Wu Sangui was in a very good mood, "We will definitely make a big profit this time." He announced to the crew with a smile. "The Edo Shogunate prohibits silver and copper exports, which is a way to die. I guess it will take no time for the imperial court to send troops to conquer. Taking advantage of this moment, we will hurry up and make two more trips."

Wu Xiang took the account from his son and looked carefully. The numbers on it were recorded in detail, and every stroke was clear.

"More than 76,000 kilograms of copper, more than 10,000 Japanese scrapped copper coins, not bad."

Zu Dashou twisted his beard, "A total of more than 100,000 kilograms, and then he would fill up tens of thousands of kilograms of dried Japanese fish and seafood. If this batch of copper goods can be transported to the Nanhe River in Vietnam, he would make at least ten times the profit."

There is more silver and more copper in Japan.

Because the Han Dynasty used cannons to open Japan's country, Japan could no longer close its country. Moreover, the Han Dynasty signed exclusive trade rights with Japan, so it monopolized trade with Japan, and the original Netherlands could no longer trade with Japan. Japanese merchants no longer even went to sea, and they could only trade with Han merchants from the Han Dynasty to open ports in Japan.

Under this exclusive monopoly trade, Japan's foreign trade, which had always been in excess, had a growing trade deficit. According to the agreement signed between the Dahan and the Edo Shogunate of Japan, the trade between the Dahan and Japan was paid in silver, except for the price of goods exported by Japan.

The huge trade deficit caused a large amount of Japanese silver to flow out. Some Japanese even advised the Tokukan family, saying that if this continues, Japan's gold will be reduced by half in a hundred years, and less than a hundred years, Japan will have no silver available.

In this case, the Edo shogunate of Japan eventually began to reduce its trade volume with the Han Dynasty, prohibiting Japanese merchant ships from going to sea, and prohibiting silver and copper exports.

However, on the one hand, Japan has reduced its trade quota and banned silver-copper exports, but on the other hand, it is now the time for the development of silver-copper mines in Japan.

The production of silver increased significantly by the Japanese Ishimi Yinshan because of the soot blowing method. Japan now has more than 20 large copper ores with annual output of hundreds of thousands of kilograms of copper, producing millions of kilograms of copper each year.

The Japanese were not really not enough silver and copper, but a huge trade deficit, coupled with the exclusive trade rights of the Han Dynasty, which made them very upset. The Japanese knew that the Han Dynasty now had a huge demand for silver and copper in Japan, so they had the action of playing with fire. The purpose was to ask the Han Dynasty to modify the harsh treaty and change it to more preferential terms.

Now the official trade silver and copper export volume has dropped significantly. Even the trade volume has been greatly reduced, but China still has huge demand for silver and copper. Many copper merchants in Japan actually hope to sell copper to Chinese merchants in exchange for various raw silk, sugar and other commodities shipped by Chinese maritime merchants.

It was under this situation that the Wu Sangui and his son, who had moved to Taiwan, and their uncle, the Dashouzu clan, began to engage in Japanese smuggling trade.

They secretly colluded with Japanese copper mine owners. Wu Zu and his two families purchased various Chinese merchant freight from Taiwan to Nagasaki, Japan, and then exchanged the copper materials of Japanese copper merchants from Nagasaki.

Everyone gets what they need.

"One hundred kilograms of copper are only twenty silver dollars, and the price is really fair."

Zu Dashou now neither leads troops nor fights. After they were moved to Taiwan, they found that the court was indeed trustworthy and did not take any action after the roots were eradicated.

With the property brought from the Central Plains, they purchased mountains, plains, built manors from the indigenous people in Taiwan, and even bought many Kunlun slaves from Southeast Asia.

After gaining a foothold in Taiwan, Wu Zu and his family, who had a lot of funds, simply customized merchant ships from shipyards and then started to trade at sea.

Their actions were reported by the government, so local officials in Taiwan also allowed this. Nowadays, many people in Taiwan do trade on sea. They all know that going to sea merchants can make money. Those who are bold all borrow money from banks, or even borrow money from rich people, or simply collect money to buy ships and buy goods. Then the captain recruits crew members to travel on the ship, and after getting the profit, they will pay dividends to shareholders.

Wu Sangui does not need a loan or borrow money, they have money themselves.

The Central Plains and the others could no longer gain a foothold. Although the property outside the pass was sufficient, many of the Central Plains were still left behind. After the deed tax was paid, the two tribes could still be rich in Taiwan.

With this money, the two tribes purchased several ships, including new and old ships, and then recruited many experienced sailor crew members. After registering in the government, obtaining licenses, and paying taxes, the ships of Wu Zu and his family were officially established.

At the beginning, Wu Sangui went to Fujian to Taiwan, purchasing various commodities from Fujian, such as cloth and iron tools, and transported them to Taiwan for sale, and then purchased Taiwan's specialty grains, sugar cane, deer skin, sulfur, sugar sugar and other substances back to Fujian or Zhejiang.

However, after running for a while, he found that although the profits of running to the Taiwan Strait were quite high, it was far less than that of going to the Southeast or the East.

Especially when traveling to Japan, the journey is closer than going to Southeast Asia, but the Han Dynasty exclusively monopolized the trade rights. Japan's silver and copper are what the Central Plains need most, and Chinese goods also have a high demand in Japan. This kind of trade is the most profitable.

Although the Dahan East India Company occupied the vast majority of the trade with Japan, they could still drink soup when they ate meat.

Wu Sangui went to Japan instead. After a few trips, he discovered the name again.

After the last struggle, the brave Wu Sangui simply started smuggling. However, his smuggling was only compared to the Japanese shogunate, and he did not dare to smuggle on the side of the Han Dynasty.

When the fleet leaves the port from Keelung, Taiwan, they all pass the customs. When they secretly trade copper materials and wait for the return, they still have to report the customs once and pay taxes as usual.

But even so, when silver and copper are in short supply, the profits of smuggling copper materials are still extremely high.

"It's a pity that our ship can only return to Taiwan, and these copper materials can only be sold to the big man." Wu Sangui's brother Sanfu sighed.

Twenty silver dollars and one hundred kilograms of copper, the price is not high. The Nanyang region has a huge demand for copper, especially the Nguyen family in Vietnam, which does not produce copper itself, but if they want to fight against Zheng's family in the north, they need big copper cast cannons, so the price of copper is high.

Even they didn't even have enough copper coins to mint them. Wu Sangui and others transported the old copper coins purchased from Japan to the Vietnamese Nguyen Ts territory, which could be directly used as currency.

After the Tokugawa family unified Edo, Japan also unified the chaotic currency of Japan since the Warring States Period, implemented the circulation of gold, silver and copper coins, and minted gold, silver and Kiyonagata copper coins. After minting new coins, the shogunate abolished the old coins from the past and prohibited circulation. The number of these old coins was large and could not be circulated. The value was greatly reduced.

The smart Wu Sangui was not the first merchant to acquire Japanese scrap copper coins. In the past, many Japanese merchant ships would bring many old copper coins when they went to Nanyang. However, now Japanese merchant ships are not allowed to go out to sea, so these old copper coins are all purchased by Chinese merchants. The purchased copper coins cannot be transported back to China for use, and if they are bribed, they cannot be paid. Therefore, they are still transported to the Nanyang area and continue to be used as currency.

If the batch of copper coins acquired by Wu Sangui can be transported directly to Nanyang, the profit will be extremely high. If it can be transported to southern Vietnam, it will even have ten times the gross profit.

But their ship was registered with the Taiwan government. Their fleet could only run the Japanese and Taiwan routes. Without application approval, they could not go to Nanyang at will.

Not to mention, silver and copper are now in urgent need of materials by the imperial court. These silver and copper purchased from Japan will be directly purchased by the government when they arrive in Taiwan. Although they will not suffer losses and still have a lot of profit margin, they will not be as profit as ten times as possible to directly transport them to Vietnam.

It would be amazing to have five times the gross profit.

"The court's acquisition is quite a conscientious price. One round and one round, it makes several times the profit. Such a transaction is more profitable than selling private salt in the past. That is, the Japanese are now trying to die. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, if we go there, the profit of selling copper can be at most about 40%. Now it is sold to the government, which is almost ten times more." Wu Xiang is a relatively sober person.

Merchants are instinctive to pursue profits. But they are not ordinary merchants. They are exiled and were driven from Central Plains to Taiwan. If it were not for the contribution of turning against the battle of Yanbei, I am afraid that neither Wu Zu nor the tribes will end up. Now they have been exiled to Taiwan. The court is quite good to them. Except for not being able to return to Central Plains, everything else is very good.

There are manors, fields, workshops on Taiwan Island now, and a small fleet of boats on the sea. The days were something he could not imagine when he was imprisoned in the capital prison.

"We should hurry up and go back to Taiwan. Taking advantage of the opportunity to go a few more trips is the main thing. Don't be satisfied. This is easy and without any risk. It will be more than 20,000 silver dollars per trip, which is enough."

It is indeed a good business to get more than 20,000 silver dollars on a boat. Although you can earn more money in Nanyang, the Nanyang is also farther and longer, and it is not as good as the East China Sea area. The East China Sea area is the backyard of the Han navy, and others cannot come here. But in Nanyang, there are fish and snakes, and there are many pirates there, as well as warships and merchant ships from various countries such as Spain, the Netherlands, Britain and Portugal, which are often guest-starred as pirates.

"Well." Wu Sangui said with some urgency.

In fact, he didn't care much about how much money he made. Although they came to Taiwan, they really didn't lack money. He just felt lonely sometimes. He was still so young. He used to be a powerful man and commanded thousands of troops. But now, he could only sail on the sea, carrying a few small sailboats, and less than a hundred sailors.

"Father, do you think the court is really good at sending troops to attack Japan?" Wu Sangui couldn't help asking.

"Who knows that we are just ordinary people nowadays. We can earn some hard money at sea. What do we care about so much?" Wu Xiang said in a seemingly ordinary way.

Zu Dashou pulled his beard, "I think he would definitely fight, but I don't know if it was a big fight or a small fight. The Japanese were stuck in silver and copper and refused to export it. Can the court tolerate it? But I am afraid that the court will send a fleet to come and drive directly to Edo Port, and bombard it for a while, but I am afraid that the Japanese will shrink their eggs and admit defeat."

"I said you are really worried about eating carrots. Whether you are fighting or not, what does it have to do with us? Let's go home early, go for another trip and prepare for the New Year."

"Time flies so fast, the New Year is coming soon." Wu Sangui sighed.

"Yes, it's our first year in Taiwan soon. We must plan this year and have a lively New Year."

"The ancestral tomb outside the pass cannot go to pay homage to the temple this year!" Wu Xiang said as he looked at his wife and brother-in-law and son. If these two people hadn't been blindly able to see the situation clearly, they wouldn't have been exiled to the East China Sea now!

Wu Sangui felt his father's gaze and felt ashamed. No matter how energetic he was back then or how unwilling he was, in short, he was wrong and he lost!

Coming back and forth in the East China Sea, he also heard many of Liu Jiye's wise and martial arts actions. He joined forces with the Mongolian tribes, and all of them surrendered. Liu Jun destroyed Korqin and forced the Jurchens to move northwards. Liu Jiye used troops in the southwest and changed land and returned too much. Every time he heard news about Liu Jiye, he always made the dragon throne under his butt a little more stable.

Now, Liu Jiye has firmly sat on the throne of the Han emperor, but he can only ride this small boat and shake in the sea, suffering from wind and sun.

He even couldn't help but think of the once unexpectedly surprised glance, such a graceful beauty. Liu Jiye woke up from the world and lie drunk on the beauty's knees, but he could only be exiled to the sea. How unfair the world is!

The original good mood suddenly disappeared, standing at the bow of the boat, blew the cold wind, Wu Sangui was silently sad! (To be continued.)

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