The ancestor said in a deep voice: "It's interesting, is it that the Japanese gods who have not blessed their descendants since ancient times? Or is it because the magic power of these Japanese gods is insufficient and cannot stop them from dealing with such external threats?"

Liu Yu curled his lips and said, "I used to not believe in these ghosts and gods, but after traveling to this era, I began to believe it. However, I insisted that the power of mortals seems to be insufficient, but because of the large number of mortals, if the group strives forward and everyone strives to be the first, humans will develop advanced technology and mature and progressive political systems. As for Japan, they have believed in Shintoism since ancient times. This is a native religion in Japan. What do you believe in?

The great gods believe that all things in mountains, rivers and rivers can become gods. It is said that there are eight million great gods, very much like the primitive shamanisms like grasslands or Liaodong. But this is not surprising. Similar gods in the mountains and wilds, primitive gods, which appear in the names of various creation gods, are often cultivated by demon spirits from ancient times. In later times, their magic power will become weaker and weaker. As you said, many ancient gods in China will slowly disappear when their tribes are cut off and the incense is not followed."

The ancestor sneered: "You don't have to worry about these gods and immortal things. The descendants of human beings are unworthy. If they don't sacrifice to the ancestors and gods, they will arouse the wrath of their ancestors. If they no longer bless these descendants, many tribes and countries will be destroyed. If Japan can survive to the future generations you are in, their ancestors and gods will definitely play a role in blessing them. It is not just the barrier of the sea that can make this country last for thousands of years."

Liu Yu frowned and said, "This seems to be true. Japan has also encountered powerful external invasions before. For example, the Mongols who once entered the Central Plains also wanted to conquer Japan. They sent a huge fleet of more than 200,000 people to land on a large scale. However, they failed to land. Instead, they encountered a huge storm on the sea and were wiped out. The Mongol emperor had to announce the cancellation of the conquest of Japan. This storm was called the Japanese by the Japanese, and they believed that it was their great god Amaterasu and eight million gods who blessed them. Perhaps, it was really the gods of the Japanese who played some role."

The ancestor said coldly: "When this black ship attacked, why did the gods and winds not work? Are they Japanese in later generations no longer worshipping ancestors and serving ghosts and gods? Or is their magic power suppressed by the local gods brought by the Western powers?"

Liu Yu said in a deep voice: "I don't want to discuss these ghosts and gods. I will only tell you about the founding of the country by the black ship of Japan. After the Western powers forced the country to open the country, the middle and lower samurai class in Japan was extremely dissatisfied with the shogun, believing that it was the corruption and incompetence of these superiors. The weak and concession made Japan surrender without fighting. They took out the name of the emperor and gathered other princes who opposed the Tokugawa shogun. Finally, through a few years of civil war, they defeated the Tokugawa shogun's army, forcing the last Tokugawa shogun to return the power to the emperor and disband the shogun."

"From then on, Japan ended the shogun system that had been learning the Tang Dynasty for thousands of years, introduced systems similar to Western countries, established cabinets, parliaments, established universities, middle schools, and primary schools, so that all people could have the opportunity to receive compulsory education, gave all ordinary people surnames, so that they could truly become humans from a legal perspective, and established a Western-style government, from top to bottom, and talented people had the opportunity to become government officials, and their merits were promoted according to their own abilities."

"This gave Japan a chance to become prime minister and minister for more than a hundred years. It can be said that through a movement called Meiji Restoration, Japan realized the Western constitutional monarchy system. Because of its unique martial spirit of the Han and Tang Dynasties, they called Bushido, they made the entire country a terrifying militarist power like the Qin State, with a strong desire to expand outward and to complete the accumulation of industrialized resources through invasion and plunder."

The ancestor frowned: "Since you talked about Qin, then Japan sounds like it has completed Shang Yang's reforms. Qin, which has become rapidly powerful, relied on farming and expansion, and has been rapidly powerful. Of course, the hardest one is definitely the people of this military power. But because it gives them hope and a chance to stand out, even if they eat braised vegetables, they take it for granted. Even if they are exhausted or killed in the battlefield, they will end up smiling and believe that their descendants will live better. Japan has been suppressed by China before, and its expansion to the Korean Peninsula has always been stopped. Because it cannot be defeated, it can only retreat to the island. Now, although they have been opened by Western powers, they can also quickly learn the technology of Western powers, and even if the national system has been changed to a constitutional monarchy like Britain, it can become a regional power for up to twenty or thirty years, which is enough to pose a great threat to the Qing Dynasty and North Korea."

Liu Yu nodded and said seriously: "Yes, that's true. Since ancient times, Japan's foreign expansion has only been able to land in North Korea. Once it succeeds and occupy the entire Korean Peninsula, it will find a way to erode and control the Manchus and Deserts in Liaodong and the south of the desert. Once they control the grasslands and the white mountains and black waters, they will find ways to invade the Central Plains and realize their ambition to dominate the mainland."

"This ambition was tried twice during the Tang Dynasty and before the Qing Dynasty, Japan was stopped by the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. The failure of the invasion in the Ming Dynasty also led to the fall of the Toyotomi regime before the Toyotomi Shogunate, which made the Toyotomi regime gain a bargain and gain a position. Therefore, this militaristic foreign aggression is also extremely risky. Once the war fails, it may lead to the collapse of its own regime. This is also the extreme military merit system. The entire national mechanism revolves around war. Once the war fails, military merit cannot be implemented, and the middle and lower-level soldiers will mutiny and cause trouble. Therefore, China has had the ancient saying that since ancient times, it will perish if it is wary and forgets to fight. Neither of them can go to extremes. If the division is unknown and abuses military power, it will indeed lead to the collapse and destruction of the dynasty. This is called the different offensive and defensive momentum of benevolence and righteousness."
Chapter completed!