Chapter 263 28. People's Qing Dynasty State License

  There is a saying that the Dutch East India Company submitted to Tokugawa Ieyasu and Tokugawa Hidetada that year, and the words were so earnest that it could be called a humble document...

Gone!

  A fire broke out before Edo Castle, and many important documents were burned. Even some of the treasures such as the pedigree of the Matsudaira and Tokugawa clan have been burnt down, let alone a document dating back hundreds of years.

  I really want to have this thing. In the future, the gang likes to attract people's attention. They just want to make a big news and newly discovered goods. Can they immediately show it to the world? They will definitely recognize that document as a national treasure cultural treasure, and then show every day, moon and moon, and every year.

  According to Chuemon’s memory, the family treasures and books inherited by the Tokugawa clan from generation to generation were taken out by the later generations of the Ritogawa clan, some were donated free of charge, and some were displayed as cultural relics belonging to the cultural foundation. There is absolutely no such credential in it, and it is a pity that it is not a pity.

  But this is absolutely true. As long as an old Edo warrior can meet the Dutch ranks once every five years, he will come to Edo to explain. The three people present are very sure that the Netherlands is the "subordinate" force of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

   So when he said this, Chuemon was deliberately cheating, and Sukeruk and Sakuma Sakuma looked like this. Their expressions are not pretending, because they always think so. They also watched the Dutch acrobatic troupe perform in Edo two years ago. It is said that Ieki Tokugawa was very happy to see it.

   James, who also has some diplomatic experience and social experience, looked at the expressions of the three people, and they were indeed full of confidence, not as if they were fake. I couldn't help but curse in my heart. The Dutch are really a bunch of pure peddler vendors. They have no bottom line. They actually wrote a letter of credence to the Tokugawa shogunate.

  How can I talk about this?

  Cite the example of the Netherlands, and come up with the western set of equal and consistent values, which can be the values ​​that I want, which is in the arms of the shogunate. Without citing the example of the Netherlands, the shogunate is also a sovereign country and has every reason to refuse your trade request. What kind of mainland blockade order do you want to play that does not allow us to shut down and lock the country?

  Equality cards are not easy to play, right, and free cards are not easy to play, right...

  "As far as I know, your country does not only trade with the Netherlands, but also trades with the Qing country!" James still doesn't believe it. Can the Shogunate even accept Qing as a vassal?

  "Qingguo?" This was a problem, and Chuemon organized the language a bit.

   "Although the Qing country and our country did trade, they were only allowed in Nagasaki. If they were in other places, they would be expelled from our country!" Sakuma Kyouyama suddenly said.

   "Then our country can only trade in Nagasaki!" As expected, James immediately followed this sentence.

  Tadaemon looked at Sakuma Zoyama, how did you pass the handle to the Americans? This kind of thing should be able to cover up as much as possible, and wait for him to bring it up before discussing it.

"Then please ask your country to obtain a license from our country, each requires six thousand taels of silver (one said five thousand taels), and the validity period is three years (one said two years). Continue to pay the license fee when changing the license!" Sakuma Xiangshan smiled slightly , He seems to have learned about this before.

  Hearing this condition, James was completely unbelievable. He paid a license fee of about 8,000 Mexican silver dollars every three years. The American ship from the east coast may not be able to go back and forth with Japan in one year. This is not a joke, how could it be possible.

  "How could Qing merchants accept such an expensive pass fee!" Of course, James didn't believe it.

  Actually, he doesn’t believe it and it’s normal, because he doesn’t know the particularity of trade between China and Japan. The reason why the shogunate dared to issue licenses to Qing merchant ships was because the shogunate determined that Qing merchant ships must come to Japan, and the profits would be very lucrative.

  Take red copper as an example. In the early Qing Dynasty, Yunnan and Guizhou were not under the control or direct jurisdiction of the Manchu and Qing courts. However, apart from Yunnan and Guizhou, the vast inland areas of Qing did not have large-scale copper and zinc producing areas for coining coins. Therefore, we can only handle foreign copper from Japan, and the price of foreign copper shipped to the capital is as high as seventeen twenty-five cents per hundred catties.

  And what is the purchase price in Japan? No one dares to believe it. A hundred catties only cost five to five dollars to six taels of silver. There is no need to say more about the profit in the middle.

  Furthermore, Chinese silk, dyes, Chinese books, patent medicines and other items have excellent sales in Japan. These items have doubled or even more profits.

  In the beginning, the Qing ships to Japan traded, but they came to the end, just come here. Later, Japan gradually began to realize the shortcomings of the massive loss of precious metals, and only then began to sort out. It is stipulated that only 36 ships will be issued licenses each year (this number varies and varies from time to time). After paying a license fee of 6,000 taels of silver for each of these 36 ships, they can make two or three trips to Japan a year.

  You can save money in one trip, start making money in two trips, and run at least seven or eight trips in three years to make a lot of money. Many imperial merchants who undertook Japanese foreign copper for the government of the Southeastern provinces became rich.

  So not to mention that a license costs 6,000 taels, you are a license that costs 16,000 taels, and some people do it. Besides, those who have a license will not smuggle? Is it sold to the shogunate, not to other daimyo? Don’t have too many people who secretly do business with the great names of southwest Japan~lightnovelpub.net~ With a license, you can pretend to be a drifting ship or a wrecked ship, and you can prevaricate if something happens.

  This is caused by the short voyage between China and Japan and the large profits of trade under special circumstances. At the time of 1845, the foreign copper imported by the Qing Dynasty from Japan has not been more than 2 million catties a year. First, the output of Japanese copper mines has decreased, prices have risen, and profits have decreased. Secondly, the Qing Dynasty had Yunnan copper, and the demand for foreign copper was also small.

  Today, the Qing Dynasty ships traveling between Qing Dynasty and Japan do not have the scene where dozens of them gathered at that time. Japan has made every effort to produce all kinds of goods that cannot be produced domestically, and its demand for the outside world has decreased, and it has even begun to export porcelain, raw silk, white wax and other special products that originally needed to be imported.

  It is foreign guns and cannons. The demand in Japan is quite large, and there are also spices and dye crops that cannot be cultivated in Japan that need to be imported. When other things are delivered to Japan, no one may be willing to buy them.

  "Since General James came from the Qing country, he can ask the merchants of the Qing country whether he has obtained a license from our country." Sakuma Xiangshan was not afraid of James to ask.

  It’s ugly, what will happen after I ask? If you let these nineteenth-century powers spend money to buy a pass, there is still a pass that has an expiration date and does not guarantee profit. That is the same as cutting his flesh.

  (End of this chapter)