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Chapter 1059 Open your eyes to see the world
"I want to know, what do you Kyushu Army want to do in Japan? We have promised you many privileges in the "Jianghu Treaty". You can build railways, open schools, newspaper offices, and banks in all cities. Come to invade us?" Tadakatsu Sakai, who had become a prisoner, asked unwillingly.

Originally, as a senior member of the shogunate, one person was under one person and above ten thousand people. With the solidification of the shogunate hierarchy, his life can be said to be smooth and smooth, but after the Beiyang Fleet broke into Edo Bay, his bad luck continued, and his younger brother was killed. He was executed, and he was forced to go to the wild. In the end, even the dignity of the samurai was lost, and he became a prisoner of the peasants.

"Occupy this place and turn it into the easternmost province. At present, it is the easternmost one. There are silver mines, fishing grounds, forests, hydraulic power, and excellent harbors." Zhang Yuanzheng sat, patiently helping Sakai Zhongsheng explained.

Although in the eyes of Tanaka Chengichi and others, the death of the daimyos such as Sakai Tadakatsu is not a pity, but in fact the whole of Japan is controlled by these daimyos and their families and retainers. At the beginning, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered the world. The interests of these daimyos must also be considered at all times. As a result, Japan has never been monolithic, and the people everywhere are more loyal to the local daimyo than to the shogunate.

Almost all the daimyos in Xiguo are on the side of the Allied Forces, so Xiguo can achieve effective rule after the civil war in Japan. Being able to make Sakai Tadakatsu and his group surrender, it may be possible to establish the Eastern Province at a relatively small cost.Otherwise, it is very likely that there will be continuous rebellion like Nanyang, the Western Regions and other places, especially for Nanyang, which is directly wiped out by force, and has not received the support of the local nobles. Instead, they will take away all their land, so the local nobles rebelled It continued from time to time, restraining a group of troops such as the Nanyang Fleet to carry out local suppression for a long time.

The development of the Nanyang region was late, and there were many islands and jungles, which made the sailors of the Nanyang Fleet from the farther north miserable, and even hired local soldiers to assist in the suppression operation.

If Dongpu can threaten the daimyos to submit themselves, then there will be relatively few rebellions in the future.For the daimyo who had experienced mutual annexation and intrigue during the Warring States period, surrender is not a shameful thing, and it is more acceptable to them than being captured by the peasant army.

"Your territory is already very vast. The entire continent is your territory. We are just a few islands, which are nothing compared to the Kingdom of Heaven. The resources here are barren, if it is not supported by some gold and silver mines , Even the money and food given to the samurai during the war is difficult to pay. During the Warring States period, everyone only ate two meals a day, and even the daimyo had to eat dried radishes. Although there are fishing grounds you mentioned, but the fishermen on the seaside go fishing just to survive , What is the use of forests and water resources?" Tadakatsu Sakai was surprised by the focus of the Kyushu Army.

He didn't know that after the start of industrialization, the development efficiency of forestry, water power, and fishery resources would increase exponentially compared with the farming era.After a large amount of forest resources are transported into the factory, a large number of wooden furniture, chopsticks, galleons, and building materials will be produced.Hydropower resources can be used in the construction of hydropower stations and become an important resource in the future.Hokkaido fishing grounds will be truly developed after larger fishing boats are produced, and there will be a real concept of fishery.

These Tadakatsu Sakai were constrained by the vision of the times, and could not see the importance of some resources that were not important in the farming era in the future.It's like oil, which is almost useless in this era, will become the object of competition among all countries in the future.

"This is the meaning of the military master, and it is also the initiative of Huaxia to become a province of our Huaxia in the east. The east of the world is originally under the tribute system of the Celestial Dynasty. It is very important for our East Asian civilization to unite into one big empire." A beneficial thing. There is a wider world outside waiting for us to conquer and plunder. According to the words of the military leader, if it is not covered by the Chinese cultural circle, he still does not want to accept it as one of the provinces. You Dongying You should be glad that you can join the Chinese cultural circle we have built." Zhang Yuan said.

"Our Japan was annexed, but we should be grateful to you?" Tadakatsu Sakai seldom heard such a cheeky opinion.

"That's right, just imagine, our strength is far above yours, and we are developing at an extremely fast speed. Dongpu and China Mainland border each other. If we are not prepared to be annexed, we will have a worse end. On the contrary, if you join us With the plan to conquer the stars and the sea, Dongpu can also follow us to conquer the world together, and even have a more distant journey!"

Zhang Yuan clapped his hands and asked his subordinates to bring in a few drawings.

"This is the map of all the countries in the world. The area where China and Japan are located is only a part of the world, which is called East Asia. In addition to our East Asia, there is also a place called Europe on the other side of the ocean. Their combined population is not as large as There are few of us, there are Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, there are many ancient natives in America and Africa here, their civilization is backward, but the place where they are located has gold, silver, sugar, and spices.”

"This is the star map of the solar system. The world we live in is just a planet called Earth in the solar system. There are several other large planets in the solar system. The sun we usually see is an ordinary star in the universe. The entire universe A billion times larger than the world we live in...”

Zhang Yuan popularized the basic world view for Tadakatsu Sakai, which made Tadakatsu Sakai stunned.He didn't even think that the real world is so big. Originally, Oda Nobunaga's ambition to dominate the world was just to treat Japan as the world.But the real world is so big that it is unimaginable!

Tadakatsu Sakai wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "How do you know that there are all regions other than China, and that we live on a planet called Earth?"

"This is the conclusion drawn by our scholars based on observations and calculations. Before you came into contact with Westerners, you certainly didn't know that the west of the world also had ancient civilizations. It was just because of the long distance between things that the two sides didn't know about each other. The development situation. Inferences like this, maybe there are still unknown civilizations in a certain deep space. It may take us humans countless years to explore."

"At this time, the countries in the world are like the big names of your Warring States period in Japan, but with a wider territory. When all countries recognize each other's strength, there will be a larger-scale merger until someone realizes the world. .Do you still think it is not inevitable for Japan to become a province?" Zhang Yuan continued to talk about his new world, subverting Tadakatsu Sakai's world view.

(End of this chapter)