Chapter 1: The Grassland Guest (IV)

The reason why the madam really couldn't afford to offend was that Li Tu and his four vicious subordinates all had sharp swords.

The map is so angry that it is hard to get rid of. Three times in a row. Every time the girl’s quality is not good. I’m afraid even the few female slaves in his tent are inferior. It is said that there are many beautiful women in the southerners, and he may not be as good as the Mongolian grasslands. However, the palace maids around the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty are all young and beautiful. He is dazzling and itchy. He can’t help but wonder if he should ask the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to go back for some time to enjoy it.

After all, they are family members. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty should not refuse his small request!

Zhu Yinglong had to know that his brother-in-law had such thoughts, and he would probably not give him a good look at all.

Just as the photo and Sony entered Wanhu Building one by one, Zhu Yinglong received news from Zhou Wenyuan in the imperial study of the Forbidden City Yangxin Palace.

Zhu Yinglong didn't care much about the news, and then put the note in the charcoal brazier to burn it, sighing. Sony was too anxious, but it would be better to ask Sony to explore it. I hope this material picture is not too stupid!

In addition to the reason why Lin Danhan sent the material pictures because he was his relationship with Taisong's younger brother, he also considered that the material pictures themselves were not stupid, so he still knew the importance of the matter.

From Sony entering the wing room under the material map, it aroused the alertness of the material map. This was purely an intuition, a wolf's intuition. The material map admired the wolf very much, so many people thought that he was just a fierce and brainless person. In fact, many people were wrong, including Sony, and even Zhu Yinglong was misunderstood.

Sony has been in the Ming Dynasty for many years, and has been more or less exposed to the arrogant temperament of the Han scholars. To put it bluntly, it is a bit conceited. With his cunning ghost schemes from many people, he can still play with them in his hands. He is not easy to capture just a piece of material.

However, Sony is destined to kick the iron plate tonight. Sony performed very well and did not reveal any flaws in front of the material map. Not only did he call the top girl from Wanhualou to the material map, the two of them also had a great time talking, just like an old friend who had not seen each other for many years.

However, the material picture always tells the romance and romance in his very poor Chinese. Looking at the material picture's smug look, Sony was really amused and couldn't count the money spent in one night, but he even posted a good girl in a red card, and promised many benefits to let the red card accompany the material picture for one night. Unexpectedly, this material picture that looked unscheming was actually not in oil and salt. No matter how you tempt the material picture, she didn't reveal any news, and when she got drunk, she only cared about the beauty in her arms, holding it and gnawing it hard.

And this incident has become an indelible stain in his life!

When Liquntu sobered up the next day, he left Wanhua Tower early in the morning and was shocked when he learned Sony's true identity. Fortunately, he was alert, otherwise he would have been utterly uttered by Sony several times, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Of course, Sony did not have gains. At least he knew that this material was either a reckless man or a very scheming heart was hidden under his seemingly reckless and rude face.

However, Williams, who came to Beijing in the past two days, was in trouble. He first asked him to meet the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, but was rejected because he was not qualified. Later, he received rumors from somewhere that it was said that Spain and the Ming Dynasty signed a secret agreement. The content of the agreement was not known, but Spain signed an agreement with the Ming Dynasty on its back, which was already a betrayal. There might be clauses in the agreement that sell the interests of the Dutch East India Company, which made the arrogant Williams feel uncomfortable.

Similarly, the Japanese Emperor and Tokugawa Shogunate Special Envoy Masao Oshima also looked distressed. Although the Ming Dynasty took the initiative to start trade with Japan, some scarce materials were extremely strict. The steel and other strategic materials allowed in Japan could not be purchased from the Ming Dynasty. This time, he came to the Ming Dynasty on behalf of the Japanese Emperor and the Shogunate to ask the Ming Dynasty to relax the gaps in these scarce materials in Japan and allow exports to Japan. Japan would also buy them at a reasonable price. However, before he could make this series of requests, he received a very bad news, that is, the Ming Dynasty intended to station troops in Ryukyu.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, Japan is just a small place, with barren land and scarce supplies. The Ming Dynasty suddenly wanted to station troops in Ryukyu. Did the Ming Dynasty have annexed Japan? It is important to know that there are many Chinese immigrants in Japan. Now these immigrants have many powerful princes. If the Ming Dynasty wants to annexed Japan, these princes might have raised their hands to agree. After all, Japan originated from China. The understanding that many Japanese princes and nobles admired Chinese culture very much.

If the Ming Dynasty really wants to annex Japan, Japan will have only one force at sea. Once it is on land, the poor equipment of the Japanese army is no match for the Ming army at all. The battle of Wanli has proved this. How heroic Toyotomi Hideyoshi is so powerful that he won over 170,000 Japanese troops across the country to attack Korea. As a result, North Korea asked the Ming court for help. As a result, the Ming court sent troops to aid North Korea. More than 100,000 troops were beaten by tens of thousands of troops and had no power to fight back. In the end, they had to negotiate and return to Japan's mainland.

This generation of Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, was also an ambitious person. If it weren't for the fact that there were many princes in Japan, who did not obey the orders, held him back and kept him from doing so, and it was difficult to perform. He had no choice but to repair his strength with the Ming Dynasty, and to use the trade with the Ming Dynasty to strengthen his national strength and slowly plan for it.

In fact, Masao Oshima is also worried about nothing. In the next few years or even longer, Japan is not the primary goal of the Ming Dynasty to conquer. The Ming Dynasty's most powerful enemy is the Later Jin. Under the rule of Huang Taiji, the Later Jin Dynasty's national strength is thriving and its national strength has increased rapidly. Although the Later Jin Dynasty is currently afraid to use troops to the Ming Dynasty, it will continue to erode the surrounding forces except the Ming Dynasty to achieve the goal of continuously strengthening itself, and then compete with the Ming Dynasty, and even want to destroy the Ming Dynasty and enter the Central Plains.

Communication in this era is too underdeveloped. It will take at least two months for Masao Oshima to transmit the information he received back to Japan. In the past, when trade was not available, the Japanese shogunate always received news from the Ming Dynasty half a year ago, and it took longer to go back and forth.

When Tokugawa Iemitsu learned that the Ming Dynasty was going to garrison troops in Ryukyu, the fourth year of Chongzhen had become history, and the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen also quietly slipped away.

Any movements of envoys from all countries have Zhou Wenyuan would send the latest news to Zhu Yinglong's imperial case as soon as possible. It can be said that the current Military Machinery Pavilion Intelligence Department has become Zhu Yinglong's other pair of eyes.

The reactions of these special envoys or envoys were expected. However, the series of agreements reached between the Ming Dynasty and Spain also involved many interests of Japan, which also involved some belief issues. Simply put, the Netherlands had good relations with Japan. At present, Japan had trade with a few neighboring countries such as the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty, and the Netherlands was the only one in Western countries in Europe. The Netherlands believed in Protestantism, while Spain represented the old Catholicism. The two countries were always hostile because of their belief issues, and they were also in trade with Japan.

It was the Protestant Netherlands who believed in the Netherlands who slandered in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu, saying that Catholic missionaries were spies sent by the Portuguese king who tried to turn Japan into a colony. Tokugawa Ieyasu was originally dissatisfied with the Catholic Church's omnipotence to promote God's omnipotence and thus downplayed the authority of secular lords. Then they saw that many Kyushu princes obtained a large number of supplies and weapons through trade with Western, Portuguese and other countries, believing that if they were allowed to develop without restrictions, it would shake the foundation of the shogunate's rule. It happened that at this time, the famous "Okamoto Daiyasu Incident" occurred, prompting Ieyasu to issue a ban.

In the fifteenth year of Keizaki, Hinoe Hinoe's Daimo Arima Haruno had a conflict with the Portuguese merchant ship Jesus, and finally sunk the Jesus. Haruno made contributions to the shogunate, and presented them to Okamoto Masatsu, the retainer of the old Nakamoto Masatsu, who hoped that Okamoto could help to restore the Arima's old territory. However, Okamoto was unwilling to do anything, and Arima Haruno became more and more anxious as he waited, and foolishly crossed Okamoto to urge Masatsu to Masatsu to - the bribery incident was exposed.

The shogunate general Okamoto Daihatsu was sent to prison and tortured severely. The shogunate bit his mouth and confessed that Arima Haruno had colluded with missionaries and Western and Portuguese merchants. So the shogunate general Okamoto Daihatsu was executed by stolen, and first exiled Arima Haruno to Tuliu County, Koshu, and then ordered him to commit suicide by separatism. As a Catholic, Haruno refused to commit suicide and ordered his retainers to stab him to death.

With the fuse of the "Okamoto Daiya Incident", Tokugawa Ieyasu's resentment towards Catholicism became even stronger. Soon after, the first "ban on religion" was issued, which strictly prohibited the spread and belief in Catholicism in the shogunate territory and the former territories of the Akima family. In August of the 17th year of Keicho, the scope of the prohibition of religion was expanded to Japan, and churches were destroyed in various places, and Japanese Catholics were arrested and forced to change their faith. The believers who refused to change their faith were paraded in the streets, exiled and executed - one hundred and forty-eight were exiled to Manila, including the famous Chezhidan Daming Takayama, Naito Ruoyan and others.

In August of the second year of Yuanhe, the second-generation general Xiuzhong issued the second "Cult ban order" to brutally persecute Catholics. Many people were burned to death because they refused to change their faith, which was known in history as "Great Martyrdom". In the sixth year of Yuanhe, the "Pingshan Changchen" incident occurred again.

Hirayama Takahashi was the captain of a red seal ship. He was arrested on his way back to Japan from Manila from Manila and was mistakenly considered a Chinese ship by the Dutch ship. When searching the Hirayama ship, the Dutch accidentally found two Spanish missionaries, so he presented them to the Tokugawa Shogunate as if they were treasured. After the shogunate interrogation, Hirayama Takahashi and the two missionaries were all executed, and the remaining twelve crew members were also executed.

From then on, religious persecution expanded to trade restrictions. The Portuguese were first expelled, then the British, and finally, in the first year of Kuanyong, Spanish ships were strictly prohibited from sailing. In addition to red seals, Japanese ships must also receive "old Chinese letters" before they can go to sea. Japanese people living abroad were also strictly prohibited from returning to their country and executed upon return.

Japan basically cut off trade with Europe, the only exception was the Dutch. The Dutch East India Company set up a branch in Japan to assure the shogunate that it would never spread Christianity. At the same time, as soon as the Dutch merchant ship arrived in Japan, the director of the merchant immediately submitted a "Dutch Wind Story" to the shogunate to report overseas situations. But even the Dutch were only allowed to build a merchant house on the island of Nagasaki, and not to step into the mainland of Japan. Even Chinese ships were only allowed to be docked in Nagasaki Port. It can be said that only Nagasaki in the whole of Japan is semi-open to the outside world, and the shogunate monopolized all foreign trade by directly ruling Nagasaki.

Later, because the Ming Dynasty took the initiative to propose trade between the two countries, the Tokugawa shogunate was under pressure, so it opened several ports such as Osaka and Kawasaki, which benefited the Netherlands. The Japanese branch of the Dutch East India Company also gained unprecedented huge benefits due to the rapid expansion of the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan.

Especially the Ming Dynasty reselled glass mirrors, silk, tea and other unique items in the Ming Dynasty that were unique to the Ming Dynasty, which made Dutch merchant ships earn a Grand Slam. The popular Ming Dynasty clothing, jewelry, tea drinking, liquor, etc. in Europe are almost all run by the Dutch people. The profits are made by more Dutch people who buy sea boats and recruit sailors to come to the mysterious East to hunt for gold.

It can be said that to a certain extent, the Ming Dynasty was changing the "close-off country" policy implemented by Japan since the fourth year of the Apocalypse!

Due to the domestic atmosphere and conditions, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to conduct face-to-face trade with the Netherlands at the beginning, and it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to show goodwill with the Dutch, so he chose Japan as a springboard. The Dutch almost monopolized Japan's trade with Europe because of the shogunate's own policies, while Spain could only stare and could not enter Japan and trade with the Ming Dynasty. Seeing that the Dutch earned a large number of francs and pounds!

For the Dutch, the Ming Dynasty did not interrupt Japan as a trade springboard, and they enjoyed exclusive business for one day. Once the Spanish established a direct face-to-face trade relationship with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not need to directly obtain more profits through the Japanese springboard. This was definitely very beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, but for the Dutch, their affairs would be gone, and even maliciously suppressing prices would not exist before.

However, the Dutch are not stupid. The function of Japan as a springboard will still exist for a long time, because the relationship between the Spanish and the Ming Dynasty was not so close. In the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, they and themselves were both Southern Barbarians, a group of uncivilized Southern Barbarians, and they should not put all their eggs in one basket when doing business.

But what the Dutch did not expect was that the Spanish had such great courage to give the foundation they had worked hard to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for more discounts in trade. This was the key to the Dutch's interests.

The Dutch either insisted on their own policies and continued to implement policies that threatened the Ming Dynasty to compromise, but this seemed impossible. The Ming Dynasty's strength in East Asia was far greater than that of the Netherlands. If Spain was included, they were asking for trouble; there was only one way left, that was to learn from Spain, give up the territorial interests of the Netherlands in southern Taiwan, and in exchange for the Ming Dynasty to treat the Ming Dynasty with the same treatment of Spain.

Of course, it would be impossible to give up the interests of East Asia, either of the Netherlands or Spain.

What bothered Williams was Brouwa, the newly appointed governor of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia. Brouwall was unfamiliar with the situation, but was arrogant and arrogant. He was very disgusted with the temporary alliance between the former governor and Spain and the interests of Taiwan. He even criticized the Dutch policy to Spain on the board of directors. The governor, who was thousands of miles away, was still unwaveringly preparing for his strategy of using force to force the Ming court to bow his head. This time he also brought him a tough-worded letter to the Emperor of Ming. Fortunately, the idiotic bishop of the Roman Catholic Church taught him a lesson, so he did not impulsively submit the letter to the Emperor of Ming, otherwise the next person to be expelled from the country might be himself.
Chapter completed!