"Two hundred silver coins, you take this batch of goods!" In the lively teahouse, a bearded merchant said to the person next to him, the person next to him also looked like a businessman, but he looked much neater than him, and he should be a local merchant in Jincheng. After the merchant finished speaking, he picked up the tea bowl on the table and drank it all.

"Shopkeeper Hu, two hundred silver coins are too expensive, there were so many goods last time, you only need one hundred and eighty silver coins, why did it suddenly rise by twenty silver coins?" The merchant said with some dissatisfaction. The so-called business owner owns a store in the local area, and is usually only responsible for the terminal sales of goods, unlike the merchants who carry the goods around to sell.

"How can this be the same? Last time I brought Dengzhou cloth, and this time it is a good quality Hebei cloth, not to mention anything else, just the freight is a lot more expensive, plus the texture of the cloth is stronger than Dengzhou cloth, I only add twenty silver coins is already in the face of the old customer, if you don't want it, then I will sell it to others! The bearded merchant was an impatient man, and his tone of voice was rather impulsive, but those who knew him well knew that this man had always spoken like this, so the merchant next to him was not angry.

In addition, this businessman also knows that Jincheng is the distribution center of goods in China and South Korea and North Korea, like this batch of cloth transported by the beard, it is indeed the best Hebei cloth, and although there are many textile factories in China and North Korea, they produce wool textiles, these things are okay to wear in winter, and they still wear cotton cloth at other times, so they don't worry about sales at all.

Thinking of this, the businessman immediately smiled and said, "Okay, two hundred is two hundred, but I don't have any cash." According to the old rules, I will prepare tweed and blankets for you with two hundred silver coins. Then you can make a lot of money when you ship it back! ”

The bearded man laughed and patted the old patron on the shoulder. Then the two got up and went to deliver the goods, after all, the bearded man would not stay in Jincheng for long, for a merchant like him, time equaled money.

Seeing that the two businessmen had negotiated a business in the blink of an eye, Li Zhi at the table next to him lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and then looked at the other people in the teahouse. The name of this teahouse is Guangjin Teahouse, which means 'wealth and resources', and although the name sounds vulgar, it is very suitable for the positioning here. Because this teahouse is located in the business area of Jincheng, it is mainly used for businessmen to talk about business, such as the merchants in the hall are talking about some small business that is not very important, if you don't want people to hear, you can go to the private room upstairs.

After Li Zhi visited the factory and school yesterday,Summarize the gains and losses of the day in the evening.,But in addition to seeing the necessity and effect of implementing sinicization,He always felt as if he had overlooked something.,It wasn't until the end that I suddenly remembered.。 It turned out that I forgot one of the most important prerequisites, which was to control the local economy.

The reason why Lu Hong took Li Zhi to visit the two factories was not only to let Li Zhi see the results of the implementation of sinicization, but also to have another meaning. That is, through these two iconic factories, Li Zhi was told that the economies of China and North Korea were now completely in the hands of the Han people and the government, and most of the factories were run by Han Chinese. In addition, China and North Korea only produce grain, textiles, and processed foods, while all other necessities of life need to be imported from overseas. And this is also in the hands of the government and the Han people, so it can be said that they have left the Han people. Almost everyone in South Korea and North Korea will not survive.

It's also with this prerequisite.,So when the government is implementing sinicization,Sanhan will be so cooperative.。 And after Li Zhi figured this out, he just came together this morning, and asked Lu Hong to take him to this teahouse where merchants from all over the world gathered, and sure enough, he found that most of the merchants who came here to trade were Han merchants, and occasionally there were some Sanhan merchants trading in the hall, and their trading partners were often Han people.

Lu Hong, who was next to him, couldn't help but smile when he saw Li Zhi observing so carefully, the other party could comprehend these things by himself, which was enough to show that His Highness's arrangements were not in vain.

The two stayed in the teahouse for a morning, and then returned to their residence, and Li Zhi recorded the harvest in the teahouse again, especially in terms of economic control, and had a lot of experience, such as the entire China, South Korea and North Korea, the usual salt needs to be imported from Dengzhou, and the others are as small as a sewing needle, as large as the furniture in the house, they all need to be imported, which shows that the local economy has been seriously deformed, and it must rely on the supplement of the foreign economy to live.

In the next few days, Li Zhi went to North Korea to take a look and found that it was similar to Jincheng, and all the Sanhan people were proud to speak Chinese and wear Hanfu, and tried their best to raise their ranks. It is also worth mentioning that until Li Zhi and the others left Jincheng, Li You did not show up.

Li Zhi's next stop is Ezo Island, where the situation is similar to that of Sanhan, and all aspects are carrying out the implementation of sinicization, these steppe people, both men and women, are working hard to learn Chinese, change their surnames, and strive to make themselves closer to the Han people, but they have not given up their original nomadic life, this is because Li Su needs them to maintain their fierce nature, so that he can gather these steppe people at any time and become a war knife for himself to open up.

In fact, there have been great changes on Ezo Island, the most important of which is that Li Su ordered people to build five cities on the island, which are located in the east, west, north and south and the center of the island, and these five cities are stationed with Han officials, and there are many Han merchants who come here to sell goods, so it soon became the five major cargo distribution centers on Ezo Island.

In addition, many Chinese schools have also been set up in these five cities, which not only teach grassland children to learn Chinese, but also some adults can study in them. The ruling Falling Cloud tribe has now moved into the city in the middle, and named it Falling Cloud City, which is the political and economic center of the island and the largest city on the island.

Speaking of Ezo Island, it is also quite boring, although the five new cities look very big in the grassland people, but in the eyes of Li Zhi, they are just some small towns, there is nothing to see at all, as for the outside of the city is a large grassland, in addition to cattle and sheep are horses, it is worth mentioning that Ezo Island is also a good place to raise horses, and the cavalry horses under Li Su are all bred here.

After Li Zhi ate a few meals of roast mutton on Ezo Island, they went to the mountains and forests to hunt bears, but unfortunately the archery skills of several people were not very good, and they did not have the courage of tiger power, so in the end, they relied on the help of the guards to hit a small bear. But even so, it still made the son very excited, clamoring to make double bearskin gloves for the sixth brother, but unfortunately she forgot, in a hot place like Taiwan, where would bearskin gloves be used?

After leaving Ezo Island, Li Zhi and the others went south to the Wa Kingdom, but for here, Lu Hong did not arrange for Li Zhi and them to stay for too long, mainly because the Wa Kingdom is not as good as Sanhan, and the country is still relatively turbulent, and from time to time someone will take the lead in rebellion, although the scale is not large, but it is enough to give people a headache, so for the safety of Li Zhi and others, Lu Hong finally took the fleet all the way south, and did not stop until Nu Harbor.

In fact, compared to a few years ago,There are few rebellions in the Wa State now,This is mainly because of the implementation of Sinicization,If you want to implement Sinicization,There must be a stable social environment,Of course,You can also use tough means to implement,But you must be prepared to pay a huge price,And Li Su didn't want to waste too much power in this small Wa country,So he temporarily softened the high-pressure rule of the Wa State,Turn to some gentle means,Plus economic aggression,This makes the society of the Wa State very stable, With the exception of occasional conflicts in remote areas, the rest of the area has largely settled down.

The port of Nu where Li Zhi and the others arrived is no longer the port that was still a barren port a few years ago, the port is a natural and excellent port, coupled with several years of construction, the port here has begun to take shape, and it has become the second largest port in the Japanese country, second only to the port of Shimonoseki on Chikushi Island.

The slave port was originally famous for the slave trade, and even the name came from this, but with the pacification of the Japanese state, the slave hunting operation slowly disappeared in the Japanese country, so the slave trade in the slave port also disappeared, but the development of the port was not affected, because the slaves were located in the center of the island of Honshu, which was the main transportation route connecting the north and the south, and goods from all over the country could be transported to the slave port and then traded with the Han merchants.

Speaking of which, although the Wa Kingdom is scarce in minerals, and there is not much land, and the annual grain produced is only enough for them to eat, but there is a very important thing here, that is, sulfur, which is a necessity for making gunpowder, and the Wa Kingdom has many volcanoes, and the sulfur is not only large, but also of high purity, so the sulfur used by Li Yu to make gunpowder is transported from the Wa State.

In addition, although sulfur is poisonous, if you are not careful when collecting, you may die, but some poor people in the Japanese country in order to have a full meal, or rush to the mine to collect sulfur, if there is an accident, those black-hearted mine owners will generally throw the corpse into the valley, come to a living and no one will die, and the Han officials sent by Li Zhi in order to have enough sulfur, so they have always turned a blind eye to this situation.

After Li Zhi and his family came to Nugang, they went to visit the nearby sulfur mines, but they encountered some family members of the dead miners who made trouble, but they were beaten away by the mine owner.

In addition to being a commercial port, Nugang is also a very important military port, and the most powerful navy in the hands of Li Su was stationed here before, but later with the shift of Li Su's center of gravity to the South Seas, most of the navy has now moved to the South Seas. However, although the navy moved, it left a very interesting place for Nu Harbor. (To be continued......)