Chapter 382 hollowing out Japan
Japan has poor resources and poor land, so it sits on the crater again. Just about the place, it is definitely a miserable person. Of course, this is also consistent with their unethical and dirty character. It happens that Wu Dalang plays with Nightingale, and whoever plays with birds!
However, God still left a way out for people. There are many gold and silver mines in the Japanese archipelago, and there are also a large number of copper mines. Japan once accounted for one-third of the world's gold and silver production, and it was the largest copper producer! For a long time, Japan has used this gold and silver to purchase Chinese products.
There are everything in China, but there is only a lack of gold, silver and copper. Gu Zhenhua can only look at the Japanese. It happened that Tadao Sakai came to him again. If he didn't take action, he would be sorry for himself!
Gu Zhenhua smiled slightly: "Mr. Sakai, I heard that there is a Zuwei Copper Mountain in Japan, which stretches for hundreds of miles and dozens of miles wide. It is rich in copper ores. I wonder if it is true?"
The Chinese in this era do not care much about the outside world. Even if Japan is in charge, the capital may not be able to figure out where the capital is. But Gu Zhenhua mentioned the copper mine as soon as he opened his mouth, and it was so accurate that he also shocked Tadao Sakai. This prince really has the opportunity to be a god!
"Your Highness, this is true. It's just that this copper mine belongs to the shogunate, and the copper produced will not be exported!"
Gu Zhenhua immediately smiled and said, "Mr. Sakai, in my opinion, there is nothing that cannot be sold in this world. The only question is whether it can afford a sufficient price."
When Sakai heard this, his body bowed more and more, and said humbly: "Your Highness, copper is the raw material for making cannons. We also want to build cannons, and there are also copper coins, which are used a lot, so it is really inconvenient to export them."
Gu Zhenhua's face still did not change, and he smiled and said, "Mr. Sakai, you don't want to sell copper, and you want to buy silk porcelain from the Ming Dynasty. This is a bit whimsical! If you want to make Pixiu that you can't eat, I won't make things difficult for you. After the Tartars are flattened one day, I will go and get it. By that time, you'd better ask yourself to pray for the gods to come again, otherwise the jade will be burned!"
He turned his back on his face. He was just smiling, but in a blink of an eye, Gu Zhenhua showed ferociousness and threatened to use force directly. Sakai was frightened and trembled all over. He did not doubt Gu Zhenhua's strength at all. After all, as soon as he landed on China, he heard rumors about the king of Zhongshan everywhere. And a team of An Guojun escorted them over. Sakai personally asked the samurai.
These samurai are all elite soldiers of the Anguo Army, and the level of the elite is not inferior to them. Think about it, the samurai around Sakai is carefully selected. The Anguo Army takes out a few soldiers, but it is not weaker than them. How big is China and how big is Japan? If this giant really attacks Japan, I am afraid that no one can predict the consequences!
"Your Highness, Japan is a country that is not conquered, and General Tokugawa has a good rule. If you really want to attack Japan, you will probably repeat the mistakes of the Yuan Dynasty Tartars!"
"Hahaha, a country that does not conquer? What's going on with the Japanese pirates? Is there a rule in the world that I can only be beaten but cannot fight back? As for whether I can win, I have to ask my army. I think they all want to make achievements overseas!"
Shang Pei heard Gu Zhenhua threatening Sakai, and she immediately laughed: "What's so great about Japan? This princess has wiped out more than 3,000 soldiers from the Satsuma clan in Ryukyu. Otherwise, Ryukyu would act as a pawn to attack Japan. I think North Korea might be willing to do it together and flatten the Japanese state and all four islands belong to us!"
Tadaoka Sakai's face was so gloomy that he was scary. He stared at Gu Zhenhua and asked coldly: "Your Highness, do you have to use force against Japan?"
"No, I want to trade peacefully. Both sides buy and sell, and I am not full. But if your country is unwilling to sell anything, you still want to get goods from the Ming Dynasty. Apart from cheating, you can only snatch them. I don't know how gentle, respectful, frugal, and have only one strategy for potential enemies, that is, kill them to the end!"
When Gu Zhenhua spoke, he slashed his palm hard and made a beheading action. Sakai Tadao's neck cooled down and his whole body was covered in air conditioning.
"Prince, who are you going to kill?"
Wu Kaijie walked in from outside with a look of dust on his face.
When Gu Zhenhua saw it, he immediately smiled and said, "How is the errand in Taiyuan?"
"If you say that to the prince, everything is almost done. Don't worry, Bei Zhi has brought you a lot of gifts. Please check it out in person later!"
After saying that, Wu Kaijie looked at Tadao Sakai and suddenly smiled and said, "Prince, this person in costume should be a Japanese pirate?"
"Don't be so polite, call me a Japanese friend now!"
"Oh! That's what Japanese pirates used to be!" Wu Kaijie smiled and stared at Sakai, looking at this person with a hairy look.
"Prince, this Japanese guy, um, how did your Japanese friend mess with you?"
"He asked me to ask for trading, but I agreed, but he said that the domestic copper ore would not be sold. How much production is in Japan? If they don't even sell copper ore, what can they sell? According to my opinion, it is mostly because of ulterior motives!"
After Wu Kaijie understood, his eyes turned and said with a smile: "Prince, you are too worried. This Mr. Sakai is so respectful, it is definitely not a bad person. I am right?"
Sakai couldn't figure out what to sell in the gourd, so he could only nod and said, "That's right, foreign ministers would never dare to covet the Heavenly Kingdom."
Wu Kaijie smiled and said, "That's right, but do you still want to do this business?"
"That's natural, this is the mission of foreign ministers. Japan and the Ming Dynasty have cut off trade for decades, and the whole country is extremely salivating about the products of the Celestial Empire!"
Wu Kaijie nodded, thought for a while and said, "If you want to buy, we are willing to sell it, but we can't make a fortune! Your Japanese gold, silver and copper must be sold to the Tianchao!"
Tadao Sakai frowned and said for a while: "Japan can sell some, but General Tokugawa has formulated a law to close the country. Trade is limited to the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands. The gold, silver and copper that can be used for sale are limited. Prince, can't you buy sulfur and swords? Japanese samurai swords are the best in the world..."
"I'm so arrogant!" Shang Pei suddenly smiled and said, "The frog in the well is also the best in the world. These four words are too valuable!"
Tadao Sakai suddenly widened his eyes. He might be able to bear anything else, but when it comes to the samurai sword that Japan is proud of, it poked the flesh in his heart.
"The big Japanese samurai sword is so sharp that it is the most powerful, and a sword is priceless. It is a magic weapon!"
Shang Pei sneered, "Braving is useless. If you have the ability, let's compare and see who's the knife is sharper!"
"Okay, then give it a try!"
When both sides said that this was the case, they could only compare.
Gu Zhenhua took them to the East Cluster Courtyard of the royal palace, which was a martial arts performance venue. When Gu Zhenhua practiced martial arts, Sakai called a samurai, holding an exquisite samurai sword in his hand. The guy said with a 80,000 mouth, and was full of condescending.
Gu Zhenhua quietly grabbed Shang Pei and smiled and said, "Pei Pei. Are you going to succeed?"
"Hmph, don't think that just because you have treasures, my dignified princess will not be bad. Let me tell you the truth, I spent a lot of money to buy a Crystal Sword from Nanyang!"
When Gu Zhenhua heard this, he was relieved. He was even the power of the Crystal Sword. He just gave him one to Ma Yanran, but he didn't expect that Shang Pei also had it, and there was no problem with dealing with the samurai sword.
Shang Pei stood tall and slowly pulled out his acrys sword, and a cold light surged out of the sheath, as if a poisonous snake spitted out his letter.
"Come on, let me see how powerful your samurai sword is!"
"Ah!" The Japanese warrior held up the samurai sword and rushed towards Shang Pei.
The sword hit. In an instant, sparks burst into pieces. With a sound of silence, the upper half of the samurai sword disappeared, and the acrys sword in Shang Pei's hand was safe and sound.
The warrior stared at the broken knife in his hand, his eyes glared like a cow, suddenly screamed, turned the blade and pierced it into his stomach.
Gu Zhenhua quickly looked fast. He suddenly took out his pistol from his arms and threw it over, hitting it on the guy's wrist. With a slam, the broken knife fell to the ground, and this guy was dead.
"This is my residence. If you want to die, find a pit!"
The soldiers on both sides also rushed up and dragged the guy away.
Tadao Sakai stood there stupidly. He didn't know the Crystal Sword. He just thought it was forged by An Guojun, with a look of disbelief on his face and murmured: "How is this possible? How is it possible! How can Japanese weapons be so vulnerable?"
Wu Kaijie smiled contemptuously at this time: "Mr. Sakai, I didn't want to say something about it. What kind of samurai sword? Isn't it because of the technique of the Tang sword passed on to Japan. Due to the changes in tactics, the Tang sword no longer uses it. You have always kept it. Do you really treat this thing as your own? And the kimono on your body, what is the difference between the Tang Dynasty's clothes? I tell you in one sentence that Japanese weapons are not worth a penny in the eyes of the Celestial Empire."
"No, no, you lie, my samurai sword, we also have bird guns. The bird guns with extremely long ranges were all going to imitate our bird guns back then!"
Gu Zhenhua laughed to the sky: "If you don't make progress, you really won't make progress. Don't you know that the Heavenly Kingdom is the ancestor of firearms? Gunpowder has been passed to the West, and they have made muskets. You accidentally got the muskets of the Dutch Red Barbarians. After imitating them, they regarded them as their own. They showed off their own sects!"
"No, I don't believe it!"
Tadao Sakai screamed at the top of his lungs.
Gu Zhenhua didn't care at all, took a Minni rifle from the soldier, and said to Sakai with a smile: "Do you want to compete again?"
Sakai hurriedly chose the best bird gun like a red-eyed gambler. At this time, soldiers had already raised the target one hundred and fifty steps away.
Sakai suddenly widened his eyes and asked in surprise: "This, why is this so far?"
He stopped talking, and Gu Zhenhua knocked the trigger, and a lead bullet rotated, accurately hitting the target a hundred and fifty steps away, drilling a hole in the grass man's head!
Tadao Sakai faced such a distance, but he couldn't knock the trigger for a long time. The bird gun could not shoot at this distance at all, let alone accurately hit it. This was simply an impossible task!
After standing there for a while, Sakai softened his whole body and threw himself on the ground.
"The Celestial Empire is the Celestial Empire. Such a sharp weapon, destroying Japan is not empty talk!"
Gu Zhenhua smiled slightly: "Are you convinced?"
"I'm convinced, I'm convinced, with such a sharp weapon, if the prince attacks Japan, I'm afraid no one can stop you."
"Do you want these weapons?"
"What!" Sakai jumped up from the ground in fear, and his whole body trembled with excitement.
"Your Highness, your weapon is such a sharp one, would you sell it to Japan?"
Gu Zhenhua smiled and said, "The Kingdom of the Celestial Empire has never been as self-confidence and self-righteous as the border and off the island. As long as you can sell copper ore, I can sell you these weapons!"
When Sakai heard this, he was immediately overjoyed. Why did he not want to sell copper mines? It was just to build weapons. The Tokugawa Shogunate had just been established, and the internal situation was not stable enough and needed powerful force to suppress all parties. If he got the current musket, such a range and such accuracy, killing people was like a game, who would not be moved!
"Okay, the foreign minister agreed, everyone agreed!"
When Gu Zhenhua saw the Japanese take the bait, he immediately smiled and said, "Three conditions are to allow gold, silver and copper to be exported, Tianchao craftsmen are allowed to participate in mining, and Tianchao merchants are allowed to purchase mine land. As long as you agree to these, you will have as many weapons as you want."
Tadao Sakai was quite clear-headed and didn't dare to nod directly.
"Your Highness, the matter may have to go through General Tokugawa Iemitsu."
"No problem, I will arrange manpower immediately. With you, we will bring the most advanced arms. It is through these arms that the Anguo Army defeated the Tartars. As long as you have it, control the country and eliminate all opposition forces, it is easy to get out of your hands!"
Tadao Sakai, who was so dizzy that he was fooled, returned to the inn with pride. Gu Zhenhua called Wu Kaijie to his study as soon as possible.
"How is the errand in Shanxi?"
"Your Majesty, Geng Zhongming and his son have sent Fan Yongdou and others, and have offered 6 million taels of silver and 100 beauties. I hope we can send troops to help!"
"Hahaha, let him look forward to it, I will definitely disappoint him!"
Gu Zhenhua said again: "Just just killed Geng Zhongming, the larger fat sheep from the Japanese pirates came to the door. It's really God's favor!"
"Prince, is Japan really that fat? It's worth your effort?"
Chapter completed!