Chapter 387 The eleventh generation of the Tokugawa shogunate appeared!

The eleventh generation of the Tokugawa shogunate, the young Tokugawa Ieqi's hand is gently tapping the beat on his thigh, in line with the rhythm of the song on the stage, looking intoxicated. On his left and right, there are many ministers, including Ruo Nianji, who is responsible for managing the general's direct management of the general's flag and the royal family, and the player in charge of all the etiquette matters in the hall. Of course, there is no shortage of his confidant people, side people, side use, side royal use and other trusted ministers.

Of course, there are still several loyal little surnames sitting around him, but at this moment, although Jiaqi's hands should be in line with the rhythm of the harmony song, his eyes fell on the little hands of the little surname who were sitting beside him and was drinking sake for him. The little surname named Hasegawa Ranmaru seemed to feel the general's eyes, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

This made the young and energetic Tokugawa family feel that his lower abdomen began to heat up again, thinking of last night with Hasegawa...

"General, Mr. Nobuaki Matsudaira is here. It seems that there is something urgent." At this moment, next to him, another little surname whispered. Huh?" Tokugawa Jiaqi couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"General, the envoy of the Qing Dynasty has come." After dispersing the dancers and idlers, Nobuaki Matsudaira was lying on the floor and reporting respectfully to the Tokugawa family.

"Nani?" Tokugawa Jiaqi's eyeballs almost fell to the ground, blinking for a long time before he was surprised.

Nobuaki Matsudaira quickly repeated it again. The Qing Dynasty, located in the west of my country, sent an envoy. Songping Nobuaki was also a little nervous. After all, not long after he served as a middle-aged man, as a "relic of leniency", because of the honorifical incident, he could not fully win the trust of the general, so he seemed to be very careful in everything, for fear of offending the general.

In the 16th year of Ming Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao, the absurd Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, died of illness due to a fall into the water. After his death, he had no heir. His cousin Zhu Houxuan ascended the throne as Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty (Emperor Jiajing). Shortly after Ming Shizong's accession to the throne, there was a fierce conflict with the minister Yang Tinghe and others on the issue of agreeing on the title of his biological father Xing Xian Wang. Yang Tinghe and others firmly opposed Shizong's desire to honor the king as the "imperial examination", and demanded that Xiaozong, the father of Wuzong, be the "imperial examination" and his biological father as the "imperial examination". The debate lasted for three years. After Shizong's wings were full, he dismissed Yang Tinghe and others and won the victory of the "great ceremonial dispute", showing his monarch's authority and arbitrary status.

As a country influenced by Chinese culture, a similar incident has occurred in Japan. The dispute over the ceremonial of the Ming Dynasty led to the amort of Yang Tinghe's series of policies, and the original "respectful name" led to the political loss of Songping Dingxin, the leader of "relenient political reform".

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The origin and process of the incident are surprisingly similar to the "great ceremonial dispute" of the Ming Dynasty: in the eighth year of Ernst & Young, that is, in 1799, Emperor Taoyuan died at the age of 22, and was succeeded by the son of Prince Norihito of Xiangongyuan as Emperor Guangge. This Guangge Emperor has the same dream as Emperor Jiajing: he hopes to honor his biological father, Prince Norin, as the Emperor Taishang. Therefore, in the eighth year of Tianming, that is, 1788, the imperial court informed the shogunate of this suggestion. Matsudaira Dingxin, the old man who held the power of the shogunate, refused the request of the court in accordance with the provisions of the Forbidden Middle School and Public Laws and the ancient examples. The emperor was furious and immediately summoned the minister and forcibly passed a resolution: respecting Prince Dianren as the emperor and issuing the imperial edict.

For the first time in several generations of the Edo shogunate, the court did not give face to the shogunate like this. The shogunate naturally wanted to show the court a little color. Under the auspices of Matsudaira, the shogunate immediately punished several ministers to show their attitude, but in order to appease the emperor, the shogunate also decided to give Prince Norihito an extra salary as compensation for the loss of honorifice.

The matter did not end because of this. Soon, Tokugawa Jiaqi, the eleventh generation of the shogunate, who is now sitting in the general's mansion, also jumped out. He also put forward a "Jiajing style" request: he hoped to give his biological father Ichihashi Tokugawa family the title of "Great Imperial Palace". The Great Imperial Palace is the title after the abdication of the shogunate.

After thinking about it, Matsudaira thought that there was a precedent for the shogunate to reject the imperial court. In order to show fairness, he also decided to reject the general's will. At this time, he offended the general Tokugawa family.

In the Edo period, you could offend the emperor ten thousand times, but you must not offend the general. Tokugawa Jiaqi remembered the "performance" of Songping Dingxin this time. In the fourth year of Kuanzheng, in 1792, Laxman of Russia borrowed and returned six people, including Dr. Daheiya Guang, a drifter, carrying national books and squares, and landing in the root room of Ezo (Hokkaido) to ask for trade.

The shogunate asked him to go to Matsumae and told him that he had to go through Nagasaki. Laxman received the shogunate's Nagasaki entry permit, but anchored back home.

Matsudaira Dingxin, who presided over the affairs of the shogunate, realized the importance of coastal defense and instructed to strengthen the defense of Edo Bay. He mobilized the spectomi and the flag to Izu, Anfang, the upper and lower four countries, built fortresses and put forward military preparedness plans. These plans involved the change of the territory of the flag and the spectrograph and threatened their economy. As a result, he was fiercely opposed by Qiben and Fudai. Fudai and Qiben, who were dissatisfied with Songping Dingxin, immediately attacked his coastal defense policy. Tokugawa took this opportunity to force Matsudaira to resign.

After Matsudaira Dingxin step down, Matsudaira Nobuaki, Makino Zhongjing and other "the elders of the Kuanzheng" continued to dominate the curtain government and continued the Kuanzheng policy. However, Matsudaira Nobuaki and Makino Tadayoshi do not have the courage and determination of Matsudaira, let alone refuse the Tokugawa family to intervene in government affairs.

Now, the Tokugawa family has appointed a large number of cronies to seize the power of the middle and the elderly. The so-called leniency era has reached the verge of collapse.

Now, for all major events, Songping Dingxin must be reported to the general, and this time, the envoy of the Qing Dynasty suddenly appeared in Japan. This behemoth of the west of Japan made Songping Dingxin have to be cautious. More importantly, the news brought by the Qing envoy really made him in his heart The edge was full of shock.

"You mean that the Shimazu family of the Satsuma clan's invasion of the Qing Dynasty, which belongs to the Ryukyu Kingdom, has been detected by the Qing Dynasty, and their envoys came to ask for their crimes?" Tokugawa Jiaqi soon learned the whole process from the mouth of Songping Dingxin.

"Exactly, General." Nobuaki Matsudaira replied lying on the floor.

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"Satsumo Fan..." The folding fan in Tokugawa Jiaqi's hand gently tapped his thigh and narrowed his eyes. For the Tokugawa shogunate, the weakest control of the shogunate was Kyushu Island and the Changzhou Domain adjacent to Kyushu Island. Those big names that used to stand on the opposite side of Tokugawa Ieyasu in the battle of Guanzhiyuan.

In that year, although Tokugawa Ieyasu experienced the Battle of Sekihara and defeated the Western Army, which was led by Ishida San, the important minister of the Toyotomi family. Tokugawa Ieyasu gained the right to rule and laid the foundation for the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.

However, this battle was a great battle of 150,000 people. From the beginning to the end of the war, only more than 3,000 people died in the war. It can be said that the great strength of those who rebelled against Tokugawa has not been damaged too much.

However, after that, Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately began to divide the princes again. First of all, it was a punishment for the generals of the Western army. The territory of Ukita Hideya, Changzong Ibe Shengqin, Anguoji Huiqiong, Maeda Toshimasa and others was confiscated. On the contrary, the territory of the Shimazu clan was basically unchanged, because Kyushu Island can be regarded as a barbaric island for the name of the Japanese name, and Tokugawa Ieyasu taught the heroes of the Satsuma warriors. Brave and tenacious, dare not force it too much.

However, the Shimazu family's ambition to unify Kyushu of the Satsuma Domain has declined. However, it is not him who is the most unlucky. Think about the territory of the general of the Western Army, Mao Li Huiyuan, from 1.21 million stones to a poor 370,000 stones. Uesugi Jingsheng transferred to Yu Yonezawa, and the territory was reduced from 1.2 million stones to 300,000 stones. There was also Satake Yoshinobu, who confiscated his territory of 540,000 stones in Changlu Mito and transferred 200,000 stones from Ukubota.

All of them were sealed to remote, poor and backward areas. These former strong names of the Western army hated the Tokugawa shogunate, but the shogunate could not casually find excuses to clean up these guys. If the ruling class of the Japanese was described as a tree, if the Tokugawa shogunate was the backbone, then these names It is the branches and leaves that depend on each other to survive.

Therefore, for these hostile names, the shogunate can only be vigilant, but cannot be wiped out at will.

What the Tokugawa shogunate did not expect was that although the land in southern Kyushu was not very fertile, the powerful Shimazu family in Kyushu could use the port to trade and even smuggle with the Qing, Ryukyu and the Philippines. The treasured land of southern Kyushu can be said to have fed the Shimazu people. In the end, Shimadzu and Maori, the two former western The military name launched the downturn movement and finally buried the Tokugawa shogunate.

Of course, that's the end of another time and space. Now, history has begun to change a little bit because of the arrival of Liang Pengfei. This change will become bigger and bigger. The starting point was started by Ling Longyu, the envoy Liang Pengfei, who was sent to the Japanese country a month before sending troops.

At this time, Ling Longyu, who was waiting for the middle-aged and old man to come again, was also very nervous. This task not only proved Liang Pengfei's trust in his ability, but also represented Liang Pengfei's signal to intervene in the Japanese country. Therefore, he not only had to complete it, but also completed it beautifully.

He also had to remember that on the first day of his departure, Liang Pengfei left him secretly for nearly two hours, and Ling Longyu knew that what Liang Pengfei said to him would soon be used.

(to be continued)