"Governor Liu, tell everyone about it. ”

After Zhao Wanxiong, Jin Qiude, Yang Zhiyuan and He Dingyuan's four henchmen arrived, Huang Shi asked Liu Qingyang to introduce the situation again, and he sat leisurely on the chair on the side.

"The Japanese shogunate has been restricting maritime trade for many years, but for more than ten years, they have been more polite to the Dutch and English red hairs, as well as our Ming merchants. This year, the Japanese shogunate bombed away all the British in Japan, and this originally had nothing to do with my Changsheng Island, because the Japanese shogunate would also leave the Dutch red hair and our Ming merchants. Speaking of this, Liu Qingyang suddenly remembered a question, so he paused, turned around and looked in the direction of Huangshi.

Seeing that Huang Shi was still drinking tea casually, Liu Qingyang smiled and said to the Four King Kongs: "Who told us to sell fake money, so we have to ban our business." ”

"Are we selling fake money?" He Dingyuan's eyes widened, and he turned his head and asked Yang Zhiyuan, "Didn't we go to Japan to sell deer skins?"

Yang Zhiyuan laughed dryly twice and did not speak, although this matter is not visible, but most of the high-level officials of Changsheng Island know it. That is, He Dingyuan is completely inattentive to logistics, and he usually believes what others say. He Dingyuan prefers to mess around with soldiers, and occasionally when he comes to the logistics department, he must also come to blackmail supplies, and he doesn't want to think about how many broken deer skins can be sold.

"You don't have to worry about this matter, just listen. It was still Huang Shi who relieved Yang Zhiyuan, and he raised his chin at Liu Dusi again: "You continue." ”

"Yes, my lord. Liu Qingyang bowed. I began to settle accounts for a few people here. Japan's money shortage is still very bad. Let's say it's a fake money. That can be exchanged for about two taels of silver in Japan, and then poured into copper and shipped back, which can produce five taels of fake money. Even after removing the consumption of sailors, the transit of Japanese merchants, and the bribery of Japanese magistrates, the profit of this fake money was still more than 100 percent.

In the past two years, Kazuo Kuroshima and Liu Qingyang have taken turns to go to Japan on duty. Now that he has bought a small town outside the port of Shimonoseki, he has also bought off many corrupt officials in Japan, and now his profit margins have begun to rise. This year, Changsheng Island is expected to have an annual net profit of about 300,000 taels of silver, and Huangshi's money to buy grain and copper to cast cannons is still counting on this income.

Liu Qingyang's expression was also gloomy in the end, and he told the group of officers with deep sorrow: "We, Changsheng Island, have also bribed some officials of the Japanese shogunate and the Japanese Choshu domain. This year they also gave us reliable news that the Japanese shogunate had decided to start minting money on its own. Liu Qingyang said and took out a money look. This money looks like a sample that Changsheng Island bought from inside for a lot of money: "This is a copper coin set by the Japanese shogunate, and it will probably be used in August this year." ”

The appearance of that money has been shown to Huangshi just now, and it is indeed very good, and the copper coins on the ground weigh almost two dollars each. And it is the approximate ratio of copper eight lead two. Historically, the Tokugawa shogunate also saw the importance of their own coinage, and they also began to mint their own copper, gold, and silver coins in the fifth year of the Apocalypse. The coins of the Tokugawa shogunate were of good quality and weight. Japan relied on it to expel the Spanish silver coins and the Ming copper coins, and in less than a year achieved monetary independence.

"The Choshu clan of Japan has long known that we are selling counterfeit money, but first, Japan is very short of money, second, our fake money is of better quality than the real money of the Nanjing Mint, and third, they also know that we are a Ming military household. So the Choshu clan of Japan has always turned a blind eye. Most of the counterfeit money we sold was bought by merchants from the Choshu Domain, and then resold to mainland Japan. These grandsons!" Liu Qingyang said with some anger, and now that the Changzhou Domain suddenly came, people were not allowed to sell fake money, which inevitably gave people a feeling of unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

The officers below looked at him silently, so Liu Qingyang didn't care about the situation, and hurriedly continued to report: "The Changchuan Clan has already arrived, and they said that the Japanese shogunate stipulated that their new money and the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty should be exchanged one-to-one. Because they knew that we were a Ming military household, they came very politely, saying that they had sold it before and the money was forgotten, but they wouldn't let us sell it again in the future. As for the copper coins we have saved, they will also buy all the money we have left on a one-to-one basis, but they will send it to Changzhou within these two months. ”

In order to expel foreign coins, the Tokugawa shogunate imposed a one-to-one exchange rate. But the copper in the money of Changsheng Island is only 30% of the Japanese money, and no matter how much copper there is in Japan, it can't withstand Huangshi and Liu Qingyang, they didn't make it in black and white. Therefore, after receiving the task, the Japanese Choshu Domain came to speak well, hoping to buy all the land inventory of Changsheng Island at one time, even if the matter was over.

Huang Shi gestured for the subordinates sitting around the rectangular table to discuss it on their own.

"We are one penny and three cents, copper and four leads, and they are two coins, and eight coppers and two leads. He Dingyuan, who had no ambitions, actually thought that this business was quite good, and he muttered: "There are still many months for us to make a batch of them, anyway, someone will take over as much as we do." ”

Zhao Slowxiong on the side asked Yang Zhiyuan bluntly: "How much income does this fake money business make in a month?"

"If this problem does not arise in Japan, we will probably have an income of 350,000 to 400,000 taels of silver this year, which is about 30,000 taels of silver a month. Yang Zhiyuan flicked his finger in the room and clicked: "Next year, it will probably reach more than 50,000 taels per month." ”

"What about Japan's armaments?" This time it was Chief of Staff Kim Qiu-deok who asked the question: "Well, what about Japan's...... What Choshu Domain. ”

Liu Qingyang had already analyzed the relevant military situation, and he sent a prepared document to him: "The mobilization power of the Japanese shogunate is not strong, and I am afraid that the Choshu domain does not want the Japanese shogunate's troops to cross the border, so only the Choshu domain can threaten us in a short period of time." ”

Jin Qiude flipped through the piece of paper and snorted through his nose: "Three hundred to four hundred soldiers who are out of production." ”

"Jin Youji Mingjian is called a samurai in Japan. Liu Qingyang hurriedly added.

"Well, samurai," Kim Qiude said aloud, pinching the edge of the paper, "in case of emergency, the Choshu domain can recruit peasants and beggars through guò...... Beggar soldiers?" he stopped and looked at Liu Qingyang suspiciously: "What is a beggar soldier?"

"Jin Guerrilla Mingjian, that kind of beggar, called ronin in Japan, is all begging with a knife. Although I am usually hungry and full, it seems to be quite tough. ”

"The toughest thing in the world is the hungry beggar. It's like building a slave. Jin Qiude nodded, satisfied with Liu Qingyang's information, and he held the piece of paper high in front of his eyes again, and read it aloud: "The Chōshū Domain can recruit peasants and beggar soldiers through guò, so that its force can reach about two thousand. A small number of generals and officers had heavily armoured off-duty soldiers, that is, samurai, and most of them used armor made of bamboo, and they all had iron weapons. Improvised recruits had no armor and used spears made of bamboo and bows made of bamboo......"

"This combat effectiveness will not be better than that of the Forward Battalion. Kim made his final judgment. He asked Yang Zhiyuan thoughtfully: "You just said how much silver you can earn in a month." ”

"Thirty thousand taels at least. ”

"Isn't this a little kid carrying a lot of gold, silver and jewelry?" Jin Qiude shook his head incredulously: "Why didn't anyone rob the Japanese?"

"The sea route is not easy to walk, and there are often typhoons coming ashore, as well as language and geographical problems. Huang Shi shrugged: "Now, because we have Kazuo Kuroshima, we look simple, and we have a small city where we can store food, so it looks easier, otherwise it is not easy at all." ”

This group of people talked all the way, and the more He Dingyuan listened, the more he didn't like it. couldn't help but interject and said: "Our Ming King should protect the territory and the people." ”

"Not bad. A person in the room immediately replied to He Dingyuan, but Huang Shi didn't pay attention to who answered, and no one paid attention to this, because they all enthusiastically began to discuss how many people they needed to send to subdue the Changzhou Domain.

"If it's the level of the Elector Battalion, my Fire Fighting Battalion on Immortal Island only needs two infantry teams to defeat them. ”

After Jin Qiude finished speaking, Zhao Slowxiong added: "It's good to go to three poor families and rich roads." Pull on two more cannons. ”

"The only problem is the reaction of the Japanese shogunate, but how can a small state in Japan dare to compete with my Ming Dynasty. Huang Shi sneered. In this era, the gap between the national strength of China and Japan is too great, and the war 20 years ago shows that Japan's all-powerful army may not have fought a province in the Ming Dynasty: "But once we are the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, they will definitely not dare to fight back, I estimate that the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan will go to the imperial court to cry, this is a big trouble." ”

"yes. Grandpa Tai designated Japan as a country not to be conquered. He Dingyuan hurriedly came to show his knowledge again.

However, except for He Dingyuan, the rest of the people had already reached a consensus on the issue of starting a war, and Zhao Slowxiong Jianyi described the soldiers of the three teams as auxiliaries: "Let's just say that more than 1,000 sailors and auxiliaries who went to Japan to sell deerskin and buy rice had some conflicts with the Japanese when they were doing business. Anyway, the court couldn't check it. ”

"Well, that's it. "Huangshi doesn't plan to do anything about Japan, and he is not interested in fighting any war of conquest, he Huangshi just wants to continue to do this fake money business, and as long as this hole is not blocked by the Japanese shogunate, bad money will naturally expel good money. Japan's black-hearted businessmen also have no need to worry about Changsheng Island and Huangshi in this regard: "There is another excuse question, do you have any good plans for this?"

"Well, we can buy the batch of tattered coins that the Donglin Party made in Nanjing, and I heard that the Donglin Party in the imperial court has a headache because of this. Moreover, Gonggong Wei said that all the shortfall should be made up by the officials of the Nanjing Mint Division. Liu Qingyang has always had a special fondness for the domestic economy of the Ming Dynasty, and this time the Donglin Party made such a big boycott of the coin turmoil, Liu Qingyang naturally collected a lot of information to see: "This kind of money must be very cheap, they can make up for it by selling it casually." We shipped the money to Japan and the Choshu Domain in exchange. ”

Seeing that all the people around him nodded with a sneer, He Dingyuan said: "Those Japanese in the Changzhou Domain are not stupid, they definitely don't agree. ”

"They definitely disagree, we all know that. Huang Shi thought that this idea was very good, so he asked the civil officials of Dengzhou to build a bridge with Nanjing, so that they could also give a great favor to the officials of the Nanjing Mint Division: "But our money is sent to them, if they don't give it, we will take down the pass as collateral and let them pay the money to redeem." ”

"Adult" He Dingyuan is kind. But he wasn't stupid, and after listening to it, he understood what this group of people was trying to do. He took a deep breath: "My lord, we are the official army of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Huang Shi always felt that if He Dingyuan was just a pure soldier, it would be perfect, but the problem was that this guy was still a half-Confucian. I always feel that the dignified kings, divisions, and officers and soldiers can't do banditry and banditry, let alone harden their hearts to bully the weak: "The Japanese are human first, and then the Japanese." Right?"

"Yes. ”

"It's like Jiannu is a barbarian first, and then a barbarian in Jianzhou, right?" Originally, Huangshi had nothing to say at first, but talking to himself, he gradually found a glimmer of thought.

"Of course. He Dingyuan replied honestly: "That's right." Huang Shi smiled and said, "Those Japanese businessmen like to use our money, and they have used it for hundreds of years. Since they are human beings, they have the freedom to choose. It was unreasonable for the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan to force them to use Japanese money. It is a violation of their freedom. ”

He Dingyuan's eyes widened more and more: "What are you talking about, my lord? He still listened to Huangshi's nonsense with his ears pricked up, and although the other few people also listened pretendically, they were all thinking about the problems related to sending troops in their hearts.

"Man is a human right, and sovereignty extends indefinitely, until it comes into contact with the rights and interests of the individual. After Huang Shi finished speaking as quickly as he could, he patted He Dingyuan on the shoulder, who obviously didn't understand anything from the noun to the meaning, and Huang Shi sternly told him: "This is called human rights are greater than sovereignty." It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you can go back and think again...... Think slowly. ”

Taking advantage of He Dingyuan's dizziness, Huang Shi hurried to discuss with his subordinates the upcoming "counterfeit money war". Anyway, the response to Japan is actually a sentence of "I am shameless". The military commander is a problem, Huang Shi himself will definitely not be able to go; Liu Qingyang is not at all the material for war; Kazuo Kuroshima is a Japanese-born Ming military household, so Huang Shi is not at ease. It is said that He Dingyuan is a suitable candidate, but whether it is this person's character or out of consideration for maintaining the balance of power on Changsheng Island, Huang Shi does not plan to send him to Japan to lead the army.

"Guerrilla Yang, you hurry up and get acquainted with the troops. This time, you're the commander of the three infantry teams. Out in a month. ”

Although Yang Zhiyuan manages the old camp very well, and he has a lot of power. But I was still excited to hear that I had the opportunity to lead troops to fight. After all, Yang Zhiyuan has always been a military general, and he is also very concerned about the drills and tactics of the troops in peacetime. He said yes heavily. His face was full of joy.

After hearing about the armaments of the Choshu Domain, Huangshi also looked down on the Japanese army of this era. After a month, it's time to send some new recruits to get a feel for the battlefield. With the ironclad infantry of the fire battalion, against such an inferior opponent, Huang Shi felt that even a fool leading the army could defeat them.

"Your Excellency. Hong Antong's excited shouts sounded outside the tent, and there seemed to be a large number of soldiers cheering outside, and the sound was brought to Huangshi's ears by the wind.

"My lord, it's raining. Hong Antong hadn't heard Huangshi's life yet, so he couldn't wait to shout again.

This shout immediately made the officers in the camp tent also excited, this was the first rain on Changsheng Island since the beginning of spring. These days, the streams on the island are much thinner than last year. Although there is a lot of fresh water collected from the island's rivers every day, Huangshi has always insisted that the soldiers and civilians on the island must take a bath every day and wash their hands before and after using the toilet, so they are always very nervous.

The rain was not very heavy, but those who could see Wu Mu from afar were crazy in the rain. The guy jumped and jumped on the ground, and the expression on his face seemed to be crying rather than laughing. These days, Wu Mu's pressure is not small, and as a supervising army, he has been diligently praying for rain for the whole island and southern Liaoning, and he did not even participate in military meetings. In order to show his piety, Wu Mu has not eaten pork this year.

Zhao Slow-Xiong, who was behind him, asked in a low voice, "I heard that the imperial court will send more eunuchs to southern Liaoning?"

"Yes, the candidate is being discussed. "In the past, there were only two generals in southern Liaoning, Huangshi and Zhangpan, and there were supervising troops, but after the battle of Nanguan, Wei Zhongxian did not forget to send people here while fighting for the party, and it is said that all the battalions in southern Liaoning, Wei Gonggong has the intention of sending a supervising army, so that no matter how meritorious it is, it will be foolproof. Huang Shi whispered to Zhao Slowxiong and the others behind him: "This shows that the imperial court is paying more and more attention to our Dongjiang Town Left Association. ”

"There was no snow last winter. When Yang Zhiyuan spoke, he looked at the prison soldier Wu Mu's eyes meaningfully.

Huang Shi understood the meaning of these words, since Wei Zhongxian began to rectify the Donglin Party last year, the people of the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Northern Zhili of the Ming Dynasty were shocked to see that there was no snow all winter. In this era when celestial and human induction is popular, the impression of the officers and soldiers of Changsheng Island on Wu Gonggong has plummeted because of this, and Wu Mu has also been praying for rain like crazy in the five years since the Apocalypse.

"There was no snow in January and February this year. Yellowstone looked up at the sky—the flawless sun was out of sight at this time, and the Xiaoice River period had been nearly fifty years, and it would take another twenty years to pass.

In April of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, a large number of peasants in southern Liaoning, whether in the territory of the Later Jin Dynasty or the territory of the Ming army, knelt down with thought and thanked God for this nectar. Further afield, in the hinterland of North Korea and Liaodong, farmers are still waiting......

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