Chapter 103 Bah! The traitor! (Continue to pursue the reading!)

Although it is almost the Spring Festival in late December, the castle town of Edo, the de facto capital of Japan, seems particularly cold and even a little depressed. The originally prosperous streets are now mostly deserted, with only the frowning bosses and listless guys waiting for customers to come. The small industrial area near Edo Bay that carries the hope of Japan's rise will not be suspended in previous years, but in the twelfth month of this year, most of them have been suspended because there are no orders.

As for the three financial streets that originally symbolized wealth and were called Ginza, Kinza and Money, they are now a bit terrible. On both sides of the open and grand streets that are rare in Japan, there are also two substitute houses (Japanese money houses) that are closed everywhere, and people are gone!

Obviously, a terrible economic crisis is raging Japan!

This economic crisis is actually a global crisis, which is likely to be the first global economic crisis in history. The reason for this crisis is the overproduction caused by the rapid growth of production capacity brought about by the start of the Second Industrial Revolution. The overproduction crisis not only exists in Britain, but also in the Ming Dynasty and the Southeast Asian vassal states under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, as well as Malacca and the East Indies, which naturally violently impacted the economically fragile Japan.

For industrialized powers and superpowers like the Ming Dynasty with rich family and leading technology, the surplus crisis can be alleviated through large-scale construction and military expansion preparations. Now, it is the initial stage of the Second Industrial Revolution, and even a leading industrial country like the Ming Dynasty still has a huge demand for infrastructure investment.

However, there are few credit currencies in the world that are "not redeemable". Almost all advanced countries' currencies are linked to gold and silver, so it is difficult for countries to deal with the problem of large-scale expansion of finance when they face insufficient demand.

Moreover, since countries had experienced a period of overheating investment and tight production of raw materials before this surplus crisis, many factories that had expanded at high cost and stockpiled raw materials at high prices were in a huge crisis, with large amounts of bankruptcy and bankruptcy soon passed the crisis to the financial institutions that lend money to them.

However, the losses caused to financial institutions by factory bankruptcy are not unbearable. The financial market itself is the real place that causes major losses to financial institutions in various countries.

It turned out that when the economy was overheating, the securities markets of various countries experienced a round of big rises. Among them, the average price index of 100 stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange of Daming rose five times in ten years after the end of the Napoleonic War, and the stock price index of London rose more than four times. The Osaka Stock Exchange of Japan was only opened three years ago, and it soared after opening. The average stock price of all listed companies rose more than ten times in less than two years! When the economic crisis came, the stock markets of various countries experienced a round of plummeting, and the stock market of Osaka, Japan was no exception. The stock price fell by 90% in less than a month and was almost knocked back to its original form.

Because the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Tokugawa shogunate has lax supervision of financial institutions, almost all the two-substitute houses invested a large amount of funds into the stock market. After a round of plunge, they naturally suffered heavy losses. The trend of two-substitute houses collapsed across Japan.

The large-scale bankruptcy of the two substitute houses further aggravated the financial difficulties of Japanese industrial and commercial enterprises, and forced some companies that could still survive to close down. The entire Japanese economy has shown a spiral decline, which seems to be bottomless.

Of course, there are always losers and winners in the financial market, even in the case of a collapse, this is no exception in Japan!

At this time, on the depressed streets of Edo Castle, a luxurious carriage dragged by four tall Western horses was escorted by dozens of samurai in black, heading towards Edo Castle.

A tall warrior walking at the front of the team was carrying a rectangular black flag on his shoulder, with two eye-catching white characters "Big Black".

There were still some pedestrians on the street. When they saw this ostentatious team, they stopped and cast hatred eyes - everyone knew that this was the leader of the Great Black Crazy Battalion, one of the "Four Great Tendogs" in Japan, came to Tokyo.

The "Four Big Tengods" are the four major chaebols, including Dahei, Goto, Sumitomo and Zheng. The leaders of the four major chaebols live in Shanghai all year round. Only when encountering important things or important festivals will they travel across the sea and return to Japan to show their faces. When they go to Edo to meet the general, they will give them a generous gift, and then visit a group of powerful vassal lords and important shogunate officials, and give them a generous gift one by one. After the New Year, these "Big Tengods" will board their luxury cruise ship and return to Shanghai, the most prosperous economic center of the Ming Empire.

In the eyes of most samurai in Japan, especially the increasingly difficult middle and lower-level samurai, the Ming Empire, a superpower that ruled the Eastern world, is the root of the suffering of Japan, and the mountains above Japan. No, it is the continent! The entire East Asian continent is pressing on the Japanese archipelago, almost all-round and without blind spots, completely depriving Japan of its space for development.

Although Japan has the most hardworking and hardest laborers in the world, and its income is extremely low, less than one-tenth of the wages of the Ming workers. Moreover, in order to obtain the capital and technology needed to develop industrialization, Japan even uses its own girls as commodities to export them. Japanese workers are also willing to act as coolies in the very difficult Nanyang, Sakhalin Island, Guifang Peninsula, Xin Manchuria and other places, and do the hardest, most tiring and most dangerous jobs. But Japan's industrialization just can't get up!

One of the reasons why Japan cannot develop industrialization is the Zhuge family! The military advisors of the Zhuge family were all broken. They had already confirmed Japan's little thoughts, so they had long implemented the "industrial raw material export quota and tariff system" in a targeted manner - to develop industrialization, raw materials are necessary, such as coal mines, iron ore, rubber, soybeans, oil, cotton, and other miscellaneous non-ferrous metals, etc., all of which are subject to export control!

It is a regulation, not to not sell Japan, or the Japanese give up, and they will not make trouble. The Zhuge family’s policy is to sell raw materials to Japan, but it has to sell them at a high price, and it also has to be stubborn. The Japanese factories can only buy expensive and small raw materials, and they cannot form international competitiveness at all, so they can only pay their own people at a high price.

What? Isn’t selling it from other companies in the Ming Dynasty?

I really can't count on it!

Nowadays, there are no people in western North America, and they do not belong to the United States. The Panama Canal has not been dug, so there is no hope for the resources of the United States. Australia has no population. There are only hundreds of thousands of white skins, which cannot support large-scale mining. Moreover, the British Empire implemented the "White Australia Policy", and the Japanese could not help with development!

As for the resources of Malacca and the Dutch East India, although they were not under the control of the Ming Empire in administrative terms, the companies controlled by the Zhuge Shijia firmly monopolized the sales of rubber, tin and coal, and Japanese trading companies could not buy them at all.

The only one that can supply Japanese coal, iron ore, cotton and other raw materials is India under the British Empire. However, the commercial routes from India to Japan are under the control of the Ming Empire, so Indian coal, iron ore, and cotton suppliers have to sign a "equal price contract" with Zhuge Shijia, and can only sell a small amount of coal, iron ore and cotton to Japan at a high price.

Under such circumstances, Japan can develop a little heavy industry, which can only be said to be very hard-working.

But sometimes, hard work cannot solve the problem!

Faced with such a situation, two completely opposite routes emerged in Japan. One is the "pro-Ming faction" represented by the "Four Big Tengods", hoping to soften the position of the Ming Dynasty by pleasing the Ming Dynasty and gain space for Japan's development.

The other faction is the "arbitrary faction" with the large number of middle and lower samurai as the backbone, hoping to break the Ming Dynasty's suppression through war means and gain enough space for Japan's development.

Now sitting in the carriage of Dahei Family is Daheichang, the leader of the pro-Ming Sect, and his daughter Daheikong. Both father and daughter were dressed in costumes and sat upright in the carriage, frowned, and looked at the desolate street outside the window.

"My father," Okuro suddenly spoke at this time, "It's so depressing. Isn't Edo a metropolis with a population of 1.5 million?"

Da Hei Chang just smiled slightly: "Akong, no matter how depressed Japan is, it is also the root of our Da Hei family! The reason why Daozi Gong accepted you as his sidewalk is because of our Da Hei family's status in Japan."

"Daozi. Gong?" A hint of surprise flashed across Daheikong's white face, "Master Father, he."

"Well!" Da Heichang nodded, "After the New Year, he will become the military advisor of the Zhuge family! Akong, you are so lucky! You can not only become the side room of the Zhuge Military Advisor, but also become the adopted daughter of the Gongfang Lord."

"What? Lord Gongfang" Da Heikong looked at his father.

"Yes," said Dahei Chang, "Akong, you will soon become Matsuhiro. Although it is not Tokugawa, it is also a great honor! Moreover, this move will also bring closer the relationship between the Zhuge family and Tokugawa family, and will help resolve the Ming Dynasty's containment of Japan, which is particularly beneficial to our Dahei family."

Da Heikong also laughed: "That's so great."

Just as the father and daughter were talking, the carriage they were riding in had already turned a corner at an intersection. At this intersection, a group of ronin wearing white-washed kimonos and samurai swords were lying their hands in their wide sleeves, all holding their heads, looking at the carriage and guards of the Dahei family with a sinister expression. The leader was a one-eyed and had a messy beard. He scolded fiercely: "Baga, traitor!"

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