Chapter 580: The Storm in China and Japan

Lip service alone will not shake the position of the emperor, nor will it touch the foundation of the emperor. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Tian Nush Yiji This is to make Chen Ming pay practical actions.

After Chen Liang retreated, Chen Ming stayed in the side hall all night.

The tranquility and darkness in the middle of the night made him think in the bottom of his heart with a kind of transcendent relief excitement, the Japanese emperor hanged, the imperial family was nearly extinct, thinking in the quiet and darkness, the thoughts like grass could grow and sway freely in the thick darkness, some thoughts even made him tremble, the killing blood from the soul soaked through every cell of him, and the excitement in his heart made his brain suffocate.

But YY is just YY after all.

Judging from the current situation in Japan, China's 'disposition opinion' on Japan has long been propagated by the Tokugawa shogunate, and of course there is a lot of indignation in Japan. Although the Emperor of Japan became the 'God' of Shintoism in Japan, not only would his annual income be doubled, from the current overall income of 100,000 koku to 200,000 koku, but they would also be able to enjoy the benefits of 250,000 Chinese yuan a year from the Chinese imperial family. [One stone in Japan is three hundred catties up]

It can be said that the income has increased significantly.

Not only can the twelve public families under their hands who have grease and powder, black teeth and white noodles really have money to rub and powder, but those relatives of the emperor can also have a little extra money in their pockets.

But the overall mood in Japan is still hostile. Many Japanese samurai and even daimyo think that this is an insult from China to Japan, although they do not respect the Japanese emperor very much, nor do they respect Shintoism, but as a local religion, the most basic influence is still there, and even in Japan there have been samurai robberies and smashes against Chinese businessmen. It's just that the daimyo of Japan and the Tokugawa shogunate are very sober-minded, and once this kind of thing happens, they will immediately suppress it harshly, leaving no tongue for China. Finally stopped the trend.

In the past two years, China has only been arbitrarily taking Japanese gold, watching Japan actually open banks, and then plunging headlong into the securities market, and also issuing paper money, and so on, ignoring it. The small action is to send some Fushou paste to Japan, but the effect is far from what Chen Ming imagined, is the price too expensive?

That's really not cheap. It is about five times the price of opium in Guangdong. Because most of the opioids in China are bought from the British and French by the definition of medicine. Foreigners have no opportunity to export opium on a large scale, so they can only raise the price of opium. The price of opium produced in China has also risen. What's more, China itself has also done some processing on this, and there are exquisite porcelain vases and metal bottles, which are no longer affordable for ordinary people. Chen Ming has already asked people to plant that. After all, China itself needs this thing!

In the past two years, the operation has spread to folk medical centers and hospitals. Moreover, opiate can also cure dysentery, as well as vomiting, abdominal pain, cough and other diseases, and has the effects of nourishing the stomach, regulating the lungs, and improving the mouth and throat.

Therefore, his plan for longevity cannot be said to be a failure. When China's home-grown opium industry was established, the price of Fushou paste exported to Japan naturally decreased. Besides, the Dutch also imported opioids to Japan, but not in large quantities, and they were all regarded as medicines. The Dutch did not lose money in Japan, and when the opium business flourished in the Far East, China acted as a shield for Japan, and Japan itself did not trade with Britain and France. But now everything is changing......

In the past two years, Chen Ming has been watching Japan ferment itself, and China's Huayuan has a certain proportion of circulation in the Japanese market, although this share is very small, but the value of Huayuan is recognized by the Japanese, but the Japanese yen is not recognized at all in China. Only many Chinese businessmen who do business in Japan receive Japanese banknotes. Although it is a national currency, the level of banknotes issued in Japan is still guaranteed. This is a rapid development in printing and anti-counterfeiting technology in Japan, and Chen Ming's original plan to print counterfeit yen banknotes failed to start at all. Because the Dutch came to Japan's aid. As the only Western country that has been able to communicate officially with Japan for more than 100 years, the influence of the Dutch in Japan should not be underestimated. And Japan has been almost piled up on the 'opposite side' by a series of decisions made by China!

In line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is the friend, the Dutch provided great assistance in the establishment of banks, stock exchanges, and the printing of paper money in Japan. Although the Dutch now use metal money, the Dutch print bonds and bank notes at a level that is definitely among the best in Europe. This was something that Chen Ming had not expected before, and it was also something that the Japanese did not expect, and the latter was like stepping on a soak of dog shit and happily accepted the assistance of the Dutch.

The official price of the yen is now 0.2 yuan per day for gold, and in Japan, 1 yuan is about the same as a Chinese coin, and its silver content is equivalent to one guilder. The exchange rate between the guilder and the Chinese dollar in China is one guilder to 3.2 Chinese dollars.

Therefore, in Japan, the official exchange rate between the Japanese yen and the Chinese dollar is 3.2 Chinese dollars per day.

Such a ratio is not recognized in China at all, and neither are the Dutch. Until now, the ratio of gold and silver in Japan has hovered at 1:8, which is twice as low as that of China and the Netherlands. Although China, the Netherlands, and Japan are essentially multi-standard. In other words, it refers to a monetary system in which two specific coins, gold and silver, are used as the standard currency at the same time, and the comparison of their currency values is stipulated.

The method of counterfeiting banknotes is invalid, but this does not mean that Chen Ming has no other way to deal with Japan. As soon as China stomps its feet, Japan will shake three times. It is now obvious that Tanuma Yiji wants China to take some really powerful action to shake the imperial family and the public family, and let the whole of Japan know that the emperor and Kyoto's grease and whitewashing things will not protect Japan's interests and security at all.

This is easy for Chen Han to do. For example, he could send envoys to Kyoto in the name of honoring Emperor Go-Taoyuan and have a good discussion with the princes and princes in Kyoto about changing the name "Emperor" and about changing the name of Kyushu Island. At the same time, he could also send fleets to visit Nagasaki, Kyushu, Yokohama, Osaka, and then go straight to Edo Bay.

In Chen Ming's original plan, when Japanese banknotes were spread all over the Toei Islands, it was the time when he started picking fruits. First the 'threatening remarks' were issued, then the envoys were dispatched, then a large number of counterfeit banknotes were shipped into Japan, and finally the 'friendly visit' of the naval fleet, which would definitely make Japan half overwhelmed.

However, the plan did not change quickly, and Tokugawa Isaharu was clearly tempted by the title of 'King of Japan'. Although he has not been contaminated at all in a series of matters of communication with China in the past two years, who would believe that Tanuma Yiji acted in private?

In addition, the road of counterfeit banknotes was cut off, and Chen Ming's previous plan was in vain.

He could no longer 'openly' clean up Japan, which would make the Tokugawa shogunate dissatisfied. To clean up Japan, he had to change to a more subtle approach.

Now that Hou Taoyuan is dead, it is a bit sudden, and some of Chen Ming's methods have not been arranged. For example, Wang Pingbei, whose current name is a steam spinning mill and a water-powered loom factory, is the absolute largest in the whole of Japan, but it has just been built and put into operation, and the weavers have just been trained, and it is still a little far from generating profits that will attract everyone's attention.

"Now it seems that we need to use a little means to ripen these two fruits."

Turning Wang Beiping's textile company into a star enterprise immediately turned Japan's hostile consciousness toward China and turned Wang Beiping's textile company into the mainstay of Japan's local textile industry to resist Chinese cotton dumping. Then in terms of the relationship between Wang Pingbei and the Mitsui family, as long as this company is willing to 'go public', as expected, it will inevitably arouse the crazy pursuit of the whole of Japan. Then there will be a cotton war between China and Japan!

There is an opportunity to fan the flames.

The upsurge set off by Wang Beiping's textile company is operational, and it is guaranteed that it will set off a boom in the entire stock market. As long as the Mitsui family is willing to cooperate.

In addition to the yen issued by the Tokugawa shogunate, the vast Japanese daimyo such as Satsuma, Nagato, Sendai, Kaga, Hizen, and Tosa, as well as the Kansai Powerful Domain, also issued their own feudal coins. Of course, they will not say currency notes, but bank bills. These foreign daimyos also set up their own banks. This gives China a big opportunity to take advantage of.

"In this way, Your Majesty should knock on the mountain and shake the tiger. On the one hand, envoys were sent to inquire about Kyoto, and on the other hand, a large number of warships were dispatched to gather in the North Sea and the Ryukyus. Chen Cong stroked his goatee, he thought that the large army did not need to show itself much, and docking in the North Sea and the Ryukyus was enough to make the whole of Japan hesitate.

At this time, as long as a chess piece like Wang Beiping can be active and make a move against the 'uncertain' securities market, the two sides will be in contact and cooperate, and there is no need to really shoot at all, which is enough for Japan to drink a pot.

"The old man doesn't believe that the Japanese stock market smells of gunsmoke, and it can not fluctuate at all." How is this possible.

If the war reaches the East China Sea, no matter how confident the people of the current dynasty are in the imperial court, they will inevitably rise into a panic, and then the stocks of major companies will fluctuate.

The stock market is the hearts of the people. If the samurai class in Japan want to say that they have a desperate heart, what about their merchants? Chen Cong's family is now in business himself, so he especially distrusts the merchant class.

"Tell the second child to let him exchange all the yen in his hand for Jin Xiaoju." Chen Cong, who returned to the house, immediately recruited his eldest son.

As soon as Chen Jiqing heard this, he knew that there was going to be a storm between China and Japan, "I wrote immediately." "It doesn't take long for carrier pigeons to travel from Nanjing to Shanghai." Dad, is Your Majesty going to fight? ”

"Hehe, don't fight." At most, take a knife at the Satsuma Domain. Shimazu Shigehiro, the lord of the Satsuma Domain, had always had a strong anti-Chinese tendency, and after the loss of the Ryukyus, he did not give in at all, and he got closer and closer to the Dutch, and Brontë sent envoys to Kagoshima. It's just that the British have always felt that he was doing something very hidden.

The Satsuma clan still has a Western-style sailing ship gifted by the Dutch, although it is only seven or eight hundred tons of tonnage, but they themselves have built a Western-style sailing ship, although this one has a smaller displacement.

Chen Ming agrees with Chen Cong's point of view, Wang Beiping and the sailors cooperate with each other, and the benefits obtained are absolutely huge, and they do not completely tear their faces with Japan. So this time it's still about scare.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

At the Shanghai dock, a ship flying a Chinese flag slowly sailed out of the port. In the sound of the cannon, in the sound of the national anthem.

"Warriors, go to the national disaster together,

Takeshi, regain my rivers and mountains.

Blood will not be shed, death will not be truce!

There is China in the east, such as the sun rising,

A hundred years of national hatred, the vicissitudes of life!

The world is in turmoil, how can Corning!

Han has warriors, who fights! ……”

This is the national anthem approved by the imperial court last year, and it is no longer a military anthem, but a national anthem. Chen Ming thought about it for a long time before he decided to push out this song that was rumored to be Qin Shijun's song on the Internet. Of course, he changed a few words. The national anthem did not choose the most popular songs of officers and soldiers, such as "Battle Song of the Red Turban Army" and "Song of the Han Army", but finally decided on this one. So far, the acceptance is still okay.

The singing that seemed to be wafting in Ekdal's ears was the ceremony that had just been held in the port of Shanghai to bid farewell to the envoy ship. This is a regulation of the Chinese government.

The Chinese attach great importance to diplomatic rights, and when they are sent to the European offices in Europe, they not only buy land wholly when they settle in each place, but also sign agreements with the governments of the countries where they are located, and they regard the location of the European offices as the 'land' of their own countries, and the officials, nobles and civilians of the countries concerned (mainly referring to the countries in which they are stationed) are not allowed to enter the premises without permission, and the countries concerned must bear the corresponding responsibilities and take appropriate steps to protect the premises of the European Office from intrusion or damage when necessary.

This is an unusual request, as there are only three countries in Europe that agree to this agreement, Britain, France and Prussia, so only three Chinese offices in Europe have been established.

In the Chinese interpretation, the national anthem represents a country's and a nation's spiritual fighting spirit, combat history or grand goals, represents the voice of the people, and can also be a microcosm of a country's or nation's history.

The national anthem is used on many occasions. National holidays are performed daily, sports competitions are also useful, and schools at all levels will organize all students to sing the national anthem when the national flag is raised. It is a rule, too!

Ekdal has obtained a certificate in the special Chinese exam, and he is a linguistic genius who not only speaks Nanjing official dialect, but also teaches himself Wu language. Singing the Chinese national anthem is such a small case that can't help him at all. Although he didn't open his mouth to sing just now.

The Chinese government also requires that those who do not hold a certificate of Chinese nationality do not need to open their mouths when the group sings.

That's really an arrogant definition.

Ekdar glanced at the sea again, and the ship he had been waiting for was still far away. Ekdal knew that there were many, many uncertainties in the great voyages of this era, and perhaps the ship of the Swedish East India Company would not reach China this year.

It's September in China, and the monsoon over the ocean has changed. Many ocean-going merchant ships returning to Europe have already asked for it. It is hard to imagine that European ships would arrive in Shanghai at this time.

Ekdal sighed. He had already rented a house for his brother's family, bought things, clothes, and all daily necessities, as well as a full 200 Chinese dollars. But "poor Lundberry ......" spent a winter on a boat, and where could it be comfortable to spend the winter in the warmth of his home.

Since July, Ekdal has been coming to Huangpu Port every once in a while, looking forward to the time when he comes here, and happens to come across a boat carrying his brother's family just approaching the dock.

Ekdar brought his brother's family to China. The environment and the situation in Sweden have gotten worse in recent years. The battle between the ambitious King Gustav III and the hatted nobles who dominated Swedish power grew fiercer. The king, who used factional strife to strengthen his royal power, dreamed of reviving the royal family and restoring Sweden to its former great power, gaining control of the situation through a coup d'état just six months after his accession to the throne. He introduced economic reforms, land reform (where peasants could buy and sell land), the abolition of harsh punishments, the promotion of a free press, and religious tolerance. He also worked hard to build a much stronger Swedish navy than in the past......

The struggle of the upper echelons, the collision of the will of the king and the will of the nobles, made the situation in Sweden not optimistic. Ekdal's younger brother was a good watchmaker, and Ekdal thought that in China, where more and more families were popping up with clocks and pocket watches, Lundberg was not hard to make a living!

And more importantly, he also has the help of his brother. (To be continued.) )