Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 237 Establishment of the Chief Envoy of the Japanese Kingdom

The war on the entire Honshu Island ended in less than three months.

All the daimyos of the Japanese kingdom who had separatist regimes in various places were either slaughtered by the Ming army and their families were confiscated, or they voluntarily surrendered and offered soil to save a dog's life.

The success of the Japanese war was actually almost all within Zhu Han's expectations.

In this era, the military strength of the Wa country was hundreds of years behind the Ming army, and it was impossible to block the Ming army's offensive.

but.

Although the territory of the Wa Kingdom is not too large, the local Wa Kingdom has a large population.

It belongs to the most populous area around Daming.

If the Japanese people are completely eliminated, whether it is physically or mentally, it will take a lot of energy.

Guo Zixing and Mao Gui are both reckless warriors, and it is still possible to lead troops to fight, but there are some shortcomings when they are used to do these things.

but.

Zhu Han didn't plan to send another person, so he directly suggested to his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang, and asked Guo Tianci to take full responsibility for the matter.

Guo Tianci has a relatively stable personality and has studied in the Daming Yingtian Military Academy. He is capable of both literary and military skills. As long as he gives some pointers, I believe he can subdue the Japanese people.

Now that the Wa Kingdom has been pacified, as for how to govern it, in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, it is already a trivial matter.

"After all, the country of Wa is separated by an ocean. Isn't it too wasteful to leave only one Guo Zixing as king?" Zhu Yuanzhang said suddenly.

Guo Zixing, the king of Chuyang, owns a fief equivalent to ten counties in the country of Wa, and all the military and political power in the territory is at his disposal.

Zhu Han understood that the elder brother was worried that Guo Zixing would dominate the Japanese kingdom in the future, and that future generations would be in danger of separatist regime.

"Although the country of Wa is not big, it is not too small. Only one Guo Zixing is indeed a little small. We can seal Liu Futong's son, Zhang Shicheng and others to the island of Wa country, and then seal some important ports and The cities are all under the direct administration of the imperial court, no matter what in the future, there is no need to worry about someone dominating the Wa Island family!" Zhu Han said with a smile.

Liu Futong's son, Zhang Shicheng, Mr. Guan and others have all been supported by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han with vacant positions and high salaries.

but.

These people are all of different ages, and they are all capable. Letting them be rice bugs in Yingtian is really a waste of manpower.

Zhu Han felt that enfeoffing them to the Wa Kingdom would not only improve Daming's reputation for benevolence, but also allow them to deter the Wa Kingdom, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"Okay, this method, we think it's good!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.

The imperial decree of the Ming court soon spread to the Wa Islands.

Guo Tianci surpassed his fathers Guo Zixing and Mao Gui, and became the chief envoy of the Ming Dynasty on the Wa Islands.

According to the plan for governing the Japanese people sent by Zhu Han, Guo Tianci can actually just follow the steps.

Under Zhu Han's suggestion, Ming Dynasty formally established a Japanese chief envoy in Wa, and Guo Tianci served as the first Japanese chief envoy.

After all, the Wa Kingdom archipelago faces Daming across the sea, and the risks of maritime transportation are unpredictable. It is necessary to completely assimilate the Wa Kingdom's governance in order to ensure that nothing will go wrong in the future.

The first step in ruling Japan is naturally to take all the administrative power from the daimyo who originally ruled the country and return it to the imperial court.

In the First Battle of the Kyoto Plain, the Ming army almost wiped out the feudal separatist lords of the Japanese pirates.

In this way, the governance of the separatist forces in various places can be completely completed almost smoothly.

The Muromachi shogunate Ashikaga Yoshizen was captured, and the Japanese Emperor of the Northern Dynasty took the initiative to open the city and surrender. These two events completely knocked down the legitimacy of the Japanese pirate regime.

Daming implemented a comprehensive rule on the islands of the Wa Kingdom. Whether it was a city or a village, all the people of the Wa Kingdom who were willing to cooperate with Daming were assessed and then awarded official positions.

And for those Japanese people who resist Ming's enlightenment, try to use their status as Japanese pirate nobles, and refuse to submit to Ming's management, Zhu Han's guidance and suggestions are also very simple.

That's one word.

kill!

No matter what status he was in the original Japanese pirate court, as long as he violated Ming's taboo, he must be killed as an example.

According to Zhu Han's order, those daimyo lords who surrendered in Japan can be killed immediately if they resist a little.

Under the ruthless iron fist of the Ming army, the Japanese pirates, large and small, did not dare to resist in the slightest.

It took Daming a very short period of time to establish a complete set of well-ordered ruling order on Wa Island.

Daming organized an auxiliary army composed of Japanese people on Wa Island to directly manage the various places.

This army is naturally the Huangming Alliance Army, referred to as the Huangxie Army.

Hojo Yoshinori served as the commander of the Royal Association Army.

Of course Hojo Yoshinori used his previous name, but now his name is Xu Yizhen.

Just like the name Xu Yizhen, there was another important method used by Ming to rule Japan, which was Sinicization.

Zhu Han has already sent someone to make a clear rule that all Wa people who want to serve in the Ming government or in the army must abandon their original Japanese names and use Chinese names and surnames instead.

Otherwise, they will not be hired at all.

Moreover, under the ruling order established by the Ming Dynasty, the Wa people who were able to obtain the qualifications for Chinese names and surnames were all upper-class people.

Ordinary Japanese civilians originally had no surnames, only a first name. Now that the Ming Dynasty has come, they are still in the status of pariahs. If they want to get a Han name, they have to pay some price.

Once an ordinary Japanese person is qualified to take a Chinese name and surname, it is equivalent to breaking away from the status of a pariah and gaining his own place in the ruling order established by Ming Dynasty.

They are qualified for Sinicization.

Either join the Imperial Association Army and shed blood and sweat for Daming to suppress the Japanese rebellion.

Or join the farm of the Daming government and become a farmer of the Daming farm.

Either one's daughter or sister marries a Ming garrison soldier, and the whole family can be qualified for Sinicization.

Zhu Han established this set of differentiated Sinicization policies because the population of the Japanese archipelago is too large. If Ming Dynasty absorbs everyone into Sinicization, it will be a very huge project, and there are so many It is also unreasonable to Sinicize the entire population.

Although the Ming Dynasty directly ruled the Japanese archipelago, it was also a kind of colonial rule.

Since it is a colonial rule, it will inevitably exploit the local people, so that Daming can obtain enough wealth to supply the army and local officials.

And if all Wa people became citizens of Ming Dynasty, who else would Ming exploit?

Therefore, for the Japanese people, it is necessary to sinicize and win over some of them, and then rule and exploit them together, and the other part of the Japanese people.

Ordinary Wa people are the ruled. If they want to change their tragic fate, they must make their own efforts.

This kind of effort is naturally to cooperate with the Ming court.

Whether it is contributing to the Ming court or marrying a Ming soldier, all of them will be qualified to be masters in the Japanese archipelago.

But even so, for Zhu Han, the population on the Wa Islands is too much.

Today's Wa country has a population of almost 700 million people.

Compared to Central Plains, this is almost the same as the population of Jiangnan Huguang.

The land area of ​​the Wa Kingdom is far less than that of Huguang and Jiangnan.

Daming must find ways to further reduce the population of Wa.

Therefore, in the method Zhu Han came up with, apart from trying to win over and divide the Wa people, that is to do everything possible to relocate the Wa people.

Zhu Han ordered that every year about [-] strong men and women should be recruited in the country of Wa to serve as laborers or mercenaries in war areas such as Southeast Asia, the Great Southwest, and Northwest, so as to consume the population of the country of Wa.

For this method, Guo Tianci also implemented it very thoroughly.

Guo Tianci didn't have much sympathy for the Wa people, and he also knew Zhu Han's real purpose for doing this, so he naturally supported them very much.

For ordinary Japanese people, participating in the recruitment of the Ming government is not a matter of being bullied and deceived, but a good opportunity to change their own destiny.

After all, not everyone is eligible to join the 'Emperor Ming Coordinated Army', or have a beautiful daughter and sister to marry a Ming soldier.

If more ordinary Japanese people want to change their miserable fate as inferior people, they have to do the hardest and most dangerous work for Daming.

The chief envoy of Japan in the Ming Dynasty, Edo Prefecture.

As the most prosperous big city in the Japanese archipelago, Edo also has the most poor people.

It was raining, in a dilapidated thatched hut.

Kotaro Nohara frowned, looking at the rain outside the window, he felt a burst of depression in his heart.

He was originally a low-ranking samurai in the Muromachi shogunate.

In the Battle of Kyoto, he saved his life because he escaped quickly.

However, the Muromachi shogunate subsequently fell, and all his wealth and status as a samurai were lost.

The land and houses were confiscated by the Ming court. As for the status, the Muromachi shogunate is gone, and these warriors are naturally worthless.

What's more, the imperial association army organized by the Ming government did not accept warriors from the former dynasty at all, and only recruited ordinary people with simple backgrounds.

Nohara Kotaro was unwilling to let go of his self-esteem to work as a coolie, so life at home became more and more difficult.

"There is no rice at home, why not sell my clothes, and I can exchange two days' worth of food."

A weak voice came from behind Nohara Kotaro.

This is his wife, Ami, who was once a rich and noble samurai wife, but now she is going to be reduced to starvation.

Nohara Kotaro couldn't help but feel more pain in his heart, not knowing how to face the difficulties in front of him.

I lost everything, my wife suffered and starved, and even my son Nohara Shinhei, who was less than five years old, was starving and his face was sallow.

All this is because the Ming army conquered Japan!
but.

Nohara Kotaro didn't dare to say anything rude.

Even in your own home.

Because of Daming's powerful combat power, Kotaro Nohara was already terrified to the bone, not daring to show any disrespect.

Moreover, Daming has a large number of imperial association troops on the islands of the Wa Kingdom. These people not only maintain law and order, but also work part-time as spies, spying on all the intelligence of the Wa Kingdom that dares to offend the majesty of Daming.

If anyone is exposed, the whole family will die.

"This dress is the only one left, and it can no longer be sold!"

Nohara Kotaro firmly refused.

Then, as if he had made up his mind, he turned and walked into the house, and took out his family samurai sword.

Seeing this, his wife, Ami, immediately widened her eyes in surprise.

"Husband, are you planning to sell swords?"

Nohara Kotaro nodded sadly, "I'm not even a samurai anymore, so what's the use of keeping it?"

The Japanese sword was originally a status symbol of the samurai of the shogunate, and the price was not cheap.

Now that Ming soldiers are pouring into the Japanese country, everyone wants to seize a Japanese knife and take it back as a souvenir, and the price is increasing step by step.

If Kotaro Nohara's family heirloom samurai sword is sold, it can be exchanged for three months of family rations.

He was about to starve to death, so naturally he would no longer worry about anything.

Nohara Kotaro held his samurai sword in his arms, afraid that others would see that he was going to sell the samurai sword, so he hid it tightly.

He braved the light rain and came to Edo Castle.

After wandering around the doors of the new shops opened by several Ming merchants for a long time, Nohara Kotaro still couldn't make up his mind.

He knew that once he sold this samurai sword, it meant that he would never have the possibility of redeeming it in the future.

However, Nohara Kotaro was cold and hungry, and he couldn't make him hesitate for too long.

at last.

When the light rain has gradually stopped.

Nohara Kotaro gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

He was just about to step into a shop.

suddenly.

There was a burst of shouting not far away.

"good news!"

"Good news! The Ming government's recruitment order!"

"Rice is enough, let's eat it!"

"There is also five taels of silver for settling down, and one tael of monthly salary!"

For the Japanese, this is almost a very generous condition.

Nohara Kotaro was immediately attracted, and followed the crowd to the pavement.

Nohara Kotaro didn't know Chinese characters, nor could he understand Daming Chinese.

However, next to the recruitment order, there was a chunky Japanese translator who was explaining the recruitment order over and over again.

After half a day.

Kotaro Nohara finally figured it out.

Daming is recruiting for two positions, one is a coolie laborer, and the other is a hired warrior to kill people!

Needless to say, Nohara Kotaro naturally took a fancy to hired samurai.

"Fifty taels of silver for settling down, that is, ten Ming silver coins, can save Amei and Xinbingwei from starving for a year!"

"Besides, there is a salary of one or two taels of silver every month, so I can save some money!"

Nohara Kotaro immediately made up his mind to participate in Daming's recruitment order.

After receiving a note from the chubby translator, Nohara Kotaro went to the side and lined up according to the number.

The first step in recruitment is naturally the initial registration, that is, to take a look at the general plan, and don't mix in any disabled or mentally retarded.

Finally, it was Nohara Kotaro's turn. An official wearing a mighty military uniform of the Ming Dynasty sat on a grand teacher's chair. On the left was a clerk taking notes with a pen, and on the right was the chunky Japanese translator.

"What is your name?"

The Japanese translator asked Nohara Kotaro with his nostrils.

If it was in the past, the Japanese translator who was born as a lowly businessman would never dare to do this, otherwise, Nohara Kotaro would cut off his head with the samurai sword in his hand.

It's just that Nohara Kotaro is almost starved and out of shape now, and others can't tell what kind of samurai he is.

"Nohara Kotaro!"

"Ah! You have a surname, are you a warrior?" The fat translator looked surprised.

If he hadn't seen the Ming soldiers beside him, he would have instinctively knelt down in fright.

(End of this chapter)