu Yu's attitude towards the Netherlands through Liu Yu's answer.

Just now Liu Yu asked Tokugawa Yoshimune to learn the story of the Chen She family as a joke, which made Tokugawa Yoshimune dumbfounded.Now that these few lines of words are delivered to Liu Yu, the one who can't laugh or cry has become Liu Yu.

After reading it, this is what I think?
From the beginning of the war to the present, Liu Yu feels that Japan's response is almost like showing him how to explain "waiting for the rabbit" and "seeking the sword".

Liu Yu is not afraid that the Japanese have brains and strategic thinking.I'm afraid that they have no brains and no strategic thinking. When the time comes, their heads get hot, and they will cause a lot of trouble out of thin air.

At this time, I felt that it was necessary for the Japanese to give up their hearts completely, shook their heads with a smile, and told Tokugawa Yoshimune the standard answer.

"The Dutch are good at trade, and their trade is systematic."

"The general has no idea what Japan's position in Dutch trade is. I might as well tell the general today."

"The purpose of the Dutch trade with Japan is to obtain gold and silver, and then spend them in Guangdong, Fujian, and Songjiang. Because the Netherlands does not produce gold and silver, and the Chinese merchants only want silver, and do not accept the transaction method of woolen cloth. "

"Let me put it more clearly. The purpose of the Dutch is to have enough cash when trading with China, so they want to trade with Japan."

"It's like a person who wants to kill, but chooses to practice swords, not because he likes swordsmanship, but because he wants to kill enemies. But the person who came up with this idea for the general thought that he just likes to practice swords, so let A swordsman worships an enemy as a righteous father. This is simply ridiculous."

"The general's staff are always like this. They don't know the purpose of doing things, and they don't know whether the policy will work. That's why they came up with the idea of ​​​​slapping their heads like the "Prohibition of Renting Tenants Act."

"You don't know what kind of goals you want to achieve after you strengthen your army, and then you have to strengthen your army."

"You don't even know what the Dutch trading system is like, and then you think you can drive tigers and wolfs away."

"This is the biggest problem for your country's counselors. They don't know the purpose and have no general plan. They always think that after they make a plan, everything will develop according to the plan you set."

"Here, I might as well persuade the general. If the Dutch can eat meat with China in Japan, they will be happy; if they want the Netherlands to go to war with China for the sake of Japan, they will not dare."

"Because...the Dutch have brains. They know that before doing anything, they must first think about the purpose, benefits, rewards, and how the war will end."

"From the beginning to the end, the purpose of the Dutch is very clear, to get the goods in the world and sell them in the West."

"For the former, they did not hesitate to occupy Zhoushan and Penghu; for the latter, they fought against Western powers."

"Now that the former has been achieved, what they are stuck with is the latter. This is the main line, and the trade with Japan is just a branch of this main line."

"Actually, the direction of this line of thinking is correct, but when it comes to specific details, what Japan can rely on is not the Netherlands, but a big country that intends to win the world and rule the world with rituals. Moreover, this big country cannot be the Celestial Dynasty. This big country requires the world to make rituals, Ascend to the throne as the emperor of the world, set five uniforms, divide distances, and think that Dashun wants to aspire to the importance of the top, only then can it be possible to "use the barbarians to control the barbarians" and support Japan."

"The general wants to come and read a lot of Dutch storytelling. From the general's point of view, does the Netherlands have the ambition to be the 'world emperor'? Does it have the strength to be the 'world emperor'? Or, do Western countries have such dominance at this time?" country?"

Looking at this answer, Tokugawa Yoshimune sorted out what Liu Yu wanted to express, feeling more and more heavy in his heart.

The more I sort it out, the more I feel that everything Liu Yu said makes sense.

The trade between China and the Netherlands is the backbone, while the trade between Japan and the Netherlands is just a branch of this trunk. The purpose is to get gold and silver from Japan and go to Dashun to buy things.

The Dutch don't cut down the trunk of a tree for the sake of the branches.

Thinking about it now, the Dutch immediately refused to send troops after the war started; after the war was settled, they raised the hope that they could open trade in five ports like Dashun.

What the backbone is, obviously, it couldn't be clearer.

Although the Dutch promised to help Japan, is it just lip service?

It is said later that the idea of ​​using external force is correct, but only the "Son of Heaven" will use the means of "using barbarians to control barbarians".In today's world, who dares to be called the emperor of the world?Who has the ambition and strength to rule the world?

Tokugawa Yoshimune's poor knowledge of the outside world, which he had acquired from Dutch storybooks, made it impossible for him to find such a country.

Thinking about it again, Tokugawa Munetake's thinking is not to hope that external forces will be the emperor and support Japan to control the barbarians.

Rather, it is similar to "Zhou took advantage of Yin Shang to conquer the Eastern barbarians", and he still recognized China as the emperor in his heart, but only hoped that China would conquer the barbarians and be unable to pay attention to Japan.

This is not looking forward to "Qin loses its deer, and the world chases it together."Because one Jianxiang said that if Qin loses its deer, the most likely reason is that Zhao Tuo became king on his own, and Japan is not qualified to compete. The warship is 50 old Qin from Nanhai County.

This condition is already very harsh.

First of all, if it wasn't the civil strife in Dashun, it was a conflict on the scale of a war of annihilation between the southern barbarian forces and Dashun.

Secondly, if the external forces and Dashun are both at sea, and neither party can win completely, otherwise, it will make no difference if the tiger is driven away and the wolf comes.

Then this war will last for 20 years, so as to give Japan the opportunity to cut down the vassal and build ships.

In the end, the Dashun Navy and the Nanman Navy will also be completely wiped out, so that the Japanese fisherman will benefit.

These four conditions are indispensable, but in fact all four conditions are met, not just as simple as God Bless, but the degree to which the Emperor of Heaven worshiped Japan as his father.

Even if all of this is realized, but this goes back to the question Liu Yu asked him, even if there is such an opportunity, what is Japan's purpose?What do you want to gain by war?
If it is a retreat, it is a crime to be pregnant, and sooner or later you will still be beaten.

If the unequal treaties are abolished, Dashun can now follow the example of North Korea’s Huitongguan trade, set aside a place for Japan in Dashun, and replace the unequal treaties on trade with reciprocal treaties. Is there any difference?

In a moment of silence, Liu Yu tried to say a word in Japanese for the first time.

"General, if I think that Japan still has a chance to try its best, the Privy Council will not fight like this in this battle, but will directly dismantle Japan back to the Warring States Period."

(End of this chapter)