The three-story building is located between the port and Tangren Yafu, occupying a considerable area. He Bin doesn't need to look at the structure of the building, because he once worked there, which was the Dutch merchant store.

A large part of the reason why Japan's lockdown is the spread of foreign religions in Japan. Japan once had real power lords like the Chris Dan Daming who converted to Christianity. After the ban on religion, Portugal and Spain withdrew from Japan's trade. The Dutch became the only European country that could trade with Japan by signing agreements including non-mission. However, this does not mean that Japan is at ease with the Dutch. Even though Nagasaki became Japan's only foreign trade port, the Tokugawa shogunate's vigilance against the Dutch has never relaxed. The most important measure is to limit all the Dutch and their commercial activities to the island.

The so-called Exit Island is an artificial island near Nagasaki. All Dutch people must live and trade activities on the Exit Island. Only during diplomatic or trade negotiations can they go ashore to meet Nagasaki officials. In this autumn, Exit Island has been built and the Dutch merchants in Nagasaki Port have been relocated. The original commercial hall has become the industry of the Tokugawa shogunate. After many administrative institutions such as Nagasaki Punishing have own offices and other offices, how to deal with the commercial hall has become a big problem. Now Li Mingxun has decided to buy it as a club in Nagasaki, and has found a leader for this commercial hall, that is He Bin.

From the two things of offering gifts and copper coins, Li Mingxun has seen He Bin's ability and his understanding of Japan. No one can match the senior management of the club and can be the consul of the club in Nagasaki.

Like many colonists set up strongholds in various places, the Dutch shop was actually a small fortress. The main structure was made of bricks and volcanic ash cement from Southeast Asia. It was surrounded by a tall wall of more than ten feet high, covered with towers. The building itself also had some perforations. The building expanded underground. The basement was also a warehouse, which could easily store gunpowder, weapons and combat food. Several four-pound cannons were also shocking the surrounding firepower, not to mention the surrounding trenches.

The cool winter breeze blew away Li Mingxun's drunkenness. He took He Bin into the empty Dutch shopping mall and visited the building that the Dutch had used for decades. At last night's banquet, Li Mingxun had already negotiated with Takushi Zhengshi to purchase the shopping mall. Although half of the 20,000 taels of silver spent into Takushi Zhengshi's pocket, Li Mingxun still thought it was worth it. At least among the sea merchants in Nagasaki, except for the Dutch who occupied the island, including Zheng Zhilong, there was no such a grand shopping mall.

"Brother He, you are responsible for Nagasaki's affairs as the consul of the club in Nagasaki. Of course, you and your family can also live here. The accountant, guard, and business officials of the shop have already begun to be selected and will be in soon. Of course, we need to know more about Japanese and Japanese employees. You can worry more about this, just don't let the Japanese and residential Tang people participate in the secret affairs of the club." Li Mingxun said to He Bin.

He Bin nodded slightly. He knew that Li Mingxun could not give everything to him. After all, he had never proved his loyalty. The best proof was that he would draw important officials from the base camp. However, He Bin was still grateful and thought it was a huge stage. He Bin patted an empty cannon stand beside him and asked: "How many guards should the shopkeeper send and how many firearms should he buy?"

Li Mingxun smiled and shook his head: "I will draw thirty skilled players from the base camp guard for you, but I am only responsible for the personal safety of the mall and important staff. You can also hire some locally, and the number should not exceed one hundred. As for firearms, dozens of mesh guns are enough, and no artillery should be available."

As he said that, Li Mingxun opened a blind on the third floor, pointed to the outside of the store and said, "Not only that, the trenches outside must also be filled, transformed into gardens, and military buildings such as towers on the fences will be demolished."

"You mean..." He Bin was a little surprised.

Lee Myung-hoon laughed: "Under the control of the shogunate, we are facing the dangers that thieves and thieves. Too much force has no effect at all, but will attract a lot of criticism. Our club set up a shopping mall in Nagasaki for business, not for expanding territory."

He Bin nodded slightly. As Li Mingxun said, Japan is no longer a Warring States Period. With a powerful shogunate, no matter how much firepower the mall deploys, it will be useless once there is a conflict with the shogunate.

As the two were talking, a noisy sound came from outside. He Bin looked out through the window and saw nearly a hundred people carrying various furniture towards the mall. The leader was riding in a sedan cage. Seeing the high-mounted house-patterned flags, it was Tang Tongshi and Yingchuan Fujisaemon.

"Congratulations to Mr. Li." Yingchuan Fujisaemon came up to compliment and naturally congratulated Li Mingxun for establishing the store.

Several people exchanged greetings, and Yingchuan Fujisaemon's subordinates placed various furniture in the courtyard. Dozens of servants and servants walked in and packed it up. Soon after, they arranged an office and a residence. Li Mingxun patted the office desk and smiled and said, "Mingxun is really touched by the friendship between Datong Affairs. But there is one thing you said wrong. This office does not belong to me, but to Brother He. In the future, he will be the consul of our trading company in Nagasaki and be responsible for trade affairs."

Yingchuan Fujisaemon laughed and sued him repeatedly. The three of them sat down in the office to discuss the matter of the mall. Li Mingxun not only gave He Bin authority, but also gave others human resources and funds. It was not difficult to arrange the mall. The three of them were discussing the affairs of the club in Japan.

As Japan's only external port, the first task of the club here is trading. The sugar sugar and fur produced in Taiwan, raw silk, porcelain and tea purchased from Jiangnan and Guangdong are all highly competitive products in Japan. In the near future, Dongfang Port will transport seafood, iron ingots and furs, and these will be traded to the gold and silver that the club has shortage.

Japan is not just a market. Lee Myung-hoon has decided to expand trade in Japan, buying rice, ready-to-wear, vegetables, and ironware from Japan, and supporting the community's expansion business in Nuergandusi nearby. The most important responsibility of the mall is to carry out trade, open up the market as much as possible, obtain goods, and ensure profits.

But it is not only that. From the establishment of the mall and the expansion of trade volume, Nagasaki not only became a turnover port, but also became a turnover port. Monsoon trade that lasted for two years became history. Next, the trade frequency between the base camp and Nagasaki will increase, and a large number of ships will also use Nagasaki as a turnover port to the club base of Nuergandoji.

Therefore, how to ensure the living and supply of the community ships and personnel in Nagasaki has become a big problem. People need to rest and repair, and ships need to be repaired. Various problems inevitably arise, such as public security issues such as sailor crimes. As a consul, He Bin must deal with such problems. Obviously, this cannot be solved by simple money. It requires deep background and sufficient connections. This is also one of the reasons why Li Mingxun likes He Bin.

Although He Bin can quickly expand the affairs of the club in Japan by relying on the relationship between Takumeshi Masato and Yingchuan Fujisaemon, the pioneering stage is still a mess, and He Bin needs to do a lot.

The three of them discussed and decided the charter. At the end, He Bin, who was originally excited, felt pressure and frowned. Li Mingxun handed the charter in two copies, one of which was handed to He Bin, and said, "Brother He, let's put aside the big things first. Now your family's residence in the house should take it as soon as possible."

He Bin shook his head helplessly, thinking that these complicated things could not be solved overnight, so he had to settle the rules, get up and leave, and deal with personal affairs.

Yingchuan Fujisaemon took the teacup handed over by Li Mingxun and asked, "Can't I believe him?"

Li Mingxun nodded slightly: "This has nothing to do with trust." Seeing Yingchuan Fujisaemon wondering, Li Mingxun said: "The private trade between us will not have any connection with the club's shopping malls in Nagasaki!"

Yingchuan Fujisaemon smiled and said, "You are really a cautious person."

Li Mingxun waved his hand. The reason why he was willing to do smuggling trade with Yingchuan was that Jueyan had prohibited the shogunate order, and the goods were all weapons. At first, it was just because of repaying his favor. After all, these two helped him open up the Japanese market. In addition to this, Li Mingxun also wanted to obtain things from Japan that he could not get from Nagasaki, such as copper.

"We can also do the copper coins trade in Nagasaki, and the price is more favorable. In addition, I can make the decision for my family. This time I return to the airport, you can get 50,000 kilograms of copper from us. If you want more, I will ask me for advice next time before discussing it." Yingchuan Fuji Saemon said seriously.

This result made Li Mingxun very satisfied. Now copper materials are related to the safety of the community. With these 50,000 kilograms of copper materials, it can solve the urgent problem. Li Mingxun took out a letter from his arms and placed it on the table. When Yingchuan opened it, his face looked ugly.

This is the goods brought by Li Mingxun this time. Of course, they were all firearms, but they could not satisfy Yingchuan Fujisaemon. There were only fifty muskets and twenty saltpeters, which were much lower than Yingchuan's estimates. Although the number of national collapse reached six, the quality was greatly reduced. They were all kinds of cast iron cannons purchased by the club from Nanyang. They had different calibers, and they could not say how long they had a service life. You should know that the last time the artillery traded between the two parties was an eighteen-pound cannon. The Shimazu lord praised this type of national collapse in his superstition to Yingchuan, but now it has become a dilapidated small cannon. Even if the price is not high, Yingchuan Fujisaemon is a little difficult to accept.

"Have your career been frustrated overseas?" Yingchuan asked.

Lee Mingxun waved his hand: "Of course not. In fact, the development of our community is so prosperous that there are not enough artillery itself."

Yingchuan nodded slightly. He didn't think Li Mingxun was lying. He had seen several ships entering the port this time. Although the cargo capacity was not large, they were all good ships, which were extremely fast and very fast. They could be used as watercraft ships, and all of them were new ships, which was enough to prove the development speed of Tenglong Trading Company.

When Yingchuan was a little difficult to make a decision, Li Mingxun placed a booklet in front of him. When Yingchuan opened it, he saw that the things on it were more complicated. He marked the price and shape of each product in detail with words, numbers and pictures. Most of them were weapons, and the most common one was swords, spears and armor.

"What does this mean?" Yingchuan Fujisaemon asked.

Li Mingxun smiled and said, "Did you see the cargo transported from the bottom cabin of our cargo ship?"

Yingchuan Fujisaemon nodded. He saw it when he was unloading the goods. The six ships that came to Japan this time all replaced the ballast stone with cargo. The most common one was iron ingots. The iron unloaded from the six ships alone exceeded 600,000 kilograms, and they were all the best refined iron, which reduced the price of iron in Nagasaki by nearly 10%. Yingchuan Fujisaemon can be sure that Li Mingxun now has a stable channel for obtaining iron and is also interested in expanding trade in this area.

Li Mingxun said: "The club can easily obtain high-quality iron materials, and can also obtain high-quality iron farm tools and daily necessities, but it cannot obtain sufficient weapons."

Yingchuan Fujisaemon's face changed slightly. He suddenly remembered something. Li Mingxun's cargo ship unloaded a large amount of iron, but soon purchased a large number of iron tools, such as sickles and hoes, as much as they could. This is enough to prove that Li Mingxun lacks not iron, but the ability to process iron.

This is the fact that the resources obtained by the forging factory in the base camp are second only to shipyards, but the ordnance cannot be delivered on time. Most of the scarce agricultural tools are purchased from Guangdong. The reason is that the forging factory has insufficient processing capabilities. Although the club tries every means to recruit blacksmiths, all industries of the club are iron-consuming households. Making agricultural tools is absolutely not as important as making ordnance. However, the priority of making ordnance must be arranged after anchor cables, iron nails and other ship parts. The club can now customize a large number of agricultural tools and iron tools in Guangdong, but cannot order knives and guns.

After thinking about it, among the partners of the community, only the Shimazu family behind Yingchuan Fujisaemon has this ability. You should know that Japan implemented the shogunate system. Although the Shimazu family was the least popular foreign daimyo, the shogunate could only destroy the finances of the foreign vassal through participating in the consultation system, making it incapable of rebellion. However, the shogunate also could not intervene in the internal affairs of the vassal.

Not to mention anything else, each vassal state can mint currency by itself and implement a monopoly system within the vassal state. With the shogunate constitution, the vassal lord's control over the territory did not decrease.

The Shimazu family, which controls a large number of people, naturally has a developed handicraft industry, and there will be no shortage of smelting and forging industries. The club can completely allow Shimazu blacksmith to make weapons according to their own requirements without paying gold and silver. After all, Japan cannot smel iron by itself. Li Mingxun only needs to hand over the Shimazu family iron ingots to obtain iron ordnance. In fact, such things are happening in Japan every day. This country imports a large number of iron ingots every year, and among the exported goods, Japanese knives are the fist products second only to precious metals.

For Shimazu, this is not unacceptable. After all, the Japanese army is now an era where cold weapons and hot weapons are mixed. Relatively speaking, cold weapons are still the mainstream.

"Mr. Li, you are such an interesting person. Mr. He Bin gave you a way to buy copper with copper. You can follow the example and exchange iron for iron. It's really interesting." Yingchuan laughed.
Chapter completed!