Tokugawa Iemitsu's face was ugly, and Hotta Masamori was even more uncontrollable, and wanted to say loudly - Japan is not afraid of trouble! Take care of the Don people as a matter of course! Taking care of the Tang people is a blessing for me as a Japanese!

They all seem to understand the "conspiracy" of the great general - he does not want Japan to be planted from the Tang people!

Because the Japanese are short, ugly in appearance, and extremely inferior in psychology, they have always wanted to improve their race, and tall men of the Celestial Empire are naturally the best "degree" objects.

From the first day that Tang merchants came to Japan, the Japanese would invite Tang people to their homes, entertain them with delicious food and drink, and offer women to accompany Tang people in the evening. After a night of romance, the children born are often tall and mighty men, and beautiful and smart women.

Although the Tang people are now scattered in Nagasaki and are not scattered all over the country as in the past, it is common for Japanese women to accompany them, and some women will even marry Tang merchants as concubines.

If you live in a concentrated area, how can Japanese women accompany you? How did the Japanese become tall and mighty?

Although he understood the shogun's "conspiracy", Tokugawa Iemitsu did not directly refuse, but said.

"Envoy, there is nothing wrong with setting up a "concession" in Nagasaki, it's just that Tang merchants come from thousands of miles to Japan to do business, and there is always someone around them to serve them. ”

"The Japanese can enter the concession to serve, but what about this concession? It is not that the Japanese are forbidden to enter, or that the merchants of the Celestial Empire are forbidden to go out, but they can also go out, and most of the time, they will live in the concession to avoid causing trouble. ”

"Oh, that's it......"

It turns out that it's not to stop the "degree"!

At this time, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"This one does."

The "concession" should be near the sea to avoid the separation of people and ships, the ship is in the port, and the people are in the house, which seems to be safe, but in fact, the sailors are not supervised by the shipowner, and it is easy to make trouble in the port, which is really inconvenient, and there are quite a lot of Ming people engaged in trading activities in Nagasaki, if the area is too narrow, the "concession" will be full, so there should be at least five towns in the early stage, and it can be expanded at any time in the future. ”

The largest unit of land in Japan is the "town", 1 town is equal to 10 tsubos, and 1 "anti" is about 300 tsubos, about 9.9174 acres. The two towns seem to be less than 500 acres, but in fact, when the Shanghai Concession first started, it was only 100 acres in size.

The concession of Gomachi seems to be a bit bigger, but there are indeed a lot of Tang merchants, which is nothing, and they are renting land! It's going to give the Hizen clan money, no, this money has to go to the shogunate.

Tokugawa Iemitsu and Hotta Masamori glanced at each other, neither bargaining, and immediately agreed.

"In order to prevent the Japanese government from favoring the people of the Celestial Empire, therefore, the people of the Celestial Empire who violate the law in Japan should be tried by the envoys of the Ming Dynasty in the concession according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty."

"By the Ming envoy? Did the envoy say that the Celestial Empire was going to send envoys to the concession? ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu's heart tightened, it was Hizen Domain, why let the envoy be there.

"The envoys, for the time being, they are well-known Tang merchants, just to restrain Tang merchants in the name of the official, and if there is a need in the future, the imperial court will send official envoys again."

"Oh, I see."

It is similar to the Tang Tongshi, except that this Tang Tongshi was appointed by the Nagasaki Governor, and this envoy was appointed by the Celestial Empire to manage the Tang Shang. Of course, Tokugawa has no need to oppose this, but Hotta Masamori, who is an old man, is vigilant.

"So, if there is a conflict between the Tang and the Japanese, how should they be handled?"

"How was it disposed of in the past?"

"In the past, it was all handled by the Nagasaki Commission, but the successive commissioners have never been biased towards the Japanese, so please rest assured."

The general thought that a "trial office" should be set up, and that there should be a member of the committee for the trial, and that all cases of violating the police should be tried by one member, and in case of criminal cases involving the people of the Celestial Empire, one member of the embassy should be appointed as a juror; In the case of a civil case, if both of the original victims are Japanese, the case will still be heard by one member; If the plaintiff is a citizen of the Celestial Empire, the embassy will still send a member to try the case; Appeals are to be heard jointly by the envoy and the Nagasaki Commission. ，”

This is "extraterritoriality"; of course, the Japanese in this era do not have any sense of infringing on national sovereignty, and in their view, this is simply the fact that the generals are thinking about Japan in military affairs, and the generals are really kind to Japan.

Regarding Fang Yizhi's condition for the establishment of the concession, Tokugawa Iemitsu and Hotta Masamori had no intention of bargaining at all, and immediately agreed. When it comes to tariffs, Tokugawa Iemitsu is generous with a wave of his hand.

"It is not easy for the Tang merchants of the Shang Kingdom to cross the sea to Japan to deliver all kinds of goods needed by Japan, so how can Japan be justified in collecting taxes? Please don't mention this again! ”

"Hey, the general is benevolent!"

Since the Japanese are really unwilling to collect tariffs, let's reluctantly accept them!

……

Fang Yizhi, who was an envoy of the upper kingdom, stayed in Edo for half a month, and in addition to signing the "Edo Treaty" and implementing the treaty of trade, concessions, extraterritoriality, and customs duties, he also learned some Japanese by the way. Of course, he also finalized a big deal with the shogunate - the purchase of 500,000 "guan" copper, one "guan" is equivalent to more than 6 catties. Three million catties of copper is undoubtedly extremely important for the Ming Dynasty, which lacks copper or even does not have enough copper coinage.

In addition to copper, there is also Japanese silver, as well as swords and folding fans...... In addition, the Ming merchants did not look down on Japan's native products at all, according to them, they called Japanese specialties "only a knife and a fan".

However, there is a lot of silver and copper in Japan, and in this era, it is definitely a proper hard currency, and some merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty simply directly transported silver and copper back.

After leaving Edo, Fang Yizhi returned to Nagasaki, and with the help of the Nagasaki Commissioner, he finalized the location of the Nagasaki Ming Concession, that is, the area around Nagasaki Port in the later generations, and the land of five towns, each town rent was 100 taels of silver, and the Ming Dynasty paid the shogunate and Hizen Domain 250 taels of rent each year.

During the selection of the Ming Concession and the beginning of the construction of the concession houses, Fang Yizhi saw the Zheng family's fleet, Nagasaki has always been the Zheng family's most important trading object, this year, in addition to Fang Yizhi's fleet, there were 74 Tang ships here, including Zheng Zhilong's 6, other Zheng ships 5.

It can be seen from this that the Zheng family has close trade with Japan, of course, Fang Yizhi, who suddenly broke in, naturally aroused the vigilance of the Zheng family, especially those Tang Shitong who were very close to the Zheng family and were from Fujian, and they have always maintained a vigilant attitude towards the establishment of the concession.

"Lord Envoy, Tang Shitong Chen Chongyi and Tang Shang Zheng Mingkuan ask to see you!"

The Japanese waiter trotted in with a letter in his hand.

Fang Yizhixiang's personal guard took the post and handed it over.

The content of the worship post is very interesting: Yingchuan Chen Chongyi, Fujian General Soldier Zheng Mingkuan worships!

Yingchuan?

In order to show that they do not forget their ancestral land, the Tang people will write their ancestral land in front of their names, and Zheng Mingkuan, who is under the Fujian General Army, is a little interesting.

People from the Zheng family?

In the past few days, Fang Yizhi has heard of the Zheng family, and among the Tang people in Nagasaki, the influence of the Zheng family is definitely the first.

When they came to see themselves at this time, they were quite good at picking the time, Fang Yizhi suddenly smiled:

"Yes, please."

The two men were not tall, that is, about five feet, but they were still nearly a head taller than the Japanese, and they bowed respectfully when they entered the house:

"The grass people see Fang to join the army!"

Army!

Fang Yizhi's brows suddenly furrowed, he came here as an envoy, but they called him a member of the army, that is, they didn't recognize his identity as an envoy at all.

"No courtesy."

Fang Yizhi said quietly.

"I don't know why the two of you came?"

Zheng Mingkuan said directly.

"I heard that I joined the army and negotiated with the Edo general to set up a concession in Nagasaki for my Ming merchants to live in, but I don't know that it was ordered by the imperial court!"

The reason why Zheng Mingkuan asked this was because he was sure that the other party was a small member of the army under the general of Pingyu, and he had the will of the imperial court, did he have it?