When Cheng Jingming was exploring in Central America, Li Quan's trade fleet had returned to Manila smoothly.
This time, they not only brought back silver and goods, but also brought back a batch of animals. The ones with greater economic value are turkeys and alpacas.
The meat of turkey is very woody, and the taste of chicken legs and chicken wings is good. But it is large in size and grows fast. It is a meat-producing machine that is alive and well. It was placed in China in the 17th century and can provide more meat for ordinary people.
After returning to China this time, only one year later, Li Quan discovered new changes.
From Luzon to Taiwan, and then from Taiwan to the southeast coast, the number of Japanese in major ports has increased significantly. Japanese women, in particular, are everywhere in port brothels.
When supplying supplies in Fuzhou, Li Quan couldn't help asking: "Why are there so many Japanese people suddenly added?"
The port supply merchant said with a smile: "It was organized by the Japanese shogunate to send women to the Celestial Dynasty to earn money. Many Japanese wanderers also went to sea, walking around the streets with knives all day long, kneeling down and begging for work when they saw rich people. These Japanese ronin are quite easy to use, their wages are cheap and they are obedient. It¡¯s a pity that they don¡¯t do anything else but look after homes. There are also marine merchants who recruit them as crew members and bodyguards in India.¡±
"The Japanese imperial court organized women to work as prostitutes overseas?" Li Quan was quite surprised, and felt that this operation was too aggressive. '
In the past, many Japanese women went to sea, but they were all recruited by the colonists, and at most local lords were involved. This time the shogunate went off in person, and it did break through the lower limit.
The cause was the Ming Dynasty fire a few years ago, and two-thirds of Edo Castle was burned down. More than 500 residences of nicknames, more than 700 residences of banners, countless samurai residences, more than 300 temples, more than 400 markets, and more than 100,000 people were burned by this fire.
Edo City, with a population of nearly one million, has seen its population drop sharply by a quarter, and there are countless homeless people. The city has been rebuilt for several years, and it is still being completed. There are homeless people everywhere on the streets.
The Japanese shogunate's finances are easy, and the national treasury has already been enriched. Even the Iwami Silver Mine, which is prohibited to be mined, was forced to reopen, and the exploitation of the common people was reduced. At that time, in the face of China's occupation of Tsushima Island, the Japanese shogunate could only talk about it.
In the face of increasingly minor smuggling, the shogunate seniors also completely lay down. Since there is a law to prohibit it, let's join it. The old middlemen whose territories are far from the coast share the smuggling profits through power. One insisted on calling Zhenxiang, and then moved his brains, that is, to transfer the surplus labor force to China.
So just this year, the shogunate joined forces with local lords to export many men to China on a small scale. Some of them were shipped to Chinese ports to work as prostitutes, and the shogunate and nicknames shared the flesh and blood money. Some of them were transported to China's maritime territory and sold to single Chinese immigrants outside of China.
As a stable factor in society, ronin are also being exported to China. There are generally few ronin from Edo. Because of the small fire in the next few years, all the homes of Edo ronin were burned down. There was no house, lack of work, and hundreds of thousands of ronin were begging with knives, and there was no possibility of riots at any time.
In the next few years when Edo Castle was rebuilt, those ronin could still do odd jobs, and they only needed to take care of their meals. Now that a small part of the buildings have been repaired, there are opportunities to move bricks to make a living, and the ronin's unemployment is getting worse, so they simply throw it to China.
The chief secretaries of Fujian and Zhejiang issued decrees to allow Japanese wanderers to disembark again. The Japanese wanderers who have not yet landed have a deadline of eight months to find a job, and those who do not have an employer cannot apply for a temporary certificate. After eight months, I still found an employer, and either sent them back to Japan, or scattered the immigrants and went to Siberia. ,
The Luzhou fleet passed by Ningbo and found that the situation outside that was more obvious, because Ningbo Port is the closest to Japan.
The rich family in Ningbo often took Japanese ronin as attendants when they went out.
Moreover, it also customized equipment for Japanese ronin. Using bamboo slices to imitate the Japanese Nanban armor, before putting on the armor, the ronin turned into Japanese generals one after another. It seems that Gerry is bluffing, but in fact these armors have little protection.
What I want is not that kind of effect, to go out with a group of "Japanese generals",
The rich Chinese feel that Bel has lost face. 1 also gave a specific title: Japanese General Slave. 1
Referred to as "Singing General Slave" and "Singing General".
?In addition, Japanese men with good looks were also bought by wealthy families to keep concubines and maidservants. Called Dongyang Ji and Fusang Ji, Fusang Ji became popular again before the orchid trend.
Some human traffickers resumed their old business, buying young orchids and Fusangji, and training those men from the country according to the training standards of Yangzhou skinny horses. Over the past few years, the profits have been tens of times and hundreds of times.
General Wa and Fusang Ji are moving from Fujian and Zhejiang provinces towards Jiangsu and Guangdong.
Local officials, one after another, asked the court to set a control standard. Of course, the local government has not yet reacted, but certain policies require the cooperation of the central government, such as throwing Japanese ronin to Siberia.
&It takes a month to arrive, and you can stop to rest in the middle, and cast a net to catch fish to increase supplies. "Hey!"
Another sprinkling of nets, always yielding nothing.
In Siberia, which is inaccessible to humans, fish resources are very rich. The last premise is that if there is no high-quality fishing net, the local aborigines lack many net-making materials, so the fishing method is very primitive. The hemp rope fishing nets brought by the Han people are all sought-after commodities for the aborigines, and they can bring us rich fish.
On the shore, two hundred indigenous auxiliary soldiers took out traditional dipping materials and slaughtered fresh fish alive to eat raw fish.
As for the Han soldiers, they cook fish soup honestly.
As long as there is no condition to eat cooked food and drink boiled water, soldiers are forbidden to eat raw food and drink raw water. That ordinance is written to withdraw from Xiaotong's military law, and only in extreme conditions can no exception be made.
The Lena River has not been renamed Lujiang.
Zhang Tingxun looked at the sparkling river, and his thoughts had already flown to Nanjing. After that battle, I should be promoted and transferred. I have to go back to Nanjing to have a look. My mother and my original wife are still waiting for me.
Siberia is indeed very difficult, but as long as you work for a few years, you can slowly advance. Volunteers are stationed for a long time to change defenses. Once they are transferred, they will be promoted 100%, which makes fewer and fewer soldiers willing to stay permanently.