Chapter 246: Trade with Japan

Although they are only the outermost personnel of the sea wolf, but now they have the sea wolf to back them up, and the guys of Mao Shengyuan also feel that their faces are bright, so Li Yi has not come back, they have already cleaned up the shop, but Mao Shengyuan evacuated in a hurry at that time, and many bulky goods were not disposed of in time, and when they were confiscated by the government, they were all lost, either fell into the hands of individual officials and were sold, or they were stolen by some officials.

Therefore, the loss of stores in Maoshengyuan is not small, even including the inside of the shop, it is also very badly damaged, some boxes and cabinets that cannot be moved away have been smashed, and these things can only be repaired before they are reopened.

Li Yi returned to the shop, and after meeting these guys and stewards, after comforting them with kind words, he began to tell them to do things, and invited many craftsmen to redecorate the shop.

In addition, he also began to negotiate with the government to recover the lost property, which was made clear when Yu Xiaotian and Cai Shanji were negotiating at that time, and the government did not dare to say that it would not compensate, so after the negotiation, the government more or less took out some silver and compensated Mao Shengyuan.

And a large number of goods, with the return of Li Yi, Maoshengyuan reopened, and began to be transported to shops around the country, put on the shelves and began to sell.

As soon as Maoshengyuan opened, businessmen from all over the country immediately flocked to order all kinds of goods from Maoshengyuan, even if they didn't need it for the time being, they also came here to buy some goods, at least establish some friendship and cooperative relations, and pave the way for them to continue to deal with sea wolves in the future.

Therefore, Mao Shengyuan's business, as soon as it reopened, was very popular, which also had something to do with the goods they had at hand, because the soap and soap "created" by Yu Xiaotian were out of stock for several months at this time, and it was already difficult to find them on the market, and now these things have long become a luxury pursued by wealthy families.

In addition, the glass industry of the sea wolf has now been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, who has a little money, if they do not engage in a glass product, they are embarrassed to say that their family is rich, and such a fresh thing as a glass mirror makes countless women rush to it, and now the market has become very scarce because of the out-of-stock for a few months, and many people come to buy.

In addition, through the military operations in the past few months, the sea wolf has also grabbed a lot of goods, these things are piled up in the sea wolf's warehouses all over the country, in addition to the things that the sea wolf needs to use, will be transferred to fresh water or other places, some luxury goods, of course, to be disposed of.

And although the sea wolf has a sea trade business, which can be sold to the Portuguese, Spaniards, and Dutch, there are still many things to be sold on land.

And Mao Shengyuan has naturally become a place to sell stolen goods publicly, in the past, they would have slightly restrained themselves in doing this kind of thing, but now that they sell stolen goods, it has become a public matter, and the government doesn't even dare to let go of a fart, so they can only stare dryly and watch Mao Shengyuan sell these stolen goods.

Fortunately, Mao Shengyuan was able to reopen so quickly, which was a complete relief for the sea wolf, because in the past few months, although all the workshops on Nanri Island have been suspended, the workshops in Tamsui and Chicken Coop have been in continuous production.

The various commodities they produce are now hoarded a lot, although the business in Fujian has stopped, and they can still ship in Guangdong and Zhejiang, but after all, it will affect some of their sales, and now these goods can finally be realized.

For this business matter, Yu Xiaotian has now been handed over to the council hall to take care of, and now under the council hall, there is a special business office, temporarily in charge of Li Yi, the business office has two departments, one external, that is, responsible for export trade, and the other internal, responsible for the sales of goods in the interior of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Yi is now in charge of the power of the business office, this is because in the previous turmoil, Li Yi firmly stood on Yu Xiaotian's side, and did not show any betrayal or alienation from Xiaotian, so Li Yi has now completely won the trust of Yu Xiaotian, so under the council hall, the establishment of the business office, this matter is handed over to Li Yi to be responsible, after all, he does this most professionally, and there is no problem with loyalty, in addition to his overview of the business office, the overall internal trade is also directly under his management.

But this matter to the outside world, Yu Xiaotian handed over to Xu Xinsu, who had just been subdued by him, after Xu Xinsu went through this incident, his entire potential power has been destroyed by the sea wolf, so Xu Xinsu can be said to have no way out, he knows that he and even his family, and now his life is in the hands of Xiaotian.

Now the Fujian government has no way to take the sea wolf, if he doesn't work for Yu Xiaotian honestly, then Yu Xiaotian only needs one sentence to wipe him and even his family completely wiped out, even if his family is on land, no one can keep him.

In terms of the government, now he is afraid that Yu Xiaotian is afraid of death, and the huge Weitou Bay has been handed over to Yu Xiaotian for control, and he doesn't dare to put a fart, no matter how capable he is, if Yu Xiaotian wants to destroy his family, the government will never risk tearing his face with the sea wolf again to protect him.

So after Xu Xinsu was captured this time, Yu Xiaotian didn't kill him, and he himself was already disheartened, he knew that he was still useful to Xiaotian, so Yu Xiaotian would leave his life, and he was very happy to be able to save his life, as for his business, he didn't want to do it anymore.

What's more, Yu Xiaotian also has a secret agreement with him, and gave him a condition, as long as he follows Yu Xiaotian in the future, Yu Xiaotian will not touch his family, nor will he touch his family's property, and will provide them with protection.

In addition, in the foreign trade business, Yu Xiaotian also promised to give him Xu Xinsu five percent of the shares, on the surface, this half of the shares, it seems that there are not much, but Xu Xinsu knows very well how big Yu Xiaotian's current business plate is, he used to boast that he was a giant businessman in Quanzhou, but the business he mastered, compared with the business of the sea wolf, is simply a small plate.

Even if Yu Xiaotian only gives him half of the shares, every year, his income will never be lower than before, and even greatly exceed his previous earnings.

Since Yu Xiaotian gave Xu Xinsu such a condition, Xu Xinsu naturally has nothing to say, in all aspects, he is now taking refuge in Yu Xiaotian, which is the wisest choice, so Xu Xinsu can only start to work hard for Yu Xiaotian in a down-to-earth manner.

The reason why he was the first to hurry up was because he had done this piece of trade before, and he had already mastered a large piece of trade resources with Japan in the past, and he was most familiar with this piece of trade.

Moreover, Xu Xinsu used to be in Japan, with Li Dan as an ally, and the relationship between the two sides was quite good, but after Li Dan died, this matter was taken away by Zheng Yiguan, and Xu Xinsu and Zheng Yiguan were not in harmony and made a lot of trouble, and Zheng Yiguan also cut off Xu Xinsu's trade with Japan.

In the past two years, Xu Xinsu has suffered a lot of losses due to this, and Zheng Yiguan has also blocked his trade with the Dutch, and constantly intercepted the merchant ships he sent to Dayuan.

Now that Zheng Yiguan was driven out of the coastal areas of Fujian by Yu Xiaotian, Zheng Yiguan lost the ability to continue to control trade with Japan, including himself, and also lost a large number of sources of trade with Japan.

Last winter, it was supposed to be the time when Zheng Yiguan was going to ship a large number of goods to Japan, but Zheng Yiguan was driven out of Fujian by Yu Xiaotian, and after he lost the source of goods in Fujian, he could no longer organize how many goods to be shipped to Japan.

In addition, his own strength was greatly damaged, and his subordinates were scattered a lot, and the ships lost about seventy or eighty percent, which made him even worse, and he did not send a few ships to Japan at all last year.

Therefore, after solving the matter on the Fujian side, Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered Xu Xinsu to resume trade with Japan as quickly as possible, and took advantage of Zheng Yiguan's weakest time now to completely control the trade channel with Japan and completely squeeze Zheng Yiguan out of this trade route.

However, if you want to go to Japan to open up trade routes, you can't rely on strength alone, because if you want to trade in Japan, you must have a license issued by the shogunate, without this kind of license, even if the goods are transported to Hirado, they can't be sold, unless Yu Xiaotian mobilizes a super large fleet to destroy the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, otherwise, it is impossible to open up this trade route by force alone.

But Xu Xinsu just has such a license, with Xu Xinsu, plus his previous connections in Japan, as long as there are good goods that can be shipped to Hirado, Zheng Yiguan, who has no source of goods, can quickly squeeze out of this trade route.

Therefore, after the New Year, the military operation of the sea wolf has not completely ended, and the trade work with Japan here has begun in full swing.

Now the sea wolf has cultivated a group of fire captains, accepted the teaching of the Spanish captives, has initially mastered some of the ability to sail at sea without relying on markers, and has also mastered the use of the quadrant, that is, the quadrant, the rectangular instrument and the imager, and has also imitated it, so that the sea wolf now has the ability to no longer rely on needle paths.

In the past, because of the regression of China's navigation technology, after the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to sail directly to Japan, and could only rely on the needle of the compass to sail around a large circle along the Ryukyu Islands to Japan, so Fujian's trade with Japan was very important.

Most merchant ships sailed from here and then made a detour along the Ryukyu Islands, a large circle, to Japan, which could not be safely sailed without departing from Fujian.

However, in this way, it is equivalent to taking two-thirds more roads, so that a merchant ship can only depart in the winter season and sail to Japan, and can only return to Fujian after the spring of the following year, and can only run once a year.

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