Ichiki is also the ancient Japanese order country, and now it is the territory of the Hirado Domain, but compared with the hidden qi, Ichiki is much richer, this time Li Zhaoji was not polite, and directly landed in batches in the north and south of the island, and swept the whole island.

"On behalf of His Royal Highness Nobutsuna Matsudaira, the envoy of the Maharaja of Japan, I would like to .........." In the building of Ikishima, a merchant came from Hirado to negotiate on behalf of the shogunate.

Li Zhaoji waved his hand: "I will not enter into peace talks with you, unless you can represent your shogun, that is, the Japanese monarch in your mouth." ”

"Your Highness, His Royal Highness Matsudaira Nobutsuna is the representative of the shogunate ........" The merchant seemed to be arguing, but was directly interrupted by Li Zhaoji: "He can't decide my conditions, so he still has to ask Edo Castle." But his plan is very interesting, does he want me to stop the war and then negotiate? ”

The merchant nodded: "Yes, Your Highness." ”

"That's my condition." Li Zhaoji wrote the conditions on a blank piece of paper, handed them to the merchant, and said: "If he can agree directly, please let him come to me in person to sign the treaty, if not, don't bother me again, I have already explained to the shogunate that I will arrive outside Edo Bay before the fourth of September to negotiate." ”

Li Zhaoji's meaning is very clear, unless he can agree to his conditions now, he will still kill Edo Bay.

The merchant looked at it and frowned, the conditions proposed by Li Zhaoji had changed, and he demanded that the shogunate hand over the murderer of the Nagasaki Incident, Baba Toshishige, and seven of his subordinates, as well as the families of these people, to be disposed of by the Oriental Trading Company.

Trading company goods, ships, and personnel seized by the shogunate had to be returned.

The shogunate had to open the country to trading companies, and the islands of Sado and Tsushima were placed under the control of trading companies, and there were no restrictions on trading companies entering and leaving Japan, nor restrictions on Japanese merchants entering and leaving the country.

In addition, the shogunate also had to compensate the trading company for its losses, and Lee Zhaoji directly demanded 300,000 taels of silver, or the equivalent of gold, in one go.

Obviously, these conditions, not to mention Matsudaira Nobutsuna, even the shogun, will not agree.

"You are not sincere about it........ conditions." Said the representative of the businessman.

"Sending off!" Li Zhaoji didn't talk nonsense with him at all, and said.

After the representative left, the longship Yan Qilang walked out, and the dust he had cleaned up at this time became as heroic as before, but the momentum was a little weaker than when he first met Li Zhaoji.

He also understood why he had a guide who was familiar with Hirado Bay in his hands, and he also participated in the night raid on the Hirado Domain, just to show the great power of the Oriental Trading Company.

Now, Ganshichiro Nagafune had no intention of resisting, and he knew that no matter how the conflict between the Eastern Trading Company and the Edo Shogunate ended, if the Tsushima clan did not sincerely cooperate, the only way to end up would be to destroy it.

"Lord Nagafune, please be seated." Li Zhaoji said with a smile.

Yan Shichiro did not sit down, but said respectfully, "In front of His Highness, where is my seat?" If Your Highness has anything to do, just tell me. ”

Li Zhaoji smiled: "I don't have anything to order, this is a gift for you." ”

Tang Mu handed Yan Qilang a gift list, the first item on it was two hundred taels of silver, and the rest were sought-after commodities such as silk and porcelain.

"Your Highness, what do you mean by this?"

"You are a retainer of the Tsushima Domain, and your loyalty is naturally His Royal Highness Tsushima Yoshinari, but even so, I thank you for assisting me in raiding the enemy forces of the Hirado Domain two nights ago. I have never been stingy with my friends, especially those who have contributed to our trading company.

So, please don't dislike it and be sure to accept it. Li Zhaoji said.

Yan Qilang, the longboat, was helpless, and carefully put away the gift list, he knew that Li Zhaoji's gift could not be accepted in vain. But he never expected that although he had a powerful naval army, the lowly businessman in front of him would be so bold, and the gifts just now were equivalent to more than a year of his fortune in the Tsushima Domain.

"Your Highness, as a pen head in the Tsushima Domain, I still have a lot of authority, if there is anything that can serve you, please give me orders." Yanshiro Nagafune said.

Li Zhaoji thought for a while and said, "I still can't think of anything to tell the longboat-sama, but the matter of going to Busan to trade with the Japanese will definitely bother the longship-sama, if you have any difficulties, please bring it up now, I can help, I will definitely help." ”

Although Yan Qilang, the longship, knew that the Oriental Trading Company was going to buy grain in the DPRK when he negotiated with Tang Mu last time, he always thought that it was mainly smuggling trade and buying grain by the way. After all, in his cognition, the Oriental Trading Company came from the Ming Kingdom, and the Ming Dynasty was a Shangbang, so how could there be a shortage of food?

But now he found that in the DPRK, the matter of buying fresh food must be very important, whether it is Tang Mu or the big shopkeeper in front of him, it is repeatedly mentioned.

Yan Qilang, the longship, sat cross-legged in front of Li Zhaoji, opened the map, and said: "Your Highness, the court, Xian forbids the sea, and is quite wary of trade with foreign countries, especially after he surrendered to the Tartars, and he was even forbidden to enter the port with Tang ships and Tang people.

The Busan Wakan is a port that is open to the Tsushima Domain. I thought that you could send Japanese ships and Japanese merchants to trade with me without causing trouble, but now it seems that this is not the case. ”

"Oh, what's wrong, let's hear it."

Yanqiro Nagafune said a few words, but Tomaki Matsushita, who served as the translator, did not translate it directly, but instead turned to debate with Yanqiro Nagafune, and the two of them argued with red faces. In the end, it was Li Zhaoji who knocked on the table and stopped the two from arguing.

He said that the Japanese people who can be used in the trading company are all our Kishitan, but the language and appearance are the same as the Japanese, but the style of doing things is very different. He feared that sending us there would cause unnecessary trouble. Matsushita Tomaki said to Li Zhaoji.

Li Zhaoji frowned: "Even if it is found to be different, it should just be a small trouble." ”

Matsushita Tomaki explained: "I said the same thing in the next, but the attitude of Nagafune Yanshiro was very resolute, what he meant was that the initiative in the Wakan trade was not in the Tsushima Domain, but in the Dynasty and Xian Kingdom, if they were annoyed and the Wakan was closed, Tsushima would lose the capital on which he depended for his livelihood, so he didn't want to take risks." ”

Li Zhaoji nodded slightly and said, "Okay, what he said makes sense, our strength is still relatively weak, and if it is not necessary, we still focus on Huairou." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for taking care of the hardships in our domain." After getting Li Zhaoji's size, Yan Qilang's heart, which had been depressed for a long time, finally relaxed.

On the map, the longship Yanshiro is still based on Hongdao, after the two sides discussed, the trade strategy was set, the trading company paid a deposit in advance, and handed over to the Tsushima clan to purchase grain and rice in Busan, and at the appointed time, the trading company went out of the sand boat to enter Hongdao, without the flag of the trading company, without the Western sail style, the Tsushima clan was connected by a small boat, and the fresh grain and rice were transported to the sand boat, and the sand boat went to Sado.

Because sand boats are extremely popular in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Beiyang route is also a route often taken by merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is normal for sand boats to haunt.

After this matter was settled, the rest of the trade rules were tried to be done by the merchant society and the Tsushima Domain, and they were revised at any time.

"There is one thing, if Your Highness allows it, I am very grateful to Ma Fan." After talking about trade, Hikushichiro Nagafune pleaded.

"Damn, this old boy is asking for a lot, so he can't eat us." Tang Mu was indignant.

Li Zhaoji asked Yanqilang to say his request, but the request for Ma Fan was something that no one expected.

It turned out that after the Renjin War, the relationship between Japan and the DPRK and Xian had been restored, and the DPRK and Xian would always take some opportunities to go to Edo, such as the change of shogunate and other major events, and the DPRK and Xian would send an embassy to congratulate, and the scale of the mission was not small, it was four or five hundred.

These missions were received and escorted by the Tsushima Domain.

Just this year, the shogun's Motoko was born, and as usual, he rarely sent envoys to congratulate him, but if Li Zhaoji's fleet was stationed in the Tsushima Strait, without his nod, such a large fleet would not be able to pass and return.

"Lord Nagafune's words are really leaky, you just need to say a time, and then my trading company's ships will not appear in Tsushima." Lee Siu Kee said.

What the longship Yan Qilang said was quite vague, but in fact, his real intention was that he did not want the DPRK to know about the attack on the coast of Japan by the fleet of the Oriental Trading Company.

Just imagine, if Japan is a country, it is impossible to resist the attack and harassment of a businessman, and even the whole country is shaken, if few people know about it, it will not be very embarrassing.

And Li Zhaoji is anxious to purchase rice and grain from the court and use it for Sado maintenance, he doesn't want to make another turmoil, in his memory, at this time, the court and the Xian court are all pro-Qing factions, if you rashly participate in it, it may damage the overall situation.

"In this way, there is no other idea in the future, only for the two families to be friends and neighbors forever, and create a better future." Yanqiro Nagafune is completely satisfied now.

"Your Highness, this guy must have wanted to monopolize the profits of trade, so he made up so many lies to prevent people from trading companies from entering the Wakan." After the longship Yan Shichiro left, Matsushita Tomaki knelt down and said.

Li Zhaoji smiled, but he didn't care, in terms of trade with North Korea and Xian, he still focused on seeking stability.

But in front of him, he can't help but take care of the wishes of this Matsushita Fuming, since this man has been thrown into the trading company from Tamsui, fighting in the south and in the north, charging ahead, such a meritorious service, how can Li Zhaoji make him chill.

"Panasonic, what do you think this is?" Li Zhaoji beckoned and took off a piece of cloth behind him, on which was the image of the Virgin.

"This is the statue of the Virgin." Matsushita Tomaki believed in Catholicism and immediately drew a cross on his chest.

Li Zhaoji nodded: "This is what I found in a room at the port terminal. ”

"Drawing?" Matsushita Tomaki immediately understood that foreigners entering Japan had to step on the painting, that is, to step on the statue of the Virgin, so as not to get in with the Chishitan.

"Yes, that's all it takes to be in Nagasaki, why is there such a thing on this small island?" Li Zhaoji asked.

"I don't know, Your Highness, I left my hometown when I was young, and I'm already a stranger to Japan."

"As far as I know, the painting is an important way to identify Cheechitan, and the statue of Our Lady here for the painting indicates that there may be Cheechttan believers on this island," Lee said. Panasonic, maybe you should go around and save them. ”

"yes, maybe that's what I'm really doing."

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