"Miura-kun, has King Bo agreed to your request?" Miura Yuzhen had just returned to the tent where he was staying when he heard someone ask, and many people asked anxiously at the same time.
Miura Yuzhen didn't care about these questions at first. He wanted to take out the tea set and make a pot of tea first, but his ears suddenly heard a very familiar voice. The hand that had already reached for the tea set stopped in mid-air and turned around.
Looking at the crowd, he noticed a man wearing a light blue coat and a bamboo hat made of thatch. Although he did not see the appearance of this man, Miura Yuzhen had a smile on his face and said: "Fujiwara
Jun, have you come to Mayapan City?"
"Do you recognize me?" the person named Fujiwara-kun asked.
When he said this, Miura Yuzhen had already walked over, reached out and patted his shoulder, and whispered at the same time: "You can't be wrong, this must be Fujiwara-kun's shoulder." Then he enlarged his voice and said: "If you are Fujiwara-kun, I will
If I can’t recognize him, who else can I recognize?”
"Haha." The man laughed loudly, picked up the bamboo hat he was wearing with his left hand, and joked: "That's not necessarily true. Maybe there is a prostitute you frequent that you can recognize."
Miura Yuzhen also laughed a few times, walked to the table with him, took off his shoes and sat on the Japanese tatami, and asked others to bring a pot of wine and two wine glasses, fill one of the wine glasses with wine and put it on the
In front of Fujiwara Keijiu, he smiled at him again and said: "This is the last bottle of sake I brought from Edo. You should drink it sparingly."
"Do you still have the sake you brought back then? I have already drank all the sake I brought." As he spoke, Fujiwara Keiji picked up the wine glass and took a sip, and said half-jokingly: "Well, drink it.
After drinking so much, I still feel that the sake in my hometown is the best. It’s just that sake is a little too rare. Although the ocean is relatively calm, there are very few people bringing wine over, and several princes of the Ming Dynasty unanimously banned wine making.
Often there are only coarse soju and fruit wine that should not be considered wine at all, and there are very few and expensive. Being able to drink sake again after a few years, I actually feel like crying."
"In a few years, it won't be necessary in a few years. We won't have to look at the faces of the princes of the Ming Dynasty and obey their orders." Miura Yuzhen said firmly.
Yes, what Miura Yuzhen said to Zhu Yun just now is not entirely a lie. He does like to explore, and he is indeed interested in whether the earth under his feet is a sphere and whether it has boundaries. But what he explores
The purpose was not to open up a living space for the people of the Ming Dynasty, but to open up a living space for the Japanese.
People often say that the population of the Ming Dynasty was very large, with more people and less land, but in fact, the population density of Japan to the east of the Ming Dynasty was much greater than that of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, Japan only had three major islands, namely Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku.
The area is less than 300,000 square kilometers, but there are already more than 10 million people; the total population of the Ming Dynasty is about 70 million at this time, excluding the vassal state, and the actual controlled territory is about 5 million square kilometers, not including the vassal state. Japan
The population density is nearly three times that of the Ming Dynasty.
And this has been the case in Japan for a long time, with a population of more than 10 million and a territorial area that has not changed much.
Therefore, in Japan, those nobles or samurai classes who are concerned about the country and the people have always wanted to find another place that can accommodate large tracts of land and expand it into Japanese territory; Japan has been attacking the Minami Ainu land from top to bottom all year round, and has
The greed on the Korean Peninsula is a manifestation of this consciousness. After discovering such a vast land as the Hanzhou Continent, how could they not think of incorporating this land into Japanese ownership?
In fact, Miura Yuzhen and Fujiwara Keikyu accompanied Zhu Bai to the Hanzhou continent. After being shocked that there was such a vast land in the east of Japan, they quickly began to think about occupying a piece of land on this continent.
Territory belonging to the Japanese. Of course, they actually wanted to turn this land into Japanese land, but at least they retained their sense and knew that this was unrealistic, so they narrowed their goals.
But even this narrowed goal is not so easy to achieve. The place where Zhu Bai settled is too desolate, and all important materials are under his personal control. Even if the two of them find ways to find ships to transport some from the country, the port is
Zhu Bai's, he also ordered people to inspect everyone's things at the port, and if they found valuable things, they would take them away. Of course, Zhu Bai didn't ask for it in vain, he would pay according to the price, and he would pay according to the Han Dynasty.
The price of Hanzhou Continent is nothing to those who want to come to Hanzhou Continent to make a fortune, but it is a big trouble for those who want to open up wasteland in the wild. Although they have also tried to secretly open docks for ships to berth
, but suitable natural ports are not easy to find, and Zhu Bai will order the navy to patrol the sea, and there is not much accumulated in the past three years.
Later, Zhu Zhen came to Hanzhou Continent, and Xiao Gui and Cao followed him. They also adopted a similar method to Zhu Bai. It was also difficult for them to accumulate much useful things.
The method of joining forces with merchants from the Ming Dynasty also failed. The Yan family and several other families who sent people to the Hanzhou continent for business did not respond to their temptations at all, and seemed not to be interested in their suggestions at all. Miura Yuzhen
Thinking about it later, as big businessmen who have made a lot of money, why would they be interested in Hanzhou Continent, a place where birds don't shit? It's like a monkey who has turned on his intelligence. Of course he doesn't want to stay in the monkey group.
He wanted to be a king inside, but wanted to ask for immortality. Even if the Yan family was looked down upon in the Ming Dynasty because they were severely punished by the emperor, it would be easy to move to the countries around the Ming Dynasty.
Later, Zhu Zhen came up with the idea of leading troops south to open up new territory. Miura Tomozhen thought carefully and decided to lead some of the relocated Japanese to go south. It would be difficult to open up the situation in the north, and he might be able to make progress in a new place.
However, Kinchuan Castle was also a place they had been operating for a long time, and they were unwilling to give it up. After some discussion, the two decided that Fujiwara Keikyu would stay at Kinchuan Castle while Miura Tomozhen would go south.
Zhu Zhen easily defeated the barbarians in the Valley of Mexico. Although Miura Yuzhen was surprised that the local barbarians were so weak, he was also a little happy. After all, he and the Japanese people he brought were also in the city. If he was defeated, he might be able to survive.
But most of the people would be captured by the barbarians; he also got many seeds of new crops. Because the seeds he sent back south to explore were too few, Miura Tomozhen didn't get a ship to return to the country, which can be regarded as a solution to the domestic problem.
contributed to the food crisis.
But the idea of occupying a separate place was still unattainable. When they arrived in the Valley of Mexico, Zhu Zhen adopted a more extreme approach than Zhu Bai, nationalizing all the means of production and distributing them according to needs (Zhu Zhen's needs). It was even less possible for them to save
What happened? Even ordinary Japanese people have lost their personal freedom and must do things according to the rules without stopping for a day.
Just when Miura Tomozhen was getting more worried, Zhu Yun came to Hanzhou Continent and followed Zhu Zhen to the Valley of Mexico. After Miura Tomozhen seized the opportunity to get to know him, he thought that his idea of occupying a separate place would be realized in him.
It may be possible. When he wanted to occupy the Yucatan Peninsula as his own fiefdom, Miura Tomozhen actively signed up and asked to follow him. Most of the Japanese he brought also asked to follow him. According to Zhu Zhen and Zhu Yun
The agreement reached was that he would allocate part of his population to Zhu Yun, and if someone volunteered to follow him, he had no choice but to agree.
When he arrived at Mayapan City and learned about Zhu Yun's method of governing the country and the geography around the Yucatan Peninsula, he was even more excited and trembling. Thinking that the opportunity had come, he immediately wrote a letter to Fujiwara Keiku telling him about it, and he
He wanted to start preparations; but at this moment, he received Zhu Yun's order and appointed him as a general in the army.
Of course, Miura Tomozhen couldn't agree. He was the backbone of the Japanese in Zhu Yun's fiefdom. If he didn't handle it personally, it would be difficult for things to go ahead. After two days and two nights of preparation, Miura Tomozhen prepared what he said to Zhu Yun about his resignation.
If so, he successfully resigned from his official position.
"Zhu Yun is a typical literati!" Miura Yuzhen continued: "Although he is a member of the Ming Dynasty royal family, he is also a literati. Literary people are the best to deal with. As long as you understand their preferences and prescribe the right medicine, there will be no disadvantage.
I have already started to observe him carefully, and of course I can prepare words to successfully persuade him."
"Literati are the easiest to deal with?" Fujiwara Keiku was a little confused: "But how come I heard that Ming Dynasty's literati were very difficult to deal with, and all the emperors in the past could not do anything to them?" There is almost no literati class in Japan similar to the Ming Dynasty. Fujiwara
Jing Jiu had never thought of going to Ming Dynasty to make a living, and of course he had never understood it.
"Of course!" Miura Yuzhen became even more interested when he heard Fujiwara Keiku's words and said: "What scholars want is nothing more than fame and fortune, which are easy to deal with. As a member of the royal family, Zhu Yun's goals are naturally different from those of ordinary scholars.
, what they pursue is probably the highest pursuit of literati, so that Confucianism can spread to more places and more people can learn Confucianism, which is what they call enlightenment."
"Such a person is both easy to deal with and difficult to deal with. It is easy to deal with because as long as your actions conform to his ideals, you can please him; it is difficult to deal with because there are very few people whose actions can conform to his ideals.
It just so happens that what I did,” Miura Yuzhen said with a smile, “is very consistent with his ideals, at least on the surface, which is enough to impress him.”
"It's a pity that although on the surface you are pioneering Confucianism for the people of the Ming Dynasty, you are actually pioneering for my people in Japan." Fujiwara Keiji said with a smile.
"That's it! Let him cry in the future!" Miura Yuzhen snorted twice. Fujiwara Keikou naturally matched a few more sentences.
They chatted while drinking, and soon it was noon. Miura Tomozhen asked the low-level samurai to cook again, fried a few vegetables, and ate with Fujiwara Keiku. After the meal, both of them were a little drunk and fell asleep.
Took a nap.
At the beginning of the afternoon, the two woke up, wiped their faces, and began to seriously discuss how to implement Miura Yuzhen's plan.
"I heard from Mayan traders who used to travel on the eastern sea that there is an island not far east of the Yucatan Peninsula, about a few hundred miles away, and it is not small in size. It is about the size of Kyushu Island, and
Most of the island is plain with few mountains. Although it is now covered by forests, as long as it is developed, it will surely be developed into fertile farmland."
"The best thing is that this is an island. Compared with the mainland, the island has an independence and is not easily controlled by the regime on the mainland. Isn't that the case in Japan? North Korea, which is connected to the mainland, has always been controlled by the mainland.
The countries on the mainland are closely controlled. If there is a disobedient political power in this place, the Central Empire will definitely send troops to eliminate it. But we, Japan, are only separated from the mainland by a small strait, and the central power on the mainland has not forced us to obey.
It means. It is best to obey, but disobedience is acceptable. Until the current emperor of Ming Dynasty."
"How can we Japanese be compared to Koreans? This analogy is inappropriate," Fujiwara Keikou said.
Miura Yuzhen paused and didn't say much. Although the Japanese and Koreans are indeed different, in his opinion, this is not the main reason why Japan has always been independent. And it can also be seen from the experiences of Taiwan and Hainan. On the mainland
His regime has long ruled the closer Hainan, but Taiwan has not been included in the rule until now. However, this is not the focus of what he said today, so he will not continue to argue with Fujiwara Keiku.
