The appointment came so suddenly, like a tornado!

Hong Jinglai was okay, but the expressions of the Han brothers and Li Jichu changed. They were about to take the boat again, and they were about to collapse again.

"How come I was suddenly appointed as the Registrar without any news beforehand?" Hong Jinglai took over the decree.

"Brother Shi, where did this patrol officer come from?" Zhao Wanyong's eyes were bright.

"Your Highness, Lord?"

"Of course it's imperial order."

"I never expected it! Which commander or clan member is the envoy of the communication mission to Japan this time?" Hong Jinglai didn't want to meet someone who was difficult to serve.

In the first place, traveling to Japan is a thankless job. If it insults the state, it will be over as soon as you come back. If you encounter another Shangguan who is not easy to serve, it will be very uncomfortable.

"The DPRK has not decided yet." Zhao Wanyong shook his head, feeling a little embarrassed.

"The departure date is coming soon, haven't you decided yet?"

“Everything happens for a reason!”

This matter is a long story. Letters of credence were not sent directly between Japan and North Korea, but the Tsushima Fuchu Domain acted as an intermediary.

I don’t know what kind of strange thoughts this is due to?

The Edo shogunate sent the documents to Tsushima Fuchu Domain, who then translated the Japanese documents into Chinese versions, and then invited Korea to come to Japan as a Joseon vassal. (In the early days, Lin Raoshan directly wrote three copies, in Chinese.

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When Tsushima Fuchu Domain's submission was submitted, it was not received by the Joseon court, but by the envoy of Dongnae Prefecture. The envoy of Dongnae Prefecture did not submit the original document, but copied a copy in his own letter and sent it to Hanyang on Pegasus.

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Co-author The exchanges between Japan and Korea are superficially just the exchanges between the private envoys of Torai Prefecture and the Chu Domain of Tsushima Prefecture, and do not have a legally recognized written status.

Moreover, after the war broke out in Japan, the official positions of Tsushima's central domain changed. Because the envoy of Toraifu found out that Tsushima's family had been promoted, which was not in line with the practice, he refused to communicate with Japan, which led Japan to think that North Korea was going to make peace with Japan.

Bring Qing over to join forces to intervene.

It's ridiculous, but the fact is that the documents sent from Tsushima Fuchu Domain must have a fixed format, even the paper and number of words, which have not changed at all for hundreds of years.

But this time things have changed!

Since the Ming Dynasty, the title given to the Japanese shogunate generals in the Central Plains has always been the King of Japan. As a member of East Asian civilization, North Korea has also accepted the title of the King of Korea, just like King Zhongshan of Ryukyu.

Therefore, the North Korean side has always called Japan's Tokugawa General as the King of Japan, Minamoto So-and-so, but something went wrong this time, and the Japanese documents wrote "The Great King of Japan".

In Joseon, the king is just the title of the king's legitimate son. For example, King Jungjong is the king of Jincheng, and the residence where Injo lived when he returned to Hanyang was the palace of the king of Wolseong.

This makes the Tokugawa general's status literally on the same level as the prince of Korea.

Japan naturally thinks that this "maharaja" means a great monarch, the greatest monarch, but in Korea it means the king's son.

Therefore, there is absolutely no close minister around Tokugawa Ieki who understands North Korea, otherwise he would never use the title of Maharaja in his interactions with North Korea.

Tokugawa Iesai succeeded to the throne in the sixth year of Tenmei (1786). A quick calculation shows that the last time a Korean envoy went to Japan was 17 years ago. At that time, Tokugawa Iesai was twelve years old, and he didn’t know a thing!

It was all organized by his father Tokugawa Haruji and his old man Nakatanuma Yiji. It must have been written about the King of Japan at that time, because Tokugawa Haruji was the grandson of the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune and the governor of the Tokugawa family, Ichihashi Ichibashi. The eighth shogun Tokugawa

Kawakoshi Mune, known as "General Mi", was the master of resurgence who saved the shogunate's finances and extended the life of the shogunate for hundreds of years.

Tokugawa Yoshimune is known as "competent" both internally and externally! This means that he is also an extremely strong person. A trick of fate made him die first his father and then his brother. The three brothers worked together to kill Zetsu and then his uncle. The dead nephew, after his death, he was granted a great position by heaven, and a shogun fell out of thin air to serve him.

This kind of person either has a complete mental breakdown, or is mentally strong to the extreme and will be very strong. Tokugawa Yoshimune is obviously the latter. When dealing with North Korea, he has always regarded himself as the king of Japan, and he has the attitude of a victorious country facing a subordinate country. .

But what's going on with this great king of Japan now?

The Tokugawa family rushed together to make a son for King Sunshu?

It was also because of this incident that the meeting between the envoy to Japan and the Tokugawa General became a big deal. What if the Tokugawa family knows the truth and draws a sword to chop him down?

The Japanese are cunning, arrogant and unreasonable!

This is the inherent impression that prevails in the hearts of the people in Hanyang and Gungun. They would not think that Japan is a civilized and polite country. Every time they visit the sun, it is like the wind rustling and the water cold.

This time I was about to go, but suddenly a man from Japan who barely understood North Korea came out and told Tokugawa Jiaqi.

"Did you see that those **** in North Korea saw you laughing? You took the initiative to call them daddy. Their king is only fourteen years old. How old are you? You called him daddy. They laughed to death."

Good guy! You can't run away with just one stab!

This is in sharp contrast to the recent scene where people rushed to the Qing Dynasty to congratulate Zhengdan, who was beaten to a bloody head and even had to be torn apart again in the court. No one in the court, civil and military officials, or relatives or relatives wanted to go!

Even if a large amount of foreign goods can be carried to Japan for trade on Laishang's ship, no one will take it if they have to pay for their lives. Who can stand in the court and is a real fool? .

"Why is it so big... there is not even one person who is brave enough to do the job!" Hong Jinglai sat on the couch.

"Brother, you shouldn't ask me." Zhao Wanyong spread his hands and took water from the brazier to pour tea.

When Hong Jinglai heard this, he was speechless for a moment. That's right! Asking Zhao Wanyong about this thing is useless. Asking his father Zhao Zhenkuan might be of some use. Asking him, a professor at a national university, is useless. .

"My brother is an official. How are you going to respond when you meet General Tokugawa?"

"What else can we do? How do the two leaders of us deal with it? We are following suit."

"If the negotiation is improper or the response is disrespectful, you will be punished when you return home! You may even be demoted to a border county and have your household confiscated." Hong Jinglai didn't believe that Zhao Wanyong, a resourceful person, could not respond at all.

"Brother Shi, how should we deal with it?" Zhao Wanyong answered, but looked at Hong Jinglai with a smile.

"How to deal with it from above, follow it step by step!" Hong Jinglai returned the original sentence.

The two old men smiled knowingly and said nothing to each other.

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The number of words above is enough, and the following is a special explanation. The full text is only my personal opinion and does not represent anything.

Japan's diplomatic name for North Korea is constantly changing. The earliest letter sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu to North Korea was written by Hayashi Razan, a scholar of the Shogunate University at the time.

He was called "Japanese Kunimoto Ieyasu" or "Japanese Kunimoto Ieyasu", but it was just a flash in the pan.

After Tokugawa Hidetada ascended the throne and Tokugawa Ieyasu launched the Battle of Osaka and destroyed the Toyotomi clan, the Korean envoys came to Japan in the name of congratulating the fall of Osaka. At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Tokugawa Hidetada showed a victorious attitude. For the first time, he represented Japan and North Korea in the name of the "King of Japan" and became a custom.

As we all know, unlike Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi who respected the imperial court and treated ministers well, Tokugawa Ieyasu's success was gained through more than fifty years of hard work and numerous battles. During this period, he accumulated huge reputation and did not need to

Use the mythical court to increase the legitimacy of your rule.

Therefore, Tokugawa Ieyasu directly rejected the paulownia pattern given by the imperial court, and used his own three-leaf sunflower as the highest-level samurai family crest.

This attitude is very illustrative. It means that Tokugawa Ieyasu and Tokugawa Hidetada in the early Edo shogunate adopted attitudes of suppression, control, and utilization towards the court officials.

The father and son, including the later Tokugawa Iemitsu, were the number one person in the world in the samurai family, and in the public family they were the second person in the imperial court, and they were the second person in the imperial palace.

Therefore, in foreign negotiations, the Tokugawa family deliberately used the title "King of Japan" to show that in the East Asian civilization circle, General Tokugawa was the representative of Japan and the most powerful person. The one in the imperial court could only manage

There are eight million Shinto gods and ghosts all over the sky.

However, the feudal royal power will gradually weaken with the death of the ruler who has won hundreds of battles. The successors who are better than the women in the palace will neither have enough prestige nor illustrious military exploits.

In addition, when the Ming Dynasty fell, a large number of literati were unwilling to be slaves of the subjugated country and fled to Japan to become survivors. Objectively, Confucianism, or the more straightforward Zhu Xixue, was spread in Japan.

The central point is the idea of ​​"loyalty to the emperor"!

Is this gentleman from the imperial court or a general from Edo City?

The father-in-law said that the public was justified, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was justified, and the literati in the shogunate were not strong enough to seize the highest point of public opinion.

So during the period of the Five Dynasties shoguns, that is, the dog shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, because this dear man succeeded to the "Great Unification" as a side branch, to put it bluntly, he succeeded as a minister.

To use an inappropriate word to describe it is to be considered incorrect!

This monarch, who was not a man of great talent or strategy, allowed the imperial court to suppress the shogunate at the level of public opinion. This also led Tokugawa Tsunayoshi to only call himself the "Great Lord of Japan" to North Korea.

Those Confucian scholars and literati will not stand by the shogun, won't cheer for you, and won't stand up for you. They bully you warriors, you are rough, and they can't play word games.

By the time of the Eighth Generation Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, this man was shrewd and capable, and appointed talented people such as Ooka Tadashi. He was also aware of the weakening authority of the shogunate and the weakening of laws and regulations.

Immediately afterwards, Tokugawa Yoshimune forcefully restored the title of "King of Japan". In addition, this man was a long-lived and very healthy man who could compete with those literati who could only use pens.

Thanks to his efforts, the forces of the shogunate once again suppressed the imperial court and became the official representative of Japan!

However, weasels give birth to rats, and one litter is worse than the next. After the Tokugawa Shogunate, there were many crooked kings, and even the so-called heroic and decisive Tokugawa Iemo was actually mediocre.

He actually went to Beijing in person to request a document from the imperial court to grant him a political appointment. This was the first time in the entire history of the Tokugawa shogunate.

To paraphrase Toyotomi Hideyoshi, "I want the king to be the king, so why should I be granted a title?"

The Tokugawa shoguns had conquered the country by themselves, yet they went so far as to ask a non-human "god" to grant him the power to rule the country. This was tantamount to the shogunate completely bowing to the court and voluntarily giving up its legal claim to the supreme rule of the entire country.

Tokugawa Iemoji did this kind of thing to apologize to his ancestors!

At this time, the title of General Tokugawa was once again humbly changed to "The Great Lord of Japan".

In the "Japan-U.S. Treaty of Friendship and Trade" signed with the Americans, he also called himself a monarch instead of a king, indicating that the shogunate had lost its authority and no longer had the identity to represent Japan.
Chapter completed!