Chapter 174: There are Japanese here?
Miss Yan liked the wool sweater very much; it was soft and warm, and Jin Sui gave it to her on the spot.
Yan Jiu asked thoughtfully, “How long will it take to make the spinning machine for wool?”
He thought Jin Sui would have the craftsmen in the border city develop it to make the spinning machine.
Little did he know that Jin Sui had ready-made blueprints, and in an era without steam engines, a spinning machine operated entirely by human power was too simple.
Jin Sui immediately promised, “When we return to the border city, I will deliver the finished machine to the Yan Clan within three months at most. Of course, it will take about a year to train workers and process wool into yarn before weaving clothes for sale.”
Yan Jiu chuckled, “That’s very fast. In that case, the Yan Clan is willing to cooperate with Miss Ji on the business of acquiring large quantities of wool and rabbit wool from the Northern Frontier.”
Jin Sui coughed lightly, “It’s cooperation with the border city.”
She continued, “I know what the Head of the Yan Clan is still worried about. The business of acquiring cash crops from farmers in the Northern Frontier requires a large amount of grain in exchange. Since Yandi lacks grain, it would be very uneconomical to buy grain from Jiangnan with gold and silver.”
Yan Jiu nodded, “Not only that, but the Imperial Court also restricts trade in Yandi. Even if I had more silver, I couldn’t buy much grain.”
He glanced at Gu Changxiao subtly. Gu Changxiao said firmly, “I cannot guarantee that trade rights in Yandi will be opened up in the near future, but I will ensure the Imperial Court opens them at the latest within a year.”
Jin Sui smiled, “I have a plan to solve the grain problem.”
The two looked at her in unison. Jin Sui took out a map, and they all gathered around to look. At first, they didn’t recognize it, but after a few breaths, Gu Changxiao and Yan Jiu said in unison:
“Nanyang!”
Jin Sui nodded, “That’s right, this is the Nanyang Archipelago! It’s spring all year round, rice yields three harvests a year, and grain prices are extremely cheap.
Moreover, these small islands are self-governing nations, with a population smaller than even a town in Great Xia. They also engage in barter, and a little cloth, fine wine, or sugar can be exchanged for a large amount of grain.
We can have the indigenous people there grow grain, trade with them for supplies, and then use this grain to trade with the Northern Frontier for cash crops.
The cash crops from the Northern Frontier will be processed in Yandi; sunflower seeds will become oil, cotton will become fabric, and dried grapes and dates are considered fine dim sum.
In this way, our costs will be transportation and labor, but the gains will not only control the lifeline of the Northern Frontier’s granary but also boost Yandi’s economy and earn a lot of money.”
Jin Sui added, “Of course, this is just a rough plan I’ve devised. The specific implementation will require detailed rules.”
Miss Yan looked at Jin Sui’s expression, her eyes practically sparkling. At this moment, she felt that even if Sui Sui was a woman, it wouldn’t diminish her admiration and worship.
Yes, she just liked how Sui Sui spoke so eloquently. No matter how complex or troublesome matters were, they became clear and were simply resolved in her hands.
Listen to this grand plan involving multiple countries; a normal person’s mind would be in a mess trying to figure it out! Yet Sui Sui quickly thought through the plan.
Miss Yan thought about the border city after Jin Sui took over and immediately felt that entrusting such a small border city to Sui Sui was a waste of her talent!
She felt that Sui Sui could completely be a prime minister of a nation, yes, even a female prime minister wouldn’t be bad!
Is this what intelligent people are like? In my next life, I want to have a brain and a mind like this.
Yan Jiu also looked at Jin Sui with admiration. He had felt during their conversations on the road that Miss Ji’s vision was broader than his. Many times, his focus was solely on Yandi.
Although the Yan Clan had sea vessels, due to the Imperial Court’s maritime ban, the Yan Clan could only sail privately, and he knew little about overseas affairs.
He had thought his familiarity with the Northern Frontier could match Miss Ji’s. However, looking at the map of the Northern Frontier on the road, Miss Ji could always pinpoint which tribes were stronger and which areas were more suitable for stationing troops.
She could even analyze the migration routes of the herdsmen throughout the seasons. Yan Jiu remained outwardly calm, but inwardly, he was full of admiration. Miss Ji was no longer just intelligent; she was, in fact, extraordinarily wise!
Listening to her devise such a grand plan now, as if reciting from memory, clearly and logically, with all aspects considered, Yan Jiu said sincerely, “Miss Ji, you are truly talented. Yan Jiu is ashamed of his inferiority.”
Only Gu Changxiao looked at Jin Sui with a smile, his eyes full of pride.
His expression displeased Yan Jiu greatly. What did Miss Ji’s intelligence have to do with you?
Jin Sui quickly said, “Head of the Yan Clan, please don’t say that. In fact, my plan is too vague and idealistic, and there are many issues that we need to discuss in detail.”
“As far as I know, there are many pirates at sea. Great Xia has a maritime ban, and the navy only guards the coast. Merchants at sea must organize their own guards to fight pirates.
We must have naval escort for such large-scale grain transportation…”
At this point, she and Yan Jiu both looked at Gu Changxiao.
Gu Changxiao said confidently, “The Imperial Court does indeed have a maritime ban, but my fiefdom in Yandi has a harbor, so building a navy is only natural.”
Jin Sui gave him a suggestion, “Your Highness, do not report your navy to the Imperial Court with the objective of sailing as a regular navy, but rather, to counter the herdsmen of the Northern Border and the Gaoyi.”
“As for how the trained marines are used afterward, that would be up to Your Highness to decide.”
Gu Changxiao praised greatly, “This plan is excellent! When the dynasty was founded, the Imperial Court wanted to station troops in Dandong to fight the Gaoyi. Heh, centuries have passed, and they have long forgotten their ancestors’ last wish.”
Neither Jin Sui nor Yan Jiu responded to this. It was fine for him to criticize the Jun family’s incompetence, but they couldn’t join in the criticism.
However, they could criticize Prince Yu. “Exactly! Look at the foolish things Prince Yu has done. Let alone the Gaoyi, if he were to ascend the throne and become Emperor, he would probably give the entire Northwest to the Left Wise King.”
The three continued to discuss the plan. When they talked about the sea, Jin Sui casually asked, “Where are the pirates from?”
Then Yan Jiu uttered a name that made her soul tremble: “The pirates along the coast of Great Xia are mostly Japanese.”
Upon hearing the word ‘Japanese’, Jin Sui trembled all over, and a sense of mission unique to the children of the Flower Planting Family arose within her.
That feeling was inexpressible. It could be said that since Jin Sui transmigrated to this day, her soul had been wandering, and her sense of belonging to this world was not strong.
Everything she had done along the way was initially driven by the original owner’s destiny. Finding Grandpa Ling and Jin An, and having the goal of clearing Father Ling’s name.
Later, impersonating Lord Li, building up the border city, and forming bonds with the soldiers of Black Feather through life and death together, were all steps taken as they came, with fate pushing her forward.
As for herself, the dream of finding a Peach Blossom Spring with Grandpa Ling and Jin An, practicing medicine, and farming, was also very vague.
She was like a wandering traveler, like a tourist. It was a dream that hadn’t touched her soul, a dream that hadn’t made her feel a true sense of belonging to this world.
She had asked herself countless times, even talking to herself in her space, why did she transmigrate? And why did she transmigrate with a laboratory?
Was it just to let her experience ancient times? Was she carrying some mission? Unfortunately, there was no one to answer.
And now, she seemed to have an answer. She had finally found her sense of mission: to build up a region and help the common people rise up.
Jin Sui felt as if she had found her life’s purpose. At this moment, she felt her soul completely merge with this body, and she had taken root in this world.
She excitedly asked Yan Jiu, “The Japanese you mentioned, are they the ones who live on the island of Dongying, are short, like to eat raw fish, and believe in their Emperor?”
Yan Jiu didn’t know why she was so excited, but he quickly replied, “That’s right, they are those Japanese.
When the dynasty was founded, Japan was a vassal state of Great Xia, paying tribute annually. Later, when Great Xia imposed a maritime ban, the Japanese stopped paying tribute.
They formed pirate groups, roamed the East Sea, and often plundered passing merchant ships.”
Jin Sui smiled, and a kind of ambition she had never had before appeared in her eyes! It was not ambition for power or wealth, but ambition for conquest.
She had finally found her mission!
The few people were a bit stunned by her reaction and also a bit worried, as Miss Ji’s expression at this moment seemed slightly deranged.
Gu Changxiao asked worriedly, “Sui Sui, what’s wrong? Is there something wrong with these Japanese?”
Jin Sui grabbed Gu Changxiao’s hand, “How about we make a deal? I’ll make a deal with you for the rest of my life.”
Yan Jiu looked at their clasped hands, feeling a pang in his heart, and said softly, “May I ask what deal Miss Ji wants to make? Can Yan Jiu participate?”
Jin Sui quickly grabbed his other hand, her eyes full of excitement, “Then let’s three make a deal. I want to destroy Japan!”
As soon as she said this, they were all shocked. Miss Yan stepped forward and touched Jin Sui’s forehead. She didn’t have a fever!
We are still plotting to kill the Left Wise King in the Northern Frontier, and we don’t even know if we will succeed, and you’re already thinking about destroying Japan?
Jin Sui tightened her grip on their hands and pulled them together:
“Are you willing? This transaction has no time limit. As long as I am alive, no, even if I die, my children or my students will carry on my wish.
As long as Japan can be destroyed, I am willing to work for both of you for the rest of my life.
Lord Li, I will make as many fish oil firearms for you as you want, I will offer you strategies, and I will make the border city more prosperous than Jiangnan.
Yan Jiulang, I will develop industry for your Yan Clan and open up safe sea routes. As long as you agree to help me destroy Japan!”
Gu Changxiao extended his other hand, intending to push Yan Jiu’s hand away, but Yan Jiu also extended his other hand and firmly held it down.
Then it turned into the three of them holding hands, intertwined like children playing a game.
Gu Changxiao narrowed his eyes and glanced at Yan Jiu, then turned to Jin Sui and smiled, “Sui Sui, don’t get too excited. I promise you.
Sui Sui’s aspiration is my aspiration! I will definitely build a navy and destroy Japan.”
The two then looked at Yan Jiu in unison. Yan Jiu was still very calm and asked Jin Sui softly, “Miss Ji, can you tell me why you want to destroy Japan?”
Jin Sui slowly released their hands, stood up, and walked slowly in the felt tent, her back to them, then told a story that struck them as incredible yet reasonable.
“Aren’t you curious why I, a mere Taoist nun, possess such knowledge? How can I know so many things that others don’t?”
Liu Yun, who had been observing the entire process, roared in his heart, “Because you have immortal magic! You have a Qiankun Pouch!”
But he didn’t say it, fearing he would be considered crazy. Indeed, the Miss Ji in front of him was quite crazy.
“I grew up with my grandfather in a Taoist temple. When I was young, I fell seriously ill and almost died. While ill, I felt as if my soul had left my body, and I seemed to wander in a dream to a very large study.
I casually flipped through a few books and saw the method for making fish oil firearms, the method for smelting refined iron, and the method for making the spiritual medicine penicillin.
I saw a map several times larger than the map of Great Xia. On that map, both the Northern Frontier and the Nanyang Archipelago were just a small part of the world.
This world is far larger than we imagine.
I read a lot, and only remembered a part of it.
But the clearest thing I remember is a book called ‘History of the Han’. It is a history of the blood and tears of our Han people.
It clearly records the atrocities committed by foreign races against the Han people, such as the Uprising of the Five Barbarians, the crossing of the Yangtze River by the Jin people, and the entry of the Tartars into the passes.
After I recovered from my illness, I told my Grandpa what I had seen in my illness. Grandpa said it was my innate good fortune, protected by the Three Pure Ones, and that I had opened my heavenly eye in my illness to see the future of the nation’s destiny.
Unfortunately, what can people like us, who are insignificant, do even if we see it? Those events may happen hundreds or thousands of years later, and there is nothing we can do about it now.
Grandpa told me to forget what I saw in my dream, and I did forget most of it.
Only the page of history about the Japanese, I could never forget! I believe that the protection of the Three Pure Ones, allowing me to see the future, must have given me a mission.
If I only observe and do nothing, I will never find peace in this life.
It was only today when Jiulang mentioned the Japanese of Dongying that this buried memory was awakened.
Only then did I understand why I had been restless all along, and why fate had pushed me, an insignificant person, to the border city, where I had the good fortune to meet Lord Li and the Head of the Yan Clan.
Whether that future is real or not, I want to fight for the destiny of the Han people.
So, will you help me?”
Jin Sui turned around, tears streaming down her face. It was a history of blood and tears that any child of the Flower Planting Family would weep uncontrollably upon thinking of.
She concealed her transmigration with Taoist protection, which was very convincing in an era where everyone believed in gods and Buddhas.
She had already made up her mind. If Yan Jiu and Gu Changxiao were unwilling to destroy Japan due to certain concerns,
then she would accumulate her own wealth, go to sea herself, and build a navy. At worst, it would take decades. She didn’t believe that with her laboratory, she couldn’t destroy the currently weak Dongying.
To her surprise, Gu Changxiao and Yan Jiu both stood up and bowed to her. Yan Jiu’s eyes were filled with admiration, while Gu Changxiao’s were filled with concern.
Gu Changxiao said softly, “So Sui Sui has been carrying such a heavy burden all along!
This concerns the destiny of the nation, and it is not Sui Sui’s burden alone. I, Jun Yanqing, as an Imperial Prince of Great Xia, will surely contribute to the history of the Han.
Together, we will change the destiny of the Han people’s future!”
No wonder Sui Sui was so uninhibited and her conduct was so different from others. It turned out that she had carried such a heavy burden in her heart since childhood.
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