There are many shops in Mito Castle Town, and there are a wide variety of goods, including food, clothing, and everything, which is an eye-opener.

Seeing Ji Ze coming over, some of the businessmen's men immediately came over and scrambled to solicit customers.

Yoshizawa pushed through the crowd and came to the largest merchant, his eyes staring straight at the shelves.

There are foods such as rice, noodles, tea, sugar, bacon, salted eggs, as well as luxury goods such as scarves, furs, and silk.

I saw a middle-aged man in front of me, carrying a bundle of banknotes in his hand, and said to the guy in the shop: "Bring me a bag of Annamite rice!" ”

The guy glanced at the banknote in his hand and said with a smile: "This thing is almost the same as wiping your butt, and you can't buy bags of rice." ”

Being teased in public, the middle-aged man was furious and shouted: "This is a Japanese currency issued by the shogunate, with a face value of one yuan, and this bundle is a thousand at least, so why can't you buy a bag of rice?" ”

The guy just smiled, didn't bother to explain to him, immediately waved his hand to tell him to get out, and said: "If you want to come to our store to buy something, you have to take dragon dollars, and Japanese dollars are not used!" ”

The so-called Japanese currency was issued by the Tokugawa shogunate to carry out economic reforms and learn from the Damei dragon yuan system.

A few years ago, due to the war of tomorrow, the Tokugawa shogunate's fiscal deficit skyrocketed due to the payment of reparations in various parts of Japan, and because of the chaos of Japan's domestic currency, Sakai Tadakatsu had to print a large number of Japanese currencies and forcibly convert gold, silver, and foreign currency into Japanese currency in order to pay for huge military expenses and reform the Japanese economy.

There are only three denominations of Japanese currency, one yuan, ten yuan and one hundred yuan, which correspond to one yuan (equivalent to one or two pieces of silver), ten yuan and one hundred yuan respectively, and the pattern on the banknote is also imitating the dragon yuan of the Ming Dynasty, and the head is printed.

However, Sakai Tadakatsu played a trick and printed his own portrait on the one-yen bill, the 10-yen note with the head of Tokugawa Ietsuna, the shogun, and the 100-yen denomination with the emperor's head.

According to Sakai's original assumption, the denomination was too large for ordinary people to afford, and the most that the general public could use should be one yen denomination.

In this way, he will often show his face, and his image will be greatly increased among the Japanese people, and finally the whole of Japan will only know the elder Sakai Tadakatsu, but not the general and the emperor, so as to achieve the goal of finally seizing power and establishing the Sakai shogunate!

However, what he didn't expect was that in just a few years after the massive issuance of the Japanese currency, prices in Japan rose wildly, inflation instantly reached an uncontrollable vicious level, and the Japanese currency depreciated sharply.

The Tokugawa shogunate only learned the surface of the Ming Dynasty's economic reforms, but did not get the essence, the hyperinflation caused by the indiscriminate issuance of currency was an inevitable situation, coupled with the economic war of the Ming Dynasty, which caused Japan's economy to collapse rapidly, and a large number of urban middle classes went bankrupt, so that the people's hearts were greatly defeated.

More people, in order to get out of the predicament, began to use the dragon yuan of the Ming Dynasty, according to their understanding, the dragon yuan is far rarer than the Japanese currency, more strong.

The dragon yuan of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is a silver dollar or a copper dollar, is well-made, full of weight, high value, good reputation, and the more tired the Japanese are used, there is a tendency to completely replace the Japanese currency.

In the past, one silver dollar could buy one stone of rice, but now that the war broke out, the price of rice has risen sharply, but one silver dollar can still buy five buckets of rice, which can be exchanged for Japanese dollars, and it may not be possible to buy a bucket of rice by pulling a cart.

The ridiculed middle-aged Japanese did not dare to be presumptuous, so they had to leave in a huff.

Because he knew that the owner of this shop was a merchant of the Ming Kingdom, and he had an excellent relationship with the shogunate, and often transported grain for the shogunate army.

If you don't open your eyes to make trouble here, you can only be arrested and beaten severely, and maybe you will be dragged to the army.

Ji Ze Mingliang looked at the middle-aged man who was far away, with a smile on his face, he took out a silver yuan from his arms, slapped it on the counter with a "pop", and roared loudly: "Give Lao Tzu thirty catties of Annan rice, twenty catties of bacon, ten catties of salted eggs, and two packs of tea!" ”

For a while, everyone inside and outside the store looked sideways, and they were all shocked by Yoshizawa's bright local tyrant atmosphere.

"Silver Round?"

The guy looked at the shiny Daming silver yuan on the counter, and immediately showed a professional smile on his face, and shouted: "Master, wait a minute, I will arrange it for you immediately, do you want a carriage to deliver it?" ”

A proud smile appeared on Yoshizawa's bright face, and he exclaimed, "Yes!" Don't want a carriage, are you going to let the guys carry these dozens of pounds? This is not a flower girl! ”

Everyone burst into laughter and was polite to the local tyrant in front of them.

Yoshizawa stroked the remaining dozen silver yuan in his arms, and was in a very comfortable mood, secretly saying that this front line was not in vain, and if he was rich, he would really become an uncle!

In the two months of the war with the Ming army, he picked up a lot of silver coins from the corpses of his comrades-in-arms and made a small fortune ruthlessly!

At this time, Yoshizawa already had a plan in his heart, he wanted to take root here, buy a yard first, and then marry a wife and enjoy life.

As for the shogunate, anti-Ming? Fuck it!

.....

Outside Mito Castle, on the pier near the sea, a merchant walks one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Behind him, carts laden with grain were sunk in the mud, and thousands of shogunate soldiers were dragging them in sweat.

The businessman's name was Fan Wenyuan, he was in his early thirties, lean and had a treacherous look in his eyes.

Since the Ming Dynasty blockaded the coast of Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate had to secretly set up a dock in the Mito domain to provide a channel for smuggling merchant ships from Batavia and the South Seas.

Located at the junction of Japan's Eurasian continent and the Pacific Ocean, the Mito Domain was unable to harbor due to its complex weather conditions, and it was almost impossible for large ships to dock.

Therefore, the warships of the Imperial Navy of the Ming Dynasty never patrolled here, and the Tokugawa shogunate finally opened a dock here and obtained the opportunity for foreign aid.

"Wen Yuanjun, I've finally waited for you!"

Fan Wenyuan looked up, and in front of him stood three Japanese people, one of whom was an old acquaintance of his.

"It turned out to be Nakano-kun!" Fan Wenyuan arched with a smile.

Nakano Prodigal Son is an agent of the Secret Service Division of the Japanese Ministry of Intelligence, a specially trained ace spy who has infiltrated the Ming Dynasty several times to disguise himself as a businessman to obtain information.

During the Ming Dynasty, the prodigal son of Nakano befriended Fan Wenyuan, a wealthy merchant in Liaodong, and did everything possible to develop him into a special service officer, and the two became confidants.

"In this Sekigahara combat operation, my shogunate army needs at least 100,000 koku of food, I don't know how much you brought?"

Nakano Prodigal looked at his old friend, his eyes full of anticipation.

Fan Wenyuan said with a smile: "Nakano-kun, don't worry, there is plenty of grain in Nanyang, this time I only brought the first batch, and there are still thirty ships of grain shipped in turn, you also know that if our target is too big, it will easily attract the attention of Ming officials in Luzon and Taiwan." ”

Nakano Prodigal Son nodded and said, "I understand, in your Chinese is a long stream." ”

Fan Wenyuan nodded absentmindedly and said no more.

Nakano Prodigal Son saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, so he asked, "Wen Yuanjun, do you have any questions?" Please speak up. ”

Fan Wenyuan sighed and said, "I suspect that I was targeted by the brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Nakano Prodigal Zi frowned: "Is Wen Yuanjun too worried?" You've been going back and forth between Japan and the South Seas, how can you be targeted by Jinyiwei? ”

Fan Wenyuan shook his head and said solemnly: "I don't know, anyway, I have a premonition recently, a strong sense of crisis, and I ask the Secret Service Department to provide enough personnel to protect me!" ”

Nakano Prodigal Son nodded and said, "Wen Yuanjun is extremely worried, your existence is related to the logistics and military rations of the shogunate army, and there must be no mistakes!" I'll report this to the shogunate. ”

"Thank you, Nakano-kun, for greeting Elder Sakai-kun on my behalf."

"Definitely!" Nakano raised his hand in salute.

Crossing the tidal flats, Fan Wenyuan and Nakano Ronko walked towards the Mito Domain.