On the way back, Huang Cheng regretted it all.

I tried many things before and put in a lot of effort. I saw that I was about to get the first batch of trade rights of the Spice Islands, but I didn't expect that at the last moment, I missed the wrong words, and was reacted by the cautious Nan Juyi and blocked his own way.

At present, although the imperial court has vigorously developed a number of so-called "imperial merchants" through the weaving bureaus in various places in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and has successfully controlled the trade between silk and the West.

But at present, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Ming Dynasty's trade to foreign countries is actually a stagnant pool. The vigorous development of silk and a kind of goods cannot drive national trade.

This also shows that the middlemen of the Ming Dynasty's trade with the West have not yet appeared, and more than half of the goods leading to the West have to be sent to the Spice Islands and Southeast Asia.

No one has moved this whole piece of cake yet.

This middleman is different from the royal merchants in the Weaving Bureau. After taking over the trade rights of the Spice Islands, it is equivalent to using trade to open the door to the Western world.

If it operates properly in the future, it may even become the first person in the Ming Dynasty to trade with the West!

Merchants cannot get up early without profit. Those who do maritime businessmen have been sailing on the misty sea for many years and never can return home a few times a year. Compared with ordinary merchants, they are more tiring, more dangerous, and are even looked down upon.

He, Huang Cheng, was not the first person to see this opportunity. Many people also saw other large-scale maritime businessmen.

Although this Emperor of Apocalypse is young, his vision is extremely vicious and he looks at it for a long time.

From the continuous restructuring of the Weaving Bureau in recent years, anyone who is a little smart can find that the court will not be limited to the current silk trade, and will definitely vigorously develop trade in the future.

Silk, tea, porcelain, and all kinds of oriental goods will be continuously transported to the West!

At this moment, just like the world situation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, every day cannot be wasted. In the past ten years, a merchant in the Ming Dynasty must have been selected by the court, thus dominating the entire East-West trade.

Huang Cheng hopes that this person will be himself!

He has never been so close to his dream, but just because of the mishandling of one sentence, he missed another dream!

Perhaps it was Nan Juyi's joy that made Huang Cheng forget about the Fujian governor in front of him for a moment, and it was not as simple as it seemed to be on the surface.

After Huang Cheng left, Nan Juyi's smile suddenly stopped. He silently drank the tea that had already turned cold on the table and asked:

"What do Yang Qianhu think about this Huang Cheng?"

A man walked out of the dark shadow inside the house, with a hooked nose, a square face, and a token from the Fujian Governor's Office hanging around his waist.

The so-called Yang Qianhu specially lifted the token on his waist, and then sat down on the stool that Huang Cheng had just sat on, as if no one was around, and said:

"How is he doing? You know better than me."

The two looked at each other and smiled, but Nan Juyi's smile clearly revealed his deep fear of the person in front of him and his indescribable fear.

Yang Huan, in history, ranked third in the "Five Biao" of the eunuch party, is now a thousand households in the Jinyiwei. He is under the jurisdiction of Tian Ergeng, a member of the Fujian Governor General Office. He is the chief supervisor of the Zhangzhou Governor General Office.

After laughing for a while, Yang Huan suddenly turned cold and said:

"It seems that we are looking for another candidate."

......

Huang Cheng and Fujian Governor Nan Juyi hit it off at first sight, swept across the sea business circle in half of the Ming Dynasty with a tornado speed.

Some people who are not clear about this usually only become jealous and envious, and are just for chatting after cooking.

Some people can see through the "sincere" intentions of Huang Cheng and Nan Juyi at a glance, so naturally the sense of crisis doubled and began to rely on relationships everywhere to find ways. They wanted to take Huang Cheng one step ahead and win such a cake.

Here, there is such a maritime businessman who is still famous and has a little capital, called Xu Xinsu.

Xu Xinsu, a native of Tong'an, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian, was a representative of maritime merchants and pirates in the late Ming Dynasty. He was a sworn brother with Li Dan, a Japanese Chinese maritime merchant leader, and had a long-term relationship.

When Li Dan was working hard in Japan, Xu Xinsu had been building a supply network in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places, and then transported the silk and other goods needed by Li Dan to Taiwan and then transferred them to Li Dan's hands.

Therefore, although Xu Xinsu is unknown and rarely known in the southeastern waters, she has become one of the current maritime merchants in the Taiwan Strait trade.

At the beginning of the second year of the Apocalypse, the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands on the coast of Fujian intensified. As the Dutch invaded Penghu and enclosed land and fortresses, the attitudes of both sides began to quickly get into evil.

In order to force the Netherlands to withdraw from Penghu, the newly appointed governor of Fujian, Nan Juyi promised to trade at Zhangzhou Port.

But the Dutch's ambitions were more than that. They refused to negotiate and kept sending delegations to make false peace talks, but they were secretly dispatching fleets, blocking the coast of Zhangzhou, and looting merchant ships.

The local area of ​​Fujian reported the seriousness of the situation to the capital. Emperor Tianqi attached great importance to it and issued an order to interfere in the matter and never take a step back.

Since then, the trade conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands has evolved into wars of aggression and resistance to aggression.

One of the main reasons for the Dutch invasion of Penghu was that the silk obtained by releasing the cocoon of mulberry silkworms, also known as raw silk, is one of the most favored luxury goods by the upper nobles in the West.

The Dutch East India Company was under pressure from the royal family and nobles and began to vigorously purchase silk, but since the eunuch of the Sili Superintendent Li Shi took office as the admiral of the Suzhou Weaving Bureau in the first year of the Tianqi period.

The silk production in the Ming Dynasty was gradually controlled by the imperial court. The Dutch wanted to buy silk or silk from the Ming Dynasty, but only a small part of the yarn in the Chamber of Commerce was sold.

Most of the supply is in the hands of the "Imperial Merchants" who cooperated with the imperial court, which caused the Dutch East India Company to start cooperating with the Imperial Merchants.

At the same time, since the 48th year of Wanli, the additional tariffs of the Supervisory Office not only made domestic maritime merchants dissatisfied, but also truly damaged the profits obtained by Dutch merchants after transfer.

Due to the limited funding of the Dutch East India Company and the current purchase of silk, the Ming Dynasty's price was completely priced at a bargain, which was ridiculously expensive, they had to reduce the amount of silk they purchased.

By the beginning of the second year of the Apocalypse, members of the Dutch royal family and nobles once again put pressure on the East India Company, hoping to buy more silk from the Ming Dynasty and make them into various luxury goods to satisfy the circulation of the upper class.

This is why the Dutch East India Company invaded Penghu earlier than in history.

Not only that, they also blocked Zhangzhou Port and sent a fleet to reinforce these unique things in history.

Compared with the historical intention of opening ports and invading Taiwan, the Dutch people came here in full force and wanted more benefits.

To put it bluntly, this war is equivalent to the Netherlands using force to force the Ming Dynasty to relax the output of silk and give them more preferential prices and tariffs.

But did Zhu Youxiao agree?

The answer is definitely to let them get out!

It took two years, little by little, and finally controlled the domestic silk output, just to make wedding dresses for you Dutch people?

Don't even think about it!

Even Zhu Youxiao wanted to take this opportunity to study the composition of the Dutch fleet. He could not create strong ships and powerful guns in the short term. Can we imitate them with our intelligence?

This battle in Penghu cannot fail. We must show the Ming Dynasty's international prestige and make the Dutch people hurt. By the way, we will study their strong ships and cannons.

In the future, it is easy to use their own strong ships and cannons to blast their national gates!

Speaking of this, we have to mention Xu Xinsu.

After the Dutch invaded Penghu, they soon noticed that the largest "Ming Dynasty-Japan" trade leader, Li Dan.

However, Li Dan often saw the dragon and had no end to see each other. He married and had children in Japan. He basically lived in Japan. Dongchang had always wanted to catch him but could not find anyone, let alone the Dutch "invited" him to talk about trade issues.

What should I do?

Soon, the Dutch came up with a good idea, which was Li Dan's good brother, Xu Xinsu, a maritime businessman in Taiwan.

Xu Xinsu was also in trouble. As soon as he arrived in Penghu, he caught the Dutch invasion and successfully became a hostage for the Dutch to force Li Dan to lead trade to Penghu, and was detained.

But sometimes, you don’t understand a person’s brain circuit.

This time, when everyone was watching jokes, it was put on Xu Xinsu, but it became an opportunity for him to leave Li Dan and connect with the Dutch.

Li Dan's righteousness is worthless in his own money.

During these days when he was locked in Penghu Fortress by the Dutch, Xu Xinsu was not idle at all. He actually used his identity and experience as a cross-strait trader and gradually gained the trust of the Dutch.
Chapter completed!