Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Li Quan stared at the stock price on the blackboard, but his mind was on a sailing adventure.

In the past few years, he has traveled back and forth between China and the Americas, and has discovered the Hawaiian Islands, the Great East Islands, Midway, Wake Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Although half of them have long been discovered by Spain, this is the first time for China.

Next, he did not plan to go to the Americas in person, but to head south from the Philippine Islands.

Li Quan heard from the Spaniards that there are big islands further south, all of which are tropical rainforests. The headhunters there are even more cruel than Luzon and Taiwan.

The expedition ships have been built, there are three of them, none of them are very large, and they will set off when the trade winds come.

He paid more than the American route, and finally recruited the crew. Among them, the most positive is Cheng Jingming, the second generation of Suzhou's rich, who signed up without asking about his salary, and just wants to take a boat around the world.

"Dangdang! Guide Salt Factory, Guide Salt Factory, Don't take the application form of Guide Salt Factory! ”

The ringing of the bell in front of him disrupted Li Quan's thoughts.

Li Quan couldn't help complaining: "Boring tricks." ”

He is engaged in sea trade, of course, he knows the significance of issuing shares, and the company can raise funds from the private sector very conveniently. But the stock market's various routines have led to stocks becoming gambling, at least for retail investors, which makes Li Quan feel very bored.

"Commander Li can't try his luck when he gets off the field?" A wealthy businessman next to him asked.

Li Quan said: "It is enough to take risks at sea, not to risk in the stock market. ”

The rich merchant complimented: "Commander Li traveled thousands of miles in the sea, and spent his life doing business for His Majesty, and his heart to serve the country with his fists is really admired." ”

No matter how Li Quan explained, Sihai Trading Company was considered an imperial businessman, and he was the head of the imperial merchant in people's minds.

From Nanjing to Luzon, as long as the name is reported along the way, both the government and the people must be polite to Li Quan. Really, Li Quan will see whoever he meets, and the governors and political envoys, these feudal officials, will be summoned immediately when they receive Li Quan's greetings.

Today, the company has 19 ships, all of which can sail to the sea. Including the staff of merchant offices in China, Japan, the Americas and Danzhou (Hawaii), the company has more than 6,000 employees. They had private armies, and even colonies – Danzhou and Sindeng Village, which were essentially colonies of the Four Seas Trading Company.

Moreover, the business is no longer limited to American trade, and a number of merchant ships sail between Shandong, Liaoning, Korea, and Japan.

It even monopolized the trade from Shandong to the Tumen River, but this monopoly was a helpless move. The mouth of the Tumen River is very remote, with only more than 200 Han Chinese (all exiles), and even the number of Jurchens is not large. You can't make a lot of money on a trip, and private merchant ships are reluctant to go.

Therefore, the Four Seas Trading Company has some official attributes. It is not profitable to run Tumen Jiang, and it is not profitable to continue to immigrate to the Americas, but the Four Seas Trading Company is willing to do it, and its eyes are obviously set on twenty or thirty years later.

Li Quan chatted with the wealthy businessmen around him, and suddenly one of his subordinates ran in and whispered: "The prodigal rebels of the Japanese Satsuma Domain have rebelled, and Tsurumaru Castle has been broken by the rebel army!" ”

"Tsurumaru Castle breached?"

Li Quan was surprised: "When the Datong army attacked Tsurumaru City, it took a lot of effort with artillery, how could those ronins conquer the city?" ”

….

People are constantly rushing into the exchange, and they are obviously getting the news.

More than ten minutes later, the stock price of the company, which is mainly engaged in Japanese trading, suddenly began to plummet, and it fell directly in less than an hour.

"The Evil God"

……

Since the Daido Army went to Kagoshima to fight, the history of the Shimazu clan has been completely rewritten.

The governor who was raised by China has passed away, and the current governor is called Shimazu Yoshimasa. The war reparations paid to China were only settled six years ago with interest.

Not only to pay reparations, but also to be busy with pleasure, even if the smuggling trade is hugely profitable, the Shimazu clan is a little unbearable, so they increase the exploitation of the people. What's more, the profits from the smuggling trade must also be shared with the shogunate elders, otherwise the elders, who threaten to strictly investigate smuggling.

Japanese farmers in the Edo period were both yeoman farmers and tenant farmers.

The land belonged to the lords, and the peasants could only work as tenants. However, the leased land can be passed on to the descendants, which is equivalent to obtaining the right of perpetual tenants.

Then why are they like yeoman farmers, because peasants have to pay not only rent, but also land taxes.

Paying rent and paying taxes, which is not common in the Ming Dynasty.

Land rent and taxes are collectively referred to as annual tribute, accounting for about 60 to 80 percent of the total income of peasants.

You think that's the end of it?

They also had to pay miscellaneous taxes, mowing grass, fishing, hunting, making salt, crossing bridges, and sailing...... As long as you have these behaviors, you have to pay taxes according to the rules.

In addition to the annual tribute and miscellaneous taxes, they also had to serve as a conscriptor and work for the lord without compensation.

In 1928, the "Study of Peasants" was published, and statistics showed that during the more than 200 years of the Edo period, there were 574 peasant *** occurrences in Japan. But after World War II, Japanese scholars continued to study historical materials and found that farmers in the Edo period *** more than 1,000 times!

On average, *** four times a year.

Moreover, the more time passes, the more detailed the *** plan becomes, because there are countless experiences, and even mature uprising routines have been summed up.

A wise leader of a peasant uprising would have begun preparations years in advance. They were often ronins or village warriors (village warriors), dressed as monks and touring the world, spying on the hearts of the people and recruiting like-minded people. As the number of companions grew, they dressed up as doctors and masseurs and traveled from village to village, passing on messages on a regular basis.

Before the start, the representatives of the villages gathered together to form a blood alliance and elect a leader.

The first to be attacked was the neighboring villages, and wherever the peasant army was killed, the local people had to join. Those who did not join were burned down and forced to rebel, similar to the coercion of Chinese bandits.

Then attack the county governors, burn their houses, and lay siege to the lord's city.

The most classic eucalyptus column is Kurume***, in which 200,000 Japanese farmers participate. Weapons, ammunition and other supplies were collected in advance, contact points were set up in the villages, and strategic and tactical and insurrectionary objectives were decided. Buildings that had to be demolished and burned were also identified, as well as which officials were to be killed.

However, the ending is much the same.

In the course of the uprising, the number of traitors was negligible, even if the lord bribed. The rebels were very righteous, but their demands were very untenable, and they only forced the lord to do good governance, and never thought of overthrowing the lord and the shogunate himself as the boss.

Often, the lord agreed at the time, but after two or three years, the old ways relapsed, and the leader of the uprising would die a terrible death.

….

Just like Asakawa ***, the peasant rebel army grew to more than 80,000 people, and the goal of their uprising was to get the lord to agree to their eighteen demands.

……

Three months ago.

Kagoshima, Kawara Village.

Taro Kuroda, dressed in monk's robes, came to the village in this valley.

"The mage is here, come and sit at home." Shiro Nakamura, the village official, greeted him with a smile.

The two entered the house together, Shiro Nakamura's wife, and were soon sent to cook food.

Kuroda took off his hat and whispered, "I have contacted 17 villages, and they are all willing to take action. There is also the castle town of Tsurumaru Castle, where many ronins are willing to cooperate. What about you? Still haven't made up your mind yet? ”

Shiro Nakamura looked hesitant, and after a long time, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "I'm willing to participate!" The county encouraged us to reclaim the barren mountains, promising to pay only a small annual tribute. The mountain land that can be reclaimed has just been cultivated, and it is taxed in the same way as the land by the river. Where can we get it? Even if it doesn't happen, I'm afraid I won't live next year! ”

A Japanese village official in the Edo period, similar to the Ming Dynasty's Rimasa and the grain chief.

The land in the village belonged to the lord, and the peasants were contracted in groups of five households. It is said that there are five households, and sometimes more than ten households form groups to bear the annual tribute and labor together. If a family fails to pay the tax, the peasants in the same group must make up for it, otherwise they will be held accountable and sit together.

The village official is the leader of the land contracting group, and his team members cannot pay taxes, and he is the first to be questioned.

And Kuroda Taro, who contacted the uprising, belonged to the villagers.

The villagers were often wealthy, or their ancestors were wealthy, because their samurai titles were bought.

Where there are villagers, there are city soldiers.

Castle warriors were allowed to wear clogs, but country warriors were not allowed to wear geta.

When the two met, the city priest was not used to seeing the villagers, and slapped them in the face. If the townsman dares to resist, the townsman can directly draw a knife and kill him, and he will not bear the responsibility afterwards.

Kuroda Taro's grandfather was relatively wealthy, and he did everything possible to buy the title of a countryman. By his generation, his family had long been in the middle of the road, and he was full of resentment against the lord and the county generation, because his family was impoverished by the government.

Shiro Nakamura said: "Please talk about the "Datong Collection" and the Tang Kingdom again, I like your Excellency to talk about these things the most. ”

Kuroda Taro had already said it countless times, and he opened his mouth to come: "The Tang Emperor said that everyone is born equal. In Japan, the four people of the imperial family, the Chinese family, the scholar family, and the common people are equal. I am a countryman, a scholar, you are a commoner, but we are also equal. ”

"Can it really be equal?" Shiro Nakamura asked.

Kuroda Taro said: "In the Tang Kingdom, there is already equality, and the Emperor of the Tang Kingdom is also called the First Emperor of the People's Republic of China. That is, starting from him, the emperor of the Tang State was the emperor of the commoners. ”

Shiro Nakamura has heard this statement a long time ago, and has asked it countless times, but at this moment he still shows a yearning look: "Tang Kingdom is so good, why weren't we born in Tang Kingdom?" I've heard people say that the Tang army, when they attacked Tsurumaru Castle in the past, never robbed the civilians, and bought whatever they needed from the civilians with money. The people near Tsurumaru City missed the Tang soldiers very much, and looked forward to the Tang army coming to fight again. ”

Kuroda continued: "The Tang Emperor was also a commoner before, and he killed the daimyo and the gundai and gave all the land to the peasants. The peasants of the Tang State no longer farmed for the daimyo, but for themselves, and the annual tribute was very small. Tang merchants in the port of Kagoshima told me that even the farmers in the mountains had enough food on their side. In the event of a famine, the emperor would also ask officials to provide relief. ”

"Own land? It's really unimaginable that the peasants of the Tang Kingdom could have their own land," Shiro Nakamura asked, "so when we got into trouble, can we have our own land?" ”

Kuroda said: "The farmers of the Tang Kingdom can do it, and we can do the same." ”

The nature of the Japanese peasant uprising has changed somewhat due to the influence of the Datong Collection. Their appeal is no longer for the lord to do good governance, but to take the land from the lord!

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