The Emperor of Japan revoked the title of Emperor and changed the title from the Chu Empire to the King of Japan. The new king of Japan needs to be canonized by the empire before he can become the official king;

The Tokugawa Shogunate, which actually controls the power of Japan, requires the imperial approval and appointment of the Tokugawa family's title of "General of the Conquering Barbarians".

These two items alone mean that Japan has officially become a puppet state of the empire.

Without the empire's nod, the Tokugawa family would not even be able to succeed the 'General of the Conquering Barbarians'.

In addition to these two core clauses, there are also a lot of messy conditions, covering everything from political rights to economic rights, military power, etc.

There are two main conditions for these. One is military. The army of the Da Chu Empire has the right to pass freely anywhere on the Fuso Islands and the right to station troops in certain designated places for a long time.

This is the right of garrison and military passage.

The second point is that the Tokugawa shogunate and other big names are not allowed to develop and retain the workshops and factories that manufacture guns, ammunition, and battleships. Once discovered, the Chu Empire will launch a thunderous attack.

However, in order to meet the needs of the Tokugawa shogunate and the major lords for internal suppression and mutual crusade, the Chu Empire will open up gun exports. The shogunate and the major lords can voluntarily submit to the "Dachu Empire" designated by the empire.

Hirado Arms Trading Company' orders various military supplies such as guns and cannons.

The reason why they still need guns and guns is that the Chu Empire has made it clear that the empire will not interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Japan, especially the conflicts between the shogunate and the major names.

In one sentence: From now on, we don’t care what you want to do internally... We don’t care if we fight... This is almost a clear statement to those ambitious big names: You can start fighting to compete for more territory and interests.
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Secondly, it is economic. The market of the Kingdom of Japan is fully open to the Empire. Imperial merchants can do business, live, mine, etc. in the Kingdom of Japan on their own, and tariffs are formulated by the Empire and the shogunate. In principle, any kind of goods tariffs

Neither shall exceed 5%.

The shogunate and other daimyo who participated in the war jointly shouldered the war compensation of 50 million Chu Yuan. Because it was impossible for Japan to come up with such a large amount of money, the Dachu Imperial Finance Bank and three other banks jointly provided loans to pay for it. Japan used

Customs duties, salt taxes and other fiscal revenue are mortgaged and repaid in fifty-year installments.

The interest on this loan is naturally not low. In order to ensure that they can repay the loan smoothly, the customs and salt tax agencies were established and managed by personnel directly sent by the empire, and other administrative revenue was also sent by the empire for supervision.

Putting all these conditions together, the Kingdom of Japan has actually become a puppet state of the Chu Empire, and will continue to be drained of blood by the Chu Empire in the days to come...

This was also the strategy that the Chu Empire set against Fuso from the beginning. There were too many local people to annex directly, so they would first create a puppet state and use it as a dumping ground for industrial goods, especially weapons, to continue sucking blood.

This is also an important reason why the Chu Empire made it clear that it would not interfere in the affairs of major figures within the Kingdom of Japan after the war.

Now the Great Chu Empire is eager to start a fight with them so that they can sell their weapons and make money!

And this is indeed the case. On that day, some ambitious lords had already begun to actively contact the weapons merchants of the Chu Empire, preparing to purchase a large number of weapons for a big fight!

The Fuso Islands affairs basically came to an end with the signing of the Chu-Japan Hirado Treaty in June of the 23rd year of Chengshun, and results were also achieved in the Luzon Islands.

After a long period of negotiations, the Chu Empire finally reached an agreement with the Kingdom of Spain on the purchase of the Luzon Islands.

According to this agreement, the Chu Empire will invest 2.6 million Chu yuan to fully obtain control of the Luzon Islands from the Spanish. The Spanish need to smoothly transfer the colonial fortresses.

The 2.6 million Chu Yuan was not paid in cash, but in the form of discounts on various commodities.

Considering that the premiums for these goods when exported were very high, the final actual cost paid by the Chu Empire was actually less than one million Chu Yuan.

It only cost less than one million Chu Yuan to smoothly take over control of the entire Luzon Islands, and also intactly obtained various fortress cities that the Spaniards had operated on the Luzon Islands for many years. This was a pretty good deal.

trading.

At least it would be much cheaper than the Chu army launching a war on its own.

The settlement of the Fuso affair and the smooth purchase of the Luzon Islands mean that the first of the three major plans for overseas expansion has been successfully completed.

Next, it is time to significantly advance the second and third plans.

Everyone in the empire is looking forward to this. Many people, especially those in the industrial and commercial circles focused on overseas exports, are already gearing up to make a fortune from this wave of overseas expansion.

Not to mention the expectations of domestic industrial and commercial enterprises for overseas expansion, the Navy is also preparing for an important strategic plan: seizing Batavia in the west of Java Island and the Spice Islands area controlled by the Dutch.
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Chapter completed!