Ito wanted to keep Zhen Qian, but he was worried that Zhen Qian was pointing fingers here, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Then the matter of relief food has to be asked to welcome and send the envoy, the lower officials have something to do, and they won't send it tomorrow!" ”

"Ugh!"

This Ito is quite direct, he didn't even say a polite word, and he regarded himself as a plague god.

Now there are two production bases of relief grain, one in Matsuura City, the other in Saga Town, three stone dried locusts can be exchanged for one stone relief grain, or five stone dried locusts can be exchanged for one stone of grain, the victims are naturally willing to exchange for more relief food, although the taste of relief food is not very good, but eating relief food can be full, and it is very convenient to eat, with boiling water is a big bowl, good teeth, can also bite and eat directly, the victims are not much particular.

Zhen Qian didn't answer Ito's words, he just nodded, he had done everything he needed to do, and Fujiwara had already opened up the mountains, forests, lakes and mines, and his goal was basically achieved, and he could retire with success.

Early the next morning, Zhen Qian left the resettlement site without any nostalgia, walking so freely, looking at Zhen Qian's distant convoy, Ito's figure suddenly became lonely, and there was a deep sense of loss in his heart.

Today's Nagasaki town should be called Nagasaki Prefecture, and Tang merchants have been stationed here for almost four months, so that this once inconspicuous small fishing village suddenly became lively and changed dramatically.

In a small-scale peasant society, the prosperity of a place is mostly inseparable from the geographical location of the population.

The population of Nagasaki Town is not large, and the geographical location of a country with many excellent harbors such as Wakoku is not prominent, and the economy of Hizen Province and even the entire Saikaido Province is underdeveloped, Nagasaki Town has always been a small fishing village until the Tang merchants came here .......

Of course, the reason why Tang merchants favored this place was the unique geographical resources of Nagasaki Port, but in this era, the tonnage of ships was still generally low, and the requirements for the harbor were not the same as those of later generations, and it was more just a place for ships to anchor and shelter from the wind. But having a harbor of its own in Nagasaki is a completely different story.

Every time Tang merchants went to the Wa Kingdom, they stayed in many places, such as the famous Tangjin Port in later generations, but there was no fixed place for trading, which completely depended on the situation at that time.

Every time the Tang merchants came to the Wa Kingdom, although the goods on the ship could skyrocket several times, but because of the sudden influx of Tang merchants, the number of goods increased dramatically, and the date of return should also be considered, and the time of shipment became tense, and it was inevitable to reduce the price of each other.

This situation is taken for granted, but no one pays attention to it, but when Zhen Qian proposed to lease Nagasaki Town, the shrewd Tang merchants immediately discovered the huge profits contained in it, and there was no need to rush to ship, the merchants could become sitting merchants, and the price would naturally rise several times, even if it was the date of return, they could also leave the goods in the Wa Kingdom, and there was no need to worry about lowering the price and selling.

Compared with the island plan proposed by Zhen Qian, Tang Shang preferred to set up the place in Nagasaki Town, which was not because Tang Shang was short-sighted, but because of the shrewdness and calculation of the businessmen.

Occupying an island requires a lot of manpower and material resources to build and develop, and finding people from there has become an unavoidable problem.

There are many advantages to choosing Nagasaki Town, in addition to the reason for the seaport, the second is that it is directly connected to the Japanese country, and the problem of manpower is easily solved, and even the Japanese merchants come to Nagasaki Town is very convenient, all they need is to spend money to hire people to build a lease area in Nagasaki Town, and finally here you can learn about the domestic market in real time, and it is very convenient to finalize the next batch of goods with the Japanese merchants.

There are not many fools in the world, whether in ancient times or in later generations, and the real gap lies in the amount of information available between the two sides.

If it is simply measured by the business experience of this era, Zhen Qian does not think that he has much advantage at all, but after adding the amount of information for thousands of years, the gap between the two sides cannot be measured by high and low, and can only be said to be a world of difference.

Because of the Kara merchants, the town of Nagasaki immediately became prosperous, and it took a lot of labor to build the harbor and lease area, and money drove not only the craftsmen of Hizen Province but also the craftsmen of Saikaido to Nagasaki Town. The construction of Nagasaki Town was not completed in a day or two, and these craftsmen brought their families to Nagasaki Town, which in itself brought prosperity to Nagasaki Town.

Food, clothing, shelter and transportation were indispensable, so there was a steady stream of materials transported to Nagasaki Town, restaurants, hotels, grain stores, grocery stores, cloth shops, hotels, ...... many shops seemed to emerge from the ground overnight, first people, then consumption, and then the market, and the credit of money in it cannot be ignored.

Later generations knew that economic prosperity and the flow of money were inseparable, and that the small-scale peasant economy meant that the speed of commodity circulation was slow, in fact, the speed of money circulation. There are fewer channels to make money, and the channels for spending money will naturally shrink, and the more no one spends money, the smaller the size of the market.

The economy of Nagasaki Town is a different scene, at the same time that the goods brought by the Tang merchants were thrown out, the money flowed from the hands of the Japanese merchants to the hands of the Tang merchants, and then because of the needs of the construction of Nagasaki Town, the money was spilled out of the hands of the Tang merchants, in exchange for the manpower and commodities of the Japanese country, and the money in the hands of the Tang merchants was exchanged for the consumption of the Japanese people, and consumption was generated.

Tang merchants live in Nagasaki Town, smart Japanese merchants naturally know the business opportunities here, many foreign Japanese merchants also came to Nagasaki Town, maybe many Japanese merchants did not plan to buy the goods in the hands of Tang merchants at the beginning, but simply provided services for Tang merchants, such as the Qinglou that alleviated the foreign feelings of Tang merchants, and such as song and dance performances with the customs of the Japanese country, and even the eating habits of the two countries also collided together in Nagasaki Town, things sometimes changed unconsciously, and when someone noticed, The town of Nagasaki has changed dramatically.

In the town of Nagasaki, there is a very peculiar phenomenon, two worlds on both sides of the street, and on one side of the street is the place where the Japanese live, with low wooden houses in a disorderly manner, sewage flowing in them, and the air is filled with the smell of corruption and sourness. On the other side of the street, a tall fence obscured everyone's view and isolated the world from the outside of the wall. Behind the wall, there are clean and tidy roads, luxuriously decorated buildings are lined up, even the small people standing at the door of the shops are wearing clean clothes, smiling to welcome every guest in and out, even the most picky guests will be satisfied with a few pennies, giving people a sense of politeness.

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