Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1145 Edo
Edo, Edo facing Edo Bay, and there is a river called Edogawa in it.

This place was originally an unrenovated marshland. It was only under the order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi that Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had not yet become the shogun, was ordered to move eastward and transfer his fiefdom to Edo Castle, which was far away from the political center. However, what even Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not expect was that the Tokugawa clan showed their ability to control floods in Edo Castle.

On the plains where rivers flow, Tokugawa Ieyasu completed the renovation of the land of today's Edo Castle in just a few years. Under the governance of the third shogun Tokugawa Ujimitsu, most of the renovation work was completed, and he consolidated his own small empire in Edo.

By borrowing land from rivers and the sea, the Tokugawa clan transformed the overflowing waters into artificial and semi-artificial waterways, and carved out their own legacy from the swamps and shallows.

But what you borrow must always be returned.

"Now is the time to pay back the debt." From a distance, Shangluo saw the aerial footage. The reconnaissance plane that took off from the aircraft carrier used the recorded Tianyi nobleman to take and transmit the images back to Edo. Edo Castle was not covered by "fog" as described in the description, and it looked quite normal.

[But if you look closely, you will find that the number of faces in the model seems to be very low, and the closer you look to the center, the more perfunctory it looks. From a distance, it does look like that, but from a high altitude, you can see that this thing is actually similar to the modeling of flight simulation games. It seems that this should be an illusion created by a mirage. ]

“But this is a very large scale, right?”

[Yes. I have never seen such a large-scale use of Mirage. Is this the power of Mirage Princess? She can spit out such a big bubble by herself? ]

"I'm actually very interested in what's under this bubble. Tsk, I hope the Tokugawa family doesn't die."

[You like Tokugawa clan?]

"To be honest, the Tokugawa family is the most useful person in Japan in the past five hundred years. Putting aside the issue of flood control, Tokugawa Ieyasu himself did a very important thing - he figured out the position of Japan under the tributary system. Tokugawa Ieyasu knew clearly: don't cause trouble to the world.

"On the one hand, Tokugawa Ieyasu strengthened the trunk and weakened the branches, and passed on the country through farming and reading. He spared no effort to reduce the power of the feudal lords, encouraged agriculture and sericulture, and promoted culture and education, thus curbing the way for Japanese pirates to go to sea at the source; on the other hand, they carried out limited diplomacy within the tribute system and did not participate deeply in external affairs. On the basis of doing these two things, they also created a prosperous culture and made Edo Castle a good place for consumption to recover the administrative investment of the shogunate in various places.

"This is the most suitable path for Japan. Tokugawa Ieyasu experienced the war of aggression launched by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he clearly knew that it was impossible to launch a war of aggression on this land. Even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi won, he would lose everything and even the country if he lost one game. They should not move, do nothing, and not torment their own people or others. The good thing about Tokugawa Ieyasu is that he knows the importance of the three words 'don't toss'. Because tossing is bound to be a dead end."

[It would be a shame if such a sensible Tokugawa clan were gone, right?]

"It's rare to find a regime with such mature political ideas and solidify them into political traditions. Maintaining isolation from the outside world is the national policy formulated by Tokugawa Ieyasu and continued by successive shoguns. As long as they do nothing, they can live peacefully on their own land. But now someone is trying to make trouble for them, so I can only burn this place to ashes with regret."

[What happens after it is burned to ashes? ] "Well, Captain Lu, what do you think?" Shangluo relayed the question to Lu Huaiyang who was standing next to him.

"You want to hear my opinion?" Lu Huaiyang asked, "What do you want to hear?"

"I want you to answer my question by considering yourself as the 'abstract court'. In other words, if you were the court, what would you do?"

"Then of course I won't care after I burn Edo to ashes - the Emperor Taizu Gao has a ancestral precept that Japan is a country that will not be conquered. This means that this place is remote and barbaric, and establishing a court here is simply giving our administrative services to foreign countries, and we can't get any tangible benefits. The court only governs the Red Country of China and will not take a single step outside, because the barbarians are not worthy of the court's rule."

"So, what if the Tokugawa family can still be found? What if the Tokugawa family members are still alive?"

"Tokugawa did nothing wrong," Lu Huaiyang replied, "at least from our point of view, let's not worry about how he governed the country. He promoted agriculture, mulberry, culture and education, and never caused trouble for the court. The court did not require tributary states to make much contribution to the emperor. As long as they stayed where they were and did not cause trouble for the court, that was enough. What Xu Fu did was essentially stealing the country. That's why the court does not support people overseas taking over the politics of other countries."

"Is this why the imperial court has never supported Zheng Siam?"

"Yes, that's right." Lu Huaiyang nodded. "Zheng seized power in Siam. The court did not object, but it did not support it either. Siam's status in the tributary system is still that of a barbarian country, and it will not change because the monarch is Han Chinese. Guoxing is the only similar example, and it will not be used as an exception. The court recognizes that Guoxing's rule over Southeast Asia is based on historical reasons, and there will not be a second Guoxing - if it really recognizes it, wouldn't it be a mess? If everyone comes with machine guns to grab other people's thrones, kill people and burn things, will the court still make them princes? His tributary country is doing well there, why are you going to steal his country?"

"Ah, so what happens after we finish dealing with this?"

"To comfort the people and punish the criminals, to revive the fallen and to continue the extinct. This was the goal of the last great war. If we can capture Xu Fu, who stole the country, and bring back the Tokugawa clan, who ruled the country steadily, then this slogan from the last era will have to return for a limited time. Shangluo, what do you think? After all, you made the plan."

"I have no objection." Shang Luo nodded, "I also hope to bring the Tokugawa family back. They have done a good job, and I am too lazy to help them replace them. You are right, I can't even take care of my own family's affairs. I think I have a lot of things to do. Why should I focus on governing other countries?"

"I didn't expect you, Shangluo, to be so conservative. Conservative and radical at the same time."

"That's the truth. Why would I occupy a foreign country? Just to color a map and enjoy it? It's fun, but once you color it, you have to spend time managing it. I want to focus on my own people."

(End of this chapter)