It was already dark, and the moonlight and starlight shone on a Japanese-style house somewhere in Edo, and the water of a lake in the backyard shone with silvery phosphorescence. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After being tired, Tang Feipeng sat at the door of the room wearing a coat, looking up at the sky, silently thinking in his heart...

"I still have 2 million yen of liquid money in my hand, and in a few days, I can transfer back another amount of silver in China, which can be exchanged for 1 million. But if you want to convert this silver into yen without knowing it, and then flow into the stock market, it will take at least half a month......"

"According to the instructions of the country, the fleet of sailors will soon arrive in the North Sea and the Ryukyus, and this news will definitely cause the Japanese stock market to shake, and even the yen will ......" so the country instructed him to enter the market as soon as possible and wait for the time to be ripe.

Tang Feipeng's eyes were as bright as a flash, this was really a great opportunity to make money. And the industry he is now operating with capital has a certain amount of shares that belong to him. It's not a question of making money for the state or not, it's about making money for himself. "If you find some people and pool the funds...... Tang Feipeng is not without any foundation in Japan, and during the Opium War, many Chinese still did business with Britain and France. The merchant class is very disgraceful, and he also has a security team and a standing team under his command. All the people who exercise can prepare at least one or two million more ......

"Master!" I don't know when the two girls on the floor have sat up, one of them is wearing only a white coat on his body, and he is holding a made Tieguanyin in his hand. Another girl also walked over, gently hugged Tang Feipeng's head from behind, pillowed Tang Feipeng's head on her crisp chest, and gently pressed his temples.

Well, this is Tang Feipeng's life. In Japan, he is the master!

Wang Pingbei is also enjoying meticulous care at this time, and there is a very capable assistant by his side. Two big men, accompanied by women, soak in a pool of warm water. The mixed bathing in Japan is really wonderful.

"I'm wondering which foreign company to buy the machine from......

Although Wang Pingbei is a large merchant in Japan, he is also a very well-behaved person and never stretches out his hand indiscriminately. His business dealings with Chinese merchants on the surface were more traditional trade between China and Japan, such as raw silk, silk, books, calligraphy and painting, tea, sugar, porcelain, lacquerware, Chinese medicinal materials, cotton cloth, hardware, ironware, iron and steel, etc., of which the last four items were only available in recent years. As for machinery, he has always taken it from foreign companies.

In the last two years, the names of the trading houses set up by China in Japan, as well as the trading houses in Japan that specialize in Chinese goods, have been changed to foreign firms.

"Which foreign firm?" A look of contemplation also flashed across the assistant's face.

"yes. I have to think about it carefully, the equipment and machinery of 2 million Chinese dollars, such a large amount of money is not something that can be eaten by a random foreign company in Nagasaki Port, so naturally I must first choose a good trading partner——"

Japan's merchant class is simply not comparable to that of Shanghai. The largest foreign company in the Port of Nagasaki could not have come up with so much equipment at once. Although when Wang Pingbei founded the Mitsubishi Textile Company, there were other Japanese businessmen entering the market. Whether it is a steam-powered spinning machine or a water-powered loom, Mitsubishi is not unique to it.

The textile revolution in China has also deeply affected Japan, which is just around the water, even though the cotton textile industry in Japan has only only been around for more than 200 years.

More than 200 years ago, there was no cotton cultivation in Japan, and all foreign cotton cloth was imported and expensive. But this did not delay the development of Japan's cotton textile industry.

In the 16th century, cotton cultivation techniques introduced from the Korean Peninsula spread to Japan, and large-scale cotton cultivation began in the southern part of the Ise Plain in Mie Prefecture, the home of the Mitsui family. Since the early Edo period, cotton cloth has become a daily necessity for the common people in Japan, and the market size is quite gratifying.

With the great changes in the pattern of China's cotton textile industry in the past two years, the price of cotton cloth is getting lower and lower, which directly affects China's exports to Japan. In the past, cotton cloth from China was mainly exported to Europe, but now more and more surplus cloth is pouring into the Japanese market. Last year, the bilateral trade volume on cotton cloth exceeded 4 million Chinese yuan.

The price of a cotton cloth on Chen Han's side is between four and seven Chinese yuan, which is much cheaper than the Songjiang cloth in the past.

In the past, a foot of Chinese cotton cloth cost twelve or thirteen coppers, and a piece of cloth was four zhang long, and the value was forced to five hundred wen, that is, half a tael of silver, which was converted into no less than seven Chinese yuan. This is just a light summer cloth, if it is a winter cloth, the price will be even higher.

But now the highest price of winter cloth in China is only compared with the past summer cloth, and many winter cloths are not as expensive as the past summer cloth. It was like an irresistible torrent that shook Japan's cotton textile industry.

Therefore, the development of the cotton textile industry in Japan is definitely a headstart. In particular, as the contradictions between China and Japan became more and more acute, it was uncertain when the Tokugawa shogunate would impose a heavy tax on Chinese cotton cloth. Moreover, Wang Pingbei has the Chinese government behind him to endorse him.

"The head of the family, our transaction partner this time must be an expert, if we waste a lot of time in adjusting equipment and training workers as before, it will cause immeasurable losses to Mitsubishi." The contradictions between China and Japan are becoming more and more acute, and the Japanese people have raised a cry to boycott Chinese goods, which is the greatest help of God to Mitsubishi Textile Company.

Whether it is a steam engine, a spinning machine, or a loom, these equipment are not ready to be used after they are bought. Not to mention transportation, it takes a lot of time to install alone, and the equipment occupies a considerable area after being shipped back, so shipping back in batches is the best choice. Finally, there is the construction of the factory, the placement of the water conservancy loom and the factory. There are strict requirements for construction, as well as the training of workers......

As a qualified businessman, Wang Pingbei would never make the same mistake twice. When he founded Mitsubishi Boshoku, he had a serious underestimation of the previous estimates, which greatly delayed the production time of the factory. Otherwise, the current Mitsubishi Boshoku Company would have been able to make a name for itself in Japan.

Because Mitsubishi Boshoku uses the same level of technology as China's textile industry, as long as the workers are trained, they can produce cloth that is about the same price as China's cotton 'processing'. Even if the price of cotton in Japan is more expensive than that in China, the cost price of cotton cloth of Mitsubishi Boshoku Company is also competitive with the price of cotton cloth in China.

At a time when the contradictions between China and Japan were surging, this news could immediately make Mitsubishi the pride of Japan. Therefore, Wang Pingbei should pay more attention to the logistics services of foreign banks this time.

"Yes, the maintenance and assembly of machinery, as well as the training of workers, are the top priorities. There is no too tight time requirement for machinery, and the strength of foreign banks is not very bad to meet this. There are not many people we can trade with, so this time I will open the tender in Nagasaki and get all the powerful foreign companies involved. A large order of 2 million Chinese dollars is rare even for those Chinese foreign firms. "That's 200,000 silver dollars.

In business, who would watch such a sum of money fly in front of their eyes? Therefore, in order to get this business, those foreign companies will definitely offer preferential treatment as much as possible in terms of price, quality and after-sales service, so that ......, his royal family can get more.

Compared with the first time he built the factory, Wang Pingbei's second time corrected too much, and he used bidding to get the equipment he needed.

Although this will take more time than directly dealing with a foreign firm, he can use the least amount of money to get the maximum benefit, and most importantly, he has time for this transaction.

The next day, on the island of Zengmu, thousands of miles away from Nagasaki, when a fleet had just arrived from Taiwan, Wang Pingbei had already come to the Mitsui Bank branch in Nagasaki to visit his old friend Mitsui Stone.

Under the tide of prosperous foreign trade between China and Japan, the Mitsui family also began to be involved in the port trade, and Mitsui & Co. not only in Shanghai, but also in Tianjin, Guangzhou, and Fuzhou. Mitsuishi is well aware of the enormous size of Mitsubishi's corporate growth with the addition of 600,000 yen in assets.

There are only a handful of textile companies with a total investment of 1.5 million yen in China. Although the 1.5 million yen was not entirely used for the purchase of machinery, it also included the purchase of raw materials and the construction of factories, as well as the sales and transportation network laid up by Mitsubishi Boshoku in various places.

"Does Mino-kun want to copy China's set of tenders in its entirety?"

Two years ago, bidding was introduced in the Chinese market as a commercial method. Many of the new landmark buildings, including those in Shanghai and Guangzhou, have been pushed to the market by the Chinese government in the form of tenders. This requires not only the price comparison, but also the signing of a contract with quality assurance, construction period, and payment method as the main contents.

In the case of Mitsubishi Boshoku, the content of the commercial contract revolves more around projects such as machine installation, technician training, and after-sales service.

Wang's decision soon spread throughout Nagasaki, and Mitsubishi was officially promoted in the Nagasaki Daily, the second Japanese newspaper after the Edo Shimbun.

The news of the "tender" soon spread throughout Japan. Not only Nagasaki, but also Osaka, Edo, and Kyoto are also known as Mitsubishi and Mino.

A business of 600,000 yen, even in Shanghai, is a big deal, and as soon as the news came out, all the major foreign companies in Nagasaki were gearing up. A large number of people began to visit Wang Pingbei's residence, almost breaking the threshold. These people came to the door for only one purpose, and that was to find out the details of this tender......

And in the manager's office of the Nagasaki branch of Mitsui Bank, Mitsuishi was writing a report to the headquarters. Wang Pingbei's visit to him revealed the intention of hoping that Mitsubishi can be listed as soon as possible, which is a rare high-quality stock in Japan.

Although the Mitsubishi Boshoku company in Nagasaki has just started production and the first-quarter financial report is far from out, the Mitsui family is well aware of Mitsubishi's huge profits. Mitsubishi Boshoku's cotton cloth was nearly half cheaper than the price of cloth produced in old Japanese workshops. It can definitely compete with the Chinese Matsue cloth in Japan. Mitsubishi cloth, on the other hand, is a Japanese company......

Mino Heibei invested all his belongings in this company, and now his entire industry is burdened with debts of nearly one million yen. Listing the company on the exchange is indeed a good way to make money. For the Mitsui family, this is also a great opportunity to infiltrate Mitsubishi Boshoku. Because the only one who can endorse Mitsubishi is the Mitsui family!

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Kyoto.

One of the three major cities in Japan during the Edo period, it has been almost a thousand years since Emperor Kanmu moved his capital here during the Tang Dynasty. As the capital city and cultural center of Japan for thousands of years, the city has a strong Chinese style, especially the Tang Dynasty style, and the Tang-style buildings one after another make people feel like they are returning to the Tang Dynasty scenery of a thousand years ago.

Chen Qinghe fell to the floor drunk, as the deputy envoy of the Chinese mission to Japan, Chen Qinghe's status is very high. But at this moment, he was lying on the board with a fat pig to be slaughtered who had been anesthetic, waiting for death to come.

There were two people standing around him, one was called Zong Weifeng, and the other was Wang Jun. One of the two people is the captain of the escort of the mission, and the other is the head of the mission.

Wang Jun looked at Chen Qinghe with a cold face, like looking at a bug. The latter is really looking for his own death, and he will not take responsibility for this matter at all, holding the instructions from above. Who made Chen Qinghe an outcast himself.

Maybe Chen Qinghe himself doesn't know why the pie fell on his head from the sky, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will select him as his deputy envoy. That's because he's an outcast who can be discarded at any time.

From the moment he last went to Siam with a delegation and secretly accepted five hundred taels of gold from the Siamese government, his fate could only be like this. Even more accurately, Chen Qinghe's rotten life can be so useful, and he can still get a reputation of 'martyrdom' after his death, and his posterity is his greatest creation.

Of course, his death can also give birth to a new situation for the current Sino-Japanese exchanges.

Zong Weifeng pulled out the knife in his hand.

He's not mixing well now, and he's already coming out of the army and into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But no matter how bad he is, he is much stronger than he was in the Lu camp. Zong Weifeng, who has been in the army for many years, has certainly killed people, and he will not feel the slightest guilt for killing the rotten people in front of him.

Anyway, Chen Qinghe only has one eldest nephew in the officialdom, and he is only a fifth-grade official until now. And at present, after the report was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was directly sealed. At that time, even the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not see it as soon as he wanted.

As for the relationship between Chen Qinghe's family and the imperial court, Zong Weifeng didn't believe that there was anything left until now. Even if the Chen family knew about this, they couldn't bite off a single bird feather from him.

A cold light flashed in front of Wang Jun's eyes, and Chen Qinghe lost his life in drunkenness. Blood was everywhere in the room, and Wang Jun and Zong Weifeng turned around and left the room.

That knife was even Zong Weifeng's collection, which he had received from a certain official in Kyoto for 5,000 yuan. Zong Weifeng, who has been fighting in the army for more than ten years, will not be nervous because he killed someone.

As for Wang Jun, the leader of the Changsha Qinglian Sect, this is a natural actor. (To be continued.) )