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Chapter 597 Stable

"There is Sakai Port (Osaka) to the west and Sakata to the east."

This is a proverb circulated in Japan during the Edo period, which means that the prosperity of Sakata Port is approaching that of Osaka Prefecture in Japan.

You know, in the Edo period of Japan, for a long time, the eastern region was remote and poor, and even maritime smuggling was unwilling to go here.

The prosperity of Sakata Port is due to the safflower trade, which can be used to dye cloth, paint, and make cosmetics. It is very popular throughout Japan.

However, since the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, Chinese maritime merchants have been crazy about Japanese and Dutch merchants, and the safflower trade that has just emerged in Sakata Port has suffered a heavy blow.

But things are different now. China wants to open up the Northern Sea Route in Japan, and Japan’s Sakata Port is an open port.

Moreover, the safflower trade here was just a latecomer. Sakata Port was originally famous for its rice export trade.

Relying on the export of rice, there is also a great investor named Honma Munehisa. His own investment theory has been inherited by later generations of Japanese, and he is considered a very famous rice investor in Japanese history.

By the way, this guy should be just ten years old now.

The Ming Dynasty chose Sakata Port because of its food and rice, which could serve as a supply port for the northern route.

Li Hong easily completed his mission, and Tokugawa Yoshimune's shogunate also took advantage of the Ming Emperor's imperial edict to announce that the original "isolated country" policy was invalidated.

It was almost a month after the shogunate's order was issued before the Japanese feudal lords responded, but it was already too late.

Because no one dares to provoke China, not only because China is strong, but also because they all rely on Chinese businessmen to make money.

Zheng Rui and Li Hong had said before that the shogunate's finances had always been problematic.

In fact, not only the shogunate, but also all the feudal lords were in debt.

This originated from the "participation in attendance" and the "high meter system" of the shogunate.

The lords of the feudal dynasties were required to dispatch heirs every year, or to live in Edo Castle themselves to assist the general in governing.

Moreover, when you go there, you must arrange the ceremonial guards according to the specifications of the feudal lords. Otherwise, you will be disrespectful to the shogunate and disrespectful to the emperor.

The rice system was introduced by Tokugawa Yoshimune. The daimyo of each domain had to donate grain and rice to the shogunate. For every 10,000 koku, one hundred koku had to be handed over. In exchange, the time for attendance and attendance was halved.

This is why the whole country of Japan, from the shogunate to the daimyo, is deeply in debt and extremely poor.

Because only when the daimyo becomes poor will they not rebel and pose a threat to the shogunate.

When the Japanese shogunate opens the port, the shogunate will definitely make a lot of money in a short period of time, and the Sakata Port will develop rapidly. However, over time, the local market of Sakata Port will be quickly overwhelmed by Chinese maritime merchants.

Until the entire Sakata Port became a semi-colony of China, but this had nothing to do with Tokugawa Yoshimune.

He is short of money now, very short of money!

The common people in the past had depleted the shogunate's finances, and they had to make up for it, otherwise the problems of the feudal lords would be enough for him to drink a pot.

Moreover, with the failure of political reform, the common samurai in the country were almost infamy, which was also a big blow to the prestige of the Tokugawa Yoshimune shogunate.

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Heilongjiang Dusi.

The original resident office has been officially moved from Acheng to Binjiang City (Harbin).

Binjiang City will also serve as the administrative seat of the Heilongjiang Dusi in the next few years. Although Tongjiang (Lahasusu) has been planned for a long time, it is still giving priority to immigrants to enrich the population of the Heilongjiang and Songhua River basins.

Immigrants from North Korea will be given priority to settle here, extending eastward around the Riverside City, reclaiming land and building inns along the river, and encouraging intermarriage with the local Sauron people.

From Binjiang to Tongjiang, waterway stations must be built along the way, and they must be connected to Heishuitun Port, and all the way to Liaoning and Lelang, and finally extend to the estuary and connect to Kunai Island by sea.

In the autumn and winter of this year, the imperial court decreed that Kunai Island would be officially established as a county government, just like the provincial government in Liaoning.

The canonization envoy sent by Nanjing has just arrived in Liaoning by boat. After preparing to replenish supplies from here, he will go to Heilongjiang Dusi via the Liaodong Waterway and then cross the sea to Kunai Island. Of course, it was just a decree to change the original canonized tribal leaders to local magistrates and local officials of local towns. In the next ten years, this place will definitely be ruled by semi-officials.

The official ship carrying the first batch of immigrants from the Chief Secretary of Seoul docked at Binjiang Pier.

"Among the immigrants sent this year, there are many fewer Han people, but there are many more Korean immigrants." Yu Kecheng looked at these Han Dynasty immigrants who got off the ship and naturalized and settled at the dock.

Xue Yancong, staff officer and second-in-command of the Capital Division, said: "If the imperial court regains control of the Seoul Chief Secretary, it is impossible to allow Korean people to become the main population there. Therefore, it is nothing more than moving out the Korean people and moving in Han immigrants. To fill in, otherwise the Chief Secretary of Seoul will be unstable. Not only the Chief Secretary of Seoul, but also the imperial court's new restoration of Qinghai last year."

Yu Kecheng said: "North Korean immigrants will be Korean immigrants. From now on, they will settle in Heilongjiang, and they will be our Korean people in the Ming Dynasty. Just along the river to the east, there is a shortage of people for the station waterway and land reclamation."

Xue Yancong nodded: "Your Majesty should also mean this. These North Korean immigrants who settled in Heilongjiang can be responsible for building waterways along the river and reclaiming land in the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang and Songhua Rivers. Although it is bitterly cold here, it is definitely better than the backcountry of North Korea. As long as it can be distributed The land of these Korean people will definitely make them grateful. And although many of these people cannot speak Chinese, at least they can recognize Chinese characters, which saves us from expending too much energy."

These Korean immigrants were forced to move from Seoul to Heilongjiang by the Ming Dynasty, and no one felt dissatisfied.

Although Heilongjiang is a very cold and bitter place, the Ming Dynasty allowed them to settle down and gave them land to grow. Even the land tax was lighter than that in North Korea. They had to work for the government and take care of food.

They didn’t know yet that what they were serving was not corvee service. Corvee service had been abolished long ago in the Ming and New Dynasties. It was just that the Heilongjiang capital was too poor, so they were directly in charge of food and forced the people to build the station waterway.

Not only will he serve the people, but he will also serve Sauron's tribe.

Of course, taking advantage of the slack farming season, the Han immigrants and Sauron people here were also willing to help the government build the station waterway for free.

Not because of anything else, opening up the station waterway was also for themselves.

When Heilongjiang Dusi was first established, although the population already had a certain base and everything was gradually improving, it was still poor as it should be.

The imperial court wanted to open post stations along the Songhua River and Heilongjiang River, not only to better control the vast land of Heilongjiang Dusi, but also to open up the water transportation channel in the north.

Although this place is remote and bitterly cold, in recent years, many businessmen are willing to come here to do business.

Most of these merchants are looking for Dongzhu and mink skins from Heilongjiang.

The Saurons and Han immigrants in Heilongjiang Dusi have already tasted the benefits. Even the tribes near the outer Xing'an Mountains took their own boats to the south and took their furs to Han merchants to trade goods.

When the waterway is completely opened, in the future, the Sauron people wherever they are, even the vast frozen soil of Lingbei Prefecture, and the Saha people there will be able to bring precious furs to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The virgin forests in the mountainous areas of northern Heilongjiang are also being prepared for development, and these are potential profits.

Heilongjiang Dusi has been building ships in the past few years, basically ships that travel on rivers, and all of them are lucky ships.

Because it is too cold here to fight large-scale naval battles, the price-performance ratio of Ming-style battleships is obviously not as high as that of merchant warships like Fuchuan.

The Ming Dynasty's development of the Liaodong area was completely different from the Manchu Qing's blockade and prohibition policy.

The Qing Dynasty's blockade of Liaodong even reached a pathological level. Tsarist Russia discovered gold mines in Liaodong and secretly mined gold.

This matter was known to the Manchu and Qing court, and they immediately sent troops to fight, regardless of money, food or logistics, to recover this place.

After they regained it, they destroyed the mining area and then stopped caring about anything and did not take over the mining.

Regarding the Sauron tribes in Liaodong, the new Ming Dynasty currently adopts the same policy of restraining and canonization as did the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, which is even more stable than the rule of the Tatars in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.

Because the Ming Dynasty came to Liaodong and started river trade along the river, the lives of these tribes were much better than during the Manchu and Qing Tatar periods.

Anyone who dares to rebel is seizing their roots and going against all the tribes, so they will attack them in groups.

　Although Tokugawa Yoshimune did not leave a peaceful and prosperous Japan, at least this guy still looked like a human being. His son Tokugawa Ieshige was so powerful that he was jokingly called the bedwetting general by the people.

　　He was also frail and sick, and could not even speak. No one knew what Tokugawa Yoshimune was thinking, why he left his normal and talented younger brother unused and let his older brother succeed him instead.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)