Wa Kingdom.

The interior of the Tokugawa shogunate's home is already very different from what it was a few months ago.

A large amount of porcelain and silk textiles from the Ming Dynasty had been used by the Tokugawa family in the decoration of their homes.

Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at the long knife in his hand that had crossed the ocean from the Ming Dynasty with a smile on his face.

In the Ming Dynasty, where smelting technology continued to flourish, many goods that were originally considered prohibited by the imperial court to be exported were used for trade with the outside world, and restrictions were gradually relaxed in some industries.

This is how the long knife in Tokugawa Iemitsu's hand came from today.

"It is worthy of the famous craftsman who spent 10,000 taels of silver to find in Daming, this luster, this sharpness, this feel, the craftsmen of the shogunate don't know when they will be able to have this skill."

"Ahh It's so intoxicating! ...”

.. Speaking of Tokugawa Iemitsu, although in Zhu Yujian's view, he did not achieve much after taking over as the head of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period, the so-called shogun of Seiyi.

On the contrary, it continued the previous policy of locking up the country, and carried out large-scale control of the entire trade of the Japanese state.

Of course, the main reason for this control was that the daimyo (it can be understood that the large landowners who occupied the mountains in various parts of the Wa Kingdom, but had a certain amount of armed forces, but were subject to the control of the Tokugawa shogunate) were constantly involved in this foreign trade.

At first, the red-haired merchants brought nothing more than some common overseas goods, and the Wa Kingdom was reluctant to exchange some of the silver in their hands.

It can be seen that their goods are not selling well in the Wa Kingdom, and these red-haired merchants actually directly and openly sold weapons all over the Wa Kingdom.

Even the artillery was directly put out and sold to the outside world.

You must know that military force is the key to the Tokugawa shogunate's control of the entire Wa Kingdom today, if the local daimyo have relatively strong military strength.

Not to mention that it would threaten the rule of other daimyo in the surrounding area, the most important thing is that Tokugawa Iemitsu understood that this would definitely threaten the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate in the future.

As a result, the unprecedented ban on the sea was promulgated.

All merchant ships were forbidden to trade in all daimyo territories, and all merchant ships were allowed to trade in Nagasaki and Heido.

Of course, the Ming merchant ships, which had a strong influence on the Wa Kingdom, were not among them.

After all, Ming goods are synonymous with high quality in the eyes of all Japanese people, not to mention that today's Ming Dynasty is the real Celestial Empire in the eyes of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Therefore, the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty have been in an unimpeded posture in the Wa Kingdom for a long time, so that before Chongzhen ascended the throne, many overseas merchants took advantage of the smuggling opportunity and hired a large number of Daming sailors to pretend to be Ming merchant ships and go to the Wa Kingdom to do business.

From here, it can be seen that for those Tessie merchants on the sea today.

Only the merchant ships and commodities of the Ming Dynasty can have the right to free trade in the Ming Kingdom.

Now the Ming Dynasty has changed its original attitude towards the cautious prohibition of overseas trade.

The change to an attitude of encouragement and support made many Japanese merchants feel elated, and they almost used all their strength to load the most silver they could find.

Pull to Daming to buy goods.

The distance between Daming and the Wa Kingdom is not far, and you only need to take the silver to go around there in a short time, buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty and then return to the Wa Kingdom.

You can get several times the profit in this.

Many people were excited, and the most excited of them was naturally the current de facto ruler of the Wa Kingdom, Tokugawa Iemitsu.

"Hey! Hurry up! Are there any ingredients and delicacies from the Ming Kingdom today? Eating raw fish and rice every day is really a headache! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu's personality may have been influenced by the fact that he was raised by a nursing mother at an early age.

has always been more pampered and soft, but this kind of character is only revealed in daily life, and he can let the other party know that he should regret it sooner when he treats anything that threatens his rule.

"It's coming, it's coming! The general has prepared food in Fuzhong today, and today he will eat the Bazhen duck from the Ming Kingdom, which is a delicacy that uses eight different ingredients to cook the duck together! ”

"Good! All right! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu put away the new toys that had just arrived, turned his head and muttered: "The Great Ming Kingdom has finally lifted the sea ban, which is really the best news for the Tokugawa family..."

But at the same time as eating.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was still a little worried, so he only heard him say to a partial general who was invited by him: "Are those guys from Houjin still entrenched in North Korea?" ”

"Yes, General, they are still besieging Korea, the king of Korea .. Possibly.."

Tokugawa Iemitsu sighed slightly: "This is already an unavoidable thing, the king of Joseon is destined to be unable to resist those barbarians, but is there good news?" ”

"General, of course there is good news, according to the detectives, now the Ming Dynasty's Tianhu Heavenly Army has united with nearly 300,000 people from the Dongjiang Army on Phi Island to attack Houjin, and now it has broken through several cities, and Houjin's forces in North Korea have begun to gradually retreat."

Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't stop the chopsticks in his hand, and said loudly: "Of course they can't beat the army of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

The Wa Kingdom was too close to Korea.

Recently, Tokugawa Iemitsu even transferred a lot of shogunate troops to guard against the Later Jin army that came from Korea, but the Later Jin people did not wait.

There are quite a few people who have fled from North Korea.

For these people, Tokugawa Iemitsu could only smile and receive it in his arms, after all, who can dislike too many peasants who work for themselves?

What's more: Iwami also needed a lot of manpower to mine the silver mines.

Now the resumption of the Ming trade has immersed the entire Wa Kingdom in a crazy shopping trend, and even the Daming Longyuan that has crossed the ocean has been sought after.

Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't think that the outflow of silver would have any different effect on him.

Instead, I was very concerned about another thing.

"His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is still not allowed to sell weapons and iron agricultural tools in batches?" Tokugawa Iemitsu's face remained as usual, and he continued to eat while still sitting.

"Yes.. General, the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards this matter is still not very good, probably because there are many samurai from our Wa Kingdom during this time..."

Tokugawa Iemitsu turned pale and said, "In what? ”

"There were some small frictions and some misunderstandings with Daming on the port of Daming trade.."

"Damn it!"

As soon as this sentence came out, Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't even want to eat, and said, "It's all a bunch of idiots!" Idiot! ”