Chapter 502: Train more Japanese compradors
Qi Biaojia has arrived in Nagasaki at this time.
However, when he came to Nagasaki now, he did not feel like he left Middle-earth.
Because everyone here wears Hanfu, everyone here says Chinese, and the names of the shops are all made of Chinese characters.
Qi Biaojia discovered that the buildings here also began to focus on Ming-style gardens on a large scale.
Nagasaki Governor Zhang Youyu also said to Qi Biaojia: "Yanagawa, Yokohama, Osaka and other places have also begun to be popular in the dynasty. Before that, the Tang style was popular in Japan."
Qi Biaojia nodded: "It seems that the influence of this dynasty in Japan is increasing in all aspects."
"This is natural. The Nagasaki area is no different from Middle-earth, and several surrounding Japanese vassal areas have also begun to prevail in the Han style."
Zhang Youyu said and asked, "I guess there must be other decrees to convey when Mr. Qi comes to Nagasaki this time?"
Qi Biaojia smiled: "Zhang Dutang is indeed smart, yes, this imperial envoy is here for only one thing."
"What's the matter?"
"Destroy the Japanese!"
After hearing this, Zhang Youyu was stunned.
Zhu Yousong and Zhu Yihai, who came to welcome Qi Biaojia with Zhang Youyu, couldn't help but look at each other.
They didn't expect that the court had the intention to destroy the Japanese.
But after thinking about it, everyone also felt that it was reasonable for the imperial court to do this.
"This matter can be gradually taken into consideration, but it should not be too rush. The Japanese have been standing outside China for a long time and have their own civilization. If they want to destroy their country, they should first destroy their civilization!"
Zhang Youyu said something first.
Qi Biaojia said: "The emperor means that he should support the shogunate to prevent his power from being the emperor. In addition, seek independence from all regions as much as possible and suppress powerful vassals."
"Your Majesty is indeed wise!"
"The following officials see that the key to destroying the Japanese is to deny the status of the emperor and make the Japanese shogunate give up the emperor as the main force. If the shogunate does not follow, it should cultivate a new daimyo instead of the current shogunate. When the emperor is abandoned by the shogunate in the future, he can provoke the shogunate to fight against powerful vassals in various places, which will weaken the Japanese national power, and finally replace the shogunate and the daimyo with a miracle official."
Zhang Youyu said.
"Now there are many daimyos in Japan planning to overthrow the existing shogunate because they are dissatisfied with the weakness shown by the shogunate in front of our heavenly dynasty. In this case, the Satsuma family wanted to replace the existing shogunate because they were dissatisfied with the shogunate preventing him from invading Ryukyu in order to cater to our heavenly dynasty."
Zhu Yousong started talking at this time.
After hearing this, Qi Biaojia asked: "What are the daimyos that support the shogunate, how many are there, and what are the common names?"
"Although the shogunate is not much in the area around Yanagawa and Edo, they have very strong strength, and they all have trade with our Celestial Empire. With the support of the shogunate, they are responsible for assisting our Celestial Empire merchants in their business. These daimyos often have strong relationships with sea merchants such as Li Guosuke who live here."
Zhu Yousong replied.
After hearing this, Qi Biaojia couldn't help but say, "It seems that these people are the compradors of the Japanese whom His Majesty called him."
"It's appropriate to describe it like this. Danames that have little relationship with the shogunate or are excluded by the shogunate did not have the opportunity to do business with us, so they naturally did not have the opportunity to become compradors. Their own industries were hit hard by our Chinese goods and could not survive. Therefore, they asked the shogunate to prohibit trade with us and reduce taxes. The shogunate naturally did not want to do it, and we were unwilling to let the shogunate do this, so these danames became more and more dissatisfied with the shogunate."
Zhang Youyu followed and said something.
"We must strengthen the comprador power of Japan, let the shogunate open more trading ports for us, and let our goods become a stepping stone to intervene in the domestic battles in Japan! And give these compradors some benefits, so that Japan will gradually lose its ability to produce new firearms and smel new steel by itself! What do you think?"
Qi Biaojia said.
"Very good!"
Zhang Youyu and others nodded.
But then, Zhang Youyu took the initiative to ask: "Can the court bets on both sides and secretly contact the Japanese daimyo that supports the Emperor or the Satsuma clan? In order to avoid the new Lord of the Japanese if the shogunate is really overthrown in the future, the new Lord of the Japanese will not buy our accounts."
After hearing this, Qi Biaojia looked at Zhang Youyu in surprise: "This idea can be made public to the court, but no matter who becomes the leader of the Japanese Kingdom in the future, he must be the comprador of my Celestial Empire! Paving the way for the destruction of the Japanese in the future!"
“This is natural.”
Zhu Yihai replied at this time and said, "My current identity is a Confucian envoy, responsible for contacting monks and literati among the Japanese. I wonder if I can contact the literati who attempted to improve the Japanese, and also find a few Japanese upstarts who are willing to surrender to our Ming Dynasty and betray their own people in the process of improving the Japanese?"
"This is a good idea. Only Confucian scholars like you are suitable for being a person who doesn't have a full position."
Qi Biaojia agreed very much.
"I have made friends with the last one. This person is the son of a retainer of the shogunate, named Kozai Shunsheng. His father is responsible for the commercial transactions between the shogunate and our Celestial Empire, mainly responsible for porcelain procurement and dumping, as well as arms procurement and dumping. He is considered a comprador. He is naturally the comprador son. He has received a deep influence on Chinese language. He has been renamed Confucian education since elementary school. Now he has changed his name to Wenru, and advocates that only by sinicization can Japan become stronger. Although his purpose in doing this is to make Japan stronger, he can use his proposition that he wants to make Japan stronger through sinicization to guide him to gradually become the spokesperson for the interests of our Celestial Empire in Japan."
Zhu Yihai said at this time.
"Zhu Ru?"
Qi Biaojia laughed and asked, "Why did he choose the surname of Han Zhu for himself?"
"He admired Zhu Zi, so he wanted to be with the surname of a saint."
Zhu Yihai replied.
"I want to see him."
Qi Biaojia then said another sentence.
"He will preach his Confucianism theory at the forum of my Everbright Confucian Society. At that time, Mr. Qi will see him."
Zhu Yihai said.
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"Chinese characters are the only characters in the world that can effectively express the meaning of the text! Therefore, Confucianism, as the way to win the world, is flourishing in China with Chinese language, not in our Japan! If we want to get rid of ignorance and go to light, we must carry out sinicization reforms, promote Confucianism, and abandon the existing Japanese language..."
Zhu Ru spoke passionately on the stage.
Although his purpose in doing this was to make Japan stronger and not be behind the Ming Dynasty, the Han doctors who heard him still found it interesting.
Qi Biaojia even said: "In the past, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang and promoted the sinicization, which made the Northern Wei prosperous. Now Mr. Zhu wants to promote the sinicization in Japan, which is quite like Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty!"
"I dare not, the young student is just a scholar, how dare I compare with the emperor?"
Zhu Ru replied.
But Qi Biaojia said, "Some things are hard to say."
Zhu Ru didn't know what Qi Biaojia meant to say this.
However, at this moment, the Japanese Confucian scholar Ito Renzai who came to listen to the lecture suddenly stood up and said excitedly: "This is not appropriate. Although Confucianism should be an orthodox study in the world, our Japanese country has its own culture. How can we abandon our own writing and directly sinicize it? In this way, will the Yamato tribe of our Japanese country still Yamato?!"
Chapter completed!