"I'm exhausted today." Zhu Mengjiong sat down on the chair and said.
"Husband, no prince from the Ming Dynasty has ever come to Fusang before, so these famous names are very curious about me, a little too enthusiastic, and I have not been exposed to some of Fusang's customs. Naturally, it will be very tiring. Tomorrow, husband, please don't invite me like this.
I must go and rest at home for a day." Although Princess Yong'an Mingzi was also very tired, she still stood behind Zhu Mengjiong and said while massaging his shoulders.
"Of course, if this continues, I will die suddenly. When Xie Jin was compiling "History of the Yuan Dynasty", some copyists died of exhaustion, but I cannot die of exhaustion." Zhu Mengjiong said.
"Mingzi, you are quite tired today. You should rest for a while, rub your shoulders and let the servant come." Zhu Mengjiong said again.
"Yes, husband." Akiko smiled sweetly and asked the servants to come in and serve him.
Today is the fifth day that Zhu Mengjiong came to Yokohama. On the first day, he took a half-day rest on the grounds that he was tired from the journey. From the second day, he began to entertain local daimyo or attend banquets.
Unexpectedly, it would be impossible to stop the car from the beginning. There are so many great names in the Kanto region. Once you meet one of them, you have to meet the others. If that's all, it's okay. These great names still have their own grudges against each other.
They must not have a banquet together, and the relationship between the local daimyo is complicated. Even the Kansai Fuso people sent by Yoshimitsu to help him can't figure out how to be cautious about banquets or accepting banquets.
Zhu Mengjiong, who had never experienced such a thing in China, couldn't bear it after two days like this and decided to rest at home for a day. Anyway, he was the prince of the Ming Dynasty, so he didn't dare to do anything to measure these fusang bumpkins.
‘Even if the relationship with them is very tense, so what? They don’t dare to do anything to me.’ Zhu Mengjiong thought to himself.
Mingzi understood Zhu Mengjiong's thoughts very well, so she took the initiative to propose a day's rest at home.
The couple sat on a chair and rested for a while, then got up and took a shower, then turned off the lights and went to sleep.
On the second day, Zhu Mengjiong declined all the invitations from the daimyo and stayed in the mansion. However, it was not that he did nothing. He called Fang Mingqian over and said to him: "Captain Fang, everything shipped to Fusang is
Has it been taken off the ship and put in the warehouse?"
"Yes, Your Majesty. The warehouse is also guarded," Fang Mingqian said.
"Have the soldiers' residences been settled?" Zhu Mengjiong asked again.
'Nima, I'm not your king. You should have arranged the accommodation for the soldiers of the Army Division yourself, but you handed it over to me.' Fang Mingqian complained in his heart.
But he certainly did not dare to say what was in his heart. He lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, everything has been arranged. The houses originally prepared by the Fusang people were not enough, so I bought some houses from the local people for the soldiers to live in."
"The Fusang people are so unreliable. They have obviously been asked to prepare enough houses for more than a thousand people, but why are there not enough houses? It must have cost a lot of money to buy these houses," Zhu Mengjiong said.
"The money is not too much. It can be seen from the faces of the local people that they feel that they have taken a big advantage, but the price is not high, much cheaper than the houses in the countryside of Yingtianfu. It seems that the prices here in Fusang are extremely low, and the people
We are very poor. Your Highness might as well buy more places and houses, the price will definitely increase a lot in the future." Fang Mingqian replied.
Fang Mingqian himself has spent money to acquire some land near Yokohama, and is waiting for its value to increase. The Fang family has been a half-businessman, half-banditry since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and is very sensitive to business opportunities. Although I don’t know why His Majesty sent people to guard Yokohama,
But he thought it must have a profound meaning, and it would definitely make Yokohama's economy develop. He would not let go of such an opportunity to make money. He originally wanted to buy more, but after a period of acquisition, he found that there was no land left to buy.
Of course, some big local businessmen in Kanto also had a premonition that there would be development here, and they were also quietly acquiring land. It's just that these big local businessmen were too greedy, and they didn't have much idea of what Yokohama could develop into, so the price they offered was only
It was 10% higher than the market price, so people were very cautious about selling land, even if it was uncultivable and it was not a port land, so progress was slow.
But people who disrupted the market soon appeared. These people were furious and wanted to punish those who did not understand the rules. However, after investigation, they found out that they were people from the Ming Dynasty, so they did not dare to punish them. However, this also improved their understanding of the development here.
Anticipation of the future: The military generals from the Ming Dynasty were all buying land at "high prices". Obviously, the price of these lands in the future would be far less than this, and they immediately raised the price of acquiring land. Soon, the land they could buy here was used by them.
Sold out.
Zhu Mengjiong naturally didn't know that Fang Mingqian had purchased a lot of land privately. Hearing this, he said: "What you said makes sense. I will also buy some land. I will leave this matter to you."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Fang Mingqian bowed and said. He planned to give half of the land he bought to Zhu Mengjiong, so that he would not be angry when he found out that he had bought a lot of land, and then find ways to improve himself. These lands are near Yokohama. If Zhu Mengjiong
There was nothing he could do to make a fuss about it.
Zhu Mengjiong remembered something again and said to him: "What did those businessmen who followed them all the way from the mainland do here?"
"Your Majesty, they will sell the goods they brought to the local Fuso people." Fang Mingqian said.
"Hey, this violates the rules of the Fusang court." Zhu Mengjiong sighed.
According to Yoshimitsu's rules, foreign businessmen can only go to Nagasaki to do business, and cannot do business privately elsewhere. Once the violators are discovered by their people, all goods will be confiscated. Yunxi actually does not want Fuso to be too open.
This kind of status quo of having a little communication with the outside world was what he liked best, so he agreed to Yoshimitsu's terms.
"Your Majesty, it is only a matter of time that the rules of the Fuso Imperial Court are violated. The Ming Dynasty sent you to be the commander-in-chief of Yokohama. You will definitely be of great use to Yokohama in the future. Although it is mostly a transfer station, the transfer station also needs a lot of items, such as food.
Cloth, silk, tea, etc.”
"Although these things are produced locally in Fuso, the quantity is insufficient and the price is high, which is not enough to fully meet the needs of Yokohama. Therefore, these goods can only be transported from the Ming Dynasty. For convenience, Your Majesty will definitely not use centralized procurement by the imperial court to transport them to Yokohama.
Instead, merchants from the Ming Dynasty will transport the goods themselves and have them purchased by Yokohama Town."
"Now that the merchants from the Ming Dynasty are back, who can guarantee that they will only do business with Yokohama Town? Only do business with the Han people here? They will definitely bring the goods that the Fuso people like secretly and do business with the Fuso people privately, no matter what
