Chapter 144: Rage for Akong? (Please subscribe, please vote)

Edo Castle, Imperial Palace.

"Baga! How dare Zhuge Weidao make such a request? Does he want me, the Tokugawa shogunate, to be a lackey of their Zhuge family? Even if I am a dog, I should give more meat to eat. When I am full, I can

Help them to bite the British and foreigners, but how can they not let us develop heavy industry, military industry, and shipbuilding? How can they even control Japan's currency issuance? If there is no heavy industry, no currency issuance power, and only a little textile

, toys, when will Japan, our country, rise above the sea and become a great power that can keep pace with the Ming Dynasty and Great Britain? Do they want me, the Tokugawa family, to be pawns for generations to come?"

The one who is angry is of course Tokugawa Iezai, the general who conquered the barbarians and is unwilling to be a dog, oh, a hungry ghost dog that cannot have enough to eat.

Tokugawa Noriaki, the envoy of the Shogunate Navy, had already returned to Edo on a communication ship of the Shogunate Navy with the "Twenty-One Guidelines for Tomorrow" written by Zhuge Weidao himself. After returning to Edo, he did not even return home.

, he went straight to Edo Castle to request a private summons from the Lord.

As soon as the Tokugawa family saw these "twenty-one items", they became angry.

Because according to these "twenty-one principles", Japan wants to be a dog but cannot develop and grow, so it can only be a skinny dog ​​tied by an iron chain from generation to generation, neither eating enough nor starving to death.

Of course, if these "twenty-one measures" are really implemented, life will still be better for Japan's middle- and lower-level samurai and low-level untouchables.

Samurai have the opportunity to go abroad to fight and perform meritorious service. The Ming Dynasty can block Japan's development prospects, but it will not block the military pay and merit rewards of these cannon fodders. What if they go to the battlefield and become boring?

The light industries that Ming Dynasty allowed Japan to develop were all labor-intensive. Although they could not provide high wages, they could create a large number of jobs. At the same time, after Japan liberalized its agricultural product market, cheap agricultural products from Ming Dynasty, Siam, Annan, and Myanmar poured in.

It will also make it easier for the people at the bottom of Japan to have enough to eat and drink.

And once the Ming Dynasty defeated Britain and became the world's hegemon, Japan would still be able to obtain a higher "caste" because of their appearance and culture - no matter what, the East Asian race and Korea, Annan, and Siam in the Eastern Confucian circle

Luo, Japan, in the future, even if it does not reach the status of the "Ming Dynasty version of the Five Eyes Alliance", it can still reach the status of "old Europe", oh, it should be old Asia. Although Japan is at the bottom of the Eastern Confucian circle, it has

If you don't know the circle, it's also a Chinese eagle dog!

But Tokugawa Ieki was still angry. He was a descendant of the god Ieyasu, and the Tokugawa family was the "guardian of the gods" who had protected Japan for generations. How could he easily act like a dog to the Zhuge family of the Ming Dynasty next door? Besides, the Zhuge family was

I don’t plan to feed the Tokugawa family and Japan yet.

If Tokugawa Ieki had easily agreed to the "Twenty-one Proposals for Tomorrow" which would have cost him power and humiliated the country, he would have been immediately regarded as a traitor to the country by his subordinates. How could he continue to be a general?

Moreover, Japan can still struggle a little now. If it struggles a little, maybe it can get more dog food.

But struggling is risky!

Thinking of this, Tokugawa Ieqi said to Tokugawa Saiaki: "Did Zhuge Weidao already know that the instigator behind the Kii Suido incident was Satsuma Shimazu's heir Qi Liang?"

"Already know," Tokugawa Saiaki replied, "Charlie Yilu, the chief staff officer of Yingyi's squadron, was captured. Through the interrogation of Charlie Yilu, Zhuge Weidao already knew that Shimazu Sailiang had created this incident

incident."

Tokugawa Jiaqi asked with a worried look: "So, did Zhuge Weidao ask Shimazu to commit hara-kiri to apologize?"

Tokugawa Saiaki sighed: "That is natural. In the end, I am afraid that not only one Qi Liang will commit seppuku, but the entire Shimazu clan!"

Tokugawa Ieki also sighed: "I never thought that for the sake of a woman, the famous Shimazu family in Kyushu would become extinct."

After saying this, Tokugawa Kiyoshi stood up and left the royal room, leaving Tokugawa Kiyoshi alone in the huge room to think quietly.

"We should not have pinned our hopes on the Tokugawa shogunate from the beginning! It seems that the only ones who can lead Japan to rise to prominence on the sea and deploy force in all directions are me and other enlightened reformers!"

The person speaking was none other than Saigo Yoshibei Takamori, who became the leader of a pirate group called the Kaito Team after breaking away from Satsuma Domain. He didn’t know when he had arrived in Japan’s most prosperous commercial city, Osaka, and hid in Osaka.

Inside a collapsed two-story house near the port. Looking out from the room he was in now, he could see the battleship Revenge moored feebly on the dock waiting for repairs.

The person listening to him was Shimazu Sairyo, the staff officer of the Shogunate Navy. He did not wear the Japanese-foreign mixed Shogunate Navy military uniform, but a clean black kimono with the Marujishi family name of the Shimadzu family on it.

Vin. Sitting on his knees in a Japanese room, with a samurai sword beside him.

"Saigo-kun is right. Today's Japan is like Mount Fuji that is about to erupt. There is too much dissatisfaction and resentment accumulated inside, including dissatisfaction and resentment against the weak Tokugawa shogunate and the oppression of Japan.

Ming’s resentment!”

"Yes! As long as someone dares to stand up and break this century-long situation in which Japan has been living without hope. As long as the beacon of respect for the king and the Ming Dynasty comes together, then the whole of Japan will be excited. Japan's friends and enemies,

You will see our power!"

"My lord, the Shimazu family must not sit still and wait for death. The shogunate has suppressed and feared the Shimazu family for a long time. This time, they will definitely take advantage of the situation and completely eradicate the Shimazu family!"

"Sir, the Satsuma family is not the only one that has been suppressed by the shogunate. The Choshu Maori family is also deeply suspicious of the shogunate. The loyal people in the family have long been eager to overthrow the shogunate and save the country!"

"Sir, let's do it! Instead of sitting back and waiting for death, it's better to fight to the death!"

"Sir, please lead us and raise the flag of justice!"

It seems that among the wave warriors of this group of sea waves, there are not only those from the Satsuma Domain, but also those from the Choshu Domain and other powerful vassals in the southwest. Most of these powerful vassals in the southwest are from the battle more than 200 years ago.

They evolved from the Daimyos of the Western Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa Empire. Most of them were famous samurai families with a long history, and they all had a period of glory during the turbulent Warring States Period.

Because our ancestors were once rich, the number of retainers was very large. Later, the territory became smaller and the income decreased, but the retainers were unable to be laid off, so they had to tighten their belts and live a hard life together.

Two hundred years of peace have led to a surge in the number of samurai in these powerful vassals. The vassal could not arrange them at all, so a large number of ronin were produced. Various rogue groups in Japan are filled with these people from the southwest.

Like the poor warriors of other vassals.

Shimazu Qi Liang's face was livid, and he just nodded stiffly: "Gentlemen, Japan has indeed reached its most dangerous moment. If our lofty ideals fail to rise again, Japan will fall to North Korea. Annan's status is not ours.

This must not be tolerated! However, we cannot confront the shogunate in Kinai. After all, this is the focus of the shogunate's control over the world. The Tokugawa family has stationed heavy troops here, and we cannot defeat it."

After all, the current Tokugawa shogunate launched the Reform and Founding of the Nation. Although its strength cannot be compared with the Meiji government in history, the authority of the shogunate cannot be challenged by a few rogue groups.

"Sir, what should we do?" Saigo Yoshihei Takasaki asked loudly.

"Let's go to Kyushu!" Shimazu said. "Kyushu is where the reformers gather! Moreover, the shogunate also transported a large number of arms aided by the British and barbarians to Nagasaki for storage, and also deployed the newly established airship fleet there.

We can sneak into Nagasaki, seize the airships and munitions there, and raise our troops to fight against the enemy in Nagasaki!"
Chapter completed!