There's 25 separate provinces, and each of these provinces, once under your control, can be built up as you see fit: do you want to create a military stronghold, with samurai schools, war horse stables, and a military port to create a seaworthy navy, or do you want the province to be a money maker with trade ships, rice exchanges, and merchant guilds?
In addition, we publish a paper on inter-Asian rice exchanges in later historical periods by veteran agricultural economist Randolph Barker, as well as the revised remarks by Richard O'Connor, one of several symposium discussants.
Congress would not second guess, say, a Japanese concession on rice in exchange for a U.S. concession on auto parts.
Another limitation is the difficulty in exchanging seeds of a crop species: rice seed international exchanges have to be covered by import permits and phytosanitary certificates from national quarantine authorities.
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A new breed of trader has sprung up, offering cash or bartered staples such as rice and flour in exchange for raw cashmere.
The only way they could do so was by setting up "trading companies," which sold raw materials to China in exchange for rice.
After being inundated with requests for their recipes, they typed them up and also let those with a dinner reservation come early to watch the chefs prepare the night's "rice and curry" in exchange for a small tip.
Likewise, the export of sweet potatoes, fish, and basil can be exchanged for rice imports.
Archaeologically, South China and Southeast Asia have exhibited similarities in stoneware production and ceramics techniques in the Qin dynasty, and also evidence of ancient cultural exchanges, covering rice agriculture, jade ware production, bronze smelting and casting technology, and bark cloth culture.
