"Oh?"

Glancing at Zheng Zeshou, Huang Taiji smiled.

"What can you do?"

Zheng Zeshou was neither Han nor Jurchen, but Korean.

A few years ago, when the army entered North Korea, Zheng Zeshou led hundreds of Koreans to defect to the Qing Dynasty, they were all untouchables in North Korea, although Zheng Zeshou's father was a two-class nobleman, but just because his mother was a pariah, he became a slave of his brother, which made it difficult for him to accept, and he regarded serving the Qing Dynasty as an opportunity to go out of the land.

In fact, for the untouchables, it is difficult for them to identify with North Korea, when they attacked North Korea that day, in addition to Zheng Zeshou, there were a bunch of North Korean untouchables who fought for the "leading party", Huang Taiji was of course very happy about this, and after the surrender of North Korea, he naturally gave them a high status.

Compared to the two classes of nobles, Chinese and commoners in Korea, these untouchables are undoubtedly more reliable. Even this is the reason why Huang Taiji will recruit Korean untouchables into the army and organize them into a separate battalion with the green flag as the number. As long as these untouchables give them status, they will be more ruthless than the Eight Banners when they kill the Koreans, and as for the Ming army to fight, they will not care about the other party's "Celestial Empire" identity, they are eager to change their identity, eager to surrender to others.

In fact, from the very beginning, Huang Taiji concluded that the Koreans were unreliable, so he made up his mind to kill people with a knife, and ordered Daishan to lead the Eight Banners of Goryeo to attack Daifang Fort...... Those North Korean soldiers are just cannon fodder!

Facts have also proved this, the North Korean soldiers are unreliable, and Daiseon is also unreliable.

These pariahs are more reliable than them, because the Qing Dynasty is their only chance to change their fate!

But the untouchables also need military salaries!!

50,000 North Korean green battalion soldiers, a year of silver, rice, and festival rewards will be worth one million taels of silver, plus 50,000 Eight Banner Army, in a year, North Korea's expenditure will be two or three million taels.

Where does this money come from?

In the past, he could go to Guannai to grab silver and food, but now he is robbing there, and even in his heart, he has already thought about it, ordered the North Koreans to shave their hair, and took the opportunity to grab a wave in North Korea, but things are so easy.

Now the Ming army is close at hand, once the Korean turmoil, they are bound to respond to the internal and external peace, and then the Qing Dynasty will be completely finished, the current Ming army is not the Ming army of the old Khan, only dare to hide in the city and not come out, but the Pingyu army is waiting for the Korean civil strife.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court is short of money, you can find a way to earn silver!"

Zheng Zeshou said.

"Earn money?"

Huang Taiji was puzzled:

"How do you make money?"

"Master, the Korean land is poor and the people are poor, and the specialties are not abundant, but Japan is separated by a sea from Korea, but there is a golden day, and the slave has seen it in the history books when he was young, a hundred years ago, the Japanese envoy Anxin Dongtang visited the DPRK with the letter of state, and once said: "I (Japan) have a mountain in the Hokuriku, its name is called Jinshan, which is produced in real silver in recent years, and the great treasure of the real season is also." Therefore, the past years are dedicated to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Jiayue. At that time, the Japanese envoys used silver to "go away with light things such as white silk and satin for the merchants of Beijing". Since then, the Japanese envoys have always brought large quantities of silver to trade with Korea, and each time they have returned with a full load, and Korea can get hundreds of thousands of silver per year......"

Although he is a pariah, Zheng Zeshou's father is a two-class nobleman after all, when his father was alive, he also read books and naturally knew some old things, and even when he was young, Japan was not locked down at that time, and the Zheng family also did business with Japanese businessmen.

"So, Japan has a gold mountain?"

"There is indeed a gold mountain, 31 years ago, after the "Jiyou Agreement", Japan reopened the Japanese pavilion in Busan Doumaopu, and the Japanese people reopened trade, they often bought white silk, satin and other things at a high price, and in the eyes of the slaves, if we can bypass the Japanese people and sell the goods directly to Japan, we can make at least a million profits a year."

Millions of profits!

In the past, Huang Taiji naturally didn't care about this, but now, he was moved by this million taels of silver every year.

"You mean, as long as we send white silk, satin and other things to Japan, we can earn millions of taels of silver?"

Huang Taiji asked with some disbelieving.

"Yes, master, if we only use the ship to transport the goods over, we will definitely earn so much silver! White silk worth 500 yuan here is worth at least 3,000 yuan in Japan! ”

When he was young, Zheng Zeshou had heard that white silk, satin and other items sent to Japan could earn at least five or six times the profit, and this must be the case now.

"However, the trade between North Korea and Japan has always been controlled by Malaysia, and if we want to earn this silver, we have to ship it over ourselves!"

Looking at the emperor, Zheng Zeshou added.

"Your Majesty, the people of the Ming Kingdom have been trading with the Japanese."

Hearing this, Huang Tai raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice.

"Since the people of the Ming Kingdom can go, then we can go to the Qing Kingdom, and the ship of the Hongmao Kingdom is in Incheon, so let's buy their boat and go over."

……

When Huang Taiji made this decision, he did not know that thousands of miles away in the port of Nagasaki had welcomed a group of guests.

In this era, it is not easy to get from Dalian to Nagasaki, to go south first, and then enter the Black Water Ocean and then turn north, it takes 15 days to reach Nagasaki, half a century ago, the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty can sail into any port in Japan at will, but from five years ago, after the Edo Shogunate issued a decree to close the country again, Nagasaki has become the only trading port, and the "Kara ships to sail" are only limited to Nagasaki one port.

As Japan's only foreign trade port, it may be difficult for outsiders to think that the earliest founder of Nagasaki Port was not the Japanese, but a group of Ming maritime merchants including Wang Zhi created a city, and even now there are still tens of thousands of Tang people living here, the reason why there are so many Tang people is because as early as a few years ago, according to the order of the shogun, overseas Chinese in all parts of Kyushu and all ports who live by trade must move to Nagasaki. If you add the Tang merchants who traveled back and forth here, Nagasaki, with a population of only 40,000 or 50,000, is not much, and half of the people are Tang people.

Autumn is the time when the Kara ships sail the most, and dozens of Kara ships are moored in Nagasaki Port for a long time, which is the busiest time of the year in Nagasaki, and although the Zheng family monopolized trade with Japan, there are still sporadic retail merchants entering Nagasaki.

However, those Tang ships came sporadically, even if it was the Zheng family, they also came one by one, but today there were suddenly six sea ships, which made Nagasaki Governor Iwami Mamoru and Inouezhu extremely surprised, after all, it has not been such a "huge" fleet for decades.

Moreover, the ships had dragon flags on their masts!

The Nagasaki commissioner and the envoy were all alarmed, and they all came to the port at a brisk trot, and asked in Chinese:

"But the messenger of the Heavenly Empire is coming?"

Different from the imagination of later generations, in the Ming Dynasty, to be precise, in the official trade between Ming and Japan after the first year of Yongle, Japanese generals were required to accept the canonization of the Ming court, and they all called themselves "King of Japan" and "Minister" in the national letter, and used the Ming Dynasty era name. Although the Tokugawa shogunate had been locked down for several years, Japan had been separated from the tributary system at the center of China for several years, and was no longer politically under the jurisdiction of the Ming court.

However, they still habitually regard the Ming Dynasty as the "Heavenly Empire".

Although he was very unfamiliar with the Nagasaki envoy and the Nagasaki envoy, he knew Tang Tongshi Jiang Yiguan, Hu Weiliang said with a smile:

"Brother Jiang, don't you know your little brother?"

"Ah, Master Hu!"

Jiang Yiguan was surprised.

In Japan, the overseas Chinese who live in Nagasaki forever are called residential Tang people, and Tang Tongshi is selected from the residential Tang people, simply put, Tang Tongshi is a Chinese translator, and he is a servant under the Nagasaki government, that is, a grassroots official.

"Lord Feng, this Hu ship owner is a merchant from the Ming Kingdom."

After Jiang Yiguan introduced Hu Weiliang's identity, Hu Weiliang introduced:

"This is Mr. Yizhi, who joined the military under the general of the Ming Dynasty, and he represents the son of tomorrow!"

It's really an envoy of the Celestial Empire!

Nagasaki pursues Iwami Mamoru in the weight and the upper envoy Inoue Tsuku, and immediately kowtows according to Japanese etiquette.

"Nagasaki in the lower country pursues Ishimi Shou, the upper envoy Inoue Zhu, and meets the envoys of the Son of Heaven in the upper country!"

"Excuse me,"

Fang Yizhi said,

"I am on the orders of General Pingyu to come to Japan to discuss trade and trade, and can the envoy report to the higher authorities?"

Although the Nagasaki commissioner was the head of Nagasaki's administration, Inoue was an envoy sent by the shogun, and he came to Nagasaki to negotiate with the Dutch.

"Negotiate trade?"

Inoue Tsuku, who was the shogunate's big eye, said despite his doubts.

"Please ask the angel to stay in Karato Town, Nagasaki temporarily, and the minister will immediately send someone to Edo to report the news!"

As an envoy, he had just concluded negotiations with the Dutch, and the Dutch East India Company agreed to move the merchant house from Hirado to Dejima in Nagasaki. But he never thought that before he could return to Edo to show his merits, there would be envoys from the Celestial Empire who came to negotiate, and what did they want to negotiate?

Trade negotiations?

When did the Celestial Empire conduct trade negotiations?

Although he was full of doubts, Inoue still received the envoys of the Celestial Empire respectfully, unlike the Dutch who had to live in Dejima and not leave the island, and the principle was that the Japanese could not enter Dejima except on official business, the Tang people could buy houses and land in Nagasaki Castle, and the angels naturally lived in the Karato Town in Nagasaki.

After settling the envoys of the Celestial Empire, Inoue immediately sent a messenger to Edo to report the "visit of the Ming envoys".

The Ming envoy is coming!

It's really rare for Japan.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogun, quickly made a decision - to invite the Tang envoy to come to Edo for negotiations.

Why did you invite the Tang envoy to Edo, it was the Tang envoy who came! Of course, it is not the same treatment as the Dutch barbarians.

It's Daming's father's envoy!

Although the Japanese say that they don't recognize Daming's father, even Tokugawa Iemitsu himself also has a desire in his heart, eager to be recognized by his father.