Even more striking is the escort of that team.

The attire of the Great Wei Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army was different, but it was basically the inheritance of the Tang Army and below, robes, turbans, hoods or hats, wide trousers, hemp shoes, or straw sandals.

When the strength of the Wei army's naval division still existed, there were also officers and soldiers of the naval division who went to the Wa Kingdom, but their attire was completely different from that of the Nan'an Fu army.

The officers and men of the naval division wore blue arrow jackets, girdles, short robes, leather boots, copper nails on the cuffs and chest, and nameplates on the chests to mark the identity of the soldiers.

There are already rank marks on the shoulders, and the Wei army also has a simple identification system, so the government soldiers are not unfamiliar with the rank markers, but Xu Zixian designed them to be slightly more complicated.

Newly recruited recruits who have not completed all the training of recruits have no rank mark and are thorough recruits.

Those who complete the enlistment training are third-class privates with a copper nail on their shoulders.

Private of the first class who has been in the army for one year.

Those who have been in the army for more than one year and have participated in actual combat, first-class private.

In fact, many of the first class soldiers are deputy officers, and they have the rank of officers.

The deputy officer is the same as the same rank, and the officer has a bronze star, and the deputy sentry officer is also a bronze star, the sentry officer, the deputy capital head, two bronze stars, the capital head, and three bronze stars.

The battalion command system is a silver star, and the military capital command system is two silver stars, and it is also the highest military rank in the current Nan'an Hou Mansion Army.

From the third class to the first class, then the rank of squad officer, the rank of sentry officer, the rank of battalion officer, and finally the rank of general.

Xu Zixian did not plan to use captain, colonel, and rank of these ranks, after all, from the rank of team officer to the level of battalion officer, the position and rank are clear at a glance, and there is no need to start a new system.

When Chen Daojian and Zhang Bofu entered the house on the side of the road, the whole team spread out to guard, and the pedestrians on the side of the road still couldn't help but look at these elite soldiers when they passed by.

After Chen Daojian entered the house, he realized that this was a Japanese-style house, and there was a place to take off his shoes when he entered the door, and then stepped on the wooden board after stepping on a few steps before he really entered the house.

Zhang Bofu said: "We have built this yard, mainly because there is a large area of open space around it, and when the Hou government approves it, we will hire local people to dig stones, build exterior walls, arrow towers, warehouses, and large quantities of goods will come in in the future, it is impossible to wait on the cargo ship all the time, unload the goods first and store them in the warehouse here, and ship them slowly, which is much more calm." ”

Chen Daojian said: "I have long had this kind of method for the merchants of Fujian Road, and I know that Lan Fangguo came out like this." ”

In the early days of the Great Wei's foreign trade, there were also overseas immigrants, but the number was not large.

Later, the Wei merchants gradually discovered that every time they were in a hurry to get rid of all the goods on the ship, it was easy for the local natives and traders to lower the price, so that the profits were diluted.

So many merchants in Zhangquan were divided into two teams, one team of people stationed abroad, hired locals as partners, built commercial houses and shipped goods, and after a long time, they stayed for decades, spread out in the local area, and there was no way to come back.

In the early years, many Zhangquan merchants even if they died abroad, they had to ask someone to bring the coffin back, which was an obsession, and after decades, hundreds of years, their descendants gradually settled abroad and established ancestral halls, so they really became overseas wanderers and could not return.

Even the number of people gradually grew, and because of the abundant capital, they grasped the political and military power and established their own country.

In the Indonesian archipelago and the Malay Peninsula, the Chinese have successively gained a foothold, grasped the local economic lifeline, expanded their contacts, bred people, and gradually moved towards the road of independent statehood.

If it weren't for the Europeans who came to the island and conquered the island with more advanced commercial practices and capital, as well as strong force, the Chinese would have mastered these places one after another, without exception.

"Lord Chen is right...... Zhang Bofu said with a smile: "This room is used to talk with local businessmen and officials, so we also follow the local customs, and we have built such a room, there are no chairs, and everyone can only sit cross-legged and talk about things." ”

Chen Daojian said with a smile: "This is what the Japanese learned from us in the Tang Dynasty, and in the late Tang Dynasty, we Han people popularized the Hu bed chair, and gradually changed from cross-legged to sitting on the chair to talk about things." ”

"You have to keep up with the times." Zhang Bofu sighed: "The Japanese are really a tendon. ”

"That's good, too." Chen Daojian didn't care, he had already prepared before coming here.

The house is also very good, coming in from the outside, entering a small space, very clean, in stark contrast to the crowded clutter at the port.

The room is full of flowers, the smoke of the incense burner, the fragrance of the house, the fragrance of the clean wooden floor, and the hanging of some Chinese characters and Chinese paintings on the walls.

Like tea, Go, incense, and flower arrangement, these things formed a tradition among the upper class of the Japanese people, and were regarded as symbols of elegance and substance.

Before coming to the Wa Kingdom, Chen Daojian also studied some poems made by the Wa people, and that kind of wandering sentences did have some fine qualities, which looked quite good, but Chen Daojian felt a little that the Wa people were very pessimistic in their bones, and everything would eventually lead to tragedy. It seems that they all have a little contempt for life in their bones, or indifference, or feel that death is the ultimate result.

This makes most of the wandering sentences of the Japanese people cold and indifferent, giving people a sense of sadness and a faint disregard for death.

After all, this is an island country, they have a arrogant side, but also an inferiority complex and lonely side, when they make a sentence, they are probably sensitive, lonely, and have no self-confidence, feeling that the whole island and themselves may capsize at any time.

Chen Daojian hopes that they can have a more pragmatic side, in fact, now the Wa country is doing well, the business is developed, this is a part of the Hizen country, and the Gongqian country and other six countries add up to one million stones, all belong to the territory of the daimyo of the Ouchi clan, the six countries are offshore, many seaports, business and travel are developed, in terms of grain income is not high, in the Wa country many more than one million stone daimyo is not outstanding, but due to the bonus of overseas trade, the wealth is not under Kyoto and other important towns.

From what Chen Daojian has seen since he went to the island, many Japanese people look quite good and polite on the surface, but they seem to be a little proud and reserved in their bones.

It is not surprising that in the early days of China, the Han Dynasty had given a seal to the queen of the Wa Kingdom, but it never established a solid system of suzerain, which showed the strength and self-esteem of the Wa people in the case of the submission of the small states around China, even if they accepted everything in China during the Tang Dynasty, their country was never really integrated into the tributary system.

This is completely different from North Korea, Annan and other countries.

"Please wait." Zhang Bofu called someone to serve tea, and then said: "I have already called someone to inform the important ministers of the Ouchi clan." ”

"This clan seems to have a long history in the Wa Kingdom, and is it a noble clan?"

"Hmm." Zhang Bofu said: "This family has been mentioned in the written records of the Wa State for almost hundreds of years, and after they claimed to be the prince of a certain mythical period, they were not the source surname or flat surname of the Wa State, and they were not the real Chinese people, so they could not be appointed as generals, but at the height of their heyday, they also formed the shogunate and controlled the government. Now it is Ashikaga Yoshimitsu who is in charge of the shogunate, but the Ouchi clan still has the port of Nagasaki, the trade is thriving, the financial resources are abundant, and there are a large number of off-duty samurai under his command, which is still a trivial matter, and the important thing is that Kang Tianqi supports the Ouchi clan behind his back, so the general relies on this daimyo very much, and the attitude to take is basically determined by the attitude of the Ouchi clan. ”

Zhang Bofu said with great interest: "To our Great Wei, the Japanese people have always had a friendly attitude, and when we set the capital to Jiangling, the Japanese sent several groups of Wei envoys over, and later moved the capital to Beijing, and its envoys were few. Even so, they learned a lot about the style of clothing, including the accent. For more than 200 years, the pronunciation of the Japanese people is very similar to our Wu Yin, but I think this is just a superficial intimacy. The Japanese people are very proud, in recent years, our Great Wei attaches great importance to the north, not to the water division, and the Japanese people think that the Great Wei has declined, and even our attitude has changed a lot. Recently, there have been a lot of Tianfang people, and they have been expanding in Manchu and Samwijaya, and many of the Japanese nobles have been studying Tianfang Sect recently, and there is a lot of resistance, but it is not as full of contempt as before when it is mentioned. Therefore, these changes, Lord Chen has to be observed. ”

Chen Daojian nodded silently, he was still tired, his body was sore, his stomach was empty, and his stomach was still pantothenic, but these things were his job, and Zhang Bofu had already moved a large number of documents for him to see.

There are a lot of people in this office, dozens of people, obviously it can't be all clerks and businessmen, and there will be people from the Military Intelligence Department who are here to gather intelligence.

Chen Daojian had no prejudice against the Military Intelligence Department, and even admired the work of these people, but when the thick file was moved, Chen Daojian still felt a severe headache when he saw the information about the emperor, the minister, the general, the shogunate, the shogunate's family elders, the samurai, and the daimyo everywhere.

"Bring some strong tea." After kneeling for a while, Chen Daojian finally chose to lean against the wall and continue to watch, and at the same time ordered to prepare more strong tea. The first hour he arrived in the Wa Kingdom was trapped in the file, and he didn't even have time to look at the feng shui scenery, which is incredible to many ordinary people, but for Chen Daojian, this is normal, because he has been by Xu Zixian's side for many days, he knows that Nan'an Hou handles things like this, first understand the intelligence, customs, and even the characteristics and style of the rulers, and then consider how to start the matter at hand after understanding enough, and finally peel off the truth and persistence little by little like peeling bamboo shoots, Ultimately, you can achieve your goals and objectives.

This time, the goal is to sign a business contract with the Ouchi clan, and the Nan'anhou Mansion will give the other party certain benefits, and the other party will provide commercial information assistance to the Nan'anhou Mansion, provide cooperation guarantee for local Japanese merchants, and ensure the safety of the merchant ships of the Nan'anhou Mansion here.

If the cooperation with the Ouchi clan is successful, it is equivalent to completely opening up the market of the Japanese country, which is the most difficult and trouble-free way.

If you just get a foothold here in the form of free trade and gradually open up the market, it is likely to take more time, more energy and more money.

There is also a high probability that there will be several unpredictable repetitions.

This was the beginning of the Age of Discovery, and the seas were not only full of pirates, but also full of unpredictable variables between the trading nations.

Just as the Dutch once drove out the Spaniards in Japan, and then cut off trade in Japan for nearly a hundred years, but as soon as the shogunate decided to close the country, the Dutch were driven away without mercy, and even in the process it was full of blood and violence.

This era is not an era with the minimum norms and rules of international trade, power is everything, and commercial activities are inevitably affected by the change of power and the will of the rulers.

Chen Daojian came for this goal, he was only more than 17 years old, and he had passed the Xiucai Examination, and he was very sure that he would be promoted in the examination, and he was also very likely to be a Jinshi.

If it weren't for the poverty of his family to support his grandmother and go to Nan'an Hou Mansion to apply for a job as a clerk, his life trajectory is to pass the examination now, and then go to Beijing next year to take the exam, if he is a scholar, depending on his subject ranking to determine the future, it is very likely that at the age of forty, he will be a scarlet robe, become a party member, but it is also very likely that he will not have much interest in his life, and become a member of the ordinary bureaucrats of Dawei.

Now that he is a Japanese state, he is making preliminary preparations for the trade expansion of Nan'an Houfu in the Japanese country, Chen Daojian is ready, and it is not difficult for him to go overseas to do such a thing at this age, and he is even full of interest.

The guards outside the window began to wander around, and the number of widows around them increased significantly.