Dominate the Country

The fair body was covered with tiny beads of sweat, and a blushing aura lingered in the bed. Yao, who had fallen from the peak, had a touch of red on her crystal skin, and her eyes were intoxicated and blurred...

"Madam..." the voice of the maid came from outside the tent.

There was no echo.

The two maids gently opened the tent. They were used to everything that made people blush inside, and they skillfully wrapped up their own delicate madam with a white blanket.

It was true that Yao was delicate, but it was not just because she had a pair of small feet, but also because of her performance in bed. The many times she was unable to withstand the conquest on the bed was a good proof. Every time she was favored, she was in a daze. The two close-fitting palace maids had already gotten used to it.

When Yao was sent to the warm bath, she recovered a little. "What time is it? Where is His Majesty?"

"It's not even seven o'clock yet, Your Majesty. His Majesty has gone to the Imperial Garden." Chen Ming always gets up regularly in the morning, at six o'clock in winter and summer. But today Chen Ming's mood was obviously very high. After waking up, he looked at Yao's fairy face and couldn't help turning over and having sex with Yao again. It's not an exaggeration to say that men are animals with lower bodies. Chen Ming obviously doesn't like small feet and has strictly banned international feet in the world, but he can't say that he dotes on Yao over the years, but he has never neglected her either, just because of Yao's face. Yao didn't know why Chen Ming was in such a good mood today. You know, he asked for water twice last night, and she didn't know how she slept at night...

Although he was out half an hour late, Chen Ming still returned to Yao's place at seven o'clock. Where you spend the night, you eat in the morning. I don't know when this rule became an unspoken rule in the palace.

"Your Majesty..."

Looking at Chen Ming who pressed her down on the bed and tore off her palace dress with his hands, Yao was really shocked. Is this still the emperor she knew? How..., how could he be so licentious? ? The emperor was very restrained in women, which was recognized by both the court and the people. What happened today?

I have to go to pay my respects to the empress in a while. Today is October 21st. Not only will the emperor have a court meeting in a while, but the concubines in the palace will also have to wear formal clothes to pay their respects to the empress. My legs were weak during the meal. If this happened again, how could I pay my respects to the empress?

"Your Majesty..." Yao's exclamation soon changed.

At 8:15, when Chen Ming rushed to Fengtian Hall from the harem with a refreshed spirit, Yao, who felt weak in the waist and legs and had no strength in her body, cried and said to a big maid beside her, "Go and confess your sins to the empress..."

Today, no matter how unwilling she was, she had to "hold the favor" once. But the tragedy is that Liu Wanyun, Shi, Feng and others are truly favored, but she is just an ordinary concubine in the harem. Yao has always been very clear about her status. Although her face is rare in the palace, her feet have ruined her life.

Yao has been Chen Ming's woman for so many years, and this is the first time that she can't "pay her respects". But she really has no strength in her body.

Chen Ming doesn't know how much inconvenience his high spirits have caused to a concubine.

He went to the court with great excitement. Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs made a final report on the conflict between China and Japan. The Japanese gave in. China and Japan have signed the Sino-Japanese Friendship Treaty in Beijing.

Japan opened the Osaka trade port to China, and the two sides negotiated import and export tariffs.

China should pay attention to the appearance of eating, and cannot directly tamper with the tariffs like John Bull in history, overwhelmed by 5%. The reason why Japan's cotton textile industry still has a glimmer of hope is because they have increased the high tariffs on cotton cloth exported to China. If the tariff is directly reduced to 5%, not to mention other handicraft industries in Japan, this cotton textile industry will definitely jump. Of course, although China will not reduce all Japanese customs duties to 5% at once, this high tariff is also not allowed by China.

Another thing is the consular jurisdiction of Chinese and overseas Chinese in Japan. Chinese overseas Chinese are not subject to the jurisdiction of Japanese law. No matter what kind of illegal or criminal acts that violate Japanese law occur, or when they become parties to civil or criminal lawsuits, Japanese judicial organs have no right to make separate judgments. They can only be judged by the consul of that country or by its judicial institutions in Japan in accordance with their own laws.

This is of course a trampling on Japan's sovereignty and dignity. Although China has cleverly put on a cloak of a joint court for consular jurisdiction, the Japanese judges on the joint court, as deputies to Chinese judges, enjoy great and high rights, including the right to appeal against the results of the judgment. But don't forget that the legal basis of this court is Chinese law. This itself is a trampling on Japan!

But you know what, the "extraterritoriality" behind the joint court really confused Japan to a certain extent. And Chen Ming did not ask people to immediately demonstrate the "power" of extraterritoriality in a short period of time. Instead, he instructed the court system to select excellent judges to go to Japan, and they must be fair and impartial in the trial of any case.

To be honest, to a large extent, this joint court is still very helpful to the Japanese. Because compared with the various laws of China at the moment, Japanese laws are still too simple. Since the Japanese in the Tang Dynasty promulgated the "Taiho Code" and "Yoro Code" according to the Tang Dynasty laws, Japanese laws have always been subordinate to the Chinese legal system, including the "Jionei Shikimoku" of the Kamakura Shogunate and the "Gyodenshu Baijo" of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Even if Japanese laws have some self-changes and self-development, the overall framework has not yet broken away from the constraints of the traditional Chinese legal system, and is still based on China's moral philosophy and the custom of ancestor worship and the feudal system.

But now Chinese laws are combined with the West, and many people in the judicial community advocate learning Qin Law, not learning the specific provisions of Qin Law, but learning the ideological propositions of Qin Law, advocating that everything has a legal style and everything is decided by law. It is conceivable that after the establishment of the Sino-Japanese Joint Court, Japanese judges and legal circles will be shocked again.

China did not ask for any compensation from Japan, let alone war reparations. It also loaned 50 million yuan to the Tokugawa shogunate, which could be used by the Tokugawa shogunate to buy any equipment and materials from China, including arms. But three years later, Japan had to repay not 50 million yuan, but a full 300,000 taels of gold.

China could also openly recruit samurai in Japan, and at the same time, China would open its doors to the Tokugawa shogunate and local daimyo. The dozens of colleges and universities that China had established could give some of their student quotas to Japan, including the military academies that Japan was extremely jealous of, including the army, navy, cavalry, artillery, and other military academies.

China and Japan established diplomatic institutions with each other, and China established consulates in trading ports. The Commercial Bank of China established a branch in Japan...

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In the sound of the report, China and Japan completely forgot about Satsuma. In the treaty between China and Japan, Satsuma seemed to have ceased to exist, because China did not interfere in Japan's internal affairs. The latter is not a vassal state of China. Legally speaking, Satsuma Domain is the business of the Japanese.

Compared with the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing in history, this Sino-Japanese Friendship Treaty in Kyoto is really much more friendly. But things have to come little by little. Now that the two sides have a larger channel of communication, more things related to China will be transmitted to Japan. When Japanese students return to Japan from China, they will be the "Tang Envoys" a thousand years ago.

Put aside disputes and seek development first.

This is the current diplomatic relationship between China and Japan.

When China's national and social development fully reflects its absolute advantages, it is natural for Japan to kneel down again.

Chen Ming was excited physically and mentally, not because of how much profit Tang Feipeng and others made from it in a month or two, but simply because of the pleasure of oppressing Japan. After receiving Wang Jun's memorial from Japan yesterday afternoon, Chen Ming's blood was surging.

"Since the treaty has been signed, we should finalize the implementation as soon as possible." For example, we should take good care of the overseas students. These people are the seeds of "Sino-Japanese friendship". Who dares to say that there are no second Kibi Makibi and Abe no Nakamaro among them?

Besides, relying on China's accumulated prestige and influence on Japan for more than a thousand years, after this war, will the Japanese still have some resistance to China?

Just like the Battle of Baekchon River in the Tang Dynasty, a battle redefined the political structure of the Far East.

"Also, let the Commercial Bank enter Japan as soon as possible."

"I obey your order." Chen Cong accepted the order.

With the entry of the Commercial Bank, it will be much more convenient for China to enter and exit gold and silver precious metals in Japan. Moreover, three years later, the Tokugawa Shogunate is still looking forward to the Chinese Huayuan being linked to the Japanese yen.

"Does the Grand Military Governor's Office have any plans for recruiting samurai in Japan?"

"Reply to the emperor. The Grand Military Governor's Office has formulated detailed regulations, and the recruiters going to Japan will set off today." Chen Erbao hurriedly replied loudly. He knew Chen Ming's plan, and the army's offensive plan for Nanyang was about to begin. The Japanese samurai were a group of very useful fighters.

The security team had not been in Nanyang for many days, but they had already been recognized. These samurai were very good at chopping people, not afraid of death, and not afraid of hardship. They were very good at cleaning up the native monkeys in Borneo.

After all, the Nanyang monkeys were now hiding in the dense forest, and the rainforest was not suitable for line soldiers to deploy teams. The armed and trained Chinese guards in West Borneo were called militias, but everyone knew that they were regular troops formed according to regular troops. Of course, they crushed the native monkeys in the battle on the flat ground, but they were greatly defeated in the dense forest.

On the contrary, the security samurai from Japan, these people's group combat capabilities were not high, but their individual combat capabilities were outstanding. The most important thing was that they were cheap and cost-effective.

Chen Ming also felt that the Japanese samurai were very useful and obedient. Take the soldiers of the volunteer corps led by Aoki as an example. At least half of them have made up their minds to stay in China. They are looking forward to the war, hoping to make meritorious deeds as soon as possible, and accumulate enough points to obtain the qualification to live in China for a long time.

Moreover, the lives of these lower-level samurai who used to live in poverty have now undergone a qualitative change in their families.

"The next step depends on Wang Pingbei's pull..." The role of this chess piece and the role of Mitsubishi Textile Company cannot be underestimated.

After the court meeting, Chen Ming returned to the Qianqing Palace and looked at the map of China hanging on the wall with great ambition. The conflict with Japan has been settled. Although there are wars in the Outer Northeast, the Northwest, and the northern border of Mongolia in the vast China, there are also Burma and Southeast Asia in the southwest that are ready to move, and the overseas exploration bureau has already conquered Alaska and bordered North America, and the immigrant fleet heading to Nanmingzhou should have arrived there at this time...

At first glance, he has too many things to do, but in fact, are the wars in the Outer Northeast, the Northwest, and the northern border of Mongolia important? They are too far away from the hinterland of China.

The cost of the battle there is not small, but overall it does not have much of a constraint on China. Whether it is the investment in the army or the expenditure of military expenses, they only account for a small part of China's total defense expenditure. Because the size of the Chinese army is not 200,000 or 300,000, but millions.

Looking at the country again, the work of clearing out bandits in various places has not yet ended. There are still many bandits in the northwest, Jiangxi, Hunan and the provinces of the southwest. The bandits in some places are completely like fish and water to the local people. Or it is better to say that the bandits in the mountains are bandits than the local people.

But the whole Chen Han, the whole China, is thriving and developing vigorously. Even if there are some sediments that are always difficult to remove, it is difficult to shake the overall situation.

In recent years, China's cultivated land area has been expanding, industry and commerce are developing rapidly, commercial taxes are increasing rapidly, and national income has increased significantly compared to the beginning. And this momentum is far from weakening.

Although there is still not enough money to spend, to a large extent, fiscal expenditure depends on the banknotes thrown out by the central bank bit by bit. Large-scale land and water transportation construction, large-scale agricultural and water conservancy construction, have become the stalls for the government to launder money. It is still far from China's current fiscal expenditure balance. But as the emperor of Chen Han, Chen Ming can clearly see the changes in China and the increase in China's strength.

When the dust settles in Europe, Chen Han will launch an attack on Luzon. When the British suffer from the joint efforts of the Gallic rooster and the Spanish bull, it will be the time for China to join hands with Siam to deal with Burma.

Chen Ming feels that there is no need to worry about the outcome of such a war.

Of course, he still has to pay attention to the battlefield in Xinjiang. The Russian army launched an attack on Xinjiang from Orenburg, and it has been a long time now. He still doesn't know the specific situation. The distance between the two sides is too far. Even if there are pigeons to deliver messages from station to station, it will take some time from Xinjiang to Nanjing.

But just as Chen Ming knows, it is difficult for the Russians to touch China's fundamental interests, and the corner troubles cannot affect the overall situation.

Chen Ming can't get excited about the Russians now. The Japanese have largely replaced the Russians, giving him a chance to vent the anger accumulated in his heart. Moreover, Chen Ming is not a fool. Chen Ming knows very well that the most important thing for China at this time is not the war with the Russians, but the good development of China, and the Nanmingzhou that is about to be opened up.

Even the European delegation led by Gao Yanming is more important than the Russians, and even the Alaska, where the Overseas Exploration Bureau is sailing and grabbing land, is more important than the current war between China and Russia.

…

In a low-end tavern in a certain town in Edo.

A samurai with a vicious face and a smell of alcohol was cursing, and a piece of paper with a name on it on the desk in front of him was stabbed into the table by a short knife. Next to him sat two samurai with swords, who were also dressed in tattered clothes. The two samurai with swords were also full of anger, but their emotions were not as excited as this samurai.

"I must let the profiteer Matsudaira know how powerful I am. I will cut him into pieces one by one..."

The samurai spent all his money to buy 20 shares of Mitsui Bank when the shares of Mitsui Bank were just issued, and he spent a total of 280 yen. But the war caused a big avalanche in Mitsui Bank and the entire Japanese stock market, and his shares were eventually bought by a small department store merchant for 200 yen.

The samurai, who worked as a security guard at Mitsui Bank, not only did not make any money, but also lost a lot of money. Eighty yen, the principal was lost, which was equivalent to the samurai's three months' salary. Now that the contradictions between China and Japan have been resolved, the stocks of many companies headed by the Mitsui family have risen sharply. It has only been a short time since they rose to 20 yen per share. The samurai lost a lot!

Especially since his identity is a noble samurai, and Matsudaira is just a lowly businessman, the noble samurai was humiliated by the lowly businessman. The samurai hated the businessman to the extreme...

"Hua La La..." Several Tongxin [lower-level police officers] walked in under the leadership of a Yori [police officer, police chief]. A pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle's eyes, staring straight at the stiff samurai. The samurai, who swore to cut a businessman into pieces after drinking, was stiff all over, and was frightened by the sudden influx of Tongxin and Yori in the tavern.

"Catch them!" Yuli pointed at the warrior.

"What?" The warrior was surprised. What was going on? His two companions looked at Yuli in confusion and anger.

"Catch them." Yuli didn't show any kindness to the three people, and didn't give them any explanation.

The farce-like incident caused all the guests in the tavern to disperse, and a man in civilian clothes walked from the backyard to the owner.

"You, wise man." Two ten-yen bills fell into the hands of the shop owner. "If you meet such a person again, report immediately. The Matsudaira family will not treat you badly..."

The civilian walked out of the shop door with the shop owner's respectful farewell. He looked in the direction where the samurai was captured and spit fiercely, "Stupid deer!" He dared to threaten his boss. He really didn't know whether to live or die.

His boss was a Tang man!