The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 639 The Ambition of the Tokugawa Shogunate

Liu Rushi blushed and ran out under Xiaowen's astonished and suspicious eyes, while Jiang Chuan looked at Xiaowen in embarrassment, his mind spinning quickly, thinking about what kind of reason to explain this matter.

At this time, Ji Biao came in suddenly and said: "My lord, Xu Qinglang is here, saying that the interrogation has a result."

Jiang Chuan breathed a sigh of relief and gave Ji Biao an appreciative look, which made Ji Biao a little confused and confused.

"Okay, let him wait in the living room, I'll go right away." Jiang Chuan said in a deep voice.

Ji Biao nodded and went.

With Ji Biao's interruption, Xiaowen couldn't ask any questions, so Jiang Chuan escaped.

In fact, he also knew that there was no need for him to feel embarrassed. After all, this was an evil feudal society. He was a big feudal lord, and he was still the biggest one. It didn't matter how many wives he wanted to marry, and he didn't care about other people's opinions at all.

It's just that he is a good young man who grew up under the red flag and grew up in the new society. Some things can't be changed just by changing them.

The main purpose of coming out this time was to go to Baiyunzong to propose a marriage, but he made such an ambiguous behavior with other women in front of the maid, and naturally felt a little guilty in his heart.

After changing his clothes, Jiang Chuan came to the living room, where Xu Qinglang was waiting.

Seeing Jiang Chuan coming in, Xu Qinglang hurriedly knelt down on the ground and paid homage vigorously: "His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness, is a thousand years old, a thousand years old!"

When he was outside, in order to keep Jiang Chuan's identity secret, he could only address him as the son.

Now that there are no outsiders, of course he wants to pay a respectful visit.

"Pingshen. I heard that the results of the interrogation have come out, tell me." Jiang Chuan waved his hands and sat on the chair, took a sip of a cup of tea and said.

Xu Qinglang straightforwardly reported the results of the interrogation of the woman in black.

It turned out that the woman in black was indeed a remnant of the Church of Our Lady 50 years ago.

The Madonna, the leader of the Notre Dame Church, and her daughter, the so-called saint, escaped when the government army besieged Jining City.

Later, they were wanted all over the court.

They had nowhere to hide, and finally went east to Fusang and hid in Fusang Country.

Later, the Holy Mother of the Lotus married her daughter to a powerful daimyo Tokugawa Ieyasu in Fusang Kingdom as her concubine.Relying on the protection of Tokugawa Ieyasu, they settled down in Fuso.

It's just that the mother and daughter are still unwilling to fail, and after gradually stabilizing, they began to spread their teachings in Fusang country and develop congregants. Slowly, the Notre Dame Church also began to develop in Fusang country, and it has a certain scale.

Tokugawa Ieyasu later felt that the expansion of the Church of Our Lady would also help him expand his strength, so he also supported them, so the Church of Our Lady developed faster in Fusang.

Later, the Holy Mother of the Lotus passed on the position of leader to the daughter who had become Tokugawa Ieyasu's wife, and she herself lived in seclusion behind the scenes.

In the past few decades, the Fusang Kingdom has also experienced continuous civil wars, and the daimyos from all over the country are attacking each other.Tokugawa Ieyasu has strong strength, and he has continuously won victories in the daimyo wars, and his strength has become stronger and stronger.

Ten years ago, the Tokugawa family conquered more than 200 daimyos and unified Fuso. Tokugawa Ieyasu’s son, Tokugawa Hidetada, was worshiped by the emperor as the shogun in Edo, which opened the era of Fusang shogunate rule. puppet.

Later, the Tokugawa shogunate implemented a series of measures to strengthen the country, such as opening the sea ban to trade with Western countries, training new troops at the same time, purchasing new firearms from the English Empire, reforming military service and taxation systems, etc., making the national power of Fusang more powerful. The stronger the Tokugawa shogunate became, the higher the prestige of the Tokugawa shogunate.

With the increase in strength, Tokugawa Hidetada's ambitions are also growing, and he is not satisfied with conquering the small Fusang country, and even begins to set his sights on the three kingdoms of Korea across the sea, and even the Ming Dynasty behind North Korea.

At this time, the Notre Dame Church, which was originally supported in the Tokugawa Ieyasu era, began to be restricted and attacked by Tokugawa Hidetada, because the core purpose of the Notre Dame Church's teachings is rebellion, and it is restless even in Fusang.

Tokugawa Ieyasu supported him before because the existence of the Church of Our Lady at that time was more beneficial than harmful to him.

However, with the unification and stability of Fusang, the professional rebel organization of Notre Dame Church has become an obstacle and cancer, which must be restricted and eradicated.

At this time, Tokugawa Hidetada's younger sister, Tokugawa Minako, the daughter of the original saint and Tokugawa Ieyasu, succeeded her mother as the leader of the Notre Dame Church.

This woman inherited her mother's ambition, and she also saw the ambition of her brother Tokugawa Hidetada, so she suggested to Tokugawa Hidetada that the Church of Our Lady should come to Daming to develop, and use the ability of the Sect of Our Lady to develop its power in Daming, taking the opportunity to cause chaos, in the Ming Dynasty Daming caused chaos, and then gave Tokugawa Hidetada the opportunity to annex the three kingdoms of Korea, and even sent troops to invade Daming.

Tokugawa Hidetada was able to become the first shogun, so he was naturally not a character who could be persuaded casually.

After he first sent people to investigate the situation of Ming Dynasty, he knew that Ming Dynasty is now in the midst of a melee, the Manchu Qing is rampant, bandits are rampant, the court is weak, warlords are divided, and pirates are rampant.

After learning about these circumstances, Tokugawa Hidetada believed that Tokugawa Minako's proposal was very feasible, so he agreed to her plan.

After obtaining Tokugawa Hidetada's consent, Tokugawa Minako sent her confidants to sneak into Daming for early preparations.

This woman in black is Minako Tokugawa's number one confidant and number one expert, called Nanzo Yunzi.

There is also a Chinese name called Jin Bihui.

This person was canonized as the saint of the Notre Dame Church by Minako Tokugawa, and the first stop after sneaking into Daming was the place where the Notre Dame Cult finally failed—Jining City.

Those big men were all capable men she brought from Fusang or gathered along the way.

As for the other 20 or more people, they are all masters of the Notre Dame Church who sneaked in from Fusang country in batches.

But he didn't expect to be taken over by Jiang Chuan as soon as he arrived in Jining City.

After Xu Qinglang finished speaking, he stepped aside respectfully.

Although Jiang Chuan was a little surprised by this result, he was not too surprised.

After all, when Bai Jinxiu told him about the events of the Notre Dame Church, he had already thought of this possibility.

The only thing he didn't expect was that the Tokugawa shogunate's support was behind the revival of the Notre Dame Church, which was indeed beyond his expectation.

"The Tokugawa shogunate? History is surprisingly similar." Jiang Chuan tapped his fingers on the coffee table regularly, muttering to himself.

In the history of the original time, after the Tokugawa shogunate became strong, it began to covet North Korea. In the end, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to aid North Korea to resist Japan. In North Korea, tens of thousands of troops defeated more than 20 Japanese troops. The Japanese country dared not covet China for hundreds of years.

It was not until the Meiji Restoration became stronger that it began to extend its black hand again, and finally defeated the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty in the Sino-Japanese War, which was a shame for hundreds of years.

I didn't expect to follow this trend in this era, which is really interesting.

(End of this chapter)