The note clearly stated that five No. 2 ships of the British government of the Ming Dynasty were missing in the waters of the Wudao archipelago, with cargo losses of no less than 400,000 taels of silver and more than 200 missing crew members.

The British of the Ming Dynasty questioned whether the Tokugawa shogunate had the ability to govern Japan, and if they did not receive an answer, the Ming Dynasty would have to ask their emperor for an explanation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for why so many Ming warships came here, the note also made it clear that the Japanese pirates were plundering and did not have enough force to come here.

Since the general of Zhengyi didn't care about the rampant piracy in the territory, then the Ming had no choice but to go beyond the bounds and come thousands of miles to the waters of Japan to strangle the pirates and seek justice for the people of the Ming Dynasty who died!

If the Japanese side did not deal with the incident of pirates harming the people of the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty would have no choice but to cross the border to attack the islands where the pirates were entrenched, and send troops to garrison them in the future to prevent future troubles.

Tokugawa Iemitsu saw the pirates who were captured and returned by the Ming army, and after interrogation, he found that they were really Japanese, but most of them were under the command of those daimyo who had been scattered in the warlord melee before, in fact, it was none of his business, but this could not be explained to the Ming Dynasty!

Now, on behalf of the Japanese government, he cannot admit that he has not yet reached the point of controlling the whole of Japan, and that the actions of these Japanese have nothing to do with him.

Da Ming wants an explanation, where is their bottom line? They are mobilizing the people, and the Japanese side has also seen the value of their force, so it is impossible to go home without doing anything, right?

They want to attack the islands where the pirates are entrenched and garrison them, this condition is unacceptable, those islands are Japanese territory, how can the Ming Dynasty station troops on the territory of their own country.

Tokugawa Iemitsu had no choice but to send a delegation to contact the delegation of the British Duke of the Ming Dynasty, hoping to learn the intentions of the Ming Dynasty.

There were many daimyo in the Japanese delegation who were familiar with Li Guozhu, and saw that this sea merchant had become a Ming official or a member of the negotiators.

They were very happy, and finally found someone to communicate with, and they all took the initiative to come to Li Guozhu to get close, and after several conversations, they learned about Daming's intentions, and those daimyo were very happy, and unanimously agreed with the Daming proposal leaked from Li Guozhu's mouth.

Daming is here for peace, for free trade, for ensuring the safety of shipping routes, they are not here to ask for guilt, but to seek win-win cooperation!

These daimyo are very excited, and Daming seems to be beneficial to himself and Japan! In the future, it will definitely be us who will make a fortune by selling Daming goods!

Daming's proposal was revealed through private channels, and Tokugawa Iemitsu met with several daimyo to know the situation, and it turned out that Daming did not have to ignore people and did not ask the Japanese government to compensate the British public for the loss of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Rather, it demanded that the two countries join hands to fight piracy and protect the merchant ships, and demanded that the British Duke of the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese general of the Ming Dynasty directly trade with the Japanese general to deliver goods in Edo, and after the agreement was reached, the trade was carried out once a year, and it was handled in accordance with the regulations.

That doesn't seem like a bad thing! Tokugawa Iemitsu was not opposed to trade with the Ming Dynasty at all, he was afraid of the infiltration of Westerners into Japan, and he was especially afraid that the Japanese believed in Catholicism, and the reason why he closed the country was to prevent the spread of Catholicism in Japan.

When the Japanese daimyo went to discuss the bottom line of the negotiations with the general of Seiyi, Li Guozhu was not idle, he used all his networks, and even sent the Japanese under his command to walk the streets and alleys to spread the word to the common people of Edo.

"General Zhengyi has captured more than 1,000 pirates active in the waters of the Goto Islands, let's see if any pirates who have slaughtered their relatives have been caught."

Every day, many Edo residents who had relatives killed in pirate attacks at sea came to the Admiral Seiyi's military office, and they unanimously demanded that the pirates be brought out so that the killers could be identified.

And that's not all, as rumors of the arrest of more than a thousand pirates spread to nearby cities, and many civilians rushed to Edo in the hope of hearing that their relatives had disappeared because they had run to the sea.

The military office of the general of the Seiyi was surrounded every day by the common people who came to wait for news and watch the excitement, and Tokugawa Ieyasu had no choice but to tie up the pirates into a string of parades and let the people identify them.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was too big, and the hundreds of ships of the Daming Navy were too passive to show off their might in Edo Bay, so he decided to quickly arrange for the delegations of the two sides to start negotiations.

In order to test the sincerity of the Ming Dynasty, Tokugawa Ieyasu sent an expert who had been handling the Ming goods for a long time, and the result of the negotiation made him relieved and relieved.

This time, although the Ming Dynasty paid a high transportation cost and dispatched 100 or so warships to escort the merchant ships on a long journey, they did not sit on the ground and raised the price, but still delivered the goods according to the previous price, and the purchase of Japanese goods was also a fair price.

The trade agreement set prices for Japanese products one by one, for example, copper ingots are priced at one tael of 16 catties of silver, and one stone of Japanese polished rice is priced at seven coins of silver.

Such a price is too affordable, the Japanese daimyo can spend less than five dollars of silver to collect rice, and after the copper ingots are supplied to the Ming Dynasty, the mine can be produced at full capacity.

The agreement reached between the two parties was disputed by Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was not dissatisfied with the price and variety of the goods traded, but could not bear to be delivered in Edo Bay every year in the future.

Proceeding from the interests of his rule, the general of Zhengyi thought that if the Ming Dynasty came every time, and so many warships were eyeing the port of Edo Bay, what if they had a crooked mind to launch a surprise attack?

After further consultations, the Ming side demanded that the Japanese government show sincerity in cracking down on piracy, and the Japanese representative of the negotiation promised not to tolerate any pirates, and finally the Ming gave in, and the place of the transaction was Kagoshima.

This is a good thing for the merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty, which can save four days of sea travel.

The agreement was reached, and in order to show its sincerity, the Japanese side publicly executed 380 pirates who had been returned by the Ming Dynasty, and the people of Edo were like a festival on the day of the execution.

It turned out that the 380 pirates who were executed by the decision of the Tokugawa shogunate were identified by many witnesses as having participated in a certain attack, because many of the witnesses were merchants who had received ransom from the pirates and were released, and when it came time to take revenge, they all gritted their teeth and pulled out the pirates he had seen.

Those pirates who were paraded in the streets were smashed with rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves all over their faces, and the last one was in a different place, this is not the treachery of the Ming army, the Ming army kept its promise and did not kill them, it was their motherland that thought the pirates deserved to die.

Later, historians called this unjustly named tariff and trade agreement in the autumn of the sixth year of the Apocalypse the '38 Treaty'.

The articles on paper have been done, the next step is delivery, delivery, Daming did not do anything on the price, but what is the quality of the goods?

On the day of delivery, many famous distributors came to Edowan, and they carefully checked the quota in hand, and finally unanimously recognized that the goods of Daming this time were of high quality, and many things were simply strange goods.

Huang Sheng is reluctant to bring a large amount of silver, what he sells is a product is a resource, if he brings meaningless silver back, it will make the Ming Dynasty inflation and high prices in the long run.

Therefore, to buy things as much as possible, the first is resources, copper ingots bought 5 million catties and spent more than 310,000 taels of silver, and other materials such as lead, sulfur, and nitrate also bought nearly 100,000 taels of silver.

Huang Sheng also did something that puzzled Li Guozhu and Li Erda, and Huang bought a large amount of Japanese rice at a high price of seven coins of silver and one stone.

Huang Sheng's intention to buy grain at a high price is to make the Japanese feel profitable, maybe the Japanese farmers will also increase their enthusiasm for growing grain, this nation is also one of the most industrious nations, the profits of growing grain will encourage more people to open up wasteland and farm, now the Japanese population is very small, arable land can fully feed three times the population.

The most important thing is that their civil war has come to an end, and the common people can get peace and will naturally start production.

It is not that the land of the Ming Dynasty could not feed 120 million people, but that later there was a Li Zicheng who 'did not pay grain' and specialized in 'grabbing grain'.

In fact, as long as a little thoughtful person should sneer at this 'wedding dress king', what does he eat if he doesn't pay food? The person who establishes him as a positive image must be dark and dirty inside.

This fool slaughtered chickens and eggs, spread like locusts across the land of China, and the already fragile balance of the places he passed through was immediately destroyed, and his great work was to create tens of millions of destitute people, to destroy the last Han civilization, and finally to cheapen the barbarians.

The vicious circle brought about by the vicious circle brought about by the fact that the places he plundered could not be self-sufficient for several years, and the land was abandoned on a large scale.

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