Tsushima Island was occupied by China, and Japan was very violent about it, but it was limited to the quarrel between the old and the Chinese.
Who is willing to go to war with China over a small island?
In the Tokugawa Ieyasu period, there might have been a symbolic dispatch of troops, but now there is nothing that can be done.
The situation of the shogun losing power cannot be solved by Tokugawa Ietsuna at all. It will even get worse. Sakai Tadakiyoshi will eventually become the authoritarian boss, and the power of the old man will in turn overwhelm the shogun.
This mess later passed into the hands of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi established the position of "side servants", and the old and middle-aged men could only see the general through the side servants. To put it bluntly, the side servants were eunuchs who did not need to be castrated, while the eldest boss and the old middle-aged men were the chief assistants and cabinet ministers. In this way
, which suppressed the old and middle-aged people, but also led to the exclusive use of power.
In China, it would be the exclusive power of eunuchs!
This is something to talk about later, so I won’t mention it for now.
But regarding the territory obtained from North Korea, Zhao Han quickly made corresponding arrangements after discussing it with cabinet officials.
Ping'an Road was renamed Ping'an Prefecture, and the entire area was incorporated into the jurisdiction of Liaoning Province.
Xuantu Province was also established, including the entire Jilin Province in later generations, and North Korea's Hamjing Road was also incorporated into it. The provincial government was set in Huifa City (east of Huinan), Dongning Prefecture was established as the provincial capital, and the large area of Tonghua was
Jianzhou Prefecture and Hamjing Road were changed to Hamjing Prefecture, the area between Tongyu and Fuyu was designated as Taining Prefecture, and the area between Jilin and Changchun was designated as Lujiang Prefecture.
The provincial government of Xuantu Province is located in Huifa City (Huinan) purely for geographical reasons.
This city is located by the Huipa River (Huifa River). Going east along the river, you can connect to the Songhua River. Going west along the river, you can go directly to Shenyang via the Hun River. If you go south along the tributary, you can go through Pozhu.
Jiang arrived at the Yalu River, which facilitated the control of Hamgyong Prefecture.
The entire Xuantu Province has a population of just over 200,000, and its ethnic composition is complex. Among them, there are only more than 50,000 Han people (including garrison troops and their families), about 40,000 Jurchen people, about 20,000 Mongolian people, and the remaining 9
Wan Duo is all Korean.
Among the more than 50,000 Han people, some are Chinese Jurchens and Chinese Mongolians.
The reason why we rush to establish a province is to speed up the immigration of Han people, and future prisoners will be thrown over first. Through school education, non-governmental exchanges, and expanding the Chinese-speaking area bit by bit, in two or three generations, the population of the province should reach 50
Ten thousand.
In the past few decades, Xuantu Province has been losing money and has been relying on central government funding for development. It would be good if it could achieve a balanced fiscal balance within the province.
On the other hand, the Ping'an Prefecture (province) allocated to Liaoning Province is very good from Pyongyang to Baozhou. It is a relatively flat farming area near the river and the sea, and it is also the highlight of northern Korea.
Nanjing, Forbidden City.
Zhao Han asked Dang Chongjun, who had just returned to Beijing: "After the cession of territory, what was the public opinion in North Korea like?"
Dang Chongjun replied: "It depends on the place and the person. North Korean officials don't say anything in public, but privately they have a lot of resentment towards our Chinese dynasty. Some Korean literati are admirers of our Chinese dynasty, and some are in awe of it.
There are those who are resentful, but most of them point their fingers at the Westerners. Those merchants in Kaesong are dissatisfied that Kaesong failed to annex the Celestial Empire, and they are very likely to be liquidated afterwards. They mainly show fear."
"Where are the people?" Zhao Han asked.
Dang Chongjun said: "Our army once occupied Hanyang, Kaesong and Chuncheon, treated the people well, and did not commit any crimes. The people in these three cities were reluctant to leave the heavenly soldiers, and wished they could stay there forever. As for the ordinary civilians in the local areas, they had nothing
My only thoughts are to live a stable life."
Zhao Han nodded and said: "I understand."
Dang Chongjun also said: "The detailed work of the National Security Agency has been spread everywhere, saying that the Chinese troops were sent because North Korea banned the dissemination of "Datong Collection". Many North Korean scholars and even North Korean officials believed it, and began to secretly purchase "Datong Collection"
"The Collection of Datong". They want to know what kind of book will attract the heavenly troops to attack the country. The more North Korea bans "The Collection of Datong", the more curious North Korean scholars will be, and the more they want to get their hands on it."
Zhao Han said: "Your hard work has paid off, and you will go to Brunei again. When you return to Beijing, you will be promoted to the Right Shaoqing of Honglu Temple."
"Brunei?" Dang Chongjun was confused.
"There's a civil war going on there." Zhao Han said speechlessly.
Brunei is a big place. Historically, this civil war lasted for twelve years. In the end, the civil strife was completely ended by ceding land to Sulu and bringing in reinforcements from Sulu.
The situation is probably as follows. Zhao Han had a concubine who was a princess of Brunei. Last year, his father-in-law, the king, died of illness, and his brother-in-law succeeded him as sultan. Less than half a year later, his brother-in-law, the king, died again. It was said that he died of illness, but no one knew the specific cause of death.
Understand. Immediately, the second brother-in-law succeeded to the throne of Sultan.
The second brother-in-law, the king, is called Ali, and the prime minister is called Mu Bin.
Ali's son-in-law killed Mu Bin's son. Mu Bin was furious and asked Ali to punish the murderer severely, but Ali protected his son-in-law.
As prime minister, Mu Bin launched a coup and killed King Ali, Zhao Han's second-in-law.
Mu Bin proclaimed himself the Sultan. In order to calm the anger of the royal family, he appointed Bang Su, a member of the royal family, as the prime minister. Bang Su raised an army to avenge Ali. Mu Bin was frightened and fled to Mirror Island, and Bang Su proclaimed himself the Sultan. Today, the two Brunei Sultans
, while busy with the civil war, he condemned the envoys and asked the Chinese emperor for canonization.
The Sulu Kingdom tried to gain some benefits by sending chestnuts out of the fire, so they sent an envoy to Mirror Island, but the envoy was killed by Mu Bin. The King of Sulu was furious and said that as long as Brunei ceded the Sabah region, he would send troops to help destroy Mu Bin.
In addition, the second brother-in-law of the king, who was killed by the coup, and his second son Aleutin fled to China and asked the Chinese government to help him regain his position as sultan.
Zhao Han said: "First take Brunei Prince Aleudin to Luzon, order the two pseudo-sultans to cease the war, and return the Brunei throne to Aleudin."
Dang Chongjun said it was very difficult: "Your Majesty, these two people are fighting a civil war to be kings. How can they easily return the throne? The governor of Luzon has to send troops."
Zhao Han smiled and said: "Prince Aleudin of Brunei promised to dedicate Sabah to China as long as he can regain the throne."
"Your Majesty, take the order!" Dang Chongjun immediately knew what to do.
Brunei was really not that small at this time. Sarawak and Sabah were both under its rule, and its land area accounted for about one-third of the island of Kalimantan.
The Sabah area is located at the northernmost tip of Kalimantan Island. Sulu has always been eyeing this area. If Brunei dedicates Sabah to the Celestial Empire, it will not necessarily lose money. Once the Datong Army is stationed, Sulu will never be able to invade Brunei again.
Laos will have no foreign troubles on the island, and can even dominate the entire Kalimantan Island.
In another time and space, when Malaysia was first founded, Chinese accounted for 23% of the entire population of Sabah. Even in the 21st century, Sandakan, the second largest city in Sabah, has a population of approximately 400,000, of which 320,000 are Chinese.
There are certainly not so many Chinese now, as they were brought here by the wave of immigrants from the late Qing Dynasty.
But it's not a small number, because Chinese merchants have been coming here to trade for three generations, including the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. There are one or two thousand Chinese in Sabah alone, and they all can speak Hokkien and have not forgotten their mother tongue.
Dang Chongjun rushed to Luzon without rest for a few days.
First, he went to angrily denounce the two pseudo-sultans. Both of them denied in every possible way, and even gave them gifts, asking Dang Chongjun to speak kindly and let Zhao Han confer them kingships.
Dang Chongjun was noncommittal, turned around and returned to Luzon, asking Governor Zhang Huangyan to send troops.
Five warships and two thousand Datong troops first killed Mubin on Mirror Island, and then went straight to the capital of Brunei. The pseudo-sultan Bang Su Xian surrendered, and under the mediation of Dang Chongjun, Prince Aleudin regained the throne, and
Bangsu served as prime minister.
The Sabah area, which has only over a thousand Chinese, was established as Sabah County and came under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Luzon.
When one is strong, expanding territory is as simple as it depends on how to manage and rule in the future.
At least, there will be no problems in Sabah County. The mountains are full of headhunters, and the Han people live in the coastal areas. As long as they do not disturb the indigenous people, the Han people can cultivate on the coast as they like. In the late Qing Dynasty, not only people from Fujian went south, but also people from North China came.
Sabah. Hundreds of years later, there were several villages there where all spoke northern dialect, which looked very strange among a bunch of Hokkien and Malays.
Dang Chongjun completed his task and once again expanded his overseas territory, and the outgoing Governor of Palembang, Kuang Hong, couldn't bear it anymore.
Under his hard and soft governance, several big families in Palembang converted to Mazu.
It can’t be called conversion. The Chinese here believe in both Christianity and Mazu, and they even believe in the Second Master Guan. Now they just give up their religion and believe in Mazu wholeheartedly, and by the way, the Second Master Guan also believes in it.
Several major families have set an example, and more and more common people are willing to convert.
Kuang Hong encouraged reclamation again, so the Han people went crazy. There were tens of thousands of Han people here, many of them were small landowners and tenants. They frantically reclaimed and encroached on the land of Wandan Kingdom, expanding the land along the two river valleys, and also eyeing the fertile soil along the coast.
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After his application to lift the ban on firearms was approved, Kuang Hong immediately distributed matchlocks to peasants and soldiers, and another 500 flintlock muskets were also given to the four major families.
I spent more than half a year preparing and training the army during the off-farm time. As soon as the rainy season passed, I started thinking about making trouble.
If he doesn't cause trouble, Kuang Hong will return to Beijing to report on his work. He must seize the time to make great achievements again!
The Banten Kingdom has only three cities in its territory on Sumatra. One is called Umbran Padumanan, which is referred to as Umblan by the Han people; the second is called Bengkulu; and the third is called Banda Lampung, which is referred to as Lampung by the Han people.
Shi Cunzhang, the leader of a prominent local family, led 3,000 peasant soldiers to attack Bengkulu.
Chen Sanwei, the leader of a local prominent family, led 3,000 peasant soldiers to march directly to Ubulan.
The 500 Datong troops in Palembang were sailing around Lampung on warships. Not only did they want to capture Lampung City, they also used naval ships to cut off the Sultanate's reinforcements, because the Sudanese main army was on Java Island.
There is no decent army here, just tribes burning wasteland.
Neither the governor of Palembang nor the local Han people talked about benevolence, justice and morality. They burned and killed the indigenous people along the way, especially in the river valleys and plains. They attacked and killed the indigenous people when they saw them, because these lands were easy to cultivate.
The Banten army in Sumatra had no time to assemble, and the two cities of Ubulan and Bengkulu were captured by peasant soldiers. Even the walls of these two cities were made of wood. How could the Banten soldiers with cold weapons stop them?
Can you withstand peasant soldiers armed with muskets?
As for Lampung City, it could not stop the regular Datong army. It fell in half a day, and all the Banten Kingdom's power in Sumatra was eradicated.
The Governor of Palembang, Kuang Hong, is truly iron-blooded.
This guy took it upon himself to make waves in Southeast Asia and led the Eight-Nation Allied Forces to capture Malacca. Now he has opened up territory in Palembang. I am afraid tens of thousands of natives have died because of him over the years.
Wu Liangfu, who killed Dayu'er and Shunzhi, was standing outside Lampung City, looking at the sea and sighing: "Opening up territory and becoming famous all over the world, this is what a man should do!"
Kuang Hong said with a smile: "You have outstanding abilities. When you return to Beijing this time, I recommend you to be the deputy governor of Palembang. Even if you fail, you will definitely be promoted back home."