Heizo Castle, Japan. This castle is also called Suwa no Tail Castle, and at this time it was the residence of Shimazu Tadamasa.

When Lehi Dog and Ashin arrived, it was fifteen days later.

The news of their arrival had spread almost all of Satsuma at this moment.

It's been many, many, many years, and I haven't seen any foreign ships coming to Kagoshima.

What's more, several of the ships are the lucky ships of the Ming Kingdom at first glance.

So along the way, they have met a lot of city leaders and city friends who have come to talk, and there are many businessmen who have been moving when they hear the news.

Tatsuhiko Akiyama served as a guide and entertained the mission along the way.

After entering the city, Tatsuhiko Akiyama directly arranged them in his own home.

not only called a geisha to relieve these people's fatigue, but also deliberately let his daughter serve as a maid.

Fortunately, after gaining experience, Li Haigou was not so anxious this time.

As for Ashin, he was almost scared to death by these white-toothed black geisha.

After two days of the mission, Shimazu Tadara was in the palace and very warmly entertained Lee Haigou and Ashin.

At this moment, Shimazu Tadamasa is the darkest moment in his life.

Just imagine, he was originally fighting against the enemy and fought smoothly, but he was backstabbed by a group of subordinates who were trusted in the past.

Forget the backstab, in the end he had to beg his father-in-law, who didn't help in vain, and forced Shimazu Tadashi to cede the land and pay compensation!

Therefore, in the past few years, Shimazu Tadashi has only done three things, that is, to make money, train troops, and cooperate with vertical and horizontal.

After communicating with Tatsuhiko Akiyama, he decided to entertain the envoys with a very high banquet standard.

This kind of banquet also has a very elegant name, called tea ceremony cuisine, and the dishes usually include rice, vegetable soup, umeboshi, fruits, sashimi, tempura......

Don't laugh, this is the extremely high standard of Japan at this time, and generally people who are not super important are not qualified to serve these dishes!

It can only be said that the property is barren and burdened by religion.

Shimazu Tadamasa didn't speak Chinese, so he asked Tatsuhiko Akiyama to accompany him and act as a translator by the way.

Lee Haigou and Ashin sat cross-legged on their left and right, with dishes in front of them and gorgeously dressed maids beside them.

After Shimazu Tadamasa saw the two, he could see at a glance that Ashin and Li Haigou were afraid that they were not from the same place.

He also saw that the real lord was the man in the strange linen coat.

"You're welcome, two angels! These dishes are all unique to our local flavors! ”

Li Haigou smiled and tasted it, and scolded his mother directly in his heart, thinking that even if it was an ordinary host's hospitality, I am afraid that it would be richer than this.

Ashin also tasted the soup and immediately said, "Extremely delicious!"

He spoke in a new language, so he had to ask Lekai Dog to translate it so that Tatsuhiko Akiyama could understand it.

Shimazu Tadamasa didn't know what it meant after a while, and immediately said happily: "It's good that the angel thinks it's delicious!"

Ashin smiled, tasted everything again, and said a few more nice words.

This made Shimazu Tadamasa very happy, and he felt that he had a lot of face on his face.

After a feast, it was a geisha performance.

Li Haigou listened and wanted to sleep, and felt that this scene of the widow sounded like crying and mourning in his hometown.

Ashin was always smiling, as if he was immersed in the singing of these geisha.

Shimazu Tadamasa has been observing the two, and the more he observes, the more he feels that Ashin is not ordinary.

In fact, this is just the self-cultivation of diplomats, as the foreign minister who has been trained by Yan Zheng, Ashin has already had a certain level of control over the scene.

It was more than enough to deal with a Japanese daimyo, and in Ashin's opinion, he just thought that the person in front of him was the leader of a wealthy tribe.

Combined with his previous experience, most of the big tribes he visited had already perished! So he didn't panic at all, and he was even thinking about how much benefit he would have if he destroyed this big tribe.

After the geisha performance is over, it is a tea ceremony performance.

This more elegant thing made Lehi even more dizzy.

After an extremely tedious process, the tea was finally served, and Li Haigou Niu took a sip of it, only to think that the tea tasted very good.

Ashin only took a sip and said in surprise: "This tea is good!"

After listening to the translation, Shimazu Tadamasa smiled and said: "This tea is also from the Ming Kingdom, and its seeds are taken from the West Lake, which was introduced to Japan during the Song Dynasty!"

Ashin nodded, he didn't know about West Lake, tea or anything.

Seeing that it was almost over, Shimazu Tadamasa glanced at Tatsuhiko Akiyama.

Tatsuhiko Akiyama immediately said: "Two angels, for the matter of trade, the head of my family agrees, and you can open the port of Yidu to you, but you need to pay taxes!" We are also willing to pay the 10,000 taels of silver for the sea quotation paperwork! It's just that our ship is difficult to reach Dongfan, and I hope the angel will go back and tell us, if we can, every time we hand over the list of goods we need, and then you will send a ship to transport it! ”

Ashin glanced at Li Haigou and found that he was still confused, so he smiled and said: "My king's request is to open the port reciprocally, and if you can open it, this one will be passed!"

Tatsuhiko Akiyama smiled and said, "In this case, in the future, our trade will all depend on the big ships of Dongfan!" The Ryukyus can also act as an intermediary for us. ”

"That's no problem at all, but my king has one more thing, and that is that after the opening of trade, we need the convenience of acting in your territory!"

"What is convenience?"

"First, the king of my family hopes that there will be no restrictions on the residence, business, and investment of our people. Second, if our personnel are attacked, and our property is stolen and looted, you must guarantee to punish the murderers and compensate for the losses. Third, if our personnel commit a crime, we must notify us, and we will adjudicate it in accordance with the laws of Dongfan! ”

Tatsuhiko Akiyama thought for a while and said, "I don't dare to call the shots in this matter, wait a minute!"

Saying that, Tatsuhiko Akiyama translated it to Shimazu Tadamasa, and I saw Shimazu Tadamasa's face frowning.

They may not be indifferent to the first and second articles, but the third article makes them a little dissatisfied, which clearly means that they cannot independently deal with the criminal Dongfan people.

"The king of my family said that if he agrees to these three articles, he will be assured to sell firearms to you!" Ashin added.

Shimazu Tadamasa thought for a long time, and finally nodded and said, "Agreed!"

Tatsuhiko Akiyama breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said, "These three are all right!" Angel, can you talk about my master's request? ”

"Yes!"

Tatsuhiko Akiyama said solemnly: "The head of my family has only one request, muskets, artillery, armor, and sabers, and we will respond to all requests!" The price is not allowed to be adjusted within one year! ”

"No armor, two thousand at most!"

"Armor can! The other three, especially muskets and artillery, I hope that if we ask for it, your lord will agree to deliver it immediately!" ”

Ashin thought for a while and said, "The king of my family will not object to this, and the request he gave me is that the first batch of arms trade, the muskets are 1,000 muskets, and the cannons are 10!" That is, 20,000 people, can you agree? ”

Tatsuhiko Akiyama sighed, gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, I just ask your lord to give me some time!" So that the head of my family can collect the population in stages. ”

"Okay!" Ashin smiled and said, "There is one more, our side enjoys the privilege of Ryukyu!"

"Privileges?"

"That's right, it's a privilege!" Ashin didn't understand the meaning of this privilege, so he said, "We have special rights for our activities in the Ryukyus!"

Tatsuhiko Akiyama nodded, not caring much about Ryukyu in his heart.

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After talking for about an hour, the two sides formally agreed.

Ashin also presented the document sent by Yan Zheng to the Shimazu clan and produced a treaty.

Some of the terms that had just been discussed were written on the treaty, and after the Shimazu clan added a few articles, both sides signed and sealed.

The first trade document, known as the Sino-Satsuma Trade Treaty.

The concept of sovereignty and extraterritoriality involved in this document will become a pain in the hearts of countless nations!

It's a pity that the signatories don't know the wordplay in the treaty, and they don't even know how to get a Japanese version.

Shimazu Tadamasa was also gambling, and after listening to Tatsuhiko Akiyama's description, he met with Hisashi Kamikawa.

From Kamikawa's jealousy of those firearms, he could see that these weapons might really be so powerful.

After careful consideration, he felt that he could take a gamble, and using 20,000 people to open up the trade in this weapon would be equivalent to an investment for him.

If the weapon is really sharp, he will be able to recover the losses from the territory of other daimyo in no time.

After the treaty was signed, Shimazu Tadamasa put his retainers in charge of gathering the population, and came up with the idea of helping the poor peasants.

As for how to relieve it, naturally only these retainers and samurai knew.

In another time and space, Japan also did it in the Meiji period, when many Japanese men were sold to cut sugar cane in the South Seas, and women were sold to sell themselves in the South Seas.

In the end, this matter was beautified by the Japanese government, and even the public knew that these women who went to Nanyang to sell themselves were for the sake of the country to earn foreign exchange!

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