Chapter 500 China and Japan
Guo Zhiyuan was wearing a wool military uniform, straight and cool style, bright leather armed belt and solid cowhide military boots, with a saber in his left hand and a pistol hood in his right hand, and proudly glanced at the group of Japanese people in front of him who seemed not the same world as him.
Since the third year of the Revolution, Chen Jun began to unify military uniforms. In addition to military uniforms, there are also regular clothes. The style of the latter is not the same as the popular flower roosters in Europe at this moment.
It has a simple and elegant beauty.
Generally speaking, Zhao Liang referenced the Fruit Party’s military uniform.
Even if it requires him to spend some money to purchase woolen materials from the British.
Even if this style of refit is completely different from the traditional Chinese wide robe and large sleeves.
But no one can deny the strength of King Zhao, and no one can deny Chen Jun's influence in the "Great Chen Kingdom".
As early as the second year of the Revolution, people in various places had already reported a problem - some people were reluctant to grow long hair.
I won’t say whether short hair looks good or not, but it is easy to deal with.
Just like new clothes saves fabric.
Therefore, Zhongshan suits and short hair became popular in the fourth year of the revolution.
King Zhao doesn’t care about this. Whoever wants to keep long hair will have long hair, and whoever wants to shave short hair will have short hair. As long as you don’t have pigtail braids, it’s fine.
However, most Japanese samurai still have the head of the twig.
Guo Zhiyuan is a person who is very able to accept new things.
In his early years, he entered the Zhao Family Technical School as a beggar. It was still the 44th year of Qianlong's reign. After so many years, Guo Zhiyuan had already opened up the existing education system of Dachen and obtained the graduation certificate from Xinhua University.
He was hired as soon as he submitted his resume to the assembly department, and from the beginning he brought two silver stars.
When he came to Japan this time to negotiate the copper material, he would return to Chenzhou and have another silver star on his shoulder.
The reason why I came to the Satsuma tribe was just to sign a supplementary agreement for the Satsuma tribe authorities. It is natural to look at the players who stood up.
Looking at the complicated emotional gazes that were thrown at him in the cafeteria, Guo Zhiyuan was not close at all.
He was famous for his thick-faced Guo Wuer when he was in the technical school.
"According to the latest instructions of the Executive Committee, while the team members are conducting basic military training and learning rules, they must also strengthen their language learning." Guo Zhiyuan looked around and found that these people's eyes were all confused, not knowing whether they couldn't understand or what. Fortunately, he had Saigo Ritsuka by his side, a Japanese who was proficient in Chinese.
The latter signaled slightly, stepped forward and said loudly: "From today on, you will conduct military training during the day, and at night while studying rules, you should also pay attention to the study of Chinese. The latest regulations of the Executive Committee, whoever can pass the primary Chinese assessment will add a silver dollar to the existing basis."
Of course, Ritsuka Saigo knew why the Executive Committee made such an order. In a clearing battle by Shi Nan not long ago, the defeated Qing troops brought a forward team into the residential area of the local young people. Because the translator of the army was behind, they could not speak the language. In addition, the forward players injured the local young people while shooting, which eventually led to a huge misunderstanding. Only fifty or sixty of the forward players escaped in panic and lost more than half.
This is of course a great shame for the warriors, but the Executive Committee suddenly strengthens the Chinese training of the forward team members, which is also a way to make up for the failure.
There is no human rights in the stand-up team.
After signing the sale agreement, people like Aoyama, in the period from at least three years or more to five years, must obey commands in all actions and not disobey the orders of superiors. If there is any violation, they will be warned once, corporal punishment will be punished three times, and they will be sentenced to labor service and sent to mine coal. They must also keep in mind the rules and regulations set by Chen Jun for him.
"Hayi!"
Everyone stood up and bowed.
For the forwarding team members, it is a great thing to be able to learn Chinese. If you don’t say it, you can master it. Even if you can only say it, it is a skill. Even if they fail to make money in the forwarding team, they will not lack food after returning to Japan.
Now the trade between China and Japan has risen sharply.
A large amount of rice, cloth, fish, fruits (canned food), sugar, luxury goods (clocks) and other goods were sold to Japan, and ships of sulfur, copper ingots, and of course, gold and silver were also indispensable.
Although Zhao Liang has taken care of the shogunate sentiment as much as possible, the trade between the two sides has increased, and China's surplus has also increased. Who made the Japanese lack anything?
But from the beginning, Japan was reluctant to openly provide copper ingots to China.
——Although the Japanese lacked everything, there were really a lot of gold, silver and copper mines on those small broken islands, which looked quite similar to Chile.
The reason why gold, silver and copper were short of later generations was more because Japan had mined it for thousands of years and had already been lighting it. It was like China's gold mines.
Since Kang Mazi's time, after Kangxi recovered his senior officials, the sea ban was lifted, and trade with Japan immediately flourished. In just a few years, the number of merchant ships arriving in Japan has surged from 24 to 193, and Japan's "foreign copper" continued to flow into China. According to statistics, Japan lost as much as 3.8 million kilograms of copper every year. Because Japan's smelting technology was not up to standard, red copper contained a certain amount of silver, and it was reused for a second time, which benefited a lot, not to mention that China itself lacked copper!
As a result, there were not enough copper ingots in Japan.
The shogun began to start from the source, requiring that China's future merchant ships must not exceed 30 each year, and strictly limit the export of copper, which will be maintained at about 1.6 million jin per year, but the effect is still not ideal. During the Yongzheng period, Tokugawa Yoshizo issued strict orders, and the future Chinese merchant ships were further limited to 15, and the number of copper transactions dropped to about one million jin.
This will slow down Japan's copper shortage, but the cost is also heavy. The originally prosperous Sino-Japanese trade has become increasingly dull.
To be honest, Tokugawa Ichichi, who had just taken over the position, was still a child, and he was only sixteen years old. In his early days, he removed Japanese Heshen Tamuma Yiji, who was extremely angry, from the position of the Japanese Heshen Tamuma, and appointed Matsue Tamel, the third-generation vassal lord of the Shirakawa vassal of the Muroo Kingdom, as the old Chinese, to implement lenient administration reforms and rectify the shogunate discipline.
To be more precise, it is still in a stage of observing politics.
But even Tokugawa's family, he was unwilling to let go.
But he dared not let go.
Chen's Beiyang Fleet wandered near Japan's coast. The Zhao family's Nanyang Fleet, which had just developed a few years ago, beat up the Dutch. Japan was just their defenseless appearance. Chen's fleet could directly reach Edo Bay.
In this case, how dare Tokugawa's family Qi restrict it?
Although from a long-term perspective, the conflict between China and Japan will only accumulate more and more, but Aoyama and others cannot see this. They only saw that under the close trade between China and Japan, the entire Japan needs a large number of Chinese-speaking people.
Chapter completed!