"Two hundred silver coins, you can take away this batch of goods!" In the bustling teahouse, a big bearded businessman said to the people next to him. The people next to him also looked like a businessman, but they looked much tidy than him. They should be a local merchant in Jincheng. After the merchant finished speaking, he picked up the tea bowl on the table and drank it all.

"Shopkeeper Hu, two hundred silver coins are too expensive. Last time, there were so many goods, but you only had one hundred and eighty silver coins. Why did you suddenly increase twenty silver coins now?" The merchant said with some dissatisfaction. The so-called merchant owns a local store and is usually only responsible for the terminal sales of goods, not selling goods everywhere like merchants.

"How can this be the same? Last time I brought Dengzhou cloth, but this time it was Hebei cloth of good quality. Not to mention anything else, the shipping fee alone is much more expensive. In addition, the texture of the cloth is better than Dengzhou cloth. I only added twenty silver coins for the sake of the old customer. If you don't want it, I will sell it to someone else!" The bearded businessman was impatient and his tone was quite ruthless, but anyone familiar with him knew that this person always spoke like this, so the businessman next to him was not angry either.

In addition, this business also knows that Jincheng is a distribution center for goods between China, South Korea and North Korea. For example, the batch of cloth transported by the big beard is indeed the best Hebei cloth. Although there are many textile factories in China, South Korea and North Korea, they produce wool textiles. These things are OK in winter, and many cotton cloths are worn at other times, so they don’t have to worry about sales at all.

Thinking of this, the merchant immediately smiled and said, "Okay, two hundred is only two hundred, but I don't have cash. As usual, I will prepare two hundred silver coins for you and blankets. Then you can make another profit if you transport them back!"

The bearded man laughed and patted the old customer next to him on the shoulder. Then the two of them got up to deliver the goods. After all, the bearded man would not stay in Jincheng for too long. For businessmen like him, time is equal to money.

Seeing the two merchants discussing a business in the blink of an eye, Li Zhi on the table next to him lowered his head and drank a sip of tea, then looked at the other people in the teahouse. The teahouse is called Guangjin Teahouse, which means "Financial Resources Guangjin". Although this name sounds vulgar, it is very suitable for the positioning here. Because this teahouse is located in the commercial area of ​​Jincheng, it is mainly used to discuss business for merchants. For example, the merchants in the hall are talking about some small businesses that are not very important. If you don't want people to hear it, you can go to the private room upstairs.

After visiting the factory and school yesterday, Li Zhi summarized the gains and losses of the day in the evening. However, in addition to seeing the necessity and effect of promoting Chineseization, he always felt that he had ignored something, and he suddenly remembered it until the end. It turned out that he had forgotten one of the most important prerequisites, which was to control the local economy.

The reason why Lu Hong took Li Zhi to visit the two factories was not just to let Li Zhi see the achievements of promoting Chineseization, but also had another meaning. That is, the two iconic factories told Li Zhi that the economy of China, South Korea and North Korea is now completely in the hands of the Han people and the government, and most of the factories are run by the Han people. Moreover, China, South Korea and North Korea only produce grain, textiles and processed food, and other essential products of daily life need to be imported from overseas. This is also in the hands of the government and the Han people, and it can be said that it has left the Han people. Almost no one in China, South Korea and North Korea can survive.

With this prerequisite, the three Koreans cooperated so well when the government implemented the Chineseization. After Li Zhi figured out this point, he asked Lu Hong to take him to this teahouse where merchants gathered from all over the country to observe. Sure enough, he found that most of the people who came here to trade were Han merchants, and occasionally some San Koreans traders traded in the hall, and their trading targets were often Han people.

Lu Hong next to him couldn't help but smile when he saw Li Zhi's observation so carefully. The other party could understand these things by himself, which was enough to show that His Highness's arrangements were not in vain.

The two stayed in the teahouse for a whole morning before returning to their residence. Li Zhi recorded his gains in the teahouse again, especially in terms of economic control, and had a lot of experience. For example, the salt they usually eat in China, South Korea and North Korea need to be imported from Dengzhou, and others are as small as a sewing needle to large furniture in the house. This shows that the local economy has been seriously deformed and must be relied on the supplement of the foreign economy to live.

In the next few days, Li Zhi went to North Korea to take a look and found that it was similar to that of Jincheng. All the three Koreans were proud of speaking Chinese and wearing Hanfu, and tried their best to improve their level. It is also worth mentioning that Li You did not show up until Li Zhi and the others left Jincheng.

Li Zhi and his team's next stop is Heiyi Island, which is similar to the situation in the Sanhan area. All aspects are being promoted to Chinese. These grassland people, both men and women, are working hard to learn Chinese and change their surnames, and strive to get closer to the Han people. However, they did not give up their original nomadic life. This is because Li Yan needed them to maintain their tough nature so that he could gather these grassland people at any time and become a sword for him to explore outward.

In fact, there have been huge changes on the Hokkien Island now. The most important thing is that Li Yan ordered people to build five cities on the island, located in the east, west, south, north and center of the island. There are Han officials stationed in these five cities, and many Han merchants usually come here to sell goods, so they soon became the five major goods distribution centers on the Hokkien Island.

In addition, many Chinese schools have been established in these five cities, which not only teach grassland children to learn Chinese, but also some adults can learn. The ruling Luoyun tribe has now moved into the city in the middle and named this city Luoyun City, which is the political and economic center on the island and the largest city on the island.

Speaking of which, the Essay Island is quite boring. Although the five new cities look very large on the grasslands, in Li Zhi and others, they are just small towns and there is nothing to see. As for the outside of the city, there are large grasslands, except for cattle and sheep and horses. It is worth mentioning that Essay Island is also a good place to raise horses. The cavalry under Li Yan’s men are cultivated here.

After eating a few meals of roasted lamb on Essay Island, Li Zhi and his friends went to hunt bears in the mountains and forests. Unfortunately, the archery skills of the few people were not very good, and they did not have the courage of the tiger power. Therefore, they finally relied on the help of the guards to hit a small bear. However, even so, it still made Yizi very excited and clamored to make a pair of bear-skin gloves for the sixth brother. Unfortunately, she forgot that in a hot place like Taiwan, where would you use bear-skin gloves?

After leaving the Hokkien Island, Li Zhi and the others went south to Japan, but Lu Hong did not arrange for Li Zhi and the others to stay here for too long. This is mainly because Japan is not as 300,000 as the three Koreans, and the country is still relatively turbulent. From time to time, people will take the lead in rebelling. Although the scale is not large, it is also a headache. Therefore, for the safety of Li Zhi and others, Lu Hong finally led the fleet to the south until Nu Port.

In fact, compared to a few years ago, Japan rarely rebelled again. This is mainly because of the promotion of sinicization. If you want to promote sinicization, you must have a stable social environment. Of course, you can also use tough means to promote it, but you must be prepared to pay a huge price. Li Yan did not want to waste too much power in this small Japan, so he temporarily softened his high-pressure rule over Japan, and instead used some gentle means, coupled with economic invasion, which made the society of Japan greatly stable. Except for some remote places that occasionally conflicts broke out, other places have generally settled down.

The Nu Port that Li Zhi and the others arrived was no longer the desolate port a few years ago. Nu Port is a natural and excellent port. With a few years of construction, the port here has begun to take shape and has become the second largest port in Japan, second only to Xiaguan Port on Zhuzi Island.

The slave port was famous for its slave trade, and even its name came from this. However, with the pacification of Japan, the slave capture operation gradually disappeared in Japan. Therefore, the slave trade in the slave port also disappeared. However, the development here was not affected, because the slaves happened to be located in the center of Honshu Island, which is a major transportation route connecting the north and south. Goods from all over the country can be transported to the slave port and then traded with the Han merchants.

Speaking of which, although Japan is scarce in minerals and does not have much land, and the grain produced every year is only enough for them to eat, there is one very important thing here, that is sulfur, which is a necessity for making gunpowder. Moreover, Japan has many volcanics, and sulfur not only produces a large amount of sulfur, but also has high purity. Therefore, the sulfur produced by Li Yan was transported from Japan.

In addition, although sulfur is poisonous, it may die if you are accidentally collected. However, in order to have enough food, some poor Japanese people still rush to go to the mine to collect sulfur. If an accident occurs, those black-hearted mine owners will usually throw their bodies into the valley, and a person who will not live or die will not be seen. In order to have enough sulfur, the Han officials sent by Li Zhi always turn a blind eye to this situation.

After Li Zhi and his friends arrived at Nugang, they visited the nearby sulfur mine. As a result, they encountered the families of some dead miners causing trouble, but were beaten away by the mine owner. Although they later attracted people from the government, they were still left alone.
Chapter completed!