New Shun 1730

Chen Qinghai was impassioned, but Liu Yu still did not answer. Instead, he stared silently at the dark blue sea, watching the swaying waves splashing pearl-like foam and then annihilating it, and remained silent for a long time.

During the silence, I felt like laughing, thinking that these military officers were still too young after all.

Naval officers and cadets who are able to fight, have land, money, hereditary territory, and culture, but are still separated by the sea, and still want to invest money in trade and factories, are they actually sealed overseas, separated by the sea? Emperor Dashun was indeed a Han, but he was an emperor first, and even thinking about it, he knew that he would never agree to such a thing.

Behind me, shouts of raising the sail and hoisting the side sail came and went, and the silence in the noise never lasted long.

"Zhao Tuo closed the Five Ridges and Four Passes and established a separatist regime. The Japanese countries faced each other across the sea, but the naval officers and students who knew naval warfare wanted to seal them across the sea? The old wisdom of Zhou Gong indeed established China's millennium foundation, but the emperors of Qin and Han were not surnamed Ji. Qinghai, Qinghai, use your brain, think about it, is this possible?”

After saying this, Liu Yu said nothing more and went straight back to the cabin, leaving Chen Qinghai alone on the deck, frowning and thinking, and for a long time he just sighed.

Returning to the cabin, Liu Yu spread out his pen and paper and compiled a memorial of his journey after he separated from Ryukyu and Zhao Baiquan, focusing on writing about Tosa.

For the emperor, the most important concern was whether he could win the war.

Secondly, in Liu Yu's opinion, it should be Tosa's business.

Just like the "prophecy" Liu Yu told the emperor many years ago, such a thing is indeed happening in Japan at this moment, but it may also happen in China.

He hoped that through this incident, the emperor would be more impressed.

Under the premise that it is no longer possible to pretend that the outside world does not exist, we must either solve the problems of widespread poverty and high land rent among the people at the bottom, so that when external forces come, they will raise their arms and followers will gather; or continue to strengthen the navy , to ensure that no one will use Liu Yu's tactics of playing Tosa on the southeast coast to strangle external forces away from the beach.

Choose one of the two, and the emperor will probably be able to tell clearly which thing is easy to do and which is difficult to do; which one treats the symptoms and which one treats the root cause.

What happened in Japan can be regarded as a lesson to Dashun: the prerequisite for locking the country is to have a strong navy that can choose to open the country or lock the country. Otherwise, it will be a unilateral way of exempting the country from war, which is only in the novel.

The affairs of the Japanese can be the master of Dashun.

The emperor, who is also a feudal lord, should mourn and learn from this.

He sealed the finished memorial and handed it over to the two speedboats to let them return first. He also wants to lead the fleet to Tosa, join the marines there, and complete the mapping of some coastlines.

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In Edo Castle.

There was no other person around Tokugawa Yoshimune, and the news brought back by Tadashi Ooka was very bad, which cut off the possibility of the two tigers competing for food. He had no choice but to carefully examine Liu Yu's letter again.

Much of the content in the letter cannot be disclosed to others. When they discussed the two tigers' plan to compete for food that day, they only talked about Liu Yu's conspiracy.

Tokugawa Yoshimune knew very well that the real content could not be shown to outsiders.

The most unflattering paragraph in the letter, if you just look at the tone, it seems that Liu Yu was still the one who softly mentioned the Three Cunning Rabbits in Edo, but the content is different from what it was before.

"There may be a saying: Tokugawa Ieyasu is like Sima Yi. However, no matter what the means, he has achieved something in the end. It has been passed down to this day for a hundred years. If you inherit the legacy, you should think carefully about it."

"The ancients said: Take history as a guide. Didn't you see what happened to the Kamakura Shogunate?"

"When Meng Yuan attacked Japan, the Kamakura shogunate was victorious but defeated. Now that I, Dashun, have come to attack, you can only defend after all."

"Even if we win, so what? Are those who have great military achievements rewarded? If rewarded, it is just for defense and there is no extra land and population, so what reward will be given? If you have merit but not rewarded, how can it last? If rewarded, If we reward the land directly under our jurisdiction, how can we suppress the foreign lords in the future?"

"Directly under the banner, we fought against the Dashun army and suffered heavy casualties. How can we suppress it in the future? If you insist on fighting, I will get out of the way of the outside daimyo and attack the shogunate instead of the daimyo. Isn't this a simple matter?"

"If you want to give a reward, you need land and population. Is it still possible to follow Toyotomi's attack on the dynasty? Can your navy cross Tsushima Island? You have military merit in the defensive battle, but you don't have land to reward you. Are you not asking for a step sickle? The legacy of the Kura Shogunate?”

"Besides, Gong is only a general who conquered the barbarians. The other famous names still have a legitimate reason to live in Kyoto. Gong should think about it carefully."

"The Kamakura shogunate resisted the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, Japan survived but Kamakura fell; King Xuan of Zhou used six divisions to conquer the armies, five hegemons prospered and seven heroes stood up."

"As the saying goes, future generations mourn and fail to take note of it, which also makes future generations mourn again... I hope you will think about it carefully."

"Secondly, if Japan switches on and off, China can choose to switch on and off in places directly under the shogunate such as Nagasaki, or in Satsuma, Hirado and other places. Think about it carefully, is it better for you to take the initiative to switch to the place directly under your jurisdiction? Or? Choose places like Satsuma and Choshu?”

"If you pay tribute, you will become a vassal of the Celestial Empire. Just like Ryukyu, a small country with less than a thousand soldiers, why would the Celestial Empire intend to annex it? If you pay tribute and turn on and off, and if the outside world rebels, the Celestial Empire will help you to suppress the rebellion; if you don't Tribute switch, there will be a large army of the Celestial Empire to help foreign famous people return it, so as to correct the etiquette of the world."

"Think about it! Think about it!"

It was these contents in the letter that made it impossible for Tokugawa Yoshimune to reveal all the contents of the letter to others. Every sentence here is full of danger. Even the Dutch may not have such a clear understanding of the situation in Japan, but Liu Yu's letter firmly grasped this contradiction.

Tokugawa Yoshimune knew very well that this was almost the same as what Liu Yu did in Tosa, that is, he told you clearly how to fight, but you could do nothing about it.

Are Satsuma, Choshu and other vassals loyal? Tokugawa Yoshimune knew very well.

After all the hatamoto were defeated, could they suppress those daimyo? Tokugawa Yoshimune still knew very well.

What Dashun wanted was tribute. Is there any difference between the tribute from the shogun and the tribute from Kyoto? Tokugawa Yoshimune still knew very well.

Under the policy of isolation, Nagasaki was directly governed, and as the only trade customs, all profits were earned by the shogunate. If Dashun chose to trade with Satsuma, Choshu and other vassals, if the shogunate could not achieve a monopoly, could it still get all the benefits of the trade?

This is a decline, and perhaps it is really as Liu Yu said: The Kamakura shogunate defeated the Mongols, so what? King Xuan of Zhou revived and attacked the barbarians, so what?

Year after year, I was bitterly annoyed and pressed gold thread to make wedding clothes for others.

He was a branch of the shogunate, or some people called him "the second Ieyasu", he was still capable. But the prince he appointed was almost thirty and still wet his pants, slurred his words, and habitually gritted his teeth and didn't speak.

If it hadn't happened this time, Tokugawa Yoshimune thought that with his reforms, even if the prince he appointed was a waste, he could still suppress it.

But now, there is such a huge external force as Dashun. If it is true as Liu Yu said, all the directly subordinate hatamoto are defeated, I am afraid that the Warring States will reappear.

At that time, whoever can have a good relationship with Dashun will be able to achieve great things. As for having a good relationship with Dashun, which one of Satsuma Shimazu and Choshu Mori is not close to the water and gets the moon first?

It is difficult to guard against external enemies, but internal thieves are the most worrying, and subordinates are sometimes more terrible than enemies.

Ooka Tadashi's plan of two tigers competing for food is no longer possible, and it is known that it will fail.

Know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be lazy in a hundred battles. Liu Yu had started planning several years ago. Tokugawa Yoshimune read the Tang Dynasty storytelling books over the years. How much did he know about Dashun?

Shi Shiyong taught Dashun all the skills of riding and shooting, but Dashun didn't care because they had more powerful firearms. The Battle of Tosa was both a "benevolent and righteous" attack on the heart and a firearm that killed people. This battle was really impossible to fight.

He read Liu Yu's letter carefully again, and stopped at the last paragraph of the letter, and remained silent.

"What you are worried about is not the Celestial Empire, but the internal vassal states."

"Why not take this opportunity to weaken the internal vassal states? If the flagstones do not move, and the Satsuma, Choshu and other vassal states raise troops, the Celestial Empire will eliminate them."

"What the Celestial Empire needs is status and righteousness."

"What I want is not land, but wealth; not virtue, but opening the gates."

"By borrowing the power of the Celestial Empire, we can eliminate all the powerful vassal states and cut off their wings. What harm will it do to you?"

"If not, all your flagstones will be lost, and the Satsuma, Choshu and other vassal states will use the power of the Great Shun to smuggle arms or privately train new troops..."

"The enemy is in Honnoji, not in the Emperor's teacher."

Although Liu Yu left Tokugawa Yoshimune with the impression of a cunning and disgusting liar, it must be said that the few words in the letter did make Tokugawa Yoshimune's heart move.

Killing with a borrowed knife?

Borrowing the knife of the Great Shun to weaken the Choshu, Satsuma and other vassal states?

Since he has a relationship with Liu Yu, he may send his confidants to contact Dashun secretly.

Measure the wealth of the shogunate and win the favor of the Celestial Empire.

The southwestern feudal lords are already powerful. Let them compete with Dashun... As long as Dashun really does not seek land, this is a perfect opportunity to weaken the opponent.

The Tokugawa family has a foundation of more than a hundred years. It does not need to rely on leading the resistance to Shun to gain justice and become a real leader, because he is already a leader.

The man in Kyoto has a name but no power. He can't afford to support troops with an expenditure of only 100,000 stones.

Under the policy of separation of farmers and soldiers, the threat to rule is those external daimyo.

As long as Liu Yu does not send troops to land everywhere and replicate the Tosa incident, then under the policy of separation of farmers and soldiers, the peasants will never be able to turn the world upside down in their ten lifetimes.

The Tosa incident was successful not because of the tyranny of the five officials and five people, but because the soldiers led by Liu Yu beat the Tosa samurai. If there is no external force, even if the officials are six and the people are four, wouldn't the people still be sesame seeds for oil extraction? Under the sword hunting order, how can you fight the samurai without even touching a weapon?

Kyushu Island... Kyushu Island.

Some strategies do not need to be predicted. If Dashun wants to fight, it will definitely land on Kyushu Island, and it cannot be anywhere else. Either through Korea or Ryukyu, Liu Yu may lead a few thousand soldiers to run around, but once the soldiers reach tens of thousands, Kyushu must be the only choice.

On Kyushu Island, the shogunate directly governs only one piece of Nagasaki, which is used as a port for trade. The rest are all some lamps that are not fuel-efficient. It is not a bad idea to use Dashun to get rid of them.

But, does Dashun really not want land?

Take out Liu Yu's letter again and read it carefully. After several times, it suddenly becomes clear.

Even if you want land, what can you do?

The cities on Kyushu Island were not originally under the jurisdiction of the shogunate!

And Liu Yu just gave him a legitimate opportunity not to resist: as a lesson from the Tosa incident, you can let the lords of each city stay in the city, and the shogunate army can be divided into several teams for mobile defense.

In this way, even if we don't gather a large army to fight in Kyushu, those people won't say anything, nor will they think that the shogunate is using a knife to kill. Or if we go to Kyushu with 10,000 hatamoto, even if we lose, it won't shake the foundation.

And if we use all the samurai directly under the shogunate to fight, even if we don't consider Liu Yu landing everywhere to incite the uprising, once we lose the war, it will really be like what Liu Yu said: making wedding clothes for others.

This shogun is not legitimate.

Soldiers are the foundation of maintaining rule.