Gao Yihuan came to the only meeting hall in the fort, where two men in their thirties and two old men were already sitting in the hall.

Generally speaking, the people who can be elected by the village to be the chief are mostly older and respected elders, but in Luzon, this situation is slowly changing, and this change is obviously determined by the surrounding environment.

When the four of them saw Gao Yihuan coming in, they all stood up and arched their hands: "Master Gao." ”

In the nearby villages, Gaojiabao is the strongest, and the last time they attacked the Turen tribe, the Sanhe company had already shown a certain strength and did things fairly, so several lieutenants respected Gao Yihuan very much.

"You're welcome, let's sit down and talk." After Gao Yihuan sat down on the main seat, he glanced at a few people, and then said with a smile: "Everyone came to see me, did you agree with what our Sanhe company said?" ”

One of the four strong men stood up, hugged his fists and said: "We, Chenjiabao, are willing to join the Sanhe Company, and all the newly opened land can help the Sanhe grow sugarcane." ”

After he finished speaking, another old man also stood up and said slowly: "The old man has thought about it, you can join the triad, I don't know if the promise made to us by the master before will it change?" ”

The other two also expressed their willingness to join the Sanhe company, Gao Yihuan was happy when he heard it, "A few rest assured, the shares promised to a few people will not change, and the farm tools you need can be taken away from the company immediately." ”

If the company wants to grow, it must have funds and personnel, both of which are lacking in Gao Yihuan, so he can only find someone to participate in the shares, and the mayors of these four villages can be regarded as taking the team to start a business with him.

Gao Yihuan went to the Ming Dynasty and found that his idea was right, the profits of sugar and tobacco were very considerable, and there were many rich people in the Ming Dynasty today, and the money for consumption and purchase of goods was also rising, and others wanted to transport the goods of the Ming Dynasty to other places to make money, and he wanted to make money in the Ming Dynasty.

He is now running a trip to the Ming Dynasty, and the profit is equivalent to going to Tianzhu, and the voyage to the Ming Dynasty is short and safer, so he naturally wants to run the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that he also understands that any business starts to make huge profits, and then it doesn't make much money.

He ran the Ming Dynasty a few more times, and some people would definitely find that sucrose and tobacco made money, and they would inevitably flock to grow sugarcane and tobacco.

This is the business law he has figured out, so he must take advantage of those big businesses before they keep their eyes on these two goods, make a big profit, and then quickly exit, otherwise, with the strength of those big businesses, once they start to do it, then he can get a piece of the pie at most, but he will definitely not be the one who makes the most profits, so what Gao Yihuan wants now is to expand the scale as soon as possible and make the plate bigger.

After hearing this, a few people were also full of joy and very excited, Gaojiabao was originally the same as several villages and forts around, they were all poor and white, but within a few years, there was a business, hired the Japanese and the black domain, and there were two boats, and they were still farming there, they joined the Sanhe Company, hoping to create more wealth with the help of the Sanhe Company.

Gao Yihuan watched the company grow little by little, and he was also happy in his heart, but he was not satisfied with this, he had to be stronger, so strong that God couldn't play him, he wanted to change his fate.

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Kyoto, Japan.

The impact of trade with the Ming Dynasty and the many problems of Japan itself led to domestic turmoil and a crisis in the shogunate system.

The Edo shogunate's finances were struggling to cope with peasant revolts and samurai rebellions in the country, and the annual increase in expenditure on maintaining stability accounted for a small half of the Tokugawa shogunate's finances.

The import of goods in the Ming Dynasty impacted the economic structure of Japan's feudal lords, and the rise of Japanese domestic swords, folding fans, lacquerware merchants, as well as merchants selling goods from the Ming Dynasty, led to the emergence of a group of wealthy merchants, who used the profits from trade to buy land and reclaim wasteland, and served as both merchants and landlords.

On the one hand, these wealthy merchants converted a part of their capital into land, and then exploited the peasants through tenant relations, and then used the land rent to invest in commercial activities, resulting in the concentration of wealth in Japan, but under the concentration of wealth, a large amount of silver flowed out of the trade between Japan and the Ming Dynasty, and there was a huge deficit, and the whole of Japan became poorer and poorer.

On the one hand, the concentration of wealth led to the loss of land and the loss of land and the bankruptcy of small farmers, and on the other hand, the outflow of Japanese silver and the poverty of Japan as a whole. Under the dual pressure of these two circumstances, social contradictions in Japan increased dramatically, shaking the rule of the shogunate and the feudal domains.

Since last year, in order to cope with the crisis, the Edo shogunate has also begun to implement reforms, one is the promulgation of the "Frugal Decree" to prohibit the extravagance of the ministers and reduce the amount of money. The second is to implement the "Rice System" to order the daimyo to donate rice, and every 10,000 stones to donate rice and 100 stones. Third, under the influence of the Ming Dynasty, experience was encouraged, the development of handicrafts was encouraged, and the trade deficit was changed.

It can be seen that the Edo shogunate intended to reduce expenditure and open up sources, but its reforms were not successful.

The "Thrifty Order" made the ministers and samurai dissatisfied, and the "Shangmi System" further bankrupted the finances of the various daimyos, and they could only borrow money from wealthy merchants, while encouraging the economy and developing the handicraft industry, because the tariffs could not be independent, and they could not protect the domestic market.

In addition to the Satsuma and Ming Dynasty, many samurai in the southern feudal clans had a very meagre income, and the samurai were dignified and did not engage in lowly work, so they could only wander around, exacerbating social turmoil.

The Tokugawa shogunate was in Edo, but the residence of the Japanese emperor was in Kyoto.

Yoshida Budokan is a well-known martial arts dojo in Kyoto Castle, and the owner of the hall, Yoshida Matsuyo, studied under the Nakajo Ichito-ryu, the oldest kendo school in Japan, and is very famous in Kyoto, and there are his disciples in each domain.

The Budokan is not far from the Imperial Palace, and there are usually no people here, but recently, there have been many samurai.

Early in the morning, Kyoto has just come to a lively place, and there are people practicing in the dojo, "Ha! Ha! Ha! The shouts and the clashing of wooden knives came from inside the dojo from time to time.

At this time, a samurai wearing clogs hurriedly came to the outside of the dojo, he looked left and right, and saw that no one was paying attention, so he immediately got into the dojo.

Several samurai who were slashing fiercely with wooden knives inside noticed him coming in and immediately jumped out of the battle group, and when they saw that the people were panicking, they couldn't help but ask, "Takasugi-kun, what's the matter?" ”

The latter did not answer, but hurried to the front of the house, pushed open the Japanese-style shoji door, left the clogs outside, and entered Yoshida's house, leaving several people in the courtyard with puzzled faces.

The person named Takasugi Shinsuke is one of Yoshida's disciples, and recently led more than a dozen samurai, and suddenly came to Kyoto.

As soon as he entered the house, he saw Yoshida sitting and wiping his katana, so he hurriedly knelt down and put his head on the ground, "Teacher, our actions have been discovered by the shogunate, and the disciple's person has been arrested by the shogunate. ”

When Yoshida heard this, his brows furrowed, but he still wiped the knife before he spoke: "This is expected, Takasugi, you are too radical, and your ideas are too simple, how can you overthrow the Tokugawa family." ”

Takasugi Shinsuke was a low-level samurai of the Hizen Domain, because the lord of the domain could not make a fortune, and his life was poor, and he was very dissatisfied with the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, believing that it was the weakness of the Tokugawa family that led to the current state of Japan, so he gathered a group of down-and-out samurai in the name of honoring the king, and wanted to meet the emperor, hoping that the emperor would issue an edict and ask the Tokugawa family to return to the emperor.

The turmoil in Japan and the inability of the Tokugawa shogunate to solve social problems led to many voices opposing the Tokugawa family in Japan, and voices from all over the country gradually began to hear about the fall of the emperor.

When Takasugi arrived in Kyoto, he immediately met a number of like-minded samurai who were in various taverns and inns in Kyoto, often venting their complaints about the shogunate, which soon attracted the attention of the shogunate authorities.

Takasugi had been in league with a samurai of the Tosa clan last night, wanting to storm the Emperor's palace in the near future, but when he returned to the hotel in the morning, he suddenly found that a large group of shogunate samurai had surrounded the hotel, so he rushed to the Budokan to take refuge.

Takasugi Jinsuke listened to Yoshida's words, but he was a little unconvinced, "Teacher, it is the incompetence of the Tokugawa family that has caused the current situation in my great Japan, so that the merchants of the Ming Kingdom have made money in Japan." Although the Tokugawa family is strong, the disciples will not give in. Someone has to do this, if everyone doesn't stand up, the situation in Japan will only get worse and worse, as a great Japanese samurai, the disciple can't tolerate the shame that the Tokugawa family has brought to Japan, and the Tokugawa family should have a seppuku to apologize to the emperor. ”

Yoshida shook his head when he heard this, and at this moment, his disciple Watanabe Shintaro suddenly came in again, knelt down and said urgently, "Teacher, the people from the shogunate are here..."

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