1825 My New Daming

Chapter 103 Pooh!Country thief! (Keep reading!)

Although it was already late December and the Chinese New Year was about to be celebrated, the castle town of Edo, the de facto capital of Japan, looked extraordinarily cold, even a little depressed.The streets that used to be bustling are mostly deserted now, only the sad-faced boss and listless buddies are waiting hard for customers to come to their door.The small industrial area near Edo Bay, which carries the hope of Japan's rise, would not stop working even on New Year's Eve in previous years, but this year it's only the twelfth lunar month, and most of them have stopped working because there are no orders. .

As for the three financial streets that originally symbolized wealth, known as Ginza, Goldza, and Moneyza, they are now terribly depressed. On both sides of the open and grand streets that are rare in the whole of Japan, closed doors can be seen everywhere. People go to the empty two replacement houses (Japanese banks)!

Obviously, a terrible economic crisis is raging in Japan!
This economic crisis is actually a global crisis, and it is likely to be the first global economic crisis in history.The reason for this crisis is the overproduction caused by the rapid increase in production capacity brought about by the second industrial revolution. The crisis of overproduction not only exists in Britain, but also exists in the mainland of Ming Dynasty and under the rule of Ming Dynasty. The Southeast Asian vassal states of China, Malacca, the East Indies, etc., naturally also violently impacted Japan, whose economy is quite fragile.

For an industrialized powerhouse and superpower with rich family background and leading technology like Ming Dynasty, the crisis of surplus can be alleviated through large-scale construction and military expansion and preparations for war—after all, this is the initial stage of the second industrial revolution, even if a leading country like Ming Industrial countries also have a huge demand for foundation investment.

It’s just that there are very few “non-repayable” credit currencies in the world now, and the currencies of almost all advanced countries are linked to gold and silver. Therefore, when countries face insufficient demand, it is difficult to deal with it through large-scale financial expansion.

Moreover, because countries experienced a period of overheated investment and shortage of raw materials before this surplus crisis, many factories that have expanded at high cost and hoarded raw materials at high prices have fallen into a huge crisis, and a large number of them have gone bankrupt. The crisis was transmitted to the financial institutions that lent them money.

However, the losses caused to financial institutions due to the bankruptcy of factories are not unbearable. The place where financial institutions in various countries have suffered heavy losses is the financial market itself.

It turns out that when the economy was overheating, the stock markets of various countries experienced a round of surge.Among them, the average price index of 100 stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in Ming Dynasty rose five times in the ten years after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the stock price index in London rose more than four times.The Osaka Stock Exchange in Japan was only opened three years ago, and it has skyrocketed since its opening. The average stock price of all listed companies has increased by more than ten times in less than two years!When the economic crisis came, the stock markets of various countries experienced a round of sharp declines, and the stock market in Osaka, Japan was no exception. The stock price fell by 90.00% in less than a month, and was almost beaten back to its original shape.

Because the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan is quite lax in the supervision of financial institutions, almost all of the double replacement houses have invested a lot of money in the stock market. After a round of plummet, they naturally suffered heavy losses. The collapse of double replacement houses has swept across Japan.

The large number of closures of the two replacement houses further exacerbated the financial difficulties of Japanese industrial and commercial enterprises, and some enterprises that could have survived were also forced to close down.The entire Japanese economy is in a state of spiral decline, which seems to be bottomless.

Of course, there will always be losers and winners in the financial market, even in the case of a crash, and this is no exception in Japan!
At this time, on the desolate streets of Edo Castle Town, a luxurious carriage pulled by four tall Western horses was marching towards Edo Castle under the guard of dozens of samurai dressed in black. .

A tall samurai walking at the front of the team carried a rectangular black flag on his shoulders, with two eye-catching white characters of "Dahei" on it.

There are still some passers-by on the street. When they saw this ostentatious team, they all stopped and cast hateful glances—everyone knew that this was the leader of the Daikoku Zaibatsu, one of the "Four Tengus" in Japan. Tokyo.

The "Four Tengus" are the four big chaebols, Dahei, Goto, Sumitomo and Zheng. The leaders of the four big chaebols live in Shanghai all the year round. Show your face, go to Edo to meet the general, and then offer a generous gift, and then go to visit a group of powerful feudal lords and shogunate officials, and offer them generous gifts one by one.After the new year, these "big ten dogs" will board their luxury cruise ships and return to Shanghai, the most prosperous economic center of the Ming Empire.

And the Ming Empire, the superpower that ruled the eastern world, in the eyes of most of the samurai in Japan, especially the middle- and lower-level samurai whose life is becoming more and more difficult, is the source of Japan's suffering, the mountain that weighs on Japan. No, it is the mainland. !The entire East Asian continent was crushed on the Japanese archipelago in this way, almost all-round suppression without dead ends, completely depriving Japan of space for development.

Although Japan has the most industrious and hardworking workers in the world, and their income is extremely low, less than one-tenth of the wages of workers in Ming Dynasty.Moreover, in order to obtain the capital and technology needed for the development of industrialization, Japan even does not hesitate to export its own girls as commodities. Japanese laborers are also willing to work as coolies in places such as Nanyang, Sakhalin, Onigata Peninsula, and New Manchuria, where the conditions are very difficult. Do the hardest, most tiring, and most dangerous jobs.But Japan's industrialization just can't get up!

And one of the reasons why Japan cannot industrialize is the Zhuge family!The military advisers of Zhuge’s family were all bad. They had already figured out Japan’s careful thinking, so they implemented the “industrial raw material export quota and tariff system” very early——to develop industrialization, they must Raw materials, such as coal mines, iron ore, rubber, soybeans, petroleum, cotton, and other miscellaneous non-ferrous metals, etc., are all subject to export controls!
It's control, it's not that it won't sell to Japan, or the Japanese will give up and just lie down.The Zhuge family's policy is to sell raw materials to Japan, but at a high price, and it is still stuck.Japanese factories can only buy expensive and scarce raw materials, which cannot form international competitiveness at all, and can only be paid to their own people at high prices.

What?Daming doesn't sell other houses?
I really can't count on it!

There are not many people in western North America these days, and it does not belong to the United States. The Panama Canal has not been dug, so there is no hope for American resources.Australia has no population. There are hundreds of thousands of white skins, which cannot support a large-scale mining industry at all.Moreover, the British Empire implemented the "White Australia Policy", and the Japanese would not be able to help develop it!

As for the resources of Malacca and the Dutch East Indies, although they were not administratively controlled by the Ming Empire, the companies controlled by the Zhuge family firmly monopolized the sales of rubber, tin and coal, and Japanese trading companies could not buy them at all.

And the only country that can supply Japanese coal, iron ore, cotton and other raw materials in large quantities is India under the rule of the British Empire. However, the commercial routes from India to Japan are all under the control of the Ming Empire, so India’s coal, iron ore, Cotton suppliers had to sign a "price contract" with the Zhuge family, and could only sell a small amount of coal, iron ore and cotton to Japan at high prices.

Under such circumstances, Japan can still develop a little heavy industry, which can only be said to be very hard work.

But sometimes, hard work can't solve the problem!

Facing such a situation, there are two diametrically opposed routes in Japan. One is the "Pro-Ming faction" represented by the "Four Tengus", hoping to soften Ming's position by currying favor with Ming in exchange for Japan's development space.

The other faction is the "arbitrary faction" with the majority of middle and lower-level samurai as the backbone, hoping to break the suppression of Ming Dynasty through war and gain enough space for Japan's development.

And now sitting in the carriage of Dahei's family is Dahei, the leader of the pro-Ming sect, and his daughter Daheikong. Both father and daughter are dressed in costumes, sitting in the carriage, frowning, watching The desolate street outside the window.

"Father," Da Hekong suddenly said at this time, "It's too depressed. Isn't Edo a metropolis with a population of 150 million?"

Dahei often just smiled slightly: "Akong, no matter how depressed Japan is, it is also the root of our Dahei family! The reason why Michiko accepts you as a concubine is also because of our Dahei family's status in Japan."

"Daozi. Gong?" Daheikong's snow-white face flashed a hint of surprise, "Father, he."

"Yeah!" Dahei often nodded, "After the Chinese New Year, he will become the military advisor of Zhuge's family! Ah Kong, you are so lucky! Not only can you become Zhuge's military advisor's concubine, but you can also become the adopted daughter of Mr. Gongfang. "

"What? Lord Gongfang" Da Heikong looked at his father.

"Yes," Dahei Chang said, "Akon, you will soon become Matsudaira Sora. Although you are not Tokugawa, it is also a great honor! Moreover, this move will also bring the Zhuge family and the Tokugawa family closer together. The relationship between them will help resolve Ming's containment of Japan, which is especially beneficial to our Dahei family."

Daheikong also laughed: "That's really great."

Just when the father and daughter were talking vigorously, the carriage they were riding in had already turned a corner at a crossroad.At this crossroads, a group of ronin dressed in washed-white kimonos with samurai swords tucked into their wide sleeves were holding their hands in their wide sleeves. They all held their heads up and looked at the Daikoku family's carriage with stern expressions. And the guards, the leader is a one-eyed man with a shaggy beard, who cursed viciously: "Baga, country thief!"

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