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Chapter 16 Trading Partners from Dongying

"Hiko Shimazu, right? Let's come in and talk." Chu Yun led the envoy of the Shimazu family into the military camp.

Judging from Shimazu Kokuha’s reaction, this is a big fish. What if you don’t slaughter it well? Your conscience will hurt!

"I'm called Hiroku, but Hiroku..." Shimazu Hiroku looked dark...

"It's all the same. We are discussing business today, and it doesn't matter what the name is." Chu Yun waved his hand indifferently.

"The name is accepted by the parents, so you can't call it wrong." Unexpectedly, Shimazu Kokusa is quite rigid.

In this way, Chu Yun looked at him with admiration. Well, I'll kill him a little later, just a little bit.

"Please sit down." Chu Yun brought Shimazu Kokusa to the reception hall and asked Shimazu Kokusa to sit down. "I am the general of the Ming Dynasty, who guards the Liaodong gates for the emperor. He has a lot of trouble every day and does not meet outsiders easily."

When I heard Chu Yun’s business hype, even Yang Tai, Chang Yi, Dong David and other subordinates all blushed. What is the general of the Ming Dynasty? It is obvious that he bullied the Japanese envoys and did not understand the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty. There are not thousands of thousands of generals in the Ming Dynasty, and there are hundreds of thousands...

"Yes, only the generals of the Celestial Empire have such advanced firearms! Our Shimazu family came here to visit the ocean and sent them to buy firearms from the general to promote the prestige of the Celestial Empire." Shimazu Kokusa still believed it, showing a longing look like a little fan.

"Why didn't your Shimazu family directly find Franchise to buy firearms, but came to my Ming border?"

"It's a long time to say that the shogun prohibits Danames from all over the country from trading with Westerners. Only trade with the Celestial Empire is allowed." Shimazu Kokuhara said the truth.

So that's the case, Japan has also begun to ban the sea.

"The reason why the shogunate banned the sea was because he was afraid that you big-name forces would become bigger? But you Shimazu are still here to buy new weapons. It seems that they are not for self-protection or for Luo?"

Maybe Chu Yun made the decision, Shimazu Konoha was silent.

"But I am the general of the Celestial Empire and I am not interested in the matters of you wild lands. We only talk about business, can we?" Chu Yun did not intend to expose the Shimazu family's little thoughts.

"To be honest, we have many forces in Japan, and different families are fighting each other. Our Shimazu family is just to protect our interests in Kyushu Island." Since we have been seen through, Shimazu Kokusa no longer intends to conceal his purpose.

"Our firearms are not that easy to obtain. After all, they are the most advanced firearms in the world. Do you know what the price is?" Chu Yun rubbed his fingers lightly and posed for money.

"General, we won't lose money from the Celestial Empire, but is the price of this musket too high? Two thousand taels of silver only have one hundred muskets, and on average, each musket costs twenty silver. The price is really too high. Although our Shimazu family is one of the best big families on Kyushu Island, it is not as rich as the Celestial Empire, but it is not that rich." Shimazu Kokusa said with a frown.

"Well, this is a big problem. Unfortunately, although I guard the border for the Emperor and carry a 100,000 army, I cannot sell the muskets to you at a low price without the will of the Emperor. Let me think about it... Let me think so, I personally subsidize you fifty muskets and ten thousand bullets in private. What do you think?" Chu Yun's eyes rolled and suddenly came up with a good idea.

"So you think this is serious?" Shimazu Kokusa was overjoyed to hear that Chu Yun could give him fifty more muskets.

"Just..." Chu Yun hesitated for a moment.

"What?" Shimazu Kokusa suddenly felt aroused when he saw Chu Yun hesitating.

"If Shimazu family can become trading partners with us and help us sell some goods."

Chu Yun finally expressed his intention. He wanted to turn Japan into his own commodity dumping market before the Tokugawa shogunate completely closed the country.

“Celestial dynasty commodities are also very popular in our place, but…”

"No need! Just do this, in two months, I will give you two newest artillery and three hundred shells from the Shimazu family! In the future, we will give you 20% of the net profit of our trade." Chu Yun stretched out two fingers.

Hiss... Shimazu Kokuha took a deep breath of air conditioning.

It's so crazy! As long as you become Chu Yun's agent, you can get 20% of your net profit! If Chu Yun's products can occupy the entire Japanese market, then wouldn't Shimazu family share 20% of your net profit in the country?

Although the entry of Ming merchandise is not a good thing for the entire Japan, it can make the Shimazu family the number one big family. If you use Chu Yun's power in the future, you may be able to replace the Tokugawa shogunate. At least this is what Shimazu Kokuha thinks.

"I wonder if there is any place for our Shimazu family to serve?" Shimazu Kokusa asked tentatively, but there was already a little fanaticism in his tone.

"First of all, you should provide us with a port, and our fleet can be parked at this port at any time. Secondly, you cannot tax our fleet. Finally, our caravans can trade freely with other damings." Chu Yun said the conditions.

"There is no problem with the port, it's okay not to impose taxes... but will trade with other daimyos harm the interests of our Shimazu family?"

"You don't have to worry about this. We won't sell firearms to other Ming Dynasty, just some textiles and metals."

"That's good!" Shimazu Kokusa thought for a while, then agreed, "I want to take away a hundred muskets first, and then go back to report to the head of the family. If the head of the family agrees, please give us the additional fifty muskets and two cannons."

"No problem, Mr. Yang, you take him to pick up the goods, remember to check the silver secret in person."

Chu Yun waved his hand and asked Yang Tai to take Shimazu Kokusa and others to the warehouse to see the goods.

"Then General, let me say goodbye first." Shimazu Kokusa could no longer help but want to see the new musket.

"Come with me." Yang Taizhi said arrogantly, not taking the second young master of the Shimazu family seriously at all.

Chu Yun was happy. Of course, what he used to sell to Japan was not the French 1777 rifle, but the old 17th-century musket made by Chu Yun, the French Ordnance Bureau and others. Even so, the muskets from the mid-to-late 17th century were much better than the muskets used in Japan today.

"It's so easy for money to come." Chu Yun crossed his legs and drank tea, calculating his recent income and expenditure. He was expanding his army on a large scale, producing muskets and cannons, establishing smelting plants, and hoarding grain, but still having the remaining silver.
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