In the Mito family residence in Yamao Hand (place name), on a row of tall Japanese maple trees outside the yard, the summer cicadas are squeaking and yelling non-stop.

The July sun shines through the open windows into a tatami-covered room. There are several people sitting in the room, but they are all blue cloth slanted collars, wide-sleeved long clothes, and square flat scarves on their heads. They are all dressed as Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why he dressed like this was to show the Japanese the truth of China represented by Zhu Ming. In these days in Japan, Zhu Jishi never wore Western clothing again.

"Ming Gong, please see, this place is called 'Yokohama'. It is a small fishing village southwest of Edo Castle. The territory of the Tokugawa So Family. Including the surrounding villages, the nominal stone height is about 3,300 stones." Zhu Mo, the general manager of the Four Oceanic Shops in Japan in the future, pointed to a map and said, "It is all the dowry of Miss Akiko. Although the stone height is limited, the territory is not small, with tens of thousands of acres, mostly beaches, which are very suitable for building a port. In addition, a town can be built, which means a town, which will be very prosperous in the future."

He will soon become a son-in-law of the Tokugawa family. Zhu Jishi, who is called "Zhu Saint" by ordinary Japanese people, sat cross-legged on the tatami, looked at the map, nodded very seriously, but was thinking in his heart: Akiko's little loli has nothing to say about her face and skin, but she is shorter, less than 1.5 meters tall. I wonder if she can grow taller? And she has a baby face, but she looks like a little girl, so she has become her concubine? It's so evil!

He was thinking about evil things in his heart, but his face was still serious. He had heard of the "Yokohama" that Zhu Mo mentioned more than a hundred years later. It was the largest commercial port in Japan, so he nodded with satisfaction, "Yokohama Port is very good. Shaoyan, you can do this Yokohama."

"Myonggong, I can't do it for Yokohama to follow me." Zhu Mo quickly waved his hand and smiled, "Because although Yokohama was Miss Akiko's dowry, it would not be transferred to Ms. Akiko's name, and will be kept in Ms. Akiko's name in the future. In addition, the Tokugawa family has prepared eighty-eight companions for Ms. Akiko, most of whom are both civil and military, and are very capable. If you follow a position, you should choose from them."

The so-called "supervisor" means following Tokugawa Akiko to the Zhu family and becoming a retainer for Zhu Jishi. At present, there are many Japanese samurai, and the Tokugawa family also tried every means to arrange it, so they sent 88 Zhu Jishi at once - probably because they knew that Zhu Jishi was rich and asked him to help raise some. Most of these people were lower-level samurai or the last samurai family, but they were all proficient in swordsmanship and received good "Chinese studies" and "Ranxue" education. The Japanese samurai class in the Edo period attached great importance to education. Each vassal opened a vassal school with educated samurai, and cultivated a large number of aspiring people who were "private and worried about the world", and most of them were both civil and military.

Because warriors themselves are soldiers, they receive traditional military education. Although what they learn is outdated, the quality of soldiers is excellent. Most of them have very good writing and mathematics skills. Many people have a certain amount of knowledge in Western learning, which can easily train them into excellent officers or soldiers.

It is indeed much better than Chinese Confucian scholars who only know how to write eight-legged articles and Chinese military officers who only know how to "sell their skills"!

In history, Japan was able to come from behind and become an emerging power, and the most important reason was that it was full of talents. Therefore, if you want to stop Japan's rise, the best way is not to get rid of a few so-called "heroes". There are countless candidates behind these "heroes", and they cannot be cut off at all! Only by maintaining the Tokugawa shogunate as much as possible and extending Japan's policy of locking up the country.

Similarly, China's decline in history in the late Qing Dynasty was actually a failure of the Confucian education system caused by the eight-legged scholarship! In fact, the failure of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was also a failure of Confucian education to some extent. If China really revitalizes, it is necessary to start by reforming Confucianism and combining it with Western education and modern military education. The officers of the Ming Empire in the future must of course "middle school is based and Western learning is used", and Confucian education is absolutely necessary. After all, Zhu Jishi wanted to be the emperor, not the general secretary. If the officers under his command were not brainwashed by the Confucian idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor, but believed in Marxism and were all full of rebellious spirit, would we Emperor Zhu still sleep peacefully?

"Ming Gong, I have met with them all one by one, and they are both civil and military, and some of them are really useful." Zuo Zongtang shook the paper fan and suggested, "They should be used for me."

Zhu Jishi smiled bitterly. International competition is ultimately a competition for talents! How many talents are available in China under the Qing Dynasty? Can a few famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty compare with such a large number of reform heroes? What is the group of civil and military officials under his command, and how many of them can compare with Zhu Jianyu and Takayong Saigo (Zhu Dadi still doesn't know that this master is Takay Saigo, one of the three Japanese reform heroes)?

"Who are there?" Zhu Jishi looked interested. He had never seen any of these sixty-eight accompanies before. He had so many social engagements these days. Not only did the Tokugawa family want to meet him, but even the vassal lords of various vassals living in Edo came to visit.

Zuo Zongtang thought about it and recommended a talent to Zhu Jishi. He said, "There is a very good person named Shengyi Zhou. He is not only proficient in Confucianism and Zen, but also very proficient in Western learning and Western military studies. He also opened a forging shop outside Edo Castle and could design and manufacture foreign guns by himself! Although it is not as good as a shellfish gun, it is not bad at all compared to a brown bass gun."

"Well, you can arrange him to study with Beisemai for some time, and you can manage the arsenal in the future." Zhu Jishi said carefully. Now he has no shortage of military generals, and civil servants can recruit some Confucian scholars to make do with it first. What you lack the most is the managers and engineers who manage the company. Although they have been hired in Europe, those people do not belong to China. And this person named Shiyi Zhou... is his own retainer, right? If he is really a talent, he should go to China to manage the factory for himself, so as to avoid being involved in Japan with some anti-straitors and learning bad things.

"That Saigo Takanaga also broke into the Tokugawa So family, and this time he joined the Aoku-gong-chan as a servant." Zuo Zongtang said again, "In addition, the Goto family and the Okhei Chang family each had ten children serving as the Aoko's servants. They were both businessmen and scholars, and were proficient in casting technology, and were all available talents."

The Goto family and the Okurota family minted currency for the shogunate. Although they were samurai, they were actually royal merchants.

"This is not bad." Zhu Jishi nodded.

Zhu Mo also suggested: "Myung Gong, his subordinates suggested entrusting the errands pursued by Yokohama to the Goto family and the Okami family to compensate them for their losses in the loss of their coinage. The salary pursued by Yokohama can be 500 stones."

The Goto family and the Okami Chang family are now a bit like the compradors of the Four Oceanic Banks. Although they have lost the interests of coinage, they can definitely make more money by being compradors of the four major banks, so the current loss is only for face. The four major banks are not familiar with Japan and want to start their business as soon as possible, they must find Japanese agents.

"There is another position of shipbuilding and it is also given to the people of both of them. Yokohama is the transit station for our Pacific trade routes, and there will be many shipbuilding and ship repair businesses that can be done."

Zhu Jishi thought for a while and said, "In addition, he also wanted to open a shopping mall in Ryukyu, so in the name of HSBC, the manager of the shopping mall also lets the two families take turns to take charge. By the way, Yokohama was originally a fishing village? Are there many fishermen?"

"There are many fishermen."

"Then let's set up another fishing practice." Zhu Jishidao, "As far as I know, Japanese abalone and sea cucumber are important export commodities. We need to find a way to do this. There are many whales in the Pacific Ocean south of Japan. The price of whale oil has risen rapidly in recent years, so many foreign whaling ships are active in the Pacific Ocean near Japan. We can build some large fishing boats and organize fishermen in Yokohama to go out to catch whales.

In addition, Japan's sulfur quality is very good and the output is also very large. Lan Fangxing can buy sulfur in Japan, which will be available to our rubber factory and gunpowder factory in the future."
Chapter completed!