Chapter 30 Hot Springs
Why did Lao Wang, who is as smart as he is careful to think about it but didn’t realize it was inappropriate?
Because Lao Wang and his family can grow rapeseed flowers alone, they can indeed use money to purchase a large amount of food and food required from other territories, so it will not trigger the curse of the "rape flower economy".
But the problem is that in this extremely inverted Kyushu Island, seeing him becoming more prosperous by growing rapeseed flowers, the Ryuzoji family and the Shimazu family do not want to be eliminated. Only by quickly following up the same path can we maintain a balance of power.
There is not much arable land on Jiuzhou Island. As grain fields are largely replaced by rapeseed fields, the entire island will inevitably have a shortage of grain and begin to rely on imports.
Whether it is Sakaishang Co., Ltd. or the Danra Chamber of Commerce, they are controlled by Mr. Zhao's elbow, so Kyushu Island cannot escape from Mr. Zhao's palm whether it is purchased from its own country or imported from overseas. The economic colonization of Kyushu Island was realized.
As for Honshu Island, because its population and economic scale are ten times that of Kyushu Island, it is not so easy to enter. It is necessary to create a few depressions first to completely collapse the already primitive industrial structure on Honshu Island so that it can be slowly fabricated.
Moreover, Mr. Zhao had already taken action. He accepted the request of Sakai merchants and provided protection to them, which was to cultivate a comprador group. Then, through this comprador group, he inputted a large amount of cheap porcelain and cloth into Japan, and launched a dimensional reduction attack on the two pillars of Japan's handicraft industry, pottery and hemp spinning.
At present, Japan is still in the pottery stage, and porcelain can only be imported from China. They have always wanted to imitate it, but because the technology is not up to standard, only Ohashi Seto can produce glazed pottery. Once cheap porcelain pours in, who will use rough pottery? The blow to Japan's pottery industry will naturally be devastating.
The linen industry is similar. Because Japan does not produce cotton and does not master cotton spinning technology, the rich wear silk and the poor wear hemp. Of course, 99% of them wear hemp... Cheap cotton can naturally destroy the linen industry.
And the wonderful thing is that the dumping of these two products will not affect the huge profits of other products, because those are sold to the rich.
But once these two industries are destroyed, half of Japan's handicraft industry will collapse. Once the protection of the handicraft system is lost and unable to be self-sufficient, it will be easy to pinch the eggs and be completely controlled by others.
Don't hurry, take your time. Japan will have to be in chaos for more than ten years, and there are opportunities to make a move...
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The trial fleet rested on Ukushima for a night, replenished freshwater and food, and continued north along the coastline of Japan.
Under the combined action of the southwest wind and dark tide, the fleet was smooth sailing and passed through the Tsushima Strait at noon that day.
This is also the route that Wang Rulong led the main fleet and patrol daily, so he will take on the next explanation... or complaints.
He told Zhao Hao that this area was smuggling the most frequently. Especially the So Family on Tsushima Island and the Matsuura Party on Iki Island were completely banned. Dogs could not change their food, and they dared to go out to bring goods by rowing the "three-not-small boat".
"This is normal," Zhao Hao smiled and said, "The other side of the strait is Busan, North Korea. You can get the moon before the water. Moreover, the land on these two islands is very barren, and they live by smuggling in addition to fishing."
He sighed as he said, "We should help them get rid of such a harsh living environment."
"Yes, no one will stay, all will be moved away!" Wang Rulong understood immediately. Although Tsushima Island is large, there are actually only 20,000 people, and even fewer people in Iki Island. Let Matsuura Shinnobu move all these people back to Hirado to grow rapeseed!
"This is a good thing. To let that boy do a good job of publicity, they will let them go back and live a good life. If I really can't persuade him, he will be more ruthless." Mr. Zhao said lightly. A narrow nationalist like him loves his own nation, as cold as his external nation.
Charity? It doesn't exist.
"Guang Qianguang and the others are afraid that it will not work." Wang Rulong said again:
"In fact, most of them were Lee's ships. Those guys were caught and cried and shouted, saying that they didn't know the rules. They were sentenced to life-long labor camps and were honest, admitting that it was several big families in Busan that were smuggling." Wang Rulong spat:
"This industry is a huge profit. If you catch it twice and miss it once, they still make a profit. Anyway, the lives of the untouchables are not life... and we can't let the Li Chaoren not go into the sea like we clean up Kyushu Island. Our police force is limited, so there are far more fish that miss the net than we have caught."
"Well, it's a problem." Zhao Hao touched his chin with a painful face. Smuggling will seriously affect monopoly profits and must not be left alone.
"We can't cause trouble this year. I'll write down this matter. Let the Li Chaohai merchants from the Danluo Chamber of Commerce solve it first. They can't solve it. We will find an excuse to deal with him next year."
"Yes, I'm afraid that those guys will have a leg inside." Wang Rulong said in a muffled voice.
"Well, there is no one who is content, especially the Li Dynasty people." Zhao Hao nodded. There must be Li Dynasty people, who are unhappy about only accounting for a 10% share of the trade in the Three Kingdoms.
"It really doesn't work. Just pretend to be a Japanese pirate and fight them with one vote, and you can be honest for a few years!" Wang Rulong said angrily.
"Haha, that's the worst, the worst." Zhao Hao laughed and said, "We are the teachers of justice and the teachers of civilization. How can we do such a thing that is losing weight?"
After saying that, he sighed and said, "It seems that there is really a lack of people who do dirty work."
Everything has always had advantages and disadvantages. Mr. Zhao wanted to reshape the glory of the Supreme Kingdom of the Heavenly Kingdom to gain a strong claim to the world. This would definitely greatly reduce the difficulty of colonization, and there was no need to kill and kill all the way like Western powers.
They cannot gain a foothold without killing them. If they kill less, they will only attract hatred and cannot truly establish rule. But if they kill all of them... they can only engage in the black slave trade. Then every pore is really covered with blood and dirty things.
But the model of the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Kingdom is not perfect. When the archway is set up, it will be restrained. If you compete with scumbags who have no taboos, you will definitely suffer losses.
The so-called sunshine must have shadows. People in the sunshine can always be glorious because the people in the shadow have already taken care of all the dirty work.
"Or what if I want to organize those Japanese Tang people?" Wang Rulong suggested softly.
"Don't worry, let me think about it first and see if there is a better choice." Zhao Hao shook his head slightly. He didn't like to pretend, so he would do it if he wanted to do it.
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At noon the next day, the boat arrived at Hot Spring.
"It's so fast." Zhao Hao didn't expect that it would be more than 600 miles from Tsushima Strait to the hot spring, and it actually arrived in a day and night.
It seems that the combined force of the warm current and the monsoon is underestimated.
"This is a good thing." Wang Rulong smiled and said, "After receiving the alarm, you can arrive in two days, and the safety of the Hot Spring Water Police Station is guaranteed."
According to the original plan, when the time for the "Shijian Yinshan Guide" is ripe, the security area will set up a water police station on the west island of Yinqi Island, 100 kilometers away from Shijian Yinshan to protect Yinshan and silver transportation, and provide supply guarantees for the transit fleet.
However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. After the Battle of the Shumen Strait, the group forced the Maori family to cede Ishimi Yinshan through the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
The reason why the Maori family agreed so happily was that the remnants of the Niko family, Kanosuke and others, with the support of Ototo Sorin, raised the banner of Niko's arising from the Niko Island and quickly seized the Izumo Kingdom. Ishimi Ginyama was located in Izumo, so they were not in the hands of the Mori family at that time, so they naturally would not hurt.
However, the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which was powerless and humiliating, exchanged the Maori family for the army expedition to Kyushu, and more importantly, Yoshikawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Keitaka.
As soon as these two men returned to the Western Kingdom, they immediately began to suppress the rebellion. They first concentrated their troops against the Damen Army who had been dealing with the ready-made troops and established their authority to suppress the two old ministers who were ready to move. At the same time, they did not let Shinosuke have a good time, and returned to Yinqi, the leader of the Yinqi clan, to the Qing Dynasty, which made the rear of the Nizi army unstable.
Kanosuke had no choice but to give up the opportunity to expand and turn to attack the rebellious Yinqi.
Jin Ke and Wang Rulong followed the order of Mr. Zhao, closely monitored Lu Nosuke's situation and led the fleet to appear on the battlefield where the Nizi Army and the Yinqi Water Army fought fiercely, helping Lu Nosuke completely eliminate the Yinqi Water Army.
Shinosuke was naturally grateful, so he took a boat alone and boarded the roster of the town to pay homage to Wang Rulong.
When he learned that the other party was the "protector" of the Otomo family and defeated the Ming Navy of the Maori army in the Guanmen Strait, with the purpose of obtaining Ishimi Ginshan. After Kanosuke hesitated for only three breaths, he decided to offer the newly recaptured Ginshan and expressed that the Nizi family was willing to be a subordinate of the Ming Dynasty.
Regardless of where the other party came from, whether they are qualified to accept their surrender...
In fact, he was in a hurry to seek medical treatment. The Nizi family had been destroyed for five years. Shirou knew very well that if this revival failed, people's hearts would completely disappear. So no matter what the other party came from, as long as he could help him fulfill his long-cherished wish of "Nizi reviving", he would suffer many difficulties, let alone make a deal with the devil.
The wisdom of this decision was soon reflected. In the first month of last year, after he took over the head of Ouchi Hirohiro and eliminated Ouchi's army, the Maori Army was dominated by Maori Hiromoto, Yoshikawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Takake as the auxiliary, leading 20,000 elite troops, and pointed directly at Ishimi and Izumo!
Although Kasuke was both wise and brave, he had no choice but to only have seven thousand soldiers who had been pieced together, and he was facing two opponents who were better than him. As a result, under the attack of Yuanchun and Longjing, Nizi's army was defeated and suffered heavy casualties. Kasuke led the remaining defeated generals to retreat step by step.
The Maori army took advantage of the victory and pursued the army quickly broke into Izumo. The Nizi family fled into the hot springs and was about to be driven into the sea.
At this time, the pursuers of the Maori family stopped because according to Article 4 of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, their troops could not enter forty miles around the Hot Spring.
Maori Huiyuan was a good baby, and his two uncles did not dare to make a decision and tore up the treaty that had not yet dried. So he quickly asked Yuan Jugong for instructions.
Maori Yuan thought for a long time before replying to two words: Keep the promise.
So the Maori army had to let go of only one breath and retreated hatefully.
After this battle, those who opposed Lu Zhijie's surrender to the Ming Dynasty also reversed their attitude and hugged the thighs of the security area tightly.
Jinke did the best and asked Mr. Zhao to lend Yinqi Island to them as a place to recuperate.
The reason why it is said to be "borrowed" is that according to Article 3 of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Maori family has ceded the Yinqi Island and its western islands forever to the Danluo security area.
Chapter completed!