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After occupying Tsurumaru City for several days, Li Dingguo kept his promise and released all the captives from the two feudal domains.When these prisoners left, they were already grateful to Li Dingguo, as if they had received great favor.

The nobles of the Shimadzu family did not leave.

Shimadzu Hisukuni, or Ijiin Kukuni, came to visit at night with his belongings, knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, General, for getting rid of this villain for my Shimadzu family!"

Li Dingguo was quite hostile in his heart, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa who was killed was the second brother of Shimadzu Jiuguo.

The elder brother was killed, and the younger brother came to thank the enemy?

Li Dingguo said: "Take the things back."

Shimadzu Jiuguo said: "The villain is licentious and innocent, and he is good at killing relatives. He has long been hated by people and gods. The general wiped out the harm of my Shimadzu family. I should be grateful. These gifts are only to express my gratitude. Please accept it. Down!"

Li Dingguo said: "I can accept the gift, but who will succeed you as the governor of the family is a matter for your Shimadzu family."

Shimadzu Jiuguo said: "If I succeed to the position of family governor, I can give Tang Bing an additional 5 taels of money. In addition, I will give the general another 1 taels privately!"

After making an ambiguous statement, he finally sent the product away.

Li Dingguo felt that it was a bit tricky, and he didn't dare to accept the gift. He said to the translator: "Be a witness, all these goods will be sealed and confiscated, and I will not take any money."

Sure enough, Shimadzu Jiuguo was just the beginning, and other nobles of the Shimadzu family came to visit one after another.

Even Beixiang Jiuzhi and Beixiang Wengjiu rushed over from the eastern fiefdom with hundreds of soldiers, saying that they wanted to help Li Dingguo attack the city, but it was a pity that the troops came too late.

Beixiang Jiuzhi is Shimadzu Jiuzhi, the fourth younger brother of the deceased family governor, and his fief is of course Beixiang City.Beixiang Weng Jiu was the brother-in-law of the deceased governor.

The price offered by Beixiang Jiuzhi was also very high. Li Dingguo demanded 40 taels of compensation from the Shimadzu family, but this guy took the initiative to increase the compensation to 50 taels.The only request is to let his Beixiang troops take over Tsurumaru Castle, and there is no need to trouble Li Dingguo for other things.

What's even more outrageous is that Tadashi Shimadzu came to see him by boat.This guy is the son-in-law of the Shimadzu family. Because the fief is in Tanegashima, he is also called Tanegashima Tadashi.

Regardless of pedigree or strength, Tanegashima's son-in-law is not in the position. This old man is purely here to make a joke.

After receiving a lot of presents, Li Dingguo sealed and confiscated them all, and then agreed to Beixiang Jiuzhi.

The reason is simple, Kitago Hisao is the fourth child of the Shimadzu family.

The boss, the second child, and the third child are all dead, and this should be the one in terms of seniority, which can save a lot of trouble.

Li Dingguo handed over Tsurumaru City to Beixiang Jiuzhi for garrison. As for whether the goods can be defended, and how to persuade the shogunate to confirm his identity, then he really can't control it. Anyway, the purpose of sending troops has been achieved. The Matsuura family compensated 50 taels of silver.Shimadzu recognized China's possession of Ryukyu, and handed over Xiangxian and other Ryukyu royal families, promising not to rob Chinese merchant ships.The Matsuura family handed over Li Guozhu and other pirates, promised not to plunder China and North Korea, and made Zheng Chenggong's younger brother a retainer.

Moreover, this "Battle of Kagoshima" was also spread to the whole of Japan with added fuel and vinegar.

According to legend, the combined army of Satsuma and Hirado had 5 people, and the Datong Army had 1 people.The two sides fought in the dark, and each issued a mysterious method of warfare. The Datong Army finally resorted to the "Datong Lore Array".

The big tube is the cannon. According to legend, the Datong Army dispatched two hundred cannons.

Chapter 639 [Promulgation of the Constitution]

On behalf of the shogunate, Lin Efeng came to Kagoshima again.

He took a whole delegation of envoys to China with the ship, and went to Nanjing to meet the emperor.It is nothing more than reconfirming the relationship between the two countries, clarifying this misunderstanding, and intending to set an annual Sino-Japanese transaction limit.

There is no doubt that Japan is a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

During the period of Emperor Jianwen, the Muromachi shogunate held a grand reception ceremony at the Kinkakuji Temple in Kitayama, Kyoto. It was after accepting the imperial edict of Ming Dynasty that Zhu Di ascended the throne, the Muromachi shogunate took the initiative to send envoys to congratulate him. source".The following year, Zhu Di sent an envoy to Japan, recanonized, and bestowed the "King of Japan" with a turtle-shaped golden seal.In order to show their sincerity, the Muromachi shogunate steamed and killed more than two Japanese pirate leaders in front of the Ming envoy.

When the Tokugawa shogunate came to power, Japan was formally unified, so they wanted to restore relations with Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that only a few years after the Korean War between China and Japan, the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty have always been wary of Japan.The Tokugawa shogunate had no choice but to keep conveying goodwill, and the relationship between the two countries was getting better day by day, but every time there was a substantive breakthrough, the "Japanese pirates" would inevitably come out again to make trouble, and the relationship between China and Japan immediately dropped to a freezing point. He tended to support Nanming, and he couldn't understand the Tartar barbarians emerging from the ravine.There is also the influence of Ming Dynasty survivors, including Zhu Shunshui, many Ming Dynasty survivors took refuge in Japan, and even became lecturers for the shogunate, continuously instilling cruelty, barbarism, and unfaithfulness in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

This kind of influence is very far-reaching. The Japanese samurai of all dynasties did not recognize the Manchu Qing as Chinese orthodoxy, and of course they did not accept Japan as a vassal state of the Manchu Qing.

So in the Qing Dynasty, Japan has always been China's "mutual market country", which means doing business on an equal footing.

The Manchu Qing wanted to accept Japan as a vassal state, and they showed goodwill as soon as they entered the customs, and returned the Japanese who had been shipwrecked many times.But the Tokugawa shogunate didn't appreciate it at all, and still regarded the Manchus as barbarians, and even regarded Japan as a small China.

Now that the Datong New Dynasty is established, the two countries have no great grievances. The Tokugawa shogunate took the initiative to ask for the seal a few years ago.

Liu Xiangke stood at the bow of the boat, smiled, pointed at the shore with his hands behind his hands, and said, "Your envoy, please watch it."

Lin Efeng's expression was very embarrassing, because the Datong Army on the shore was withdrawing troops, but the people around Tsurumaru City knelt down and begged the Datong Army to stay.

What is this all about?

In fact, it's not that mysterious, and don't talk about military and civilian fish and water.So far, the Datong Army has only dealt fairly with the common people.

Not only did they not burn, kill and loot, but they also maintained the law and order in the castle town.

And these actions are enough to make the local people return to their hearts!

What's more, the Datong Army once gave porridge here to help the people, and paid for local women to help the soldiers wash their clothes.These are real benefits, especially for the [-] laundry women whose whole family came to kneel on the pier, crying and begging for the Datong Army to stay.

Lin Efeng has been familiar with Confucian classics since he was a child, and at this moment he said with shame: "A teacher of true benevolence and righteousness. The common people eat pots and milk to keep the king's teacher. Today we know that it is not a lie."

Those wild warriors who took refuge in the Datong Army are now kneeling together.

Miyazaki Shiro climbed up to Li Dingguo, hugged Tang Wushuang's thigh and cried: "General, please take us away, we will be the general's loyal dogs for generations to come!"

Guitou 48 has been kneeling on the bank, kowtowing to Li Dingguo non-stop.

Li Dingguo accepted these people only for the convenience of fighting, and he has no right to bring them back to the country.Seeing that the other party was so humble and loyal, it was inevitable that he was a little moved and said, "The Shimadzu family samurai suffered a lot of casualties this time. I have recommended you to the current family governor, and the Shimadzu family governor has also agreed. You can all be his samurai from now on. "

Miyazaki Shiro said: "We only want to be the general's samurai!"

Fighting with the Datong Army, the treatment is better than being a samurai of the Shimadzu family, and they still want to use this to make a fortune.

Li Dingguo said: "Well, there are some extra cotton armors in the army, and each of you will give you a pair. Maybe it's too lenient. You can find a craftsman to modify it yourself. As for weapons and horses, I have no right to decide and reward you. Ladies and gentlemen Farewell!"

More than 20 sets of cotton armor were moved from the ship and given to these wild warriors.

The wild warriors got the cotton armor, and while they were excited and excited, they respected Li Dingguo even more.Until Li Dingguo boarded the boat, they were still kneeling on the shore, crying and kowtowing.

Back in Fuzhou, the Japanese envoy followed Liu Xiangke to Nanjing to meet the emperor.

Li Dingguo rested in Fuzhou, and at the same time replenished the casualties nearby.In fact, the number of casualties was not many. More than a dozen died successively, and more than a dozen were forced to leave the army due to serious injuries.

Next, Li Dingguo will go to Hainan Island, where he will get familiar with the tropical climate for two months.

The two Guangxi divisions of Liu Xinyu and Ding Jiasheng will also go to Chen Bing on the border of Vietnam. At that time, the three divisions will attack Vietnam together.

As for Huang Mo, he will lead a division to sit in Yunnan to prevent someone from taking the opportunity to cause chaos, and he can go to the Vietnam battlefield to support at any time.

On the way back to Beijing, Lin Efeng took the initiative to chat with Liu Xiangke, wanting to test the attitude of the Chinese side.

Liu Xiangke said with a smile: "The trade order issued by the shogunate is Japan's internal affairs, and our country will not interfere. But, the general of the shogunate may shoot himself in the foot. This kind of thing is familiar to the former Ming Dynasty. very."

"Oh, that's true!" Lin Efeng was filled with emotion.

It was Zhao Han who encouraged maritime trade, which led to more and more merchant ships heading to Japan, which far exceeded the amount of goods eaten by the shogunate.

Although the shogunate conducts trade through wealthy merchants in Sandu, not all wealthy merchants in Sandu can participate.

You must have a good relationship with the shogunate in order to obtain an official license, and the amount of food these wealthy merchants have is limited.

Therefore, Tokugawa Iemitsu intends to set the trade volume, and only how many goods are allowed to be traded in Nagasaki each year.

This kind of thing has happened in history.

After Kangxi destroyed the Zheng family, he felt that Sino-Japanese trade was profitable, so he promulgated the "Maritime Expansion Order", allowing ordinary people to go to sea to do business, and the number of Chinese merchant ships going to Nagasaki for trade increased several times.

The Tokugawa shogunate could not eat so much goods, and immediately promulgated the "Order of Chastity", stipulating the annual Nagasaki trade quota:

The total trade volume of Chinese merchant ships shall not exceed 6000 per year, and that of Dutch merchant ships shall not exceed 3000.

In the early days of the Tokugawa shogunate, one guan was equal to more than one tael of silver, and 6000 guan was estimated to be 7500 taels of silver.

The annual trade volume between China and Japan is actually limited to 7500 taels. Is this just kidding everyone?

Those Chinese merchants who went too late to conduct official trade naturally could not send their goods back.

It will inevitably lead to large-scale smuggling, and the Tokugawa shogunate is equivalent to getting the script of Ming Dynasty.Moreover, the official trade also began to falsify, deceiving the shogunate and falsely reporting the transaction amount.

The Tokugawa shogunate immediately strengthened its control, and did not stipulate the annual transaction volume. Instead, it stipulated that the annual trade between China and Japan should be 80 ships.In the past 20 years, due to the large outflow of Japanese copper materials, the limit of 80 ships has been reduced to 30 ships.

At the same time increase efforts to combat smuggling.

At that time, the amount of smuggling by Chinese maritime merchants was unknown, but the Dutch East India Company had detailed accounts, which far exceeded the Japanese-Dutch trade volume stipulated by the shogunate.

What really relieved the Tokugawa shogunate was that the Qing Dynasty itself began to impose sea bans.

Kangxi stipulated four major treaty ports. In fact, there were more than 100 treaty ports at that time, and the coastal provinces did not strictly control maritime trade.Qianlong was so powerful that he closed all of them and only allowed to go to sea from Guangzhou.In fact, it is to imitate Japan, leaving only one treaty port for the convenience of the imperial court to control.

Now that China's maritime trade is booming, the stricter the shogunate regulations are, the more rampant the smuggling trade will be in the future.

What's more, Hirado and Satsuma have to pay huge war reparations.Even if they risk harakiri,

It will also support smuggling, so that the compensation can be paid as soon as possible. Could the shogunate still start a war because of this?

Arriving in Shanghai to change ships, Liu Xiangke and the Japanese envoys took the opportunity to disembark and relax. Liu Xiangke went straight to the Shanghai post office and said to the postman who sold the newspapers: "Bring me a copy of the official newspapers for the past few months.

The "Datong Monthly" that cannot be sold out that month can continue to be sold at the post station, and it will be returned to the central government after three months.

The postman smiled and said, "It just so happens that the superiors haven't come to take back the newspapers, and they have all the newspapers in the last three months."

Lin Efeng followed Liu Xiangke, but he didn't know what "Datong Monthly" was, so he also paid for three newspapers.

The first newspaper was issued before Li Dingguo led his army to sea, and it was much thicker than before.It actually took five pages to print the territory maps of Han, Tang, Yuan, Ming, and Tong.

For the map template, use the "Kan Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu" in the Wanli period to intercept the part of Asia, and then draw the territory of China in the past dynasties according to historical materials.

These cannot be printed with movable type, and all of them are engraved by craftsmen.

The territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties is extremely vast!

However, the territory of the Datong New Dynasty appeared to be very small, with only Liaoning in the Northeast, Yanshan in Hebei, Hetao and the Western Regions were not incorporated, and even Qinghai and Tibet were marked as the territory of Gushhan.

Lin Efeng repeatedly compared the five maps, and suddenly felt inexplicable fear.

The emperor of China published the map of the territory of the past dynasties and distributed it to the world. Is there any guess as to what the idea is?

Liu Xiangke was full of smiles, and he could imagine how scholars across the country would react when this issue of the newspaper was published.

Liu Xiangke opened the second newspaper again. This time there was only one map, but it was the abbreviated version of "The Complete Map of the World".Most of the scholars in the country did not have access to the world map before. For the first time, they knew the vastness of the world through newspapers.

Open the latest issue of the newspaper again, there is no map, only excerpts from the "Datong Constitution" and reports of the Datong Army sending troops to Ryukyu.

Liu Xiangke read an excerpt from the "Constitution of Great Harmony", and was stunned after reading only a few paragraphs. He subconsciously turned to look at Lin Efeng.

Lin Efeng was still flipping through the world map until he got back to the boat and finally read an excerpt from the "Constitution of Great Harmony". After being stunned, he sighed: "As expected of a generation of heroes, once the "Constitution" comes out, the world will be a world of great struggle! "

The ass determines the head, and these two Confucian diplomats, by coincidence, set their sights on the content that the Constitution encourages to open up to the outside world.

Chapter 640 [Arrogance of the army and waste of food because of choking]

Jinling University.

Wang Zhiliang didn't lecture on the content of the textbook today, but took out a freshly released newspaper and said, "The monitor is here,

Read the excerpts from the Datong Constitution. "

19-year-old Yan Wosi stepped onto the podium quickly and took the newspaper from the teacher.

This person was born in the Yan family of Huzhou, and his family was in business.Although the land was confiscated, the business grew bigger and bigger,

Mainly engaged in textile and printing and dyeing business.

Yan Wosi unfolded the newspaper and read it aloud: "There is a saying in "Biography": the constitution is the law, and the sage king follows the sky, so as to establish education in the world." This constitution is the cornerstone of the country, and the emperor, officials, and all people should abide by it. In the future, the court will issue laws and regulations that must not violate the purpose of this constitution.

Anyone who violates the constitution is a violation of the law..."

"The first rule is that the heaven and the earth are peaceful, and all things breed... Datong is a country that inherits the sky and responds to the people. This is Datong China!"

"Article [-], the people of the world in Kyushu are all Chinese people... All ethnic groups are descendants of the Yellow Emperor and Miao, just like separated brothers and sisters. The Han people are elder brothers, and all ethnic groups are younger brothers. Datong China is also the country of Huaxia. Datong China, It is also the great unity of all ethnic groups in China."

"Article [-], the country of Huaxia was born with the destiny of China, and it is responsible for the revitalization of China. The place where Chinese civilization spreads should be the land of Datong China, and one of them must be indispensable."

"Article Four..."

These students have listened to the spirit of the following "Three Origins" and the "Gate Theory" that everyone is equal, countless times.They have already learned it in middle school, and it is still a compulsory content.

"Go down."

Wang Zhiliang asked the squad leader to go back to his seat, and took out two other newspapers himself: "The place where Chinese civilization spreads should be the land of Datong China, and one of them must be indispensable." Regarding this sentence, combined with the newspapers of the previous two months, all What do you think?"

Lin Xiangzu raised his hand to express his opinion: "This hero intends to open up the Western Regions, Hetao, Monan, Uzang, and Nuergandusi...these many territories are all the homeland of the Han family, and now they are in the hands of barbarians. Be determined to recover and reproduce the glorious Han and Tang dynasties."

Yan Wosi said: "The homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties should be restored. But this time I sent troops to Ryukyu and destroyed the country and set up counties. I think it is open to discussion. Ryukyu is a small country with small land and little food. It is not beneficial to obtain it. And Ryukyu It has been my vassal country for a long time, and since it was annihilated by Japan, it is okay to raise troops to help it restore the country. This is a small matter, and your majesty's act of destroying the country seems to be against the teachings of the sages."

Lin Xiangzu immediately retorted: "You know, although Ryukyu is small, it is the bridge of ten thousand countries, and it has been an important sea route since ancient times. If you get this place, you can control the maritime trade of Ecuador countries."

Yan Wosi sneered: "How can you covet the small profits of merchants in governing the country? In my opinion, your Lin family has gone to sea too much, and you have been exposed to the habits of foreign countries and barbarians, and you have forgotten my grand road to China."

Lin Xiangzu, courtesy name Yuyao, was born in Fuzhou, and his family was a maritime merchant.