Chapter 281 The Return of the Japanese Emperor (2) A Difficult Decision
How to gain widespread legal recognition in the Ming Dynasty by conquering Japan, a "country without conquest", has actually troubled Gao Jingshi for many years.
Almost as soon as Gao Pragmatic planned to revive the Ming Dynasty and consolidate the traditional political, economic and military structure of East Asia, he has been struggling with this matter. He has also designed several different plans for this, but until now, he has not
Still jumping around among several plans, it has been difficult to make a final decision.
If any rational person repeatedly jumps sideways, it must be because it is difficult to fully grasp the balance of pros and cons, just as Gao Pinggong has trouble with this issue.
Either he cannot achieve domestic consensus and forcibly sends troops, only to be criticized for being militaristic and overachieving; or he exposes his strength and gives others leverage, and faces endless impeachment and backstabbing in the future.
The former is not just as simple as being infamous, because as a civil servant, especially a civil servant who has been awarded the Spyker, the meaning of his reputation is really too great. It can be said that once the reputation is bad, the most direct manifestation is that he will ask for it again in the future.
It will become increasingly difficult to promote other reforms.
The latter is by no means as long as the emperor trusts him, everything will be fine, because after all, the emperor is also a human being, and he will change due to changes in various situations. Youdao can make a tiger out of a crowd, but who dares to say that he is pragmatic and will be successful in the future?
Will he not face the dilemma of Gao Gong back then and have to resolutely resign in the "Manchu Dynasty's reverse Gong"?
Taking a step back, even if Zhu Yijun always firmly believes in Gao Jingshi's loyalty and firmly believes that Gao Jingshi will never betray him, if Jinghua's full strength is exposed, then for an emperor, it may not be a question of trust or distrust.
But you are actually too big to lose your tail.
Now you and I, the monarch and my ministers, are classmates since we were young, and we do have enough mutual trust, but... there will always be a day when the dragon controls the sky, and there will be a time when you ride the crane to the west. In the age of our children and grandchildren, will there be a relationship between them?
How can there be such a harmonious situation between monarch and ministers?
If not, can our Tian family still ensure the loyalty of your Gao family? Can we ensure that your Gao family will not subvert the Tian family?
This is something that any mature-minded emperor will inevitably consider, and it is also something that must be considered. It has nothing to do with whether the emperor's name is Zhu Yijun or not.
Therefore, the Ming court must pull its skin off the tiger's skin, and the problem of "Japanese conquest" must not be solved by the Maritime Trade Alliance or even Jinghua alone. Otherwise, the highly pragmatic road to becoming a minister may face an abyss ahead.
It is true that with Gao Jingjing's current strength, he can indeed say that it is no big deal if he doesn't become this minister - I just go to Ding Nancheng, so what if I become the emperor of Southern Xinjiang? With my six major security forces and two ocean fleets
With such strength, even if all domestic industries are lost, you, the Ming Dynasty, cannot even think of threatening me with force.
Even if we are more decisive, I, Mr. Gao, have nearly a million employees and more than 200,000 armed servants (Jinghua Trading Company cavalry and various factory and mine protection teams) in the Ming Dynasty. If it develops to the point where it is necessary to use military force
See, it’s hard to say who will win in the end.
Unless the Ming court produces another strategic master and has the absolute trust of the emperor, once Gao Pragmatic attacks from both inside and outside, the court may be in even greater danger.
But here’s the problem. Gao Pragmatic’s wish is not to overthrow Zhu Ming at all. He just hopes that a country that represents the Juche nation can withstand the rise of nationalism. In this process, it should avoid civil strife among the Juche nation and cut off its own nation.
's blood bar.
Europe has already renaissance, and the Enlightenment and Industrialization will soon follow. The age of great war is not far away. What Chinese civilization should do at this time is to lay a solid foundation, reform and transform, and welcome the new era with the most solid, stable and vigorous appearance.
The era has come, instead of stabbing yourself first and facing the vicious pirate civilization with your remaining blood.
We are not Russians, so why do we have to fight with residual blood? People fight with residual blood. Part of the reason is because the Russian Orthodox Church has a very traditional and very solid "victim" mentality, so the more dangerous it is, the more fighting spirit it has.
When they reach the "full health" state, they often attack in all directions because they can't find spiritual support and ideological guidance, and then they are attacked from all directions, and are eventually beaten to a pulp.
This is not the case with Chinese civilization. From the rise of the Hua-Yi debate in the Zhou Dynasty to the unification of the six kingdoms by the First Emperor, Chinese civilization has not only gradually developed the concept of "the powerful will help the world, and the poor will benefit themselves" in terms of personal thinking, but also began to have ideas at the national level.
Once the basic base was determined, it was probably what was later called the “Eighteen Han Provinces”.
From then on, although China will be divided for a long time, it will also be divided for a long time. Any unified dynasty will definitely rush to take over at least eighteen provinces in the Han Dynasty. If there is spare power in the future, it will be "those who openly attack the powerful Han will be defeated no matter how far away they are."
"Execute" and "Nine heavens open the palace, and all nations worship the crown", which can be regarded as a national version of "if you are poor, you can only take care of yourself, and if you are successful, you can help the world."
The core essence of the concept of "basic market" is that internal unity must be achieved. Only by ensuring internal unity and a strong core can everything be achieved. Gao Pragmatic obviously also holds this position, so he attaches great importance to internal "non-contention", and
Attach importance to uniting all forces to deal with the outside world.
He will find ways to engage in foreign wars and expand his sphere of influence, and he is even worried that his domestic political opponents will accuse him of being militaristic. However, he insists on avoiding civil war, fearing that the national power will be lost in internal strife.
It has to be said that the high pragmatism in the previous life was largely influenced by Huntington's book "The Clash of Civilizations and the Reconstruction of World Order" - of course, he was influenced on the basis of Chinese civilization.
In his view, all areas influenced by Confucianism will be China's basic base when the "clash of civilizations" breaks out in the future. In order to remain invincible in this coming conflict, he has the responsibility to ensure that this area is firmly established
It is in the hands of the ontology of Chinese civilization - that is, the Central Plains dynasty with the Han nation as the main body.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Therefore, China cannot have civil strife, and China’s power will continue to extend strongly.
To achieve this, we must first break away from the shackles of Zhu Yuanzhang's "country without conquest" and change the negative foreign policy that Ming Dynasty has adhered to for more than two hundred years.
Everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as you get the beginning of conquering Japan, everything will follow naturally and there won't be any big obstacles.
onlypermanentinterests. (A country has neither permanent enemies nor permanent friends, only permanent interests.)
This sentence is completely applicable in the West, but in the East, it is a little troublesome in China, because this "state of etiquette" has been too concerned about face since ancient times, and often must be "reputable" before making decisions.
Moreover, although China does not worship a single god, it does have a strong ancestor worship, so it must be considered that the ancestral system cannot be violated easily, which will inevitably lead to a dilemma of dancing in shackles.
Faced with such a situation, Gao Pragmatic believes that "morality" must be adhered to, but interests must also be utilized, so that they can complement each other and achieve their own goals.
He came to the beach again and looked into the distance, looking in the direction of the Japanese archipelago.
The island country on the other side of the coast, which is to East Asia what the British Isles are to the European continent, is really too easy to imitate the British "offshore balancer" strategy. In order to avoid disrupting Europe like the British did for hundreds of years,
Trouble, Japan must be completely conquered and assimilated.
Gao Pragmatic was walking on the beach when suddenly an idea flashed through his mind.
Although it is difficult to directly send troops to Japan because of Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral system, using Beijing or the Sea Trade Alliance to attack spontaneously, and then using Japanese puppets to "invite allies" will inevitably expose their strength. However, if there is civil strife in Japan, there is a force that wants to overthrow Feng.
Why do you want to seek help from the Ming Dynasty in order to defeat the imperial government?
Gao pragmatically feels that this idea should be feasible.
If this is the case, if you persuade the court to send troops, you can say that this move is not for conquest, but to comply with the destiny and punish the people.
This stood on the commanding heights of morality, which was very consistent with the traditional thinking of China, a country of etiquette. It was completely for a just war, and naturally it did not offend Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral system.
However, who should be chosen as Japan’s first hero who “resisted Toyotomi’s tyranny”? This is also a bit difficult.
Originally, Gao Pragmatic had always regarded Tokugawa Ieyasu as the final boss to conquer Japan, because Tokugawa Ieyasu, the "old turtle", was extremely rational and had a long life. Once the Korean War launched by Toyotomi Hideyoshi failed, he would inevitably die after his death.
It will be Tokugawa Ieyasu who wins.
Therefore, the plan that Gao Pragmatic has been promoting before is to strengthen the strength of the "Western Army", to strive for the Eastern and Western armies to use up Japan's capital, and to create conditions for the Great Tomorrow Soldiers led by Gao to take over Japan.
According to his plan, if the Ming Dynasty did not intend to directly rule Japan due to the restrictions of "a country without conquest", Gao Pragmatic was prepared to side with Toyotomi Hideyori and once again resort to the Southern Xinjiang model to indirectly control Japan.
But now it seems that the difficulty is that Ming Dynasty may not be willing to send troops to Japan at all, so it can only change its previous plan and overthrow Toyotomi's tyranny to "send troops upon invitation."
In this case, there was no way to side with Toyotomi Hideyori, and he could only be forced to side with the "Eastern Army".
Gao Jingshi suddenly remembered an idea that Tokugawa Ieyasu had previously proposed, that is, Tokugawa Ieyasu's idea of adopting Gao Jingji and Kaiji's son as his adopted son and making him his heir.
Tokugawa Ieyasu here shows the typical Japanese samurai thinking, that is, family name is more important than blood. However, Gao Pragmatic had no interest in this before. He was very resistant to having his son named Tokugawa, so even three years ago
He and Kaibi had a son, but they never replied to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
However, now it seems that he feels that this matter really needs to be considered. However, he is still unhappy with his son's surname Tokugawa, so he secretly thought: Otherwise, when the matter is completed, he can find a way to let Tokugawa Ieyasu
After an accidental death, once the situation is consolidated, do you want your son to change his surname back?
Gao pragmatically walked slowly by the seaside, touching his chin with his right hand and thinking over and over again. He felt that it was very feasible to do this, and he didn't have to worry about too much backlash - there were many such things in the history of the Japanese samurai family.
, so there is no need to worry too much about the Japanese people being very resentful and shocked by this.
The only trouble is that his and Kaihime's son Gao Yan is still too young, only three years old this year. If he pretends to be adopted by Tokugawa Ieyasu now, he will wait until he sends troops to Japan and defeats Toyotomi, and then arranges for Ieyasu's death to stabilize the situation in Japan.
, if everything goes well, Gao Yan will still be no more than a child with a yellow mouth.
At such an age, how could Gao Yan think of changing his surname back? This is unreasonable. The Japanese will definitely regard it as being manipulated by his biological father, Gao Pragmatic. It is difficult to judge what the consequences will be.
Maybe there is trouble, maybe there is no trouble, maybe there is big trouble, maybe it is just a little trouble.
But after thinking about it, Gao Pragmatic felt that he was too anxious. If Gao Yan had waited a few more years - for example, before changing back to his birth name when he was almost an adult, such trouble could have been avoided.
Firstly, the high performance at that time can make people believe that this was his own initiative. Secondly, the longer time passes, the stronger the actual rule of Japan will be. Even if some people object in their hearts, they may not dare to show it.
In any case, Gao Pragmatic found that as long as he was willing to sacrifice a little face, this matter would be promising.
Fuck, I will risk my life so that Chinese civilization can face the challenge of Western civilization in a "complete form"!
The pragmatic Gao, who was no longer hesitant, acted immediately and immediately returned to the main account and began to write the letter himself.
This letter was written to Kaihime, who came back to conceive and give birth to the child, and then returned to Misaki Castle to continue to take charge. After Gao Pingxi expressed some concern in the letter, he clearly informed Kaihime that he had decided to accept Tokugawa Ieyasu's offer.
It is suggested that Tokugawa Ieyasu find a suitable time to adopt Gao Yan as his adopted son.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic put forward three clear requirements:
First, although Gao Yan was adopted by Tokugawa Ieyasu, he was pragmatic and as the world's leading literary figure, he insisted on obtaining Gao Yan's educational rights.
Although Gao Yan will definitely stay at Tokugawa's house, his teacher will be personally selected by Gao Jingshi and sent to Tokugawa. Tokugawa Ieyasu is not allowed to restrict or interfere with Gao Yan's education.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic is not an exaggerated person. He emphasizes that Gao Yan will also learn Japanese culture, but stipulates that his Japanese cultural education must be taught by teachers personally selected by his biological mother, Kaiji, and his teaching must not be disturbed.
Secondly, if Tokugawa Ieyasu agrees, Gao Pragmatic will ensure that the Great Tomorrow Soldiers will soon go to Japan to help the Tokugawa family overthrow the Toyotomi regime. He also said that he will definitely praise the Tokugawa family as "the generals who conquer barbarians" and establish the shogunate.
The perfect candidate for the post of shogun was Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Third, the Tokugawa Army and the various daimyo they can influence must completely obey the Ming Army's dispatch after the Ming Army sends troops to Japan. Here Gao Pragmatic is a little more accommodating, saying that at least the Tokugawa Army itself must completely obey orders.
After the letter was written, Gao pragmatically sent someone and sent it out by ship. The next step was to wait for Tokugawa Ieyasu to bargain...or refuse.
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