I'm really not doing business

Chapter 268 Sincerity is the greatest nirvana
Ashikaga Yoshiaki's Japanese king was the name conferred by the Ming Dynasty to the Muromachi shogunate, while the conquering general was the name conferred by the Japanese public family on Ashikaga Yoshiaki himself, which gave Ashikaga Yoshiaki still some appeal.

After the news that Ashikaga Yoshiaki re-established the shogunate in Nagasaki was released, he still called on a group of people to come and defect.

Therefore, the Nagasaki Shogunate was not an empty shell. It had the people and organizations to run the political power.

For example, the Feng Gong Zong, Feng Xing Zhong, Tong Peng Zhong, Sarusaku Zhong, Shi Yi Zhong, and Female House Clusters who are building in the townhouses do not have much strength. They mainly serve Ashikaga Yoshiaki. For example, the Female House Clusters let Sun Keyi and Ma Jin Others simply couldn't understand that the poor man, who was begging for food everywhere, actually had a lot of female relatives with him.

The more powerful one here is Da Mingzhong.

The daimyo are composed of the descendants of daimyo such as Kitahata Tomichika of Ise, Takeda Nobukage of Wakasa, Yanagisawa Motomasa, Naito Junyasu of Tamba, Rokkaku Yoshihiro of Omi, Soga Harusuke of Echizen Province, etc. These daimyo are the ones who were Sun Keyi joked that they were a group of people who formed an alliance with losers.

The daimyo are the old ministers, guardians, and guardians who had their territories confiscated or expelled by Nobunaga. They came to Nagasaki to worship Ashikaga Yoshiaki and seek to restore their territories and positions. In general, the total number of people directly involved in the Muromachi shogunate was no less than More than 100 people.

"It's just wishful thinking for these people to be able to defeat the Great Demon King Owari. After arriving in Nagasaki, they never did anything to try their luck. They were either watching monkey shows, whoring with prostitutes, or fighting for victory. It was all a matter of debauchery and debauchery. Son, the little money in hand has been spent on places like this. The only thing they have in common is complaining about Oda Nobunaga. How can they defeat the big devil?" Sun Keyi was very dissatisfied with these people.

After failure, there are two attitudes towards failure. The first one is to be brave, and three thousand more troops can swallow Wu; the second one is to be disheartened, weak and dissolute.

Among this group of losers, the only one who really wants to fight against Oda Nobunaga is the general Ashikaga Yoshiaki. No matter what the motivation is, Ashikaga Yoshiaki is seriously trying to form a force to resist Nobunaga. After returning to Luo, he became the most ambitious among these losers.

As for the monkey opera that Sun Keyi mentioned, it is not a kind of monkey music, but a kind of San music that originated from the Han Dynasty. However, when the Han Dynasty's San music spread to the Japanese country, it dropped from the major key to the minor key, directly from the human world to the underworld. Sun Keyi said Monkey opera actually shows contempt for Japanese culture.

Like most of the culture that was introduced to the Japanese country from the Ming Dynasty, one-third of the human nature cannot be learned, but the seven-point animal nature is deeply ingrained, and even if it is really stolen, it cannot be understood.

"No, no, no, with such a bunch of wimps, do you really want our general to have so many generals and talents? If he really has so many generals, how could he be exiled and beg for food everywhere?"

"The king becomes the king and the bandits are defeated; the king becomes the bandits and the bandits are defeated."

"It's this group of guys who have failed in success and failed in failure. They are the people we need. In this way, they will not have any burden to do bad things in the name of supporting the general in Luo. No matter what we need, we can use them." Xu Wei was very satisfied with the condition of these people.

Expecting a group of defeated dogs to defeat Oda Nobunaga in a head-on fight is better than hoping that a sow will climb a tree. Xu Wei never expected this group of people to do anything big. From the beginning, he hoped that these people would win over Oda. Do it on Nobunaga's territory!break!bad!
On the battlefield, these people were just delivering food to Oda Nobunaga, the big devil. But if we change our thinking, these people could use their connections to spy on intelligence, sabotage supplies, spread rumors, etc., and it would be useful.

"Sir, that's what you said." Sun Keyi was stunned for a moment, not knowing what his husband had realized in prison. There was absolutely no morality at all.

"Has the envoy from the Maori family arrived?" Xu Wei didn't even plan to say anything to these people in person. When he needed them to do something, he would just promise benefits in the name of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and let them do it.

Xu Wei is more concerned about the Maori Terumoto of the Maori family. There are two reasons. The frontal battlefield still depends on the name of the Maori family and Kyushu Island. On the other hand, it is what Xu Wei cares about the most and what the Ming court cares about the most.

Oda Nobunaga's strategy of Tenkabubu is now advancing westward and attacking the territory of the Maori family. The Maori family urgently needs an ally to support him against Oda Nobunaga's invasion, and this ally must be strong enough to help him defend the organization. Tian Nobunaga's attack.

"It's said that the adopted son of the Maori family's governor has arrived." Sun Keyi said with a very strange look on his face.

When Xu Wei saw this adopted son, he immediately understood why Sun Keyi looked strange, because Xu Wei recognized this person as Maori Huiyuan himself. There was no such thing as an adopted son, he was just pretending to be an adopted son.

Compared with the failed crowd, the other group of people, the group of people worthy of Xu Wei's personal visit, should be called the confrontation crowd.

There are more than 30 people, but the protagonists are Omura Juntada, Hizen Kuniryuzoji Takanobu, Otomo Sorin, Shimazu Yoshihiro and others are waiting.

Ryuzoji Takanobu and Otomo Sorin are both the head governors. Only Shimazu Yoshihiro is not. His elder brother Shimazu Yoshihisa is the lord of the Satsuma Domain. As Shimazu Yoshihiro's right-hand man, it can be seen that the Satsuma Domain has no regard for the feudal lord. The attention of the Second Alliance.

If you find a painter to paint at this time, the name of the painting will be "Meeting of the Nagasaki Shogunate", and the picture must be of Xu Wei, Sun Keyi, Ma Jin, Mouri Terumoto, Omura Junchu, Ryuzoji Takanobu, Otomo Sorin and Shimazu Yoshihiro et al.

Nagasaki shogunate meeting, where is the shogun?Of course the shogun was at the meeting, but he was just watching the monkey show with the Ming Dynasty people.

There is no clear stipulation in the vassal ritual notes regarding the etiquette for meeting these people, but Xu Wei was quite polite to them.

For example, Ryuzoji Takanobu is the head of the Hizen Kingdom, and the land of Nagasaki is on his territory, while Omura Juntada is just a small-time landowner in the Hizen Kingdom. Can Omura Juntada serve on the table? He offered Nagasaki before it could be served.

As for Otomo Sorin, he is known as the master of Kyushu Island and has six kingdoms under his command. This is not bragging. There are nine kingdoms in Kyushu Island, and Otomo Sorin actually controls six. He also owns a territory on Honshu Island, and Maori. The two families have been tit-for-tat for many years without losing the upper hand.

"It's very gratifying that the Governor Maori has come in person." Before starting, Xu Wei first revealed the identity of Maori Huiyuan and took off his adopted son's waistcoat. Everyone spoke clearly.

Maori Huiyuan's expression changed several times. He couldn't help but think of those white stripes in the waves, people riding around on hydrofoil sailboats. According to the rumors of the Japanese country, these people were the dragons in the sea, flying everywhere in the world. cannot.

If this envoy from the Ming Dynasty could recognize him at a glance, he had obviously seen his portrait, and the portrait was very exquisite, so he could be recognized at a glance.

This represents a terrible intelligence gathering ability. Just like the Ming Emperor who lives in the ninth level, only the courtiers can see the emperor every day. On the third day of every month, the courtiers can take a look at him from a distance, so if you want to know the emperor The specific appearance is a difficult thing.

Mouri Terumoto's appearance was leaked by people around him.

Xu Wei's words meant that if Ming Dynasty carried out an assassination, he would never kill the wrong person.

"You're welcome, angel." Maori Huiyuan admitted his identity with a complex expression, while the other people were whispering among each other.

"You all are here this time to congratulate the establishment of the Nagasaki shogunate. Our general Ashikaga Yoshiaki is not a weakling. Although he has failed many times, he has always wanted to revitalize the shogunate. He has been asking for help everywhere, but there is no way. When we arrived at the Ming Emperor's place in the suzerain country, His Majesty had an edict, ordering a certain person to act expediently." Xu Wei motioned to Sun Keyi to show him the Ming Emperor's imperial edict.

The Japanese country does not yet have its own written language, it is all in Chinese, and these people can completely understand the content of the imperial edict given by the emperor.

At this time, Nagasaki was not very powerful. There were only a few thousand people in the Tang Hall and Fujian Guild Hall in the townhouse. The strength of the Nagasaki Governor's Palace was indeed very weak, but Xu Wei was very powerful behind the scenes.

Standing behind him is the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. This is the reason why Xu Wei can be so arrogant and arrogant. It is the reason why he asked these people to come and these people had to come.

This angered the angel, and he ordered the manager of the Japanese merchant ship not to trade with a certain Japanese country, which would really hurt the vitality of the country.

The economy is also a force at certain times, especially when there is no complete break-up. Its power is even greater than force.

For the barbarians around the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was the kingdom of heaven, which was determined by the strength of the country. Even though the Japanese troubles had been going on for so long, the Japanese lords tried their best to support them, but they were finally defeated by the Ming Dynasty. It was pacified, and in the process of pacifying the Japanese, the biggest resistance actually came from the party strife in the court, rather than the lack of strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Wei signaled Sun Keyi to put away the imperial edict, looked at Maori Huiyuan and asked with a smile: "I heard that Iwami Yinshan is in the hands of the Maori family governor?"

"Yes." Mouri Terumoto nodded and said: "The Ouchi clan, the Nishi clan and I, the Mouri clan, fought for Iwami Ginzan for more than 70 years, and it ended with my grandfather winning. It was passed to me. This is also the Oda letter. The fundamental reason why we want to expand westward is silver."

Oda Nobunaga is a very ambitious man. He proposed the deployment of military force across the world. Naturally, he wanted to end the chaos of the Japanese Warring States Period. However, this process also required real money, and the Iwami Ginzan controlled by the Mori family , which is real money.

The Ouchi clan was annexed by Otomo Sorin, the leader of the six kingdoms of Kyushu Island.

"Iwami Ginzan can currently produce 33 taels of silver a year, while the entire Japanese country can only produce 150 million to 180 million taels a year." Maori Terumoto knows the Iwami Ginzan very well in his hands. Iwami Ginzan is the largest output of Japan. The largest silver mountain, money always flows to places with more money. Iwami Silver Mountain is also the largest silver distribution place in Japan. Nearly [-]% of Japan's silver is collected and distributed in Iwami Silver Mountain.

"To be honest, Your Majesty sent me to the Japanese country just for silver. The Ming Dynasty needs as much silver as the sea water." Xu Wei explained the court's intention. As a result of the court discussions among the Ming court officials, they actually had little interest in destroying the Japanese. But there was great interest in Japanese silver.

The only supporters of the 20-year long-term plan to destroy the Japanese were Zhang Juzheng and the emperor, and the initial motivation for this plan was still because they did not want to be controlled by others due to the inflow of silver.

Even if King Felipe II of Spain in the West has been increasing the export of white silver to the West, even if the galleons trade has always been smooth, and even if Spain has always maintained its dominance in the West, the Ming Dynasty cannot completely control the fate of the Ming Dynasty. of silver is entirely in the hands of others.

Xu Wei has been telling the truth. This is the highest level of deception. Without any lies, how can we distinguish between truth and falsehood?

Sincerity is the greatest nirvana.

"The Ming Dynasty is interested in Iwami Ginzan?" Maori Terumoto frowned. He was already a little nervous. If the Ming Dynasty envoy ambushed the swordsman, he would definitely not be able to leave Nagasaki today. The reason why he wore a vest, I am just afraid of such things as swordsmen.

"I reiterate, Ming Dynasty is interested in silver, but has no interest in silver mountain at all. I am a soft-hearted person and can't stand the suffering." Xu Wei said very sincerely.

Xu Wei knew very well the lives of the kiln residents in Shijian Yinshan.

A child starts working in Yinshan at the age of nine, and starts working in the kiln after the age of 15. Whenever a kiln dweller can live past the age of 30, the local village community will hold a banquet to celebrate. Starting from the age of 15, I have to go down to the kiln shaft of more than 30 feet every day and work around the clock until I have dug enough silver materials before leaving the kiln. Mountains, Huancavelika Silver Mountain, etc. are very similar. The surrounding rocks of Silver Mountain are soft and not solid, and are very easy to collapse. Moreover, there are poisonous gases under the ground. Some of these poisonous gases are suffocating, and some can explode. Some kill people invisibly, while others cause lifelong harm.

The suffering of mining is still part of it. The kiln residents have to use soot blowing method to refine silver every day. Now the European and American missionaries have brought the amalgam method to use mercury to refine gold and silver. These kiln residents have inhaled a large amount of mercury, and in a short time In just a few days, the gums and oral epidermis will fall off, diarrhea, and lethargy. As time goes by, forgetfulness, difficulty breathing, chest pain, low back pain, and general edema will begin.

When gold and silver are refined using the amalgam method, the mercury poison continues to penetrate from the skin into the bone marrow. The limbs begin to tremble, become weak, the whole body begins to become weak, and then death comes.

It only takes about four years for mercury poisoning to turn a strong man into a puddle of mud, a mountain of silver, and a real hell on earth.

Xu Wei was still telling the truth. He couldn't stand the pain, so he just disappeared, as long as the silver was delivered as scheduled.

If Xu Wei is really allowed to manage Yinshan, he will only completely ban the amalgam method of refining silver. After all, as a beacon of civilization and an envoy of the Celestial Kingdom, Xu Wei also has the common problem of the Ming Dynasty, high moral inferiority, even if he can overcome his own Guan, as for those officials in the court who were looking for trouble, if they knew that Xu Wei had done such an unscrupulous thing, Xu Wei could be drowned by spitting.

The amalgam method is very harmful, but its yield is really high.

The Ming Dynasty still used the sootblowing method with relatively backward technology to refine silver. Who knows that without the silver mountains in the Ming Dynasty, this industry would not be able to develop at all.

"Ah, I just want silver, not mountains of silver." Maori Huiyuan finally showed a bright smile.

He was very worried that a country like the Ming Dynasty would obtain silver in a barbaric and forceful way, but it was obvious that Maori Terumoto underestimated the brilliance of the Ming Dynasty's humanity. The master who came from the Ming Dynasty really couldn't bear to see these hardships.

"I need silver, and the Maori family governor has silver, so we hit it off. I have a detailed trade list here." Xu Wei asked Sun Keyi to send a trade list. There is a dazzling array of Ming Dynasty merchants.

"I wonder if there are any armaments?" Maori Huiyuan read the list and was very satisfied with the trade list. Everything that can be bought in Songjiang Prefecture can be bought at Songjiang Yuanhang Trading Company, but Mao Li Huiyuan also wants to buy something else. .

"Yes." Xu Wei gave an affirmative answer, and then asked Sun Keyi to take out another list, which contained ordnance.

There are all kinds of long and short soldiers, bows and arrows, arrows, gunpowder, fire blunderbuss, and artillery. If Qi Jiguang were here, he would find that these are all weapons that have been eliminated by the Ming Dynasty army. For example, the bird blunderbuss made in the 36th year of Jiajing can actually be used. But the costumes have been changed, so they are all eliminated.

Whether in Taixi or Ming Dynasty, they all agree that money is the devil.

The emperor actually sold his ordnance for silver. Wasn't he afraid that the Japanese would continue to harass the Ming Dynasty with Ming Dynasty weapons?The Japanese invasion did not completely subside until the second year of Wanli. In June of the fifth year of Wanli, a group of Japanese pirates from Ryukyu invaded the Ming Dynasty and were annihilated by the Songjiang navy.

The emperor was blinded by money and obsessed with profit. So what are the Ming Gong in the court doing? Don't they know how to give advice?

The reason is actually very simple, because I am not afraid.

In the 36th year of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty could only build [-] fire blunderbuss a year, and it only took five years to build, and then stopped because the court was so poor that it had no money to build. Now it is completely different. With supplies gradually becoming sufficient, the Ming Dynasty's troops have begun to change their equipment. Taking the current gun as an example, the number of weapons produced by the Ming Dynasty's weapons supervisors per year has increased from [-] to [-], and this production capacity is still rising.

These obsolete ordnance is troublesome to destroy, and it is even more troublesome to keep it. It is better to sell it directly to the Japanese daimyo.

Zhang Juzheng once discussed with the young emperor that any extravagant memorial, as long as the cost is not discussed, is bullshit and nonsense. Obviously, selling obsolete ordnance at this time is also one of the costs. The purpose is to bring the Japanese country into the water. , once again turned the world upside down.

The Mori clan could not defeat Oda Nobunaga. What if the Mori clan had the support of many daimyo on Kyushu Island?What if we add the Maori domain supported by the Ming Dynasty?
Maori Terumoto looked at the long list of ordnance names, looked at Xu Wei in horror, then looked at the list, and said several times in a row: "Can the things on this really be bought?"

"You bought a lot of firearms from Hongmaofan. They are expensive and the quantity is small. But the Ming Dynasty has a large quantity and high quality, so of course you can buy it." Xu Wei's smile was very sincere. This is The second reason why the Ming Dynasty sold obsolete ordnance is that the Ming Dynasty did not sell to the Japanese, the Hongmao Fanhui sold it to the Japanese, and all artillery and firecrackers were sold.

Everyone is here to grab the market. Before the sea was not opened, the meat was given to you by the red-haired fans. Now the red-haired fans can’t even drink a mouthful of soup.

In front of silver, nothing is without price, including the soul - Taixi envoy Legas.

As a believer, Legaz was very resistant to gold and silver, but Spain also needed silver to unite the scattered country into one piece. This kind of disgust and need is a very contradictory perception.

The confidence in Maori Huiyuan's heart finally became a little stronger. He asked with a hopeful look: "Is there any food for sale?"

"That's true." Xu Wei spread his hands and said, "As you know, grain ships are easy to sink. Almost no maritime merchants are willing to transport grain for sale because the risk is too great."

The Ming Dynasty had grain tanks, but the number of grain tanks was not enough for the Ming Dynasty. How could it have the time to transport grain to Japan?Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also needed food, so transporting food abroad was a difficult task.

"The Japanese country still has to find ways to raise food on its own." Xu Wei saw too many people starving to death when he arrived in the Japanese country. The main reason was the lack of food. The lack of food does not mean that there is not enough cultivated land. Although at the moment, the Japanese country is mountainous and narrow. But the Japanese country, with a population of less than 1000 million, can still afford to support such a large place.

The lack of food was mainly due to the frequent wars in the Japanese country. Under the war disasters, production and life were extremely severely damaged. The land was barren and water conservancy was blocked. There were many reasons. Farmers fled, young men were dragged away to fight, and the fleeing soldiers became Bandits and bandits caused trouble in all directions, and the Japanese countries also suffered from Japanese troubles.

This formed a vicious cycle. Land desolation led to famine, which became a reason for war. Famine and war simultaneously led to a decrease in population, further aggravating land desolation.

In fact, the Japanese country has gradually found the answer to the problem during more than 100 years of chaotic war, which is to end this troubled world.

Oda Nobunaga appeared in front of everyone, and it can be said that it was what people wanted. Even though Oda Nobunaga died in the hands of rebels, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu after Oda Nobunaga both Trying to find stability.

What Xu Wei did was very evil in the Ming Dynasty's values. For the sake of silver, he muddied the waters of Japan and plunged Japan into war again. This is what Xu Wei was doing.

The Ming Dynasty destroyed the Japanese. The Ming Dynasty army could not kill all the Japanese, but if the Japanese were allowed to kill themselves, it could be done.

There is a conflict between Terumoto Mori and Sorin Otomo, because the Mori clan and the Ouchi clan have to fight against the Mori clan because Ouchi clan's head was beaten to death by Iwami Ginzan and annexed the Ouchi clan's Otomo Sorin; while Sorin Ouchi and Satsuma The Shimazu clan of the feudal dynasty also had conflicts. The main contradiction was that the Shimazu clan wanted to become the king and hegemon, but Otomo Sorin's master of the six countries of Kyushu Island stopped the Shimazu clan.

Even they themselves couldn't explain the contradiction here. After killing for so many years, they had long forgotten why they were fighting in the first place.

There were complicated conflicts between them, but Xu Wei brought them together and sat down to talk business.

Silver, sulfur, Japanese women, and fish oil are the four bulk commodities. The bulk of them is mainly silver, and the Ming Dynasty can provide too many commodities, such as tea, porcelain, silk, cotton, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, books, and jade. The list goes on and on.

Xu Wei never forgot what he came to do in Japan. He let Ming merchant ships shuttle around Japan, collect all information, and send it back to Ming Dynasty to prepare for Ming Dynasty to destroy Japan. Langli Baitiao pretended to be the escort of merchants. hospital for spying.

Collecting intelligence is a long-term task, and the first thing Xu Wei did when he gathered people together was to do business.

After confirming the trade list, Nagasaki's status as the Oriental World Trade House was completely established. The Taixi people were more greedy than the Ming people. The Taixi people not only wanted silver, but also souls, while the Ming Dynasty was much simpler. Just silver.

After confirming the trade list, Xu Wei immediately followed the trend and said: "Here is a treaty to ensure the smooth passage of Ming merchant ships. You can take a look. If you have no objections, sign it. If you have objections, you can object. We Let’s discuss it.”

Xu Wei put a treaty in front of everyone. The main content was a mutual non-attack treaty for merchant ships such as the Mori Domain, Ouchi Domain, Satsuma Domain, Hizen Country, etc. This treaty mainly restricted the exchanges between these kingdoms. Merchant ships did not attack each other and did not restrict the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty.

"Where are the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty?" Ryuzouji Takanobu keenly discovered the problem.

Xu Wei replied with a smile: "The Ming Dynasty is mainly responsible for the attack by the battleship. Soon, the Ming Dynasty will deploy a five-masted ocean-going ship in Nagasaki, and the attack will be completed by the five-masted ocean-going ship."

"Ah, the battleship." Ryuzouji Takanobu then realized that although the Ming Dynasty's merchant ships were also armed merchant ships, their attack power was not very strong because the Ming Dynasty's merchant ships had professional warships with full offensive capabilities.

"If you all wait ten days, the five-masted ocean crossing ship will arrive at the port. However, this one is a patrol ship from Matsue Prefecture, to Ryukyu, and then to Nagasaki, not the one deployed to Nagasaki." Xu Wei He continued: "The five-masted transoceanic ship deployed to Nagasaki is faster, has more artillery, and has more soldiers."

What can be done to ensure the validity of the treaty?Relying on five-masted ships to cross oceans, relying on violence. The Ming Emperor once accurately defined violence in his Di Bao. Violence is gunpowder, steel, silver coins, theory and people's hearts.

"This treaty is good for everyone. I think you all know very well. If you have no doubts, you can sign it. If you refuse to sign, you can leave directly. If you violate it after signing, the other contracting parties will agree to attack it." Xu Wei elaborated If you understand the rules of the game, you don’t have to sign, and Ming’s merchant ships won’t go if you don’t sign, but you can’t go back on your word after you sign, and you have to bear the price for breach of contract.

As the party presiding over the treaty, Xu Wei will never be polite to those who breach the contract.

To Xu Wei's great surprise, Shimazu Yoshihiro of the Satsuma Domain was the first to sign the treaty, and he couldn't wait. The one who best understood the powerful strength of the Ming Dynasty was the Shimazu family, because the Shimazu family was The Ming Dynasty was plotting against Ryukyu, and Ming Dynasty was patrolling Ryukyu, which greatly frightened the Shimazu family's ambitions.

Shimazu knew very well that Ming did what he said.

　Ask for a monthly ticket, woo! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

　　
　
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