Shi Shiyong is a confidant around the emperor and a very traditional "scholar".

Especially after being around the emperor for a long time, he is very sensitive to the hierarchy.

Originally, I was somewhat puzzled by the emperor's decision to let him go to Japan.

But after living here for a few years, I thought I had thought it through more and more.

The Japanese are so arrogant, have the heart of arrogance, and have the intention of claiming to be orthodox, if they are not punished, it will be very inappropriate.

This is different from North Korea, although North Korea has always respected Ming, but because of the Wanli aid to the DPRK, it also involves a traditional morality, and Dashun also acquiesces - as long as you don't respect Ming as orthodoxy when paying tribute, you secretly poke and prod, Dashun doesn't care, the grace of the country, it is understandable.

However, on the Japanese side, it is completely different, and no matter how arrogant North Korea is, it does not say that it can think that "I am also orthodox, and I can replace it."

Shi Shiyong's attitude, Liu Yu likes it very much, this is exactly what Liu Yu wants.

He didn't care about the armaments and other information that Shi Shi used to collect in Japan, the high-level ones couldn't be reached, and the low-level ones were meaningless.

What he cares about is the content about orthodoxy and arrogance that Shi Shiyong has collected.

If you want to attack Japan, although Liu Yu's idea is to hold money, but the imperial court pays attention to the right name, and he said that if he wants to hold money, it will definitely not work.

But this incident, combined with the fact that the Ryukyus were paid tribute on both sides, was enough to cause a great upheaval.

The truth is already there, just waiting for an opportunity to detonate.

"Brother Heicheng, are you unhappy? It's just a few words, please remember Brother Heisei forever. ”

"Please."

"Don't be at risk. Brother Heisei is a person close to His Majesty, and some words, I said, may not be useful as Brother Heisei said. In a few years, Brother Heisei can find a chance to return to China, and before that, he must take care of himself. ”

Shi Shiyong nodded and said, "Don't worry, I know what I'm going to do." Severity and severity, this can be clearly distinguished. As I warned before, I don't ask, I just look at it, and keep it in my heart silently. If the Japanese want to learn how to ride and shoot, I will teach it, and I will not hide it. Since Your Majesty trusts Brother Shouchang, I naturally follow orders, and I am confident that my riding and archery have fallen behind. However, after a few years in Edo, I heard that 80 years ago, the Japanese also learned Western military formations. ”

"There is also a copy of the Swede's book "The Siege of the City - The Legend of Alanta by Lienmu", and I also asked someone to help translate it, and the means are too far from what Brother Shouchang used in the north. Not to mention that it has not grown for 80 years, but to say that the content of this military book is difficult for the Japanese people to reuse, in my opinion. ”

Liu Yu said in his heart, you said that you have a good idea of what you are doing, but I don't think you have a count at all.

"Brother Heisei, you really don't have to worry about the armament of the Japanese people. I know what the armaments of the Japanese are. Is there a soldier in the world who can be used without a war for a hundred years? Its armament is lax, it goes without saying. Brother Heisei still cares more about their attitude towards the country, which is rough. When you return to the country in the future, you will be present to Your Majesty. ”

Since the emperor said that Shi Shiyong should listen to Liu Yu's arrangement, and Liu Yu instructed him like this, he also readily agreed.

"Yes, I made a note of that. Brother Shou Chang came this time, so he still had to be careful. Since he has left the town, he can't hide it if he wants to. Those maritime merchants said everything, and Brother Shouchang snatched their trade cards again, how could they not care? ”

Liu Yu laughed and said, "Hide? I didn't even think about hiding it. Brother Heisei didn't want to think about it, I could transport a master warrior like you in the first trade, as well as a war horse without castration, even if the Japanese people were stupid, they should know that my identity is not so simple. ”

…………

As Shi Shiyong guessed.

Tokugawa Yoshimune was very interested in Liu Yu's identity, and in the follow-up Tang Renfeng stories sent by Nagasaki, those businessmen from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian inquired about Liu Yu's identity through various channels.

Although it is not clear, it is known that it seems to be a prominent family. It's just that the merchant has a low status after all, and it is impossible to know too much about the affairs of the capital.

Inheriting the position of shogun as a side branch and having seen the suffering of the bottom, Tokugawa Yoshimune can be regarded as a reformer.

The so-called reform was only aimed at consolidating the rule of the shogunate.

Culturally, Zhu Zi's science was promoted, and many economic reforms were carried out to maintain his rule, and he himself liked to study Western studies, especially mathematics and astronomy.

The problem of rice prices has been bothering him all these years. Until the other day, the Nagasaki Commission sent a booklet.

It introduces the meaning of some money, which is very shallow, but in this era, it is enough to be shocking.

Tokugawa Yoshimune never suspected that Liu Yu was a spy sent by Dashun, because it was impossible for a spy to actually bring war horses, doctors, military books, or even pamphlets about rice price reform.

The only thing that doubts is what Liu Yu's purpose is.

After the pamphlet on currency reform arrived, Tokugawa Yoshimune spent five days reading it carefully and sharing it with his confidants, and he felt that it made sense.

Crucially, this pamphlet provided a basis for the shogunate's reforms.

Recoinage, and the reduction of fineness, will certainly be regarded as "coinage profit" and "ingenuity".

However, this booklet gives a valid reason: the reason why the price of rice is so low is that the total amount of money is so small that people are reluctant to buy rice with currency, but are willing to keep the currency and wait for it to appreciate. If there is less money circulating to the market, the price of rice will be lower; If you want to raise the price of rice, you need to mint more currency. Gold and silver coins have their fineness reduced, and if copper coins are not enough, iron coins can be minted instead.

It's not a trick, it's justified.

After reading it, several close ministers and confidants all felt that it was quite reasonable, and they all praised this person for being talented.

But as far as he can see, this person's identity is very different.

A businessman is not necessarily talented, but due to the constraints of his vision, it is difficult for him to think about problems from the perspective of a country...... Of course, it's not nothing, it's just the special situation of East Asian Shinong Industry and Commerce, and they regard the special situation here as the norm.

On this matter alone, they feel that this Liu Yu's identity must be noble, at least a person who has been able to get in touch with national politics since he was a child. According to a society like Japan, where princes and generals do have a kind of society, it is indeed right to think so.

Tokugawa Yoshimune also became more and more puzzled, even though he knew that this Liu Yu had a strong background in China, but he couldn't figure out what Liu Yu was going to do?

Is it the Chinese side that is embarrassed to say that it is better to get back together, so it sent a person to explore the way by means of commerce?

If so, it's not impossible to make contact. It would be necessary to restore the former trade of exploration, but only if Dashun could not recognize Japan's maharaja system in the name of making Japanese tribute.

Or does the person have other purposes?

Or is it that his family wants to accumulate strength and plot against him?

If this is the case, we can also learn more about it, and if there is chaos on the mainland, it will also be beneficial to Japan.

With this curiosity, Tokugawa Yoshimune summoned Liu Yu to meet according to the specifications of the Dutch Merchant Hall.

Through the bamboo curtain, Tokugawa Yoshimune looked at Liu Yu outside, very young, young and not talking.

He was in his early twenties, wearing a very ordinary green shirt, with the pride of a young man on his face, and the image of the watcher saying "Wei Yigong is a good crane" to the elephant three days ago gradually plumped up.

Tokugawa Yoshimune did not ask the translator to ask, but wrote a handwritten message and asked someone to pass it on to Liu Yu.

He could write Chinese characters and read some of the Four Books and Five Classics, but he could not speak Chinese.

The paper with the words was in Liu Yu's hand, and the words were written well, Liu Yu looked at it and found that this question was really asked in depth.

"Since he is a Tang minister, he knows the difference between the noble and the lowly in agriculture, industry and commerce. If you are a soldier, why should you be cheap? ”

Liu Yu picked up the pen and replied with a word on the paper.

"Money".

The paper was handed over, and Tokugawa Yoshimune shook his head, not agreeing with the answer, or rather not satisfied with it.

He knew that money was useful, but he always felt that it really didn't make sense for a person of noble birth to love money so much.

Dashun's system, he knows more or less, and understands that it is not a sub-feudal system.

The officials have a Yulu, which is not very high, at least judging from the collected Ming Dynasty's rules and regulations, Yulu is really not good.

He was a very frugal man, eating only rice and vegetables for two meals a day, and striving to make the world's great names as frugal as him.

Although it is not like the neighboring North Korea, which thinks that money is the source of all things, and even wastes money, Tokugawa Yoshimune's attitude towards money is really not very good.

Is it really for money, dare to send warriors and sell war horses?

Tokugawa Yoshimune was skeptical.

Traitors are looked down upon everywhere.

Although the shogunate is very happy to get contraband such as war horses and intelligence from Liu Yu, after all, this is a bit of a traitor, and it can be used when it is used, but it is ...... in my heart

Especially after seeing Liu Yu return a simple and straightforward "money", Tokugawa Yoshimune felt a little disdainful in his heart.

However, after disdain, I thought about it carefully in my heart, and felt that something was not right.

The answer is too simple and too broad. When you go to Nagasaki to trade, you must be for money, but what do you want money for?

Is the family preparing for rebellion?

Or is it for some other purpose?

Money is just money, and what you get it for is the real purpose.

Tokugawa Yoshimune thought that he could tell the difference, but it was not good to ask Liu Yu directly what he wanted money for.

After thinking about it for a while, he wrote another sentence full of ridicule and ridicule on the paper.

"Merchants are profit-oriented and unrighteous, so they are farmers and businessmen, and businessmen are the cheapest. From your view, you can know the meaning. You are a Tang minister, and you are not enough? ”

Liu Yu didn't talk nonsense, thought about the texts he had memorized before, and directly wrote an ancient text.

…… The king of Qi said that Meng Weijun said: "The widow does not dare to take the ministers of the previous king as ministers." Meng Weijun was in the country of Xue. Before reaching a hundred miles, the people helped the old and the young, and welcomed the king. Meng Weijun said to Feng Chen: "What Mr. is a righteous person in the literary city is what I see today." Feng Tan said: "The cunning rabbit has three holes, and it can only be saved from its dead ears." There is a cave in this king, and he has not been able to lie down. Please dig two caves for you"......

Feng Chen's three caves, one is Xue Di City; second, to lobby Liang Wei in order for Liang Wei to know his talents and hire him; The third is to ask for the sacrifice vessel of the first king, and set up a temple in Xue.

Today, the Celestial Empire is no longer feudal, and I have no righteous actions in Xue Di City, and this cave is closed.

Today, the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, lobbying Liang Wei and the world knows the cave of his sages, and it is also closed.

Today, the Son of Heaven Li, I am the Liu family, the sacrifice of the first king is not qualified, and this cave is also closed.

Accompany you, if you are like a tiger, so think about retreating first.

Money can be used in the Celestial Empire, in Japan, and in Europa countries such as the Netherlands. I don't need three caves, just this one cave is enough.

The rapids bravely retreat to know the opportunity, the fire cooks oil, the flowers are like brocade, and the building is pouring in a blink of an eye.

The burrow was empty, and the wat was full of beds; The withered grass and withered poplar used to be a singing and dancing field. Yesterday, the loess Longtou sent white bones, and tonight the mandarin ducks lie at the bottom of the red light tent. Because of the suspicion that the yarn hat is small, the shackle is carried, yesterday it was pitiful and cold, and now it is suspected that the purple python is long. Bake you and sing and I'll appear......

The paper was passed over, and after Tokugawa Yoshimune read it, he couldn't help but laugh.

Of course he can understand the story of the three caves of the cunning rabbit, and Ogibu Shichiro can compile a book like "Mencius of the Seven Classics", and of course such a story has been told.

The wit of the empty room in the back is also interesting, at a young age, there is such a sense of escapism, which is really interesting.

Looking at the previous content, it seems to make a lot of sense.

Now the Celestial Empire is not feudal, and it does not have a fief like Xue Di, so there is no such thing as Shien Maiyi.

And the Qi State did not keep the master, and the master went to the cave of the Wei State, and it was gone. In the last cave, he is not a member of the clan, and he naturally does not have it.

But money is a good thing. If you have money, you are an uncle in the Celestial Empire, you are also an uncle in Japan, and you are still an uncle when you run to Europa.

As long as you have money, there is no need for any cunning rabbit hole, as long as there is a hole, it is enough.

This truth is clearly stated, and it is simply a clear stream of treasonous rhetoric.

Tokugawa Yoshimune thought about it for a long time and didn't know what to say.

If you talk about talent, the person in front of you is undoubtedly talented, and the pamphlet on currency reform alone is exactly what the shogunate urgently needs at this time.

The cronies around me who are in charge of reform know a little about such things as monetary policy, but they do not have such a deep understanding.

This person's pamphlet is already in the category of "Tao", not "art", and Tokugawa Yoshimune still understands the difference.

Moreover, in the previous Tang Feng story, Nagasaki asked those sailors, and also said that this person did not take the normal route, but sailed directly to Japan by navigation technology, which proved that this person's practical level was also sufficient.

Thinking like this, Tokugawa Yoshimune picked up the pen and wanted to reply.

He wanted to say that Dashun is not a feudal system, but Japan is, and you can try to leave a hole here.

Second, Dashun is the land of the whole world, but this world does not include Japan, you may not be able to go to North Korea and Vietnam, but it is no problem to come to Japan one day.

However, as soon as the pen was mentioned, I thought of the word "money" that Liu Yu said, and finally put down the pen.

This is a talent, but he has no loyalty.

Is talent important, or is loyalty important?

This goes without saying, and it is naturally important to be loyal. Besides, Dashun Tianzi has given enough, this person still feels that "the companion is like a tiger", why should he let this person be loyal?

After hesitating for a moment, he took a pen and wrote on the paper: Wen Ru went to Nagasaki and transported grain and rice to several ships, isn't it compassionate?

Liu Yu was unpretentious, and replied directly: It's not compassion, but thinking about the great hunger in Japan, the love of sending charcoal in the snow, and asking for a few more trade cards. A few boatloads of grain and rice can't solve the hardship, but I have something to relieve the people's hunger.