After Yiyun's fleet stopped at Quanzhou Pier, he began to return to Shanghai Oasis, and Zhou Zifan naturally followed the ship.

Since the emperor has not found it, it will naturally be revealed. When he does not quarrel over the emperor's affairs, Zhou Zifan is a person who is very easy to get along with. He possesses some basic virtues of Chinese literati, such as elegant conversation, generous manners, upright style, etc.

Of course, he also had some bad habits of the Donglin Party, such as blind arrogance, the idea of ​​the Celestial Empire, and did not attach importance to science and technology.

Yi Yun talked to him a few casually, and then he heard him say several times in a row, "My country is vast and vast...and so on." Anyway, in his eyes, except for the big and cute countries, other places are barbaric lands, and the science and technology of other countries are not worth mentioning. A bucket of waste is enough to deal with other countries, just dig a piece of booze and smash it.

Yi Yun couldn't help but think: This is a typical Donglin Party member! Should I give it a try? Start some experiments from him to see if I can correct the Donglin Party member's bad habits?

"Zifan, what do you think of the ocean?" Yi Yun asked.

"Is the ocean?" Zhou Zifan showed a look of disdain on his face, but he did not speak coldly like other Dongliners, but said calmly: "If you can't grow food, you can't put cattle and sheep. This kind of wasteland can be discarded."

"Then do you know why Westerners are running around the sea on big ships, traveling thousands of miles?" Yi Yun said with a smile.

"Of course I know!" Zhou Zifan smiled and said, "The barbarian country has no abundant supplies. You have to buy everything from our big cute country, so you have to drive a boat to buy things here."

"Well, actually, what you said is not a big mistake." Yi Yun smiled and said, "Since you also know that the ocean can be used for trade and buy things, why do you still say that it can be abandoned? I don't think trade is a thing that should be given up."

Zhou Zifan laughed and said, "Of course, the barbarian country cannot give up, but my country is vast and rich in land and resources, so what can I do? We can meet all our needs by ourselves, and there is no need to engage in maritime trade."

This person’s thoughts can represent the voices of most officials in the Dameng Kingdom… Yi Yun sighed in his heart, and he asked again: “But I have another new question. If I give up the sea and the enemy comes from the sea, how should I deal with it?”

"That's all the easier!" Zhou Zifan smiled and said, "The best way to deal with the enemy coming from the sea is to ban the sea... Move the fishermen on the coast inward for fifty miles, and turn the coastline into a wasteland where 50 miles of the coastline. No matter where the enemy lands, they will face a wilderness, and they will not be able to attack our country from the coastline."

Yi Yun: "..."

It turns out that this is the reason why the Da Meng Kingdom forbids the sea! Yi Yun finally caught a little of the pulse of the times. The conversation with Zhou Zifan made him understand the fundamental thought of the Donglin Party. The Donglin Party did not know that the ocean could engage in trade, but they believed that the Da Meng Kingdom was rich in materials and there was no need to engage in trade. The Donglin Party did not know that the enemy would come from the sea. The policy they adopted was to cut off the coast on their own, leaving the enemy nowhere to bite.

In general, the Donglin Party is not doing anything incorrectly, but the direction of its actions is wrong! They may also be working hard to make a better country, but the fundamental direction of their efforts is wrong. This is due to the limitations of the times and the backwardness of educational civilization. To change this, they must broaden their horizons and let them clearly know what is happening in the world.

As the saying goes, it is better to travel thousands of miles than reading thousands of books. The best way to help the Donglin Party members broaden their horizons is to let him travel thousands of miles. Let Yi Yun take the lead in person!

The fleet sailed northward. He moved along the coastline. Not long after walking, he encountered a general merchant ship. The merchant ship was quite large, with a load capacity of at least two or three hundred tons. Not only were there towering cargo piled on the ship, but also several Flang machine cannons were also installed. Yi Yun saw that the general merchant ship was hung with the banner of Zheng Zhilong, so he felt relieved and let his flying Henan people deliberately pass by a very close place next to the large merchant ship.

"Zi Fan, look, this is a huge merchant ship!" Yi Yun smiled and said, "There are a large amount of cargo piled up on the ship..."

"Well, the servant saw it! Does the prince have anything to say to the servant?" Zhou Zifan said strangely.

"Guess, how much money can such a ship be made by selling it from Damengguo, carrying porcelain and silk to places like Batavia?" Yi Yun asked with a smile.

"Batavia? Where is this?" Zhou Zifan was a little puzzled.

Yi Yun smiled and said, "This is a port of a country called Indonesia. It connects the important route between the West and our Da Meng Kingdom. It is a very important place in world trade. If our Da Meng Kingdom products want to go to the West, they must first go to Batavia for a transfer."

"Oh, it turns out to be Indonesia. I know this country." Zhou Zifan smiled and said, "I have read a lot of mountain and river geography, which records it. This is a small country, a barbarian land, where the people are poor and rustic, and they can afford silk and porcelain?"

"Of course I can afford it, and... the price is very high!" Yi Yun stretched out a few fingers and gestured: "In Nanjing, Suhang, Yangzhou and other places in our cute country, you should be very clear about the price of silk."

"Well, the lower-ranking official knows a little about one or two." Zhou Zifan smiled and said, "The lower-ranking silk is about six taels of silver per piece, the medium-ranking silk is about ten taels of silver per piece, and the high-ranking silk is fifteen taels of silver per piece... This price... the lower-ranking official can't afford it, it's too expensive, I don't believe that those barbarians can afford it."

Yi Yun shook his head with a smile, suddenly opened his throat, and smiled at the big merchant ship passing by: "The one on the ship opposite is Zhu Yun, the king of Jiashan, and you are friends with your boss Zheng Zhilong. You come out and report it to me. How much can a silk be sold to Batavia cost!"

There was a person jumping out of the boat opposite. Yi Yun saw that Khan was an acquaintance... Zheng Zhifeng! This poor royal sister, who is often called an old woman by Yi Yun, stood on the bow of the boat and responded loudly: "Prince Jiashan, what are you asking about this?"

"Well, I asked and played, don't worry about so many things, little beauty, please report the quotation for me quickly." Yi Yun said with a smile.

"Little?" Zheng Zhifeng was overjoyed. She liked others to say that she was young and hated others to say that she was old the most. When Yi Yun called him a little beauty, she felt happy and said loudly: "Silk sold to Batavia. The inferior thirty taels of silver per piece, the medium 50 taels of silver per piece, and the best 70 taels of silver per piece."

"What?" Zhou Zifan jumped up in shock when he heard this.

"Not bad, the little beauty quoted a good price. Next time I will come to your elder brother for tea! Go and do your business!" Yi Yun waved.

Zheng Zhifeng also waved her hand, and the two ships passed by and they all went far away.

At this time, Zhou Zifan was already in shock, and he felt as if he was struck by lightning. He said in a daze: "Five times...is five times the price..."

"That's right, it's a price of five times!" Yi Yun said with a smile: "In our Dameng Country, we can sell silk with six taels of silver, and in Batavia, we can sell thirty taels of silver. In fact... if we can ship it to the West, such as Lisbon, we can sell 60 taels, which is ten times, and sometimes even twenty times."

"So tall? Oh my God!" Zhou Zifan said: "As a fourth-rank official in the Great Cute Country, even the Xiaguan can't afford six taels per piece of silk. How can Westerners afford six taels per piece? Is the barbarian country so rich?"

Yi Yun spread his hands: "The barbarians are richer than you think. There is a saying in our hometown: Westerners are stupid and more money, and Fusang is stupid. Who will make money if they don't make money?"

Zhou Zifan wiped his sweat: "Then... how much money can the ship of cargo just now make?"

Yi Yun smiled and said, "It's about 50,000 to 100,000 taels..."

"Puchi!" Zhou Zifan spewed out a mouthful of tea: "So much? Oh my God! The tax paid by a county in Dameng Country is only 50,000 taels of silver a year. Do you mean that if you go to Batavia once, you can earn taxes from a county?"

"That's right!"

"How long does it take to run to Batavia once?" Zhou Zifan continued to ask.

"Hey, add all the time for purchase, delivery, shipment, and return, about two or three months!"

Zhou Zifan's sweat flowed down. Although he was a short-sighted Donglin Party, he was not stupid and could still make up accounts. After doing so, such a large merchant ship could be worth the taxes generated by five to six counties. Will it be too fast to make money like this?

Zhou Zifan swallowed a saliva and said with difficulty: "There must be not many such large merchant ships... Otherwise, the barbarians would make all their pitiful money without a few ships."

"There are quite a few such ships." Yi Yun smiled and said, "Look, another ship came from the north..."

As Yi Yun pointed his hand northward, Zhou Zifan looked over and said, sure enough, another larger sailboat appeared in front of him, with a pile of goods piled up like mountains of goods. There was a big King Kong standing on the bow of the ship, and it turned out to be Zheng Zhihu.

"Oh, Brother Hu, why have you gone out to sea too? I just saw Sister Feng coming..." Yi Yun greeted with a smile.

Zheng Zhihu smiled and said, "My elder brother is immigrating a large number of people. He summoned the people along Fujian to move to the Penghu Islands and the Dayuan Island. Anyone who is willing to come will give oxen and farm tools for free, and also give 1 year of food for free. In this way, a lot of money is needed. Our whole family will go out to go to business and make money for the elder brother to raise immigrants. My younger sister is on the boat in the front, and I am following Zhibao and Guo Huaiyi and the others."

Sure enough, Yi Yun looked around and saw a row of boats behind Zheng Zhihu's big ship. Fengyun Shibazhi came out to go to the merchant group... Several large merchant ships formed a huge fleet, with great momentum.
Chapter completed!