Dongying is prolific in silver, and this Liu Hongjian naturally knows better than anyone else in his heart.

In fact, throughout the 17th century, the Iwami silver mine alone accounted for one-third of the world's total silver production, and the grade was extremely high.

It was through the extensive exploitation of Iwami's silver mines that the Edo shogunate supported trade with the Furunki, the Netherlands, and the Ming Dynasty, and circulated it as currency in Toei.

If I had to describe the output of Iwami's silver mine in four words, it would be terrifying!

"Back to the prince, there is indeed a silver mine in the island root area hundreds of miles away from here, but this place was accepted by the Tokugawa family as a direct territory, and the silver mountain was sent to manage it, and the output is not clear, but since the Tokugawa family attaches so much importance to it, it should not be low." Saemon groaned for a moment and said with a frown.

I knew that the prince didn't come to Dongying simply to play, but I didn't know that I still let Saemon eat a whale, and I was still fighting the emperor's idea just now, but now I talked about the silver mine again, and the prince was worried about a lot!

"It's them again, this Tokugawa family is really too arrogant, Cao Cao is estimated to have to bow down when he comes, this is not good."

Liu Hongjian also frowned, he came to Dongying too late, the former three-legged momentum has ended, and it has become the dominance of the Tokugawa family.

If you want to win Toei, you must first think of a Tokugawa family, at least to give hope to the ambitious daimyo.

After all, chaos is the ladder of progress, but how can we get Toei back into the chaos of the so-called Warring States period? Well, this is a problem, Liu Hong gradually began to have a headache......

In the next few days, Liu Hongjian was not idle, in addition to wandering around to learn about the various customs of the Dongying people, he also slaughtered a cow that was said to be from Kobe, and played fried beef at Saemon's house.

Not to mention, the fried steak feasted the mouths of more than a dozen guards, and even Niu Dabang mallet really thought that his master had come to play in Toei, until news came from Edo a few days later.

"Lord, it cost a lot of silver, but the Tokugawa family only allows you to enter the palace alone." Saemon was very dissatisfied.

Zuoemon spent tens of thousands of taels of silver for Zhang Luo's matter, but in the end, the Tokugawa family only allowed the Ming merchant Liu Hongjian to go alone, Liu Hongjian was detached, and Zuoemon categorically did not agree to let Liu Hongjian go to Kyoto alone, and the silver was almost equal to a waste of money.

However, Saemon is not Liu Hongji, and it cannot replace Liu Hongjian to make decisions.

"It's okay, the king will go by himself." Liu Hong gradually thought about it for a while and decided.

There is no other reason, in the imperial palace in Kyoto, except for the emperor's family, all the servants add up to only a few dozen people, which is estimated to be not enough for him to akm suddenly.

Besides, he was only allowed to enter the palace alone, but he brought some servants to wait outside the palace and no one said anything, right?

Although these servants are all big-shouldered and round-waisted, none of them seem to be good at stubble, but Kyoto is not Edo after all, Toei is not the Ming Dynasty, and the national conditions are really different, and the shogunate rarely sends troops like Cao Cao to keep an eye on the emperor all year round.

The name of the shogunate was actually equivalent to the headquarters of later generations, and it was a military group, and the leader of the group became the shogun, that is, the shogun, who was in charge of all the armies of Toei.

The Tokugawa family built their nest in Edo, which is called the Edo period during the reign of the Tokugawa shogunate, but until the Meiji Restoration, Edo was only an administrative center, and the capital of Toei was always Kyoto.

Kyoto is actually not close to Edo, and even if you take the Shinkansen express train in later generations, it will take more than three hours to get from Tokyo (Edo) to Kyoto.

The emperor's palace is in Kyoto, and the shogunate of the Tokugawa family is in Edo, so the question is, if the general is Cao Cao and the emperor is Emperor Han Xian, isn't this Cao Cao afraid that Emperor Han Xian will escape?

And if Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty issued an edict and called on the princes of the world to crusade against the general, what would happen?

But the fact is that if the emperor really did this, not only would no daimyo come to King Qin, but he would be regarded as mentally ill.

The reason is simple, the emperor has been a puppet for six hundred years, and the power of the shogunate is not only protected by law but has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Crucially, the emperor himself did not trust any of the daimyos, they did not believe that they were there to help him regain power, but simply wanted to use him as a puppet, which was indeed the case.

In the Edo period, the Tokugawa family was in charge of the entire political, economic, and military affairs of Toei, which meant that everything related to people was in charge of the shogun.

What does the emperor do? The answer is very simple, the emperor is not a human being, and since the emperor is a descendant of God, you just have to take care of the things that matter with God, such as determining the era name or something.

For the Tokugawa family, there was nothing suspicious about the fact that a little-known small merchant admired their emperor and wanted to visit them.

Few people can change what Liu Hong has gradually settled, and things are settled.

It was not close from Nagasaki to Kyoto, and after finalizing the itinerary, Liu Hongjian took his group to Kyoto on the second day.

There are not many entourage, counting the bull stick mallet, a total of fifteen people, but these people are all polished with oily AKM.

This thing is a rarity, and the appearance is very different from the old Sui Hair Gun in Dongying, and the outside is wrapped in a layer of linen, as long as the gun is not put down, no one knows what this thing is for.

Naturally, Saemon was also brought in, and he was a competent translator.

The group walked for a thrilling day, and when they really stood in front of the gate of the Emperor's Palace, Liu Hongjian couldn't help but shake his head.

This...... It's too shivering, isn't it?

The dilapidated palace wall is not half as high as the Ming Imperial Palace, and you can see the dilapidated wooden palace in the palace wall from afar, and you can't see anyone at all from the gate.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still a few guards standing at the door, Liu Honggradually thought that he had come to a dilapidated Taoist temple.

It's just that what made Liu Hong lose his big teeth was still to come, and after some accommodation, Liu Hong gradually finally met the emperor who had been thinking about him for many days.

In the morning, the sixteen-year-old Emperor Houguang received Liu Hongjian at breakfast time, and he was drinking porridge.

The emperor is drinking porridge? Liu Hong's eyes were straight, and looking at the color of the porridge, it was clear that there was still some chaff mixed in it!

This thing is a must-have thing on the dinner table of the people in the Ming Dynasty in the years of natural disasters, and now it has appeared in the palace of the Dongying Kingdom, and the emperor is drinking!

If it weren't for the little emperor's relish, Liu Hongchuan would have thought that this guy was acting, he really wanted to say to the young emperor, why not eat minced meat?

"Your Excellency, you should bow to the Emperor!" After Saemon saluted himself, he saw Liu Hongjian standing on the side staring at the porridge in the emperor's bowl in a daze, and reminded.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I take the liberty of meeting with you because I wish to make an offering to the Imperial Palace in my personal name in order to repair the old palace in the Imperial Palace."

Liu Hong gradually ignored Saemon, stood in the dormitory of Emperor Houguang and bowed to the door.

He pursued pragmatism, and in his opinion those complicated etiquettes were all false, only the money in his hand was real, and he did not think that the little emperor would refuse his kindness, because this little emperor and his father Mizuo had done even more outrageous things in order to feed the people in the palace.

"How much can you offer?" Sure enough, Shaoren immediately put down the porridge in his hand after listening to Saemon's interpretation, he didn't care whether Liu Hongjian gave him a big gift, these etiquettes have almost been trampled on by the shogunate.

"One hundred thousand dollars." Liu Hongjian was also unambiguous and said casually.

Shaoren is the name of Emperor Hou Guangming, 100,000 yuan, which refers to the Kuanwen Tongbao currently in circulation in the Dongying Kingdom, and 100,000 yuan is about equal to 10,000 taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty.

100,000 yuan is not too much, but it is definitely not a little, Liu Hongchuan is now rich, but the reason why he only reported such a figure is that the biggest reason is to scare the little emperor, after all, he is just a stranger.

Liu Hongjian really didn't play false, and immediately asked Saemon to hand over a chapter of silver tickets worth 100,000 yuan, which is still the most creditable local money bank in Kyoto City.

But who would have thought that even so, the seventeen-year-old emperor would open his mouth in an O-shape.

"I heard that you are just a merchant from the Ming Dynasty, why do you want to worship the palace?" Shao Ren was stunned for a moment before retracting his gaze on the silver ticket and said.

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ps: After research, during the Tokugawa shogunate, the emperor did live with porridge when he was most embarrassed, and two percent of the bran was added to the porridge.