Since Zhu Youxiao set his sights on opening the sea to Songjiang, more private merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty traveled between Shanghai and Nagasaki.
Because the cotton and silk produced by the Weaving Bureau in Shanghai are so high-quality and cheap.
Therefore, even if you purchase cotton cloth directly from the Weaving Bureau and sell it to the Japanese country, you can make huge profits several times.
After all, the cotton cloth produced by the Ming Dynasty Weaving Bureau had no competitors in Japan, regardless of its excellent texture and low price.
Therefore, businessmen who are naturally profit-seeking will not let go of such business opportunities.
Almost all Ming merchants in the Susong area were participating in this kind of trade, and there were even overseas Chinese merchants from Huizhou.
Even though Zhu Youxiao was collecting high tariffs in Songjiang Prefecture, it still did not hinder their enthusiasm to go to Japan to make huge profits.
This also led to a large number of Ming Dynasty merchants and their employees and servants living in the Nagasaki and Hirado areas of Japan.
Because Nagasaki and Hirado were the only places in this era where the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate allowed trade.
At this time, Sun Jiahe, a clan member of Xu Guangqi's wife's family, came to Huangdao in Nagasaki, Japan, with a shipload of cotton, silk, soap and other goods developed by the Daming Engineering Institute and which had begun to be marketed throughout the country and the East and Southeast Asia.
"My boss, is this going smoothly?"
Wu Daoshen, the concubine and shopkeeper who stayed in Huangdao, Nagasaki for Sun Jiahe to guard the shop, started talking with Sun Jiahe after Sun Jiahe arrived in Nagasaki.
Sun Jiahe replied: "It's going well. Now our Ming warships are patrolling from Liaodong to Ningbo. Pirates don't dare to come and go at will. Business is easier than before."
"My boss is right. I guess he brought more goods this time?"
Wu Dao asked with a deep smile.
Sun Jiahe nodded.
Suddenly, when they arrived at the store, Wu Daoshen shouted: "Little sister, the master is here, bring the children out quickly!"
"Daddy!"
A little girl and a little boy shouted in the dialect of Ming Dynasty and Wu, and ran happily towards their father, Sun Jiahe.
Sun Jiahe then smiled and squatted on the ground to hold his child.
But suddenly, a gunshot rang out, and the little girl running at the front was suddenly shot in the face, and then fell to the ground. Her fair face suddenly turned blood red, and her laughter stopped abruptly.
Sun Jiahe was shocked by this scene and was stunned for a moment.
Before he could recover, he suddenly found that a Japanese sword struck at his youngest son again. Immediately, his youngest son also fell to the ground with his head missing, and the lake pen he was holding in his hand also fell. on the ground.
Sun Jiahe looked back and found a Japanese man wearing bamboo armor in front of him, grinning, proudly stabbing his little daughter.
Behind the Japanese, in the street where his shop was located, a group of soldiers wearing bamboo armor rushed forward. These soldiers were armed with spears, firearms and wolf swords, and they also carried the banner of "Mu Xie Army".
"Sir, the shogunate army of Nagasaki Matsuura Domain took action first!"
At the same time, Sun Jiahe also heard a soldier running in front speak to a Confucian scholar riding a horse beside him.
"It seems that the Japanese are even more impatient and hurry up to take action. These businessmen from the Ming Dynasty are all scholarly scum who are willing to be the lackeys of the tyrant. They are either relatives of the treacherous minister Xu Guangqi or relatives of other treacherous ministers. Otherwise, they would not take it." The goods went to the Ming Dynasty Engineering Institute and the Weaving Bureau, so these people are very wealthy. Once they are robbed, they will definitely make a lot of money. Although the shogunate asked us to help the Matsuura Domain to drive them away, the Matsuura Domain has already started killing people, which shows that These businessmen from the Ming Dynasty are resisting the orders of the shogunate and should be killed without mercy!"
The man riding the horse was Yang Sichang. At this time, Yang Sichang gave cold instructions.
Ye Chuchun couldn't bear to say: "Is it too much to kill people directly? What if the tyrant takes revenge for this?"
"It's just a few businessmen. Will he, Zhu Youxiao, mobilize troops for these people? Shouldn't he be more concerned about whether there will be Japanese rebellion in his homeland?"
Yang Sichang asked coldly.
Ye Chuchun nodded: "That's right!"
Then, in order not to be suspected, he had to add again: "In this case, it is better to kill them cleanly! Let these Ming businessmen dare not come to Nagasaki to do business, and they will only cooperate with us in the future!"
Yang Sichang smiled: "That's exactly what we meant!"
And Yang Sichang's words happened to be heard by Sun Jiahe.
But Sun Jiahe had no time to speak.
Because he was quickly killed on the spot by the Mu Xie army under Yang Sichang with firecrackers, and his blood fell to the ground.
Sun Jiahe's concubine had already fainted because her two children were killed, and was soon ravaged by the shogunate army and the shogunate army in turn.
As for the Mu Xie army, after Yang Sichang's order, they immediately rushed into the shops of Ming merchants and their mansions here.
"boom!"
Xu Zongsheng, an official merchant of the Ming Dynasty who was in Nagasaki and was responsible for transporting iron ore imported from Western countries for the imperial shipping department. At this time, he was inspecting and preparing a batch of iron ore to be transported back to the Ming Dynasty. When he saw the door being knocked open, some people wearing bamboo A's soldiers were brave enough to kill his hired worker to the ground.
The shogunate army of these reactionary gentry was very short of armor, so they mostly used bamboo armor like the Japanese shogunate army.
Therefore, Xu Zongsheng mistakenly thought that the Japanese were causing trouble. Just as he was about to ask questions in the Japanese language he knew, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. It turned out that he had been stabbed through the stomach by the incoming Tokugawa troops.
"Husband!"
"I am the husband!"
At the same time, Xu Zongcheng's newly married wife was also dragged out.
Yang Sichang was already very happy when he saw the iron ore in the courtyard. When he saw that Xu Zongsheng's wife was quite beautiful and she was a daughter of the Han family, he was even more happy. He couldn't help but shouted loudly: "Take all these iron ore and that woman." take away!"
"Be bold!"
Xu Zongsheng said something because of this, his mouth full of blood.
For a time, the entire Ming Dynasty merchant gathering area in Huangdao directly turned into a hell on earth. A large number of Han people were killed, and women and children were not spared.
The key point is that reactionary gentry like Yang Sichang also took the initiative to kill their own compatriots.
Naturally, Sun Jiahe's shop and the shops of other Ming merchants were looted, and even the lucky boat he spent a lot of money to buy was also taken away.
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"The Japanese country is relatively closed. Because it is surrounded by the sea, it has little interaction with the outside world. It is a country that focuses on land warfare and does not pay attention to coastal defense. Its naval warfare is not only inferior to that of Huang Ming, but also inferior to that of North Korea. Its warships are either Zhuyin ships or Guan The ships are not as good as our Ming Dynasty Guangzhou and Fu ships, and they are even inferior to the Ming Dynasty's new soft-sailed ships! Therefore, in my opinion, there is no difficulty in naval battles for the navy to conquer Japan, but the only challenge is the land battle after landing. The reason is: Because the island is small and there are many people, the Japanese slaves have always been brave and fierce, and they all despise life, even their own lives. In addition, the Japanese country is different from Korea. They have their own emperor, and they are not as influenced by Confucianism. Korea is deep, so it has the awareness that it is the center of the world, but has no respect for the Celestial Empire. Therefore, during the period of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it had the ambition to annex the Central Plains! It must be that this time the shogunate was forcibly borrowed by the Ming Dynasty. Empress Liang, while feeling unwilling, is also more angry, like an arrogant Yelang, who thinks he is the master of the world, so he intends to retaliate against our Ming merchants."
Shen Yourong was summoned to the capital by Zhu Youxiao because he was familiar with the Japanese affairs, and now he talked about the Japanese in his eyes to the Ming Emperor and a group of important civil and military officials at the Privy Council meeting.
As early as the Imjin Japanese Rebellion, he and the civil servant Jin Hakzeng conspired to lead troops to attack the Japanese mainland. To this end, he also spent a lot of energy to investigate the Japanese country and even made arrangements. However, the plan was not implemented later, and Shen Yourong thought that The matter was settled, but he did not expect that in the Tianqi years after so many years, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty would put the hard work he had spent many years ago to use again.
"Shen Aiqing is right. The shogunate's dissatisfaction with our Ming Dynasty is partly due to it. In my opinion, the main reason is that our Ming Dynasty's textile technology and other technologies are too advanced and progress too fast, and the goods are too high-quality and cheap, so they robbed too many The benefit of many people is not only the dissatisfaction of the shogunate, but also the daimyo, cotton farmers and craftsmen of the Japanese country who are dissatisfied with our Ming Dynasty. There are also those reactionary gentry who fled overseas and are dissatisfied with the court. These people must be dissatisfied with our Ming Dynasty court. They have colluded together, and their original intention is to drive away our merchants, or even massacre our merchants, to block our trade, cut off our market, and prevent our goods from being sold!"
Zhu Youxiao said.
"If this is true, it will cause great chaos in the world. A large number of government-owned goods will be unsalable, which will cause a large number of workers in Jiangnan to go bankrupt, which will directly lead to great chaos in Jiangnan. After all, the people in Jiangnan can live and work in peace and contentment because of the government-owned industries that have brought them a lot of income. , In addition, Tianjin workers who manufacture various types of advanced equipment for Jiangnan government and private industries will also go bankrupt. Now the number of workers in Tianjin has reached one million. If Tianjin follows the chaos, both the north and the south will be in turmoil."
Bi Ziyan, who had a strong economic understanding, spoke solemnly, and raised his hands to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty! In my opinion, these foreigners and reactionary gentry must not succeed! Even if they exhaust the national treasury, We must teach this Japanese a lesson!"
"Not just once."
Zhu Youxiao said with a serious expression, and then ordered to Shen Yourong: "Chen Xin has led the First Naval Battalion of the Guards to Nagasaki! You lead the Denglai Navy to follow up, and send another order to North Korea, and follow them We also sent the navy to conquer Japan, not because we expected North Korea to help, but to let them know what the national power of the Celestial Empire is, so as not to be ignorant in the future like the Japanese country now! In addition, I still said the same thing, what I said The military discipline promulgated against the common people is only valid for the people of this country! It is too late to save our Ming people who live in Nagasaki. But if the Japanese in Nagasaki are really massacring our residents, then according to my will, how many people from our Ming Dynasty will be killed? , let the Japanese country pay a hundredfold compensation, and slaughter our overseas Chinese for as many days as they have!"
"I obey the decree!"
Shen Yourong replied.
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