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Chapter 391 Serving the Tang people is our blessing

Tokugawa Iemitsu's face looked ugly, and Horita Masamoto was almost unable to control it. He wanted to say loudly that Japan was not afraid of trouble! It was natural to take care of the Tang people! Taking care of the Tang people is a blessing for me!

They all seemed to understand the general's "conspiracy" that he did not want Japan to survive from the Tang people!

Because the Japanese are short, ugly in appearance, and extremely inferior in their psychology, they have always wanted to improve their race, and tall men in the Celestial Dynasty are naturally the best target of "subborne race".

From the first day when Tang Shang came to Japan, the Japanese would invite Tangren to their homes, and they would treat them with delicious food and drinks. They would offer them to women to accompany them at night. After a night of romantic life, the children born are often tall and mighty men and beautiful and smart.

Although the Tang people are now scattered in Nagasaki and are not scattered everywhere like in the past, it is very common for Japanese women to accompany them, and some women even marry Tang Shang as their concubines.

If you live in a concentrated manner, how can Japanese women stay with you? How can Japanese become tall and mighty?

Although he understood the general's "conspiracy", Tokugawa Iemitsu did not directly refuse, but said.

"The envoy, it's nothing wrong to set up a "concession" in Nagasaki. However, Tang merchants traveled thousands of miles to Japan to do business, and there was always someone to serve them. Although setting up a "concession" avoids the trouble of living, there is no one to serve them. This really makes me uneasy!"

"The Japanese can enter the concession to serve. What about this concession? It does not mean that Japanese people are prohibited from entering or the Chinese businessmen are prohibited from going out. They can also go out. Most of the time, they will live in the concession to avoid causing trouble."

"Oh, that's it..."

It turns out that it is not to stop “substantiation”!

Now Tokugawa Iemitsu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"This is OK."

"The "concession" should be located in the sea to avoid separation of people and ships. The ship is in the port and people are in Yashiki. It seems safe, but in fact, sailors are not under the supervision of the ship owner, which is easy to cause trouble at the port. It is really inconvenient. Moreover, there are quite a lot of Omei residents engaged in trade activities in Nagasaki. If the area is too narrow, the "concession" will be filled, so there should be at least five towns in advance, and it can be expanded at any time in the future."

The largest unit of land in Japan is "Town". 1 Town is equal to 10 Towns, and 1 "Towns" is about 300 square meters, about 9.9174 mu. Two Towns seem to have less than 500 mu, but in fact, when the Shanghai Concession was first started, it was only a hundred mu in size.

The concession in Gochou seems to be a little bigger, but there are indeed many Tang merchants, so it’s nothing, and they are renting land! They want to give the money to the Homae-family family. No, the money has to be given to the shogunate.

Tokugawa Iemitsu and Horita Masamoto looked at each other, and did not bargain, and immediately agreed.

"In order to avoid the Japanese government being frank and frank about the people of the Celestial Empire, the people of the Celestial Empire should be tried by the Ming envoy in the concession under the Ming law."

"The envoy of the Ming Dynasty? The envoy said that the Celestial Empire would send envoys in the concession?"

Tokugawa Iemitsu's heart tightened. It was the Hoshimae-fai, so why did the envoys be there?

"As an envoy, the famous Tang Shang is temporarily appointed, just to restrain the Tang Shang in the name of the official. If necessary in the future, the court will send official envoys."

"Oh, so that's it."

It is similar to the Tang Tongshi, but this Tang Tongshi was appointed by Nagasaki, and this envoy was appointed by the Celestial Empire and used to manage the Tang Shang. Of course, Tokugawa did not have to object to this, but as an old Chinese, Masamoto Horita was vigilant.

"So, what should we do if the Tang people and the Japanese people have a conflict?"

“How did it be handled in the past?”

"In the past, it was handled by Nagasaki, but he has never been too frank in his previous practice. Please rest assured."

"This is not good. In the future, the General thinks that the "Committee Trial Party" should be established. The Commission will have one member within the Commission. All cases of violations of the police will be tried by one member. If there is a criminal case involving the people of the Celestial Dynasty, the Commission will send one member as a jury; if there is a civil case and the two were originally Japanese, the Commission will still be tried by one member; if there is a plaintiff who is a citizen, the Commission will still send one member to the Celestial Dynasty to the Celestial Dynasty. If there is an appeal case, the envoy and Nagasaki Fengshen will be tried together."

This is the "extraordinary legal power". Of course, the Japanese in this era did not have any awareness of infringing on national sovereignty. In their opinion, this is simply that the general is considering Japan in everything. The general is so kind to Japan.

Regarding the conditions for establishing a concession proposed by Fang Yizhi, Tokugawa Iemitsu and Horita Masamoto had no intention of bargaining at all and immediately agreed. When talking about the tariffs, Tokugawa Iemitsu waved his hand and said generously.

"The Tang merchants of Shangguo traveled thousands of miles to Japan to send all kinds of goods needed to send Japan to Japan. How could Japan collect taxes? Please don't mention this matter again!"

"Oh, the general is kind and righteous!"

Since the Japanese really don’t want to collect tariffs, it’s hard to accept it!

...

As the envoy of the Supreme Kingdom, Fang Yizhi stayed in Edo for half a month. In addition to signing the Edo Treaty, implementing matters such as trade, concessions, extraterritorial legal powers and tariffs into the treaty, he also learned some Japanese. Of course, he also finalized a large business with the shogunate to purchase 500,000 "卡" of copper, which is equivalent to more than 6 jin. Three million jin of copper is undoubtedly extremely important for the Ming Dynasty, which lacks copper or even does not have enough copper coins.

In addition to copper, of course, there are Japanese silver, and there are also swords and folding fans... In this year, these were the local specialties of Japan. In addition, the Ming merchants looked down on Japanese local products at all. According to their statement, Japanese specialties are "only one knife and one blow".

However, Japan has a lot of silver and copper. In this era, it is definitely a hard currency. Some Ming merchant ships simply transport silver and Japanese copper back directly.

After leaving Edo, Fang Yichi returned to Nagasaki. With the help of Nagasaki Prayer, he finalized the location of the Nagasaki Concession, which is the land in the later Nagasaki Port area, and each town has a rent of 100 taels of silver. The Ming Dynasty paid 250 taels of rent each of the shogunate and the Himemae Bible every year.

During the Ming Concession and the construction of the concession houses were selected, Fang Yizhi met the Zheng family's fleet, and Nagasaki has always been the most important trade object of the Zheng family. This year, in addition to Fang Yizhi's fleet, 74 Tang ships came here, including 6 of Zheng Zhilong and 5 of the other Zheng family ships.

From this we can see the close trade between the Zheng family and Japan. Of course, Fang Yizhi, who suddenly broke in, naturally aroused the Zheng family's vigilance, especially those Tang Shitong, who were closely related to the Zheng family and from Fujian, have always been vigilant about the establishment of the concession.

"Sir, the Tang Dynasty official Chen Chongyi, Tang Shang Zheng Mingkuan asked for a visit!"

The Japanese waiter bent over and trotted inside.

Fang Yizhixiang's personal guard received the letter of worship and submitted it to the presentation.

The content of the greeting is very interesting: Chen Chongyi, Yingchuan, and Zheng Mingkuan, the subordinate of the Fujian General, worships!

Yingchuan?

In order to express his unforgettable ancestral land, the Tang people would write the ancestral land in front of their names. As for Zheng Mingkuan, the subordinate of the Fujian General, it was interesting.

People from the Zheng family?

Recently, Fang Yizhi has heard a lot about the Zheng family. Among the Tang people in Nagasaki, the influence of the Zheng family is definitely the best.

They came to pay homage to them at this time, and they were quite good at picking things. Fang Yizhi immediately smiled:

"Please."

The two of them came in a big head, which was about five feet tall, but they were still nearly one head taller than the Japanese. They bowed respectfully after entering the house:

"The grass-roots people meet Fang Chanjun!"

join the army!

Fang Yizhi frowned immediately. He came as an envoy, but they called him the military, which means they did not recognize his envoy at all.

"No gift."

Fang Yizhi said without saying a word.

"I wonder why both of you come here?"

Zheng Mingkuan said directly.

"I heard that the army joined the army and General Edo negotiated the establishment of a concession in Nagasaki for our Ming merchants to live in. I don't know if it was subject to the imperial decree!"

The reason why Zheng Mingkuan asked this was because he was sure that the other party was a small army member under the General Pinglu. Did he have the imperial decree?
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