In the end, in the end is the future "Bismarck of the Far East", Ito Hirobumi's negotiation skills are still good.

He first asked Maori to retreat left and right, leaving only the old right emon on the side, and then told the truth about the Ming Dynasty.

When they heard that in the Far East, the Ming Dynasty led the Yellow Race to defeat the Europa three times and conquered a territory larger than the whole of Japan, Mori and Uemon opened their mouths in surprise!

The total area of Xinzhili + Xinlu is 430,000 square kilometers, of which there are large areas of uninhabited land, but the Ming can undoubtedly be said to control this area.

Even after deducting the Grand Duchy of Seattle, which is controlled by the Bondage, the land area of the Ming Dynasty has reached 350,000 square kilometers.

In later generations, the total area of Japan was less than 380,000 square kilometers, and Hokkaido is not yet considered Japanese territory, and the total area of Japan's feudal domains was only 290,000 square kilometers, which was much smaller than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, considering that Japan has a population of nearly 30 million, and the chaotic feudal people of the Ming Dynasty are more than 80,000 people (it is expected to grow to more than 200,000 by the end of the year), Japan is still a behemoth for the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that, of course, Ito Hirobumi will not talk about population with Mori and others, and if he wants to talk about it, he will naturally talk about area.

As soon as he heard that the land of Daming had surpassed that of Japan, equivalent to the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, Mao Li immediately swallowed his saliva, but after thinking about it, he didn't believe it.

Isn't it as Inoue Shin said, Ito stumbled and fell into the sea, so he broke his brain?

However, at this time, the old minister Uemon quietly stabbed Mori and pointed to the unloaded revolver on the table.

This imitation Colt revolver is a product of the Daming Royal Gun Factory.

The revolver has a simple structure, acceptable power, and easy maintenance, and the gun factory has produced a lot, which is one of the standard guns of the Jinyi Guard and the Criminal Department Police.

Compared with the revolver produced by Westerners, the Chinese character inscription on the Daming revolver is particularly conspicuous.

Maori, who was reminded by the old family, thought that Ito gave this gun to himself, not as a gift, but to prove his strength.

"Your Excellency Maori, there is no basis for your words, if you agree, we can go to the port to inspect the goods, I am full of martial virtues, but I have always treated people with sincerity!"

"My Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty knows very well that His Excellency Maori has ruined his family and saved the country because of his righteous deeds, and now he is shy in his pockets, and I can provide low-interest loans, as long as Your Excellency can use the tariffs of the Choshu Domain as collateral......"

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Ito's plan did not succeed in the end, and the Maori Keiko, who had not yet been completely exhausted, did not agree to mortgage the customs to this Daming who had jumped out of nowhere.

When he heard that he could exchange guns and guns with Fuso women, Maori agreed.

But he had to inspect the goods first.

As a result, the port of Shimonoseki, where ships came and went, was closed again without warning.

Of course, this time, the Choshu Domain did not block the Shimonoseki Strait and prevent Westerners from passing through the Strait of Westerners, but simply protected an area of the port.

Maori Kei came to the dock on a war horse no taller than a donkey, and by this time the "Fu Qiang", which had been ordered, had already begun to unload.

Of course, Zhu Fugui couldn't give Maori anything good.

Advanced guns and artillery are lacking in the Ming Dynasty.

During the previous attack on Xinji, the Ming captured 22 12-pounder Napoleon guns and more than 10,000 rifles.

Among the rifles, the better maintenance was handed over to second-line troops such as Jinyiwei.

The rest, together with a batch of Henry 1860, was shipped to the Far East.

As for those Napoleon cannons, Zhu Fugui can't look down on any of them, and he feels pity to rebuild them, so he is ready to sell them.

According to the plan, the weapons sold by the Ming to the Changzhou Domain were mainly cannons, and those sold to the Huai army were mainly guns.

This is because if those Napoleonic cannons are given to Li Hongzhang, Zhu Fugui is worried that Hong Xiuquan's brother will not be able to withstand it.

After all, in siege warfare, artillery is far more useful than guns.

Of course, Zhu Fugui would not be stupid enough to sell all 22 cannons to the Changzhou Domain at one time.

This time, there are only 5 doors equipped with the "Fuqiang".

Each cannon is replaced by 500 high-quality and female people, and 5 cannons are 2,500 people.

Maori Jing Qin thinks it is very cost-effective, and you can just find a few villages to levy it.

This is not the sparsely populated Warring States period, and the Choshu Domain is full of saturated villages and women who cannot marry due to a lack of men.

Trading them for life-saving Western-style cannons is really the most cost-effective.

In particular, when the officers and men of the Navy Division test-fired a 10-kilogram heavy iron shell that could hit 3 miles away on the spot, Maori was even more satisfied.

It wasn't that he hadn't thought about sending troops to snatch the cannons, but reason told him he couldn't.

On the one hand, it is said that the two giant ships in the harbor are only a small part of the Ming fleet, and they still have several large ships in the open sea!

If they were also armed with such cannons on their ships (there were originally cannons, but not Napoleonic cannons), wouldn't it be another Shimonoseki war?

Maori respects the relatives and the shogunate is a feud, and the Westerners are the enmity of life and death, and there is no grudge with the Ming Dynasty.

It's not often that such a good deal is a bargain!

At the same time, Daming also felt that this deal was very good.

After all, a 12-pound Napoleonic cannon costs only $400, and depreciation is only about 200 silver dollars.

In other words, a Japanese woman only costs 0.4 silver dollars.

What is 0.4 silver dollars enough for in Daming?

Well, $0.4 is still very valuable this year, save a little, enough to spend a month, after all, Daming's food and drink are very cheap.

But 0.4 yuan can buy a wife!

Workers can buy 10 of them for a month's salary!

Of course, Daming has always paid attention to women's rights and opposed the objectification of women.

Zhu Fugui has repeatedly reiterated that these women are not goods, but women rescued by the Ming Dynasty from the hands of the Japanese Southern Fist, and after physical examination and labor reform, they have a free love affair with the Ming officers and soldiers and workers.

In addition to the cannons on the "Fuqiang", the "Harmony" was loaded with a lot of corn.

In the Xinjin Agricultural Reclamation Area, the corn sown in April is now ripe and has a bumper harvest.

More than 60,000 acres of corn, because of extensive planting, the yield per mu is not high, only less than 600 kilograms.

But this is also 36 million kilograms of corn.

Of these, 3 million kilograms have been put into storage as strategic reserves, and the rest are used for rations, winemaking, and pig raising.

Considering that corn can be planted twice a year, the second season has been planted, and it can be harvested again in September and October, so Daming's grain has been completely self-sufficient.

Such a huge amount, casually evenly counted, is enough to trade with the Choshu Domain.

Although Japanese people love rice, they will not refuse corn.

Coupled with furs, books, watches, cigarettes, all sorts of things, and again "liberated" and 2,000 women.

That's right, the "books" in this were sold to the Changzhou Domain by Zhu Fugui with all his thoughts.

In fact, even if he posted the money, Zhu Fugui was willing to introduce his own and the comics such as "Rogue Kenshin" and "One Piece" created by Shimura and others to Japan.

These are civilizations that are more precious than gold!

Finally, Ito smiled again and said: "I have heard that the ancient people used tigers and bears as patterns to deter the enemy, and the samurai of the Warring States Period also used ghost-faced armor to make the enemy fearful. ”

Mori Kei, who originally thought that there was no way out, did not pay any price this time, obtained Western cannons and food, and was preparing to compete with his old rival, the Tokugawa shogunate.

But if there is any certainty of victory, there is no gross profit at all.

Now in his eyes, Ito, not to mention the Heavenly Empire's envoy, is also Nobita's jingle cat, and hurriedly asked: "Please teach me, Mr. Wan!" ”

Ito Hirobumi laughed and said, "The shogunate is afraid of only foreigners!" ”

As he spoke, more than 200 white men wearing cheap samurai uniforms and shaved their heads walked off the side of the ship one after another under the coercion of the bayonets of the Ming sailors, holding their heads in their hands.

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