Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 34 Arms Trade and Conspiracy against Japan【For collection, for further reading】

Chapter 34, the arms trade and plot against Japan.

"Everyone is a guest from afar, but my king has been involved in many things recently, so I have been negligent."

Zhu Daohua said, and ordered people to serve tea.

"This king is a straightforward person, please come here, one is to open up trade, and the other is to join hands tomorrow to fight against the Western Yi."

"Tomorrow and Japan join hands only to target the Western Yi, what about the Qing court?"

Matsudaira asked.

"The expulsion of the Qing Dynasty is our Ming Dynasty's internal affairs, and foreign countries do not need to intervene."

Zhu Daohua said.

Matsudaira Jiali nodded upon hearing this.

In fact, Japan did not want to be involved in the war between Ming and Qing.

"Your Majesty wants to open up trade, may he open up Japan to buy guns, grenades, mortars and other weapons?"

"It's natural."

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Zhu Daohua's mouth.

Now the Ming Palace basically has no property.

The channel for the money is the ship tax and the deposits of the two banks.

However, considering financial security and Ming Yuan's credit, the precious metal reserves absorbed cannot be used casually.

Therefore, the ship tax has become the main source of income for the Palace of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course.

In Zhu Daohua's opinion.

The ship tax belongs to the tax revenue of Ming Palace.

The reserves absorbed by the two banks and the profits generated by minting coins can also be controlled by the Ming Palace.

But King Zhu Ming himself has private property.

For example, Daohua Firm, which makes money from "special drugs" in Europe.

Then there's the arms trade.

Because these arsenals use the technology provided by Zhu Daohua, and Zhu Daohua is also the largest investor.

Therefore, the proceeds from the arms trade naturally belonged to King Zhu Ming himself.

Traditionally, it was difficult to separate the emperor's internal funds from the state treasury.

The emperor is selfless.

The whole country is yours.

If there is something wrong with the country, do you want to pay from your own internal funds?

However, Prince Zhu Ming clearly distinguishes between public and private.

And his industry will also pay taxes-even in the arms industry, the tax rate is quite high.

So Zhu Daohua will not restrict the arms trade.

Being able to use the profits from the arms trade to continuously invest in weapons research and development, forming a positive cycle, and cultivating the military industry is definitely no less than a major industrial chain of the automobile industry in later generations.

And it is impossible to become a powerful country by buying weapons.

Which of the big countries in later generations has its own military industry chain.

Even India.

Don't you also pursue Arjun and Guanghui?

Whether it can be done is another matter.

Just this ambition.

In more than 200 countries around the world.

No matter how it can be ranked.

Zhu Daohua was not afraid of the impact the arms deal would have on him.

Don't say anything else.

Things like yellow gunpowder alone allowed Japan and other countries to study without any clues.

If it is not luck against the sky.

I'm afraid it won't work out in ten or twenty years.

A musket that fires paper shell bullets with fixed mercury fulminate caps and yellow gunpowder as propellant.

Grenades, mortars.

These things are all "consumables".

"Because of the small size of Batam Island, the supply of grenades and mortars is limited, and the price is relatively expensive, because the source of raw materials for yellow powder is extremely precious, and the output is very small."

Zhu Daohua said.

"So we can also sell the pull ignition device of the grenade and the shell with only the ignition device and no gunpowder, and the black powder can also be used when the time comes."

Zhu Daohua was right.

The output of yellow gunpowder is indeed not high-of course, this is not because the source of raw materials is extremely precious, it is only because the army and navy of the Ming army are now refitting with "yellow gunpowder".

It's not enough for my own use.

So just sell empty case grenades and empty case mortar shells.

At that time, it can be used as well as filled with black powder.

It's power.
That would make a lot of sense.

However, after hearing that these weapons can be traded.

Matsudaira was still very excited.

After thinking for a while, he continued: "Your Highness, Japan is currently under lockdown. Can you allow the Japanese shogun to monopolize the trade with the Ming Palace and exclude any Japanese local daimyo?"

Matsudaira is quite envious of the power of grenades and mortars.

And he knows it.

If the local strong vassals are allowed to get such weapons.

It won't take long for another battle to end.
Let the Tokugawa shogunate monopolize the arms trade with the Ming Palace.

This is also to maintain the stability of Japan.

Zhu Daohua smiled and said, "Your Excellency Songping, what this king supports is free trade."

Before Matsudaira could reply.

Zhu Daohua continued: "However, the Tokugawa family are friends of this king. Since they are friends, it is not impossible to discuss."

"Your Majesty, it's okay to say."

Matsudaira Jiali said.

Let the Tokugawa shogunate monopolize the Japan-Daming arms trade.

Then you have to pay the corresponding price.

Everything has a price.

Just to see how to choose it.

"I can in principle allow the Tokugawa family to monopolize the arms trade between Japan and Ming Dynasty, and I can even allow the Tokugawa family to monopolize Japan's foreign trade!"

Zhu Daohua said.

Support the Tokugawa shogunate.

Suppress local powerful vassals.

This was something Zhu Daohua had already thought about.

The reason for this is of course that the existence of the Tokugawa shogunate has suppressed the strength of the powerful feudal clans everywhere.

On the other hand, the weakness of the Tokugawa shogunate also allowed the Ming Palace to exert its influence on Japan more directly.

It is necessary to really let the powerful feudal clans everywhere start to collapse.

Overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

Hold up the Emperor of Japan.

Go down that path in history.

Although Zhu Daohua is not afraid.

But the hundreds of thousands are so poor that they only have one knife left, and the skill of cutting people is quite exquisite. It is still a big trouble to select many Japanese samurai who are "killing people and immortals".

It would be better to consume some of these head-cutting warriors.
Support the Tokugawa shogunate and let Japan maintain such a shogunate system.

Zhu Daohua believes that this is in the interests of Daming.

"Monopoly Japan's foreign trade!!"

Matsudaira stood up with a loud sound.

he knows.

Zhu Daohua, who controls the sea power in the South China Sea, can do this.

And for a long time, although Japan is known as a closed country.

However, local powerful vassals can still ignore the lock-up order and conduct foreign trade on their own.

For example, Satsuma has a close relationship with the Dutch.Through trade with the Dutch, the Tokugawa shogunate has accumulated strength that makes the Tokugawa shogunate quite afraid.

"My lord, what condition do you have?"

Zhu Daohua immediately said: "My condition is, first, I set up a Japanese samurai army to fight in Nanyang!"

"Second, the Ming Dynasty wants to set up an embassy in Edo, and has the right to establish a newspaper office and publish books and periodicals."

"Thirdly, Ming Dynasty can give the Tokugawa shogunate [-] places for foreign students every year to recruit students who enter the Army and Naval Academy and Dowa University."

"Fourth, I need to lease a port facing the Pacific Ocean."

Hearing this, Matsudaira Katoshi began to weigh in his heart.

These few conditions made him very embarrassed.

Want to say that the conditions are harsh?

That's not really harsh.

The Tokugawa shogunate did not lose anything.

But just be afraid.
In other places, powerful feudal vassals took the opportunity to attack.

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