They are now focusing on reforming and even removing the title of Emperor. They even admitted their abandonment of Renna, which was exchanged for the Tang Dynasty's trade with Japan and the tacit approval of the northern Emirate Conquest.

Baekje is relatively tough.

Baekje and Goguryeo were both Fuyu races, and were countries established by Fuyu people in the past, so when facing the Tang army, they chose to sign an offensive and defensive alliance.

But the Tang Dynasty did not need to take action personally to cut off the trade with Baekje, and then let the three kingdoms of Silla besiege Baekje, which made Baekje too busy to take care of himself.

If the Tang Dynasty sent troops to Goguryeo at this time, Baekje would have no way to support it.

Besides, Datang would not give him this opportunity.

After Li Ji was appointed as the chief marching chief of Pyongyang Road, Su Dingfang, the governor of Zhenbei, was appointed as the chief marching chief of Shenqiu Road, with Xue Rengui, Liu Boying, Niu Jianhu as deputy generals to conquer Baekje.

King Kinderman of Silla was appointed as the chief marching commander of the Yidao Army and led the Silla army to assist, and the kings of Gaya and Tara were appointed as the deputy general managers, and each led the national army to assist.

This Eastern Expedition of the Tang Dynasty was not only about fighting Goguryeo, which was a corner of the Kuang Peninsula, but also about fighting Baekje together.

In this situation, Baekje Clay Buddha crosses the river and it is difficult to protect himself.

"Will you be too arrogant when fighting against the two countries at the same time?" Qin Yong is also a veteran who has been in the battlefield for a long time. Generally, he will try his best to avoid this situation when using troops.

"Baoje and Goguryeo are connected north and south, but only more than a mile long. The so-called battles on both sides are not that exaggerated. In essence, they are still advancing by land and water. And I have said earlier that Baekje is weaker than Goguryeo and has never fought with the Central Plains army, so this is a weak breakthrough point. The imperial navy did not directly attack Pyongyang, but landed in Baekje first, but could break through quickly. As long as we can establish a stable landing ground in Baekje, we can also use the food, grass and supplies of the three kingdoms of Silla, Gaya, and Danluo. At that time, the navy used ships to transport our elite Tang army troops over. At that time, the battle would not be advancing by navy, but attacked by north and south infantry and cavalry."

Although the Tang army had sea ships, the Tang army was better at land combat.

As long as you can gain a foothold in Baekje, then 100,000 Tang troops land in Baekje and sweep from the south to the north, who can stop it?

"Will Saburo join the war?"

Qin Lang shook his head, "In fact, this battle has already been achieved without fighting. It will not be too difficult, nor will it be fought for too long. It will only take another one or two years to finish. The court has already chosen two generals Li Ji and Su Lie. I am sure to win, so I am too lazy to put this effort into it, not to mention that the court has no intention of using me."

In this battle, Li Ji was specially plucked into gold and added prestige, and also gave Su Dingfang a chance to gilt. Both of them were relatively young, one was the prince Zhan Shi and the other was the prince Zuowei. They were both generals left by the emperor to Chengqian. Of course, this opportunity to destroy the country was given to them.

Compared to conquering Liao, Qin Lang was more concerned about Japan.

Japan has now officially changed to Japan as its national name and has been completely renovated. Qin Jun's trip to Japan this time was also Qin Lang's arrangement. Although his eldest son was born in a vassal, Qin Lang also hoped that his son could get more experience.

Qin Jun was responsible for important tasks when he went to Japan.

"Calculate the time, I should be back soon, right?"

"Dalang is growing up now. Not only does he look very much like you, but his personality is also very heroic. Judging from the news sent back from Japan, Dalang is living up to his mission this time."

"Actually, the conditions we put forward with Japan this time are very beneficial to them. This is a win-win cooperation, and they have no reason to refuse."

Qin Lang sent his son Qin Jun to Japan. The most important task was to establish a concession area in Dazaifu, the concession was not just to allow Tang merchants in Japan to obtain some extraterritorial legal powers, but Qin Lang had bigger plans.

The first step is to rent out the tens of thousands of acres of land next to Dazaifu and establish a concession. The second step is to reach an agreement with Japan on a free port. The establishment of this free port is mainly to deal with the current high tariffs in Japan.

Many Tang goods such as tea and wine were added to Japan. Japan levies heavy taxes, such as tea, with a heavy tax of 200%. Others such as silk, porcelain, glass and spices, etc., are all like this. As students of the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese were still very studious and diligent.

They were responsible for foreign trade through the Dazaifu and had the same power as the Datang Maritime Bureau to manage and tax imported and exported goods.

Learn from the Tang Dynasty about the goods they wanted, and make real tax deductions and buy money.

Bomai sometimes even reaches one third.

This is actually very unfavorable for the Tang merchants. The Qin family's current trade with Japan is very large, and of course it is also greatly affected and has suffered a considerable loss.

Another thing is that the Qin family is also preparing to expand trade in Japan, and even directly carry out some processing and manufacturing in Japan. If a factory is opened under the management of Japan, it will not only be subject to restrictions and jurisdiction, but also the taxation area is very unfavorable.

Therefore, Qin Lang hopes to rent a large piece of land and build a constituent judgment, and then implement consular judgment within the concession, and be autonomous by the Tang people, and is not subject to the Japanese government's control. He even wants to reach an agreement with Japan to make the concession a free port.

The free port is that the concession will not be managed by the Dazaifu of Japan. In the concession, it is equivalent to being in Luzon. Commercial goods can be freely processed, packaged, modified, loaded, unloaded, stored, and re-exported here, and are not subject to Japanese customs control, exempt from customs duties, and industrial and commercial taxes.

Only when the goods are in the tent and enter the jurisdiction of the Dazaifu in Japan, can they be counted as entering the customs and taxes are required to be filed.

On the surface, Qin Lang's requests were unreasonable and Japan could not agree. But Qin Lang was also prepared and gave Qin Jun a lot of bargaining chips.

This includes the establishment of a free port in the Concession, the Qin family will establish many industries including gold and silver processing, copper ware production, coin minting, as well as money shops, bill numbers, silk weaving factories, textile factories and other industries in this Concession Special Zone renamed Tangjin.

After these industries are established, although taxes will not be paid to Japan, they will inevitably need to purchase raw materials and hire workers from Japan, and the goods produced must be given priority to Japan.

Although commercial goods do not pay taxes during processing and other processes, they still have to pay taxes when entering the Japanese customs. Moreover, Qin Lang also threw out a bait, that is, these industries will not only hire Japanese people to work, but also appropriately transfer some shares to Japan, and even appropriately transfer some technology to them.

These are bound to be irresistible temptations for Japan.

If the free port plan is reached, Qin Lang has a third step, which is to reach a tariff agreement with Japan. Luzon will gain the most-favored-nation status of Japan's tariffs. In the future, the Qin family will import and export to Japan through the free port in the concession, so the tariffs will be based on the agreement. His plan is to have a basic tariff of 5% and appropriately increase and decrease some goods.

In this way, it can avoid the heavy tariffs that are now killing chickens and taking eggs in Japan. Although the heavy tariffs are finally passed on to Japanese consumers, in the long run, it is also unfavorable for merchants like the Qin family. Because the taxes are high and the commodity prices are finally high, the increase in the cost of the buyer will inevitably lead to a decrease in the quantity.

Generally, green tea exports are 20 guan per dan, but as a result, they have to impose a tea tax of 50 guan per dan. When the tea merchants in Japan become 70 guan per dan. Although tea consumers are mainly middle-class and above, such heavy taxes will still hit the tea market.

Therefore, Qin Lang hopes to break this chaos through concessions, free ports, and tariff agreements.

This time, Qin Jun mainly talked about it as a representative of the Luzon Mansion. Once the negotiation was completed, it was limited to Luzon, which did not mean the entire Tang Dynasty. After all, the Qin family did not have the qualification to represent the Great Tang Dynasty, and the entire Tang merchants and Tang goods were involved in a wide range, and Japan might not be willing to let go at once.

If Japan is willing to pass the concession, free port and tariff agreement, Luzon will also give Japan some benefits accordingly. For example, Luzon's new San Francisco port will also establish a free port area and set aside a place for free trade. The corresponding treatment will be given to Japan, as well as the agreed tariffs.

"Water has long been coveting our industrial technology. Saburo, are you too generous? You give both shares and technology?"

Qin Lang smiled.

The so-called giving shares is just appropriate benefits. Giving some dry shares with no decision-making power and only dividend rights to Japan will not affect anything. Moreover, the industries that Qin Lang has established in Tangjin Freeport will be separated by themselves.

The so-called transfer of technology is definitely just a transfer of some low-level technology and high-precision technology, so naturally it will not be easily shared and transferred.

"What I like is the resources of Japan and its huge market. You can see that Japan has rich mineral resources, especially its reserves of silver and copper are quite amazing, and the prices are relatively low. Another thing is that the manufacturing and production technology of Japanese handmade goods is backward, and they are very backward in textiles and smelting, so our commercial goods have an absolute advantage here."

Many of the goods from the Qin family were not available in Japan, and some were cheaper. Therefore, the Qin family directly made a piece of land in Japan, using Japanese materials and manpower to process and manufacture them here, and then sold them to Japan. The other part was then shipped to Silla and other countries, and even returned to Luzon and the Tang Dynasty.

This can further reduce the cost of goods of the Qin family.

Cost is always the most important competitiveness of commercial goods. Lower prices can often seize more markets, and with market share, of course there will be profits.

This set of logic is very simple.

Luzon and Japan are thousands of miles apart, and it is only a few days away for shipping. However, if you directly set up a free port in Japan and build a manual commodity processing zone, the cost can be reduced a lot and you can also capture more markets.
Chapter completed!