Amazaki Hyosuke played with an empty wine glass in his hand, bowed his head and said, "Natsu-san, because of the existence of Zheng Yiguan, the castle town of Hirado has steadily overpowered Nagasaki, and the income of the Hirado Domain has long exceeded that of our Hizen Domain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOur feudal lord Nabeshima Katsushige-sama wants to make the Hizen domain the strongest feudal domain in Kyushu, but no matter what you do, you need money, and Nagasaki's biggest source of income is trade......"

Xia Nan understood that Hirado, as the birthplace of Zheng Zhilong, overpowered Nagasaki in foreign trade, and the Hizen Domain, as one of the strongest feudal domains in the west, was collectively called "Sacho Tohi" along with the other three strong Satsuma Domains, Tosa Domains, and Choshu Domains, and at the end of the 19th century, it was one of the pioneers of the Shogun Movement, and naturally he was unwilling to be a farmer, a mountain spring, and a rural landlord with a little land. Attracting some big businessmen to Nagasaki is a channel to increase their income and expand their strength.

And Xia Nan's 500,000 catties of raw silk at a time attracted the attention of the Nabeshima family, and this is why Amagasaki Hyosuke came forward to entertain Xia Nan and his party, as for the people who sent the Satsuma Domain, it was just by the way.

Xia Nan was originally going to establish his own trading circle in Nagasaki, and in addition to giving up Hirado because Zheng Zhilong was too influential, there was another reason - after the promulgation of the lockdown decree, Nagasaki would become the only trading port that was semi-open to the outside world. And Amagasaki Hyosuke's solicitation coincided with his thoughts, and both sides just took what they needed.

But it's not Xia Nan's style to easily agree, and at the moment, neither the Nabeshima family nor its executive knows about the upcoming lockdown order, so they just make a time difference and put forward some favorable conditions for themselves.

He pretended to hesitate: "Mr. Amagasaki, I understand what you mean, but I am a businessman, and I will go wherever I can make money." Hirado and Nagasaki are about the same to me, and seriously speaking, Hirado has the support of the Zheng family, and it seems that our merchants of the Ming Dynasty are safer and more secure there......"

Amagasaki Hyosuke hurriedly said, "As long as it's a friend of our Hizen Domain, it's definitely safer than Hirado." You see, the eldest lady of the Shimazu family can't help you today. ”

Murong Longcheng interjected at the right time: "Even if we do it, we will not be afraid of the Satsuma Domain. In addition to doing business, our lord is also a general of the Ming Kingdom, and when it comes to firearms, the iron artillery team of the Shimazu family is not our opponent. ”

Amazaki Hyosuke's eyes lit up, and he was actually the same as Zheng Yiguan, and he was also a good man who integrated military and business, so he had to win over him even more. You must know that Zheng Yiguan's thousands of warships and tens of thousands of soldiers are an extraordinary force in the whole of Japan, and even if you play Shangluo (Note 1) once, it is not impossible to change the political pattern of Japan, but it is a pity that the possibility of the Hizen Domain winning over Zheng Yiguan is basically zero. If this Xia Sang also has a good military strength and the financial resources to operate a huge amount of 500,000 jin raw silk trading, he will be a big reinforcement from the Hizen Domain.

He suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked cautiously, "Xia Sang turned out to be also a general of the Ming Kingdom. Dare to ask how large is Xia Sang's troops? ”

Xia Nan replied solemnly: "It's not much, it's just 10,000 or 20,000 land divisions and hundreds of naval warships." ”

This exaggerated figure shocked Hyosuke Amagasaki. You know, in Japan, a battle of a few thousand people can be called a "joint battle". As for the hundreds of warships, although they are not as good as Zheng Yiguan, they are also a great water force in Japan, exceeding the sum of the sailors of some powerful domains.

His attitude became more and more respectful: "If Xia San's future business can be done in Nagasaki, we can agree to your conditions." ”

Xia Nan pondered and said, "I won't embarrass Mr. Amagasaki, so if we are allowed to set up a trading house in Nagasaki, there will be no restrictions on the entry and exit of people, and ships can enter and leave the port freely, I will promise you." ”

After the closure of the country, except for Dutch and Ming ships, they were not allowed to enter the port of Nagasaki, and even the Dutch could only set up a trading house on a peninsula called Dejima outside Nagasaki, and they were not allowed to enter or leave Nagasaki, and they were monitored by the Hizen and Fukuoka domains on a rotational basis.

Xia Nan put forward such a condition, which can be regarded as a privilege, if it is an ordinary businessman, let alone Amagasaki Hyosuke, a town official, even the lord of Hizen will not agree, after all, this is strictly forbidden by the shogunate.

However, after Nan showed his strength in the summer, the situation was different. Amagasaki Hyosuke thought about it for a moment and replied, "This is beyond my purview, and I have to report it to the commissioner, and maybe ask for the consent of the elders of the Nabeshima family, but it shouldn't be a big problem." ”

Hearing him answer like this, Xia Nan knew that most of the things had happened, and he was secretly happy in his heart.

Before defeating Zheng Zhilong, the business of using flying clippers to do valuables was an important channel for quickly accumulating wealth, and Japan was the most important market, so it was necessary to gain a firm foothold here -- of course, after defeating the Zheng clique and the Dutch, you could learn from Zheng Zhilong's practice in another time and space, collecting protection fees from merchant ships, and the money came faster and did not require the principal -- in addition, Japan's sulfur and other items were also important military supplies, and it was more convenient to set up merchant halls and enter and exit freely, and it was also more convenient to purchase and transfer these materials.

Both sides felt that they had benefited from it, and naturally they were quite interested, and after a few cups of sake, Amagasaki Hyosuke on the head of the company clapped his hands and called a group of women in kimonos, which looked better than the maids who served tea and poured wine just now.

With a humble and flattering smile on their faces, the women sat down, snuggled into the arms of their guests, and fed them drinks. It seems that these people were specially used by Hyosuke Amagasaki to entertain guests.

Before the summer south crossed, there were countless women, and after the crossing, the Chunlan and Xia He around him were also quite beautiful, and before coming to Suzhou, he saw a beauty of Dong Xiaowan's level, and he couldn't be too interested in this kind of Japanese woman with the posture of a Chinese. What's more, there were no condoms in ancient times, and these women didn't know how many guests they had received, and it was difficult to say that they had flower willow disease. In order not to distract Hyosuke Amagasaki, he took a sip of the woman's toast, but did not make any further moves.

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Note 1: Upper Lo Ben means to go to Beijing and go to the capital. In Japanese, Joraku mainly means to go to Kyoto, and Kyoto's other name is Luoyang (Rakuyo), so it is called "Kamiraku". Before the Meiji Restoration, the Sengoku daimyo led troops into Kyoto was called "Joraku", which was mainly used to describe the process by which the strongest local feudal chiefs (daimyo) gathered a large army and drove to Kyoto to declare their status, somewhat similar to the "Huimeng" of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in ancient China.