Before the Ming Dynasty, the City Ship Division was in charge of the palace celebrant supervisor, and Fang Yuan didn't want to use the deformed product of the eunuch in his heart, so he handed over all the errands that originally belonged to the City Ship Division and the Weaving Bureau to Qin Zhan's Jinyi Guard.

Qin Zhan entered the Canglang Pavilion, and Fang Yuan began to explain his tasks one by one.

One is to increase the city tax of Shujin in Sichuan by five times in the territory of Nanzhili; Guangdong cinnamon, spices, melons and fruits are all returned, and cannot be sold in Nanzhili; Yunnan's silverware and native products are subject to five times the commercial tax.

The second is that Jin Yiwei strictly investigated the merchants of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guangdong in the five prefectures, but those who violated the Ming law were arrested and the goods confiscated.

As soon as Qin Zhan heard it, he knew that Fang Yuan was going to start a trade war with Guangdong, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces at the same time, so he was busy recording them one by one, and Jin Yiwei strictly followed them.

Fang Yuan pondered for a moment, and then ordered, "Fourth, you send a few more clever Jinyi guards to secretly go to the capital to contact a few little eunuchs personally promoted by the princes, and inquire about the rumors of the imperial lord system and the official and commercial system inside and outside the palace. In addition, the territory of Nanzhili has also strengthened the monitoring of those big business gangs and big chambers of commerce, and listen to what they think. ”

The imperial court has launched two new policies in a hurry, and the specific implementation effect is, both the imperial court and Fang Yuan are at a loss. Time is the only criterion for testing the truth, and Fang Yuan can only wait to observe the effect of the implementation of the new policy before deciding on the next step.

Half a month later, the Shimazu family of Japan again sent a caravan of 20 merchant ships, and the old Shimazu family of the Shimazu family Shimazu Hisatsu came to negotiate with Fang Yuan about concluding an alliance as an envoy.

This time, the Shimazu family came to the merchant ship of the Ming Dynasty, carrying 20,000 taels of gold, 2,000 Japanese girls between the ages of 15 and 20, and 20 ships of iron ore, which were to trade grain, cloth and other strategic materials back to the Ming Dynasty.

Japan is a poor country and the people are poor, and the Shimazu family has done everything they can to bring so much gold, iron ore, and women at one time.

Because it was a business transaction, and it involved human transactions, it was really inconvenient for Fang Yuantang, a governor, to speak in person, so he could only find Xu Hua, a big official and businessman, again, and met with Shimazu Jiutong, the old man of the Shimazu family.

The negotiations between the two sides were presided over by Fang Yuan, and Xu Hua and Shimadzu Hisatsu negotiated.

After three days and three nights, the two sides bargained back and forth, and finally negotiated the terms of the transaction.

Two thousand women of the Japanese kingdom, five taels of silver per person, equivalent to ten thousand taels of silver; Twenty ships of iron ore were thirty-five thousand taels of silver; According to the ratio of 1:6, gold is equivalent to 120,000 taels of silver.

The total value of the goods and women brought by the Shimazu family was about 165,000 taels of silver.

What the Shimazu family needed from Fang Yuan was 100,000 stone of grain, 100,000 pieces of linen cloth to recruit the first batch of 80,000 ronin samurai, as well as to make warm clothes and battle robes.

According to the market price, 100,000 stone of grain is worth 200,000 taels of silver; 100,000 horses of linen, worth 100,000 taels of silver. The total price of the supplies required for this batch was 300,000 taels of silver.

Fang Yuan also licensed this transaction out of the need for strategic support, and the Shimazu family could make up the difference with silver.

At the same time, Fang Yuan also arranged for the Portuguese in Jiangnan and the Franc Machinery Chamber of Commerce opened by the Britons to come, and Fang Yuan was the east, and together with Shimazu Jiutong, the four parties sat down to meet together to discuss the conclusion of the alliance.

The situation in the Far East, in the Western countries, is that Portugal is struggling to defend its vested interests under the offensive of the Dutch. The Britons, on the other hand, were emerging maritime powers and were preparing to break the Dutch monopoly on trade in the Far East.

As the largest island country other than the Ming Dynasty, Japan is naturally also the focus of contention between several forces. During the previous Shimabara Rebellion, the Tetherlanders, who believed in Protestantism, had treacherously assisted the shogunate's crusade and bombarded Shimabara from the sea, hastening the defeat of the uprising.

Later, the Tokugawa shogunate banned Christianity and only traded with the Dutch, apparently to the detriment of the interests of the Portuguese and the Britons in the Far East.

Shimadzu Kudo reached an agreement with the chambers of commerce of the two countries to borrow 5,000 iron cannons and 20 large barrels from the chambers of commerce of the two countries as collateral for the five treaty terminals on Kyushu Island. Once the Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown, he promised to drive out the Dutch merchants immediately and cooperate with the Portuguese and British chambers of commerce instead.

For the Portuguese and British, this was a lucrative strategic investment, just like the British invested in Japan in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, and then made a lot of money.

Of course, the most important factor why the Portuguese and Britons are optimistic about the Shimazu family and are willing to make a big bet on the Shimazu family is because they are optimistic that Fang Yuan, an external force, will intervene in the civil war in Japan.

Fang Yuan is a strong soldier, he wants money, he wants food, he wants a water division, as long as he takes out a small half of the resources to fund the Shimazu family, it is enough for the Shimazu family to dominate Kyushu Island, and Kansai is more than enough.

In addition, the silver they earned from Japan was mainly to come to the Ming Dynasty to buy porcelain and silk and transport them back to the West. Fang Yuan promised the two chambers of commerce that he could accept the silver earned by the chambers of commerce of the two countries from Japan and buy and sell porcelain and silk that they specialized.

In order to repay Fang Yuan's funding, the Shimazu family also promised that as long as Fang Yuan conquered Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, the Shimazu family would immediately return the occupied Ryukyu Islands.

At this point, the Quartet forces negotiated all the conditions and concluded an alliance against the Tokugawa shogunate.

The aftermath of Zhenhai and Jinshan Erwei was almost cleaned up and repaired, and Fang Yuan also released the 3,000 soldiers of the Shimazu family and returned to Japan with Shimazu Jiutong.

Half a month after the Shimazu family returned home, the Tokugawa shogunate also sent an envoy, who was also the confidant of the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu and the old middle of the Tokugawa family, Sakai Tadakatsu.

Sakai Tadakatsu brought a letter of apology from the Tokugawa shogunate, saying that the shogun had been bewitched by the Zheng family and sent troops to participate in the battle with Fang Yuan. Now the shogun is willing to withdraw his support for the Zheng family, conclude a peace treaty with Fang Yuan that will not violate each other, and compensate Fang Yuan for the loss of 50,000 taels of silver in the war, and ask Fang Yuan to give up his support for the Shimazu family.

Japan likes to use some exaggerated language to sensationalize, what "a beautiful woman born in 4,000 years" and "a beautiful girl in 100 million light years", whoever believes it is brainless. In Fang Yuan's opinion, this so-called peace treaty that will not be violated for eternity is not even as good as the paper that wipes his buttocks.

These grandsons have been dormant on the side of China since the Tang Dynasty, waiting for an opportunity to bite back. Decades ago, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took a bite and was broken teeth. In modern times, I finally succeeded in pounceing and tearing it hard.

The lessons of history are too painful, and Fang Yuan will not let go of this extremely perverted island country no matter what, and leave another scourge. Previously, the crusade against Japan was not in the front, at least after solving the great problems of the Manchus and Mongolia. But the Tokugawa shogunate was so good that he suddenly came to meddle in his grievances with the Zheng family, which could only advance the schedule of settling Japan.

Supporting the Shimazu family to start civil strife in Japan, so that these grandsons bite each other on the island first, is the first step taken by Fang Yuan, and the arrow is ready to be sent.

Fang Yuan didn't want to refuse this peace agreement in his heart, but his face was silent, and he glanced at Qin Zhan, who was accompanying him. Those ridicules that are not easy to speak must be done by Qin Zhan.

Qin Zhan coughed and said, "This, the compensation of 50,000 taels of silver is less!" At least 1 million taels, plus 50,000 Japanese women, as long as they are over fifteen and under twenty years old. ”

He obviously belonged to the blackmail of the lion's big mouth, Sakai Tadashi's face sank, and he said sharply, "Yaga! It's too much of a deception! If Governor Fang doesn't want to talk, I can go to your Ming court to talk!" ”

Fang Yuan saw that he made a threat, and he also moved out of the Ming court, and said with a smile, "Go!" Go ahead! Do you want me to send a carriage to take you to the capital? Scold! ”

He left this sentence behind, turned around and went out, no longer interested in this envoy of the Tokugawa shogunate, Sakai Tadakatsu, leaving only Qin Zhan to see off the guests.

As soon as Fang Yuan returned to the Plum Garden, the maid who served Xiao Yuan hurriedly came to report, Mrs. Yuan was in pain, and it was estimated that she was about to give birth.

In this era, there is no caesarean section, and there is no difference between a woman giving birth to a child and passing through the ghost gate, and there is a 30% premature death rate. Fang Yuan hurriedly ordered the maid to find the best doctor in Suzhou Mansion, and Wen Po to come, without the slightest delay.