"Ah~~ Ya Yan Butterfly!"

In the front yard of the Fat Wind Pavilion, chickens and dogs jumped.

Aunt Yan Ruxue Yan is holding her Akita dog named Xiao Mantou at the moment, which is called walking dogs, but in fact, she is letting and even driving the dogs to chase those Japanese women who are wearing pillows and clogs.

The women were frightened by the dogs and screamed and ran away, but the hems of their kimonos were so small that they wore clogs made it impossible to run, and many of them fell into the bushes on the side of the road.

Seeing the scene of people turning on their backs in front of her, Aunt Yan was in a good mood and giggled.

For these shameless Japanese women, Aunt Yan has long wanted to take revenge, hum! You dare to seduce my villain, you deserve it! Fall to your death!

The opening of fairy grass cigarettes, as soon as they are sold, it is nine thousand taels of silver, of course, Yan Ruxue knew about it for the first time.

It is precisely because of the opening that Yan Ruxue feels that she really has no face to stay in the small courtyard - if she just said "no one wants bullshit cigarettes" this morning, it was opened at noon and sold well, how can she be embarrassed?

So she hid in the front yard, and by the way, she cleaned up these shameless Japanese women.

In fact, as soon as she finished saying that sentence in the morning, Yan Ruxue regretted it, as a lover who had the same heart as Chu Fan, how could she not know the weight of fairy grass cigarettes in the latter's heart?

When he said that in the morning, he was completely angry, and he rushed to that point, as far as her heart is concerned, Aunt Yan has no prejudice against Xiancao cigarettes, and she is even more appreciative of Chu Fan's serious work - Chu Fan is extremely focused when negotiating with those brothel shopkeepers, and focused men are the most exciting for women.

So when Yan Ruxue secretly hid upstairs and saw Chu Fan who was going out, her face was pale, she regretted it in her heart—why did she use the things he cared about the most to sting him deeply?

Well, when he comes back at noon, he must find a chance to explain it well, lest this villain leave any bad shadow in his heart.

But she didn't expect that it was herself who left a shadow in her heart - as soon as she came back at noon, the fairy grass cigarettes were open and sold.

Yan Ruxue was both happy and angry, and happily that the villain kept the clouds open and saw the moon, and the fatigue of these days of running and traveling finally paid off; Angry, he was slapped in the face, how should he stay in this small courtyard in the future.

Holding the little steamed bun, she was running happily, and suddenly stood on her feet.

The three figures slowly walked into the gate of the Fat Wind Pavilion and forced towards her.

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"Brother Zhenglong, this Nagasaki merchant of the Japanese Kingdom, I don't know which one is the most powerful?"

In Chen Shangren's room in the small courtyard, Chu Fan was sitting precariously, putting down his posture and asking Fan Zhenglong.

"Thanks to the son's inquiry, Fan must know everything," Fan Zhenglong bowed slightly, "Speaking of Nagasaki merchants, Fan knows a little bit about it." ”

Fan Zhenglong was originally from Ningde, Fujian, and his family originally had thin assets, and he was like many children in Daming, studying in a private school, dreaming of one day a carp jumping over the dragon gate; It's a pity that when he was 9 years old, his father couldn't afford to be sick, and in order to treat his father, everything that the family could sell was sold, including him.

After being sold to Quanzhou, a Francophone merchant bought Fan Zhenglong. This devout Catholic was regarded by Fan Zhenglong as his second father, because not only did he never abuse, beat and scolded him, but he also did not even let him do heavy work, but also took the trouble to teach him to learn the language of the Franc machine, so that he was baptized into Catholicism and treated him like his own son.

Fan Zhenglong has a very high talent for languages, and in just a few years, he has not only learned Franco-Rang and Wa Mandarin, but also Spanish and Dutch, which he often deals with.

This gave him a foundation for his life in the future - the Franc machine merchant was involved in the shogunate's "forbidden religion" turmoil, and unfortunately died while defending the Catholic church on the edge of Nagasaki City - without the protection of the merchants, Fan Zhenglong was thrown off the ship by the vicious Franc machine sailors, and since then he has been living on the streets of Nagasaki, and he can only make a living as a translator, which is six or seven years.

Therefore, Fan Zhenglong can be said to be an out-and-out Nagasaki pass, and even a certain sense of the Wa Guotong.

According to him, the merchants of the Japanese Kingdom in this era, like the Ming Dynasty, were at the bottom of the four classes of "Shinong Industry and Commerce".

However, with the end of the war, the restoration of unification, and the return to the era of peace, the wealth and status of merchants are increasing rapidly, although the social status is still low, but some big business tycoons have gradually emerged.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty, there were not only the civil servants of the shogunate standing behind the great merchants and magnates of the Wa Kingdom, but also the shadows of various foreign daimyos.

Among them, the most powerful merchant is the Kato family of Higo Province - a merchant with a family crest, which is unique in the Wa Kingdom in this era!

You must know that the vast majority of merchants in the Wa Kingdom in this era, not to mention the family crest, don't even have a surname, most of them are just like the owner of the Fat Wind Pavilion, only the name of a poor Baba Kichimaru!

Owning a family crest naturally means having the status of a high-ranking nobleman, and naturally having all the privileges and benefits of a high-ranking nobleman, which naturally means that the Kato family's business is much better than that of other businessmen.

"The Kato family started with Kato Kiyomasa," Fan Zhenglong told him what he heard and explained, "Kato Kiyomasa is an important minister of His Royal Highness Taiko, one of the 'Seven Guns of Shidake', and he made great contributions in the Battle of Shidake, plus he followed His Royal Highness the Great Imperial Palace during the Battle of Sekigahara, so he was finally named the lord of Higo Province, a daimyo of 520,000 koku." ”

He said Chu Fan in a daze, and he had to ask in detail, Fan Zhenglong explained for a long time with the help of Chen Shangren, and finally let Chu Fan understand.

It turned out that Kato Kiyoshi was an important general of the so-called Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and made great contributions to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unification of Japan, but when it came to the Sekigahara battle between the Toyotomi family and the so-called great imperial palace Tokugawa Ieyasu, he sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu, so he was rewarded by Tokugawa Ieyasu after the war and became the supreme ruler of Higo Province - and Higo was in the east of Hizen Province, where Nagasaki was located.

"After Kato Kiyomasa's death, his youngest son, Tadahiro Kato, became the Higo Domain," Fan Zhenglong continued, after explaining clearly, "but the business of the Kato family is mainly handled by Tadahiro Kato's elder brother, Tadaji Kato...... The Kato family has a wide range of industries, and they have intervened in almost all the businesses that can make money...... Let's just say that about one-third of the shops in Nagasaki Castle are related to the Kato family, either they are opened by the family themselves, or they have a certain share capital...... It is said that the Kato family was even more prosperous in Edo, and there is a proverb in the Wakoku country that says, "Half of the goods from Nagasaki to Edo are surnamed Kato...... Most of the main cities of other feudal kingdoms had Kato shops, and even the Matsumae and Sendai domains in Hokkaido. ”

After finishing speaking, Fan Zhenglong looked at Chu Fan and asked tentatively, "Does Childe want to contact the Kato family?" Tadaji Kato Fan didn't dare to say that he could be contacted, but Fan, the head of the Kato family in Nagasaki, had still seen it. ”

Chu Fan said proudly, "If I want to see it, it will definitely be to see Kato Tadaji, the small fish and shrimp below, who has the kung fu to waste time on them." ”

After speaking, he looked at the stunned Chen and Fan, and said with a faint smile.

"But don't worry, Tadaji Kato will come to us."