Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1115: The Shogunate

In the open waters south of Kagoshima, the fleets from Satsuma and Nagasaki, directly under the shogunate, are sailing south. The flagship Kaiyo Maru is a cutting-edge dreadnought, equivalent to the main battleship of the Korean Navy. The navies of Korea and Ryukyu are the imaginary enemies planned by the Edo side. The shogunate only needs to maintain a limited force that is enough to defeat the Ryukyu Navy.

At this time, the shogun Tokugawa Narinobu was in power. After the first shogun defeated Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the "leader of the Japanese pirates" who invaded Korea, the Tokugawa family, as heroes in the fight against the pirates, received official titles from the imperial court for generations, and the title was "Shogun". The political entity under its rule was also called the "Shogun Shogunate". Under the shogunate, there were also several nobles awarded by the imperial court, including the Date family in Sendai, the Uesugi family in Kanazawa, and many feudal lords also received imperial edicts awarded by the court and became "Taishō".

As for the many, many "things" beyond these, of course they do exist.

For example, the imperial court has always known that there is a city called "京" in Japan, which is the real Wojing. Although in the documents exchanged with the Ming Dynasty, whenever "京" is mentioned, it will only be written as "御野古 (miyako)" - this is the Chinese character writing of the Japanese word "都城 (miyako)" in Japanese. The three characters of 御野古 correspond to the three sounds of mi, ya, and ko in Japanese.

As for the words "京" and "都", they are not found in these documents. If you want to know where the capital is, there are only Yingtian and Shuntian. If you want to mention the capital of Japan, there is only Edo.

As for the fact that there is a king called "Mikado" in the dilapidated palace in the city of "Minokuro", that is "definitely" non-existent. It is even more impossible for anyone to mention the word "emperor" or something so treasonous. Whenever the person "Mikado" is mentioned, it is only written as "御门". Referring to the example of Minokuro, mi means "御" and kado means "门", so the combined "御门 (miakdo)" is the name of this person when it is necessary to mention him.

Whether it is emperor or emperor, these two words are the same as Beijing and capital, and neither word can be touched.

In this narrative, there is only one sun in the sky, and that is the Holy Emperor. As for the "Gomon" who lives in the "Gonoko" castle, he is actually a priest, and the idea of ​​establishing another monarch is also absolutely non-existent.

Edo himself knew about this matter, and the imperial court also knew about it. Edo knew that the imperial court knew about it, and the imperial court also knew that Edo knew that the imperial court knew about it, but everyone can pretend that this matter never happened.

Because according to the teachings of Emperor Taizu Gao, the court's attitude towards these tributary states is "do not refuse those who come, do not chase those who leave". The court will not take the initiative to increase or reduce the number of tributary states in any way. As for how to be loyal to the emperor, it is also the tributary state's own business and has nothing to do with the Celestial Empire.

Therefore, the imperial court did not care whether they were truly loyal to Edo. There was no doubt that they were not loyal. There were no eternal friends in this world, and of course there were no eternal vassals. But as long as everyone did not update their understanding of each other, everything could continue as it was.

Of course, if they wanted to further upgrade their status, such as getting special treatment in the tributary system like Korea or Ryukyu, they would have to take special actions. But the Edo shogunate completely closed its borders and did not cause trouble for the court, and the court was happy to see them set an example, because that was the bottom line of the tributary order.

The Tributary Order does not seek to establish any military or trade alliances. The Tributary Order requires only one thing: do not oppose His Majesty the Holy Emperor, nothing more - but although it sounds simple, it actually requires all tributary states to maintain a certain degree of diplomatic isolation. The Edo Shogunate is a role model in this area, and they completely isolated themselves on an island and disappeared from the history of this world.

This is good. Because the standards of Korea and Ryukyu are still too high. Korea is an industrial country, and Ryukyu is a service-oriented country. Both of them have deeply transformed their social structures and completely integrated their economies into the tribute system. Among them, the example set by the Edo Shogunate is a third route that is different from the other two:
You can certainly do something good for the world, but if you make yourself invisible to the point of being nonexistent, staying at home and photosynthesizing like a tree, that's certainly possible too.

But now, the Edo Shogunate has gone against its past behavior patterns.

The mixed fleet headed by Kaiyang Maru, which was a combination of the naval forces of the Shogun and the governor of Satsuma, was approaching the direction of Ryukyu.

"So, where are we going?"

"I don't know." "What are we going to do?"

"do not know"

Mizuno, the shogunate official from Nagasaki, and Shimazu, the governor of Satsuma, were both on the bridge of the Kaiyō Maru.

Mizuno and Shimazu set out in confusion. They didn't know where they were going, let alone what they were going to do, they just knew they were going south.

"Mister Mizuno, when the Edo side issued the order to you, didn't they say anything more?"

Mizuno shook his head: "No. You know, the orders from Edo are always brief. We just have to follow them."

"But I don't want to follow this mindless order. Who knows if Edo is sending us to die?"

"But if you don't obey orders, you will die immediately. Have you forgotten my predecessor? If he hadn't ignored my advice and insisted on going to Edo to check the situation, he wouldn't have died on the way."

"So what happened in Edo? Ever since Edo was covered by fog?"

"I don't know. If you ask, then I don't know. Don't care, don't inquire about other people's current situation, just follow orders. I am the magistrate in Nagasaki. You know, the position of magistrate is a floating position and will be replaced every three to five years. But I don't ask, I don't care about anything. I don't miss a penny of the tax levied, and I don't ask any unnecessary questions, so no order has been sent from Edo to replace me in 10 years. Lord Shimazu, you are different from me. Your family doesn't need to do anything to live safely. Why do you care so much?"

"."

"Do you know how all the people killed by Edo died?"

Shimazu looked over - he had never seen how these people died. Satsuma was almost the vassal farthest from Edo, and the only place that could compare to them was closer to Ezo.

"Do you know how the people assassinated by Edo died?"

"I do not know."

"When people are killed, they die. But you absolutely, absolutely don't want to be killed in that way."

(End of this chapter)