Nagasaki, Guangzhou, Japan. www.biquge.info After the Tokugawa shogunate closed off the country, only Dutch and Chinese merchant ships were able to trade here. Tang Feipeng's original place of residence was here, and in addition to a very high-end mansion here, he now has two deeply hidden secret strongholds.

In a stronghold at this moment, Tang Feipeng, who was sitting in a precarious position, listened intently to what he said about Sanye Pingbei. The latter's identity on the surface is one of the few large merchants in Nagasaki Port, but Mino Pingbei only got to today's position with the help of Tang Feipeng's several shots, Tang Feipeng took this person into his pocket in the second year of his arrival in Japan, and on the bright side, Tang Feipeng has always maintained a 'clean house' with Mino Pingbei who has no contact at all.

So why did Tang Feipeng hook up with Mino Pingbei so quickly? Sanye Pingbei was also a wealthy businessman before he met Tang Feipeng, he didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, and his family had surplus wealth, why did he choose Tang Feipeng? The second year after the latter arrived in Japan, Tang Feipeng was far from having the momentum and strength he has now.

This is not because of Mino Pingbei's Chinese dialect with a Nanjing accent, nor because Mino Pingbei himself is a villain who forgets his righteousness, but because Mino Pingbei is a descendant of China. He took out his family tree that he had inherited for 400 years, starting from the first generation of ancestors who followed Zhu Hongwu to hundreds of households in the early Ming Dynasty, and has been a full 22 generations.

The Han surname of Sanye Pingbei is Wang, and the ancestors are the hundred households of the Ming Dynasty. The Eight Banners went south, and after the city of Nanjing was broken, his ancestors insisted on fighting in the coastal area for more than ten years, and the regimes of the Tang Dynasty and the King of Lu followed, and finally followed Zhang Huangyan. One hundred and ten years ago, with the successive deaths of Emperor Yongli, King Lu of Jianguo, Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo and others, Zhang Huangyan saw that the general trend had gone, and disbanded the rebel army on Hanging Island in Nantian, and the sixth ancestor of Wang Pingbei took his ancestor east to Japan.

As for changing the surname, "Zhu Shunshui's descendants have all changed their surnames, what is our Wang family?" ”

Wang Pingbei looked bitter about this, and Tang Feipeng, who already had a certain understanding of Japan, was also very open to this. This is because Japanese society is very xenophobic. Although they learned Chinese culture, many high-ranking nobles and even ordinary middle-level samurai could speak fluent Chinese, read the Four Books and Five Classics, and write fluent Chinese characters. But they still vaguely reject the Chinese. Those Ming relics who fled to Japan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, one generation, two generations, and three generations later, should have changed their Japanese surnames. The Wang family is no exception. But in the genealogy of the Wang family, the Han surname is still used, and there are many such cases in Japan. In the case of Nagasaki's Chinatown, it's all the same. Judging from the genealogy of the Wang family, Tang Feipeng saw that Sanye Pingbei's great-ancestor was Pingqing, his grandfather was Pingjin, his father was Pingjian, and his eldest son was Pingqian.

This is the persistence of this 'little person' in the historical Hongda background for more than 100 years, and Tang Feipeng is very moved by this. He unreservedly helped Mino Pingbei to overcome one difficulty after another in his development and growth, and Sanye Pingbei did not let him look at the wrong person.

Time turned back to yesterday noon, the Mitsui exchange shop in Nagasaki. The conversation that unfolded here is the focus of Sanye Pingbei's visit to Tang Feipeng today.

The Mitsui exchange shop is the pillar industry of the Mitsui family, a prominent Japanese business family, and the founder of the Mitsui family is Mitsui Takatoshi from Mie Ise Matsusaka, Japan. Ten years after the royal family moved to Japan, he came to Edo to open a kimono dealership, or kimono shop, and after another ten years, he began to run a money dealership. In the following years, the scale of Mitsui Senso gradually expanded, and finally developed into a Mitsui exchange shop in the late Kang Mako period [late Kang Mako], which mainly engaged in silver money exchange business, and financed local daimyo to collect tribute rice on behalf of local daimyos, and became a member of the privileged merchants with the support and protection of the local daimyo and the Tokugawa shogunate, so as to get rich quickly.

Wang Pingbei faced Mitsui Stone with a cautious look, and Mitsui Shi took Wang Pingbei's caution for granted. The Mitsui family, both in terms of overall strength and its official foundation, is far deeper than Wang Pingbei. Mitsuishi did not try to be tempted, but simply and neatly explained his meaning, and said: "Mino-kun has been engaged in port commerce and trade for many years, and has business dealings with the commercial and trade banks in Shanghai, China all year round. You must be familiar with banking operations, right? ”

"I know a little bit about it." There was a hint of pride in the humility on Mino Pingbei's face, because the Japanese businessmen who were eligible to get the Grade A credit assessment of the Commercial Bank could not exceed one hand, and Mino Pingbei was one of them.

"China's banking sector has boomed, from the original Bank of China to the current private banks, and the Chinese have made big profits from the banks. I wonder if Mino-kun is interested in participating in the establishment of the Bank of Japan? "Mitsuishi is really straight to the point and straight to the point.

The Mitsui family noticed the upgrading of the banking industry two years ago, and last year, Mitsuishi officially organized the bank. Whether it is the official 'opinion' or the integration of its own strength and industry, the Mitsui family has been working hard for this for a year.

Although the Mitsui family cannot achieve the registered capital of 10 million yuan in China's private banks, as long as they have the support of the shogunate and local daimyos, and cooperate with the reputation and influence of the Mitsui exchange shop, they can still be a bank without any capital. Seeing that the curtain is about to be truly unveiled, the Mitsui family has also begun to 'cast a net' at any cost, searching for every knowledgeable talent.

In fact, banks are only one aspect, and China is now starting to speculate on the 'stock exchange' again. It is completely foreseeable that this is also a thing that makes a lot of money, and from the perspective of function, with this exchange, it is possible to recapitalize a number of industries in the hands through financial means, maximize profits, and optimize these assets. Therefore, the Mitsui family needs to contact more people and pull more big businessmen and daimyo into their chariots. Mino Heibei is one of them!

In Japan today, there is no such stock exchange as an industry, and businessmen basically trade their shares and properties in sake breweries or even in their own homes. The Mitsui family's original plan was only a bank, but after coming into contact with the stock exchange and obtaining some information from the Dutch they knew, they couldn't suppress their ambitions and wrote the stock exchange into their plan. If the Mitsui family's vision is really established, they will hold the lifeblood of the Japanese economy in their hands, of course, the Mitsui family will not be able to grasp all of it, but as long as there is a part, as long as there is a part, their position will be completely changed.

Although this is only an idea, and it is not guaranteed whether it can be realized, the entire Mitsui family is ready to go all out.

Even though the Mitsui family is too far behind China's strength, China can benefit greatly from the same approach, but the Mitsui family may lose a lot.

After Mino Heibei heard Mitsuishi's proposal to form a bank, he pondered for a long time, his face was silent, but his heart was surprised, and then he felt that this was a good opportunity to engage in Japan. Because he knew that on the other side of Nagasaki, 1,500 miles away in Shanghai, China would soon issue paper money, and if the Mitsui family's bank was also established, would they also issue paper money?

The Mitsui family's exchange office, which traded bills of exchange in Kyoto and Edo, was the first organized financial institution in Japan, just like the Jin merchants' ticket numbers. For fifty or sixty years, the shogunate relied on Mitsui to move ginryo from Nagasaki to Osaka to Edo, greatly reducing time and risk, and the Mitsui family gained the trust of local daimyo and the shogunate.

Therefore, if the Mitsui family established a bank and then issued bank bills with a margin, it was not impossible. There is a big difference between this bank note and paper money, and there is also a similarity between the two, and paper money is degenerated from bank notes. There is a lot of knowledge in the middle, and Japan has really made paper money with the current gold-silver ratio, and the scene is so wonderful.

At that time, Mino Pingbei organized a rhetoric and said: "Banks are not open if they are opened, first, they must have abundant funds; the second is to have qualified managers; the third is to have a good reputation; Fourth, we want the world to be peaceful. "And these things don't seem to be a problem for Mitsui and Japan now, as long as China doesn't really do anything to Japan." Looking at Mitsui nowadays is completely compliant. Now that the aristocracy has gone through the path of the shogunate and the local daimyos, thanks to Mino, I, Mino Heibei, would like to see a bank belonging to Japan appear in Nagasaki. ”

"The contemptible people are also running the bank, and your Excellency should know that in the past two years, there has been a huge and incredible change in the capital of the Sanye Bank, which has given the development of the Sanye Bank a pair of wings. I didn't have too much outstanding business when I just got involved in the money business, and I just relied on a steady stream of funds. And these sources of funds are very simple, all I do is to take money from the commercial bank in Shanghai, China at a low interest rate, and then lend money at a high interest rate, and make a profit from it, and I have not even presided over the specific affairs of the bank. "Mino Heibei is one of the few first-class credit providers in Japan, and the interest rate on loans from commercial banks is of course lower than that of Class B, C, and D, and the interest rate of Bank of China is lower than that of Japan. As long as he can guarantee to repay the loan on time, he can certainly use the money from the commercial bank to make money for himself.

"I see!" Mitsuishi suddenly realized.

Mino Heibei's money bank is the fastest growing money bank in Japan in recent years, and the abundant capital source is incredible, although there is still a long, far gap with the Mitsui family's exchange office, but it has also attracted the attention of many people in the Mino family when the Mitsui family adjusted Mino Heibei. And the source of Mino Pingbei's funds is unknown, which is also one of the reasons why the Mitsui family put Mino Pingbei at the end before coming to the door.

They didn't find out that the Sanye family was Chinese.

For more than 100 years, when the Tokugawa shogunate was closed to the rest of the country, Japanese Buddhism, as a good friend of the shogunate, played an important role in the entire Japanese society. The shogunate cultivated Buddhism and used Buddhism as a tool for the purification of monotheism, and the shogunate demanded that monotheists must convert to Buddhism, which was called the sect reform. The people of the whole country must be registered as Shi in the local monastery and similar household registration of the sect people do not change the accounts, which is called the Tan family system. And when you want to go far away, you must first be issued a certificate by the Buddhist temple where you are not believing in monotheism, which is called the temple invitation system. To put it simply, the Buddhist temples of the Tokugawa shogunate were largely police stations. Or that the Tokugawa shogunate did not actually cultivate Buddhism, but he was cultivating a police officer......

Before moving to Japan, the Wang family was Buddhists themselves, and for more than 100 years, relying on the deepening 'friendship' between the two sides, there is no trace of any record of them being of Chinese descent in the archives of Fukuji Temple in Nagasaki.

Of course, the fact that the Wang family was able to do this step actually had a lot to do with the origin of Fuji Temple. This temple, commonly known as Quanzhou Temple or Zhangzhou Temple, was initiated and founded by overseas Chinese in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian. In the year of the fifth year of Kanei (1628 AD), the Chinese monk repented, accompanied by his disciple Zhiran and Jueyi, and went to Nagasaki to build a temple on the land of the lord of Iwahara Village to worship the Virgin Mary of Theonha, which was the beginning of the establishment of Fukuji Temple. In the twentieth year of the ensuing, Yingchuan Tengzuo (surnamed Chen), a Tang Tongshi from Longxi County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, and his fellow villagers gathered to hire a monk from Anping County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Yunqian Jiewan, to come to the abbot, expand the temple, build a temple, the scale is grand and gorgeous, and it became the most spectacular temple in Nagasaki Port for a while. For more than 100 years, the temple was appointed as abbots by monks from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou from China, many of whom were good at calligraphy and painting. In the ninth year of Yanbao [1681 in the Western calendar], there was a great famine in Nagasaki, and many calligraphy and painting inkblots were sold, and porridge was cooked every day to help the hungry.

In the era when the contradictions between China and Japan were far from coming after the Meiji Restoration, when the Chinatown in Nagasaki was still a rich villa area in the eyes of the local Japanese, it was too simple for the Wang family to hide their identity. Naturally, there is a reason why the strength of the Mitsui family is still quite limited.

Wang Pingbei is actually a financial broker, and what he is doing is usury, of course, the means must be clever, but the risks are also great, and there is no way to engage in this kind of speculative business without a certain courage and skill.

But this not only did not disappoint Mitsuishi, but made Wang Pingbei receive a more sincere call from Mitsuishi. Because the Mitsui family, which wants to use people on the basis of merit, rather than simply valuing blood, has never been afraid of the shrewdness and mastery of his subordinates or partners.

"The Mitsui family's bank will be officially established next month, and when the Japanese open a bank, bank bills and checks will definitely be issued, and paper money may not be long after." Wang Pingbei doesn't think anyone can resist the profits of the three or five quilts.

Paper money and security money, plus government credit, one tael of silver to issue a three or five taels of silver banknote, don't be too easy. "The Japanese in Shanghai should have seen the appearance of Chinese banknotes by now."

"If this news is transmitted back to Japan, even if the Mitsui family can bear it, the shogunate will not be able to bear it."

"It is foreseeable that the Tokugawa shogunate will definitely intervene. Those local daimyos, especially those who are heavily indebted and have a military base, will definitely intervene. "Japan is not a unified country.

Wang Pingbei does not see himself as a Japanese at all. The influence of the ancestors is still there, and China's strength has completely crushed Japan, and no one will choose to be a Japanese at this time instead of being a Chinese. When he knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Chen Han, His Majesty the current Emperor, was going to engage in Japan, he had already put Japan on his opposite.

Wang Pingbei, who has lived in Japan for 35 years, has never felt that the word "emperor" and the geographical term "Kyushu Island" are so piercing, but now he is angry when he thinks that the little Japanese king dares to call himself emperor. And the title of 'Emperor' is still the name of Li Zhi at the beginning, and Li Zhi has only been dead for ten years, and Little Japan has picked it up and used it.

Wang Pingbei couldn't help but feel disgusted when he thought that this nation was kneeling and kowtowing to Tang and Song China, shouting 'Dad', while wearing the hat of 'Emperor' and boasting about himself. It's just vomiting!

The so-called 'butt decides the head', look at the current Wang Pingbei, this sentence is really correct.

"Hehe, I don't know when the Japanese will make paper money, but if the news of the Japanese paper money is transmitted back to China, Your Majesty will definitely endure it for three or five years!" When the whole of Japan starts to use paper money, and when the local daimyo in Japan also open banks to issue bank bills, or even issue paper money, then if you start to do anything to Japan, the entire Japanese economy will collapse, right?

After so many years in Japan, Tang Feipeng was very clear about the true relationship between the Japanese daimyo and the Tokugawa shogunate. It was like the Central Plains Dynasty and the nomads in northern Xinjiang when they were strong, they couldn't be destroyed, they could only be restrained. And when the Central Plains Dynasty fell, those alien races in the northern frontier who had surrendered to their feet would once again open their sharp teeth towards the Central Plains.

For the million-stone feudal clans of Satsuma and Choshu, they had little real loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate. What's more, which of the current foreign daimyo doesn't owe a lot of foreign debts? Will they watch the Tokugawa shogunate use paper for money, and be indifferent?

Japan will have fun. (To be continued.) )