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Zheng Heng listened to the black history of the Ming Dynasty, his face was sad and joyless, and he asked lightly: "The Red Lady also wants to be an Altan Khan on the sea, hit under the walls of the capital division, and force His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to sign an alliance under the city, leading to the sea?" ”

The red lady's face tightened, she smiled bitterly, and replied solemnly: "Yes!" She knew that Date Masahiro was very different from the Japanese people, and she knew that she couldn't coax him, and if she wanted to borrow troops, this problem would have to be faced sooner or later. If you don't even have the courage to admit it, and you have to rely on charity and the help of others to do it, then you have to be controlled by others, and even if you succeed in the end, you will become the puppet of the other party and be at the mercy of the other party, which is intolerable to her. It's better to open your heart and face all the pressure and attacks calmly.

Zheng Heng sighed lightly and asked again: "What do you think of the current situation on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty?" "The so-called plague on the southeast coast is becoming more and more serious, and the reason is that the Ming Dynasty strictly forbade access to the sea, which led to the intensification of contradictions between the government and the people.

The red lady opened her mouth and said: "Hu Zongxian, the governor of the southeast, committed suicide. The red lady only said one person, said one thing, which made Zhengheng fall into silence, he never thought that under the butterfly effect, Hu Zongxian would break himself off years in advance.

Hu Zongxian, as the largest civil official in the southeast, faced the rebellion of the Japanese in the southeast, and there was no discipline in the sub-sections, but he was worthy of the major festivals, and the achievements were remarkable, booby-trapping Xu Hai and other radicals, and appeasing Wang Zhi and others. Wang Zhi was taken down as a merit, and Hu Zongxian had to renounce the covenant again in order to realize his ambition, save the people, and quell the rebellion, and execute Wang Zhi. On the one hand, he reported to the imperial court, and on the other hand, he was ready to round up Wang Zhiyu's sins.

The situation changed suddenly, Wang Zhiyu became bigger, wantonly plundered the southeast coast, swept away the Weisu army in Fujian and Zhejiang, and dozens of towns fell. The Yan Party, which had been waiting for a long time, immediately slaughtered it, and the impeachment of Hu Zongxian was sent to Beijing in an endless stream.

The Ming Dynasty, which was suffering from internal and external troubles, was still exhausted in the struggle between the Yan Party and the Yan Party, and the party struggle in the Ming Court at this moment was mainly composed of the Yan Party and the Yan Party, which was divided into several factions according to the regional academy.

In the chaos on the southeast coast, Yan Song, Yan Shifan and his son were involved in a lot of "maritime businessmen", and the impeachment of Hu Zongxian was just an appetizer, and it was Zhao Wenhua, the backbone of the Yan Party, who was really implicated, and through Zhao Wenhua, Yan Song, Yan Shifan and his son, and others were implicated.

Hu Zongxian was sent to prison as the culprit, and he ended his tragic life in prison by committing suicide, and before he died, he wrote down the anger and injustice of the last moments of his life: "The sword buries the unjust prison, and the loyal soul surrounds the white clouds." ”

The reason why he committed suicide was actually that the Yan Party needed someone to carry the blame, and Hu Zongxian, as the highest official in the southeast of the governor, was not responsible for who would be responsible. There are many wise men in the Ming court, but their heads are dizzy in the face of party struggle, and they have long forgotten the chaos on the southeast coast.

Hu Zongxian can be said to be the first person in the southeast to resist the Japanese, and his death represents the defeat of the interest group he represents.

Zhengheng did not agree on the spot, and this kind of high-level meeting rarely involves specific issues, and everyone talks about conceptual issues. Zhengheng started from his family and country, and he couldn't be sure whether to support the Red Lady's willful behavior, and to what extent it would be in the greatest interest to support the Red Lady.

The red lady actually already had her judgment, and after Zhengheng came out to finalize it in person, she also knew that many things could not be reversed. However, the red lady heard the loosening of the meaning from the words of Zhengheng, and she couldn't move her heart in terms of interests.

For such a major event as borrowing troops, cautiously tempting, the red lady not only did not get angry, but was quite understanding. Even if it is the red lady herself, if someone runs in front of her to borrow soldiers, I am afraid that she will immediately swing a knife and hack the other party to death as her dissatisfaction.

The red lady suddenly thought of something, her eyes lit up, and said: "General, first of all, congratulations on your success in Shangluo, our proposal to borrow troops is really a bit unbelievable, but the adults may be a little misunderstood, we are not borrowing the soldiers and horses under the command of the adults, but the prisoners who failed to resist the adults." ”

The Red Lady retreated, she understood that the Date family wanted to remain strong, and his foundation was the samurai group, and if she agreed to seconded them to the Red Lady today, it would be a betrayal of the samurai group, and the foundation of the Date family's rule would be loosened. Then, there is no capable person among the captives of the failed family that resisted the Date family, and the Red Lady obviously does not believe it, and it is the loser of the Wa Kingdom who plays a decisive role in Wang Ao, that is, Mao Haifeng's subordinate Zhen Wa.

Although the success of the Date family has not experienced a major battle, the number of prisoners he defeated and captured is not a lot, at least there are thousands of people who originally belonged to Honganji Temple, and with the end of the war in Tamba, Omi, Kawachi and other places, there are also a lot of prisoners, these people will probably become the main force of the Date family to build bridges and pave roads and mine in the next few years, but to maintain this captive army of tens of thousands of people, it is also necessary to equip the second-line troops with escorts in a ratio of one to three.

From the very beginning, the Red Lady's proposal moved the main retainers under the command of Zhengheng, you must know that the Date family has always had a tradition of accepting and surrendering rebellions, and the Date family, which originated at the end of the year, relied on this tradition to grow into the most powerful force in the world.

Originally, the Date family, whether it was facing the Maori family, the Niko family, and the Yamana family, swept away the upper forces and accepted the members of the middle and lower forces for their own use, and it was almost impossible for these people to grow up and challenge their status.

However, due to the success of the Date family, the battle of Kamiraku collapsed almost immediately after the death of the Honganji family, and in addition to following Honda Masanobu to Hokuriku, some of them still insisted on resisting, and the rest fell into the hands of the Date family. These people were disgruntled, believing that it was not a crime of war, and that once it was included in the Date family, it would be a very detrimental thing to the political structure of the Date family. I'm afraid it's the political foundation of the Date family.

The suggestion put forward by the Red Lady can be said to solve an important problem of the Date family and is a win-win result. At the same time, the Date family still has a statement afterwards, and these people can be said to be the losers of the war, and they are still the enemies of the Date family on a large level. In terms of national interests, it is often only necessary to have a valid reason to cover up the meaning, which is also beneficial to the Date family in the face of the Ming Dynasty.

This kind of meeting also set the big tone, and Zhengheng finally agreed to the Red Lady's proposal in principle. Although he refused in his heart, he finally convinced himself. In terms of practical interests, the Wang Zhi clique has an extraordinary position in the Japanese state, and it is necessary to maintain a certain distance, but it is not possible to repeatedly refuse to alienate the relationship between the two sides, and you must know that the Wang Zhi clique has always been the largest arms dealer in the Japanese state, and it controls more than seventy percent of the saltpeter in the Japanese state.

Zheng Heng persuaded himself on a mental level in a way of psychological suggestion, and from the perspective of a latecomer, he could not refuse the Red Lady's proposal in this matter. Perhaps this is a matter of cruelty to the Ming Dynasty in the short term, but in the long run, it may be an opportunity to leverage China. The cruel sea ban and continuous blows of the Ming and Qing dynasties finally made China miss out on the Age of Discovery, and finally made China, the number one power that has influenced the world for thousands of years, become the weakest semi-colonial and semi-feudal sick man in East Asia.

From the perspective of actual interests, even if Mao Haifeng and the Red Lady joined forces to force the Ming Dynasty to sign the alliance under the city, they could not fundamentally shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, but they could pry open the door of the Ming Empire and let the Ming Empire understand the importance of the ocean.

When the Ming Empire found that the impact of the sea could not be blocked by the sea ban, the first choice they thought of was to relax the sea ban, whether it was active or passive, once they got the benefits from relaxing the sea ban, then it became very difficult to close the door of the sea ban again. You must know that once the door of the ocean is closed again, you will face the danger of being broken again, and no one will risk being made as a scapegoat to make a proposal to close the door until all preparations are made.

The relaxation of the sea ban will allow more and more people to benefit from the sea, and the benefits will make the maritime power that has been stagnant suddenly become stronger. Of course, these are just conjectures of political balance, and there may be another possibility, the Ming Empire that has been hit more severely cracked down on maritime merchants and implemented a more severe maritime ban policy, so that the Ming Dynasty will sink even more.

However, for China, this may be the last chance, the opportunity to continue to lead the world and become the world's boss, once it misses it, it will completely miss the Age of Discovery, and eventually become the sick man of East Asia that anyone can kick.

In fact, this will do more harm than good in the long run for the Japanese bloc led by political balances.

The Ming Empire sank, and it was beneficial to the Japanese to severely crack down on maritime forces. The Japanese country is an island country, and the island country attaches great importance to the sea, so it is natural to keep up with the pace of the times and embark on the Age of Discovery. In terms of shipbuilding technology, the gap between the East and the West in this era is really not large, even if it is slightly inferior in firearms, from the advantage of geographical distance, the Japanese country can become the most powerful maritime power in Asia in one fell swoop.

Once the Japanese state became the most powerful maritime power in Asia, it controlled the great wealth brought by the sea, and the great wealth brought great strength. When the Ming Empire continued to sink, whether it was the power of the Great Shun Dynasty or the entry of wild boar skins, it was not impossible for the Wa State to take advantage of this shareholder wind to take the Manchu Qing Dynasty and replace it.

However, fundamentally speaking, it will do more harm than good, and the Japanese state will not be able to make an invasion of China, which is an unspoken rule in the general trend, no matter who can touch this foundation, once it is touched, there will be a "river crab" god to come out and close the world.

The power of the "River Crab" god was unprecedented, and Zheng Heng didn't actually know about the existence of this god, but he did feel the attention of this god when he made a decision, which made him feel suffocated for a while.

Just one attention is suffocating, and Zhengheng knows that he can't cross the line anymore, at least not in the short term. In fact, the meeting was decided to be the next step for lower-level diplomats. This is also a kind of normality, the red lady and others are actually more willing to negotiate with the Japanese people like the Japanese people, and they don't want to negotiate with a Japanese people who are not like the Japanese people, they can pay smaller benefits and get the maximum benefits.

Seeing that the Red Lady and the others had left the venue, Yeshan Yichao asked thoughtfully: "Lord, after talking about it today, the minister feels that this Ming Empire is not as powerful as it seems on the surface, and it will be defeated by a few losers." "Most of the Wukou who ravaged the southeast coast are actually composed of Chinese, but there are still some real Wu, seventy or eighty percent of the Zhenwu are losers in the Warring States period, and the other part is the local powerful forces in Kyushu, and it is not bad for Noyama Yoshitomo to say that they are losers.

Zheng Heng sneered and said, "Defeat, it's still too early to say this." But decidily speaking, it was indeed a big slap in the face, once the Ming Empire came to its senses, who is the final winner? However, even captives have the value of captives, and now, they are more anxious than we are. Pick out three or four thousand devout believers from among the captives and increase their food? Well, and give them a shaved at the same time, to make a difference! ”

After listening to this, Noyama Masahima nodded slightly, and the tens of thousands of captured Honganji Xianru led a group of people, of which about two or three thousand people were the most devout people, these people have been completely brainwashed by Honganji, and the rest of the people can still be reformed as long as they are reformed through labor.

Ishikawa Hisataka was stunned for a moment and asked, "Does the lord mean to make them all monks?" ”

Zheng Heng nodded slightly, and said: "There are indeed considerations in this regard, they are resentful, if they return to the country in the future, I am afraid that it will not be conducive to our rule, and they will be shaved into monks to distinguish them, even if they return in the future, they can be distinguished." ”

Ishikawa Hisataka suddenly said: "My lord, I heard that the monks of the Han region burned incense on the top of their heads in order to purify their bodies. This is not available in our country, if there is a ring scar after shaving, it is different from our monks, and even if you return, you can distinguish it. ”

Zhengheng did not object, and the burning of ring scars on the head was indeed an original invention of Chinese monks, which began to prevail in the Yuan Dynasty, and continued after the Ming and Qing dynasties, and was abolished at the end of the 20th century. He agreed to this suggestion only to distinguish himself from the Japanese monks, and he did not know the impact of this matter. (To be continued.) )