Chapter 215 42. First borrow Dutch new technology

  Of course we have to borrow external forces!

  Although the Saga Clan is now relieved from the huge external debt, his life is still very tight. After all, you need money for military industry, education, and production expansion, and you need money everywhere.

  Especially, there is also security to fill the bottomless pit of Nagasaki. At the order of the shogunate, the fort must be guarded and the soldiers must be mobilized. Even if they just gathered people from Saga and sent them to Nagasaki, 10,000 people squatted in Nagasaki to eat horses and chew. The expenses, the daily expenses, are not exaggerated at all.

  Nabeshima Shigeru and Nabeshima Nasho, combing Saga's finances one after another, only reluctantly allowed Saga to find a balance. If this is to borrow heavily for the Takashima Coal Mine, it is absolutely not in Saga's interest. Of course, now all of Japan, it is impossible for a fool to lend money to the Saga Clan.

   Just like Saga Clan’s motivation to repay Nagasaki merchants in 70-year interest-free instalments, a single debt can be repaid for three or even four generations. When is it a big deal? Anyway, like the Hagi and Kagoshima clan, the Nabeshima family's reputation in the financial lending circle is completely stinking, and you don't want to borrow money in this life.

  And even if it has money, Saga does not have the technology to expand mining!

  You let Fujitaro Honjima take a look at the steam engine, and then save a steam engine out by yourself. Anyway, he really saw the steam engine. Some descriptions of the steam engine can also be obtained from other places, at least in my mind.

  You let him build the pump? Let him build a high-power blower? Let him build David's electric light?

  It is also necessary to lay railroad tracks in the tunnel, make small mine carts, and pull out the coal in the tunnel which is hundreds of meters deep. This is not an easy task, even if Fujitaro Honjima wants to do it, it can't be done.

  Everything needs to be done step by step, and the meal needs to be eaten one bite at a time. Don't expect to be fattened by just doing it. After all, the Saga Domain was just a domain with a population of 400,000, leaving Europe, with this population and area of ​​land, the desire to develop industry Ge Ming is actually quite unsatisfactory. There is no iron in the feudal clan. The coal is so good that it can be compared to Welsh white charcoal, but it can’t be dug out. Isn’t it a trouble.

   "So what's the external force?" Naomasa Nabeshima also knows that coal is useful, but what should I do if I can't dig it out.

   "Everyone knows the external forces, why ask me?" Tademon smiled slightly. All of them were smart people who knew them well, but no one took the initiative to break.

  Technology depends on the Dutch!

  Funding depends on the shogunate!

  As long as the Saga Clan can go out of the land and add labor, the island cannot be farmed. It is basically a wasteland with zero rocks and high waste. The manpower is even less valuable. The least valuable people are people these days.

  Co-authored with Saga Clan is an empty glove white wolf. This shameless degree is even more shameless than 70 years of interest-free instalment. At least in the first two to three decades of seventy years, a small amount of debt was repaid, and the current borrowing of external forces is purely a deception, to deceive, to engage my veteran comrade of the shogunate for more than two hundred years.

   But objectively speaking, this plan is feasible. Since the first Sino-British war, the Qing government has signed treaties large and small with foreign countries. In order to maintain their economic and political interests in East Asia, the naval forces deployed by European and American countries in East Asia have increased significantly, among which there are a large number of steamships.

  If there are steam ships, coal is needed. It is almost impossible to count on the Qing country to replenish coal for ships. The south has opened a port, but there is no coal. There is coal in the north, but the Qing country prefers to indemnify it, and resolutely refuses to allow foreigners to enter the north to directly open a port for trade.

   Now the Man Qing still has a little heart, at least the loser is to bring the British Empire, not ashamed. Napoleon was beaten down by the British Empire, and it is normal to lose with Qing. No one will look down on you completely. This layer of skin has to be lost to Little Japan before it can be considered as completely uncovered.

  Then these steamships can only seek high-quality coal from other places. If Japan can produce high-quality coal, it will be sold to these countries through the Dutch. The Saga clan can make a fortune, and so can the Dutchman, the second trafficker.

  Notice that in this world, the most proficient in the world is the Dutch. Known as the "Sea Carriage", didn't he start his business by being an Erdao dealer, and even if it has declined now, he is a qualified Erdao dealer.

  In the foreseeable future, coal will be a very popular commodity. With enough profit to attract, the Dutch must be happy to provide the technology needed to mine coal. It's okay to hire Dutch technicians directly. This is politically considered as the acquiescence of the shogunate.

  In a few years, when Perry arrives, artillery bombards Japan. The shogunate itself directly hired the Dutch to open the naval training center, and later hired French coaches to rectify the new shogunate. Japanese people are used to learning things like foreign countries handily, and they generally learn very quickly.

  At present, although the Shogunate did not fully let go of hiring Dutch technicians, in fact, the Dutch were not completely prevented from entering the mainland.

  At the beginning of the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, in the days of Ieyasu Tokugawa and Hidetada Tokugawa, the curator of the Dutch business would send staff to Edo every year to wish General Tokugawa a happy new year. Later, the five-generation general Tsunayoshi changed the time of this explanation to once every five years.

The reason is also very simple. At the beginning of the Dutch business curator's visit to Edo, he was also responsible for delivering news to the shogunate every year, maintaining trade relations between the two parties, and squeezing out trade groups from other countries~lightnovelpub.net~ until the five generations. When General Tsunayoshi, Japan only traded with the Netherlands.

  This so-called Dutch account has become a "diorama". Tsunayoshi Tokugawa said that the Dutch delegation is like monkeys playing tricks and is watched by the people of Edo every year.

  Tunayoshi is a person who loves animals very much. He probably loves houses and Uganda. So he felt that the Dutch delegation was too pitiful, so he revised the rules.

  The last time the Dutch delegation went to Edo was on the New Year in 1842, which was exactly two and a half years ago, and the next time I had to wait for the New Year in 1847.

  Saga Clan can purchase mining machinery from the Netherlands, and then hire Dutch technicians to cooperate and learn at the same time. In terms of the current progress of the Saga Clan, he will soon be able to learn and master relatively advanced mineral development technologies.

   Then quietly send the Dutch technician back. You pretend not to know, and I pretend not to know, and the fooling will pass.

  The large-scale mining of the Takashima Coal Mine, the Saga family was able to limp and began to leap forward to the first industrial Ge Ming. As for how long you can jump, it depends on Saga's ability to jump.

  Anyway, the Dutch side is in business, it is still very easy to solve. What is difficult to solve is the issue of loans from the shogunate.

  (End of this chapter)