Zheng Zhilong hurried back to Nagasaki. To be honest, he was really tired.
When Tagawamatsu saw it, he felt very distressed and naturally asked how the situation was. However, Zheng Zhilong did not tell Tagawamatsu about the alliance because he knew that if he told Tagawamatsu about it, there might be some problems.
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Tagawa Song was an orphan. Her mother married a blacksmith in the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that the people of the Ming Dynasty raised her. Then she married Zheng Zhilong.
As the saying goes, when she gets married and obeys her husband, she has already regarded herself as a Ming Dynasty. Not only does she dress in plain clothes on weekdays, but she also speaks in Hokkien or Ming Dynasty Mandarin. For those who don’t know, if they only come into contact with Tian Chuansong, they will definitely not
I know she is a Japanese.
The education of children is the same as that of Ming Dynasty people. Hua Yi Zhibian is proud of being a Ming Dynasty person.
Zheng Zhilong knew Taguansong, so naturally he would not talk about forming an alliance. He just urged Taguansong to let her and her second son pack their things and follow him to leave Japan.
If in the future he rebels and stabs Jianlu and the Japanese country in the back, if Tagawa Song and his second son still stay in the Japanese country, they will definitely be implicated.
Therefore, he prepared to take away the mother and son.
After hearing this, Tagawa Song thought there was something wrong with Zheng Zhilong and the General's Mansion, so she quickly packed her things without asking any questions. In fact, she had long thought about going to Daming.
However, what Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that when he was about to leave Nagasaki and board the ship back, the Japanese army unexpectedly dispatched soldiers. Even the great commander Yagyu Tajima Shomonomi appeared. Although he was polite,
But he strongly disagreed with Zheng Zhilong taking away Tagawa Song and Tagawa Nanzaemon.
Li Ruolian knew the inside story and was very worried for Zheng Zhilong when he saw this situation, so he kept the matter in mind.
In the end, the group had no choice but to leave Nagasaki and return to Dongjiang Town.
On the third day after they left, Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't wait to announce the news of an alliance with the Qing Empire and would send troops to seize Korean territory.
This announcement immediately made everyone in the Japanese country burst into cheers. Being able to obtain North Korea without fighting was a great expectation for everyone in the Japanese country.
With more territory, you might be able to get your own fields, and Koreans could be used as slaves. This kind of life where only the masters live, the Japanese will have it in the future, so how can they be unhappy!
Especially the poor warriors were even more inspired.
When Tokugawa Iemitsu announced that he would rectify the military and reorganize the army, they all signed up enthusiastically, eager to become a direct army under the shogun, so that they would get more benefits.
In this way, the army directly under Tokugawa Iemitsu originally had an overwhelming advantage over the daimyo. Now that he has the Korean territory as a bargaining chip, he can form more armies directly under him and be able to suppress the daimyo in various places. This is why he decided to form an alliance.
The reason why we sent troops to Korea without worrying about rebellion by daimyo everywhere.
As for the daimyo from various places, they were originally suppressed by the Tokugawa shogunate, and their financial and human resources were weakened to the extreme. Now that they have the opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief, they naturally agree very much.
It can be said that Japan's alliance with the Qing Empire and the victory over Korea was praised by almost everyone on the Japanese side. Tokugawa Iemitsu's prestige was immediately raised to an unprecedented height.
Of course, the Japanese side needed to complete the reorganization of the army, arrange domestic forces, who would stay behind, who would go to Korea, and how to divide the Korean territory specifically. This would take a lot of time.
The Jianlu envoys received a very high welcome from the Japanese country. When they left, the streets were empty, and almost all the Japanese people went to see them off.
To them, this is not a barbarian, this is the God of Wealth!
It was also at this time that Tagawa Matsu and her son felt that they knew the truth. The reason why Zheng Zhilong left like that was because he knew the news about the alliance between Jianlu and the Japanese Parliament. Leaving her and Tagawa Nanzaemon in the Japanese country was to blackmail Zheng Zhilong
, the news of this alliance must not be told to the Ming Dynasty.
For this reason, she was very worried. But at least at this time, she could not think of a way.
Daishan was also very happy that he had successfully completed his mission to Japan. No, he had exceeded the quota.
He originally came to Japan with the sole purpose of forming an alliance with Japan.
Unexpectedly, he actually managed to win over a pirate king from the Ming Kingdom. Now, as an internal agent of their allied forces, he was lurking in the Ming Kingdom first. Moreover, he had also negotiated a mutual trade deal with the Japanese country.
The Qing Dynasty and the Japanese country could complement each other and solve some of the material problems of the Qing Dynasty.
For example, gunpowder was very scarce in the Qing Dynasty, but the Japanese had it. The Qing Dynasty lacked food, but the Japanese had seafood, which was very cheap, etc.
When he left, he received such a warm farewell from the Japanese, which made Daishan very satisfied.
What everyone didn't expect was that such a huge scene finally led to another force.
This force is the Netherlands, which has a trading point in Nagasaki, and is the only country on the Japanese side that is allowed to stay and do business.
Originally, the Dutch had no idea that there was a Qing Empire in the world.
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Now that the noise was so loud, the Dutch also knew that there was such a powerful country in the northeast of the Ming Empire.
They traveled thousands of miles to the Far East to make a fortune. As a result, they failed to do business with the Ming Dynasty and were ridden on the neck by Zheng Zhilong. They had no choice but to obey Zheng Zhilong's threats and buy the flags to do business obediently. This was not good for them.
It's really hard to accept, I just can't beat it, there's nothing I can do about it.
Now that they know that there is such a powerful country, they naturally want to go to this powerful country to see if there is any business that can be done?
Of course, when they had this idea, Daishan had already left.
Therefore, the Dutch decided to send someone to see the situation and then report it to Batavia.
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At the same time, King Shangxian of the Ryukyu Kingdom had never been canonized by the Ming Emperor. At this time, he sent the chief minister Jin Yingyuan, the envoy was at the right time, and the general Zheng Sishan and others came to the Ming Dynasty again, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Logged in.
They had actually come once before, but at that time, there was war everywhere. Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about the Ryukyu Kingdom at all, and in the end, they returned disappointed.
Actually, they didn't have much hope if they came back this time. However, the Japanese became more and more rampant in the Ryukyu Kingdom and basically became the Supreme King of the Ryukyu Kingdom, which made the Ryukyu people a little unbearable.
If the Emperor of Ming Dynasty cannot be canonized for a long time, then the position of King of Ryukyu will be unjustified. If one day in the future, the Japanese really mess around, there will be no place to cry.
For this reason, even if they knew Ming himself, it would be difficult and there was little hope, but the King of Ryukyu sent them anyway.
When Jin Yingyuan and others were drowsy in the cabin, they suddenly heard a boatman knocking on the cabin door hurriedly and loudly announcing: "Sir, we have arrived, we have arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty!"
When Jin Yingyuan heard this, he felt a little more energetic, but he was not too excited. He just replied lightly: "I know!"
But who knows, the boatman didn't finish it and continued to report: "Sir, please come out and take a look. It's so lively. It's completely different from the last time!"
"Huh?" Jin Yingyuan couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this.
When I came here last time, there were basically not many ships in sight, and everyone was panicking when they landed. It has only been a few years, what changes have been made?
I didn't believe it in my heart, but he moved very quickly. Jin Yingyuan was the first to get out of the cabin. When he looked up, he was really shocked.
I saw many ships at the mouth of the Yangtze River, some entering the Yangtze River, some leaving the Yangtze River, some going south, and most of them going north.
The prosperity of the Yangtze River Estuary alone is incomparable to what it was before.
At this point, Jin Yingyuan was puzzled. It had only been a few years, so how could it have changed so much?
He was in a daze when he suddenly felt someone touching his back. Only then did Jin Yingyuan come to his senses and realized that he had blocked the cabin door.
So, he quickly got out of the way and strode onto the deck.
Behind him, two other people also got out, and one of them said in a disbelieving tone: "What can we see..."
Before he finished speaking, he was stunned and naturally couldn't continue.
Just a moment later, I saw these three officials from the Ryukyu Kingdom standing on the deck together, staring blankly at everything in front of me, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
Although they also knew that with the background of the Ming Dynasty, this level of prosperity was not even very prosperous. However, the key point was that when they came here last time, there were wars everywhere, and the Jianlu outside the pass were all
They almost came to Jiangnan. Why did it feel like the world was at peace so quickly?
With such doubts, Jin Yingyuan and others ordered the boat to dock at the nearest dock so that they could go ashore to inquire about the situation.
The place where they landed was a port city under Songjiang Prefecture, and it was also where the Jiangnan Procurement Office was located. It was also for this reason that there were many ships here, all coming to trade with the imperial court.
Supplies were transported from various places, and after being sold to the imperial court, most of them were transported to the north by sea. No matter what, in terms of freight, it is more cost-effective to transport goods by sea. Generally speaking, the destination is Tianjin, and after landing there, it is transported by train.
To the capital.
In addition to these, there are also some merchant ships that transport their own goods to the north for sale.
It would be strange if there weren't many boats here!
No, Jin Yingyuan and others were shocked when they came ashore to inquire about it. They never dreamed that such a big change had occurred in the Ming Dynasty.
At first, they couldn't believe it. Then, seeing the foreign envoys coming, the good-hearted people wanted to show off, so they took them to the train station.