Chapter 12: A New Stage, a New Life

After Yun Zhao set the tone, Hattori was no longer qualified to see Yun Zhao.

After that, he will face the officials of the Lantian Department of Commerce.

This time, Hattori was deeply taught, and he brought a lot of Japanese people.

This negotiation is related to the formal business and trade between Lantian and the Wa State, and the Wa State does not attach importance to it.

Yun Zhao had never intended to import anything other than silver from the Wa Kingdom.

Compared with Lantian County, the Wa Kingdom is basically still in a closed and ignorant state.

The reason why Yun Zhao is in a hurry to control the coastal waters of the Ming Dynasty has a lot to do with the commerce and trade of the Ming Dynasty.

Since the main currency of the Ming Dynasty is copper coins and silver, the value of really good copper coins has been relatively stable, but the value of silver is very deformed in the Ming Dynasty.

Because Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, all taxes were compiled into the currency, which led to the shortage of copper coins, and the consequence of insufficient copper coins was that silver was popular.

If everyone uses rotten money to exchange silver, it would be fine, but the copper plate in Lantian County has always been famous for its exquisite texture.

At the beginning, in order to envelop the market and strive for the Ming businessman Jia to come to Lantian, Yun Zhao acquiesced to this loss.

This gave birth to a lot of people who made a fortune by playing with coins, including Feng Ying's commercial manager Liu Ru!

With the rapid prosperity of commerce in Lantian County, the footsteps of Lantian merchants have gradually extended to all parts of the world, including the Wa Kingdom.

Daming lacks silver deposits...... However, there was no shortage of Japanese countries, and there was no shortage of Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese, and English, who could get cheap silver from all over the world to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

Their silver is worthless, but they can use the silver price of the Ming Dynasty to buy all kinds of precious goods in the Ming Dynasty, such as silk, paper, porcelain, etc., and so on.

In the process of this transaction, it seems that everyone has not suffered a loss, but it is Da Ming who is really injured.

The unfair trade made Daming's blood and sweat earned by these bastards in vain.

This is why Yun Zhao must implement silver coins.

A silver coin is not as heavy as a tael of silver, but the value of his coin is one tael of silver, and a silver coin minted by Lantian can be exchanged for eight hundred copper coins, but one tael of silver cannot.

The silver ingots, silver bars, and silver nuggets of foreign merchants can only be smelted in Lantian and turned into Lantian silver coins before they can be used in Lantian County.

Lantian silver coins are not pure silver, everyone knows this, and many times, the reason why Lantian silver coins can be popular is because Lantian is too strong.

Even if a silver coin is not pure silver, but only a currency in the conceptual sense, people are willing to use this kind of silver coin.

Yun Zhao believes that when Yushan Academy's new papermaking and printing system matures, this kind of silver coin will eventually be replaced by paper money.

Before that, Yun Zhao needed to hold a lot of silver and gold in his hands.

Gold, in particular, has always been only in and out of Lantian County.

When there is enough gold, Yun Zhao can use gold as collateral to print banknotes.

Once the banknotes come out, it's Yun Zhao's turn to harvest the world.

After Shi Lang blocked the coastal waters of the Ming Dynasty, he could effectively prevent the people of the Ming Dynasty from continuing to be robbed through commercial operations.

As the country with the richest products, the highest commercial value and the highest GDP in the world, if the Ming Dynasty cannot be effectively protected, the prosperous trade of the year will make the Ming Dynasty suffer heavy losses.

It seems that under the leadership of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the Wa Kingdom is ready to firmly follow the path of seclusion and seclusion.

This strategy cannot be said to be wrong, and it is in itself a sign that trade inequality is overwhelming the Japanese state.

What Shi Lang had to do now was to lead sixteen ironclad ships to patrol the Daming Sea Frontier and rob any ships they encountered at sea, until these maritime merchants began to obediently recognize the leadership of the Lantian Merchants, and then they would change from pirates to navy.

Power is an eternal existence in this world.

When the Commercial Division compiled the results of the negotiation into a document and sent it to Yun Zhao's table, Yun Zhao signed the document and sealed it, and the document was considered to be effective.

Hattori, as Tokugawa Iemitsu's envoy, finally agreed to settle in cash, and at the same time, he also agreed to a limited extent to settle in Fuso's silver, but this condition needed Tokugawa Iemitsu's approval before it could be finally calculated.

Yun Zhao basically didn't have any thoughts about this, he felt that Tokugawa Iemitsu would probably not settle with the price of the Japanese silver, so that the Japanese would suffer a lot.

Because this was equivalent to Yun Zhao doubling the price of these goods and selling them to him, the method he might use was to settle the settlement with the equivalent value of gold, which was the most beneficial way for the Wa Kingdom.

And Yun Zhao himself needs a huge amount of gold to build his own national bank, so he will naturally agree.

Once Tokugawa Iemitsu had plenty of steel, gunpowder, muskets, and artillery, the Portuguese entrenched in Nagasaki and other ports, and the Dutch would have a hard time.

It's called pulling a hair and moving the whole body.

This year's spring and summer are very good, and the plague seems to have disappeared all at once, at least this terrible existence has not been found in the Lantian territory, although there seem to be scattered villages in Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, and there seem to be scattered villages that have been exterminated by the pneumonic plague.

However, these things are far away, far away from Lantian County......

As the Lantian boundary monument continues to drift away, Lantian County, which is in the center of Lantian County, is becoming more and more prosperous.

Today's Lantian County has completely jumped out of the category of agricultural production, almost every household has people working in workshops or doing business, and agricultural income has dropped to an almost negligible level for every household.

As a result, in this situation, the phenomenon of land leasing naturally arises.

However, it is okay to lease, but the government does not allow contracts with a lease period of more than five years, and as for the sale of land, it is strictly prohibited, and individuals have no right to sell the land in their own name, and if it is deserted for more than two years, it will be forcibly repossessed by the government.

The people who lease the land, or give birth to sell the land, are some young people, those who have experienced the difficult years, the middle-aged people, still regard the land as more important than life.

In May, the villages under the jurisdiction of Mao Bijiang finally had wheat to harvest, and when he looked at the heavy ears of wheat all over the ground, he understood that Lantian's rescue work in Xiangyang was completely over.

This year, of course, there is no tax, but the people still have to take out a part of the grain to repay the seeds, farm tools, and cattle money borrowed from the government last year.

Standing in the field, looking at the undulating wheat waves in the wind, he opened his arms as if he wanted to completely immerse himself in the blue sky.

This heavy sense of satisfaction far surpasses the happiness brought by him writing a good poem, a new song, or an opera.

The illiterate people were harvesting around him, busy, even as small children, trying to throw sheaves of wheat on the ox carts.

He could clearly feel that the faces that were full of sorrow, woodenness, and stiffness in the past had now become vivid, even if the old faces were full of wrinkles, they looked particularly good at the moment.

"This is the meaning of a gentleman ruling the world."

At this moment, the sorrow in Mao Bijiang's heart completely disappeared, no matter what kind of character Hou Fangyu portrayed him, how unbearable he portrayed, and how ugly he was, he didn't care anymore.

Compared with the grand scene in front of him, what Hou Fangyu did in Jiangnan was not worth it.

"I took the risk of leading a thousand people from nothing to now crops are everywhere, chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep are full of circles, how can you kill the rumors of a villain in Hou Fangyu.

I have personally watched a thousand people under my leadership, clearing wasteland, farming, ploughing, digging canals, building pond weirs, and rebuilding houses.

From today on, you Hou Fangyu has no place in my heart, and it is not worth taking a place in my heart. ”

Mao Bijiang stood for a moment, and then began to harvest the wheat again.

He used to look down on such things, but now, watching the wheat being cut down by his sickle, there was an indescribable pleasure.

One of the assessments of local officials in Lantian County is to see their proficiency in agricultural affairs, and only those special departments will not assess agricultural affairs, and of course, those people in special departments will not be able to serve as local officials and be in charge of the government.

Therefore, going to the countryside to serve as the lieutenant chief is the first step of the local magistrate of Lantian County, and if there is no this most basic step, there will be no chance of soaring in the future.

In Xiangyang, it is not only the village that has obtained such a harvest, but the rest of the villages are basically the same, except for the fact that the new grain does not grow well here, there is no big problem.

I heard that the soil samples here have been taken away by the officials of the Yushan Academy who specialize in agricultural affairs, and a part of the experimental fields have been opened here, and six officials have been left behind to replant and make comparisons.

This is not the first time that the promotion of new grain in Lantian County has failed, and in the past, the promotion in southern Shaanxi was not good, but after the agricultural officials of Yushan Academy cultivated superior seedlings, there has been a great improvement.

At present, the promotion of new grain in Hanzhong is not effective, but it is only a temporary matter.

These people had to stay in Xiangyang for three years, and then they would be sent to a higher level of government in the newly opened territory, and after three years, they would be able to take up a position at the state level.

So he calmed down and was full of expectations for his future life.

Dong Xiaowan has been in Xiangyang for a month, this stupid woman gave up her errand in Mingyue Tower, came to Xiangyang alone with all her net worth, and after putting on a set of wedding dresses for herself, she stayed in the bedroom of Mao Bijiang and waited for her man to come back.

Then, she was scolded by Mao Bijiang.

sent her to live in a widow's house that night, and repeatedly told Dong Xiaowan that he could sneak around to marry a wife, and only after he had prepared for a few days would he give a big wedding gift.

So, ten days later, Dong Xiaowan obtained a lively wedding in a Hanzhong farmhouse, not only the wedding, but also the marriage certificate issued by the mayor of Xiangyang Dali himself.

Looking at Dong Xiaowan, who was feeding the chickens in the yard in a Tsing Yi cloth skirt, his heart was hot, and he entered the yard and snatched the rice pots in Dong Xiaowan's hand, and poured them all to the chickens and ducks.

Then he picked up Dong Xiaowan horizontally and whispered in her ear: "My father may come to see me, you'd better take this opportunity to give me a son." ”

Dong Xiaowan muttered: "It's still daytime......"

Mao Bijiang laughed and said: "What is this, you can see it more clearly during the day!" ”