"This thin cotton thread can be broken by a freshly weaned child. However, it can hang the whole world. ”

This is the Guoxiama textile machine after completing a technical upgrade and reaching the level of being able to weave fifty yarns, Li Shouhan held the white fine cotton yarn in his hands, and said his heartfelt words loudly with his subordinates after being drunk.

At first, the bigwigs in the civil, military, and commercial fields under his command thought that the lord had drunk too much and was talking nonsense with joy. But, as it turned out, they were wrong in their understanding.

After more than 10 years of construction of the textile printing and dyeing industry trade system, Nanyue Army has established a huge trade system. This system covered the Pan-Arctic Circle from the north to the Trans-Khing'an Mountains and near the Heilongjiang River, and was admired by the Sauron tribes who lived there, and became the first choice for commodities alongside iron, weapons, salt, sugar, spirits, grain, and spices, and was also a commodity that could be used as hard currency in trade activities. To the west, the land route was divided into two strands, and the southern route passed through the Hexi Corridor, the countries of the river, the Ottoman Empire, all the way west, to the border of the countries of Europa. The northern front, on the other hand, was used by the Cossacks as a good trophy to worship their tsar during the battle between the Sauron and the Rakshasas, and then became a high-end commodity that the Russian nobles pursued and supported. To the east, as far as the land of the merchants, the trade between the Indian tribes gradually accepted the use of cloth as a medium of exchange as a currency function. The reason is also very simple, all the Indians are not short of gold, silver and precious stones, but cotton cloth, a necessity of life, is something that everyone is willing to receive. The main part of the trade was to the west of the Southern Yue Army and the Central Plains.

To the west, there is the convenience of shipping, and there is a huge demand from the countries of Thailand and Spain. Every day, hundreds of seagoing vessels leave the Straits of Manraka and take with them the main colours of dyed and calico that serve as ballast stones at the bottom of the cabins.

And when they enter the customs, the cabin is often stuffed with large bales of cotton. The reason is very simple, there is not so much supply of cotton raw materials in the area controlled by the Nanyue Army. As far as the Nile Delta in Ottoman-controlled Upper and Lower Egypt, the cotton fields of the Arabian Peninsula, and as recently as the countries of the Indian subcontinent, whether they believed in Allah or Buddhism, they were important trading partners of the Southern Yue Army.

Their trade with the Nanyue army had entered a peculiar cycle. A large amount of raw cotton was exported to the Nanyue army, in exchange for weapons, armor, gunpowder, and gunpowder needed to fight with their neighbors, and all kinds of beautiful cloths made of cotton. However, the cultivation and harvesting of cotton and the rough processing of cotton occupy large areas of grain fields and occupy a large amount of labor. In order to feed these people, the regimes mentioned above had to import large quantities of rice from the Nanyue Army to feed their own cotton workers and army.

In addition, Myanmar, which is now divided into more than a dozen small countries, has been planted by members of the Mang Ying clan in their jurisdictions, mainly in the Central Plateau region, with cotton fields stretching for thousands of miles as a tribute to the suzerain. At the same time, they should strive to strengthen their own armed forces to prevent their relatives from finding opportunities and reasons to swallow them in one bite.

The same idea is prevalent among the various regimes in the Indian subcontinent.

Everyone has to be clothed and eaten, and they have to have food and textiles. And among the various regimes that hate each other and kill like black-eyed chickens, there is an even greater need for weapons, equipment and materials. These three demands forced these regimes to either actively or passively accept the prescriptions prescribed to them by the Nanyue Army, and embarked on the road of exporting raw materials and exchanging them for industrial products to make up for their lack of hard currency.

Every day, large quantities of raw materials are transported along the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Manraka to the textile factories in the south and central China, and at the same time, the materials needed to maintain their own regime are transported away.

This is also the reason why, after learning that the output of the Nanyue Army's own cotton-producing areas was not guaranteed, all the foreign vassals felt that they had come to express their goodwill and make a fortune to the Nanyue Army.

Original Fan. Basten was ready to say to Li Shouhan, "All the merchants and ships under my company will bring you all the cotton and wheat you need." Through this attitude, the contract for the shortfall quantity of all cotton and wheat in the Nanyue Army was obtained. As a result, unexpectedly, this excellent opportunity was snatched away by the Ottoman envoy Ibrahim. However, as a merchant, he knew that he and the East India Company could not compete with the Ottoman Grand Vizier Kopluru family behind Ibrahim, and the entire Ottoman Empire. To put it mildly, offended Coplulu, who could not buy a grain of wheat or a single cotton in the territory of the Ottoman Empire. It is also possible that his ship sank in an indescribable storm on a calm sea. Then, the cargo on board and the sailors, may be sold on the market in a certain port.

There is no way, who made Coplulu's power in the Ottoman Empire unbearable?!

But Ibrahim also knew where his master, his power, came from.

"We don't make overly financial demands on our friends, it's all trading at the same price. I only ask that Your Highness, who rules the East, be gracious enough to allow us to expand the scale of our recruitment of mercenaries. The scale of no more than 30,000 people at a time will be expanded to 50,000 people. ”

In these years, relying on the tenacity and cruelty of the Japanese mercenaries, relying on mortars and three-light means, Koplulu slaughtered the aristocratic resistance forces that had plagued the Ottoman Empire for many years, and the appeasement of the appeasement, and the entire Balkan Peninsula no longer had too large-scale resistance forces. However, in the reports of the Grand Vizier Koplulu to the Ottoman Emperor, there were often words such as "the rebels are rampant, the scale of the army is huge, our army is suppressed back and forth, and the situation is not optimistic", and the Ottoman Emperor was asked to allocate military funds from the treasury to recruit troops to suppress the rebellion.

To recruit the army, it is natural to use these Japanese dwarves with the best cost performance and the highest reliability as the best quality. Their military salaries could be settled with rice, but after the city was breached, all the booty, whether gold, silver, jewelry, antique playthings, or the old and weak, women, children, and young laborers, received at least forty percent of the shares. Where to find such good cannon fodder? It's just a pity that Li Shouhan only approves the recruitment scale of about 30,000 people every time, and at most gives one to two percent of the people who are lost on the road. (For example, those who capsized at sea, who were unaccustomed to the water and soil, and died of disease.) This was a painful affair for the ambitions of the vast Ottoman Empire, the swelling Grand Vizier Kopluru.

So, taking this opportunity today, Ibrahim offered a quid pro quo.

This condition is not unfavorable for the Nanyue Army, how much wheat and cotton you need, I will supply you tenfold, and do not sit on the ground to start the price, take advantage of the fire to rob, and settle according to the price of the previous transactions between us. However, you also have to agree with me to expand the scale of the recruitment of mercenaries and to facilitate it.

This is undoubtedly an expression to Li Shouhan and the Nanyue military system, as long as you provide me with enough cannon fodder and weapons and equipment, I will turn the entire Nile Delta and other fertile lands of the Ottoman Empire into your wheat fields and cotton plantations. The temptation of this huge source of raw materials and product market is undoubtedly enormous.

(If you travel to Xinjiang, don't patronize and enjoy all kinds of beautiful natural scenery, you must also go to the main cotton-producing areas.) After reading it, you will understand the impact of today's cotton price on China's economy as a benchmark for market supply and demand. When the large cotton counties of Henan and Shandong are growing corn all over the mountains, you have to lament the profound impact of the loss of free labor on China's agriculture. Unlike the United States, a large agricultural country that drives large machines and even airplanes, and cultivates tens of thousands of acres of large farms at every turn, Chinese farmers can only cultivate their own one-third of an acre. The idiom "intensive farming" could not be more apt to describe the cultivation of cotton. For a variety like cotton, which requires a lot of labor, ordinary farmers are reluctant to plant it whenever there is an opportunity to go out to work. Even if the current price of seed cotton is more than 6 yuan per catty, if the cost of about 500 catties of seed cotton per mu is deducted, it can only provide an annual income of about 2,000 yuan, which is still insignificant compared with the income of going out to work. Planting corn saves time and effort, and can be taken care of by the elderly. As a result, the young man left the land where he was born and raised, and walked into the factory, into the construction site, into the various service industries in the city, and in the farmland, the old, weak, sick and disabled were left to take care of all kinds of hybrid or genetically modified corn with super disease and disaster resistance.

From the perspective of the world commodity market, whatever China needs, there will definitely be a sharp rise, such as copper, such as iron ore, and today's cotton. And what the United States needs can be well contained, such as oil. The textile industry, as an industry that once created a large amount of foreign exchange for New China, was once brilliant. In clothing, food, housing and transportation, "clothing" is also in the first position. Garment export processing factories are densely populated in various places, attracting a large number of laborers. In China's foreign trade, low-end textiles also occupy a large share. But hundreds of millions of socks and shorts can be exchanged for a plane, and it should be said that China's textiles have become hostages at gunpoint in this trade war. Raw materials, because of the package production to the household has lost the cost advantage of large-scale intensive agricultural production, products, and there is no independent pricing power in their own hands, and even have to accept other people's textile quota blackmail. Lingtian, this small cotton thread has tightened the throat of China's textile industry step by step, eating away at the profits of enterprises, but at a time when the United States has achieved an unprecedented bumper harvest of cotton, we cannot help but sigh again at the vision of the Americans and the strategic short-sightedness of our leaders over the past 40 years. However, we now have a Belt and Road Initiative, which can change our strategic dilemma. ）

Ibrahim's words were translated through layers of translations and passed to the ears of Matsudaira old Naka Shintsuna. This old middle school adult is also a person with an annual income of two million stones. Whether it is calculated by the standard of the Wa State or the standard of the Central Plains that we are accustomed to, he is a man who is completely rich and rivals the country. However, he is not only rich and rivals the country, but also has power in the government and the opposition. In the Wa Kingdom, he was second only to the Tokugawa Shogun himself in power, and he ignored several of his brothers, daimyos. And these daimyo of the Tokugawa family actually took his arrogant attitude for granted. Speaking of which, the mystery is also very simple.

Because he was an envoy of the Tokugawa shogunate of the Wa Kingdom, he had to travel back and forth between the Nanyue Army and the Wa Kingdom every year. After Li Muhua learned about this convenience, he had to ask him to bring some private money to subsidize the family for his cheap grandson. After Li Huayu died in battle, Li Shouhan learned of this situation, so he also allocated money and grain from his private treasury on time, and handed it over to Matsudaira Nobutsuna to take back to the Japanese kingdom and give it to the emperor's mother and son for use. "Lest the life of the orphan and widow be too miserable."

Invisibly, Matsudaira Nobutsuna-sama became a figure who passed on some secret affairs between the Tokugawa shogunate, the Heavenly Emperor, and the Liang Guogong family. Such a person, not to mention a few daimyo of the Tokugawa family, even the shogun himself, should be a little jealous. It depends on the owner to beat the dog! What's more, this dog is also his own dog.

This condition made Matsudaira old Nakashin Tsunade warm and heartbeat. If the general agrees to this, and I bring this news back to China, what kind of reward will the general give me? Is it a promotion or a knighthood? What good will those big names like dogs give me? Or, what should I ask them for? The amount of mercenaries recruited each time is raised to 50,000 people, and this condition will definitely make the Japanese country crazy.

However, after all, Lord Matsudaira Nobutsuna is much more familiar with the situation of the Nanyue Army than Ibrahim, and there is no way, there are so many Japanese brides and Japanese laborers living in various parts of Nanzhong, and the collection of bit by bit information is also quite impressive. He knew very well that the Nanyue Army was not short of money, food, oil, salt, cloth, guns, horses, cotton, and labor. The first two things, the Japanese country itself does not have, and there is nothing that can be helped. However, the third item, the labor force, is very abundant! Otherwise, there would not be so many cannon fodder mercenaries sent overseas.

"My lord! The foreign minister has a return of affection. Matsudaira Nobutsuna spoke fluent Nanzhili official dialect, stood up strictly and politely in accordance with the etiquette system, knelt down and kowtowed. This set of titles and etiquette made the eyes of countless people next to him stare bloody.

"Matsudaira-sama, please speak." Li Shouhan nodded with a smile.

"Now the general wants to hang the people and fight against the people, and the country of foreign ministers is a small overseas state, but it is also quite loyal. This time, the general of the Northern Expedition rebelled, and Xiaobang was willing to send 300,000 troops to help! ”

What the? You dwarfs are going to send 300,000 men? Li Shouhan's eyes immediately stood up. Are you going to complete the unfinished business of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the hands of Lao Tzu? Even if you don't have that much ambition, if you go to the Central Plains, it will inevitably plant the seeds of ambition and greed in your hearts. Maybe in a few years this seed will take root and blossom into a flower of sin! If Lao Tzu agrees to your request to send troops to help today, then in a few hundred years, God knows how the trolls on the Internet forum will scold Lao Tzu! No way! Absolutely not!

However, reach out and don't hit the smiling man. People express good intentions, you can't always refuse, right?

"This dwarf is also a thousand-year-old fox! What to play in front of Lao Tzu, attack as defense, advance as retreat! On the surface, it is asking for 300,000 troops to help, but in fact, it is still the 50,000 people proposed by Ibrahim to raise the recruitment standard for mercenaries! However, since you are willing to send people for Lao Tzu's consumption, then why can't I fulfill you? Li Shouhan smiled inwardly and gave a definition to Matsudaira Nobutsuna's behavior.

"Matsudaira is polite. The soldiers of all units of our Nanyue Army are full of horses and horses, and their fighting spirit is booming. The 300,000 men and horses mentioned by your envoy are far from our Nanyue Army's training, equipment, and tactics, and they are useless on the battlefield for a while. Your envoy may wish to play the role of the emperor of your country, and if you have the heart to help Shun, you may wish to send laborers to all parts of our southern middle school. The number of people, let's take the 300,000 people mentioned by your envoy for the time being! ”

Li Shouhan has also cultivated for many years. In a few words, Matsudaira Nobutsuna's intention of attacking and defending was clearly stated, and he unceremoniously pointed out that your 300,000 men and horses, whether in terms of equipment or training level and tactical level, are far from our Nanyue army, and when they arrive on the battlefield, they not only cannot help, but instead add to the chaos. You'd better honestly give me labor! I'll give you a sweetness, based on 300,000 people.

After listening to Li Shouhan's words, Matsudaira Nobutsuna's ears rumbled like heavy artillery bombardment. He wanted to pull out his ribs and stab himself. "I knew that His Royal Highness Liang Guogong had such an attitude, why did you say 300,000 just now! Why didn't I say 400,000? Why don't you say 500,000?! An extra 10,000 is an extra 10,000 dollars of money! ”

However, it was too late to regret it at this time, and it was necessary for Lord Matsudaira Nobutsuna to bow three times and bow nine times to thank His Royal Highness Liang Guogong for his deep kindness. Then, after returning to the building, he repaired a book to the Tokugawa shogun overnight and told the Tokugawa shogun the good news. In the letter, he proposed that the labor export target of the 300,000 people should be divided into two parts, one part of which would be limited to 100,000 people, and that the daimyo of the pro-feudal clan, especially the three families of the Owari and Kii domains, which were known as the three imperial families, should be undertaken. As for whether the daimyo recruited from within their own domain or from the entire Wa kingdom, that was their own means.

As for the remaining 200,000 people, the genealogy and foreign daimyo everywhere are divided, and the more or less the same.

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