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Huang Fei sat in the main seat, followed by Dai Sheng, and the shogunate of the defeated side could only sit down.

Dai Sheng said: "The shogunate's stubborn resistance has caused heavy casualties to our army. First, the families of the dead and injured soldiers must be compensated; second, those who ordered to defend to the death must be severely punished!"

Tokugawa Ietsuna quickly said: "Sakai Tadakiyo and his traitors all committed seppuku!"

Dai Sheng continued: "600 million military compensation, not a penny less. If the cash is not enough, it will be converted into gold. If the gold is not enough, it can be paid in installments, but the delayed silver will have to pay interest."

"Didn't you say 600 million kan before?" Iezuna Tokugawa's heart was bleeding.

Dai Sheng asked: "Can negotiating in the city be the same as negotiating outside the city?"

Sixteen million guan, that is, 600 million taels of silver, the shogunate is not enough to sell the iron, so I am afraid they have to start with the rich merchants in Sandu.

Tokugawa Ietsuna couldn't refuse, so he could only say bitterly, "Angel, please continue."

Dai Sheng said: "Before, only ten ports were required to be opened, but now Japan must fully open the sea!"

Tokugawa Ietsuna nodded: "Yes."

Dai Sheng added: "The rest of the terms remain unchanged."

Tokugawa Ietsuna breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Dai Sheng would open his mouth again.

No matter how outrageous the terms, Tokugawa Ietsuna couldn't refuse.Because the Datong Army controls the two emperors, they can cut down the Tokugawa family in Edo Castle at any time, and then bring the emperor to control the power.

At that time, civil war will definitely break out.

Those daimyos who support the Tokugawa family, as well as the pro-vassals and genealogy generations of the Tokugawa family, will inevitably fight with the daimyos who "support the emperor".

After the two parties signed the contract, it was time to watch the seppuku ceremony.

Tokugawa Jiazuna hated Sakai Zhongqing to death, and he was not allowed to use the wrong person in the ceremony.

There is not even a wrong person, and the whole process can be called cruel.

Sakai Zhongqing held the ribs with trembling hands, rubbed them several times, and finally stabbed into the lower abdomen.He wanted to pull the knife again to end the pain early, but his hands couldn't exert any strength.Reluctantly pulled it to the side, already crying in pain.Slow down and come again, just opened a small hole, and the pain was so painful that I dared not move anymore.

Huang Fei looked bored: "Don't worry about it, just cut it with a knife."

Tokugawa Ietsuna hurriedly chose a wrong person, and asked Sakai Tadakiyo, who was curled up on the ground, to kneel down again.A sip of sake was sprayed on the blade, and compared to the neck, the light of the blade flashed, and the head fell to the ground.

Sakai Tadakiyo's son, and those confidantes, lined up to commit seppuku.

Afterwards, the Sakai family was completely liquidated, and the fiefs were transferred to the relatives of the Tokugawa family, and a small part of them became the direct jurisdiction of the shogunate.

Abe Zhongqiu was promoted to the boss because of his meritorious service in rescuing Kaka.

Abe Tadaaki belonged to the reformers. He did not think about drastic reforms, but believed that samurai and ronin should work.Especially ronin, they can no longer idle around, but how to arrange work is not easy to figure out.

The old man quickly issued a decree, announcing that the ronin can take up any job, as long as the ronin has the heart to do business, the big names from all over the place will not be able to stop him.

To be honest, it makes a lot of sense, but has little effect.

At the same time, Abe Zhongqiu began to track down the rich merchants in Sandu.Except for the wealthy merchants who were covered by the shogun, other wealthy merchants suffered heavy losses, and were frequently labeled as colluding with Tadaki Sakai, forcing the wealthy merchants to hand over enough gold and silver for atonement.

Such a large-scale search for merchants is all to pay war reparations.

400 million taels of silver, a hard-working businessman, the shogunate can still take it out.

It's just that after this battle, the prestige of the shogunate was greatly lost, and the local lords no longer took the shogunate seriously.Although on the surface he still complies, he comes to live in Edo every other year, and Iezuki also lives in Edo for a long time, but in private, his obedience and injustice are even more serious.

The 400 million taels of war reparations is a huge amount in Japan at this time.The rich merchants gave more than half of it, and the shogunate had to pay for the rest. It was already in financial distress, and now it has to step up its efforts to exploit the people.

The increasingly heavy taxation has made Japanese people of insight more and more dissatisfied with the shogunate, and at the same time feel that they should learn from China in an all-round way.

It is interesting to say that all the "culprits" are China.But the Japanese do not hate China, but worship China's strength more and more.Even those big names are more enthusiastic about buying Chinese products, and they even ask Chinese merchants about Nanjing fashion.

The former progressive daimyo Abe Tadaaki, after becoming the boss, his ass decides his head. He must maintain the stability of the rule, but he has become a representative of backward daimyos.He frantically suppressed people of insight, and dozens of books were added to the list of banned books.However, he also knew that Japan should learn, so he sent twenty envoys to Tang Dynasty in one go, and sent those young people to study in Nanjing.

What to learn?

Of course, it is to study steam engines and the like, only to study technology, not politics.

Another person was injured, and that was the lord of the Matsumae Domain.

He ate and drank delicious food in Hokkaido, and somehow saw a Chinese warship, saying that Hokkaido had been incorporated into China.As for him, the feudal lord, he was temporarily appointed as the magistrate of Ezo, and he must immediately take a Chinese name.

Chapter 1041 [Ezo County]

Tokihiro Matsumae just succeeded to the throne last year, and this year, this kind of thing happened, and his own territory became Chinese territory for no reason.

He was dumbfounded by this.

And the retainers of the Matsumae clan felt... very happy!

Hokkaido, a place where birds don't shit, has always been Japan's exile.For example, Huashanin Tadacho, who was exiled due to the pig bear incident, was taken in by the Matsumae clan, and he is still a retainer of the Matsumae clan.

To put it bluntly, Hokkaido is a "den of anti-thieves"!

The Matsumae clan can't help it. Hokkaido is too poor and remote. If they don't take in those political prisoners, they can't even recruit a few educated samurai.There is no problem of vagrants flooding here, because it is too poor, even ronin are unwilling to come here.

The recruitment of political prisoners in batches naturally entails a corresponding price.

The Matsumae clan has never been accepted by the orthodox daimyo, and only obtained the banner treatment by paying bribes.Although they have already built a city, the banner is not qualified to build a city, and it is still called "Songqianguan" to the outside world, and I dare not say that there is a "Fukuyama Castle" here.

The daimyo should live in Edo with the whole family, but the daimyo of the Matsumae domain did not even have the qualifications to move to Edo.

"Mr. is proficient in Sinology, please change my name to a Han Chinese." Tokihiro Matsumae approached Huashanyuan Zhongchang.

The Zhongzhang of Huashan Academy thought carefully, picked up a pen and began to write: "Song is pronounced Song in the Tang Dynasty, and the family governor will be named Song from now on. According to the pronunciation of Tang Dynasty, Juguang can be changed to Juguang."

"Song Juguang, good name." Tokihiro Matsumae was very satisfied.

For him, it doesn't matter if he changes his name or surname.

Decades ago, his family was still named "Oysteraki".After being approved by Tokugawa Ieyasu, in order to show that he is awesome, he changed his surname to "Matsumae", taking a character from Matsudaira and Maeda.

From now on, we will all call him Song Juguang. Song Juguang asked curiously, "What Chinese name did you change for yourself?"

Zhongzhang Huashanyuan smiled and said: "Zhongzhang Hua."

"Good name." Tokihiro Matsumae praised immediately.

Zhongzhang Huashanyuan is more than 70 years old this year. Despite his kind-hearted appearance, he played very well when he was young.

At that time, there was an aristocratic son named Inokuma Kotoshi in Kyoto. He was proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he had a killer hairstyle. He became the dream lover of all women.A young girl from a wealthy family in Kyoto was slept all over by Inokuma Kyori.

It's not a big deal, Inokuma Gorori also took the wealthy children of Kyoto to play multiplayer games together.He even put the emperor's first love concubine to sleep. After the emperor knew about it, he didn't dare to attack immediately.

As for Huashanyuan Zhongchang, he not only hangs out with Inokuma Kyori, but also sleeps with the emperor's female official, and brings the female official to party together.

In the end, the commotion was too big, and too many daimyos and wealthy businessmen's family members were involved. Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered a nationwide arrest, and Inokuma Kyotoshi was finally arrested and beheaded.The father of Zhongchang Huashanin has energy, so he did not die, but was exiled in Hokkaido, and suddenly became a retainer of the Matsumae domain.

This kind of swinger brother is regarded as a cultural person by the Matsumae clan, which shows how backward the culture and education in Hokkaido are.

Song Juguang called a meeting of his retainers, and the first thing he did was to ask everyone for their new names.

A middle-aged retainer stepped forward: "My lord, my new name is Chang Yizhen."

"My new name is Jing Zhongzheng."

"My new name is..."

After listening to his self-introduction, Song Juguang nodded and smiled and said, "Don't call me the head of the museum or the governor of the house from now on. I am the county magistrate of Datong China, and you should call me the magistrate of Song County."

These guys are happy because everything on the island remains the same except their names and costumes, and the Nanjing court has not deprived them of their power.

Ezo Island is different from Tsushima Island. Although the land on Tsushima Island is barren, at least it is not that cold and it is not that far from mainland China.Therefore, rapid immigration can be carried out on Tsushima Island, and the power deprivation of the island's daimyo and retainers is even more urgent.

And what about Ezo Island?

Even the Japanese ronin are unwilling to come. If China wants to develop the island, it may take tens or hundreds of years.

Then temporarily detain the rule, and first send officials who are willing to go to sea to establish courts and schools on Ezo Island.Judiciary must be in the hands of the imperial court, and culture and education must not be left behind. Gradually teach Japanese and indigenous people to speak Chinese.

A Chinese warship is still moored in the port, and Dai Sheng's deputy Kong Cheng

Ryo was thrown to deal with Ezo affairs.

After Song Juguang communicated with his retainers, he began to entertain Kong Chengliang grandly.

Fragrant white rice, even if it is particularly grand.There is no rice produced on the island at this time, and it is all shipped by sea, so white rice is very precious.

The dishes are all kinds of seafood, which may be rare for the inland people, but the people on the island have long since vomited.

Although Hua Zhongchang is "proficient" in Sinology, he can't speak Chinese at all. Fortunately, Kong Chengliang can speak Japanese.So at the banquet, a group of "Chinese" officials could only communicate in Japanese.

Song Juguang said: "Angel Rong Bing, there is a shortage of goods on this island. Now that it is the territory of the Celestial Dynasty, can merchants be allowed to bring cotton cloth, rice, and salt?"

Kong Chengliang said: "The imperial court has never done any merchant trade. Ezo Island must have enough goods to attract those merchants. Isn't the fleet of the Four Seas Trading Company going to America to pass through Ezo Island?"

Song Juguang immediately complained: "The trading place of the Four Seas Trading Company is the Hakodate established by the Andong family (Akita family). Most of the goods are transported to the Dewa area, and only a very small amount of goods can stay on Ezo Island."

"Is there any other daimyo on the island who set up Hakodate?" Kong Chengliang asked in surprise.

Song Juguang explained: "My family was originally a samurai of the Ando clan. Although we obtained the status of the island owner from the shogunate, we have been coerced by the Ando clan. The special products of Ezo Island can only be traded in the Hakodate of the Ando clan. Fur and fish are sold to the Anton family at a low price, and rice, cotton cloth and salt are bought from the Anton family at a high price."

Kong Chengliang said: "The box house of the Anton family must be taken back to the imperial court. From now on, you can directly trade with merchants."

"That's great!" Song Juguang and his retainers were overjoyed.

Kong Chengliang asked, "What special products are there on the island?"

Song Juguang replied: "Fur, wood and fish."

"What kinds of fur?" Kong Chengliang asked.

Song Juguang said: "It's mainly deer and foxes. There are pink foxes here, and the fox fur sells well."

Kong Chengliang smiled and said, "That's enough. Deerskin and fox fur are very popular in China."

Song Juguang did not say one more thing, there are gold mines in Hokkaido.In the early days of Matsumae's development, it relied on alluvial gold to solve financial problems, and also used alluvial gold to bribe Sakai Zhongqing to obtain the banner treatment.It's just that there is less and less placer gold, and the technology for mining gold mines is not enough, and the real mines have not yet been developed.

In addition, Hokkaido has the third largest gold mine in Japan, which is located in the territory of the Ainu people at this time, and it is estimated that it will not be discovered until a hundred years later.

The Ainu people are very powerful. Decades ago, the Japanese built twelve Hakodates on the island.Due to the exchange of a knife, the Japanese shopkeeper stabbed to death the Ainu who bought the knife because the price could not be negotiated.

This aroused the anger of the Ainu people, and ten of the twelve Japanese Hakodates were quickly captured.

The Matsumae family rose up in that war. They held their ground to repel the enemy's attack, gathered their forces to counterattack, and shot and killed the Ainu leader.Relying on the prestige brought by the war, the Matsumae clan subdued the island's nobles (colonial leaders) and then ruled the southern part of Ezo Island.

Today, the Japanese and Ainu people on the island are fighting wars while doing business.Fight the war when it is time to fight, and continue trading after the war.

After appeasing these guys in front of him, Kong Chengliang found someone who could speak the local language, and led a group of soldiers to the Ainu territory.

Ainu means Einu, with different translations, and it was also called Kuyi and Kuye in Ming Dynasty.

So, who are the famous historical figures of the Ainu people?

The cute and powerful Nako Lulu, of course, and her eagle, Mamahaha!

Stop talking.

At this time, the leader of the Yezo was called Sha Mou Sheyun. According to history, in three years, he was about to lead the uprising of the Yezo people.

After Kong Chengliang led dozens of Datong troops into the territory of the Ainu tribe, he quickly attracted the attention of the natives.What's more, their guides were still wearing Japanese samurai uniforms, and the local chiefs immediately surrounded them with the young and strong of the tribe.

The Datong army raised their muskets, and the Ainu people also raised their bows and arrows.

The guide stepped forward and explained: "This is an envoy sent by the Emperor of China. This land will be ruled by the Emperor of China in the future, including my master Matsumae. We want to meet the leader of Ezo!"

The Ainu people have twelve large tribes, similar to

Under the alliance system, Sha Mou Sheyun was elected as the leader of the alliance.

Three days later, Sha Mou Sheyun arrived with the warriors.

He has never heard of China at all. In his opinion, the Matsumae clan is a very powerful enemy, and the Matsumae clan's backer, the Anton clan, must be number one in the world.

Where did China come from?

Therefore, Sha Mousheyun asked when they met: "Has China defeated the Matsumae clan?"

Kong Chengliang shook his head: "No."

Sha Mousheyun asked again: "Has China defeated the Anton family?"

Kong Chengliang said: "We defeated the masters of Matsumae and Anton!"

Sha Mousheyun was dumbfounded, the mighty Matsumae and Anton clans actually had another owner.And this big tribe called China actually defeated the masters of the Matsumae and Anton clans!

Kong Chengliang simply took out the world map he carried with him, pointed to the map and said, "This is Ezo Island, this is Japan, and this is China. Of course, Ezo Island will also belong to China from now on."

Sha Mou Sheyun looked at the island of Ezo, which was the size of a fingernail, and at China, which was bigger than a palm. For a while, there was a sign of a collapse in the world view.

Swallowing his saliva, Sha Mou Sheyun asked, "Will China rob us of our land?"