"China is a vast country with abundant products. At present, we still need to implement joint-stock enterprises, but we have a small territory and such a large population. It is indeed beyond the reach of the State to afford all the projects. Otherwise, we will divide the state-owned enterprises and adopt the shareholding model. As long as we are stuck with the customs of the export as well as the taxes. These taxes will not be less, but the state investment is much lower. This is the right path for us in Japan. Hirofumi Ito slowly expounded his opinion.

Yamashita Youpeng immediately said loudly: "Don't mention anything else, the military industry cannot be privately owned." The national defense budget is already so small, if the military industrial complex is put into a joint-stock system, the army still needs to pay for the purchase of weapons, where can we get so much money? ”

The Ministry of Industry, which is in charge of water supply and railways, immediately objected to Ito's view, saying, "That's right! If you don't think the tax is much, you can raise the price of water and raise the price of railroad fares, which can also directly increase the revenue of the national treasury. If these enterprises are made joint-stock system, the state will not be able to collect the money. ”

"That's right! Although China mentioned the joint-stock system at this time, China has been talking about the state leading the people into industrialization for several years. Chinese government documents show that the whole of China, from urban to rural, is under the control of the state. Their 700 million people have been integrated into the industrialized society of the Chinese state. They can also abolish agricultural taxes and implement unified purchasing and marketing. Water, electricity, gas, grain, salt, tobacco, and cloth are all state monopolies. A casual increase in the price of any product can increase the income greatly. I don't want to learn from China's effective practices, but I learn from China's own joint-stock system, which is too outrageous! Shigenobu Okuma, who ruled the province of Finance, was also opposed to Ito's proposal.

"The Japanese market is so small, and most of our exports over the years have been made up of raw silk. The increase in the production of raw silk is entirely due to the mulberry sericulture promoted by Okubo-kun during his lifetime. The sericulture industry relies on the development of mulberry farmers in various places...... "Ito Hirofumi tried to refute the opinions of these opponents. While it is true that China has been striving for comprehensive control, it has been achieved by lowering the prices of basic daily necessities. While the people are being regulated, they are getting a better life than before. The comprehensive control that the Japanese upper echelons want to implement is the state's control over forced buying and selling, and strengthening taxation. As for the docile and obedient Japanese people...... since they have been docile and obedient for thousands of years, let us continue to be docile and obedient now.

"Ito-kun, it's not that simple!" The Minister of Finance, Shigenobu Okuma, tried to correct Ito's views. "More than ten years ago, China's trade was not only done in China, but also in Korea and Nanyang. Now, more than ten years later, our largest exporter is the United States. The export commodities are basically raw silk, and the United States only buys China's raw silk, not even silk. In the past ten years, China has conquered cities, and Nanyang has been occupied by China. The Russians were beaten away by the Chinese, and even the British were forced to sell land. China itself has a population of 700 million, and they themselves do not lack land, raw materials, or internal sales markets. This is completely different from us in Japan. ”

The Japanese government, which has experienced the Meiji Restoration, has indeed become much more politically enlightened, and over the years, it has accumulated Japan's understanding of China by learning from China's policies and experiences. The Meiji government has made it quite clear in its discussions and reflections about the difference between China and Japan, and that Japan's biggest problem at the moment is that there is no market. Japan is so poor that the purchasing power of an idea is not enough to create a decent market. At this time, with Japan's shipping capabilities, all they could reach was Chinese territory. Even if they use the power of milk, they take a great risk to extend the commercial routes to the entire Pacific Ocean and even the Indian Ocean. Not to mention whether it is profitable or not, the markets in those regions are being controlled by other industrial countries. Japan simply cannot compete for any market share in the region.

Listening to Shigenobu Okuma's words, Ito Hirobumi was silent for the time being. Japan is a country that is willing to learn and be enlightened, and these people who engaged in the Meiji Restoration saw the decadence and degeneration of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan and the great strength of European and American countries, so they rose up to overthrow the shogunate and tried to establish a new Japan.

While Japan completed its Meiji Restoration, China rose at an even faster pace. What Japan has gained is only the ability to see the world clearly, but it has not been given the ability to change Japan's destiny. The feeling of seeing Japan in a desperate state is far more painful, more helpless, and more desperate than when it was a chaotic day.

The discussion eventually yielded some results, and Japan found that the only country that could do some business with them was Goryeo. It is also interesting to note that although they have officially become vassal states of China, Goryeo did not make full use of this vassal status to seek more markets and opportunities from China, but instead tried to use China's moderate policy towards Goryeo to seek greater independence.

Yukichi Fukuzawa, a well-known Japanese thinker who came to the conference, had a deep contact with Korean students who came to Japan in search of knowledge, and he explained: "The Koreans have always felt that the Manchus were Yidi, but the Manchus occupied China for more than 150 years. For more than 150 years, the Goryeo people gradually came to believe that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was China. Therefore, many people in China want to be independent from China. Although the Manchu Qing were overthrown by Wei Ze, this idea was not so easy to change. What's more, Goryeo has always believed that what he inherited was a Chinese cloth, and the script used was also Chinese orthodoxy. The current Chinese with broken hair and short clothes, in the vernacular. The Koreans still felt that China had not really recovered. China's attitude towards Goryeo is unclear, and now the struggle between Concubine Min and Daewonjun is very fierce, and China, as the superior state, does not say a word about Goryeo's domestic affairs, which makes both Gojong and Concubine Min wary of China. Contacting Goryeo is a way to borrow. ”

Just when the Japanese side was thinking about how to get more markets, Li Hongzhang and Yuan Weiting arrived at Incheon Port together. Li Hongzhang was very happy that his outstanding subordinates returned from the cadre school, and he smiled and said: "Weiting, you have been in the cadre school for so long, do you have any new articles?" ”

Yuan Weiting smiled happily with a young man's expression, but said, "I can't bear to study this time, and I really don't have time to write." ”

Yuan Weiting was a subordinate that Li Hongzhang valued very much, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and even Wei Ze once felt that China did not actually have a legal dominance over Goryeo. Theoretically and practically, the emperor Wei Ze was not only the emperor of China. Goryeo, Vietnam, Siam, and Nepal, these four countries also respected Weze as emperor in law, and His Majesty's orders were "unshakable" and decisive in these four countries. It is precisely because of this that Comrade Yuan Weiting, who was born in a model worker family in Henan, Alaska Province, was also given the treatment of being promoted to a cadre and went to a cadre school for further study.

This theory was used, and it would be impossible to understand why a Chinese company could become a sought-after state sector in Goryeo without a legal understanding of China's domination of Goryeo.