New Shun 1730

"Noro Motojo is not as good as me."

The mood of Tokugawa Yoshimune and others was like that summer day in the 17th year of Kyoho. It was sunny just now, then it rained, and then it snowed. From the two tigers competing for food to the conspiracy and intimidation, one hope after another was born and shattered. It was really hard to describe the mood.

In despair, Aoki Kunyang thought of another thing and came up with a "bad" idea.

"Your Highness, General, Nishi Zenzaburo of Nagasaki once borrowed a book from the Dutch called "kunstwoordenboek", which means academic dictionary. The words in it are obscure and difficult to understand, and they are all professional words of some southern barbarian knowledge."

"The words in this book are difficult to understand, and Liu Yu may not understand Dutch. Why not copy some words from this book? Some words are long, and even the Dutch cannot recognize them, especially academic words, which are not understood by these Dutch businessmen."

"So I picked some long words from this book and made up a letter at random."

"Although I am not talented, I know the classification of them, including laws, international law, and naval battle items. Although I don't know the meaning of those words, I can also select some from these items to make them look real."

"If Liu Yu gets this letter, he will definitely not recognize it. He will be suspicious and will most likely Go back to Tang and find a Dutch translator. However, Dutch traders will not recognize these lengthy academic terms. It is difficult to translate. "

"Occasionally, there are one or two that can be recognized, and they are related to international law, the ocean, laws, and naval warfare. If so, Liu Yu may be more suspicious. "

"Dutch storytellers also say that they are not envious of Tang. I think it is difficult for Tang to understand Dutch. Moreover, Tang has just banned religion not long ago. Most of what they know is the teaching language of the southern barbarians, Chizhitan, which is not intelligible to the Dutch. Even if Liu Yu is knowledgeable, he mostly understands the teaching language of Chizhitan, Spanish, and Portuguese. "

"I also know that this method is not good, but now there is really no other way. Please decide whether to implement it. "

This idea is so bad that it can't be any worse. Indeed, if you don't recognize Western words, you will be confused. Especially some special professional vocabulary, it is possible that you can't understand it at all.

But if you can find the right classification of the dictionary, and pick out some content related to naval warfare, ocean, and trade, even if you can find someone to translate one or two, it will be more likely to arouse suspicion.

For a while, there was really no better way to think of. Ooka Tadaki said: "This Dutch letter can only let Liu Yu take a glance, not let him get it. Even if he has superb skills, he can only remember a few lines of words and flash by. In the future, copy it and find someone to translate it. Just deliberately let him see the lines of professional vocabulary about trade and naval warfare."

To fill this loophole, Tokugawa Yoshimune hesitated for a while and finally made a decision.

On the one hand, he quickly sent people to Nagasaki to urgently recruit people from the Dutch trading house to Edo to convey the intention of borrowing the Dutch navy as soon as possible.

On the other hand, he had to send people to contact Liu Yu and try his best to complete Ooka Tadaki's idea.

Two days later, Aoki Kunyang, who had not slept for two days and two nights, forged a Dutch letter that he himself did not understand, and imitated a Dutch-style storytelling.

A small boat was sent out by a fast horse to tell Liu Yu that there was no intention to fight in Uraga.

If Liu Yu was willing to negotiate, he would meet in Miura. The shogun claimed that he believed in Liu Yu's benevolence and righteousness, so he would not send troops. If Liu Yu still did not believe, the negotiation location could be on Liu Yu's warship.

There was no need to mention the person to negotiate, as there was a system.

Since we were talking to the Tang people, we had to argue about words like benevolence and righteousness, so there was no other person.

It had to be the head of the Holy Hall University, similar to the Imperial College of the Celestial Empire, the spiritual leader of Confucianism in Japan, and a member of the Lin family who was quite similar to the Yanshenggong clan, Lin Xinchong.

There was a temple in Edo, and portraits of Yanhuang, Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, Zhougong, Confucius and others were hung on the walls. The painter was Kano Sansetsu, who painted "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow". When Liu Yu went to Edo, he also went to the temple to see the portraits of Yao, Shun, Yu and Tang. He was curious at the time and wanted to see if Confucius had the imagination of the Qing Dynasty to shave his head. As a result, he saw the painting praise poem of the Korean envoy in the ninth year of Chongzhen. It was written in Chinese and was not bad. It was at this time that the Koreans went to Edo quite frequently, which surprised Liu Yu.

If there was no second choice for the chief envoy, there was no second choice for the deputy envoy. It must be Ooka Tadaki, the Edo Town Magistrate at that time.

Other Confucian scholars such as Aoki Kunyang also went with him.

Liu Yu felt that the marines were not on the ship at this time, and the sailors could not make a good-looking ceremony after getting off the ship.

It would be nice to see all the officers disembark, but he was afraid that the Japanese would plot something and leave all the officers he had worked so hard to train on the shore. So he simply put on airs and asked people to meet them on a boat, and then put the negotiation site on the boat.

Lin Xinchong was the head of Shengtang University and studied Confucian classics hard, so he didn't have too many sighs about such strong ships and powerful guns.

Ooka Tadaki, Aoki Kunyang and others saw Liu Yu's warships from afar and heard the salutes, and they could only sigh.

The small boat that greeted them was on the shore. Ooka Tadaki looked at the warships floating on the sea from afar, thinking how could they fight?

Those small boats in Edo, even if there were three or five hundred of them, what was the use? Unless Liu Yu was confused and drove the boat to the mudflats with unknown sea conditions, or entered some rivers, otherwise it would be useless to fight fiercely on the sea even if there were a lot of wits and the samurai died.

The "good impression" left by the sweet potato famine relief and currency reform in the past has now turned into a cunning conspiracy. Both Aoki Kunyang and Ooka Tadashi hated Liu Yu to the core.

When Liu Yu got on the ship, he had already changed into his official uniform and bowed to greet the other party. At this time, even if he could communicate in Japanese, he would not lower his status to speak Japanese. He must have an interpreter.

There was not much courtesy between the two sides. They just put a horizontal table on the deck and each occupied one side.

The first shot was fired by Lin Xinchong.

"I have heard that the Three Sovereigns established the highest rank and the Five Emperors established the Zen Buddhism. Only China has a ruler. How can China be without a ruler? The universe is vast and cannot be ruled by a single ruler. The universe is broad and can be divided into states to guard. The world belongs to the world, not to one person."

"The country of China has less than 60 cities and less than 3,000 territories, but it still has a sense of contentment. The country of China has more than a few thousand cities and a million miles of territory, but it still has a sense of insufficiency."

"Haven't you heard that the way of heaven is to reduce the surplus and make up for the deficiency?"

"Han Wu opened up the border, so there was the edict of Luntai; the Tang emperor expanded the territory, so there was the disaster of Anshi. The Mongols were vast. , and eventually turned to dust, and the ancestral temples fell into ruin... This is truly in accordance with the will of heaven. "

"The Japanese know that heaven takes away the surplus to make up for the loss, so how could they have the intention to swallow up Ryukyu? Besides, the Shogun lived in Edo, thousands of miles away from Ryukyu, how could he know about it?"

"According to General Liu's fallacy, the rebellion of the feudal lords at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the people suffered, and this was all the fault of the Tang emperor? The soldiers and soldiers slaughtered people in the Ming Dynasty's expedition to Annan, and this was all instructed by Yongle?"

"Besides, there were no thieves in Shunqi? All officials were clean officials? According to General Liu's fallacy, isn't it General Liu who slandered the Chinese emperor?"

Lin Xinchong seized the loophole in Liu Yu's previous words and made a preemptive statement.

Liu Yu said that stabbing and killing people was not the fault of the soldiers, but the fault of the people. Lin Xinchong then asked in return, the people under his command massacred, should the emperor who was unaware of it be held responsible?

He insisted that the shogunate had no idea about it, and said that the shogunate knew the principle of "the universe is broad and magnanimous, and the states are divided to defend", and would never think of swallowing Ryukyu. It is not clear whether this is true or not, and even if it is true, the shogunate is not aware of it.

Unfortunately, Zhao Baiquan had already returned to the capital to report, and none of the people around Liu Yu could fight in terms of verbal cannons.

He was not here to fight verbally, but to put pressure on the shogunate. He had done what he should do, and now he had to test the attitude of the shogunate to determine how big a piece of meat he could bite off during the negotiations.

At this time, he suffered from the loss of cultural level, and thought to himself that if you really have the guts, go and chat with the counselors in the Forbidden City. What's the point of fighting verbally with me here?

"You said your general didn't know? Ryukyu participated in Edo, could it be that the Ryukyu people saw a ghost?"

He knew that he was not good enough to talk about such heavenly justice, so he simply took out the posture of a shrew quarreling, and cursed with a weird tone.

Shi Shiyong and others on Liu Yu's side laughed loudly, thinking that they didn't know what was wrong with Ying Suobo. He often called the Japanese "guizi" when he referred to them, but now he mocked the Japanese as "guizi". It seems that he is used to saying it.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xinchong kept his temper and sneered and asked back: "General Liu, according to what you said, Ryukyu has been deceiving the Celestial Empire. So, since Ryukyu has been deceiving the Celestial Empire, why can we believe their words? They could deceive before, but they will not deceive after General Liu went there?"

"I have heard that the Xiezhi divine sheep can distinguish right from wrong. Could it be that General Liu is Xiezhi?"

Xiezhi, Lin Xinchong read it out directly in Chinese, and deliberately paused.

When the interpreter finished the last sentence, all the officers around Liu Yu started to curse.

The last sentence was definitely a compliment before Dashun. Saying that a person is a divine beast Xiezhi is not an insult at all.

But... just like few people named their children Qin Hui after the Song Dynasty, an incident at the beginning of the founding of Dashun made this mythical beast that could distinguish true from false and right from wrong become a curse word.

It is roughly equivalent to changing from Miss to Miss, from Comrade to Comrade, and vocabulary always has the sedimentation of historical changes.

During the most difficult time of the founding of Dashun, there was a person named Sun Zhixie! The ideology of the founding of Dashun changed from equal distribution of land and exemption of grain to protecting the world, which also destined this person to be listed in the small book of Dashun with Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and others.

Since then, the innocent mythical beast Xiezhi, like the innocent character Hui, has disappeared in Dashun.

Xiezhi Xiezhi is no longer a respected mythical beast of the public security, procuratorial and judicial organs, but has been split into two characters, and suddenly all of them have become curse words.

Xie is not to be mentioned, and insects are not good words either.

Lin Xinchong did not say this casually. He must have come prepared. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, many people went to Japan. Even if Japan closed its borders, they could not have been unaware of this.

The officers around Liu Yu were not uneducated, nor were they soldiers. They grew up in the political environment of Dashun. The word "xie" was almost the top curse among the literati in Dashun.

They usually respected Liu Yu the most, but at this time, they were all swearing and wanted to overturn the table. The Japanese cursed, and there were only a few sentences over and over again. The interpreter was in a dilemma. He thought about it and wrote down the words directly without interpreting.

Liu Yu listened to the people around him cursing without any culture. He thought to himself, "Fuck, I know today how important the etiquette government is. There is no need for a doctor and a minister. If there was a member of the etiquette government, I wouldn't have quarreled so badly today.