Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1706, European Japanese plague
Tang Bohu had just sent Minister Andre away on the front foot, and Liu Ping, the governor of the fog capital of the Japanese country, came to the door on the back foot.

"Master Tang!"

Liu Ping's attire is almost indistinguishable from that of the Ming people. The moon head that was popular among the Japanese gentry in the past has disappeared now, and even the dressing and dressing are closely following the trend of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Ping is wearing the most popular costumes of Ming Dynasty now, and he wears an incomparably expensive watch in his hand. He also wears a jade pendant made in Burma on his waist like a scholar of Ming Dynasty.

When saluting to Tang Bohu, it was also in accordance with the official etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, and they had already learned all aspects.

"Lord Liu~"

Tang Bohu also returned the gift with a smile, and the two sides sat down as guests and hosts.

Like Andre, Liu Ping also brought several expensive gifts, but Tang Bohu didn't accept them either.

Although Tang Bohu's background was not very good, and his father was just a small owner of a small wine shop, but Tang Bohu's ancestors were very remarkable.

In the Qianliang period, Tang Bohu's ancestor was Tang Hui, the general of Lingjiang. During the Tang Dynasty, Tang Jian, the ancestor of Tang Dynasty, followed Li Yuan to raise troops. In the Tang Dynasty, he was named "Ju Guogong". , the ancestor was also the general who died honorably in the Tumubao Incident.

Tang Bohu has always been proud of his ancestors, and he has also been greatly influenced, with a high-minded heart. Now that he has finally become a fourth-rank official, he will definitely not accept bribes, for fear of tarnishing the reputation of his ancestors.

And now even if they don't accept gifts, the officials of Ming Dynasty can live a very good life.

Under Liu Jin's leadership, the salaries of Ming officials also rose again and again.

From the beginning, eating was a problem, and salaries were returned to waste paper-like banknotes, and then food and cloth were given in kind. Slowly, treasure banknotes were abolished, and treasure banknotes were no longer used to pay officials' salaries.

Then it is to slowly remove the in-kind fees, and discount all of them into cash to distribute salaries and subsidies on a monthly basis, and it also increases and increases again and again.

Up to now, the annual income of fourth-rank officials has exceeded [-] taels of silver, which is a very considerable amount of income. You must know that the annual income of ordinary people is [-] taels of silver a year.

The income of fourth-rank officials is ten times that of ordinary people. This is already extremely high income. If it is converted into purchasing power, the income will be even more impressive.

You must know that the price of food in Daming is only a few cents per catty, and the price of meat is also a few cents per catty. Even houses in the Beijing and Tianjin areas cost more than two thousand taels of silver. An official can afford to buy a house in the imperial capital after three years of working. This income is definitely a high income.

So there is no need to be greedy at all. In the past, everyone was greedy and everyone received gifts. It can be said that there is no way, because the salary is indeed too low, and it is a problem to support a family.

But now the treatment of Ming officials is really good, and the income is really high. As long as they don't spend their days and drinks, and live a normal life, it can be said to be more than enough.

Naturally, Tang Bohu would not collect these things.

"Governor Liu came here this time, what's the matter?"

Tang Bohu looked at Liu Ping in front of him. He had been here for a few days, and he had heard a lot about Liu Ping.

It is said that they are the descendants of the imperial family of the Han Dynasty, the descendants of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. They have always been nobles for generations in the country of Wa, and now they are also recognizing their ancestors on the side of Daming.

Although people are from the Wa country, they have always regarded themselves as Daming people. The key is that other people in the Wa country still buy their account, thinking that they are indeed out-and-out Ming people. Later generations have genealogy and historical records.

"Master Tang, our Wa country is a vassal state of Daming, and our Wa country and Daming have always been one family."

"Our country finally managed to get a colony of Wudu in Western Europe, but now, all European countries are targeting us. Our colony is not strong and has been repeatedly attacked."

"That's why I came here to ask Master Tang for help. I hope Master Tang can help you buy a batch of artillery from Miyun Arsenal to protect the Wudu Colony."

"At the same time, we also hope to buy more ships from Daming. Our current ships are in short supply and the losses are relatively large."

"Of course we won't let Mr. Tang do his work for nothing. For the slaves we plundered from Europe, we can sell one-fifth of the quota to Mr. Tang."

Liu Ping looked at Tang Bohu and said with a smile.

"Buy cannon and ships?"

When Tang Bohu heard it, he immediately said in doubt: "With the relationship between our Ming Dynasty and your Japanese country, there shouldn't be any problem in buying cannons and ships, right?"

"Master Tang, what we want to buy is the one produced by the Miyun Arsenal, the Miyun Type [-] rear-loading cannon that your Ming army is currently using, and the ship we want to buy is the latest steamship produced by Tianjin Shipbuilding. "

"The export and sale of these two items is currently prohibited in Ming Dynasty."

"Master Tang, you have a good relationship with Mr. Liu. I wonder if you can help us lobby a little bit to lift this prohibition and sell us some of these two things."

"In addition, if Daming can sell some of the current telegrams to us, we are willing to pay a high price to buy them."

Liu Ping whispered to Tang Bohu.

The reason why he bought these two things was also to facilitate plundering in Europe. Now the entire coastline of Europe has been plundered by Japanese pirates.

Japanese plague is very serious!
These Japanese pirates have excellent equipment, strict training, and strict organization, and they are often extremely fast when they act, looting cities, ports, villages, etc. in the coastal areas of Europe.

This also aroused European countries to start a strong counterattack against Japanese pirates. France, England, Portugal, Denmark, the Holy Roman Empire, the Nordic countries, Poland-Lithuanian Principality on the Baltic Sea coast, etc., now all hate Japanese pirates and can't wait. I will crush these Japanese pirates to ashes.

Because these Japanese people are too ruthless.

Often when looting a place, almost everything will be plundered clean, and all people will be captured as slaves and sold to the Daming people.

From the time when the Japanese began to taste the sweetness, until now, in only about a year, the Japanese have plundered more than [-] slaves and huge wealth from Europe, and a large number of port cities have been looted.

The Japanese plague has reached an extremely serious level.

The people of the Japanese country have tasted the sweetness now. The slave trade is really profitable, and the money comes in too fast. If you catch a slave and change hands, you can sell it for 20 taels of silver. What could be faster than this?

In one year, from the income from the slave trade alone, the Wa Kingdom obtained more than ten million taels of silver, plus the wealth from other looting, it can be described as a bumper harvest.

But it also greatly stimulated European countries and aroused their determination to fight against Japanese pirates.

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They have been pirates and robbers since ancient times, and they are the only ones who rob others. Now these Japanese people have robbed the robbers and pirate ancestors, how can they bear it.

Therefore, it is also to unite with the opposing country, the focus and core of which is to unplug the Wudu colony in the south of England and the north of the English Channel.

This is the base camp and base of the Wa Kingdom's plundering of Europe.

From time to time, some ships and fleets were organized to attack the Wudu colony, but all ended in failure. The Japanese people stationed an elite army of [-] people in the Wudu colony. Warriors, ordinary people who want to get rich, etc., the power of the Fog City Colony is very strong.

Several attempts to destroy the Wudu Colony were unsuccessful, but it was the Japanese who first started to think of ways to strengthen their defenses in the Wudu Colony.

"Your Excellency Governor, these few things are not something that I, a little Hong Kong Governor, can decide."

"Excuse me, I really can't do it."

After Tang Bohu listened, he also recalled the situation in Europe in his mind. In addition to Spain and France fighting in full swing, the biggest thing in Europe was the Japanese plague.

Now the Japanese plague in Europe has become so serious that European countries need to unite and fight together. There is really nothing to do with these Japanese pirates.

If the Japanese get these three things from Daming, it is estimated that the whole of Europe will be disturbed by Japanese pirates.

Tang Bohu hated Japanese pirates very much. In the past, the southeast coastal area of ​​Daming was often invaded by Japanese pirates. Suzhou Prefecture was almost attacked by Japanese pirates.

Also help them these Japanese pirates, don't even think about it, there is no door.

Although judging from what Jiang Liang explained here, it seems that he wants to support these Japanese people, because their plunder in Europe is good for Ming Dynasty, not only can they obtain slaves to earn a lot of benefits, but also can pay heavy against the development of European countries.

Jiang Liang also specifically told this matter to continue to support the Wa people.

But Tang Bohu felt that supporting the Japanese people to do these outrageous things seriously violated the philosophy of scholars, and they must not support bandits, so not only would they not support them, but they even planned to cut off some of the original support.

(End of this chapter)