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After Abe Tadaaki was forced to resign from the post of Lao Chu, the North Sea Fleet did not immediately intervene in the affairs of Japan, but on the contrary relaxed the pressure on the shogunate. 《√

Perhaps, this can further intensify the contradiction between Sakai Tadashi and others and Abe Tadaaki.

And the Tokugawa shogunate, which lost Abe's Mid-Autumn Festival, made a comatose move.

Following the issuance of the edict to expel people, Sakai Tadashi and others were eager to control the shogunate army, and began to wantonly squeeze out Abe Tadaaki's henchmen in the army.

In the battle of Sekigahara, it was defeated again by Yui Masayuki, and it was a fiasco, once again annihilated, captured tens of thousands of horses, and the shogunate army that entered Sekigahara retreated for a hundred miles, only to barely regain its foothold.

Seeing the drastic change in shape, the emperor of Kyoto finally made up his mind to publicly support Yui Masayuki, a move that was of extraordinary significance and caused a huge shock throughout Japan.

For a long time, although the emperor of Japan did not have real power, he had a name for righteousness.

At this time, Tokugawa Iemitsu had just died, and the new shogun was only ten years old, and Sakai Tadakatsu and others made another coma to drive people away, and the army was defeated.

After the statement of the Japanese emperor, the number of ronins who defected to Yui Masayuki increased greatly. The daimyo of the feudal states also began to change, and they disobeyed the shogunate's orders, and some even refused to carry them out outright.

The undercurrents of the whole of Japan are turbulent, and there is a sense of great change. For the Tokugawa shogunate, the shape shì can be described as a sharp turn, and Sakai Tadakatsu and others began to be absurd;

The armies of the vassal states refused to obey the order and could not collect them, and the tens of thousands of troops on the front line had just suffered defeat, the soldiers were sluggish, and rumors were spreading.

Under the panic of Masayuki Hoshina, he proposed to invite Abe Tadaaki back to clean up the mess, and Sakai Tadashi and Matsudaira Nobutsuna and others were willing to do it.

If Abe Tadaaki is invited back at this time, it will be tantamount to admitting that he is very incompetent. If there is something, you can only rely on Abe to keep your loyalty?

Even if they died, it was impossible for Sakai Tadakatsu and Matsudaira Nobutsuna to agree to invite Abe Tadaaki back at this time.

Of course, they don't want to die, so what can they do? The current crisis must be solved as much as possible.

After urgent deliberations between Sakai Tadakatsu, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, and Matsudaira Noriju, it was decided that Sakai Tadashi would come forward and seek help from Wei Zhengdao, the ambassador of the Qin State, who had been slightly more injured.

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Daqin, Nanjing.

The palace of senior ministers once every five days of the Chang Dynasty, first the military department reported that the sea was like the wind to defeat the Mughal army. and asked the imperial court to resell the obsolete second-hand weapons to Otesa and other countries, and the ocean-going fleet captured the port of Gaolangbu in Ceylon, but the Dutch warships have avoided the fact that they have not fought.

The Governor of the Navy, Di Zhongxing, said: "Your Majesty, the situation in India is complicated, after all, the ocean-going fleet has limited strength, if the Dutch have been avoiding the war, it is likely to pose a huge threat to the sea trade routes of our Great Qin, and then transfer half of the warships of the South China Sea Fleet to India." In order to gain the dominance of India as much as possible. ”

Qin Mu was noncommittal, turned his head and asked He Liang, the secretary of the military department, "How is the progress of the war in Jiaozhi and Dongwu?" ”

Now Cochin and Dongwu are actually still in turmoil, although it is mainly the 6th Army that is responsible for commanding the local servant army to fight. However, many localities need the cooperation of the South China Sea Fleet, and if we want to transfer the South China Sea Fleet's forces to India, we have to first consider the situation on the Indochina Peninsula.

He Liang replied: "Qi Xià, the current war is still smooth." It is estimated that within six years, the comprehensive eradication of the indigenous people of the Indochina Peninsula will be completed. At present, the South China Sea Fleet is mainly patrolling and defending the coast of Jiaozhi, and some warships will be dispatched to India. Probably not a problem. ”

The Qin army only occupied a few large cities on the Indochina Peninsula and the main grain-producing areas of the nearby plains, and currently organized an army of 70,000 servants in Dongyu to clear the natives in the mountainous areas, and the fighting was actually very fierce, with countless people dying in the war every day.

Jiaozhi also organized nearly 60,000 servant troops to fight against the remnants of the resistance forces, which can be described as a raging war, but Daqin invested very little in it, mainly the servant army fought against the local recalcitrant natives, so the victory or defeat of the war did not affect the nerves of the Nanjing court too much.

Great Qin didn't even set up a province in the Indochina Peninsula, only changed a Shangjun City and Wang Ben City, Qin Mu meant to let such a war be fought in the Indochina Peninsula for ten years, and consume a large number of local populations, which sounded cruel, but for the sake of long-term peace and stability in the future, Qin Mu did it ruthlessly.

Now He Liang said that it will only take about six years, which means that the progress is indeed very smooth.

"In that case, let Zheng Sihai send half of the warships to India. As for selling obsolete weapons to India, there is no need to discuss this, and the Ministry of War can make preparations for it, and as long as the price is right, it can sell as much as it can. ”

The proportion of smoothbore guns in the Ming Dynasty army was already very high, and after the Great Qin dominated the world, a large number of smoothbore guns were obtained, many of which have been returned, and that is because there were no buyers before, so they could only do that.

Now that there are buyers, there is no need to return to the furnace, and selling it can be more than ten times more profitable than returning to the furnace.

In this regard, the ministers of the DPRK and China have no objections, Daqin's weapons are constantly updated, and those smoothbore guns with short range and limited power have long been out of everyone's eyes.

At this time, Zou Chengfang, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry followed the urgent report of Tianshan Province, in the Karamay area on the edge of the Junggar Pandi, there is a large number of asphalt mines, and it is preliminarily estimated that its reserves will be no less than the asphalt mines in Guangyuan, Sichuan. ”

Hearing this news, Qin Mulong Yan was happy, because now all the states and counties in Daqin are raising their own funds to build roads, and a large amount of natural asphalt is needed, so the imperial court ordered all localities to pay attention to exploration, but they did not expect that natural asphalt mines appeared first in the distant Tianshan Province.

Qin Mu immediately said: "Tianshan Province is far away, if the imperial court to mine, I am afraid that the gains outweigh the losses, so let's do our best to formulate a set of contracted mining plans, and contract the asphalt ore in Tianshan Province to merchants for mining, so as to reduce the loss of the imperial court." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Because of a holy decree a while ago, the enthusiasm for road construction in various states and counties can be described as burning.

As long as you are innocent, you will have the opportunity to get an eight-grade "councilor" for 5,000 taels to repair the road;

Although such "councilors" do not have the opportunity to be promoted, they have the power to write directly to the Son of Heaven, and at the same time have the right to check the accounts of the state and county treasury at the end of each year, and if there is a deficit, they can directly impeach the local officials to the Son of Heaven. This made the local wealthy flock to it.

Of course, such a good thing, everyone has broken their heads, and it is not something you can get lightly;

According to the population of each prefecture and county, the imperial court stipulates the corresponding number of "councilors" of the eight grades, and for every 10,000 people, only one "councilor" is given, for example, if your county has a population of 50,000, then there are five "councillors" at most.

Since there are regulations on the number of "parliamentarians", everyone wants to do it, and there are more people who contribute money, and the local state governments can only elect the top few who have the most money to do it.

Now in the wealthy states and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, the identity of a "councilor", if you don't have tens of thousands of dragon coins, it is impossible for you to take your turn. Everyone else is throwing money into it.

Qin Mu did this, it seemed that he was implementing the old practice of Zhu Yuanzhang as a civilian governor, but in fact, he had more far-reaching considerations, and the ministers thought that he was taking the opportunity to collect money to build roads, but in fact, this was only one of his purposes.

It is conceivable that many of those who can spend huge sums of money here to obtain the status of "parliamentarians" must be local industrialists and businessmen, and Qin Mu wants to use guò in this way to support the capitalist class in disguise and strengthen the main body of the social economy, and over time, he can compete with the traditional gentry class.

Wealthy people in various prefectures and counties who are interested in donating money to build roads will sit together and write down the amount of their contributions on a small piece of paper, and the local officials will collect it, and then open the note on the spot, and those who contribute more money will get the status of "councillors." If you don't get the status of a "councilor" with a small contribution, the money will not be returned to you.

At this point, some wealthy households in the southeast of the country have obtained as much as 300,000 dragon coins for road construction at one time, which is really easier than robbing a bank.

This kind of thing naturally aroused criticism from many people, saying that the imperial court was buying and selling officials in disguise, but Qin Mu had been pretending to be deaf and dumb.

He has ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to collect the surplus money from those prefectures and counties that have received a large amount of money for road repair, and distribute the surplus money to those poor counties for road repair, which will be planned by the imperial court and distributed to those poor counties for road repair.

After talking about the asphalt, the right attendant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gan Nan, came out and said: "Your Majesty, the envoys of Britain and Portugal have arrived in Ningbo and asked to meet His Majesty, and the envoys of the four countries of Otesa have also arrived, and they want to officially request His Majesty to be canonized. ”

Qin Mu listened and said casually: "Then these envoys will appreciate the demeanor of my Great Qin, and when the envoys from various countries enter Beijing, they will wrap the trunks of the streets of the capital with all kinds of silk."

(To be continued!)

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