New Shun 1730

After a short rest, the fleet set sail the next day. After meeting the merchant fleet outside Liugong Island, it rushed towards Busan.

The Kingdom of Korea has a navy, but it has been in a mess for so many years without fighting.

When the squadron arrived, the Koreans were shocked. The appearance of these ships was very different from the ships they knew. It was not until the small boats on the ship put people down and told these panicked Koreans that they came from the Celestial Empire that the Koreans were relieved.

Zhao Baiquan did not get off the ship. As a member of the Celestial Empire Li Government, he represented the Celestial Empire. He could not get off the ship if the Korean side did not come to greet him. No angel took the initiative to find the vassal officials, so he could only go the other way.

Zhao Baiquan did not get off the ship, but the Marines did. After landing, they directly surrounded the Caoliang Waguan near the Busan Tower in the future.

Waguan, the Chinese Town in Nagasaki, and the corresponding trading houses of the Thirteen Factories in the Qing Dynasty are actually similar things.

"Foreigners" can only stay within the prescribed range and cannot leave, which is convenient for jurisdiction and control.

The Wakan is divided into two parts, east and west.

The west part is similar to an embassy, ​​where receptions and visits of envoys are held.

The east side is where merchants sell and buy goods.

The entire Wakan is not large, totaling 100,000 tsubo. Tsubo is a unit of area in Japan, and two tatami double beds are one tsubo.

There are about four or five hundred people living in the museum, including monks, interpreters, and people who come to Korea to study Chinese medicine.

In addition, there are many Confucian scholars.

There is no official exchange between Japan and Dashun, so as a transit point for the culture of the Celestial Empire, some people who study Chinese studies also study Confucianism here.

At this time, there is a great Confucian scholar in the Wakan, Yusen Fangzhou.

He is also one of the ten philosophers of Zhu Xi's school of thought, and a junior of Arai Hakuseki. As a personal story, this person has two interesting stories.

One is that he likes men. When the envoys of Korea arrived in Japan, they saw young men in the red-light district and thought it was difficult to understand. Amemori Yoshisu said, "I am afraid that the scholars still do not understand the fun of it. You will understand the true taste of it after trying it."

The second is that when he was in Nagasaki, a Chinese businessman chatted with him in Chinese, and occasionally spoke Japanese a few times, and was praised as "Your Japanese is not bad."

Amemori Yoshisu has always been in charge of Korean affairs. On the recommendation of his teacher, he served in Tsushima Domain very early. He opened a Korean language school in Tsushima to train a group of people who can serve in the Wakan.

His senior brother Arai Shiraishi has been dead for more than ten years. He is supposed to be seventy years old and should retire. He has been writing books on Tsushima Island before, claiming to "take Confucius and Mencius as the standard and Cheng Zhu as the standard."

But not long ago, the shogunate suddenly received news that Dashun had captured Tosa and might invade Japan.

Although it is not known where the Dashun army will appear from, Tsushima Island is too important, so the lord of Tsushima Domain, So Yoshitsugu, asked him to come out of retirement, hoping that he would go to Caoliang Waguan, communicate with Korea, and inquire about the movements of Dashun.

The news was not so accurate, and the people of Tsushima Domain only knew that Dashun had captured Tosa, but they did not know how it was fought.

Although Amemori Yoshisu was already in his seventies, he still went out of retirement to Caoliang Waguan in Busan and tried to communicate with the envoy of Donglai Prefecture, but he did not get any useful information.

He never had any doubts about "what if Confucius and Mencius attacked in the future", although there were some conflicts between him and Arai Hakuseki over the title of "king" or "great lord", he still integrated Arai Hakuseki's "Japan-centric" concept.

Unlike Zhao Baiquan's view that the titles of "Great Lord" and "King" are inappropriate, Amemori Yoshisu believes that "the shogunate's claim to be the king is an act of usurpation", and it is not the Chinese emperor who is usurping, but the one living in Kyoto.

Arai Hakuseki believes that "China or China is what the Tang people call themselves, and Japan does not need to learn, nor should it call them China. Just use the two words Zhi and Na." In other words, it is a geographical concept, not the central concept of a cultural empire.

Amemori Yoshisu agrees with this point.

In the "Great Japanese History" that had been basically compiled at this time, the emperor was also compiled into the "Honki" and the Chinese were compiled into the "Zhufan Rebio". It also recorded the records of the Wu and Tang countries "tributing" to Japan, and the word "tribute" was clearly used.

By the way, the "biographies" of China were thrown to the end of the "Biographies of the vassal states", because Japan could influence Ryukyu, Korea, Ezo, etc., but could not influence China, so it was thrown to the end; just like China threw the Netherlands and other countries to the end.

Arai Shiraishi misinterpreted: Hua is a cultural concept. For Japan, Japan is Hua, and the rest are Yi; and the word China itself represents the center of the concept of "Hua", so it cannot be called that, but a place name.

I believe in Confucianism, so I can be Hua, and the surrounding areas are Yi. I can be Hua, and you can be Hua, but you call yours, I call mine, and we don't affect each other, and we each close our doors and create our own world.

Yu Mori Yoshisu has no doubts about this.

After hearing the missionaries who smuggled into Japan, Arai Shiraishi found inspiration from the split of the Eastern and Western Roman Churches in the past.

China has its own world, and Japan has its own world; China regards Japan as one of the vassal states in its world, and Japan also regards China as one of the vassal states in its world.

Coupled with Zhu Xi's concept of "transforming the barbarians into Chinese", it can be said that the distorted "Little China" and "Hua-Yi" theories with Japanese characteristics have basically taken shape.

This twisted theory is a "closed-door self-entertainment" theory, because there is a sea between the two sides and official exchanges are limited.

But once the distance of the sea can be easily crossed, it can be easily changed into an invasion theory.

Liu Yu's Confucianism foundation is insufficient, so he can only look at Arai Shiraishi's trade card policy from the perspective of "restricting the outflow of precious metals."

But Yu Mori Fangzhou has a deep Confucianism foundation, so he looks at the trade card system in this way: Japan issued cards to Chinese merchants, allowing Chinese merchants to trade, which is actually similar to China's regulations on tribute to each vassal every few years. So under the trade card system, Japan is the center and China is the vassal.

It is "I allow you to come, you can come; I don't allow you to come, you can't come", then who is the center of the world?

However, these self-entertainment little actions are meaningless in front of the naval warships in Weihai; when the navy can cross the sea, as long as you still accept the cultural concept of "Hua", then there is and can only be one central country in this world.

Or, give up the right to interpret culture and accept the only correct official Confucian school and interpretation method - if you want to interpret it yourself, you can, and win the Eastern version of the "Protestant War".

Or, give up the concept of "Yi change Xia", close the door and believe in Christianity or Bushido, don't mix the interpretation of the concept of Hua, completely separate, and get rid of Han culture.

Of course, this is under the condition of no external influence.

Whether it is Annan, Korea, or Japan, as long as the concept of the Celestial Empire has not been shattered, as long as the Celestial Empire does not close its eyes and pretend to be ignorant of external affairs, there are actually only these two options. Korea can also choose the second one, as long as it can defeat the Celestial Empire after cutting off the tribute.

In fact, many things in the court have not been clarified. If these problems are clarified, those imperial examination officials will actually choose to fight to the death.

On the contrary, at that time, these people of the practical school will become the compromise and signing party, stop when they see the good, and want profit instead of justice.

At this time, the Dashun army surrounding the Woguan was a group of practical school.

The shining copper cannons emit dazzling light in the sun. The closest connection with the pure Dashun of the Celestial Empire before is the big flag with the words "Dashun Army Brave Wins".

This is not the characteristic of the Weihai Navy, nor even the characteristic of Emperor Taizong of Dashun after the Jingxiang War, but the characteristic after the establishment of Xi'an.

Many weapons of the Dashun Army excavated in later generations are engraved with slogans such as "Dashun Army, Brave Wins"; "Eliminate violence and protect the good"; "The tiller has his land", etc., which are quite similar to the gun stocks with inscriptions when the Huangpu in Guangdong was first built three hundred years later.

There are not many slogans left at this time, and only the "Dashun Army Brave Wins" on the flag at this time is left, which is the same as if Dashun is removed and replaced with something else.

The blue uniforms and red tassel felt hats of the Marine Corps, with black bayonets, are neatly arranged and the drums are beating.

The people in the Waguan were in a panic. They tried to resist, but they didn't have many weapons in their hands, and the Kingdom of Korea was very strict with them.

This time, the incident happened suddenly. The news from Tosa had just arrived not long ago. Amemori Yoshizu also quickly came to the Waguan to collect intelligence.

Who would have thought that the army of the Dashun Army had already pressed over after only a few days. This efficiency was really fast.

At this time, running around was undoubtedly a dead end. Looking at the warships on the sea, they knew that there was no chance to run. As long as Dashun went to war, the Kingdom of Korea would immediately become the most loyal vassal. It might not work to fight, but it was still possible to catch the people in the Waguan who were running around.

Amemori Yoshizu, whose hair had already turned gray, had already understood that I was afraid that the Dashun expedition this time had not been notified to Korea at all.

Otherwise, Korea would definitely take action, either arresting or driving away.

There was not much news from the shogunate, but what I heard from So Yoshiru seemed to be related to what the Shimazu family of Satsuma Domain did in Ryukyu.

It's just that Dashun's actions were so fast that Yusen Fangzhou couldn't help but think of a word.

If you want to accuse someone, you can always find a pretext.

I'm afraid Dashun has already made up his mind, and the Ryukyu issue is probably just a cover.

If that's the case, it's not good.

But if it's not that you can always find a pretext, it's even more terrible... Dashun went to Tosa not long ago, and they were able to send troops in such a short time. The speed of mobilizing troops is something that Japan can't compare to anyway, which is even more terrible.

In a state of anxiety about what to do, Yusen Fangzhou ordered everyone not to be impatient, and he was going to ask what was going on.

He stood up with the help of his disciples and walked towards the door.

The soldiers outside the door lined up at a distance. Yusen Fangzhou felt like a hero facing thousands of troops alone. Just as he was about to speak, King Situ said a few words first, asking what was going on.

However, before he had taken a few steps, he heard the officer of the Dashun Army shouting, "Old man in front, stop. If you go any further, we will shoot!"

The shout was in Chinese, and it was obvious that the officer didn't care whether the other party could understand it, but Yusen Fangzhou could understand it.

He shouted in standard Mandarin, "This is Korean land, not Japanese land. Haven't you heard that Mr. Wuyi's annotation to the Spring and Autumn Annals said: "To attack someone by making a false charge is called 'attack', and to plunder the border secretly is called 'invasion'. Even if your country wants to attack Japan with a false charge, Korea is innocent, and plundering the border secretly is not an invasion?"

The officer leading the team also went to battalion school. He was quite surprised to hear such standard official language here, and then said: "The whole world is not the king's land. The emperor's army travels to the king's land. What is an invasion?"

Yumori Yoshisu took another step forward, and when he was about to explain his reasoning, he saw the officer shout directly: "Raise your gun! Get ready!"

Wow…

The soldiers in formation raised their muskets almost at the same time, and the black muzzles of their guns were aimed numbly at Yumori Yoshisu, who was about to move forward.

Yumori Yoshisu, who had already taken a step forward, stopped, and then heard the officer shout: "Old man, since you understand the official language, that's the best. Go tell the people inside that if we don't come out and surrender within a quarter of an hour, we will Let's start the artillery. Tell me to surrender quickly and we will send you back to Japan. If you don't, we will treat them as resisters and kill them all. I'll give you five more minutes, so go ahead."

He waved his hand at Yumori Yoshisu. The two cannons in the distance were already adjusting their angles. Yumori Yoshisu held back the words that had reached his throat. Looking at the two cannons that made no sense, he secretly cursed "barbarians" and trembled again. Walking back tremblingly.

Looking at Yumori Yoshisu's back, the staff officer took out his pocket watch and checked the time, muttering: "A bunch of cowards, send an old man out? Have the young ones shrunk their eggs?"

The artillery officer next to him had already measured the distance and angle, flipped through the newly compiled artillery list, and shouted: "Explosive bomb, lead wood one inch two, angle thirty-seven, ready!"