Time Smuggling Starting from the Year 2000

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On the cherry tree in the yard, I don’t know if it’s a magpie or a sparrow, chirping. There are dewdrops on the leaves. If the dewdrops are too heavy, they will flow down. The water basin turned down like waves.

Huang Xuan was the only one living in the room surrounded by a courtyard, and he was still sleeping dimly, when hurried footsteps sounded outside the door.

"Who is it?" Huang Xuan drank his head in a daze, and put aside the blanket that he had casually covered his body last night.

"Mitsui Takasui brought the other 4 people." Lorraine replied quickly. In the age of electronic information, it is also very troublesome to figure out the identity of the other party.

"It seems that they are very anxious." Huang Xuan straightened his clothes, sat lazily on the ground, leaning against the wall, and said, "Iwasaki didn't come?"

"No."

"What about the Fallen Army? Is there any sign of departure?" In front of Nonton, Lorraine did not waste energy, watching day and night.

"The Falling Army at Osaka is not yet ready to go, and there is no sign of British cargo ships or mass production of ammunition."

Huang Xuan nodded. Osaka is the largest industrial base in Japan other than Edo. Although there are few modern machines now, as long as there is not enough bullets produced here, the defeating army can only rely on the British. If it was so unfortunate that a British ship came to Japan to sell arms, he might as well sink it. According to Lorraine, sinking a 1,000-ton ironclad ship within 300 miles of Kyoto may require 3 yuan of electricity, which is equivalent to the price of 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles. He wasn't going to do it unless it was absolutely necessary.

Iwasaki is not yet as beautiful as it was after the successful Meiji Restoration. However, in Osaka, or the Kanto area, his influence is already very large. As the predecessor of the joint organization of the Chamber of Commerce, his Kurashiki has developed very well, and its overall financial resources are only slightly inferior to the Mitsui family. As for the businessmen whose politics are inclined to the shogunate army, they are almost falling apart now. Huang Xuan wondered if Iwasaki established Mitsubishi by plundering the property of these shogunate businessmen.

Ito Hirobumi stood behind Mitsui Takasui with his waist bent. After Huang Xuan washed and opened the door, he raised his head vigilantly and looked at the man who brought the latest technology to Japan.

This is a young and overly Chinese, but different from the Qing Dynasty people he often sees, not only the hair, but also a kind of temperament. In his memory, only those arrogant foreigners will have this This kind of sense of superiority seems to be inherent, just like the inferiority complex of Japan's small country with few people.

Ito Hirobumi was still thinking about it. Mitsui Kosui had already started the routine greetings. Although he was anxious outside the door and made a noise to wake Huang Xuan up, when he sat in the room, he started chatting about the weather again, like a Same as Obasan.

Huang Xuan responded casually, and waited until the waitress at the preparation hotel brought tea and snacks before Mitsui seemed to wake up and said, "Master Huang hasn't had breakfast yet? I'm really sorry..."

"You didn't eat either." Huang Xuan said with ridicule.

Mitsui unconsciously said: "I just ate a little when I went out."

"Let's eat together." Huang Xuan pushed the plate and said, "I didn't expect there to be Chinese food here, and you probably seldom eat it."

Mitsui chuckled. He said a few words casually. After another gesture with his eyes, Hirobumi Ito sat up straight, cleared his throat, and said, "Hirofumi Ito. May I ask what is the bid for Master Huang's drawings?" Similar to modern Japanese corporate culture, there are very few people with higher status. Offer to introduce people of lower status.

"100 taels of silver, we told you so." The ignorant Huang Xuan hadn't had the chance to hear about Ito Hirobumi's name, and his way of learning, if it wasn't for the influence of his family and mother. It is also difficult to know the Mitsui Zaibatsu.

Ito Hirobumi smiled. Said: "If Master Huang wants to draw a complete map now, I'm afraid it will take a long time."

A complete design drawing plus an instruction manual is considered copying. It may take several months for one person, and Huang Xuan has nothing, so the Japanese are naturally suspicious.

Huang Xuan curled his lips and said, "As long as you can afford the money, there are as many drawings as you can."

He really wasn't bragging.

It seems that the Japanese are relying on Ito Hirobumi to negotiate today. He smiled and stretched his mustache twice. He stroked the clothes on his legs. He didn't bother about where the blueprints came from. He said in Huang Xuan's words: "We really take Not so much money, but 200,000 taels of silver:

Huang Xuan laughed out loud.

Wanting to leave, he said: "Then, there is nothing to talk about."

Mitsui Kosui quickly got up, stood at the door of the Japanese room, and said, "Master Huang, although we can't take out cash, we can use materials as collateral."

He doesn't really want to raise the price, it's just a statement.

Huang Xuan took the opportunity to sit down again, and said, "How much can you mortgage?" He waved his hand again as he spoke, and said, "In 10 days, Lord Li Hongzhang will be here. If the transaction cannot be completed, you can Needless to say."

Huang Xuan said this to reassure the hearts of the Japanese, Hirofumi Ito said "it's not surprising", and then smiled at Huang Xuan: "Master Huang, could it be that these blueprints were originally intended to be given to us by the Qing Dynasty?"

What he said was very tactful, Huang Xuan sneered and said, "Give it to you? It's almost the same as giving it to North Korea. 80, a fixed price, if you don't want to talk anymore, then forget it."

"Master Huang, you always have to let us see the drawings." Hirobumi Ito smoothed things over.

Sneering twice, Huang Xuan turned around and opened the big cabinet used to store bedding in the hotel. The full blueprints were poured out immediately.

Yamao Yongsan hurried to pick it up, but Huang Xuan didn't want to kneel down, so he leaned against the wooden wall with his legs apart, and said, "There are almost one-fifth of them here, and I'll talk about the rest when I see the money."

Hirofumi Ito picked up a blueprint and looked at it, saying: "It always takes several years to build a steel factory. If there is no one to guide it, it will easily cause problems. Master Huang has time."

"No." Huang Xuan knew that he wanted to lower the price, but in fact he didn't care about lowering the price. His bottom line was 200,000 taels of silver, which was far lower than the Japanese imagined.

Hearing Huang Xuan follow his own words, Hirofumi Ito immediately said: "Master Huang, without guidance, we have to spend a lot of money to find foreigners. In this way, our funds will be even tighter."

"Then don't buy it." Huang Xuan already narrowed his eyes, as if he didn't want to talk.

Ito Hirobumi and Mitsui Takasui looked at each other the same way, the latter waved his hand and finally said: "Master Huang, you said last time you wanted to buy some abalones to take home, but what kind of abalones do you want?".

"What are there?"

"The best net abalone is the famous product sun-dried by the Huagu family. The best sun-dried abalone is the Shihirata Goro family. The best hemp abalone is sun-dried by the Kumagani family. Why don't you bring some of each back?" Mitsui Kosui is very understanding.

Huang Xuan didn't know that there were famous experts in drying abalone. In fact, even in modern times, the Japanese made the best abalone, but they had to go to Hong Kong for cooking.

"What's the price?"

"One catty net abalone costs 300 silver, and the top-quality abalone and hema abalone only cost 200." The catty he was talking about was naturally Sima catty.

300 silver, according to the silver price at this time, about 175 yuan, a conservative estimate, about 500 gold, at this price, only one head of fresh abalone can be eaten in Guangzhou.

As for a net abalone, it's easy to sell three to five million yuan. Thinking of this price, Huang Xuan shivered, cursed himself for being worthless, rubbed his face as if he hadn't woken up, and said, "Then the remaining 60 Ten thousand taels of silver will be exchanged for abalone."

Ito Hirobumi glanced at Mitsui, and said with a sneer: "Master Huang, let alone whether there are so many abalones, 600,000 taels is too much, how about a total of 40 taels of silver?" He did not dare to directly say 300,000 taels.

"Think about it slowly. You can take a look at these blueprints first. If you want, prepare abalone and silver taels now. One head of abalone will be calculated according to the price you said, and the price of two-head abalone per catty will be divided by 4 and three-head abalone. We need to divide by 16 and count down in turn.” At this time, the concept of several abalones was actually already there, but the Japanese are not good at this and don’t eat much of it.

Ito Hirobumi was a little dazed, Huang Xuan had already moved out of the Japanese room, and said, "I'm going to go to Kyoto first, and when I come back in a few days, there are still half of the blueprints for making foreign guns in the other house, which is left as a deposit for you , When I come back, I hope you can figure out how much to pay."

The active biological bomb has just arrived. It is said that His Majesty the Emperor was in Miyagi, Kyoto until the capital was moved. He has the bomb in his hands.

He stretched as he spoke, and walked out with Dian Wei who was also yawning. Even a hero would feel sleepy if he stayed up late. .