Lu Ming

Chapter 184 Diplomatic Achievements
After Cai Feiming and Liu Zhe discussed a few words about the Spaniards, Commander Liu was sent away—to solve the Taipei issue, the protagonist should be the newly established exploration team, not the army.So Lao Cai sent Liu Zhe to contact the exploration team, and agreed that everyone would meet in the cafeteria for dinner.

After seeing Commander Liu off, Cai Feiming sat on a chair and thought about it for a while, then opened his notebook and started typing.

Cai Feiming drafted three documents in half an hour.

The first was a report: a proposal for the establishment of diplomatic relations with Spanish powers.

The second is a statement.This passage is for the exploration team. After they come into contact with the Spaniards in Taipei in the future, they can use this passage to make a statement.

The third is letters.This letter was written to the current Governor of Manila in the name of Xia Xianze, Prime Minister of the upcoming Second Qin Empire.

The battle of orthodoxy lasted for half a year, and it was the royalists who won in the end.

The Dingge faction headed by Xia Xianze, after several rounds of cruel voting, successfully named the future country as the Second Great Qin Empire, referred to as the Second Qin Empire.

Successfully set the government type as: Constitutional Monarchy.

Successfully formed the aristocratic parliament (House of Lords) including all the cross-members, and filled the provisional constitutional committee with Dinge party members, leaving only the relatively weak rule committee for the emperors.

In addition, Xia Chenggong promoted himself as the first prime minister of the empire.

Now there are still two months before the completion of the imperial city, although the planned ceremony of a certain Cao's ascension to the throne will be in September; however, some documents from the crossing forces, especially those aimed at outside the Ming court, have been successively published one after another. Continue to start using the imperial name and official position.

After Cai Feiming completed the three drafts, he sent the first report and the third letter to Xia Xianze's mailbox, and then printed out the second short statement.

After a few things were done, Cai Feiming touched the brass bell placed on the corner of the table with his fingers a few times.After a few crisp metallic sounds, a clean, dark-skinned, short-sleeve young man in indigo overalls came to the door, stood upright, and said in a slightly accented tone: "My lord .”

Cai Feiming nodded to the boy from Xingang Society: "Li Ren, go and invite some Japanese guests back."

Not long after, the three book dealers returned to Cai Feiming again.

The Japanese came to Dayuan last month.The fleet of four Zhuyin ships brought gold, silver, copper bars, iron sand, sulfur, and people, men and women.

More than 30 short, thick-legged oriental girls instantly awakened some people's youthful memories, and a few special characters who looked exactly like some educators in later generations aroused heated discussions in the community that night.Some people who have persisted in not using their concubine funds until now, and some people who claim to be self-sufficient and have a high vision, finally can't hold it this time.

In addition to the sister, the precious metals and sulfur loaded on the ship, these are all the meanings in the title.When they first returned to the mainland, Toru Higashino and the others had a list of material requirements for senior personnel, so this time when they came to Taiwan, the Zhuyin ship did not carry traditional Japanese handmade ornaments, and the space was used for carrying personnel, and the ballast was replaced with iron sand ore.

Natural iron placer is usually in the form of iron tetroxide magnetite, which occurs in coastal beaches and river valleys.In the 17th century, this high-purity iron ore was a good raw material for making high-end swords and high-end iron products.

In Japan in the 17th century, the sources of iron ore were very rich: including iron ore associated with various silver mines, including iron sand ore in Hokkaido, including high-grade iron ore imported from Bangzi.Therefore, when the Japanese left last time, they were asked to change their ballast to iron ore in the future.

200 Japanese cannon fodder/wild samurai/vagrants were also transported to Dayuan with the ship this time.

The purpose of these 200 wage-earners coming here is simply to work. They did not come here to overthrow the Dutch regime as they did in the past.

As for Hamada Yahei, the old Japanese hooligan, after meeting Higashino Kamitoru and Kobayashi Kaoru in Nagasaki, he was surprised to learn that the senior staff had changed. After that, half of the hired thugs were immediately driven away, and all the weapons and swords were replaced with precious metals and sulfur, and happily joined Dongye and the others and returned to Dayuan.

You know, in the original history, it was also in late April 1628. The two ships led by Yahei Hamada came down to the big officers, but they were full of No. 470 thugs and a large number of muskets and swords-this is to find trouble.

After the Dutch realized that something was wrong, they quickly searched Hamada's cabin, confiscated all weapons, and arrested 11 natives of the Xingang Society and two Chinese correspondents on ridiculous charges of treason.

At the same time, the Dutch confiscated the gifts sent by the Japanese general to the people of Xingang. Hamada was then detained in the Dayuan Commercial House, unable to go to Fujian to transport his raw silk back, and was not allowed to leave the country.

Ever since, Hamada took the risk and kidnapped Nuiz and his son. After everyone returned to Nagasaki, the Dutch had a tragedy. Japan.

Now in the plane of the traveler, a lot of history has been changed.

When Yahei Hamada led the fleet to Oota in late April, what he saw was a bustling and beautiful port.The new masters of the big staff are very powerful. They have transformed the place beyond recognition in a short period of time. It is not what it looked like when Hamada left half a year ago.
On top of that, the lords' storehouses were stocked with china, cotton and raw silk, and the masters welcomed the act of trade.

Henceforth, Hamada readily exchanged the precious metals in the cabin with Toru Higashino and the 200 field samurai wage earners for beautifully printed heaven and earth coupons from the crossing crowd.

At the same time, Cai Feiming also saw the diplomatic achievement he most wanted to see from Kobayashi: a copy of the order to sever trade relations between Japan and the Netherlands, signed by the contemporary shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Very well, at this moment, history has miraculously returned to its original position.

So the three book merchants got the reward they deserved: priority trading rights.In other words, as long as there are goods in the big staff's warehouse, they can give priority to selection.

The good news continues to come.

Not long after the Japanese fleet arrived in Ota, a distraught Dutch ship also set off from Nagasaki, carrying members of the trading house and the last batch of goods they had obtained in Japan, to Otao.

After exchanging information with the low-level businessman Majer who stayed behind, the Dutch ship hastily exchanged the goods on board for raw silk and porcelain, and then took the last north wind and returned to Batavia. After the governor learned that Ben Zi turned his face and closed the trade channel, he would consider more carefully: the relationship between the Dutch East India Company and the crossing forces.

Ever since, the three big book businessmen lived in the temporary villa next to the business hall.

The Japanese are not in a hurry now, they will not return depending on the situation until the southwest monsoon begins to blow in mid-to-late May.The difference from previous years is that this year they will come to Dazuo again in July and August. The Japanese are striving to achieve the goal of coming to Dazuo trade four times a year.

There is no way, there are too many temptations brought to them by the senior officials now.

In addition to the traditional raw silk, porcelain, and cotton cloth, cement, red bricks, and some exquisite straw products are also favorites of the Japanese.

In addition, the latest high-priced glass teapots and glasses produced in the kiln area have also defrauded the Japanese of a lot of heaven and earth coupons.

The Japanese now also know the "point system" launched by the time-travelers.After a few book dealers fiddled with sample kerosene lamps all night in the villa, the bottomless goods like Hamada Yahei strongly expressed the next day: next time I will definitely bring in more wandering samurai and young women for use. Collect points and become VIP.

Wild samurai and women are what the high officials need at the moment.

Women don't need to talk about this.There are too many bachelors in the big officials now, and if things go on like this, huge social conflicts will form, so the time-travelers have been sparing no effort to search for women of childbearing age everywhere, regardless of race and nationality.

The Japanese wild samurai is also a very useful type of work.

In 1549 AD, Catholicism spread to Japan. The first missionary who came to Japan was the Spanish Jesuit Xavier. The Japanese called the Catholicism he introduced as "Chezhidan" or "Gilizhidan".

From the acceptance of Catholicism by the Japanese daimyo in the middle of the 16th century, until the killing of Oda Nobunaga who supported the spread of Catholicism, to the Shimabara Rebellion in the Edo period, and then to the shogunate’s complete ban on religion, there are foreign Catholicism and Japanese Buddhism in the middle. A brutal battle between faiths.

The period of 1628 was the point of intense friction between the shogunate and the Catholic Chetchitan believers.A large number of Chechitan believers were exiled by the shogunate, and various "big martyrs" emerged one after another. All missionaries were expelled, and Catholic daimyos were deprived of titles and seppuku. Hundreds of thousands of Chechitan believers were persecuted to death by the shogunate successively.

At this time, the receiver came.

The reason why Cai Feiming has frequently talked to Japanese businessmen recently is here: Since these Kirichidans can't get along in the local area, the officials welcome the wild samurai among them to come here to work.

The wild samurai is a very good cannon fodder unit.These people are full-time warriors who have been trained for many years. Whether it is fighting will or fighting skills, they are not comparable to the mud-legged people transported from the mainland.

As long as the equipment and weapons are improved for these people, they will conquer the vast world for the passing people. This is a good deal.

In the days to come, these wild samurai wielding great swords will fight the savages in the humid and hot tropical jungle where malaria is born, rob them of food, burn their villages, and use the super high death rate to vacate the cage for the empire. Change the bird, expand the territory.

(End of this chapter)