Chapter 562: The joint responsibility for vines and melons means that each domain will be held jointly responsible for pirates

The *Anti-Piracy Decree* is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty's unlimited right to declare war.

Letting Oda Nobunaga hand over Japan's maritime rights is not just a verbal agreement, but has detailed rules and regulations. Once anyone in Japan violates them, the Ming navy will have a famous teacher.

In addition to the *Anti-Piracy Decree*, the second part contains detailed rules regarding the Ming Dynasty's establishment of a garrison battalion in Osaka Bay.

The garrison battalion is a very special type of guard in the Ming Dynasty. It is directly under the Regional Military Commission at the local level. Now the Osaka Bay garrison battalion is a department similar to the Special Investigation Department of the Kyoto District Public Prosecutors Office in Japan, directly under the imperial court, and also under the jurisdiction of the Nagasaki Governor's Office. Its official name is: Nagasaki Regional Military Commission.

The Nagasaki Regional Military Commission has two maritime defense battalion commanders of the fifth rank, four deputy battalion commanders of the fifth rank, eight pacification envoys of the sixth rank, and under its jurisdiction are twenty-four company commander offices, twenty maritime inspectors, and a total of 3,000 people including miscellaneous flows, two five-masted ocean-crossing ships, twenty three-masted horse ships, fifty command ships, twenty-four hydrofoil sailboats, and several *Zuanfeng* ships.

The Nagasaki Regional Military Commission is an over-standard establishment, somewhat similar to the Liaodong Regional Military Commission that had not yet been established as a province. Li Chengliang and his guest troops, according to this scale, are already approaching the level of the Governor's Office. The Nagasaki Governor's Office only has 3,000 teeth soldiers.

In addition to the *Anti-Piracy Decree* and the Nagasaki Regional Military Commission, there is the list of prohibited goods. All goods prohibited for sale by the Ming maritime inspectors are also implemented in Japan. Similarly, all ports in Japan must set up duty halls and maritime inspectors to combat smuggling and audit taxes. This needs to be realized by the Ming navy itself. Oda Nobunaga has even lost Osaka Bay to the Mōri family, which all needs to be opened up by the Ming navy with force.

The fourth item is that Oda Nobunaga, as the Azuchi Shogunate, orders to recognize the legitimacy of the Nagasaki Governor's Office. This legitimacy, in addition to the signatures of Oda Nobunaga, the Shogun, and the Grand Preceptor, must also be stamped by the Japanese Emperor.

The fifth item is the cession of Sakai City. Sakai City is now the most prosperous port in Osaka Bay in Japan and the trade center of Osaka. The entire Sakai City has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, an enclave under the jurisdiction of the Nagasaki Governor's Office, serving as the garrison of the garrison battalion and the lair of the maritime inspectors in Japan.

The sixth item is to assist in military expenses. Every year, the Azuchi Shogunate should provide 300,000 taels of silver as military expenses for the Nagasaki Regional Military Commission.

This treaty revolves around the *Anti-Piracy Decree*, so it is also called the *Anti-Piracy Treaty*, completely revolving around reducing Japanese pirates.

This silver is requested by Zhu Yijun for the soldiers of the Nagasaki Regional Military Commission. The maritime inspectors ran to "serve" the Japanese and "protect" the Japanese, suffering such great grievances. Zhu Yijun can only reward them with real gold and silver. This 300,000 silver assistance for military expenses from Japan is an extra income.

The two very broad scopes of maritime rights and maritime customs have become concrete in the face of these six items. This is also the detail of Zhu Yijun's previous decree to the Nagasaki Governor's Office. Oda Nobunaga, facing such a harsh treaty, wanted to convert the first five items into 700,000 taels of silver, in exchange for 1 million silver per year.

But the Ming Dynasty acted extremely domineering and did not give Oda Nobunaga a chance to bargain at all.

"You can choose not to sign." Zhu Yijun looked at Oda Oichi and said: "Once you sign it, you will be a sinner of Japan. In the future, the Japanese will denounce you as a traitor. It is the same if I send the national letter to Japan for Oda Nobunaga to sign."

Zhu Yijun could see that Oda Oichi was very hesitant. Whoever signs this will be scolded for a lifetime. Since it is Oda Nobunaga's request, let Oda Nobunaga sign it.

Wanting to borrow the power of the Ming Dynasty is not free. Borrowing the power of the Ming Dynasty is very expensive.

In fact, in Japan, the Muromachi Shogunate submitted to the Chengzu Emperor. In the eyes of the Japanese, it was a huge profit from the *kango* trade. The Japanese did not even want to use the word "tribute" which had the meaning of submission, but called it trade, and recognized the imperial decree of enfeoffment as a *kango* treaty.

This is the consistent propaganda of the Muromachi Shogunate. In this way, it looks like the Muromachi Shogunate obtained huge benefits from the Ming Dynasty and paid a little nominal price, so the Muromachi Shogunate is not a sinner.

This is also the reason why the Korean envoys always called Japan a "rebellious son." Obviously enfeoffed, obviously benefited a lot from the *kango* tribute, but always refused to admit their status as a vassal state.

In the eyes of the Japanese: The Ming Dynasty is like a fool who is easy to fool. The *kango* trade, which cares about face and suffers from vanity, allows Japan to exchange sulfur, Japanese swords, and other items with three ships for ten or twenty times the goods back to Japan. A large amount of copper coins, silk, ceramics, and other valuable items were rewarded by the imperial court and brought back to Japan.

Japan made a very rich profit in the *kango* trade, and the price paid was only verbally acknowledging the Ming Dynasty's suzerain status. In fact, the Ming Dynasty had no control over Japan, neither stationing troops nor participating in any of Japan's national management.

Every *kango* was a huge loss for the Ming Dynasty and a huge profit for the Japanese.

Now, this bloody treaty not only controls the daimyo of the domains, but also stations troops, participates in state affairs, and even makes Japan cede land and pay compensation. These six items are the best response to all of this.

Now, even if Oda Oichi is a woman, she knows the horror of this treaty. In the future, the Japanese will probably poke her spine and scold her for hundreds or thousands of years.

The Ming Dynasty is indeed easy to talk to. What was easier to talk to than the Ming Dynasty was the Ming Dynasty of the past. The Ming Dynasty previously used softness to treat people, which lasted for 170 years, and the *kango* trade, which was almost like economic aid, finally brewed the bitter fruit of the Japanese pirates in the southeast.

The Ming Dynasty swallowed this bitter fruit, and the Japanese pirates in the southeast were finally pacified. But now, it is time to collect the debt.

Zhu Yijun studied under Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng was just vengeful, and Zhu Yijun was simply smaller than a needle tip. Do not let the Ming Emperor write him down in a small notebook, otherwise he will have to bear the anger of the Ming Emperor, this human emperor.

Regarding the issue of Japan, even the basest base scholar cannot say the three words "soften the distant people" to the Emperor, so such a harsh treaty is the cause of yesterday and the result of today.

"Your Majesty, there will probably be no Japanese in the future." Oda Oichi picked up the pen, looked at the Emperor, and asked solemnly, inquiring about the Emperor's intention towards Japan. If the Ming Dynasty destroys Japan, the problem of scolding will not exist.

Zhu Yijun had no intention of hiding anything, and nodded very affirmatively: "Well, there will be no concept of Japanese in the future."

"Then what is there to worry about." Oda Oichi wrote her name, took out the envoy's seal, and stamped it on the six copies of the treaty, three copies in total, one for the Ming Emperor, one for the imperial court, and one for Japan.

After Oda Oichi signed and stamped, she looked at Wan Shihe and bowed her head and said: "Your Majesty, only the Great Tang needs to be responsible for history. History is a heavy burden and a shackle."

"I am the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Yijun was very dissatisfied with Japan calling the Ming Dynasty the Great Tang. This kind of address is very common. Its purpose is naturally to promote the theory that "after Yashan, there is no China," stealing the orthodox lineage of China, and having a heart of rebellion against the Central Plains.

Zhu Yijun did not like this set at all, and demanded that Japan correct this statement.

"This is the Central Plains." Oda Oichi said with great emotion. The Ming Emperor corrected not a title, but ritual law. The Ming Emperor cared so much, actually caring about the responsibility for history.

Japan does not have this culture of being responsible for history, so it has no taboos in doing things, and has no sense of shame.

Zhu Yijun was too lazy to pay attention to this woman who was impacted by the Ming culture. A map was enough for her to study for a lifetime. Zhu Yijun communicated with Oda Oichi and found out that the Japanese had such an idea: the Ming Dynasty is not big, the Ming Dynasty is very weak, the Ming Dynasty is a broken house, and it will collapse if kicked.

Everyone wants to kick the Ming Dynasty, this broken house, down. Zhu Yijun wants to tell these idiots with facts that the Ming Dynasty, this broken house, is not something that anyone can kick down if they want to!

Oda Oichi will stay in the Ming Dynasty as a *yūjo*. This is the hostage left by Zhu Yijun, a channel for communication, and even more so, it releases some signals, allowing the carnivores in Japan to squeeze downwards, fight internally, and fight each other. Whoever is fierce can be the dog of the Ming Dynasty.

After Oda Oichi left, the Ming Emperor summoned the Suiyuan Regional Administration Commissioner Sanniangzi who came to the capital to send wool.

The Ming Emperor handles ten thousand things every day. In order to reduce the workload of the Ming Emperor, in most cases, the Ministry of Rites will arrange for foreign envoys to have an audience in one day and handle it clearly in one day.

"Your subject, Suiyuan Regional Administration Commissioner Nayan Chu, pays respects to Your Majesty. Your Majesty is safe." Sanniangzi performed the great ceremony of five bows and three kowtows.

Sanniangzi is the Ming Dynasty's Suiyuan Regional Administration Commissioner, and also an envoy of the Tatars. She will also be the last Tatar envoy. After her, Suiyuan will be completely turned into counties. Her retention is a promise given by the Ming Dynasty to the Tatars, representing that she can still speak for the Tatars. Similarly, her responsibility is to help the Ming Dynasty complete the king's transformation of Suiyuan.

At that time, her departure will become a sign, a sign that the Ming Dynasty has completely transformed Suiyuan.

"Loyal and Obedient Lady, how is Suiyuan now? I heard that Suiyuan's wool increased by about 10% this year compared to last year." Zhu Yijun signaled Sanniangzi to stand up and asked about the recent situation in Suiyuan. More wool is naturally a good thing, but whether Suiyuan's barren land can withstand it is a problem that must be concerned.

"Building roads, digging coal, salt, gold, silver, copper, iron, and setting up pastures, everything is in order." Sanniangzi bowed her head and said: "Thank you for the concern of the Ming Emperor, everything in Suiyuan is fine."

"It is really good. No one froze to death in Guihua City last winter, and a nursing home was built to settle women and children."

Women and children are women and children. In the previous grasslands, when the white-haired wind came, women and children were the second batch of people to starve and freeze to death. The first batch was the elderly, and the strong men starved to death last, and the next year they would fight, burn, kill, and loot.

And now the Ming Dynasty has built cities in Guihua, Shuofang, Wuyuan, Shengzhou, and other places, and also has nursing homes and official residences in each city. This year, many women and children have been settled. Did anyone freeze or starve to death? Of course, but compared to previous years, it has been significantly reduced, and there is a way to live, which is hope.

The Ming Emperor's kindness to the grassland is like the Eternal Heaven finally unable to watch the suffering of the grassland people, letting Your Majesty bring the Ming Dynasty's ritual laws to the grassland, bringing the grace and rain to the grassland, which is like the grace of heaven.

"Is there a significant reduction in grain production because of the need to raise sheep?" Zhu Yijun asked about the problem of eating. The Ming Dynasty's enclosure also has the problem of enclosure similar to England. If you raise sheep, you can't grow crops, grain will decrease, and when people are hungry, there is only one trouble, and that is hunger.

"That's not the case. After all, the border people didn't farm before." Sanniangzi said with a helpless face: "It's just that on some issues, Governor Pan's requirements are too strict, and the border people are a bit... unaccustomed."

"How strict is Governor Pan?" Zhu Yijun was a bit confused and asked for details. Pan Jixun is a Ming Dynasty official. Zhu Yijun was curious about what Pan Jixun actually required.

Sanniangzi said with a complex face: "In terms of changing customs."

"Governor Pan requires that no one is allowed to donate money or goods to Lama temples without a certificate, and on the other hand, he has returned many Lamas without certificates to secular life. There is no Lama temple in Suiyuan with a certificate. In fact, it is to prohibit donations and ban many Lama temples, changing them to Han Buddhism."

"This is what I approved. Governor Pan reported that the border people have a surplus of less than two taels of silver a year, and they donate three taels to the Lama temple. How can this be done?" Zhu Yijun knew this very well. Pan Jixun's words were not as polite as the Emperor's. In the memorial, Pan Jixun directly scolded the bald donkeys for not engaging in production, taking the incense money of the border people, and distributing it to the so-called monks in the name of lining gold.

Are those monks? They are simply a group of insects!

If they followed Pan Jixun's requirements completely, it would not be asking the Lamas to return to secular life, but directly sending them to the mines, and they would be done if they died.

"If these Lamas refuse to return to secular life, send them to the mines. If they dare to gather the border people to make trouble, they will all be treated as rebels." Zhu Yijun looked at Sanniangzi and reiterated the imperial court's decree. These Lama temples were built one by one more magnificent and atmospheric. The border people are now Ming people. The Ming Dynasty does not collect such heavy taxes. These things dare to collect so much!

Now the imperial court is still easy to talk to, forcing them to return to secular life. If they dare to gather and make trouble, they will be destroyed together. Even if they start a war to destroy Buddhism, they will not hesitate.

The reason for asking people to return to secular life is actually bait, letting these Lamas gather those who are stubborn and do not submit to the king's transformation, and then in the name of suppressing bandits and pacifying rebellion, wipe them out. This is the idea of Minister of Rites Wan Shihe.

Wan Shihe is also a scholar.

Lama temples are mainly used for stability. The Ming Dynasty does need stability on the border, but since it has started the king's transformation, it does not need these filthy Lama temples. And Pan Jixun said bluntly that these Lama temples are the nests of the spread of various venereal diseases. Only by destroying these poisonous nests can we talk about long-term stability.

This is completely different from the Ming Dynasty's attitude towards Lama temples before. Before, the Ming Dynasty let the Lama temples on the grassland be, and even wished that the Tatars were full of Lama temples, softening the Tatars' ability to attack and preventing the Tatars from going south. Now the Ming Dynasty has started the king's transformation of Suiyuan, and its attitude has turned 180 degrees, immediately launching a cleanup against them.

It's not their own land, not their own people, so they don't feel distressed. Since they have attacked and determined to turn into counties, they must do it well.

"Secondly, people and livestock are not allowed to live together." When Sanniangzi said this, her eyes dodged and she looked elsewhere.

Zhu Yijun frowned and said: "I don't know about this yet. Is it the cats and dogs raised? If so, they must be cleaned and trimmed regularly, which is very troublesome. The grassland products are not abundant, so don't raise these. Hunting dogs must be raised to drive away wolves."

"It's cattle and sheep." Sanniangzi said only three words, slightly ashamed and lowered her head.

Zhu Yijun was obviously stunned. As the Ming Emperor, he had seen people who treated cats and dogs as family, but he had never seen people living with cattle and sheep.

Wan Shihe hurried out and bowed his head: "Your Majesty, in fact, the border people are like this, which can be understood. In the past, there were no cattle and sheep pens, so they were afraid that the cattle and sheep would be lost, stolen, or frozen to death, so people and livestock lived together. Now that there are cattle and sheep pens, Governor Pan requires that they not be mixed, which is logical."

"Stealing livestock also happens from time to time among the Ming people. Those who steal cattle will be beaten to death."

The person who stole the cattle was caught, and the villagers beat him to death, which was deserved. This kind of law is already very loose. Cattle are more important than life among the people.

Wan Shihe can be considered to have found a step for Sanniangzi, but she did not go down herself.

"There are some others." Sanniangzi knew that Wan Shihe was finding a step for her, but she still introduced these specific regulations for changing customs, such as collecting feces for fertilizer, not hiding cow dung in the bedroom, not sitting on the ground, not eating with hands, etc. When Sanniangzi finished saying these, the Wenhua Palace became quiet.

Wan Shihe, who is good at finding steps, didn't know how to find steps. Even in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, there were not so many places that needed to change customs.

"Long-term stability, the road is long and difficult." Zhu Yijun could only say so. Wan Shihe gave Sanniangzi a step, but Sanniangzi did not go down herself.

Sanniangzi said with a heavy face: "Your Majesty, your subject said these, it seems that they are all bad habits, all jokes, but the border people of the Ming Dynasty also want to pursue a stable life. Governor Pan made these decisions to change customs according to local conditions, and we old Tatar nobles are also willing to cooperate in execution. If ten or twenty years don't work, then thirty or fifty years."

Sanniangzi is an old Tatar, a noble of the original Tatars, and a representative of the reconciliation faction. She is now leading the old Tatar nobles to firmly execute these decrees that seem to be too broad, in the hope that in a few decades, they will truly not distinguish between each other, truly become the same sky, the same Ming Dynasty, and all be Ming people.

Sanniangzi's reconciliation is not a simple kneeling surrender, but leading the border people to pursue a more stable life. In the past, it was through trade with the Ming Dynasty. Now it is executing the Ming Dynasty's decree of king's transformation. Since the Yuan Dynasty lost the deer, the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars have been fighting for two hundred years. Until now, there has been no result. Reconciliation is the most practical, feasible, and mutually beneficial good thing.

"I am also willing to witness the king's transformation of Suiyuan with the border people." Zhu Yijun looked at Sanniangzi and said very affirmatively: "As long as you follow the imperial court's decree, I also have the patience to completely transform Suiyuan."

Zhu Yijun is still young. At twenty-one, he is in his prime. He practices martial arts and can live for a very, very long time. The new policies of the Wanli Reform will be effective for a long time. Now the Ming Dynasty is most worried about the fate-like catastrophe of the monarch's end.

"Your subject, on behalf of the eight directions and ten thousand people of Suiyuan, kowtows to thank Your Majesty for your great kindness." Sanniangzi bowed her head and performed the great ceremony again, thanking the Emperor for his grace.

"When the Loyal and Obedient Lady left last time, she said she wanted to adopt a foster son. It has been so long, I heard that the people recommended by the old nobles were all rejected by Sanniangzi?" Zhu Yijun asked about Sanniangzi adopting a foster son.

The foster son Sanniangzi adopted before was beheaded and displayed with An Da Khan. Now Sanniangzi has no children.

"Your subject plans to adopt two daughters." Sanniangzi answered this question very cleverly. She does not raise foster sons. Raising foster daughters, her status raising foster sons is equivalent to raising a successor. Sanniangzi does not think that after she leaves, this foster son can have any good ending, so she finally decided to raise foster daughters.

Foster daughters are not successors.

"That's good." Zhu Yijun smiled. Tatars or border people are completely different from the Japanese in political treatment. Some words are not convenient to say too clearly, just understand each other.

Sanniangzi is very sensible.

If Sanniangzi's foster son really gathers troops to resist the king's transformation, Zhu Yijun will not have any possibility of being soft-hearted because of the so-called friendship. After pacification, being dragged to the vegetable market to be beheaded and displayed is the only ending.

History is always spiraling upwards, or history is always like a sesame seed cake, turning back and forth.

When the Ming Dynasty's king's transformation is gradually successful, the Suiyuan area will forget why it started because of the success of the king's transformation, forget the embarrassment and life difficulties of today, and instead, that small group of idiots will destroy the hard-won king's transformation results because of so-called ambition.

Raising foster sons has political risks, raising foster daughters, the risk will be reduced a lot.

Sanniangzi and the Emperor chatted for a long time, mainly about some interesting things outside the Great Wall. Zhu Yijun rarely has the opportunity to see the grassland in person. For the lives of the herdsmen, he can only hear about it, which is interesting.

On the grassland, wolves are never worshipped, and wolves are not any spiritual totem. On the contrary, fighting wolves is the daily life of the grassland people. In order to fight wolves, they have tried every means. The wolf disaster on the grassland is even more of a nightmare.

What makes the border people particularly worried is that these wolves clearly cannot eat so much, but they all bite to death. Obviously, they are full after eating one, but they have to bite the others to death before they stop. No grassland person does not hate wolves, unless he is not a grassland person.

In addition to fighting wolves, when grazing, you must be extra careful about those marmots digging holes. If you step into them, your legs are easy to break, and on the grassland, where there is no road, you must never ride a horse at night, otherwise the horse will stumble and it will cost people's lives.

These are the grasslands that Zhu Yijun does not understand.

"The Loyal and Obedient Lady came from afar, and I have no rewards. According to the old custom, I still reward 100 silver coins, one pair of front-facing cloaks, ten bottles of national cellar, plus four tables of silk and 5,000 strings of paper money." Zhu Yijun rewarded the envoy who came from afar. In any case, Sanniangzi is also very, very sensible.

"Your Majesty, Li Yashi is waiting outside the hall." Feng Bao reminded the Emperor of today's schedule. In addition to Oda Oichi and Sanniangzi, there is also a Li Yashi. Li Yashi came to join in the fun. He is more like a Ming official from beginning to end, especially in the matter of flattering. ===== CHAPTER 563 =====