Jiang Tian successfully fooled two groups of Japanese, and the method used was nothing more than to draw a big cake that both sides liked, and then wait for the other party to be fooled, and the little devil was very unscrupulous. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although Fujiwara is not a big official in Japan, as a nobleman, he naturally has to make careful calculations for the emperor's money bag, and Jiang Tian was able to persuade the shogunate to agree to give the emperor 30% of the annual trade share, which has already exceeded the task, and the palace family can finally eat rice happily. Besides, this is also a phased victory in the struggle between the emperor and the shogunate, which will make the people of the world ...... In fact, the Japanese people see the majesty of the imperial family. Moreover, the set of lead movable type is the most important, and the palace can print books as it wishes. Spread the idea of loyalty, and win over all the samurai who were hostile to the Tokugawa family and the shogunate. Although the price of ink is expensive, it is not a big problem to measure it by the share of 30% of the trade. This is not a simple matter of making money, in the words of Eda Lord, it will mean that the words of the emperor can be heard in every corner of Japan! As for the Confucian students who were assigned, it was even more able to show the charm of the emperor, and the Japanese nobles and monks of the temples in these years did not admire the culture of the Central Plains.

Baoke can be moved, it is also seen the importance of the right to speak, not only that, Jiang Tian also told him that many coastal daimyo and ronin have been engaged in overseas trade, of course, this is not news, but since you can't ban it now, it is better to let go of your hands and feet to do business openly, and the Celestial Empire will also help fight smuggling together in order to get more benefits. As long as you, the Tokugawa family, hold the lion's share of trade, you will always be able to suppress these ill-intentioned guys. Besides, you have a bunch of broken samurai who can't eat, and they have to go overseas to be thugs every year, so now it's better to pack them all and send them to China, and I'll give you a commission per head! Careful calculation means that human trafficking is a lot of money, and in the end, the hostile forces will not be able to obtain usable talents. For the shogunate, which was gradually shifting from martial arts to bunji, this was tantamount to weakening the enemy while counting money, so why not?

"All I promised was a mirror flower, even if I gave them two sets of lead movable type and some books and tea, it wouldn't cost much in the end." Jiang Tian muttered while gnawing on his bones: "And this money is still reimbursed by the emperor, as long as they open the gate, the rest of the matter will not be up to them." ”

The pervert is also gnawing bones, originally he planned to invite Jiang Tian to a casual banquet today, the main menu is the new dishes brought from Jiang Mansion that day, not only can it be regarded as an apprenticeship banquet for entering Jiang's private school in the future, but also let Jiang Tian evaluate the craftsmanship of the cooking master, but it turned out to be a whole sheep barbecue: "Then why did they fall for it?" ”

Song Yi was originally very disgusted with this extremely unscrupulous way of eating, but he couldn't stand the instigation of these two foodies, especially the charcoal-roasted sheep was still asked by Jiang Tian by name, and he had to reluctantly grasp it in the dignity of his teacher. Not to mention that according to Jiang Tian's guidance, the taste of this mutton is so different. After listening to Liu Baokai's question, he wiped the oil on his hands on a wet towel and replied for Jiang Tian: "Can't you see this?" None of them harbored ghosts for the sake of the interests of the Japanese country, so they were naturally easy to be fooled. ”

"Yes!" Jiang Tian also wiped his hands, and then drank two sips of soup in a small casserole of his own: "Diplomatic envoys, don't always think about face, we used to care too much about face and not pay attention to the inside, no matter who you deal with foreigners in the future, you must remember this major issue of right and wrong, that is, you can't ignore the country and sell the interests of the motherland for the sake of so-called face and honor or for your own selfishness." If not......"

Jiang Tian didn't finish speaking, so he lowered his head and took another sip of soup, but others could understand the meaning of the words. Especially Tian Xuhai, who has never interjected, he can't help but feel a stirring in his heart, recalling what Donglin did, isn't it a typical example of disregarding the world for his own selfishness? This Jiang Tian wears the same pants as the emperor, especially after the Tatars enter the customs, he will indeed hate this kind of person. Originally, he was just joining in the fun, and since there was the meaning of apprenticeship in it, he couldn't question it openly, but he couldn't understand why Japan did business with the Central Plains, and it must be Japan that suffered in the end?

But he didn't need to speak, Wu Yuan, who also had this question, asked directly: "Sir, students have always been unable to understand, they didn't interact with others before, why can you be impressed with a few words?" And why do you have to set so many terms for a simple sale? ”

Jiang Tian wanted to say, it is difficult for me to explain it clearly in your knowledge, but then I thought about it, these guys will have to learn from him in a short time, although it is only a relationship between a gentleman and a student in name, but the emperor intends to train them to be successors, so some things really have to be explained to them.

Thinking of this, he had no choice but to wipe the oil stains off his hands and face, and then found a carbon strip from the charcoal brazier, cooled it with tea, and drew it on the ground: "These are the three main large islands controlled by the Wakoku, the Ezo in the north is too bitter and cold, so they don't go much, and the Ryukyu Kingdom in the south is now occupied by a gang of Wakoto." And this is Kyoto, which was built by the dwarfs in imitation of Chang'an and Luoyang, where the emperor lived, and under Kyoto was Sakai Port, their largest trading port, and in the bay to the east was Edo Castle, the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate......"

While popularizing the knowledge of Japan's geography and history to the group, Jiang Tian explained some tricks of foreign trade that were not humane to outsiders. Don't look at him sometimes squatting on the ground to draw lines, and sometimes pointing with his toes as a whip to explain, there is really no feeling of being a teacher, more like a few gentlemen eating and drinking entertainment activities. But with his explanation, even Tian Xuhai, who didn't pay much attention to these details, became solemn.

Wu Yuan also pointed to the ground with a leg of mutton bone and said, "So to speak...... This land of projectiles has always coveted the Central Plains! It's really dead, no wonder His Majesty always calls these people little devils when he mentions them. ”

Liu Baokai took a sip of wine: "What are you afraid of, they can't afford to turn the waves for thousands of years, and if they dare to move their hearts, we will kill him directly!" ”

Jiang Tian shook his head: "Don't always think about fighting and killing, as long as there are things in this world that can be settled with money, it is not a big deal." Although these little devils don't have a long memory, they are essentially because the islands are small and there are many natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and typhoons, and the living environment is really not good, but if you let him see some hope and tempt him with a little profit, he will dare to take risks. So why don't we spend money to let them and those horseback riders in the north fight hard, and use up the sharpness of these two groups of people, and then you will be able to reap the benefits without much effort. ”

"Will it be that simple?" Tian Xuhai finally participated in the discussion: "Won't those people see our plans?" ”

Jiang Tian glanced at him, and then replied very casually: "What's the point of seeing?" I'm just doing business with them, don't you need Chinese products? Well, I will give it to you at the same price, and I will not charge customs duties on the blister copper, gold and silver you have shipped, and I will buy a large number of giant logs for the manufacture of warships. You said that you have too many people to feed, and there is no problem that the Central Plains is just short of labor, so our wages are negotiable. You said that the ronins and shabby warriors there have no way out, and it is easy to make trouble when they get together, so let's also form a foreign legion as ordered, and put them to the north to fight with the Tartars, and we will pay back the bereavement if one dies. The only thing is that after this contract is signed, I am not allowed to change my hexagram for 50 years, otherwise I will be able to collect the loss fee! ”

After listening to it for a long time, the pervert who still doesn't understand it just can't understand: "These terms are all right?" It seems that we still suffer a little more, can they change their hexagrams? ”

Jiang Tian smiled, picked up another piece of lamb chops and gnawed on it, and said in a very leisurely tone: "This is the problem of dumping caused by the technical generation difference, among the main foreign trade commodities we produce, tea, porcelain, and silk are the most important goods, but these Japanese countries can produce themselves, but the quality is poor and the output is limited, unable to meet their domestic needs, although the level of these guys casting swords is not bad, but that is also the rest of our Tang Dynasty, in fact, the country's metallurgical level is very poor, Even the copper coins for their own use can not compete with us, as for tea and silk are not worth mentioning, so the goods in the Central Plains are not only of high quality, but also relatively low in price, not to mention, even if we just sell them copper money, we can make a profit of three or four percent, as long as this mouth is opened, you say that their tea farmers, silkworm farmers, and those who rely on coinage, pottery how to survive? If these people can't survive and can't eat, they can only have two choices, either come to China and be slaves for us, or they will make trouble for their own court and make trouble every day. Don't say that it will be 50 years, and within 10 years, there will be great chaos in the Japanese country! ”

In the warm room, several people couldn't help but shiver, none of them expected that the humble gentleman, who usually spoke kindly and treated his subordinates with courtesy, would ambush such a killing move when it came to the issue of dealing with the Japanese, and it was a bloodless move but enough to put him to death, no wonder the treaty stipulated strange contents in detail, such as China's duty-free treatment of certain Japanese products, and Japan's commitment to tariffs that would remain unchanged for the next 50 years. From this point of view, in the future, the Japanese will either be slaved for generations, or they will dig up their own minerals and cut down their own trees, and wait for death with an empty island. It is true that it does not take a single soldier to dig up someone's ancestral grave!

"But......" Liu Baokai wiped the sweat from his forehead: "If they wake up and continue to close the country, what should we do?" ”

Jiang Tian took a sip of wine for a while, and then poured the remaining little wine on the Japanese map on the ground: "In less than five or six years, our Chinese navy should also start to see the scale, if the little devil refuses to fulfill the contract, let's let the fleet practice and burn Edo!" ”

As he spoke, he threw a carbon bar with a flame on the ground with a clamp, and the flame ignited the alcohol at once, as if Japan had really been engulfed in flames. The chill in everyone's hearts became even stronger, and they finally knew now that the emperor appointed Jiang Tian to be in charge of the negotiations, not only because he was familiar with the situation of the Japanese state, but also because of this invisible courage and strategy to destroy the country and slaughter the city, looking at the hundred officials in the capital...... It should be said that looking at the whole of China, you can have this insight and strategy to strangle the enemies who can threaten the empire in advance, but you don't need to shoot a single shot in the middle of talking and laughing! After knowing this shocking secret, who would dare to say that he Jiang Tian Guanzhi was lucky enough to enter the top position? If it weren't for the lack of qualifications, I'm afraid that the position of the first assistant to the cabinet would have been secured.

After saying this, Jiang Tian returned to his grin-hee-ha-ha appearance: "I can say it in advance, you will listen to this matter, if anyone passes it on to me, it will not be me Jiang who is looking for you to settle accounts!" ”

This threat, which doesn't sound like a threat, is too lethal, if Jiang Tian doesn't settle accounts with them, who else will kill the killer? Naturally, only the emperor is left, think about it, can the emperor not know the truth about such a big thing? Or this is the true intention of the emperor to change the commander, maybe he Jiang Tian told this secret today because he drank a little wine, but this contract was also signed, as long as the Japanese do not know, even if they know it, what can the Chinese people do? Anyway, it's not good to say it, so keep your mouth shut.

Jiang Tian explained to the gang in a relatively simple and understandable way, and from the perspective of its practical descendants, of course, it is not just about destroying the other party's agriculture and handicraft industry, but also about resource plundering and financial control, and at the same time, the export of values leads to peaceful evolution. Of course, no one who knows anything will believe that this process of evolution will be peaceful. It's just that Jiang Tian's trade negotiations this time still left many mysteries in history, and the biggest controversy in later generations is whether he has so many ulterior motives at this moment. The faction that supported Jiang Tian believed that he was only acting as a lobbyist in order to complete the tasks assigned by the emperor, and even if there was any conspiracy, it was the emperor's will. The other faction does not think so, judging from his subsequent actions, it is obvious that he copied the Tang Dynasty's routine of evolving Tibet, making a potential opponent with strong folk customs become an obedient lamb, and putting on layers of shackles, so that this island country, which was always outside the circle of Chinese vassals, completely became a vassal of the Central Plains. Although the process of achieving this goal was not as simple as originally envisaged, the end result was predestined after the contract was signed. Therefore, Jiang Tian was the most insidious diplomat of that era!

All of these controversies are unique to China, where the text of the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between Friendly Countries, known as the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between Friendly Nations, was lost for some reason in the Central Plains, but the copy was kept in Japan and later became the treasure of the National Museum of Japan. In Japanese history textbooks, it is said that this treaty broke the dark rule of the shogunate for the first time and brought the dawn to the integration of Japan's Mishima into the world, and Jiang Tian also promoted this matter in order to spread civilization and prosperity, and in the middle may have caused unnecessary consequences in order to accommodate the corrupt and incompetent shogunate, but it was also for good intentions, and in order to restore the emperor's authority in Japan, he resolutely donated the world's most advanced printing technology, made an indelible contribution to the popularization of cultural knowledge, and is the eternal great mentor of the Japanese...... It is estimated that Jiang Tian himself can laugh when he hears these evaluations, which is also inseparable from his inextricable connection with the Japanese imperial family.

If there is any practical significance of this treaty, it is that in the subsequent foreign negotiations, the principle of putting profit first was written into the textbook of foreign affairs personnel, and his experience has become a model for China to hold high the banner of freedom and prosperity and experience the whole world. At the same time, it has gradually cultivated a group of diplomats, so that China can rarely fall into the end of the road of reckless militarism on the road to world hegemony. And after a few decades, it has driven the pursuit of technology by capital, because if you want to use economic means to achieve your goals, you must first have excellent technical strength to make your products invincible in international competition.

"Well......" After listening to Jiang Tian's report, Zhang Tao let out a sigh of relief: "It seems that there is only the problem of the north and the west left, but this navy is really difficult to build!" ”

Jiang Tian also knows the problem of naval construction, as the saying goes, the navy of a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has abolished martial arts for too long, resulting in the development of the naval division has been broken, and the Zheng family in the southeast has a large number of defectors to Taiwan, how can experienced seamen be so easy to train.

"Do you know that it takes three years for the wood used in shipbuilding to dry in the shade, and we haven't built big ships for a long time, and the loss of technology is serious. In five or six years, I may not be able to pull out a fleet that can conquer Japan! ”

Jiang Tian thought for a while: "This is easy, Japan's own ships are not very good, let's learn while building and take our time, anyway, when the British can start the Opium War, they are not sure who will fight whom." On the Japanese side, if we are not sure of the blockade of Tokyo Bay, it is better to find and cultivate our own agents now, or launch a campaign to overthrow the shogunate in advance, even if we cannot overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, it will cause him to lose his vitality and make it even more impossible to implement the policy of locking the country. ”

Zhang Tao nodded: "The little devil thinks that if he gives us all the ronin, he will be able to make the world peaceful, but in fact, he doesn't care about your sword skills for a long time." I'm really interested in getting that copper now, the more things the better. ”

"I think we still want to settle the north first, and the Mongols can also use the border city to divide and disintegrate, their productivity is not as good as the Japanese, it will only be easier for us to control, the key is to be careful of the infiltration of the Green Sect into the Hetao area, in our time and space, the entire Qing Dynasty spent half of its time dealing with these people, and the top priority is how to fill the population and block each other."

When it came to military issues, Zhang Tao couldn't help but exude domineering: "I'm just not afraid of real swords and guns, if anyone fights with me for the Western Regions, be ready to destroy the country and exterminate the species!" ”