Chapter 91 From the sign to Hokkaido

In the conference room on Thor, Zhao Xin and the six-member team of the Security Department were talking about bullet production equipment. However, this time it was just a briefing for everyone to chat together, not a formal meeting.

Zhao Xin took a few sips of tea before saying, "I mentioned something to Andrew when I was placing an order. As a result, he told me the next day that there was a company that could not be maintained and planned to close the door and that the original equipment was ready for auction. He asked me if I wanted it. I agreed without thinking."

While eating the snacks Zhao Xin brought back, Wang Yuanfang asked, "What's the price? Is it expensive?"

Liu Shengdao: "Squad leader, it's good to have it, but what else do you care about?"

Zhao Liang said: "I took the time to reinstall a few of the shells you used on Bear Island last time, and I tried it, and the effect was pretty good."

"No hurry, the quantity I ordered from Andrew this time is enough for a while." Zhao Xin tore open a pack of snacks and distributed them to everyone, then said: "In addition, the matter connecting the two sides of the Xila River is about to speed up. I will talk to Lao Chen later."

"You mean to repair the bridge?" Liu Sheng said vaguely, chewing something in his mouth.

"No, I mean to open the ferry between the two sides of the strait first." Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "The bridge building is so professional. I think the third-rate carpenters we have in existence are very difficult."

Ding Guofeng asked: "Now the people on Thunder God have almost gone. When are you planning to leave? This time you have to call me to go together."

"It's only been a few days. Don't worry, you and Wu Siyu both went over to see each other this time." Zhao Xin smiled and reached out to pat Ding Guofeng's shoulder, which was afraid of...

Deng Fei interrupted, "Don't be anxious. After everyone gets off the boat, they have to clean the cargo hold."

No one here has any objection to this matter. Thousands of people's food, drink, defecation and sensation are concentrated in the two cargo holds, so it's better not to mention the taste.

Zhao Xin took out a pack of cigarettes and dispersed them. After Ding Guofeng lit it for him, he took a few sips before saying, "This time I've picked up someone, I plan to go to Hokkaido first and then to Nagasaki. We can't just stay here and work behind closed doors, we have to start the trade."

Wu Siyu asked, "Do you know the situation over there?"

"I don't know much, just look at the specific ones. The purpose of this trip is to get online with the Hokkien first, and then talk about what to do."

"Who are the Eagle people?" Wang Yuanfang asked.

"They are also called Ainu people. The full name of the general of the island shogunate is 'Shenyi General', and that 'Yi' refers to the Ainu people. Speaking of which, these people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido."

After listening to Zhao Xin's explanation, Ding Guofeng asked curiously: "What are you looking for those people?"

Zhao Xin glanced at everyone and continued to explain: "Fricks. The Emirati people have a lot of fricks. Let's exchange fricks from them first, and then go to Nagasaki to trade with Qing merchants. Do you understand?"

He said he wanted to go to Nagasaki for trading, but Zhao Xin didn't have a card, and he couldn't get a card like that. This is a bit difficult.

The whole story of the letter card actually starts from the 54th year of Kangxi (in 1715, the eighth-generation generals of the shogunate reigned).

In order to prevent the increasing outflow of gold, silver and copper resources, the shogunate stipulated that the maximum limit of Chinese merchant ships to trade in Japan every year was 30, namely, Nanjing, Fuzhou and Ningbo, and the total number of nine ships was 9 ships, such as Xiamen, Taiwan, Guangdong, Jiaozhi, Siam, and Jiaoliu Bar.

The total trade volume of all Chinese merchant ships is limited to 6,000 jin, with an average of about 191 jin per ship; each year, the output of copper (zhao, four tones, rowing, short ones are called oars, and long ones are called oars. The merchants from island countries melt fine copper into the shape of oars) shall not exceed three million jin; the Chinese merchants within the limit shall be numbered and issued to the card according to the number every year. Only those with the card and the number matches the number are allowed to trade, otherwise they will go directly to the place where they go.

This is the famous "Zhengde New Order".

(Those who often describe people who go to Nagasaki to sell people are all nonsense. If you don’t mention the shogunate, you don’t allow the people to go to sea at all. First, you can’t even enter the port. Unless you start fighting, you can start fighting, but the result of the fighting is hard to say.)

Due to the limited trade and the need to pass the license plate to enter Nagasaki Port for transactions, the "licensing license plate storm" triggered in the Qing Dynasty.

After the implementation of the new Zhengde Order, the letters were mainly forty-two ships mainly from Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants. After they returned to China, a group of Fujian gang bows who had not obtained the letters sued the magistrate of Yin County, Ningbo Prefecture, sued the Jiangsu and Zhejiang gang bows to accept the letters with the Japanese reign, which was to be the official of the foreign country, which was a rebellion against the court.

To put it bluntly, it is pure envy, jealousy and hatred. I can't get it, and I can't let you get it.

The case was handed over to Xu Yuanmeng, then governor of Zhejiang. Xu Yuanmeng believed that the Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants "are receiving local license plates from Nagasaki on Chinese merchant ships, which not only have a general generality, but also have long-term progress, which will lead to disadvantages."

Therefore, all the forty-two card cards of merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were confiscated by Zhejiang Customs Supervision, and the nine ministers of the Qing court were preparing to negotiate a conviction.

However, Kangxi at that time still understood that he said in his edict: "This card ticket is just one of the mutual trade and is not a document that is used to carry out a document with our local officials... Our customs officials gave foreign ship cards only for inspection, and it is not comparable to the Chinese and Indian texts and decrees."

Kangxi meant that the governor of Zhejiang and the imperial court did not understand the internal trade of the trade and made a big fuss, which would inevitably affect the trade of merchants, so he ordered the original ticket to the merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to trade as usual.

In fact, the reason why Kangxi did this was because the Qing court at that time was extremely short of copper, and the amount of copper coins was casting was very large. Therefore, the copper coins from the island countries had to be transported in through these Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants.

(Shen Jingdan mentioned above belongs to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Business Group)

So if Thor arrives in Nagasaki, you can only force it if you want to trade.

Even if Zhao Xin found some new and weird things to give to the shogunate (such as giving elephants to the general, someone really did this) and exchanged for the "reward card", he would have to wait until the second year to enter Hong Kong.

He doesn't have this time! There is no way, if you don't give me a card, you'll get free shells.

As Zhao Xin thought about it, he started to be wrong.

He thought of the next question again, what trades can he do with Qing Dynasty merchants when he went to Nagasaki?

In the 17th century, the main trading goods of the Tang ships were extracted gold sand or gold ingots. The Zheng family fleet, which was responsible for transportation, transported these gold to the Coromandel coast of India for trading, which could obtain 20% to 40% of the profit. However, when the Qing Dynasty completed unification, especially after conquering Taiwan Island and destroyed the Zheng family, the shogunate immediately stopped exporting gold ingots.

For the Tang people who are now trading in Japan, the most attractive thing is copper.

The exporter in the island country responsible for processing oat copper is called "Izumiya", which is the "Suzuomo Trading Company" in later generations; in addition, there is Echigoya, which is engaged in textile import trade, which is the "Mitsui Trading Company" in later generations.

As for the things, they are nothing more than shark fin abalone and sea cucumber, plus a small number of handicrafts and samurai swords.

Zhao Xin didn't want to get involved in the trading of copper too much. Because even if the price of copper in another time and space is very cheap, the merchants of the Qing Dynasty would not use gold to trade.

In this era, the most common goods shipped by merchants in the Qing Dynasty to Nagasaki were raw silk, textiles, medicinal materials, sugar, as well as a small amount of minerals used for dyeing and miscellaneous books and papers.

In general, this is still an era of barter trading.

Maybe... Zhao Xin suddenly thought that maybe he could do the glass thing.

The Qing court set up a glass factory under the Neitiao Prefecture Construction Office, which developed and produced royal glass objects for the court through color materials, formulas and technologies introduced by early European missionaries and Western merchants.

Among these glass objects, they include transparent and smooth flat glass, colorful monochrome glass, colored colored glass, glass enamel, glass painting, and multi-faceted cutting and inlaid glass. They are mainly used in palace buildings, carriages, catering utensils, stationery utensils, and even body decorations; the most famous of them is the snuff bottle.

Speaking of which, how much does a glass snuff bottle cost in another time and space cost? It seems that it only costs a few dozen yuan. Going further, selling flat glass to a bargain price.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was a big deal.

So what else do you need besides people and gold on the island country?

Zhao Xin's eyes turned to the conference table, and a bag of black melon seeds attracted his attention.

Black...black..., I'll take it! It's coal!

To be precise, it is the Shishou Coal Mine located in the Xizhang area of ​​Eizawa, Eiyi. Its coal reserves are 53 million tons, and it is also a high-quality thermal coal.

There are actually coal mines near Beihai Town, but they are all low-quality lignite. Lignite has strong chemical reactivity, is easy to weather, is not easy to store and transport, and it is severely polluted to air during combustion and will produce a large amount of black ash. However, the mined lignite is crushed and is a very good fertilizer.

With coal and steam motors, electricity may be achieved by a large-scale sailing fleet.

Since we will have a conflict with the Tokugawa shogunate sooner or later, we will first take action against the Hokkien land.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xin slapped the table and said loudly: "I changed my mind and took down Hokkaido first!"

The Thor conference room was quiet and no one responded.

"I'll go, when did these guys leave? I didn't say anything." Zhao Xin said helplessly at the empty room.

Liu Sheng and the others have already left.

Originally, they were listening to Zhao Xin say something like "Hayi" and "Nazaki", but as they said that, Zhao Xin didn't say anything, lowering his head and didn't know what he was thinking about.

It would be fine if it was just like this. But Liu Sheng and the others gritted their teeth on Zhao Xin's face and then grinned their wicked smiles. At the same time, they were muttering something.

So Liu Sheng winked at the others, and the six people quietly got up and went to the deck, standing by the side of the boat to chat.

Ding Guofeng said to the other five people: "I said, Mr. Zhao is thinking about whom he is trying to trick him?"

"Why do you say it again?" Wang Yuanfang asked strangely: "Who has he cheated on?"

"The Qing soldiers in Hunchun and the Xiantai vassal." Ding Guofeng looked like I knew Zhao Xin very well.

"I think it's all right. As he talked, Nagasaki stopped talking. I guess he was calculating who he was planning." Liu Sheng crossed his hands and looked very authoritative.

"Do you think he is going to start a war with the shogunate?" Zhao Liang asked.

"It's not right. By the way, we just signed an agreement with the Sintai Fan. We've turned against each other in just two days?" Wu Siyu said with disagreement.

"You don't know this. Let me tell you, the Sendai vassal and the Shogunate are not the same as each other." Ding Guofeng said proudly.

"Don't guess it. You will know when it's time to know." Wang Yuanfang advised.

Wu Siyu looked up inadvertently and saw Zhao Xin coming out of the cabin.

"Look, he's out."

The six people saw Zhao Xin slowly walking to the front, lit a cigarette, took a few sips before slowly saying: "Continue to recruit troops. When the next batch of refugees arrive, we will expand the team to at least 1,500."

Liu Sheng and others were stunned. The man said last week that he should not easily expand the scale of recruitment. Why did he change his mind now?

"Give me a reason." Liu Sheng stared at Zhao Xin and asked.

"Take the open-pit coal mine in Hokkaido!"
Chapter completed!