Taira Akiumori was very careful to conceal—or thought he was concealing his ambitions as a new generation of Japanese shoguns. So he has always tried his best to appear as an "otaku culture enthusiast".
Deep in his heart, he very much hopes to preserve the traditional Japanese culture and language and let Japan continue on its original historical path - it is best to go all the way to Taisho, and then directly enter the very loving Heisei. What is the Showa spirit?
It just doesn't work anymore.
But he never dared to mention this idea to anyone, as it was somewhat "politically incorrect". It was difficult for Ping Qiusheng to understand the Senate's attitude towards Japan: instead of dealing with North Korea, Vietnam wanted to be straightforward
"Chineseization" is not the unhesitating "final solution" to Southeast Asia - it is an ambiguous feeling of love and hate.
Now, the fate of Japan is in my hands.
It was with such complicated thoughts that Ping Qiusheng boarded the transport ship bound for Jeju Island.
The transport ship is an h800 Harmony Ship: "Home Delivery". Although this ship is not the majestic 854 or 901 steam battleship, and is slightly lacking in speed, the actual displacement of the ship with a load capacity of 800 tons is 1,400 tons, which is only less than the 854
The full load displacement is smaller.
The larger the ship, the less bumpy it is to sit on. Therefore, except for navy veterans and those in urgent need, most of the veterans who go to Hong Kong, Jeju and Taiwan on business trips prefer to take h800. Larger hulls can also be equipped with better accommodation cabins:
A "premium box" with a soft-seat layout similar to that of a train is arranged in the stern cabin.
There were two other elders who went to Jeju Island at the same time as Heping Qiusheng. They were Huang Hua, who was preparing to start a war against Houjin trade, and Li Yaoer, who was from the Agricultural Committee.
Huang Hua has been "on standby" since he graduated from the intelligence training class - that is, he continues to work at the Machinery Factory. He reports to the Intelligence Bureau every week, chats and listens to lectures, which is called "return to soup" in the terminology of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
.The purpose is to avoid forgetting the training contents after a long time.
He had been waiting like this for more than a year. He had watched Jeju Island fall for a long time, and the Dengju Rebellion was about to come to an end. The overseas assignment was still far away. When he was disappointed, the assignment was suddenly issued——
First go to Jeju Island with the ship, and then wait for the opportunity to enter the Manchu territory to carry out trade and intelligence work.
This strong man from Heilongjiang was in a state of excitement. He often stood on the deck and looked at the sea. From time to time he raised his head to the sky and roared. He was very high-spirited and wanted to make achievements in the wilderness, and even said that he would not hesitate to sacrifice his life for it.
Li Yao'er, on the other hand, seemed both excited and nervous. Ping Qiu Sheng saw that she had a dignified and gentle appearance. Although she looked like she was twenty-seven or seventy-eight years old, she still sounded like a bouncing little girl when she spoke.
, I don’t know why Wu Nanhai sent such a girl to Jeju Island.
The journey was long and boring. Ping Qiusheng chatted with her and found out that she originally worked at the Finance Department. She was an accountant in the finance department. However, because she was not interested in accounting, she was more interested in gardening and loved cooking. So she applied to be transferred to the Agriculture Committee.
Went there - it happened that the Wudaokou system was vigorously promoting monetary settlement, and all departments needed full-time accountants, so Li Yaoer was officially transferred to the Agricultural Committee as the chief accountant.
Although she still worked as an accountant when she got to the Agricultural Committee. And as soon as she took office, she had to clear out the accounts over the years, and then there were countless accountings to do, but at least she was in a place that interested her, and she pushed away from the office of the Agricultural Committee.
Outside the window, there is a beautiful garden with flowers blooming in all seasons: full of various herbs, herbs and flowers.
Working here is much better than the cold Bauhaus-style office building full of "industrial beauty" in the Finance Department. In her spare time, she can also spend time with Wu Chuqing, Liu San and his apprentice Fu Wuben, etc.
People who love gardening tended the garden together and lived a very fulfilling life. So they wanted to live in the agricultural committee apartment on the farm.
Li Yao'er's husband, Mei Fa, was working at the Work Energy Commission. After living on the farm, the distance to work was too far. After the couple negotiated all day and night, Li Yao'er agreed to increase the number of maids her husband could buy from two to four.
The conditions were finally agreed. So the couple moved out of the apartment in Bairen New City and moved into the apartment of the Agricultural Committee.
"I didn't expect you to be so generous." Ping Qiu Sheng exclaimed during the chat. It's good enough that he is allowed to buy maids, and he is allowed to buy four!
"I told him at the beginning that as long as the priorities are clear, I won't care. But a maid is a maid, and you are not allowed to take concubines officially!" Li Yao'er said indifferently, "Anyway, any maid would dare to do anything wrong.
Just thinking about it, I could kill her with just one finger." A cold smile appeared on the corner of her mouth with a sweet and lovely smile, which made Ping Qiucheng's neck go cold and he realized that what she said was definitely not a joke.
"Besides, even if I firmly disagree, if he really wants to do this, can I stop him?" Li Yao'er said, "This is the virtue of a man! Liu San dumped his wife directly -
Rather than carrying this reputation and then being thrown away, it would be better to open it up conditionally and make it much more controllable."
Li Yaoer's theory left Ping Qiu Sheng speechless, so he changed the subject, "What are you going to do in Jeju?" Ping Qiu Sheng was very curious about this.
"To develop ginseng resources." Li Yao'er said, "I am very interested in ginseng and have learned a lot of professional knowledge. Isn't the specialty of North Korea and Liaodong ginseng."
Then she talked endlessly about all kinds of knowledge about ginseng identification, cultivation and extraction - it was very unpopular, and I don't know how a girl who studied accounting could like this kind of knowledge.
“The conditions on Jeju Island are relatively difficult.”
"It doesn't matter, I like to travel by nature and am not afraid of hardship. I probably inherited my father's adventurous gene." Li Yao'er said quickly and urgently, "I used to be a senior travel companion and have been to many barren mountains and ridges."
She stood up excitedly as she spoke: "I am so excited when I think that there are still many great places and places in this time and space that have not been polluted or modified by humans!"
The convoy briefly anchored in Kaohsiung, replenished water, and unloaded a batch of cargo. Then it sailed to Jeju Island, and finally sailed into Chaocheonpo Pier smoothly in early June.
After Ping Qiusheng landed ashore, he immediately began to make plans for his trip to Japan.
Developing trade with Japan is a policy that has been set by the Senate long ago. In the past, due to the lack of a suitable departure port and concerns about the strength of Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang and the Dutch, this trade has not been carried out. Now that Jeju Island has been acquired, the Netherlands
They are half allies. The forces of Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang are tightly constraining each other. Their own naval strength has increased sharply. It is time to officially take action. The Industrial Energy Commission and the Financial and Economic Affairs Commission have long been against Japan's silver and copper.
I'm salivating.
The instruction given to him by Skade was that in addition to trying to develop trade with Japan, he should also conduct certain penetration work into Japanese society, establish a trade and intelligence network, and do a good job in intelligence collection. In order to prepare for the next step in the work with Japan
Prepare.
"It's not enough to just open a business store in Hirado. The shogunate is also very suspicious of the Chinese." Skade said, "Originally, the Chinese could rent and live in Japanese residential areas in Hirado, but that was later banned.
.If we just open a business store, we will be no different from the foreigners in the 13th Bank of Guangzhou."
Skade originally wanted him to search for food in Japan to supply the refugee camps on Jeju Island, but Ping Qiusheng thought this was impossible. The entire northern part of the East Asian continent in this time and space was affected by the Little Glacier climate, regardless of the Ming Dynasty.
, North Korea, and Japan's grain production have been decreasing year after year, so he said at the time that this was impossible - even if he could get some grain, the price would not be cheap, and whether the shogunate could allow exports was still a question.
Fortunately, since the Agricultural Committee sent Wan Lihui to Jeju Island to plant potatoes, Jeju Island's food supply should be relieved soon. This matter is no longer an urgent matter.
For trade with Japan, Ping Qiusheng believes that it is unreliable to rely on exporting goods from Lingao - Lingao's industrial products are themselves limited by production capacity, and consume a lot of money for their own use. In addition, they need to travel thousands of miles north, and the cost is high.
This becomes unacceptable. It is the most ideal way to purchase various goods through Shanghai Station in Jiangnan and export them to Japan. After all, these goods have been popular in Japan for a long time. A simple processing industry can also be established in Jeju Island.
, manufacturing some primary Australian goods to open up the Japanese market.
As for trade with North Korea, his idea is to exchange the patent medicines brought from Lingao for North Korean ginseng and kapok cloth. North Korea in this time and space does not have much spending power, but a large number of medicines, including the antifreeze cream developed by Lingao
There is still a market in the north today. Ginseng is a popular commodity in Japan and the Ming Dynasty, and kapok cloth is a bulk trade item between Japan and North Korea - Japan had a huge demand for textiles at that time.
Ping Qiusheng submitted a report to the Executive Committee, suggesting that the trade of Jian slaves should also focus on such items. Firstly, there was no shortage of silver for Jiannu slaves. Secondly, Huang Taiji was very resistant to the trade in luxury goods. But regardless of these
No matter what the national policy is, medicines are always needed. Especially for this kind of bandit-like regime that is militaristic and whose economy is based on war and robbery, the demand for red medicine is particularly huge. If you want to exchange for the population of Liaodong and cannot produce large-scale food, ready-made medicine will be needed.
A very good product.
The raw materials for patent medicines can be obtained directly from North Korea or imported from the Ming Dynasty. The advantage of Jeju Island is that it is very close to North Korea, Japan and the Ming Dynasty. Some lower-cost drugs can be manufactured in Jeju Island.
In terms of trade routes, although the route from Shanghai to Hirado is fast and convenient, with the addition of Jeju Island as a superior transfer station, trade routes have a variety of choices, allowing for a certain degree of triangular trade.