After capturing King Huai Liang of the Japanese country, the people were happy and excited, thinking that they had captured the king of a country and the affairs of the Japanese country would soon be settled.
His majesty's power is rare in the world, and even Sun Yan, who originally encouraged the use of troops against the Japanese, followed suit, and his reputation grew, and he secured his position as chief minister.
But in fact, this is just the wishful thinking of the people of the Ming Dynasty, or they are accustomed to being the people of the previous country. They always like to judge others by themselves and use the experience of the Ming Dynasty to apply to other countries.
Don't say that King Huairiang is not the king of the country. Even if the leader of a country is really captured, 80% of it will not solve the problem of the Japanese country.
This was a very important matter. Lao Zhu issued an order to summon several princes, including the older King Lao Wu of Zhou. They lined up in a row to listen to Prime Minister Zhang's teachings.
In addition, the court officials headed by Sun Yan, and the nobles headed by Xu Da and Tang He also all came. A correct understanding of the problems of the Japanese country was of great value to the subsequent foreign strategy, so everyone seemed particularly special.
serious.
Zhang Ximeng made it clear and said directly: "Facing the situation in overseas countries, we must have a common sense, that is, the situation in the Central Plains, our historical development, is not a matter of course, and is not something that is universally applicable! Even joking
To put it bluntly, we are the outliers. Compared with other countries, we all look out of place. If we use the experience of other countries to deal with overseas problems, we will probably end up with a bloody head."
Hearing this beginning, Zhu Di had some insights. Goryeo was not like that. The blue jade was so exploited, but it was not as good as the nobles of Goryeo. In the Ming Dynasty, people were already disgusted with dogs, and they were extremely sinister and black-hearted. Put it over to them,
It can also be used as an offering to a Bodhisattva. What Master said is not wrong at all.
Zhu Di listened happily.
Mao Gui has been in charge of foreign affairs for a long time. He also knew this and listened very carefully.
But for some officials, it is not so pleasing to the ear. We are in a foreign country? Have our five thousand years of experience and five thousand years of civilization become aliens?
This is what Zhang Ximeng said. If it were another person, he would have been drowned in saliva.
Even like Qian Tang, he firmly supported Zhang Ximeng's ideas, but in terms of external strategy, Qian Tang hoped to turn the world into China.
So even when faced with the differences between overseas and the Ming Dynasty, he tried his best to seek common ground while reserving differences. After all, sooner or later he would become a part of the Ming Dynasty, so how could he say it was different?
Faced with this idea, Zhang Ximeng could only laugh it off.
You can't say that he is wrong, you can only say that his pursuit is too ambitious and his goal is too ambitious...
"Actually, the written history of the Japanese country is not long. Strictly speaking, they entered civilization with our help. At the beginning, the Japanese country sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to follow the example of the Tang Dynasty and establish a country. For about a hundred or two hundred years, the Japanese country was in a similar situation to ours.
, also walking on the path of the rise and fall of dynasties... But then, the development of the Japanese country went awry, and this problem also comes down to the land."
"In the Japanese country, wealthy families also annexed land, with huge houses and fields, and a large number of people became tenant farmers and slaves... These wealthy families colluded with local officials and generals to form a powerful local force."
When everyone heard this, they didn't think there was any difference. After all, the Central Plains dynasties also had this problem, like the late Yuan, the late Tang, and the late Han, weren't they all like this! Then there would be a peasant uprising, reshuffle the cards, and do it again.
!
We are all too familiar with it.
It is a pity that this method does not work in the Japanese country.
First of all, the Japanese learned about the Tang Dynasty, but they did not learn everything.
They did not adopt the imperial examination system, and there was no flow of talents. Moreover, the country itself was too small, and the bureaucracy surrounding the country's leader was too weak.
From the king down to the ministers, they all relied on the inheritance from their fathers. Those days were simply more comfortable than those of Yuan Shao, the fourth generation and the third prince.
In a hundred or two hundred years, it will become a pile of pigs.
On the other hand, in the local area, powerful landowners attached themselves to local officials, recruited military men, and formed alliances through in-laws to firmly control the local area.
Layers upon layers, hard to shake.
For example, a piece of land nominally belongs to a certain landlord, but a share of the annual output must be given to the local officials, a share to a certain general, and a share to a certain courtier...
This complex control structure, coupled with weak governance capabilities, makes it impossible to implement policies such as land equalization.
Some people may ask, if top-down is not possible, then wouldn’t it also work from bottom-up, with the common people launching an uprising and reshuffling the cards?
It really doesn’t work.
The current Japanese country was like a Lay's potato chip that was run over by a car and shattered on the ground.
Coupled with the lack of education, there is no imperial examination, and there is no official mobility... the people have no sense of family and country at all, or in other words, the country they think of is just a small village.
They don't care at all about the situation outside. In other words, under the pressure one after another, they have no way to care about these things.
"At this stage of development, the imperial court of Japan lost all its power and became like a puppet. On the local level, powerful powerful forces came together to form vassal towns one after another. The country was fragmented and covered with chicken feathers."
At this time, Qian Tang suddenly stood up and asked: "Grand Master, is there no one in the Japanese country who will rise to the occasion and unify the country?"
Zhang Ximeng smiled, "Maybe, but if you study the Japanese country carefully, you will understand... Their terrain is complex, with several islands, blocked by mountains, and not even a decent plain. Although these vassal towns conquered each other, attacked and annexed each other.
But there was never a force that could unify the country... so a very evil thing emerged in Japan, called the shogun!"
Unlike the change of dynasty in the Central Plains, which requires the emperor, the change of dynasty in the Japanese country basically involves changing the shogun.
Including the Meiji Restoration, many people believe that the Meiji Restoration was a successful reform... In fact, by liberalizing the standards of the Central Plains, the Meiji Restoration was actually a change of dynasties. After all, the Meiji government was also known as the Satsuma Shogunate.
Local forces are deeply rooted and difficult to eradicate. The so-called shoguns are similar to overlords like the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, except that they are more stable.
As for the overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period, no one is willing to kill the Emperor of Zhou. They still want to respect the king and fight against the barbarians, and use the title of emperor to expand their strength and command the world.
But who among these overlords would care about the weak and incompetent Emperor Zhou?
Applying these experiences to the Japanese country, they are exactly the same.
Of course, unlike the Japanese country, our Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods not only had the talented and strategist Zheng Gege, but also countless people with lofty ideals, Confucianism, Legalism, and military strategists... Over the past few hundred years, people have successively proposed the concept of unifying the world. I think
Only by achieving unity can peace be achieved.
The only difference between them is different methods, but the goals are the same.
After many years and generations of debate, the theory of grand unification was finally formed. Then the Qin army marched eastward, uniting the world and the nine states.
This opened a new chapter for China.
It is no exaggeration to say that even two thousand years later, there are still many places where they have not even reached the stage of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and have not even formed a consensus on the unification of the country.
This also includes countries that appear to be very advanced.
They just occasionally mastered advanced technology, possessed extraordinary power, and indeed made breakthroughs in management... However, when it comes to national governance, it is a complete mess.
After all, maintaining a huge territory, a large population, consistent ideas, and an absolute consensus... This is an almost impossible task outside of China.
In a way, it may be thanks to the arrogance of those people. They look down on a shabby and messy old empire.
Perhaps it's like the scorpion in the corner stone sea that looked down on the small fish swimming around it, thinking that it could keep running rampant with its teeth and claws.
Little did they know that there had been earth-shaking changes within the other party, and what the two sides were playing was not a game of chess at all!
For Zhang Ximeng's talk, he was able to analyze the Japanese state from a high position.
Everyone present, whether civil or military, or the princes of the clan, were all thoughtful and benefited a lot.
Zhang Ximeng said: "The problem is very clear now. Chang Yuchun crusaded against the Japanese country, and the shogunate simply sent King Huailiang out to take the blame. What should we do now... should we make mistakes, or should we continue the crusade and blame the shogunate?
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Zhu Di was the first to stand up, "Of course I will continue the crusade! I will deal with Wang Baobao first, and then I will attack the Japanese country and let them know the consequences of offending the Ming Dynasty!"
Zhang Ximeng asked: "How to attack?"
"Just, in the name of King Huairiang, recruit righteous men to reshape Tsunade for the Japanese country! What a bullshit shogun, I think we can just send a governor there!"
Zhu Di looked around and thought to himself, you guys are worthless things. Japan is not a small country. Why don't you snatch it away quickly?
The King of Qin and the King of Jin remained silent, while the younger ones of the King of Zhou lowered their heads and pretended to be confused.
Master Zhang has already said that the Japanese country is a mess and not good at all, so we don’t want to go!
At this time, Tang He suddenly stood up and said, "Sir, what do you think of adding a principality to the Japanese country?"
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly laughed, "Tang He, do you want to go, or is it your child?"
Tang He said: "Let's let the younger generation do it, practice it, endure some hardships, there is nothing wrong with it."
Tang He was always like this, selfless and always at the forefront when encountering difficulties... When he led troops to develop the Miao tribe, it was very touching.
This is the case at this time, which is really rare.
However, honest people cannot always suffer in this world. Zhang Ximeng smiled and took out a box and handed it to Lao Zhu.
"Your Majesty, please look!"
Zhu Yuanzhang took it in his hand. After unfolding it, golden light suddenly shone. Old Zhu was stunned and said, "This is gold nugget!"
Zhang Ximeng said with a smile: "Indeed, even though the Japanese country has many disadvantages, its gold and silver output is indeed not low, and even exceeds that of the Ming Dynasty. We use treasure banknotes for internal transactions. However, we still need enough gold and silver to do business with the outside world.
of."
Lao Zhu laughed heartily and actually walked directly in front of Tang He and put the gold nugget into Tang He's hand.
"Here, the Tang family has a piece of this fat piece of Japanese meat! We have the final say!"
(End of chapter)
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