Dominate the Country

April, the 22nd year of the Chengtian era, Osaka, Japan.

This historic city is located in the central and western part of Japan and the center of the Kinki region. It has been a major commercial center in Japan for a long time.

In the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era, Osaka was the core city of the Toyotomi regime. In the Edo era, Osaka, Kyoto, and Edo were called the "three capitals" of Japan, and were the most prosperous commercial cities in Japan at that time.

This place is the "distribution base" for Japan to distribute materials from all over the country. Foreign trade is also very developed now. The market price of the Dojima rice market is used as the standard for the market price of the grain and rice industry in Japan.

However, Osaka City, which is the "rice market" of Japan and is also rich in rice, has its own high grain prices.

As a Japanese rice market, just like the four major rice markets of Wuxi, Wuhu, Jiujiang, and Changsha in China, most of the food it eats comes from foreign imports. This is also a very strange phenomenon.

Another thing is that this city is full of merchants or sailors speaking various Chinese dialects, and the buildings are also full of Chinese style. Someone once said sarcastically: "Rather than saying that Osaka is a Japanese port, it is better to say that it is a Chinese port like Nagasaki." This sentence refers to the large number of merchants and sailors from China in the city.

After the founding of Japan, many cities such as Yokohama, Kobe, Nagoya, and Edo did not have such a clear position to be close to China as Osaka. This also made Osaka Castle quickly become the second city after Nagasaki to be flooded with a large number of Chinese merchants.

All industries in this city quickly merged with Chinese foreign trade merchants.

Although in terms of foundation, it is not as Chinese as Nagasaki, but Osaka itself is the commercial capital of Japan, an advantage that Nagasaki, which is located in the southwest corner, does not have.

As a city with commercialization and merchant culture, Osaka Castle quickly moved closer to China under the interests and money. This is also beyond reproach.

Yang Dewang has been here for almost half a month. At that time, he took a merchant ship from Shanghai to Osaka Port with several followers, and then contacted a local commodity agent of Jiangnan Trading Company-this person is a relative of the Tanuma family. Although Yang Dewang had retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was on sick leave. For people like him, the ceiling was too obvious. It was enough to have Gao Leisi, who had a better development prospect. Yang Dewang had been heartbroken by the officialdom struggle. After Gao Leisi gained a foothold in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he chose to take sick leave.

But sick leave is sick leave, but Yang Dewang can still use some connections. At least Jiangnan Trading Company will give him face.

Yang Dewang settled down. He wanted to observe Japan's market economy carefully before making a decision. Unexpectedly, just when he had rested for a while and was about to set off again by land to Kyoto and then to Nagoya, an uninvited guest with great magical powers came to the door.

This person was the famous Japanese businessman Sanye Pingbei. Yang Dewang met him in Shanghai in his early years.

As the first Japanese businessman to challenge Made in China head-on, Sanye Pingbei was not only famous in Japan, but also had a certain reputation in China.

However, the Japanese textile industry is inherently restricted, and the Tokugawa shogunate could not openly favor Mitsubishi Textile. In the end, although Sanye Pingbei resisted the attacks of the pro-China alliance again and again and gained enough reputation for himself in Japan, he was ultimately defeated because of the restrictions on both capital and raw materials.

Yes, in the war, Sanye Pingbei once had the upper hand. Because of the strong support of the Trade Bank, Mitsubishi Textile not only had sufficient capital, but also solved the problem of raw materials. But when the pressure in China made the Trade Bank unable to support itself, what could Mitsubishi Textile do?

You know, Sanye Pingbei had fought hard with the pro-China alliance represented by the Sumitomo family before, and repeatedly suppressed the Sumitomo family, purely because he had the support of the financially powerful Trade Bank behind him.

Now the support of the Trade Bank is not only gone, but it has become a pressure to repay the loan, and Mitsubishi Textile can only fail miserably.

Several phases of Mitsubishi Textile's factory buildings became the "non-performing assets" of the trade bank, and then became the industry of several Japanese business families headed by the Sumitomo family. It can be said that Mitsubishi Textile was completely divided up.

Sanye Pingbei's assets shrank a lot, and he became silent.

With Yang Dewang's "sight", he could not see Sanye Pingbei's figure, nor could he hear any news about him.

Yang Dewang didn't know that after completing the previous task, Sanye Pingbei had entered a hibernation period.

Originally, he was going to die "quietly" and then revive a person named Wang Pingbei in his ancestral home in China. But unexpectedly, he was reactivated in the summer of the 20th year of Chengtian-Sanye Pingbei's new task was to hook up with the Japanese royal family, empty the last small judgment of the Chrysanthemum Family, and then pour a basin of dirty water on the Chrysanthemum Family that could not be washed clean.

Therefore, after "lurking" for many years, Sanye Pingbei has gradually made a comeback in the Japanese business world recently.

His latest business activity was to buy a batch of high-end luxury goods made in China at the port of Osaka, which were said to be sold to Kyoto.

Yang Dewang did not expect that Sanye Pingbei would contact him, and he took the initiative to come to him. This surprised Yang Dewang and he also muttered to himself: What does this guy want to do?

With Sanno Pingbei's high reputation in Japan, even if he didn't have a single yen in hand, he could easily raise a considerable amount of funds.

However, Sanno Pingbei's performance once again made Yang Dewang miscalculate. Sanno Pingbei, who took the initiative to come to the door, did not immediately reveal his plan, but took the initiative to accompany Yang Dewang to stroll around Osaka, a Japanese business city, for two days. During this period, they talked about some business issues. Sanno Pingbei just showed his reputation in the Japanese business circle in front of Yang Dewang.

That was really called face-saving.

Sanno Pingbei promoted his name to the outside world, and in just these two days, Yang Dewang's place of residence became many times more lively.

He received a thick stack of invitations alone, and after sorting them out, he found that almost all the local Japanese business families in Osaka were there.

On the third day, Sanno Pingbei revealed a little bit of information. It was nothing more than a little intention to invest in America, which made Yang Dewang a little hesitant. In fact, if the other party directly proposed to be an agent of Chinese products and use his reputation in Japan, Yang Dewang would really agree.

He dared to set up a trading company in Shanghai and do business with Sanye Pingbei.

But now Sanye Pingbei proposed to go to America to do business and make investments, which made Yang Dewang a little hesitant.

America is too remote, and he and Gao Leisi’s power is too small, so they can’t reach that far.

Sanye Pingbei also saw Yang Dewang’s "inconvenience", and then he said: "We have a large number of workers here, all of whom have many years of technical experience. If it is really difficult for Mr. Yang to set up a factory in America, then we can lend the workers out. As long as the price is right, everything can be negotiated."

Yang Dewang himself really has no influence in America, even Gao Leisi is the same. But they just make friends with the officials of the Immigration Bureau, whether it is Ge Ming, who was born in a country, or Luo Fangbai, who was born in a poor scholar.

Otherwise, why would Sanye Pingbei come to him. He went online and explained everything to Sanye Pingbei.

Sanye Pingbei spoke in a calm tone at this moment. He spoke Chinese Mandarin very well. Yang Dewang even felt a unique rhythm when listening to him. 'Yang Dewang' was the person designated by the higher-ups for him, but this matter was kept secret from Yang Dewang himself in order to keep Sanye Pingbei's secret. The latter's identity is still an absolute secret of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

"I have a strong network of contacts in Japan. As long as Mr. Yang can get through the joints in America, it will be difficult for us to lose money if we join forces."

As mentioned in the previous article, Japan is not like North Korea. Now selling labor in Japan is not cheating people or making money from national disasters, but a great benefactor who saves people, a living Bodhisattva, and the cost is almost zero.

Countless thoughts collided in Yang Dewang's mind, and he couldn't give an answer for a while. He did come to Japan to do business, but the business he originally favored was completely different from human traffickers.

Yang Dewang was originally planning to make money from Japan.

In the early and middle periods of the Qing Dynasty, the copper trade between China and Japan was extremely prosperous. Because China was extremely short of copper at that time, during the Yongzheng period, one tael of silver could be exchanged for as many as 850 copper coins, or as few as 820. Every year, a large amount of Japanese red copper was shipped into China, accounting for 60% of China's annual copper consumption.

In the later years of Kang Mazi, Japan's copper production reached its peak, with 4-7 million catties shipped out by Chinese merchants each year.

However, copper is a non-renewable resource after all. The more it is exported, the faster Japan's copper production will decline. In order to curb the large outflow of copper, the Japanese government has continuously taken restrictive measures. After the release of the "Zhengde New Order", Japan's copper exports have dropped significantly.

During the Qianlong period, Japan exported only 2 million catties of copper to China a year.

And this number is still declining.

Until recently, Japan's agriculture suffered natural disasters and political disasters, and the agricultural economy suffered a major blow. In order to revitalize the Japanese economy as soon as possible, or to expand the export industry as much as possible, earn Chinese yuan to buy food, lower the domestic food price in Japan, and stabilize the political environment in Japan.

The Tokugawa shogunate was forced to increase the export of copper to China.

Although the output of copper in Southeast Asia, mainly from Luzon, has far exceeded that of Japan, and has basically met China's demand for copper consumption, there is still no shortage of buyers for Japan's red copper on the mainland.

There are still rumors in China that Japan's metallurgical technology is not good, and their red copper contains silver and gold.

But now this business, which is completely profitable compared to the copper trade, has taken the initiative to find the door. Yang Dewang's ideological realm is not enough for him to take the initiative to push the gold that has been delivered to his arms out.

As Sanye Pingbei said, the combination of his and Yang Dewang's personal connections made this "external labor export" business profitable.

Sanye Pingbei had enough connections to collect a large number of refugees in Japan, and Yang Dewang also had connections to transport these refugees to America. The construction of the six vassal states did indeed require a large amount of labor.

Given the status of Yang Dewang and Sanye Pingbei, they were still unaware of the impending war in America and the excavation of the Suez Canal.

The latter had been prepared for a year or two, and with the active cooperation of the Ottomans, the topographical survey was very smooth. It can be said that the technical difficulty of the Suez Canal was not great.

In the military intelligence bureau's back-up preparations, if Yang Dewang really hesitated and was not ready to cooperate with Sanye Pingbei, the military intelligence bureau would come forward to "persuade" Yang Dewang. Although such means would leave some ends behind, it was necessary to ensure the opening of Sanye Pingbei's labor export company.

In addition to the private money of the Chrysanthemum Family, this labor export company also sought their existing reputation and popularity.

When the labor export company broke out a big scandal in the future, even if Sanye Pingbei, the chess piece, was sacrificed, the Chrysanthemum Family would definitely be stained black by the ink that could not be washed away.

"Mr. Sanye is the leader of the textile industry. Why didn't he find a way out in textiles when he came back this time?" Yang Dewang asked. As far as he knew, Japan's raw silk industry had developed quite well in the past two years.

"The quality and output of Japanese raw silk are far inferior to those of China. Just like the silk from Persia and Italy, they are not enough for our own use and cannot be exported. The cotton textile industry has been completely controlled by your textile giants. Although I don't think your textile industry was very clever in using this method to hurt people, I will not seek death again."

"Now I only want to make money and leave a valuable fortune for my descendants." The "high spirits" and grand ambitions of the past are gone forever in Sanye Pingbei.

When Sanye Pingbei said this, his face was full of vicissitudes and calmness. He looked like a master who had seen through the "world".

But Yang Dewang felt that Sanye Pingbei was "sensible".

Think about it, even the Tokugawa shogunate in power in Japan did not have the heart to establish Japan's own textile enterprises and preserve Japan's own market. Sanye Pingbei relied on the power of the Bank of China to become bigger and stronger, and turned around to resist the invasion of the Chinese textile industry. Can this "big" and "strong" really last?

Anyone with a clear mind can see that Mitsubishi Textile can be popular for a while, but it can't be evergreen.

Compared with China, Japan's congenital deficiencies are too fatal.

Even so, the Chinese no longer set up obstacles in foreign trade. As long as there is money, any high-end porcelain, silk, and handicrafts can be shipped out.

Those high-end porcelain and high-end silks in China are not only sought after by European nobles and nouveau riche, but also stared at by the Japanese with wide eyes.

For example, the brocade in Nanjing and the Wanshou silk in Bozhou. The former is an extremely exquisite handicraft, which was used exclusively by the royal family in the past, with low quantity and high price. But the latter is also a tribute, but Wanshou silk is a precious silk that can be purchased in large quantities. The unit price is far less than Yunjin, but the quantity is many times larger than Yunjin.

"You are clear about the situation in Japan. Although the situation is improving, it is not difficult to recruit some laborers. The rare thing is to send people to America." Sanye Pingbei said in one breath, and then looked at Yang Dewang with expectation.

As for why Yang Dewang did business with him, it was because of the interests given up by Sanye Pingbei.

The profit is 30% and 70%, Sanye Pingbei 30%, Yang Dewang 70%.

The people above have said hello to Sanye Pingbei, and this division has only been in the past one or two years, and things will change soon.