"Today's Japan has only achieved formal unification, and the feudal states in various regions still have great autonomy!" I motioned for the two attendants to bring the screen closer, and took a long pole from Umechiyo. "It is certainly anachronistic to continue to use force to solve the following problems, and my idea is to adopt an economic radiation tilt. Japan is still underdeveloped, especially in the Kanto, Tohoku, and Southwest regions. It's not the first time you've been to Japan, so you must have seen that the farmers here are overburdened and their farming methods are backward. ”

"Not bad!" Ernst looked at the picture and nodded. "I have already learned that the current level of agriculture in Japan can only be described by the word 'primitive', and there are serious problems of monolithic and degraded crop varieties. Sometimes I even wonder how this country relies on to maintain such a huge state apparatus! ”

"This is my entry point, I want to adjust the distribution and flow of population through economic layout!" I tapped on the map with a long pole and said confidently, "I want to adopt advanced farming methods and grow diverse crops in the territory I control, and I need your help!" ”

"No problem!" Ernst immediately nodded in agreement, and in his mind it was not a difficult task. "But what kind of varieties and technologies do you want to introduce?"

"No, I don't want to be too blunt!" I shook my head repeatedly, indicating that he had misunderstood what I meant. "In my opinion, it is extremely difficult to change the established habits and traditions, let alone the farming methods that have been used for thousands of years. If I can do it with coercive orders, the result will definitely not be good if it is subjectively contradictory and objectively unfamiliar. After all, farming is not a simple matter, you may be able to learn good martial arts in three years, but you may not be able to become proficient in farming in ten years, even if you can bring me a few good teachers, but after all, you can't teach farmers all over Japan by hand! ”

"And what do you think?" He was a little confused by my words.

"My plan is to ...... Demonstration effect! I smiled mysteriously and triumphantly. As long as there is more and better food to grow from the adjacent land, people on the verge of starvation will naturally want to find a way, and the same will be true when they see better, higher-yielding crops. Although the world has basically returned to stability, the peasants who have to hand over nearly half of their output as taxes are still not very good, and as long as it is beneficial to them, they will naturally accept it. I want to move in a group of European immigrants and give them land to cultivate and grow new crops in new ways. As long as the harvest is real, then I can order the officials everywhere to guide it. ”

"You...... Are you really going to do that? Ernst looked at me in astonishment, as if he could not believe that this was the truth. Many countries in Europe are now facing religious problems, persecution and conflict abound, and war may even break out at any time. In this case, a large number of people will inevitably want to emigrate abroad, after all, the living space in Europe is too small for the population. But no one in the Middle East or the Far East wants to accept these people, and why do you do this? ”

"Maybe that's what makes me different from them!" I said it in a vague way, and then immediately changed the subject. "However, in the early stage, I also had to consider people's psychological tolerance, and the first batch of about 5 to 8,000 people was going to move in, and they were settled in Hizen and Fenggo. Kyushu was the first place to come into contact with Europeans, and both Catholicism and Christianity had some influence, so it was relatively easy to accept immigrants. The people who are most in charge of these two places are my son and the generals who are closest to me, so it is easier to carry out the preliminary work. As far as I know, the religious conflict is particularly fierce in south-France and northern Germany, and there is a well-developed agriculture in these places, so I would like to ask you to arrange it for me! ”

"But ...... this way," Ernst hesitated, my decision was a little too unusual.

"I'll naturally pay for those people's travel expenses, you just need to treat this as a kind of business!" I knew what he was worried about, but I was thinking a little too far away.

The Dutch were also prominent among pirates and slave traders throughout the early and middle voyages, but Ernst's merchant community was not particularly advantageous in this respect. He interpreted my words as a trade in white slaves, which was a bit beyond his moral boundaries.

"In Japan, slavery has long become an obsolete thing, and now it is at most a tribal system with a certain personal dependency!" I simply showed my hole cards to this foreigner, anyway, even if he knew, it was not so convenient to communicate with others. "I wanted to make the movement of people in Japan more active through exchanges, so that people would be more enthusiastic about the developed areas under my control, and it would be difficult for agricultural immigrants from Europe to quickly form a military force under the daimyo of foreign domains. After fifty or a hundred years, under this purposeful flow of control by the central government, the daimyo will eventually lose their ability to control local power! ”

"...... so," Ernst bit his lip and fell into deep thought, but his brow slowly widened. What I said is also reasonable, and such a business is not fundamentally different from immigration to the Americas. "In order to repay you for your many years of care, we can do this business, but this is only very cheap!"

"You make a price!" I asked.

"This ......" he lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and then said with some embarrassment: "Transporting migrants is not the same as cargo, once the cargo is put in the cabin, as long as it does not leak, it is generally not a big deal. Migration is completely different, eating and drinking along the way, food and fresh water have to be multiplied, the density of people has increased dramatically, and there is a possibility of epidemic outbreaks......" he went on to talk about a bunch of other difficulties.

I know he's telling the truth, but it's not all true. At this time, Europe had a large number of conflicts due to political and religious reasons, and the flow of immigrants to the Americas and the East was like a landslide and tsunami. If there is really no profit, those merchants and ship owners are crazy?

"According to the calculation of two taels of gold per person, do you think it is okay?" Finally he tentatively came up with a price.

"Yes, that's the price!" I roughly calculated, each person and eight guan, 10,000 people is 80,000 guan. It's not cheap, but it's not unaffordable. "But I still have some conditions!"

"Your Highness, please speak!" He bent slightly.

"I'm here to emigrate, not a penal colony, so please don't covet the little money from the governments to get some criminals!" I emphasize it in an unquestioning tone.

As far as I know, Australia and New Zealand did that in the first place, and although it developed well after a few hundred years, it was really chaotic at first. The original reputation of the Nanban people in Japan was not good, and they were even no different from demons in the eyes of some people, that is, it only improved slightly in the past few years. If it is difficult to get some people to cause chaos again, it will really outweigh the gains, let alone the role of "guidance and demonstration".

"You can rest assured of this!" Ernst nodded quickly, even a little too quickly.

"Also, it's better to let them move their families here, which will be more conducive to living a normal life as soon as possible!" I thought about it again. "The things they don't have to carry, like houses, land, livestock, etc., you just have to take them at a price. When the settlers arrive, I will allocate enough land, building materials, seeds, and cattle to live on, and I will exempt them from paying taxes for three years. And you also tell them that religion is not a problem with me, and the most stable life awaits them! ”

"You are so merciful!" Ernst was even more satisfied, and the sale of the migrant's property was afraid that it could not be a completely normal price.

"We've been friends for many years, so there's no need to say kind words, you just need to treat this as a general business!" I don't feel anything bad when I say this, because it is precisely because of the existence of mutual interests that our friendship will last for more than 20 years. "Just like this time, you're doing so well, I didn't even expect a custom-made machine to be built so quickly!"

"As long as you're satisfied, I'm worried that I misunderstood what you meant after seeing the message that came!" He was a little modest.

"Zhengjia, you saw it with your own eyes, how do you feel?" I turned to the house of Nagabune who was sitting on the side and asked with great concern.

"It's completely installed, and it works perfectly!" Nagashu Masaya said as he picked up a tray he had brought from his side and handed it to Ume Chiyo. "The sample was perfect, I brought it to you!"

The tray was covered with a red cloth, and I opened it to look at it. Although what I saw in front of me was not perfect to Nagashu Masaka, it was much better than I expected, after all, I had to consider the objective factors of the era in which I lived.

"Good, that's good!" I nodded and asked Mibenmaru, who was standing next to me, "Are all the merchants here?" ”

"Yes! They all arrived early in the morning and had been waiting for about two hours! He replied with a bowed head.

"Let's go!" I stood up and said to the long bunch of Masaka and Ernst in front of me, "Let's go meet those guys and let them see such a great thing!" ”

"Yes!" They immediately stood up and followed.

"Meet His Highness the General!" Before my figure appeared at the door, twenty-two of Japan's largest businessmen were already kneeling in the house. It's not just as simple as throwing the five bodies to the ground, but a kind of worship from the depths of the soul.

"Everybody, get up!" I waved the fan forward, but didn't sit down. "You have all had a relationship with me for many years, and you have also gained a lot of benefits while the Zhuxing family has grown and developed. Now that I've become a general, I naturally need more support from you. Now we're going to look at something together, and whether we understand it or not, we need your full help! ”