The words are categorical and extremely hard.

Hosoi Yasuaki really believes it.

Combined with the observation during this period, it is inferred from some details such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, walking form, and contact with others, that this Liu ship owner should be a member of the family of a certain dignitary in the Dashun Dynasty.

Maybe his father was a big official, or maybe he was the second son of the family, in short, he was pushed to the front to make money in trade.

The income of real estate is always insufficient, and the more money the better, and many of Dashun are official systems, and there is no fiefdom and food.

Hosoi Yasuaki likes to deal with such people, first of all, they know the rules, know what can be violated and what is the bottom line that must not be violated. At least they don't have to worry about finding hidden missionaries from their boats.

The people below may be dissatisfied, because then some of the people below will not be able to get bribes.

Hosoi Yasuaki knows the officialdom very well, and he also knows that this Liu shipowner understands the officialdom very well, at least the bribes he will give himself in the future will not be less. As for the people below who have an opinion because of the lack of bribes? You don't have to think about it.

Of course, the main thing is that this can please the shogun, not everyone has the opportunity to be the Nagasaki priest, and not everyone can have such good luck and get what the shogunate wants in the Nagasaki position.

This time, the shogunate asked the Tsushima clan to get a war horse, but the Tsushima clan didn't get it, and in the end, the war horse still needed to be obtained from Nagasaki.

Since this Captain Liu can get things that others can't, this is a person worth befriending.

There is no need to force him too much, just let him come to trade often, and when the trade volume is getting bigger and bigger, he can't help but just want to play a side game.

Both the shogunate and Hosoi Yasuaki were confident that as long as the trade card system was in place, the initiative would always be in the hands of the shogunate: if you don't want to do it, there will be many people who will do it.

Now it's a mutual need, of course, the best.

This time, there was a more urgent need on the shogunate's side, hoping that next time they could get a horse doctor who could raise horses and a Chinese doctor with excellent medical skills.

As for the war horse business mentioned before, it was just to test Liu Yu.

I was looking for a horse doctor because there were no more people in Japan who specialized in horse breeding and breeding, and the horses were getting more and more wrong and shorter.

The reason for looking for a skilled Chinese doctor was because Tokugawa Yoshimune relaxed the policy of locking the country, and some Dutch-language anatomy books poured into Japan, which had a great impact on the Japanese medical community, so the shogunate hoped to find a Chinese doctor with higher medical skills.

The long list given before, Hosoi Yasuaki just wanted to test Liu Yu's attitude, and also to remind him of future cooperation.

Now that he had tested Liu Yu's attitude, Hosoi Yasuaki suppressed Liu Yu's worries back.

"Ship Master Liu, please rest assured, in the future, such things will only need to be transferred to you to do it. You've also heard that the Dutch will submit a 'wind story' before entering the port. I also hope that the next time the owner of Liu comes to trade, he will submit the same 'wind story'. As for these two letters, they can be given annually in the future, but if you want to add more, please pay attention to two things for Captain Liu. ”

"One is a horse doctor who thinks he is good at raising horses, and the other is to find a Chinese doctor with excellent medical skills. If it can be delivered at trade time next year, then two more letter cards can be issued. ”

"We won't look for others to find it, we can trust Ship Liu."

Liu Yu's face looked a little better, and he nodded: "I can go back and think about this." There are some things that I still don't want you to make a big deal about. If everyone knows about it, the ban must be strict, even if we have another way, it is not easy to do it. ”

Who has been doing this business in the past few years and months has not had a relationship in the officialdom? It's just a shallow shade, if there is no relationship, don't talk about the East, even the estuary may not go out.

Hosoi Yasuaki understood what Liu Yu was worried about, and also understood that the person in front of him was the best person to choose at this time. He was relieved again: "Ship Master Liu can rest assured, this kind of matter will naturally not be handed over to others in the future." As for the things on the list, Captain Liu can put them away and carefully consider what can be said and what Owner Liu thinks cannot be said. Next time, just write it directly into the 'Wind Story' and hand it over. ”

After accepting the detailed list of inquiries and about to leave, Shen saw that a neighbor had brought a thick pile of books, hoping that Liu Yu would help him privately.

This set of "Seven Classics of Mencius Kaowen" is the posthumous work of the Confucian scholar Shan Jing Ding, which was completed by Ogi Zong Shichiro and has just been published. He read the ancient books that flowed into the Tang and Song dynasties, compared them with the new books of today, and verified some unclear places. I hope that Mr. can bring it back to China, publish it, and do Confucian exchanges, or for throwing bricks and stones, or ask your country's great Confucianism to correct. ”

This matter is quite a serious matter, Liu Yu agreed to come down, and said in his heart whether this book can be printed or not, he can't say for sure, so he should give it to the old scholars in the Guozi Prison to study.

Holding this set of books, Liu Yu pondered for a while and felt a little like laughing.

Japan is heavy on Zhu Zixue, this time the change of history at the end of the Ming Dynasty made the people who went wrong with Confucianism stay in the country, but instead hugged the people who thought Zhu Zixue was right and went east to Korea and Japan on a large scale.

The Zhuzi doctrine is gaining ground in Japan, but the question is ...... According to Zhu Zi's logic, how to evaluate the relationship between the emperor and the general of Zaoyi?

He doesn't know if this set of books is anti-Zhuzi, or if he recognizes Zhuzi, he probably can't understand it, and if he takes it back, it can be regarded as a kind of cultural exchange.

On the other hand, Lin Yunwen and others have also completed trade.

This time the trade itself was not legal, but I got on the bus first and bought a ticket and made up a temporary trade letter card, but I didn't get the goods until mid-December.

They belong to the queue, and they take the quota trade for the second year, and because they are ranked first, they can eat the copper to the full.

When the time came, they took 1,200 boxes of copper, 26,000 taels of silver, and loaded a shipload of goods, and waited for the wind to be good before they set sail.

After counting the number of sailors and making sure that there were no Japanese people mixed in, he sailed away from Nagasaki Bay, and Liu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

This year's three trade cards have been obtained, and after calculating the income, running to Japan is really a way to make quick money.

We all know that it is more profitable to go to Europe to sell porcelain tea, but the reality is very cruel and I can't go.

More than 20,000 taels of cash can be discounted into the cost, go back and sell the copper directly doubled, and the rest of the goods are slowly sold or sold at a discount, which is about 20,000 taels.

After looking at a lot, after thinking about it, I bought half a fifth-level ship, and my mood suddenly lost a little more.

I called the few who had brought them to see the world, and asked them what they thought.

These young lads had been vomiting on the Aurora for months, and they had long since stopped getting seasick, and they had performed well along the way.

said that they had seen the world, and they felt that they had really seen the world.

Du Feng followed Liu Yu to fight the castle of the Rakshasa people, and he had seen a lot of silver, but he never thought that silver could be earned so easily?

A boat to Japan, back and forth is tens of thousands of taels of silver?

Chen Qinghai also knows that the "monthly salary of five taels" that can make him excited turns out to be so cheap.

While sighing, Du Feng asked tentatively: "Lord Liu, according to what you said, the Japanese people gave me a total of 25 trade letter cards for the merchants. The profit of a boat round trip is 40,000 taels, and the profit of 25 ships is 1 million taels. One million taels a year, if it is put into the navy, according to the calculation of the adults, it can buy a fleet of dozens of ships in three or two years. ”

"What can the merchants do if they let them take it? If it is said that it is competing with the people for profit, if the government sells it, those who produce silk will also make a profit. If you say that you are afraid that those people will have no food and clothing, and go to be pirates, let them go, and the Japanese people will also lock up the country, and they will not make money from smuggling. ”

His thoughts, which were about the common thoughts of these four people, looked at Liu Yu together, and their faces showed puzzlement.

Xu is Du Feng felt that he still had something to say, and said: "In the previous dynasty, there were widows who were in trouble, but at that time, we forbade the sea and they couldn't help it. Now the Japanese people are forbidden to the sea, and they have never seen our pirates harassing us everywhere, let alone the Japanese themselves competing to go to sea first. ”

"In this case, isn't it faster to engage in trade with official monopoly? If we talk about competing with the people for profit, we are competing for the profit of the merchants who run the East, but the profit of others is not touched at all. Moreover, what about those merchants who went to the East to either go to the South Seas or co-opt them, and let the rest be left to be pirates? If the trade in the South Seas is not forbidden, then the Westerners and we must fight piracy; Oriental trade official office, naval escort, just a few pirates can still become the climate? ”

"An extra 1 million taels a year, and adults know how much it is. He said that he would give 20% to the household government, 30% to His Majesty's internal money, and 500,000 taels a year. Although there are still not many, isn't this navy just beginning to take shape? ”

Liu Yu looked at these four young people who were thirsty for knowledge like little birds waiting to be fed, and said with a smile: "If things in the world are so simple, they are simple. According to what you think, you don't need to engage in trade, you can collect all the land taxes, and don't say that building a navy is enough to build another navy in Guangdong. It's too much to think about just yet. It can only come little by little. ”

"Don't think about it, I don't dare to say such things as I am. Besides, now that the strength is insufficient, there are some things that cannot be done even if you think about them. Even today, when the government is going to do it, people have turned around and become pirates, do you think that your little broken ship may be able to defeat those pirates who have changed careers? When the time comes, burns and looting for a while, public opinion is in an uproar, who do you say will be blamed for? ”

"It's not that this can't be done, until you navies can really fight invincible opponents all over the East China Sea, you can do it with confidence."

Du Feng couldn't help but say: "What Lord Liu said is not interesting. If you are invincible in the East China Sea, do you still need to do this? If you don't do this, relying on this little money every year, when will you be able to fight the invincible opponents in the East China Sea? ”

Liu Yu looked at the steamed buns and asked, "Ziming, what do you think?" ”

Mantou also shook his head and said: "It seems that Du Feng's words make sense, I have weighed it, and it seems that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages." In fact, under such a special situation in Japan today, the most suitable thing is really to engage in a fleet like Zheng He, run official trade, and trade directly with Japan. It not only raises the navy, but also profits. ”

Looking at Chen Qinghai again, Chen Qinghai's thoughts are similar.

"In Tang Town, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Gang, the Fuzhou Gang, and the Zhangzhou Gang fought for trade cards. If the government does its best, the money can be invested in the navy. In the future, when the navy grows stronger, as the adults say, the gunboats will open the harbor and let them increase the trade cards from 25 to 50, or more. ”

"Nanyang is different from Japan. In the South Seas trade, the money of Westerners is not easy to earn, because we can't go to Europa now. But Japan is a success, and Japan itself is also closed to the country, and the trade volume is only so large, so why can't it be run by the government? ”

The rest of the two are all the same.

Liu Yu didn't say anything about the complicated situation, but encouraged them to think about "gunboat diplomacy", although this is something that he has imperceptibly instilled in his daily life, but I have to say that this thing takes root very quickly. This insight convinced them of one thing: Japan's silver is so profitable, as long as Japan is forced to open up trade?

In particular, the idea that they were able to recognize the difference between Japanese trade and trade with Europe was quite new. really encouraged him, but in the end he smiled and didn't mention the official business.

As soon as he returned to Weihai, Liu Yu asked Lin Yunwen to go with several old family members from the family to sell all the goods, and together they removed the money from buying ships and goods, making a net profit of 40,000 taels.

He directly deducted the money for the next purchase of goods, sealed the 40,000 taels of silver, and wrote down in detail what he had seen and heard in Japan this time, as well as the thick set of "Seven Classics and Mencius Kaowen".

He sent men to the capital with the silver and these things.