In the port of Hyogo no Tsu of the Wa Kingdom, in the mansion of Akamatsumaru, Akamatsumaru entertained distinguished guests from the Ming Dynasty with good wine and good food.

Du Mingen wanted to learn some about the situation of the Wa Kingdom from Akamatsumaru's side, and Akamatsumaru also wanted to learn about the situation of Daming from Du Mingen's side.

Although the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty often have contacts, but after all, there is no way to compare with North Korea, the Ming Dynasty and North Korea are connected by land, but there is no such thing as the Japanese State, coupled with the long distance, the exchange is inconvenient, and the information transmission is naturally slower.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a place as the Golden Continent at the end of the sea east of our country, and the Ming Dynasty is worthy of being the kingdom, and there are even masters who have been to this Golden Continent."

Akamatsumu heard Du Mingen talk about the Golden Continent and the huge world outside the Ming Dynasty, which made the Akamatsumaru, Kamizuki Ichiro and other Japanese people present also surprised.

The Japanese people are naturally very clear about the sea to the east of the Japanese country, and it is not that the Japanese people have tried to explore this sea, but they have never been able to know where the end of the sea is.

Unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty knew it first, and at the end of the sea in the east of the Wa Kingdom was the Golden Continent, a place full of gold.

"We go to the Golden Continent, the most important thing is for high-yield crops, although I am the Ming Dynasty, the people are abundant, but there are disasters and famines, and every time they are hungry all over the land, our Emperor Ming His Majesty loves the people like a son, I heard that there are high-yield crops in this Golden Continent, and it is also to make us go to the Golden Continent."

Du Mingen said with a smile, then thought about it and asked, "I don't know what the situation is on your side?" ”

Akamatsumu listened quietly, and now when he heard Du Mingen ask about the situation of the Wakoku, he also sighed slightly and said: "Since the Onin Rebellion, the shogunate has lost control of the daimyo in various places, and now the heroes are rising together to compete for the world, and the situation of our Akamatsu family is not optimistic, and the daimyo around us are eyeing us. ”

He didn't hide anything from Du Mingen, because in his opinion, this Ming Dynasty would not have any thoughts about the Wa Kingdom at all, the Ming Dynasty occupied the Middle Earth Divine Prefecture, and the treasures and outstanding people were far from being comparable to the Wa Kingdom here.

The land is not only small, but also often earthquakes, and the land is extremely barren, and it is surrounded by the sea, there is no room for development, and there is no comparison with the Ming Dynasty at all.

So he didn't worry about what Da Ming would think of the Wa State after he knew about the situation of the Wa Kingdom, in his opinion, this Wa State was given to the Da Ming, and the Da Ming might not accept it.

What's more, the Ming Dynasty is the suzerainty of the Wa Kingdom, and the relationship between them has always been good.

Du Mingen listened carefully, and also roughly knew the situation on the side of the Wa Kingdom, the power of the Muromachi shogunate was weakened, and the daimyo in various places rose one after another, as for the nominal Wa Emperor, he has always been the role of a mascot, without any substantive power, and the daimyo in various places are not bird Wa Huang at all.

This was the era of the rise of the great powers, and it was also the beginning of a chaotic war.

Knowing this, Du Mingen had the bottom in his heart, which must be a good thing for the Daimyo, because the Wa Kingdom was in chaos, which meant that if the Wa Kingdom did business in the future, there would be more opportunities to make money.

Not to mention anything else, just selling weapons to sell them on the side of the Japanese country will definitely be very profitable, and the route of the Japanese country will inevitably open up in the future.

The banquet lasted until late, very late, and then Du Mingen stayed directly at Akamatsumaru's mansion, and Akamatsumaru was very thoughtful in all aspects.

This is not only because of the glass jade horse given by Du Mingen, but also because Du Mingen's identity is here, of course, as a member of the Chisong family, he is also thinking about the Chisong family.

The Akamatsu family occupies the fertile land of Harima Province, and the other daimyo around it are eyeing Harima Province, but the strength of Harima Province is not very strong, and the surrounding daimyo are all powerful daimyos, all of them are ambitious, and they all want to replace the Muromachi Shogunate as the new ruler of the Wa Kingdom.

In such an environment, the Akamatsu family has always been committed to growing its own strength, and the Du Mingen in front of him is from Daming, if he can get external support from Daming, the Akamatsu family can stand more firmly.

Although this possibility is unlikely, it doesn't cost much to entertain Du Mingen, it's nothing more than good wine and food, plus a few women, which is nothing at all for the Chisong family, who is the landlord.

In the room where Du Mingen was resting, Du Mingen was already drunk to seven points, and habitually took out his notebook, preparing to write today's diary.

Keeping a diary, these habits that every student is required to develop in the Maritime Academy, Du Mingen does not write a diary every day, and there is no way to sleep, because he always feels that he still has something to do, which is the power of habit.

"On the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month, today happened to be the Tanabata Festival, and we arrived at Hyogo Notsu in the Wa Kingdom very smoothly, where we were warmly welcomed by the Akamatsu family."

"During the conversation with Akamatsumaru, I roughly knew the situation on the side of the Wa Kingdom, the general trend of the world, the long-term union must be divided, the division must be united for a long time, the current Wa Kingdom is at the beginning of the split, it is foreseeable that in the future, the Wa Kingdom here will inevitably be full of heroes and wars."

"I think about it, and I secretly think that the root cause of the turmoil in the Wa Kingdom is that the Wa Emperor did not have any substantive power, and the local daimyo formed their own vassal states, and there was no strong political power."

"The Japanese country has learned from me everywhere in China, but I haven't learned this, since ancient times, it has been a strong cadre and a weak branch, and once it is reversed, it will inevitably cause chaos in the world and social turmoil."

Du Mingen's diary was written very briefly, and it was not written in a long article, but simply explained the situation today, and then expressed his own views on what he saw and heard.

"My lord~ please rest early."

Du Mingen finished writing his diary here, and the two beautiful widows on the side made the bed very well-behaved, saying that it was a bed, but it was actually a tatami mat on the side of the ditch.

Then he came to Du Mingen's side very meekly and began to serve Du Mingen.

"Hmm~"

Du Mingen looked at the beautiful women beside him, smiled, and nodded.

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The next day, Du Mingen slept until three o'clock in the morning.

The madness of last night's night, coupled with the long-term drifting on the sea, the whole person has to be worried at all times, even if it is time to rest at night, it is difficult to rest well, after all, the environment on the ship is too bad.

It's completely different when you get to land, this is full of wine and food, and there are beauties in your arms, and the whole person puts down everything with all his heart, and it is normal to sleep until noon.

"I didn't expect that although there was nothing in the sake of this Japanese country when I drank it, this stamina was really great."

Du Mingen rubbed his head, and then looked at the beauties of the country on the left and right, and as soon as the whole person was excited, he immediately turned over and galloped on the battlefield.

In the afternoon, Du Mingen walked out of Akamatsumaru's mansion comfortably, and the whole person felt refreshed.

Come to the port fleet.

"Mr. Du, how did you rest yesterday?"

Tian Erniu looked at Du Mingen's face full of spring breeze and knew that he must have rested well.

"Haha, it's not bad, but it's hard work for you."

Du Mingen laughed happily, handed Tian Erniu a look you know, and then asked, "How is the situation?" ”

"The fresh water has been replaced and replenished, and the food has been replenished, but there is no way to replenish the dehydrated vegetables, and other materials have been purchased and replenished."

"This is the largest port in the country, and there are all kinds of goods, and we have everything we need."

Tian Erniu hurriedly reported the situation to Du Mingen's side.

"Well, how's the stuff we brought with us selling?"

Du Mingen nodded with satisfaction, this is the last supplementary point to go to the Golden Continent.

Although it is possible to anchor in some places on the north side of the Wa Kingdom in the future to replenish supplies, it is not possible to buy everything, so here, the supplies that can be replenished are replenished as much as possible.

"The sales were very hot, and as soon as our glass products came out, it immediately caused a huge sensation."

"Although our stuff is very expensive, in the morning, all the glass products we are going to sell here are already sold."

"There are still some left, according to your orders, we are going to keep them, and we can sell them again in the next few days, or use them to give away."

Speaking of the sale of glass products, Tian Erniu couldn't help laughing, he approached Du Mingen and said very quietly: "Mr. Du, guess how much silver we have sold now." ”

Hearing Tian Erniu's words, Du Mingen immediately raised his eyebrows, stretched out three fingers and said, "Is there such a number?" ”

These three fingers mean three million taels of silver, in Du Mingen's opinion, the Japanese side will not be worse than North Korea, and there must be no problem in buying three million taels of silver.

"Hey, hey, there's this number~"

Tian Erniu smiled, stretched out a slap and said.

"How much?"

Du Mingen looked at it, widened his eyes slightly, thought about it and said.

"Of course there is, Mr. Du, you may not know the situation here in the Japanese country, this Japanese people don't look short and poor, but there is a lot of silver and gold here."

"In particular, there is a lot of gold in the Wa Kingdom, and many people use gold to settle directly when they buy glass products with us, in our Ming Dynasty, the ratio of gold and silver is one to ten, but here, the ratio of gold and silver is only one to five, so I collect gold as much as possible."

Tian Erniu nodded and said.

Hyogo no Tsu is the largest port and material distribution center in the Wa Kingdom, where merchants from all over the Wa Province gathered, caravans of daimyo from all over the country, and in addition, it belongs to the most fertile Kanchu region in the Wa Province, so it can be said that it is the richest place in the Wa Province.

This is also the reason why the glass products brought by the fleet can be sold out so quickly, not only because the glass products are very rare, but more importantly, there are a lot of wealthy businessmen, Ming fleets from all over the world, and so on.

If you change places, even if this glass product is rare, but it is too expensive, it will definitely not be able to sell so much silver.

"It seems that what Liu Gongzi said is right, this country is rich in gold and silver, and most of this Shijian silver mine is true."

After listening to Tian Erniu's words, Du Mingen thought about it and nodded and said.

"But no, I didn't expect this Japanese to be so rich, this gold and silver is very much, this time we made a lot of money, sold for five million taels of silver, and a large part of it is still gold."

"When this gold arrives in our Daming, its value is even higher, and we can earn millions of taels of silver just by earning the difference in price."

Tian Erniu nodded with a smile on his face, he now knows what it means to make money, think about the time when he used to dig in the land, not to mention the millions of taels of silver, as well as boxes and boxes of gold, even a little bit of silver, he has never seen it.

In fact, the gap between people is not big, no one is stupider than the other, the key is to see more and see more.

After a trip to the Wa Kingdom, Tian Erniu knew that in the future, he could make a lot of money just by using the huge exchange difference between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that if he brought some goods, the profit would be very amazing, not to mention that he would earn millions of taels of silver.

"Look at your little interest, it's only five million taels of silver, we have just set off not long ago, this Golden Continent is full of gold, and when we arrive at the Golden Continent, this boatload of gold will be brought back, and it will be called for distribution at that time, this little money is nothing at all."

Du Mingen looked at Tian Erniu and said with a smile.

He now understands the huge profits of sea trade, and he finally understands why these big families and gentry in the Jiangnan region are desperately trying to let the imperial court routinely ban the sea.

Without it, the profits of this sea trade are too great, and a trip to the Japanese country will earn millions of taels of silver, and these big families, gentry, and merchants who rely on going to the sea to do business are estimated to be rich enough to rival the country.

Of course, they don't want the court to open the sea, once the sea is banned, everyone can go to sea to do business, and they will have no way to monopolize this business.

At the beginning, because I listened to Liu Jin's words on the Moon Tower, I also thought about going to the Golden Continent with money, and in less than a year, although there was no shadow of the Golden Continent.

However, the silver invested by Du Mingen in this matter has already been earned back dozens of times, and when the fleet was training, he went to North Korea to earn millions of taels of silver, and he had to earn millions of taels of silver on a trip to the Japanese country.

For the Golden Continent, he was full of expectations at this time, and he was looking forward to being able to bring back a boatload of gold from the Golden Continent, which was enjoyable.