Chapter 279: How to Take Advantage of Japan's Current Situation
In the office in Kaohsiung, factory director Zhang Mingcheng has been seriously typing the manuscript.
"In 161o, Hizen Hinoe Daimyo Arima Harunobu had a conflict with the Portuguese merchant ship Jesus, and finally sank the Jesus, Harunobu used this to show his merit to the shogunate, and offered a large sum of money to Okamoto Daihachi, a retainer of the old Nakamoto Tamasamun, hoping that Daihachi could help to restore the old territory of the Ma clan.
However, Okamoto Daihachi was not very particular, he accepted bribes but refused to do anything, and Arima Harunobu waited more and more urgently, and stupidly went directly past Daihachi to urge Honda Masamune - and the bribery incident was exposed.
The shogunate was really fighting corruption, not taking the opportunity to crack down on dissidents. At this time. They haven't formed different gangs yet.
The shogunate sent Okamoto Daihachi to prison and tortured him during the shuanggui period, and Daihachi bit back and confessed to Arima Harunobu colluding with missionaries and Spanish and Portuguese merchants.
The shogunate then burned Okamoto Daihachi at the stake, exiled Harunobu Arima to Tsurugun, Koshu, and then ordered him to commit suicide by seppuku - Harunobu, a Catholic, refused to commit suicide and ordered his retainers to stab him to death.
With the Okamoto Daihachi Incident as a trigger, Tokugawa Ieyasu's antipathy towards Catholicism became even stronger, and soon after, he issued the first 'ban on Christianity', strictly prohibiting the spread and practice of Catholicism in the territories directly under the jurisdiction of the shogunate and the old domain of the Arima. Subsequently, the scope and intensity of the crackdown were expanded twice in succession, which marked the official beginning of Japan's 'national lockdown' system.
At this time, when this system of seclusion had just begun, as determined in the Han and Tang clique's plans for Japan, we need to encourage and help them to unfold this situation more closely, so that the confinement that they have been born from the ideological and religious aspects will be further expanded--we will certainly not interrupt the normal exhibition of history, but we will only make this normal historical exhibition bear the imprint of the influence that we have taken the initiative to exert -- this is better than we only know history and passively let it unfold freely.
Of course, this is just my personal opinion, and I hope you will discuss it.
As recorded in historical sources, the shogunate extended this ideological and religious persecution to trade restrictions, with the Portuguese expelled, then the British, and finally in 1624 a ban on Spanish ships.
In addition to the seals, Japanese ships must also obtain a "letter from the old man" before they can go to sea, and Japanese living in foreign countries are also strictly forbidden to return to China, and they will be executed when they return to China.
Japan basically cut off the Nanban trade, with the only exception being the Dutch, the Dutch East India Company set up a branch in Japan, promising the shogunate that it would never spread Christianity, and as soon as the Dutch merchant ships arrived in Japan, the director of the merchant hall immediately submitted the "Dutch Wind Tale" to the shogunate, reporting the overseas situation.
Now, according to the information we have received, this Dutch merchant house has been completely paralyzed, and several salesmen and a dozen local hired workers have been completely disbanded and are nowhere to be found.
However, at this time, even the Dutch were only allowed to build merchant houses on Dejima in Nagasaki, and were not allowed to set foot in the interior of Japan, and even merchant ships from the Ming University 6 were only allowed to anchor in the port of Nagasaki.
The Tokugawa shogunate maintained a peaceful unification situation for more than 26o years in Japanese history, which provided a slightly better social environment for the development of Japan's feudal economy than in the era of the manor system.
However, Japan's feudal system, which was reorganized and strengthened by the Tokugawa shogunate, was still based on a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy. The strict identity system rigidly fixed everyone in a narrow box, strictly hindering the progress of society.
From various analysis reports, we can see that their overseas trade was not to allow the free development of non-governmental trade and thus embark on the road of modern mercantilism, but to maintain feudal political rule out of the needs of the shogunate and the economy, and its scope was limited to official trade controlled by a very small number of shogunates, daimyos, and privileged merchants, and as soon as it was necessary by the shogunate's government, it was immediately banned or restricted.
At this point, we in the Hantang Group cannot simply wait for them to send a Zhuyin boat out to get it, but must consider how to take the initiative to deliver it to the door -- I believe that everyone may have different opinions on this point, and I myself have not yet thought about what to send -
At the same time, this increasingly severe religious persecution had another result.
As the old saying goes, 'Where there is oppression, there must be resistance,' the shocking 'Shimabara and Amakusa Rebellion' exploded in this situation of banning religion and locking down the country--It was not until the shogunate paid a great price that this rebellion was suppressed
At present, in Kaohsiung alone, we have counted a total of 372 Japanese, all of whom are Catholics, men and women, old and weak, who fled during the Ikushimabara and Amakusa Rebellion in Japan.
According to accounts, the longest time they have been here has passed 20 years. They have always made a living by fishing, also cultivated some rice, and lived a relatively poor life, but paid various taxes to the Dutch on time.
They have a good relationship with the local Ming and indigenous people - I personally don't think the Akai-embedded agricultural exhibition model is suitable here - and they are mostly working in quarries at the moment, and their work attitude is much better than that of some of the local natives. Of course, due to physical reasons, the ability to work is still not as good as that of white people.
As far as Japan itself is concerned, their current Tokugawa shogunate in Japan is under the management of Tokugawa Iemitsu.
As early as 1632, after the death of his father, Tokugawa Hidetada, he made every effort to dismantle the dualistic political system and realize the top-level design method of guò, and truly realized the political structure of the shogun himself.
At the same time, he established the system of Laochu, Wakanian, Shogun, and Daimetsu, and set the current shogun of the shogunate, that is, himself, as the supreme authority.
Subsequently, he revised the laws of the samurai family and improved the regulations on the obligation of the princes to participate in the service. It monopolized the benefits of Nagasaki trade and intensified its suppression of Catholicism.
Four years after suppressing the Shimabara Rebellion, he finally succeeded in implementing a policy of locking the country from place to place.
If nothing else, he would die in 1651.
With all that said, how do we proactively take advantage of the current situation?
To reiterate, I personally believe that we should have a first hand and a proactive behavior, rather than just staying in the plan and letting them do it naturally. ”
He thought about this draft for a long time, and in fact, he began to prepare it from the time he was in charge of the work of the Red Star Cement Plant.
In his spare time, he has been looking at the work plans of the Hantang Group at all stages, whether it is a hobby or a self-motivated, he always wants to break through from which aspect - to make his own voice, rather than just as an obscure doer.
Zhang Mingcheng only mentioned this point to Ximen Fan in private, but unfortunately, Ximen Fan only smiled innocently most of the time, rarely put forward any constructive opinions, and the two rarely interacted - Zhang Mingcheng regretfully thought that Ximen Fan was also an honest man and had no heart-
Director Zhang Mingcheng's exhibition in Kaohsiung is far smoother than that of Hantang Group in other places.
Of course, this can be regarded as a sign that Hantang Group now has a certain production capacity and has successfully reached a certain stage of requirements.
The first table xiàn on the construction of the port of Kaohsiung. In the place where the five directors visited for the first time, it took them less than five days to complete a simple wood-iron structure dock, which can directly drop monomers of less than ten tons.
Their forward base is entirely plank-like, making it easy to disassemble and assemble.
Of course, in the Kaohsiung area's exhibition plan, this forward base will be handed over to the Kaohsiung customs administration department after they open the cement industrial zone until it is used up - they can be completely free of problems within two years in the design life.
On the drawings, the Kaohsiung Cement Plant of Hantang Group is the Taiwan Cement Corporation Kaohsiung Plant in that world, and the predecessor of the Taiwan Cement Kaohsiung Plant is the Kaohsiung Plant of Asano Cement Co., Ltd.
During Japan's occupation of Taiwan, the cement needed for various projects in Taiwan was imported from Japan, and later, because the cement produced in Japan was not enough to supply the Taiwan market, Asano Cement Co., Ltd. had plans to set up a factory in Taiwan.
After a year of field investigations, they focused on raw materials and transportation locations, and in 1913, in the second year of Taisho, they were allowed to mine limestone in the 19o hectare area of Guanyoudagou Mountain (middle section of Shibayama) in Xinglongneri, Tainan Office.
Chaishan is rich in limestone, gypsum and clay mines, and the nearby Kaohsiung River (Love River) and Kaohsiung Port can transport imported coal, iron slag and other raw materials.
At that time, the little Nippon were able to export finished cement products to southern China and Nanyang on this basis, and later improved the transportation of Route 6 by adding the "Asano Line Railway" connected to the longitudinal line and the "Tamachi Station".
The plant area of Asano Cement Co., Ltd.'s Kaohsiung Plant can be divided into six areas: raw material mining area, raw meal preparation area, clinker firing area, cement grinding area, packaging and transportation area, and plant office area at the foot of Shibayama Mountain.
Asano Cement Co., Ltd.'s Kaohsiung Plant spent a total of three years on the overall construction.
Of course, the Hantang Group will not give Zhang Mingcheng such a long time, and of course, it will not require him to reach the production level of the Japanese occupation period in a short period of time.
The path taken by the Kaohsiung Cement Plant of Hantang Group is very simple, they take the road of opening, construction, and output.
Although the topography of this time and space is very different from that of the Japanese occupation period, the general direction is still similar, at least the limestone deposits will not run away, and the data of the world saves the exploration and design time of the Hantang Group.
At the same time, the Kaohsiung cement plant did not ignore the local workforce.
There are three categories of local labor, the Japanese fugitives mentioned above are not mentioned, and the remaining two are Ming fishermen and a small number of indigenous people.
Among them, the Ming people still account for the majority. But unlike the Akachi, most of them are seasonal residents. That is to say, when Yuxun came, they came here from Ming University 6, lived in temporary wooden sheds and grass sheds, and returned to Ming University 6 after fishing.
A small number of indigenous people, that is, the Dutch population characterized as ripe, took the initiative to come out of the mountains and learn the techniques of rice cultivation from the Ming people, but they still could not learn how to fish.
After Zhang Mingcheng, the director of the factory, began to open here with his own people, with the help of the Mingren security team, the Hantang Group recruited them, and most of them became glorious industrial workers......
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