Edo Castle Honmaru, between Shippo.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, the "wise king" of the Tokugawa shogunate, was getting worse day by day. In fact, his health had never been better. He could make do in his youth, but he didn't know how to cherish it. He fell in love with "Public Ways", so that

There were few heirs. The Kasuga Bureau, which said "the general is not anxious about the wet nurse", had to expand the army and select beauties in an attempt to straighten Iemitsu.

Not to mention, as long as the skill is deep, the iron hook can be broken into a ruler. With Kasuga Bureau's unremitting efforts, the general who loves all ways finally turned into a dissolute general.

Especially when a person reaches middle age and realizes that his heirs are few and likely to be extinct, he starts to ignore hard work, redouble his efforts, and even take drugs. Finally, his body is completely damaged and he is almost dead.

However, his efforts finally had some effect. Now he has three sons who can inherit the position of shogun. The somewhat imbecile "Idiot God" Tokugawa Ietsuna, and the "Inu Godfather" Tokugawa Tsunayoshi who loves small animals.

and the relatively normal lord of the Koshu domain, Tokugawa Tsunashige.

But these three sons are all very young. The oldest, Ietsuna, was born in 1641 and is only 8 years old this year. With Iemitsu's current body, I probably won't be able to wait until he reaches adulthood, and Ietsuna is still so stupid.

It’s really annoying!

When Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Abe Tadaki, Hota Masamori, Abe Shigeji, Matsudaira Nojoju and other five people entered the Shippo Room, the Aizu Domain Lord Hoshina Masayuki, who was in charge of Ietsuna's education, was reporting his work to the general with a sigh.

Of course, the work was not done well. Although Masayuki Yasukina worked hard and tried his best, Ietsuna was too stupid to learn anything!

Masayuki Hoshina, who also has the blood of Tokugawa Ieyasu (he is Ieyasu's grandson and Hidetada's illegitimate son), almost cried when he thought about it. What is going on with the Tokugawa family? All the branches are full of heroism, such as himself, who is tall and mighty.

, infinitely powerful, if he was born in the Warring States Period, he would definitely be a general. There is also Mito family's Hikaru, who is smart and can learn everything well. If he was born in troubled times, he would be a resourceful strategist. But these boys of the shogun's family

"My lord, I heard that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty opened an elementary school for nobles, and also personally compiled "Elementary School Arithmetic" and "Elementary School French". It is said that they can enlighten wisdom. Otherwise, let the Ming Dynasty Embassy in Uraga Port hand over these two books.

The book was sent to teach the young master?"

If you don’t study well, blame the textbooks

"Can it inspire wisdom? Hurry up and ask them to send it!" Iemitsu immediately became energetic after hearing the news.

Now he gets angry when he sees Mitsuhiro from the Mito family! He is so smart and old, he is 22 years old this year and he even has a son. If Ietsuna can be as smart as Tokugawa Mitsuhiro, then he can rest assured.

After dismissing Masayuki Hoshina, who was as strong as an ox, Ietsuna waved to the five seniors and asked them to sit closer to prevent him from speaking loudly.

He needs to keep up his energy now. There is a beautiful woman who needs to deal with being Japan's general conquering the barbarians tonight. It is really tiring! If he had known that he would be so tired, he should have given Tadanagi the job.

"How is it?" the general asked softly.

"My lord, I have already asked the Ming Dynasty envoy Duke Luo in person." Songping Chengshou, an old man from the Sixty Thousand Shi family, replied, "He said that Kuwu Island is what our country calls Huatai Island. It was originally theirs."

The territory of the Ming Dynasty also belonged to the Yuan, Jin, Liao and other dynasties before. According to records, mink skins and gold were abundant there!

Recently, the Qing Dynasty has been active on the coast of the Whale Sea. It has established two deputy general offices in Vladivostok and Nurgan, and deployed more than 20,000 elite troops, obviously to obtain precious furs and gold."

"What?" the general asked, "is there really gold?"

Now is the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate. The Aikawa Gold and Silver Mountain on Sado Island is continuously providing wealth to the Tokugawa family. The 4 million Shi Tianling of the shogunate can also turn over a large amount of rice every year. This wealth is enough to support the rule of the shogunate.

But the Tokugawa shogunate also faced a huge hidden danger, that is, there were too many rogues and samurai left over from the troubled times. Over the past thirty years, these rogues and samurai have produced many descendants. Because there were too many, only

A small part, the rest fell into poverty and were inevitably dissatisfied with the Tokugawa shogunate.

If the Tokugawa shogunate had enough financial resources to hire most of them, then Japan would truly be stable!

"There should be gold," Matsudaira Nobuju replied while looking at Matsudaira Nobutsuna out of the corner of his eyes.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna said coldly: "It's not surprising that there are some gold mines on such a large island, but Huatai Island is so far away, and the climate on the island is also very cold, and it is impossible to farm, and it cannot support a large number of miners to live on the island.

Moreover, supply will be very difficult after the army arrives on the island."

"Oh." Tokugawa Iemitsu was a little disappointed, "You mean you won't send troops to recover?"

"Of course not!" Matsudaira Nobutsuna shook his head and said, "War is necessary. Even if there is no gold on Katai Island, the shogunate has to fight! Because the shogunate has already included Katai Island as part of Japan, how can it give up so easily? Even if there is no gold on Katai Island, the shogunate has to fight!

Even if the entire island cannot be obtained, several strongholds should be established in the southern part of Huatai Island.

In addition, there have been too many ownerless samurai wandering around in recent years, and there are many such people in the castle towns of Edo! If these people can be sent to battlefields thousands of miles away through the conquest of Katai Island, Japan will not be able to do so.

Will it make you feel more settled?"

Matsudaira Nobutsuna has already seen that Iemitsu will die soon, and the Tokugawa shogunate will be in a dangerous situation with a young master in power. If there is a foreign war to attract the homeless people in the country to go on an expedition to perform meritorious deeds, regardless of the outcome of the expedition to Kaota Island

No matter what, the Tokugawa shogunate will benefit.

General Tokugawa asked: "Such a troop dispatch will probably cost a lot of money, right?"

"Money is not a problem!" Matsudaira Nobutsuna smiled, "That is an island full of gold and mink skins! The gold mines and hunting grounds on the island can also be converted into stone high and given to samurai who have made meritorious services."

"This way," Iemitsu still felt that it was not safe, "Can we win?"

"Yes!" Matsudaira Nobutsuna smiled, "It doesn't matter how much you win. What the Matsumae Clan lost was the entire Karata Island. If the shogunate can regain a part of it, it is a victory."

"Okay!" Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded, "Then prepare to send troops. Besides, the Ming and Qing are mortal enemies, right? If we want to go to war with the Qing, can we form an alliance with the Ming?"

"Form an alliance?" Nobuyoshi Matsudaira did not expect the general to have such an idea, "In the name of the imperial court or in the name of the shogunate?"

This is a problem!

"Let's test it first!" Tokugawa Iemitsu said, "Such a thing cannot be accomplished overnight!"

When the "Japanese-Qing Mink War", known as the "Prelude to the Eastern World War", was rapidly breaking out step by step, driven by the forces of all parties, at the same time, the Ming Emperor Zhu Cixiang was fighting with a thirteen-year-old who was quite inadequate.

, little girls who were more than twelve years old, walked together on the walls of Nanjing City. This little girl's complexion was as white as jade, her eyes were thin and long, and her figure was slim. Compared with Zheng Chagu, Fei Zhen'e and the two Zhu Emperors

The beauty of the harem is quite different, but it is not inferior to Wu Sanmei and Ning Xiangyu. But what attracts Emperor Zhu the most is the cleverness of this little girl, otherwise? This is an underage girl! Emperor Zhu will not have any lust.

, purely out of love for her talent, he personally went to Longjiang Wharf to pick up the twelve-year-old girl named Dongguo into Nanjing City, and personally sent her to Jinling Girls' School to study.

The so-called Jinling Girls' School is half of Guixuan Primary School founded by Zhu Cixiang, and the other half is called Bei'anmen Nei Primary School. The two primary schools are inside the Nanjing Imperial City, occupying the site where the Yulin Zuowei and Yulin Youwei barracks are located. They are separated by

Bei'anmen Inner Street, facing each other.

According to Zhu Cixiang's original plan, after Dongguo Gege came to Nanjing, he would arrange for her to live in Laoshan Palace. However, he did not expect that the girl asked many mathematical questions in her letter to Zhu Cixiang. This made Emperor Zhu extremely happy.

Yes, there is a common language!
Chapter completed!