Ling Longyu had been in Edo for more than half a month, and for more than half a month, he had been living in the residence of Edverkart, the president of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. However, in the past half a month, he has also learned a lot about the book from Edvocat's mouth.

Although the eleventh generation general Tokugawa Ieqi has not met, he also understands the surname of this character, in a word, perverted, greedy, lustful, and powerful.

The theory of perversion has been around for a long time, and the general's favorite game since childhood was to make crabs and chickens trample on each other, and let the two fight each other to death, and get strange pleasure from it, according to the current words, it is a sadist, at least this tendency.

Because the son-in-law of the tenth shogun died violently at the age of nineteen, and the Tokugawa ieki, the lord of the Ichitsubashi family and the second feudal lord of the Ichitsubashi family, was fifteen years old, and he successfully took office.

There are more than 40 side rooms in the harem, and now he is only 23 years old, and he has 18 children under his knees, and it is said that there are still three side rooms waiting to be delivered.

Moreover, in addition to women, there are also many men, at least every year, a few small surnames with good colors and shapes are recruited.

If Young Master Liang is here, he will definitely be speechless, shouldn't this girl be a one-man self-propelled sowing artillery?

And in order to ensure that his little ** can have enough ammunition, the shogun is very fond of food related to strong essence, at that time Fangzhou (Chiba County) Linggang Ranch was a special pasture for the shogunate, and the very curious General Yashiro once imported three white cattle from India and raised them in Linggang Ranch. By the time of the Jiaqi generation, it had multiplied to more than 70 heads. Ieki heard that white cow cheese can strengthen the kidneys, so he raised a few white cows in Edo Castle and ordered someone to make white cow cheese. On the other hand, Jiaqi loves ginger very much, and there must be ginger on almost every table.

As for greed and good power, the two complement each other, and at the beginning of Matsudaira Dingxin's tenure as a middle elder, he implemented a liberal reform and straightened out finances. In 1788, the "Thrift Order" was issued, requiring the farmers and industrialists to strictly abide by the hierarchical status system and prohibit extravagant pleasures. The Shogunate's expenses were reduced by one-half, the shogun's household expenses were one-third, and 70% of the funds cut by Edo Castle were used as relief expenses for the poor and low-cost loans, which was called the "Seven-Cent Gold Accumulation Law".

At the beginning, Jia Qi had just become a general, so he naturally didn't dare to hang with this strong reformer, but after several confrontations, after the failure of Matsudaira Dingxin's retirement, the general finally broke out.

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Or it should be said that marrying too many wives, giving birth to too many dolls, and raising a small surname also costs a lot of money, so after the new middle-aged and old Matsudaira Nobuaki was helped to power by the family, he began to wantonly install his cronies among the subordinates of the middle and old people, and reintroduced the politics of cronies.

Soon, the so-called "Seven Cents Accumulation Law" became a piece of waste paper, and Jia Qi used his cronies to achieve the goal of controlling the regime, and Zhonglao had gradually become an ornament. The reason why Jia Qi did this was naturally for power, and with power, he could grasp more wealth. Continue to marry a wife, continue to raise a small surname, and open an unsheltered assembly in his Edo city.

And now, Ling Longyu has appeared, what will he bring to himself, which also makes Tokugawa Ieqi think with his brain full of sperm. However, the answer was soon revealed in the residence of Tokugawa Ieki, that is, Honmaru of Edo Castle.

A treaty of commerce was placed in front of Tokugawa Ieki, requiring him to open the ports of Nagasaki, Kobe, and Osaka to the Chinese Celestial Empire.

Second, it is required to allow and recognize the rights of the people of the Chinese Celestial Empire to live, travel, and operate industry and commerce in these port cities.

Third, consulates will be set up in these ports, and the consulates will have a small number of garrisons to protect the safety of the consuls and the people of the Chinese Celestial Empire.

Fourth, it was recognized that the Huaxia Celestial Empire was the suzerainty of the Shogunate, and that if there was any disrespect to the Huaxia Celestial Empire, the Huaxia Celestial Empire had the right to directly demand the daimyo until the daimyo confessed his sins and repented and made corresponding compensation, and the shogunate was not allowed to interfere.

Fifth, he leased the small fishing village of Yokosuka as a temporary stop for the cruisers of the Celestial Fleet, and had jurisdiction over the land around Yokosuka for 100 miles.

Sixth, no harbor or island along the coast of Japan will be leased or ceded to other countries.

Seventh, if the Celestial Empire, as the suzerain, would help the Celestial Empire, but the military expenses and logistics must be borne by the Celestial Empire.

Eighth, if the Tokugawa Shogunate agreed to the above conditions, then the Kaxia Celestial Empire would hand over all the cloth, grain, salt, silk, tea, and other materials necessary for the Tokugawa Shogunate to the merchants designated by the Tokugawa Shogunate to sell, and the Tokugawa Shogunate would receive at least 20% of the profits in addition to the taxes payable.

Ninth, if there is a disrespect to the Huaxia Celestial Empire, the Huaxia Celestial Empire has the right to directly ask for the daimyo among the daimyos.

Tenth, if the industrialists of the Chinese Celestial Empire are allowed to hire the Ronin or the Pauper, of course, they will be paid their due......

Twenty-one of the eighteen pages were placed in front of the Tokugawa shogun, and the Tokugawa shogun's face was ugly as if he was just about to play a game with the little surname, but the other party suddenly became very conscious, well, in short, it was extremely disgusting.

That's right, this Edo Twenty-one Article is exactly what Liang Pengfei drafted in accordance with the Twenty-one Articles of later generations, for this treaty, Liang Pengfei can be said to have racked his brains to recall, but unfortunately this guy only had a glimpse of it in the previous patriotic education, so this new Twenty-one Article is different from that one, but it hides countless sinister intentions of Master Liang.

"Yaga!" Tokugawa Iesai stood up from his throne with an angry look on his face. "The Qing Kingdom is really too deceitful, is it that there is no one in the country where I am called?!"

"Please calm the general's anger." Matsudaira Nobuaki, Makino Tadashi and others, as well as those side employees and small surnames, hurriedly lay down, for fear that they would bear the wrath of General Tokugawa Ieqi if they lay down later.

Tokugawa Ieki stood there panting, in fact, there were several of the 21 Edo Articles, Tokugawa Ieki still thought it was very good, such as that one, which said that the cloth, grain, salt, silk, tea and other materials needed for this book were sold by merchants designated by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the Tokugawa shogunate would receive at least 20% of the profits obtained in addition to the taxable ones.

And what is the way to allow the industrialists of the Huaxia Celestial Empire to hire the Ronin or the pauper, of course, they will be paid their due.

These two items made the Tokugawa family Qi very happy to accept, after all, the book had just experienced the rather famous famine "Tenmei Famine". Because of the heavy annual tribute and commercial usury, the peasants were driven to abandon their land and flee, the land was barren, and the lord economy went bankrupt. The lower-ranking samurai were said to be poor, while the higher-ranking samurai lived a corrupt life and were in high debt. The collusion between officials and businessmen, the shogunate [***], bribery of public banks, and the severe weather such as low temperatures and heavy rainfall, as well as the eruption of Mount Asama, finally led to the Tianming Famine, which caused more than 1.1 million people to die of starvation and disease in just five years from 1783 to 1787. At the same time, citizen riots and peasant uprisings broke out across the country, including Edo and Osaka.

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If food could be purchased from outside, then such famines should not happen again, and silk and tea were the favorites of the daimyo and the nobles. As for salt, it is also lacking, although it is surrounded by the sea, but due to the climate, the salt is very tight......

In short, these things are now sold to the company, not only to improve the living standards of the people of the city, but also to increase the prestige of his Tokugawa family, and the important point is that 20% of the profits will be directly handed over to him, the general.

Think about how much silk and tea a country needs, how much food and salt it needs. As soon as Tokugawa Iechi closed his eyes, he seemed to hear the pleasant sound of the coins colliding together.

As for allowing the Celestial Dynasty to hire those ronins and paupers, this made the Tokugawa family raise their hands and agree, because nowadays, the samurai class has formed a polarization, and a large number of ronins and paups who have lost their land or have had to go into exile due to usury are the most unstable factor in the country, and these guys will gather in various big cities all year round, and riot once or twice at every turn, which is a headache to the extreme.

Of course, there were clauses that made the Tokugawa family happy, but there were many clauses that made him quite uncomfortable and even humiliated. So much so that he was so angry that he even forgot to inquire about why the contract handed over by the Qing envoy was not signed by the Qing Empire, but the Huaxia Celestial Empire.

If it weren't for the fact that he was reserved as a general to keep his demeanor, it was likely that he would have jumped to his feet and cursed the street like a shrew, that is, his general's residence.

"For hundreds of years, I have not paid tribute to any country and asked him to leave Edo...... It is impossible to accept. Tokugawa Iechi looked at a few of them greedily, and could only toss the contract to the floor.

"General, the minister will go and tell the envoy of the Qing Kingdom, it's just ......" Matsudaira Nobuaki raised his head with some concern and looked at the general, who had always had a bad temper.

"Just what?" Tokugawa Ieki said with some impatience.

"The envoy said that if the general does not agree to sign this treaty, then all the consequences will be the responsibility of the country I said to have come from." Matsudaira Nobuaki hurriedly explained: "The Qing envoy once said that the Qing State has sent a fleet of thirty warships to our country. ”

"Nani?" The Tokugawa family's mouth almost grinned at the root of his ears, and he burst into a wild laugh: "Zhonglao, what do the thirty battleships want to do?" Do they think thirty warships will bring me to my knees? What an idiot, stupid! ”

(To be continued)