jdhmnovel Chapter 791 This is your fiefdom, brother-in-law!
Chapter 791 This is your fiefdom, brother-in-law!
"Choose the stronger one to fight!"
Yu Tongyuan, his face full of excitement, spoke first: "Cripple the strong one down to about the same level as the weak one, and then fight whoever is strong and help whoever is weak, so that the shorty will be trapped in the North-South conflict for generations to come!"
Zhu Biao nodded in satisfaction and said, "No, that's exactly what I meant. Pick the stronger one and beat it, so that the shorty will be stuck in the struggle between the North and the South."
As long as the short and ugly areas continue to develop between the north and south, the Ming Dynasty will have a steady stream of free laborers.
They could even reclaim the silver mines and gold mines without shedding a drop of blood.
Once the Ming Dynasty completely eliminates the Hu Yuan, those short and ugly people will have no further use, and then we'll give them a good slap.
I'm so clever!
However, Yang Shaofeng chuckled and said sarcastically, "If you choose to fight the strong one, the weak one won't be grateful to the Ming Dynasty."
"At the same time, Gu Chengzhi also lost his original value."
"Most importantly, the problem of Japanese pirates not only cannot be contained, but may even escalate."
Zhu Biao paused slightly, then asked, "The Japanese pirate problem? Gu Chengzhi?"
Yang Shaofeng nodded and said, "According to the information gathered by the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the Northern Japanese are stronger than the Southern Japanese, and most of the pirates who plunder the coast are ronin who were defeated in the war in the Southern Japanese."
According to the "rules of the martial arts world" in Japan, samurai are not allowed to engage in production and must rely on their lords for survival.
The long-standing conflict between the Southern and Northern Japanese resulted in the deaths of many lords during the wars, and the samurai who depended on them naturally lost their masters and became "ronin".
Pay attention.
Ronin originated in the Kamakura Shogunate period and began to exist in large numbers during the Northern and Southern Wa period. They then evolved into Wako (Japanese pirates), and after the collapse of the Shogunate system, the number of ronin in Wa (Japan) reached more than 100,000.
After the Meiji Restoration, some ronin were employed by the Japanese military and served as the vanguard of Japan's aggression and expansion.
For example, after Japan replaced Germany and occupied Qingdao, in order to consolidate its rule and keep Qingdao permanently, it moved tens of thousands of short and ugly people to Qingdao, many of whom were ronin, who were not popular in Japan.
Even after China regained sovereignty over Qingdao, these Japanese ronin continued to commit crimes, including murder, arson, arms smuggling, opium trafficking, rape, and counterfeiting. Their criminal record was appalling, and a large number of ronin were found in Japan's so-called intelligence teams, vanguard teams, and special operations teams.
Then, these scoundrels, who are despised by Japanese society, are portrayed by some sycophants as righteous and chivalrous heroes, knights-errant, national heroes, great men, righteous thieves, chivalrous men, and heroes.
This is not hard to understand, because the video on Douyin of him walking hunched over towards the dragon throne, accompanied by the music "Too late to tell the story, so dramatic," made countless people feel sorry for him, saying "he has to buy a ticket to go home." In fact, even Puyi, who was a Manchu from outside the Great Wall during the late Qing Dynasty and who was supposed to "not let the Qing emperor return to the east," had a large number of ronin under his command when he was establishing the so-called Manchukuo.
So, when Puyi was in prison, they didn't come to his rescue. After the incident, they transformed into "Tongtianwen" and naturally tried to whitewash their ronin father.
Yang Shaofeng pursed his lips and continued, "Most ronin come from the southern Japanese. If we send troops to attack the northern Japanese now, a large number of ronin will also emerge from the northern Japanese. That's one reason."
"Secondly, the greatest value of that fool Gu Chengzhi to the Southern Japanese is that he can advise them and help them defeat the Northern Japanese."
"Thirdly, it was the Southern Japanese who killed the Ming envoy."
"Therefore, what we should be doing now is going to the southern Japanese."
"First, to seek justice for the Ming envoy who was killed; second, to eradicate the Japanese pirates; and third, to make the Southern Japanese pirates even more dependent on Gu Chengzhi."
Zhu Biao nodded thoughtfully, while Yu Tongyuan immediately summoned his deputy and ordered, "Send word to go to the south of the short, ugly man!"
Yang Shaofeng curled his lip again and said, "The Marquis of Nan'an is really impatient."
Yu Tongyuan was slightly taken aback and asked, "What's wrong?"
Yang Shaofeng retorted directly, "Does the Marquis of Nan'an believe that the territory of the Southern Japanese is necessarily located to the south of Japan?"
Yu Tongyuan was somewhat bewildered.
They call them both Southern and Northern Japanese pirates, shouldn't the division be based on territory?
"No."
"The so-called Southern and Northern Wa refers to the fact that the capital of the Southern Wa was located in Yoshino, in the south, while the capital of the Northern Wa was located in Heian-kyo, in the north, hence the distinction between the Southern and Northern Wa."
"In fact, the daimyo who supported the southern Japanese pirates and those who supported the northern Japanese pirates probably had their fiefdoms right next to each other."
"It's not simply a matter of the Northern Japanese being in the north and the Southern Japanese being in the south."
As Yang Shaofeng finished speaking, Yu Tongyuan immediately frowned.
"This is damn difficult."
"So, to cause trouble for the Southern Japanese, we have to go to the coast first and ask which territory belongs to the Northern Japanese and which belongs to the Southern Japanese?"
Yu Tongyuan cursed with a dark face, "You short, ugly dog, you have to divide this tiny place into Southern and Northern Japanese pirates, can't you just unify it?"
Yang Shaofeng chuckled, then pulled out a map from his pocket, spread it out, and gestured as he said, "This is Kyushu Island. This part of Higo Province is the territory ruled by Kaneyoshi and his men from the southern Japanese."
"Hizen, which is right next to Higo, is from the northern Japanese side."
"And here, the Satsuma Domain, also known as the Kagoshima Domain, was divided into the Shimazu and Iju, one being the southern Wa (Japanese) and the other the northern Wa (Japanese).
"And then there's Hyuga Province, Tayama and Ito are both from the northern Japanese."
Yu Tongyuan's face darkened even more, and he cursed, "This tiny place is divided into several kingdoms, and each kingdom is further divided into many vassal states. Does that mean that the vassal lords have to subdivide their territories even further? Don't they find it troublesome!"
Yang Shaofeng glanced at Zhu Biao and said, "Trouble?"
"It's absolutely no trouble."
"Because ever since the short and ugly people issued the Edict of Reform, the Yeonxi Code stipulates that foreign countries are divided into neighboring countries and vassal states. The neighboring country is the Great Tang, which is of equal status, while Silla, Balhae, Ezo and other countries are tributary states."
"To put it bluntly, although we can't make the Tang Dynasty pay tribute to them, we must at least offer them some psychological comfort. At the very least, we must ensure that Japan treats the Tang Dynasty as an equal."
"For example, Japan's Honshu Island is divided into Kyushu, Shikoku, Kansai, and Chugoku."
Zhu Biao's face immediately turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
Kyushu and China—if you say there's no ulterior motive behind these two names, even a dog wouldn't believe it!
Zhu Biao grew angrier the more he thought about it, but suddenly a brilliant idea struck him.
The names Kyushu and China definitely need to be changed.
But what kind of place is Japan?
This is the fiefdom of the Duke of Ying!
Zhu Biao let out a long sigh of relief and looked at Yang Shaofeng, saying, "Brother-in-law, I just remembered, this whole area of Japan is your fiefdom. You can decide what to do with it."