Zheng Sen, Zheng Lin, Sen is the brother, Lin is the brother, where the forest is the pillars of the country.

Saemon naturally obeys his fate, for many years, he has not missed his mother for a day, and he dreams that one day he can set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty, or as a Ming person.

"But my lord, now that the entire Toei is firmly under the control of the shogunate, the Tokugawa family has only 100,000 troops, so we must act cautiously!"

Faced with the current situation, Saemon had to choose to forbear for the time being, and couldn't help but say insincerely.

The Tokugawa shogunate was stronger than any daimyo of the Warring States period, and perhaps the Warring States of Toei were just children in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, but not anymore, the shogunate had a monopoly on power, and its army was not to be underestimated.

"What happened to the king's order to recruit private soldiers?" Liu Hongjian did not answer Saemon, but changed the subject.

Forbearance, forbearance, he has endured enough in Daming to endure the Dutchman, and when he arrived at the realm of Dongying, he didn't think about forbearance, he hated this word.

"Back to the prince, I have recruited a total of eight hundred and forty-four Dongying samurai, and now they are all hidden in my shop in Nagasaki."

"That's it, how about loyalty?" Liu Hong was gradually slightly disappointed, what can more than 800 people do.

"There is no problem with loyalty, the commissions given by subordinates are high, and they are willing to work hard." Saemon told the truth.

"Well, continue to recruit, it will be of great use in the future." Liu Hongjian reminded

Although the reputation of the Dongying warriors in the eyes of the Ming people is not very good, but the combat effectiveness is indeed not to be underestimated, as long as they can afford to give silver, the fighting Dongying warriors have always dared to play with their lives, which Liu Hong gradually heard the Qi brothers say.

Although with the current military strength of the Ming Dynasty, even if the Dongying warriors can fight no longer than they can fight grenades, but after all, the war is to kill people, since they want to die, why not let the Dongying people fight the Dongying people?

"Although the Tokugawa shogunate was very powerful, could it be that the other daimyo were willing to be controlled by it?" Liu Hong gradually frowned and said.

As far as he knows, the most powerful in the Toei Warring States period was not the Tokugawa family, but Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, although the Tokugawa family came from behind, but it was not even without an opponent.

"Back to the prince, no! The Tokugawa family feared the emperor the most. Saemon didn't know what Liu Hongjian was thinking, so he could only tell the truth.

This matter is also Liu Hong's gradual naturalness, imagine that the Ming people know that the grass must be eradicated, this has been a hundred years later, how can the Tokugawa family let the Oda family and the Toyotomi family stand up again.

"So who is the weakest force in Dongying today?" Liu Hongjian asked again.

Well, the Oda family and the Toyotomi family can't be counted on, and since they don't want to kill their own people, they have to raise a puppet, right?

"Back to the prince, he is also the emperor." Saemon seemed to have guessed what Liu Hongjiang meant, and said with great certainty.

"Oh? That's weird, since the weakest is the emperor, why is the shogunate afraid? Liu Hong asked in confusion.

Japan's emperor system is also a wonder on earth, from the legendary first Emperor Jimmu to the later Emperor Akihito, from 660 B.C. to modern times.

That is to say, from BC to the 21st century later, Dongying has never changed dynasties.

Of course, Toei was later controlled by the three shogunates, and the emperor remained a puppet for thousands of years.

But this puppet is much more than the Han Xian Emperor Niu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the human emperor has been a puppet for nearly a thousand years.

As for why the three shogunates did not abolish the emperor, the reason is almost the same as why Boss Cao did not abolish Emperor Han Xian.

The Japanese emperor was a combination of secular authority and religious symbolism, and although the Japanese emperor was completely reduced to a puppet after the Onin War, the appeal and influence of the emperor during the Warring States period were still not to be underestimated.

After all, the emperor is said to be a descendant of the gods, which is like faith for the people of Toei.

The shogunate, like Cao Cao, needed the emperor to guarantee the legitimacy of his rule, and the emperor appointed (albeit formally) the shogun, delegating power to the shogun.

The Shogun further delegated power to the daimyo or flagbook, and the daimyo and the flag book were further delegated downward......

In this way, the political and cultural heritage accumulated over a long period of time under the imperial system can be effectively plundered for the use of the shogunate, and the authority of the emperor can be used to protect the authority of the shogunate and ensure the rule of the shogunate, which is the beauty of puppetry.

However, the three shogunates have never relaxed their suppression of the emperor, constantly depriving the emperor of various powers and trying to reduce the influence of the emperor.

Later, the emperor could only exercise religious rights, but he had no political rights, let alone financial power, and there was no money to repair the leaks in the palace.

Sometimes when it rains heavily, you have to change places to sleep, and during the Warring States period, the emperor was so poor that he couldn't hold a succession ceremony because he didn't have money, and he couldn't be buried after the emperor, and the emperor even had to sell his own characters to make a living.

By the time of the Tokugawa shogunate, that is, the Edo period, the emperor's economy had improved, and it was much stronger than in the Warring States period, but the emperor's domain was only 40,000 koku, which was only as good as an ordinary daimyo and was very different from the shogunate's deep financial resources.

Although the Tokugawa shogunate recognized the emperor's status as a national legitimacy, it choked him by the throat and controlled the emperor's financial power.

Even during the reign of Tokugawa Ieyasu, in order to restrict the emperor, he set several rules: the emperor can only do learning and learn the way of being a king, such as China's "Zizhi Tongjian" and "Zhenguan Political Leaders", and cannot interfere in political affairs.

Then it was stipulated that the status of the emperor's family members, such as the prince, was under the Taisei minister, the left minister, and the right minister, and that the ministers could be appointed and dismissed by the shogun, and the samurai family and the public family were forbidden to marry, and the emperor was completely restricted.

Later, the shogunate publicly promulgated the "Prohibition of China and the Laws of the Public Family", which is too much to go into detail, and it can be summed up in just one, and the emperor has only one power left, which is to determine the name of the era of Japan.

"Tsk, that's such a wretch!"

After listening to Saemon's explanation, Liu Hong couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic to the Japanese emperor, there are no soldiers, no money, no one to bird you, what is the point of being an emperor to do this? It's better to buy a piece of tofu and hit it to death!

"The current emperor is Emperor Gomizuo, the fourth son of Emperor Gomizuo, Emperor Go-Mizuo, who is sixteen years old this year, and became emperor by his half-sister Emperor Akimasa, whose name is Tokugawa Kazuko, and is the niece of Tokugawa Hidetada, the second Edo shogun."

Saemon was afraid that Liu Hong would gradually not understand the relationship between the Toei Imperial Family and the shogunate, so he explained it very thoroughly, and he knew that Liu Hong's eyes lit up as soon as he heard it.

"The Female Emperor?"