Chapter 285 Japan’s Opportunity

Author: Mrmumumuah

Chapter 285 Japan’s Opportunity

March of the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty's restoration.

Mid-April, 1796 AD.

On the streets of Edo.

Edo, Japan, in its peaceful and prosperous times, may have been one of the only large cities in the world with a population of over one million.

The streets are crowded with people in various costumes.

Businessmen dressed in elegant silk clothes, all with smiling faces wishing to get rich, stood from the street to the door to solicit customers.

Samurai armed with samurai swords swaggered through the city and appeared at the entrances of major shopping malls.

These dojos are actually schools.

It's not just about teaching swordsmanship.

There is also knowledge.

Including Western blood, Mingxue, military science, Confucianism, etc.

Cities on the same level as Edo include Kyoto and Osaka in Japan.

In terms of population.

Today's Japan is probably among the top five most populous countries in the world. The only countries with a larger population than them are the Ottoman Empire, Ming Dynasty, Russia and other countries - because France has the largest native population among Western countries, with only more than 20 million.

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And India is now a fragmented state with newly occupied colonies from various countries. If India were a unified country, their population would definitely exceed Japan.

But now India is just a geographical concept.

After the Mughal Empire lost so much territory, it is really hard to say whether its population still exceeds 30 million.

The characteristic of Japanese politics is the dual system of emperor and shogun.

The Edo shogunate took control of power.

But the imperial court in Kyoto is not just a puppet, they actually hold the "divine power" of Japan.

The emperor is the incarnation of God in the human world.

So no one will try to remove the emperor and his family from power.

And those times when the shogun's authority is weakened.

The titular court will begin to gain more visibility.

Jumping up and down.

Strive for benefits.

The Edo shogunate era started by Tokugawa Ieyasu passed through the first forty years.

As those old people who had gone through the troubled times of the Warring States Period passed away one after another.

The politics of the shogunate also gradually began to shift toward civil governance.

Confucianism began to be more integrated into the doctrine of Bushido.

During the Warring States Period, the royal family and ministers all starved to death.

By the Edo period, not only were they able to have enough to eat, but their status in the land gradually became more prosperous.

If history continues on its original trajectory.

The prestige of the Japanese imperial court will further increase as the prestige of the Tokugawa family declines.

And with events such as the "Black Ship Seizure", there will be more impact on the status of the shogunate.

As a result, larger-scale "respect the king and repel the barbarians" activities and the "integration of public affairs" movement emerged.

Along with "respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians", the movement of "integrating public and military forces" is growing in scale.

The power of the rebel faction is also growing.

And it is precisely because of the emperor, the nominal supreme ruler of Japan.

Those impoverished samurai whose status was so low that they could only kill with one sword finally gradually stepped onto the highest stage of Japanese politics during the overthrow movement in the mid-19th century, mastered the highest power in Japan, and turned Japan and the entire Asia into a place for them to display their talents and

The stage of ambition.

Compared with those "children of the Eight Banners" who were born in noble families and were aloof.

This kind of careerist who comes from the bottom and has great ambitions, and at the same time has a large number of people who can recruit enough talented people, is definitely a more dangerous existence - both for their own country and Japan's neighboring countries.

in this way.

In the end, the madness of these underlying samurai ambitions can only rely on the most powerful weapons of humans to end.

For Emperor Zhu.

All he wants to do is to suppress the ambitions of these underlying samurai, so that the deadly upper Japanese society will continue to grasp the power.

In this way, when Japan will be founded in the future, it will not go to an aggressive expansion and become a dangerous military machine.

When Tokugawa Manchu hugged Zhu Yi zinc to arrive in the port of Edo, the six princes in her arms turned around, and she did not know that his mother would make him the king of 30 million people.

And effort to do.

Sending Tokugawa Manchi returned to Edo's family to province a branch of the Daming Navy.

This attitude explanation,

Tokugawa Manchu's identity came from the concubine of Emperor Oki.

When she walked down from the boat with Zhu Yi zinc.

The adults in Edo City have come to welcome.

Tokugawa's contemporary family owner, Tokugawa Manchu's brother Tedichawa family Qi, Laozhongsamatsu Shiming believes, Tama Matsumoto and other shogunate seniors have come.

After the grand welcome.

Tokugawa Manji did not live in the Mansion of Tokugawa's house, but lived in the Edo Embassy in the Edo Embassy.

That night.

Tokugawa's family Qi, Matsuya Dingxin, Tanumaka Saburo and others entered the embassy in a four -wheeled carriage.

Xie Youren, the Consul General of Daming in Japan, welcomed them into the museum at the door.

The sea breeze is slow, the spring breeze is warm.

In this spring, the weather gradually warms.

In the living room of the embassy, ​​a banquet has been set up.

Tokugawa Manji's arms holding the Daming Six Prince of Daming, who was just one year old, had already taken the seat.

"Brother, Songping Laozhong, Tianuma Jun, sit on. Today is a banquet, so you don’t have to be more gift,"

All three guests looked at the children in Tokugawa Manchu.

"He is the emperor of the Emperor Daming, the general of the Daming Japanese Samurai Corps, and the new king of the new Japanese land in the future!" Tokugawa Manji looked at the three of them.

"New Japan"

The three glanced at each other.

About New Japan.

Daming's officials have passed with them.

The Emperor Daming will be divided into a son to the king of South America. The purpose is to thank the development of the Japanese Samurai Corps!

And the site is large.

It is said that it is several times larger than Japan's plains, and the migration of the entire Japanese population is rich!

To say that Japan's domestic contradictions are actually similar to Daming and Han Land -there are many people, but less land!

No!

Japan's contradictions are more acute.

There should be a lot of people, and there are very few places!

Because the Japanese people eat too little now.

Basically, a bite of rice, a kelp is a meal.

This is placed in the Han Dynasty.

Those Han people who are tall and big are enough for Japanese people to eat for a day or two -it is no wonder that the height of the Japanese is getting shorter and shorter.

The nutritional intake is here.
To be continued...