Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Eighth
Ying Ming thought that Wei Si was a good boy. Although he was serious, he would have nothing but riding and shooting. He was illiterate, but he could do it by handing the matter to him.
Look, it was only two days after the matter of the Mexican merchant group in Levante, England, and he took a servant of Elland, and they plunged into the city of Priley, which no one knew. When they came back, they would be intimate.
He brought back a survey report on the trade routes of the two companies.
It's magical.
Ying Ming felt that this matter was magical inside and outside. His little family, Ding Wei Si, was a semi-illiterate person of this era.
He could speak, read and write, and he could speak the Mandarin dialect of Northern Zhili. Because he learned riding and archery in his early years, he could also speak a few words of Mongolian. In addition, the Japanese, Western, Portuguese and Asian locals who need to master the skills of foreign countries now do not know the language of Japanese, Western, Portuguese and Asian people, and they cannot understand English at all.
Writing is even more done. When I was a child, I learned less than 200 Chinese characters and now I am almost forgetting. Except for the words on the Ye Zi Card, I basically know the common archways and flags of neighbors such as "pawn shop", "table", "some building", "huangming", etc. I don't know all the characters in overseas countries, and I don't know Latin.
The report of the three languages was written by many people, but there was no Wei Jinzhong's ink.
The most important thing is that this kid is also a native of the Ming Dynasty. He has no foundation in England, so he has done it in two days.
"General, the villain knows what happened to their business group. The British are not strong enough and they only make money by trade. But they have a bad reputation in Europe. For example, the Western Russians and French are unwilling to pay attention to them. Only the Netherlands, well... the villain also made a sub-picture. Where did the man tell me?"
Wei Si said as he ran out of the camp like a gust of wind, pulled out the roll from the bow bag, took it back, spread it, pointed to the position on the picture, scratching his head, and said, "It seems like this is here, it's right to be in the east anyway, the Netherlands."
"You mean France, this picture is rough enough, the Netherlands is here."
Ying Ming corrected Wei Si's geographical concept and thought about whether to send his own house to Beiyang to rebuild it. He was quite clever, but his knowledge was as rough as the map in his hand.
"Yes, yes, yes, the generals know a lot. The villain also remembers that it is here and traded with them in this place, but they produce less, only woolen velvet. Soon they made a lot of woolen velvet and could not sell it in the Netherlands. They are interesting. The source of the treasury is tariffs."
"If the tariffs are low, you can't hold on. Later, when the Netherlands fought again, they had to find a next home. Many businessmen died on the way to find a next home."
"Their businessmen are not like us. The wealthy merchants go to sea with more than a dozen boats. It is not easy for them to have a small boat. Going to sea is like dying. If there are too many people who die, they will figure out that one person is not good, so they will work together."
Wei Si's words "in partnership" refer to the shareholding system. In the Ming Dynasty, merchants and merchants were both wealthy and goods called partners. Some were businessmen working together, while others were rich and well-off management. They signed contracts and divided accounts according to prior signing. The investors did not care about their identities. From wealthy eunuchs in the internal supervision to bold and gentry who supported pirates, they all became popular.
"They also run the official tickets. The merchants who joined hands asked the queen to allow the trade to go elsewhere. The earliest friend went to Moscow, so people called the Moscow merchant group on the route that the queen was allowed to be called the Moscow merchant group."
As he said that, Wei Sile was left, pointing to the right of the map and said, "This little man remembers that here, the area not outside this map is Moscow. England is a small island in the border area, and Moscow is even more poor and bad. There are not only unruly people, but also sable people."
"Fur can be sold at high prices in Europa. Only nobles can wear fur cloaks in law. However, there are also wealthy families who buy and wear secretly. The value is extremely high. They almost killed all the fur animals they can find. With this in Moscow, the price is still low. The two sides hit it off, and even Moscow killed the little beasts running in the woods."
"If Moscow wants to find more fur, he will fight with others. When fighting, the British sold long guns and short guns. They didn't need to sell gunpowder. They exchanged furs with the Moscow people at all at a high price. By the way, the general."
Speaking of this, Wei Si frowned and responded mysteriously to Ming: "I heard that Moscow is full of Tatars, isn't it far from us?"
"Tartars, Oirat?"
Ying Ming frowned when he received this message. In his mind, the vast land between Moscow and Oirat on the world map was suddenly reduced and pieced together, and he waved his hand and said, "You continue."
"yes!"
"This route has made the British a lot of money. To this day, there are more and more merchants in partnership. The fur he comes back every year and is processed and sold to the princes and nobles of the Chinese kings. Good quality can be worth hundreds of gold, which is the largest source of income for the British royal family. That group of Levant merchants is not good."
"Although the Queen even invested 40,000 pounds, now it has been established for three years and has lost money every year. The Ottoman seems to be under the jurisdiction of our Western Military Office. They are going to the Ming Port, which can trade with Seville. The two countries are fighting, and the Western warships sank him when they see the British ship."
"And the villain also heard that they had merchant ships hanging the sun and moon flags when they crossed the coast of the West Country. No one stopped the Ming ships at the sea. They went to the Ming Port and then placed the ship flags and paid the tax card."
Wei Si said this and his expression was the same as he had seen it with his own eyes, saying, "I heard from other places outside the city that I thought it was revealed that the matter was exposed, and I also complained that we were very arrogant and wouldn't we just borrow a flag."
After hearing what Wei Jinzhong said, and looking at the report of the Three Languages, Ying Ming had a general understanding of England's foreign trade. He didn't expect that before he could disrupt the route of Levant, he would be defeated.
However, the Moscow route and the dumping of fur to Europe were indeed profitable. Muye had a large number of beaver skins, bear skins, fox skins, and mink skins. The Ming immigrants there also had extremely high leather making and fur making skills. Low-cost things can be exchanged for a large amount of supplies as long as they were transported over. There was only one problem in the middle.
He had to cut off the English line first.
Thinking of this, Commander Ying sniffed and looked up at Wei Jinzhong and asked: "It's been hard to get these things, how did you do it? And why are you so big... the smell of powder?"
"Hey, I'm afraid of tainting the general's ears when I said it. The villain made some friends in the city. The Tuyi language on the top was written by the city people, the Western language was written by the family soldiers, and our characters were written by the Shang soldiers. There was no secret, so it was not difficult to do these."
Wei Si thought about it, but finally decided not to tell the general that he had slept in the brothel for two days and one night, and said, "The villain has a good friend in the city, and he has helped."
Chapter completed!