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Chapter 689 "Treaty of Edo"

After the peace talks, a treaty is signed.

Because it is now the Kyōho period in Japan and it was signed in Edo main city, history books call this the "Edo Treaty", also called the "Kyōho Treaty".

The Ming army took the treaty documents and evacuated Edo by boat. However, the ronin samurai who followed the Ming army to attack the city were not given up. They also followed the ship and went to Osaka. From there, they asked the Sumitomo family for help, loaded the ship and took the deer. Kojima.

No, it should be called Daming Luzhou County now.

The administrative division of Luzhou County has not yet been decided, because even the county government is new, and it must be submitted to Nanjing first to see how His Majesty and the cabinet decide.

However, there is a high probability that it should still be placed under the jurisdiction of the Hewan Prefecture. Although the Chief Secretary of Seoul is closer, Ryukyu will be returned to Taiwan and Luzhou will be returned to Seoul, which will easily cause confusion and complexity in customs trade.

Chaos and cumbersomeness will breed power embezzlement and corruption.

Iyoshima Xue Bin did not forcibly cut it off because he was afraid of biting off more than he could chew. Just a separate Tongshan Mountain was enough for Ming Dynasty to slowly digest it for a while.

Although the treaty stipulates that the Ming Dynasty is a paid lease, and the copper coins minted are also circulated in Japan.

But after all, this is the money-casting supervisor set up by the Ming Dynasty, and the copper coins minted are of course the Ming Dynasty Tongbao coins.

In addition, there is the Sumitomo family, a local copper smelting family. It may not take more than ten or twenty years for Japan to find no shogunate copper coins, but all use Daming Tongbao coins.

Don't underestimate the value of money, use the economic lifeline to control the vassal countries outside the country.

In the later period of the shogunate, if the shogunate wanted to go to war with the Ming Dynasty or reopen the country, the common people, businessmen, and nobles would not agree.

The shogunate sent away the Ming fleet and immediately began arresting people. Regardless of whether they helped the Ming army fill in the moat or build siege equipment during the siege, they would all be arrested and interrogated for the crime of collaboration with the enemy and treason. Ichiban.

On the surface, the shogunate seems to be settling accounts after the Autumn Period, and it is indeed settling the accounts after the Autumn Period. But the deeper reason is to use this to plunder the people's wealth and make up for the military expenditure deficit demanded by the Ming Dynasty.

400 million shi is 400 million taels of silver.

Although the shogunate's fiscal revenue can reach 450 million taels a year, this is not how the accounts are calculated. The shogunate also has to support samurai ministers.

Once all kinds of finances are released, the war compensation of 400 million taels can only fall on ordinary businessmen, especially those Japanese businessmen.

After squeezing the last drop of blood from the Japanese businessmen, the compensation of 400 million taels was not impossible to pay.

But as a result, not only Japanese businessmen will suffer, but Japanese industry and commerce will also be devastated.

Originally, Chinese goods were cheaper and more exquisite than those of Japan, but now the shogunate came to kill the goose and lay eggs to fill the special space for the war.

In addition, the whole country of Japan will open up sea trade. In the future, I am afraid that except for Osaka rice merchants, Japan's local industry and commerce will soon be completely eliminated by Chinese products.

By then, Japanese civilians will either go to the countryside to farm, or they will work for Chinese businessmen and become cheap Japanese labor in factories.

Of course, they have another option, which is to rebel.

No matter how rich a Japanese businessman is, 400 million taels of silver cannot be easily withdrawn. The rest still has to be distributed equally to the people.

As a result, in order to repay the debt, the shogunate had no choice but to increase taxes on the common people and the daimyo of various places.

Even if the compensation is paid off within one year, it will take more than ten or twenty years to make up for this large deficit... or even twenty years.

Not to mention the common people who were subject to increased taxes, even the daimyo from various places were not fooled. Especially after the siege of Edo, where the shogunate lost money by ceding territory, the prestige of the Tokugawa family must have been greatly reduced.

It is hard to say whether the emperor will be able to raise his head, and even the daimyo of each domain will continue to attend and explain the situation. However, the phenomenon of further subordination and subversion of the shogunate's rule at the local level will only become more and more serious.

On the contrary, China, which caused all these consequences, became the Japanese aristocrats competing for friendship. They not only increased trade with Chinese merchants (previously smuggling), but also extremely respected any Chinese goods and believed that everything in Japan was inferior. Celestial China.

Some wealthy coastal lords also learned about the fashion preferences of Nanjing and the emperor from Chinese merchants, and imitated them.

The strong bullies the weak, which is Japan's inertia. …

Ezo Island.

Lord Matsumae is very confused now. He originally engaged in land contracting in Ezo Island, but he successfully changed from the original "head of the land reclamation team" to a low-end version of Japan's "contractor", and he can still eat rice.

But suddenly a Chinese fleet came, and brought an order from the shogun's envoy, saying that the title of their Matsumae clan had been revoked, and even Matsumae Kunhiro's banner status had been withdrawn by the shogunate.

The entire Matsumae Domain and the entire territory of Ezo Island are now the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The Matsumae Domain was renamed Ezo Prefecture, and the feudal lord Matsumae Kunihiro was temporarily the magistrate of Ezo Prefecture. The people of the domain and the Ezo tribe on the island would become members of the Celestial Dynasty from now on.

Matsumae Kunhiro was also ordered by the angel-sama from China to give himself a Chinese name, and his retainers and samurai also had to change their names to Chinese names.

Matsumae Kunhiro was confused, but his retainer samurai was very happy.

Ezo Island is different from Tsushima Island. Although Tsushima Island is barren, it is at least not that cold.

In order to maintain the finances of the domain, Matsumae Kunhiro even had to lease out all the land to businessmen for development and business, and then extract commissions from the rent.

Although the Matsumae clan nominally rules Ezo Island, in fact, what they can really control is only a small piece of land in the southern part of Ezo Island.

Because it is too cold here, there is no rice production, and there are no resources. They can only fish and hunt. The rice on the island is still bought from the Andong clan of Dewa Kingdom.

The businessmen who came to the island to develop and lease land were also from Andong Fan.

Rather than saying that Matsumae Kunihiro was renting out the land, it would be better to say that Andong Clan was secretly annexing Matsumae Clan's territories.

Moreover, the Matsumae clan could not complain because they were not cared about by the shogunate. Even Hatamoto's treatment was bought by bribing the shogunate's senior officials.

It is worth mentioning that after Kunhiro Matsumae inherited the position of governor of the family fifteen years ago, he was finally rewarded with the name of Yanagama Ten Thousand Stones, which nominally ended the embarrassment of the owner of the stone-free island (only in name).

Xue Bin came to Ezo Island with an imperial edict. As soon as he landed on the island, he understood why it was so poor.

It is indeed a bit cold here, and resources are quite scarce. You can't see many people and farmland as far as you can see.

After announcing the decree to Matsumae Kunhiro, Matsumae Kunhiro felt sudden, but he was very sensible and did not resist.

Anyway, it's the same for everyone. The Ming Dynasty wants this place, and the shogunate doesn't care about it, so there's no need for them to stick to a barren land.

Moreover, although the Ming Dynasty turned this place into Ezo Prefecture, it did not directly touch the original Matsumae Domain.

They were simply ordered to reorganize the Ezo County government office and immediately change its name to a Chinese name.

It’s just a Chinese name, what’s the big deal.

Even before the Matsumae clan, the surname was not Matsumae, but the Oyizaki clan. Even their so-called aristocratic lineage was questionable.

There is another theory that the Matsumae family were actually the bandit leaders who went to Ezo to open up wasteland and took the opportunity to pretend to be a noble branch.

Now it was just a matter of changing his name to a Chinese name. Matsukian Bangguang got off the donkey and received the imperial edict. He said: "Lord Angel, I don't understand the etiquette of the heavenly kingdom. I boldly ask Lord Angel to give me a Chinese name."

Xue Bin smiled playfully: "Your Japanese name is quite interesting. In that case, your surname is Song Qian, and Song is the same as Song. From now on, your surname will be Song! There is no need to change your name, just call it Song Bangguang."

Song Qian Bangguang, now called Song Bangguang, quickly learned to cup his hands and said: "Thank you, Lord Angel, for the name!"

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(End of this chapter)