In April, the 22nd year of Chengtian, Osaka, Japan.

Located in the central part of Japan's central and western regions, this historic city has been a major commercial city in Japan for a long, long time.

During the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era, Osaka was the core city of the Toyotomi regime. In the Edo period, Osaka, along with Kyoto and Edo, was known as the "Three Capitals" of Japan, and it was the most economically active commercial city in Japan at that time.

This place is the "distribution base" of Japan's goods from all over the country, and foreign trade is now very developed, and the price of the Dojima rice market is regarded as the standard for the grain and rice industry in Japan.

However, Osaka Castle, which is Japan's 'rice market', and Osaka Castle, which itself is rich in rice, has its own food prices remain high.

As a Japanese rice market, just like the four rice markets of Wuxi, Wuhu, Jiujiang and Changsha in China, most of the food it eats comes from foreign imports. This is also a very peculiar phenomenon.

On the other hand, the city is filled with merchants and sailors who speak a variety of Chinese dialects, and the buildings are often Chinese. Someone once quipped, "Osaka is not so much a Japanese port as it is a Chinese port like Nagasaki." This refers to the large number of Chinese merchants and sailors in the city.

After the founding of Japan, many cities such as Yokohama, Kobe, Nagoya, and Edo did not have such a clear stance as Osaka to get close to China. As a result, Osaka Castle quickly became the second city after Nagasaki to be flooded by a large number of Chinese merchants.

The city's various industries are rapidly converging with Chinese foreign trade merchants.

Although it is not as sinicized as Nagasaki in terms of its roots, Osaka itself is the commercial capital of Japan, an advantage that Nagasaki in the southwestern corner of the country does not have.

As a city with a commercial and merchant culture, it is understandable that Osaka Castle is rapidly moving closer to China under the interests and money.

Yang Dewang had been here for almost half a month, when he arrived at Osaka Port with a group of entourages on a merchant ship from Shanghai, and then contacted a local merchandise agent of the Jiangnan Trading Company, a relative of the Tanuma family. Although Yang Dewang has retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - he is on sick leave, the ceiling is too obvious for people like him, and it is enough to have a higher class of thought with better development prospects. Yang Dewang had been heartbroken by the officialdom struggle, and after Gao Zhisi gained a firm foothold in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he chose to take a sick leave.

But sick leave is sick leave, but Yang Dewang can still use some connections, at least Jiangnan Trading Company will sell his face.

Yang Dewang settled down, and he wanted to carefully observe Japan's market economy before making a decision. Unexpectedly, just as he was resting for a while, and was just about to set off again for Kyoto by land, and then to Nagoya, an uninvited guest with great powers came to the door.

This person is Japan's famous Mino Heibei. In his early years, Yang Dewang also met him in Shanghai.

As the first businessman in Japan to challenge Made in China head-on, Mino Pingbei was not only famous in Japan, but also had a certain reputation in China.

It's just that the Japanese textile industry is congenitally restricted, and the Tokugawa shogunate can't blatantly favor Mitsubishi Textiles.

Yes, in the war, Mino Heibei once had the upper hand, because of the strong support of the trade bank, Mitsubishi Textile not only had sufficient capital, but also the problem of raw materials was solved. But when China's domestic pressure makes the trade banks unable to support themselves, what about Mitsubishi Boshoku?

You must know that Mino Heibei fought with the pro-China alliance represented by the Sumitomo family before, and repeatedly suppressed the Sumitomo family, purely because he had the support of the powerful trade bank behind him.

Now the support of the trade bank is not only gone, but it has also become the pressure to repay the loan, and Mitsubishi Textile can only fail.

Mitsubishi Boshoku's factories were turned into 'non-performing assets' of trade banks, and then became the property of several Japanese business families led by the Sumitomo family, and it can be said that Mitsubishi Boshoku was completely carved up.

Sanye Pingbei's assets have shrunk greatly, and people have fallen silent.

With Yang Dewang's 'gaze', he couldn't see Sanye Pingbei's figure, nor could he hear any news from him.

Yang Dewang didn't know that after Mino Pingbei completed the previous task, the whole person entered the hibernation period

Originally, he was going to die 'quietly', and then resurrect a man named Wang Pingbei in his ancestral hometown in China. But I didn't expect that others were reactivated in the summer of the twentieth year of Chengtian - Mino Pingbei's new mission hooked up with the Japanese royal family, hollowed out the last small sentence of the Chrysanthemum family, and poured a basin of sewage on the Chrysanthemum family that couldn't be washed.

Therefore, after being 'lurking' for many years, Mino Heibei has recently gradually made a comeback in the Japanese business world.

His most recent business activity was to eat a batch of high-end luxury goods made in China in the port of Osaka, which were supposedly sold to Kyoto.

Yang Dewang didn't expect Mino Pingbei to contact him, and he took the initiative to come to the door. This made Yang Dewang very surprised and at the same time muttered to himself: What does this guy want to do?

With Mino Heibei's high prestige in Japan, even if he didn't have a single day in hand, he could easily raise a large amount of money.

It's just that Sanye Pingbei's performance once again made Yang Dewang miscalculate. Mino Pingbei, who took the initiative to find the door, did not immediately reveal his plans, but took the initiative to accompany Yang Dewang to wander around Osaka, a Japanese commercial city, for two days, during which he talked about some business issues, and Mino Pingbei only showed his reputation in the Japanese business circle in front of Yang Dewang.

That's really called face brushing.

Sanye Pingbei put his name outward, and in the past two days, Yang Dewang didn't know how many times it was lively when he settled here.

He had a thick stack of invitations just by receiving them, and when he sorted them out, he saw that almost all of them were owned by local Japanese business families in Osaka.

It wasn't until the third day that Mino Pingbei showed a little bit of a mouth. It is nothing more than a little intention to invest in the Americas, which makes Yang Dewang a little hesitant. In fact, if the other party directly offered to be the agent of Chinese goods and use his own prestige in Japan, Yang Dewang would really agree.

He directly dared to set up a trading company in Shanghai, and then specialize in doing business with Mino Pingbei.

But now Sanye Pingbei proposes to go to the Americas to do business and invest, which makes Yang Dewang a little undecided.

That place in the Americas was too remote, and the energy of him and Gao Xiangsi was too small, and his hands couldn't reach that far.

Sanye Pingbei also saw Yang Dewang's 'inconvenience', and then he said: "We have a large number of workers here, all of whom have many years of technical experience. If it is really difficult for Mr. Yang to set up a factory in the Americas, then we can lend the workers. As long as the price is right, anything can be discussed. ”

Yang Dewang himself really has no influence in the Americas, even if he is a high class. But they just made friends with the officials of the Immigration Bureau, whether it was Ge Ming, who was born in a turtle, or Luo Fangbai, who was born in a poor and sour show.

Otherwise, how could Mino Pingbei come to him. He went online and explained everything to Mino Pingbei clearly.

Sanye Pingbei said in a calmest tone at the moment, his Chinese official language was very good, and Yang Dewang even felt a unique rhythm when he listened to it. The person 'Yang Dewang' is the route designated for him above, but this matter is hidden from Yang Dewang himself, in order to keep the secret of Sanye Pingbei. The identity of the latter is still an absolute secret of the Military Intelligence Agency.

"The contemptible people have a strong connection in Japan, as long as Mr. Yang opens up the joints of the Americas and we are united, it will be difficult to lose money."

As mentioned above, Japan is not as good as North Korea, and now it sells labor in Japan, which is not cheating people and making it difficult for the country to make money, but a great good man who saves people, a living Bodhisattva, and the cost is so low that there is almost nothing.

Countless thoughts collided in Yang Dewang's heart, and he couldn't give an answer for a while. He did come to Japan to do business, but the business he originally looked at was completely different from that of human traffickers.

Yang Dewang was originally going to take red copper from Japan.

In the early and middle period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the copper trade between China and Japan was extremely prosperous. Because China was extremely short of copper at that time, during the Yongzheng period, one tael of silver was exchanged for more than 850 copper coins, and as little as 820 pieces. Every year, a large amount of Japanese red copper is shipped into China, accounting for 60% of China's annual copper consumption.

In the later years of Kang Mazi, Japan's copper production reached its peak, and the amount shipped out by Chinese merchants reached 400-7 million catties every year.

However, copper is a non-renewable resource after all, and the more it is exported, the faster the decline in Japan's copper production.

During the Qianlong period, Japan's copper exports to China were only 2 million catties a year.

And the number continues to decline.

Until recently, Japan's agriculture suffered a major blow to its agriculture by natural disasters and political disasters. In order to revitalize the Japanese economy as soon as possible, or to expand the export industry as much as possible, earn Chinese dollars to buy grain, lower grain prices in Japan, and stabilize Japan's political environment.

The Tokugawa shogunate was forced to increase the export of copper to China.

Although Nanyang copper – mainly from Luzon – has far surpassed Japan in terms of production and has largely met China's demand for copper consumption, there is still no shortage of buyers for Japanese red copper on the mainland.

There are still rumors in China that Japan's metallurgical technology is not good, and their red copper contains silver and gold.

But now, this business, which is completely lucrative compared to the copper trade, has taken the initiative to find the door. Yang Dewang's ideological realm was not enough for him to take the initiative to push the gold sent to his arms outside.

As Mino Pingbei said, the combination of his personal relationship with Yang Dewang makes this kind of 'foreign labor export' business profitable and profitable.

Mino Pingbei has enough connections to collect a large number of refugees in Japan, and Yang Dewang also has a relationship to let these refugees be transported to the Americas. The construction of the six feudal states did require a lot of labor.

With the status of Yang Dewang and Mino Pingbei, they still did not know about the imminent outbreak of war in the Americas and the excavation of the Suez Canal.

The latter has been preparing for a year or two, and with the active cooperation of the Ottomans, the topographic and geographical survey has been very smooth, and it can be said that the Suez Canal is not technically difficult.

In the preparations of the Military Intelligence Bureau, if Yang Dewang really hesitated and was not ready to partner with Sanye Pingbei, the Military Intelligence Bureau would come forward to 'persuade' Yang Dewang, although there would be some beginnings and ends left in such a method, but it was necessary to ensure the opening of this labor export company in Sanye Pingbei.

In addition to the private money of the Chrysanthemum family, this labor export company also seeks their existing reputation and popularity.

When a big scandal broke out in this labor export company that day, even if the chess piece of Mino Pingbei was sacrificed, the Chrysanthemum family must be dyed black by the ink that could not be washed.

"Mr. Mino is the leader of the textile industry, why not find a way in the textile industry this comeback?" Yang Dewang asked questions. As far as he knows, Japan's raw silk industry has developed quite well in the past two years.

"The texture and yield of Japanese raw silk are too different from those of China. Just like the silk of Persia and Italy, it is not enough to use it by itself, and it cannot be exported on a large scale. The cotton textile industry has been completely controlled by your country's textile giants, although I don't think your country's textile industry was so clever in its own hurtful means, but it will not go to its own death. ”

"All I want now is to make money and leave a valuable legacy for my children and grandchildren." The 'high spirits' of the year, the grand ambition of the beginning, are gone in Mino Pingbei.

When Mino Pingbei said this, his face was full of vicissitudes and his face was calm. The whole image of a master who has seen through the 'way of the world'.

But Yang Dewang felt that Sanye Pingbei was 'acquaintance'.

Think about it, even the Tokugawa shogunate, which is in power in Japan, does not have the heart to erect Japan's own textile enterprises and protect Japan's own market.

As long as people with clear brains can see that Mitsubishi Textile can become popular for a while, but it cannot last forever.

Compared with China, Japan's congenital deficiencies are too bad.

Even so, the Chinese no longer put obstacles in foreign trade, as long as they have money, no matter how high-end porcelain, silk, and handicrafts can be shipped out.

The high-end porcelain and high-end silk in China were not only sought after by the European aristocracy and nouveau riche, but also by the Japanese.

For example, Yunjin in Nanjing, Wanshou silk in Bozhou. The former is an extremely exquisite handicraft, which used to be exclusively for the royal family, with low quantities and high prices. But the latter is also a tribute, but Wanshou silk is a precious silk that can be purchased in large quantities, and the unit price is far less than that of Yunjin, but the volume of goods is many times larger than that of Yunjin.

"You are well aware of the situation in Japan, and although the situation is improving, it is not difficult to gather some workers. It's rare to send people to the Americas. Mino Pingbei finished speaking in one breath, and then looked at Yang Dewang with expectant eyes.

As for why Yang Dewang did business with him, it was because of the collusion of interests conceded by Sanye Pingbei.

The profit is three or seven points, Sanye Pingbei is three percent, and Yang Dewang is seven percent.

The people above have said hello to Mino Pingbei, and this division has only been in the last year or two, and things will change soon.