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Text Chapter 860: Twenty-One of Himihu

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    In recent years, a large amount of silver has been brought in from the Japanese country. The stock of silver has increased. The ratio of the three trading metals of gold, silver and copper has tended to be constant. One pound of gold can be exchanged for ten pounds of silver and ten thousand copper coins. In the past, the unit of measurement of silver was usually  Later, liang and qian became popular as units of measurement for silver, and more and more people were more willing to bring silver for transactions. In view of this, Lu Bu began to implement a financial system of three currencies: gold, silver, and copper in parallel, and began to mint gold coins,  Silver coins and copper coins were used to replace the previous currencies. Of course, the copper coins still used the previous five baht coins.

    Because of the financial restructuring, Lu Bu remembered how to deal with the Japanese and Roman Empires before the army arrived. Financial wars, using silk, tea, ceramics and other luxury goods produced in the Chinese Empire to buy food from the Japanese and Roman Empires, causing their food prices to rise.  , devaluing their currency relative to food, and at the same time using substitutes such as brass to mint their country's high currency, and disrupting their tax revenue through a series of financial means.

    Lu Bu sent Liu Ba, the Minister of Finance, who was knowledgeable in finance, to preside over this financial war.

    Lu Bu¡¯s financial war against Japan and the Roman Empire was learned from Zhuge Liang in history.

    When Zhuge Liang came out of Qishan for the sixth time, he fought a financial battle. His brilliant methods and thorough implementation were unparalleled in the world.  Due to its unique complex environment of weak against strong and the Chinese-specific obscurity of being soft on the outside and strong on the inside, this financial battle has not been known to many people so far, so many people have made the judgment that Zhuge Liang's six expeditions to Qishan were "unwise".

    Under the background that Shu Han's national power was much weaker than the other two countries, Zhuge Liang used a small but experienced small force to carry out harassing guerrilla tactics, causing the opponent's psychology to fall into a "stress state" of being attacked, and then  Taking advantage of the mentality of Cao Wei's generals who were attached to "wartime rights", they exaggerated the scale of sending troops and cleverly induced Cao Wei's military generals to cooperate with the Shu incident out of considerations of personal gain and loss.  Even the two sides tacitly staged Prime Minister Zhuge's "offensive and defensive drama".  He was actually "manipulating", "tempting" and "forcing" Cao Wei's ruling class to increase tax burdens for a "border war" that did not exist.  The cavalry of Cao Wei's military group has the legacy of the Han Dynasty and is very powerful. Not to mention that Wei Yan's so-called "surprise troops" coming out of Ziwu Valley are only of tactical surprise value. Even if Cao Wei does not directly engage in "border mountain defense battles", Zhuge Liang's tens of thousands of logistics  When the main force of the mountain infantry, which is extremely difficult to transport, comes to this open area with no defensive terrain to rely on, a battle will take place between the Cao Wei cavalry with logistical support and the Shuhan mountain infantry without logistical support.

    The repeated battles for several "border" mountain towns are of little practical significance to Cao Wei and are not worth hundreds of thousands at all.  Hundreds of thousands of main forces stood there to form an "unequal military confrontation". This was a "strange war" in which Cao Wei gave up the strong cavalry expertise and pitted the main force against a powerful mountain guerrilla detachment. This was also the reason why the so-called "empty city strategy" was implemented.  Here it is - this is the high-end leadership in financial warfare.

    ??The officials of Cao Wei who became more and more thorough due to the nine-level Zhongzheng system will inevitably take the opportunity to engage in corruption, thus increasing the pressure of socioeconomic and financial collapse of the entire Cao Wei ruled area.  Prime Minister Zhuge took advantage of "free merchants".  Using silk and satin from the Shu Han Dynasty to buy unnecessary grain caused the price of grain to rise in the vast areas of Cao Wei, and the gold and silver currency devalued relative to the grain. At the same time, a large amount of cheap "private salt" and "private tea" were dumped into the Cao Wei area, disrupting the tax revenue of the Cao Wei regime.  This series of financial warfare methods has led to the formation of a large-scale peasant uprising throughout Cao Wei's rule. If Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han Dynasty had died twenty years later.  His strategy of using the weak to attack the strong in parallel with financial warfare may really overthrow Cao Wei and restore the Han system

    One of the sinister strategies was to use brass to exchange grain, horses and other strategic materials with the Japanese and Roman Empires.  Brass is an alloy composed of copper and zinc. It has a golden color and a metallic luster.  It looks like gold. Before the advent of aluminum, brass was often used instead of gold for decorative purposes.  The gold characters on plaques in some palaces and temples are made of brass sheets.  Since the Western Han Dynasty, emperors have issued edicts.  It is not allowed to use "fake gold" to defraud, but it is impossible to order a ban on the production of brass.  This was Liu Ba's secret order to wrap brass in gold and trade it with the Japanese and Roman Empire people who didn't know this trick at all.

    Lu Bu sent Liu Ba to use trade to carry out financial warfare to weaken the strength of the Japanese state. At the same time, he sent Zhou Yu and Gan Ning to lead the East China Sea Fleet and the Bohai Fleet to the Japanese state to help Queen Himitai of the Yamatai Kingdom deal with her hostile country.

    Himihu sent her younger brother to welcome the fleets of Zhou Yu and Gan Ning to Yamatai Kingdom, and established two major military bases, one in the south and one in the north.

    After the military base is built, the fleet enters the port, and the army lands on land, there is no need to worry about the strange kamikaze attack.

    In the next few years, the fleets of Zhou Yu and Gan Ning helped Yamatai to eliminate other Japanese tribes, and on the other hand, they secretly mobilized people from the Central Plains.? Centuries and people willing to immigrate to Japan.

    The transliteration of Yamatai Kingdom in Japanese language is Yamato, but Lu Bu didn¡¯t want to call it Yamatai, so he still called it Yamatai Kingdom.

    The Yamatai Kingdom is not a real kingdom, but a loose alliance formed by more than 30 Japanese tribes. In the early days of the Yamatai Kingdom, a man was king. Due to civil strife at the end of the 2nd century AD, a female king was established, named Himihu.  The land of Matai is the capital.  Queen Himihu has relative power over other countries. Himihu once set up a large number of officials in the Idu country to inspect the countries and collect rent and taxes from other countries under the supervision of Dawo.

    Because Himiko is good at confusing people with things about ghosts and gods, she became the leader of the alliance as a witch. Himiko hid in the deep palace and used her brother Hanzo in front to preside over government affairs. After she became queen, no outsider could ever see her.  In front of her, only a thousand ladies and one eunuch who brought food could enter and exit the palace.

    The officials of Yamatai State are divided into seven levels from the central to the local level. The central-level officials are composed of Dawo, Dasu and Dafu. Dawa manages the market, Dasu is the supervisor who inspects the local area, and Dafu is the governor.  Yamatai's government revenue is made up of grains handed in by households, and its economy is made up of paddy agriculture and handicrafts.

    By this time, rice cultivation had been carried out in various parts of the Japanese country, and iron tools had begun to be used. Residents planted rice, ramie, raised silkworms, planted mulberry trees, and collected hemp thread.  Making silk brocade and silk.  Weapons are wooden bows and iron arrowheads.  In terms of exchange, it is already a "state-owned city".  Society already has distinctions between adults, lower households, slaves, and students.  The adults all have four or five wives and are the upper-class rulers, while the lower households have two or three wives.  There is an obvious difference in status and respect between the two, but the subordinate is not a slave, while the slave and the student are slaves.

    Historically, Himihu sent an envoy Nan Shengmi to meet with Wei Emperor Cao Rui. Emperor Wei gave Himihu a gold seal with a purple ribbon engraved with "Pro-Wei Japanese King" and several gifts including hundreds of bronze mirrors.  There were four envoys to Wei garrison and Fangjun.  At the same time, they presented raw materials, Japanese brocade, beads, bows and arrows, etc. The Wei State also sent envoys to the Yamatai State twice to give them gold seals, purple ribbons, brocade silk, bronze mirrors, pearls, etc.

    The Yamatai Kingdom has always been at odds with another Gounu Kingdom ruled by a male king. She specially sent an envoy to the Wei Kingdom again for help. The Wei Emperor sent an envoy to express support for the Yamatai Kingdom.  But the Gounu Kingdom didn't seem to care about Emperor Wei's admonishment.

    There are now hundreds of tribes on the Japanese Islands, with four to five million people, divided into two hostile forces. One is the Yamatai Alliance, a loose alliance with approximately two million people, and the other is the Dog Slave Kingdom.  There are more than 2.4 million people. Because the Yamatai Alliance is ruled by a queen and the queen does not show up all year round, the tribes below fight on their own, which is not comparable to the strict order of the Dog Slave Kingdom, which is ruled by a male king.  Always at a disadvantage.

    Himihu sent an envoy Nanshengmi to visit L¨¹ Bu. Lu Bu took the opportunity to extort a lot of conditions, and Nanshengmi agreed due to the severe domestic situation.

    A few years later.  Zhou Yu's East China Sea Fleet and Gan Ning's Bohai Fleet came to the Yamatai Kingdom, and came to welcome the Yamatai ruler.  The queen's brother Hanzo gratefully welcomed what he considered to be the Imperial Army of the Celestial Dynasty, no, the Heavenly Army of China.

    Hanzo saw the Chinese Imperial Army's sophisticated weapons, strict military discipline, and powerful military appearance. Every soldier was a fierce and powerful warrior. They were not comparable to his own soldiers. I am afraid that even ten Japanese soldiers could not match them.  As a soldier of the Song Dynasty, Hanzang originally wanted to face the domineering Zhou Yu and Gan Ning without being humble or arrogant, but after following Zhou Yu and Gan Ning to review the Chinese army, he became timid.

    Zhou Yu didn¡¯t even look at Hanzo and threw a contract in front of him. Hanzo took a look at it and saw on the cover of the contract: Twenty-one.

    The content of this "Twenty-One" request is divided into five parts: The first part is about the issue of Shikoku Island, with a total of four items. It requires Japan to lease Shikoku Island to the Chinese Empire. The lease period is one hundred years, and the lease fee is one tael of silver. It must be withdrawn.  All the Japanese garrison on Shikoku Island; the second part, about the Japanese state island, has seven articles in total, requiring the recognition of all the special rights of the Chinese Empire on the Japanese state island. The Chinese have the privileges of living, purchasing land, operating industry, commerce, agriculture, mining, etc., Biwa Lake,  Mount Fuji is leased to the Chinese Empire for a period of one hundred years; the third part consists of two articles, requiring that the Iwami Ginzan Mountain be changed to a joint venture between China and Japan. The Japanese are not allowed to handle it on their own, and the nearby mines are not allowed to be mined by people outside the Chinese Empire; the third part requires  One of the four parts requires that all coastal ports and islands of the Japanese country shall not be leased or transferred to other countries, but can only be leased to the Chinese Empire; the fifth part, with a total of six articles, requires that the Japanese country must and can only hire Chinese as political, military, financial and other consultants;  The mines jointly mined by China and Japan must use Chinese as supervisors; transfer all road construction rights on the Japanese island to the Chinese Empire; the Chinese Empire has priority in mining, building seaports, shipyards and road construction in the Japanese state; Part Six, only  One, the most important thing is that the Japanese army must be under the unified command of the generals of the Chinese Empire.

    Hanzo was naturally reluctant to answer at firstIn response, China's two major fleets stood still at the port.

    At the same time, King Inuye, the leader of the Dog Slave Alliance, knew that the Chinese Empire's army had come to support the Yamatai Kingdom, and quickly sent people to investigate. They found that the Chinese Empire's invincible fleet was completely beyond their ability to deal with, so they sent people to fight with Zhou Yu and Gan Ning.  negotiation.

    Zhou Yu and Gan Ning sent a message back to Fei Ge, and Lu Bu told them three words: dog bite dog, and sent Xin Pi to take charge of negotiations.

    After Simpi negotiated with Inuichiro, the envoy of the Gounu Alliance, Inuichiro agreed on behalf of the King of Gounu to hand over the Iwami Silver Mountain to the Chinese Empire for free for mining and advance two years of military pay and rations for the Chinese fleet. Simpi said that he could only  We will provide you with weapons. The current weapons of Gounu and Yamatai are only wooden bows and iron arrows, which are very broken. I am overjoyed to receive weapons support from the Chinese Empire.

    After the Chinese Empire and the Dog Slave Kingdom reached an alliance, they transported the broken weapons captured from Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Sanhan in recent years, as well as the weapons eliminated by the Chinese army, to the Dog Slave Kingdom, and exchanged them with them for silver,  After the Gounu Kingdom was supplemented with weapons, it became more powerful. With a little guidance from a few soldiers sent by the Chinese Empire, the Yamatai Kingdom lost its armor and lost its armor and suffered repeated defeats.

    After knowing the cause of the matter, Himihu realized with trembling fear the power of the Chinese Empire, and hurriedly sent her brother Hanzo to negotiate again, and everyone agreed to the 21st.
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