Chapter 9 Business First
Another meaning of the name "Kannajo" is that the Japanese emperor is known as the god of the sun and the god of the world, which is much more shameless than the Chinese emperors. As a descendant, www.biquge.info certainly understood what would happen to the emperor intervening in the political situation in Japan, and it was clearly written in the history books of the shogunate - in the end, he secretly survived and recognized the thief as his father (MacArthur) before he picked up a small life.
Locked up in this godless city isolated from the inside and outside, you are not afraid of the people inside making trouble. For those who do not have much ambition, the standard of living that far exceeds the hundreds of years of modernization in the nineteenth century is still satisfying, and for those who are too ambitious, Song Haiping and the top brass of the shogunate do not mind using the knife.
At the same time as the construction of this Shenwu City began, the envoy who sent me to the Qing Dynasty was also chosen. To people's surprise, it was originally not an official of the shogunate, but a Japanese manga artist raised by the general's family, and he was named a five-rank official. Song Haiping and Sheng Haizhou became deputy envoys instead.
Since this envoy was appointed by Song Haiping, the shogunate bosses and Katsu Haizhou (although he was at the helm of the future navy in the shogunate, he still belonged to the ranks of newcomers) did not dare to have an opinion. This is mainly due to the solidification of the Japanese class, and the standard of being a person and doing things is not to ask what should not be asked, not to do what should not be done, and not to think about what should not be considered.
This former manga artist doesn't even have a surname, it's called Sukeyoshi - it is said that before the Meiji Restoration in Japan, there were either ministers or samurai daimyo classes. Ordinary people have names and no surnames.
Japanese comics are Chinese cross talk, and after Song Haiping learned that this Mr. Zhuji had been praised (Tucao Service) for more than 30 years, he changed his name to Yu Deqian.
In order to carry out Nissin's diplomacy and trade as soon as possible, Song Haiping decided to stay on the ship for the training of Deqian, so the naval commander Sheng Haizhou commanded the 3,000-ton flagship Dashogun, and took four ironclad ships of two types and two each, which were used for tributary trade, loaded with Dali pills and other goods, and advanced along the coast, and a few days later, arrived near the mouth of Dagu in the Bohai Bay.
After an opium war, the fort defense of Dagukou was strengthened to a certain extent. That is, some inferior pig iron cannons were added, and they were five or six, seven or eight thousand catties at every turn, which was completely weaker than the steel cannons that had become popular in this era. Compared with those iron cannons full of sand hole blistering, the steel cannon has many advantages, such as faster rate of fire, thin pipe wall and light weight, smooth inner hall (hydraulic boring machine), long firing range, and not easy to explode.
Not to mention the feudal and decadent Qing Dynasty, the level of cannon casting has been declining in the past two hundred years, and the range of cannons of the same weight is not as good as that cast in the early Qing Dynasty. Even in the early Qing Dynasty, the imitation was also a British twelve-pounder gun. The twelve-pounder cannon was enough for the army in ancient times when there were no modern highway facilities, but for the fortress guns or naval guns, the twelve-pounder cannon was just a small cannon that could not be smaller -- the shells of a main gun of a battleship in later generations weighed thousands of pounds.
What is even more terrifying is that the troops guarding these cannons are traditional green battalions -- no matter how good the weapons are, people must use them, and talent is the key, and the tools of the times have not yet played a decisive role. As for the 22nd century, even if there is a conventional war between industrial powers and industrial powers, they can play missile sea tactics, just press the button, but fortunately, after World War II and the Korean War, a tacit understanding has been formed between the major powers, that is, the major powers will not directly use force to prevent mutual destruction and eventually chain destruction of the world.
After the Japanese Navy flagship and the Dagukou Fort greeted each other, the personnel on the fort fled - such a large iron ship could still fire cannons with billowing black smoke, how could the Green Battalion ever see this, not to mention the soldiers, the officers also fled a lot, and most of the people who did not run were weak and could not run.
Song Haiping, who was on the flagship, couldn't help but shake his head when he saw the quality of our officers and men of the Qing Dynasty, but the commander of the navy, Sheng Haizhou, didn't care, when the black ship came to Hangzhou, the Japanese behaved much worse than our Daqing -- many people even ran into the temple to pray to the gods and worship the Buddha, and called for the kamikaze to retreat from the enemy.
Song Haiping patted the back of Yu Deqian, the former Japanese comic artist and current shogunate: "Brother Qian, it's your turn." ”
Yu Deqian nodded: "Hey! ”
The General was not in a hurry to dock, but sent a liaison boat with a discounted white flag to land manned, and Yu Deqian took four guards and an edict to find a fort garrison commander who had not yet run away, and handed over the edict and the tribute list.
The gift list is also simple, 5,000 materials (two materials and one ton) two ironclad ships, 6,000 materials two ironclad ships, 100 taels of gold (Japan is a country of gold), 100 materials (50 tons) of secret military vigorously scattered, 50,000 new guns (each gun with 200 bullets), 50 90 mm field guns, 50 90 mm mountain guns (each gun comes with 100 shells). Ask for the Golden Seal of General Tokugawa Ieding, the King of Japan, and the Golden Book (all the raw materials are ready, and there is still a surplus).
Then the upper layers reported, in the afternoon, when a few people were impatient to wait, there was finally a reply, and the Jinmen guard sent a thousand generals on the ship, saying that it was not in accordance with the rules for Japan to come to Dagukou to pay tribute, and it was necessary to change to Guangkou trade.
Song Haiping didn't bother to run around, and after inviting Mr. Qian to go to the side of the ship to watch an artillery salvo drill of the General, Song Haiping took another bag of stimulants and asked a Japanese soldier to show Mr. Qian how to inhale it.
After waiting for the trembling Lord Qianzong to suck a little, Song Haiping said: "This is Japan's secret strong pill powder, compared with this strong pill, Fushou paste is a scum, a pound (250 grams) a day of one or two silver, you only need to use two or three dollars (10-15 grams) a month to make your soldiers become supermen." Let's see each other at first sight, this is fate, and I won't tell anyone else. We're all on board with this cargo. ”
The power of medicine and the power of wealth gradually attacked, and Mr. Qian snorted: "Look at me, look at me!" ”
So in the process of waiting for the big men in the capital, the two sides developed a prosperous border trade between the two sides. In addition to selling strong pill powder, Song Haiping also peddled some foreign guns and cannons, which were sold very cheaply, and the selling price was not even enough for steel, and it was profitable to buy it back to make steel.
On the ship, in addition to buying some food and drinking water and other supplies, I also bought some tea, silk, cotton cloth, brown sugar (higher nutritional value than white sugar), and liquor. These are all things that are not produced in Japan or are not produced in sufficient quantities. After the silver entered the Great Shogun, it was immediately smelted and purified by the ship, and then stamped and minted into five denominations of silver coins, including 1 yuan, 5 jiao, 2 jiao, 1 jiao, and 5 cents.
Before receiving accurate information from the capital, out of etiquette, the General and other ships, including supply ships, had been anchored at the sea without docking, and the trade between the two sides was completed by small boats. For a time, the small boats shuttling back and forth on the sea were extremely prosperous. Later, several flower boats were even organized to sell near the General.
Of course, Sheng Haizhou also knows that sailors can't be too strict, and when they are on vacation in shifts, they should go to play and play and no one cares, otherwise it will be strange if they don't go crazy after a long time at sea. (Historically, when the second ship of Dingzhen came back, when it docked in Japan, the first thing was that the officers and sailors went ashore to drink flower wine collectively, and they also caused death.) )
As for Song Haiping, the commander of the Japanese Navy is Sheng Haizhou, and of course Song Haiping can't control it.
Just when the private business on both sides was booming, there was also a dispute in the court of the western capital over this matter.