When the Japanese first stepped into the ocean, they must have been led by the Chinese, as early as when Zhu Li passed through the Americas, he liked to hire Japanese ronin, these people are good laborers, but also as soldiers, obedient, easy to use, Zhu Li is a pirate leader, will not refuse.

Therefore, when the Chinese set foot in the Americas, the Japanese also set foot on the American soil, but they have long been dependent on Chinese forces, and they are not immigrants to pioneer, but as mercenaries, and when they earn enough money, they will return to their hometowns to buy land and build houses, marry wives and have children, no different from Chinese.

But gradually the nimble Japanese also began to trade, also hitchhiking on the Chinese, they partnered with trusted Chinese merchants, carrying some goods on merchant ships to the Americas, there were losses and gains, but there were always successes, and they gradually accumulated the first pot of gold in the ocean trade.

By the time the crown prince passed through the Americas, there had already begun to appear Japanese shipowners, they were still attached to China, their ships were smaller, they hired fewer people, and they were all cheap hired Japanese poor, but they were bold, China regularly sailed to the Americas once a year, the Japanese dared to run twice, the earliest flying fish ships were brought up by the Japanese, they were not afraid of death, and commissioned Chinese shipyards to build a large number of this thin-skinned and stuffed more fast merchant ships.

And the Japanese later discovered a superior product that could stand the test of the market, the Japanese woman. Most of the immigrants from China to the Americas were poor bachelors, especially in the Zhu Li era, immigrants were very unruly, resulting in an imbalance between men and women in the Americas, giving the Japanese a lot of opportunities, during which they once sent more than 100,000 Japanese women into the Americas.

Later, after the crown prince came to power, in order to let the immigrants stay, they began to adopt the situation of family immigration. As a result, rather than decreasing the trend of Japanese women entering the Americas, the phenomenon has been reinforced. Because the family has become a prerequisite for immigration, but those who are willing to immigrate are really singles who can't marry their daughters-in-law, what should I do, at this time, some brokers began to appear, entering the Americas through fraud, and a large number of fake brides began to appear, as long as they rent a woman to marry with a little money, and then register with the government, and then they can enter the Americas, and then the male singles stay in the wasteland, and the women return to China to continue the fake marriage.

After the government's strict investigation, the fake bride became the real bride, but the Chinese bride really can't afford to marry, and the Japanese bride is cheap. At this time, the brokers probably accumulated enough wealth to start industrial upgrading. They offered the Japanese bride directly, but not without money, but as a loan, usury situation, at the beginning a single immigrant needed four or five years of frugality to repay this wife debt. Later, with the development of the market, the competition in the financial industry related to this wife has also become fierce, the interest rate has been reduced, and a strong laborer can even repay his wife's debt in just one year.

This Japanese woman marries a large number of Chinese singles in the industrial chain, of course, the dominant ones are those Chinese giants, the most important of which is controlled by some not very legal gang forces, but the snakeheads and human teeth in Japan have also accumulated primitive wealth.

This situation has attracted the attention of the American government, and they found that in some newly established immigration sites, the proportion of Japanese wives is as high as 30%, and after a survey, it was found that in the past ten years, the number of Japanese women who have entered the Americas through this situation of husband and wife immigration is as high as 1 million.

The local governments of the Americas don't care about Japanese women marrying Chinese men, a patriarchal society, they only value men's blood. But Zhou Lang attaches great importance to ah, he feels that this is equivalent to letting Japanese blood infiltrate the Chinese. So he began to restrict such measures, but when the crown prince was in the Americas, he always went against the law, he needed the population of the Americas, and he didn't care which country the woman belonged to. In the Americas, there are also a large number of Indian women marrying Chinese men as concubines. This phenomenon is even supported, and the Americas marry more and have more children, and they don't even care about intermarrying with the Americans, let alone intermarrying with the Japanese.

When there was a war crisis in Japan, Zhou Lang raised this issue by mediating between the two factions in Japan. He told the Japanese that he had discovered that Japan was already poor and wanted to sell its sons and daughters, and encouraged the Japanese to be brave and learn more from China, telling the Japanese that there are more Chinese than Japan, but the Chinese are hardworking and rich, but Japan wants to sell its children and daughters, which is too unsightly.

Japan is a shameful nation, and the culture of shame is very strong, otherwise it would not commit suicide at every turn. As a result, after the two factions of Japan returned, they actually got ready to go. The two factions made a pledge in front of the Chinese emperor that the Shogunate would temporarily abandon their plan to overthrow the shogunate, and the shogunate promised not to pursue the previous disrespect of the shogun, and then the daimyo of the shogunate would continue to pledge allegiance to the shogun, and the shogunate promised to liberalize the trade of the shogunate.

The two factions will not be happy, but they will be reconciled for the time being.

After that, something worried Zhou Lang happened, and the Japanese sent a large number of Tang envoys, called Tang envoys, who still call China the Tang State and the Chinese Tang people.

The envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty came to study, and the Japanese had many disadvantages, but learning was definitely an advantage. Not because the Japanese are smart, but because once the Japanese start to learn, he can completely shake off the burden and learn from scratch, which is very important.

The Japanese studied and studied in China, and they were interested in everything, systems, laws, technologies, and even living habits, and they recorded them truthfully and then passed them back to China. The Japanese had already introduced new technologies such as steam engines to the mining industry, and they had some knowledge of industrial technology. But they were amazed at the sheer size of Chinese industry, and the Chinese officials and factories who received them proudly declared that China was the largest agricultural country in the world.

The Chinese are proud, but the Japanese take it for granted, shouldn't China be like this? It's not surprising! Japanese people are interested in everything and want to learn everything. This made Zhou Lang start to worry about whether Japan would have the Meiji Restoration in advance, of course, Meiji was impossible, maybe it was the Shogunate Restoration, because Zhou Lang would never allow the Shogunate to lose power, otherwise he would not mediate the conflict between the Shogunate and the Shogunate.

The Japanese found that the most suitable industry for them is the shipping industry, China's shipping industry has not been able to surpass the United Kingdom, one of the biggest reasons is that it cannot recruit sailors, China has no shortage of fishermen, but even fishermen, do not want to stay away from the coast, except for the Tan people and other extreme minorities, Chinese regard the sea as a daunting path, the people who venture to the sea are more not to love the sea, but for the overseas land. Xie Qinggao is an example, he is an adventurer, but he does not love the sea, he loves the customs on the other side of the sea.

Any industry, once the forces at the national level begin to support it, the development will be fast.

Japan's small and medium-sized maritime merchants received capital subsidized by the government and began to purchase high-quality merchant ships in large quantities for ocean transportation.

In a short period of time, the Japanese developed a sizable merchant fleet.

Because Japan had begun to have an objective merchant fleet, Britain began to woo Japan, and he believed that Japan also had a need to pass through the Panama Canal, so it would be dissatisfied with China's control of the canal, and it was worth co-opting.

Japan is no longer the Japan of the past, and after starting to introduce new thinking, the Japanese know that a lot of China's technology is actually learned from the West, although the Chinese proudly claim that they do it better than the Westerners. But after all, it was the technology that Westerners developed first, which made Japan's attitude towards Westerners begin to change. Moreover, Japan's understanding of the West has always been clearer than that of its contemporaries, China. By the time Qianlong's officials searched the list of nations left behind by the Ming Dynasty for records of the English Kingdom, the Japanese had already been to Europe twice during the shogunate period. When Qianlong thought that foreigners would not be able to poop without eating rhubarb, Japanese orchidology had become an academic science.

Therefore, Japan gave respect to the British envoys, but when they heard that the British wanted to unite them against China, the Japanese tied up the British envoys, thinking that these people were rebellious and sent them directly to China.

This made Britain's move to co-opt Japan into a joke in Europe.

But the actions of the British also served as a warning to China, which had begun to rally allies in the heart of China.

Zhou Lang communicated with Japan, hoping that the two countries could send permanent envoys to facilitate communication. A telegraph line was also established through Korea and to Japan.

After facilitating contact, the shogun began to communicate frequently with Zhou Lang, either not the shogun Tokugawa Saiaki himself, or a group of staff members of the shogunate. When they found out that they could communicate directly with the Emperor of China, they were very interested and took the matter very seriously.

The two sides agreed to conduct a direct correspondence on the first and fifteenth days of each month, and the Japanese had a strong sense of ritual in carrying out the correspondence, and the general would bathe on the same day, and the ministers would sit around.

The content of the communication includes national events, as well as some minutiae. Japan is uneasy about some Europeans beginning to enter Japanese waters more and more frequently, seeking an attitude towards China. Zhou Lang told them that they don't need to care too much about foreigners, foreigners come for profit. If Japan does not want to get close to them, they can be expelled directly. If Japan wants to, it can trade with them. Japan chose not to trade with Westerners, and Zhou Lang also expressed his support for Japan, saying that if Westerners provoked, China would provide assistance.

In the communication between the heads of state, many of the doubts that existed in the hearts of the Japanese began to dissolve, and they had been puzzled by the smuggling of Chinese merchants, because China was a big country and could not be offended, so they endured humiliation every time. Zhou Lang told them that smuggling was wrong, but smuggling could not be eradicated, and told the Japanese that China had banned opium for many years, and it still could not stop the smuggling of opium, because the more it was banned, the greater the profits, and lawbreakers would inevitably take risks. It is suggested that Japan should open up its trade, establish a market and shipping organs, and carry out strict management, so as to turn disadvantages into advantages.