Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 282 Someone's Coming Down!
"Your Majesty, it is not worth fighting the Russians. It is impossible for us to cross the Ural Mountains. It is too far away. The price paid is completely out of proportion to the reward!"

The person who is speaking is Dagong Lin, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After returning from Europe, Grand Duke Lin made another trip to Japan.

Only recently returned to the northern capital.

The purpose of Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ visit to Japan is of course to contact various forces in Japan and maintain the special status of Ming Dynasty in Japan. At the same time, he also wants to urge Japan to end its relationship with the Netherlands, so that Japan can join the entire international system of China.

Japan is regarded as a marginal country of the Chinese civilization system. Although most of its cultural roots come from the mainland, but as an island country, any culture seems to be mutated when it comes to Japan.
This is completely different from North Korea.

Almost all the high-level officials in North Korea can be regarded as Han Chinese.

Confucian scholars from other countries came to Daming to take the imperial examination. If he didn't say it himself, very few people could tell that he was actually a scholar from North Korea.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty gave preferential treatment to overseas students from North Korea, Japan, and the two Annan countries (Nguyen Dynasty and Xishan Dynasty).

As long as you can pass the imperial examination, even the emperor of Ming Dynasty will personally confer an official.

Moreover, this kind of talent is also a highly sought after "Lu Gui" when he returns to his country.

I don't know if the tradition of giving preferential treatment to foreign students was passed down from Emperor Zhu.
"Furthermore, the relationship between the crown prince and the empress of Tsarist Russia is not harmonious, and Tsarist Russia has a tradition of court coups. I think that this Crown Prince Paul is going back to Moscow to seize power after being frightened in the East!" Dagong Lin said.

"This Paul has this ability? He defeated Dongfang, so he won't be punished?" Luo Fangbo asked quite interestingly.

The "Three Hundred Veterans" who returned from traveling in Europe, such as Gu Song and Lin Dagong, certainly knew the basic situation in Europe.

But "native factions" such as Luo Fangbo, Peng Jun, and Song Xiang can only turn a blind eye when they encounter European problems.

"Luo Xiang, it will take at least half a year for the Eastern War to be reported to Moscow, and it is winter now, the Yenisei River and the big river leading to Moscow are frozen, and it is impossible to take a boat, so Moscow will get the news next spring, wait Only by sending people back from Irkutsk can we know that during this process, Crown Prince Paul has long been able to firmly grasp the [-]-odd troops at hand, and he can also pack it into an unprecedented victory, and go back to Moscow to seize power in a glorious manner. Already—as long as we make a little gesture of cooperation!"

"What if they go back on their word and don't hand over the land east of Irkutsk?" Peng Jun asked.

"I think the Russian crown prince has this sincerity. Of course, the European powers are intriguing and cheating, and there are many things that go against their promises, but the Russian crown prince dare not," Dagong Lin said, "because Russia has a deadly enemy, which is the Ottoman Empire in West Asia. .If my Ming armed the Ottoman Empire to attack Moscow, the Russian Empire would be in danger of subjugation! With this sword hanging over its head, if the Russian Empire wants to expand westward and southward, it cannot offend my Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, Da Ming can use it Russia leverages Eastern Europe and West Asia."

"How about the affairs of France?" Peng Jun asked.

"The French Republic has Duke Jia in charge, so you can protect yourself without any worries." Dagong Lin said.

Emperor Zhu frowned upon hearing this.

Just self-preservation?

What if the emperor really unifies Europe.

It seems that proper arming of Russia is still necessary.

"Let's talk about it when the Russian envoy arrives in Beijing." Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said, "Let's talk about Japan!"

compared to Russia.

Emperor Zhu still paid more attention to Japan.

The "charm offensive" against Japan was quite successful.

Now in Japan.

There are quite a lot of Chinese schools and newspapers.

The Japanese samurai regiment who went to Daming became a way out for many Japanese samurai, and many Japanese elites went to take the "Sinicization" exam and obtained the household registration of Daming. There are still quite a few businessmen and officials in Daming .

It can be said that now is the unprecedented honeymoon period for tomorrow.

But under this honeymoon.

The undercurrent is surging.

First of all, of course, is the cooperation with Daming, and most of the benefits belong to the Edo Shogunate.

Some powerful feudal clans in the locality can only eat leftovers.

Do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequity.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the local powerful vassals have opinions on this.

not to mention.

The Japanese system is a system of "weak legitimacy".

The Tokugawa shogunate was the minister of the Japanese emperor.

But now in Japan the shogunate has the final say.

The emperor can only see the face of the shogunate, and even whether he can eat or not depends on whether the money given by the shogunate is enough.

And the Tokugawa shogunate did not dare to kick the emperor away and become the emperor himself. He was called a minister and was actually the master.

Locally, there are groups of vassals standing side by side. If one is not careful, someone may use the emperor's name to make trouble.

Therefore, if Japan is closed to the outside world without interference from the outside world, its system can barely continue.

But now the Ming Dynasty has too much influence on Japan.

Moreover, the expansion of the Ming Dynasty in the north, south, and India has also made many Japanese people of insight either envy, criticize, or covet.

In short.

The rise of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as wrinkling the spring water of Japan.

Some warriors in the country are also ready to move, and various propositions have emerged.

Some people think that Japan should abolish the shogunate, imitate the Ming Dynasty, set up local parliaments, respect the emperor, friend the Ming, found the country, and govern the country with a bureaucratic system.

There are also those who believe that Japan needs to join the Eastern system of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor or the shogunate surrender to the Ming Dynasty, lose the throne, and integrate into the Chinese system of Shenzhou.

There are also those who believe that Japan should maintain its independence, learn from the reforms of the Ming Dynasty, and also seek external expansion.
In short.

People in Japan are very confused now.

As for the fact that the Spanish fleet appeared in Ryukyu, there are nine out of ten reasons that some strong domains in Japan participated in it!
"Japanese figures were found in the Spaniard's fleet. It is likely that samurai from Japan were involved in the Ryukyu incident."

Grand Duke Lin said with a solemn expression.

"Right now, there are forces in Japan that are ready to move. Some vassals in Japan have come into contact with the forces of the Westerners, and have colluded with the Spaniards and Britons. The Spanish fleet's occupation of Ryukyu is likely to be a conspiracy against the Jianghu shogunate."

"Conspiracy?" Gu Song frowned slightly.

"A conspiracy to attack the prestige of the shogunate." Dagong Lin said, "If the shogunate fails to expel the Spaniards, its qualifications to lead Japan will be questioned. Some local powerful vassals will use this as a reason to launch troubles and call on samurai from all over the country to mobilize to overthrow the curtain."

"The Tokugawa shogunate must be maintained, the emperor must not have power, and the powerful vassals in various places must not have the power to threaten the rule of the Edo shogunate!"

Emperor Zhu rubbed his forehead and said with a headache.

The intertwining of forces in various parts of Japan is very complicated.

But he doesn't care so much, anyway, as long as the Edo shogunate can survive, Japan will be a weak and self-closing system.

Can't afford any big waves.

If someone initiates the downfall now, it would be bad to have a "Meiji Restoration" more than half a century ahead of schedule.

Japan is a big country with a population of 3000 million, and there are so many samurai, as long as some military system reforms are carried out, it can become a poor ghost and a small strong.

This kind of poor and small strong is the most difficult to deal with.

Let's fight, the gain outweighs the loss.

If you don't fight, you have to be coaxed, otherwise it's easy to cause trouble
(End of this chapter)