What a joke Zaemon!

Just tell me you are from Tiaosuo Guangxiang!

Sending away Sōzaemon, who would be infamy for thousands of years and make all the people of Satsuma wish he would fall into eternal hell and die a good death. Hong Jinglai sighed inwardly, the method of casting counterfeit coins was originally developed by Tōsho Hiroyuki, and it should be here.

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This man really did everything he could to save Satsuma's finances. The word "lawless" was completely tailor-made for him. As long as he could get money, there was nothing he wouldn't dare to do.

If you are so bold now, no wonder you will dare to directly conduct large-scale smuggling trade and carry out inhumane and destructive agricultural exploitation in the future.

"Liu Dafang has met a capable person!"

"Are you capable? It's just that everyone gets what they need. This Master of Tiaosuo is at least a man who seeks change."

"That's true. If he doesn't change, I'm afraid he won't be able to earn his salary next year."

"My lord, I am a Confucian scholar, but you are so knowledgeable about the world. It is really admirable." Liu Cheng used this admiration, but I really don't know where he came from to admire Hong Jing.

"We have to purchase white copper from the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty. You Lai merchants have to find a way, right?"

"Don't worry, we Lai merchants all know the Qing merchants on the Yangtze River. We used to do copper business in Nagasaki, and merchants from eight provinces gathered together to exchange what they needed."

"Then you just need to handle this matter carefully. I will definitely not have anyone patrolling the sea during my tenure."

"Save money and save money."

After everything is done, go back to Donglai!

The ship was filled with all kinds of contraband, and a large box of red gold was even carried into the ship's cabin. It is said that after this trip, each crew member could get an extra twenty taels.

There are risks, but the profits are greater.

As for those who are still nostalgic and reluctant to leave, they must be those crew members who have become familiar with the Japanese girls on the boat. The look of reluctant farewell makes everyone sad.

One was thinking that it would be hard to find something so cheap and of good quality next time, and the other was thinking that such a stupid big charterer was leaving.

Come and play again next year!

in unison!

Merchant ships heading north are facing a headwind, so they go slowly. However, the ship has a heavy draft now, and it can't go very fast even if it is full of cargo.

When we arrived offshore from Nagasaki, we did not enter the port. We used a small boat towed behind the ship to go to Nagasaki Dejima and contacted the Dutch merchants.

Because Nagasaki is a legal port open to the outside world, you need a license jointly issued by the Japanese side of Nagasaki and Matsudaira Hizen Mamoru (that is, the Nabeshima clan of Saga Domain) who is responsible for the defense of Nagasaki before you can enter the port.

The ship that Liu Cheng used was a legal merchant ship, but it only had a license to go to Imohara-ura and did not have a license to go to Nagasaki, so it had to be like this.

At night, a single-masted clipper sailed out of Nagasaki without flying a flag, and the speed was extremely fast.

When people get on the boat, they are not Dutch.

Liu Cheng was proficient in the Japanese spoken by Spode, and it was a local dialect in Kyushu, so the two of them could communicate without any hindrance.

Hong Jinglai, on the other hand, needed Li Xizhu's constant translation to understand what the two people were talking about.

According to others, it turns out that this Spode was not the person in charge of the Netherlands here at all, he was a doctor. And he was not a Dutchman. He was a Bavarian, graduated from Würzburg University, and happened to be hired to serve in the Dutch army.

Then he was sent to the Spice Islands and continued to work as a military doctor in the colony. Because he could speak Malay and Japanese, he was sent to Nagasaki to work as a resident commercial doctor.

In the end, because he miraculously cured Shimazu Shigehao's disease, he attracted the attention of the Japanese side. He also consulted the Lord of Nagasaki and the Saga Domain, so he received great goodwill from the Japanese side.

The Dutch, who were good at doing business, were keenly aware of this and immediately appointed Spode as the director of the Commercial Office to negotiate with Japan on behalf of the Netherlands and achieved good results.

Of course, when Lai merchants came to Nagasaki for trade, the only merchant manager they knew was Spode. As for the actual person in charge, it was his nominal deputy, Blokhov.

When Hong Jinglai expressed the hope that he could obtain the latest information and developments in Europe from them, a trace of disappointment flashed across the faces of the two people, especially Blokhov. They turned around and learned that there was a "hermit"

The great nobles and high-ranking officials of the "country" are interested in the Netherlands.

If they could open North Korea's borders and establish an exclusive monopoly on trade, it would be a miracle for the two of them.

But after hearing that Hong Jinglai was only interested in the West and hoped to have a deeper understanding of it, these two people were naturally disappointed.

However, establishing trade relations is not a matter of words. People also understand that if they can penetrate into the Korean aristocracy, it will definitely be beneficial to expand trade.

There is just one thing: it was not the Dutch government in Western Europe that actually dominated trade with Japan, but the Dutch East India Company in the Spice Islands.

It takes a long time for them to contact Europe once, and the information that can be transferred to Nagasaki is of course they have lost countless hands of information.

When Hong Jinglai expressed his concern about the riots in France and England's continuous invasion of the Netherlands, the two men realized that the Hong Jinglai in front of them really cared about the West.

His attitude suddenly became a lot more enthusiastic, and he said that he could send a copy of the report document summarized by the Dutch Fenghuo Bureau set up by Japan in Nagasaki every year to Laishang to take back.

This made Hong Jinglai curious, how come the official documents of the Tokugawa Shogunate can be viewed and copied by private individuals at will?

The answer turned out to be really unexpected. Not only was it possible, but literally no one cared about it. Not only was it no one cared about it, but it was just thrown away on Nagasaki Dejima without even being asked.

These legendary stories were made in triplicate, and one copy was sent to Edo Castle for viewing by the shoguns, elders, and senior middlemen of the Tokugawa shogunate. Although the generals may not read it, the senior middlemen would probably take a look at it and understand it.

Let’s see if there are any key points.

There is also a copy as a backup, which has been given to successive Nagasaki ministers for safekeeping to prevent it from being lost on the way. Nagasaki ministers are also asked to read it, lest the dignified foreign affairs minister does not understand any Dutch affairs.

The last one is the stub of the first draft. It was scrawled and corrected at the beginning. The writing was ugly and there were ink spots. How could it catch the general's eye? It was just thrown away in Nagasaki. It's been almost two hundred years. It's full.

Housefuls of old paper.

Maybe pack him up and take him back?

Before Hong Jing's words came out, Blokhov seemed to have guessed it in advance, and one of his attendants brought out a book box.

Then he told Hong Jinglai that there was a Confucian scholar, or sinologist, in Japan. He was heartbroken when he saw the waste papers piled up there without management. Then the man went to collect and summarize them by himself and compiled a book.

Are there such good people?

Hong Jinglai clicked his tongue and marveled, "There are still many good people in this world, so I don't have to empty them out." After taking the bookcase from the Dutch attendant, what caught his eye was an impressive name.
Chapter completed!