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After Zheng Chenggong completely wiped out the forces of several major powerful vassals in Kyushu, it will take several months to completely occupy Kyushu.

This is like even if Saddam is killed, there will still be a bunch of small armed forces standing on hills and doing their own thing in Iraq, which is very disturbing.The so-called "thieves swarm up" refers to this situation.

In a short while, the war will not be officially over.

But from the perspective of the Edo shogunate, since the battle at the end of June, when Mitsuhisa Shimazu was destroyed, Edo has completely given up treatment.

In the follow-up, the two sides fought and talked one after another, talking while fighting, and running in conditions, all of which belonged to the garbage time of war.

It dragged on until the end of September in the lunar calendar. Seeing that the summer and autumn typhoon season was completely over, Zheng Chenggong was not exhausted. In addition, he lost a few more small feudal clans on Honshu Island.
The Edo shogunate finally appealed to Daming with a humble but slightly reserved attitude.
Expressing the formal recognition that Ming's rule over Kyushu and Ezo is completely reasonable and legal, and there will be no disputes in the future,

He also admitted that "Yizu has not belonged to the territory of Fusang since ancient times. Fusang only traded with these barbarians and failed to achieve rule"-Zhu Shuren did not let the people of Fusang directly admit that "Eizu has belonged to China without dispute since ancient times. Territory", that is too fake, so as long as the other party admits that it has never belonged to Fusang territory.

Anyway, in the East Asian cultural circle, there is only one orthodoxy in Ming Dynasty. As long as other barbarian lands do not belong to other civilized countries, it is logical for Ming to use Chinese orthodoxy to civilize them and let them belong to them.

To put it bluntly, as long as it does not belong to the territory of other civilized countries, Daming's enclosure of land is tantamount to "occupying unclaimed land first", which is the same as dealing with Indians and Maori. Aboriginal barbarians have no concept of a country.

(Note: The Indians here refer specifically to the bulk nomadic, fishing and hunting savage tribes that have not formed a country. They do not target the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire, which have established civilized countries, and have no intention of offending the indigenous peoples of civilized countries.)

In the end, the Edo shogunate had to admit that the nature of this war was not "Da Ming's invasion of Fusang", but to punish the people and punish crimes.

All the crimes were caused by the sinners who annexed the Ryukyu vassal state of Ming Dynasty, such as Ezo private businessmen and Satsuma clan!

Many civil officials in the Ming Dynasty did not understand this series of operations. In the eyes of traditional old-school bureaucrats, if you win a war, you win, if you cede the land, you will cede the land, and if you destroy the country, you will destroy the country. What kind of treaty is needed?Has there been such a thing since ancient times?

However, Zhu Shuren resisted all opinions and insisted on cultivating such international law habits in China, because he knew that this era is close to modern times after all. Has been formed.

If Daming doesn't keep up, it won't be able to "declare war on all Western powers" like Cixi in the future, right?No matter how strong the Ming Dynasty is, even if there is Zhu Shuren's opening up, it will only be temporary. If the system construction does not keep up, it will eventually be impossible to be enemies of all foreign countries at the same time.

Therefore, the necessary rules of the international order still have to be used, but Da Ming can join in the formulation of the rules, and even promote a set of international negotiation guidelines enacted by Da Ming in the future, instead of standing still and giving up the right to formulate international standards in vain.

This time, the treaty of the final battle against Fusang should be regarded as a practice.

Now that we have entered the 1660s, it has been less than 30 years since the parallel time and space Manqing and the Raksha people signed a Nibu treaty. Starting to practice more than [-] years in advance is a good warm-up, and you will not suffer in the future.

After the Ming Dynasty gained enough permanent legal benefits, it could give the Edo shogunate a little sweetness when it came to the actual withdrawal of troops. At least it could make the Edo shogunate accountable to the inside, so that history would not be too far ahead of schedule. rail.

Zhu Shuren is very clear that he does not want the Edo shogunate to fall because of this, and he does not want the people of Fusang to reflect internally and strive for strength because of this "loss of power and humiliation of the country", and he does not want Fusang to completely unite because of foreign enemies, respect the king and fight the barbarians ahead of modern times change.

It is best for Daming to keep Fusang in a state where all parties have their own ghosts.

It’s like the best way to control Iraq is by no means to kill Saddam. After you kill it, you can’t even find a negotiating partner, and you have to face the warlords everywhere in person. Isn’t that making yourself uncomfortable? The lessons learned in Iraq are profound enough.

In order to keep the Edo shogunate from falling, Daming also acquiesced in the Edo shogunate's internal and external propaganda in the final stage of the negotiations, and did not try to dismantle the Edo shogunate.

For example, when the Ming army withdrew from the bloodbathed Changzhou Fan, Hiroshima Fan, and Hokuriku's Oshu Fan, Yuzhou Fan, and Sendai Fan, in fact, of course, it was Daming himself who didn't want to fight anymore, and took the initiative to withdraw from the quagmire , There were no more casualties on either side.

But Ming also allowed the Edo shogunate to describe this withdrawal as "the heroic Fusang army led by the Edo shogunate regained lost ground, successfully repelled the Ming army, saved the country at the critical moment of Fusang's life and death, and prevented the loss of more land".

Anyway, this kind of propaganda is only talked about in Fusang, and it is in Japanese, and it will not embarrass Ming Ming in the international community and damage Ming Ming's prestige.

It was not for nothing that the Edo Shogunate wanted to save face. When Daming withdrew his troops, he asked the Edo Shogunate not to enfeoff the vassals who hated Daming to these vacated territories.

In the end, the territory of the Changzhou Domain and part of the Hiroshima Domain became the domain of the lackey of the Ming Dynasty and the traitor Kuroda Mitsuyuki of Fuso.Because Kuroda Mitsuyuki finally took refuge in Zheng Chenggong as an internal response, and Shimadzu Mitsuhisa who was cheated by him at the same time, all of them died. The high-level death has no proof, and Kuroda Mitsuyuki became a double-faced man with a good death.

The Edo shogunate did not catch any real evidence of his misconduct, and there was no need to punish him to explain to the people of Fuso. Coupled with the vague external pressure from the Ming side, Tokugawa Ietsuna had no choice but to admit it.

There are several other operations like this, but they are not as obvious and typical as Kuroda Mitsuyuki.

All in all, when Daming withdrew his troops at the end of the war, he planted several mines in Fusang, so that the Edo shogunate was still unable to control the whole country, and the princes who were secretly wary of the shogunate were still being cultivated.

Such a Fusang, as long as it cannot be reunited in the future, will never pose a threat to Daming, and it will be useless to restore the population.

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The armistice treaty between Daming and Fusang was finally signed on the eighth day of October in the 15th year of Longwu. It took another month or so for Ming to gradually withdraw its troops and send the text of the treaty back to the country to report to the imperial court.

By the end of the 15th year of Longwu, everything was finally settled, and the territory that should be taken had been completely obtained, and at most the next one or two years would have to be piecemeal to suppress bandits.

When the news spread back to the country, the government and the public were naturally excited again. Fireworks went off inside and outside the city of Nanjing, and the monarch and his ministers enjoyed themselves together.

Although the degree of celebration is not as enthusiastic as when the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, it can make everyone feel the same.But in fact, it is more inspiring than when other enemy countries except the Qing Dynasty were destroyed——

The reason is that the Fusang Kingdom and Daming have an enmity after all, and this enmity may be greater than the Mongols, because after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols, except for the Wala branch, actually did not pose any threat to Daming, and most of the time, Daming beat them them.

The scourge of Japanese pirates lasted for 200 years in the Ming Dynasty. It was only after the sea ban was opened in the late Ming Dynasty and Daming's own sea power became stronger that the Japanese pirates gradually declined.For the elderly Ming people, they still have an impression of the Japanese pirates.

Now I heard that the country of Japanese pirates was beaten to the ground, and the island that produced the most Japanese pirates was occupied by Ming bloodbath. The joy of the common people in the world is real, especially in the south where the Japanese pirates have suffered more than in the north. Of course, I absolutely support the practice of the Japanese pirates' future troubles.

Under such a foundation of popular support, Zhu Shuren lived behind the scenes and decided to reward the decisive heroes of the Pingwa War, and there was almost no resistance.

Even if Zhu Shuren's biological father, Shen Tingyang, died, the household department is now managed by others, and there are some complaints about the payment and quota calculation of rewards, but no one can stop Zhu Shuren's will—even though Zhu Shuren was nominally in Ding You at that time, and did not personally intervene any specific government affairs.

In the blink of an eye, at the Lantern Festival in the 16th year of Longwu, the imperial court finally discussed the results of the Fusang War.

Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen, the two early confidantes of Zhu Shuren, finally climbed to the point of Feng Guogong.

One of them took Kyushu Island, the other took Ezo, and they each severely damaged the Japanese army. The combined killing and annihilating of the two routes from the north and the south defeated more than 40 Japanese troops (including the temporarily pulled farmers and soldiers).
Coupled with the blessing of the Ming Dynasty's "killing Japanese pirates", and the fact that they had already reached the top of the Marquis circle in the war against the Qing Dynasty, they were only one step away.It is also logical to complete the duke's "realm breakthrough" this time.

Compared with the previous four princes, Shen Tingyang is Zhu Shuren's biological father, with good official qualifications, and Shi Kefa is the chief assistant of the cabinet. He was the signboard when the court was rebuilt in Nanjing.Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong are also long-standing warriors, and they held high military positions in the early years of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Therefore, the four dukes who were enshrined when the Qing Dynasty was destroyed were not strictly speaking subordinates of Zhu Shuren, but more of his elders, allies, and colleagues.

After five or six years of development, the second wave of Dukes is finally promoted by Zhu Shuren from a lower position.

Their entire resumes are mixed with Zhu Shuren, and basically they have not received much favor from the Chongzhen Dynasty. At least before Zhu Shuren himself entered the official position in the 12th year of Chongzhen, they were basically reckless or grassroots military positions, and their loyalty was more hardcore. .

And if Zhu Shuren wanted to be named a Duke, of course he wouldn't only confer the title to the generals who fought in the front line, but also to those who were in charge of the rear, dispatching and coordinating the overall situation.

This time, it was Zhu Shuren's cousin Zhang Huangyan who got the main credit for promotion in the rear.

Zhang Huangyan also belonged to the previous battle against the Qing Dynasty, and he has already contributed a lot. His troops also defeated Azig twice, killed Azig himself, and finally supervised the decisive battle in Neihuang-Daiming. .

It's just that Zhang Huangyan had already been promoted to the Ministry of War in the final stage of pursuit on the grasslands outside the pass, and he was not suitable for a civilian job to pursue thousands of miles in person, so he didn't go to the front line to supervise the division.

So much so that when the settlement of the Qing Dynasty was finally settled, Zhang Huangyan, because he had advanced a lot in terms of promotion and was young, naturally wanted to suppress the title to show fairness and block the mouths of the world, so as not to be said by the world that Zhu Shuren was nepotism.

Today, five or six years have passed since the Qing Dynasty was destroyed. It has been 21 years since Zhu Shuren traveled to this world by himself, and he will be 38 this year.

Zhang Huangyan is two years older than his cousin, and he has just reached his prime.A Minister of the Ministry of War who has passed the 40-year-old threshold has enough years of service, and it is completely reasonable to be a prince.

As a result of the final treatment, after the canonization of the three princes was completed, Emperor Longwu Zhu Changhao decreed that in the next 20 years, Kyushu, Yezo, Dead Leaf and other places will be tentatively managed in accordance with the method of military settlements outside the pass, and the generals with real power will be in charge of the local areas. affairs, its system is completely different from that of the provinces in the Central Plains.

Of course, in order to prevent the separatism of the feudal towns, these powers must not be hereditary, so those managed sites are not fiefdoms, only the title of the Duke of the State can be hereditary.

Before Cao Bianjiao, Huang Degong, Zhu Wenzhen and others, because they were already old, Emperor Longwu's decree would allow them to "supervise Jilin/Korqin" and other places for life, and they also knew that their lifespan would be at most twenty years.

But this time, Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong are obviously a generation and a half younger than Huang Degong and others, and their natural life expectancy can still live for a long time. In order to leave a gap for adjustment, they ordered a pilot project for 20 years.If there is no obvious sign that the tail is too big to drop after 20 years, then the preferential treatment can be extended, up to their lifetime.

In addition, while Zheng Chenggong obtained the de facto governance of Kyushu Island and seized power by life and death, he also handed over part of the civil and political power of Dayuan Island to the court, and only retained the private property of the Zheng family in Dayuan Island.

Zheng Chenggong didn't think there was any loss in this, because he was already very satisfied and felt that he had honored his ancestors by being named Duke.It's not a big deal to change a piece of land, it's just one of the bargaining chips for being a duke at a young age.

Among the three newcomers to the state, Zhang Huangyan, who only had a civil position, could not be promoted to local real power, but he was already a Minister of the Ministry of War and did not need to be released.

After being named Duke, Emperor Longwu ordered Zhang Huangyan to be the second assistant of the cabinet, second only to Shi Kefa. This just replaced the second assistant who was vacated after his distant uncle Shen Tingyang died of old age.

It can also ensure that Zhu Shuren's family has a complete and stable control of the real power of the imperial court during Zhu Shuren's nominal Ding You period.

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After the baptism of the Battle of Fusang, the strength of Daming's army has been further improved, and the power structure of Daming's civil and military forces has also transitioned to the new generation of young people because of this series of meritorious opportunities.

If we talk about the later period of the war against the Qing Dynasty, apart from Zhu Shuren himself, most of the others were a group of five or sixty-year-old veterans who held important positions in the cabinet.

After this time, there are finally a large group of people in their early forties, even young people like Zheng Chenggong who are only 35 years old.

With such fresh blood and team, Zhu Shuren's prestige has been further consolidated.In addition, after the war, Ming Dynasty really needed a period of time to recuperate, recover from consumption, and digest the territory.So for the next two full years, Zhu Shuren did not make any major moves, and the court did not make any reforms.

Only in advancing science and technology and developing production is there no slack in the slightest, and new things that innovate and benefit the people are still emerging one after another.

Two years later, Daming's national power, which had been depleted by the war, had basically fully recovered. Zhu Shuren also ended the low-key time when his biological father died, and could show his strength again.