After Zheng Chenggong completely eliminated the forces of several major powerful vassals in Kyushu, it would still take several months to completely occupy Kyushu.
This is like even if Saddam is killed, there will still be a bunch of small armed groups standing on the hills and doing their own things in Iraq, which will make people uncomfortable. The so-called "thieves rise in droves" refers to this situation.
It is impossible for the war to officially end within a short while.
However, from the perspective of the Edo shogunate, since the battle at the end of June, when Shimazu Mitsuhisa was wiped out, Edo has completely given up on treatment.
Subsequently, the two sides continued to fight and talk, and while fighting and negotiating, and adjusting conditions, it was all garbage time of the war.
It was delayed until the end of September in the lunar calendar. Seeing that the summer and autumn typhoon seasons were completely over, Zheng Chenggong was not exhausted. He also lost a few more fragmentary vassals on Honshu Island.
The Edo shogunate finally sued for peace with the Ming Dynasty in a very low-key but slightly reserved manner.
He expressed his official recognition that Ming Dynasty’s rule over Kyushu and Ezo was completely reasonable and legal, and there would never be any dispute in the future.
And admitted that "Ezo has not been part of Fuso's territory since ancient times. Fuso only traded with these barbarians and never achieved rule." Zhu Shuren did not let the Fuso people directly admit that "Ezo has undisputedly belonged to China since ancient times."
Territory", that is too false, so as long as the other party admits that it never belongs to Fuso territory.
Anyway, in the East Asian cultural circle, there is only one orthodox Ming Dynasty. As long as other barbarian lands do not belong to other civilized countries, it is logical for the Ming Dynasty to civilize them with Chinese orthodoxy and make them join.
To put it bluntly, as long as it does not belong to the territory of other civilized countries, the Ming Dynasty's enclosure of land is tantamount to "preemptively occupying unclaimed land." It has the same nature as dealing with Indians and Maoris. The indigenous barbarians have no concept of a country.
(Note: The Indians here specifically refer to the nomadic fishing and hunting savage tribes that have not formed a country. They are not directed at the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire, which have established civilized countries, and have no intention of offending the indigenous people of civilized countries)
In the end, the Edo shogunate had to admit that the nature of this war was not "the Ming Dynasty invaded Fuso", but a crime against the people. "Repay grievance with directness, repay kindness with kindness; if someone offends us first, we will punish him."
All crimes were caused by the Ezo private traders and the Satsuma clan who annexed the Ryukyu vassal state of the Ming Dynasty!
Many civil servants in the Ming Dynasty did not understand this series of operations. From the perspective of the traditional old-school bureaucrats, if you win the war, you will win, if you cede the land, you will cede the land, and if the country is destroyed, the country will be destroyed. What kind of treaty is needed? Has there been such a thing since ancient times?
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But Zhu Shuren opposed all opinions and insisted on cultivating such international law habits in China, because he knew that this era is close to modern times after all. The West had established the Westphalian system more than ten years ago, which was the prototype of modern diplomacy.
Already taking shape.
If the Ming Dynasty does not keep up, it will not be able to "declare war on all Western powers" like Cixi in the future, right? No matter how strong the Ming Dynasty is, even if Zhu Shuren cheats, it will only be temporary. If the system construction does not keep up, it will not be able to fight all the Western powers at the same time.
Foreign countries are enemies.
Therefore, the rules of the international order should still be used, but Ming can join in the formulation of the rules, and even promote a set of international negotiation norms legislated by Ming in the future, instead of standing on its own laurels and giving up the power to formulate international standards in vain.
Let’s just think of this final battle treaty against Fuso as a training exercise.
Now we have entered the 1660s. It has been less than 30 years since the Manchus and the Rakshasa people signed the Nibu Treaty in the parallel time and space. Starting to practice more than 20 years in advance is a good warm-up, so that you will not suffer in the future.
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After the Ming Dynasty has gained enough permanent legal benefits, it can give the Edo shogunate a little sweetness on the actual withdrawal of troops. At least it can let the Edo shogunate have an explanation internally, so as not to cause history to deviate from its original origin too early.
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Zhu Shuren knew very well that he did not want the Edo shogunate to fall because of this, nor did he want the Fuso people to reflect internally and work hard to become stronger because of this "loss of power and humiliation of the country". He also did not want Fuso to be completely united because of foreign enemies and respect the king and fight the foreigners ahead of the modern times.
change.
It is best for Ming Dynasty to let Fusang maintain the state where all parties have their own agenda.
Just like the best way to control Iraq is by no means to kill Saddam. After killing him, you won't even be able to find anyone to negotiate with, and you have to face the warlords everywhere in person. Isn't that making yourself uncomfortable? Later generations of the United States
The lessons learned in Iraq are profound enough.
In order to prevent the Edo shogunate from falling, the Ming Dynasty also acquiesced to the Edo shogunate's internal and external propaganda methods in the final stage of the negotiations and did not try to expose the Edo shogunate.
For example, when the Ming Dynasty troops withdrew from the Choshu Domain, Hiroshima Domain, which had been bloodbathed into ruins, and the Oshu Domain, Ushu Domain, and Sendai Domain in Hokuriku, it was actually because the Ming Dynasty did not want to fight and took the initiative to withdraw from the quagmire.
, and no more casualties occurred on either side.
However, when the Ming Dynasty also allowed the Edo shogunate to publicize internally, it described this withdrawal as "the heroic Fuso army led by the Edo shogunate recovered the lost territory, successfully repelled the Ming army, saved the country at the critical moment of Fuso's life and death, and prevented the loss of more
land".
Anyway, this kind of propaganda is only talked about in Fuso, in Japanese, and will not embarrass Ming Dynasty in the international community or damage Ming Dynasty's prestige.
And the Edo shogunate wanted to save this face, but it was not in vain. When the Ming Dynasty withdrew its troops, it asked the Edo shogunate not to enfeoff the princes who were hostile to the Ming to these vacated territories.
In the end, the territory of the Choshu Domain, as well as part of the Hiroshima Domain, became the territory of the Ming dynasty's lackey, Fuso traitor Mitsuyuki Kuroda. Because Kuroda Mitsuyuki finally took refuge with Zheng Chenggong, he served as an internal agent, and at the same time, Mitsuhisa Shimazu, who was tricked by him, died.
Well, the high-level officials had no evidence to prove it, which actually allowed Kuroda Mitsuyuki to succeed in being a two-faced person who died well.
The Edo shogunate had no real evidence of any wrongdoing on his part, and there was no need to punish him to explain to the Fuso people. Coupled with the vague external pressure from the Ming Dynasty, Tokugawa Ietsuna had no choice but to hold his nose and admit it.
There are several operations like this, but they are not as obvious or typical as those of Mitsuyuki Kuroda.
All in all, even when the Ming Dynasty withdrew its troops at the end of the war, it planted several minefields in Fuso, so that the Edo shogunate was still unable to control the country, and the princes who were secretly wary of the shogunate continued to be cultivated.
As long as such Fusang cannot be reunited in the future, it will never pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty, and it will be useless to restore the population.
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The armistice treaty between the Ming Dynasty and Fusang was finally signed on the eighth day of October in the fifteenth year of Longwu. The Ming Dynasty spent another month gradually withdrawing its troops and sending the text of the treaty across the sea back to China to report to the court.
By the end of the 15th year of Longwu, everything was finally settled. The territory that should be taken was completely obtained. The bandits would have to be suppressed piecemeal in the next one or two years at most.
When the news spread back to China, the government and the public were naturally excited again. Fireworks went off inside and outside Nanjing, and the emperor and his ministers rejoiced together.
Although the level of celebration is not as enthusiastic as when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was destroyed, and it can make everyone feel the same, but it is actually more inspiring than when other enemy countries except the Manchu Qing Dynasty were destroyed——
The reason is that the Fusang Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty have a grudge after all. This grudge may be greater than that of the Mongols, because after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, except for the Oara group, the Mongols actually posed no threat to the Ming Dynasty. Most of the time, they were beaten by the Ming Dynasty.
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The scourge of Japanese pirates lasted for one or two hundred years in the Ming Dynasty. In the late Ming Dynasty, the maritime ban was lifted, and after the Ming Dynasty's own maritime power became stronger, the Japanese pirates gradually declined. For the elderly people of the Ming Dynasty, their harm to Japanese pirates was still
Impressive.
Now I heard that the country of Japanese pirates has been defeated, and the island with the largest number of Japanese pirates has been conquered by the Ming Dynasty. The joy of the people all over the world is real, especially in the south, which is more harmed by Japanese pirates than in the north. The people are full of hope that the prince of E will be eliminated forever.
Of course, I absolutely support the approach of Japanese pirates to prevent future troubles.
With such popular support, Zhu Shuren stayed behind the scenes and decided to reward the decisive heroes of the War against Japan, and there was almost no resistance.
Even if Zhu Shuren's biological father, Shen Tingyang, died and the household department was now managed by someone else, and there were some complaints about the calculation of the reward amount, no one could stop Zhu Shuren's will - although Zhu Shuren was nominally in Dingyou at the time and did not personally intervene.
Any specific government affairs.
The New Year passed in a blink of an eye, and during the Lantern Festival in the 16th year of Longwu, the imperial court finally discussed the results of the Fusang War.
Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen, two of Zhu Shuren's early confidants, finally reached the level of being granted the title of Duke.
One of them captured Kyushu Island, the other captured Ezo, and each of them severely damaged the Japanese army. Together, the northern and southern armies killed and annihilated more than 400,000 Japanese troops (including the temporary peasant soldiers).
Coupled with the blessing of the Ming Dynasty's "killing Japanese pirates" and the fact that they had already reached the top of the marquis circle during the war to destroy the Qing Dynasty, they were only one step away. It is logical to complete the duke's "realm breakthrough" this time.
Compared with the previous four princes, Shen Tingyang was Zhu Shuren's biological father and had very good official qualifications. Shi Kefa was the chief minister of the cabinet and was the signature of the imperial court when he was reestablished in Nanjing. Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong were also long-standing warriors who served in Chongzhen.
In the early years of the dynasty, he held a high military position.
Therefore, the four princes who were granted the title when the Qing Dynasty was destroyed were not, strictly speaking, Zhu Shuren's direct subordinates, but more of his elders, allies and colleagues.
After five or six years of development, the second wave of princes are finally promoted from lower positions by Zhu Shuren.
Their entire resume was spent following Zhu Shuren, and they basically did not receive much national favor from the Chongzhen Dynasty. At least until Zhu Shuren himself became an official in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, they basically held casual or grassroots military positions, and their loyalty was even more hardcore.
Some.
When Zhu Shuren wants to make a duke, of course he will not only make the generals who fight on the front line, but also those who are in charge of the rear and coordinate the overall situation.
This time, it was Zhu Shuren's cousin Zhang Huangyan, the Minister of War, who was promoted from the rear with major merit.
Zhang Huangyan also contributed a lot in the previous war to destroy the Qing Dynasty. His troops defeated Azig twice, sniped Azig himself, and finally supervised the decisive battle between Neihuang and Daiming.
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It was just that during the final pursuit phase on the grasslands outside the pass, Zhang Huangyan had already been promoted to the Ministry of War. He was not a civilian and was not suitable to personally pursue thousands of miles of pursuit, so he did not go to the front line to supervise divisions.
So in the final settlement of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Huangyan, because he had been promoted a lot in terms of promotions and was young, naturally wanted to be lowered in terms of title to show fairness and to stop the world from saying that Zhu Shuren was nepotistic.
Now, five or six years have passed since the Qing Dynasty was destroyed. It has been twenty-one years since Zhu Shuren himself traveled to this world, and he is already thirty-eight this year.
Zhang Huangyan is two years older than his cousin, and has just reached the age of 40. A minister of the Ministry of War who is over the age of forty has served for many years, and it is completely reasonable for him to be the Duke of the country.
As a final result, after the canonization of the three princes was completed, Longwu Emperor Zhu Changzi issued an edict that in the next twenty years, Kyushu, Ezo, Kuye and other places would be tentatively managed according to the law of military garrison management outside the pass, and the actual power generals would be responsible.
The system of local affairs is completely different from that of other provinces in the Central Plains.
Of course, in order to prevent the separatism of vassal towns, these powers must not be hereditary, so the managed territories are not fiefs, only the title of the Duke can be hereditary.
Previously, Zhu Wenzhen and others who were transformed into Jiaohuang by Cao Cao were already old, so Emperor Longwu's decree allowed them to "live-long military garrison supervision of Jilin/Horqin" and other places, knowing that their lifespan would only last for twenty years at most.
But this time, Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong are obviously a generation and a half younger than Huang Degong and others. Their natural lifespans can still live for a long time. In order to leave a hole for adjustment, the decree was ordered to be piloted for twenty years. If you don’t see it after twenty years
If there are obvious signs that the tail is too big to fall off, the preferential treatment can be extended, up to their lifetime.
In addition, while Zheng Chenggong obtained the power to actually govern Kyushu Island and seize life and death, he also returned part of the civil and political governance and other powers of Dayu Island to the court, and only retained the Zheng family's private property on Dayu Island.
Zheng Chenggong didn't think there was any disadvantage in this, because he was very satisfied and felt that he had honored his ancestors by being granted the title of Duke. Changing the territory was not a big deal, it was just one of the bargaining chips for him to be granted the title of Duke at such a young age.
Among the three newly promoted national ministers, Zhang Huangyan, who only had a civil service, could not be promoted to local real power, but he was already the Minister of the Ministry of War and did not need to be transferred to other places.
After being granted the title of Duke, Emperor Longwu decreed that Zhang Huangyan be directly appointed as the Second Assistant to the Cabinet, second only to Shi Kefa. This would just replace the Second Assistant who became vacant after the death of his distant uncle Shen Tingyang.
It can also ensure that the Zhu Shuren family has complete and stable control over the real power of the court during the period when Zhu Shuren was nominally in power.
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After the baptism of the Battle of Fusang, the military strength of the Ming Dynasty was further improved, and the civil and military power structure of the Ming Dynasty also transitioned to a new generation of young people because of this series of meritorious opportunities.
If we talk about the later period of the previous war to destroy the Qing Dynasty, except for Zhu Shuren himself, there were mostly a group of mature men in their fifties and sixties who held important civil and military positions in the cabinet.
After this time, a large group of young people in their early forties and even thirty-five-year-old Zheng Chenggong finally took over.
With such fresh blood and team, Zhu Shuren's prestige was further consolidated. In addition, after the war, the Ming Dynasty did need a period of recuperation, recovery and digestion of territory. Therefore, for the next two years, Zhu Shuren did not make any major moves, and the court also
There are no radical changes.
Only in terms of advancing technology and developing production, there is no slack at all, and new things that innovate and benefit the people are still emerging one after another.
Two years later, the Ming Dynasty's national strength, which was depleted by the war, was basically completely restored. Zhu Shuren also ended the low-key time when his biological father died, and could once again show his talents.