Chapter 465 The Formation of Triangular Trade
Wan Shihe’s evaluation of the Japanese country can be said to be profound. Wan Shihe said that the Japanese country stole Chinese culture, but one third of the human nature has not been learned, and the other seventy percent of the bestiality is deeply rooted. Xu Wei, the governor of Qi Governor's Mansion, fully recognized this evaluation.
The money made by the Japanese country mainly featured a three-pointed image, and the Japanese had the nerve to engrave the word "Yongle" on it, which really made Xu Wei helpless. It was simply smashed into the sign of Emperor Zuwen.
The pirated Yongle Tongbao thrown out of Xu Wei's hands has a proper name in the Japanese country, called "evil money", while the Tongbao cast in the Ming Dynasty, the inflow of copper coins from outside is called "Du Laiqian".
During the Tianbao reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, monk Jianzhen made six eastward voyages to the Japanese country. The Japanese country imitated the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty and began to make money, named Hetong Kaijue. Since then, the currency of the Japanese country has been in the mainland. Amidst the contradiction between "evil money" and "money from overseas" from the Central Plains.
The treasure banknotes Xu Wei took out can also be regarded as a kind of transfer money.
"Can it be exchanged for Wanli Tongbao or silver coins?" Oda Nobunaga finally opened the box, looked at the beautifully made treasure banknotes in the box, and asked with a solemn expression.
Xu Wei nodded and said: "If necessary, you can exchange it and cash it out with new banknotes after three years."
Xu Wei is a liar. Ming Dynasty overseas treasure banknotes cannot be redeemed. This is from Facts that were clearly confirmed when production started.
Cheating Japanese people is not cheating.
If you tell Xu Wei, Sun Keyi, and Li Chengli to forgive the Japanese, you will only get a fierce fight from them. They have a blood feud with the Japanese, and it is the hatred that caused their families to die from the Japanese invasion. In their eyes, the Japanese have never been considered human beings.
On the issue of Oda Nobunaga, of course Xu Wei cannot say that it cannot be exchanged. Of course, the promise is nonsense, just listen to it.
As for issues such as breach of trust, Xu Wei did not consider it at all. He and Sun Keyi were thinking about how to knock off the bells of the men of the Japanese country and sell them to the Yuanxu Islands as cattle and horses, and sell the women of the Japanese country to the Yuanxu Islands. In Songjiang Mansion, the Sun family's boat-painting business is in dire need of people.
Not every Japanese woman can be on the painting boat. They need to be carefully selected. Most of them have learned Chinese and married bachelors who cannot afford a wife.
Bao banknotes are a kind of trustworthy banknotes. They promise to be exchanged for new ones. The worst is to exchange the old banknotes for new ones. One to ten banknotes are exchanged. The new banknotes are exchanged for Tongbao. This is the exchange.
How to seize the wealth of the Japanese country as much as possible is the primary consideration of the Nagasaki Governor's Office.
"Then I have no doubts." Oda Nobunaga actually knew that this kind of promise was not trustworthy at all, but at least he could deceive himself and the Japanese people, and that was enough.
Oda Nobunaga, Owari the fool, the great devil of Japan, are not people who care about the country and the people at all. He is arrogant and arrogant.
Before seeing the strength of the Ming navy, Oda Nobunaga did not even take the Ming Dynasty seriously. In his opinion, it was just that the Ryuzoji, Otomo, and Shimazu families were too stupid. This gave Ming an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Oda Nobunaga obtained the details of the Ming Dynasty's trade, and he also needed to exchange silver for what he needed.
The Nagasaki International Sea Trade Fair was officially held on the ninth day of September. This day was the Double Ninth Festival of the Ming Dynasty. Every daimyo who entered the venue was quickly lost in the sea of goods. The entire sea trade fair was very orderly. This kind of order is extremely rare in Japan.
Because the three five-masted transoceanic ships brought by Chen Lin were quietly moored in the Nagasaki port, the black muzzles pointed at the large townhouse of the International Sea Trade Association, reminding Everyone, this is Ming Dynasty’s territory, and you must abide by Ming Dynasty’s rules.
No one dares to make a mistake in front of the Ming Navy.
Since the Tang Dynasty, there were shipping companies, and then the sea trade reached its peak during the Song and Yuan dynasties. Before the Ming Dynasty, sea trade was mainly focused on luxury goods, such as silk, porcelain, tea and metal utensils. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, sea trade reached its peak. , the cotton cloth of Songjiang Prefecture had been sold well at home and abroad. Hu Yuan went south, and the production of Songjiang Prefecture was destroyed. It was not until the Yongle period that it flourished again.
Wanli opened the sea. The share of luxury goods transactions has been decreasing over the years. Bulk commodities and trade have become the mainstream, but there is only no food. The Matsue City Shipping Department, Ryukyu City Shipping Department and Nagasaki City Shipping Department The triangle locked the list of goods entering Japan, and grain was a unique commodity prohibited from entering Japan.
There are hundreds of products participating in the Nagasaki International Sea Trade Fair alone, with Matsue cotton being the largest product.
There is no Songjiang cotton in Songjiang cotton cloth, because the local cotton in Songjiang is more expensive, and the profit from going overseas is smaller, so more of it is sold in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. Authentic Songjiang cotton is not a product that the Japanese country can afford. , cheap cotton from the Mughal Kingdom is the mainstream of sea trade goods.
We have everything from pots and pans, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to cars and water trucks.
The Ming Dynasty provides door-to-door delivery services. Of course, the shipping costs are not cheap. Door-to-door delivery services are mainly for gathering information. The use of merchants as spies in the Ming Dynasty is also an open secret in the Japanese country, but various famous names do not have it. There are not enough ships to transport goods, so we can only let it be.
The daimyo were dazzled by the dazzling array of goods. They used the silver that the poor coolies had worked hard to mine in the mountains and exchanged it for silk, tea and various utensils that could show their status, such as a set of solid wood The price of tea sets is as high as a thousand taels of silver, such as a very exquisite chariot with spring steel shock absorption, and a very limited number of horses. This set is worth seven thousand taels of silver.
The next day, the daimyo were led to a school ground. Both sides of the school ground were filled with long and short soldiers, bows and arrows, arrow clusters and firearms.
The Japanese country lacks weapons, and Oda Nobunaga's iron gun (a kind of matchlock gun) is enough to stand out among the others. This time, the Nagasaki Governor's Palace gave them a fair chance to compete. Everyone can exchange silver for weapons. , to deal with each other's crusade.
Oda Nobunaga and everyone looked at these weapons blankly. In the past, the Ming Dynasty only sold firecrackers. In this trade fair, there were even artillery. This was something that all the daimyo did not expect. !
Could it be that Chen Lin, the commander-in-chief of the navy, is secretly selling arms for personal gain?
Of course this is a misunderstanding. Each of these firearms is a serious monkey version of arms. They are monkey version of arms specially produced by the Ministry of War Qingtai and the Ordnance Supervision for maritime trade.
"Damn it! Our Japanese country is short of saltpeter. All the saltpeter is supplied by China. Even if they provide us with firearms, what difference does it have between our hands and fire sticks!" Oda Nobunaga clenched his fists. .
He has completely seen through Ming’s trick!
What's the use of just providing firearms? Does Ming have the courage to supply saltpeter!
In the current time, only the Ming Dynasty and Spain can produce qualified gunpowder in large quantities. Controlling saltpeter means controlling gunpowder manufacturing. Spain controls the largest saltpeter mine in Peru, while the Ming Dynasty Local saltpeter plus smuggled Bangladeshi salty sand.
What if you see through it? Oda Nobunaga looked desperately at the several daimyo around him, Mouri Terumoto, Nagasogabe Motochin, Uesugi Kagekatsu, and Hojo Uji Nao. He couldn't even see enough to see the firearms. Mouri Terumoto was the only one before. A daimyo who could buy the Ming Dynasty's cannon was not qualified to buy the Ming Dynasty's artillery before.
The tall and sturdy Chen Lin finally came in front of everyone. He squinted his eyes slightly and raised his head while scanning around. Japanese people were generally short, and Chen Lin's height of seven feet was like a mountain of tai, weighing down everyone's breath.
At this moment, Chen Lin wanted to kill all the daimyo here, and then began to march to wipe out the entire Japanese country. It was a certainty that Qi Shuai would be crowned Duke. Yu Dayou had died of illness. Chen Lin As the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Lin is still just an earl, which is a bit unjustifiable.
After the Japanese were conquered, the sins and infamy of mining and slave-catching had to be shouldered by the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty’s well-trained navy only numbered more than 90,000 people, and the 9 million people of the Japanese were Kill them all, on average one person will kill 100 people. No matter how strong-willed the soldier is, he will become a madman.
However, various means can be used to let the Japanese kill themselves, which is a good way.
Not all daimyo have silver mountains under their rule. If there is no silver mountain, it can be exchanged for a man or a woman.
"All the weapons you see are open for purchase." Xu Wei said to everyone: "This is Chen Lin, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Navy. Looking towards the sea from here, the row Although the big room is slightly blocked, you can still see the figure of the five-masted ship crossing the ocean. "
"This commander-in-chief has a bad temper. The Shimazu family plotted against Shuri Prefecture in Ryukyu and was killed by Commander-in-Chief Chen. It was flattened.”
At least there were still a few survivors of the Otomo family, and the Shimazu family were all sent to the capital by Chen Lin. They all eventually entered the Qi Kao Institute and made their own contributions to the progress of Ming Dynasty medicine.
"Where's the gunpowder?" Oda Nobunaga looked around and didn't see the key items.
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Each household has a different amount of gunpowder. If you want to buy gunpowder, you can negotiate individually."
The number of quotas depends on strength. Population, strong men, mineral deposits, and the intensity of the battle all determine the amount of gunpowder that can be obtained. How long will it take to kill each other with crudely made iron tools? The Ming Dynasty chose to arm the Japanese and accelerate them to kill each other, but it would not supply more gunpowder.
Unless the Japanese country can break the sea trade blockade of the three cities of Songjiang, Ryukyu, and Nagasaki, and obtain a large amount of saltpeter.
It can be seen that there are obvious policy differences. Even Anda Khan still has three wives who can communicate with the Ming Dynasty, but there is no trace of warmth at all regarding the Japanese policy.
The Japanese invasion lasted for several years during the Jiajing period, and the conflict was extremely complicated. It took more than 20 years of struggle before the best solution was found, which was to kill all the Japanese in the Japanese pirates.
"Your Sun family brought the boat business to Japan, which I didn't expect at all." Chen Lin saw Sun Keyi and looked at the boat parked in Nagasaki Port with a complicated expression.
The advocates on the boat are all beauties from all over the world. This is to avoid risks. The Ming Dynasty has a ban on the sale of Dingkou in the Ming Dynasty. Violators will be punished by their clan. The boat is on the sea. The sea is equal to absolute freedom. There are no taboos. In order to avoid risks, Sun chooses beauties from all over the world, so that there are no legal issues.
Under the framework of the distinction between Huayi and Huayi in the Ming Dynasty, both Fan and Yi had the status of animals and livestock, so in essence, the business of painting boats was a zoo. The folk name of this painting boat was: Leopard House, which was mainly used for painting boats. The gameplay is extremely wild.
The prostitutes here are all red-haired fans, golden-haired fans, Persian beauties, Japanese wandering girls, and Gao Liji.
For the Japanese country, it was completely a matter of exporting to domestic sales. The wandering girls of the Japanese country went to the Ming Dynasty to be plated with a layer of gold. From the cheap wandering girls, they were immediately decorated with gold. The tickets to board the ship were all expensive. One hundred taels of silver, the consumption will only be higher on the ship.
The Japanese daimyo had only one reaction, and that was consumption!
This kind of flower work is really rare in Japan.
"This business is naturally pervasive. In the boat painting business, our Sun family draws points according to the law and has never defaulted on paying taxes once." Sun Keyi said with a smile, the boat painting business not only pays taxes , and also donated money to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Maritime Academy. As for the physical suffering of the zoo animals, Sun Keyi had no sympathy. The Central Plains began to canonize Japanese kings from the Han Dynasty, and they continued to canonize Japanese kings until the Yongle period. This was enlightenment, hoping to transform the Japanese from beasts into adults. The inner logic of the Rouyuan people was the omnipotence of morality.
The Japanese invasion that has lasted for more than 20 years has proved that morality is not omnipotent. In the distinction between China and Yi, the power and public opinion of the Rouyuan people gradually disappeared, and the barbarians were wolf-faced. Animal mentality, fear of power but no morality gradually took over the mainstream.
At the arms trade fair, what is more interesting is that the trading volume is not public.
Any daimyo who wanted to buy firearms or gunpowder had to communicate with officials from the Shipping Department. This led to a terrible result, that is, no one knew how much the other party had purchased. firearm.
The Ming Dynasty sold arms and let the Japanese kill their own people, weakening the strength of the Japanese country. This was well known to the daimyo.
The best way to resist the Ming Dynasty's treasure money and arms sales is for all the daimyo, with Oda Nobunaga as the core, to unite as one and reject the Ming Dynasty!
The Ming Dynasty wants to sell firearms, and the famous people have a tacit understanding that no one can buy enough! The Ming Dynasty wants to promote treasure banknotes, and the famous people do not exchange real money for treasure banknotes!
In this way, the Ming Dynasty had no good way to deal with the Japanese country. After all, the Japanese country still had nine million people after crossing the ocean.
However, this transaction was not made public, which completely put everyone in danger. Who knew how many firearms and gunpowder the neighbor had purchased, and when he was planning to attack him? Even Oda Nobunaga had to purchase a large number of firearms to prevent the third Nobunaga encirclement.
Once the seeds of doubt are planted, they will surely take root, sprout, and bear fruit.
No matter how Oda Nobunaga lobbied these daimyo before and what kind of agreements he reached, they all came to nothing under the real military threat.
My neighbor is hoarding food and I am hoarding guns. My neighbor is my granary!
Xu Wei's main focus in the Japanese country was one thing, which was to pick on the inside and outside, and take advantage of the opportunity to make profits. Silver, sulfur, wandering girls, and Japanese slaves were all profits.
The arms trade fair ended in an atmosphere of mutual fear. The daimyo who left the Nagasaki Governor's Palace had to accept the treasures and arms promoted by the Ming Dynasty. At this trade fair, the Ming Dynasty We harvested 1.4 million taels of silver, 4,300 wandering girls, more than 5,000 Japanese slaves, and issued approximately 120,000 taels of treasure banknotes.
After finishing the trade, Chen Lin is going to the Whale Sea, which is the outer sea of Nurgandusi in the Ming Dynasty. The place Chen Lin is going to is called Muyang River Wei (today's Vladivostok), on the Muyang River. The upper reaches of the Wei are Shuangcheng Wei and Jianzhou Wei.
The Jianzhou Guard here is the hometown of the Jianzhou Jurchens. In the first year of Yongle, the leader of the Jianzhou Jurchens, Aha, paid tribute and was named Li Chengshan. He was awarded the feudal state commander. On the 21st of Yongle, In 1989, with Zhu Di's permission, Jianzhou Wei moved inward and moved outside the customs in Fushun.
Before the Yuan Dynasty, this area belonged to the Huanglong Mansion, where Yue Fei hoped to go straight to Huanglong. During the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan established the Whale Sea Thousand Households Institute on the banks of the Muyang River in Liaoyang Province. , fished in the Whale Sea and refined fish oil to pay tribute, and later established the Shuangcheng General Manager in Shuangcheng to manage this place.
The reason why Chen Lin went to Muyang Riverwei was to investigate the hydrology, explore the ocean fog, and restore the waterway. It has extremely rich fishery resources. It is recorded in old cases that it is a natural harbor, even from Jilin Shipyard can directly go to sea from here. Due to the influence of ocean currents, Muyang River Wei is an ice-free port in the north. Every ice-free port in the north is of great significance to the Ming Dynasty.
If the Bohai Bay does not freeze, then Tianjin Wei will be the most prosperous port in the north. However, the Bohai Bay will freeze. Therefore, the northern shipping company was established in Michigan, because a hundred miles away from Michigan is the ice-free port of Jiaozhou Bay. .
Chen Lin's ocean voyage will start from Muyo River, arrive at Ezo Road, cross the Tsugaru Strait, and detour from Japan to Japan back to Ryukyu. The entire voyage is expected to be tens of thousands of miles and is expected to last three months. Time, completing this exploratory voyage has become a new route around Japanese pirates for the Songjiang Navy. The purpose of the armed patrol is to deter Japanese pirates, and it is also a drill.
(Exploring the Mist of the Ocean)
When the time comes, if the Ming Dynasty has the idea of Yongqing's Japanese invasion, the hydrology observed by sailing will be the first opportunity.
The Whale Sea has been explored in great detail by flying over coastal defense patrols and stargazing ships. It is very foggy here, but the water is calm and the average wave height is only two feet. It is very suitable for fishing.
The Ming Dynasty's three five-masted ocean-going ships, two stargazing ships, twenty-three three-masted horse ships, and fifty four-hundred-horse battleships began to set off from Nagasaki Port towards Tsushima. The island sailed away, the sails covered the sky and the sun, cut through the sea, and sailed into the distance.
Oda Nobunaga stood in the Tide Watching Tower of Nagasaki Port and watched the fleet leave. He felt a sense of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart. This terrible fleet was just a maritime mobile fleet of the Ming Dynasty. The main force of the Ming Navy was still entrenched in the city's hinterland, but it was such a mobile fleet that made Oda Nobunaga completely unable to think of resistance.
Oda Nobunaga has always had an ambition, or the Japanese country has always had an ambition, to attack the mainland and get rid of the problem of large numbers of people and small land. Since the Yuan Dynasty, more Japanese people have gone to sea, and Japanese troubles have occurred again and again. It is for this fundamental ambition.
Before coming to Nagasaki and seeing the Ming fleet, Oda Nobunaga imagined countless possibilities. For example, the Ming fleet was too big and not flexible enough, so he would use enough small boats to continuously harass, or simply Light the small boats and burn the big ones; for example, after the control of the sea is lost, the Ming Dynasty ships will inevitably land. No matter how powerful the navy is, the conquest will ultimately be resolved by the army. Then the Japanese country, which occupies the right location and people, may not be able to fight; such as placing hope Protecting the country in the divine wind.
Kublai Khan once conquered the Japanese country twice, but he failed because of the appearance of storms.
But now Oda Nobunaga only has a kind of despair permeating his heart. This despair comes not only from the powerful firepower of the Daming Navy, but also from those greedy daimyo who are addicted to infighting.
The emergence of the Nagasaki Governor's Palace disintegrated the majesty of Oda Nobunaga's people.
Why didn’t the Ming Dynasty fully attack the Japanese country? Oda Nobunaga knew very well that the Ming Emperor in the distant capital was accumulating strength. The navy was more expensive than the capital camp. The navy had just expanded from 30,000 to 90,000 people. When enough strength was accumulated, the Ming Emperor would inevitably launch The war to destroy the Japanese.
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was too vindictive. Anda Khan had already reached that point. The emperor did not show any martial ethics, so he captured Anda Khan in the capital and beheaded him in public.
“It’s simply a shame.” Oda Nobunaga looked at the daimyo who were looting Ming products and arms, shook his bright red cloak vigorously, and chose to leave Nagasaki.
Similarly, he also purchased a large number of firearms, and a smaller amount of gunpowder, which he had to buy because he also had to face crusade from others.
If firearms are well maintained, they can be used from the Yongle period to the present. However, the shelf life of gunpowder, if stored properly, is only three years at most. If stored improperly, it will become damp in just a few months. , unable to fire.
Drying gunpowder is never a good idea.
Gunpowder is a consumable product and extremely expensive.
Oda Nobunaga raised a group of missionaries in Kyoto with the intention of communicating with the missionaries and obtaining saltpeter from places other than the Ming Dynasty. Originally, this road was completely unobstructed. Although the saltpeter in Bangladesh is expensive, it is enough for Oda Nobunaga.
The damn war in the Strait of Malacca ruined it all. Because of the war, the ships of the Red Mao Fan could not smoothly enter the Nanyang, let alone reach the Japanese country. All maritime trade in the Japanese country was controlled by the Nagasaki Governor's Palace and Ryukyu. Yes, the Ming Dynasty would never allow saltpeter to enter the Japanese country.
It is the nature of the people to settle down and relocate, which means that it is human nature to live contentedly in their homeland and not to easily move to another place. This is naturally true.
The Ming Dynasty attacked Hetao and discovered the phenomenon of flying geese. The people went to Hetao before the ice melted, and when winter came, they burned the straw and returned to the pass; in Luzon, Ryukyu, and The Ming Dynasty people who set sail after paying homage to Mazu were found migrating from Chicken Coop, Borneo, and Old Port; even in Mexico during the Wanli Period, there was a Chinatown in the City of the Sun.
Before Yin Zhengmao led the pirates Lin Afeng and others to attack Luzon, every year in June and July, large sailing ships loaded with goods from the Ming Dynasty would set sail. At this time, everyone would go to Manila The cathedral prays for a smooth trip. Under normal circumstances, it takes 1-3 months to arrive at the port of Acapulco, Mexico.
Captain Antonio’s evaluation of this voyage is: [This is the longest, scariest and most profitable voyage in the world. After starting from Manila, he went all the way north, passing through Ryukyu, and started to drift with the current. For three months, we always marched against the wind, relying entirely on ocean currents. Storms, fog, and huge waves always appeared one after another. The sea was sometimes cold and hot, and people easily fell ill. Coupled with the lack of food, even the strongest man will be defeated. ]
The Pacific Ocean is not peaceful, it just felt peaceful when Magellan passed through the equatorial calm zone.
In March of the eighth year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty exploration fleet arrived at the port of Acapulco and then arrived at the City of the Sun. There, Xu Jiugao saw the Han people in the City of the Sun, about two hundred people, tailors, Shoemakers, butchers, embroiderers, clerks, etc., worked hard to survive amidst the noisy and harsh shouts. The gathering place was called Parián, which means a place of temporary rest.
Why do people migrate? No matter how attached you are to your homeland, when you can no longer survive, you still have to find a way out for your life.
The concentration of means of production or wealth is not a problem that the Ming Dynasty's productivity can solve. Zhang Juzheng's various new policies can only alleviate mergers, but not fundamentally solve them, so the only thing the Ming court can do , means to develop, to develop, to develop.
The rules and regulations for the issuance of overseas treasure banknotes in the Ming Dynasty have been completely established. Although the treasure banknotes have not yet become popular in the Japanese country, the great names of the Japanese country have already discovered the use of the treasure banknotes, which is to peel them downwards. .
With only seven coins of silver, you can exchange it for treasure banknotes of the same value at the Nagasaki Governor's Palace, and then use this treasure banknote to pay for military expenses or other necessary expenses.
The largest denomination of treasure banknotes is Yiguan, and there are also small banknotes of 500 to 100 Wen. The Japanese country is very short of money. The Yongle Tongbao stolen by the Japanese country cannot meet the circulation demand at all. Compared with shells, rice, For commodity currencies such as silk, cloth, and oil, whose specific value is difficult to measure, banknotes are no longer unacceptable.
This is very clear. Baoqian was also one of the commodities sold by the Ming Dynasty, and it was a sharp weapon for the daimyo to peel off the money and a tool for the rulers.
It is only a matter of time before the treasure banknotes circulate in Japan.
Because the daimyo will soon understand that the treasure banknotes exchanged for seven coins of silver can be charged a lower seigniorage tax. Once this thing is stained, it is impossible to get rid of it, and because it is difficult to counterfeit Its characteristics are also conducive to promotion. In the Japanese country, it was difficult to get ink and cotton paper.
Xu Wei once wrote to the court and asked His Majesty how far he would go in Japan. The reply he received was that His Majesty did not care.
It doesn’t matter what kind of hell the Japanese country will become under various policies of the Ming Dynasty, nor does it care whether the Japanese country still has a future. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty only cares that the progress of the Japanese silver into the Ming Dynasty will not be interrupted. He only cares about this group of people. Damn Japanese pirates, they will no longer be pirates who threaten merchant ships.
A terrifying evil triangle trade chain is slowly forming. Starting from Songjiang Prefecture, merchant ships loaded with Ming Dynasty goods stopped in Nagasaki, exchanged for a large amount of silver and Japanese slaves, and then headed to the Yuanxu Islands. After the Japanese slaves were sold to pioneering merchants, they returned to the Ming Dynasty with the products of the Yuanxu Islands and returned the silver, brass, wandering girls, and plantation rubber, sugar cubes, cotton, palm oil, spices, etc.
The development of the Yuanxu Islands requires a lot of manpower, whether it is logging, plowing roots, clearing gravel, turning soil, dredging rivers, or building ports, it all requires a lot of manpower.
The Ming Emperor's lack of care was a disaster for the Japanese people.
(End of this chapter)