Chapter Twenty-Seven: His Majesty the Emperor Arrives in Japan
In order to obtain cheaper black labor, unscrupulous workshop owners have started their best things. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info That is to link the officials in his own family, follow the complex network of officialdom, and write to His Majesty the Emperor to start the strategy of Japan. Strive to be like North Korea, after taking North Korea, there will be a steady stream of cheap raw materials to start work, and more importantly, ...... A steady stream of cheap workers.
For the well-informed workshop owners, they had heard of His Majesty the Emperor's Foreign Legion in Korea. Those Japanese samurai who don't want to die in a war are an existence that can be passed by a rice ball.
The rise of this trend is in line with Zhu Cihong's intentions. In this way, Zhu Cihong naturally started his state visit to Japan. Of course, the entire Edo family, including the emperor's family, was welcomed with all their hearts.
On the contrary, it was Zheng Sen, who was busy with the affairs of the Chechi Dan sect in Sakurajima these days, and for a while he didn't even care that His Majesty the Emperor had already left for Japan.
And now, it's time for them to greet His Majesty the Emperor!
There are many people who come to greet His Majesty the Emperor, but this is Xinhua Port, and those who can come here to greet him are naturally people close to the Ming Dynasty. Although it was still nominally the land of the Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Mitsuhisa preferred to wait on the border of Kushikino rather than come to the territory of the Zheng clan.
In addition to Zheng Sen, the representative of the Zheng clan, Abe Tadaaki from Edo also came, and there was also an expeditionary company that also operated in the Satsuma Domain. Zu Dashou was present in person, Wu Sangui and Li Yan were all in place.
Lin Aping naturally rushed over, but the position was so far back that he could hardly see the end of the crowd in front, and he was tightly sealed out by the Jinyi Wei Fanzi who was in charge of security.
Looking at those mighty and unsmiling brocade guards, Lin Aping, who had lived in Daming, naturally understood that no one would have such a battle except for His Majesty the Emperor.
As soon as he thought of this, Lin Aping felt excited.
He had long felt that the proprietor in front of him was very extraordinary, and he must have a great background. As for the expeditionary company, I have heard of it and understand that it is a large trading company.
But I never expected that the expeditionary company would be so powerful. He has been good at things in the past few months, at least his ability to observe words and emotions has been trained. As long as you look at Wang Fuzhi's attitude towards Zheng Sen and Zu Dashou, you can understand which is more important than the expeditionary company or the formal trading company.
This is not only a matter of political status, but also of real power. Today's expeditionary company has overtaken the Zheng family.
In the past, Zheng's maritime group was the most powerful maritime business in East Asia. Then, since the expeditionary company raised equity capital in Tianjin Port to go to sea, it quickly jumped up, faintly having the strength to compete with the Zheng family, and many people have thought that the expeditionary company has become a new first just around the corner.
It's just that compared to the Zheng family, who concentrates on doing business with Westerners and Japanese. However, the expeditionary company bet on something that seemed to all the maritime merchants at the time to be a loss-making—colonization.
The expeditionary company built a port on Jeju Island, built houses, and built a shipyard, shipyard, lumber mill, cement workshop, ironmaking workshop, and so on. In particular, it also invested a huge amount of money to recruit people to settle on Jeju Island.
Although the profits of maritime trade are abundant, the start-up capital required for farming is just as huge.
In particular, the initial capital of those workshops is a large amount.
Even though the expeditionary company has a strong financing ability, it still sticks in the profits it earns every year.
As a result, the momentum of the expeditionary company came to an abrupt end.
At least, in the eyes of outsiders, expeditionary companies that no longer expand their territory and concentrate on trading in Korea, the Ryukyus, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, and other places have gone downhill.
It's just that he really joined the expedition company, and Lin Aping naturally quickly scoffed at these words that he didn't understand.
Simply trading may be to make money, but investing in workshops and running colonies is a long-term business. It is to lay the foundation, and the more solid it is now, the more it can soar into the sky in the future.
In this regard, some people in the expedition company also cited Lü Buwei's story. Merchants buy low and sell high, making the difference. Investing a dollar to make a 100% profit is rare. However, if you can invest in a country, you can make a huge profit of 100 yuan for every dollar invested.
The colonial expansion of the expeditionary company, in the final analysis, is this kind of investment in a country.
It is really a blessing to be able to join such a cause. You know, next His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire...... Speaking of arriving here, visiting the base of the expeditionary company on Sakura Island, and being able to meet His Majesty the Emperor, Lin Aping felt that he had to burn a stick of incense when he went back, and the ancestral tomb must be smoking.
Gossip aside, on the horizon of Xinhua Harbor, the mast has begun to be seen in the west.
This is the proof that this world is a ball, and Lin Aping remembers it deeply. Of course, it's the people on the ship who are more important.
Not long after, a huge fleet of ships from Busan arrived off the coast of Xinhua Port.
When everyone saw this, they couldn't help but stand solemnly.
Everyone understands that what is about to emerge is the master of that vast empire across the sea: the Ming Emperor.
The fresh breeze in April was blowing in the middle of the world, Zhu Cihong stood on the captain's room, opened the glass window produced in the Jingshi Liuli Factory, squinted his eyes and felt the sea breeze, and said with a smile: "Japan, it's coming." ”
Compared to the last trip to North Korea, the team that left Japan this time has quietly changed.
The army was reduced in strength and replaced by the Foreign Legion and the Beiyang Fleet. Of course, the size of the team has become larger overall.
Most of the accompanying businessmen who were willing to follow Zhu Cihong to North Korea last time were cooperating with Hengxin Commercial Bank and had to follow with His Majesty's majesty, even if some believed from the bottom of their hearts, they were also some businessmen with scarce capital who were once veterans.
But after a trip to North Korea, most of those businessmen made a lot of money at the Seoul trade fair, and most of the previously scarce veterans grew into wealthy people, not to mention those who already had a lot of money.
Doing business is also about retreating if you don't advance. Your side has grown stronger and has abundant capital, so you can naturally wave the treasure money to suppress and merge your peers.
Even if it weren't for competition, most people were full of hope to follow His Majesty the Emperor to do business abroad. Not to mention the hope that some unscrupulous workshop owners desperately want to get cheap Japanese workers.
All in all, this time the following team is even larger. Falling on the surface of the sea, it was a huge fleet of ships that covered almost the entire surface of the harbor.
Seeing this, Li Yan couldn't close his mouth with a smile.
Zu Dashou and other executives of the expedition company also showed knowing smiles. Zheng Sen understood where their smiles were coming from, and his heart was both happy and a little lost.
With so many people coming, of course, it is impossible for all of them to have relatives and friends in Japan to stay and stay overnight. Except for Zhu Cihong and his entourage of troops and officials, there are palaces and camps arranged by the Japanese government, and most of the people have to stay in hotels.
Originally, the Zheng family was the most advantageous. They have been engaged in construction projects, building houses, and housing migrants. But after the initial transition, they stopped the new project. As a result, the number of hotels opened is scarce, and it is difficult to accommodate so many people.
The most profitable, of course, is the expeditionary company.
They carried out large-scale development on Sakura Island, and also purchased a lot of land in Chinatown, and built tens of thousands of new houses in half a year. With new building materials and technologies such as cement, brand new inns were built on Sakurajima. For the Satsuma Clan, receiving tens of thousands of merchants was an overwhelming pressure. But for the expeditionary company, it was an opportunity to make a fortune.
Every time he thought about this, Zheng Sen had to sigh at Li Yan's mind. Not only has a keen sense of touch, but also a decisive determination.
After all, the investment in tens of thousands of housing bases is not a small transaction, at least an upfront cost of 100,000 taels. Li Yan can make this decision, but he is much more heroic than him.
Seeing that the huge fleet was slowly docking, and the Dengzhou carrying His Majesty the Emperor had finally arrived at the dock, everyone looked at the scene in front of them and couldn't help but hold their breath.
Wang Fuzhi, Abe Tadaaki, Zu Dashou, Zheng Sen and representatives from all walks of life stood solemnly on the pier.
The stairs were slowly settled, and Zhu Cihong was dressed in a leather suit, smiling and waving to everyone.
"Meet my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live......"
Everyone shouted loudly, Zhu Cihong naturally smiled and went to the vanity Everyone got up and said, "Please get up quickly, don't be polite." I was so happy to see so many of my compatriots in a foreign land. Don't let these false courtesies delay everyone's interest. ”
The last time Zhu Cihong was in North Korea, Zu Dashou went to Luzon, that is, the Philippines in later generations. The Han people over there were bullied by the Yi people very badly, and even suffered two massacres in just half a century, the most recent one was in 1639, only seven years ago, and the remaining Chinese were very excited about the arrival of the motherland compatriots.
Therefore, this is a good opportunity for the expeditionary company to cut into Luzon. But in the same way, it also made Zu Dashou go out for several years in a row, and lost the opportunity to witness the face of the sky, which is a pity.
When I was able to arrive this time, I was not only happy in my heart, but also moved by my true feelings: "I can see Your Majesty in a foreign country and witness my Chinese Tianwei." It's a great event to refresh your spirits. Your Majesty, it is nothing for the grass people to be tired of doing this great gift. I waited for these scattered Chinese sons and daughters to be protected and benevolent by His Majesty, that is the most important thing, and the most important thing that makes me can't help but burst into tears. When I was in Luzon, I told my local compatriots that the country of Korea would no longer dare to bully the sons and daughters of the Han family, because I had produced an emperor with great prestige in civil and martial arts, and I would go abroad to seek justice for my subjects abroad. After saying this, how many elderly people burst into tears on the spot after hearing this. ”
Zheng Sen was in a maritime merchant family, so he was naturally deeply touched by such things, and couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty." We were living overseas, and we had to make ends meet. In fact, for hundreds of years and thousands of years, they have never forgotten the native sound of their homeland. But some people always feel that if we leave the land of China, we will no longer be the people of China. When the people saw this, everyone thought they could be bullied. I have heard about Luzon. Seven years ago, the compatriots who had been living in Luzon for a long time could not bear to be harsh and oppressed, and rose up to resist, but they were brutally slaughtered...... The words of its tragic situation are still bloody, and every sentence is a tearful ......"
Seeing everyone's true feelings revealed, Zhu Cihong also sighed, and immediately arrived: "All your subjects are outcast, as long as your heart is to China, it is also my Chinese son." I am a subject of the Ming Imperial Family, protected by the Ming Empire, and no one is allowed to oppress me. The old accounts are slowly settled. The current account will not be tolerated for a moment. Here, I can tell you the good news right away. The Nanyang Fleet in Guangzhou has already been formed, and the first five clippers have been put into service. Gone are the days when anyone oppressed my Chinese son! ”
Gone are the days when anyone oppressed my Chinese son!
Gone are the days when anyone oppressed my Chinese son!
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This sentence fell in everyone's ears, and it was really a warm current that swept through everyone's hearts and dispelled the clouds that had lingered for a hundred years.
"Long live my emperor, long live the Ming Dynasty!"
"Long live my emperor, long live the Ming Dynasty!"
"Long live my emperor, long live the Ming Dynasty!"
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Everyone shouted, and on the side, Abe Tadaaki watched this moment quietly, but he was also deeply shocked. How are the Japanese not being oppressed?
Especially after Japan closed itself off from the rest of the country, the Japanese who were displaced to various places were even more miserable.
Many Japanese women are even forced to survive in the local **.
Having lost the protection of the motherland, both Chinese and Japanese are like orphans, and every moment of their days abroad is full of blood and tears.
It's just that the Chinese have come out. He has a mighty empire in the making, an emperor of great talent stepping out of the country, and his influence is about to spread around the world.
The arrival of expeditionary companies in Luzon is an example of this.
Don't forget, the Chinese merchant escort that was united at the beginning did well in the Seoul coup, and it was stronger than the North Korean official army.
With the addition of these people, Abe Tadaaki knew very well that those Spaniards and natives who dared to massacre the Chinese again had to be carefully weighed. Even Abe Tadaaki wondered if he would also let the Japanese in Luzon actively move closer to the Chinese.
In fact, what Abe did not know was that in about a dozen years, the Chinese in Manila, who had regained their population size after a period of multiplication, would be slaughtered again.
At the turn of dynasties, the Chinese created abundant wealth with their industrious hands and aroused covetousness. The original turbulent China of history came out of the years when the Qing Dynasty was at war with the Zheng clan. The Chinese in the Philippines are like orphans, mercilessly plundered...... Slaughter.
Zu Dashou recalled the words when he heard those two massacres, and clasped his hands in his heart: When the Chinese are bullied, it will be over!