Gao Pragmatic didn't know what Liu Xin was thinking, or even if he knew, he wouldn't care. In his opinion, Chinese people are sometimes very moral and sometimes not. Whether they do or not depends on the positions and relationships between the two parties.
You and I have been friends for many years, so I naturally have to talk about this moral principle, and I will not hesitate to go to any lengths. You and I are strangers, so I can talk about this moral principle as much as I can, depending on my personal moral level; you
You have a deep hatred and sworn hatred against me, and we have even turned weapons against you. So why should I talk to you about morality? Of course not.
At this time, the Chinese only talk about "repaying evil with kindness, how to repay kindness", only talking about "Qi Xianggong restored the revenge of nine generations, the spring and Autumn period will be great", only talking about "it is important to respond to opportunities, and soldiers are not tired of deceit"...
Of course, when he was taller than someone in his previous life, he could say "China and Japan are neighbors separated by a strip of water", as if he was a friendly person. But he was also a scholar after all.
"There is a passage in it that says:
"Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty called his servant She Gao Ying and said: 'I am the parents of the people, how can I not save them with just a piece of water?'"
Then he sent troops to cross the Yangtze River and captured Empress Chen.
Look, he is the founder of the country after all, and his reasons for sending troops are so lofty: We are living in poverty, and I can't see your people living in such misery without saving them. Although sending troops is very expensive.
, but I am still very proactive to help liberate them!
Therefore, it is a good word to be swayed by water, and it must be understood deeply.
Gao Pragmatic's understanding was very deep, so when he saw that what he just said had calmed the scene, he immediately put on a compassionate look of compassion for heaven and humans, and sighed: "Moreover, I heard that the Japanese
Deku, let alone ordinary people, even many famous people - that is, local princes - their lives are extremely miserable."
Huang Zhiting obviously didn't turn around for a while, and said with some confusion: "How can the princes suffer? It's like my family was just a toast at the beginning. Although I didn't have much money, my food and clothing expenses since I was a child have never been poor."
Gao Pragmatic admitted this. It was not like he had never seen Huang Zhiting's pomp on his own territory.
That time when she and her entourage returned to Siming Mansion and entered Haiyuan City, all the local people along the way knelt obediently by the road. They kowtowed their heads on the ground and did not dare to move until she was still far away.
She and her bodyguard wolf soldiers were almost invisible from the back of their heads. The natives still did not dare to move. They waited for a while before they dared to raise their heads and get up.
That kind of power is indeed more exaggerated than that of the emperor, so although her family does not have a lot of money, the living conditions of her family are certainly not much different in such a large Siming Mansion.
However, the situation of her family is completely different from that of Japan. Gao Pragmatic explained: "The situation of your family at that time was completely different from that of Japan. Let me put it this way, your family is located in Guangxi. Although the living conditions of the local people in your family are average, the living conditions in Guangxi are very different.
Although it is difficult to be rich in a place, it is not easy to starve to death - look at the time we traveled together, we didn't starve to death just eating wild fruits in the mountains, right? But it's different in Japan."
Gao Pragmatic paused for a moment, then faced Huang Zhiting's doubtful eyes and continued: "No matter China or Japan, how many powerful powers have been overthrown because they cannot fill their hungry mouths. Power must first be established on the mouth, and then it can be established on the mouth.
Regarding the head, only by controlling the mouth can one better control the head.
Japan, which was originally not very rich in products, has now reached a new low in food production. In addition, the Buddhism they believe in is different from that of the Ming Dynasty and southern Xinjiang. As a result, almost all of their people abstain from meat and can only eat fish. So
There are even fewer food sources.
Zhiting, let me ask you: a small bowl of rice, a small fish two fingers wide, a small plate of pickled radish, a cup of boiled wild vegetables, and a small bowl of miso soup - what do you think of this recipe?"
Huang Zhiting frowned and said: "It's like a light recipe prepared for people who have just recovered from a serious illness because they can't overeat." After a pause, he added: "Maybe it's the way poor people eat it, right? But I remember it.
The people in the capital, even in Nancheng, are not so poor."
Of course, Gao Pragmatic knew this in his previous life, let alone today? When he saw the "Popular Romance of the History of Woodcutter" written by Qing Dynasty people, it specifically boasted about the prosperity of the people during the Wanli period:
"When it was passed down to Wanli, don't talk about other benefits, just talk about firewood, rice, oil, salt, chicken, goose, fish and all kinds of food. Which one is not cheap? If a family of several people can eat a lot of fish and meat every day, it only costs two or three money. This is
It was extremely rich. There were also those small families who carried a heavy load and earned twenty or thirty cents a day, so they could live a day. They had to eat some wine late at night, get drunk, tell jokes, and sing Wu.
Singing, listening and speaking, enjoying the coolness in summer and enjoying the heat in winter, and all kinds of fun.
At that time, our small households were very unhappy, including the northern and southern capitals and the thirteen provinces. The emperor did not often sit in court, and officials, big and small, went to court to provoke him, but they were not angry. People said that Emperor Shenzong was really a Yao and Shun... My elders say to this day
At that time, I will feel longing for you."
Here we specifically talk about the food and clothing situation of the people during the Wanli Dynasty. To put it simply, materials were abundant and prices were low. Even if they did not earn much, their lives were still enjoyable, leisurely and comfortable because of the small expenses.
This was not only said by the Han people under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Even Fulin, the "ancestor of the Qing Dynasty", said: "At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the people were under the rule of law and recuperated. During the Wanli period, the country was rich and wealthy, and the family had enough people."
This is not only said in China, but also by foreigners who have been to the Wanli Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. When describing the society and people's livelihood in the Ming Dynasty in the "History of the Great Empire of China" by the Spanish Mendoza, he wrote truthfully: "In this big country, people
Food is plentiful, they are well-dressed, and their homes are gorgeously furnished. In particular, they work hard and are big merchants and traders. All these people, together with the fertility of the above-mentioned land, make it rightly called the richest country in the world.
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This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Perhaps it is because of the reason of "the richest in the world" that Huang Zhiting came to such a conclusion as soon as she heard this recipe.
However, Gao Pragmatic chuckled and said: "As a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, you may indeed think that this recipe is too shabby, but let me tell you, this is the recipe for breakfast and lunch of many Japanese princes - and
They don't have dinner."
Huang Zhiting was almost stunned and asked in astonishment: "You are eating like this, why don't you have dinner?" Then seeing Gao pragmatically nodding his head expressionlessly, she thought for a while and asked: "What do ordinary people eat?"
Gao pragmatic shrugged and replied: "We only eat breakfast and dinner. The recipe is usually a small bowl of millet and two pieces of boiled radish."
Huang Zhiting looked in disbelief and wondered: "Compared to ordinary people, the noble princes only have one more fish in their meal?"
Gao pragmatically corrected him seriously: "The rice is different. The princes eat rice, and ordinary people can only eat millet."
Huang Zhiting couldn't help but rolled her eyes: "Is this a big difference?"
"These two recipes are indeed equally shabby in our eyes, but the Japanese at this time did survive by eating such things every day. And those farmers who ate millet all dreamed of daimyo and samurai.
Eat rice like that."
Gao Pragmatic’s words are really not a lie. In Japan during the Warring States Period, all life revolved around war. Eating was to live, living was to fight, and fighting was to eat better.
Japan was originally a rice-producing country, and rice is grown on almost all farmland across the country. However, it is ridiculous and pitiful that rice is a luxury product for ordinary people who grow rice.
There is a plot in Akira Kurosawa's movie "Seven Samurai": bandits on the mountain covet the little rice in the village below, so they go down the mountain to grab the rice during the autumn harvest. In order to protect their rice, the farmers use all their money to protect their rice.
With only a little rice in the village, they went to the towns to recruit poor warriors to defend the village, and the only recruitment condition they could offer was that they had enough rice for a meal.
Although Gao Pragmatic has never understood why those hopeless bandits didn't move to a richer place to rob, but just stared at this poor village that was so poor that they had nothing but some rice. But this also proves from the side that in this era
In Japan, rice is really a rarity.
Later, the farmers in the village really relied on the "favorable conditions" of "eating rice for every meal" to recruit seven warriors with varying levels of skill. Although these seven warriors said they did not care about remuneration in order to ensure the safety of the party,
But being able to eat rice actually has a certain appeal to them.
After all, in this era, men are always hungry, and it is a rare good thing to be full. Later, the samurai found that the villagers gave them all the rice, but they ate only millet and
He wanted to eat wild vegetables, so he gave all the rice in his portion to the old, young, women and children in the village.
The movie may want to praise the spirit of the samurai, but Gao Pragmatic learned from this the difference in Japan's production capacity at that time. Because rice production was very low, this white rice became the main strategy specially designated by the lords and lords of various places.
Materials.
Peasants work hard in the fields for a year, and growing rice is basically completing a task. All the rice they harvest is often sent to the lord's castle as annual tribute, and they can only eat millet, gnaw radishes, and wild vegetables.
Some farmers have never tasted the taste of their own rice.
Later, Japan invaded China and occupied the three northeastern provinces. Ordinary Northeastern people were not allowed to eat rice. The regulations stated that if they ate it, they would be economic criminals. Considering that most of the Kwantung Army members were from Japanese farmers at that time, it is estimated that the lords took away the rice and did not allow their ancestors to eat rice.
The memory of eating is still in their bones. Now that they have finally managed to get the status of being able to eat rice, they have become a villain and especially hate farmers who eat rice.
Just as the introduction of corn and potatoes increased China's population in the early Qing Dynasty, the thing that allowed the Japanese to barely have enough to eat was radishes. When radishes were first introduced to Japan, they could only grow as thick as a finger. Later, they were cultivated through the hard work of Japanese farmers.
, Japanese radish finally became as thick as an arm.
Radish itself is a good thing, rich in nutrients and easy to grow, so it soon became the main food of Japanese farmers. Even the nobles were very fond of radish, and it was on the tables of the nobles, and it was almost impossible to have a feast without radish.
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Even if the rich eat rice and the poor only eat millet and radishes, the food is still not enough for mountainous Japan. So a long time ago, the Japanese only had breakfast and lunch a day.
The habit of two meals.
You have to work from morning to afternoon, so you must eat to maintain your strength. Night is your rest time, and people don't have much entertainment at that time. As long as you go to bed early, you won't be hungry, so you can save food for the next meal.
What's even more amazing is that this habit is not only observed by farmers, but also by everyone from the emperor to the samurai. It has become an unwritten rule, and the whole country is enforcing the habit of not eating dinner. However, the nobles live at night.
It's relatively rich, so if they are really hungry, they can still find some snacks to eat.
Gao Pragmatic continued to explain to Huang Zhiting: "The more particular Japanese daimyo princes insist on sharing meals when eating. Each person has a small table in front of him with three dishes, one soup and a bowl of rice. Even if there is a banquet, everyone will eat like this.
Everybody. The biggest difference between the diets of these people and those of the poor is that they can eat a little bit of meat dishes.
However, because Japan cannot eat meat, rich people can only make a fuss about fish and shellfish, which are already the most luxurious foods they can eat.
But one thing I don’t understand is that in Japan, as an island country, neither nobles nor samurai will eat seafood as much as they want. Their main meat dishes usually only include a fish that is small enough for only a few bites, or a few
Slices of pickled shellfish. Moreover, fish and shellfish almost never appear at the same time, and only one type of meat dish can appear in a meal."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This is not a pragmatic fiction. In Japan during the Warring States Period, even the wealthy people always maintained a diet of one meat, two vegetables and one bowl of soup.
, even the Tokugawa shogunate who later unified Japan only ate one meat dish in one meal, and the bowl that contained the meat dish was usually quite small.
At this point, Gao Pingshi deceived a little and said to Liu Xin: "There is a person Zhiting may not know, but you, Miss Liu, know it - Tokugawa Ieyasu." Then he turned back to introduce Huang Zhiting: "This person is Japan's No. 1
The territory of the two powerful factions is about three or four times as large as your Haidong territory in Annan."
This comparison is very intuitive. Huang Zhiting nodded when she heard this to express her understanding.
Gao pragmatically said: "This man is very frugal, even stingy. He rarely even eats fish. He only eats some pickled radish and rice every day, and he does this all year round, with very few exceptions.
I heard a piece of information about him, saying that one time he was walking at home and saw some maids complaining, so he went over to see what was going on. The maids said: 'The food now is really outrageous. There is only one pickled side dish.
radish.'
Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was known for his gentleness towards others, walked over and said to them with a smile: 'Well, since you don't like to eat it, then don't eat it.' From then on, the pickled radish served as a side dish to the maids was withdrawn.
Now, she can only eat white rice."
The so-called "intelligence" by Gao Pragmatic is actually the records seen by later generations. Of course, the source is not important. What is important is that Huang Zhiting was surprised and wary at the same time. He hesitated and said: "Is this person... always ambitious?"
There must be ambitions, but in fact this story was advanced by Gao Pragmatic. In fact, when this happened, it was already after Ieyasu unified Japan and established the Tokugawa Shogunate, so he was not so frugal because he "had great ambitions", but
It has always been like this, and it becomes natural as a habit.
So Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said: "Maybe it is, maybe it's just a habit that has been developed over time."
"Oh." Huang Zhiting responded, thought for a moment, and asked: "Then how does your husband plan to 'save' them?"
"Good question." Gao Pingshi smiled: "You should know from my introduction just now that Japanese farmers are still very hardworking and honest... I feel that the population in the Mekong Delta is not enough now, and the local natives are a bit lazy.
, if we can get one million Japanese farmers to come over in the future, it should be the best of both worlds."
Huang Zhiting curled her lips: "One million? Is the emperor or king of Japan a fool? So many people are willing to let you transport it away."
"First of all, the 'Emperor' of Japan does not have any real power. Except that the local princes will ask him to buy an official hat to wear after gaining real power in a certain place, there is no other use for him. Secondly, some of the 'Japanese' that I, the Ming Dynasty, once enthroned
Kings', such as Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, are actually Japanese shoguns, called 'Conquering the Barbarians'.
However, this "general" is not really in charge of "conquering the barbarians". In fact, his power position is equivalent to that of the "general chief regent" of some of our previous dynasties, that is, the chief regent of the country.
However, in the past few years, the Muromachi shogunate in Japan has been destroyed. Now in the actual sense, the "General Baikui" has changed both the person and the name. It is now called "Guan Bai" - it is the "Everything is All Things" in the Han Dynasty Huo Guang Zhuan.
First turn off the white light, and then play the emperor's 'turn off the white light'."
Huang Zhiting said: "It doesn't matter who I am, or what my name is. Anyway, you can't let your husband take away so many people." After a pause, he raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "As for my husband's layout, I
Do you think... should Japan be regarded as southern Xinjiang?"
"That's a bit difficult." Gao Pragmatic shook his head: "Japan's situation is somewhat special. Their so-called emperor is a descendant of God in the eyes of the Japanese, a 'human god', so he cannot be abolished rashly. And in southern Xinjiang,
If I really want to depose any king, I will just depose him. The difference is huge."
"So, where is the 'King of Japan'? No matter whether it is called General Zhengyi or Guan Bai." Huang Zhiting asked.
"I'm afraid this Guan Bai is not easy for me to round and flatten now, but he is not young and has a difficult life. After he dies, Japan will definitely be the master of the country, and something big will happen. I will think about it then.
The method is to control his heir and 'hold Guan Bai to command the name' for a period of time, and then...it depends on the situation."
When Huang Zhiting heard about this plan for the first time, she didn't think much of it. Liu Xin on the side was a little surprised and asked: "Didn't we not make a decision before? Now we have decided who to help?"
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