"oh?"

Looking at Zheng Zeshou, Huang Taiji smiled.

"What can you do."

Zheng Zeshou was neither Han nor Jurchen, but Korean.

A few years ago, when the army entered North Korea, Zheng Zeshou led hundreds of Koreans to defect to the Qing Dynasty. They were all pariahs in North Korea. Although Zheng Zeshou's father was a noble of the two classes, his mother was a pariah because of her low status.

It was difficult for him to accept being a slave to his brother, and he regarded serving the Qing Dynasty as an opportunity to stand out from others.

In fact, it is difficult for the untouchables to identify with North Korea. When they attacked North Korea that day, in addition to Zheng Zeshou, there were a bunch of Korean untouchables vying to be the "leading party." Of course Huang Taiji was very happy about this. After North Korea surrendered,

Nature gave them a high status.

Compared with the two classes of nobles, middlemen and civilians in North Korea, these untouchables are undoubtedly more reliable. This is even the reason why Huang Taiji recruited Korean untouchables into the army and organized them into a separate battalion with the green flag as their number. These untouchables

As long as they are given status, they will kill Koreans even more ruthlessly than the Eight Banners. As for the Ming army, they will not care about the opponent's "Chinese" status when fighting. They are eager to change their own status and want to stand out from others.

In fact, from the beginning, Huang Taiji concluded that the Koreans were unreliable, so he made up his mind to kill people with a borrowed knife, and ordered Daishan to lead the Koryo Eight Banners to attack Daifang Fort. If he could capture Daifang Fort, it would be good, but if he couldn't, he would be taken with him.

Except, as for the tens of thousands of Koreans...those Korean soldiers are nothing more than cannon fodder!

Facts have also proved this. Korean soldiers are unreliable, and Daishan is also unreliable.

Compared with them, these untouchables are more reliable, because the Qing Dynasty is their only chance to change their destiny!

But untouchables also need military pay!!

The 50,000 North Korean Green Army soldiers have a yearly salary of 1 million taels of silver, lumi, and seasonal rewards. Add in the 50,000 Eighth Banner Army, and North Korea's expenditures for a year will be 2 to 3 million taels of silver.

Where did this money come from?

In the past, he could go to the pass to grab money and food, but now he was there to rob, and he even thought about it in his heart, ordering the Koreans to shave their heads, and taking the opportunity to grab a wave of money in North Korea, but it was so easy.

ah.

Now the Ming army is close at hand. Once North Korea is in turmoil, they will inevitably respond internally and externally. By then, the Qing Dynasty will be completely destroyed. The current Ming army is not the Ming army that Lao Khan knew. They only dare to hide in the city.

When they came out, the Pinglu army was eagerly waiting for civil strife in Korea.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court is short of money, so you can think of ways to make money!"

Zheng Zeshou said.

"Earn money?"

Huang Taiji said in confusion:

"How to make money?"

"Master, the people in Korea are poor and the special products are not abundant. However, Japan, which is separated by a sea from Korea, has a golden sun. When I was young, I saw in the history books that a hundred years ago, the Japanese envoy An Tongtang visited Korea with his credentials.

, once said: "I (Japan) have a mountain in Hokuriku, and its name is Jinshan. In recent years, real silver has been produced, which is a great treasure in the world. Therefore, I dedicated it to the Ming Dynasty in the past years, and the Ming Dynasty Jiayue." At that time, Japanese envoys used silver.

"The merchants from Beijing took away white silk, satin and other light goods." After that, Japanese envoys often brought large amounts of silver to North Korea for trade, and each time they returned with a full load, and North Korea could get hundreds of thousands of silver every year..."

Although he is a pariah, Zheng Zeshou's father is a nobleman of the second class after all. When his father was alive, he had read books and naturally knew some old things. Even when he was young, when Japan was not locked down, the Zheng family still did business with Japanese businessmen.

Live business.

"So, Japan has a golden mountain?"

"There is indeed a golden mountain. After the "Jiyou Agreement" thirty-one years ago, Japan reopened the Japanese Museum in Doumaopo, Busan, and the Japanese started trading again. They often purchased white silk, satin and other items at high prices. From the perspective of slaves,

If we can bypass the Japanese and sell the goods directly to Japan, we can make at least a million dollars a year."

Make millions in profits!

In the past, Huang Taiji naturally didn't care about this, but now, he was attracted by the one million taels of silver every year.

"You mean, as long as we send white silk, satin and other items to Japan, we can earn millions of taels of silver?"

Huang Taiji asked with some disbelief.

"Yes, Master, if we just use the ship to transport the goods, we will definitely earn so much money! The white silk worth 500 yuan here is worth at least 3,000 yuan in Japan!"

When he was young, Zheng Zeshou once heard someone say that if you send white silk, satin and other items to Japan, you can earn at least five or six times the profit. This is certainly the case now.

"However, the trade between North Korea and Japan has always been controlled by Malaysia. If we want to make this money, we have to transport the freight ourselves!"

Looking at the emperor, Zheng Zeshou added.

"Your Majesty, the people of the Ming Dynasty have been trading with the Japanese."

Hearing this, Huang Taiji raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice.

"Since people from the Ming Dynasty can go, then we from the Qing Dynasty can go there. The Hongmao Kingdom's ship is in Incheon, so we will buy an ordinary ship from them to go there."

…

When Huang Taiji made this decision, he did not know that a group of guests were arriving at Nagasaki Port, thousands of miles away.

In this era, it was not easy to get from Dalian to Nagasaki. You had to go south first, then enter the Blackwater Channel and then turn north. It took fifteen days to reach Nagasaki. Half a century ago, merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty could do whatever they wanted.

Sailing into any port in Japan, but since the Edo shogunate once again issued the lock-down order five years ago, Nagasaki has become the only trading port, and "traffic ships" are only limited to Nagasaki.

As Japan's only foreign trade port, it may be difficult for outsiders to imagine that the earliest founders of Nagasaki Port were not Japanese, but a group of Ming Dynasty maritime merchants, including Wang Zhi, who founded the city. Even today, people still live here

There are tens of thousands of people from the Tang Dynasty. The reason why there are so many people from the Tang Dynasty is because a few years ago, according to the order of the shogunate, the overseas Chinese in various ports in Kyushu who made a living by doing business had to move to Nagasaki. If you add in the round-trip

If the Tang people were doing business here, not many people in Nagasaki, with a population of only 40,000 to 50,000, were Tang people.

Autumn is the season when most Tang ships arrive. Dozens of Tang ships are parked in Nagasaki Port for a long time. This is the busiest time of the year in Nagasaki. Although the Zheng family has a monopoly on trade with Japan, in fact there are still

Scattered traders entered Nagasaki.

However, those Tang ships came sporadically, and even the Zheng family came one by one. But today six ships suddenly arrived, which made Nagasaki's envoy Ishimi Mamoru and the superior ambassador Inoue Tsukuba, both

I was extremely surprised, after all, I haven’t seen such a “huge” fleet for decades.

Moreover, these ships have dragon flags hanging on their masts!

The envoys of Nagasaki were alarmed. They all trotted to the port and asked in Chinese:

"But the messenger from heaven is coming?"

Contrary to the imagination of later generations, in the Ming Dynasty, to be precise after the first year of Yongle, in the official trade between Ming and Japan, Japanese generals were required to accept the canonization of the Ming court, and they all claimed to be "King of Japan" in their credentials.

"Some", and uses the Ming Dynasty title. Although Japan has been separated from the tribute system of the Chinese center for several years after the Tokugawa Shogunate closed the country, and politically it no longer accepts the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

But they still habitually regard Ming Dynasty as the "Celestial Kingdom".

Although the Nagasaki envoy was unfamiliar with the Nagasaki envoy who came to welcome him, he recognized Tang Tongshi Jiang Yiguan. Hu Weiliang smiled and said:

"Brother Jiang, don't you recognize me?"

"Ah, Captain Hu!"

Jiang Yiguan said in surprise.

In Japan, the overseas Chinese who permanently live in Nagasaki are called residential Tang people, and Tang Tongshi is selected among the residential Tang people. To put it simply, Tang Tongshi is the Chinese translator, the easement person under the Nagasaki government, that is, the grassroots official.

.

"Master Fengxing, this Captain Hu is a businessman from the Ming Dynasty."

After Jiang Yiguan introduced Hu Weiliang’s identity, Hu Weiliang introduced:

"This is Mr. Yizhi, a member of the military under General Pinglu of the Ming Dynasty. He represents the emperor of the Ming Dynasty!"

He is truly an envoy from the Celestial Empire!

Nagasaki enshrined Ishimi Mamoru and its envoy Inoue Tsukuba, and immediately kowtowed according to Japanese etiquette.

"Go down to Nagasaki to serve as the guardian of Ishimi, and go up to envoy Inoue Zukuri to pay homage to the envoy of the emperor!"

"No gift,"

Fang Yizhi said,

"I came to Japan on the orders of General Pinglu to discuss trade matters. Can the envoy please inform the superiors?"

Although Nagasaki was the administrative head of Nagasaki, Tsukuru Inoue was the envoy sent by the shogun. He came to Nagasaki to negotiate with the Dutch.

"Discuss trade?"

As the shogunate's chief minister, Inoue Tsukuba heard this, although he was doubtful, he still said.

"Ask the angel to stay temporarily in Nagasaki Tangjin Town, and I will immediately send someone to Edo to report the news!"

As the envoy, he had just concluded negotiations with the Dutch. The Dutch East India Company agreed to move the trading post from Hirado to Dejima in Nagasaki. However, he never thought that before he could return to Edo to show his merits, the Dutch East India Company would

Envoys from the Celestial Empire have come to negotiate. What do they want to negotiate?

Trade negotiations?

When did China conduct trade negotiations?

Although he was full of doubts, Inoue still received the Chinese envoys respectfully. Unlike the Dutch who had to live in Dejima and were not allowed to leave the island, and the principle was that the Japanese could not enter Dejima except for official business, the Tang Dynasty people could stay in Dejima.

I bought a house and land in Nagasaki Castle, so when the angel came, he naturally lived in Nagasaki's Tangjin Town.

After settling the imperial envoy, Inoue Tsukuba immediately sent a messenger to Edo to report the "Ming Dynasty envoy's visit".

The Ming Dynasty envoy is visiting!

This is really rare in Japan.

Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu quickly made a decision - to invite the Tang envoy to come to Edo for negotiations.

Why did you invite the Tang envoy to come to Edo? It was the Tang envoy who came! Of course the treatment was different from that of the Dutch barbarians.

He is the envoy of Dad Ming!
Chapter completed!