Xinshun 1730

Chapter 475
I am not afraid that Japan has ambitions and even revenge, but I am afraid that Japan will lie down and die as equals.

If it is true that we will die on equal footing, use unscrupulous means to strengthen the "Frugality Order", strengthen the ban on folks wearing gold and silver, and strictly order warriors to live in poverty and live in peace instead of wearing silk and porcelain, continue to use the old ruling methods to continue ruling, and deepen social lifelessness, then Dashun can only fight again.

But as long as you don't lie down and die equally, you can't get around a problem.

money.

Before Liu Yu went to Edo to deliver sweet potatoes, even the financial situation that weakened the vassals' visits and confessions was stopped. There is really no other way to get money other than being a comprador.

The decadent Manchu Qing Dynasty can engage in thirteen lines, monopolize the export trade to Europe, and half a generation of agents with matchmaking flints, from Lake Balkhash to Nepal and then to Myanmar.It's not that the so-called abundant martial arts can only krypton gold, and it can afford to krypton [-] billion taels in a few decades.

Japan does not have anything that can be exported in large quantities. The brief rise of porcelain 80 years ago was due to the turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty, when Europeans could not get goods in the Central Plains. It happened that Toyotomi Hideyoshi robbed some porcelain craftsmen on the Korean battlefield.

If you can't make money by exporting, you can only choose to make money by importing.

Liu Yu kindly gave a [-]% tariff, not out of kindness, but to give the shogunate an incentive to expand imports.Anyway, those who can afford silk are not short of the six percent tax.Waiting for the development of the machine textile industry in the future, when it is necessary to expand the market for the Japanese people, just ask for a reduction in tariffs.

Tokugawa Yoshimune knew that Liu Yu had no good intentions. Looking at Liu Yu's "Wouldn't it be beautiful", thinking that gold and silver are so useless, why do you look like a fly seeing blood?Why don't you Dashun give away all the gold and silver, isn't it beautiful?
But now there are wolves in the front and tigers in the back.

With Liu Yu's face begging for money, Tokugawa Yoshimune was convinced that Liu Yu still had half a word to say.

If the shogunate implements thrift orders, then Dashun can change the shogunate. Dashun’s own conquest may be a bit troublesome. The samurai will fight desperately for fear of being equal to the four peoples and revoking their privileges; but from the Date family to the Mori family to Nabeshima Clan, it is not very difficult to support a new shogunate. If you fight a field battle of the scale of the Battle of Hagi Castle, the Tokugawa shogunate itself will collapse.

Don't change it, wait for death slowly.

Change it, it seems that the method given by Liu Yu is really the only feasible one.The premise is that the shogunate is still ruling, otherwise there are quite a lot of ways, not just this one.

Tokugawa Yoshimune has already suffered a great loss from sweet potato famine relief and coinage reform, and now it is really neither up nor down.

After thinking about the idea given by Liu Yu, it seems that it is indeed achievable.

If the annual tariffs, franchising, sulfur and copper materials monopoly, etc., can add three or four million taels of income to the shogunate, it can indeed afford to support a 400 soldiers other than the regular soldiers. Some schools are opened in the core areas of the territories directly under the Central Government.

Other options are unrealistic. Neither the United Kingdom nor the Netherlands have shown enough strength to shock Japan at this time, and under the inertia of seclusion for so many years, they can only learn Western tools, and it is absolutely impossible to learn Western methods. .

Sinology has a very broad foundation in Japan. As a subculture and derivative culture of the Chinese cultural circle, there is no shortage of Confucian scholars.And basically keep up with the mainstream of the times, Dashun has comprehensively reflected on Zhu Zixue, and Japan has also begun to have a line of ancient Confucianism.

However, regarding this matter for the rule of the entire Japan and the entire Tokugawa shogunate, there are some things that make Tokugawa Yoshimune hesitant.

"Liu Jun is a Chinese, but he doesn't understand the righteousness of Confucianism, and he doesn't know the virtues of Confucianism."

"In the Song Dynasty, Su Zi said: The reason for the survival of a country lies in the depth of morality and does not care about strength or weakness; the reason for the length of the calendar is in the thickness of customs and does not care about rich or poor."

"Gu Yanwu, a great Confucian in your country, also had a book spread in Nagasaki. According to what he said, he thought that the Song Dynasty's downfall was actually caused by Wang Jinggong's reform. If the law that harms the people, such as the Qingmiao Law, harms the people, it can be destroyed in one day. And more."

"However, after Jing Gong's reform, the people's hearts were greedy for profit and neglected righteousness. This is the root of the Song Dynasty's downfall. This is not like the young crop law that harms the people. Knowing that it is harmful can be abolished in one day. This kind of profit-seeking and party talk The atmosphere of profit is not known for a hundred years of misfortune."

""Xiaoya·Jiaogong" says: Don't teach a tree to rise up a tree, it's like smearing it. Monkeys can climb trees without being taught. But Wang Jinggong often talks about money and profit, but this is teaching the world'monkeys 'Climbing a tree will make the soldiers and the people all over the world seek profit and forget righteousness."

"Liu Jun told me to broadcast Zhu Zi's study in Japan, but also told me to encourage extravagant consumption; told me to run schools to seek talents and reward Confucian scholars, but told me not to allow samurai to live in peace and happiness. How is this different from the opposite?"

"The shogunate's pursuit of profit, isn't this making Japan's ethos 'teach me to raise wood'? If it doesn't work, Japan's ethos will change...then there will be no way out."

"If the spell doesn't work, if it doesn't work, you can return to the martial law; if you practice this spell, the atmosphere will change, and you can't retreat."

"Liu Jun is digging out the roots. You can only advance, but you can't retreat."

After reading it, Liu Yu stared at the sentence "The reason why a country survives or dies is the depth of morality, and it doesn't care whether it is strong or weak", thinking to yourself, do you believe it?
It's nothing more than worrying that things won't work, the samurai system will collapse, and the great cause of unifying and cutting down the vassals has not been completed, so that there is no way out.

This is the standard way of doing great things at the expense of one's life, always thinking about leaving a way out, but now you can't retreat if you want to, and you can't move forward if you don't want to.

If it is true that there is a thrift order and the like, after cleaning up the Dutch in Nanyang, seeing that Japan's trade volume has not increased significantly, they will definitely have to fight again. At that time, they will not be so polite.Why bother?

If frugal orders are not implemented, and trade volume is not controlled by administrative means, then the Wu family system will inevitably collapse.

Anyway, Xindao is up to you to toss, really want to toss, if you don't toss for decades, two or three generations, you won't understand.Two or three generations later, the times have changed long ago. By then, Dashun's industry will wish to get rid of the samurai class and have a broader Japanese bottom market.

Unlike India, which is just a geographical term, Japan has no early national consciousness; nor is it like India, which has a suitable climate and a large number of arable land. It is the best cotton and indigo raw material base that can be found around Dashun.Resources are also very scarce, so it is not suitable as a raw material base for orthodox colonial rule.

Seeing that Tokugawa Yoshimune was still thinking about a way out, Liu Yu also showed his fangs.

"This matter is not about the general, but about the fact that the celestial dynasty does not allow the general to retreat. If the general wants to leave a way out, how can the celestial dynasty sell more goods? Isn't this battle in vain? Could it be that the general really wants the celestial dynasty to continue to fight?" Fight once, or support a new shogun who prefers to take advantage of tariffs and monopoly trade? Or think about the freedom of all clans to trade with the Celestial Dynasty?"

After the aggressive pen, there are giant ship cannons on the sea of ​​Edo.Faced with such humiliation, there were no outsiders around, Tokugawa Yoshimune knew that Dashun would not allow him to retreat, so he had no choice but to ask about the content of the secret agreement.

That is, what conditions must the shogunate agree to Dashun, so that Dashun can guarantee the rule of the Tokugawa clan and ensure that Dashun will not object when Tokugawa cuts down the feudal clan in the future.

These contents that cannot be clearly written in the treaty are also the reason why Liu Yu agreed to meet with Tokugawa Yoshimune this time. He did not come to debate the scriptures with Tokugawa Yoshimune and discuss whether the survival of the country is based on strength or morality.

The terms of the secret agreement are not too complicated.

First, Dashun sent people to assist Japan in handling customs and checking tariffs at five commercial ports.

After the tariff is clarified, the goods that have landed and paid the tariff shall not be subject to any additional taxes, lijin, and the like along the way.

Dashun provided a batch of firearms and several warships to the shogunate, of course it was bought with money.In return, the shogunate will send someone to cooperate with Dashun officials to complete the exploration and mapping of Japan's territory to show their obedience.

The shogunate should not issue clauses such as thrift orders, nor should it prohibit merchants from going to the opening place for trade, let alone rigidly stipulate the type of currency used by merchants.

Whether it is Yuanwen money, Xiangbao money, or earlier gold and silver money, the merchants in Dashun will negotiate the exchange amount and the ratio of gold and silver with the ancient Japanese.

The shogunate should not prohibit Dashun marine merchants from trading with gold and silver exchange merchants in Japan, and the shogunate should not rigidly stipulate the gold and silver exchange ratio, and all merchants from both sides should negotiate.

When it comes to the issue of Dashun merchants committing crimes in Japan, Dashun's staff stationed in Nagasaki and other places will handle it together with the shogunate's commercial port administration.

The shogunate is not allowed to conduct diplomatic activities with Western countries privately, and all communication activities with countries outside the Chinese system must be reported to the capital, and the capital will come forward to conduct exchanges.

The shogunate is obliged to maintain the country-locking system. Except for the five port openings, if merchant ships from various countries come to trade privately, they will be sunk and captured.

For example, ships from North Korea, Annan and other countries "drifted" to Japan and should be sent to Nagasaki as soon as possible, and Dashun would escort them back to China.The cargo of ships drifting to Japan can be owned by the shogunate. If the Korean state has doubts about this, the Dashun court will come forward to coordinate.

Rice, wheat and other grains, whether exported or imported, should be exempt from tariffs.The two countries should exchange what is needed so that the people will not be hungry.

In order to deal with the Satsuma clan in a low-key manner, and to monitor that the Satsuma clan would not invade Ryukyu in the future, Dashun wanted to use a piece of land in Satsuma, and the Celestial Dynasty stationed an army.The land money came from Dashun, and the shogunate came forward to transfer it to the direct control of the shogunate, and then lent it to Dashun, but there was no need to spread the uproar.

In general, there are just a few of these, which can be summed up as gold and silver arbitrage, tributary vassals have no sovereignty, customs goods are disembarked without tax increases, "colonies" are prohibited from bypassing the suzerain's private trade, and they are stuck between Satsuma and Ryukyu. The only way for Westerners to come to Japan.

Because of the trade surplus, silver from the Americas, Europe, and Japan poured into China in large quantities, which led to a gradual decline in the exchange rate of gold and silver in China since the 30s.However, due to the outflow of silver and high gold production in Japan, the gold-silver exchange ratio is very high, so that the maritime merchants of Dashun can completely rely on the price difference of gold and silver to squeeze the price of gold and silver in Japan to the same level as Dashun within a few years.

This is not a small amount, but a big profit involving tens of millions of taels of silver. In other words, a navy with a tonnage of [-] tons must be carefully discussed with Tokugawa Yoshimune.

Japan has a wonderful currency habit of using gold in Kanto and silver in Kansai.Eastern customary gold, the first to feel the impact must be the territory directly under the control of the Tokugawa clan. If this matter is not explained clearly, the Tokugawa clan will definitely murmur within a year.

(End of this chapter)