Win the Ding 1617

() In the hall decorated with Burmese mahogany, the dance of the maid wearing Siamese red gauze is reflected in the glass mirror. On the ancient shelf, there is a sacred porcelain vase that has just been released from the kiln, which is in a patchwork pattern. A few Siamese peacock feathers, and a copper incense burner produced in the Xuande period slowly sprayed benzoin into the air.For the latest free chapters of this book, please visit www.On the beam, a pair of huge parrots were chattering about something.The guest, who was wearing a gown made of newly spun fine cotton cloth, waved a Japanese fan in his heart, staring at the lunch in front of him in a daze.

Lunch should be quite rich from anyone's point of view: rice steamed from the new rice of the year, venison from the senior officials, barrels of sugarcane wine and rice wine placed on the table for guests to take at will .If you think the amber-colored wine in the glass bottle is more suitable for you, you can say hello to the waiter in the restaurant and ask him to pour yourself a glass with the same crystal clear glass.Or pour a hot cup of very sweet cocoa.

Looking at the dazzling array of food on the table in front of him, although he knows that these foods are very cheap compared to domestic prices, the guest with a Japanese sword on his waist is still unwilling to eat.

"Bagaya Road! We have been here for ten days?! Why is the general still refusing to meet us! It must be that you are not doing well!"

The guests were very dissatisfied and reprimanded the accompanying samurai.The warriors with conflict cannon buns on their heads hurriedly took their seats, knelt down on the ground and folded their palms with their foreheads close to their palms, pleading guilty to their lord.

A group of Matsudaira Nobuzuna, old Naka Sakai Tadakatsu, and Tokugawa genealogy leader Abe Tadashi, the new governor of the Abe family.As representatives of the Tokugawa shogunate, the three of them have arrived in Hue for ten days with a group of samurai from their respective families. It is a great shame to complete General Tokugawa's confession!

The matter originated from the annual account of visiting the Hajj.

After years of evolution, the visitation and confession activity initiated by the daimyos headed by Iehisa Shimadzu aimed at currying favor with the Tokugawa shogun has changed from a spontaneous behavior to a system.The shogunate used it to consume the financial strength of each daimyo, especially those of foreign daimyo. At the same time, the wives of each daimyo were required to live in Edo, and each daimyo had to live in Edo Castle for one year every two years to assist the general in handling Government affairs, in this way, not only consumed the financial strength of each daimyo, controlled their wives as hostages, but also shortened their time in their respective territories, and gradually alienated, cooled, and alienated their relationship and affection with their retainers.It is somewhat similar to the effect of "Soldiers do not know generals but do not know soldiers" created by Song Taizu.

However, starting from this year's pilgrimage, the shogunate found a hint of danger.

The Shimadzu family, Nabeshima family and other southwestern feudal clans in Kyushu are not necessary. The Tsushima clan, which used to be allowed to rule once every three years because of Guoyuan's weak strength, unexpectedly came to see them this time.

You must know that for the daimyos, participating in the confession is often an extremely painful trip at their own expense, and they also have to slap their faces to pretend to be fat.A large number of entourages must carry out a large-scale "parade of daimyo" when they move forward. They are all platforms for each daimyo to compare with each other and pay attention to ostentation.This is definitely a huge consumption of daimyo's economic strength.

However, this year, Matsudaira Nobuzuna and others took the lead in discovering that no matter whether it is the southwestern feudal lords, or the Wudao family and the Zong family, who are not much stronger than the slightly wealthier banners, they actually put up nearly a thousand people. ranks of big names.

In the ranks, the banners are clear, not only the daimyo himself is wearing brocade robes, but the samurai banners are all made of fine steel Nanban armor, and even those obvious ashigaru are also wearing iron armor.What the pikemen carried on their shoulders was no longer a simple bamboo spear, but a long spear that was even more refined than the Sanjian spear. It hurt his eyes.

And the iron cannons on the shoulders of those iron cannons made Matsudaira even more frightened.

That is definitely not comparable to the best Satsuma iron cannon in the Oda Nobunaga era!Even if it is a Satsuma iron cannon, it will sell forty guns, not counting the lead ammunition and other items. The iron cannon team of the Wudao family alone has at least two hundred iron cannons. Damn pirates!Where did they get so much money and rice? !

The account of Shenqin brought a large number of people to and from Edo for "tourism" - most of them were samurai with relatively high consumption levels (at that time, samurai accounted for more than half of the total population of Edo City), which greatly stimulated the Edo area. The level of business can stimulate the domestic demand of the shogunate, which is of great help to the shogunate to increase gdp.Originally, it was an event to consume the financial resources of the daimyo and create a financial growth point for the shogunate, but now it has become a stage for the princes to show off their wealth. If this kind of thing is not stopped early, it will make those with ulterior motives see hope. reconnected.

General Tokugawa has always been very kind to the increase in the strength of foreign daimyos, and he will never lose sleep because of the increase in the strength of his subordinates and the substantial increase in gdp within the collar.

He will only gather a disciple and the Four Heavenly Kings overnight to discuss countermeasures!

Although the Tokugawa family does not have the terrifying intelligence agency of the Hojo family, nor does it send some young boys to secretly spy on the police like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but the general intelligence work is still in place.

Before dawn, a detailed information was placed in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu.

"Nani! These guys actually traded with the Nanban behind the back of the shogunate! Who gave them the power?!"

"My lord, this subordinate believes that now is not the time to pursue the crimes of the Southwest feudal clans, the Tsushima clan and the Wudao family for unauthorized trade, but to enter this trade as soon as possible, otherwise, these guys will become stronger and stronger. Those remnants of the Western Army will also follow suit! By that time, their strength will continue to increase, and our strength will stay where we are, which is very dangerous!"

As Izu Mamoru, Matsudaira Nobuzuna pointed out the seriousness of this problem very seriously.

"Suoga!" Jiaguang picked up the information from the straw mat woven with rushes, "These people and those townspeople in Osaka sold to the Nanban only special products in the territory, and they were sold with gold and silver. He and women, and the population are exported to the Nanman in exchange for all the materials that can be used to compete with the shogunate, but! The area controlled by my shogunate is ten times larger than theirs! The population and gold and silver are also dozens of times larger than theirs! We will win the war!"

"General! Full match!"

"Mr. Songping, you will lead the team when we go to Nanban this time. If anyone dares to stop us." Jia Guang took a long knife from the general servant beside him.

"This is the tribute sent by the Shimadzu family during this visit to His Royal Highness. His Royal Highness gave it to me. It is said to be a precious sword made of fine steel from Nanman. His Highness tried it once, and it can break three trunks , I will give it to you, and anyone who disobeys orders and obstructs them without permission, no matter if they are sent by a daimyo or other people, will be beheaded!"

The Great Imperial Palace is the name of Tokugawa Hidetada, the second-generation general of the Tokugawa Shogunate, after Tokugawa Hidetada retired. Tokugawa Hidetada Apocalypse gave way to Tokugawa Iemitsu for three years, and then he called the Great Imperial Palace like his father Tokugawa Ieyasu, but it was different from Ieyasu. Surprisingly, he still lives in Edo, not Sumfu Castle.

However, when we arrived in Hue, for ten whole days, we posted posts in front of the general’s mansion every day to ask for an interview, but the postings disappeared like the wind blowing across the sea of ​​Hakata Bay.

Looking at the delicious food on the table, think about those big names with evil intentions, who are using all kinds of materials and weapons purchased from Nanzhong to continuously strengthen their own strength. As the general's confidant, how can I eat it? !

"Sakai-kun! Abe-kun!" Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who slammed the bowl and chopsticks on the table with a sullen face, expressed his thoughts with the accompanying Abe Chuji and Sakai Tadakatsu in his deep voice.

"Please eat lunch as soon as possible. I plan to go to the shogunate of the Great General of the Celestial Dynasty after lunch. If the General refuses to meet me, I will perform seppuku outside the gate! Please be my intermediaries!"

In the afternoon sun, a lot of onlookers had already gathered in front of the General's Mansion. People crowded shoulder to shoulder, waiting to see the breathtaking scene.

"Old man, may I ask why so many people gathered in front of the General's Mansion?" Matsudaira Nobutsuna and his team squeezed into the two lines in front of the gate and found that they couldn't squeeze any more. I had no choice but to humbly inquire about the news from an old man beside me.

"From outside?!" The old man looked very contemptuous.

"I'm from Fusang!" Songping Ping and others intentionally shrugged and put on a majestic look.

"Foreign plate!" The old man said contemptuously, "Wait to open your eyes! Today is the first day to pay taxes to the tax department since the general's mansion moved to Hue. The tax officer of the tax department has already entered in the morning. , This time there should be a result. In the gambling houses in the streets over there, there are already handicaps. Those who bet on the general not paying taxes will pay one for one, and those who bet that the tax official was beheaded will pay one for two. If the general pays the tax in full, he will pay thirty!"

"I'm coming!"

The closed gate of the General's Mansion was slowly opened, and a tax official from the Taxation Department was standing in front of the steps with his head held high, holding a booklet, with a six-yang chief growing on his neck.

"Ahh!" The group of people who bought the head of the tax official in the gambling shop and had the head chopped off by the angry general couldn't help but lamented, their money was wasted!

"According to the tax management method promulgated by the General's Mansion, Li Shouhan, General of the General's Mansion, according to the unified progressive tax system, the tax payable on various incomes is 120 million taels, which is equivalent to 120 million silver dollars. The tax receipts are here! If you have any questions, please contact us!"

"Wow!" There was an uproar among the crowd watching the excitement. In the past, they only heard that the general himself had to pay taxes, but he didn't want to take it seriously. It seems that the so-called government and gentry pay grain and tax together is real!The most excited one was the old man, "I got rich! I got rich! Just now I got angry with old Lu Tou and bought the general who bought ten taels of silver to pay the tax in full. If you pay thirty, that's 300 taels! I can go back to my hometown to recruit some People have come to Jiulongjiang to reclaim wasteland!"

Some people didn't take it seriously, "It's official, maybe it's true? Have you seen the money?"

The tax officer commanded the handyman to carry a bucket of paste and stick a tax receipt on the notice board in front of the general's mansion. Hearing this, he couldn't help but snorted, "Want to see the money? Boy, be careful! You Without goggles, don't let the silver dazzle your good eyes!"

The sound of rumbling wheels rolling over the road surface came from inside the General’s Mansion, and a long line of carriages were continuously driven out from the depths of the General’s Mansion by the coachman. Each carriage was covered with huge and strong wooden boxes. The four corners of the box are wrapped with copper skin.The heavy wooden box almost crushed the springs on the carriage, and the huge weight made the horses pulling the cart sweat profusely.

"One, two, three... 41, 42!" The spectators, including Matsudaira, Abe, Sakai and others, also silently counted the silver cars coming out of the mansion in their hearts. .

"Let the elders of all parties have a look!" The tax official thought he was very proud of his behavior today, not everyone has the opportunity to get such a limelight.The tax clerks guarding the silver carts swiftly climbed onto the roof, removed a box at will, and opened the seal of the General's Mansion on the box in full view, revealing the contents inside.

Standing on the steps, Matsudaira was condescending and could see clearly. There were rolls of round objects wrapped in mulberry paper neatly stacked in the box. I don't know what they were.

A tax man broke the cylinder in the middle with all his strength, and silver dollars slipped from his middle into the box, making a burst of crisp and pleasant sounds.

The rest of the 41 carriages all did the same.

Obviously, there is no doubt that the car is full of silver dollars!

When the crowd of spectators dispersed, Matsudaira Nobutsuna tidied up his clothes to see if there was any disrespect, especially touched the ribs of the partner who might become flesh and blood with him with his arm, and walked over to the general. In front of the gatehouse of the mansion.

He has been here more than once, and he knows that he must register here if he wants to see the general or go to work in various secretaries under the general's mansion.

"The door book!" The concierge Uncle Qin (hehehe!) saw the appearance of these Japanese people, and greeted the young man beside him lazily.

The samurai beside Matsudaira Nobutsuna hastily presented Matsudaira's name card respectfully and handed it to the young man.

"A member of the Tokugawa family?"

The young man opened the name card and flipped through it over and over again before lazily opening the thick door book and registering on it with a brush.

"Dare to ask the officer, when will we be able to see the general himself?"

The young man and Uncle Qin looked at each other, and replied Matsudaira Nobuzuna very angrily, "How many important things does my lord have to do every day? Is it possible that a person like you can see it if he wants to?"

Songping, who was reprimanded and speechless, suppressed his anger, and continued to ask with a low eyebrow, "Then, when will we have the honor to meet with Chief Historian Mr. Li?"

"Wait! About a month later!"

"this!?"

Matsudaira Nobutsuna seemed to be bombarded with a national collapse, and felt that the whole world was about to collapse. Sakai Tadakatsu and Abe Tadashi looked at him gloatingly to see how he should deal with it next.

"Two, please help me!"

Matsudaira Nobuzuna burst out these words from between his teeth, signaling the samurai beside him to prepare for his seppuku.

"Mr. Qin! Are you on duty today?"

A small sedan squeezed in beside the group of people, and the curtain of the sedan was lifted and a medium-sized fat man came out from inside.

He came to the concierge with familiarity, handed over his name card, and chatted with Uncle Qin and the young man along the way.

"Mr. Gu! What's going on today?"

Uncle Qin was also flirting with the medium-sized fat man, and it could be seen that the relationship between the two parties was good.

"I have a batch of goods that I plan to ship back to Kyushu! Go to the tax department to file a tax report! I hope that the two adults will make it easier for you!"

"Good! Good!" Facing Kazuo Koga's bow and the round yellow things handed over by him, Uncle Qin naturally couldn't refuse, and signaled his apprentice to register Kazuo Koga in the guest register. After issuing the bamboo badge for temporary access, Kazuo Koga walked in calmly.

"My lord! That guy is from the Shimadzu family! It's clear that he gave money to Master Shangguo! If we want to go in and see your lord, I'm afraid we must do the same!"

I see!Nobutsuna Matsudaira suddenly realized!Unexpectedly, the ten days' work was delayed because he did not bribe the two porters!Regardless of his annoyance, he took out a few gold coins from his waist, handed them to his followers, and signaled him to deliver the name card again.

Seeing Jin Pan, Uncle Qin's face looked much better than before, but he still refused to accommodate, and even Jin Pan was thrown out of the porter's room.

"We won't accept this money!"

"Nani? You don't even accept the gold sentence?!" Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Sakai Tadakatsu, and Abe Tadaji suddenly felt incredible, and they were let in when they saw that Koga Kazuo from the Shimadzu family handed over the gold just now!But why didn't you accept our gold sentence?

"This is not a legal currency in Nanzhong and cannot be circulated!"

"Izumori-sama! Izumori-sama!" Seeing that Nobutsuna Matsudaira's face became similar to that of a pig's liver, Sakai Tadakatsu and Abe Chuji hurriedly persuaded him, "Let's go back first! Today's harvest is also a lot!"

Before going north to attack the Zheng family, Shou Han and his subordinates discovered a rather thorny problem because of the continuous expansion of trade with various places.Currency chaos!

Silver dollars from Mexico, Jinpan from Japan, Kuping silver from Daming, and ingots from Taizhou.The riyal of the Dutch, the pound of the British, these currencies make people in the Department of Commerce and Taxation complain.

In the past, the money tickets issued by ourselves could be circulated smoothly during the Ha Tinh period because the land and population were small. Now the land is so large and the scope of trade is so wide that it is amazing.

So, Shou Han began to "mint coins"!

First of all, the place where the coin was minted was placed near the river, and the river could provide a steady stream of power for the stamping machine.

Then, he ordered people to make molds with manganese steel. This set of molds took a lot of effort, because the hardness of manganese steel was a headache, but Shouhan wanted to use it because of its hardness.

With hydraulic stamping machines and molds made of manganese steel, the Mint began to work quietly.The gold and silver plates used to "mint coins" are placed on the punch of the stamping machine, and the upper and lower steel molds punch a round coin from the gold and silver plates as soon as they are pressed.The pattern on the steel mold is left on the coin under the huge pressure of the stamping machine.

Such "minted" coins not only have extremely exquisite patterns, but are also not much different from coins in the 21st century, and the edges of the coins are in the shape of tiny gears.Prevent people with bad intentions from scratching gold and silver on it.

The gold coin is made of 18k gold, and the composition ratio is: 75% gold, 17.5% copper, and 7.5% silver. The weight of an 18k gold coin is 50 grams, which is about the same as the Yuan Datou we are used to. The weight of the two coins is similar, and Can be used for weight weighing.According to regulations, one gold coin can be exchanged for thirty silver coins.

Silver coins contain 90.00% silver.It weighs seven coins and is converted into one tael of silver.

Whether it is a gold coin or a silver coin, there is a Chinese character secretly left in a certain corner, which means that it is a currency issued by Nanzhong. Shou Han has not yet felt that his strength has reached the point where he can issue du li currency blatantly.

The manufacturing standard is uniform, the appearance is exquisite, and it has been strongly recommended in the trade process. This kind of currency was quickly popularized in the trade and received high praise from all parties. On the same day, Zheng Zhibao exchanged a large number of silver dollars back When you arrive in Xiamen, let the elder brother and the ship owners watch it.

After reading it, all the ship owners agreed: This is the best silver coin I have ever seen in my life. It is much better than the quality of Kuping’s full-grained silver from the Ministry of Households. Fabi, even the quality of fine-grained silver in domestic funds is not as good as this silver dollar. (The Spanish silver dollar is only 90.3% complete, which is worse than the full-grained silver of Kuping Hubu.)

Although this silver dollar is only seven cents a piece, its quality is far better than that of the full-grained silver of the Ministry of Finance. Don't use it as a tael of Kuping silver, just treat it as one or two or five cents!

How could the Izu Mamoru-sama Matsudaira Nobuzuna, who came here in such a reckless and excited manner, know these things?

So I had no choice but to go back to the Huitong Hall resentfully. The first thing I did when I returned to the hall was to send the official bank account and the Mint to exchange all the more than [-] pieces of gold coins they brought with them into gold and silver coins. .

Playing with the exchanged gold coins, the exquisite patterns and uniform weight all made the three adults highly praised. Zhixing, who exchanged gold and silver coins from the official bank account, reported to the three adults that copper coins will come out soon. Copper coins are used as auxiliary coins of gold and silver coins and in small circulation. According to the exchange of silver coins with copper coins, one silver coin may be exchanged for [-] copper coins.

"Master Izumori, shall we ask the General to sell some red copper to Nanzhong? We can use the proceeds from selling red copper to Nanzhong to purchase various items!" Abe Chuji was very excited.

"No matter what you do, you must first see the general himself!"

Lord Izumori put the gold coin in the middle of the gold coin on the touchstone, and lightly passed it across it, making the color between green and yellow.According to the gold content standards of seven blue, eight yellow, nine purple, and ten red, the gold content of this gold coin should be about [-]% consistent with what the official claimed.

Finally, after several twists and turns, Nobuzuna Matsudaira and others knelt in front of Shouhan, "Matsudaira Izu Shounobuna, the courtier of the foreign minister, pays homage to the Great General of the Celestial Dynasty! The Great General is mighty and invincible, and his military power spreads everywhere!"

"Please, my lord, is Your Royal Highness in good health and happy? Is General Guang of your country in good health?"

On October 22, the first year of Chongzhen, Li Shouhan, President of Nanzhong Bingma Zhulu and manager of money, grain and civil affairs, received Matsudaira Nobuzuna, Sakai Tadakatsu, and Abe Tadashi, a delegation from the Japanese Tokugawa Shogunate trade delegation.The two sides held talks on carrying out a comprehensive and legal South Japan trade, and they were both full of confidence in the bright prospects of this trade. General Iemitsu is welcome to visit Nanzhong at an appropriate time, and he looks forward to meeting General Iemitsu Tokugawa in Edo.

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