Chapter 1889 the meiji restoration (5) "My name is Mitsui Gaosui, your excellency is a merchant of the qing dynasty


    " He used unfamiliar chinese


    During this period, businessmen would always be willing to learn some chinese


    On the one hand, they would improve their status, on the other hand, they would be easy to communicate with chinese commercial ports


    Until china lost completely in the war of jiawu, japan began to turn to the west and choose a new target to follow


    He did not nod or shake his head, maintaining an arrogant attitude


    This is a compulsory course for every descendant of an aristocratic family


    However, the japanese now have very little fear and admiration for china


    If not, this group of warriors would not have rushed up, but the guy named Mitsui Gaosui did not say anything, but just looked at Huang Xuan, making classmate Xiao Huang a little uncomfortable


    He was weaker than these businessmen


    A short, fat businessman stood up, raised his voice, and said in guan dong''s words," for the sake of being a foreign businessman, kneel down and salute, and then you can leave


    " He had a typical japanese nose up to the sky, his mouth tilted up, and his face was small and thin, so the meat on both sides of his cheeks drooped down, forcing him to have a round face


    With a snort of disdain, he was just freed from his gaze with Mitsui Gaosui


    He kicked the two people under his feet away and strode up the platform


    It was specially prepared for people of status, and it was higher than the stage that the actors were performing on


    The spectators looked down, but they didn''t know if they could really see it clearly


    A few of the warriors who came up to stop him were called away by david


    Huang Xuan stood face to face in front of a group of rich businessmen and said to the fat man," you can apologize to me now


    " The other party scolded him naturally


    Lorraine didn''t translate, and Huang Xuan didn''t want to know


    He gave him a finger, thought about it, and said," here''s 20,000 yuan


    " The man staggered and was about to fall


    Huang Xuan held him up, then let go of his hand, and watched him tremble and kneel down


    He was obviously unconscious


    Everyone looked at Huang Xuan''s hand in fear, and even Mitsui Gaosui did not know what to say for a moment


    Speaking of japanese businessmen, their rise had its own special reasons-in the period of the shogunate, whether it was warriors or famous people, their property and salary were food, and the land could not be traded and traded casually


    According to the academic world, this was the so-called feudal lord''s land ownership


    Therefore, the samurai class could only receive a fixed salary of rice, whether it was 50 stone or 1 million stone, this food could not be used to eat, and according to the rules, the samurai could not sell these goods


    Thus, everyone exchanged things with the merchants, not only ordinary warriors, but also famous ones


    Not only that, great names and warriors were often short of money, regardless of where they spent it, but if they wanted to borrow money, they had to go to the merchants, so modern people said that the late period of the japanese shogunate was very similar to the west, because the great names who controlled the regime were short of money


    They must compromise with the businessmen who hold the power of the economy, so that their status and influence will gradually expand


    In a simple analogy, big name a wanted to attack big name b, but he had no money, so he borrowed a sum from local merchant a, signed a contract, promised to pay back the money, and gave merchant a the identity of a warrior


    After the war ended, daming a won


    At this time, he had two choices


    He either found a way to swallow merchant a, so the money would not have to be returned, or he would return the money truthfully


    In the beginning, many big names would choose the first method, but it wouldn''t be long before they realized that no more merchants would lend them money


    As a result, the big name, who received financial support from businessmen, won the final victory


    However, it would be difficult for many celebrities to pay back the money directly if they chose the second way, because his money was spent in the war, and the benefits - mainly the land rent, had not yet been obtained


    As a result, they would either attack other big names according to the requirements of the merchants, or they would have to give preferential treatment to the policy and then repay the loan in kind


    Later on, merchants made huge profits by selling famous goods, collecting money and other businesses, and gradually accumulated a large amount of wealth in society


    Simply put, how could a businessman not be rich if he had the goods, financial capital, and unrestricted development of the entire country


    So in the year of leniency (1790), someone said," fifteen out of sixteen of the country''s wealth was collected by businessmen, and one out of sixteen was collected by the martial arts family


    " When the fall of the curtain faction and the mufu faction duel, the businessmen became the power to decide the" sex


    " The reason why the imperial army was able to defeat 15,000 Shogunate army soldiers with 5,000 soldiers was mainly because of the application of new weapons, and the reason why the british were willing to provide new weapons to the fallen army instead of the Shogunate army was because of the money the fallen army could take


    The shogunate did not have that much military spending


    As a result, it was another regime change


    It was precisely because of the meiji restoration that Mitsui and mitsubishi made a lot of political investments that they finally made a huge profit and became the leader of the six major consortiums in japan


    Now standing in front of Huang Xuan was Mitsui Gaosui, the boss of Mitsui''s exchange shop


    He looked around and said," are all the most famous businessmen in Osaka


    "" That''s right


    " A middle-aged man on the side smiled


    He wore a samurai bun, but still wore the blue" color" cloth of an ordinary merchant


    He noticed that not only was he sitting next to Mitsui Gaosui, he was dressed more casually than anyone else


    It was like watching a leader travel on a news broadcast


    Secretaries, bodyguards, and low-level officials would always be dressed straight, while the prime minister," chairman," must be wearing casual clothes


    Huang Xuan smiled faintly and said," how do you address this gentleman


    " Sir said it was originally from japan, but it was also after the meiji restoration


    I don''t know if Lorraine had turned it into a" foot" or" sir," but looking at this man''s smiling face, I know it''s a good word


    The man smiled and said," I''m Iwasaki Yataro


    " With respect


    Regardless of nationality, Iwasaki Yataro was also familiar with the matter, because he was the founder of mitsubishi, japan''s largest consortium


    In three years'' time, he will be the leader of 99 Chamber of commerce in the tusa clan''s storehouse (an organization responsible for storing and selling goods of great name from all over the place) and start the road of the mitsubishi financial magnate


    Zhang Xinyi mentioned the name more than once


    Huang Xuan could not help but shrink his hand and say," why are you in Osaka


    " Iwasaki Yataro didn''t answer, but asked," you know me


    " Mitsui Gaosui is much more famous now than he is


    Instead of complimenting him, he looked around and smiled," the fallen army has won


    How happy do you all seem


    " What he really thought was that this place had been occupied by the fallen army again


    Roughly speaking, it was already half a month earlier


    Mitsui Gaosui narrowed his eyes and looked at Huang Xuan, unable to" touch" his path, and made a high-profile appearance


    Coupled with the godlike knockdown of a group of warriors, he should not be a small person, but to say his purpose, it was somewhat difficult to guess


    It was a sensitive time, and the downfall army relied on the strength of the british, while the Shogunate army had actually turned to the french, so just as in the distribution of power in europe, the british were still stronger


    However, from his position today, the Shogunate army may not lose


    As long as the general of the shogunate can come up with a plan to satisfy foreigners, these guys with" milk" as their mothers might prefer to have some" messy" scenes


    Especially during the period when the arms dealers were traveling


    Iwasaki Yataro had small eyes, the size of green beans, embedded in slightly bulging eyes


    His image was not very good, but it gave a very real feeling


    Seeing that Mitsui Gaosui did not reply, he said," the emperor should be the supreme ruler of japan


    The shogunate is unpopular


    " If he was a samurai, he would definitely shout out some slogans, not to mention saying that" he should be the supreme ruler


    " Only those who accepted western ideas would consider the matter this way


    Not noticing this, before he could speak again, another chubby young man next to him said," there can''t be only two emissaries from the qing dynasty


    " Mitsui Gaosui glared at him immediately


    It dawned on him that he had been wondering why the japanese had such strange eyes, and now he finally understood why


    They were actually suspecting that they were emissaries of the qing dynasty


    No wonder the japanese


    In the whole meiji restoration, there were always some japanese who were wondering whether the qing dynasty would" intervene" as if the qing dynasty did not know japan


    In fact, japan did not know much about the qing dynasty, especially those who had just come to power, and they had not had any contact with the senior officials of the qing dynasty, so, He was always worried about this problem: the dutch, the british, and the french were all fighting on this land in japan


    How could the qing dynasty not come


    However, the qing dynasty did not come


    In 1868, the manchu masters had just solved the problem of the taiping heavenly kingdom


    At this time, how could they pay attention to the fact that this was not a vassal state


    He really wanted to kiss this fat guy


    He was actually very smart


    Maybe in another two days, he could think of the tiger skin of the qing dynasty, but by then, it would be too late


    Almost" obscene" laughed twice


    Huang Xuan reached out and pulled Pawn Wei over


    He said loudly," I was the envoy of Li Hongzhang, the minister of the qing dynasty


    This time, I came here to stand in front of Mr


    Li


    Unfortunately, I met with a shipwreck


    " At this moment, Li Hongzhang was still in the position of Governor general of the two rivers


    There were not as many people who had heard of him as there were in the later generations


    Huang Xuan spoke with great emotion, and his words were not sad, but had the taste of a royal family


    He was still too young


    If he said he was a minister, it would be a joke


    Even so, Mitsui and the others would not believe it, but the suspicion turned out to be suspicious


    All the businessmen were present


    Mitsui Gaosui held the idea of not offending foreigners, made a bow and said," you are


    "" Huang Xuan


    " Xiao Huang smiled triumphantly and arched around


    Mitsui Gaosui was the business leader of Osaka


    As long as he bowed, it was enough for him