I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Fuso, Satsuma domain.

At this time, Kagoshima has changed a lot, and the port and wharf have been expanded.

In the past, only a few large ships could be docked, but now more than a dozen ships can be docked at the same time.

There are more houses on the shore, and more people come and go.

There were many more ships coming and going, and there was a lot of liveliness on the wharf. People came and went, and the warehouses and open spaces on the shore were full of various goods.

The port that used to be lively, now has a hint of prosperity.

As a large ship broke down, a large number of shirtless fusang men on the shore got up, waited for the people on board to get off, and then leaned over to ask questions in very poor Chinese.

These porters became the first group of people who were proficient in using Chinese.

No way, only profit.

Working as a porter on the wharf is several times higher than the income of farming for a famous family.

If it weren't for Shimadzu Mitsuhisa's strict order to limit the number of people coming to the wharf, no one would have farmed.

Fortunately, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa is not stupid. Knowing that food is a vital material at all times, he always wants to keep the number of farmers.

Of course, there will be a labor shortage again.

Therefore, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa imported a large number of steel farm tools from Dahua to improve production efficiency and liberate labor.

For this reason, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa owed Dahua a lot of money again.

In order to repay the money, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa also racked his brains, and even encouraged Fuso women to go to Dahua to engage in the flesh business and create foreign exchange for the country.

At the same time, Fusang people are encouraged to work in Dahua, and Fusang people are encouraged to work for Dahua.

He can only make some money to pay off his debts by selling his labor like this.

Of course, this kind of cooperation is actually a win-win.

The Fuso people improved their farming efficiency and obtained a large number of iron tools, while Dahua obtained cheap labor and produced more industrial products.

This phenomenon is the inevitable outcome of free trade.

However, this is not actually the main trade between Dahua and Fusang.

The main trade between Dahua and Fusang is actually copper sales.

To be precise, Dahua brought the copper and exchanged it for the gold and silver of the Fusang people.

The reason is also very simple. Fusang is very short of copper, but it is very short of gold and silver.

Therefore, the exchange ratio between gold, silver and copper between the two countries is very different.

In Dahua, one tael of gold is about 9 taels of silver, which is about 9,000 copper coins.

In Fusang, one tael of gold is about 8 taels of silver, which is about 4,000 copper coins.

In other words, in Dahua, if you exchange 100 taels of gold for 900,000 copper coins and transport them to Fusang, you can exchange them for more than 200 taels of gold, and the net profit is doubled.

Of course, this is a theoretical value.

Copper exports are taxed, gold imports are also taxed, and Fusang has to pay another tax, plus shipping costs, labor costs, etc. The final profit is about 50%.

Fifty percent of the profit is also extremely terrifying. After all, this is Fusang, not Western Europe. The distance between the two sides is close and the danger is low.

Going back and forth, lasted for half a month, fast for a week.

In addition to Dahua's newly emerging stock market, there is no industry that makes money faster than this.

A 50% profit business is not easy to find with a lantern.

Of course, it is not easy to do this business.

Ordinary people are not qualified to do currency business.

Whether it's copper or gold, it's all money. The imperial court strictly controlled the import and export of such things.

If the restrictions are relaxed casually, whether it is too much copper loss or too much gold and silver inflow, it will affect the country's monetary system and have a certain impact on the economy.

The impact on Dahua may be smaller, after all, Dahua is large.

It is not a problem to transport tens of millions of taels of silver in.

But for Fusang, the impact is very large.

A large influx of copper coins led to a rapid depreciation of copper coins.

Well-informed high-level people, using this information, have already used copper coins to exchange gold and silver in the hands of the lower-level people.

As the value of copper coins depreciated, the people who exchanged them for copper coins suffered miserably, which meant that their wealth had shrunk by a third or even more inexplicably.

For some commercial activities, it has also caused a significant impact.

"Shimadzu-kun, we must strictly control the import and export of precious metals, and we can't continue like this. The prices of many things on the market fluctuate violently due to the influx of copper coins, which can easily cause turmoil."

There are also capable people in Satsuma Domain, who realize that it is too dangerous to do business with Dahua.

Because Fusang is small, it is easily affected.

If Dahua intends to engage them, they can easily destroy their economic structure.

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa was very helpless when he heard the words, he also thought, but the two sides signed a free trade treaty, and he did not dare to stop it.

Not to mention that it was blocked, he had to discuss with Dahua the formulation of tariffs, and he could not decide casually, otherwise Dahua's army would constantly shout for another fight.

"Xiong Chuan-kun, I know what you said is right, but there is no way, the situation is like this."

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa said.

"To solve this problem, we can only rely on our own strength to build a large steel plant, produce steel by ourselves, and reduce our dependence on Dahua."

Kumagawa Ichiro continued to remonstrate.

"It's easier said than done. The cost is easy to say. As long as I break the pot and sell iron, I can get it together. The key is technology? What about talents? Dahua's steelmaking technology is more than a hundred times more advanced than ours."

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa really doesn't want to mention the word Dahua now. Every time he mentions it, he is depressed except depressed.

"Although it is difficult, it is related to long-term development after all. We cannot rely on them forever, so this steel plant will have to be built sooner or later."

Kumagawa Ichiro thought about it from the perspective of the whole Fuso, but Shimadzu Mitsuhisa thought more from the perspective of the Satsuma Domain.

For the Satsuma domain, the most important thing at this time was not development, but annexation and expansion.

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa wants to unify Fusang first, and then integrate the resources of the whole country for development, which will be faster.

There is no doubt about this, but there is only one premise, that is, he can unify Fusang. If not, then both unification and development will be delayed.

Can it be unified?

This Shimadzu Mitsuhisa is still relatively confident. The flintlock troop under his command has been trained for a period of time, and he is also ready to take it out to fight the Kumamoto Domain in the north.

Last time, because of compensation, he and Nishikawa Wangji had completely turned their faces, and the two sides had friction in the position of the border.

Shimadzu Mitsuhisa refused to pay, so Nishikawa Wangyoshi sent people directly to the Satsuma Domain to collect taxes and loot, making Shimadzu Mitsuhisa half-dead.

With this excuse, he has already planned to go to war in the near future.