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Chapter 1069 The end of the war
"I just need to sign and seal here, right?" Tokugawa Iemitsu asked, pointing to a corner of the surrender document.

"Yes, after signing the text, you, the shogun, will be taken to the capital and placed under house arrest for ten years as the price for launching the war." Mitsuhisa Shimadzu said.

Although the owners of the Yamauchi family and the Mori family have older seniority, the commander-in-chief of the Fallen Allied Forces is the new head of the Shimadzu family, Mitsuhisa Shimadzu, who took the lead in initiating the Fallen Curtain movement.

"I am under house arrest in the capital of China... I also really want to see the prosperity of the capital and the military leader." Tokugawa Iemitsu was quite emotional after signing and stamping.

This war made him bankrupt, that is, he himself became a prisoner and needed to be escorted to the capital of China for house arrest, so as to reduce the influence of the Tokugawa family on Japan during this period.

Ten years have passed, and no one will remember the kindness of the Tokugawa family to them.

"A few daimyos need to go to the capital together to accept house arrest, and the rest will be sent home to wait for new government arrangements." Lu Xiangsheng ordered the surrender document to be put away for safekeeping.

"It's finally time to end this endless war!"

Both the daimyos of the western country and the daimyos of the eastern country were troubled by the war. The sudden end of the war made everyone present feel a sense of relief.Many daimyos are reflecting on the significance of this war. Since the two sides fell into a confrontation with each other, the war has become a meaningless war of attrition. It is not until now that the Kyushu Army intervenes in this war of attrition that the war has truly ended.

Both the ordinary samurai of the shogunate and the peasants who had been conscripted learned the news that the shogun had surrendered on their behalf.The peasants were overjoyed. The surrender of the general meant that they could be sent back to their hometowns and return to the farmland.

Among ordinary samurai there is a sense of loss and dissatisfaction.In order to continue to maintain their samurai privileges, they fought desperately for the Tokugawa family, but they were defeated and lost everything.They needed someone to take the blame for this defeat, and Tokugawa Iemitsu, who took the initiative to launch a decisive battle, became the one who was blamed.

"The Tokugawa family tricked us into the battlefield, but we surrendered before we were completely defeated. We really believed him wrong at the beginning!"

The samurai became more and more dissatisfied, and while waiting to be dismissed, several small-scale rebellions broke out in the army, and some samurai wanted to seize power.However, the small-scale rebellion in the army was quickly suppressed by the daimyo who signed the surrender letter, and the peasant soldiers were unwilling to continue the war, so they assisted the daimyo to subdue the samurai who wanted to continue fighting.

"Shimadzu Mitsuhisa, I hope that your compromise with the Kyushu Army will not cause us to lose too much." The important daimyos of the fallen coalition forces such as Mori Hidejo of the Choshu Domain and Yamauchi Tadyoshi of the Tosa Domain said to Shimadzu Mitsuhisa after the war.

"Our Satsuma clan was the first to trade with the Kyushu Army. We know that they have many unknown technologies. It is with the help of these technologies that they develop rapidly. This momentum is unstoppable. Our Shimadzu family has already won a for Japan. relatively favorable position.”

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa looked at the temporary station of the Kyushu Army reinforcements, and Kyushu Army soldiers in gray uniforms were patrolling back and forth.

The muskets he bought from the Kyushu Army a few years ago are no longer comparable to the muskets equipped by the soldiers of the Kyushu Army, which made him vaguely aware that the Kyushu Army still has a lot of secret technology that has not been revealed.

"They seem to have divine help, maybe it's the blessing of heaven." The daimyos of the Western Kingdom sighed.

"Next, we will go to Edo Castle to participate in the establishment of the Eastern Province, and then assist the new government to quell the samurai rebellion and peasant uprisings in various places. The abolition of the samurai class is a certainty. You and I can get some compensation from it, but China There is no compensation for the lower samurai, and they are likely to gather together to make trouble." Mitsuhisa Shimadzu said.

"The size of the peasant army on Shikoku Island is as high as [-]. Let it be a headache for the new government. I heard from the retainers who stayed in the shogunate that there are rebels looting food everywhere, and Shikoku Island is already in chaos." From Says Tadyoshi Yamauchi, Tosa Clan of Shikoku Island.

"Be careful that the Kyushu Army appoints you as the sheriff of Shikoku Island. At that time, your Yamauchi family will clean up the mess of Shikoku Island... You will be officials of the new government in the future. I hope you can have a bright future." Mitsuhisa Shimadzu said.

The news of the establishment of the Eastern Province in Edo City spread, and the citizens, farmers, ronin, and samurai more or less knew that Edo City was about to change.

After the Fourth Fleet entered Edo Castle, it was able to maintain the law and order of Edo Castle.They disbanded the rebel army gathered by the Huaxia Society to prevent the Huaxia Society led by Tanaka Chengyi from taking advantage of the chaos and becoming an uncontrollable factor.

Tanaka Chengyi felt dissatisfied with this order, but his Huaxia Society was established with the support of the Beiyang Fleet, and the Fourth Fleet, which was on the same level as the Beiyang Fleet, forcibly dismissed them, and he could only accept it silently.

"I heard that officials from the Kingdom of Heaven will take a big ship to establish a new government to replace the rule of the shogunate. Is this true?" In the Tokyo branch, some Japanese businessmen were inquiring about the news from the employees.

The establishment of the Eastern Province, for businessmen without national boundaries, they are more concerned about their own interests.Once a new province is established, many business regulations will change.The merchants in Japan will not apply the rules set by the shogunate, but the business rules of China. At the same time, taxes will also change. The most obvious change is the integration of tariffs between the two countries.

In this way, Japanese merchants do not need to pay tariffs when they sell goods and raw materials to the mainland, because they are in the same country, and Chinese merchants do not need to be charged tariffs when they dump goods to the mainland.

"I don't know if it is Huaxia's heavy taxation or the shogunate's heavy taxation?"

"I don't know where I heard that the status of samurai will be abolished. We ordinary businessmen can also sit on an equal footing with samurai, and even those watchmen and poor peasants have the same status as samurai."

"Really? I raised a sum of money to buy the status of a samurai from a bankrupt samurai, but this time it's a good deal, and it can be regarded as saving me a lot of money."

"Now you still dare to buy the status of a samurai? People from the Huaxia Society are looking for samurai from door to door. All the samurai in Edo Castle were captured by them as hard labor to clean up the ruins after the fire."

Inside the Tokyo branch, many Japanese businessmen gathered, and they were all paying attention to the changes brought about by the establishment of the Japanese province.

Not only the merchants in Dongying, but also the farmers are worried about how much land rent the new government will charge, and the citizens of Edo are worried about when the price of rice will come down.

(End of this chapter)