The plan of the year lies in the spring, especially for the crops that only ripen once a year, especially for the Guanwai, the Manchu regent Dolgon's attack on Liaozhen, the scale is not large, but Duoduo led the two Niu Lu with the white flag and the blue flag to kill.

However, the results achieved were unexpectedly good, the Liaozhen border soldiers led by Wu Sangui, the general soldier of the Ningyuan regiment, lost half of the territory outside the pass, and the last defense line of the two sides was determined to be in the area of Shaheyi, and the Liaozhen soldiers retreated behind the front guard of Guangning, preparing to withdraw to the pass at the slightest disturbance.

The casualties on both sides were also very few, and most of the injuries of Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses were accidentally injured during the retreat.

This time, the Manchu soldiers and horses did not kill anything, because the large number of people lost also needed to be replenished by the labor of these Liao towns, and the battle of occupying hundreds of miles of territory was over with a small enough number of casualties.

At the beginning of the regent's tenure, the regent Dolgon led the Eight Banners to achieve such a great victory, which is really gratifying, and the relatives and nobles of each banner were all divided into the population field in this battle, and the evil feelings towards the regent were inevitably reduced a lot, and it was really a happy situation.

But the busy agricultural production can not be delayed, the battle here, the relatives and nobles of the Eight Banners know that if the battle continues, they will definitely gain greater benefits, but if the agricultural production is delayed, then the entire Manchu Qing will be hungry, so they have to set up a defense line in Shaheyi according to the pre-war arrangement, and collect troops back to the hinterland of Shengjing.

At the end of April of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Ning Yuan was lost, and the news of retreating to Guangning Qiantun Wei reached the Beijing Division, in the face of this result, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the court did not even lament the anger anymore, after a short discussion, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order, and said lightly: The military affairs of the Yongping Mansion of the Duke of Qi are admiralized, and the Jiliao is one, and the predicament outside the customs is in a predicament, and the Duke of Qi should help to save it.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty is used to entering the Jingshi, and now it is not yet in the customs, and it is the edge of your Li Meng's defense area, so let's solve it yourself, go and fight with the Manchus so face-to-face, this is a two-evil competition, no matter which side is damaged, the court will not feel embarrassed, when Wu Sangui's performance is reported to the imperial court, it is really hard to say whether the emperor and the ministers are happy.

In the past, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in Liaozhen, and the displaced people were in the Central Plains, every time there was an invasion, it was a mourning in the world, but this time the reaction everywhere was not so intense, and everyone seemed to have some confidence in their hearts.

Among them, the most disappointing is Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Ningyuan's regiment, after the second letter from Shandong was delivered, it was no longer meaningful for Liaozhen to stay here.

Although the officers and soldiers of Liaozhen all have land and family businesses here, if the Shandong soldiers and horses intervene, the narrow strip of the Liaoxi Corridor can still accommodate so many people and soldiers, and this wave of Manchu Qing offensive in the spring of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen has further compressed the living space of the Liaozhen soldiers, and the meaning of the Guanwai is no longer big.

Wu Sangui has a strong army in Daming, and at present, there is a lack of soldiers and horses in Daming Pass, taking this opportunity, if you can bring your own soldiers and horses into the pass, the imperial court will also allocate a good territory, even if you don't give it, where the Liao soldiers are stationed, what do you dare to say locally?

can lose land outside the pass, and it can be explained as a mutual victory and defeat, but if you completely give up outside the pass and withdraw the Liao soldiers to the pass, even Emperor Chongzhen can't bear the responsibility for the lost land, the situation in the world is so delicate, wouldn't such a move make the reputation of the court even more ruined, and make Li Meng more hopeful.

Wu Sangui, who was extremely helpless, had to stay in the front guard of Guangning, he just hated why he couldn't do the situation of Shandong Qi Guogong, if there was no order from the imperial court, Wu Sangui rashly led the troops into the customs, and Gao Di, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan, would definitely close the gate and wait for it.

These people under his command are afraid that they will also rebel against the water, and without the righteous name given to him by the imperial court, the subordinates under the command will be a little unjustifiable, to put it bluntly, Wu Sangui has not won many battles, and there is no convincing authority, while Li Meng's side has won many victories.

The title given to Li Meng by the imperial court had to be given, and the title of chief soldier given to Wu Sangui was nothing more than a normal appointment, which of course had a very different meaning.

At this time, Wu Sangui was wondering if he was abandoned outside the pass, the territory between the front guard of Guangning and Shanhaiguan was too cramped, and if the Manchu Tartars launched another offensive, I am afraid that their own retreat may not be able to organize a smooth retreat. Moreover, there is less territory, and there are many more troops who need to spend their own money to support, and even the money and military needs are embarrassed. At this time, Wu Sangui was looking forward to Li Meng being able to move Yongping Mansion as soon as possible.

Anyway, the current situation is already like this, it is better to wait for Li Meng to come over, so that his side can breathe a sigh of relief, I heard that Shandong is not only a soldier who can fight, but also a rich country.

When I don't want the other party to interfere, Shandong will send troops to intervene, and when Shandong is coming, the soldiers and horses of Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, are still slowly preparing.

Hejian Prefecture is different from Nanzhili's side, there are many deep-rooted clans and gentry in Nanzhili, and the local government and the government, and even the local government and the green forest are all colluding with each other, and all kinds of relationships are very complicated.

And Beizhili is different here, the big landlords and the owners of the big manors are basically the property of the emperor's relatives, and now these people have heard that Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, is coming, who dares to continue to stay in Hejian Mansion, and others may be able to compromise with Li Meng in Shandong, but the interests of these imperial relatives are closely linked to the Ming Dynasty, and they are both lost, and Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, is really an incompatible mortal enemy.

Shandong soldiers and horses came over, of course these people were leaving, and the gold and silver treasures could be brought to the Jingshi, but those fields and manors were naturally left.

Not to mention the destruction caused by the Tartar soldiers and horses led by Abatai in Hejian Province, a large number of civilians were displaced, so this Hejian Province can be said to be a large area of wasteland and "ownerless" fields for Shandong soldiers and horses.

As soon as the war disaster passed, many ordinary people, small and medium-sized landlords, returned to their hometowns, only to suddenly find that the land they had cultivated for many years had now become "wasteland" and "ownerless fields".

Since it is a wasteland, then Shandong's Tuntian Grange naturally has to come over to plan, according to the geographical division of Fuzhou County to divide the large and small Tuntian Grange, for those poor people, if they want to live, they must become the Tuntian households of Shandong Tuntian Grange, lose their personal freedom, and become semi-serfs.

This is a cruel policy, the original free people were deprived of their freedom, become half tenants and half serfs, at this time Hejian Mansion is only about 3,000 soldiers and horses, led by Wang Tao, and the follow-up troops in Shandong are still reorganizing and training, in case of chaos, it will be a big trouble.

The soldiers and horses led by Wang Tao are ready to fight, and the old battalion horse army in Jinan Mansion is also ready.

Shandong's Tuntian Grange policy has never been a charitable policy, this policy is to build another pattern in the Ming Dynasty's ruling system, and more efficiently use the population and land in the area ruled by the Jiaozhou battalion, and the ultimate goal of everything is to ensure that the Jiaozhou battalion is not short of military food when it fights, and when it is mobilized, there is no shortage of soldiers, and as for saving a large number of displaced refugees, this is just a by-product.

Most of the small landholders' fields were plundered, and the original common people, even small and medium-sized landlords with a little estate, were turned into semi-serfs with no personal freedom.

The only beneficiaries were Shandong's military officers and wealthy businessmen, but to Shandong's surprise, such a policy did not cause much backlash.

After careful investigation, I learned that although the year of the north and south Zhili was very good, and it was considered peaceful, the land annexation was extremely serious, and the vast majority of the common people were working as tenant farmers, or pledged the land to the landlord for management, for these people, to make cattle and horses for the landlord, there may not be food and clothing, and to make cattle and horses for the Tuntian Grange in Jiaozhou Ying, there may be food and clothing, compared with the seems to be no different.

It seems that it is more cost-effective to make tuntian households for Tuntian Grange, as for those small and medium-sized landlords who have status and property, that is, the so-called gentry, their number is too small to set off any storms.

But the establishment of the Tuntian Grange is not something that can be quickly developed, and before that, the Jiaozhou battalion will not go north.

Compared with Hejian Mansion and Nanzhili Jiangbeidi, the situation of Yongping Mansion is a bit special, although Yongping Mansion is adjacent to Shanhaiguan and close to the front line of Liao Town, but in the past six years, the Tartars have broken through at other passes of the Great Wall, but they have flashed through the place of Yongping Mansion.

And Yongping Mansion here in the Ming Dynasty Chengzu time, is the Ming Dynasty first important military town Ji Town, although the Songshan War transferred soldiers and horses to the past, but there are still some foundations, Jiliao Governor Wang Yongji, although also born in Wenchen, there is no ability to lead troops to fight, but at least will not care about things they don't understand, Shanhaiguan General Gao Di can follow his own steps to run Jizhen.

As a result, Yongping Mansion was quite stable managed by these people in the Ming Dynasty, although the soldiers and horses were also not worth mentioning troops, but if this Tuntian Grange was driven in, it would not be so easy.

The shogunate, the shogunate of the Jiaozhou battalion, and the yamen of all armies, all had a consensus, that is, if there was no Tuntian Grange, there would be no effective logistical support if they went to fight in other places.

While the training and equipment of soldiers and the command of officers are important when they go out to fight, logistics and supplies are also very important.

At the time of Nanzhili, the Huaiyang army led by the general Chen Liu could only be transported through the water transportation system of Huaishui, and it was also provided by those big wealthy merchants, so this battle has always been fought and shrunk, and did not dare to make any big moves.

Entering the Yongping Mansion to fight, and the Huaiyang Army in Fengyang, Li Meng, and in the river are different, the latter two in Fengyang have Cao Yun and Huai Shui can carry out convenient water transportation, in the Hejian Mansion is very close to Shandong, and there is also the convenience of Cao Yun, and in Yongping Mansion, there is nothing to rely on in the water transportation.

If there is no military station warehouse general Tuntian Grange, the troops who enter Yongping Mansion are completely lone soldiers, and the Jiaozhou battalion has no idea of luck, under the assumption of the shogunate of the general Zhendong, the Shandong troops entering Yongping Mansion will face four enemies at the same time for a long time, "the Jiliao soldiers and horses of Gao Di, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan and Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Ningyuan Regiment, the landlord armed forces who infiltrated Yongping Mansion and Shuntianfu, and the Tartar soldiers and horses that may break into the pass at any time, and then the Mongolian bandits who rushed in from the north. ”

In order to ensure safety, the troops of the Jiaozhou battalion could not enter Yongping Mansion until the Tuntian Grange in Hejian Province was complete, and according to current estimates, this time would not be until the second half of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen anyway.

In a sense, the significance of logistics to the Jiaozhou battalion is more than any army on the entire Asian continent, although it cannot be compared with Europe, but the lethality of firearms output in the Jiaozhou battalion accounts for a large proportion, firearms need to be maintained, gunpowder needs to be stored, and firearms and equipment are transported, all of which require a large number of people.

In fact, the Jiaozhou battalion has always been fighting on the inner line, and they dare not be too far away from their base areas or places where there are tuntian farms, and if the distance is too far, the main general will not have much confidence in his heart.

However, this also has an advantage, that is, the expansion of Shandong's soldiers and horses is not in a hurry, and it expands outward step by step, and every time it gains a piece of land, it will firmly use the tuntian grange to grasp the peasants who occupy the majority of the population and the main source of taxation.

After thoroughly digesting this territory, and then continue to expand outward, this speed is too slow in the eyes of many people, but there will be no repetition.

At least the local gentry will not pull back behind them, in fact, Li Meng and Li Zicheng are doing the same thing, they are both using force or other means to snatch the population and territory belonging to the Ming Dynasty from the control of the Ming Dynasty and turn it into their own.

However, the territory laid down by the thief Li Chuang, of course, is the majority of the homeless people, but there are also landlords and wealthy businessmen who form villages to protect themselves, unite with each other, and use the teams of Zhuang Ding and village soldiers to confront the homeless army, in many places in Henan and Huguang, the forces of the Shun army and these armed militia groups are intertwined with each other, and Li Zicheng's army has not been able to use all the troops to attack the enemy, because it occupies a lot of strength in the rear to calm down and defend itself.

You must know that the so-called "imperial power does not go down to the county", outside the county seat, most of the local affairs are under the jurisdiction of these big clans and wealthy families, these local gentry can be called the rulers of the grassroots, and the interests are slightly touched, then it will make it difficult for you step by step.

In Shandong, the Tuntian Grange is actually equivalent to depriving many big gentry of their ownership of the land, and in the north of the Yangtze River, it is also depriving many large landlords of partial ownership of the land, but in Shandong, it is impossible to have any repetition.

In the first step, Li Meng and Li Zicheng did the same, using absolute superior force to completely subdue and destroy the local forces, but then, Li Zicheng just distributed the land to the poor people, while Li Meng formed the Tuntian Grange, the poor people with land are still a mess of scattered sand, and when the landlord comes back with an armed killing, he has no power to resist, and the Tuntian Grange is a bigger landlord in a sense.

This "big landlord" can mobilize enough manpower to carry out more efficient production under semi-military control, and can have a semi-militarized militia force.

In the face of such a force, those original landlords and gentry who have bad intentions and want to repeat themselves have no advantage at all, not to mention that Tuntian Grange even enclosed many small and medium-sized landlords in these Granges.

On the third day of the fifth month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, a messenger who was dusty and servant, rode a fast horse into the lifeless Beijing Division, since he rewarded the Duke of Qi and determined the scope of Li Meng's town guard, the Tartars outside the gate were handed over to Li Meng to deal with, and Henan was handed over to Li Meng, which means that the thieves were also taken over by Li Meng.

I don't know why, the whole Jingshi, including Emperor Chongzhen, has a very relaxed feeling, the big burden of the Tartar thieves who were originally pressed on his heart was lost to Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, and the current thing that the Jingshi has to be busy with is to deal with Li Meng.

This kind of relaxed mood is not only for the emperor, but also for the ministers, and even the soldiers and people of the Beijing Division also have such emotions......

At the feet of the Son of Heaven, not everyone can gallop on horseback, but the messenger from outside the city did not slow down at all, and the pedestrians on the road dodged and scolded.

But there are also some older people in Jingshi who have seen some doorways and recognized the clothing banner on this messenger, which is an urgent 600 miles from Nanzhili, and they don't know what happened to them.

The messenger was familiar with the way and galloped to the door of the military headquarters, "It's 600 miles from Nanjing," the little flag guarding the door muttered in surprise and hurriedly stepped forward. The messenger was obviously so tired that he almost fell as he dismounted, but he struggled to run towards the yamen of the military headquarters.

The six-hundred-mile urgent letterhead, only the monks and squires in the matter can be seen by all departments, and anyone who obstructs it is a big crime to kill the head.

Seeing that the messenger stumbled towards Shangshu with the support of several guards, the directors of each room and the outsiders all came out to watch, they really couldn't think of where else there would be such an urgent military report, and everyone's hearts suddenly shook.

"Could it be that the Li thief from Shandong did something to Nanjing?"

But the officials of the military department who had a little military knowledge understood that if this Li Erlang rebelled, the first to attack would definitely be the capital, not Nanjing.

However, this matter is indeed an urgent anomaly, Zhang Guowei, the secretary of the military department who has just left the court, ran out of the hall not long after, and greeted the sedan chair continuously, he wanted to enter the palace to face the saint.

Compared with the hustle and bustle of the mainland, Japan under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate was much more peaceful, and the sailors of the Zheng family's fleet were indulging in pleasure, while Zhou Jihai had other plans.

After Zhou Jihai went shopping that day, he returned to his residence with peace of mind, and explored the problem of copper minerals in Japan from all over the place.

It turns out that Japan has always been rich in gold, silver and copper these non-ferrous metals, but the smelting technology was very poor in the past, sitting on a large number of rich ores, but not much, but in Japan during the Warring States period, the ash blowing method was introduced from China, and the output of gold and silver skyrocketed, and a large amount of water flowed into China, and at the same time, in order to mine gold and silver, a large amount of mercury was also imported from China as a raw material, so the export of mercury and the import of silver also became a large part of the Ming and Japanese trade.

However, although Japan was sitting on a large amount of gold and silver, it was very short of small currencies such as copper coins, and to a large extent, it could only rely on the Song money introduced by the founding trade of the Ping Qing Dynasty and the Ping Daisho Kingdom at the beginning, as well as a small amount of Ming money to make small currency.

In the Edo Dynasty, the Tokugawa family occupied the world, and originally used the Ming money, but the Ming Dynasty shrank in the amount of money, and the quality declined seriously, which also led to a very serious expulsion of bad money in Japan. This is the three years of Emperor Kanei after Mizuo, the Kanei Tongbao cast in the furnace, because Japan is rich in copper ore, and most of them are rich ores, so they are very willing to pay for copper coins, and the bag that the translator gave him is the brass money of copper eight zinc two, which is much stronger than the "good money" of copper six lead four in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the bad money of the Ming Dynasty.

However, in the afternoon of the same day, Zhou Jihai was terrified again, he took the copper coin, and went to the innkeeper to buy some candles, and the hostess of the house (called the housekeeper in Japanese) said in a half-baked Hokkien dialect:

"Sir, you are inferior money, buy things from me, you have to get a nine-percent discount!"

At first glance, Zhou Jihai was very surprised, and looked down at his hand, it was indeed a real good money, such good money, it was actually bad money, what is good money? But he saw the proprietress come out with a few red copper coins and say:

"Sir, this money is the best copper coin, made by the Maharaja, and the copper coin you exchanged is the money made by Fujiya in Nagasaki, which is different."

Zhou Jihai didn't buy candles anymore, but exchanged dozens of good money and brought them back for research......

The Ming Dynasty has been very little money, the official accumulation is only a few million, plus private casting, the output is not less than a fraction of the Song Dynasty, and a large number of copper coins also flowed to Japan, so that the country is still a small amount of Ming money plus a large amount of Song money circulation, and since the Age of Discovery, a large amount of silver inflow, silver is cheap and expensive. The exchange of official tax collection is to exchange one or two taels of silver for one thousand dollars, but if a thousand dollars are melted and bronze is cast, it can be sold for nearly two taels, so in the case of a shortage of copper coins, there are still a large number of copper coins that are constantly melted, which further aggravates the shortage of copper coins.

Here in Japan, one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for 1,200 fine copper coins, each of which weighs nearly twice the weight of the Apocalypse Tongbao, that is, the copper content is almost three times, and the same one or two silvers can only be exchanged for 700 bad coins in China, which is actually equivalent to the same silver in Japan can be exchanged for the same five times the copper!!

Zhou Jihai is from Shandong, naturally knows that Shandong has a huge demand for copper, an 18-pound cannon, need more than 800 copper coins of copper, and the future demand for artillery, will be calculated in thousands, not to mention the huge market, sell the copper in Jiaozhou Camp in the past, get the favor of Qi Guogong, this is not on the account, it is even more limitless.

Early the next morning, Zhou Jihai found another interpreter and asked him to lead the way to the place of "Fujiya", he already knew a few days ago that in today's Japan, this is the largest copper mine and private money business.

Fujiya's branch in Nagasaki is inconspicuous, a new trading company that is only 30 years old and has not made a fortune in time for the troubled times of the late Warring States period.

After all, the founder of Fujiya, Sumitomo Masantomo, was only born in 1585, and he was only an apprentice when the Sekigahara War was fought and the so-called Tosho Kamijun Tokugawa Ieyasu pacified the troubled times.

However, with the introduction of Daming's "Heavenly Creation", Sumitomo Masanyu is the fastest learner, and he is also the most daring to make a cost, he immediately ended all his business, borrowed all the money he could borrow, and overwhelmed the copper smelting business with all his desperate bets, and it turned out that he won the bet.

He didn't act as an agent for the daimyo treasury like other wealthy merchants, or give money to the daimyo and other businesses, because the daimyo had formed a close master-slave relationship with those wealthy merchants in the troubled times of the Warring States period, after all, this kind of intimate relationship was difficult for a new wealthy merchant like Sumitomo to get involved.

However, there was no faction in this kind of politics, but it allowed him to withdraw from the political chaos of the Japanese state and develop calmly.

Zhou Jihai took people and slowly turned to Fujiya, this era of Ming merchants in Japan, but just like the modern foreigners in China, everyone is respectful, but they are people.

When I arrived at Fujiya, the plaque of this shop was also a regular Chinese character, and the calligraphy was quite good, Zhou Jihai directly opened the half-hung door curtain and walked in, but there were no guests in this store, only a few people sat cross-legged on the tatami mats, crackling and making calculations, and the interpreter stepped forward and asked softly:

"May I ask the shopkeeper again? Zhou Gong, a wealthy businessman of the Ming Kingdom, asked to see. ”

When the men who were about to take the plate saw the people coming in, they raised their heads, and one of them stood up to greet them:

"It's the shopkeeper of our store, Sigolang, this Ming country guest, I don't know what to buy?"

The shopkeeper, who was about forty years old, looked like a typical middle-aged Japanese man, thin and small, with a smile on his face and a constant bow.

Zhou Jihai saw that the other party was so enthusiastic, so he naturally couldn't slack off, and kept bowing in return, and waited until both sides had finished bowing, and then said:

"I heard that Fujiya was the first to smelt copper in Japan, so I wanted to buy some copper back home."

The Ming Dynasty merchants are a symbol of wealth in the Wa Kingdom, but it is rare to buy copper, this is the so-called heavy goods, which has never been valued by these Ming businessmen who pursue high profits, Zhou Jihai is also dressed exquisitely, and his temperament does not look like a liar.

The shopkeepers sat on the tatami mat and looked at each other, and finally their eyes focused on the eldest man, who stood up and said:

"Guest, here is the boss of the room, Sumitomo Masayo, please come to the back with me and discuss it carefully."

Then half of the body turned sideways, stretched out his hand to invite Zhou Jihai into the inner room, Zhou Jihai was also a little surprised, where is there such a coincidence, you can actually meet each other's owners for the first time, for example, now Lingshan Commercial Bank and Fujian Commercial Bank in Shandong, these two giant businessmen in the world, have clear hierarchies.

If you want to meet the big shopkeeper Kong Youde or Hou Shan, it is really difficult, but then again, the shopkeepers of these two families, even if they are Zhizhou, it is extremely difficult for Zhixian to see them.

Zhou Jihai knows more about this Japan than the inland Ming people, and knows how the source of this Japanese coward also has the size of several provinces of the Ming Dynasty, it is said that this is the first copper merchant in Japan, and he can smelt copper and cast money.

Of course, this is also one of the reasons why other people can become the No. 1 copper merchant in Japan, and the official background is basically equal to zero, so it is natural to be diligent in order to achieve today's achievements.

However, he still walked in, and when the guest and host were seated, Sumitomo Masantomo spoke:

"I have been running a copper smelting business for some years, and in Japan, I can guarantee that there is no better copper merchant than Fujiya, I wonder how much copper you want to buy this time?"

After saying this, Zhou Jihai was a little surprised, it is said that these big businessmen are a little reserved in the city, why is this Sumitomo politician so eager, this is no wonder Sumitomo politician, and it does not mean that his business skills are not good, but this copper shop is the first time that a businessman from the Ming Dynasty came.

And the businessmen of Daming came across the sea, no one knows if they will deal with each other next time, and no one knows how long the other party will stay in a foreign country.

The other party was so direct, but Zhou Jihai groaned slightly, and then said:

"It's the first time I've been to Japan to trade, and this time it's just to test the water, and I'm probably going to buy a boat, and if the business is good, the more the better."

On that day, the elite of Japan must be able to speak Chinese and know Chinese characters, especially these coastal businessmen, hearing each other's words, Sumitomo Masantomo blinked, in just a few words, he had already seen the opportunity in front of him, and the essence flashed, and said with a smile:

"The general Dafu, about 300,000 catties, is about 25,000 taels of silver, I don't know how the guest plans to pay, when will it be loaded?"

Zhou Jihai pondered for a moment:

"This is everyone's first time trading, or cash trading, I have here the tickets issued by the Zheng family in Fujian, in Nagasaki, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Fujian can be exchanged, I don't know if it can be used?"

The Zheng family had a lot of business in Nagasaki, so their daily payments were often made by issuing tickets rather than directly giving cash, after all, everyone did not carry dozens of laborers carrying gold and silver with them. The Zheng family is a huge monster in the eyes of Japanese merchants and the Japanese shogunate, his strength, his credit, and his wealth are not doubtful, and the Zheng family's ticket, that credit is even more reliable than that of the shogunate.

Sumitomo Zhengyou saw that it was the Zheng family's ticket, and immediately readily agreed, the two sides went to the Zheng family's local business, Zhou Jihai took out two thousand five hundred taels of tickets, and the Zheng family's court checked the list, although the Zhou family is a second- or third-rate businessman in Shandong, but the reputation of all the businessmen in Shandong is good, this time it is still on the Zheng family's ship, and there is nothing to worry about. After a little inspection, he covered the flower charge, and the confirmation of the Zheng family made Sumitomo Zhengyou trust Zhou Jihai even more.

Since there is no doubt between the two parties, and there is real cash, Sumitomo Masayo accepted the deposit, and Zhou Jihai also politely declined Sumitomo's earnest invitation, he just wants to calm down now, afraid that if he loses his temper, Sumitomo Masando is not reluctant, he wants to go back and be busy mobilizing supplies.

Zhou Jihai hurriedly rushed back to the place where the Zheng family's fleet rested, found the bow of the ship in charge of this business, and wanted to charter the cabin for the return trip, everyone came to Japan to make a fortune, and when he heard that he wanted to charter the cabin, he must have made money, and asked curiously, and when the shopkeeper heard that he was going to buy copper, he couldn't help but sneer:

"In this Japan, everything has several times the profit, why should you buy this worthless copper to occupy a position."

Zhou Jihai also got old into business, but he ignored him, and only said:

"Anyway, under each of your great fortunes, there are 100,000 catties of ballast stones, I will use these 300,000 catties of copper to replace your 300,000 catties of ballast stones, and you don't dare to put those knives and the like in the bilge, these ballast warehouses, it is better to vacate them for me, this freight, I will give it to you privately, wouldn't it be happy."

Seeing what he said, the bow of the ship would not have a hard time making money, of course, he was unwilling to give up the money in hand, so he directly promised Zhou Jihai and charged him 10,000 taels of freight. However, the money Zhou Jihai brought was originally less than 20,000 yuan, and he gave the freight but had no money to buy the goods, so he had to follow the rules and find the Zheng family's bow as a guarantee, write down the arrears by himself, and borrow 15,000 taels from the Zheng family with three points of interest.

This case was actually done privately between the bow of the ship and the shopkeeper of the local merchant house, and he privately issued a few tickets, and he made a net profit of 4,500 taels.

After making money, these two people privately ridiculed Zhou Jihai everywhere for being a fool and deserving of bankruptcy.......

There is a saying: the last laugh is the best laugh.

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Today, I couldn't help but burst into foul language, and I did an extremely oolong thing, and I was laughed at by others, and I regretted it, alas

However, I still wrote a 9,000-word update and asked for a monthly pass out loud

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