On the wooden box containing the sword goods, a few large characters "agricultural farming tools" were brushed with a brush, and a rare consensus was reached between the Ming and the Japanese on this point.

That is low-key, of course, Zhu Youzhen after the Houjin War, for this time of the Wa Kingdom.. In the business of military trade and export, which can barely be regarded as a military trade, restrictions have also been gradually relaxed.

Of course, this was not admitted by Zhu Youzhen himself.

Instead, he pretended to borrow the text of the military department and gave the envoys of the Tokugawa shogunate of the Wa Kingdom a false impression that the silver he used to bribe himself was working, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty were willing to sell more swords.

Actually, it was, after the end of the Houjin War.

Although Huang Taiji transported all the looted property in Korea back, after the armistice agreement with the Ming Dynasty was signed, Huang Taiji was actually very poor.

According to the secret report of the East Factory.

Huang Taiji, who can't beat the Ming Dynasty and can't beat North Korea, already has the intention of preparing to count the soldiers and horses, build ships, and go to trouble the Japanese country.

This made Zhu Youzhen very unhappy.

After all, the Wa Kingdom is almost a provincial capital of the future Ming Dynasty in Zhu Youzhen's heart, or it can also be a little brother who has been settled, how can this be easily handed over?

It's just that I'm afraid the main reason for this is because of today's Wa Kingdom, although there are some earthquakes frequently, Zhang San looks at Li Si from time to time in the village.

From time to time, people from the two villages on both sides formed a fight.

But that's Iwami Ginzan, but it's a real thing... So Zhu Youzhen began to relax the trade restrictions on swords and weapons, mainly to give Tokugawa Iemitsu some things to take advantage of.

However, for the result of once Houjin attacks the Japanese state... That is, the direction of the war.

Zhu Youzhen has no optimism at all, Tokugawa Iemitsu is not Huang Taiji's opponent no matter how he looks at it, to put it bluntly, as long as Huang Taiji can solve the matter of letting his Eight Banner soldiers appear in the territory of the Wa Kingdom.

Then, the Tokugawa shogunate was definitely going to be defeated.

At that time, the scene is estimated to be no better than North Korea, after all, Huang Taiji is also a generation of heroes no matter how he says, and it is still easy to beat Tokugawa Iemitsu...

..

Wa Kingdom.

Tokugawa shogunate.

Tokugawa Iemitsu listened to the reports of his subordinates with a red face, and the Japanese merchant ships loaded with various weapons, porcelain, and even grain from the Ming Dynasty every day were constantly exchanging the silver produced in the Iwami Silver Mountain.

"Good! Good! You all have a reward... Da Ming, worthy of being a monarch's country.."

Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was full of excitement, obviously forgot that in the three major expeditions of Wanli, the Wa Kingdom could not lift his head when he was beaten by the Ming Dynasty in Korea.

But there's a reason I can't remember.

After all, what did Toyotomi Hideyoshi do and what does he Tokugawa Iemitsu have to do with the Tokugawa family.

That's beyond his means.

The current Tokugawa shogunate has a very strong impression of the Ming Dynasty, and the most critical factor is that in the eyes of the Tokugawa family, the Ming Dynasty is a monarchy and a kingdom of the Heavenly Empire.

How could he be able to look at his own tattered things, and he wouldn't be like those red-haired ghosts in Taixi Kingdom, seeing the market in the Wa Kingdom, just like seeing a girl lacking clothes, impatient.

Spanish merchants who opened the trade market in various ways.

In the eyes of Tokugawa Iemitsu, he was just a barbarian, as for why even the Wa Kingdom looked down on the Spaniards... This is mainly because of the traditional concept of the Japanese people.

The Ming Dynasty is the kingdom of the Heavenly Empire.

He is a vassal state of the Heavenly Empire, of course, that is, the country of his son.

But even so, he was much better than the barbarians, and the rude Spaniards seemed to the Japanese people like uncivilized savages.

This inexplicable sense of superiority made Zhu Youzhen, who looked at history, couldn't help but smile.

It's just a good thing for Daming.

"The sword trade is going to go on forever... As long as it is not sold to Annam, even if it is sold to the Mongols! ”

Zhu Youzhen said to Bi Ziyan in the Dongnuan Pavilion.

Bi Ziyan was a little strange and said, "Mongolians? Your Majesty.. Do you want to? ”

Zhu Youzhen, who nodded, said: "After careful consideration, I feel that at present, although Mongolia has suffered heavy casualties due to helping Houjin fight, and a large number of tribes in the steppe have fallen into trouble..."

"I want to help them."

Zhu Youzhen's eyes suddenly flashed with a different meaning, and then he said: "There is nothing that cannot be sold in the Ming Dynasty now, as long as you grasp the core things well, things like swords can be sold, tea and porcelain can be sold, and even grain can be sold." ”

Bi Ziyan said with a puzzled face: "If this is the case, wouldn't it allow the Mongols to take advantage of such an opportunity to develop?" ”

"No, it won't.."

Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly.

"The people who suffered losses were all the tribes in the eastern part of Mongolia, but the western part has always been determined to trade with our Ming Dynasty, but now it is strong, and the winter on the steppe is very difficult..."

"Now it is estimated that . . . Many people's intestines are repentant! If you don't help the Mongols in the east, the Mongol tribes in the west will take the opportunity to kill in the east, and at that time, I'm afraid they will not be so happy to continue to help us raise horses and sheep..."

Zhu Youzhen's words made Bi Ziyan instantly have a feeling of enlightenment.

There is no problem with what he said, the Ming Dynasty needs Mongolia now, and it needs trade with Mongolia, but it also needs to maintain a balance within Mongolia.

This is not the first time that the Central Plains Dynasty has used such a method against the power of the northern nomads.

Every time it was rewarding.

Cattle and sheep were bought from western Mongolia, swords were sold, and belongings of the tribes that had received blows were collected from eastern Mongolia, and grain was sold to them, telling them to continue to submit to the Ming as long as they were willing.

Daming will continue to sell them grain to survive this winter.

If they can afford the price, Bi Ziyan even thought of the wool felt that is being produced every day in the Beijing-Tianjin Industrial Park.

This wool felt is subject to current process problems.

It's a bit rough, but it's cheap and the warmth is excellent.

If we can sell these things back to the grassland...

Bi Ziyan's eyes also lit up.

Zhu Youzhen smiled, the Ming Dynasty's policy towards the grassland is not only so simple, but it must gradually keep up with the gradual changes after that, and the purpose is naturally to make the Mongols completely lose the right to participate in the struggle.

"So that... The Mongols, for the Ming Dynasty, there is nothing to worry about, as long as we spend silver to buy their cattle, sheep and horses, and sell them our swords, weapons, tea, porcelain."

"They won't have the courage to provoke the Ming .."