Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 647
Last year, there were nearly 1 merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty that arrived at Nagasaki Port, and more than [-] Chinese merchants arrived with the ships.

The goods that arrived in Japan were mainly raw silk, silk, tea, porcelain, cane sugar, as well as buckskin, ivory and rhino horn spices.Most of the goods are produced in Daming, and some are resold in Japan from Nanyang vendors.

Trade with Japan is very profitable. For example, white sugar costs [-] taels of silver per load in Guangzhou Port, and [-] taels of silver is shipped to Nagasaki.

Raw silk from Nanjing costs 120 taels a load in Guangzhou and 230 taels a load in Nagasaki.

Mercury is 40 taels a load in Guangzhou, and 110 five taels a load in Nagasaki.

Other iron, zinc, betel nut, beeswax, etc., all have high profits.

Last year, Daming imported 500 million catties of copper from Japan. In addition, it also imported a large amount of silver and gold. These were shipped back to Daming, refined and processed into gold, silver and copper coins, or made into silverware, etc., with high profits.

Japan is a big producer of silver and copper, and its silver and copper prices are not high. With the reduction of silver imports from the Americas, Japanese silver has now become an important source of silver for the Shaotian Dynasty.

Last year, Xiao Jinyuan made more than 5 yuan.

Although Japan previously allowed Chinese and Dutch businessmen to trade, it set up a trade quota of 30 taels for Dutch talents and 60 taels for Chinese businessmen.

However, since three years ago, this limit was no longer enforced for Daming, especially for merchants from the Shao Dynasty.

Compared with the previous model where the Dutch mainly purchased goods from China and resold them to Japan, Daming himself had a huge market and stronger supply capabilities, and he had a complete advantage in trade with Japan.

Moreover, the Shaotian Dynasty took advantage of the previous war with the Dutch in Taiwan to block their Nagasaki Batavia trade route, and took the opportunity to quickly seize the Dutch's market share in Nagasaki. Found that they have no place.

Although they can freely purchase goods in the ports of Daming, they have no advantage over Daming Maritime Merchants.

The huge increase in trade volume has also increased the income of the Japanese shogunate and even daimyos from all over the world, and the lock-up order has actually become a dead letter.

After all, no one is willing to give up such a large profit.

The only thing Japan is still insisting on is the Porcelain Ban, which prohibits Ming Dynasty from shipping Chinese porcelain to Japan, and only allows some high-end porcelain to be imported, and the tariff is extremely high.

But this is not difficult for the Ming businessman.

Japan's porcelain industry is not as good as China's, but compared with Southeast Asian countries, and even the Netherlands, it is still much stronger. Therefore, after Ming merchants went to Japan for trade, they not only purchased a large amount of copper and silver ballast, but also purchased a large amount of Japanese porcelain, because Japanese porcelain was exported. There are discounts.

After purchasing, return to China with the ship, and then re-export to Southeast Asian countries, there is also a lot of profit.

It doesn't even have any impact on Ming's porcelain industry, because Japanese porcelain is at best a low-end product and does not conflict with Ming's porcelain, which occupies high-end and high-end exports.

The Ming ship merchants can also receive preferential subsidies, tariff reductions, etc. in Japan.

It is also the exquisite spirit of the Ming merchants that makes the Japanese shogunate very satisfied with this kind of trade.

The daimyos from all over the world hope to fully liberalize trade, so that they can get a lot, but the Tokugawa family is still conservative, only adding a few ports, mainly concentrated on the territory of the Tokugawa family, and not giving other daimyos opportunities for them to grow.

Even the Tokugawa family agreed to Daming's request that the Satsuma clan withdraw from Ryukyu despite the objections of the Shimadzu family.Because after the Satsuma clan sent troops to control Liuqiu, they often used the name of Liuqiu to trade with the Ming Dynasty as tribute. Regardless of the Tokugawa family's seclusion order, they made a lot of money through sea trade, and the development was rapid, and some couldn't control it.

The Tokugawa family didn't get any benefits from being there, so they agreed to Daming's request to let the Satsuma clan withdraw from Ryukyu.

But the shogunate doesn't care about you, if you don't accept it, you will fight.

One of the purposes of the lock-up decree was to restrict the development of some daimyo and avoid threatening the shogun's family.

Now the shogunate is willing to open up trade with Ming Dynasty, and even allows Japanese businessmen to go to Ming Dynasty, but there are many rules and restrictions, such as the authorization of the shogunate, the registration at several designated ports, customs declaration and tax payment, and return to the sea. Customs declaration and tax payment at this port.

Tomorrow's trade will be very profitable for the Shaotian court and the Tokugawa shogunate. The two sides are now in the honeymoon period, and no one is willing to part ways.

There is a ship company in Zhu Yihai’s Shaofu prison that specializes in sailing routes to Japan. A large ship can carry [-] jin of copper at a time, as well as a lot of gold and silver. In addition, it can also carry other items such as porcelain Japanese knives, salted fish, whale oil, and lacquer. Not a lot.

Those sold to Japan are mainly raw silk, cotton yarn, sugar, buckskin, ginseng, high-end porcelain, silk, materials, Buddhist scriptures, etc.

For this route alone, the Royal Shaofujian went to Japan a hundred times last year, and the profit was more than one million.

Now tomorrow's trade has long since changed the official tribute and trade model in the past. It is basically private trade. The government only designates ports and collects taxes to suppress smuggling.

Annan's trade also increased a lot last year.

Lord Zheng used the Son of Heaven to command the feudal lords to control the Houli Dynasty, and wanted to get Daming to restore his status as a vassal state, but the Ming Dynasty never let go, and Zhu Yihai did not give in easily.

Now he is the Commander of the Annan Capital, and it is a territory of the Ming Dynasty. Although it is only in name, it also leaves room for manipulation in the future. If he agrees to be canonized as the King of Annan, even if it is a vassal state, there will be endless troubles in the future.

Zhu Yihai took advantage of the current prosperity of his power, stationed troops in Nanguan, and made a show of the five forces in Annan.

Continue to canonize the puppet Emperor Li as the commander of the Annan capital, and grant him the Duke of Annan County and the silver seal.

Granted that Master Zheng, who actually controlled the government of Houli Dynasty and the northern part of Annan, was the consolation envoy of Honghe, and he was granted the title of Marquis of Hanoi and the silver seal.

The Mo family, who controlled the Gaoping area, was conferred the consolation envoy of Gaoping, the Marquis of Gaoping, and the silver seal.

The Wu family, which controls the Xuanguang area, was conferred the title of Xuanguang Marquis and a silver seal as Xuanguang's consolation envoy.

The Ruan family, which controls the south of Lingjiang River, was granted the consolation envoy of Shunhua, the Marquis of Shunhua, and the silver seal.

The puppet Emperor Li is the envoy of the capital, the Duke of Annan County, and the two major warlords who ruled the north and the south each serve as envoys of consolation and feudal lords.

The two small separatist warlords in the north were also named Xuanwei envoys and marquises.

Xuanwei envoys were some high-ranking chieftains established in the border areas in the Ming Dynasty. They were higher in rank than Xuanfu envoys and appease envoys.

Zhu Yihai's conferment actually meant to muddy the water on purpose, especially when he started trading with these forces.

Last year, a large amount of grain was imported from several places in Annan to return home, as well as spices, ivory, copper, and ship wood.

They also exported a lot of porcelain, tea, silk, medicinal materials, Buddhist scriptures, etc., and made a lot of profits.

They even bought ship wood from them, exported ships to them, imported copper materials, and exported copper products.

The Annan factions with a low level of manual manufacturing can only sell raw materials in terms of trade.

Ruan, who pays attention to firearms, even ordered bird guns, artillery, and warships from Shao Tianchao last year.

Shao Tianchao showed the advanced equipment to the Ruan family, signed an arms sales contract with them, and disclosed the news to the Zheng family in a blink of an eye, and the excited Zheng family hurriedly paid for the order.

Grain, coal, iron materials, ship wood, tin and lead, etc. were transported back to the Central Plains by boat, and then blunderbuss, cannon, gunpowder, etc. were transported back to them. The military industrial enterprises in Ming Dynasty not only made a lot of profits, but also expanded their production scale.

Last year, more than one million shi of grain was transported from Annan back to Guangxi and Guangzhou, and it was even transported directly from the Red River to the upper reaches of Yunnan to support the encirclement and suppression of the Tusi rebellion war. Many local products in Yunnan also flowed directly down the Red River.

One by one, the envoys of the vassal states came forward to pay tribute.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty read out the imperial decrees one after another.

The Shao Dynasty has rebuilt the system of the Celestial Kingdom.

Although Beijing is still occupied by Tartars, it can be imagined that there will not be any envoys from feudal states at the Golden Palace in Beijing at this time, and there will not even be any warm and happy atmosphere.

Zhu Yihai is here from all nations coming to court, paying tribute from all directions.

Even if they stood in a long queue and stood in the snow in the square, with the cold wind blowing, these people were all respectful.

This is the strength of a great power.

Although Daming had been dim before.

But like a sleeping dragon waking up again, he shook his body, and his prestige was already enveloped in all directions.

Envoys from foreign friendly states and vassal states paid tribute in turn.

Then came the chieftains and officials on the frontiers of the Ming Dynasty, then the outer towns and village towns, and then the local governors, military commanders and other court envoys.

Classes of congratulations.

Zhu Yihai was sitting at the imperial gate, with his hands clasped and a heater in his sleeve, but it was not cold at all.

The imperial gate of Penglai Palace is far inferior to that of Nanjing and Beijing.

But the aura here is straight towards Yunxiao.

It was not until long in the afternoon that this grand and enthusiastic Zhengdan Dynasty came to an end.

The emperor gave a banquet.

At the banquet, Zhu Yihait called several other towns over, including Geng Zhongming from Liaodong, Jin Shenghuan from Jiangxi, Mi Layin from Hexi, He Hongqi from Longyou, and Li Chixin from Yiling, a local national treasure from Beizhi.

There are also Xu Dingguo, Ding Qiguang, Li Huajing, etc. who practiced in the Henan regiment.

There are also Yuan Zongdi, Gao Bizheng, Hao Yaoqi, Liu Tichun, Wang Guangtai, Dang Shousu and other cadres from Tunzhen.

And Zhu Chenggong, the adopted son of the five emperors who led the camp and so on.

These people are basically a vassal town. Except for the five emperor's sons, the soldiers and horses commanded by the rest are not directly descended from the central government. Before that, the emperor only sent a small number of civil servants to supervise the army.

Today, the emperor specially asked them to come together to further strengthen the management of these outer towns, village towns, and regiments.

"After you return to the town in the next year, officers and non-commissioned officers at all levels will be divided into ten batches, and sent to the capital for training and learning in batches to strengthen command and combat capabilities."

"One group was sent to study in Beijing, and the other was exchanged to other towns to study."

(End of this chapter)