Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1175 Agreement
"By the way, you said Lord Edo, I just wanted to write a letter to him, and there is something I don't know, please advise."

Seeing that the other party began to ease the atmosphere, the two came to let out a sigh of relief, but the underbelly has always exerted its strength at such times:
"Should it be called 'Maharaja of Japan' or 'King of Japan'"

"Since Mr. Hideyoshi has not received the seal of the Japanese king, the people of our country have been called Maharaja."

"That's good." Ping Qiusheng took out a file folder, "Look, Duke Hidetada's credential has the seal of 'King of Japan'."

When Japan and Korea negotiated peace in 1607, Tsushima was entrusted by Tokugawa Ieyasu to request North Korea to send an envoy. The North Korean side requested Japan to submit a letter of credence to extradite the sinner who destroyed the royal tomb. He also took a few criminals and made them dumb and sent them over.Knowing that the other party was lying, the North Koreans still sent a "reply and counterfeit mission", and bilateral relations were restored, but one lie had to be covered up with thousands of lies.

Since the shogunate did not actually submit the credentials, North Korea replied with a copy of the credentials and put Zongyi Zhizhi on the fire, so the three members of the Zong family tampered with the credentials of North Korea. Tokugawa didn't know that North Korea was returning the credentials , So I returned another copy to North Korea, and the trio of the clan tampered with it... So back and forth, the trio of clan tampered with more than a dozen copies of the credentials until they all died of illness, and their descendants inherited the glorious tradition of their ancestors Continue to tamper with the cause until 1634 Yanagawa Tiaoxing provoked an incident and reported the matter. In the end, General Iemitsu spared the Zong family again after repeated weighing and exiled the Yanagawa family.

This incident is the famous "Yanagigawa incident" in the history of East Asian diplomacy.This kind of seemingly unbelievable thing in modern times was not uncommon in East Asia at that time. For the sake of "face", "orthodoxy", and "national character", the three East Asian countries at that time did not make much trouble in this regard.During Wanli's aid to Korea, there were similar incidents of fake envoys and credentials between China and Japan.At that time, the news was blocked, and the speed of information dissemination between countries was very slow, and there were few talents who could speak foreign languages. Even the high-ranking people had to rely on a very small number of people to communicate, so there was a lot of room for fraud.

Before D-Day, Yu Eshui had collected a lot of PDFs of falsified national documents from the electronic libraries of Japan and South Korea. In this time and space, Liu Chuan hadn't reported it... The two envoys were already sweating in shock.

Although the long boat and the bamboo house had heard rumors about it at the wine table, they didn't corroborate it.Now this group of Ausong people of unknown origin actually threw the exact same thing on the table as the original.

In fact, both sides thought of one person at this time-the third general Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was born with the name "Takechiyo" - this is the hereditary baby name of the eldest son of the Tokugawa family. Before his death, Ieyasu specially arranged for the second-generation general Hidetada to abdicate and let Iemitsu inherit the third-generation general. Wei Dayu's ardent expectations for Iemitsu.

And Jiaguang lived up to his grandfather's expectations.He is almost the personification of Japanese family politics, inheriting the black belly and prudence of the Tokugawa family, the stubbornness and conservatism of the matrilineal Asai family, and the domineering and decisiveness of his grandfather Oda family... In short, he is enough to make the world. A powerful figure whose daimyo trembled to his death.The "arbitrary politics" of the Tokugawa family reached its peak in his hands. Not only did he add many laws of the samurai family, but he also executed them mercilessly.Many famous daimyos in the Warring States Period were brutally changed in his hands because of various "prohibited" things.No matter whether it is pro-vassal, genealogical generation or foreign appearance, no one dares to challenge the authority of the shogunate.

At this time, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not have such a powerful reputation as later, but since Tokugawa Hidetada died of illness in the second generation of the Imperial Palace in January 1632, Iemitsu officially took charge of the government and monopolized power, and he has gradually revealed his true qualities as a strong man.

The difference between the two sides is that on the side of Fuzhong Fan, the general is an existence who can decide the life and death of himself, his family and even the lord with a single sentence, while from the perspective of Lingao, Jiaguang is nothing more than one of several opponents with a relatively stable rule, at most It is just a matter of how to bring it into compliance with the least cost.

Osafune Genshichirohei and Takeya were sweating profusely after reading only a few pages of the document. Since these so-called Australians can get the rubbings or something of the criminal evidence back then, they naturally have a way to get it in front of the general. .This is fatal: Osafune and Takeya are the directly related persons, not to mention the general or the lord, even the elders like Yanagawa and Susano can't afford to mess with them.Not only is death not a pity, but even the reputation and loyalty will be shattered-if something happens, the feudal clan will change and change, and the important officials in the feudal clan involved will most likely have to cut their seppuku.At that time, the long boat family will become the sinners of the Fuchu clan, and even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will be hunted down all over the family.

For now, the only thing to do is to weigh the price.The opponent showed his hole card, obviously not to change the Fuchu clan.

Yan Qilang leaned over and said, "My lord, please make it clear!"

"My Song Dynasty only makes friends with loyal people, and the two of you can be worthy of the word loyalty." Seeing the two envoys sweating profusely, Ping Qiusheng threw down the prepared straw
"I wait for generations to be loyal"

"Since I am a loyal person, I, Da O Song, would like to make three chapters with your family..."

The next step is naturally to discuss a trade agreement. There are three main provisions in the trade agreement:
[-]. Following the example of Japan and Korea, the Tsushima Kingdom proclaimed its vassal to Australia Song, and the Australia Song appointed the Zongjia as the deputy envoy of the Tsushima Tuanlian; at the same time, appointed the Zongjia to act as the communication officer between Lingao and the Edo Shogunate, and tried to establish trade relations with Edo.

[-]. Jeju and Tsushima open their ports to each other, and merchant ships of both sides can enter and leave freely with their seals, and enjoy the most favorable treatment for each other;
[-]. The two sides set up consulates for each other, negotiate tariffs and trade quotas between the two sides, and Tsushima sent a concubine to preside over the consulate in Jeju Island, which is equivalent to a hostage.The business is handled by Takeya. The Australian Song Dynasty can set up a trade consulate in Tsushima, and at the same time send some specialized personnel to Takeya in Nagasaki. This point is mainly for the Ministry of Intelligence.

The annex to the treaty has very few restrictions on the types of exports from Japan: except for the ban on Japanese knives, other goods will be released.Generally speaking, there are very few things that Japan can export at the moment: mainly Japanese knives, fans, gold, silver, copper, tamon (dried seafood) and silk products.Anyway, except for Japanese knives, these things are useful to the Senate, at least they can be used for re-export.In order to increase Japan's exports, it was specifically pointed out that Japan can sell timber-but for the Fuchu Domain, which has no mountains and forests, it may not be profitable to harvest, transport and re-export from the island.

Takeya was shocked when he saw the samples of the goods displayed by Hiraaki Mori——40 years ago, the businessman Nawusuzaemon from Kaiko, that is, the Luzon Suzaemon who later brought Shikawa Hideji to Nanyang, smuggled it from Quanzhou A batch of blue and white porcelain was dedicated to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and they were fabricated to be Luzon porcelain.Toyotomi Hideyoshi has never seen such a good utensil, and he rewarded 10,000+ stones in one breath, and then sold "Luzon tea bowls" with Rikyu layman, and made a fortune in the world.When Hideyoshi died, he had to flee for his life to Cambodia.Now Australians not only have high-quality blue and white porcelain, but also bone china like jade and various glassware like crystal. The price is not expensive according to the eyesight of the Japanese.If you change hands, you will get ten times or a hundred times the profit!

In particular, the full set of glass and porcelain tea sets can be subdivided into Ming style and Ausong style—the so-called Ausong style refers to English black tea sets and oolong tea sets from old time and space.Of course, the weird shapes and colors used in Japanese tea ceremony are also indispensable.

As for bulk consumer goods, there are cloths of various textures, which were also the main imported commodities in Japan at that time. The shogunate at that time stipulated that ordinary people were only allowed to wear cotton and linen products, and the cotton in Japan’s main island: whether it was kapok or grass cotton, was not enough.Therefore, cotton cloth is imported from Daming and North Korea every year.In particular, Korean kapok cloth is a bulk commodity in the trade between Japan and North Korea.

Although the Senate has not yet established a cotton spinning factory, the East India Company shipped a large amount of cheap cotton cloth from India. Songjiang Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty is also a world-famous place for clothing and quilts, and Hainan and Guangdong are traditional kapok producing areas, and the quantity of home-woven cotton cloth is also very large. considerable.Therefore, the Japanese can provide as much as they want, and the cost performance is much higher than that of North Korean products.

As for all kinds of other goods: especially the small hardware and machine-made farm tools, the Zong family can't get enough of them - although these things are not of high value, they have always been popular in the market, and as many as they can be sold.Not to mention that the iron quality of these products provided by the Australians is a very good product at first glance.

The Australian Song samples were packed in dozens of boxes, which made Tsushima envoys feel ashamed of their gifts: most of the 200 Japanese knives sent were ordinary goods used to deal with ordinary Japanese pirates—that is, they were exported to Daming for three taels of silver. kind of.According to Ping Qiusheng's instruction, Shi Chuan Xiuci first reprimanded the other party for the unreasonable gifts, then tied gauze on his right arm, and cut off a few of them on the spot with a light sword as thin as willow leaves in his left hand.

On the contrary, works of art full of Japanese characteristics have been welcomed: folding fans and screens are very popular with Hirayaki for their unique Japanese aesthetic taste, and they can be sent to Lingao to present to the elders.There is also Japan's specialty silk fabric: velvet.This is Japan's main export silk fabric, which was very popular with Europeans at that time-but Japan imported a large amount of raw silk from China mainly to manufacture silk fabrics for export.

The gifts presented to Ping Qiusheng were obviously carefully selected, and they were quite valuable: a high-quality Taidao and a Wakizashi—although they were "new swords", they were also made by famous smelters. Called expensive.Two bolts of velvet, ten small gold pieces, and fifty small silver pieces.

Only then did Ping Qiusheng show a smile: Although all gifts have to be handed over to the Planning Institute, this generous gift fully reflects the "respect" for him from the horse side - flattery is always something that people can benefit from.

　Note: The so-called new knives refer to knives made after 1600 - of course only limited to those made by famous smelters
　　
　
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