Edo Traveler

v9 Chapter 3: The Netherlands first borrowed 1 million

When Chuemon was silent, Ii Naobi knew what he was thinking, and Chuemon had already guessed it clearly. But he wasn't embarrassed at all. Instead, he sat down nearby and wanted to ask Chuemon when he could borrow this foreign money.

   In the final analysis, Ii Naobi was a feudal prince who was relatively thoughtful and had a certain vision. In his eyes, the so-called merchants are not fat pigs slaughtered by feudal monarchs at will?

   The feudal monarchs in Europe did not do the same. They raised a large group of Jewish merchants and borrowed money from them to protect them in name. When the money is not yet available, or when a large sum of money is urgently needed, the house will be ransacked and all the people will be killed.

   In fact, it is also a meaning to blackmail the nation's wealthy businessmen under I Naobi. What private property is sacred and inviolable? What kind of bird language is this, I have never heard of it. To put it more bluntly, the merchants parasitic under the feudal kingship must be prepared to be eaten up by the feudal kingship at any time.

   The shogunate is now going to be poor as the bottom of his pants, and Naobi Ii is the money in the oil pan, and he has to reach out and use it. I asked the British bank what it means to borrow money. From the moment I heard that I could borrow money from Chuemon, Ii Naobi was not ready to pay it back.

   If you can borrow the second, third, or even the fourth, fifth, or sixth period, then you can consider it, pay a little bit first, and pretend that the shogunate is very honest. Anyway, it's all about making money, and Ii Naobi has it all.

"Yamato, I have something to discuss with your Highness today, sorry, you come tomorrow, I will give you an answer." Naobi Ii couldn't wait to see off the guests, he wanted to discuss some fraudulent money with Chuemon Yasei. Bah, it's a big plan to borrow money.

   "If that's the case, then I will leave." Kuse estimated that Chuemon had another words to persuade Ii Naobi that there could be a result, so he greeted a group of magnates and Kakimoto to leave.

  As soon as the people were gone, Naobei Ii showed his true shape, and he almost took Chuemon's hand, and Haosu asked if there were any restrictions on borrowing foreign money. Was it gold or silver, a one-time loan, or a one-year installment loan.

   "If Britain is evil, and the black ship comes again, you and I can't afford it!" Tademon is a long-term business, but he dare not just sell it like this.

   "If the shogunate has twenty to thirty thousand training teams and more than ten steamboats, I am afraid that he will be British." Naobi Ii is very bachelor, and he dares to do things that can mainly help the shogunate.

   "……"

   Chungemon was speechless, and for a while, he didn't know how to refute Ii Naobi. His theory is so perfect, the perfect Tademon doesn't know what to say.

   Borrow money to buy a gun, I will pay for a hammer if I have a gun!

   "You are a foreign country, do you know when the British will come back? If you come next year, can you borrow next year?"

"The British national strength is a hundred times stronger than the shogunate. It is only because the war with Lucia is about to start, it has no time to look around. If you really hate Britain, tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of warships will be there in no time." Chungemon didn't dare to get used to him. .

   There is at least half a century of glory in the British Empire. In this half a century, Daiying said that he would beat anyone if he wanted to beat him. Don't make it easy for Chuemon to get on a British ship, but Naobi Ii gave up his life and jumped down.

   "Huh..." Seeing Tademon's words seriously, Ii Naobi calmed down.

   "The shogunate can't provoke Britain!"

   "Don't care about this for now, I just ask you, can these two million taels be borrowed, let me borrow it first. A man who has no money for a day, he can't make a move!"

   Seems to be persuaded by Chuemon, Ii Naobi nodded. But his central idea is to borrow money quickly, as much as he can borrow. I spent the money I borrowed first, and when I have to pay it back, let the old middle-aged who succeeded me bother me.

   "Actually, you can borrow foreign money from the Netherlands, and you can use the Nagasaki tariff as a guarantee." Tadaemon expanded Ii Naobi's thinking.

   As early as more than a year ago, Chuemon had communicated with Blohov, the Senior Commercial Commissioner of the Dutch East India Colony. Bank of Amsterdam, with the permission of Chuemon, had established a bank branch in Nagasaki. In theory, as long as the shogunate approves it, at least one million pounds can be borrowed immediately.

   The handling fee is 25,000 pounds!

   With years of friendship between the shogunate and the Dutch, Blochov doesn’t even need to use Nagasaki’s tariffs as collateral. It is completely unsecured pure credit loan. Of course, if you want to borrow more, you have to have a mortgage. And it has to be a collateral for high-quality assets, nothing more than Jinshan, Yinshan, or coal mines.

   "The Netherlands can also borrow a million?" Ii Naobi didn't expect that once he came to power, he could borrow so much money just by relying on the face of the shogunate, which was quite a surprise.

   "Actually, I have communicated with the Netherlands a long time ago. If the shogunate approves it, one million will be released next month." Chuemon nodded, saying that there is no problem.

   "Hurry up, come to the city and meet the general 様."

  Ii Naobi is an activist, he doesn't care why Chuemon had hooked up with the Dutch before, he just said that Chuemon would come to one million next month. If he could borrow a million of money without collateral, he didn't bother to ask others.

   The Tokugawa family listened to the report of the two of them ~ lightnovelpub.net~ only asked how the money should be paid back, and the interest, and then agreed. One is his only younger brother, the other is a minister of his own faith, and both of them say yes, so what is not allowed. It is nothing more than paying off the debt with the Nagasaki tariffs, first buying the Dutch steamer.

   With the Dutch one million pound base, Ii Naobi finally let go. The 6 million taels allocated to the world's wealthy businessmen was reduced to 4 million taels, and they could be paid to the shogunate in two years. This is equivalent to giving two million to finish this year. Like Shigeru Nara, it was only sixty thousand taels. He bought an old middle school for fifty thousand a year, just to please Naobi Ii.

   And a business group like Mitsui with total assets of up to 11.3 million taels (data from the Meiji 2 years), one hundred thousand taels were found immediately, without blinking.

   Within a short period of time, the shogunate had three million taels of gold in cash, which was enough to buy ordnance and guns equipped with tens of thousands of troops, and even several steamer ships. Naobe Ii's desire to consolidate military and military operations, with the support of huge amounts of money, quickly unfolded and is gradually being realized.

  It’s the Dutchman climbing along the pole. I borrowed one million from you. You signed a treaty with Britain and the United States. You can’t forget me. We have a friendship of more than two hundred years.

   The Netherlands petitions to revise the contract!

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   Let’s make a note here, the British pound is equivalent to more than seven grams of gold at this time, right? Japan’s Jin Xiaowan actually contains less than seven grams of gold, and the two cannot be exchanged one to one. When we rectify our finances in the future, we will be on par with the pound sterling.