Although he received the holy order, Jiang Tian did not plan to work so quickly, at least he had to find all kinds of information at the bottom and learn more about the situation in Japan before he could take office. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info said that this time he has a new official position, called: Receiving the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Japanese Mission...... Such a bloody name can only be seen in the new dynasty, which if those previous Confucian officials heard it, they would not laugh off their big teeth. But who let our emperor use force to determine the country, sometimes it is normal to be vulgar, so many people are wondering if it is because His Majesty has been in the army for too long, so he can no longer write the follow-up chapters of "Dream of Red Mansions". Jiang Tian can only be infinitely jealous of this, why do you copy a broken book and dig a hole without filling it, and someone will find a reason for you? Isn't it just that the chair is a little heavier and a little yellow than mine? He thought about filling the pit more than once, but then he couldn't help it, because the last forty times obviously can't use Gao E's version, but the other version obviously has the implication of accusing corruption @ corrupting the ruling class, which is at best dissatisfaction with society, and at worst it is to incite mass contradictions, even if the emperor is also a traverser, but from the point of view that he can find someone to spread rumors and say that he is with him in the civil and military stars, he still attaches great importance to this spiritual legitimacy, and he still doesn't open his eyes so much. As for the information he wanted, it was very simple, the Ministry of Rites only needed to send someone to bring a box to load it, who cared about the state of the small country on the other side of the sea these days, anyway, they couldn't beat it, it would be very good to know who was the king now. Jiang Tian only smiled bitterly when he looked at this simple and concise information, but fortunately, he also wrote where the main focus of the contradictions between the two sides was.

In fact, there is a bit of a difference between Japan's seclusion and China's, and the Japanese are not ignorant of the benefits of trade, and do not think that doing business is a beast that destroys morality and etiquette. Rather, the Tokugawa family feared that the infiltration of foreign powers into Japan would cause destabilization of his rule. So on the one hand, he monopolized the trade rights of Sakai Port (next to Osaka), and then declared a blockade of other ports. This, of course, led to the dissatisfaction of the other daimyos, but they were unable to resist. Historically, Sakai Port would not have become a trading center of Japan again until the 19th century, but now history has changed. Not only did the Manchu Qing Dynasty not enter the Central Plains, but the newly established Chinese Dynasty uncharacteristically welcomed ocean-going trade, and even in addition to the traditional ports of Quanzhou and Guangzhou, it also opened new trade ports such as Songjiang, Haizhou (Lianyungang), and Dagukou. The Japanese merchant was very angry, he obviously had the silver and copper that China urgently needed, and in the past, Japanese swords and lacquerware could be sold at a good price, as long as the money was exchanged for any kind of commodity in the local area and shipped back, they could make a lot of money. But who has the courage to disobey the shogunate's restrictions? If you think about it, going to the emperor is listed as the best option.

Let's not talk about how hard the Japanese emperor's life is, anyway, he is a puppet and has no superior treatment. In the past, in order to make some extra money, I often did some tricks of sending tribute, and I would ask the Celestial Empire for a reward if I just scratched a little garbage, and I was so shameless that I even dared to count the bamboo pole as a tribute. Fortunately, it turned out that those Central Plains courts, in order to maintain the face of the Heavenly Empire, would not bother with him, and the things given back were all rich. This time they wanted to do it again, but they heard from the Dutch that the emperor was extraordinary, not the kind of foolish lord. So a group of merchants pondered that they would pay the tribute first, and then return the goods with interest. It's a good choice for the poor emperor, but what's even funnier is that there were actually three emperors in Japan at this time! One is a father and his daughter are both emperors, and the other son is the current emperor, and the emperor's father and this little emperor still have a very bad relationship with the shogunate. Then there were many people in the capital (Kyoto, Japan) who were monitoring the emperor, and when they planned to trade through tribute, the news spread to Edo very quickly. However, at this time, the shogun was only a teenager - Tokugawa Ietsuna, and his own intelligence was not too high, and the elders of the family were still used to the military rule during the reign of Tokugawa Iemitsu, and they were not very familiar with trade, diplomacy, etc., so they reacted half a beat slower. Later, it was heard that the merchants who had made the pilgrimage intended to follow the example of the Central Plains and open a treaty port in the name of the emperor, which caused the dissatisfaction of the shogunate. But for the sake of the face of the emperor's sister, who is now Emperor Ming Zhengtai, it is not easy to turn her face directly, so she hurriedly gathered her own merchants and rushed here under the banner of Hajj.

The Japanese who arrived first were already complacent, and even if the Celestial Empire did not pressure the shogunate to trade, they would have gained a lot this time. Don't look at the exchange of gifts, they didn't take any advantage, but now the Celestial Empire has a strong trade atmosphere, Dagukou is a treaty port, Tianjin Wei is located on the bank of the Grand Canal north and south goods distribution place, here only you can't think of it, there is nothing you can't buy, just want to buy weapons as long as the imperial court allows the export can be bought, especially the basket of Manchurian swords and scrap iron prices are about the same, if you pull back to do anything, who let the island lack good iron. It's just that they found that the Japanese knife with very high sales was not very popular before, and later an investigation only learned that the current Chinese emperor had presided over large-scale steelmaking when he resisted the Qing Dynasty, although the quality of the Chinese army's self-use waist knife was not as exquisite as the Japanese knife, but the power was not trivial, it was not the iron piece of the steel clamping process of the Ming waist knife for a long time, not only the whole body was made of stainless steel, but the price was cheap, the key was that the imperial court also restricted the sale, so the Japanese knife with few expensive buyers was not very popular. In order to cope with this variable, they sent back the fleet as soon as possible, and instead brought back the rough copper ingots, which were not only sold out as soon as they landed, but also asked if they could supply them for a long time. This is a bad thing for these merchants, and if they take the trade license of the Celestial Empire, even the shogunate will have to give in to them. It was this back and forth that attracted the attention of the shogunate.

The idea of the Tokugawa family is very simple, as long as the emperor does not cross himself to engage in trade, but he offended Emperor Mizuo because of the purple cloth incident, and it is precisely because of this conflict that the emperor gave his 7-year-old daughter, and the relationship between Emperor Ming and the shogunate eased a lot during his reign, but she was not a strong heroine after all, so she gave the throne to her younger brother, which led to the emergence of two emperors in Japan. Tokugawa Ietsuna, who became a shogun on the shogunate's side, was also too young to cause civil turmoil for this matter, so a few martial artists discussed that we should also make Hajj, and make money came second, mainly to disturb the emperor's wishful thinking. Of course, Jiang Tian didn't know the above insiders, and there was not much substance in the information of the Ministry of Rites except for writing that the two sides were fighting for the right to trade. However, Jiang Tian is a traverser after all, and according to some scattered knowledge in later generations, he can still guess a rough idea. There were not many places near Kyoto that were suitable for trading ports, and the conditions were not good, so the idea of opening a trading port could only be regarded as wishful thinking, but the ducks that these merchants did not want to get their hands on flew away, and the main point of contention was how much trade quota could be obtained through Sakai Port each year. Naturally, the Tokugawa family wanted to have a monopoly on trade, preferably without foreign trade at all. However, they also knew that when facing China, their own small abacus may not be useful, after all, Toyotomi Hideyoshi lost too badly back then, and it still had a little impact on them, so they mainly advocated the monopoly power of trade.

This is the era when the seller's market plays the leading role, both sides are asking for me, the Celestial Empire is in an absolute dominant position, according to the ideas of later generations, wouldn't it be a waste of such a good opportunity if you don't take the opportunity to kill the Quartet at this time? But the Ministry of Rites is a yamen that lacks business concepts, and these old scholars are eager to cultivate and read heirlooms one by one to engage in overseas trade! You barbarians have nothing to do, come to the Hajj to the Son of Heaven and promote the majesty of the Celestial Empire, even if we don't let you run in vain. But now I have to make the old man have two big heads, and the emperor still doesn't let these customers who come to the door offend, do you think they can't find a way to throw out the burden? So I thought of Jiang Tianjiang, a big official with unique scenery in the court at this moment, don't you think about how to collect taxes from merchants every day? Well, let's deal with these wretches first.

Jiang Tian shook his head and wanted to laugh, these heartless people thought they were as useless as them, everyone had moved the copper ingots off the ship piece by piece, how many coins and cannons could be minted! If they don't want to trade one day, and they want to drive a warship to Edo Bay to bombard Edo Castle, maybe the black ship incident opened by Japan will become a heavenly punishment action by my Jiang Tian, and you are still too troublesome? Thinking so, Jiang Tian began to think about it again, how can the two forces be balanced, and when he is not able to concoct the deeds of the Americans, he can obtain the maximum profit through trade, what does Japan need most? Not silk and handicrafts, but food, medicine, cotton cloth and even all the necessities of life that were worthless in the Central Plains, of course, the needs of the nobles and monks were not so simple, and this is the current state of Japanese society. And the most they can pay for is labor in addition to silver and copper. Which of these three things is not lacking in the Celestial Empire? At least now their export population can solve a lot of problems for us, if it is put in four hundred years...... We also want to ask them if they want people. Thinking of this, Jiang Tian made up his mind.

Before Jiang Tian could perform his duties, another holy decree was issued, in view of Jiang Tian's desire to receive envoys from friendly countries, although he was already a civil official of the second grade, but considering that he had many achievements and should be rewarded, and to maintain the dignity of the imperial court, the crown prince was specially given a bullfighting suit!

Looking at the bullfighting brocade that looked like a dragon in front of him, Jiang Tian's brain never reacted, thinking about what he had accomplished? Improved printing? Or does it prove geocentrism? This is indeed worth boasting about in the future, but who cares in this era? For this reason alone, he crossed two official positions and became the crown prince from the first grade? It seems that it is more important to maintain the dignity of the imperial court, after all, it is necessary to receive two missions at the same time, and it is indeed necessary to have diplomatic equivalents...... That's not right! Where is the diplomatic reciprocity at this time?

"Mr. Gaosheng, the students are here to congratulate!" Liu Baokai gestured at Jiang Tian in a tone: "How can Mr. such a happy event not appreciate a glass of wine?" ”

Jiang Tian was not in the mood to tease him, anyway, there were a lot of people who came, in addition to this pervert, Song Yi, Tian Xuhai, Wu Yuan and Zhang Huan were all here, seeing that it was about to be lunch time, he couldn't drive these people away, how could people come to Daoxi to take care of a meal. But you can't let people go to the cafeteria to eat with you like this, if there are only perverts and Song Yi, it's okay to say, but this Wu Yuan led Zhang Huan to the door, so he couldn't figure out the way. had to let Zhao Zhi, who was stunned and looking at the bullfighting costume, take his clothes back into the inner house, and then the celebrity prepared a banquet.

"You came in a hurry today, there is nothing to prepare, just some common food, everyone is casual."

After some politeness, these people really pushed the cup and changed the cup to eat, making people think that these guys were here to eat. But Jiang Tian knew in his heart that even if the pervert was a pervert, Tian Xuhai might also come to join in the fun, Song Yi and Wu Yuan would definitely not just come to eat, but Zhang Huan was a little confused when he came along, Jiang Tian was still ready to wait for him to ask some scientific questions when he saw this kid at first, but until now he didn't say a word, but he ate no less than others.

"Sir, this dish ......" The pervert, who is a foodie, pointed to a plate of chicken and hesitated: "The taste is very unique!" ”

Not only him, but many people's heads began to show sweat, and the few people who were still drinking at the beginning began to drink tea, and Zhang Huan simply asked for a bowl of cold water.

Jiang Tian laughed out loud when he saw it, and asked you to pretend to be that one by one, and I didn't want to think about the consequences when I went to my house to eat: "Oh, you said this dish, the name of this dish is Kung Pao Chicken, and it was created by a person named Kung Pao." ”

"Then ......" Zhang Huan, who had just opened his mouth, couldn't help but take another sip of cold water: "Does this plate of tofu have a name?" ”

"Mapo tofu was created by a mapo who sells tofu!"

"And what about this one with red oil?"

"Boiled beef! Yi Jian's presence is naturally the food of your religion and halal. ”

Wu Yuan wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes: "The cook in your mansion is really ......"

Jiang Tian pursed his lips and smiled slightly: "I taught him to do these things!" ”

Several people looked at each other with each other, and said in their hearts, how can you, a person from Beizhili, have such a unique taste?

In fact, Jiang Tian also deliberately took care of the kitchen, so that they put a little less chili, at this time, although the chili pepper has been introduced into the country, but it has not been popularized on a large scale, so ordinary people can't stand such a strong spicy taste, but the pseudo-Sichuan cuisine with a reduced dosage makes these people a little crazy.

When the new dishes were served, Jiang Tian kindly recommended a list of dishes: "Then you can try this plate of tomato scrambled eggs again." ”

How do you know that Tian Xuhai couldn't help but be the first to see the color of Yin Hong: "Sir, don't you want to torture us, right?" ”

Zhang Huan heard that it was a tomato, but he knew the goods, and quickly tasted it: "Yes, it's a tomato!" ”

Song Yi and Liu Baokai also knew that in order to make up for the food gap during the anti-Qing Dynasty, His Majesty had purchased overseas crops on a large scale, and the potatoes and corn that are now being promoted in the arid areas of the north were introduced on a large scale at that time, and tomatoes were also among these things. Originally, the Ming Dynasty had tried to plant similar crops, and sweet potatoes were also popularized from the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but the large-scale planting was forcibly promoted by the official from the beginning of the New Dynasty, especially the drought in the north continued year after year, and the yield of ordinary sorghum and wheat was severely reduced, and the grain bought could only barely support the disaster victims from starving to death. It is said that many places have surplus grain for the first time, although the yield is not as good as expected due to lack of experience, but at least people can see that the cold tolerance of those two crops is indeed outstanding, and everyone believes that as long as they can still eat relief grain, it will not take a few years to find out the law of their cultivation.

"Recently, the weather has become cooler, and you are people with fine clothes and fine food, so I want to give you some chili peppers to ward off the cold, and at the same time it can strengthen the spleen and appetize, I don't want you to be unbearable with this spicy taste." Jiang Tian, who was drinking tea, looked at a few people with a smile, and the pleasure of mischief came spontaneously.

Not to mention, these people are used to eating and drinking, and everything they eat is superficial, but today not only did they eat a few more bowls of rice, but the dishes that were unbearable were extraordinarily sweet in the aftertaste.

The pervert is still wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, and he doesn't dare to put hot tea in his mouth: "Why is Mr. so weird?" I've tried this pepper too, but it's not so spicy! Not to mention that it really drives off the cold, I still want to take off my clothes and blow the northwest wind! Sir, be sure to tell me the recipe, and my family will thank you very much! ”

The quiet sisters who came up with tea couldn't bear to laugh, thinking that when the old man used chili peppers in the dishes, how many sisters couldn't stand it, but after getting used to it, a few people became spicy and unhappy, so that the whole house treated them as monsters.

A few people laughed for a while, talked about the introduction process and medicinal value of chili peppers, not to mention that the meal was shocking, they were once again impressed by Jiang Tian's profound knowledge, although chili peppers are foreign, and Jiang Tian's master is an overseas Chinese, it stands to reason that it is normal to eat some spicy dishes, but to be able to introduce chili peppers into Chinese dishes so skillfully, this ability can really be regarded as a chef level.

"Okay, I've eaten the meal, and I've said goodbye. Tell us what's going on here, right? ”

Song Yi, whose lips were red with spicy eyes, took a few deep breaths before taking the lead and saying, "Those teaching aids you customized have been baked!" ”