Because of the long-term closure, both foreign merchants and local merchants in Jiangnan suffered serious losses.

In fact, the goods themselves are not good. These days, the sea trade goods themselves do not pay attention to the existence of shelf life. The transportation of necessary daily necessities has gradually recovered under the control of the Ming army. The main reason is the blockade of the Ming army. The limited traffic policy has caused merchants to suffer heavy losses due to time reasons.

The cargo originally scheduled to be shipped at what time cannot be shipped on time because the Ming army blocked the port. This is a heavy loss and may even go bankrupt.

Of course, these are not the most critical issues.

The most critical problem is that most of these foreign merchants and local merchants are afraid of Ming Dynasty, and the reasons for their fear are also very easy to explain.

The "Hongwu Political Commentary" was circulated in the Southern Song Dynasty, just like flooding the market, and naturally spread to Quanzhou Port.

And what is very special is that because this is a work written by Emperor Su Yonglin of the Ming Dynasty, not only local merchants in Jiangnan had a strong interest in this book, but even foreign merchants were interested in this book because of the existence of the Ming Dynasty, which was increasingly influential.

Most of them had never had direct contact with the Ming Kingdom, but they knew the existence of the Ming Kingdom because of its strong military strength and extremely good at fighting.

As for direct contact with Ming State, only a few people have experienced it, but due to the threat of officials from the Southern Song Maritime Bureau, several foreign businessmen who were interested in reaching commercial cooperation with Ming State were forced to give up the idea of ​​cooperation.

Of course, the Southern Song Dynasty did not want the Ming Dynasty to share their meat.

Originally, these were all the interests controlled by the Southern Song Dynasty court and the powerful people. The Ming Dynasty insisted on getting in, who would like to do so?

There are only so many big dogs. If one more person gets a share of the pie, the others will eat a lot less. No one is a fool.

With the rules of the Maritime Trade Bureau and the Sea Trade, the Southern Song Dynasty officials could naturally easily exclude the fur products, finished Chinese herbal medicines, bone products, dairy products with a long shelf life, and air-dried meat.

These were things that the Southern Song Dynasty could not produce. Seeing that merchants from some countries were also interested in these goods, they seemed to have the idea of ​​reaching cooperation, and immediately became unhappy.

Even if they couldn't get these things out, they were unwilling to let Mingguo earn profits. They threatened foreign businessmen directly through the Maritime Bureau channel and forced them to give up the idea of ​​making a deal with Mingguo.

They also threatened that if they dared to do business directly with the Ming Dynasty, the access permit would be permanently revoked by the Southern Song Dynasty's Maritime Warehouse Bureau, and they would not be allowed to do business with the Southern Song Dynasty from now on, and they would not be able to buy silk porcelain tea at all.

Anyone who dares to do a second-trafficking deal with someone whose license has been revoked will be revoked as long as they are found.

In this way, even if they were very interested in Ming Dynasty goods, foreign businessmen would not dare to do business directly with Ming people, for fear that the Maritime Bureau would find out their "illegal" behavior and would be expelled.

Therefore, most foreign businessmen have hardly had direct contact with Ming State, and do not know much about Ming State.

Therefore, as a window to understand the Ming Dynasty, when "Hongwu Political Commentary" was spread to Quanzhou, they were very interested.

There are relatively large number of foreign merchants who can speak Chinese in Quanzhou Port.

Some of them not only speak Chinese, but also write Chinese characters. So they cooperated with each other to translate the content of "Hongwu Political Remarks" for compatriots with insufficient Chinese proficiency, so that they could also understand this work written by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

"Hongwu Political Commentary" has no obscure words and sentences, because this was created by Su Yonglin to make it understandable to more people. Therefore, not only does Chinese people look relaxed, but foreign businessmen are not difficult to translate, but also can translate as close to the original meaning as possible.

Over time, not only Chinese businessmen have read "Hongwu Political Commentary", but a considerable number of foreign businessmen have read "Hongwu Political Commentary".

Then he was shocked.

It should be said not to say it. Although they feel that China has rich products, economic prosperity and culture, they fundamentally feel that they do not feel that China is different from their motherland.

I have a king, you have an emperor.

I have local powers, you have nomadic peoples on the frontier.

I have corrupt officials, you have corrupt officials.

I have pawns who slapped people twice, and you have big soldiers who slapped people three times.

I have my world-sharing, you have your north-south confrontation.

In essence, there is no difference between us, it is just as bad.

But at this time, a completely different existence suddenly appeared among us.

This Ming regime, who was calling for revolution, liquidation, safeguarding the interests of the peasants, and serving the people, felt strange, and their emperor could actually write such a fatal book!

No matter where it is, it is a fatal thing to write such a book.

The merchants traveled around the world with knowledge and basically had a certain level of cultural standards and political vision. After seeing the content of this book, they knew that the ideas of this book would definitely not be what their kings and emperors could accept.

It must be deadly.

But this kind of fatal thing was written by the emperor of a country. He actually wrote so many fatal things openly and publicly publicized them in a book, so that everyone could see the secret of revealing power to his people and the secret of exposing politics.

In this case, can the family continue?

You can be the emperor, where is your son?

Why are you so different?

Of course, this problem can be eased a little bit, and there is another more important thing.

The Ming Dynasty paid attention to a liquidation and revolution.

Who is the target of liquidation and revolution?

The so-called evil superiors who obtain wealth and status through oppression and exploitation.

Oppression and exploitation.

Everyone didn't understand these two words at the beginning, so the Southern Song Dynasty understood that it was bullying the people and bullying the weak. When foreign businessmen translated it, they followed this meaning, and it felt that it was almost the same anyway.

Then they panicked.

They have done this, and there is no doubt that if you want to make a fortune these days, you have to make a fortune. How can you do it without bullying the weak?

Who has no injustice?

Ming Kingdom wants to clear everyone together?

this……

In addition to panic, there is also panic.

Because they all knew that the Southern Song Dynasty could not defeat the Ming Dynasty, and they were beaten miserably every time they fought with the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty never attacked Quanzhou or Guangzhou. After all, they were in a remote area and were not in the traditional core ruling area.

They feel that they are safe for the moment, and if something happens, can they still pass through the port and get it quickly?

Unexpectedly, the Ming army blocked the port for the first time when they arrived, and then set up road checkpoints to prevent people from escaping. They were so careful that some people didn't believe it and wanted to escape, but they were hit by a terrifying firearm called artillery.

Everyone in the entire fleet died, and none of them survived, and then all the property belonging to everyone in the fleet was confiscated by the Ming army.

Whether it is cash, goods, ships themselves, or their real estate in Quanzhou, they were all confiscated. They were full of confidence in confiscation. They also issued a special notice to warn everyone that any crime would be severely punished!

With this happening, no matter whether it is a local businessman in Jiangnan or a foreign businessman, everyone dares to move.

At the same time, living in fear, trembling, fearing that the Ming army would liquidate them, take them all to confiscate their property, and not let their wives and children go away.

Because of this deterrent force that even the Ming army itself did not know very well, the order of the entire Quanzhou was controlled after the Ming army simply blocked.

The Ming army was able to successfully understand all the children of the Zhao Song royal family in the entire Quanzhou, uprooted their power and cleaned it up.

In this process, the fear of local merchants and foreign merchants is indeed increasing day by day. The longer the time, the more the Ming army does not attack them, the more they are afraid.

At first, they were still patient with the Ming army's military power, but when it was getting longer and longer, they gradually couldn't hold back and sent representatives to negotiate with the Ming army, hoping that they could open the ban.

Even if you spend a little more money on this or give gifts to Ming army generals, as long as the ban can be opened, anything can be done, even if it is just an individual, it can be done.

However, the Ming army didn't want money and did not open the ban, and just said that they had to wait for orders.

Waiting and waiting, the merchants were almost going crazy, and finally couldn't help it. Seeing that the Ming army showed no sign of attacking, they took the initiative to send people to test the Ming army, wanting to see what was selling in the Ming army's gourd.

They became more and more afraid, and even prepared to fight with the Ming army to the death, so that they could live a day and night worrying, and they were shocked every night.

At this critical moment, on the second day of March 19, Hongwu, Lin Jingchun, Minister of Finance and the disposal envoy of Quanzhou Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse, arrived at Quanzhou Port, entered Quanzhou City, and convened the main Jiangnan merchants and foreign merchants in the city to hold a meeting in the large square in front of the Maritime Warehouse Warehouse Office in the city to read out the court's policies.
Chapter completed!