Palace Flower as Employment [Red Mansion]

There are many vassal states in Great Wei, and the two countries of North Korea and Dongying are the two big countries in the north.The people of Great Wei didn't know much about North Korea, but who in the court didn't know?Not to mention those ministers, even those guards and palace people know very well that it has been a long, long time since the Joseon Ming Dynasty has been doing one thing and backing another.

This is why the preparatory work for the Dandong Dock will proceed so quickly.It is entirely for the purpose of quickly pulling up a large navy team and deterring North Korea by force.

Many years ago, Jia Qi pointed out North Korea's wolf ambitions, and the kings and ministers of the Great Wei raised their guard against North Korea to the highest level. As for Dongying, Great Wei didn't know much about this country.

Of course, quite a few courtiers didn’t quite understand Jia Qi’s insistence on building a seaport and dock in Vladivostok. At least, Ren Pingsheng, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, didn’t understand very much, and even disagreed with Jia Qi’s defense against Japan:

"After all, it belongs to the country, and it has always been respectful."

Jia Qi had no choice but to ask him in front of the young emperor: "Does Master Ren know how big the land of Dongying is?"

"About North Korea."

"What is the population of Japan?"

The left servant of the Ministry of Rites was stupid.

He really didn't know.

If it were someone else, he might have made up a number long ago, but Ren Pingsheng's ability to climb to the position of the left servant of the Ministry of Rites shows that he is not that kind of idiot.

Ren Pingsheng said angrily: "The next official is not the Minister of Honglu Temple, let alone the Secretary of the Household Department of Dongying!"

The implication is that he doesn't know.

Jia Qi smiled and said: "Actually, as early as a few years ago, when the imperial court was investigating North Korea, the official asked the subordinates to investigate Dongying by the way. Yes, there are only four large islands in this country, and the one in the north is It was only recognized in the last 200 years (Note: Okinawa belongs to Ryukyu, in this article it is the territory of Wei, and has nothing to do with Japan.), and the population of Dongying is more than [-] million, which is still official statistics. "

"what?!"

Several ministers present all exclaimed in unison.

The king and ministers of the Great Wei knew very well what the official statistics meant, which meant that the actual population of Japan was definitely not less than this number.But how big is Japan?Even though it is the sum of Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province, this population is more than five times that of Jiangshan and Zhejiang Provinces!

We can see the pressure of its population.

This kind of population density, placed in the Great Wei, is enough to force any dynasty into a precarious state.

Ren Pingsheng immediately put down the document in his hand: "What Zhiyuan said, is it true?"

"Of course it is true. This is the number after years of war in Japan. People in Japan call the past hundreds of years the Warring States Period, and now it is the Shogun Era. ..."

Jia Qi introduced the current form of government in Japan, what about the Japanese emperor and the shogun, and then said: "Although the Japanese emperor is the legal monarch of Japan, the power of the country is in the hands of the shogun. The harem is even called Da'ao, which means the number one harem in the world."

The ministers immediately started whispering.

"Because of this special regime structure, the Japanese do not respect the emperor and the royal family, but their fists. The person they admire most is Toyotomi Hideyoshi, because this man once vowed to 'point at Chang'an , forever in Hangzhou'!"

There was an uproar in the cabinet, and the left servant of the Ministry of Rites stood up suddenly: "What did you say!"

Shocked, Ren Pingsheng didn't even care about etiquette.

Japan does not have the city of Chang'an, and there is only one Chang'an they will talk about, and that is Chang'an of the Great Wei Dynasty, the former capital of the Li and Tang Dynasties.As for Hangzhou, it is naturally Hangzhou now.

Point the sword at Chang'an, and end up in Hangzhou?This is simply to annex Huaxia completely!

Jia Qi said: "That's right, after the Mongols annexed the Central Plains, they also surrendered to North Korea, but they were blocked from Dongying by the sea. The Dongying people didn't know whether it was because the Mongols were ignorant and lacked navigation skills, or they ignored this. One point, but boasted about it as his own martial arts. And Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the shogun of the Toyotomi shogunate, relied on this kind of ambition to make a lot of samurai follow him. And I insist on building Vladivostok , just to attack Dongpu on both sides.”

Double attack?

Ren Pingsheng immediately turned his head and recalled the geographical map of Japan.

Yes, the Vladivostok Navy and the East China Sea Navy are able to hold Japan in their hands.

just,

"...The population of Japan has always been a problem."

Jia Qi nodded and said, "Yes, I plan to take the Dongying people as the pioneers and let them go to the New World."

"Eh?"

"The New World?" The young emperor immediately became interested. "Aiqing, is it the West India that the Western population refers to? Is it true that the earth is round?"

Jia Qi replied: "Long live, I don't know if that continent is the new continent in the Western population. I only know that in the handbook of the Sanbao eunuch, it was mentioned that there is a continent across the vast sea. There is no complete country in the world, there are only loose tribal alliances, just like the Mongols. Sending the Dongying people there is to help the shoguns and relieve their pressure, but on the other hand, the Dongying shogunate With the loss of a large number of people, the strength will naturally decline, and naturally, their pressure on me, Great Wei, will also be reduced. However, there are some things that we must consider first."

Japanese samurai have a tradition of "samurai clearing the way", that is to say, as long as they are samurai, they can kill at any time, whether it is rushing into a business to kill innocent businessmen or killing passing farmers.In Japan, the samurai were the ruling class.

In the same way, warriors keep their promises very well, and these people will do whatever they want if they can be subdued.

"What's the difference between this and the knight-errants in Han Dynasty?"

Liang Jian's focus is not here: "That is to say, recruiting warriors in Dongying and hiring Dongying people as hired workers is nominally a shortage of manpower in Great Wei, but in fact it is plundering Dongying's population for my use?"

"Yes." Jia Qi said, "If they really lay down land for us on that land, we will give them a title, and the salary and rewards are not stingy. As long as they keep laying down land for us, The second echelon is the Japanese farmers and craftsmen, who follow closely behind to open up wasteland, and then migrate the people in our country to ensure the proportion of China's population on that land, and control."

"Jia Zhiyuan's ambition is not small."

Jia Qi smiled: "Master Ren just made fun of it. The annexation of land in the south is getting more and more serious day by day, and people have already fled famine. Although we can send officials again, the imperial court's control is insufficient, and officials are easily bought by local tyrants. It is also prone to accidents. Instead of waiting for the people to take risks because of hunger, it is better to find a job for the people."

What the feudal dynasties were afraid of was that the people rebelled because of hunger.

No matter how young the emperor was, he knew better than anyone that population density was inversely proportional to the stability of his chair.

That's it for this resolution.

At this time, the Tokugawa shogunate has not reacted.

To be more precise, the current Tokugawa shogunate is in the hands of a group of women, and these women are fighting to the death for the position of the shogun. How can there be such leisure to stare at the following all the time?It was also in this era that a large number of low-level samurai went bankrupt and became ronin, and the custom of samurai clearing the way gave these ronin a reason to vent their anger on innocent farmers and businessmen.Farmers and businessmen will be in danger of their lives if they encounter these wanderers in a bad mood when they are running around for their livelihood.

Of course, bankrupt farmers, businessmen, and craftsmen are indispensable in any era.The difference is nothing more than a different trend of change.In good times, the number of bankrupt samurai, farmers, and merchants is basically the same or continuously decreasing. In bad times, the number of bankrupt samurai, farmers, and merchants is increasing rapidly.

Great Wei openly recruited manpower from Dongying, which greatly reduced the number of ronin, bankrupt farmers and merchants in Dongying.

But for the natives of the New World, their life is not easy.Those aliens with strange hair, eyes, and white skin on the east coast kept slaughtering their people and robbing their land. Now there are also aliens on the west coast, although they have the same yellow skin Black hair and black eyes, but these people are simply a group of murderers!And he is not afraid of death!

The Indians were facing a two-sided attack, and the casualties of the Dongying warriors were also very large.There is no way, who made the vast majority of Dongying warriors use gunpowder.The poisonous arrows of the Indians could not do anything to the gun, but they restrained the gun to death. Although Da Wei later transferred the gun and these warriors also found a way to deal with it, the dead people would not be resurrected.

Therefore, in the name of taking care of the martyrs, Jia Qi sent the children of these warriors, both male and female, to schools to learn Chinese and Chinese characters. The survivors of these warriors can still get living expenses every month.

It's just such an ordinary behavior that makes these warriors feel grateful to Da Wei and go through life and death for Da Wei.Because they simply can't get these in the hands of the shogun and those daimyo.The family members of those warriors sent their children to the front line one by one with infinite gratitude to Wei.

When these descendants of Japan have already used Chinese characters in their daily life, Jia Qi finally decided to grant official Chinese household registration.

Of course, all kinds of things here are not enough for outsiders.