Dominate the Country

In late September in Nanjing, Chen Ming received a letter from Japan, and Guangge surrendered.

The 46-year-old emperor was willing to go to the title of "Emperor", but he firmly disagreed with the title of "King of Japan" and was willing to ask for the title of "King of Japan". Even though "King of Japan" is a one-character king, and "King of Japan" is a two-character king. Of course, there is no distinction between princes and dukes in the Chen Han Dynasty.

For Chen Han's diplomatic officials stationed in Japan, whether it is the King of Japan or the King of Japan, it is the same thing. As long as Guangge is willing to throw away the eye-catching hat of "Emperor", whether it is the King of Japan or the King of Japan, he can choose.

Although this honor is to be put on Chen Ding's head, when the news of the succession of the new emperor of Chen Han reaches Japan, Emperor Guangge will formally submit a petition to ask for the title of Central Plains. Of course, after the crown of the King of Japan is delivered to Emperor Guangge, the freshly baked King of Japan will become yesterday's flower in a blink of an eye, announce his abdication, and live in seclusion as a monk.

After all, this is a "shame", Guangge must give an explanation.

In return, Chen Han will reward the Japanese royal family with a large amount of property, the Tokugawa shogunate will also increase his salary, and the hat of the Japanese king will never be worn on the head of the Tokugawa family again. After the Chrysanthemum Family has a formal title, they can be at ease as rice bugs. However, the Tokugawa family does not need to care about these. On the distant island of Madagascar, the new kingdom belonging to the Tokugawa family is being built day by day. When the son of Tokugawa Iemochi [the son of Tokugawa Ieharu] comes of age, Chen Ding will grant Tokugawa Iemochi the title of king and make his son the crown prince.

This has been agreed upon, and it is all written in this book.

Chen Ming showed a sincere smile on his face. The title of "Emperor" was finally kicked into the ditch during his lifetime.

Who made Guangge commit suicide? Tokugawa Ieharu and Tokugawa Iemochi, who fully understood Nanjing's intentions, kept causing trouble for the Japanese Chrysanthemum Family and the public family, forcing them to move. As long as these people moved, they would inevitably make mistakes, and the Tokugawa shogunate took the opportunity to reduce the salary of Chrysanthemum. Although Guangge was not very old when he succeeded to the throne, he had a lot of ideas and was really a bit skillful. But it was also his skill that Guangge, who took a confrontational attitude, dragged Chrysanthemum into the abyss step by step. To date, the income of the Chrysanthemum Family has been reduced to around 45,000 stones, and the internal court expenses have also changed from the initial 400,000 yen to the current 250,000 yen.

The annual income of the entire Chrysanthemum Family is collected by the Tokugawa shogunate and then transferred to the Chrysanthemum Family. There are too many gimmicks in this.

The income that the Chrysanthemum Family can get on the surface is very different from the income they can actually get.

Now, the 46-year-old Guangge has finally surrendered, completely surrendered.

In Madagascar in the near future, a new country of Japan will rise from the ground.

Although it is not known whether the new Japan in Madagascar will become a gray country in two hundred years - a mixture of yellow and black, that is, gray. But Nanjing's promise and tangible benefits have completely made the Tokugawa Shogunate board the Chinese ship.

Chen Ming did not think it was a pity, as long as this matter could add a brighter halo to Chen Ding. Chen Ming was paving the way for his son. After all, Chen Ding's prestige was much worse than his.

"However, we have to give Japan a little sweetness first."

"Come here, tell Gao Shida." The latter was already the Minister of the Interior of the Cabinet, and Chen Ming needed the intelligence agency to spread some news in Japan.

In October, the wind and snow had already blown across Japan.

However, Japan was hotly discussing it, and the people were boiling, as if it was not a cold winter at all.

In Japan, the news that Tokugawa Iemochi was going to be crowned king and the new Japan was about to be established made all levels of Japanese society excited. Faced with this sudden outbreak of "big news", some people seemed excited, while others seemed hesitant.

The excited ones believed that this was a victory for the samurai family, a major event that could change the entire history of Japan and was conducive to the rise of Japan; the hesitant ones believed that this should not happen. There is only one Japan, and everyone is the people of Amaterasu. No matter how much the samurai family and the public family fight, everyone is the people of Amaterasu. It is impossible to establish another Japan...

As for the word "new" mentioned by the former, it is better not to have it. Why do you have to learn from Westerners when there are so many things to learn. And even if you want to learn from Westerners, you should be wary of the fate of the foreign devils, right?

Look at the New World before, New England, New France, New Spain, New Netherlands...

What have they become now?

Isn't the fate of the British enough for the world to be vigilant? Even if Chen Han had not landed in America, America would be more likely to be the America of Americans, not the America of the British or the Spanish and Portuguese.

During the last American War, the Lighthouse Country had a population of six million, and even if one million black slaves were deducted, there were still five million people. With such a large population base, the British in Canada and the Caribbean cannot overthrow Washington. Moreover, the population of the Lighthouse Country will continue to increase. As long as the war in Europe continues, the population of the Lighthouse Country will grow rapidly. Just like the Lighthouse Country had a total of 2 million people 30 years ago, they had 6 million people in the last war, and now they may have 8 million people.

There is no doubt that many Japanese daimyo have shown great interest in this sudden "big news". The Tokugawa shogunate did not make its deal with Nanjing known to the world, and many daimyo and feudal lords were kept in the dark. They are eagerly looking forward to the Tokugawa shogunate to make the necessary decisions as soon as possible. You must know that many feudal lords have their own territories in Madagascar. But in the past, these territories were like colonies, and the daimyo of each domain were the corresponding monarchs of each "country". But don't look at the names of Japanese places as "Kyushu and Shikoku". In fact, they are not "countries".

If Tokugawa Iemochi was not crowned as a king and the new Japan was not established, these people could still develop their own territories around the Tokugawa shogunate, prospering the entire Madagascar bit by bit. But now Tokugawa Iemochi is going to be crowned as a king, and the new Japan is going to be established, and these feudal lords have to consider the ownership of their territories.

Is Tokugawa Iemochi's new Japan limited to the actual control area of ​​the Tokugawa shogunate, or does it include the entire Madagascar?

If it is the latter, what should they do with the foundation they have worked so hard to open up?

The king of the military family is not the emperor of the public family. If Tokugawa Iemochi's new Japan covers the entire Madagascar, these daimyo will have to have a good chat with Tokugawa Iemochi.

Although only a small half of Madagascar Island is occupied by the Japanese today, most of the area is still mountainous forests and uninhabited wilderness.

If the Tokugawa shogunate is smart, the feudal lords and daimyo from all over the country will definitely not confront Tokugawa Iemochi. On the contrary, they will actively participate in this "big news" to seize more territory and interests for their own family, and lay another foundation for the entire family to be passed down from generation to generation.

As the Japanese ambassador to China, Sakai Tadashi, the mainstay of the Sakai family, has been active in Nanjing over the years. Whenever there is a little good news, he will send it to Edo at all costs. This is not to say that Tokugawa Iemochi can't hold his temper, but because Sakai Tadashi is arranging too much.

As this precious time before the "founding of the country", Tokugawa Iemochi is unwilling to waste a penny. He thinks that the Tokugawa shogunate's territory on Madagascar is too small now. Tokugawa Iemochi hopes to get permission from Nanjing to allow Japan to attack the indigenous kingdom on the Falkland Islands.

Sakai Tadashi recognizes this point. The area of ​​the Falkland Islands is twice that of Japan, with fertile land and rich minerals. It is simply a treasure given to Japan by God. Moreover, it is close to South Africa, and it is mutually beneficial with the military and civilians of the upper country there, and Westerners dare not easily offend.

But it is also because Madagascar is too huge. Japan is now very worried about whether Europeans will land on the southern end of the Falkland Islands. Establishing a military base and guarding the east is not a good idea.

This huge island is almost entirely located in the tropical zone, and its climate is affected by wind systems and altitude. The southeast coast has a tropical rainforest climate, which is hot and humid all year round, with no obvious seasonal changes, an average annual temperature of more than 20 degrees, and an annual precipitation of 2000-3000 mm. The central part has a tropical plateau climate, which is mild and cool, and the land is fertile. The west has a tropical savanna climate, and the rainfall is the least in the entire island, but even in the least area, the rainfall in the northwest is 1000mm, and then gradually decreases to about 400mm to the south, which is not rare. The climate of the entire island is suitable for the growth of various tropical and temperate food and cash crops, and it is also rich in minerals. Even if such a treasure land was taken away by the Europeans, Sakai Tadashi's heart would be broken.

And to stop this, in the eyes of many Japanese high-level officials, the only way is to start a war. They don't have the heart to assimilate the local indigenous people.

Moreover, in the late last century, Andrianampo Ini Merina ruled the Merina Kingdom on the island of Madagascar. He ended the 77-year civil strife in the Merina Kingdom, and actively expanded the territory to control a large area of ​​land in the central part of Madagascar. Since the Japanese landed on the Falkland Islands, conflicts and problems have arisen in the Merina Kingdom.

Even if Japan did not fight the Merina Kingdom in order to establish a foundation as soon as possible, it targeted the Alahamartani Kingdom, as well as the Beziliao, Sihanaka, Bezanozano, and Bawa, tribes that have not yet established a regime.

But this did not fundamentally ease the conflict between the Japanese and the Merina Kingdom.

The Merina Kingdom, which is determined to unify Madagascar, has a fundamental conflict with outsiders, not to mention that the Japanese also wantonly captured the natives on the Falkland Islands and used them as slaves or sold them to East Africa.

Chen Han strictly controls the entry of black slaves, and some kingdoms in the East also set such rules, but in Africa, Chen Han does not have such rules. Whether it is South Africa or the nobles of the Black Kingdom who have already brought a lot of people, they are all good buyers of the black slave trade.

The Japanese are ruthless in the slave trade, which makes their contradiction with the Merina Kingdom more acute. The latter is the strongest indigenous kingdom in the Falkland Islands. Andrianampo does not claim to be the protector of the indigenous people, but the situation forces him to become the protector of the indigenous people of the Falkland Islands, so that he can unite more indigenous people and jointly deal with the threat of the Japanese.

The Merina Kingdom on the Falkland Islands was still in the absolute cold weapon era. Soldiers used javelins, short spears and bows and arrows, and even metal smelting was in the initial development stage. Compared with the Japanese, they were simply primitive people. Andrianampo and his son Radama I were very clear about the gap between them, so they had to unite all their forces as much as possible.

Of course, this does not mean that the Merina Kingdom did not know what guns and cannons were. The first people to start the slave trade on the Falkland Islands were not the Japanese, but the Europeans.

The Merina Kingdom had a certain connection with Tonga, and they came into direct contact with the British.

Europe came into contact with Tonga as early as the early 17th century, but effective contact with the Tonga Islands began with several expeditions by Captain James Cook, a famous British explorer, in the 1770s. Cook called the Tonga Islands the Friendship Islands because the indigenous people replenished his necessities and warmly welcomed him.

After Cook, the London Missionary Society and the Methodist Church (Methodist Church) of Britain spread their faith in Tonga respectively. The British government also took into account the situation in the South Pacific. At that time, Chen Han had already started to develop the Honolulu Islands, and London provided great help to enable British Protestantism to gain a foothold in Tonga.

Chen Han naturally had contact with Tonga, and his fleet was eager to move towards Tonga, but due to the attitude of the British, the action plan to resolve the South Pacific by force always remained on the surface. Of course, Europeans also have to take into account the existence of Chen Han. They cannot openly use New Zealand as a base to threaten the safety of Chen Han's South Mingzhou.

Today, New Zealand and Tonga and some other South Pacific islands maintain a neutral and non-militarized form between the East and the West.

Therefore, the geographical location of the Falkland Islands has become important unknowingly. Who let the Suez Canal in the north be controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a good ally of China?

The whole of Japan was in turmoil, and the news of the new Japan and the crowning of Tokugawa Iemochi blew into thousands of households like the warm spring breeze.

The Japanese were very excited, and a hot trend set off from Japan. Countless people are discussing the new Japan. The news that Tokugawa Iemochi will be crowned as a king is completely overshadowed by the former. Previously, I was worried that some Japanese people would not accept it, but now I find that I am too suspicious. Over the years, the reputation of the public family and the chrysanthemum has been getting worse and worse. Abolishing the chrysanthemum may still make Japan uneasy, but Tokugawa Iemochi is only crowned as a king, and his fiefdom is still overseas, which will not arouse the emotional fluctuations of most Japanese.

As the leadership of Japan, the top leaders of Japan are very eager to take advantage of the precious time to make Japan as strong as possible. Under the secret guidance of the Tokugawa shogunate, a wave of enthusiasm was launched in Japanese society to declare war on the Kingdom of Merina, to flatten the indigenous kingdoms on the Falkland Islands as soon as possible, and to flatten all the island natives who refused to obey the king-

The Tokugawa shogunate is the leader of the military family. The new Japan is a new Japan dominated by the military family. Without those weak public families, the new Japan dominated by the military family must shine with a different glory from the old Japan from the beginning.

The indigenous kingdoms on the islands easily remind the Japanese of their past. The shogun was originally called the Shogun, and there were also "barbarians" on the small Japanese archipelago, which is very similar to the current situation on the Falkland Islands.

It became the "political correctness" of Japan to flatten the Merina and the natives. As the situation evolved, soon, the call for the shogun to start a war against the Merina Kingdom rose in Japan...