Chapter 1256 The Qin Family's Mace
For the Wa country, why did it agree to the Qin family?
Naturally, industries can be introduced. If the Tangjin Free Port is built, it will be impossible for the Qin family to only produce and process goods here to supply the Wa Kingdom.
With the addition of the Qin family, the country of Wa hopes to have a big port by virtue of Tangjin. At that time, more foreign businessmen and foreign capital can be attracted, and more industries can be attracted. Japan will definitely be able to get more industrial skilled workers in these industries.
Such benefits are actually more than that.
In the long run, this will be of great benefit to the Japanese country, which is now poor and white, and is undergoing comprehensive reforms. The same approach of heavy tax robbery alone is unsustainable.
Qin Lang's proposal is undoubtedly more beneficial to both parties.
Heavy tariffs are just killing the chicken and taking the eggs. Free ports are the hope for the future.
"The Prince Katsuragi who is in power in the Wa Kingdom is a smarter person. His teachers, Nakatomi Kamazu and others are also knowledgeable people. They are very clear about the good and bad of our proposals."
Qin Yong nodded, "But will the court allow this?"
"Our Luzon is a foreign fief and has the right of self-government. It is a trivial matter to trade with the Japanese country. It is not a declaration of war against the Japanese country. It is not a concession or a free port. The imperial court has no right to interfere too much. And this kind of thing, the imperial court In other words, there is no impact loss, so why interfere with the prohibition?"
If the free port is built, the Qin family will also give convenience to other Tang merchants and allow them to settle in.
The free port is actually not completely free. In the Tangjin free port plan proposed by the Qin family, the Tangjin free port was established in the Tangjin concession of the Qin family in Luzon. This place is both a free port and a concession.
Essentially speaking, this should belong to the outside of the Wa country and belong to the overseas leased territory of Luzon, so the laws, taxation and other systems of Luzon are implemented here.
There is no tax in the free port, but the Qin family still has to collect taxes here normally. Everything follows the old rules in the Luzon Governor's Mansion. For example, salt, tea, sugar and wine are subject to monopoly tax, and mines are subject to mining tax.
Others are also subject to industrial and commercial tax.
These taxes are handed over to the Qin family, which manages the free port, and the Qin family does not need to hand over to the Wa country, but will correspondingly hand over one-third to the imperial treasury, which is paid according to the legal status of the Luzon government.
On the other hand, the Tangjin Free Port is different from Luzon. For example, people from the Wa country can come to Tangjin to buy goods. As long as the quantity limit is not exceeded, the purchased goods do not need to pay customs duties to the Wa country.
Only when the goods sold in excess of the quantity enter the Wa country, customs declaration and tax payment are required.
In fact, this article is more beneficial to the people of the Japanese country. You can enjoy the same shopping experience in the Tang Dynasty without going out to sea. For example, if you buy tea directly, you can reduce the tariff by 5%. If you buy Luzon If you buy tea from outside the government, you can enjoy the exemption of 200% of the heavy tea tax.
The number of shops and workshops in the free port has increased, and a large number of Japanese people must be hired to work. This is a good opportunity to make money.
"I always feel that this strategy of concession plus free port plus tariff agreement is indeed imaginative, but I always feel that we are taking advantage of the Japanese by doing this."
"We do take advantage, but who makes the Japanese lag behind? What do you think the Japanese have now? Silkworms have been raised for hundreds of years, but can you see their own silk? After Tang’s silk fabrics, who would still want to use their own production? Even if it’s cheap, no one would want to. Under the impact of our silk fabrics, Japan’s own sericulture and silk weaving industry will go bankrupt and have no future at all. Here we come, directly Cooperate with silkworm farmers in Japan, plant mulberry and raise silkworms, sign a purchase and sale contract, guide them to grow mulberry and raise silkworms, and then purchase their cocoons. Ship them back to Dangjin, and then use our advanced technology to process them into raw silk, boiled silk, and then silk weaving Processed into all kinds of silk and satin etc.”
The silk weaving industry in Datang was very developed. Not only did it have a huge scale of planting mulberry and raising silkworms, but also there were many kinds of silk products with various names and varieties.
There are more than a dozen major categories such as silk, silk, silk, satin, yarn, silk, silk, brocade, velvet, velvet, silk, silk, silk, onyx, and crepe, and then subdivided into hundreds of sub-categories.
For example, silk is plain woven and has no patterns. In the past, plain silk that was not printed and dyed was also used as currency, and its size and weight were strictly regulated.
And damask is a monochromatic twill fabric, which can change the twill weave at any time to produce patterns. This weaving method is called jacquard. Datang's official uniforms mostly use silk.
Luo has a dark pattern.
Others such as yarn, satin, brocade, Qi and Wan are also very famous.
In today's Tang Dynasty, the weaving industry is very developed, such as Huzhou, which is the largest raw silk production area in the country, and Husi is famous all over the world.
And Suzhou and Hangzhou have become the most famous silk weaving processing places in the world. It is said that the two cities have weaving households and half cities, and each city has tens of thousands of looms. It has become the largest silk weaving industry with hundreds of thousands of industrial workers. Absolutely the world.
The silk yarn from Zhangzhou, the splendor from Yizhou, and the cotton from Wu'an Prefecture are also famous all over the world.
Datang is truly unique in the field of silk weaving. It not only has a rich variety of silk weaving, but also has a large scale of industry. It has long formed a specialized industrial city.
Mulberry silkworms make cocoons, and then the silk must be reeled out by reeling, but even if the raw silk is reeled by hand, it is very particular.
The raw silk reeled by hand is also boiled to remove fat, and some secret recipes are added to it. After the raw silk reeled is boiled and degreased, it becomes the raw material of silk thread or fabric.
The cooked silk has to be reeled, shaken, and sorted to process the mature silk. The cooked silk is used to make silk quilts or cotton clothes and trousers, also called silk cotton. In the past, under the regulation of Zuyong in the Tang Dynasty, the silk floss collected was boiled silk.
In addition to raw silk and cooked silk, some leftovers are also produced during the silk reeling process, such as cocoon flowers, which are the messy threads on the surface of the silkworm cocoons. If the cocoon flower is beaten into a whole piece, it becomes a cocoon garment.
In addition, when the silk is taken out to remove the chrysalis, there will be some silk attached to the chrysalis, and finally these silks can be used after being lifted, which is the foot residue, which belongs to the worst silk.
Silkworm cocoons are processed into raw silk or cooked silk, and then woven into various silk fabrics such as silk and satin through various processing methods. Datang now prohibits the direct export of raw silk, and can only export processed silk fabrics to increase the added value of commodities.
Huzhou became the center of silk reeling, and Suzhou, Hangzhou and Zhangyi became important industrial centers of silk weaving. In the past, silk weaving was often done by families, who planted mulberry and raised silkworms to reel the silk, and then weaved it into plain silk, part of which was paid as tax and part of which was sold.
And those silk and satin fabrics are often produced by government handicraft workshops, and the number of commercial weaving workshops is small, accounting for a small proportion.
But in recent years, the proportion of household silk weaving industry has become smaller and smaller. The common people mainly grow mulberry and raise silkworms, and then sell the cocoons directly to silk factories. There is a large-scale silk reeling industry and many professional and skilled industrial workers. Not only the efficiency but also the quality are better.
The scale of the industry is getting larger and the categories are becoming more and more detailed, which makes Datang's silk products more and more competitive.
So the still very primitive and backward family silk weaving industry in Japan is so weak and uncompetitive compared with Datang, whether it is quantity, quality or cost, it is not worth mentioning.
For example, the Shaofu Supervisor of the imperial court also set up a weaving and dyeing bureau in Suzhou. This official workshop has 300 machine rooms, 1,000 laying machines, 10 embroidery and satin rooms, 10 dyeing rooms, and more than 1,000 floral looms. There are more than 3,000 weavers. And there are more than a thousand folk silk houses.
In Suzhou alone, there are more than 12,000 looms, and more than 100,000 people are engaged in silk weaving and related industries. Among them, the powerful weaving companies have thousands of looms.
Many aristocrats were engaged in the weaving industry, and many weaving houses were jointly operated by businessmen raising funds. Not only were there various machine rooms, large and small, but the local industry was prosperous, and many housewives would go to the weaving houses to collect silk materials and go home. Processing, earning processing remuneration.
And Hangzhou is similar in size to Suzhou.
They are all known as Orido Bancheng.
The most powerful thing about the weaving industry in the two cities of Suzhou and Hangzhou is not only the large scale of the industry, but also the strong technology. There are only patterns and colors that customers can't think of. There is nothing they can't make, and they can supply whatever they want.
The decline of the Persian Sasanian and Roman Empires was even attributed to the Tang Dynasty. In the past, the Persian Sassanian and Eastern Romans also mastered the technology of raising silkworms and weaving silk.
Relying on these soft gold, both countries have made a lot of money, but they still have to sell a large amount of raw silk from the East every year, and then process it into various silk fabrics by themselves, and they can make several times or even more profits by hand.
However, since Datang banned the export of raw silk, Datang was only allowed to sell silk fabrics abroad, which severely hit the silk processing industries of Persia and Rome. Without a huge supply of raw silk, only their local raw silk, their silk The industry suffered a severe blow, a large number of silk merchants went bankrupt, and countless silk weavers lost their jobs.
The loss of stable taxation and trade profits brought about by silk weaving processing has also made the finances of both countries worse, further accelerating their collapse.
Among them, Persia, which used to occupy a large share and interests of east-west trade by virtue of its geographical advantages, was also hit hard and further weakened.
And the nomadic tribes on the Arabian Peninsula, by attacking and intercepting the sea trade routes of the Red Sea, forced the merchants to take the land route of the peninsula, so that the oasis cities such as Mecca and Medili flourished. It robbed the Persian Empire of a large amount of trade benefits, so it grew rapidly, and finally went north, killing the Persian Empire, and its demise was imminent.
It is said that a butterfly in the South American jungle **** its wings, and a storm may form in the Pacific Ocean.
Such things do exist.
Just like in the age of great voyages in later generations, the depletion of Spanish silver mines in the Americas reduced the amount of silver imported into Ming Dynasty, which led to the financial collapse of Ming Dynasty, and finally recorded the country under the attack of the Jurchens outside the pass.
Unless the country of Wa is closed and closed, as long as it opens up trade, the exquisite but cheaper silk fabrics of Tang Dynasty can immediately destroy their backward silk industry in China.
Wa has no resistance at all.
Now Qin Lang plans to build a weaving factory in Tangjin, buy cocoons from silkworm farmers in the Japanese country, and then transfer skilled industrial workers to guide the local workers recruited by the Japanese country to use Japanese cocoons for silk reeling, silk weaving, printing and dyeing, etc. In this process, both It can guarantee the continuation of the silkworm industry in the Wa country, and at the same time teach them advanced silk weaving technology.
Of course, it is not so easy to easily obtain advanced silk weaving technology. Qin Lang recruited Japanese people to weave and dye silk, and he would only start from the simplest position, and those key core technologies would not be easily handed over to them.
But for the Wa country, after all, the industry of mulberry planting and sericulture can be guaranteed first, otherwise their entire industry will be destroyed under the attack of Tang silk fabrics. Without the silk weaving industry, silkworms will not be able to maintain it.
One ring within one ring, calculating step by step.
Even if the Japanese can understand what is in it, so what?
Unless they really close the country, prohibit all foreign ships from coming, and prohibit all foreign goods from entering Japan, but this is impossible. Today's Japan is completely reformed, learning from the Tang Dynasty everywhere, and the maritime trade in it is similar to that of the royal family and nobles. , down to the local tyrants, businessmen are interested, who is willing to give up all this?
And Qin Lang wants to build a free port and set up a concession, which will not only bring about the silk weaving industry, but also smelting, papermaking, book printing and many other industries.
What Qin Lang was interested in was the huge market of the Haidong countries including Wa and Silla, as well as the huge supply of raw materials.
If Luzon wants to prosper, it must take the road of industry and commerce. Agriculture is only enough to maintain its own supply.
Connecting to the Taiping Port of Wu’an Prefecture in the mainland in the west, building the Tangjin Free Port in the north, connecting to the Lion City of Linyipu in the south, and facing the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, only by connecting the north and south with the feudal vassals can Luzon continue to prosper.
"The imperial court's plan to use troops against Goguryeo and Baekje shouldn't affect Dalang's trip to Japan, right?"
"Wait for good news from Jun'er, I believe Wa will be a good student." Qin Lang said confidently.
Datang is about to march eastward, and Qin Lang thinks that this will only benefit Qin Jun's negotiations. After all, this change in the situation can only prove that Datang's influence on Haiguo is further strengthened. If Datang succeeds in destroying Goguryeo and Baekje , that is really only one step away for Wa country.
At that time, Datang's influence on the Japanese will be stronger.
Qin Lang's proposed free port in the Tangjin Concession actually has obvious benefits for Wa. After all, Qin Lang's proposal has a lot of willingness to cooperate.
Not to mention, there are also many preferential conditions attached.
If the free port of the Concession is completed, Qin Lang will also partner with the Wa Kingdom to build a mint there, and the coins minted will be used first in the settlement of trade with the Wa Kingdom. For the Wa Kingdom, which is currently extremely short of money, but has no ability to mint coins For them, the money is what they need most, and they can no longer bear the way of bartering everywhere.
(end of this chapter)