Twenty days later.

"What else do you have to say?"

Yang Qing looked at Abe Tadaaki, who was shocked, and said.

On the dock in front of them, a state-of-the-art brig was docked, and a dozen Japanese in shackles were escorted off the gangplank by Ming soldiers, and then looked at the bustling city in front of them with the same shocked gaze, and one of them quickly fell on Abe Tadaaki's face.

He screamed and rushed straight over.

The Ming soldiers next to him immediately raised the butt of their guns, but they were immediately stopped by Yang Qing.

The other Japanese people also rushed over screaming, kneeling directly at the feet of Abe Tadaaki, lying on the ground and crying, Abe Tadaaki scolded with anger, and an interpreter next to Yang Qing whispered to Shin Guogong to translate the content of their conversation. These were all prisoners of the Battle of Sado Island, the results of which had been sent to Nanjing from Dengzhou with a communication tower seven days earlier. The 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Marine Corps that landed beheaded 3,000 and captured 3,000 enemies, and only 4,000 Japanese troops fled back into the mountains, and more than 20 high-ranking samurai of the Japanese army were captured. These high-ranking samurai were sent directly by the Feiyan communication ship, but some of them died of injuries on the way, and only fourteen of them were finally delivered, that is, these people in front of them.

These are high-ranking samurai.

It's all the kind of little lords who have their own fiefdoms that resemble European knights.

They must have known Tadaaki Abe.

"Are you done talking about the old days? If the old days are over, they should go to work. ”

Yang Qing said.

Prisoners of war, of course, were meant to work as coolies.

"Your Excellency, we can accept the cession of Oki Island, and we can increase the two treaty ports of Shimabara and Izumo, but we cannot accept Kagoshima, Osaka, Edo, and Sendai, and the amount of indemnity can be increased to 100,000."

Tadaaki Abe said.

"Isn't it in your interest to open up the ports of trade?"

Yang Qing said speechlessly.

"Your Excellency, why do you have to open the port of Edo? We don't have much money, and the amount of trade between us is enough for Nagasaki and Tsushima alone, and the addition of Shimabara and Izumo is actually redundant, so why do we have to go from Kagoshima all the way to Sendai? Your merchant ships don't need to go there at all, there is the shortest route from Zhejiang to Nagasaki, and the Satsuma clan itself is trading with you privately. ”

Tadaaki Abe said.

He is also the most talented among the old middle schools under Tokugawa Iemitsu.

"It's very simple, I'm going to America, don't I need supplies along the way to America? From Zhoushan to the north to the first stop Kagoshima, the second stop Osaka, the third stop Edo, the fourth stop Sendai, complete the final supply in Sendai, and follow the Changchang route of the branch warehouse to the Americas. But I want to go directly east from Daming, first, there is no Kuroshio, and secondly, there are no supplies along the way, and my fleet needs to sail thousands of miles on the vast sea to find the next supply station, so how many supplies do I have to bring on board? It's at least a little closer to you, and there's Kuroshio to use to get a little faster.

I know what you're afraid of.

You are afraid that all your coins will flow out of trade and cause financial collapse.

But have you ever thought about it, if the American route is stable, how many Ming merchant ships, whaling ships, and naval warships call at your ports every year? There are hundreds of whaling ships alone, and they will buy everything they can from you, from fresh water to food and even prostitutes, even if they have to give you money even for a hot spring, how many Ming coins will flow into the Wa Kingdom through their payment?

With only Nagasaki trade, your money will just flow out.

Plus they have an inflow?

Don't you understand such a simple truth? I'm here to balance trade, and in the end, it's not good for me if your money is gone, and the result of fishing is no fish, and I'm doing this for the good of all of us. ”

Yang Qing said.

Of course, in fact, it is mainly to facilitate the dumping of industrial products, but this is needless to say, and all the conditions for the outbreak of the textile industry in Daming are met.

Steam engine.

New textile machines.

Cotton in India.

Which country's traditional textile industry, which is dominated by handmade textiles, can withstand this? However, at least for the time being, it seems that the opening of ports in these places will indeed bring an inflow of money to the Japanese state. So that their almost simple outflow in Nagasaki was alleviated, and the current trade between the Ming and the Wa was completely unilateral dumping, and the things that the Wa could export were not worth mentioning, such as fans and sulfur, and their real bulk export was copper. But they bought almost everything they could buy from the Ming Dynasty, and 40 percent of the sugar sugar purchased by the Dutch in the Ming Dynasty was shipped to the Japanese State, and this alone was worth all the other goods that the Japanese State could export.

However, Edo and other places opened ports, relying on the service of passing Ming ships, and they could really get a lot of money.

As for the issue of fishing with all their might......

He would have really balanced it through the slave trade.

However, there are technical problems with the eunuchs, and he is now training a large number of professionals to see if he can introduce some modern technology, so he has not let go so far. But as Lao Wang got the women captured by Li Laiheng to sell them in Nanjing, and some Ming merchants colluded with local officials in North Korea to sell some North Koreans, the market has become more and more prosperous.

In the next step, as long as those professionals trained by Yang Qing can be trained, Yang Qing will begin to officially liberalize the control of men.

At the end of the day, this must be there.

Especially in the colonization of the Americas, without slaves, it was impossible to produce more food to supply the homeland before mechanization, and in the end all food had to be squeezed out of slaves. However, this also involves the problem of a farmer smuggling non-castrated slaves and raising the second generation of slaves himself, but this is something that needs to be faced later, after all, it is still a bit too early to talk about colonizing the Americas at this time. The first batch of Ming eunuchs should be used in Taiwan, through the Japanese slaves to speed up the development of Taiwan, for example, if you go to Taiwan in the future, the government will reward a Japanese slave, and it is estimated that the number of people who go that way will increase.

Actually, this is not a bad thing for those Japanese people.

Just as the British commented on our Great Qing Dynasty, being a Chinese in the nineteenth century was really like suffering a kind of torture, and being a Japanese in the shogunate era was also like a kind of torture. Yang Qing thinks that he is liberating them, although they have lost some kind of right, but the reward is the happiness of the future, not to mention that it is also glorious to be a dog to Daming, but it is really happy to be a slave to Daming.

At least you don't have to go hungry or cold.

Therefore, Yang Qing sees himself as a liberator in his heart.

Well, that's how he anesthetized himself to avoid being tortured by his pitiful conscience, and he wasn't a criminal slave owner, he was a liberator who brought happiness to the people of the Japanese country.

Of course, Abe Tadaaki didn't know that this guy in front of him was using the Wa Kingdom as a slave-making machine, and he was contemplating at this time.

In fact, he was also moved by Yang Qing.

Really, not to mention anything else, just a prostitute serving the passing Ming crew, that must be a lot of income, in other words, at this point, he and the Meiji era and the post-World War II Japanese politicians are also in the same line, the first thing is to think of the characteristic industries of the Japanese country.

"As for the reparations, I said that if we take Sado Island, then it will rise to two million, and if you pay these two million, I will return Sado Island to you, after all, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not participate in the war that year, and I still have some good feelings for you. But if you don't want to pay, then I'll go to Sado Island to pan for gold myself, and I can almost come and pan for decades. ”

Yang Qing continued.

"Your Excellency the Duke, two million is really too much, if we really have to pay two million, then all domestic transactions will not be possible."

Abe Tadaaki pleaded.

"Then I'll be more lenient, you don't have to pay off the two million at once, the first 500,000 pieces, the rest of the thirty years, but you must guarantee the fineness of the coin, don't adulterate and fool me. Actually, I should still ask for interest, but Tokugawa Ieyasu's destruction of the Toyotomi family can be regarded as punishing Toyotomi Hideyoshi for the Ming Dynasty, so the interest part is exempted. In addition, as far as I know, the Shimazu family is trying to get involved in the Ryukyus, and I would like to make it clear that the Ryukyus are a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, and if you dare to attack the subject country of the Ming Dynasty as you did back then, then I will also let you know the wrath of the great powers! ”

Yang Qing said.

Ryukyu is still a vassal on both sides, on the one hand to the Shimazu family, and on the other hand to the Ming Dynasty, so all that is needed is to warn the Shimazu family, if the Shimazu family doesn't know what to do, then Yang Qing doesn't mind going to Kagoshima by the way. However, it is best to avoid it as much as possible, the Shimazu family and Shen Tingyang are jointly engaged in large-scale smuggling, and after the war, all the Ming merchant ships that cannot go to Nagasaki will be unloaded there.

"Your Excellency, I will return to Edo to report to the general, but in the meantime, I hope that your army will stop attacking the coast of the country."

Tadaaki Abe said.

"Yes!"

Yang Qing readily agreed.

"So these people ......"

Abe Tadaaki looked at the samurai.

"They'll be coolies, and you can ransom them back after the war."

Yang Qing said casually.

Abe Tadaaki didn't say anything more, bowed to him and left, their boat was still parked in Zhoushan and waiting, but Yang Qing didn't think Tokugawa Iemitsu would refuse. The loss of Sado Island meant that the Tokugawa shogunate's finances were on the verge of collapse, and the financial collapse meant the collapse of the regime, and Tokugawa Iemitsu was also a smart man, and he would not have been ignorant of the difference between losing some money and losing the country.

Although 500,000 is also a very scary number, it is not completely unacceptable.

Originally, the Tokugawa family minted a total of 10 million Keicho judgments throughout the 17th century, most of which were minted in the early stage, after the old turtle took over the property of the Toyotomi family, and 7 million should not be a problem at this time. In addition, they also have a part of the Qingchang judgment, which is equivalent to four small judgments, as well as a large amount of Ding silver, a piece weighing several taels, and a special bean silver for small payments, which is weighed first when needed.

In short, it did not exceed Tokugawa Iemitsu's ability to pay.

Happy New Year's Day!