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Chapter 688 Land cession and compensation
This time, Murojiucho did not go through the city gate, but directly hung the basket from the city wall.

He walked cautiously to the Ming army's garrison. Before he got close, he was caught by two soldiers and taken directly to see Wang Zongtan.

"What are you doing here?" Wang Zongtan asked.

Shijiu Chao said: "The Celestial Empire released my shogunate's deputy general the day before yesterday. The general was deeply moved, and he already wanted to surrender. In the past few days, I was just making preparations. I also asked the Celestial Army to stop attacking the city, and the shogunate agreed to peace talks. "

Wang Zongtan sneered: "Do you believe what you are saying? I have captured this outer city, and you have just come for peace talks. So how do you calculate the casualties of our army?"

The actual casualties are actually not large. From the siege to now, only the Ronin have been at the forefront, so a lot of people have died.

The casualties of the Ming army are not many, only more than a hundred so far, and most of them are injured, so the casualty rate is very low.

But Edo is not that easy to fight. Wang Zongtan has seen the aerial view of Edo city. It can be said that Tokugawa Ieyasu spent all his efforts in building and opening the city here.

Even after hundreds of years, many fortresses are in disrepair. The Ming army will definitely be able to gnaw them down, but the casualties caused by gnawing them down are hard to say.

Despite such scruples, Wang Zong still had to show strength in order to save face.

Murojiucho could only say: "The shogunate will provide double compensation for the casualties caused by the Heavenly Army."

Wang Zongtan waved his hand: "Everyone is dead, how can this small pension be enough? You can ask for surrender if you want, then let your general come out and ask for surrender himself!"

Shi Jiuchao didn't dare to refuse, so he could only sit on the hanging basket and go back to report.

When Tokugawa Yoshimune heard that he had to go out and ask for surrender in person, he was subconsciously angry. But before he could speak, he heard a samurai lying on the city wall exclaiming: "The big iron cannon of the Heavenly Army has been launched! The Heavenly Army is preparing to attack the city. !”

As a staunch shogunate, Mizuno Tadayuki quickly persuaded: "Shogun, please calm down. There is an old saying in China that a small impatience will mess up a big plan. Anyway, I have asked for surrender, and I am just leaving the city. It is not a big deal. I will follow you." General. But if we wait for the heavenly army to attack Dao City, it may not be that simple..."

Tokugawa Yoshimune's anger gradually subsided, and he felt that he was right. He was about to surrender anyway, so he didn't lose face at all.

And compared with face, the survival of the Tokugawa shogunate is the most important thing. Let's endure it for now, and we will have to get it back sooner or later.

Tokugawa Yoshimune comforted himself in his heart, and then opened the city gate, bringing with him a group of ministers and samurai, and even the little baby Tokugawa Munehan was pulled out.

With such a large number of people coming out of the city gate, Wang Zongtan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had just asked people to push the cannon out, and he was just putting pressure on the shogunate.

If we really want to attack by force, even if we can capture it, the losses will probably be considerable.

Fortunately, this so-called shogunate still knows what it means to follow one's heart.

Wang Zongtan did not go directly to accept the surrender, but asked the soldiers to bring his own horse first.

You know, at this time, the Japanese didn't eat meat and generally couldn't keep up with nutrition, so most of them were very short.

Even Tokugawa Yoshimune, the shogun, was only a little over 1.5 meters tall. Now he was so groveling that he couldn't even reach the shoulders of a horse.

Wang Zongtan was condescending, looking at these so-called shoguns and daimyo, all of them looked like dwarfs and it was extremely funny.

Tokugawa Yoshimune felt humiliated and at the same time, he suddenly felt inferior.

The powerful people took the lead to clear the way, and the Ming army officially entered the city to take over the entire Edo. All shogunate samurai were disarmed and gathered together for custody.

Yamamoto Yuta was very happy now. The Hatamoto samurai and noble daimyo who usually showed off their power to wanderers like them were all now prisoners.

Although General Wang warned not to beat, scold or humiliate the prisoners at will, he still put on his "Daimyo Armor" and walked past the Hatamoto samurai who had their armor removed from time to time.

Even though he didn't do anything, seeing the other person's fearful and slightly envious eyes still made him feel so good.

Main castle tower.

This is now the fourth peace negotiation between the two sides. The location of the peace negotiation has changed from outside the city to inside the city, and it is also the residence of the shogun.

Finally, Muro Hatochao no longer has to serve as the "diplomat" of the peace talks. They are already face to face anyway, and Tokugawa Yoshimune and Mu Ju are involved in the talks in person.

Wang Zongtan sat on Tokugawa Yoshimune's seat, while Xue Bin sat on the left side of him. On the contrary, the original owner Tokugawa Yoshimune could only sit on the right. Xue Bin stopped talking and said straightforwardly: "This war was carried out by the Japanese shogunate, so the military compensation was borne by the shogunate. The total military expenditure is 400 million shi, which can be silver or food, but it must be within one year. Pay it all in full. The Ming Dynasty is the master of Japan and will not ask for interest from you.

But Tadashi Ooka exclaimed: "Didn't we agree on 200 million before? Why did it suddenly double?"

Xue Bin sneered: "That is the price of the peace talks outside the city. Now I am already sitting in your castle tower. Moreover, I have not calculated the price of your Kwantung Allied Forces. Do you want to add this to the calculation?"

Mizuno Tadayuki said quickly: "No need to calculate, no need to calculate, 400 million is 400 million, and it will all be delivered to China within one year. Please tell me the following terms, is there anything else that needs to be changed?"

Xue Bin added: "Originally, outside the city, I only wanted you to open 20 ports, but now, Japan must fully open up the country. All ports, including Osaka and Shimonoseki, must be opened to sea for trade. Japanese merchants can sell grain to China , The Japanese shogunate cannot block it, but don’t worry, the Chinese merchants will pay you money, and if anyone defaults, you can complain directly to the Chinese emperor.”

Mizuno Tadayuki glanced at Tokugawa Yoshimune and nodded in agreement: "Yes, the shogunate will immediately withdraw the seclusion order."

There was no choice. The Tokugawa shogunate had little choice. No matter how harsh the conditions were, the shogunate had to agree.

The emperor's family in Kyoto has been controlled by the Ming army. Tokugawa Yoshimune is just tough, not brainless.

If the Ming army slaughtered all the Tokugawa clan in Edo in a fit of rage, then a civil war would definitely break out in Japan.

Even if there are two other Gosan families in Kansai that can inherit the Tokugawa shogunate, they are not justified in the end.

Tokugawa Yoshimune, as the Kishu Domain of the Three Imperial Clan, was able to inherit the position of shogun. It was really a coincidence, and it also required some planning and connections.

Even so, when he succeeded to the throne, he couldn't make any arrangements, and he couldn't even wear normal clothes.

Xue Bin said: "Article 3 remains unchanged. China's gold, silver and copper coins can be traded with Japan. Japan is not the only one. The Kingdom of Nanyang Siam has also accepted our China's silver coins. And if they are more exquisitely minted, our China's silver coins are comparable to yours. Japanese silver is much better, and even your Japanese shogunate can make money from it.”

Having said this, everyone understands that it is nothing more than greed for the profit of minting. If the shogunate does not care about the consequences, it can completely replace the original domestic silver with Ming silver coins.

The Tokugawa shogunate had seen many silver coins used by merchants of the Ming Dynasty before. Because the coins of the Ming Dynasty were exquisitely minted, even the copper coins were more exquisite than Japanese copper coins and had more copper materials.

Although many Japanese businessmen hated the Ming merchants, they were happy to accept the copper coins and some silver coins brought by the Ming merchants.

Xue Bin continued: "Article 4, Ezo Island is our Ming Dynasty territory, and Kyushu, Iyo Island... do not need to be ceded entirely, even Iyo Island does not need to be ceded. But the Besshi copper mine on Iyo Island, our country A money-casting prison will be set up there. All the minted copper coins can be used for circulation in Japan, and the corresponding silver will be paid to you. As for Kyushu Island, the people of Kagoshima are all devoted to the Ming Dynasty, and Lushu County should be established here. ”

Tadayuki Mizuno did not hesitate and nodded again: "Yes. Satsuma Domain... no, since the people of Luzhou County have their hearts set on the Celestial Empire, they should naturally join the Ming Dynasty."

Being able to keep the entire territory of Iyo Island and most of Kyushu Island would be much better for the shogunate than if they had to cede all of it before.

These people still don’t know that Emperor Zhu actually wanted Ezo and Kagoshima from the beginning, and even Kagoshima just wanted to set up an overseas post station.

Unexpectedly, Xue Bin turned out to be a lion and not only took away Kagoshima, but also the Beszi Tongshan of Iyo Island, and he also took the opportunity to hunt rabbits.

Three steps forward and two steps back, the Tokugawa shogunate still felt that they had made a profit.

It was also because the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain was almost wiped out, leaving only Shimazu Tsutoyo, a sick man in Edo.

If you go back and find an excuse, you will either be banned or die of illness.

Anyway, it is not strange for a sick man to die of illness any time, and he happens to have no descendants, so he has an excuse to eliminate heirs and withdraw from the feudal dynasty.

After some peace talks at the castle tower, the shogunate agreed to all the conditions proposed by the Ming army.

But at the end, the shogunate also put forward a condition, that is, the Ming army must return the emperor and the emperor to the shogunate.

The Ming army agreed.

The Emperor of Japan, who had been dreaming for the past half month, could regain power with the help of the Ming army, was betrayed by the Ming army.

We sold 400 million taels of silver and two pieces of land, plus the whole country was opened to sea, so it was considered a good price.

(End of this chapter)