"Traveling to Japan? You don't have a fever, do you? There is a place outside the Huawai, except for Kyoto, the other areas are primitive tribes, and there is a fight with Kuizhou Road. The island of Honshu, which was feudalized in the Tang Dynasty, basically only had a relatively long-term stable civilization in Kyoto, and Shikoku and Kyushu were basically hilarious primitive natives. Zhao Shouzhong was very suspicious when he heard that Li Ji was going to Japan to travel and investigate and lay out the enclosure.

"I went there just to experience the style, and you won't believe this kind of excuse, so you can only prevaricate with strategic layout. Of course, I am aware of the situation there, and after a series of wars and local samurai groups vying for power, Japan is now in the last afterglow of the Heian period. An emperor who is about to lose power is our best marketing target, isn't it? Li Ji winked at Zhao Shouzhong.

"Do you mean to engage in arms export, and the central ministers and local samurai will sell whoever is weak, and make war money and promote Japanese colonization?" Zhao Shouzhong knew that you would only have a three-board axe expression.

"Bingo, but there is no chance for you to be idle, you are an important figure and a general pioneer of cultural dumping! Arms are only one of the stepping stones, and there is also the spiritual opium of the cultural industry and the colonial trade network that will involve the whole of Japan in the capitalist free economic and trade system of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere that we have created. The investigation is only the first step, although Japan is not yet a unified single-ethnic feudal state, and its threat to China is not comparable to that of Western Xia, but we cannot underestimate this social group with great potential. Now is the best time to put on the shackles, early there will be an imbalance of losses, and too late you will have to pay more costs. ”

"Are we all going to go?" Zhao Shouzhong looked at the list of inspection groups and the list of materials and goods in his hand.

"This is a rare opportunity for public funds to go abroad to be corrupt! What's the matter, you're going to refuse this first time? Li Ji teased.

"No, I'm afraid that something unexpected will happen and we will face an unexpected situation that we don't want to encounter. What if we all go to Japan and something happens to the old nest? ”

"That's your reason? Do not worry! I've arranged everything, let's go together this time, it doesn't matter if the affairs of the academy and the group accumulate for a month, it's a big deal to come back and work a few days overtime. Danger is unlikely. Technically, as long as there are no aliens kidnapping us, natural and man-made disasters are no threat to us. We are not in danger at home, but there will be danger in Japan, where there are not many entanglements of interests? The secrecy and intelligence services are not kept on dry food. ”

"That's right, but do you need to bring so many ingredients and condiments? Isn't there too many hundreds of goods, and you don't need to be so complete for daily use, right? Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, spices, bacon, sausages, bedding and cosmetics? Does Japan still need to learn how to apply makeup? Didn't the Tang envoys learn to introduce Chinese aesthetics to Japan? ”

"You'll know why I'm bringing this with me when you go!" Lee Ki smiled maliciously.

Ten days later, after returning from a trial voyage, the clipper fleet unloaded the deerskins and salt produced on Dongyi Island, and then loaded a large amount of goods prepared by Li Ji on board.

"Old Chen, what is the total face value of that batch of refined copper coins and gold and silver coins?" Li Ji asked Chen Guanxian.

"Five million guan face value, what? Is it more or less? Chen Guanxian asked suspiciously.

"Apparently there is a shortage, those gold and silver coins could not have entered circulation in the first place, and we brought them only to send them into the cellars of the magnates. According to our plan, the five million copper coins are only 12,500 tons, which is less than half of our total transportation volume. We had to transport at least six times to smuggle so much copper money into Japan, which means that we could only transport about 2,000 tons at a time, and we needed 300 tons of ballast for twelve ships, and even a small half of the ballast at the bottom of the ships had to be replaced with steel and pig iron that we exported to fill it. So this money is not enough at all, at least we need to add 7 million yuan in cash, our five yuan of silver coin is 25 grams, can top five catties of consistent copper coins, 5 grams of gold coins top two 10 catties of copper coins, if half of the face value of the coin is gold and silver coins, we have to load more goods. ”

"Is there so much commodity in Japan's productivity right now that we can exchange our goods and coins? If we go to Kyoto once, we will spark hyperinflation in the local area! It is possible to buy out their inventory for more than ten years and the belongings at the bottom of the box! Bai Jia knew very well how obsessed and fanatical the merchants and foreign countries were with the goods produced by the Great Song Empire.

"Not really, we don't ship it for one-time consumption, but implant it into our monetary system over time. These coins are only reserved credits, so that they can know our strength and facilitate our bank and enclosure. As for other goods, we can't exchange them for any good things, mainly for emotional investment and gifts and bribes. We need to be prepared for a long-term surplus, and I estimate that any planned trade surplus will translate into our ownership of Japanese land. ”

"That's your plan? Exchanging consumer goods for land? How much does that cost? This money is enough to arm an army and destroy ten chrysanthemum countries. Wang Xinyu became excited.

"Do you understand market cultivation? It is easy to overproduction, it is difficult for our production capacity to find a market, and the only ethnic group in the world that can compare the fertility with the Han nationality is the He ethnic group. Is this demographic dividend wasted if it is not in our hands? How expensive is immigration? I just like to work slowly and carefully, and reducing the slightest trouble can save me ten times the cost of continuous sheep shearing. ”

"Where was our first stop? Don't tell me it's Nagasaki! Wang Neng couldn't help but ask as he watched barrels of spicy sauce and refined salt being sent into the cabin.

"The nearest port, of course!" Li Ji said. "Isn't the nearest port in Japan Nagasaki?" Wang Neng was depressed.

"I didn't say I'm going to Japan! The first stop was Jeju Island, now known as the Goryeo vassal state of Tamna. You all know the importance of this place, so I won't say more, just forcibly occupy the port, open it up as a leased land, and give the star lord of Tamna Island a little lease fee. Maybe we'll be given a good guy card. After controlling the port, he went straight to Kitakyushu, disguised himself as a storm and got lost there, and then sailed directly to Osaka along the coast, went straight to Heiankyo, bribed Emperor Shirakawa, and completed a series of follow-up plans. ”