Rich businessmen who are able to do foreign trade all represent a certain degree of chaebol power and shogunate power.
They are equivalent to various small princes.
Although the princes are small, their strength cannot be underestimated if they unite.
It was these small chaebols and small shogunate that supported the financial and social structure of the Japanese country.
If they are not stable, Japan will never have peace.
And these foreign trade merchants were either agents of the chaebol, or mouthpieces attached to the shogunate.
They themselves are the leaders standing in front of the stage, and they also have a certain degree of power.
Businessmen from the Japanese country gathered together for a meeting, all with sad faces.
"What should I do? The goods are dead on the ground and there is no one to take them."
"Everywhere was rejected, and there was no chance at all."
"I don't know what to do at all."
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Everyone was at a loss.
Among the wealthy businessmen, there was a man named Kameda Ichiro who was quite prestigious.
Kameda Ichiro grinned: "Such a situation has never happened in Japan in the past ten years."
"This matter must be resolved by Tokugawa Taiyasu. He is responsible for South China Sea affairs. If something goes wrong, he doesn't care. Who cares?"
"That's right, just look for Tokugawa Taiyasu."
"Find him!"
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Many wealthy businessmen, led by Kameda Ichiro, hurried to Yellowstone Island.
…
Tokugawa Taiyasu has been sitting on Yellowstone Island feeling aggrieved.
However, how can the small Yellowstone Island accommodate an army of four to five million people?
Rest and recuperation, eating, drinking and diarrhea are all full of inconveniences.
He has been thinking about how to recapture Yizhou Island.
After much thought, conventional means were no longer possible.
Yan Qi is a very vicious guy and is not a reasonable person at all.
Therefore, there is only one way left, and that is to use force.
However, Tokugawa Taiyasu had no way to control the consequences of dynamic force.
He was not sure whether he could win or not.
Because Yan Qi had just driven away Obi Qiu and was in full swing.
At this time, when he went to fight Yan Qi, he suffered a big loss in terms of momentum.
Therefore, Yan Qi needs to calm down.
After most of their victory momentum has faded, then will be his chance to attack.
Moreover, Tokugawa Taiyasu is a master of strategy.
Even if you attack, it's not a head-on fight.
He needs to arrange his troops and find the best place and time to cut in.
Tokugawa Taiyasu has many options.
For example, directly attack Yizhou Island.
Or, abandon Yizhou Island and attack Temasek secretly.
There are other options, such as taking over the weak Pawnee country.
etc!
Various ideas flashed over and over in Tokugawa Taiyasu's mind.
Which one to choose, Tokugawa Taiyasu was simply unable to make a rational decision.
However, in the end, he must have a head-on confrontation with Yan Qi.
In the past twenty days, Tokugawa Taiyasu sent a secret message to Tokugawa Masuhiko, the head of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and began to increase troops.
Moreover, iron cannons were placed on the ship.
This is considered the latest equipment.
However, even so, facing Yan Qi, he felt inexplicably guilty.
Although Tokugawa Taiyasu was very tolerant, many things were beyond his ability to endure.
This incident happened to the Taizongguan of the Japanese state.
The Taizongguan of the Japanese state is equivalent to the cabinet of Dahua.
Deri Taikang was the number one minister in the imperial government.
The strongest.
But now, he is facing a lot of criticism.
Because Yoshitomo Takeda, the representative of the Takeda family, officially accused him at court of improperly handling the South China Sea issue, which led to many disastrous consequences, and asked Tokugawa Taiyasu to take responsibility for the large and small chaebols and shogunate of Japan, comprehensively change the South China Sea strategy, and stabilize the The overall situation of Japan.
This situation gave Tokugawa Taiyasu a huge headache.
Normally, he wouldn't care too much.
Because Yoshitomo Takeda does not have much say.
Although Yoshitomo Takeda is a woman, she is the head of the Takeda family.
However, the Takeda family was weak compared to the Tokugawa family.
Although they are both heirs of the royal family, they are very different from each other.
Although Takeda Yoshitomo has some influence among the people, her influence above the court and among the shogunate is almost zero.
After all, Yoshitomo Takeda was a member of the royal family, so he was casually given the title of fifth minister of the Grand Advocate.
The gap between first and fifth is too big.
Tokugawa Taiyasu is the first minister of the Taisei Government. How can he take the fifth-ranked Takeda Yoshitomo in his eyes?
Moreover, Michito Takeda has a false reputation. He wants money but not money, and he wants power but not power.
But now it's different.
Tokugawa Taiyasu had just suffered a major setback in the South China Sea.
Although no troops were lost, the fact that Yizhou Island was lost spread throughout the Japanese country.
This incident caused considerable repercussions.
Even Tokugawa Seuhiko was very dissatisfied with Tokugawa Taiyasu.
Tokugawa Taiyasu naturally had to explain.
But no matter how you explain it, it is feeble.
Of course Tokugawa Taiyasu felt guilty, and he also understood that unless he took Yizhou Island back, he would be slandered.
But at this critical moment, Yoshitomo Takeda actually spoke up.
She claimed that after Tokugawa Taiyasu lost Yizhou Island, it would trigger a series of things that were detrimental to Japan's wealthy businessmen. She wanted to take the place of the wealthy businessmen and chaebols and intervene in South China Sea affairs, and she wanted to hold him accountable.
This is adding insult to injury, and no matter which pot is left untouched.
Of course Tokugawa Taiyasu knew that if Yizhou Island was lost, something would happen sooner or later in the South China Sea.
But for now, everything is still controllable.
He tried his best to control public opinion and prevent this incident from causing waves in the Japanese country.
However, Yoshitomo Takeda was like a loudspeaker and openly talked about this matter in the court.
And amplified the terrible consequences ten thousand times.
The wealthy Japanese merchants, chaebols, and small shogunate were all shocked into a cold sweat by Takeda Yoshitomo's remarks.
At the same time, these chaebols and small shogunates began to report to the group to inquire about South China Sea affairs and ensure their economic interests.
This gave Tokugawa Taiyasu a sense of crisis.
This situation has never happened in ten years.
Tokugawa Taiyasu suffered a splitting headache.
There was another thing that also made Tokugawa Taiyasu extremely angry.
That is, the Japanese 'pirates' were attacked by the South China Sea Combined Fleet.
It turned out that the Japanese pirates who ran rampant in the South China Sea were also an important chess piece under Tokugawa Taikang.
They carried out plunder and sneak attacks, which could create huge wealth for the Japanese country.
Make a huge profit without any risk.
What a good deal is this?
However, it doesn't work now.
Yan Qi formed the South China Sea United Fleet, and the first ones to suppress were pirates and road tyrants.
The Japanese pirates were the first to bear the brunt, killing every one they saw.
See a pair, kill a pair!
Show no mercy.
The Japanese pirates were either killed or scared out of their wits and fled.
In just ten days, the South China Sea became peaceful.
However, Tokugawa Taiyasu lost a large amount of economic income without the plunder of pirates.
Moreover, the financial backers behind these pirates will also come to cause trouble for themselves.
After thinking about it, I found that there are some annoying things that cannot be solved.
Melancholy!
