After Han Du paused, he said seriously: "I heard that you have dealings with Japanese businessmen. Is this true?"
Jiang Wei looked startled, then nodded, "Yes."
"What's going on?" Han Du stared at Jiang Wei's eyes. Han Du didn't have the slightest fondness for the Japanese country. Jiang Wei was actually related to Japanese businessmen, which made Han Du want to find out what was going on here.
what happened.
Jiang Wei was stunned for a moment, looked at Han Du doubtfully, and asked: "Sir, there is no rule in the court against having contact with the Japanese country, right?"
Han Du was stunned for a moment and recalled carefully that Lao Zhu had never made a decree not to have contact with the Japanese country.
Uh! Han Du frowned and realized that he had preconceived ideas. So he shook his head slightly and said, "No, I just want to hear how you got in touch with the Japanese merchants."
When Jiang Wei heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The tone of the gentleman's tone just now was so strange that it shocked him. Now it seems that he may have misunderstood the gentleman.
"It's like this. In the beginning, students were making trouble with Japanese pirates here, so shouldn't students be prepared for Japanese pirates?"
Han Du suddenly stretched out his hand to interrupt Jiang Wei and asked, "Wait a minute, when you came here, were there still Japanese pirates here?" ??
Jiang Wei nodded, "Yes, and there are quite a few Japanese pirates."
"Then how did you wipe out the Japanese country?" Tan Qing didn't care much about Jiang Wei at first. After all, Jiang Wei was a civil servant and he was a military attache. If there wasn't a marquis between them who connected them, maybe neither of them would have done it.
Say the last word.
But when he heard that Jiang Wei was actually capable of killing the Japanese pirates, he couldn't sit still and made a sound of surprise.
Jiang Wei smiled calmly and said: "It's not surprising. I found that the Japanese pirates who came here are very poor. Many Japanese pirates don't even have a decent armor, and some Japanese pirates don't even have a decent knife in their hands."
None. Such Japanese pirates are very weak and can be easily wiped out."
Han Du nodded slightly. These Japanese pirates were said to be Japanese pirates, but they were probably just Japanese who wanted to escape the war in Japan. Naturally, they could not afford good knives, let alone armor.
Jiang Wei continued: "Later, the students discovered that the Japanese pirates who came from the sea had very small and poor boats, and some even came on rafts. The students found that the time at sea was when the Japanese pirates were at their weakest.
.Their rafts could not resist the warships at all. In order to prevent the Japanese pirates from coming from the sea, the students arranged for the warships to patrol the sea continuously. When encountering the Japanese pirates' ships, they could easily destroy them by rushing up to them."
Han Du immediately understood Jiang
Wei Wei's tactics were almost exactly the same as those he used when he suppressed the Japanese pirates. They relied on the advantages of the Han Dynasty to eliminate the Japanese pirates in the sea. I had never talked about naval battles in the academy, and I did not expect that Jiang Wei would not
Teachers learn by themselves. However, this also reminded Han Du that since the academy already teaches mathematics, physics, chemistry and medicine, why not add a military subject? This can give people with military talents an additional development path.
Seeing that Mr. Jiang Wei was satisfied with his victory after all, he relaxed and said, "Later one time, the warship discovered a Japanese merchant ship at sea."
Through Jiang Wei's talk, Han Du found out that originally the soldiers were going to sink the merchant ship mercilessly, but they didn't expect that the other side would surrender faster. When the soldiers brought the Japanese to Jiang Wei
, only then did he realize that these were actually merchants from the Japanese country.
Jiang Wei was good at knowing goods. When he saw the goods carried by the Japanese, he immediately understood that this was a steady stream of money. Needless to explain what happened next, Jiang Wei sold the goods of the Japanese at a very low price.
After buying the goods and agreeing on a mutual deal with them, Jiang Wei has firmly controlled this trade channel.
"That's probably what happened. I wonder what the Marquis needs students to do?" After Jiang Wei finished speaking, he looked at Han Du.
Han Du sat on the chair and knocked on the table a few times with his fingers. Then he said, "How long have you been trading with them like this?"
Jiang Wei immediately said: "It's been almost three years."
"Then you haven't investigated their details carefully?" Han Du looked at Jiang Wei doubtfully.
Handu guessed that these Japanese were definitely not ordinary Japanese, and most of them had the background of Japanese officials or nobles. What period was the Japanese country in now? During the period of melee between the north and the south, the north and the south were fighting fiercely. The entire Japanese country was devastated, and ordinary Japanese could not even fight.
It was difficult to maintain food and clothing, let alone build ships and go out to sea to do business.
Those who are qualified to go overseas to do business can only be some powerful Japanese people.
Jiang Wei nodded immediately and said: "Since we are dealing with them, students naturally have to find out their details. They are members of the Hosokawa clan."
Han Du lowered his head and thought for a moment, making sure that this name did not exist in his memory. Besides, there were so many surnames in Japan, and if it were not for a name like Yue Yiman, Han Du would not remember it at all.
Jiang Wei continued to explain: "The Hosokawa family, according to the information obtained by the students, they were once the leaders of the Muromachi shogunate in Japan."
"Wait a minute, the Muromachi shogunate? Isn't the person in charge of the Muromachi shogunate not the Ashikaga family?" Han Du felt that he was a little confused by what Jiang Wei said. If the person in charge of the Muromachi shogunate was not Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, why would he take action first?
Strong, get rid of him?
Jiang Wei smiled and explained: "Sir, you are right. The current leader of the Muromachi shogunate is indeed the Ashikaga clan. But before the Ashikaga clan, it was the Hosokawa clan."
Now Han Du suddenly understood, "So that's it. Then what is the relationship between the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan?"
"Dead enemy!" Jiang Wei curled his lips and said, "The Hosokawa clan was driven out of the Muromachi shogunate by the Ashikaga clan, and then they took refuge in the Japanese country of the Southern Dynasty. What are they called little dogs?"
"So you have been dealing with the Hosokawa family since then?" Tan Qing couldn't hold it anymore and asked.
Jiang Wei first glanced at Han Du, and when he saw that his husband did not say anything to stop him, he smiled and said to Tan Qing: "That's not true. How can we only do business with one family? Later, I sent someone to contact another person in the Southern Dynasty.
The Sei clan, and the Ashikaga clan of the Muromachi shogunate in the north. With these three companies providing supply, my governor's palace can attract so many maritime merchants."
When Han Du heard this, he clapped his hands happily and laughed: "Okay, well done. Originally, I didn't know where to start, but you have already done half of what I want to do."
Jiang Wei lowered his head and smiled slightly: "Thank you for your praise, sir. If you have any orders, please tell me directly. Jiang Wei is at your disposal."
"Dispatch is out of the question." Han Du waved his hand, "But there is indeed something for you to do."
"Sir, please speak." Jiang Wei nodded slightly.
Han Du, however, said calmly: "Don't be in a hurry, let me ask you first, what does Japan need most now, and what things have they bought from you?"
Jiang Wei lowered his head and thought for a moment, then replied: "The Japanese only bought a few kinds of things from the students, such as grain, cloth, and ironware. What the Japanese need most now is food. As long as I give them some food every time, they will
They were obviously very happy. And they asked me more than once to provide them with more food, and they were even willing to take the initiative to raise the price. However, considering the ambition of these Japanese wolves, I did not provide them with much.
of grain, and also prohibited Koreans from smuggling
I sell my own grain to them."
Han Du nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Well done, these Japanese dared to kill our envoys from the Ming Dynasty, and also sent Japanese pirates to rob our people of the Ming Dynasty. If we don't give them any color, they really want to sit in the well and watch the sky.
Already."
Jiang Wei is so smart, he can analyze a lot of things just from the teacher's words. First of all, the teacher definitely has no good impression of the Japanese country and the Japanese people. Secondly, the teacher said that he wants to show the Japanese country a good look, does that mean that
Does the Ming Dynasty want to attack Buchen? After all, even now that the Ming Dynasty is at its peak, all the surrounding vassal countries have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but the Japanese country is not among them.
"Continue." Han Du immediately gestured towards Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei reacted immediately and said quickly: "Okay. In addition to food, the Japanese also have a great demand for iron tools. Not only did they buy up all the swords, they even didn't let go of the iron ingots."
Han Du thought that the demand for iron tools in the Japanese country was naturally huge. After all, the war between the north and the south made the entire Japanese country in turmoil. In addition to the large amount of iron tools needed for the war, ordinary Japanese people would also try their best to buy some iron tools in order to protect themselves.
Knives, this further intensified the need for iron tools. However, the Japanese country was an island with poor iron ore, and they could only purchase iron tools when they needed them.
"Then there is cloth, but although the Japanese also bought a lot of cloth, students can still see from their attitude towards cloth that cloth is not as important to them as the previous two."
After Han Du heard this, he touched his chin and thought for a moment. He slowly raised his head to look at Jiang Wei and asked, "How much grain did you sell to Japan every year in the past?"
"About 300,000 shi." Jiang Wei replied without hesitation: "The year before last, it was 270,000 shi, but last year the Japanese offered a higher price, so I sold them an extra 20,000 shi.
Ninety thousand shi. The Japanese demand is even greater this year. If it were collected throughout the year, there should be 310,000 shi."
"However, all the grain and ironware sold to the Japanese were the grain collected by the students from Goryeo, or the ironware smelted from their own mines. The grain and ironware of the Ming Dynasty were not sold to the Japanese country. Only the cloth was obtained by maritime merchants.
It was shipped from the Ming Dynasty."
Jiang Wei knows the importance of food to a country. Even if the Ming Dynasty is no longer short of food, he will not sell the Ming Dynasty's food to the Japanese for money. The food of Goryeo is different. Goryeo is a vast land with few people.
, and this place is already rich in grain, so there is no problem in selling Goryeo's surplus grain to Japan.