Great Ming National Teacher

The Ming Empire began to expand rapidly from the eighth year of Chongzhen. Its territory extended to the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Arctic Ocean in the north, and the Ob River in the west. The territory was more than doubled than before.

Li Yunya does not use the traditional tribute system of the suzerain state of the Chinese dynasty, nor the colonial system of the Westerners. Instead, he really wants to completely turn these areas into Chinese territory. Most of these areas are barren land, with Gobi, quicksand, and On the ice sheet, when it snows heavily in winter, people are willing to go to the south of the Yangtze River where the climate is warm all year round. The worst is the Huanghuai generation. No one likes to go to places with harsh climates. They all encountered unprecedented backlash. Li Yunya still insisted on going his own way and did it unswervingly. He built cities in the far northern wilderness, built roads and railways, opened mines, set up factories, and focused on the development of the Great Northern Wilderness and the Mongolian grassland. The farm, a large ranch, also went north to Siberia for logging and mining.

All of the above requires a lot of manpower and material resources, as well as a mountain of silver. The ministers in the court and the great Confucianism in the people have to speak out more, or dissuade, or satirize, or ridicule, saying that Li Yunya shakes the country, It was a waste of manpower and material resources, and Zhu Youjian fought again and again, devouring his friendly neighbors. He is suspected of imitating the tyrant Yang Guang. If things go on like this, the country will fail!

Because the expansion is too fast and the time is too short, even though it has entered the industrial revolution, and the age of steam and electricity is progressing simultaneously, and the national power has been greatly improved, it is still a bit difficult. The taxes collected every year are not enough to spend. In order to balance the finances, Li Yunya lent the money earned by his Fengyuan Department Store and Chongxuan Machinery to the country without interest, and Zhu Youjian also took out a lot of money from his internal funds, plus the money he earned from selling arms, Just barely maintain the balance of payments.

It was precisely because of financial difficulties that the Ming army was not able to directly and quickly let the Ming army attack Japan. The military expenditure was really a bit short of supply. It is very strong, but it also burns too much money, and Jinshan Yinshan can't afford such consumption.

However, our great General Lu Xiangsheng used the strategy of "ten thousand rats to eat each other" to make the Japanese kill each other. In just two or three years, the total population dropped by almost two-thirds, and the men died of blood Fighting, women become playthings to play with and throw away, old people and children are killed, freeze and starve to death.

After the Ming army landed, corpses could be seen everywhere from Nagato country to the foot of Edo city. Even Commander Lu, who had experienced many battles, was moved by it. The brutality and ferocity of the Japanese were beyond his imagination. The Japanese who came ashore were so ruthless, they slaughtered villages and clans at every turn, and killed the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang without mercy. It turned out that they were so cruel when they killed their own people!

Perhaps, they do not consider each other to be their own people, and ordinary people only recognize their own lords. For example, people in Kaga country do not think that people from Anfang country are their own people, and people from Hyuga country do not regard people from Sado country as their own. People regard people as their own people, just like during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods in China, the people of Chu State would not regard the people of Qin State as their own people, and the people of Lu State would not regard the people of Yan State as their own people. It can be said that without the unification of Qin Shihuang, the system of prefectures and counties was changed. , and unify the weights and measures of words and coins, China will not escape the fate of fragmentation like Europe in all likelihood.

The Ming army quickly occupied the entire territory of Japan, and the five lords who won out from among the many lords came to meet Lu Xiangsheng. Lu Xiangsheng took out the imperial decree and announced that they were canonized as one king and four generals.

The five Tibetan lords were very happy, but this kind of happiness didn't last for a few days before they realized something was wrong.

According to their preconceptions, the Ming Dynasty should withdraw its troops soon as in the past, and then the newly appointed "Japanese King" will rule the whole of Japan. For the Ming Empire, it is only necessary to regard it as the suzerain state and pay tribute every year. But the fact is not the case. Lu Xiangsheng personally sits in Edo City, and assigns Ming army officers and soldiers to occupy cities and ports. All the lords are under house arrest in Edo City, including the just-canonized Japanese King, who cannot leave. Soon got the news that their territory was being occupied by Ming people.

The King of Japan refused to accept it and came to Lu Xiangsheng to tell him. Lu Xiangsheng didn't see him at all. He was busy reporting the situation here to Beijing. He sent a boat to pick up the officials appointed by the central government, quickly built a cement factory, and began to rebuild Edo City.

According to the research results of the cabinet and Beihai, Japan is divided into three parts. Hokkaido Island and Sakhalin Island are included in Beishan Province, which also includes the Kamchatka Peninsula and the entire Eastern Siberia region. The provincial capital is Vladivostok, and the southern Kyushu Island is divided into one. Provinces, Honshu Island and Shikoku Island became one province, and the state capital of each province was completely redefined, and many names were renamed.

The governors of the state capitals rushed here by boat at the fastest speed and started to work. The first stationed was the Ministry of Public Security, which checked the household registration, formulated the household registration, measured the land, etc. All the land in Japan was nationalized, and then according to the different conditions of each place Distributed to the poor. The bottom poor were originally under the name of their respective lords, and their status was similar to that of slaves. They may be able to rise a little higher, but it is also limited. Now they have obtained land that can be cultivated, and many of them have no surnames at all. A special person was appointed to let them enter the Chinese surname and give them their real names. Li Yunya transferred a lot of farm tools and fishing boats to help farmers resume production as soon as possible. The Ministry of Industry built a large number of factories and recruited laborers to start production. The backlash subsided quickly.

Japan came to an end here, and Li Yunya immediately suggested to Zhu Youjian to let Lu Xiangsheng go south to win the Ryukyu. It is impossible to explain to the people of the world. Besides, our current territory is so vast that it is rare in history. Even the Han and Tang Dynasties and even the Yuan Dynasty were comparable to us. The Ryukyu island country has a small state and few people. Barren, why bother him!"

Zhu Youjian is the traditional way of thinking of the ancient Chinese. Li Yunya can’t blame him. He took the map and told him: “Now the Europeans have circled from this side of the earth to the American continent. Africans trafficked black slaves over there to work for them, plant land and mine mines. We can’t let them divide up every week, and we must intervene. Even if some of the benefits are now, we have to have a foothold there. Otherwise, you can see that once this place is no longer under the control of European countries in the future, but unites to become a separate country, facing us across the sea, and then uses means to instigate collusion with Ryukyu, we will be blocked at home, just like Just like playing chess, we must at least be in the same strategic position as that side.”

Zhu Youjian still can't understand the importance of what he said, but he is used to listening to Li Yunya. All the things Li Yunya said these years have come true, and all the things he promised him have been done. Yun Ya was also so sure, so he didn't stop him.

Seeing him nodding his head in agreement, Li Yunya hugged him and pressed him onto the chair, kissing him hard: "Baby, you are so understanding, so cute, baby, I will be fine tonight." Reward you!"

Raiding Ryukyu is different from attacking Japan. Zhu Youjian mobilized the North Sea Fleet, East China Sea Fleet, and South China Sea Fleet. In addition to ironclad ships, there are also many obsolete three-masted gunboats, large centipede ships, large sailing ships, Fuchuan, and Cantonese ships...together. 1000 and two hundred warships were ordered, all gathered together, and headed for Shuri Castle, the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The Ryukyu king thought that the Ming army was just passing by, so he personally brought his son, as well as all the civil and military officials to greet him, and brought wine and meat to the army.

The special envoy sent by the Ming army this time was the newly promoted Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Guowei. He followed the King of Ryukyu into the city and had a meal first. Together with Lu Xiangsheng, they exchanged cups with each other. The atmosphere was very harmonious. Just a few years ago, Japan once came to attack Ryukyu, the Ryukyu country, and the Ryukyu country could not resist, and the Ming Dynasty had no way to rescue them, so they could only be forced to regard Japan as the suzerain country, but they still thought that the Ming Dynasty was the real suzerain country, and it could be regarded as a dual suzerain country ...

Now this history of humiliation has finally been turned over, and Japan no longer exists!Ryukyu King Shangxian is very young, only seventeen years old this year, and enviously asked if he could buy a warship from the Ming Dynasty?The country of Ryukyu is sparsely populated. It is composed of a series of archipelagos, which add up to the size of Kyushu Island. The national strength is too weak, and they live on fishing and trade, so they desperately hope to get a few warships.

Zhang Guowei put down his wine glass, took out Zhu Youjian's imperial decree and began to read it, the Ryukyu king was stunned after hearing it: the co-author Ming Dynasty is coming to annex us completely!He looked at Lu Xiangsheng and the soldiers standing behind him. Knowing that the incident was true, he suddenly felt sad and shouted in the direction of Beijing: "What's wrong with me? You want to destroy the country!"

The generals beside the king raised their feet and kicked over the table, drawing out their long swords with their backhands to fight desperately. The soldiers behind Lu Xiangsheng all took off their rifles and aimed at them in unison.

The King of Ryukyu hurriedly stopped his men. He knew that Ryukyu could not resist the powerful Ming army. All of them are sails, the largest ironclad ship is higher than his palace, and the cannon barrel can squeeze his whole body into it!There are also those Ming army soldiers wearing military uniforms and steel helmets, the real masters of tigers and wolves, as long as they say no, they will immediately launch a thunderous blow, and the entire Liuqiu country will be wiped out in an instant!

Although the king was young, he was also mature. After stopping his subordinates, he asked Zhang Guowei: "If His Majesty the Emperor wants to take our land, where will he put me? How will he deal with our subjects?"

Zhang Guowei said warmly: "Don't worry, the prince. When the humble minister came out, the emperor gave thousands of instructions. If the prince is willing to submit to our court, we will definitely treat him well." He took out another imperial edict, signaling the Ryukyu king to accept the order. Knowing that if he didn't accept it, the family's life would be lost immediately, so he had to drag his son and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Ryukyu Kingdom to kneel down to receive the decree. Zhang Guowei read out the second imperial decree and named the King of Ryukyu the King of Beijing County. , bestowed a palace in Changping, and asked the whole family to come to Beijing immediately.For the sake of the peace of the Ryukyu king's family, Zhu Youjian proposed to marry the Ryukyu king's younger sister for his son Zhu Cihong, and made her the princess of the new moon.

Zhu Cihong is the crown prince, the crown prince of a country. If there is no accident, he will be the future emperor of the Ming Empire. There is no crown prince and concubine. Princess Xinyue married in the past. In a few years, it is very likely that she will be the future queen. If that is the case In other words, as long as the Ryukyu king's family does not participate in the rebellion in the future, their status in the Ming Dynasty will be secure. This is Zhu Youjian's guarantee.