Nishinomaru Palace in the center of Edo Castle, Japan's largest palace, far larger than the Emperor's Palace in Kyoto. Speaking of which www.biquge.info the Japanese emperor at that time was also pitiful, not only politically he was a puppet of the Tokugawa shogunate, but also economically poor to death, compared with the poor Joseon king.

Do you know how poor the king of Joseon was? In the twentieth year of Wanli, that is, in 1592, Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Korea and burned down the Gyeongbokgung Palace of the Korean king, but the poor Korean royal family was too poor to repair this palace for more than 200 years! It was not until 1868 that Li Yuying repaired the palace.

Even the Joseon king, who had no money to repair the royal palace for more than 200 years, could still be richer than the emperor of the Wa Kingdom!

In fact, both the Japanese and North Koreans were very poor.

North Korea is because it specializes in learning China, and the good ones don't learn, and the bad ones are specialized, the Song Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and the Ming Dynasty's meritorious people don't pay taxes, and North Korea has learned them all, and the fame can still be hereditary! As a result, more and more people do not pay taxes, and in the end, the number of people who can not pay taxes accounts for nearly half of the total population of North Korea! The state's financial revenue is all pressed on half of the people. In this case, what will happen to the economy of North Korea can be imagined with your ass.

Looking at Japan, the samurai in Japan were actually large and small landlords, who farmed the land from Ashigaru to support the samurai and feudal lords. However, Japan has a high population density and few farmlands, and some small samurai only have a small piece of land, and there are more than a dozen ashigaru to feed him, and the food that the samurai can get every year is only more than 100 catties of rice, and they can't even eat enough. This is the life of an inferior samurai, not to mention the large population of Ashigaru.

However, the Tokugawa family was entrenched in the richest Edo area, so the living conditions of the Tokugawa family were still good, but after Zhang Yukun attended the banquet of the Tokugawa general, he still felt that it was far inferior to the Satsuma Domain.

In fact, the best life was still the Satsuma Domain, which robbed the land of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the Satsuma Domain also traded with the Dutch and the Zheng family, and through the sea trade, the Satsuma Domain earned a lot of silver. Now that Wang Xinyu is rising in Nanyang, a strong Wang Xinyu has closer contacts with the Satsuma Domain.

Today, the Satsuma clan is dressed in silk, and there is fish at every meal, beef and sake every day, and life is enjoyable.

Due to the seclusion of the Tokugawa shogunate, although they were entrenched in the richest area of Edo, their life was not as good as that of the Satsuma Domain. Although the Satsuma clan did not produce enough grain, they could sell brass, Japanese ceramics, Japanese tea, and Japanese raw silk to the Nanyang Company in exchange for grain produced in Borneo and Annam, and they could also exchange luxury goods imported from the Nanyang Company for the best-tasting Edo rice.

Nishinomaru Palace, in a large room, the owner Tokugawa Ietsuna sits on the seat in the middle, but there are actually no seats, they are all tatami, which should be called the main tatami mat. On the left sat Li Guangji, Albert, Zhang Yukun, Zhang Jian, Tang Wei and others from the Ming Dynasty, and on the right sat Japanese such as Hotta Masayu, Takashi Left Minister Kyohei, and Sakai Tadashi.

Beside everyone, whether it was the host or the guest, a young woman knelt beside them, pouring them wine from time to time.

The young woman next to Li Guangdi was actually quite a bit of a look, but her dress was really unappetizing: the young woman's face was an inch thick with powder, two red suns were painted on her cheeks, her eyebrows were cut to a point, her teeth were painted black, and her mouth was full of black teeth.

In contrast, the Japanese little Lori, or the nun in the temple, or the shrine maiden in the shrine, looks much more comfortable.

At that time, the nuns in Japan did not shave their heads, but had short hair similar to that of female college students in the Republic of China in later generations, especially young nuns, who looked pure and lovely. In fact, many little nuns are born to monks and nuns, and of course the little monks are also married to monks and nuns. Temples in Japan are the private property of great monks or nuns, and are passed down from generation to generation. In the words of the Japanese, if a monk does not get married, where does the little monk come from?

Tokugawa Ietsuna took the sake and toasted to Lee Kwangji, "We are in trouble in Japan, thank you angels for coming to the rescue!" ”

Because of the Ming army's record against the Dutch, coupled with the balloon airship that can fly into the sky, the Japanese once again regarded the Ming Dynasty as the Tian Dynasty Shangguo, and those who came to Guo were naturally angels.

Li Guangdi and they came here just to fool the Japanese, in order to fool the Tokugawa shogunate to open the sea ban, and to be able to export labor and samurai, now the Ming Kingdom is short of manpower, even if they take Guangdong, they still feel that the population is seriously insufficient, so they have to import some people, including women, from Japan.

Especially for those who immigrate to Southeast Asia, it's okay to go to Annam, and it's good to find a local woman. But in places like Indonesia, most of the women are black, short, and thin, indigenous women who look like wild monkeys, which is really uninteresting. And importing women from Japan is also the solution to the problem.

Li Guangdi said: "Lord Tokugawa, we came here this time, although we helped you expel the red-haired ghosts, but our ships are too few!" The red-haired ghosts didn't achieve their goal, and they won't just leave willingly! You must find a solution to the fundamental problem, and the red-haired ghosts will not dare to come in the future! ”

Tokugawa Iessuna asked, "How can we solve the fundamental problem?" ”

Li Guangji didn't answer directly, but asked with a smile: "General Tokugawa, do you know what the most powerful weapon of the red-haired ghost is?" ”

Tokugawa Ietssuna replied, "It's their cannons and their warships!" In fact, to be honest, we in Japan can also build cannons like theirs, but we can't build such ships. ”

Li Guangdi smiled and shook his head: "We can't build a ship as big as the Dutch for the time being, but our cannons are much more powerful than theirs!" We can't build that big ship because we lack wood for shipbuilding. But we have the technology to build such ships. If you Japan can cooperate with us, we can build large warships and more powerful cannons, so you still need to be afraid of red-haired ghosts? ”

"What are the requirements for cooperation?" Tokugawa Ietsuna was a little tempted.

Li Guangji had been observing, and found that there was something about the Tokugawa Ietsuna, so he opened his mouth and replied: "To build a ship and cast a cannon, you first need silver, and you need a lot of silver!" ”

"Silver, we have it, we have a lot of silver in Japan!" Tokugawa Ietsuna hurriedly replied.

"Tokugawa Shogun, what I'm saying is that silver is needed first, silver is only one aspect, of course you need something else!" Li Guangdi smiled and said, "You said that to build a ship, the workers need to eat, and they also need to cast the ship's artillery, but can the silver be used as food?" Can silver be used to forge artillery? ”

"Well, our grain production in Japan is indeed a little less." Tokugawa Ietsuna felt a little embarrassed.

Li Guangdi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Actually, you have a lot of food in Japan, especially your Tokugawa family!" But there are too many people in Japan, especially the samurai who don't do production! I've heard that in some places, there are only a dozen acres of land, and a dozen ashigaru, which are also samurai, and these people do not include their families, just a dozen acres of land, and they have to feed sixty or seventy people, do you say they can support them? ”

"We have too little arable land in Japan!" Tokugawa Ietssuna nodded.

"So, the best thing to do is to send the excess population out! Along with those poor samurai and their ashigaru, send them all out so that everyone will have more land! In fact, this is not a new method, the Satsuma Domain has been doing this for a long time, and in the South Seas, there are many samurai from the Satsuma Domain. Lee continued to fool Tokugawa Ietsuna.

The Satsuma clan was indeed doing this, but the problem was that the Tokugawa shogunate closed off the country, and in order to send people out, in exchange for weapons, and to cooperate with the Ming country, the first thing to do was to open the sea ban, and it was necessary to allow the ships of the Ming country to trade here.

It's just that the sea ban violates the tradition of the Tokugawa family, so the Tokugawa family can only be silent about it. Although Japan was to be made stronger, it was actually the Tokugawa shogunate that was even stronger, which was very attractive to the Tokugawa ieseizuna, but the Tokugawa shogunate also belonged to a relatively conservative samurai group and was reluctant to change. It was precisely because of the character traits of the Tokugawa Shogunate that by the time of the Meiji Restoration, the Tokugawa Shogunate was successfully overthrown by the Satsuma Domain. Later, Emperor Meiji crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and launched the Southwest War to solve the threat of the Satsuma Domain.

Seeing that Tokugawa Ietsuna didn't speak, Li Guangji continued: "It's too early to say those things, the red-haired ghosts didn't get any benefit from the general, they will come sooner or later, we need to find a way to deal with them!" We have too few ships, and if we want to sink them one by one, we don't know how long we will fight, so we still need your cooperation! ”

"I wonder how you need us to cooperate?" Tokugawa Ietsuna asked.

"We need a group of samurai who know how to steer ships, who are loyal to you, who can treat death as if they were home, and who are not afraid of sacrifice! Give them to us for five days of training, and you'll be able to deal with the red-haired ghosts! Li Guang said.

"Five days of training is enough?" Tokugawa Ietssuna asked in surprise.

Li Guangdi replied: "Yes, in five days, they will learn our new weapons." However, when dealing with red-haired ghosts, these loyal and brave samurai will suffer heavy casualties, and they can be said to be nine deaths! ”

Tokugawa Ietsuna frowned, and then stretched out: "We Japanese samurai are not afraid of sacrifice!" Just, how many samurai do you need? ”

"Six hundred is enough! And not all of these 600 people can't come back alive, maybe half of them can survive! Li Guangdi nodded affirmatively.

Over there, Zhang Yukun patted his chest confidently, and swore that as long as they trained, the Japanese samurai would definitely be able to defeat the Dutch.

Li Guangdi's method was to form a death squad composed of Japanese samurai, in fact, this method was not thought up by Li Guangdi, but by Wang Xinyu, and this death squad was named a kamikaze death squad!

In the woods by the sea, a group of Chinese are urging Japanese ashigaru to work. Trees were cut down, laid flat on the ground, and then turned into planks. The planks were then spliced together by the Japanese ashigaru under the command of Chinese shipbuilders to form small boats.

"Lord Li, such a ship can't be used!" Tadashi Sakai, who knows how to build ships, said, "The wood used for shipbuilding needs to be dried for at least three years, preferably more than five years. Your wood was built without drying, and these boats were scattered in less than a month! ”

Li Guangdi laughed: "These ships won't last a month at all!" If it's short, it only takes seven or eight days, and if it's long, it only takes more than half a month! ”

"So what's the use of all that effort you've put into building these ships?" Sakai Tadakiyo's eyes widened.

Li Guangdi pretended to be mysterious and replied: "Deal with the red-haired ghost!" ”

On the edge of the beach, a group of Japanese samurai who usually live a very down-to-earth life gathered in a large circle, watching Tang Wei introduce them to a new weapon.

"Everyone!" Tang Wei pointed to a mine placed on the ground, "This is our latest weapon, called a mine!" You see, this mine has a hole in it with a fuse that can be waterproofed. There is also a rope, this rope is used to pull the fire, as soon as the rope is pulled, the fuse inside is ignited, and within a minute, the mine will explode! ”

On the beach by the sea sat a small, strangely shaped boat, very slender and light, rowed by five men, with a pointed bow and a sharpened iron drill at the front.

Emperor Hu Dedi introduced the Japanese samurai: "This ship is our latest fire attack ship!" All you have to do is row the boat and hit the big ship of the red-haired ghost, and the iron drill can be nailed into the ship of the red-haired ghost, and then the mine will be sounded, and you will jump into the water and flee for your life. A minute later, the red-haired ghost's ship was blown up and sunk! ”

In fact, a minute of fuse, it is difficult for these kamikaze drones to escape from the safe range, because the mine explodes in the water, and the pressure of the water is much greater than the air pressure. Later depth charges, that is, the use of the pressure of an explosion in the water to destroy submarines. Therefore, the kamikaze drones who use such mines are simply nine deaths.

But it was impossible for these small boats to get close to the Dutch ships in the middle of the sea.

Therefore, Li Guangdi came up with a plan to lure the enemy: "Didn't the red-haired ghost ask you to give them a sum of gold, silver, and food?" You pretended to promise them and tricked them into Tokyo Bay! At night, the kamikaze will attack and sink a large number of red-haired warships to the bottom of the sea! ”

Tokugawa Ietsuna asked, "But you are here, do the red-haired ghosts still dare to come?" ”

Li Guangdi smiled: "The red-haired ghost also knows that we can't be here forever!" The two fast cruisers we can can retreat first and deliberately let the red-haired sentry ship see it so they will come! (To be continued.) )