The mother state is on the country!

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In East Asia, there was a canonization system with China as the apex, and although Japan once joined the system, as early as 607 AD, Prince Shotoku sent Ono Meizi to submit a letter to Emperor Yang of Sui, saying, "The Son of Heaven at sunrise wrote to the Son of Heaven at sunset, and in 608, Japan replied with a letter: "Emperor Tochi respects Emperor Shirasai." The implication is that Japan and China are on an equal footing. ，

Since the end of the Sui Dynasty, Japan has been very conscious and has paid special attention to maintaining its equality with China, and has a mentality of not admitting defeat to China. Nowadays, it is a historical fact that the Japanese are talking about is that although Japan sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to learn culture from China, it never paid tribute to China.

While forming the "Little China Thought," the Japanese also tried to establish a center independent of China and an international order centered on themselves. But if you want to become a "kingdom", you must have your own subject country. For example, its against the Ryukyus.

However, all of this has changed fundamentally with the "attack of the black ships", the black ships of the people of the United States and the subsequent Chinese fleet took the initiative to assume the "responsibility" of defending Japan, and the diplomatic negotiations after the naval battle of the Ding Yang completely annihilated the US Far East Fleet made the whole of Japan under the protection of China, so that the shogunate had to re-isolate the country.

And this also means that since the Han Dynasty, China for the first time in a real sense of the sense of the influence of Japan's national politics, and in the first year of Kaihong, the thirteen-year-old Tokugawa Ieshige, the fourteenth general of the Edo shogunate, accepted the post of general, kneeling to receive the edict of the Chinese Empire, and also knelt like the third general of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, kneeling to receive the edict of the Ming Dynasty, which led to the excitement of the people in Japan, and some people even cried bitterly, shouting that the country will not be a country.

However, the ironclad ships and black ships in Edo Bay are clearly telling every Japanese that strength determines everything, and the power of the Chinese Empire cannot be challenged by Japan.

It was also from that day that the Chinese canonization system reached its culmination -- as a symbol of the apex, China and Japan signed the "Sino-Japanese Vassal Treaty," which not only established Japan's subordination to China and was the legal basis for China's vassalization, but also enabled China to establish, expand, and use military bases in Japan almost without restrictions.

At the same time as the Yokosuka and Sasebo naval bases were opened, and the fleet was stationed, Nagasaki and other places were opened up as treaty ports open to Chinese merchants, and concessions were also established in these treaty ports.

"Don't lose the dignity of the country!"

When leaving the warehouse located at the dock, Qiao Zhiyong once again told the guys around him.

As a businessman, earning money has always been the first priority for him, and he doesn't want his guys to look like other people in front of North Koreans.

"Owner, don't worry, don't we know the truth of making money with harmony!"

The long bolt and others followed suit.

In the words of the guys, Qiao Zhiyong said with a smile.

"Just remember, let's go, we're going to travel hundreds of miles this time!"

As he spoke, more than a dozen four-wheeled carriages drove out of here, and after the carriages drove out of the world, looking at the paddy fields on both sides of the road, Qiao Zhiyong's whole person fell into deep thought.

Can the Qiao family revive yesterday's style in their own hands?

Now the Qiao family has declined, not only the Qiao family, it should be the decline of the entire Jin merchant group - a few years ago, the bandits poured into Shanxi, bringing a devastating disaster to Shanxi, and the Jin merchants were the biggest victims of the war - the bandits said that the ancestors of the Jin merchants were all traitors, and they raided their homes at every turn, and I don't know how many Jin merchants were ruined. The once world-famous Jin merchants have also declined. Moreover, a large number of Shanxi's population also died in the war, which directly caused Shanxi's population to decline sharply, the characters withered, the fields were barren, the white bones and yellow grass were everywhere, and the cooking smoke was cut off.

And the Qiao family also suffered a near-devastating blow in the process - they were looted by the bandits many times. It's not easy to save your life. After the Han army entered the Jin Dynasty, faced with the reality of the defeat of the family, Qiao Zhiyong immediately started the idea of reviving the family business.

He did not reorganize his business and enter Monti, like other Jin merchants, but turned his attention to other places, to Japan, which was then a virgin land. Japan is a vassal state of China, and with the signing of the treaty, the imperial court not only sent ministers to supervise the country, supervise its country, supervise its government, but also set up concessions to encourage trade with Japan, and it was under this trend that he came to Japan.

In the past four years, Qiao Zhiyong has traveled to most of Japan just like his ancestors to open up the Montigo business, unlike ordinary businessmen who do not know how to write and ink, after all, he has a reputation for showing talent, making friends with Japanese officials and scholars, and setting up businesses in various places, but in just four years, the "Fusheng Gong" who was once famous in Saibei became famous in Japan and became one of the most well-known Chinese businessmen in Japan.

From 5,000 to 1 million, the capital of "Fusheng Gong" has increased by 200 times in four years, but despite this, Qiao Zhiyong is still not very satisfied with this, because in his opinion, this is still too far from the goal of reviving the reputation of the Qiao family.

"It's hard......"

Thinking of the increasingly prosperous industry and commerce in the country, Qiao Zhiyong is a sad look, today's Chinese Dynasty is not like the Qing Dynasty of the year, when the scholars were ashamed of doing business, and Ling, the people of the country are all proud of doing business, good at trade Cantonese merchants, good at industry Chu merchants, Hunan merchants, plus Hui merchants, Shaanxi merchants, they in the country to establish banks, build factories and mines, build railways, all of them are rumors, and in contrast, the Jin merchants have long been forgotten - that is, there are no Jin merchants' banks, there are no Jin merchants' factories, Even the factories and mines in Shanxi Province were set up by outsiders, and the Jin merchants had long since lost their prosperity as they did yesterday.

Even if some families barely recover some vitality, how can they compare with those wealthy businessmen, just like the news of the completion of the Longhai Railway, which cost tens of millions of yuan invested by Shaanxi businessmen mentioned in the newspaper, is even more pressing on his heart, and the wealth of Shaanxi businessmen is not inferior to that of Cantonese businessmen. If the Jin merchants had not suffered this catastrophe, I am afraid they would have been able to raise shares to build the Jin Railway, but now, ...... But I can only watch others win day by day.

Ay!

With a long sigh, Qiao Zhiyong looked into the distance a little helplessly, and now the gap between Jin merchants and merchants from all over the country is getting bigger and bigger. Just like your own business name, millions of capital seem to be a lot, but in fact? Compared with those large domestic companies, it is not worth mentioning at all!

Looking into the distance, Qiao Zhiyong saw a group of people faintly walking towards this side at the intersection in the distance, and when he got closer, he could see that it was hundreds of young women, and when he saw those women, Qiao Zhiyong's brows couldn't help frowning.

"Boss, you see ......"

Sun Maocai, who was sitting on the roof of the carriage, pointed to the women on the side of the road and said.

"When these women are bought from the countryside, they are at most 15 yuan, and then they buy a 35 yuan ferry ticket, which is the cost of 50 yuan to transport to the African colonies, and when they arrive in Africa, this woman can get as much as 100 yuan for selling them to immigrants as wives, a thousand-ton flying scissors, a trip with a profit of not less than 10,000 yuan, only a few boats a year, the profit can reach more than 100,000 yuan......"

looked at Sun Maocai, who was passing by, and said.

"Nowadays, this is the most lucrative business in China, I heard that last month, there were no less than 10,000 Japanese women who went abroad from Nagasaki Port alone, Africa, the Pacific, and the South Seas, and there have been more than 1 million immigrants in recent years, and the women needed are hundreds of thousands, and the owners are ......."

Turning his head to look at the owner, Sun Maocai said tactfully.

"Why don't you set up a company in Nagasaki to specialize in immigration?"

In the face of Changmu's persuasion, Qiao Zhiyong shook his head and said.

"Maocai, although he is an immigrant, but in fact it is just a human trafficking, such a discrediting thing, how can it be done by Qiao, Maocai must not mention this matter again in the future!"

As a businessman, Qiao Zhiyong has his own insistence, some businesses can be done, and some businesses must not be engaged. At this time, what he was thinking about was another thing - the Takashima Coal Mine under the name of Saga Domain!

For Qiao Zhiyong, he knows that the present is different from the past, just relying on commerce and trade, it is impossible to reproduce the Qiao family's yesterday's scenery, and there are only four ways to make a fortune in today's Chinese Dynasty - ships, roads, factories, and mines, as long as one of these four can be grasped, the Qiao family can be revitalized.

Compared with ships, roads, and factories, mines may be the simplest, although their investment is expensive, but their returns are endless, especially coal mines, compared to other minerals, coal mines are the real emerging industry, factory steam engines, power plants and ships are inseparable from coal, half of the coal in Nagasaki Port depends on the import from Tangshan, and most of the other ports are the same.

How much coal will Japan need in the future?

If I am not mistaken, the first yarn factory has appeared in Nagasaki, although it was a factory invested by Chinese people, but it is conceivable that in the next ten years, Japanese factories will appear one after another, after all, compared to the domestic market, Japanese labor is cheaper, and the factory in Japan can be sold nearby.

The factory needs coal!

This means that the coal business will be promising, and while the coal stacks in Nagasaki can provide sufficient quantities of Tangshan coal, what if coal can be mined in Japan? With nearby coal, at least the navy will not travel thousands of miles to transport coal from the mainland, and then Tangshan coal will be slowly replaced.

For the Qiao family, this will be a continuous industry, with the coal mine as the foundation, he can use the coal mine as collateral, borrow from the bank, and then invest in other industries, like a snowball, with the bank's money to continue to set up factories, so as to reproduce the Qiao family's scenery yesterday.

Of course, the premise of all this is to convince the Japanese to sell the coal mines to themselves!

And what is the attitude of those Japanese towards the Chinese?

In the past four years, Qiao Zhiyong has come into contact with too many Japanese, who have different personalities, but some of them are very resistant to the Chinese, and the same is true of the lord of the Saga Domain, in his eyes, although Japan has been defeated with the help of China, but today China controls Japan in all aspects.

"Six ports of trade, tens of thousands of garrisons, ironclad black ships stand in the harbor......"

Thinking of the envy and dissatisfaction of those Japanese when they mentioned the Han Army's troops stationed in Japan, Qiao Zhiyong couldn't help but think of another question, if there were no troops stationed in Japan, would Japan be so tame as it is now?

Apparently impossible!

Through his understanding over the past four years, Qiao Zhiyong knows very well that the Japanese worship the strong in their bones, and the reason why they are so tame in front of the Chinese Dynasty is precisely because the Chinese Dynasty's force can easily destroy the invincible US Far East Fleet in its eyes.

As for Yokosuka's ironclad ships and black ships, they are a constant reminder to the Japanese that China's strength is not something they can challenge.

Strength...... It was the power that made the Japanese choose to surrender, and this submission was to the Chinese dynasty, perhaps the national merchants enjoyed a transcendent position in Japan, but this did not mean that the Japanese superintendent in Japan would force the Japanese authorities to sell the mines to the national merchants.

"This is a difficult thing to do......"

Just when Qiao Zhiyong was thinking like this, Sun Maocai over there smiled lightly.

"The owner is still thinking about the Takashima mine?"

Qiao Zhiyong nodded.

"I can't help it!"

With such a piece of fat, how could anyone give up.

"Owner, in fact, this is simple, it is nothing more than one word - profit!"

"Leigh!"

Sun Maocai's words made Qiao Zhiyong stunned.

"Yes, it's profit, let's look at profit, isn't Saga Domain profitable? Now the Takashima Coal Mine makes a profit of 10,000 yuan a year, but if the new method of mining is adopted, it will get more than hundreds of thousands of yuan a year. ”

"Co-organized?"

Sun Maocai's suggestion made Qiao Zhiyong slightly surprised.

"Joint coal mines, you mean we and the feudal lord jointly set up coal mines? How can this be ......?"

"Why not, didn't you read the newspapers, even the fleet Japan can be co-organized with us, let alone a coal mine!"

The corners of Sun Maocai's lips were lightly raised, and the joint fleet in his mouth was naturally the Sino-Japanese joint fleet, but the so-called joint fleet was nothing more than Japan's burden of part of the military expenses of the imperial navy in Japan, and the imperial navy in Japan accepted some Japanese officers and soldiers into the fleet, in fact, it was still the Chinese fleet, but there were more Japanese in the fleet.

"10,000 yuan per capita!"

Although Japan had its first Western-style warship eight years ago, it was sold to China after the re-isolation, and this was the first time in eight years that he boarded a warship and set sail again.

"Bear more than two million military expenses a year, and there are only more than two hundred people in the Imperial Navy, which is too great!"

"Shengjun, this price is not big!"

Naoshi Nagai, who was on the side of the gunwale, pointed to the sea and said.

"The imperial fleet spends more than 70 million a year, and an ironclad ship costs no less than a million! How can Japan afford the tens of millions of military expenses required by the navy, and it is a very fortunate thing for Japan to have the Imperial Navy stationed in Japan today, if not, it may now be completely occupied by Western ghosts! ”

After this exclamation, Nagai Naoshi looked at the sea and said.

"After all, Japan is too small! If Japan wants to survive, it must rely on the strong! ”

"yes...... Japan is too small, but relying on the strong does not mean that the strong will dominate Japan......"

Sheng Haizhou nodded, not denying this, but deep down, he couldn't accept China's current "prison country" against Japan.

"Shengjun, following the strong is the instinct of the weak!"

Nagai Naoshi didn't pay attention to Katsu Kaishu's dissatisfaction, but said quite excitedly.

"This time, we will go to the sea, we will go to America, and when we get there, perhaps, you will understand why the weak need to follow the weak, in this world, there is no place for the weak!"

As he spoke, he turned his face to look at Sheng Haizhou beside him and said.

"India was also a big country, a powerful country, but it was completely reduced to a colony of Westerners, and now the world is pursuing nothing more than the "law of the jungle" of the jungle, if Japan can not be placed under the protection of China, then the frenzy of Westerners will encroach on Japan, like a country of rice, first seize the treaty port, and then find an excuse to force us to cede the land, in the end, those Westerners will collude together to divide Japan, at that time, will there be Japan again? ”

Nagai's view is the most popular "Western threat theory" in Japan today, and in the past few years, this kind of rhetoric has become very popular in Japan -- promoted by China, of course.

Although China enjoyed a great deal of privileges in Japan on the one hand, this privilege was cleverly placed under the pretext of "protecting Japan from enslavement by the foreigners" in order to make the Japanese accept this view. Of course, the reason why the Japanese accepted this view was also the influence of the "black ships coming to sail" in those years, and the continuous eagerness of Westerners to try East Asia, which made the Japanese have to believe in this threat, and under this threat, relying on China's protection became the most beneficial choice for Japan.

Of course, for the Japanese, this dependence is always a little helpless, but they don't have much choice.

"At present, Japan has only two choices, either to be a vassal of China and to be protected by China, although some interests are sacrificed, Japan can always be preserved. Or seek self-reliance, as some say, but what is the price of self-reliance? It was the Westerners who forced into their homes, and then seized Japan, making Japan all slaves of foreigners, victorious kings, the lesser of two evils, and the heavier of two benefits, you understand this truth! ”

Nodding a little bitterly, although he didn't want to admit it, Katsu Haizhou also knew that Nagai Naoshi was telling the truth, which was the helplessness of being a weak country and a small country.

"Did we first pass through Hawaii, then go to Colombia, Peru, Chile, and then cross the Strait of Magerans, and enter the Viceroyalty of South Africa via Argentina and Brazil?"

Katsu Haizhou asked, naturally with the intention of changing the topic, but Nagai Naoshi suddenly smiled at him rather mysteriously, and then said softly.

"I heard that there is a voice in the Imperial Navy!"

"What?"

Sheng Haizhou asked rhetorically.

"If it were possible, there would be a good chance that the Navy would occupy Hawaii! Thus take control of the Pacific Ocean! ”

What the!

In Katsu Kaishu's surprise, Nagai Naoshi whispered again.

"Perhaps, this is most likely the last time we will see the so-called Kingdom of Hawaii! Occupied, this is the fate of a weak country! ”

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