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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 394: Cooperation with Japan

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    I have to say that Xiao Yungui still admires the Japanese spirit of asking for advice humbly. The respectful and shameless attitude of Chuanlu Shengmo and his delegation satisfied Xiao Yungui's vanity. After all, the power of the Taiping Army only made the Qing Dynasty feel  Fear only brings curses. Although the great powers such as Britain, France and the United States were surprised by the power of the Taiping Army, they only felt that the Taiping Army had learned from them. People from Western countries such as Britain, France, and the United States would only admire those who had truly won on the battlefield.  own people.

    The humility and courtesy of the Japanese greatly satisfied the Western King's addiction to being the boss. At least the Japanese would only praise Xiao Yungui as the wise king of the Taiping Army, and would not call him the Prince of Wales of China like the British did.  .  At the same time, the Japanese also allowed Xiao Yungui to see the true Confucian spirit of learning. The spirit of learning the Tao in the morning and dying in the evening has disappeared under the centuries of foreign rule in China. Confucian scholars in the entire country are working for utilitarianism.  When studying for an official position, they all talked about being a magistrate in three years and earning a hundred thousand snowflakes of silver. However, the Confucian scholars in the Qing Dynasty forgot the true essence of Confucianism's pursuit of knowledge and practical application in the world.

    "If the Confucian scholars under the Manchu Qing Dynasty had half the academic spirit of the Japanese, they would not be bullied like this by the foreign powers, let alone beaten by the Taiping Army.  That's because the Manchu Qing Dynasty was emasculating true Confucianism from the beginning, turning it into a tool for ruling scholars and people in the world, rather than the true Confucian way of governing the country.  True Confucian governance is not just about the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Rules. Without the practical application of knowledge and the pursuit of knowledge, Manchu Confucianism became the feudal ideology that it took the Chinese people decades to get rid of.  It is a pity that after the Chinese people got rid of this kind of thinking, they discovered that Chinese people without Confucianism can still be called Chinese?  So in the period before Xiao Yungui traveled through time, the Chinese people began to study Confucianism again, hoping to find Confucianism again. It must be said that this was a national tragedy that had spread Confucianism to the world.

    "Looking at Japan, although they are sometimes paranoid and narrow-minded.  But it is undeniable that they have always inherited the essence of Confucianism's pursuit of knowledge and practical application in the world. Therefore, Japan's ability to stand up after several declines cannot be explained only by the tenacity of the Japanese.

    After seeing the Japanese people's academic spirit, Xiao Yungui began to worry about whether his plan could be realized. After all, the big bosses of Japan's overthrow faction could be more powerful. Without any extraordinary means, the shogunate would still be unable to compete with the overthrow army.  of.

    So after Xiao Yungui discussed the reform issues of the shogunate with Chuanlu Shengmo, he revealed that he could send people to Japan to personally guide the shogunate's reforms. This made Chuanlu Shengmo overjoyed. After all, it was better to have people from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom personally come to Japan to guide them than to just learn from them.  It's better to go back after getting some fur.

    Since we talked about sending people to Japan.  It involves issues of diplomatic relations and cooperative relations between the two countries.  What Xiao Yungui didn't expect was that Chuanlu Shengmo said that he would report the current situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the shogunate when he returned, and was very willing to go to the shogunate to ask the shogunate to recognize the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.  Chuanlu Shengmo said that according to the current situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.  The shogunate is very likely to recognize the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

    Xiao Yungui couldn't help crying and laughing, but he didn't expect that Japan would be the first country willing to recognize the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.  But he doesn't care about this.  He quickly refused to report it to Tianjing, but the cooperation between the two parties could be completed by the Shanghai Administrative Secretary.

    In other words, Xiao Yungui does not need Japan to recognize the founding of the country, and he does not want to form an alliance with Japan prematurely, so as to avoid being involved if the great powers take any action against Japan.  Xiao Yungui is not that stupid to go against the great powers for the sake of Japan.  Chuanlu Shengmo's expression of disappointment flashed across his face, and then the two of them talked about cooperation.

    The biggest reason why Xiao Yungui chose to cooperate with Japan is that Japan is close to Sakhalin Island and Temple Street.  It only takes a few days to travel from Hakodate Port (now Hakodate) in Hokkaido to North Sakhalin Island.  Once Japan opened the ports of Nagasaki and Hakodate to the Taiping Rebellion like it did to the United States, the Taiping Navy in Shanghai and Ningbo could escort merchant ships to Nagasaki for some trade transactions, and then purchase food and fresh food locally in Japan.  Fruits and vegetables, starting from Hakodate, go directly north to supply Temple Street and Sakhalin Island.  Then the fleet can bring ginseng, fur and other things produced in Sakhalin and Temple Street back to Japan or Shanghai for trade. At the same time, the fleet can also maintain long-term trade with Japan. This way of merging trade routes and supply routes is  It is the most reasonable and cost-effective.

    And China¡¯s sea-going ships can definitely reach Japan. Even under the Qing Dynasty, there were sea-going ships that ran to Nagasaki Port for long-term transactions. There is no reason why the Taiping Navy cannot do this.  For this reason, Xiao Yungui specially asked several naval generals such as Monk Tongbao and Tang Zhengcai of the Taiping Navy to go to Suzhou to inquire in detail about the feasibility of this line.  Several naval admirals came to the unanimous conclusion that the reason why the Taiping Navy was not suitable for ocean voyages was because the hulls were too small and could not carry as much supplies and cargo as foreign ships. However, if they could rest in Nagasaki, Japan, the Taiping Navy's  The fleet can definitely travel along the routes of Shanghai, Nagasaki, Hakodate and Temple Street.Run down the sea line.

    So the Naval Department of the Ministry of War, the Commercial Department of the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Rites jointly discussed detailed regulations, and finally unanimously came to the conclusion that Japan must open the two ports of Nagasaki and Hakodate for trade in order to ensure the supply of Temple Street, Sakhalin Island, and Dalian.

    When Xiao Yungui stated the conditions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in a leisurely manner, Chuanlu Shengmo did not seem to feel too embarrassed. Nagasaki Port has been open to China, North Korea, the Netherlands and other countries for a long time. Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a rebel force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty,  However, in the minds of the Japanese, they felt that the Han regime of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was more upright, and opening Nagasaki Port to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not a problem at all.  The Hakodate Port in Hokkaido was also opened to the United States early in the morning. At the same time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom needed the Hakodate Port to be opened because it wanted to go north to resist Russia. Kawaji Shomo believed that opening Hakodate Port to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would not be a problem, and even the people would welcome it.

    ??The conditions for Chuanlu Shengmo are also very simple. They are to learn from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom how to improve the country's governance, and Japan needs the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to export Western technology, send personnel to Japan for guidance, etc.

    Of course Xiao Yungui is happy to send people there. It is very necessary to guide the Japanese shogunate to improve. At the same time, Bai Zetang and the Intelligence Department also need to extend their tentacles to Japan. Xiao Yungui even plans to send several big bosses who are idle in Suzhou.  The bosses of several gangs such as the Guandao Gang and the Ningbo Gang are now unemployed in Suzhou. Mu Yinghong and her father Mu Guandao even asked his daughter to mention her willingness to get some errands in front of King Xi.

    Although Xiao Yungui has no intention of taking Mu Yinghong in, every time he goes to Shanghai, Mu Yinghong and Zhou Xiuying still serve him very comfortably. Now that Hong Yun'er has no objection to her raising a child outside, Xiao Yungui also  I am thinking about getting a golden house to hide my beauty in Shanghai in the future, so Mu Yinghong's father still has to take care of her.

    It is very necessary to send several Shanghai gangsters to follow the fleet to Japan so that Mu Guandao and others can establish Chinese gang forces in Japan. Since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wants to conduct long-term trade with Japan, there must be people in ports and treaty ports.  Only your own power can guarantee your own interests. In Shanghai and Ningbo, the Taiping Army protects your own businessmen, but in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Japan, there is no power to protect your own businessmen. There are several Chinese gangs there to protect your own businessmen.  It would also be good to bully the North Koreans and the Dutch by the way.

    Bai Zetang and the Intelligence Department also have their own tasks. Just as Xiao Yungui is worried, if the experts of the Overthrow Sect are too high, Xiao Yungui will not mind letting Bai Zetang's dead men kill them in advance in Japan to ensure that  The shogunate can live longer.  The responsibility of the Intelligence Department is also very clear, which is to collect all kinds of intelligence about Japan. Just like the preliminary work done before Japan invaded China, Xiao Yungui hopes to know everything about Japan, including where the Japanese emperor sleeps every night.

    Once he understood Japan's every move and its influence on Japan in terms of trade, military and politics, Xiao Yungui was confident that he could completely turn Japan into a subordinate of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If Japan could not be controlled by then, Xiao Yungui would not mind directly  To carry out military intervention, I believe that the Manchus will have been overthrown by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom early in the morning. Xiao Yungui is confident that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will definitely have this ability by then.

    Chuanlu Shengmo did not really understand the ulterior motives of the Western King. Just like in the early years of the Republic of China, people naively thought that Japan would help China. There were many, many foreign students studying in Japan, and even Mr. Lu Xun also studied in Japan.  It was not until Japan invaded China that most people woke up and realized that Japan had always harbored evil intentions.  Now it just changed its direction and it became Xiao Yungui plotting against Japan.

    So after the two sides discussed the general direction, officials from Chuanlu Shengmo and the West Palace Rites Department went to discuss the specific details of the charter. In order to handle Japan's affairs well, the West Palace Rites Department set up a special Japan Department, and established special departments with several other countries.  The same department is responsible for handling Japan's foreign affairs.

    Regarding Japanese trade, Xiao Yungui specially discussed with Zhu Changling, Wei Helin and others. Xiao Yungui was uneasy and kind-hearted and even wanted to purify opium and then buy it to Japan.  However, considering the initial need to win the trust of Japan, the idea of ??selling purified opium products was temporarily shelved. However, matches, cigarettes, soap and other items produced by private factories in Shanghai definitely have a market in Japan, even in the wild Temple Street and Sakhalin Island.  , these products are definitely huge profits.  When the Russians were trading with herdsmen in the northeast and northwest, they conducted unequal exchanges very unkindly. A box of Russian matches could be exchanged for a cow in those places, which was an incredible profit.

    With Japan's cooperation in opening ports, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Xi Wang also had the confidence to continue to stay in Temple Street and Sakhalin Island. In fact, a few days before the showdown with Bao Ling and others, the Taiping merchant ships, cargo ships and navies in Shanghai and Ningbo  They have already set out to sea in a mighty way, and their destination is Nagasaki, Japan.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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