Chapter 259
Zhu Zhanji put the steam mothership on the sea to show off his power and play a certain role, allowing the Koreans and Japanese to experience the powerful maritime power of the Ming Dynasty at close range.
Zhu Zhanji stayed in North Korea for so long and finally prepared to leave for Japan.
"Your Highness, please stay for a while. There are still many people who want to listen to your teachings these days in North Korea." Lee still lowered his identity.
"After a long time, we will have more opportunities to come to North Korea in the future. With the development of studying abroad, we will have close contacts in the future. We don't rush to this moment. If you have time next year, you can also go to our Guangzhou Prefecture as a play."
"Okay, then we will set out after your highness returns." Li Qiman smiled.
Then he said: "Your Highness, the North Korean army will practice in the east, and there are currently 80,000 troops close to the eastern coast."
The eastern part of Korea is separated from Japan by a strait. Li Qi's meaning is also very obvious. If Zhu Zhanji is useful, they are willing to help. After all, it is not only the Ming Dynasty who is threatened by Japanese pirates, but also the same is true for North Korea.
Because of the prosperity of the Ming coast in recent years, most of the pirates here have begun to nuisance North Korea. Although the income from nuisance North Korea is not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, they are also nuisanced.
Since Zhu Zhanji's steam mothership cleared out pirates on the sea, North Korea's coast has become much more stable. If Zhu Zhanji has any actions against Japan, the North Korean king will naturally not mind helping him. Why not kill two birds with one stone?
Zhu Zhanji and Li Qi saluted each other, waved goodbye to the warship and sailed towards Japan.
After the ship had been traveling for a while, Black Snake Ji whispered: "Your Highness, you are so kind of treating North Korea too favorably."
Zhu Zhanqi smiled. Historically, North Korea, the Ming Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty were very strong vassal relations, and North Korea's position was also very important to the Central Plains, so Zhu Zhanqi must hold it firmly in his hands.
But in a place like North Korea, if you let the people of the Central Plains come to survive, they will not come, but this place cannot be left alone, so they have to follow us willingly.
If North Korea is very restless in history, Zhu Zhanji is not so easy to negotiate.
It is very important to both benevolence and power. Zhu Zhanji performed kindness with great fanfare. As for power, the steam mothership that lies between the waters of the Three Kingdoms is Zhu Zhanji's greatest power.
"North Korea is different. They learn the culture and language of our Ming Dynasty. Since they learn it, they will learn it thoroughly. When their students arrive at the Ming Dynasty, they will have a special course to study the history of the Ming Dynasty. They will only know the history of the Ming Dynasty."
Black Snake Ji stood aside without saying anything. Her father, King Jin Han, has also surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty treated her well. But she still couldn't bear to be shocked when she saw North Korea's treatment. She was simply chewed the rice and fed it into her mouth.
This is what ordinary people think of Zhu Zhanji's actions in North Korea. Even many people in North Korea call Zhu Zhanji the saint of the Ming Dynasty, which was simply sent by God to help them.
But when some of your basic industries and basic abilities are in the hands of others, even if your country is developing well on the surface, your base will always be controlled by others, and the money you make is mine.
Zhu Zhanqi built a street in Xiangjiang Port, Guangzhou Prefecture, called Great Wall Street, the headquarters or district headquarters of large enterprises such as the Ming Central Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Australian Iron and Mineral Company, etc., all are on this street. It is full of weight and has a huge amount of wealth. Financial giants, including the new generation of paper currency that Zhu Zhanqi wants to make now, will also be circulated on this street in the emergency improvement of the Ming Central Bank.
"The Sword"
Zhu Zhanji will hand over the task of developing North Korea. The ultimate beneficiary of various industries in North Korea in the future will be this street. The bosses behind this street are the Zhujiang County Prince's Mansion and Guangdong Xuancheng Gongsi. Great Wall Street is also the economic wall of our Ming Dynasty.
So will North Korea in the future be the North Korea of the King of Joseon or the Great Wall Street?
This is possible for North Korea, but Japan is different. They are far from being as close to the Ming Dynasty as North Korea, and they themselves are not related to the Ming Dynasty.
The former general of the Muromachi Shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshiman, once sent Hakata's merchant fat and monk Zu A to the Ming Dynasty under the name of "The Evil Kingdom's quasi-honored morality". At that time, Prince Huailiang's power declined, and Jianwenjun named Yoshiman the "King of the East Japan" and asked Ashikaga Yoshiman to ban the Japanese pirates. When the envoy returned to Japan, the Jingnan Incident occurred in the Ming Dynasty when the King of Yan Zhu Di seized the throne.
However, because Ashikaga Yoshimoto was the King of Japan enthroned by Jianwenjun, Zhu Di refused to recognize it.
After Zhu Di seized the throne, he sent envoys to all directions. In the first year of Yongle, envoys from Ryukyu, Japan and Siam countries went to China to pay tribute and establish a relationship of vassals and sacrificial ties.
Ashikaga Yoshiman sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to congratulate the crown prince. At that time, Japanese pirates in Ma and Yiqi were harassed along the Ming Dynasty. Ming Chengzu asked Ashikaga Yoshiman to arrest him. Yoshiman sent troops to annihilate the Japanese pirates and offered 20 Japanese pirate leaders.
After that, Ashikaga Yoshima frequently paid tribute and was awarded by the Ming Dynasty, and formally established diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty issued a proof of the Conformity (a certificate similar to a proof of the surviving card) to Japan, and Japan traded tribute to the Ming Dynasty in the name of a vassal state. The Ming Dynasty gave Ashikaga Yoshima a golden seal, Ashikaga Yoshima replied to himself as "King of Japan, and Yoshima was the Minister of the Innate of the People's Republic of China". Japan officially recognized itself as a vassal state of China.
Of course, this is only nominal, but the Ming Dynasty had no restraint ability on Japan. Even before the steam warships went into the sea, the Japanese pirate rebellion became increasingly fierce.
When Yoshiman died, Yoshiki Ashikaga held real power. In the name of "The Crown Prince of Japan, Yoshiki," he sent an envoy to report his father's death to the Ming Dynasty; Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty sent a central official Zhou Quan to pay condolences and conferred Yoshiki as the "King of Japan". However, his complacent to the Ming Dynasty caused strong dissatisfaction with the leader Spo Yoshiki and others, and Yoshiki Ashikaga finally cut off trade with the Ming Dynasty.
Ashikaga Yoshikata said that our country has not surrendered to foreign countries since ancient times, and claimed to change Ashikaga Yoshikata's foreign policy, which also made the Japanese pirate rebellion in the Ming Dynasty more and more serious.
It was not until the emergence of the steam warship, the Battle of Zhoushan, and the return of Ashikaga Yoshikata to Japan that Japan once again expressed its desire to restart trade to the Ming Dynasty and offered gifts to express goodwill. After dragging them down for two years, Zhu Di re-enacted Ashikaga Yoshikata as the king of Japan.
However, after the previous lesson, everyone knew that the Japanese did not value the so-called vassal relationship. Unlike North Korea, they did not have the respect they deserved for their sect leader country.
Zhu Zhanji's boat passed Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, entered the bay and arrived at Osaka.
The livelihood situation in Japan is significantly better than that in North Korea, and the prosperity of residential ports on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is better.
Osaka's port is the largest port in Japan now. Because it is close to Kyoto, it has convenient transportation, and the Osaka area itself is one of the most developed places in Japan. Since communicating with the Ming Dynasty, many Japanese people have moved into Osaka.
In this era, port cities have the most opportunities, and many young people come here to work hard.
Zhu Zhanji informed Japan before leaving, and sent someone to inform him the day before arriving in Hong Kong. At this time, the Emperor and General of Japan were all in Osaka, waiting to welcome the Prince of Zhujiang.
As an old acquaintance, Ashikaga Yoshikazu of course came to Osaka, and Zhang Xianqi, the ambassador of the Ming Dynasty to Japan, also went to the port to wait.
Ordinary Japanese people have never seen this posture. They usually have no chance to meet the Japanese emperor. Their spiritual leaders also appeared at the port to pick up people in person. The security level around them was raised to the highest level. Almost the entire Osaka port was suspended, and all merchant ships that wanted to dock had to take them back.
"Who are you going to welcome? With such a big battle, it is said that His Majesty the Emperor is still inside." The people watching the port were discussing.
"It is said to be a prince of the Ming Dynasty."
"Prince King? The prince is worth so many people coming, I thought it was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty."
"This prince is very powerful. Did you see the "master wife mothership" on the sea before? It was created by him." The steam mothership is very famous. Because there is no special Japanese language, they all use Chinese to describe it, but because of the accent, it is the maternal wife mothership.
"Then this prince is powerful enough, even such a big ship can be created."
"Not that? According to my Ming friends, this Zhujiang Prince is really amazing, so you see General Ashikaga and His Majesty the Emperor attach great importance to him so much."
When Zhu Zhanqi's warship slowly sailed into the harbor, General Ashikaga Yoshihiko and everyone prepared a grand welcome ceremony.
But Zhu Zhanqian was very careful and asked Yang Song to follow him with the guards and protect him tightly.
Zhang Xianqi led the way. After a few years, he had not seen him take off his beard and saluted respectfully: "My minister, Zhang Xianqi, I have seen His Highness the Prince of Zhujiang." His voice was loud, and Zhu Zhanqi hurriedly supported him: "Amistant Zhang, please give up on the gift. Thank you for your hard work over the years."
The two of them passed many letters, and this time they followed Zhang Xianqi with his wife. When he was in Japan for the third year, he took his wife over. Now his wife is pregnant and is ready to return to the Ming Dynasty.
Generally speaking, there will be no women following this era, but Zhang Xianqi brought his wife, and Zhu Zhanqi also greeted Zhang Xianqi's wife in an abnormal manner.
Then Zhang Xianqi led Zhu Zhanqi to the leaders of Japan.
"Your Highness, this is the Emperor of Japan, called Emperor Hiroshi." Zhang Xianqixian introduced the Emperor who only had symbolic meaning, which made Ashikaga Yoshika dissatisfied and immediately stood up.
"His Highness of the Prince of Zhujiang, I am lucky to meet you in the meeting."
Zhu Zhanqian's smiling face did not change at all. He said to Ashikaga Yoshihisa: "The King of Japan, Ashikaga Yoshihisa, have heard of it for a long time, and I'm lucky to meet you."
The words "Odd King" were specially emphasized, because the name of the "Odd King" was correct in terms of the Ming Dynasty's canonization. Ashikaga Yoshiki was the "Odd King" who was conferred by the Ming Dynasty, not the Emperor.
Zhang Xianqixian introduced that Emperor Hiroshi gave face to Ashikaga Yoshiji, Zhu Zhanqi called Emperor Japan and gave face to Emperor Hiroshi. As far as Zhu Zhanqi knew, the relationship between the Emperor and the General had never been very good.
"You must go to Kyoto. I think you can arrange other places for me when you are at that time." Zhu Zhanqiu couldn't say too many places, so he didn't seem to know too much about Japan.
But Ishimi Ginyama must go, and Hiroshima must go, because in Li Xianyu's message, Hiroshima is the base for Japan's steamships, and she is now in Hiroshima.
"Okay, okay, I will make arrangements. Your Highness will have to play in Japan for a while." Ashikaga Yoshiki's idea was to see if he could get some resources from the Ming Dynasty from Zhu Zhanji as a breakthrough.
Because Zhu Zhanji's reputation and reputation are mixed, Ashikaga Yoshiji heard that he was also very greedy for money. As long as he is a greedy person, he has the chance to start.
Bang
Just as the group met enthusiastically, a gunshot suddenly interrupted everything.
After the gunshot, someone fell into a pool of blood...
Chapter completed!