Wanli Youming

Chapter 237

Chapter 237

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows and felt very happy, and after receiving the urgent delivery, he began to read it carefully.

"it is good!"

"very good!"

"Qi Qing and the generals did not disappoint me!"

Zhu Yijun praised repeatedly, and said quite ambitiously: "I have to add a martial virtue!"

"The ruling minister of Xuanzhengshitang has an audience!"

Zhu Yijun then gave another order.

Within a few quarters of an hour, Zhang Juzheng, Fang Fengshi and other ministers in power arrived at the Political Affairs Hall.

Zhu Yijun informed the ruling ministers that the goal of enlisting the Japanese had been achieved, and circulated the urgent letter to them.

"This is all thanks to His Majesty's strategizing!"

Zhang Juzheng first flattered Zhu Yijun after reading it.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "There are also contributions from Mr. and Zhuqing."

"Finally, it's a great success, and it hasn't turned into a militaristic thing, and it hasn't wasted state money."

"I congratulate Your Majesty for proclaiming the prestige of the Celestial Dynasty to the world!"

"At this point, most of the barbarians from all over the world dare not look down on my celestial heart, but will only be more awed by it."

Fang Fengshi also started talking with a smile at this time, and congratulated Zhu Yijun.

Other ministers in power also congratulated Zhu Yijun.

Wang Guoguang frowned at this moment.

Seeing this, Zhu Yijun asked, "Does Wang Qing have anything to say?"

Wang Guoguang said: "Your Majesty, although I am delighted that this dynasty was able to declare its prestige to the Japanese state and maintain its dignity, but the Japanese state paid 350 million taels of compensation for crimes, which made me feel worried. If they didn’t invest all of it to benefit the people, they added another 300 million taels. According to the ratio drawn up by Chen and the Royal Research Institute, they had to increase the amount of investment. No doubt, they had to think of more ways to let more money benefit the people. "

"If it doesn't work, let's save it first."

Zhu Yijun said with a smile at this time.

Wang Guoguang said yes.

Then, Fang Fengshi suddenly said: "Your Majesty, since the Japanese incident is over, should we let Marquis Qi return to the court to report on his duties?"

"After all, according to the previous request of the Privy Council, we only need to get the island where the Japanese are stationed first, and we can control their power at any time, but it is not appropriate to add the king's army to completely suppress them."

"allow!"

"The princess is about to marry his family, so let's take advantage of this and let him go back to the country. Let him be in charge of military affairs in the Privy Council of the Five Armies Commander's Mansion in the future, so that he doesn't have to go out to lead the army."

"In addition, he will be crowned as the Duke of the country with the merits of conquering the Japanese, and he will be given a prisoner's gift when he returns to Beijing. I will give him a banquet. Even if the hero wants to retire from the military power, he should retire with honor, so as to avoid the hearts of Han Wuchen."

"In addition, Yu Dayou, Ma Gui, Wu Weizhong, and Chen Lin were added as earls."

"Because of the military achievements in opening up the frontier, the titles are not due to relatives, so they are all hereditary."

Zhu Yijun said at this time.

Zhu Yijun added a Duke and four earls at once, obviously intending to strengthen the power of the nobles.

At this moment, all the ministers present couldn't help being stunned.

"According to the order!"

Fang Fengshi, Liu Yingjie, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Pan Sheng, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, did not dissuade them, and still claimed to obey the order.

After all, like Zhang Juzheng, they have long realized that there are many hidden dangers around Daming, and it is impossible without strong military equipment, but to have strong military equipment, they need to be willing to give Lords to those with outstanding military exploits.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng proposed on his own initiative: "Your Majesty, please issue an order to sacrifice to the Taimiao."

"Accurate! Send another honorable person to Xiaoling Mausoleum to make sacrifices, and tell Yu Taizu and the previous emperors that I have questioned the Japanese pirates for their provocation. In the future, the Japanese invasion will be greatly reduced."

Zhu Yijun nodded.

Next, Zhu Yijun really offered sacrifices to the Taimiao and told his ancestors about the conquest of the Japanese.

And after the Sacrifice Taimiao reported the matter, Zhu Yijun decreed that the matter of conquering the wolves could be accomplished by Zhang Juzheng's new policy as an excuse, and he decreed that Zhang Juzheng was named Grand Master, and that the matter of conquering the wolves was more due to Fang Feng's strategizing at the right time. For the reason, Fang Fengshi was granted the title of Grand Tutor, and the rest of the meritorious officials were appointed by the Ministry of Officials.

Zhang Juzheng has reached the pinnacle of civil servants so far.

Not only that, the other civil servants of the Reformist Party have also reached a level that few civil servants of the Ming Dynasty could achieve in terms of status.

As for the nobility of the military officials, it was finally agreed by the Ministry of Officials that Qi Jiguang was made Duke of Ji, Yu Dayou was made Dinghai Bo, Ma Gui was Shuozhou Bo, Wu Weizhong was Yiwu Bo, and Chen Lin was Weng Yuan Bo.

In addition, at the request of the cabinet, Zhu Yijun also decreed to approve the addition of Dongying chief secretary, inspection department, and capital commander in the newly acquired Feiqian land of Ming Dynasty, and asked the Ministry of Officials to push officials to take office here.

In this way, it is undoubtedly equivalent to adding another province to Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, the Privy Council ordered Qi Jiguang to return to Beijing to offer prisoners, and ordered Yu Dayou to replace Qi Jiguang in Dongying.

After Qi Jiguang negotiated with Shimadzu, Otomo, and Ryuzoji, he ordered Chen Ziluan to take over the port of Nagasaki. Because of the stubborn resistance of the Omura family, the lord of Nagasaki, he directly exterminated the Omura family, and all the female family members were officials. In addition, he took over all the properties in Nagasaki in the name of investigating and arresting counterproductive property, and registered the origins and goods of all Hanyi merchants in Nagasaki.

At the same time, Qi Jiguang also asked Tong Ziming who stayed in Hirado to take over the shops of all Han and Yi merchants in Hirado, and registered their origins and the amount of goods.

It is also in the name of arresting counterfeiting.

It's just that Hirado and Nagasaki were the two major trading ports in this era of the Japanese kingdom. There were many Chinese pirates who smuggled goods here, many Japanese people also traded here, and many Western barbarians also traded here.

Therefore, the Ming army's forced takeover was considered a violation of the interests of these people, and naturally encountered a lot of resistance, and fighting would inevitably occur during the takeover process.

However, in front of the regular Ming army, the resistance of these people is also limited.

Basically, the daimyo samurai of the entire Hizen Kingdom were shot to death, and the Xiyi and Han pirates who tried to resist were shot to death.

As a result, after the Ming army completely took over the two trading ports, blood flowed into the entire trading port, and the sea water was as red as haze.

The backers behind the Han pirates, that is, the representatives of the gentry in China involved in the overseas smuggling trade, also had to visit Qi Jiguang during this period.

As one of the representatives, student Yan Zhongji walked towards Qi Jiguang's temporary residence in Hirado.

He looks very disappointed now, he has no sense of national pride after the Han army opened up the territory, but he is even more lost than the Japanese.

Moreover, on the way here, Yan Zhongji also happened to see the [-] catties of iron he smuggled from Guangdong, Ming Dynasty, which was sealed by the Ming army against production.

But he didn't dare to ask for it, because he was afraid of being executed as a traitor by the Ming army.

After all, iron materials were prohibited by the Ming court for private foreign trade.

What's more, this is still overseas, and his status as a student does not give him much protection. The Ming army can completely treat him as a traitor and kill him, or even cut him to pieces.

Therefore, Yan Zhongji could only watch as his goods were confiscated, and he could only watch as a few Han Chinese named pirates and Hirado merchants who were actually his slaves lay on the ground covered in blood and cut off. head.

Yan Zhongji just clenched his fists, and said to several other representatives in the same group with a calm face: "You see, this is the consequence of supporting the imperial court's foreign declaration of troops! It will only take away more people's interests!"

"There's no way. After all, the officers and soldiers won, and we will be miserable. I'm afraid it will be difficult to smuggle in the future. If you want to do this sea trade, you will get more profits."

At this time, a pirate and sea merchant named Xie Sidan replied.

"The Japanese are also cowards. They are usually so fierce in front of us, and they won't reduce their taxes at all!"

"As a result, when the officers and soldiers came, none of them even had the strength to resist. Fortunately, we had informed them a long time ago, and gave them a lot of gunpowder and iron materials at a low price. As a result, we said that we would give up Hirado. , If you say abandon us, abandon us."

Yan Zhongji continued to complain.

"Since Jiangling came to power, nothing good has happened!"

"I hope we can negotiate with Qi Yuanjing this time, and only share the benefits of the original Matsuura and Omura families with the generals they recruited, without losing our interests."

At this time, another student named Yang Xie sneered, and after speaking, he looked seriously at the officers and soldiers of the Ming army who were being sent out by a few Japanese girls with a smile, and couldn't help saying: "These The Japanese women really don't know the hatred of subjugation! They are willing to laugh at their officers and soldiers so quickly!"

……

"Do you think that after Hirado and Nagasaki are owned by the dynasty, the tariffs can be reduced, and the reduced tariffs will be shared with the commander and the generals?"

Soon, Yan Zhongji and others met Qi Jiguang in the name of overseas Chinese businessmen, and also expressed his ultimate goal to Qi Jiguang, and Qi Jiguang asked with a sneer.

"It's [-]% for us, [-]% for the commander and the generals!"

(End of this chapter)