The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 235
It was clearly written in the note that the British government of the Ming Dynasty had five No. 40 blessing ships missing in the waters of the Wudao Islands, the cargo loss was no less than 200 taels of silver, and more than [-] crew members were missing.
The British Duke of Ming Dynasty questioned whether the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate had the ability to manage Japan. If there was no answer, the Ming Dynasty would ask their emperor for an explanation.

As for why so many warships of the Ming Dynasty came here, the note was clearly written. How could the Japanese pirates come here without enough force?

Since General Zhengyi didn't care about the rampant pirates in the territory, Daming had no choice but to do it on his behalf, and traveled thousands of miles to the Japanese sea to strangle the pirates and seek justice for the dead Ming people!

If the Japanese side does not deal with the incident of pirates harming the people of Ming Dynasty, then Ming Dynasty has no choice but to cross the border and attack the islands occupied by pirates, and then send troops to garrison them to prevent future troubles.

Tokugawa Iemitsu saw those pirates who were captured by the Ming army and sent back. After interrogation, they found that they were all Japanese, but most of them were under the command of those daimyo who had been dispersed in the warlord melee. His matter, but this cannot be explained to Daming!
Now that he represents the Japanese government, he cannot admit that he has not yet reached the point of controlling the entire country of Japan, and that the behavior of these Japanese has nothing to do with him.

Daming came to ask for an explanation, where is their bottom line?They mobilized a large number of troops, and the Japanese side has seen their strength. It is impossible to return home without doing anything, right?
They want to attack the islands occupied by pirates and station troops. This condition is unacceptable. Those islands are Japanese territory. How can Da Ming allow troops to be stationed on the territory of his own country.

Tokugawa Iemitsu had no choice but to send a delegation to contact the delegation of the British Duke of Daming, hoping to learn about Daming's intentions.

There are many big names in the Japanese delegation who are familiar with Li Guozhu. They saw that this great merchant has transformed into a Ming official or a member of the negotiating team.

They were very happy, and finally found someone they could communicate with, and they all took the initiative to get close to Li Guozhu. After several conversations, they learned of Daming's intentions.

Daming is here for peace, for free trade, and to ensure the safety of the air routes. They are not here to ask questions, but to seek win-win cooperation!
These big names are all very excited. Daming's behavior seems to be beneficial to himself and Japan. In the future, it will be us who sell Daming goods to make a fortune.

Daming's proposal was revealed through private channels. Tokugawa Iemitsu interviewed several daimyos and found out about the situation. It turned out that Daming did not refuse to let people know. He did not ask the Japanese government to compensate the loss of several 10 taels of silver from the British government.

Instead, the two countries are required to join forces to fight against pirates and protect the merchant ships. They are required to directly deliver goods in Edo between the Great Ming British Duke and the Japanese General who conquered barbarians.

This does not seem to be a bad thing!Tokugawa Iemitsu did not object to trade with Ming Dynasty at all. He was afraid of the infiltration of Westerners into Japan, especially the Japanese who believed in Catholicism. The reason why he closed the country was to prevent the spread of Catholicism in Japan.

When the Japanese daimyo went to negotiate the bottom line with General Zhengyi, Li Guozhu was not idle. He used all his connections and even sent his Japanese to walk the streets and alleys to spread the word to the Edo people.

"General Zheng Yi captured more than 1000 pirates active in the waters of the Wudao Islands. Let's see if any pirates who have slaughtered their relatives have been arrested."

The common people in Edo City spread the news all the time. Every day, many Edo residents whose relatives were killed by pirates attacking at sea came to the General’s Office.

This is not over yet, news of the capture of more than 1000 pirates spread to nearby cities, and many ordinary people also rushed to Edo, hoping to hear the news of their missing relatives who had gone to sea.

Every day, the General’s Office was surrounded by ordinary people who came to wait for the news and watch the excitement. As a last resort, Tokugawa Iemitsu had to tie up the pirates and parade them through the streets for the common people to identify.

The Tokugawa family's bald heads were getting bigger, and the hundreds of ships of the Daming Navy were too passive to show off in Edo Bay. He decided to make a quick decision and quickly arrange for delegations from both sides to start negotiations.

In order to test Daming's sincerity, Tokugawa Iemitsu sent an expert who has been dealing with Daming's goods for a long time. The result of the negotiation made him feel relieved.

This time, although Daming paid high transportation costs and dispatched more than a hundred warships to escort the merchant ships to the long distance, they did not sit on the ground to raise the price, and still delivered the goods at the previous price, and the purchase of Japanese goods was also a fair price.

The trade agreement sets prices for Japanese products one by one. For example, copper ingots are priced at one tael of official silver and sixteen catties, and a stone of Japanese polished rice is priced at seven sen.

Such a price is too affordable, the Japanese daimyo can collect rice for less than five renminbi, and the mine can produce at full capacity after the copper ingots are supplied to Daming.

Tokugawa Iemitsu had objections to the agreement reached between the two parties. General Zhengyi was not dissatisfied with the price and variety of the traded goods, but could not tolerate the annual delivery in Edo Bay in the future.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, starting from the interests of his rule, thought that if the Ming Dynasty would mobilize troops every time, with so many warships staring at the port of Edo Bay, what if they had a crooked mind and launched a surprise attack?
After further negotiations, Ming asked the Japanese government to show sincerity in combating piracy. The Japanese representative in the negotiation promised not to tolerate any pirates.

This is actually a good thing for the merchant ships from Ming Dynasty. It will certainly save some costs if they can save three or four days of traveling by sea.

The agreement was reached. In order to show its sincerity, the Japanese side publicly executed 380 pirates returned by Ming Dynasty. The day of the execution of the criminals was like a holiday for the Edo people.

It turned out that the 380 pirates who were decided to be executed by the Tokugawa shogunate were identified by many witnesses as participating in a certain attack, because many witnesses were businessmen who were released after the pirates received ransom. The pirates pulled it out.

Those pirates who were paraded in the street were smashed with rotten eggs and rotten leaves all over their faces. In the end, they were all decapitated. This is not because the Ming army broke their promise. .

Later historians referred to this improperly named tariff and trade agreement in the autumn of the sixth year of Tianqi as the 'March [-] Treaty'.

The articles on paper have been done, and the next step is delivery and delivery. Daming has not made any moves on the price, but how is the quality of the goods?

On the day of delivery, many well-known distributors came to Edo Bay. They checked the quota carefully, and finally agreed that Daming's goods this time are of high quality, and there are many things that are simply rare goods.

Huang Sheng didn't want to bring a lot of silver with him when he returned to the voyage. What he sold were products and resources. If he brought back meaningless silver, it would cause Ming's inflation in the long run, and the price of goods would remain high.

So to buy things as much as possible, the first is resources. It cost more than 500 taels of silver to buy 31 million catties of copper ingots, and nearly 10 taels of silver for other materials such as lead, sulfur, and nitrate.

Huang Sheng also did something that puzzled Li Guozhu and Li Er. He bought a large amount of Japanese rice at a high price of seven renminbi and one stone.

Huang Sheng's intention to buy grain at a high price is to make the Japanese feel profitable. Maybe Japanese farmers will also increase their enthusiasm for growing grain.

The Yamato people are also one of the most industrious peoples. The higher the profit from growing grain, the more people will be encouraged to open up wasteland and farm land. Now the population of the Wa country is very small, and the arable land can fully support three times the population.

The most important thing is that their civil war has come to an end, and the common people will naturally start production if they can get peace.

It's not that the land of Ming Dynasty can't support a population of 5000 million people, but that Li Zicheng who "does not pay for grain" and specializes in "snatching grain" appeared later.

In fact, anyone with a little thought should sneer at this "wedding dress king", "what does he eat if he doesn't pay?"There is no pie in the sky, this is of course a blatant deception.

This idiot killed chickens to take eggs, and spread across the land of China like locusts. The fragile balance of the place he passed was immediately destroyed.

His great achievement is to create tens of millions of impoverished people, smash the last Han civilization, and finally make the barbarians cheap.

The places he looted could not be self-sufficient for several years, and large areas of land were abandoned, which brought about a vicious circle that is immeasurable.

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