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Chapter 794 The determination of the shogunate (ninth update)

"Your Excellency, General, I also got an important piece of information here." Sakai Tadakatsu said to Tokugawa Iemitsu.

"What information?" Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was still hesitating whether to make changes under the pressure of many retainers, asked.

"According to the report from the spies I arranged in the Yokohama Concession, Zheng Zhilong, the leader of the Kyushu Army in Dongying, secretly met with a group of important officials. Among them were a group of young men and women from the mainland, in their early twenties, whose identities were unknown. I doubted their identity." He came here for a different purpose, and it is very likely that he will plot something in Japan." Said Tadakatsu Sakai.

"Young men and women in their early twenties, I'm afraid they came to Dongying to play." Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't think the problem was serious.

"If the children of the nobles who just came to play, it is impossible to be received by Zheng Zhilong, the important minister of the Kyushu Army. Moreover, their arrival is very strange. Before their arrival, the Tokyo Branch of the Kyushu Bank was established. After their arrival, the Kyushu Army required that all large trades must be carried out at the Kyushu Bank. Transfer and liquidation, people can't help linking these things together. What is the connection between young men and women and Kyushu Bank?" Said Tadakatsu Sakai.

Tokugawa Iemitsu closed his eyes and sorted out his thoughts, connecting the events reported by Sakai Tadakatsu together in his mind, as long as he connected the connections, things would gradually become clear.

"First, they used interest to attract us civilians and warriors to store silver in their banks, and then required our merchants to trade through their banks... I know, they want to control the flow of our silver, and then control our subjects. Once all the silver coins of our subjects under the shogunate are stored in their banks, we want to resist at that time. First, there is no silver coin, and second, the subjects are worried that the silver coins stored in their banks will be lost in a war. Against us." Tokugawa Iemitsu opened his eyes suddenly.

"This is something I should be careful about. Their concession has cultivated Yokohama comprador businessmen, and the Tokyo Academy has cultivated such freaks as the Huaxia Society. I really can't imagine what kind of monster the Kyushu Bank will create..." Sakai Tadashi Sheng said worriedly.

"However, I still don't understand what the relationship between the group of young men and women from Huaxia you mentioned has anything to do with Bank of Kyushu. To say that they are important figures of Bank of Kyushu, unless these people are the children of nobles, otherwise based on their age, unless the Kyushu Army It is crazy to send a large group of people to high positions," Tokugawa Iemitsu said.

"The minister's spies are already tracing their origins and tracking their whereabouts, and I believe they will soon be able to gain some intelligence." Said Tadakatsu Sakai.

"After learning about their origins, come and tell me immediately. Damn, why did the gap between Daming and us not be too big when Huaxia fought Toyotomi Hideyoshi 40 years ago, and we can still bring them huge pressure? Now they are so much more advanced than us, how did they do it!" Tokugawa Iemitsu said rather unwillingly.

Since the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan has ended large-scale wars and its economy has developed, but compared with the mainland, it is simply that the light of fireflies cannot compete with the sun and the moon.

"Although no matter how much I study their history, I can't know where the commander of the Kyushu Army hired so many skilled craftsmen, but we have them as ready-made imitation objects, and we can quickly catch up." Said Tadakatsu Sakai.

Of course, he couldn't figure out that Chu Yun is actually a badass.

"How to change and where to start?" Tokugawa Iemitsu felt a headache when he thought of change.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, some interest groups were established, and a group of interest groups had to be involved in the reform!
"I suggest that, like the Kyushu Army, they set up schools, we also set up schools, they set up newspaper offices, we also set up newspaper offices, they set up banks, and we also set up banks. What do you think, Patriarch?" Sakai Tadakatsu asked.

"Aren't we just learning to walk in Handan as the Han people call it?" Tokugawa Iemitsu hesitated.

"It's better to apply it mechanically than to wait for death, and we should not implement it in the name of reform, but set up factories, schools, newspapers, and banks in the name of fighting the Kyushu Army." Sakai Tadakatsu said.

"I agree with Sakai-kun." Abe Tadaaki said the same.

Tokugawa Iemitsu pondered for a long time, and finally said: "Our Dongying has just experienced the troubled times of the Warring States Period, and now we are facing a crisis that has not been seen in a thousand years. I can't ruin the country in my hands. Everything is according to what you said. Our shogunate must To innovate. I will give the two of you supreme power, and we must let our shogunate have the power to fight against the Kyushu Army through innovation!"

"The ministers are willing to devote themselves to the shogunate and die!" Sakai Tadakatsu and Abe Tadaaki said.

Not many people in the shogunate knew about the plans of Tokugawa Iemitsu, Sakai Tadakatsu, and Abe Tadaaki. They were worried that the conservatives would block the reform, and even the most powerful Tokugawa Iemitsu had to be cautious. , and then they discussed some innovative details.

As the influence of the Kyushu Army on Dongying became greater and greater, and more and more areas were controlled, first the concession, then schools and newspaper offices in the cultural field, and banks in the economic field, the infiltration of the Kyushu Army made the shogunate panic.The Tokugawa shogunate finally realized that change was an inevitable trend. If they didn't want to change, they would always have a disadvantage in the struggle of the Kyushu Army and be firmly suppressed by the Kyushu Army.Only by keeping pace with the Kyushu Army can there be a possibility of breaking away from the influence of the Kyushu Army.

The planning of the three continued until late at night, when Sakai Tadakatsu and Abe Tadaaki came out of the shogun's palace.

"Abe Tadaaki, what do you think of our national fortune in Dongpu?" Tadakatsu Sakai saw that the night was getting dark, and couldn't help but feel worried.

He and Abe Tadaaki are both shogunate reformers, but they have no confidence in themselves and the shogunate's reforms.

"Originally, our Dongpu's national fortune is prosperous, but the enemy's national fortune is even more exaggerated. The more we deal with the Kyushu Army, the more desperate we are. Especially the iron-clad steamships moored in Yokohama Port, I always feel that they are hiding something else Technology is not just what we see on the surface." Abe Tadaaki sighed.

"You haven't seen the faces of those comprador merchants who are courting them. Many merchants have surrendered to each other. Our silver continues to flow out, and the shogunate's finances are unable to make ends meet. This reform is the last struggle. If it fails, I can't think of anything else. The method can turn the tide." Said Tadakatsu Sakai.

(End of this chapter)