[96] Dumping

In Nagasaki City, the entrance of the Yamashita foreign goods store is crowded with onlookers.

"Come and see! Come and see! The best exotic! A magical thermos! The boiling water is put in in the morning, and it is still steaming hot when opened at night! Even if you put ice cubes, it won't melt at night!

There are also some of the best bikes in the world! The two wheels are flexible and durable, and the goods can be bundled at the back! Look, you're going to be able to run around! An iron horse that doesn't eat forage!

The big people who read come to see ah, Western fountain pens, colorful and beautiful, there are ten styles to choose from!

Everyone come to my store to see it! …………”

Yamashita Lang, the owner of the Yamashita foreign goods store, personally sat at the door of the store and supervised the shouting of the guys.

The wall of people in front of the door was impenetrable, and there was a lot of discussion.

"The thermos flask is really amazing, I obviously saw the boiling water in the store in the morning, locked into the wooden box, who knew that when I opened the wooden box now, there was still hot water in the bottle inside!" Someone exclaimed.

"Lanxue is really at stake, and Sinology seems to be useless anymore." There was a lot of talk in the crowd.

"The shopkeeper of the mountain, bring me a thermos flask!" A neatly dressed samurai squeezed in.

"Yes, Maruyama-sama, I knew that an enlightened person like you, who loves foreign things, would definitely buy this magical thermos. Please look at this bicycle again, look at this pneumatic tires, this shiny steel wire spokes, this perfect bearing! This black-painted steel body, a galvanized steel faucet as shiny as a snowflake! How beautiful! It's a work of art! ”

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Similar scenes are being played out in the shopping streets of Japan's opening cities, such as Nagasaki, Hakodate, Yokohama, Edo, Osaka, Hyogo, and Niigata...... Thermos flasks and folding umbrellas can be seen everywhere, and even people on the streets are showing off on bicycles, followed by a group of children shouting frantically.

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In 1867, the Tokugawa shogunate agreed to return the country, and in 1868, the Meiji Restoration staged a thousand-year-old counterattack, and the emperor came to power to replace the shogunate. After founding the country under the banner of 'standing side by side with overseas nations,' it was in the agony of being dumped by foreign powers, and if it had not been for the dividends of the war, it would have been impossible to complete industrialization by simply imposing customs duties. This is also the driving force behind Japan's ambitions to Taiwan, the Ryukyus, and North Korea. Japan needs to rob a neighboring country too much, even if the other country is small, it can still collect a lot of income under burning, killing and plundering. If they could take possession of it after the robbery, it would be a colony that they could shear their sheep at will for years and months.

In 1871, Japan proposed to Li Hongzhang that the Qing and Japan sign a so-called Japan-China trade treaty based on the unequal treaties between the Great Powers and the Qing State, but Li Hongzhang angrily and contemptuously refused.

Japan considered that if it could sign a treaty of equality, it would also be very conducive to invading Korea, because Korea was a vassal state of the Qing State, and once Japan could establish diplomatic relations with the Qing State on an equal footing, it would occupy a very advantageous position in the negotiations with Korea.

So Japan simply proposed to sign a treaty of equality, and this time Li Hongzhang took the bait and signed the "Regulations on the Reconciliation of the Great Qing Dynasty of Great Japan."

In 1873, the Japanese minister Vice Island met the Tongzhi Emperor in the Ziguang Pavilion and only performed three small bows, while the British and French ministers met Tongzhi that year and performed five 9o degree bows. Afterwards, Vice Island was extremely proud that he had taken advantage of Tongzhi, and the wolf's ambition was revealed.

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In the Kyoto Imperial Palace, the Japanese Emperor Meiji was sweating on his bicycle, and this was his fifth lap around the trail outside the Imperial Garden.

"Lord Moriyama, this kind of bicycle is much better than the previous British and French ones, look at this steel, how bright it is! I wonder if it's a new product from the United States? Meiji stroked the bicycle's glossy galvanized steel tubular faucet and exclaimed.

"I really don't know. However, your Majesty, our Yunyang gunboat with a displacement of 245 tons was only equipped with 8 cannons, and the Qing State was so frightened that it was silent about the Ganghwa Island incident, which shows that the Qing State was already a foreign power. With our fleet sailing to Korea and the 6th Sentai boarding6, I think we will be able to sign a treaty of trade with Korea hostage, so that the brave warriors of Great Japan can complete the first step on the Eurasian Great 6, and complete the starting point of Sato Nobubuchi's 1823 book "The Secret Strategy of Unai Mixture", first Korea, then Manchuria, then all of China, and then all of Asia.

Speaking of which, to be able to put forward such a whale-devouring big 6 policy concept so early, Sato Nobubuchi is really a strange person. Shigeru Moriyama, Meiji's policy adviser, said as he stood there and looked at Meiji, who was riding sweaty.

Meiji said to Moriyama with great ambition: "We need to speed up the construction of industry, the industrial level of the world's great powers is really developing too fast, you see that we can't make small things like thermos flasks, folding umbrellas, and even fountain pens!" ”

Shigeru Moriyama said with a grimace: "We need money, Your Majesty, a lot of money." ”

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Yao Fan's goods also stimulated major European and American foreign companies.

Ever since the major foreign banks of the great powers approved Yao Fan's goods, they immediately realized the great value of these goods. On the one hand, they sent samples back to Europe and the United States for research, and at the same time, they arranged for manpower to inquire about the source manufacturers everywhere, hoping to purchase directly from the manufacturers and further increase sales profits.

But for foreign banks, the more important thing is to make money at hand.

As a result, the ports along the rivers along the coast of the Qing Dynasty and the ports of various colonies throughout Asia became the first markets to receive goods.

As one of the leading foreign firms operating in Asia, Jardine Matheson was the first to set up a branch in China and Japan, and the current Taipan of Jardine Matheson is York-Jardine, a member of the Caesarc family and the nephew of William Jardine, the founder of Jardine Matheson.

"Tell the European side to go and check it out! I want to know which country and which factory produced it in the shortest possible time! Such a sought-after product, how come the branches in Europe did not show up in advance! Did I pay them so much that they thought they could sleep peacefully in the office? York-Jardinen reprimanded his managers in dissatisfaction with the Hong Kong head office.

On the table in front of York-Jardine was a disassembled iron-shelled thermos flask, which was really simple design, with a galvanized iron shell, the bottom could be unscrewed, and an inner tank was inserted inside, and a rubber ring was padded on the mouth and bottom of the bottle.

York-Jardine understands that the key here is undoubtedly this shiny, full-bodied glass bottle, which is the core body of the thermos flask.

"Send some of these thermos flasks to Cambridge and ask the professors in Great Britain to see how this thing works and whether it can be made in England." Jardine commanded.

"Yes, sir."

"And the pens, the bicycles, the folding umbrellas, all sent back with the boat, and I bet that these old watches, chintz, folding umbrellas, and new scented soaps are all new German and French craftsmanship! Of course, some of them may be Swiss or Austrian. I can't believe that their progress is so fast! Jardine frowned.

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