Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 71

It is impossible for Japan to replicate the primitive accumulation brought about by the **** colonial expansion of European and American powers. Naturally, we can only rely on the existing development opportunities and do our best to accumulate capital.

All rely on foreign debt to develop the economy? That’s possible, obviously impossible.

There is no problem in the introduction of foreign capital, and Japanese capital has to compete. Just like the Tsarist Russia next door, a large number of French capital entered, which has indeed improved the level of industrialization in Russia. But the Russians themselves did not lie flat, and in the modern military industry, there is a strong development.

He can keep up with the development trend of the modern navy all the way. Ironclad ships, former Dreadnoughts and Dreadnoughts have all been built over and over again. It is true that he is catching up.

Of course, his level of development is still limited. The sudden outbreak of the First World War directly interrupted his own industrialization process, and further development will take several years.

In order not to follow the old path in Japan’s history, it is necessary to obtain capital for full-scale industrialization in the country quickly and well. The old path of the past is that development is incompetent, capital is weak, and the people are dissatisfied, and then they try to divert the attention of the domestic people by advocating war and plundering.

Now if the majority of the country’s population can enjoy the dividends of economic development, a small number of careerists will not be able to stir up public opinion.

Development is the last word!

“Speaking of North Korea, there is also a good business to do.” Sumitomo Yoshi didn’t talk much in front of him.

“What business is easy to do?” Chuyouemon thought to himself, what can he do in North Korea?

If you want to talk about resources and minerals, in fact, he and Japan have basically all of them, but the mining conditions are flawed. Even worse than Japan’s mining conditions, it is difficult to develop domestic resources on a large scale.

“North Korea’s prices are not as good as Japan’s April 1st!”

Sumitomo Yoshi opened the chat box. After the signing of the “British Dynasty Hanyang Treaty”, North Korea opened its doors and signed treaties with France, the United States, Japan and other countries one after another. Not only allowed foreigners to enter North Korea, but also opened up two commercial ports in Incheon and Busan, allowing foreigners to establish embassy areas.

Britain, France and other countries first came to open the door, and then slowly figured it out. After all, the interests of the Qing Dynasty cannot be eaten up for a while, and North Korea has to wait a little bit. To the Japanese businessmen, because they have always had trade with North Korea, they have a better understanding of North Korea’s internal affairs.

The geographical closure for a long time has made North Korea a so-called “hermit country”. Coupled with the self-sufficient small peasant economy, its own social and economic level is very stable without external interference.

Due to the early years, the North Korean Ri Chao did not even have a relatively extensive currency. It is even said that when Wanli fought to aid Korea, the soldiers of the Ming army taught the Korean people in the countryside how to use copper coins. In the same vein to this day, North Korea still does not have sufficient currency, so that the price of rice is almost only a quarter weaker than that of Qing and Japan on the other side.

In the old society, there was no profit in selling grain for thousands of miles. Because of poor transportation conditions, the cost is too high. It’s different now. Today, big ships can pull thousands of tons. The speed is fast, the ship is loaded in Busan today, and it will arrive in Osaka tomorrow night.

At a quarter of the price of rice in Japan, if you buy rice from North Korea and import it into Japan, you can get 200% of the huge profits!

“There is such a good business!” The three big businessmen on the side also knew that there was such a good business.

Even though the unit price of rice may not be as good as those of expensive luxury goods, it is the most ordinary kind of bulk goods. Shigeru Nara also dealt with Indian and Burmese rice sold by the British, but the profit was nothing more than that.

One is that the road is far away, the transportation cost has risen, and the unit price is a little cheaper than Japanese rice. The second is that Japanese people think that Indian rice is not as delicious as Japanese rice, and in normal times, they must still eat Japanese rice. In times of famine, say otherwise.

The Indian rice shipped to Japan is mainly used to save barren rice and reserve grain. Once there is a disaster anywhere, the people have no grass to eat, and the Indian rice is more fragrant at this time.

But Korean rice is different. Korean rice and Japanese rice are mixed together. Who can tell the difference?

I will mix it with Japanese rice and sell it. I won’t make much money with a pound or two. What about 100,000 shi and 200,000 shi? Or a million stone, or even more?

Of course, some people may say that you bought the Korean rice. What do the people of North Korea eat? What’s the matter with me?

“If one stone of rice is worth only one cent of gold, you can buy this rice as much as you can, the more the better.” Chuemon’s **** is on the throne of Edo, so his mind is naturally on maintaining his own rule, and foreign affairs are handled by foreign countries. Bar.

I don’t care if the people under my own control starve to death, I will pull it to the end. The era when everyone is full is still far away from now.

“The minister is already working on it, there is another one…” Sumitomo Yoshi is also a shrewd businessman.

Otherwise, how did he rise with the wind in history and finally set up the fortune of the Sumitomo chaebol? This is obviously related to his unique vision in mining, smelting, chemical industry, etc., and what kind of business is promising.

“What else?” Chuemon was half full.

Now that I am getting older, my appetite is really not as good as when I was young. When I was sixteen or seventeen years old, at the morning market in Nihonbashi, Kazuroku, it was carbs plus carbs, sushi noodles, bowl after bowl. Now that I can’t eat much, I hug it.

“The price of gold in North Korea seems to have an opportunity.” Sumitomo Yoshi, of course, could not sell anything in front of Chuemon.

“kindness?”

As soon as they heard that they were talking about gold, not only Chuemon paid attention, but the others also turned their heads and listened to Sumitomo Yoshio’s words.

In the era of King Yeongjong and King Zhengjong, the commodity economy began to develop, and the state’s policy of restricting mine development was loosened. The merchants and the common people are allowed to contract the mines and pay a certain amount of money.

Under such relaxed conditions, there are more than 24 silver mines with an annual output of more than a thousand taels of silver. At the same time, gold mines in northern North Korea have also been gradually developed.

It’s normal here. North Korea’s own transactions rarely use gold and silver spot, because the price of commodities is too low, and copper coins can meet the vast majority of transactions. And North Korea’s copper mines have also been developed, and copper coins have been minted.

Things should be on the coins!

Due to the mining of copper mines, Japan has been fully industrialized and its output has skyrocketed. And North Korea is still the same set of old times. North Korea is only two hundred or three hundred copper coins for two one taels.

If you talk about it in detail, you have to go to the scale and have a good fight with you. Let’s talk about it roughly, that is to use the relatively cheap red copper in Japan, and the output of which is increasing year by year, to exchange for North Korea’s gold.

The North Korean side will not feel anything wrong in a short time, but the Japanese side is making a lot of money. By the time he finds out, millions of taels of gold have already been exchanged here.

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