The maritime merchants didn't understand why Zhen Qian wanted to help Fujiwara Shuxiong, the matter of winter clothes was not profitable at all, and with the dozen or so sea ships in the hands of these maritime merchants, the number of victims who could be rescued was not much, but Zhen Qian wanted to do this, which could only be said to be a show of goodwill to Fujiwara Shuxiong.

Zhen Qian has his own plans, the last New Year's time back to the real time, from the clan Zhen Liang bought 6,000 acres of seaside saline-alkali land, these saline-alkali land can not grow grain, but can grow cotton, this year's cotton harvest, one mu produced two or three hundred catties of cotton, adding up to more than 100,000 catties of output.

However, cotton has not formed a sales market in Datang at all, after all, this kind of thing was planted as flowers in the past, and at the same time, the downstream industrial chain and processing chain have not been formed, so much cotton can not be eaten as a meal if it is left in the hand.

Originally, Zhen Qian was thinking about making these cotton into cotton jackets and selling them to the Hu people in the north, but he found that the Hu people preferred leather jackets in winter, and the cotton in his hand was not sold for a while.

Now, Fujiwara is ready to prepare winter clothes for hundreds of thousands of victims, and the victims don't care what kind of clothes they have, as long as they can keep warm.

Zhen Qian is ready to make the cotton in his hand into cotton clothes and quilts, and sell them all to Fujiwara Shuxiong, even if a pound of cotton can only earn ten cents, but the market for cotton has opened, and there are millions of victims in Saikaido alone, which is a huge and stable market demand.

The most important thing is that islands like the Goho Islands and the Osumi Islands, about 30% of the islands have saline-alkali land, and if they can be grown and sold with cotton, this will be a very big boost to the future economic development of the Goho Islands.

Asking the maritime merchants to help buy winter clothes was just Zhen Qian's trick.

Of course, Zhen Qian also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to help Zhen Shi gain a firm foothold on the Shengsi Islands, after all, the Shengsi Islands were a transit point for Zhen Shi to transport population, and it would be more convenient for Zhen Shi to act in Jiangnan with the support of maritime merchants.

Shaoji Yizhen walked out of Zhen Qian's room and walked the streets of Akiba Village with the housekeeper beside him, which has now been renamed Saga Town, and the original Saga Town has long been abandoned. This time, Shaoji Kazuma came to Saga Town to persuade Zhen Qian to go to Osumi Province for development, and to make Zhen Qian give up his support for Fujiwara Shuxiong.

Zhen Qian agreed to Shao Er Yizhen's first purpose, and agreed to send some people to Osumi Province to help Shao Er Dongshang build a plan.

As for asking Zhen Qian to give up his support for Fujiwara Shuxiong, Zhen Qian did not say anything, even if Shao Eryi Zhen proposed more preferential conditions, he did not agree.

There is a third thing to do when he arrives in Saga Town this time, and the second batch of weapons that he promised to Shaoji Dongshang last time is about to be delivered, and at the same time, he hopes to order a third batch of weapons and equipment, and even the deposit has been brought.

To be honest, Zhen Qian doesn't have a good impression of the Fujiwara family now, on the one hand, the Fujiwara clan asks for a lot of Zhen Qian, and on the other hand, the Fujiwara clan has not responded to Zhen Qian's request for a long time, so Zhen Qian is a little annoyed.

But for the sake of Fujiwara Shuxiong's sale of the best gold mine in Hizen Province to his own development, Zhen Qian is really unwilling to turn his face with the Fujiwara clan now, and now the output of the Fengmingshan and Saga gold mines alone is as high as 50,000 or 60,000 taels a year, after deducting various expenses and taxes payable, Zhen Qian can make a net profit of more than 200,000 yuan a year, and if it is transported back to Datang, it can increase his income by 40%, which is more than twice the total income that Zhen Qian earned in Datang the year before last.

If we add the output of iron ore and quartz ore, Zhen Qian's net income in Feiqian Country alone is as high as 6 or 700,000 yuan. If Fujiwara Shuxiong knew that Zhen Qian had made so much money in Hizen Country, I am afraid that he would even have the intention of killing Zhen Qian.

In the past six months, Osumi Province has developed well, and Osumi Province belongs to the superior Ryu Province in Saikaido, with few mountains and many plains in the territory, and the topography of Saikaido is high in the west and low in the east, and there are many rivers in the territory, and because of the influence of the warm winds in the Pacific Ocean, the water in the territory is abundant and the climate is pleasant, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture, and the agriculture of the ancient place is an important criterion to measure the prosperity of this place.

In this Seakaido locust plague, not only was the loss relatively light, but many victims fled into Osumi Province, which doubled the population of Osumi Province at once, which is one of the reasons why Shao Erdong Shang invited Zhen Qian to Osumi Province.

Shao Er's visit to Saga Town this time also brought a lot of house slaves, and the purpose of these house slaves to Saga Town was to learn from Zhen Qian's experience in managing Saga Town.

Zhen Qian's response to the locust plague this time was very timely, compared with the three Linglu countries around Hizen Country, the loss of Hizen Country was almost negligible, Fujiwara Shuxiong counted all the credit this time to his own political achievements, but Shao Erdong Shang and these people knew in their hearts that if it were not for Zhen Qian's help, Fujiwara Shuxiong might be over this time.

Shao Erdongshang naturally didn't want Zhen Qian to help his enemies, but Zhen Qian took the initiative to give up this great credit, and Shao Erdong still couldn't find a reason to blame.

Shao Er Dongshang thought of digging the corner of Fujiwara Brush Xiong!

The reason why Emperor Xiaoqian was reluctant to see the envoy from the Tang Dynasty was that in addition to the reason for the Dazaifu Fujiwara Nakamaro, Emperor Xiaoqian himself was not willing to accept any letter from the Tang Dynasty, of course, this letter was not in Zhen Qian's hands, but it did not prevent Emperor Xiaoqian from seeing Zhen Qian as the king of the subject country according to the lower country to the upper country.

On the surface, the Wa Kingdom accepted the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact became its own emperor behind closed doors, and his status was as lofty as that of the Tang Emperor.

During the Sui period, Prince Shotoku of the Wa Kingdom wrote in the letter to Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty: The Son of Heaven at sunrise to the Son of Heaven at sunset, and later the Tang Dynasty sent by the Wa State to Sui felt that the name of the Wa State was not good, so he changed the name to Japan, because it was born recently, and took it as a name.

After Zhen Qian arrived in the Hizen Kingdom, the Ministry of Rites of the Wa Kingdom sent a small official to come once, obviously to comfort him, and also to give wine and a banquet. Zhen Qian naturally could not accept the wine and banquet of the Emperor of the Japanese Kingdom, and the interpretation in the "Shuo Wen Jie Zi": A kind of reward from the upper to the lower or the elders to the younger generations, Zhen Qian's envoy to the Japanese State represents the majesty of the emperor, and he accepted the wine and banquet of the Emperor of the Japanese State, isn't it that he recognized the equal status of the Emperor of the Japanese State and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Now that I think about it, the original Emperor of the Japanese Kingdom did not have any good intentions when he gave wine and banquets, and it is no wonder that since then, Zhen Qian has never seen an official of the Ministry of Rites of the Japanese Kingdom, and his request to enter Kyoto to meet the Emperor will not be answered for a long time.

In fact, Zhen Qian also knew in his heart that although a country is small, it is also the master of a country, and in terms of legal theory and political status, it is equal to the Tang Emperor, this idea is relatively easy for Zhen Qian in later generations to accept, but this era has its own set of international diplomatic standards, and Zhen Qian can't admit it if he doesn't want to.

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