Zhu Cihong rode a high-headed horse, and came to Matsudaira Nobutsuna in a condescending manner in the manner that the king of the Heavenly Empire treats the ministers of small countries in a remote state.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who was five meters tall, respectfully shook himself to the ground and said: "My subordinate Matsudaira Nobutsuna has seen His Majesty the Ming Emperor, may His Majesty the Ming Emperor live long and live forever!" ”

The ministers of the shogunate all knelt on the ground, bowed three times and bowed nine times, and said in unison: "Long live His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, long live, long live!" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, and secretly said that this Japanese are quite familiar and know how to be a man with his tail between his legs.

The bones of the Japanese have the element of subordination to the strong, the Ming Dynasty is strong, and the Ming army swept through Japan, so that these Japanese officials feel that the Ming Dynasty is a father, and there is no shame in condescending to flattery and flattery!

Zhu Cihong raised his right hand on the war horse and said, "Let's be even!" ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna straightened his back, and the other clans and ministers also stood up, and then everyone drove into Edo Castle with smiles on their faces.

From beginning to end, they turned a blind eye to the Empress Mingzheng beside the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, which made the Empress feel unfair.

After entering Edo, Zhu Cihong first ordered the seizure of all the treasury, money, grain, and household registration in Edo, and strictly ordered the Ming army not to intrude on the people.

As for the armament of the shogunate army, it had been disarmed by Gao Bang as early as yesterday, and the Ming army took over the defense of Edo Castle to defend against the unexpected.

The architectural style of Edo Castle is similar to that of Kyoto, and both exude a deep atmosphere of Tang Dynasty culture.

Japan has learned from China since ancient times, and although successive dynasties have paid tribute many times, they have never really submitted to China and have not recognized China as a vassal state.

This time, the Ming army shogunate fell, and the emperor was put on the throne, so it can be said that Japan is basically gone, just waiting for the final announcement of the daimyo.

As it approached evening, the eaves of the General's Mansion were lit up, reflecting the beautifully decorated temples.

The palace of the general of Zhengyi is quite luxurious, no worse than the imperial palace in Kyoto, there are artificial lakes, cascading waterfalls, small islands, trees, lake stones, etc., the height is scattered, the combination is good, it is an obvious Chinese garden style.

Looking at the scenery in this mansion, Zhu Cihong said to Wu Zhong: "Spread my will, the imperial court has given the daimyo and officials to surrender, and the fields have been approved as before, and the generals are not allowed to invade the fishing and occupy the seeds." ”

On November 16, Zhu Cihong issued a pacification policy to the whole of Japan: "I Wen'er and others have been exploited by the shogunate, and I am not a good soldier but happy to fight, in fact, to sweep away the trouble, save the people from fire and water, and calm the world; The heavenly army was not disturbed, and the people of the cities and villages continued to live and trade in peace and trade without panic. ”

"Yamazawa relics, all the civil and military officials of the shogunate, military and civilian people, etc., regardless of the feudal domain they originally belonged to, or those who were local neutral daimyos, if they could submit to the emperor, they were still allowed to be hired and entrusted with important tasks; If they resist and refuse, they will be punished with the law, and their wives and daughters will become prostitutes. ”

In a word, if the dynasty is changed without a generation, Japan's interest groups and social order have been proudly continued.

In the end, Zhu Cihong added a sentence after the will, and at the end of the month, a meeting of the feudal domains was held in Edo Castle, and those who came did not refuse, and it was unlucky not to come.

During this period of time, Zhu Cihong accepted the former ministers of the shogunate, mobilized the officials of the yamen to do things as usual, and at the same time declared the policy of advocating honesty and honesty in this dynasty.

In this way, the panicked Japan quickly returned to calm, and the daimyo who had a wait-and-see attitude really felt that the shogunate was over, and rushed to Edo to ask the Ming army for guilt and exchange for tickets to participate in the feudal conventions.

In charge of entertaining these daimyo was the former shogunate musician Banito Joko, which was his old profession and was known to the daimyo of the various feudal domains.

In the past, when the daimyo met with the shogun at the beginning of the year, it was Ito Tiaoko who was responsible for conveying it.

Date Tadamune, the lord of the Sendai Domain, who was trying to influence the source, also came, and he rushed to Edo with only ten retinues to plead guilty, as if he was resigned to fate.

For this guy, Ito Tiaoko didn't give him a good look, and the food and lodging arranged for him were inferior, and his freedom was restricted.

Date Tadazong even regretted his intestines, but at this point, what else could he do, so he had to pretend to be deaf and dumb and bear it silently without saying a word.

On the first day of the lunar month, Zhu Cihong summoned one hundred and eight Japanese daimyo at the Zhengyi General's Palace, officially announcing the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate and exempting the Zhengyi Shogun and other shogunates from all official positions.

Then, Zhu Cihong changed Edo to Tokyo, and the Ming Dynasty moved the Eastern Protectorate to Tokyo, and the former shogunate officials entered the Eastern Metropolitan Protectorate.

The tone was set, and Zhu Cihong re-divided all the daimyo in Japan.

After Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate, he divided the entire land of Japan into about 30 million koku, and initially enshrined more than 200 daimyos.

Over the past 50 years, in order to consolidate the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, the three generations of shoguns have deprived most of the daimyo of all or part of their territories on various charges, and added more than 150 new daimyos, which are divided into three grades: pro-feudal daimyos, pedigree daimyo daimyos, and exoto-daimyo daimyos, so that the total number of Japanese daimyo has remained at nearly 300.

It is equivalent to 300 daimyo dividing up 80% of Japan's land (the other 20% is the territory directly under the Tokugawa shogunate. ）

Zhu Cihong obviously did not want to retain this feudal federal system, and according to the administrative division of later Japan, he divided the whole country of Japan into Tokyo Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture and 43 prefectures, with a number of towns and villages.

The earliest daimyo such as the Maori Outline, canonized the viscount, rewarded a county as a fief, and the rest came to catch up with the daimyo, according to the size of the original fief, the land was drawn by lot, one person per town or village......

Zhu Cihong's move was equivalent to finding a group of town chiefs and village chiefs for free for a period of time, and their family samurai became local government officials, temporarily stabilizing the situation in Japan.

All daimyo were allowed to be hereditary for only three generations, and no more than 500 samurai were to be raised.

There are still restrictions on hereditary succession, and the Japanese are a little confused, which has caused dissatisfaction among some daimyos.

However, when Zhu Cihong announced that the Japanese would be allowed to freely enter and leave the Ming Dynasty and settle in the Ming army, they were overjoyed.

This privilege is a dream for a Japanese.

Not all countries can be called rich, and people who grew up in different countries have completely different views of their own countries since childhood.

Chinese, since childhood, have known that China is a big country, majestic and magnificent, rich in products, and all-encompassing, and that sense of pride arises from time to time.

But the Japanese are different, when they think about Japan, the territory is small, the goods are scarce, and many necessities of life have to be solved through trade.

Before modern times, the Japanese lived a hard life, even if they were Japanese aristocrats, and their lives were not much better, let alone commoners, they didn't even deserve their names, so they could live a good life.

In the face of the overall hardship, Japan's mentality has also changed, and whenever there is an opportunity, it wants to rush out of the island country and go to a wider space to find fertile land and live a truly good life.

The place they want to go to the most is naturally the country of silk in their dreams, the old neighbor China, ancient China has almost always been the richest and most powerful country in the world, and even the small merchants live better than the Japanese aristocracy, so deeply shocked the heart of little Japan.

A total of four major wars broke out in the history of China and Japan, the Battle of Baijiangkou in the Tang Dynasty, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and Aid to Korea in the Ming Dynasty, the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle of the Qing Dynasty, and the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the Republic of China, all of which were provoked by Japan on its own initiative.

From the Tang Dynasty to the Republic of China, for more than 1,000 years, Japan has always remembered what to eat and not to fight, and every few hundred years it has to put on a posture to fight with China.

The reason why the Japanese are so ambitious, motivated, and not afraid of failure is that everything stems from the defects of geographical conditions, and the lack of resources is their hard wound, which has not been pulled out for thousands of years, and the diaphragm responds to them.

This is also the main reason why little Japan always visits the Yasukuni Shrine, and they feel that it is enshrined in the "heroes" who opened up and expanded Japan's territory, and it is worth remembering and inheriting the spirit of breaking through the island for future generations.

Now Daddy Ming has given them the privilege to treat them as his own, and the book daimyo present are almost climaxing with excitement, and everyone speaks Japanese and calls me Emperor Shengming.

Zhu Cihong smiled and said nothing, the pioneer cannon fodder of the Ming army's conquest of the world is not worried!

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