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Kyushu is an island, there are many harbors, and the coastal tycoons are all staring at this piece of 'fat' and 'meat', and they want to get a piece of the pie if they break their heads! The Satsuma Shimazu family is a powerful feudal clan in the southwest of Kyushu, and it is not under the Matsuura family in terms of geographical location or harbor advantages, and the strength of the family is far surpassing. In the 'smuggling' trade with the Ming Dynasty, the Shimazu family also got involved very early, when Wang Zhi's ship was blown away by the wind and arrived at Tanegashima, and since then there has been a direct or brief contact with the Shimazu family.

However, Qing Huaxiang went to Kitakyushu from the beginning and took root there. When the East Gate Qing was still weak, the Shimazu family did not regret not entering Satsuma, and the East Gate Qing "Fat" before the great victory, the shock of Kyushu, the Shimazu family only knew that he was not an ordinary Chinese businessman comparable, and waited until the East Gate Qing traveled around the Japanese countries, drove to Luo, made a "friendship" with the minister, and ran the town, and the business network reached all parts of Japan for a few months, and the Shimazu family was choked for missing the East "Gate" celebration.

Wang Zhi's business in Kyushu was originally both north and south, and after the East 'Gate' Kei entered Hirado, he made many moves, which heated up the entire market in Kitakyushu. Money flows to hot places, and there are more funds and goods concentrated in the north, and fewer are diverted to the south, so the people of the Shimazu family are hostile to Qinghuaxiang! It's just that they didn't dare to act rashly when the east 'gate' celebration was there, and as soon as the east 'gate' celebration returned to Daming, the Shimazu family immediately built a Fangjin water village at the southwest end of Kyushu Island, and installed a nail on the open sea route from Hirado to Jiezhen that Qing Huaxiang had just opened.

Du Guoqing didn't know that the situation had changed at first, and continued to send ships to and from Cui Guangnan on the open sea lanes, but when the ships arrived near Fangjin Village, they were captured by the Shimazu family!

When Cui Guangnan learned of this information, he hurriedly sent an envoy to Satsuma to 'negotiate', and the governor of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Takahisa, was also polite, first 'handing' back the captured sailors, and then promising that he could 'hand over' the ship's cargo, but Qing Huaxiang agreed to three conditions.

When Dongmenqing heard this, he asked, "What are the three conditions?" ”

Cui Guangnan said: "The first condition is that we should buy the waterway beacon for this waterway. ”

Dong 'Gate' Qing snorted and asked the second one.

Choi Kwang-nam said: "The second condition is to pay a donation to the Shimazu family every year. ”

Dongmen' Qing laughed when he heard it, and Tang Xiuji and the others heard the chill in the laughter, and they all thought: "The general owner is a little hot!" ”

Cui Guangnan said again: "The first two conditions are also counted, but the third condition is too much!" Takahisa Shimazu actually asked us to move our base in Hirado to Satsuma! "The first two conditions are just asking for money, if it's just like this, Cui Guangnan will most likely negotiate with the Shimazu family, so as to wait for the East 'Gate' Qing to come back and deal with it, but this third condition touches on the interests of Qing Huaxiang in Kitakyushu! How dare Cui Guangnan agree on behalf of Dongmenqing? In order to avoid harming himself, he didn't even dare to lower his posture when he was at the Shimazu family, and would rather choose to spend more money to take the Seto Inland Sea Road than to fall into the prestige of Qing Huaxiang.

After listening to these three conditions, Dongmenqing's face turned calm, his eyes swept around, and he saw that the room was full of important ministers and henchmen, and said, "Everyone discuss, how should this matter be?" ”

Wu Ping said: "If you can fight, you can fight!" If you can't beat it, just put it on hold for now. ”

Tang Xiuji's eyes rolled twice, and he didn't speak, so he didn't say goodbye to seeing that the east 'gate' Qingshen was not good, Li Rongjiu jumped to 'want' to try, worried that they would fight again at the slightest thought, and hurriedly said: "In my opinion, the Shimazu family is not completely unreasonable, and they don't have any difficulties with our people, so it can be seen that they don't want to be enemies with us." I think we should first send someone to 'negotiate' with them to have a look, and discuss an idea that is acceptable to both parties. ”

After he finished saying this, Li Rongjiu sat down and stopped talking, and Dongmenqing said to Cui Guangnan Du Guoqing: "Guangnan, Guoqing, you two are staying in Japan, and you know best what is happening here, what do you think should be?" ”

Du Guoqing came to Japan earlier, when the Chinese businessmen had little influence in Japan and were deeply afraid of the local wealthy families. The matter of buying and selling has always been to bargain and repay the money on the spot. I don't think the Shimazu family can't loosen up these three conditions. In addition, the daimyo families of Kyushu have always been afraid of the prestige of the general owner, and when they heard that the head of the family came to Japan, the tone of the Shimazu family will definitely be softer. So what I mean is to send an envoy first to test the other party's bottom line. It's best to negotiate mutually acceptable terms, so you can get the best of both worlds. ”

Cui Guangnan knew the East 'Gate' Qing in Guangchangping, the gambling debt incident and the ticket kidnapping incident in the Guangchangping period, the tiger's mouth tooth extraction during the Shitanzhai period, and the big broken Fran machine in the Long Island Yuandao period, he has seen it himself, seeing that the East 'Gate' Qing 'nature' is becoming more and more stoic, and the means are getting more and more old and spicy, so he guesses that he may be round and soft in the means, but he must be tough in the direction! He said, "I don't think so!" We travel unhindered in Kitakyushu, and everything is smooth to do business in Yamaguchi, Kyoto, and Kaizhen, what do we rely on? Not yet the prestige of the house? If you are soft and low in this matter, and you lose your prestige, I am afraid that you will be looked down upon! If we let the Satsuma Shimazu family collect the money, then the Osumi liver Fu family, the Hyuga Ito family, and the Bungo Otomo family must follow suit, as well as the wealthy families of Tosa and Jiyi, will they all come to deceive, will we give it at that time, or will we not give it? Once people look down on it, it will become difficult to carry out the business of the business, and I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses! ”

Yu Buci said unhappily: "According to your meaning, should you be beaten?" Brother Cui, we came to Japan to seek wealth, not prestige. How can you not be in business when you don't have a low service for soft clothes? How can you always be majestic? What do you say is worth the loss, it was the money from the last 'fat' battle that you don't care! Now that the matter has passed, and it is all my own people here, I am not afraid to tell you that although the 'fat' battle was majestic at that time, the financial crisis afterwards almost collapsed our entire Qinghuaxiang! If a war can be avoided, why should there be a war if it can be done through negotiations? If you lose money for prestige, that's more than worth the loss! ”

Du Guoqing said: "Yes! The Shimazu family has now unified Satsuma, and the power is much stronger than when the Ryuzoji family came to attack us! When you really want to fight, let's not talk about victory or defeat for the time being, at least this military expenditure will only be doubled! ”

Anthony also said: "I am not in favor of war either. When a battle starts, it is still a trivial matter to 'wave' money, but human lives are at stake! Dead people are not a good thing. Whether it is the enemy or our own people, it is better to avoid casualties. ”

As soon as the views of the two factions were put forward, Li Rongjiu, Chen Baifu, Zhou Dafu, Shen Wei, and others either supported war, or supported negotiations, or held that talks should be held before war, or that they held that war should be fought before talks, and each had their own reasons. Later, it was more likely to be louder in favor of negotiations.

Seeing that Tang Xiuji had not spoken, Dongmen Qing asked him, "Do you have any opinions?" ”

Tang Xiuji coughed lightly and asked Du Guoqing, "Old Du, do you think our foundation in Hirado can be moved?" ”

Du Guoqing said: "Of course you can't move!" "Hirato's store is run by him, and it is the foundation of his life within Qing Huaxiang, whether it is for Qing Huaxiang or for himself, he will not allow this to happen.

Tang Hideyoshi asked again: "Then if we don't agree to move south to the base in Hirado, will Shimazu Takahisa agree to negotiate with us?" ”

Du Guoqing thought for a while and said: "Actually, it doesn't have to be the whole south, we can consider setting up another stronghold in Satsuma." ”

Yu Buqi said: "Yes, this is a good idea. ”

When Tang Xiuji heard this, he sneered: "Good idea? That's a bad idea! ”

Yu Buji asked, "Why?" ”

Tang Xiuji said: "In fact, the first two of the three conditions of the Shimazu family are not tight, and the last one is the key!" The reason why they want to fight for our stronghold to go south is that they hope that Satsuma will replace Hirado and become the center of Kyushu! Kyushu is not a big place, and it can't accommodate two centers, and we don't have the time to run back and forth for just one Kyushu. So I expect that even if the Shimazu family is willing to agree to the first two conditions are waived, they will not give in to this area. ”

Yu Buzhi said: "Actually, if Satsuma is better than Hirado, it doesn't matter if the center is slowly moved there in the future. ”

Du Guoqing was a little unhappy when he heard this, Tang Xiuji sneered: "We are guest troops who come from across the ocean, and we don't stay in Japan all year round, and when we can't protect ourselves, we have to find a strong master to rely on. The Matsuura family is small, we will leave for a few months, and we are not afraid of him 'chaos', the Shimazu family is powerful, and there are many heroes in the clan, if we move the stronghold to Satsuma, and we can't control them, then it won't be long before our stronghold becomes the stronghold of the Shimazu family! After so long in business, it will become a wedding dress for others! ”

Yu Buqi said: "Then what do you mean, are you going to fight?" ”

"You don't have to fight." Tang Xiuji turned his head to the East 'Gate' and said: "But the arrogance of the Shimazu family must be suppressed, otherwise it will definitely threaten our interests in Kyushu!" ”

Dong 'Gate' Qing asked rhetorically: "How do you think it should be pressed?" ”

Tang Xiuji pondered for a moment and said, "That's still the only way to fight." ”

Dongmen' Qing asked: "Can you beat it?" ”

Tang Xiuji said: "If the boss is the boss, he will definitely be able to fight!" ”

The east 'door' snorted and said, "Don't shoot useless sycophants!" ”

Yu Buqi shouted: "Boss! Tang Xiuji's analysis just seems to be reasonable! You must be cautious! ”

Anthony also said: "Yes, the master of the ship, the war should not be started lightly!" ”

"Okay, okay, got it." Dongmen' Qing said: "Actually, I don't want to fight a war as soon as I arrive in Japan, after all, we are here to make money, and what are we going to do when we lose money?" What's more, it is not necessarily possible to win. ”

Tang Xiuji couldn't help but be a little disappointed, so Anthony and others were overjoyed, and the east 'gate' celebrated: "We borrowed a lot of money from the Japanese last time, thanks to the blessing of Mazu, the goods were successfully returned, and the goods had to be sent to others quickly. The affairs of the Shimazu family will be put on hold for now. Guoqing, you send an envoy to Satsuma to 'negotiate' and see what their bottom line is. ”

After the meeting ended, Dai Tianzhi stayed alone and asked the East 'Gate' Qingdao: "Qingguan, you really don't want to fight?" ”

Dongmen' Qing glanced at Dai Tianchou and said with a smile: "I still can't hide it from Mr. It's not that I don't want to fight, I just have some concerns. So don't dare to fight! ”

Dai Tianchou sighed and smiled: "What are your concerns?" Tell me about it. ”