Xinshun 1730

Chapter 352 Two Tigers Competing for Food
The letters are all in Chinese characters. Tokugawa Yoshimune personally taught people about Zhu Zixue in the church, and the level of Sinology is still sufficient.

The more level you are, the more angry you will be.

Liu Yu asked Tokugawa Yoshimune sternly, why did he allow the Satsuma clan to invade and occupy Ryukyu?Although it started from Tokugawa Ieyasu's time, it has not been stopped until now. Isn't this a crime?
It is also a crime to know the chaos and not deal with it.

He also asked Tokugawa Yoshimune why he practiced Jie and Zhou's regime and collected more than [-]% of the tribute. This Sui Yang is not ashamed of it.

Seeing Liu Yu's benevolence and righteousness, Tokugawa Yoshimune laughed instead of anger. He was really laughed at by anger.

Before Liu Yu monopolized the Nagasaki trade, it was not that there were no other shipowners in Tang Renfeng's storytelling, which introduced a lot about Dashun.

Indeed, theoretically Dashun's regular tax is not high, but the tenants still pay nearly [-]% of the land rent, or even higher, these things are clearly written in Tang Feng's storybook.

I thought to myself that I received the tax directly, and the Tang court confiscated so much, but the landlord still collected a lot.

What's more, I'm afraid that your Tang country is not as good as mine. If it is like the former Ming Dynasty, if you can guarantee four people and six people, one person and one job, and the land cannot be bought or sold, how can the country be destroyed?If it is true that one person, one work, four people and six people, I am afraid it is considered good governance.

I also thought that although I increased taxes in order to increase income, resulting in five publics and five people, I at least controlled the annexation of the land, so that there would be no tendency for the annexation of the Tang Dynasty.Even if businessmen are encouraged to reclaim land and rent tenants acquiescingly to increase income, it is not to the extent that the rich are connected to each other in the previous Tang Dynasty tales.

Although I raised the price of rice, the warriors and peasants were happy, and the merchants were suffering, but since ancient times, there has been a benevolent government. How can there be a government that all the people like the scholars, farmers, businessmen, and people like?If the price of rice is low, farmers will be miserable and businessmen will be happy; if the price of rice is high, business will be miserable and farmers will be happy.Is there a law of both safety in the world?

The more I read Liu Yu's letter, the more I felt Liu Yu's hypocrisy.

I only feel that the people of the Tang Dynasty are still suffering. Since you are benevolent and righteous, you don’t go to relieve the suffering of the people of the Tang Dynasty. Why do you use your benevolence and righteousness to stab me?

If you really want to commit a crime, why don't you have excuses?

Looking at these eloquent accusations of benevolence, righteousness and morality, Tokugawa Yoshimune directly turned over.

The issue of benevolence and righteousness is debated by Confucian scholars, but it is a meaningless issue.

He wanted to know what Liu Yu really wanted.

After turning through four or five pages of nonsense about benevolence, justice, benevolence, and benevolent government, and finally came to the moment when Tu Qiong saw it, Tokugawa Yoshimune was shocked, and then he realized that this time the matter was serious.

He thought Dashun's biggest request was to make the Shimadzu family apologize and not get involved in Ryukyu affairs.Or it's just talking about it again, forcing him to pay tribute, never wanting to see the back, every sentence is shocking.

The stagnant Qi and blood in his chest kept surging up, making his temple throb and throbbing, as if the tide of Edo Bay was rushing to hit his head.

Until the end, Liu Yu reminded him "very kindly" that if he didn't want to take the blame, he could let the person who lived in "Luoyang" take the blame.

Tokugawa Yoshimune snorted and sneered a few times, thinking that you are kind enough to even think of this?
He raised his head and asked the two Tosa retainers.

"The ships of the Tang Dynasty are really invincible?"

The two Tosa's retainers recalled the warships they had seen in Kochi, and recalled the scene where the warships fired a salvo and shattered the ship, and they fell to the ground and did not dare to speak.

It took a long time before he said: "The ship is strong and the guns are sharp, and it is impossible for the navy to fight. A cannon can be corrupted for dozens of miles, and the opponents will be broken, and the mountains and rocks will be cracked. It is really invincible."

After describing the scale of the Tang Dynasty fleet in a down-to-earth manner, and conveying Liu Yu's words of "give him time to organize the navy and fight in Uraga", Tokugawa Yoshimune knew that the navy would not be able to win anyway.

Both Liu Yu and Shi Shiyong have been to Edo, and since they have come prepared and confident, they have made up their minds that the naval forces cannot confront each other.

If the conditions in the letter were a little more relaxed, Tokugawa Yoshimune actually had the intention to agree directly.In terms of credibility, he couldn't agree to it anyway, and if he agreed, he would die, which was tantamount to quenching thirst with poison.

But the water army can't win, and the army doesn't seem to be able to win. Even if it is the most elite banner in Edo, it is impossible for 500 people to break through Kochi Castle, and no one can stop it for dozens of miles across Tosa.

Besides, Dashun is a big country, how can it only have five hundred soldiers capable of fighting?It is not too much to add a hundred times.Even if all the registered samurai are called together, including the old, weak, sick and disabled, Edo will no longer guard, and it will only be 30. What is the fight?
His head hurt more and more, Tokugawa Yoshimune withdrew the letter, told the two Tosa's retainers to step down first, and summoned his trusted and important ministers, the old Zhong Fengxing, etc., to speak to Liu Yu's letter about the request for "founding the country" first. .

Ooka Tadashi Ooka, who is a frequent guest, identity and fame in Japanese TV dramas of later generations, is similar to the "Kaifeng Governor" at this time, leaving behind many legends of solving cases. , has some say in the founding of the country.

When Liu Yu came to Edo that day, he also met once, and also studied the pamphlet left by Liu Yu on the reform of the currency system. In a blink of an eye, he became the enemy of oppressing the shogunate.

"His Royal Highness, Arai Shiraishi once said in the past: Gold and silver are not comparable to rice and millet, and cannot be regenerated. Since the Zhuyin ship trade, most of the country's gold and silver have been lost. For this reason, Arai Shiraishi established a trade credit card system to strictly prevent the outflow of gold and silver. Although the general Not liking the person, but extending the government, is a good example of good governance."

"Silk, silk, porcelain, etc. from the Tang people are all sought after. On the other side of Nagasaki, the Tang people's maritime merchants only like copper ingots, and they are not willing to carry things such as tassels."

"If the country was founded, goods from the Tang Dynasty would flood in, and the country's gold and silver would flow out. In a few years, the gold and silver would decrease and the goods would increase, and the price of gold and silver would become more expensive. I'm afraid that the merchants will hoard gold and silver. If so, there may be another Liu Yu of the Tang Dynasty called the disaster of 'deflation'."

"This country has nothing to sell except copper; Tang people have nothing to enter except copper. Although the people of Tang also banned cutting alchemy, the policy of locking the country must not be changed, and the gate of the country must not be opened."

Japan is different from Dashun. The "central bank" of Dashun is the East India Company of Japan and Western countries. If it hadn't been for the development of Yunnan in the past few years, along with the economic development, it might not even be able to mint copper coins.

But Dashun doesn't have to worry at all, because the money will be sent in a steady stream as soon as he sits there, so he doesn't think too much about it at all.

Japan itself has gold and silver mountains, and they are not metaphorical gold and silver mountains, but real gold and silver mountains. They are still extremely sensitive to the outflow of gold and silver.

The reform of Arai Shiraishi cut off the financial resources of Dashun maritime merchants, and led to the involution of Dashun maritime merchants. From the original cooperation to control the bargaining power and partner with Japanese businessmen, the previous maritime merchant involution was divided into Zhangzhou Gang and Fuzhou Gang. And the Zhejiang Gang, these shogunate are all in their eyes.

If Liu Yu hadn't really helped the shogunate a lot before, Tokugawa Yoshimune would not have acquiesced in Liu Yu's monopoly position in Nagasaki trade.

At this time, Ooka Zhongxiang mentioned this matter again, and asserted that the founding of the country must never be established, even if Dashun banned Catholicism, that would not work.

Once the country is founded, without even thinking about it, Japan's silk industry, industry and commerce will be completely finished.

All experience comes from summing up, and China has no chance to sum up, because even if the time comes, even if the British have stolen tea seeds and planted them in India for self-production and self-marketing, there is still no chance to sum up, because even if opium is included, it is still surplus.It wasn't until the time when small farmers were dumped that they went bankrupt that "sighted people" figured it out.

Japan has experience, and it has experience as early as decades ago. The porcelain of Dashun Marine Merchant almost destroyed Japan's fledgling porcelain.

The porcelain industry, which took advantage of the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty when Westerners could not get goods in China, was in jeopardy less than 20 years after Dashun stabilized the world.

As a last resort, a policy was introduced, and the ship that transported porcelain in Nagasaki was seized and the trade letter was canceled directly, which preserved the Japanese porcelain industry.

And that was the case when Dashun merchants mainly sold silk, and occasionally used ballast to transport porcelain.

Since there is an opportunity to sum up experience, it will not be wrong to respond in this way. Regarding the founding of the country, from a purely economic point of view, it must not be opened.

Tokugawa Yoshimune sighed, and said helplessly: "Man is a sword and I am a fish. Liu Yu is a child who is well versed in the way of water warfare. I am afraid that it will be difficult to have the help of Kamakura Kamikaze. He has practical knowledge and astronomy, and now he can directly Come to Edo. If you can come to Edo, how about Nagasaki and Satsuma?"

Ooka Tadashi had already considered this point, and said: "Your Highness, our country is small, and we have no big ships, so water warfare is indeed invincible. But our country is not good at water warfare, but there are people who are good at water warfare. I have a drive A plan to devour a wolf."

"Oh? The plan will be released?"

As soon as Tokugawa Yoshimune spoke, he immediately thought of the Dutchman.If it is said that Japan can be contacted at this time and is good at water warfare, it is only the Dutch.

The Shimabara Rebellion was also thanks to the help of the Dutch. The fleet bombarded the Catholics in Shimabara, and people from the Dutch business house came to visit every year...

However, tigers are not stupid, how can they drive away tigers?
Tokugawa Yoshimune, who had read the Three Kingdoms, shook his head and said: "Xun Wenruo's plan is that two tigers compete for food, and he is acting as the chancellor of the Han Dynasty, coercing the emperor to command the princes. Therefore, Liu Bei can be proclaimed as the shepherd of Xuzhou, which will make Lu Bu hate him deeply. Old man How can Tang and He fight against each other?"

Ooka Tadashi met Tokugawa Yoshimune and had already thought of the Dutch, so he explained his strategy.

The so-called driving tigers to devour wolves is not about killing people with a knife. More precisely, it can also be called "two tigers competing for food".

Since it is competition for food, there must be food first, and this food must be the food that both tigers want.

Originally, there was no contestable food between Dashun and Holland.

But now that Dashun has asked Japan to establish a country, and the Netherlands has always hoped that Japan will expand Japan-Dutch trade and send more trade letters to the Netherlands. Then there is a basis for "competition" between Dashun and the Netherlands.

Japan's own gold and silver, or the market, is the food that the two tigers compete for.

After Ooka Tadashi explained why he drove the tigers and wolves, Tokugawa Yoshimune nodded with a smile on his face, but then said: "If the Dutch win, the wolves may be driven away, and the tigers will come again."

"I can't defeat the fleet of the Tang people. If the Tang people can't defeat the Dutch, how can I defeat the Dutch fleet?"

Ooka Tadashi was confident, and said with relief: "Your Highness, don't worry, the Netherlands is a tiger in the navy of the Tang Dynasty. In our country, the Netherlands is nothing more than a rabbit."

(End of this chapter)