Xinshun 1730

Chapter 406 It's All Business
"Wonderful!"

Zong Yi praised him in his heart, and his mind was as I expected. If this person knows that he will die, he must first collect his books and mind learning, so that they can be passed on to future generations.

After Yusen Fangzhou got out and went back to his residence to sort out the collection of books and the "Ancient and Modern Waka Collection", he was about to find his confidants to discuss with the Dashun Army, as long as he gave a guarantee, he could surrender.

Thinking that he might be the first to surrender, if they break their promises, others will surrender?That is, when the eastern captives caused disasters in the late Ming Dynasty in the past, the few who surrendered first were all conferred titles.

Dashun can't be inferior to the barbarians, right?

That being the case, I will definitely have no worries.

Dashun's navy is so strong that if he can capture Tosa, it will be meaningless for him to be in Tsushima.

If Tsushima cannot trade, it is really poor.

Anyway, I can't hold it, I can't run, I don't want to die, so there is only one choice.

I have long heard Koreans say that the capital of Dashun is luxurious and rich, so why not go to the capital and be a rich and idle lord?

He had already made up his mind in his heart, and his expression remained unchanged.

Yusen Fangzhou said again: "My lord, if you send someone to talk to the Tang people again, I will write a letter."

"Brother Tao Shan Dunweng in the past encouraged the people to hunt and kill wild boars with a heart of mortality, in violation of the order of compassion for human beings. The people received his favor and begged to erect a monument as a commemoration. The work has not yet been completed. From my point of view, people in the Tang Dynasty also had benevolent and righteous people. Please don't disturb this monument."

"I am old, and seeing the majesty and order of the Chinese heavenly soldiers, I know that they are invincible; the theory of Eastern and Western China will definitely not be compatible with China."

"The road is poor and the road is lonely, and the only thing to do is to follow the doctor Sanlu."

At the end of the sigh, the title of Dashun, from Tangshan, Zhendan, and Tangguo at the beginning, was finally called Zhonghua again.

This was not because of seeing Zhao Baiquan's exchange, but because he wanted to understand one thing in an instant.

Whether it is Yamaga Suxing of the ancient school, or Arai Shiraishi of Zhu Zixue, the theory of "each calling China" constructed by these people is completely over.

Each said that once the discussion on Hua was finished, the concept of Hua could only be thrown to China, and Japan could no longer have it, and even wanted to split it.

Otherwise, Confucian scholars in Japan will have to experience a confusion of thoughts: Since they have no chance to call themselves "Donghua" in their own country and call themselves "Zhongchao", will they be the emperor in the future?Or loyal to the king?
Japan can only have a future if it is Japan.

Thinking of the last realization, he knelt down to bid farewell, Yu Mori Fangzhou slowly left the castle, and walked towards his residence in the castle town.

There, he will sort out his lifelong book collection, and also write down his final insights and send them back to Japan.

As soon as Yusen Fangzhou left, Zong Yiru breathed a sigh of relief.

With Yusen Fangzhou at his side, he had the feeling that "Zhong Ni is the Spring and Autumn Period and the rebellious officials and thieves are afraid".

The dark thoughts in my heart always feel like ice cubes illuminated by the sun in front of these Confucian scholars.

Now this feeling dissipated, and when it was really cold, Wu broke out in hot sweat, and the pores all over his body became transparent.

The 8 taels of silver that Dashun asked for was not a problem, not much at all.

Before Arai Shiraishi reformed and tightened the export policy of precious metals, the average amount of silver coins traded between Tsushima and North Korea each year was measured in tons.

Arai Shiraishi exported 11 tons of silver coins a year at its peak before the reform.Of course, during the minting reform at that time, silver coins were not pure silver, and the silver content was about 65%, which was seven or eight tons.

Among them, ginseng only accounts for one-fifth, and the rest is the raw silk obtained by North Korean merchants in the capital trade free of duty.

This is the reason why Dashun maritime merchants are so keen on starting a war and destroying the Japan-North Korea trade—there are nearly ten tons of silver coins per year, which are only officially revealed.

Because of the stipulations in the Japan-North Korea Jiyou Treaty, only [-] ships from Japan can go to North Korea's Waguan for trading every year.

However, the maritime merchants of Dashun are very good at this: if you officially stipulate twenty ships, I can produce five times.

Is it okay if I send a boat to the Wakan to deliver a letter?Someone's family members are sick, can I send a boat to pick them up?If there is an urgent matter for Ma Shou or the general, can I go to the Japanese Pavilion for urgent matters?
It's normal for the ship to go and accidentally bring some goods, right?

Maritime merchants all over the world are like birds. If they can smuggle, they will never pay taxes. As long as they dare to open a hole, I can dig a door.

More than 20 years ago, the reason why the maritime merchants in Dashun didn't dig out the gate was not because they didn't want to, but because they didn't have diamonds and were blasted away by Japanese forts.

Officially, there are ten tons of silver a year publicly, how much is there in private?

The maritime merchants don't know the exact number, but they know in their hearts that there must be a lot of them, and they jumped on the ground to support the war, so to speak, because of these things.

Besides, if it weren't for Arai Shiraishi's policy of tightening precious metal exports, the size of the North Korean tribute mission and the restrictions on land transportation, it would not be a problem to increase the transaction volume by three to five times.

Dashun Maritime Merchants only knew that the trade volume would not be small, but of course they didn't know the specific amount.

But Zong Yiru was very clear about his own family background, and he also knew very well what kind of family background the merchants on the island had.

8 taels of silver, if it is difficult to get out in other domains, or you can only get out a pile of rice, but in Tsushima, 8 taels of silver is still very easy.

Moreover, at this time point, Tsushima is the time when silver is piling up.

Zong Yiru was very suspicious that Dashun's use of this time to start the war was to maximize the intelligence and fully figure out the timeline of the Japan-North Korea trade in Tsushima.

Most of the North Korean goods purchased by Ma Fan are actually Dashun Jiangnan products.

North Korea has to go to Dashun at least four times a year. This is not a normal tribute, but a manifestation of "filial son"-but in fact it is doing business in the name of obedience.

In addition to the three must-sees for the emperor's birthday, Winter Solstice, and New Year's Day, there is another must-see.

Every September, the so-called "Emperor's Calendar and Consultation Request" is sent.

Since the second year of Chongzhen, Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and others compiled a new almanac with the help of the astronomical knowledge of Western missionaries.

After the founding of Dashun, astronomy and geometry made great progress, and the almanac also adopted the new Copernican and Tycho systems brought by Western missionaries, and the calculations were more accurate than the old methods.

North Korea does not have this level of astronomy, the second is a tributary state to show respect, and the third vassals must use the same almanac as the Celestial Dynasty to prove that they are in the world.

Therefore, it is necessary to ask the heaven to give the almanac of the second year.

It can roughly be understood as "Dashun has a technical monopoly on the calendar, and North Korea sends envoys to Dashun every year to ask for a calendar."

Of course, whenever there is such an opportunity to go to the capital, they will definitely not forget to bring a caravan.

North Korea was worried that China would "demand silver as a tribute", so it closed North Korea's silver mines, and every year it got Japanese silver from Busan, and then went to the capital to buy goods.

And now, according to the trade timeline of previous years, it is time for Tsushima Fan to accumulate a large pile of silver to facilitate North Korea's purchase of goods in Beijing.

The trade of Tsushima Fan is actually divided into two parts.

Tsushima's own trade.

Shogunate trade.

Therefore, in April every year, the shogunate will transport the silver traded by the shogunate to Tsushima, and when it arrives in Tsushima, it happens to be in June and July, just in time for the North Korean mission to enter Beijing in September to request the almanac.

Liu Yu was the Tosa who was harassed in May and June, but at that time the silver had already been shipped out from Kyoto, Osaka and other places.

When the news about Tosa reached Tsushima and the trade was suspended, the money had already arrived and was in Tsushima.

This is a large amount of money, a total of more than seven tons of specially minted silver coins, with a silver content of more than [-]%.

Part of it was used by the shogunate for its own trade, and part was used for exchange by the Tsushima Domain.

The reason why so much silver can be piled up in Tsushima under the tightening policy of precious metals that Arai Shiraishi is dead, but the government has not stopped, has a lot to do with the minting reform under the influence of Arai Shiraishi and Liu Yu.

Japanese silver coins, of course, are not pure silver.

If it's pure silver, you can't collect seigniorage, and it must be mixed with something.

North Korea...is not technologically advanced enough to purify silver mixed with impurities.

Therefore, every coinage reform in Japan will cause North Korea and Tsushima to quarrel for a long time because of the "exchange rate" issue.

For this reason, North Korea has also won a "trade war" against Japan.

Twenty years ago, Japan's Genroku silver coins contained 20% silver, while North Korea killed 65%.

Take it, or don't sell it.

The businessmen of Tsuima Fan couldn't support it, and Tsuima Fan couldn't support it himself. In the end, it was calculated according to the North Korean side's 63%.

After that, Japan carried out several coinage reforms in the past 30 to [-] years.

New money with a silver content of 30% was made, which led to inflation; after Arai Shiraishi came to power, he changed back to Xiang Baoyin with a silver content of 80%, which led to deflation; Liu Yu went to Edo to suggest that new coins should be minted again , to ease deflation, resulting in a silver content of about 50% in the new currency.

After all this tossing, Tsushima Fan experienced North Korea cutting off 2% of the exchange rate containing silver by mouth. Seeing that the shogunate changed to mint new money, he asked the shogunate to "license to cast some coins specially used for trade with North Korea." , Silver coins with a silver content of 80%.

The purpose of recasting new money is to alleviate deflation, so the Xiangbaoyin used when Arai Shiraishi was in power can no longer be circulated, and must be exchanged for the latest Yuanwenyin.Otherwise, there would still not be enough silver coins on the market, and the inflation would still be deflated.

However, North Korea prefers 80% Xiangbaoyin.

North Korea can't purify, so they like the ones with higher silver content, otherwise they take the ones with too low silver content to Dashun, and the merchants in Dashun will try to block them.

In order to avoid tossing about the exchange rate, the Tsushima Clan and the shogunate did not want to toss about the exchange rate, so several tons of silver with high silver content were specially minted every year for trade with North Korea, so as to avoid the nonsense of the exchange rate—the maritime merchants of Hedashun It's much more convenient, you can use whatever amount of silver you want, even if you have copper, I have the ability to extract the silver in it, and resell it to make a fortune.

The shogunate wants to use this specially minted money to trade with North Korea.

Tsushima also had to exchange the Yuanwen silver in his hand into special minted silver to trade with North Korea. By the way, the shogunate collected another wave of seigniorage, and rigidly stipulated the exchange rate between Yuanwen silver and special minted silver in the hands of Tsushima Fan.

So I would like to thank the missionaries such as Matteo Ricci. Without them, North Korea would not be able to go to the capital every September to ask for a calendar calculated by new technology. The silver refining technology led the shogunate to send the "special cast ginseng generation to ancient silver" with high silver content to Tsushima in advance.

The beneficiary of this gratitude is undoubtedly Zong Yiru at this time.

He thought, wouldn't it be beautiful if businessmen and retainers were allowed to collect the 8 taels of silver, but he himself took these tons of "special cast ginseng generation ancient silver" as his own?

As long as Dashun accepts his surrender, as long as Dashun needs to set an example of surrender, then he will not move his property too wantonly.

Ask the businessman to collect 10 taels, and give the remaining [-] taels to the officers of Dashun to share the profit.

However, I kept the 10,000+ catties of special cast silver, whether it will continue to be entrusted to Tsushima in the future, or go to Dashun to "participate in the capital" all the year round, this is all family property.

Anyway, he also thought about it, if he couldn't fight, if the Dashun army really attacked by force, the silver wouldn't be able to stay.

Furthermore, not all of the silver was originally his, and some of it was traded by the shogunate. If you can keep it, you can be happy; if you can't keep it, it's not sad.

With the plan in mind, he first called the people involved in the trade from the shogunate, and put forward a proposal that sounded reasonable.

"The army of the Tang Dynasty may attack at any time. They can capture Tosa, so how can they hold on to Tsushima? What we need to worry about now is the batch of 'Specially Cast Ginseng Daigou Silver' transported from Kyoto. No If you first ask someone to transport them to a suitable place and hide them."

"If people from the Tang Kingdom attack and find this batch of silver, then this can boost their military power."

"I choose my confidants to escort and hide, those involved in transporting and hiding silver..."

Stretching out his hand and making a gesture of wiping his neck, he really is a heart of loyalty and love, and he is also a person who thinks for a long time.

When the people in the shogunate thought about it, they also felt that Zong Yiru's idea made a lot of sense.It should be a good thing to hide.

Zong Yiru thought, I should hide it first, if Dashun still let me guard Tsushima in the future, then I will be the name of Dashun, if the shogunate comes to ask for money, Dashun will take good care of me.

If Dashun doesn't let me guard Tsushima, I won't keep my mouth shut. When I go to the capital in the future, I will voluntarily donate some to the emperor of Tang, saying that it is my private property, and he will allow me to keep the rest.

(End of this chapter)