New Shun 1730

Liu Yu has never been afraid of the Netherlands sending troops to help Japan fight, because this is impossible.

The only thing he is worried about is whether the Netherlands has been alert to Dashun for a long time, so that Nanyang has made preparations.

If so, perhaps they will really collect intelligence about Dashun and tell Japan, and it is not impossible to let Japan contain Dashun.

If the Netherlands has already spread instigation, it proves that the Netherlands is worried about Dashun's actions, and is afraid that his strategy of taking advantage of the Austrian War of Succession to dismember the Netherlands with the help of France will have loopholes, and that the Dutch will learn to shrink their heads and not declare France to protect the East India Company...

This is what he is worried about.

Therefore, when Ooka Tadashi mentioned the Dutch at the beginning, Liu Yu was indeed a little panicked.

But Ooka Tadashi used the Netherlands to deceive him at this time, which made Japan reveal its bottom line. He could take this opportunity to make Lin Xinchong and Ooka Tadashi completely collapse and find out whether the Dutch had any awareness.

In order to prevent the Dutch from being alerted, Liu Yu has been keeping his hands to himself and has not intervened in anything in Nanyang in recent years.

It was not until this time when Mantou went to Gothenburg that he had contact with the Chinese in Nanyang for the first time. The purpose was to be patient and not to alert the Dutch before they were not strong enough to take over Nanyang, or at least before the Netherlands declared war on France.

Japan is a perfect intermediary to test the Dutch.

Since Ooka Tadashi was cheating, he could be sure that the Dutch would never send a fleet to help Japan, but that was all. As for the attitude of the Dutch, it can be inferred by whether the Dutch had talked to Japan about something in the storytelling.

He has seen through the Dutch sending warships as a fraud, but he is not sure whether Ooka Tadashi's previous words about the Dutch asking Japan to prepare in advance were a fraud.

Since it can be determined that Ooka Tadashi was cheating, he must be guilty at this time, and he can take advantage of his guilty conscience to break his psychological defenses in one fell swoop and get the words out.

He leaned back in his chair, knocked on the table and said, "You should listen carefully. I will tell you a story first."

"When the Holy Emperor was still the crown prince, the Dutch sold tea in the West. In that year, a Western country called Belgium was a vassal of the Austrian King Habsburg. They were sent by him to buy tea in Guangdong. The Dutch reduced the price of tea. Even if it cost 20 taels to buy tea in Fujian, the Dutch only sold it for 10 taels when transporting it to the West."

"That year, the loss was more than one million. Knowing that they would lose money, they still sold it at a loss. Why?"

"There are only so many people who drink tea. Even if the Dutch lose money for themselves, they also want to squeeze out the tea of ​​others so that they dare not sell tea to the West in the future. The Dutch lost a million in tea sales, but still won a big victory. This is called monopoly."

This story is not true, but it can almost be said to be eight true and two false. An expert can tell the truth from the first move. Ooka Tadashi understood the meaning of this story almost immediately. The Dutch have money, so they can rely on spending money and would rather lose money to maintain their monopoly position.

These things are not mentioned in the Dutch storytelling. But after Liu Yu said this, he believed 70% to 80%.

He secretly calculated in his heart that although Japan also has tea, the Dutch almost never purchase it in Japan because there is no profit and it is not good to drink.

Liu Yu blurted out "lose a million", and Ooka Tadashi also understood the subtext.

The Dutch would rather lose a million in order to monopolize tea, which shows that the long-term profit is far more than a million.

I just said that Nagasaki's profit of a million, the Dutch agreed to send troops to help for a profit of a million, isn't this nonsense?

Nagasaki's profit of a million, compared with the profits of the Dutch and the Tang Dynasty, just for tea, they would rather lose a million, how could they be hostile to the Tang Dynasty for a mere profit of a million in Nagasaki?

He was already feeling guilty, and after hearing Liu Yu's casual story, he only believed Liu Yu 40% when he felt guilty, but now he believed more than 80%.

Liu Yu added: "During the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the war was raging in China, so Westerners could not get Jiangxi porcelain. Your country was treacherous, and you invaded Korea during the Wanli period, and got craftsmen, thinking you got the secret of porcelain. It happened to be the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Westerners bought a lot of Imari porcelain from your country, so your country thought that the craftsmanship of porcelain was no less than that of China."

"Let me ask, now, do the Dutch still buy your porcelain?"

He kept mocking in one sentence, and also brought up the old account of the invasion of Korea during the Wanli period.

Ooka Tadashi didn't know that the Dutch monopolized tea, but he was very clear that the Dutch had stopped buying Japanese porcelain in recent years.

Hearing this, his heart suddenly chilled, and he secretly thought that he was really like "the country gentleman who wanted to write "The Tale of Genji""? Only consider a million taels of gold and silver as a huge amount, enough to dazzle and influence a country's politics, but don't know that in the outside world, this million taels of trade is really not worth mentioning?

Is this the difference in vision?

Liu Yu stole a glance at Ooka Tadashi's expression, and saw that his eyes were wandering, knowing that his psychological defenses had been basically fooled, and now he was about to add fuel to the fire.

"A million taels of gold and silver, in the eyes of your small country, I'm afraid it's just like the Yelang River in the eyes of Yelang, thinking that the river is just so magnificent. Little do you know that the profit of a million taels of gold and silver is not enough for Guangdong's trade in one season, let alone Macau, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Songjiang? Would the Dutch be willing to give up tens of millions of capital for a mere million in profit?"

"In the past, Arai Shiraishi also knew some Western things, but thirty years ago, how could it be compared with today? Among the Western countries, those who traded in Dashun were the East India Company, or those connected by land, including Spain and Portugal , Denmark, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands, England, France, Lucia..."

"The goods exported by the Celestial Empire include white silk, green silk, satin, tea, porcelain, rhubarb, Jinling cloth...all of which are profitable several times."

"In order to monopolize trade, the Dutch could have lost millions to gain a monopoly on tea thirty years ago. What's the use of losing millions now? What's more, now all the countries are watching with eager eyes, like a pack of wolves waiting for food, all waiting for the Netherlands and The heavens divide their enemies and divide their interests."

"The small country of Erbang produces nothing more than copper. What the Netherlands can earn in gold and silver is mostly silk from the Celestial Empire."

"You are talking about profit, and I am also talking about profit. Now that you are talking about profit, you can count it. The Dutch give up tens of millions for millions. Could it be that the Dutch are the foster fathers of our country?"

"If you don't believe it, you can wait until the Dutch come again and ask the Dutch if the Western countries I mentioned are true."

After speaking a few words, Ooka Tadashi's face turned pale, knowing that what Liu Yu said must be true. After all, his horizons were too small due to the isolation of the country. How did he know that the competition in the outside world was so cruel? Who would have thought that the British who could not get along in Hirado would now be prosperous in Dashun trade?

The Dutch never said this.

If we only talk about interests... As Liu Yu said, how could the Dutch cut off trade with Dashun just for the sake of trade in Nagasaki?

Liu Yu was not blind. Seeing Tadashi Ooka's expression, he knew that his analysis had completely crushed him, so he laughed and said, "As for what the Dutchman said in the book, what he said to be careful about." Heavenly Dynasty, hahahaha... It’s even more nonsense. The Holy Emperor was furious when he heard the foreign students in the Imperial College talking about the Ryukyu incident, and immediately sent me to Ryukyu to ask, could the Dutch have the power of foresight? "

"Besides, if the Dutch really warned, how could the Satsuma clan be so arrogant in Ryukyu? How could Kyushu and Shikoku be defenseless?"

He didn't go to Kyushu Island at all this year. He was just telling lies at this time and was secretly observing the expressions of these people.

It should be impossible for the Dutch to know about Dashun's mobilization of combat readiness, but if the Dutch are alert to Dashun's future strategic trends, it is almost inevitable to provoke Japan.

The shogunate was not a fool. If they had really instigated him, how could the shogunate not trust the Dutch just because they had met him once?

Seeing that these people's faces were still ashen, and they didn't even say half of a rebuttal, Liu Yu's last worry was gone.

He talks empty-handedly about morality, benevolence, right and wrong, and it is difficult for him to convince others.

But the real benefits, gold, silver, trade, these are all detailed data, and he can easily convince others.

Tadashi Ooka recalled all the rebuttals Liu Yu had given, his face turned pale, Liu Yu said with a smile: "If you have the goods, you can really do whatever you want."

He turned sideways and said to the officer beside him: "I guess they can't understand the height."

The officers laughed and said, "I can't understand, I can't understand."

Now that all the goals of coming to Japan have been achieved, what should be frightened has been frightened, what should be tested has been tested, and I feel really relaxed.

Ooka Tadashi used the Dutch to lie to him, which proved one thing. The shogunate was already frightened by what he had done in Tosa.

If it hadn't been frightened, the shogunate would have felt that it still had three or four hundred thousand active samurai, so it might not be invincible.

But after being frightened, the way of thinking will also turn to how to prevent Liu Yu from engaging in "guerrilla warfare at sea", landing everywhere, and planting the banner of justice for heaven.

That is what the shogunate fears most.

Even if Kyushu Island is occupied, the shogunate can continue to fight and learn from Gou Jian's example.

But Liu Yu raised the banner of benevolence and righteousness and opposed the shogunate rather than the people, which made it impossible for the shogunate to continue the fight. Squatting in Edo and eating the gall, Liu Yu was allowed to stir up troubles everywhere?

He must have started thinking about naval battles and threatening the Dutch.

As for the idea behind it, Liu Yu felt that it might be to delay time, to scare himself, or to treat a dead horse as a live doctor, but it doesn't matter anymore.

The important thing is that he already knows that the Tosa incident has brought a huge psychological shadow to the shogunate. Even if there is an accident in the land battle on Kyushu Island, he can definitely win the expected bottom line of the negotiation with only the navy.

There was nothing left to talk about at this time. On the contrary, Liu Yu was still afraid that the shogunate would really commit seppuku on the Shimazu family and send Tokugawa Yoshimune's bedwetting son to Dashun as a hostage. This put some constraints on Dashun's side. The name of the teacher.

It will be troublesome then.

At this time, Prime Minister Ooka had nothing to say. Liu Yu held the long sword on his waist and stood up, saying: "Originally, I wanted to talk about benevolence, justice and etiquette. There are some things. As long as Erbang agrees and pays tribute faithfully, I swear not to do anything wrong again." If it's against morality, then that's it."

"As the saying goes, soldiers never tire of deception. If you use deceit, you are calling me an enemy, which means starting a war. Using deceit instead of fighting with soldiers is inconsistent with etiquette."

"Since you are cheating, you have already started a war. I originally thought that it would be best if we could negotiate to save the lives of the people and the hardships of the common people. Hey, if you start a war and I don't accept it, won't it mean that the reputation of the dynasty will be ruined? Holy? The face of the emperor?”

"This war starts with you."

He stretched out his finger, his eyes widened in anger, and pointed at Tadashi Ooka, placing the responsibility of firing the first shot on him, and curled his finger.

"It is also said that when two countries are at war, envoys will not be killed. Forget it, I will send you back. Tell your general to remember what I said in the letter. I may do it, or I may not, but I can do it."

"Send them back. By the way, if you like, I will ask the Dutch to take the initiative to talk to the shogun in a few days and tell you personally that the Dutch will not send troops."