Huo Xi got to know Huo Erhuai, the two village heads, and the woman raising silkworms on the village, and formulated some measures.
Both Zhuangzi are raising silkworms for the first time this year. They lack experience, the mortality rate of silkworms is relatively high, and the number of cocoons produced is not ideal.
Without increasing the number of mulberry fields, if you want the mulberry fields to be highly profitable, you still have to work hard to increase the survival rate of silkworms, and then see if you can raise silkworms one or two more times. Use large quantities to increase benefits.
The growth cycle of silkworms generally lasts about forty days. Logically speaking, as long as the temperature of the silkworm room is maintained and there is a continuous supply of silkworm leaves, silkworms can be raised more than four times a year.
Snow only falls in November in the Jiangnan area, and the weather gets warmer in April of the following year. It should be possible to raise silkworms five or six times a year.
Who wouldn’t be happy to get more cocoons and sell them for more money?
After hearing what Huo Xi said, the two farm heads said they would sum up their experience and work hard to increase production next year.
It was already late autumn, and I thought about Yang Fu's words about coming back to spend the New Year with his family. I wonder how he was doing there and whether everything was going well.
In the history that Huo Xi understood, all the countries in the East at this time were considered vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. Even though this dynasty was called the Wei Dynasty, the histories were highly overlapping.
During the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the policy of "restriction and restraint" was implemented towards overseas countries.
Fifteen countries including Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Annan, Chenla, Siam, Champa, Sumatra, Xiyang, Java, Pahang, Baihua, Srivijaya, and Boni were listed as "not subject to conquering the barbarians".
He also warned future generations not to conquer at will.
This policy of Taizu was to treat these small neighboring countries as vassal states and to make good relations with them as sub-states.
This policy also caused the Ming Dynasty to have a lively situation in which "all nations were conquered and all nations came to the DPRK".
But among them, the Japanese nation is a special nation.
He has always been cunning, changeable, and capricious. If you feed him enough, he will want to eat more. If you retreat, he will advance.
Taizu's dynasty listed it as a country not to be conquered, but the Japanese provocateurs continued to provoke, frequently invaded the border, and constantly harassed the residents along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, causing panic and panic.
Taizu was angry and directly closed the maritime trade routes with the Japanese country and imposed a maritime ban on the Japanese country.
When Emperor Yongle came to power, in order to control the Japanese pirates along the coast, to ensure long-term peace and stability, and to show friendship, before sending Zheng He as an envoy to the West, he first asked him to go to the Japanese country with a hundred thousand naval troops and the imperial edict of the superior country.
In the second year of Yongle, Zheng He, on behalf of Emperor Yongle, read out the decree to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the third shogun of the Muromachi shogunate.
"Let them suppress the bandits on their own and apply the laws of their own country."
That means to instruct the Japanese to "wipe their own butts", to treat these coastal people, and to give the Ming Dynasty a happy answer.
I am a superior country. If I cut off your country's trade routes, I won't lose much, but you may have to break your muscles and bones. Just because I don't treat you, doesn't mean I don't have the ability. I have 100,000 navy troops.
Went to your doorstep.
I allow you to govern yourself as a token of my superior country's friendship.
As soon as Emperor Yongle's decree was issued, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu immediately took action and captured more than twenty criminal thieves.
There are a bit few people, but this nation is like a bird.
They have brought 100,000 naval troops to the door, and they have to show an attitude no matter what.
And in order to show it to Ming Dynasty, the general also ordered these pirates to be executed by "steaming to death".
Just put these pirates on a big steamer, light firewood underneath, and steam them alive.
After Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was awarded by the Ming Dynasty, diplomatic relations were officially established with the Ming Dynasty. The two sides signed the "Kanhe Trade Treaty", and the Japanese country also conducted tribute trade with the Ming Dynasty in the name of a "vassal state".
Emperor Yongle gave Ashikaga Yoshimitsu a gold seal as the "King of Japan", presented him with crown clothes, finery, gold and silver, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings and other valuables, allowed Japan to pay tribute in ten years, and also promised Japanese merchants to trade along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
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Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also replied very humbly, claiming to be the "King of Japan". In the letter, he offered gifts to his superior country and replied "I... am sincerely afraid".
He also presented "a thousand taels of gold, ten horses, a thousand thin paper posts, a hundred copies of fans, three pairs of screens, a collar of armor, a collar of copper pills, ten waist swords, a handle of a knife, a combination of inkstones, and a desk."
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But it is a pity that this nation has always been cunning and capricious. Unlike the vassal-vassal relationship maintained by the neighboring Korea and the Ming Dynasty for nearly three hundred years, the southeast coast maintained a peaceful situation for only more than ten years. By the 15th year of Yongle
The year is over.
Huo Xi knew about this period of history in later generations. As long as the ship going out to sea could withstand the wind and waves, Yang Fu's trip should be safe.
Even if they encounter a small group of pirates, Yang Fu's ship is so big that the pirates' boats will not dare to get close. If they get close, the things prepared on the boat will make it impossible for them to come back.
At this time, Yang Fu and his party had arrived in Pingdo County of Japan.
Before the ship even docked at the port, Japanese merchants heard the news and took action.
Not only the Japanese Kingdom, but also merchants from the neighboring Korea, the Ryukyu Kingdom and other island countries, and even merchants from Western countries, have already flocked here.
A large ship from the East has docked. The rare and exotic goods brought there are in short supply, and everyone wants a piece of the pie.
Yang Fu drifted at sea for three months and encountered a storm again. Now he finally saw land, and his whole body seemed to have come to life again.
The four of them, Zhufeng Tayue and Listening to Lei Muyu, went ashore.
There was nothing to do on the ship, so he studied Japanese day and night with a translator who knew Japanese, and now he has achieved some success. Before he had time to take a look at the scenery of Hirado, he got into a bar and started talking in Japanese that the other party could understand.
It's called food.
Although the food from Japan is not very appetizing, it is still better than the food eaten on the ship.
There's also some wine to drink, which is pretty good.
But why is this wine bottle and drinking utensil so compact? How many sips can I take?
After eating two mouthfuls of rice and filling his stomach, Yang Fu was free to observe these foreigners.
Hey, Niang Le, the wind is really different from ten miles away, and the customs are different from hundreds of miles away. Look at the way the Japanese are dressed and the wooden clogs they wear on their feet. Isn’t it too cold?
Looking at this room again, he had forgotten how he got in just now.
He nodded and hunched in. There were no chairs, and the table was so short. After sitting cross-legged for a while, his legs became numb.
The four people who looked at Zhufeng were also like him, as if there were nails under their butts, changing positions frequently. The five people looked at each other and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
After the five of them had eaten and drank enough, they wandered around Hirado Street and looked at the scenery.
I found that the houses here are not very high, and the walls are very short. You can see the scene in the courtyard by standing on tiptoe. The houses in the neighborhood are all close to each other. They are very compact, all made of wood, and the foundations are high.
Built on a wooden platform.
Is it because it's near the sea and the ground is too damp?
The lanterns hanging above the door are also very different from those in the Wei Dynasty. They are mostly square or elongated, like a fish tail.
Pedestrians on the street were walking very fast in wooden clogs. They made a crisp sound when they stepped on the stone road. Yang Fu and others were stunned.