Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1321
Gao Yihuan came to the only meeting hall in the castle. Two men in their 30s and two old men were already sitting in the hall.

Generally speaking, the people who can be elected by the villagers as the head of the village are mostly old and respected elders, but in Luzon, this situation has gradually changed, and this change is obviously determined by the surrounding environment. of.

Seeing Gao Yihuan coming in, the four stood up one after another, cupped their hands and said, "Master Gao."

Of the nearby villages, Gaojiabao was the strongest, and the Sanhe Company had already demonstrated its strength and fairness when it attacked the native tribes last time, so the village chiefs respected Gao Yihuan very much.

"You are welcome, let's sit down and talk." After Gao Yihuan sat down at the main seat, he took a look at the people, and then said with a smile: "Everyone came to see me, did you agree with what our Sanhe Company said? "

A strong man among the four stood up, clasped his fists and said, "We, Chen Jiabao, are willing to join the triad company. All the newly opened land can help the triad grow sugar cane."

After he finished speaking, another old man also stood up and said slowly: "This old man has considered it and can join the Triad Society. I wonder if the promise the leader gave us before will change?"

The other two also expressed their willingness to join the Sanhe Company. Gao Yihuan was happy when he heard this, "Don't worry, the shares promised to you will not change. In addition, the agricultural tools you need can be taken away from the company immediately."

If Sanhe Company wants to grow, it must have funds and personnel. Gao Yihuan lacks both, so he can only find people to participate in the shares. The chiefs of these four villages, with their teams, came to start a business with him.

Gao Yihuan went to Daming and found that his idea was correct. The profits of sugar and tobacco leaves are very considerable. Moreover, there are many rich people in the Ming Dynasty, and the money spent on purchasing goods is also rising. Others want to transport Ming Dynasty goods to other places to make money. And what he wanted was to make money from the Ming Dynasty.

If he travels to the Ming Dynasty now, the profit is equivalent to a trip to Tianzhu, and the flight to the Ming Dynasty is shorter and safer, so he will naturally travel to the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that he also understands that any business starts with huge profits, and then it doesn't make much money.

If he travels to the Ming Dynasty a few more times, people will definitely find that sugar and tobacco leaves make money, and they will flock to plant sugar cane and tobacco. When there are more people, the huge profits will gradually fall, or even make no money. to maintain a reasonable range.

This is the business law he has figured out, so he must take advantage of those big companies before they set their sights on these two goods, expand the scale, make a lot of money, and then quickly leave the market, otherwise those big companies will Once they start to do it, he can get a piece of the pie at most, but he will definitely not be the one who makes the most profits, so what Gao Yihuan wants now is to expand the scale as soon as possible and make the plate bigger.

After hearing this, several people were also full of joy and very excited. Gaojiabao was originally poor and white like the surrounding villages and castles, but within a few years it had a business, hired Japanese and black clans, and Two boats, and they are still farming there, they join the three-in-one company, hoping to use the three-in-one company to create more wealth.

Gao Yihuan is also happy to see the company growing a little bit, but he is not satisfied with this, he needs to be stronger, so strong that God can't play with him, he wants to change his own destiny.

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Kyoto, Japan.

Due to the impact of trade with the Ming Dynasty and many problems in Japan itself, Japan was in turmoil and the vassal system was in crisis.

At present, the finances of the shogunate are in difficulty, and the finances of the Edo shogunate are also struggling to deal with domestic peasant riots and samurai rebellions. The annual increase in stability maintenance expenditures has already accounted for a small half of the Tokugawa shogunate's finances.

The import of Ming Dynasty commodities impacted the economic structure of Japan’s feudal lords. Merchants of Japanese swords, folding fans, lacquerware, and consignment merchants of Ming Dynasty goods rose up in Japan. A group of wealthy merchants appeared. They used the profits from trade to use Buying land and reclaiming wasteland, he is both a merchant and a landlord.

On the one hand, these wealthy merchants converted part of their capital into land, then exploited farmers through the leasehold relationship, and then used the land rent to invest in commercial activities, resulting in the concentration of wealth in Japan. However, under the concentration of wealth, there was a large amount of trade between Japan and the Ming Dynasty Silver was outflowing, there was a huge deficit, and Japan as a whole was getting poorer and poorer.

On the one hand, the concentration of wealth caused a large number of farmers to lose their land and become tenant farmers, and small farmers went bankrupt. On the other hand, Japan’s silver flowed out, and Japan as a whole became poorer.Under the double pressure of these two situations, the social contradictions in Japan increased sharply, shaking the rule of the shogunate and the vassals.

Since last year, in order to cope with the crisis, the Edo shogunate has also begun to implement reforms. First, it promulgated the "Frugality Order" to prohibit the extravagance of public officials and reduce their salaries.The second is to implement the "Shangmi System" ordering daimyo to donate rice, and to donate rice to one hundred stones for every ten thousand stones.The third is that under the influence of the Ming Dynasty, experience was encouraged, handicrafts were developed, and trade deficits were changed.

It can be seen that the Edo shogunate intended to reduce expenditure and increase revenue, but its reforms were not successful.

The "Frugality Order" dissatisfied the ministers and warriors, and the "Shangmi System" further bankrupted the finances of various daimyos, so they could only find loans from wealthy merchants, while encouraging the economy and developing the handicraft industry, because the tariffs could not be independent and could not protect the domestic market, came out to the needs of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the Japanese sword forging, folding fans, lacquerware and other industries that were not strong in the Ming Dynasty, handicrafts such as silk weaving developed very slowly, and did not play a role in increasing income and reversing the deficit. Daimyo's life was even more difficult.

In the southern feudal clans, except for Satsuma and the Ming Dynasty who jointly opened Jinshan, life is still easy, and many samurai in the other vassals have very meager salaries, and the samurai have dignity and do not engage in lowly occupations, so they can only wander around, which aggravates the society. turmoil.

The Tokugawa shogunate was in Edo, but the emperor's residence was in Kyoto.

Yoshida Budokan is a well-known martial art school in Kyoto. The owner, Yoshida Shoyo, is a master of the oldest kendo school in Japan, the Nakajo Ichidou-ryu.

The Budokan is not far from the Imperial Palace. Usually there are not many people here, but recently, there are suddenly many samurai.

In the early morning, when Kyoto was just getting lively, there were people practicing in the dojo. Shouts of "Ha! Ha! Ha!" and the clash of wooden knives could be heard from the dojo from time to time.

At this time, a warrior wearing wooden clogs came to the outside of the dojo in a hurry. He looked around and saw that no one was paying attention, so he got into the dojo.

Several samurai who were fiercely slashing with wooden knives inside saw him coming in, and immediately jumped out of the battle group. Seeing the person panicking, they couldn't help asking: "Gaoshan-kun, what's going on?"

The latter did not answer, but walked quickly to the front of the house, pushed open the Japanese-style shoji door, left the wooden clogs outside, and entered Yoshida's house, leaving several people in the yard with puzzled faces.

The person who came was Shinsuke Takasugi, one of Yoshida's disciples. Recently, he led more than a dozen samurai to Kyoto suddenly.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Yoshida sitting and wiping his samurai sword, so he quickly knelt down and put his head on the ground, "Teacher, our actions have been detected by the shogunate, and the disciples have been arrested by the shogunate."

After hearing this, Yoshida frowned, but after wiping the knife, he said: "This is expected, Takasugi and you are too radical, and your ideas are too simple. How can you overthrow the Tokugawa family?"

Takasugi Shinsuke is a low-level samurai of the Hizen domain. Because the lord cannot pay his salary and lives in poverty, he is very dissatisfied with the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. He believes that the weakness of the Tokugawa family has led to the current state of Japan, so he respects the king in the name of , Gathered a group of down-and-out samurai, wanted to meet the emperor, and hoped that the emperor would issue an edict and demand that the Tokugawa family return to the emperor.

The turmoil in Japan and the inability of the Tokugawa shogunate to solve social problems have led to many voices opposing the Tokugawa family in Japan, and voices of respecting the king and falling down are gradually heard everywhere.

After Takasugi Shinsuke arrived in Kyoto, he immediately met many like-minded samurai. They were active in various taverns and hotels in Kyoto, and often vented some words complaining about the shogunate, which soon attracted the attention of the shogunate authorities.

Takasugi teamed up with a samurai from the Tosa domain last night, intending to attack the Emperor's Imperial Palace in the near future, but when he returned to the hotel in the morning, he suddenly found that the brigade of shogunate samurai surrounded the hotel, so he hurried to the Budokan to take refuge.

Takasugi Shinsuke listened to Yoshida's words, but he was a little dissatisfied, "Teacher, it is the incompetence of the Tokugawa family that caused our current situation in Japan, allowing businessmen from the Ming Dynasty to earn money from Japan. Although the Tokugawa family is powerful , but the disciple will not give in. This matter has to be done by someone. If everyone does not stand up, the situation in Japan will only get worse. Shame, Tokugawa Iezuna should perform seppuku and apologize to the Emperor."

Yoshida shook his head when he heard this, but at this moment, his disciple Shintaro Watanabe came in again, knelt down and said anxiously: "Teacher, the people from the shogunate are here..."

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