Seeing Zhu Cijiong's cavalry, Tokugawa Iemitsu's brows gradually knitted together. Although he commanded a war that ended in a draw with the Ming Dynasty, he was in the Nagoya Castle on Kyushu Island from the beginning.

He planned his strategy well and never killed the enemy on the battlefield. So today it was the first time for the bald Tokugawa family to see the Ming army's iron cavalry, which had frightened countless Japanese samurai!

Although the Japanese samurai left many heroic deeds that made them famous in their long-term struggle with the Ming Dynasty, they could not deny the fact that even the most powerful Japanese samurai legion had never defeated the Ming Dynasty's Jiubian.

Iron cavalry.

And once the more powerful Ming Dynasty's tent-front cavalry lands in Japan, regardless of whether they can conquer Japan, the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate will come to an end - Japan now has about 300 vassals whose military strength is not weak, and

There were more than 400,000 paid samurai and countless roguos. However, the military power that the Tokugawa shogunate could mobilize only accounted for a small part of Japan's overall military power.

Therefore, defeating the Tokugawa shogunate does not mean conquering Japan, and Japan without the shogunate can easily become a quagmire for foreign invaders to extricate themselves from. Therefore, conquering Japan is very, very difficult, and the gain outweighs the loss - Japan has nothing good.

, if you want Japan's gold, just conquer Sado Island, you don't need to conquer the whole of Japan.

But Tokugawa Iemitsu also understood that it would be very easy for the Ming Dynasty to destroy the Tokugawa Shogunate!

This is because the Tokugawa shogunate practiced power-ministerial politics by coercing the emperor and commanding the princes. It relied on military power sufficient to protect Japan to govern. If the shogunate lost its military strength, or if the shogunate's army proved unable to protect Japan, then the end of the shogunate would be

has arrived.

In order to maintain the illusion that the shogunate was strong enough to protect Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate had to fight hard with the opponent when the Ming army invaded. If it was just over, it would be over, and if it was over, it would not necessarily be good...

Didn’t the former Hojo just pass the Yuan Dynasty, and then its prestige was ruined because it had no financial resources to reward the merits, and finally it was completely finished?

So Tokugawa Iemitsu has had a very hard time in the past two years, and he feels miserable! He knows that Zhu Cijiong has bad intentions in wanting to marry Empress Xing, but he still has to arrange this marriage. At the same time, he has to make himself drool at the sight of it.

The adopted daughter Tong Ji was given to Zhu Cihong as a concubine, and they also called it a marriage...

While Tokugawa Iemitsu was feeling miserable, the Koko Empress pursed her lips and tried hard not to laugh, because she had already seen the young man galloping at the front of the team with the golden dragon flag on a white background fluttering.

This young man should be His Royal Highness Prince Ning of the Great Ming Dynasty! Emperor Xingzi thought: He is so handsome! Wearing a silver-colored "Southern Barbarian Footgear" and riding a giant war horse (Persian horse), he is simply heavenly.

The god will descend to earth.

What makes the emperor even more satisfied is that all the warriors who follow Zhu Cijiong are wearing shiny Nanman footwear, and everyone is riding a tall war horse (Mongolian horses are also big horses in Japan)...

.This shows that His Highness Prince Ning is really rich!

In Japan, except for the shogun's family, no feudal lord has the financial resources to equip such an armored cavalry, not even Maeda's million stone.

The elder Tadakatsu Sakai's memorial also said that in order to recruit samurai from the north, His Highness Prince Ning gave a reward of 100,000 one-tael silver coins at Tsuruga Port at one time!

Moreover, the three large sailing ships that sent Prince Ning to Tsuruga Port, in addition to boxes of silver coins, also carried many gorgeous silks and valuable jewelry and goldware... These were all belonging to His Highness Prince Ning.

A gift to His Majesty the Emperor!

Being able to send so many gifts at once, doesn't it show his love for the emperor?

When Xingzi saw such a handsome young man and loved him so much, of course he fell in love immediately... Just when Emperor Xingzi couldn't extricate himself from the love, there was a sudden sound from the cavalry team led by Zhu Cijiong.

There was a long suona sound. Then all the armored cavalry, including Zhu Cijiong, were seen reining in their horses at the same time. Hundreds of horses neighed one after another. Some of them did not stop, and the horses' hooves turned and dug up the soil.

Have to fly around.

After a disturbance, thousands and hundreds of horsemen stopped, and then they saw the handsome young man who was suspected to be Ning Wang Zhu Cijiong dismounted from his horse, surrounded by more than a dozen soldiers who also got off the horse, and headed towards Emperor Xingzi.

He came over in a swaggering manner. Sakai Tadakatsu, the eldest shogunate, followed him at a trot and arrived in front of Zhu Cijiong. Then he led him to the emperor and introduced the emperor to him.

Zhu Cijiong stood in front of the emperor's royal banquet, then raised his hands and saluted, saying: "Zhu Cijiong, Prince Ning of the Ming Dynasty, is here to see His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and to wish His Majesty peace."

The etiquette he is using now has been discussed by both parties long ago. Before he married Xingzi, he had to use the courtesy of a foreign envoy. After he married Xingzi, he became the head of the family and the husband of Emperor Xingzi.

, Emperor Xingzi must fulfill his duties as a wife and obey Zhu Cijiong's instructions.

Emperor Xingzi nodded with a smile and said to Zhu Cijiong in Chinese: "Pingshen, it's hard for Prince Ning to come from afar, so you should come to the city with me and settle down as soon as possible. I have already held a banquet for the king in the imperial palace to welcome him and wash away the dust."

Xingzi's Chinese is much better than Zhu Cijiong's Japanese. Zhu Cijiong only started learning Japanese after preparing to marry Emperor Xingzi. He speaks fluently, but there are many grammatical errors and his pronunciation is not very accurate. Xingzi's Chinese studies are very good.

Well, she is an emperor who "gives priority to the study of knowledge"! In this era, it is impossible to learn Japanese knowledge well without knowing Chinese. For example, the god of Japanese knowledge Sugawara Michizane's "History of the Republic of Japan" and "The Legacy of the Suga Family"

》All learned in standard Chinese.

But Xingzi is not stupid, learns things very quickly, and is particularly good at learning languages, so he speaks Chinese very well.

Zhu Cijiong straightened up and looked at the emperor in front of him with a smile... He looked okay, his eyebrows were curved and a little upside down, but his eyes, nose and mouth were still straight, especially the cherry-shaped mouth, which looked quite cute. In addition,

,The emperor's skin is very white, it can cover up all the ugliness!

After seeing the appearance of Queen Xing'er in a Tang suit, Zhu Cijiong smiled and cupped her hands, "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey!"

Then the group of people waited and followed Emperor Koiko into the non-existent Rashomon Gate. They then walked along Suzaku Street towards Suzaku Gate, entered the Suzaku Gate, and not far away was the Kenreimon Gate of the Imperial Palace.

Inside the Reimon Gate is the Emperor's Imperial Garden, which was first built during the Kanmu period and rebuilt during the Onin period.

Although the Emperor's Garden is dilapidated, it occupies a large area. The total area is even larger than the Forbidden City in Beijing. However, there are not many buildings inside. The greening is very good, trees and weeds are everywhere, and a large dug

The fish pond is called Yuchi Pavilion.

In addition, there are a lot of open spaces in the imperial garden. After entering the Jianli Gate, there are large open spaces to the left and right. The guards and northern warriors brought by Zhu Cijiong were temporarily placed there.

Zhu Cijiong's own residence was within the Imperial Palace. The emperor lived in the Gosugo Palace to the north of the Gochitei, and he was arranged to the Gohana Palace to the north of the Gojo Palace.

This was originally the residence of the Japanese crown prince. The location is very good. The Imperial Palace is very close and connected by a corridor. You can walk there quietly at night...because Japan has not had a crown prince for many years, so

It had always been abandoned. Because the Imperial Flower Palace was not large and relatively cheap to repair, it was renovated for Zhu Cijiong to live before his marriage to Emperor Xingzi.

After Zhu Cijiong and Emperor Xingzi get married, Emperor Xingzi will abdicate and become the emperor. She and Zhu Cijiong will move out of the imperial palace and live in Guishan Villa in Xi'an, Guichuan.

It was just renovated in the Era era and is very beautiful. Katsurasanso originally belonged to the adopted son of Gomizuoin, Prince Tomotada Jōmiya. Now it has been bought by the Tokugawa Shogunate and presented to Emperor Koiko as her fairy cave (the emperor's palace is also called fairy cave)
Chapter completed!