My Daming New Empire

Even more embarrassing to countless Dongying people, none of them committed suicide because they were captured.

From late June when Emperor Komatsu was captured to early July, except for a few members of the royal family who were protected by samurai who had previously supported Ashikaga Yoshichi, most of them became prisoners.

Revolving around their disposal and the welcome of Zhu Zhanji, Jin Chun conducted several rounds of negotiations with Ashikaga Yoshitsugu and the others.

Because they are afraid of bad things from these pedantic civil servants, they often hold a good deck of cards and can't play. The advantages they finally won on the battlefield are easily given away at the negotiating table.

So Zhu Zhanji drew a few bottom lines for them that could not be compromised.

First of all, Japan must cede Ishimi Country in the west, Sado Island, Tsushima Island, and the Izu Peninsula in the east. The military expenditure of 20 taels of silver must be borne.

Secondly, open the two ports of Nagasaki and Osaka for daily trade with Ming, and Ming will also open Ningbo Port for trade with Japan.

As for the trade between Japan and North Korea, Daming will not interfere in any way.

Although this point may seem magnanimous, but now Tsushima Island is in the hands of Da Ming, and what North Korea has, Da Ming has, and it is more complete and cheaper than them.

So as long as Ming and Japan establish trade relations, their trade with North Korea will naturally decline.

In the end, the emperor's family had to be transferred to the Ming Dynasty to live, and the shogunate borne their living expenses.

The first condition is that Tsushima Island and Zuodu Island are already in Daming's hands, and Ishimi Country is in a corner and is not valued by the Dongying people.

But only the Izu Peninsula, which is located under Mount Fuji, guards the throat of Shizuoka and the Kanto Plain, and to the north is Kamakura, one of the three ancient capitals.

The two sides have negotiated for many days around the issue of the garrison here, but neither side backed down.

But Zhu Zhanji only let people reveal that he heard that the Izu Peninsula has many hot springs and beaches, and wanted to build a royal park here. Ashikaga Yoshinori dared not have any more opinions, and agreed to cede the Izu Peninsula.

The Izu Peninsula originally belonged to the Hojo clan, but because the Hojo clan was a loyal supporter of the Kamakura shogunate, with the demise of the Kamakura shogunate decades ago, the clan was also exterminated, so it is still a land of no one.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji likes this place not because of the beautiful scenery and the many hot springs, but because it is the throat of Japan, and the geographical location is very important.

Although Ashikaga Yoshinori has gained power now, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops who do not obey orders. Daming's garrison is at least in the short term, which is beneficial to his rule.

Also because of this reason, although he was a little worried about Daming's request to open the two ports to trade, he readily agreed after Daming agreed in principle to sell him a batch of matchlock guns.

As for the third condition, he simply couldn't wish for it.

The emperor's line holds the divine power, and even if their Muromachi shogunate controls the government, they must worship this ancestor.

Now that Daming wants to move all the emperor's family to Daming, he certainly has no objection.But this point is also the longest time for both sides to grind their mouths, because no matter how much he asks for, he still has to pretend to be helpless on the surface.

Otherwise, he would be giving up the interests of the emperor's lineage in exchange for his own rule, and other generals and famous masters would therefore disobey his control.

These three bottom lines were agreed by the Dongying people, but at the ceremony to welcome Zhu Zhanji, the two sides entered a deadlock again.

Zhu Zhanji explicitly demanded that, as the grandson of the emperor of the upper kingdom of heaven, when he arrived in Dongying, he must be greeted by the Dongying royal family and the shogunate.

The shogunate had no grievances about this, because they also had to kneel down and salute the emperor.

But let the emperor's family do this, and most members of the royal family firmly oppose it.

For this reason, Emperor Kameyama protested directly by going on a hunger strike, and several uncles of Emperor Shōko even committed suicide by caesarean section to protest such insult.

But Zhu Zhanji had a tough attitude and did not back down at all.

In a few days, three members of the royal family committed suicide, and the frail and sickly Emperor Shōmitsu had a cowardly character, but he dared not say a word.

Even Jin Chun thought that Zhu Zhanji's move was a bit too aggressive, and persuaded Zhu Zhanji to relax a little bit of conditions and let the Japanese royal family bow to greet him.

But Zhu Zhanji did not back down, and issued an imperial edict saying: "If Dongying recognizes the status of Ming Dynasty as a kingdom of heaven, it should welcome it as a courtier. If it does not recognize it, it will meet with swords and soldiers."

As soon as the imperial edict came out, four more members of the royal family committed suicide, but the rest all turned into soft bones.

On the ninth day of July, the Japanese royal family mourned, and the Emperor Saiguang accepted Zhu Zhanji's conditions in tears, and promised to kneel down to meet Zhu Zhanji at the port of Osaka.

Now that he agreed to his own conditions, Zhu Zhanji would certainly not continue to force them. He also wanted to use tens of millions of Dongying people to help Daming and make money for Daming.

That's why he took a step back and promised to build a platform in the port, so that the members of the royal family would be half a block taller than the others, and they would bow down to him on the platform.

On the tenth day of July, the sun was shining brightly in Osaka Bay.In midsummer, with such a big sun, the temperature is frighteningly high from early in the morning, like a steamer.

The inner city of Osaka, which has been rebuilt by thousands of craftsmen, is decorated with lights and festoons. From the port across the ruins to the inner city, the ground is covered with red cloth.

Almost all the soldiers who were sent out to perform missions were summoned back. Except for the soldiers who must be kept on each ship, more than [-] troops guarded this area tightly, and there were soldiers with live ammunition on both sides of the road.

Most of the people who were allowed to come to watch the ceremony were generals and famous masters in the Guanzhong area. They usually brought their families and wanted to pay close attention to the majesty of the emperor and grandson of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there are also some big businessmen who have taken refuge in Daming.

In the final battle of the siege of Ashikaga Yoshichi, the number of casualties of Ming soldiers exceeded 1000, not including the number of injured, and the death toll was nearly 300.However, not all of these people's guns were recovered, and there were at least a dozen left outside.

In addition, Dongpu originally had some bird guns. Although their barrels were hand-crafted like Daming's previous barrels, it was easy to injure people at close range.

Therefore, everyone who came to watch the ceremony was not allowed to carry other weapons except the ceremonial sword, and all men and women had to go through a body search.

This is a ceremony to publicize the prestige of the Ming Dynasty. Jin Chun, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, has worked hard for many days on this, just to show the state of China in front of the Japanese.

Zhu Zhanji got up early in the morning, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter. The cabin on the boat was like a steamer, and living in it was not comfortable at all.

Under the service of childhood sweetheart Yuzhu, Zhu Zhanji took a bath, and then put on the crown of the emperor's grandson.

The official crown is not much different from that of the Qin and Han Dynasties, with complicated clothes and a high crown on the head. The crown is made of nine pieces, each with nine pieces of jade.

After passing through the dredged bay, his flagship was moored only 300 meters from the shore.Then there are small boats juxtaposed to form a pontoon, all the way to the pier.

At the right time, the bells and drums rang together, and then the palace band played the King of Qin's Breaking Battle Music, which was considered a bit of Zhu Zhanji's bad taste.

Amidst the sound of majestic music, all the people on the pier bowed together, and what was practiced was the great ceremony of three bows and nine knocks.

Seeing the neat prostration on the shore, Zhu Zhanji truly experienced the satisfaction of being in power, which cannot be replaced by any kind of enjoyment.

After the salute, Zhu Zhanji swung his sleeves and walked down the flagship along the wooden ladder.

In front of him, there are 16 guards in brocade clothes, and behind him, there is a guard of honor composed of 66 internal eunuchs. Beside him, there are two bodyguards, 12 emissary internal eunuchs, and two court ladies. The center formation formed with Li Yan.

Not too many people, exactly 99 people.

Of course, this does not count the two concubines beside him, because they are not included in the guard of honor.

Originally, he wanted Zheng He to come down with him, but now that he can be incorporated into the navy, Zheng He is of course unwilling to set foot on the land of Japan as an internal prisoner.

Zhu Zhanji's pace was not fast, but it only took a few minutes to complete the half-mile journey.

When he set foot on the land of Dongpu, the [-] troops shouted in unison, almost scaring many of the spectators to pee their pants.

A one-meter-high platform has been built in the port area. In front of the left-hand side of the platform, there is a half-meter-high platform. On it are members of the Japanese royal family, including more than 200 people from the four major families.