When Li Yanguang saw Chu Qi coming out, he went up to him and asked, "Sir, what did the Master Ge tell you?"

Chu Qi said calmly: "Some trivial matters. I want to go down and rest. Please beg you to watch over here. Guo Jian will bring people to take turns to replace you later."

When Li Yanguang saw Chu Qi leave, he was also thinking about it.

The master he followed was amazing. He was the son of the Minister of War and was very close to the Grand Secretary of the Dongge. He had to work harder to follow him in the future. After Chu Qi was promoted, he might be able to become a thousand households.

The positions of the middle and high-level officials of the Jinyiwei are limited, from ordinary members to small flags, general flags, test households, hundreds of households, deputy thousand households, thousand households, and tutors. After becoming a sixth-rank 100 household, you need not only qualifications, but also background and achievements.

Chu Qi didn't know how envious Li Yanguang and other subordinates were of him. The ordinary Jinyiwei households and thousands of households could rarely meet the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet directly, and they would talk to him at night.

The Ming envoys stayed in the Satsuma vassal for three days. In order to show their loyalty, the vassal lords and retainers of the Satsuma vassal arrested a group of troubled ronin to please the Ming envoys.

Seeing that the Satsuma clan showed enough loyalty and sincerity, Zhang Wenzheng promised the Satsuma clan that the shogunate would adjust the shogunate and reassess the contributions of the shogunate and the various vassals to the Ming Empire.

Three days later, the Ming envoys boarded the ship again and prepared to leave the Satsuma Phantom and continue sailing to other Eastern cities.

Chu Qi stood on the deck of the ironclad ship and looked at Shimazu Kuraki, Okupo Rito, Komatsu Haruka and others on the shore.

Because the ironclad ship has a deep draft and is anchored in a deeper water area, you can only see the shadows of the Satsuma family.

In the Satsuma clan, Chu Qi felt that he would deal with them in the future.

Zheng Jingzhong, the admiral of the Navy of the Second Fleet, walked to Chu Qi and looked at Kagoshima: "The combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the Satsuma clan was second only to our Ming army, especially the navy. They fought bravely. They were a top servant army in the vassal state. The soldiers of the Tokugawa Shogunate were far inferior to the Satsuma clan. The only disadvantage was that the Satsuma clan was too small, no, maybe it was because of the small number of people that were easy to control."

Chu Qi nodded. He learned a lot about this trip to the East.

Among them, the Satsuma family was one of the first powerful vassals to learn industrial technology from the Ming Dynasty. Kagoshima had iron smelting reflectors, molten furnaces, drilling plates, glass factories, forging factories, steam machinery manufacturing institutes, metal fine processing institutes, coin factories, shipbuilding institutes, textile factories, etc. Therefore, the Satsuma family did not take the conservative Tokugawa shogunate seriously.

As a dog of the Ming Dynasty, why can the backward Tokugawa shogunate gain more say, while the industrialized Satsuma tribe still obey the shogunate?

When Chu Qi and Zheng Jingzhong looked at them, Shimazu Kokusa, Okupo Rito and others were also watching the Ming iron-clad ship floating on the sea.

Shimazu Kurashima sighed: "The army of the Ming Empire is so prosperous that we can't compete with it. Okupo Ritsu, do you think the Ming Dynasty will let the Tokugawa family step down and replace it with our group of powerful industrial vassals?"

Okupo Ritoshi said: "Although these three days are difficult and he was forced to arrest a group of ronin in our vassal, as long as we express our loyalty, the Ming Empire should consider our demands. After all, we are more capable than the shogunate."

Shimazu Kuraki turned his head to a middle-aged Satsuma general and said, "Mr. Saigo Takamori, the Ming Dynasty has already spoken. During this period, you are asked to recruit some unemployed ronin in the vassal, confiscate their samurai swords, and then train them for a little training and send them to Nanyang."

Takaho Saigo, who led the Satsuma cavalry, pondered: "Does the Ming Dynasty plan to use them to consume the troops of the great powers in the South China Sea?"

Okupo Rito's eyes were deep: "Ronin has no productivity and will become a hidden danger. The Ming Empire wants to use war to eliminate this hidden danger... Our Satsuma vassal is too small and has a small population, so it is difficult to become a strong country. If you want to be prosperous and strong, you either surrender to the Ming Dynasty or surrender to the great powers. It is better to surrender to the Ming Dynasty than to the great powers. After all, we are a civilization in the same cultural circle..."

Takamoto Saigo said: "I'm afraid the Ming Dynasty will treat us as a gun."

"When the gun commander shows that we still have value, our status is much higher than that of Goryeo and Annan. Selling us two ironclad ships is the best proof."

Shimazu Kuraku and Okupo Ritsune both lamented that it was not easy to be a vassal country, and they also had to always look at the Ming Dynasty's face.

Among the six major vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, there are also divisions of different levels.

The basis for division is very simple. Whoever contributes more to the Ming Dynasty is worthy of training and becomes a higher vassal state. For example, the status of the Oriental Shogunate is higher than that of the Goryeo and Annan countries, which is higher than that of the Siam, Touyu and Kazakh Khanate.

There are also power struggles in the vassal states, battles between the shogunate and the vassal states, and battles between middle and high-level samurai and ronin.

The Ming Empire wanted to maintain its sovereignty in the six major vassal states, but also interfered in their internal affairs.

The Second Fleet of the Ming Empire escorted the envoys, first visiting Kagoshima in the Satsuma clan, and then Nagasaki and Maguan.

The Ming envoy visited the Changshu vassal, which was also one of the four strong vassals. The vassal lord Maori and his retainers were also respectful to the Ming envoys.

The Grand Secretary of the Dongge, like the vassal lords of the Satsuma clan, blamed the vassal lords of the Choshu clan to indulge the ronin to resist the shogunate and restore the emperor, which made the vassal lords of the Choshu clan and a group of retainers sweat profusely.

Under the pressure of the Ming Dynasty, the Changzhou vassal also attacked the active ronin in the vassal.

After Zhang Wenzheng beat him up, he promised to make changes to the shogunate and enhance the voice of the various vassals.

Carrots and sticks have always been the means of control of the vassal states by the sect leader over the vassal states.

The Ming fleet passed through the Seto Inland Sea, passed through Osaka Prefecture, and finally arrived at Yokohama Port in Edo Bay.

Yokohama Port is very close to Edo Castle where the Tokugawa Shogunate is located, and Edo Castle is the destination of this envoy.

In order to strengthen control of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Ming Empire sent a long-term garrison in Yokohama Port and also provided ship repair services in its own shipyard.

The Tokugawa Shogunate's fleet was moored at Yokohama Port, and they had long been notified from the Sect Master.

Since the moment we entered Yokohama Port, the Ming fleet received the most solemn treatment of this trip.

In order to cater to the envoys of the sect leader, the shogunate navy not only fired cannons, but also set off firecrackers and lion danced to celebrate!

For a time, the Yokohama Port Pier was decorated with lights, gongs and drums were clamoring, and firecrackers were connected!
Chapter completed!