Chapter 405: Japanese Peasants Go Bankrupt
Wang Yu can be said to attach great importance to the Trans-Siberian Railway, not only let Zheng Xi be responsible for the construction of this railway line, but also sent the fierce general Wang [Fu] Chen to assist Zheng Xi to complete the construction of this railway line.
The purpose of the construction of this railway is naturally to connect the east and the west, and this railway will also be connected with the railway line from Xi'an, Lanzhou, and Dihua in the future, and the railway line that walks along the Silk Road, after entering the territory of Hax, will be built to the north to connect with the Trans-Siberian Railway in Novosibirsk to form a new Silk Road on land.
Not only did the railway make strong commercial sense, but it also had the effect of weakening the Rakshasas. With this railway, the Ming would be able to control the vast Siberian region and drive the Rakshasas back to Europe.
Without this railway line, the Ming army would have had a serious logistical problem in the cold Siberian region, and would not have been able to fight a protracted war with the Rakshasas, who were much more cold-resistant than the Han Chinese.
Wang Yu did not seek to include Europe in the Chinese bag, but he had to drive the Rakshasas back to Europe, and the entire northern part of Asia could only be the territory of China.
Edo Castle, Japan, is lined with shops on both sides of the bluestone pavement, and there is a wide variety of goods in it, almost all of which are from Daming, from luxury goods such as glasses and glass lamps to daily necessities such as clothes, soap, and matches.
The original Japan was also a society of men ploughing and women weaving, but a large number of Ming goods poured into Japan, and the first thing to be hit was the homespun woven by the Japanese themselves.
The cotton cloth produced by Daming Nanyang Company and Jiangnan Textile Company is mechanized cloth, because of the high production efficiency, so the price is cheap, after this kind of cloth poured into Japan, the Japanese no longer weave their own cloth, but chose to buy cloth imported from Daming.
After the whale oil lamp with a glass shade entered Japan, the nobility and wealthy people of Japan first began to use this luxury. With the development of Daming technology, Wang Yu started an oil refinery to refine the oil extracted from the ground into gasoline, kerosene and heavy oil, and kerosene became a new type of fuel, which was cheap, and as a result, kerosene lamps poured into Japan in large numbers, replacing the original candles.
Not only are kerosene lamps much brighter than candles, but kerosene lamps with glass shades are less susceptible to wind, so this new type of lamp is very popular.
Under the leadership of the evil colonialist Wang Yu, a group of Donglin merchants who originally harmed the common people in China also came to Japan to seek opportunities to make a fortune.
These descendants of the Donglin Party suffered heavy losses in the country, and since Ye Chengchang was killed, many businessmen of the Donglin Party fled to Japan and began to plague the Japanese in Japan.
He Wenrui's house speculation in Shanghai failed, and he suffered heavy losses, almost losing his pants. But when he came to Japan, he saw an opportunity to make a fortune.
A group of Donglin Party businessmen headed by He Wenrui first started the grain business.
Whenever the grain harvest season, He Wenrui and others transported a large amount of grain from Daming, Korea, and Annam to Japan, and after these foreign grains were transported to Japan, coupled with the local grain harvest in Japan, the grain prices were pushed down very low. He Wenrui and others took the opportunity to purchase grain from Japanese farmers at low prices.
This year's grain harvest has been bumper again, but the Japanese peasant Niu Tou is not happy at all, because the grain he has harvested after several months of hard work and busyness, the purchase price of the black-hearted grain merchant is outrageously low.
"At such a low price, we won't sell it, let's go back!" The bull head said to the pig's mouth.
Whether it is a cow head or a pig's mouth, they are all Japanese farmers without surnames, in Japan at that time, only nobles and wealthy people deserve to have their own surnames, ordinary farmers have no surnames, and their parents can only give them a name casually.
The pig mouth said helplessly: "Don't sell grain? But if we don't sell grain, what will happen to the government's taxes? Also, we are renting land for samurai, how will we pay the land rent? ”
At this time, Japan, because under the rule of Tokugawa Iesanobu, they also adopted a whip law, and the grain harvested by the peasants could not be directly taxed, and the grain had to be sold and exchanged for banknotes before the tax could be paid. That's right, it's banknotes, and it's not Japan's own banknotes, but the new treasure banknotes of the Ming Dynasty.
The new banknotes of the Ming Dynasty are issued by the three banks of the Daming Bank, the Nanyang Bank and the Jiangnan Bank, and all the banknotes are banknotes that coexist in the gold standard and the silver standard, which means that these banknotes can be exchanged for gold and silver of the same value at any time.
Today's cities in Japan, are densely covered with the three major banks of the Ming Dynasty, these banks issued the Ming Dynasty new treasure banknotes, in the market has a good credit, in addition to the import of goods from the Ming Dynasty, must also be purchased with the Ming Dynasty new treasure banknotes, and Japan exports to the Ming Dynasty gold and silver, will also be replaced by stacks of Ming new treasure banknotes, so the current Japanese shogunate in order to save trouble, military salaries are issued with the Ming new treasure banknotes, tax collection is also the collection of Ming new treasure banknotes. Until now, even the fields rented by the samurai to the peasants were collected in the Ming treasure money.
Under the impetus of the three major banks of the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese shogunate, the new Ming banknote has become the only currency in circulation in Japan.
When you buy something on the street, if you take real money or copper plates, you can't buy things, and the merchants will persuade customers to go to the bank to exchange gold, silver, copper plates and the like for new Ming banknotes before they can buy goods.
Because of this, the whole of Japan is using the banknotes found by the three major banks of the Ming Dynasty.
This is only the first step in Wang Yu's plan to destroy Japan, and in a few years, he will announce that the new treasure banknotes of the Ming Dynasty will be decoupled from gold and silver, and then the paper money will be gradually devalued, so that the Japanese economy will suffer heavy losses. Eventually, the Japanese will cry and beg to join their country into the Chinese family.
During the grain harvest season, Donglin merchants trafficked large quantities of grain to Japan, and after lowering the price of grain, they bought grain from Japanese farmers at extremely low prices.
In the season of green and yellow, Donglin merchants raised the price of grain again. In this way, Donglin merchants made huge profits from the Japanese peasants.
Since when they sell grain, they can only sell it cheaply, and when they buy grain, they are forced to buy it at a high price, and the Japanese peasants can no longer bear this kind of entry and exit.
"The women in the family don't weave anymore, and the price of this grain is so low, how can we live?" The bull head said indignantly.
Pig Kou smiled and said: "My woman went to work in the factory opened by Daming, and she can earn five yuan a month!" Five dollars is enough for us to plant as many acres of land! ”
"What are we still farming? It's better to go to work in Daming's factory! "Bull Head Road.
In this way, a large number of Japanese peasants gave up their land and became workers in the factories that the Ming Dynasty opened in Japan.
Some of the Japanese yeoman farmers who had land also went bankrupt, they sold their farmland, first rented the fields of samurai and shoguns, and later found that farming could not make a living, and chose to work in factories.
It's just that there aren't so many factories that can get Japanese farmers who have given up their farmland to work, so many farmers have no choice but to immigrate to the Americas or Australia.
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