Chen Gaoting, a provincial official from the Ministry of Industry, who was a distant relative of Chen Qiyuan, couldn't hold his face.

"Your Majesty, only the best silk reeling women in Japan can get this money, they call it a hundred-yen female worker."

Zhu Jinglun snorted: "Can the best silk reeler in my country get this money?" ”

Chen Gaoting bowed his head: "China's wages are relatively average. ”

After Zhu Jinglun visited the canteen of the silk reeling factory, it can be seen that they deliberately added food, each worker was given a bean bag and a sushi, but as far as the food itself is concerned, it is really not as good as the Chinese workers, because Chinese workers often can eat meat and eggs every day, and the promotion of duck farming in rice fields has made duck eggs flood in southern China, which is extremely cheap.

Zhu Jinglun also had to eat their canteen, which made the factory owner extremely panicked, and he did not prepare food for the Chinese emperor.

Now the extra meal is not for people to see, but for celebration, can get the favor of the big people, the Chinese emperor such a powerful person to visit, for their factory is a huge advertisement, the price of silk sold to the international market in the future can not change, but to the domestic can even mention the price.

It is not only rude to let the Chinese emperor eat the same food as a female worker, but the point is that if the Chinese emperor's stomach is expensive and he eats diarrhea, this is a huge diplomatic dispute, and he can't afford a small silk reeling factory.

He looked at Prince Yiren with a pleading gaze, and the prince's face was heavy, and he scolded him for not getting ready.

Zhu Jinglun ate three bean buns and two sushi in a row to eat enough, but seeing that each female worker only had one bean bun and one sushi, he knew that these female workers might not be able to eat enough all year round.

Japan has planted a third of its land with mulberry trees, its population has surged by millions over the years, and arable land has decreased by a third, and fools know that they don't have enough food to eat, but Japan was still exporting rice a few years ago, which is regarded as a boost to agriculture by the Meiji Restoration, which is simply nonsense, and can only be said that an efficient modern government has improved its ability to loot the countryside.

In the past few years, with the development of industry, rice began to be imported from North Korea, which led to continuous famine in North Korea, resulting in an economic phenomenon of exporting hunger from industrial countries to agricultural countries.

Zhu Jinglun feels that there is huge economic potential to be tapped.

So he deliberately asked: "The quality of Japan's raw silk is good, I wonder if it is exported to my country?" ”

Yiren replied: "Mainly exported to the United States. ”

Chen Gaoting kept giving Zhu Jinglun a look on the side, he knew very well that Japan's raw silk was not exported to China because of China's high tax rate, and if the tax rate was lowered, Japan's cheap raw silk would overwhelm the raw silk production in the Liangguang region.

The agricultural combination of mulberry fish ponds, which is really great biologically, but in an economic sense, not that big. It is superior to ordinary mulberry fields, but it is not as good as large-scale cultivation.

Yiren keenly seized the opportunity, he is also the president of the Japanese Silkworm Association, if he can export to China, the market will not be smaller than the United States.

sighed: "Your country's tariffs-"

He didn't say any more, and it was clear that the meaning was expressed.

Zhu Jinglun nodded: "I think that in this regard, we can cooperate and cooperate." ”

Mulberry silkworms in the Pearl River Delta region have actually entered a recession in recent years, on the one hand, it is caused by Japanese competition, on the other hand, it is also their own economic restructuring, many farmers began to give up planting mulberry silkworms, and the land began to plant sugarcane to extract sugar, after the people became rich, began to eat more sugar food, and sucrose was more economically efficient than silkworms.

Japan uses one-third of its land to plant mulberry trees to meet the American market, can they use 100 percent of the land to plant mulberry trees to meet the Chinese market?

So what about Japan's grain, it can only be imported, and it is impossible for North Korea to meet Japan's food shortage, but China can. Although China is also importing grain, it is actually self-sufficient. Imported food supplies only 20 to 30 million people, while 50 million people are fed annually with food for livestock.

Squeezing is more than enough to fill Japan's food gap.

As long as Japan is dependent on Chinese grain, will they still be able to escape from China's palm?

Yiren was also very happy and immediately bowed down: "If our goods can be favored by your country, I will be grateful and honored." ”

When talking about business, there are naturally people from the household department to talk about, Zhu Jinglun just put forward an introduction, but he spoke, no matter what, there will be some progress, which Yiren is very sure of, this will be an incomparably huge benefit, he glanced at the factory owner, nodded approvingly, and flattered the factory owner.

The Japanese probably misunderstood something.

During the visit in the next few days, Zhu Jinglun found that Japan arranged for the female worker named Ashin to accompany him, but whenever there was a job of serving tea and pouring water, Ashin would show his face in front of Zhu Jinglun.

Obviously, they misunderstood that Zhu Jinglun fell in love with this thin Japanese girl, although in the eyes of the Japanese, Ashin is white and clean, and her generous salary makes her living standard obviously better, maybe the Chinese emperor likes this kind of thin girl, isn't there an old saying that the king of Chu has a thin waist.

Zhu Jinglun is really hard to speak, such a little girl, if she pushes it, she will be pushed down, and the Japanese can't wait for it. It would be a great deal to sacrifice a female worker in exchange for a little discount for the export of Japanese raw silk to China.

But Zhu Jinglun knows very well that he overthrew this female worker today, and tomorrow this female union will die a miserable death, Gao Yuan and Zhang Rou are not fuel-efficient lamps, and the bloodshed of Gong Dou is something he doesn't want to delve into.

But he still deliberately aggravated the illusion of the Japanese and asked his subordinates to help keep the female worker.

The Japanese may be cautious, and currying favor with the Chinese emperor is one thing, but if Ashin can be favored by the Chinese emperor, staying by his side is tantamount to an additional news channel for Japan, which can easily understand the true intentions of the Chinese emperor and his attitude towards Japan.

And Zhu Jinglun also needs such a way to deliver news to Japan.

He didn't want to sleep with Ashin, and he hadn't invested much energy in women over the years, so he really couldn't lift his spirits for such a thin girl.

"Ashin, are you used to eating Chinese food?"

After coming into contact with the Chinese emperor, Ashin was very surprised that the Chinese emperor knew how to speak Japanese, and he was immediately relieved, the imperial family, which is a god-like species, would say anything is not surprising. The emperor is a descendant of the sun god, and when I read the newspaper recently, didn't I advertise that the Chinese emperor was the Son of Heaven, the son of the Chinese sky, and he was also a god.

"Habitual eating!"

Ashin habitually bowed his head and replied.

"Are you really used to eating?"

Zhu Jinglun casually brought all kinds of service staff, and the imperial chef was also a must, not to mention the preparation of major cuisines in turn, and even the ingredients were imported directly from China, worrying about the food insecurity in Japan.

"It's just some oil!"

After Ashin finished speaking, he quickly apologized.

"But it's delicious, it's really powerful, and it's not greasy at all."

Japanese female workers don't have much oil and water in their stomachs, and their perennial vegetarian diet makes Chinese food look greasy.

Zhu Jinglun smiled and talked to her, today Zhu Jinglun had a day off, Gao Yuan was invited by the Japanese prince to go to the tea house to drink tea, and he would also visit some handicrafts, and he chatted with Ashin in the high-end residence prepared by the Japanese.

This is the family home of the Banner family, located in Fukuoka Prefecture, which is considered a well-known local mansion, and the owner threw it out and reserved it for the Chinese delegation.

Through Ashin, Zhu Jinglun learned a lot of things that could not be seen on paper, the situation of the Japanese selling their sons and daughters was very common, the peasants were very angry with the landlords and capitalists, and the Mitsui Bank was able to lay out the banks in the rural areas, which really made people sigh, and it also meant that the Japanese peasants needed to borrow to pay their taxes, and the burden was much heavier than that of the Chinese peasants.

Ashin's family is one such farmer family, and despite Ashin's wage subsidy, life is still very difficult. An income of 50 taels a year is enough for a family of five in China to live a pretty good life, but the Japanese are starving. Because Japanese food is much more expensive than China's, they import grain with high tariffs. This is clearly not to protect domestic agriculture, but presumably to protect customs revenues, and to prevent capital outflows.

Japan eats rice, and the countries that produce rice in the world, except for India, are basically under the influence of China, and the largest rice producing areas, the Red River and Mekong Delta in Vietnam, and the Chao Phraya River region in Siam, not only are the two countries directly influenced by China, but the largest group of Chinese businessmen who operate the rice business in the local area.

In addition, the Daming planting area in the Nanyang region and the rice-producing area in the Philippines were also increasingly controlled by Chinese merchants after the opening of the market, and if they could export grain to Japan, Chinese merchants would be able to control the country's food sources. As for whether the Japanese government will worry about food security, this is certain, but as long as they bite the golden hook of raw silk export thrown by Zhu Jinglun, they must accept the opening of the grain market.

Once cheap Southeast Asian rice is imported, Japan's own food production will soon be destroyed, and with the strong pull of raw silk exports, Japan will soon concentrate its land on raw silk production. Even Japan's industrial sector will contribute to this transformation, and the exchange of foreign currency for exports has always been their biggest goal, more than feeding their own farmers.

"Ashin, would you like to go back to China with me?"

chatted more and more with Ashin, an eighteen-year-old girl who had been locked up in the factory for several years, what knowledge could she have, and soon told Zhu Jinglun everything she knew.

Zhu Jinglun was worried that the Japanese government would trouble her in the future, and the truth about Japan that she exposed might be considered a loss of face by the Japanese host. So Zhu Jinglun wants to take her back to China, as for how to arrange her after she goes back, it is too easy. It is better to be sent to that official's house to work as a female worker than in Japan. If you are sent to the factory to work as a skilled worker, you can also become a female worker at the master level.

But Ashin hesitated: "I, I want to ask for instructions-"

Zhu Jinglun said: "Please ask your parents?" ”

Ashin nodded hurriedly, sweat oozing from her forehead, obviously she almost said that she had leaked her mouth, it was the adults of the official government who made her respond to her needs, and she couldn't refuse what the Chinese emperor wanted to do, including accompanying her to sleep, and even urgently found experts to train her in related techniques, and she was rarely ashamed. But she never explained whether she could give the Chinese emperor to China.

However, officials have stressed that she should not talk about her relationship with the Japanese government, otherwise she will be made seppuku.

I almost said it just now, which made Ashin feel that she had walked around the ghost gate.

Japanese officials wish that Ashin could enter the Chinese Imperial Palace, which is a huge diplomatic impact.

When Zhu Jinglun was planning against Japan, the Japanese had a lot of small abacus.

Gao Yuan visited around with a few Japanese ladies, but it was not for no reason, and when she came back, she told Zhu Jinglun that Japan intended to marry China.

A Japanese lady revealed that the emperor has two younger daughters, who are about the same age as the Chinese emperor's grandson.

Zhu Jinglun hesitated, marrying the Japanese royal family, this is not a good deal, the genes of the Japanese royal family are very worried, and the perennial marriage of close relatives makes the genes of the Japanese royal family even incomparable.

But it is very politically interested, once it marries the Japanese imperial family, then in the short term, Japan can cooperate with China's diplomatic actions, and Japan probably wants to raise their status in East Asia through marriage with China, and resolve their unfavorable situation in East Asia, which is almost blocked by East Asian countries.

Of course, the Japanese actually think more, and the Japanese believe that once they can marry China, Japan will be able to dominate the politics of the East Asian region with China, and Zhu Jinglun is underestimating Japan's ambitions.

So he asked Gao Yuan to get in touch with the Japanese ladies, and he might as well express China's sincerity.

But the enthusiasm of the Japanese to give back did scare Zhu Jinglun, and instead of marrying a daughter, they planned to marry the three youngest daughters of the Meiji Emperor to the imperial grandson of China, including the fourteen-year-old Prince Yoshiko Fuminomiya, the twelve-year-old Prince Teruhito Mannomiya, and the nine-year-old Prince Satoko Tainomiya.

China and Japan have not abolished the concubine system, and Meiji had several wives, but marrying three daughters at one time still made Zhu Jinglun feel a certain ambition in the hearts of the Japanese, which is no longer a small abacus, but a big ambition.