The Far East was a huge market, while Japan was an emerging market at the same time, and it was also an important source of immigrants and a grain trade market for the Kingdom of East Africa in the Far East.

In order to show the importance it attaches to Japan, the Kingdom of East Africa established diplomatic relations with the Japanese government the day after the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Qing government.

Sebastian served as Minister to Japan as the general manager of the Heingen Bank branch in Japan, and East Africa had a number of consulates throughout Japan.

After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government began to set up large-scale industries, but it required a lot of funds to run industries, and the Japanese government's means of raising funds were nothing more than the same, one was to borrow from the West and its own big businessmen, and the other was to exploit the domestic limit.

Women and farmers in Japan are among the hardest hit areas, and the Meiji government encouraged women to work in textiles and other jobs. During the same period, the secondary sector of female employment in Japan was the "special service industry".

With this condition, of course, East Africa could not miss it, and after sending diplomatic envoys, it was even more blatant to introduce female immigrants from Japan.

The Meiji government first invested in light industries such as silk and cotton, and at the same time hired foreigners to guide industrial production, but the industrial modernization project required a large number of laborers, especially in the textile industry. However, it was difficult to recruit workers. Recruitment in the countryside did not go well, and the daughters of peasant families were reluctant to leave their villages. As a result, nationwide government campaigns were aimed at convincing women to work in factories. In order to achieve propaganda purposes, some local officials first sent their daughters to work in factories. When the government's exemplary role was revealed, many people saw the factory as a safe place.

This facilitated the introduction of immigrants to East Africa, who had to invest in textile factories in Japan to recruit female workers and then arrange for them to work in "Europe" under the guise of intra-company transfers.

This was followed by a wave of commotion, and ships going to "Europe" often encountered wind and waves, pirates and other problems at sea, and lost 1,800 people in a single time.

Subsequently, the factory owner came forward to express sympathy for the occurrence of the "shipwreck", and would issue a symbolic pension to the Japanese government for handling, and as for whether it could be distributed to his family, East Africa did not care.

The "shipwreck" is force majeure, so the Japanese government has no way to make irresponsible remarks, and now Japan's international status is low, so naturally it will not be investigated, I have given a pension, what do you want?

The disadvantages of this are not without this, the leather bag company set up in East Africa often has to shoot to change places, and the next time it is another group of people to continue the scam, the excuses are ready-made, the former factory owner because of the shipwreck, huge losses led to bankruptcy, and the insolvent factory was acquired.

As for the blame, naturally it can't be carried by the Kingdom of East Africa, it is all investment businessmen from Germany and even European countries, where do they come from? What Poland, the Ukrainian regions, Tsarist Russia, Italy, and even the countries that existed in the time of the HRE, and now disappear.

The second is to buy directly from Japanese farmers, there is nothing wrong, it is to buy, in this era, the status of Japanese women is very low, there is no human rights at all, when many Japanese people can't eat, they can only choose to sell their daughters, after all, boys have to stay and pass on the lineage.

This is also the current situation in Japan, where the Kingdom of East Africa can buy a large number of them at a price slightly higher than the Japanese market, and pay directly for food, which is also a win-win situation, and after the Meiji Restoration, the second largest female employer after the textile industry is the "special service industry". The Meiji government criminalized abortion and infanticide, so when famine and crop failures came, many families in rural areas sold girls to "special services."

Therefore, in the Meiji period, the "special service industry" surpassed the Tokugawa shogunate in terms of both quantity and growth rate.

The East African government has traded food for Japan's surplus population, and their families can make ends meet with food, and these women do not have to work in "special service industries", and everyone has a bright future.

Although East Africa is relatively immoral in doing so, it naturally has its own way to make the Japanese government turn a blind eye and close one eye.

Although the textile factory is an old actor, there are also a group of regular women who have been engaged in work, and they can earn a sum of money to remit to their families, and the salary is slightly higher than that of the Japanese textile industry at the same time, and they are never in arrears, which is also a fixed income, and there are stable employees and output, and this part of the tax is cheaper for the Meiji government of Japan.

As for the disappearance caused by the shipwreck, I can only express regret that with the cooperation of these stable employees, there will still be "simple" people working in factories invested in East Africa next time.

Wages in Japan's textile industry are extremely low, and it was not until 1880 that Japan set a minimum wage, and even then, many people did not get paid.

The factories invested in East Africa are treated so well in Japan, and the natural status of stable employees is not small, and most of them have relationships with local Japanese officials.

This echoes the previous one, in order to fool women into working in factories, Japanese officials sent their own female dependents to work in factories as a demonstration.

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"Mr. Sebastian, I'm sorry for you! Thank you very much for your help! A group of Japanese officials in Tokyo bowed a standard ninety degrees.

"Hahaha, that's what I'm supposed to do as a diplomat." Sebastian said.

Just now, Sebastian, the minister of the East African Kingdom with a spirit of "justice", demanded a pension on behalf of the local government from the arrogant "Tsarist Russian" businessmen.

Tsarist Government: I don't know! Which country is the merchant?

Trained East African Slavic immigrants, pretending to be Tsarist Russian businessmen, it is quite easy to make, even if the Tsarist Russian diplomats come, they can't see through it, after all, it doesn't look like acting, fluent Russian plus a detailed understanding of Tsarist Russia and good conversation, no matter how you look at it, it looks like the real thing.

In particular, the big grinning personality has filled the last loophole, and the local government will of course ask about the "death" of Japanese employees in factories run by "Tsarist Russian" businessmen overseas.

As a result, after the cause of the shipwreck was stated, the problem had not yet been solved, and as a great power in the world, the businessmen of "Tsarist Russia" were naturally not used to it, this was force majeure, force majeure, force majeure! ……

Later, he threatened to beat out this group of Japanese people who were messing around, "just right", at this time, Sebastian, the minister of the East African Kingdom who went out to "buy" breakfast, passed by, so Sebastian, who was full of "sense of justice", severely reprimanded the "Tsarist Russian" businessmen.

In the end, under the mediation of Sebastian, the two sides shook hands and made peace, and at the same time, the "Tsarist" businessmen paid a pension, and the matter was over.

"Cessan is a great man, a true gentleman."

"Yo Xi, it would be nice if all the foreigners in Tokyo were as reasonable as Seisan."

"Cesan dared to confront the Russians and even reprimanded them face to face, and in the future, the Yamato nation would have to puff up its chest like this......"

"His Majesty the Emperor is onboard! We're going to make ......."

(End of chapter)