Chapter 560: The

"Japan, a small country, why does it frequently harass the maritime borders of our Ming Dynasty and disturb the livelihood of our people?" Zhu Yijun looked at Oda Oichi and asked a question.

From the Japanese pirates of the Jiajing era to the 19th year of Wanli, even though Toyotomi Hideyoshi knew that Korea was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, he still wanted to attack Korea. Why did he repeatedly provoke the Ming Dynasty?

Although the Ming Dynasty is old, it does not mean it cannot fight.

"Not knowing the king's transformation, not recognizing the longitude and latitude, not knowing that the Heavenly Dynasty is vast." Oda Oichi said very helplessly: "Before coming to the Ming Dynasty, your subject also thought that the Ming Dynasty and Japan were about the same size, and that Shandong was as big as Kyushu Island where Nagasaki is located."

Oda Oichi did not think the Ming Dynasty was very big. In the eyes of the Japanese, Ningbo was the capital of the Ming Dynasty. In their eyes, the soldiers of the military garrison that had been abandoned for many years in the southeast were the strength of the Ming army. This kind of cognition is universally existing. In all the maps of Japan, the Ming Dynasty and Japan are about the same size.

Arriving in the Ming Dynasty, at the Four Barbarian Halls, Oda Oichi saw the world map drawn by the Ming Dynasty for the first time. Although the map on the shadow wall of the Four Barbarian Halls was not the latest or precise, when she saw the world map for the first time, Oda Oichi knew that the Ming Dynasty's map was the correct one.

Japan is a small country, not the country that they thought was as big as the Ming Dynasty.

This is the gap in cognition. At this time, the Japanese really thought that the national strength of the Ming Dynasty was just like that, not much different from Japan.

"Besides not knowing the king's transformation, not recognizing the longitude and latitude, and not knowing that the Heavenly Dynasty is vast, it is also because in recent years the Tatars have been rampant in the north, the barbarians have been stirring in the west, and the Burmese barbarians have been harassing in the south, and they have not suffered a major blow; this has caused the Japanese to have thoughts, taking advantage of the situation to steal and launch." Oda Oichi said helplessly: "When my brother talked about the Ming Dynasty, he used the idiom 'besieged on all sides,' saying that the Tatars in the north of the Ming Dynasty have been waging war for years and are extremely rampant, while in the southwest, the Burmese thieves are attacking the Ming Dynasty. It seems that it is already a situation of being besieged on all sides and in danger of perishing. As long as they exert a little force, the Ming Dynasty will perish."

Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and shook his head: "Looking at the leopard through a tube, blind men touching an elephant."

In the eyes of these barbarians, the Ming Dynasty is already buried up to its neck, and the person is already dead, just waiting for the coffin nails. They are scrambling to nail this coffin nail for the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yijun finally figured out why Japan is so rampant, because of ignorance.

Even if the Ming Dynasty dies, it will take seventy years to completely ruin its blood bar. Now the Ming Dynasty's blood bar is thicker!

Zhu Yijun met Oda Oichi mainly to sign the content they had negotiated. Oda Oichi, as Oda Nobunaga's plenipotentiary representative, signed the *Anti-Piracy Treaty*. This treaty is very unfair.

First of all, Oda Nobunaga, as the Azuchi Shogunate of Japan, must promulgate the *Anti-Piracy Decree*.

The decree is divided into three chapters and seventeen articles. This *Anti-Piracy Decree* was drafted by Wan Shihe, the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty. The main content of these three chapters includes prohibiting the manufacture of ships used by pirates, prohibiting any Japanese ships from going to sea without a license, and the law of joint responsibility for vines and melons. ===== CHAPTER 561 =====