Chapter 77 The shogunate dumped its treasury to pay for the West Factory, and ceded land to Daming!
"There are still laws in this world that our shogunate needs to abide by?"
Tokugawa Hidetada asked sullenly.
"They said that their Xichang formulated the world commercial laws and regulations by order, and we traded with Xiyi without their Xichang's permission, which violated their regulations."
Tokugawa Iemitsu lowered his head and asked, "Have you seen this imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty?"
Tokugawa Hidetada said helplessly: "The soldiers are approaching the city, can you see me?"
"yes!"
boom!
A Japanese fan fell directly to the ground.
"My shogunate has never been bullied like this! With a few ships and cannons, my shogunate was forced to the point where the foundation of the ancestral temple was about to perish! It is a shame, a great shame!"
Tokugawa Hidetada shouted.
Tokugawa Iemitsu lowered his head.
"When I met a Ming countryman, please tell me what I should do."
Tokugawa Iemitsu asked again.
"As long as our Tokugawa family is allowed to continue to be the actual owner of this piece of land, everything else can be agreed."
Tokugawa Hidetada replied.
"clear!"
Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded, and next, he personally came to the flagship of Daming West Factory to meet Zhang Gui.
Zhang Gui came to Wa Kingdom to ask for food and money.
In fact, he has never limited his sights only to the country. He has always been thinking about solving the domestic problems of Ming Dynasty by mobilizing global resources.
Instead of focusing on the miserable people in the country like other powerful bureaucrats in Ming Dynasty, they tried every means to deprive the people of more points until the people were forced to rebel.
Zhang Gui knew that the biggest hole card of the domestic dignitaries and gentry was to control most of the land in Ming Dynasty, and then control most of the food resources in Ming Dynasty.
And his solution is not to fight with you in the circle of the Ming Empire alone, but to directly use the whole world as a chess game.
According to the rules established at the beginning of the Chenghua Dynasty, Caoliang needs to transport four million stone grains to Beijing every year for use as military supplies for the nine borders and for the palace and Beijing officials.
That is to say, not counting the loss on the road, Zhang Gui needs to get more than four million shi of grain from the Wa Kingdom.
Zhang Gui believes that the Wa shogunate can take it out. After all, the Wa shogunate is now in a period of rising national power. The key is to seize the entire North Korea more than 20 years ago.
"Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu met the Imperial Envoy of Shangguo."
Tokugawa Iemitsu saluted very humbly when he saw Zhang Gui. He couldn’t be more humble, and now the hundreds of front-loading cannons on Daming’s warships were still facing his Edo Castle.
Zhang Gui asked arrogantly: "Do you know your bad rules?"
After listening to Zhang Gui’s interrogation by the interpreter, Iemitsu Tokugawa endured his anger and replied: “I don’t quite understand, please clarify clearly.”
"Our West Factory is ordered to supervise the world's commerce, so any trade that is not approved by our West Factory is illegal trade!"
As Zhang Gui spoke, he asked in a cold voice: "Who allowed you to do business with my Ming merchants and even Western merchants?"
After the translation, Tokugawa Iemitsu said: "I don't know that there is such a regulation in Shangguo."
"Don't you know how to send someone to ask?"
Zhang Gui asked a question, and then pretended to be angry and took a few questions: "It can be seen that you Japanese slaves have no intention of respecting my Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty!"
After listening to Zhang Gui's words conveyed by the interpreter, Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but hurriedly said: "Don't dare! This is all done by the subordinates without telling the shogunate. What are we going to do with us?"
Zhang Gui saw that Tokugawa Iemitsu was still cooperative, so he stated his purpose.
Tokugawa Iemitsu breathed a sigh of relief. He thought the same as his father. As long as Zhang Gui was willing to let them continue to be the masters of the Japanese slaves in the country of Wa, they could accept other conditions.
Tokugawa Iemitsu smiled and said: "Thanks to His Majesty the Emperor of Shang Kingdom, the ministers of the small country are very grateful, and are willing to use all the power of the island country to repay the grace of His Majesty the Emperor of Shang Kingdom!"
Zhang Gui found that Tokugawa Iemitsu was very sensible, and guessed that he was only here to benefit, so he smiled and said: "It is enough to have your words, just as you said, pour all the grain in the other country's current storage , gold and silver as compensation!"
"In addition, our West Factory has to set up offices in your Edo, Nagasaki, and Hirado, so as to monitor whether the world's trade has broken the rules in the other country, including whether my Ming merchants have broken the rules in the other country. Your shogunate It is obligatory to protect the safety of our west factory in your office."
"Also, there is no right to arrest people from our West Factory office.
"In addition, your shogunate needs to cede Kagoshima to my Ming, because that is my land, and our Imperial Academy has verified it."
Zhang Gui looked at Tokugawa Iemitsu when he said this.
"this…"
Tokugawa Iemitsu was very angry in his heart. He really wanted to say, is it just a modest word that the envoy from the Ming Dynasty couldn't understand what he said? How could he really be willing to donate all the wealth of the shogunate and allow his own Edo Castle? There is an official office in the West Factory of the Ming Dynasty. Doesn't this mean finding a Supreme Emperor for the shogunate? Actually want to cut the island!
"Why, don't you want to?"
Zhang Gui asked in a cold voice, and then threatened: "Do you have to support the new shogunate?"
Hearing Zhang Gui's words, Tokugawa Iemitsu was so frightened that he prostrated himself on the ground: "Calm down the imperial envoy's anger! We are willing to do this and follow all orders of the imperial envoy! The daimyo is trying to betray the shogunate, and the upper country will send soldiers to help the shogunate put down the betrayer, and recognize the current orthodox status of the shogunate?!"
"You can haggle."
Zhang Gui said with a smile, he found that these Japanese shogunate generals were not idiots.
But Zhang Gui didn't want to just become the umbrella of the Tokugawa shogunate.
No matter what, you have to collect some protection fees every year.
It cannot be called protection fee, it should be called garrison fee.
Zhang Gui also said: "If the shogunate of the other country is willing to respect my Daming all the time, and abide by the global trade regulations formulated by our Western Factory, it is not impossible for us to recognize your orthodox status in the Wa country, and it is not impossible for us to protect you. status."
"It's just that you have to allow my West Factory to station troops in your country, and provide a sum of money every year. This garrison is temporarily placed under the management of our army stationed there. It can be regarded as a temporary rented place for my West Factory. Concession. If your shogunate is willing, the governor will let Xichang directly sign a contract with the shogunate, agreeing on the corresponding regulations, which can include that once a daimyo betrays your shogunate, our west factory can send troops to help you put it down."
Tokugawa Iemitsu was overjoyed. He realized that this would make his Tokugawa shogunate's position in the Wa Kingdom more stable, so he immediately agreed: "We are very willing to sign such a contract with Shangguo Xichang!"
So, next, Zhang Gui and Tokugawa Iemitsu finalized the corresponding treaty between Xichang and the shogunate.
In addition to clarifying that Xichang should set up an office in Edo City and the concession area as the military and political garrison of Xichang, the treaty also clarified the indemnity cession and other detailed rules.
Of course, because of this, the Tokugawa shogunate also donated all the grain, gold and silver in its existing warehouse to Xichang in accordance with the provisions of the treaty.
Xichang was able to obtain six million taels of grain, more than one hundred thousand taels of gold, and more than three million taels of silver.
"First, send someone to ship the food back in advance with a hard sailboat. According to His Majesty's will, for this operation, the gold will be used as a reward for the governor and half of the silver for your Shen family. The silver will be used as rewards and funds for other official schools in Xichang. In this way Well, 500,000 taels will be reserved for the office and the concession. Zheng Zunqian of the Naval Academy performed the best in the bombardment of Edo this time. 500,000 taels will be used as funds for the subsequent management of the office and the concession. In addition, another 1 million taels will be reserved as funds for increasing the size of the navy in the West Factory, and the remaining 2 million taels will be rewarded according to the rules."
Zhang Gui gave Shen Yourong instructions.
Shen Yourong agreed: "Yes!"
He and the Xichang official school present were very happy because of this. They all had to admit that it was easy to make a fortune working in Xichang, and the key point was that it was easy to get promoted.
Zhu Sheng Zheng Zunqian didn't expect that he himself became an official so soon, and he hurriedly came to Zhang Gui to thank him.
Zhang Gui helped him up and said, "You are the first official stationed overseas by our West Factory, you must set an example! Do you understand?"
Zheng Zunqian nodded solemnly: "Please rest assured, Commander-in-Chief!"
Zhang Gui continued to instruct: "We evacuated the Japanese shogunate, and the shogunate will definitely intensify the exploitation of the Japanese people. The conflict between the government and the people within the Japanese people will inevitably intensify, so you have to establish an orderly Western West in the concession as soon as possible to ensure personal rights and interests." The factory official came to use this as a way to attract more wealthy households from the Japanese country, including daimyo from all over the world, to transfer their properties to our West Factory’s concession in Edo, so that our West Factory can control their wealth and activate the business in the concession.”
"Remember the humble job!"
Zheng Zunqian replied.
According to the information, the annual income of the shogunate is more than 4 million shi, and 10,000 guanmu of silver. I don’t know how much it has in store. I only know that soft sailing boats are more suitable for oceangoing, fast and easy to turn. If you understand, you can talk more about it. If the hard sail is good, the navy will not eliminate the hard sail in the future.
(end of this chapter)