Chapter 648： Status of Fuso

Fuso, Satsuma Fan.

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 it is possible to dock more than a dozen ships at the same time.

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

There are also many more ships coming and going, and there is a lot of excitement on the wharf. People are coming and going, and the warehouses and open spaces on the shore are filled with all kinds of goods.

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

As a big ship broke down, a large number of shirtless Fusang men stood up on the shore, waiting for the people on the ship to get off, and then leaned in to ask questions in very bad Chinese.

These porters have become the first group of people proficient in Chinese.

There is no way, it's only profit.

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

Had it not been for Shimadzu Mitsuhisa's strict restrictions on the number of people coming to the pier, there would have been no one to farm.

Fortunately, Shimazu is not stupid for a long time, knowing that food is a vital material at all times, and he always has to keep the number of farmers.

Of course, there will be a labor shortage in this way.

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

For this, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa owed Dahua a large sum of money.

In order to repay the money, Shimadzu also racked his brains and even encouraged Fusang women to go to Dahua to engage in skin and meat 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 earn some money to pay off his debts by selling his labor in this way.

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

The Fusang people improved their farming efficiency and obtained a large amount of ironware, while Dahua obtained cheap labor and produced more industrial products.

This phenomenon is an inevitable outcome after 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 transported the copper and exchanged it for Fusang people's gold and silver.

The reason is also very simple. Fusang lacks copper and is very short, but there is a lot of gold and silver.

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

In Dahua, one tael of gold is approximately equal to 9 taels of silver, which is approximately equal to 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, one hundred taels of gold can be exchanged for 900,000 copper coins and shipped to Fusang. If you change hands, you can get more than two hundred taels of gold, and your net profit will double.

Of course, this is a theoretical value.

The export of copper is subject to tax, and the import of gold is subject to tax. In Fusang, the tax has to be paid again, plus shipping costs, labor costs, etc., and the final profit is almost 50%.

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

A trip back and forth, lasting half a month, a week soon.

Except for Dahua's newly emerging stock market, there is no industry that can make 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.

Most people are not qualified to do currency business.

Whether it is copper or gold, it is all currency. The imperial court has strict control over the import and export of such things.

If the restrictions are loosened arbitrarily, whether it is excessive copper loss or excessive gold and silver inflows, it will affect the country's currency system and have a certain impact on the economy.

The impact on Dahua may be smaller, after all, Dahua has a large volume.

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

But for Fusang, the impact is very big.

The influx of a large amount of copper coins led to the rapid depreciation of copper coins.

The well-informed upper-class people, using this information, have long used copper coins to exchange for gold and silver in the hands of the lower-class people.

As the value of the copper coins depreciated, the people who exchanged them for the copper coins suddenly felt miserable, which was tantamount to a loss of one-third or even more of their wealth inexplicably.

For some commercial activities, it 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 sharply due to the influx of copper coins, which is easy to cause turbulence."

There are capable people in Satsuma clan, and they realize that doing business with Dahua is too dangerous.

Because of its small size, hibiscus is easily affected.

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

Shimadzu Mitsujiu was helpless when he heard this, and he thought about it, but the two sides signed a free trade treaty, and he didn't dare to stop it.

Don't say it was blocked, he had to discuss with Dahua even if the tariffs were set, and he could not make arbitrary decisions, otherwise Dahua's army would be ready to do another fight.

"Kun Xiong Chuan, 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."

Kumakawa Ichiro continued to admonish.

"It's easier said than done. The cost is good. As long as I sell iron, I can get it together. The key is technology? Talent? 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 still depressed except for depression.

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

Kumagawa Ichiro considered the problem from the perspective of the entire Fuso, but Shimadzu Mitsuhisa considered the problem more from the perspective of the Satsuma clan.

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

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

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

Can it be unified?

This Shimadzu Mitsuhisa is still relatively confident. The flintlock unit under his hand has been training for a while, and he is also going to take it out to fight with the Kumamoto clan in the north.

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

Shimazu refused to pay, Nishikawa Wangkichi directly sent people to the Satsuma clan to collect taxes and rob, and Shimazu was so angry that he was half to death.

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