Just as Liaodong launched an offensive, the Tokugawa shogunate finally surrendered.

On December 24, the two sides signed the "Ming Day Treaty".

The content of the treaty is:

First: The Tokugawa shogunate paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, tributed 30,000 taels of gold every year and had a number of specialties, no less than 100,000 taels.

Second: The Tokugawa shogunate compensated the Shandong army with 30 million taels of military expenses, which were paid in five years.

Third: The Tokugawa shogunate opens Japanese markets and ports to Shandong merchant ships, allowing Shandong ships to trade in any Daming, and enjoys the relevant tax exemption in Japan. The shogunate shall not impose any miscellaneous taxes on Shandong goods. Shandong military and civilians commit crimes in Japan, and the shogunate has no right to conduct trials and punishments, and must be handed over to the Shandong court for trial.

Fourth: The Tokugawa Shogunate is not allowed to form a navy.

Fifth: Hokkaido was originally owned by the Ming Dynasty's "Nurgandus". The shogunate must withdraw all personnel from Hokkaido within six months. The Ming Dynasty has ownership of the fishing grounds around Hokkaido. Japan is not allowed to send fishing boats to catch fishing products.

Sixth: Establish the Nagasaki Concession, allowing the Shandong Army to station 3,000 people in Nagasaki to protect the expatriates. The Shandong Military Group has the right to shelter over the Japanese overseas Chinese. The shogunate shall not station more than one thousand troops in Nagasaki, and shall not station more than five thousand troops on Kyushu Island.

Seventh: Shandong can invest in mines on Kyushu Island, and the shogunate shall not stop it.

Eighth: Any trade with Ming merchant ships that do not hold a Shandong sea trade license is prohibited.

Ninth: The shogunate shall not impose any obstruction on the Shandong merchant ship operations, including searches.

Tenth: In view of the above content, the Shandong army withdrew from the Kanto area and at the same time promoted a ceasefire agreement between the shogunate and the Japanese Catholics. Since the Japanese Catholics withdrew from Shimahara, Amakusa Island was designated as the residence of Catholics and separated from the shogunate rule. The shogunate may no longer start wars against Catholics, and Japanese Catholics may no longer conduct missionary activities in other parts of Japan. This agreement is unconditionally accepted. If the Japanese Catholics do not accept this ceasefire agreement, the Shandong military group will use force to help the shogunate eliminate Japanese Catholics.

After a period of negotiations, the shogunate finally surrendered to it under the continuous action of the Shandong army.

Because during this period, the Shandong Army continued to increase its support for the Japanese Catholics in the ancient city of Shimahara, not only sent all the troops to participate in the war directly, but also supported a lot of supplies.

In early December, Japanese Catholics launched a major counterattack.

During this counterattack, the 100,000 troops of the Tokugawa Shogunate were directly repelled fifty miles, annihilated 20,000 shogunate soldiers, and successfully occupied Shimahara Castle.

Tokugawa Iemitsu could no longer delay the negotiations with the Shandong Army, and the Shandong Army also changed the 50,000 taels of gold tribute to 30,000 taels. For the Japanese saltpeter and half of the sulfur belonged to Shandong, it was also changed to investing in minerals on Kyushu Island, which was a step back and gave a step for the negotiators of the Tokugawa shogunate to give them.

If these negotiators don’t fight for something, they will definitely not be able to explain when they go back, so they give in and give a step.

When the negotiators of the Tokugawa shogunate saw that there was a step forward, they followed the trend and soon signed the "Ming Day Treaty", which means the treaty signed between the Ming Dynasty and Japan.

This is an unequal treaty, and you can see it at a glance.

But the Tokugawa shogunate was unable to resist, which was a huge gap in strength between the two sides.

After signing this treaty, Shandong will obtain the Hokkaido and the world's No. 1 fishing ground in Hokkaido. It is located in the Japanese Hokkaido Fishery in eastern Asia. It is located at the intersection of the Qiandao cold current and the Japanese warm current in the waters near Hokkaido.

The intersection of cold and warm currents can cause disturbances to the seawater. The overflowing seawater brings nutrients to the surface of the ocean, making plankton flourish, and thus provides fish with abundant bait and abundant fishery resources. In addition, the intersection of cold and warm currents can create "water barriers" that prevents fish from swimming, and helps to form large fisheries.

The ‘water barrier’ is caused by temperature, because different fish like different temperatures. Where the cold and warm currents meet, the fish will only stay in the sea area that suits their temperature.

Hokkaido fishing grounds mainly produce fish types: salmon, pollock, Pacific herring, Far East sardines, saury, etc. The value of this world's largest fishing ground even exceeds that of Hokkaido.

The essence of Japan was cut off from the layout.

Hokkaido can be added to the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The Nurgandus of the Ming Dynasty once nominally had jurisdiction in Hokkaido.

But the problem is that Nurkandus did not really occupy and develop Hokkaido.

This time it is included in the Ming Dynasty again, Zhao Yan will inevitably develop Hokkaido and build Hokkaido into a place where fishery products are imported to the local area.

At the same time, in the "Ming Dynasty Treaty", Japan will compensate 30 million taels of military expenses and pay them in five years. In the future, Shandong can increase its fiscal revenue by 6 million taels per year.

There are still 30,000 taels of gold and no less than 100,000 taels of local specialties for the tribute.

That is, there is a stable income of about 400,000 taels every year, but this is all small money. What is important is that Japan's market is completely open to Shandong.

At the same time, the treaty also restricted the Ming ships that did not hold sea trade licenses issued by Shandong, and the Tokugawa shogunate was not allowed to trade with them.

In Zheng Zhilong's maritime trade, Japan was the most profitable. Zhao Yan was the Ming Dynasty Maritime Commission, so he naturally had so much power.

As soon as the treaty was signed, Wang Wenyue immediately stepped up the plunder of the Kanto Plain.

The First Fleet also returned to Edo at this time, and drove back the more than 500 Japanese ships, saying that it was the order of the military headquarters to continue to use these ships to transport Japanese slaves. Then they escorted the second batch of Japanese slaves to the Ming Dynasty. During this period, Wang Wenyue captured 200,000 Japanese slaves again, and the group of Japanese ships drove back to Edo, and directly stuffed 150,000 more into them, allowing the First Fleet to get them all back directly.

At the same time, the First Fleet also informed that a huge fleet would arrive in Edo soon and ask Wang Wenyue to capture more Japanese slaves.

After receiving this news, Wang Wenyue quickly launched another sweep.

The money is snatched, the young and strong are snatched, and the warriors are killed.

Three lights!

This sweep is absolutely crazy.

...The five hundred return ships filled with Japanese slaves escorted by the First Fleet successfully arrived in Qingdao, and it took only about half a month to go.

Although there were a little crowding on the boat, the time was still short. There were not many Japanese slaves on the road, only more than 10,000 people died, and the death rate was less than one-tenth.

Zhao Yan was obviously very happy that these 140,000 Japanese slaves arrived in Shandong.

The conscription will begin soon. If there is not enough labor, it will easily cause damage to production, so these Japanese slaves are just in time.

In order to get more Japanese slaves back, Zhao Yan asked the First Fleet to drive the more than 500 Japanese ships back to Edo and continue to transport piglets.

At the same time, more than 170 sailboats recovered by the Nanyang team will also go to Japan for transportation.

Just as Zhao Yan was preparing to transport Japanese slaves to the Ming Dynasty, the Spanish fleet arrived in Qingdao, Shandong. When Zhao Yan heard Zhao Quan come to report, more than twenty large sailboats came.

"What did the Spaniards come to Qingdao for?" Zhao Yan said in confusion.

"They said we were not trustworthy, and the goods this year were not shipped to Nanyang for them. So they came to buy the goods themselves and told us in particular how much we had in the glass mirror, they wanted as much as they wanted." Zhao Quan said, "It seems that they brought a lot of silver."

"Enjoy them warmly. Make them any mirrors they want, and sell them more glass products."

Zhao Yan immediately said loudly that these Spaniards actually came to buy mirrors. This thing was about to reduce the price. Isn’t it just a special person to kill pigs for him?

This fat pig comes to the door on his own initiative and cannot be let go!

Selling glass products is the most cost-effective. It is definitely a huge profit among huge profits. It does not require much production costs at all, but it can be exchanged for a lot of gold and silver.

"It's already arranged, I'll explain it tomorrow." Zhao Quan said happily. This year, I'm really making a fortune!

...The Spaniards who came to Qingdao were welcomed warmly that day.

Shandong officials took them to eat and drink in the restaurant, and the seafood meal was served one by one, and even the Spanish sailors invited them.

I also sent some Japanese female slaves to the evening, which made the Spanish crew very excited.

The Spaniards in Luzon have been waiting for a year this year, but they didn't see Shandong delivering the 5 million ounces of Ming Dynasty goods they wanted. They originally planned to come to Shandong to sell goods. After all, the season is not a problem, and the speed of driving against the wind is too slow.

But at this time, a treasure fleet came from Central and South America, brought nearly 10 million taels of silver, and conveyed the order of the Spanish king to buy more glass mirrors back to Spain.

Some of the five million taels of goods were glass mirrors the year before yesterday.

As soon as these glass mirrors arrived in Europe, they were immediately sold out by princes and nobles from all over the European countries.

Since the French stole the manufacturing process of glass mirrors a few years ago, the prices of glass mirrors in Europe have begun to dive, but when the Ming Dynasty glass mirrors arrived in Europe, the sales price was extremely strong.

Shandong's glass mirrors are larger, brighter and more exquisitely made. They are not comparable to those of small mirrors in Italy. Those small mirrors have become obsolete things.

European aristocrats usually had nothing to do, just eat, drink, play and compare various luxury goods. With the colonization of Europe in the Americas, there were so many precious metals.

The Spaniards, who relied heavily on seizing gold and silver, quickly tasted the sweetness of glass mirrors after communicating with Shandong. If these glass mirrors were transported more to Europe, they would get more gold and silver.

For this reason, the Spanish king directly ordered all the silver this year to be transported to the Far Eastern colony, and ordered the Far Eastern colony Philippine Governor's Office to buy more glass mirrors to go back.

Because the Far East found a very plentiful ally, the Spaniards had an open channel to buy Ming merchandise, so they shipped all their money to the Philippines.

It was only about 10 million taels, mainly because I bought the goods snatched by the American fleet. Although the American colonies mined a lot of silver every year, they couldn't help but do it.

"This is the Supreme Gold Edition, three meters high and two meters wide. The top is carved with dragons, the bottom is carved with phoenixes, and gold is also inlaid with gold. Only 6,666 taels of silver is absolutely worth the money..."

A shopping guide introduced a large mirror to the Spaniards in a glass product store. The Spaniards were stunned by the large mirror.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!