Edo Traveler
Vol 12 Chapter 75: 25 year term
"Besshi Copper Mountain is the contracted property of the Sumitomo family, a merchant of the shogunate."
Chuemon said these words in a straightforward manner, without any special feelings. But in the ears of Count Roche, there are other meanings.
Besshi Copper Mountain is an industry within the shogunate, and the ownership of this industry is in the Tokugawa shogunate. In fact, except for a few important mines, most of the mines in the world are owned by the shogunate.
I would like to thank Tokugawa Ieyasu and Tokugawa Iemitsu in those days. These two have moved around all the way, and they have classified almost all the land with large-scale mining farms as heaven, lest the current Chunyuemon be a villain. .
So the first meaning is that this thing can indeed be mortgaged to you in theory.
However, we have to but again. The Sumitomo family donated money to the shogunate all year round, that is, the de facto contract money. There has never been any default or evasion of payment. The two parties have cooperated very happily for more than 100 years.
The shogunate saved manpower and material resources to mine copper mines, and was also able to get a contract payment that guarantees income under drought and flood. The Sumitomo family was at ease mining copper mines and operating direct trade with the Qing Kingdom. Exchange copper for a lot of pretty goods that are not available in Japan, and get huge wealth.
In fact, it is the "contract" between the two sides, and it went very smoothly. Every year, the shogunate can also buy a certain share of spot red copper from Besshi Copper Mountain at a price that is more than half of the market price, which is convenient for casting copper coins and entering the market.
Now suddenly it is said that the Besshi Copper Mountain, which the two sides have cooperated with for hundreds of years, will be taken back. Especially the reputation among businessmen, the shogunate's reputation is ok.
Mizuno Zhongbang directly canceled the monopoly monopoly of the rich merchants, and Naobi Jingi extorted 6 million from the world's rich merchants. These are all things that happened clearly and plainly. To a certain extent, the wealthy merchants were also a part of maintaining the feudal rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, but the shogunate always regarded the wealthy merchants as purses, and when they wanted to spend money, they would go up and do it.
Although it is a bit early to say this, who would dare to use the paper money issued by the shogunate in the future?
Without the assistance of the wealthy merchants who actually mastered the national currency channels, if the shogunate really issued banknotes, it would be very difficult to even transport them out of Edo, let alone conduct transactions in major markets across the country, and even circulate banknotes to rural areas. level market.
Speaking of this, the second meaning comes. You have to give a reason enough to be loyal to Eemon once again to be shameless and offend the nation's wealthy business class. Let Chuemon think that the benefits of mortgaging Besshi to you are bigger, and much bigger, than being cast aside by wealthy merchants all over the country again for several years.
After all, for three yuan and five yuan, Chuemon didn't hesitate to be that rotten guy.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, we in France are not the pirates in England." Count Roche smiled and gave a plan that Chungemon had not thought of.
The Bezi copper mountain was mortgaged to France, but not forever, but only for twenty-five years. During these twenty-five years, France has the right to operate and use the Besshi Copper Mountain. If the French have the ability to hollow out the Beszi Copper Mountain within twenty-five years, it is also the French who have the ability.
And Count Roche is very clear about one thing, because of the hundreds of years of mining in the Bezi Copper Mountain, the entire mine has been deep into the ground for hundreds of meters, or even hundreds of meters away. The water inflow into the mine was extremely serious, and the production of the entire copper mine was even worse than one-tenth of its peak.
But it's just a small thing for the French, I have a high-powered steam engine that can pump water 24 hours a day. It is not known how many times the efficiency is greater than those of human or animal power. And French companies can directly blast mountains, use hoisting machinery, and rock-cutting machinery to mine the entire mine.
Gu Yan
The goal is to produce 5,000 to 10,000 tons per year, the more the better!
The current situation of Besshi is that there is copper, but it cannot be mined. The French provided the technology, and your Sumitomo family provided the manpower, immediately started mining, and made money immediately.
We French people hold 80% of the shares, and we will not kick your Sumitomo family away and give 20% of the shares. Using their ready-made sheds, factories, miners and transportation channels, it can be considered a strong alliance.
Anyway, the Sumitomo family is no longer able to maintain the mining of Besshi Copper Mountain, so why not let us French come?
"That's okay..." Chuemon originally thought that the French are not good birds, but now, looking at Count Roche's proposal, it seems like the same thing.
The Sumitomo family now mines 200 to 300 tons of copper a year. When the French come and the output jumps to 5,000 or 6,000 tons, he will be able to allocate more than 1,000 tons. In theory, it is even stronger than when you independently contract.
But Count Roche said twenty-five years...
When did Bezi Copper Mountain finally get mined? Chuemon thought for a while. The French are also foreign powers and imperialists, and they are all unprofitable things. He said that twenty-five years ago, it was probably their engineer. After visiting the site, he felt that the Biezi Copper Mountain could be dug for so long.
In Chuemon's impression, Besshi Copper Mountain seems to have been dug until after World War II. Because Sumitomo later established Sumitomo Electric and Sumitomo Chemical, it was earned through Sumitomo Mine, which mainly refers to Besshi Copper Mountain.
Although we can't remember the exact year when the quarry was empty, it is definitely more than twenty-five years in the world.
Could it be that, like Ashio Copper Mountain, there are hidden new mines in Besshi Copper Mountain, which have not been discovered yet, so the French think that it can only be opened for twenty-five years. Then he pretended to be generous and said, as long as he mortgaged for twenty-five years, I would return it to the shogunate.
Probably!
"Your Majesty might as well think about it. UU reading www.uukanshu.com" Count Roche thought that his conditions were very good.
He also made such a decision after receiving the advice of French mining engineer Ricard. Ricard was appointed by the French government to come to Japan to learn about the mineral resources near the Kobe settlement.
As soon as he arrived in Besshi, he found that the copper ore in this place was of good grade, but he was suffering from the problem of groundwater backflow. The Japanese have poor technical skills, but the French do. If you can pull 5,000 tons of red copper back to Europe a year, the profit will be more than one million francs.
For the sake of this large copper mine, it is not unacceptable to give a little benefit to the Tokugawa shogunate.
It was Luo Shicai who pretended to be thinking of the shogunate and was willing to continue to assist the shogunate in training and training the army, but in fact it meant Besshi Copper Mountain.
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