If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 179 Female Japanese King
The person Zhu Zhanjun asked Zhu Gaosui to get for him was not anyone else, but the heir to the king of Japan.

Of course, not the one who is currently in power, but the heir of the previously ousted Japanese king.

Although the king of the Japanese Kingdom is known as the eternal lineage, and because he has basically been emptied out and become a virtual king, he has become the nominal monarch of the country, but he does not actually hold any power, so the status of the royal family has been protected from impact and can always be transfer.

But this does not mean that the throne of Japan itself did not have events that shook its royal status.

The Japanese Kingdom originally had a king who ruled the entire country, and civil servants and nobles governed the place. For example, in the Heian Period of Abe Seimei, who is familiar to many people in later generations, it was an era when the Japanese king held great power, and the royal family and nobles still had real power.

However, with the rise of the Japanese warrior group, the power of the country gradually fell into the hands of these "pillars of the samurai family" who had mastered military power, and eventually developed into the shogunate system unique to the Japanese state.

It was against this background that the Kamakura Shogunate was established by the victors of the struggle between the Taira and Genji samurai groups at that time.

At the end of the Kamakura shogunate, the Japanese king had already lost power and completely lost control of the country. All he retained was an empty and noble title.

But even so, the Sagawa King at that time still made trouble.

Because he deposed the elder and established the younger, the two heirs succeeded to the throne one after another, creating a situation where two Japanese kings stood side by side.

Although this matter was finally mediated by the Kamakura Shogunate, and the two factions agreed to take turns inheriting the throne, everyone knew that it would be difficult to move their butts once they took that seat.

Even if the Japanese king had only an empty name at that time and no actual power, it would be the same.

Especially during this period, the Japanese country experienced two conquests by the Yuan Dynasty. Because the shogunate called on warriors to resist the invasion of the Yuan Dynasty, its control and prestige over the local area were greatly strengthened, which caused the Japanese king's royal power to further decline.

So much so that at the end of the Kamakura shogunate, a Go-Daigo Japanese king simply jumped out to bring down the curtain.

Although he failed twice, and the position of the Japanese king was replaced by someone from another faction, and he was simply exiled later, the Kamakura shogunate was still overthrown under the influence of Go-Daigo Japanese.

As a result, the Go-Daigo Japanese king was carried out again and sat on the throne of the Japanese king again. However, the Japanese king from the other faction was still there, and now it became a situation where the two factions of Japanese kings stood side by side. .

This period was also the Northern and Southern Dynasties period in the history of Japan. The struggle for legal authority between the northern and southern factions lasted until Ashikaga Yoshimitsu became the shogun.

The Japanese kings of the northern faction who supported the samurai group were able to take power and became orthodox, which lasted for hundreds of years and into later generations.

But here’s the interesting thing. During the Meiji Restoration period after the successful fall of Japan, Japan itself recognized that the Southern Dynasty was the orthodoxy, and the Northern Dynasty only retained its name, which suddenly abolished the legitimacy of its Northern Dynasty line.

If it weren't for the fact that the Southern Dynasties had no influence at that time and had no heirs, there would have been another North-South dispute.

Back to the present, when Ashikaga Yoshimitsu unified the north and south a few years ago, the last Japanese queen of the Southern Dynasty, Kameyama Japanese King, took the initiative to abdicate in order to avoid a war, but proposed that the rule of taking turns to succeed the north and the south should still be maintained. At that time, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu The shogunate and the Northern Dynasty represented by Manchu agreed.But as I said before, who is willing to move their butt after sitting in that position?
The Northern Dynasty did not establish the son of the Japanese king of Goguyama as the new heir to the Japanese king as agreed. He did not even make any appearance and directly established the son of the Japanese king of the Northern Dynasty as the heir of the Japanese king.

Of course the Japanese king Houguishan couldn't bear such a thing happening, so he escaped from Kyoto in the eighth year of Yongle and fled to a place called Yoshino with the intention of summoning the old Southern Dynasty troops to resist.

What Zhu Zhancheng specifically asked Zhu Gaosui to do before was to find the Japanese king of Houguishan, and then let him submit to the Ming Dynasty and obtain the Japanese legal system of the Japanese country from him.

Although the Ming Dynasty was fully capable of conquering the entire Japanese country, it would undoubtedly take a lot of energy from the Ming Dynasty to govern this place, and it would require continuous investment.

For the imperial court, the main energy now is spent on conquering Annan and resisting the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in the north. It really can't allocate more energy to take care of the Japanese country.

The imperial court's finances indeed could not support the opening of so many fronts at the same time. Even if Xia Yuanji was split in half, the imperial court would not be able to generate more money and food.

The conquest of the Japanese country can indeed bring considerable profits to the court, but the management of the land of the Japanese country is like bleeding with a dull knife, which will continue to draw blood from the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, for the Ming Dynasty, a more appropriate approach is to support a puppet Japanese king, continue to maintain the existence of the legal system of the Japanese country to weaken the resistance of the Japanese country to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and leave all the barren and tasteless land to the Japanese king to play on his own .

Or follow the example of Sanxuan and Liuwei and set up floating officials for management. It would be enough for the six vassal kings to control a few large gold mines and a few wealthy areas of the Japanese country.

However, something seemed to go a little wrong. Zhu Gaosui did find the Japanese king Houguishan, but what he got was not the Japanese king Houguishan himself, but a daughter with the right to inherit.

According to the historical data that Zhu Zhanchun has read in later generations, although there are not many sons of the Japanese king Houguishan, and there are not many reliable historical data, and they are even mixed with his brother's concubines and princes, there should still be a male heir. .

But Zhu Zhankun asked Zhu Gaosui that the Japanese king of Houguishan did not know what evil he had done in this life, and he only had such a daughter.

And because he may have the support of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese king of Houguishan has transferred all the title and legal authority of the Japanese king to his daughter, so nominally the daughter obtained by Zhu Gaosui is the Japanese king of the Southern Dynasties of the Japanese country today.

So even though it didn't look right, Zhu Gaosui still brought the person over and delivered it to Zhu Zhanchen.

However, a female Japanese king was more beneficial to Zhu Zhancheng's plan.

After all, although a male Japanese king may be more legitimate and more convincing, if he is ambitious, it will cause trouble for the Ming Dynasty to control the Japanese country.

But a female Japanese king is much simpler. She only needs to choose a prince from the current Ming Dynasty royal family to marry her. After giving birth to an heir, the orthodox legal principles of the Japanese country will naturally fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Although this legal principle only makes sense when one has strength, an orthodox name can still save a lot of trouble.

As for who to choose to marry this female Japanese king?Isn't this obvious?The Ming Dynasty royal family is currently of the right age and status. Isn't it only Zhu Zhanji who has been crowned the emperor's grandson?
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