Especially in the current chaos, most of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Huguang are still under the control of the Ming army, and the areas controlled by Haibei Town are only the entire Nanzhili and Zhejiang before the war

Although the western part of northern Zhejiang has increased several times in population and region compared with the four prefectures in Shandong before the war, it still cannot satisfy the shock of these merchants in Haibei.

People's appetite.

For these Haibei merchants, their minimum requirement is that Haibei Town must at least control the entire Southeast, in other words, take over the entire Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi, in addition to this

In addition, based on security and market considerations, the Haibei Army has to take over Henan and Huguang, which is a relatively complete market. The area controlled by Haibei Town is now away from them.

There is still a long way to go for the requirements.

But I don't know why Liu Peng suddenly decided to return to Liaodong, which led to the current Haibei Army's southeast strategy being abandoned halfway, and the interests of these Haibei merchants were also seriously damaged, which made him

Our demand for a unified market is becoming stronger and stronger. Now that Ping Tongfeng opens his mouth, someone has responded: "Yes, we can't take this matter lightly.

I want money and money, people and people, and whatever I want, I just want His Majesty, the Supervisor, takes all the Southeast as soon as possible and unify the world!"

Wu Menghui from the Wu car dealership. In the past, he rarely participated in such activities, but now Haibei Town has won Nanjing, so he has to participate, and his attitude is particularly strong.

Hard: "Anyway, Zheng Zhi's Dragon Soldiers came out of Xianxia Pass this time, this is the way to perish himself!"

As soon as the Haibei Army crossed north to Liaodong, Zheng Zhilong entered Zhejiang from Xianxia Pass. For these Yanzhou merchants, this was something that he hated extremely, although they all felt that Zheng Zhi was

Long caused his own destruction, but this incident was a bloody blow to the Ming Dynasty officials and defenders in southern and central Zhejiang. They are now planning how to cross the Qiantang River to counterattack Hangzhou.

matter.

Moreover, for these Haibei merchants, Zheng Zhilong is an extremely hated and terrible enemy. If you want to pass through the sea area controlled by Zheng Zhilong over the years, you will have to.

Buy a sign from Zheng Zhilong, otherwise you will be ruthlessly attacked by Zheng Zhilong's huge pirate fleet.

Moreover, each ship has to buy a flag, and the price of a flag is 3,000 taels per year. If this flag is a permanent buyout system, the merchants in Haibei may be able to barely do it.

Accepted, but the facts are completely opposite to the idea of ​​the Haibei merchant. The price of these three thousand taels is only paid once a year, and for the Haibei merchant, this is simply unacceptable.

Part.

Haibei Town has the largest ports and the largest merchant fleet in East Asia. Although many merchant ships are specially taken Japanese routes and inland routes, or are specifically avoided by Zheng Zhilong's control.

However, most merchant ships engaged in far-sea trade must pass through the sea controlled by Zheng Zhilong.

For Haibei merchants, this is equivalent to sending at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to Zheng Zhilong a year, and even some ships that undertake official transportation tasks for Haibei Town must go to Zheng

Zhilong paid the passerby silver to buy the order flag.

The order flag system can be said to be the lifeblood of Zheng Zhilong's system of operating on the sea, and no discount is allowed. As a result, the more developed the business in Haibei Town, I will pay Zheng Zhilong the payment.

The more money you have to pass, you have to hand over half of the profits of maritime trade to Zheng Zhilong every year. Now that Haibei Town conquered Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, this problem has become

It's even bigger.

According to the price of a 3,000-year ruling flag, the merchants in Haibei must pay at least one million taels of silver or even several million taels of silver to Zheng Zhilong. After all, Zheng Chenggong controls the Bushihai

All the sea areas near the gorge even extended their clutches to the Ryukyu Islands controlled by Haibei Town.

Although Haibei merchants always use various means to avoid the cost of the 3,000-year banner, these means only reduce the expenditure of Haibei merchants to a certain extent, and pay them every year

The silver in Zheng Chenggong's hand was actually astronomical, which made Haibei merchants feel extremely distressed.

The businessmen present all felt that if this system was maintained, everyone worked hard all year long to send money to Zheng Zhilong for free. Therefore, no matter how powerful Zheng Zhilong is, Haibei

The towns must defeat the Zheng Zhilong Group, and they all expressed their opinions: "It's fine to show off their power at sea, but they even ran to the land. I really think our Haibei Town is incompetent!"

"We also have a navy in Haibei Town. Not only can we win, Zheng Zhilong, but we can't win, we can also sell our iron and build a few more warships!"

"Now Jiangnan is in our hands. We just need to unite and see what Zheng Chenggong should do to us!"

Although Zheng Chenggong controls the huge sea area near the Taiwan Strait, Haibei Town controls the Yangtze River estuary and the richest areas in the southeast. In other words, Zheng Zhilong Group wants

Most of the trade materials obtained must be obtained from the territory of Haibei Town, so these Haibei merchants decided to use spontaneous trade sanctions to deal with the Zheng Zhilong Group.

But Wu Menghui felt that everyone's attitude had some news, and at least he had to show more positively, so he had to reveal a little inside story: "I'm afraid everyone doesn't know yet, now

Zheng Zhilong is also very interested in our rubber business. Recently, he sent someone south to prepare to get involved..."

Rubber business?

As soon as he heard these four words, the Haibei merchants present couldn't help but feel excited.

For Haibei Town, rubber can be said to be the most important and urgently needed strategic material, especially when the second reflector is about to be put into production, Haibei Town needs vulcanized rubber

It is necessary to have as much as you want. As long as there is enough rubber, you can discuss any problem.

The last time Wang Zhenhui Neng settled all the problems during the southern expedition and presented the Eight Beauty of Qinhuai to Liu Peng because she had a batch of rubber carts on her hands.

Now, merchants in Haibei Town have found that the use of vulcanized rubber is not limited to making tires, but almost every department of the national economy needs more vulcanized rubber.

The rubber is coming to carry out a technological revolution, which has led to the continuous soaring of rubber prices in the international market, and this is because Haibei Town controls the production of a large rubber plantation on Hainan Island.

The reason for some "domestic rubber" is given, otherwise the price of rubber will reach an incredible level.

Such strong demand is an excellent business opportunity for these Haibei merchants. They know that this is definitely a benefit for a hundred years, but they are unable to enter the past, and Liu Peng

I don't want such an important national economic department to be controlled by a certain merchant. Fortunately, Liu Yirong is very generous in this issue and reached a consensus with these Haibei merchants.

It is to jointly develop the rubber plantation in Hainan.

According to the consensus reached by Liu Yirong and all Haibei merchants, the entire Qiongya rubber plantation will expand dozens of times in the future, and everyone agrees that Haibei Town will be

Due to the extreme desire for rubber, Qiongya alone may not provide the rubber needed by the entire continent.

After all, although rubber production and import volume have been increasing all the time in recent years, the demand for rubber has increased even more exaggeratedly, even to an incredible level, and the introduction of rubber

Jin has indeed brought about a revolution in life and production. Now Haibei Town is completely inseparable from the supply of rubber.

It is precisely because of this that these Haibei merchants are even ready to continue to expand their rubber plantation business in an all-round way, and their rubber plantation business has already had a good start,

Several rubber plantations in Hainan have been operating very successfully. You can make amazing profits by waiting until the rubber is officially cut.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that Zheng Chenggong was about to intervene in the rubber business of Haibei merchants, the Haibei merchants present suddenly exploded: "Who do Zheng Zhilong thinks he is? I've asked Yi.

Only Princess Rong's blessing can run the rubber business. He actually wants to intervene directly. He has a headache!"

"Anyway, other things can be discussed, but rubber things cannot be discussed."

"This matter must not be so let go. I have to cut off Zheng Zhilong's clutch and let him know the consequences of going against our Haibei Town!"

"By the way, how is Zheng Zhilong going to interfere in our rubber plantation?"

But when Wu Menghui said Zheng Zhilong's conditions, everyone felt that Zheng Zhilong's conditions were completely unacceptable: "What, he is ready to occupy 50% of the shares if he put out a few flags? He really

Do you think you are the Emperor of the Sea?”

Zheng Zhilong felt that he had good intentions towards these Haibei merchants, so he proposed a solution that he believed could solve his own problems with Haibei merchants.

Resist contradictions.

According to this plan, these Haibei merchants who operate rubber plantations will not need to pay him a yearly fee of 3,000 taels of 3,000 taels of platoons. He will exchange the silver for the rubber plantations.

50% of the shares, everyone can make a fortune together in the future.

But his kindness was a terrible act for the Haibei businessmen, and even a heinous crime. The Haibei businessmen did not do anything to Zheng Zhilong for a year, and they did not do anything for them.

Taking away hundreds of thousands of taels or even millions of taels of silver is already extremely dissatisfied, and now Zheng Zhilong is still preparing to permanently transform this system and take half of their rubber plantation income.

The profit is a fact that Haibei merchants cannot accept.

Rubber plantations are a relatively long-term investment, and it takes at least seven or eight years to start cutting rubber to see profits, but these Haibei merchants know that once they see profits, they are definitely

Gold and silver, at least in our own generation, there is no need to worry about the problem of excessive rubber. China alone can consume all the rubber in the world, let alone in China.

In addition, many countries of all sizes also need to consume vulcanized rubber.

Therefore, Haibei merchants have long calculated the benefits and losses, not to mention that although most of the Haibei merchants present are rubber plantation owners, they may not necessarily go from

In the maritime business, Zheng Zhilong's fee for waived this flag has nothing to do with them, but Zheng Zhilong treats them equally and takes rubber from them.

Half the profit of the park.
Chapter completed!