Before the ship docked, there was a commotion around the harbor, and soon various small boats slowly came up. Kyushu is located in the south, and it is almost winter and there is no snow, so there are still some leafy vegetables.

The boatmen were selling vegetables, rice balls, rice wine, chestnut rice, and even roasted sweet potatoes.

"It seems that this Shimanzi country is quite wealthy." Seeing that Han Sanshi was finally able to get off the ground again, he reluctantly stood up and watched.

"Look over there, did you see the boat with the canopy?" Hong Jinglai suddenly saw something good.

"That is?"

"Flower boat! You can have fun for a few bucks!" Hong Jinglai teased meaningfully.

"Forget it, forget it, I don't dare to think about it anymore." Han Sanshi waved his hands quickly, looking embarrassed.

"Hahahahahaha, get off the boat, get off the boat."

Although they were getting off the boat, the three people who heard the word "flower boat" still looked back several times at the small boat with a canopy.

While several people were watching, a boatman lowered a boat cable and slid off the boat very skillfully. He actually greeted a man wearing a turban on the bow of the boat, and the man who was punting the boat actually also said hello. Can say hello in Korean.

My old benefactor!

"Happy, this is it..."

"They are staying on the ship and cannot go ashore, so they are allowed to have a good time first, and then they are not allowed to get off the ship."

"Is it like this? What's the price of this?" Hong Jinglai asked seemingly unintentionally.

"This! It's cheap. One liter of rice is enough! I can earn one or two buckets a day from my running business."

"Oh~~" It was rare that Hong Jinglai smiled at Li Xixiu.

"Hey! I'm not! I didn't! Don't talk nonsense!" Li Xizhu waved his hand quickly, his face turning red.

"I understand everything! Hahahahaha!"

When the group disembarked from the boat, the Shimazu's acting official came up to greet them on the shore.

There are all translators who are proficient in Japanese in the Lai business group, and Liu Cheng is very good at Japanese. Therefore, there is no need for "written talks" in Chinese, and everyone communicates directly in person.

Hong Jinglai couldn't understand the Japanese with a strong Satsuma accent at all, but Li Xizhu, who followed him with a red face, was very familiar with it. He seemed to be familiar with this kind of Japanese and helped Hong Jinglai pick out the key points and translate it.

The Shimazu samurai on the shore looked mature in appearance, but according to Hong Jinglai's estimate, he was only twenty-five years old, which was about the same as himself. The main reason was that Tsukiyo had aged a lot since he shaved his head, and he had a dark complexion and a beard.

They didn't come up with anything pretentious, they just brought a declaration form and asked Liu Cheng to fill it out.

But this is all a formality. Everyone has memorized "The Diary of a Drifter" a long time ago, and the answers are the same. The Shimazu family just pretended to be a formality, just in case the shogunate found it and didn't have any verification.

After copying the contents of the Hangdu Zhuyin Book, the rescue of the drifters ends here.

Out of humanitarianism, the Shimadzu family wanted to provide necessary ship repair materials and food supplies to the legitimate merchant ships of neighboring Korea.

As for why tens of thousands of kilograms of sugar are needed to repair the rudder, there is no need to ask this question in detail. Everyone knows it well, so just understand it and don't bother with it.

The people who got off the ship were guided to a house in the port. The yard was large and could accommodate twenty or thirty people without any problem.

In the past, we might not have stayed there, but now everyone is "mutually beneficial" and we are all grasshoppers on the same rope, so nothing will happen. So in recent years, apart from those who stay behind on the ship, the other half of the people stay on the shore.

The Shimazu clan's samurai were very direct. Since they were no longer in public, they asked Liu Chengyong what he wanted.

Liu Chengyong slowly said, sulfur, long knife, shotgun, red copper, gold...

All are contraband!

Sure enough, a man is not rich without windfall, and a horse is not fat without night grass!

Liu Cheng used such a huge property, dealt with so many corrupt officials, and supported so many court services. If he didn't do this, he really couldn't do anything.

"The sulfur can be delivered immediately, but the copper bar will have to wait for more than ten days."

"what about others?"

"It only takes two days to deliver it from the iron cannon treasury. As for the gold..."

"Old rules!"

"good!"

That Shimazu samurai was young, but he was very decisive, without any hesitation or hesitation.

"Xizhu, what are the old rules?"

"I just don't want their bullshit gold awards, I want pure gold!"

"how?"

"Their gold medal is half made of silver and copper. It's all a scam."

"Isn't that tantamount to cheating?" Hong Jinglai now remembered that the quality of gold coins in the middle and late Edo period has declined year after year, and has reached the point of bad coins.

"Don't mention it. In the past, there was a business leader in the business group who had a whim. He heard that Japanese gold and silver were 6 to 1. He brought the silver to exchange for it. Only less than half of the money he got back was gold, and he lost everything!" (The price comparison will continue in the future! down)

"Tsk tsk tsk, no wonder!" Hong Jinglai naturally understood.

According to Shiraishi Arai, by the fifth year of Hoei (1708), the price of precious metals flowing out of Japan exceeded that of gold by more than 8.36 million taels, and the precious metals circulating in Japan were greatly reduced.

In the fifth year of the Masato period (1715), the Tokugawa shogunate strictly prohibited the outflow of gold, silver, copper and other precious metals, but unfortunately, it had little effect.

To paraphrase "Sakagami no Cloud", Japan is a country that produces almost nothing except rice and silk.

He had no goods that could be exported. However, during the Edo period, the commodity economy was booming, and citizen consumption increased greatly. It was necessary to import spices, dyes, herbs, books, tobacco, silk, and even Western glasses from the Netherlands, China, and North Korea year after year. Nanman goods.

When foreign businessmen come over, it is impossible to accept Japanese copper coins or Echigo rice. They do not need to pay with gold and silver. As long as trade continues, the outflow of gold and silver from Japan will not stop.

Of course, after the Meiji era, Japan started large-scale industrialization and developed the raw silk industry, and female textile workers supported their reform.

Now, no matter how strict the Tokugawa shogunate is, even the Eighth Generation Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune sets an example that socks should not be worn only once and then thrown away. It is still useless to ask everyone not to buy imported goods. At this point in the development of society, the shogunate cannot stop it.

On the other hand, the Shimadzu family is so poor that they dare not sell anything. The loss of precious metals in the national reserves is none of my business. As long as I can get money, Shimadzu can take a breather.

Let alone red gold, if the Shimadzu family could sell gold for one million taels, they might also consider whether it was technically feasible.

Having said so much, I still haven't asked who the current head of the Shimazu family is. Hong Jinglai quietly asked Li Xizhu that he couldn't come to someone else's land without even knowing who the landowner was.

"My lord received the title from the four senior generals of the Imperial Guard and Satsuma Guardsmen, and was given the word by the great tree, and the taboo was announced together!"
Chapter completed!