Great Zhou Empire: Kill Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning

Chapter 485: Conquering Fuso Kyoto (Special thanks to book friend yyangtq for 2 monthly tickets!)

After more than a month of planning by the Ministry of Works, a project plan was drawn up to build the "Great Zhou Straight Road" in new territories acquired in recent years, such as Beiming, Central and West Asia, and Tubo.

It was planned to increase the length of the road by three million miles, mobilize five million laborers with a monthly salary of two taels and five hundred coins. The total cost of the project was 5 million taels of silver, and the construction period was planned to be five years.

After reviewing it, Chai Zongxun approved it and named it "The Second Phase of the Great Zhou Straight Road Project."

After the project was approved and started, laborers were recruited from the local people in these newly acquired areas, which immediately provided these people with a stable income, enough to support their families. This greatly promoted the people's livelihood in the newly acquired areas, which had been in turmoil, and quickly stabilized the situation.

As the "Da Zhou Straight Road" was continuously built and opened, it also continuously promoted the economic development of the newly acquired lands:
The precious medicinal materials of Tubo, the logging and fishing industries of Beiming, and the breeding and mining industries of Central and West Asia have gradually become famous in the domestic market of Dazhou.

On the morning of October 12, the 35th year of Kaixi, news came back from the front line of the expedition against Fusang:

Guan Mao, the Grand Admiral of the Royal Navy who was on the Eastern Expedition, led the soldiers of the First Fleet, with Jing Qiong, a Ganzhou Uighur, as the vanguard with 100,000 soldiers. The attack on Fuso made rapid progress. After more than three months of siege, they took the lead in capturing Kyoto on September 18, slaughtering 300,000 soldiers defending Fuso and capturing more than 500,000 resisting soldiers and civilians.

Emperor Fuso led the royal family to the "Ogosho" and formally submitted the letter of surrender to the Great Zhou royal army.

Kyoto was the capital of Japan from the time Emperor Kanmu moved the capital to Heian-kyo in 794 AD until the establishment of Tokyo as the capital in 1868 AD.

When Heian-kyō was built, it was the peak of Fuso's study of the Tang Dynasty's systems and etiquette, and the activities of sending envoys to Tang Dynasty were at their peak, so it was natural that the layout of the new capital was modeled after the Chinese capital.

The Tang Dynasty used Xijing Chang'an and Dongjing Luoyang as its capitals. Therefore, the western half of Heian New Capital (Ukyo) was called "Chang'an", while the eastern half (Sakyo) was called "Luoyang". As Ukyo declined later, Luoyang in Sakyo became synonymous with Heian Capital.

Kyoto Prefecture is one of the most populous municipalities. It is the spiritual homeland of the Japanese, the source of Japanese culture, and the symbol of Japanese culture. The ancient capital of Kyoto was built based on the Japanese aesthetic consciousness that has prevailed in the culture of dynasties throughout history. Represented by historical buildings such as shrines and Buddhist pavilions, gardens, paintings, traditional activities, and Kyoto cuisine, it is known as the "Thousand-Year-Old Capital."

Because Fuso is a small country with a large population, Kyoto has a population of over 800,000.

Two days after Guan Mao led the Royal Navy's First Fleet into Kyoto and took over the entire city, Li Cunxiao led the Royal Navy's Second Fleet to capture the Shikoku region and also seized cities and territories from the south, all the way to Kyoto, and the two armies joined forces.

After hearing the news about Fuso's military situation, all the ministers in Chuigong Hall began to discuss the matter.

The military cabinet elder Zhe Yuxun came out and said:
"Your Majesty, Kyoto has been conquered, and Emperor Ichijo has led the Fuso court to surrender to our Great Zhou. Victory is certain!

The remaining local daimyo such as the Takeda family, the Uesugi family, the Tokugawa family, etc., have only a few prefectures each, and a military force of only tens of thousands. Moreover, their weapons and equipment are backward, and they are no match for the royal army of our Great Zhou.

I believe that it will only take one year to pacify the entire territory of Fuso."

Li Hang, the chief minister of the cabinet, came out and said:
"Your Majesty, Fusang and our Great Zhou are separated by the sea and have always refused to submit to the king's rule.

According to Chinese historical records, during the Sui Dynasty, Japan was in the "Akuka Period" and Empress Suiko appointed Prince Shotoku as regent to carry out a series of political reforms.

Prince Shotoku established the 12-rank 17-article constitution and sent envoys to the Sui Dynasty. The first envoy was named Ono no Imoko.

However, they wrote a sentence in the letter to Emperor Yang of Sui: "The emperor is safe where the sun rises and where the sun sets", which angered Emperor Yang of Sui, so that he rejected the subsequent Fuso Sui and Tang envoys.

During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, the Tang Dynasty, Fuso and Baekje allied forces fought the Battle of Baekgang in Goryeo, annihilating more than 3 Fuso enemy troops and burning hundreds of enemy ships. This battle was only recorded in a few words in Chinese history books, but in historical materials such as the Nihonshoki of Fuso, this battle was recorded in great detail.

From then on, Fuso came to the Tang Dynasty to apologize, and at the same time began to send a large number of "envoys to the Tang Dynasty" and a three-hundred-year learning process.

With the help of the Tang Dynasty, Fuso began to establish the imperial court, set up official positions and formulate laws. The bureaucratic system of the Tang Dynasty also provided a reference and object for Fuso's bureaucratic system, becoming a blueprint for the construction of the Japanese imperial court.

Buddhist thought and Confucian centralized thought had a great influence on Fuso.

The introduction of these ideas had a profound impact on the political system reform and national policy formulation of the Japanese court. For example, the introduction of Confucianism in the Tang Dynasty provided norms and references for Japan to formulate the relationship between the monarch and his subjects and the etiquette system.

The introduction of Tang Dynasty culture and the use of Chinese characters also standardized Japanese writing and official documents.

After the "Anshi Rebellion", the number of envoys sent to Tang gradually decreased until it was completely stopped during the reign of Emperor Xizong of Tang.

Fusang's writing, laws, clothing, and etiquette are all learned from the Tang Dynasty of China. They are similar to the customs and folkways of the Zhou Dynasty. It will be easy for Your Majesty to rule over them."

Chai Zongxun nodded and said:

"The Japanese fear power but not virtue. If we want to rule their land for a long time and in a stable manner, we must first use military force to intimidate them.

At present, more than half of the immigrants have arrived in Beiming. Since more than half of Fuso has been conquered and there are hundreds of thousands of prisoners, it was reported that the First and Second Fleets of the Royal Navy would rest in Kyoto for two months before heading out to the undetermined area of ​​Fuso.

At the same time, warships were sent to transport hundreds of thousands of Fuso and Fulu directly to the north of Sakhalin Island by sea, landing in Beiming, where they were distributed by local officials to immigrant families in the interior as slaves to help "develop Beiming."

A few days later, the emperor and his ministers discussed and determined the candidates for officials and garrison troops to go to Fuso to establish the Great Zhou rule, and soon they boarded a Royal Navy warship from Yangzhou and rushed to Fuso.

During the thirty-fifth year of Kaixi, Chai Zongxun was in Bianjing, selecting and marrying five princes and six princesses who were eighteen years old or older from among young men from all over the country.

These five princes and six princesses ranked between ten and twenty among all the princes and princesses.

After the wedding, Chai Zongxun was granted the Prince's Palace and the Princess's Palace in Bian Jing, as well as several rare treasures from the imperial palace. The five princes were all granted fiefdoms as kings in various prefectures in the interior, while the princess and her husband moved into the Princess's Palace in Bian Jing.

On the afternoon of December 7, the 35th year of Kaixi, Chai Zongxun spent an hour in the Yangxin Palace conceiving and writing an economics monograph. He stopped writing, took the tea bowl handed to him by the chief eunuch Tang Qi, and took a rest while drinking tea.

When Tang Qi changed the tea bowl, he bowed and said nonchalantly:
"Your Majesty, I recently learned from the Wude Division an interesting incident in the officialdom of Bianjing."

When Chai Zongxun heard what Tang Qi said, he knew that the matter had nothing to do with the law, but was probably related to the human relationships in the capital.

Chai Zongxun smiled and said:
"Oh? What's this interesting? Tell me about it."

(End of this chapter)