Liu Yu kept his head shut and didn't speak, it seemed like he was trying to think, but he was actually thinking about how to continue to deceive the emperor next, and steal the sky within the scope of the imperial power.

Thinking that he should still be in the new term for the time being, and the emperor is quite healthy, it should be nothing to do with the temporary beating.

He didn't know how many times he had pondered about Japan.

Japan lacks all kinds of resources, and the handicraft industry is very stretched, so it relies on the isolation of the country to ensure that precious metals do not flow out.

Dashun's deformed domestic economy, with a maximum of one million people with consumption power, simply cannot support a preliminary handicraft factory revolution, and the unprecedented impact it has brought is estimated to scare the emperor's soul, and he has to find an outlet.

If Japan's small-scale peasant economy does not go bankrupt, the small-scale peasants of Dashun will have to die. The cruelty of primitive accumulation will not only scare the emperor to pee, but also scare Confucianism into retro.

Old seeds do not grow new fruits, and he wants to plant new seeds, but these words must not be said to the emperor.

Since ancient times, it is not unreasonable to emphasize agriculture and suppress business. In terms of the speed at which commerce enriches money, if it were not for the emphasis on agriculture and the suppression of commerce, the dynasty would not have had a three-hundred-year cycle at all, and it might be finished in a hundred years.

Just like the control of Mongolia by the Jin merchants in history, in just a hundred years, it was calculated, so that the entire Outer Mongolia owed an average of 20 taels of silver to each person in the Jin merchants, and it was necessary to sell one-third of the sheep of all tribes in order to pay off the interest of the year.

The special national conditions of Dashun cannot rely on the so-called invisible hand, because the invisible hand will flow all the silver to the cellars, the land, and usury, rather than the physical handicraft factory.

Dashun's domestic demand is a joke.

Foreign demand is mainly based on porcelain and silk tea, but Europe is not stupid: Britain has high tariffs on tea, France drinks coffee and less tea, Dashun is temporarily unable to get Britain to give up 200% of the tea tariff, and it is temporarily unable to destroy the monopoly of the East India Company to rely on smugglers to transport tea to Britain.

Coupled with the development of European porcelain and the progress of the French silk industry, in fact, the market of the old three kinds has been basically saturated.

Southeast Asia.

Dashun's general switch policy, but the Europeans controlled the entry of Chinese merchant fleets into ports in Southeast Asia, imposed high tariffs and other ways to ensure the interests of the East India Company, which was also a direction of high investment and low return for the time being.

Internally, a self-sufficient natural economy, without an adequate internal market; Fiercely breaking the self-sufficient natural economy, Dashun will face a large-scale peasant uprising, and if it cannot withstand it, it will be the most fierce retro reaction.

The farmer would rather go back to the feudal system and experience the Confucian retro utopia as a farmer than go to the most brutal pre-steam-age factories with nothing.

Moreover, Dashun could not accommodate so many bankrupt peasants, and at this time, the world's market could not accommodate a preliminarily industrialized eastern province, let alone the entire Dashun.

Looking around and taking a look around, it is necessary to ensure that the initial handicraft revolution does not scare the emperor into reaction, and to ensure that he has accumulated a little foundation, so that he can take Japan.

In terms of righteousness, there is a Ryukyu double-sided tribute.

On orthodoxy, a group of old-fashioned remnants who went to Japan at the end of the Ming Dynasty preached orthodoxy in Japan, and the emperor was very unhappy.

In terms of difficulty, there was a shogunate system, and the Kamakura shogunate fought to win the Mongol invasion, and it was a complete end, and it was not necessary for the Edo shogunate to protect the shogunate or to protect Japan.

In terms of short-term gains, Liu Yu has just fooled Japan into carrying out coinage reform, and the Edo shogunate has a large amount of precious metals obtained from coinage, if it was not possible to take out so much money in the past few years, it can really lose a sum now.

In terms of long-term benefits, as long as Japan relaxes trade restrictions, Jiangxi porcelain can definitely completely crush Japan's fledgling porcelain, and silk fabrics can also completely crush Japan's silk industry.

As for the wool industry, Westerners imagined that there were sheep in oil paintings, but the Japanese ridiculed that they must have never been to Japan; In the cotton textile industry, Liu Yu does not know where to grow cotton in Japan; In the iron smelting industry, there is a shortage of iron ore in Japan, and a large number of Dutch iron rods have been imported before.

On the colonial system, Liu Yu sent the promotion method of sweet potatoes to the past, so that Japan could have more rice as "commercial grain". In the early stage, gold, silver, copper, and precious metals can be absorbed for primitive accumulation, and in the later stage, rice can be exchanged to ensure the stability and cost of coastal industry and commerce.

When it comes to management costs, Southeast Asia is in a mess and doesn't have a strong government. And Japan has a fairly strong government, which can ensure that the interests of the "Celestial Empire" in Japan will not be harmed. Moreover, the system of the Edo shogunate led to the emergence of a unified national market in Japan, which was extremely advantageous.

Liu Yu has already weighed these pros and cons many times.

It's just that even if the emperor said that he was "heartfelt" and infinitely glorious, he couldn't tell the truth.

To be honest, the emperor may not understand.

Or, if you can understand, you will understand that the imperial power will be completed in this way.

He can only tell lies.

Since the emperor seemed to be in his heart, Liu Yu also replied with the emperor's mentality.

"Your Majesty, the minister also said before that the affairs of Japan seem to be difficult, but in fact they are simple. Under the Japanese shogunate system, the shogunate did not dare to fight a big war with us, and if they could lose money, they would guarantee the rule of the shogunate, and they were willing. ”

"The shogun will fight all the banners with us, and after the fight, who will be able to suppress those daimyo princes?"

"Besides, if the name of the shogunate is not right, and the Japanese king is blackmailed to order the daimyo, then the shogunate will not only not make enemies with us, but will ask us to help suppress the rebellion of the daimyo from all walks of life."

"The shogunate is the best protector of the Celestial Empire in Japan. The only thing to worry about was the intervention of the Dutch. However, if the king of Austria has no male heirs, Europa will be in chaos, and the Dutch will not dare to intervene. ”

"The minister does not dare to say that there will be no other changes in the future, but what the minister can guarantee is that Japan will pay an indemnity of 5 million taels, liberalize trade, and impose tariffs on Japan by hundreds of thousands of taels every year after ten years, and the income from His Majesty's internal capital investment can also increase by hundreds of thousands of taels."

"Moreover, if Japan pays tribute, Your Majesty can sue the Taimiao. Ryukyu, the loyal minister of the Celestial Empire, is also the duty of the Son of Heaven to rescue Ryukyu. ”

"Thinking about it, there are only benefits, and there is no harm."

For other things, Li Gan didn't dare to say that he understood very well.

But the shogun didn't dare to take out all the flags and fight a field battle with Dashun, Li Gan knew too much, how could the emperor not understand this routine?

Listening to Liu Yu's analysis, it seems that there is indeed no difficulty. As long as the navy can win the war, and Japan has coastlines everywhere, it will land wherever it wants, and it will indeed not be difficult to use the combat effectiveness displayed by the Qingzhou Army in the Western Regions.

People are greedy and don't swallow elephants, Li Gan thought about Japan's trade and asked, "But the Netherlands has been trading with Japan since its beginnings. If Japan switches trade, the Netherlands and other Western countries may benefit. In this way, isn't it the Celestial Empire that sends troops, people, and money, but makes the country benefit? ”

Liu Yu wanted to talk about this issue.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has inspected the Dutch trade with Japan. Before Dashun, the Dutch traded with Japan, requiring merchants to transport goods to Batavia, and later to Taiwan. In this way, the Fujian merchants benefited, and the Dutch shipped raw silk to Japan much more expensive than the Fujian merchants directly transported it to Japan. ”

"At that time, a small part of the Dutch relied on Fujian merchants for transshipment, and the other part of the goods to Japan was spices. There are also some homespun cloth shipped from India, as well as woolen wool from Western countries. ”

"The world is stable, our dynasty will open customs, and foreign merchants will trade back and forth. The goods of the Dutch are taken directly from Zhangzhou and other places. With the exception of the original spices, the Dutch no longer shipped woolen cloth from their own country or homespun cloth from India. These shares were replaced by cotton, raw silk, sugar, etc. of this dynasty. ”

"That's why it's actually simple. As long as Britain followed the example of the British, all goods destined for Japan must be produced by the Celestial Empire; All ships bound for Japan must be a Celestial Empire merchant at the bow; All Western goods destined for Japan must be shipped to Japan after customs duties are levied at the port of call of the Celestial Empire. ”

"Japan only opened two or three ports, and strictly ordered Japan to remain closed and not to trade with other countries. Fleet navigation interception. Once the Dutch are found to have violated the regulations, the goods are seized. And threaten to cut off trade and double tariffs. ”

"Now the East India Company has been established, or the Western countries that trade with our DPRK are Britain, France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain."

"Among them, Sweden and Denmark can ignore it. France, Portugal, Spain, etc., were all hostile to the Netherlands. Britain and the Netherlands were allies, but Britain had more conflicts with the Netherlands in the South Seas. If our dynasty were to clash with the Netherlands, and Europa was fighting for the Austrian throne, the Netherlands would have no help. ”

"It's hard to sell Western goods in Japan. The rest of the countries had no trade in Japan, so if they defeated the Netherlands, they could sign treaties with Britain, France, and Spain. To make the Western countries recognize that Japan is a vassal of the Celestial Empire, and to admit that they cannot trade with Japan, otherwise they will cut off trade with other countries. ”

"Western countries, with the exception of the Netherlands, have no trade with Japan, and they will inevitably abide by the treaty in a short period of time."

"It was also very profitable for the Dutch to occupy the South Seas, to monopolize spices, and to find an excuse to go to war with the Dutch."

"Following the example of the Dutch, His Majesty's treasury or the treasury of the household government monopolizes the income from spices, and he can earn more than a million a year."

"In the event of a war with Japan, it was immediately declared that Western countries were not allowed to transship goods to Japan. The Dutch are profit-oriented, and they will inevitably take risks, and if they are caught, then the righteousness lies with me. ”

"In Batavia, there are tens of thousands of overseas remnants of the Celestial Empire, all of whom are devoted to the Celestial Empire, and they do not want to appease each day."

"In the event of a war on the Austrian throne in Europa, the Netherlands will not be able to increase its forces in the South Seas. With an army of only 3,000 and a navy of merchant ships, we can defeat the Dutch in one go. ”

"At that time, if there is a war in Europe, England will attack both France and Spain in Luzon, and it will naturally be necessary to prevent our dynasty from siding with France. When they see our fleet, they will also back down, for fear that we will take the opportunity to go to war. ”

"The Netherlands can't do it alone, but it can be done. Once the Dutch were defeated, the remnants of the Celestial Empire in Batavia were able to rule on the spot, monopolize spices, and sell them in the West. The Dutch were able to sail tens of thousands of miles, and more than half of them were killed and wounded along the way, which shows the profit of this spice. ”

"The ministers don't dare to talk nonsense, but if this matter can be done and attributed to the household government, the state treasury will pay more than seven or eight additional taxes in Henan every year."

"It is the old minister's words: time is running out, if you miss this opportunity, you will regret it for life. After a few more years, Britain won India, and it was afraid that if there was a war with the Netherlands, Britain would have to intervene. It will be difficult to fight then. Although the territory of the United Kingdom is not large, it has an annual income of more than 2,000 taels, which is not a small country. If it gains India, it will not be difficult to surpass the Celestial Empire. ”

"Please also ask Your Majesty to make up your mind. Chen Ping's entry into the Western Regions has proved that Chen Fei is the kind of person who talks about it. ”