Whether it is the emperor or the ministers kneeling on both sides, all of them are well versed in Chinese culture, Jiang Tian used the etiquette of the Spring and Autumn Period instead of the current Chinese etiquette to pay homage to the emperor, from the perspective of etiquette, this means that Jiang Tian did not regard the emperor as the same status as the Chinese emperor, at most it is the rank of the princes, although this is beyond reproach, they know very well that they cannot be compared with China anyway, but there is still some discomfort in their hearts. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The emperor and the emperor who sit on the throne also know it, but they are also quiet, and now how they fight against the shogunate depends on how deeply China supports them, so they will not turn their faces with China for the sake of etiquette, as long as the emperor does not show a displeased look, everyone will be happy to pretend to be stupid. I saw that the emperor, who did not look as strong as his father, greeted the Chinese emperor with the so-called "crane sound" and wished the friendship between the two countries to last forever. Fujiwara was in charge of translating this language, which only a few Japanese could understand, into Chinese, and then exchanged and stored the national documents with the seals, thus ending the so-called audience process.

After exiting the main hall, Jiang Tian had a child's play-like illusion, as a country palace is simple is one thing, simple is another, this Kyoto imperial palace is simple and simple, even if there are two emperors, what is the use of this national letter in his hand? If it weren't for the fact that the reform had not yet been completed, he would have supported Zhang Tao to send troops to fight.

Although the Japanese thought that Jiang Tian's attitude would not be so respectful, they would never have thought that what this guy had been thinking about in his heart was how to dismember Japan. Master Jiang Tianjiang used the broad and profound Chinese culture to express a kind of I respect you, but I don't take you too seriously. That is to say, these Japanese who claim to understand Chinese culture can understand that there are so many twists and turns in European countries. This feeling of swallowing flies but not being able to say them is indeed "cool" to the extreme.

As soon as he returned to his honor guard, he saw Fujiwara running over with a characteristic small broken step: "Lord Jiang, please stay!" ”

Seeing his sweaty appearance, Jiang Tian, who knew the other party's purpose very well, pretended to be surprised and said, "Lord Fujiwara, why is this?" But does the Emperor of your country have anything else to convey? ”

Fujiwara thought to himself, what am I doing here, you don't know? But he didn't dare to show a trace of displeasure on his face, and still said in an almost humble gesture: "It's not that the emperor of our country has a holy edict, but that we, the courtiers, feel that you have traveled thousands of miles to work tirelessly for the friendship between the two countries, how can we not fail to improve the friendship of the landlord, so we sent contemptible people to invite you to the contemptible Burrow for a banquet tonight." ”

It's eating again! As soon as he heard that the Japanese were going to have a treat, not only Jiang Tian but also Wu Yuan and Zhang Huan frowned, just your kind of banquet that is not as arrogant as a landlord in China, what kind of landlord friendship can you say? Jiang Tian muttered quietly, feeling that this matter must not be hidden from the Tokugawa family, rather than passively getting involved in trouble, it is better to let the Japanese guess blindly: "Lord Fujiwara's good intentions are understood, but I feel that since we want to deepen the exchanges between the two countries, we should not stick to who is the host and who is the guest in China and Japan, it is better to bring some Chinese products and exchange and taste with the adults in Beijing on your mansion, what do you think?" ”

Fujiwara didn't react for a while what this meant, but when he saw Jiang Tian glance at the palace guards not far away with the corner of his eyes, he instantly understood that the other party was afraid of the suspicion of the Tokugawa shogunate, so he had to agree to the conversation, but when he returned to his home to prepare the dinner, he found that Jiang Tian had already sent someone to send all kinds of food before him, and the man of the Marine Corps explained that this was the Chinese food provided by Lord Jiang for the banquet in the evening, Fujiwara's wife stared at these things that she had never seen before.

Jiang Tian's idea is very simple, on the territory of Japan, any small action against the shogunate may be discovered by the other party, although he is not afraid that the Tokugawa family will hurt himself, but it is not beautiful to destroy the established plan, so he simply opens it up for you to see, and the real behind-the-scenes transactions do not necessarily have to be carried out in Japan. So he went beyond the box to invite Masayuki Hoshina to the dinner on behalf of Fujiwara, and made it clear that it was to congratulate the signing of the trade agreement between the two countries. The Japanese are indeed each with their own ghosts, and there is no reason why Bao Ke is not coming. Jiang Tian sat in his own luxury carriage, and came to Fujiwara's door under the escort of a Marine reinforcement squad, and when he stepped out of the carriage, he saw Fujiwara in full costume standing at the door to greet him, and the two walked into the gate together after a little greeting.

Originally, it was a dinner party where the emperor's officials conspired with Jiang Tian, but it turned out to be a tea party open to all political forces in the capital. Fujiwara, who was taken advantage of, not only did not have any dissatisfaction, but on the contrary, he was very glad that he did not make a fool of himself in front of this heavyweight Chinese official, because what Jiang Tian took out could no longer be described as extravagant to them.

As a guest, Jiang Tian presented a very fine blue and white porcelain vase from the official kiln, which was actually just an ordinary utensil produced in batches, but Fujiwara was so frightened that he did not dare to express himself to the emperor but did not dare to be beautiful, but said that he would present it to the emperor. As for the glasses used for the guests to drink tea, as well as canned food and tomatoes as delicacies, they are basically the sailing supplies brought with the ship, in addition to the ice buckets made of galvanized sheet to insure the sashimi that the Japanese love to eat, it can be said that Jiang Tian used the resources at hand to show off to the Japanese again, even if I am in a hurry to hold a tea party, I can scare you to death.

Because not long after the end of the Warring States Period, those officials who were once samurai were stationed in the capital did not feel much about the crystal clear glass that was more dazzling than crystal, but their eyes lit up on those canned food that were ready to eat. However, when they heard that this kind of canned food could not only be produced on a large scale, but also could be kept for more than a year without spoiling, not to mention that those thin iron sheets did not look ordinary, many of them began to think about equipping the army with this kind of thing.

Masayuki Baoshina seemed to be indifferent to talking and laughing with everyone, but the glint in his eyes revealed his heart, this Chinese official seemed to invite everyone to come generously, and the things on display were some sharp weapons that could be used in war, although none of them were weapons, but he knew very well how valuable these canned food, iron sheets and the like that were not afraid of rust, in military affairs. These things are completely outside the monopoly list of secret negotiations between the two sides, but if they are really mastered by hostile forces, it will also be a great threat to their own family. But for the civilian officials of the imperial family, they saw a shining mountain of gold dangling before their eyes, and if they could hold these good things in their hands and get the privilege of exclusive sales, then the nobles derived from the Fujiwara family could once again gather the ability to subvert the regime.

In short, the tea party was a great success, and it was declared to the outside world: "The guests and hosts had a friendly and enthusiastic in-depth discussion on a series of issues of concern, and reached a unanimous opinion, and exchanged views on the principle of friendship and good-neighborliness...... "When Jiang Tian, who had drunk too much sake and was slightly drunk, was carried into the car by the guards and left, Fujiwara, who had been respectfully supporting Jiang Tian, maintained a ninety-degree bow posture until the carriage disappeared, and then walked back to his home with a natural look, and after returning to his room, he sent everyone out, Alone under a dim lamp, he secretly took out a note, only to see that it read: "The moon is born on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time!" After thinking about it carefully, Fujiwara didn't hesitate to burn the note.

Jiang Tian rested for the night and let the Japanese women out to visit relatives, and he set off for the port the next morning, and his next stop was Edo, the actual political center of Japan! When his carriage and horse returned to Sakai Harbor, he saw a very peculiar scene, although the defense line of the marines on the dock was still the same, but outside the defense line, there were Japanese traders in several circles on the inside and outside of the line, selling vegetables and fruits, chickens, ducks and fish, handicrafts and even small widows.

"This is ......" Zhang Huan looked at the scene in front of him strangely, if he was not mistaken, he had only left for three or four days, why did this special wharf become a bazaar?

A lieutenant of the Marine Corps who came to greet him said helplessly: "At first, we were going to buy some food based on the principle of getting supplies nearby, and many officers and soldiers also bought some local souvenirs to take home when they visited abroad for the first time. ”

"Alas......" Jiang Tian shook his head with a wry smile: "It's really worthy of being from Osaka, and the mind of doing business is different, but they can understand that they sell some vegetables, fruits, and meat, what is going on with these women traffickers?" ”

"This ......" Although the lieutenant didn't know who Zhang Huan was, he had been floating across the ocean on a boat for so long, as long as he was not a fool, he could see that he was not an ordinary person, so he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Wu Yuan, who believed in the military discipline of his own army, asked directly: "You just tell the truth!" ”

It turned out that this was still the fault of their own military discipline, after Jiang Tian and they set off for Kyoto, the logistics staff on the ship organized manpower to go to the street to buy things, and it was also a loss that this is one of the few prosperous ports in Japan, and it is really not a problem to buy some vegetables and fruits, but on the way back, they accidentally met the Japanese version of Yang Bailao and Xi'er, who were forced to pay debts by the Japanese version of Huang Shiren. Seeing that a little girl who looked like eleven or twelve years old was about to be forced to fall into the dust, these young people who had been educated by the proletarian revolution in the new army pooled money to pay off the debts of this father and daughter as soon as their heads were hot, and the result was beyond their expectations, and Yang Bailao of Japan naturally thought that these soldiers from China had taken a fancy to their own girls and planned to buy them back as military prostitutes, and they were even happier to see that their daughter's selling price was still very high, so after receiving the money, the little girl was forced to these soldiers and then left happily. There were only a few dumbfounded silly boys left at a loss.

After hearing this explanation, Zhang Huan didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and hurriedly asked, "What did you do with that girl?" ”

"How dare we accept it, isn't this a violation of discipline! So I had to send the girl home by herself. ”

"So after the reputation of you people for being stupid and having a lot of money, the traffickers also came?" Jiang Tian couldn't help but joke: "Fortunately, we came back early, otherwise the Japanese might not know what they plan to sell to you in two days!" ”

What Jiang Tian said is also true, although the Tokugawa shogunate nominally banned brothels, but due to the natural nature of the Japanese, various establishments with custom shop signs soon sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and even a street of custom shops appeared, and various related industries were extremely developed. If these GIs don't like women, maybe the Japanese dwarfs can really find a bunch of rabbits to come here to solicit business, and it seems that the Japanese aristocracy also likes beautiful boys.

It didn't take long for Masayuki Hoshina to rush to the dock, he was going to take the Jinghai back to Edo this time, this was also a great opportunity for him to observe the Chinese New Army up close, and he also saw those merchants, although he disdained these profit-seeking pariahs, but I heard that the monthly allowance of a corporal in the Marine Corps was as high as four yuan, even a senior soldier who had been in the army for one year also had two yuan, which was still the minimum income, and the allowance for sailing on a mission was directly doubled, whether it was the Navy or the Marine Corps, the salary of a second lieutenant was six yuan, He seemed to understand why the Chinese soldiers looked so different.

Because there was an old lieutenant of the Tokugawa family on board, it was very smooth, and all the Japanese ships had to make way for it, and of course the huge body of the Yasukai did not allow anyone to stand in front of it, and the Chinese envoy flotilla reorganized in a single column outside the port began its journey to Edo Bay. Although it only docked for three days, the shock of the Chinese fleet to Japanese commerce began to spread throughout the Japanese archipelago like a seismic wave, in line with the principle of never going empty, Jiang Tian brought a large number of commodities to come, this time in Sakai Port directly packaged and dumped all civilian goods to Japanese merchants, in addition to the traditional export of raw silk to Japan, there are a large number of cloth and sugar, paper and other bulk commodities, mixed with a small amount of steel ingots into the market, in exchange for a large amount of coarse silver, blister copper and other hard currency, The trade volume of just one fleet ate up almost all the stocks around Sakai Port, and the only thing that the officials in charge of trade did not expect was that they had to sell some of the rice in the supplies in order to load more silver.

Baoke looked at the ships with a very deep draft, knowing that there were all gold and silver in exchange for this trade, although he was a little unhappy in his heart, but his face did not show anything, he knew that in Edo Bay, not far away, more silver and copper ingots would be loaded onto the ship, used in exchange for muskets and steel ingots of almost the same weight, although he admired Confucian science, as a Japanese still gritted his teeth at this kind of loss-making transaction, but he had no way, his own metallurgical technology was not up to par, A small number of steel ingots obtained in the past have been praised by those swordsmiths, Chinese steel not only has higher toughness and hardness than Japanese steel, but also has corrosion resistance far better than Japanese swords.

Jiang Tian because he understood the role of scissors, so he decided to eat the Japanese, this is the important role of high-tech added value, hiding in the cabin to settle accounts, he quickly came to the conclusion that just the Sakai Port civilian goods trade, this time not only earned the operating costs of the entire fleet, but also raised enough silver for the navy to build another Dinghai-class cruiser, or use the money to build four standard sail destroyers, if all the arms in the cargo hold can be sold to the Tokugawa family, it is estimated that half of the North Sea Fleet's construction funds will be in hand.

Jiang Tian, who was looking at the account book, frowned, and looked up into the distance as if he had something on his mind, Wu Yuan and Zhang Huan, who were following him, knew at a glance what they felt about this teacher, so after driving the official in charge of trade out of the cabin, he asked, "Why is Mr. so dignified?" ”

Jiang Tian sighed: "Wealth is moving, although such a large amount of gold and silver can accelerate the construction of the navy, but I have set a bad precedent for this!" ”

Hearing him say this, the two people who had been with him naturally understood what he was referring to: "Sir, are you worried about the harm of the army's business? ”

Jiang Tian nodded: "I told you a long time ago that the army must exist purely for the purpose of protecting the family and defending the country, and any matter that participates in social management will accelerate the corrosion of this simple collective and make them forget their original mission." Once this happens, it will be the beginning of chaos in the world. ”

The fake prince saw that the real prince listened deeply, and he had a bad feeling in his heart, in the end, these noble families were nothing more than attached to the imperial power, operating various industries in the society to earn money for themselves, who can maintain the current scene? The emperors and ministers of all dynasties are well aware of this, everyone takes what they need in different fields, does not interfere with each other, maintains the peace in the court, and at the same time does their best to attack those who dare to lift the lid and hinder their wealth, knocking this guy who does not follow the "rules" to the ground and stepping on 10,000 feet. Therefore, in the era of extremely fierce party strife at the end of the Ming Dynasty, no one would talk about how much land the opponent's family owned.

Zhang Tao knows this unspoken rule, so he has always drawn the red line of ruling on the red line of land, and the appearance of Jiang Tian is to transfer the greedy desire to industry and commerce, it seems that the Chinese Dynasty is unlikely to appear in the late Ming Dynasty The end of the land annexation of the end of the world, but those who think they have found the other party's hole cards, but they don't know that in the hearts of Zhang Tao and Jiang Tian, the power of capital is more alarming.

Wu Yuan pondered for a moment and felt that he couldn't let Jiang Tian use the topic to play: "Sir, are you too worried, with you in charge of the overall situation, who can harm the public and private and be greedy for money?" ”

Zhang Huan, who had little social experience, still nodded approvingly, but saw Jiang Tian shaking his head regretfully: "Human nature is evil, greed is incurable, it may be guaranteed within ten years, but what about a hundred years later?" Just as we took advantage of the greed of the Japanese to dismantle their country, it is hard to say that no one will dismantle this empire from within us in a hundred years! ”