"The most important thing now is to resume trade, because the sales of our official cotton cloth must not decrease. In this way, the people who rely on the textile industry to survive and make profits in the country will continue to increase their income, rather than the workers' bankruptcy due to the unsalable sales of a large number of cotton cloth. Therefore, the first thing to do now is to continue free trade in Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate has the obligation to maintain trade order and prevent the local daimyo from destroying the order of free trade."

At the court meeting, Zhu Youxiao first said to his ministers.

Fang Congzhe followed, "Your Majesty is wise! And as Your Majesty just said, if the sales of official cotton cloth will increase, then you cannot trade only in Nagasaki. As far as I know, Japan now only allows foreign merchants to do business in Nagasaki, and regard Nagasaki as the place directly controlled by the shogunate, and sent the most trusted daimyo as its vassal to weaken the power of other daimyos. Therefore, in the opinion of my minister, the shogunate should be required to open more towns as business places."

"Then let the Tokugawa shogunate open a few more ports and allow our Ming merchants to conduct free trade in the places where they are opened. In the future, we will strive to completely let the entire East use our Ming Dynasty official cotton cloth!"

Zhu Youxiao said after taking a sip of tea.

Because Zhu Youxiao said this, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

But then, Bi Ziyan couldn't help but say: "However, your Majesty, in my opinion, if this continues, there will be turmoil in Japan, because many Japanese daimyos will not allow the benefits of cotton cloth to be monopolized by our Ming Dynasty, and have only become ordinary landlords who grow grain and cotton. Therefore, they are dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty and hope that the Tokugawa shogunate will treat our daimyos hard, and we must let Japanese daimyos give up this idea."

After hearing Bi Ziyan's words, Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Yes, our real challenge in Japan is these daimyos, not the shogunate, and even the emperor is more threatening than the shogunate. Tokugawa Hidetachi is a smart man. It is right for him to choose to compromise with our Ming Dynasty. In the future, the court must guarantee his dominance in Japan. Therefore, our Ming Dynasty must have permanent troops and even permanent officials in Japan to deal with changes in the domestic situation in Japan at any time. If necessary, the permanent troops can promptly support the Japanese forces close to our Ming Dynasty. Since Nagasaki has been occupied by our Ming Dynasty facts, let Japan ced Nagasaki and the Five Islands as my Ming Dynasty territory, so that our Ming Dynasty will garrison troops in this area, so that there will be a base camp for our Ming Dynasty power in Japan. In addition, we must ask the shogunate to allow us to have envoys in Edo, so that we can have permanent officials in the Ming Dynasty in its shogunate."

"Your Majesty's wise!"

Fang Congzhe and other civil officials were smart people, so they naturally knew that the emperor's actions were indeed a clever strategy.

"However, your Majesty, you have to spend a lot of money and food to garrison in Nagasaki, especially in the early stage. Now, Nagasaki has just experienced two major events, and all industries have been seriously damaged, so the tax will definitely be insufficient. Sending a navy to station in Nagasaki requires the imperial court to transport grain and salary."

Xiong Tingbi, Minister of War, said.

"I also thought of this. The early garrison had to spend a lot of money, but we naturally didn't have to pay this money, because at that time it was not my Ming court, but his Tokugawa shogunate or a daimyo who was close to my Ming Dynasty. So the money was naturally paid by someone from Japan, but we had to find a reason to be rejected, and this reason was to ask for compensation!"

Zhu Youxiao said, "The Japanese riots in the Shimiao Dynasty and the Japanese riots in the Shimiao Dynasty have paid a heavy price for this. Many soldiers and people have been killed and a lot of national wealth and civilians have been consumed. There are also the slaughter of our Ming Dynasty merchants in Nagasaki this time. These accounts must be settled. The Tokugawa shogunate, who inherited the mantle of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, must compensate the losses of our Ming Dynasty and its vassal states!"

After hearing this, the ministers' eyes lit up and had to admit that the reasons raised by His Majesty are very good.

After all, the Japanese did leave a lot of pain to all the scholars and people in the Ming Dynasty. If they ask for compensation from Japan, they will naturally be approved by all the scholars and people in the country.

Of course, there is no public pressure.

Even Liu Zongzhou did not express his objection at this time and said, "If Japan can really pay compensation, all the scholars and people who suffered from it will finally not suffer the trouble of it in vain!"

"This is not something that can be done, it is something that Japan must do!"

Zhu Youjian said something.

At this time, Wei Guangwei, Minister of Rites, stood up and said, "Report to Your Majesty, in my opinion, if Japan really wants to trade, cede land, and pay compensation, as Your Majesty said, the challenge is not the shogunate, but the daimyo of the Japanese vassal states. If the shogunate agrees, some daimyos that were seized by our Ming Dynasty for their business interests will inevitably resist, and the reason for their resistance must be to demand the return of the power of the emperor, so as to achieve the purpose of overthrowing the shogunate and changing the shogunate. This requires us to be prepared in advance. The key is that we cannot let Japan have an emperor. It can also be said that if a emperor in Japan has an emperor, it will be an obstacle to our Ming Dynasty's future operation of industries in Japan! Therefore, I suggest that this negotiation will also require some requirements for the Japanese emperor!"

"What I said is reasonable! The Emperor of Japan should not have any more. There can only be one emperor in the world, that is me! Japan is just a small place, and I am embarrassed to establish an emperor for one day? From this we can see that the Shen Qing family is right. This is different from Korea. This has never been the will of surrender to my Ming Dynasty, but only the will of annexing my Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Youxiao said, "However, the emperor of Japan has been around for a long time. The Japanese have believed it. Raskingly dealing with his emperor will cause Japan to reject our Ming Dynasty even more. It is not my purpose to let Japan exclude our Ming Dynasty, but letting everyone in Japan only use our Ming Dynasty products is my purpose. Therefore, take it slowly first. If the Tokugawa shogunate cooperates enough, we naturally don't need us to come forward to deal with the emperor."

"yes!"

Wei Guangwei replied.

Zhu Youxiao discovered that Wei Guangwei was good at providing advice in history and assisting Wei Zhongxian. To be precise, he assisted Emperor Tianqi and suppressed the powerful figures of the Donglin Party. He had a unique vision and was the first to propose that the court should also have a request for the Emperor of Japan. Therefore, he issued an order to let Wei Guangwei serve as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, take the title of First-rank Young Tutor, and go to Japan for negotiations as the Minister of Rites and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and serve as the official envoy of the negotiations.

Shen Yourong was appointed by Zhu Youxiao as the general of the Japanese preparatory officer and served as the deputy envoy of negotiations.

...

"Negotiation? Why did the Emperor of Ming suddenly have to negotiate again? What exactly did he want to do?"

When Tokugawa Hidetachi got the envoy sent by Zhu Youxiao to Edo, he felt very puzzled.

Because in his perception, if he was the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, he would either still destroy his Japan regardless of everything, or he would have to give up the idea of ​​conquering him because of his tolerance enough.

Therefore, the cognition of Tokugawa Hidetachi, who was still in the era of annexation and conquest, did not know that the Ming Dynasty was now using a new way to deal with matters between countries.

However, Hidetachi Tokugawa did not understand it, so he did not dare to refuse to agree.

...

"The requirements we make to your country can be summarized as apology, cession of land, compensation, trade, and other matters."
Chapter completed!