Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 1013
Since ancient times, there are countless secret recipes and folk remedies for strengthening yang.

Many men are willing to try.

Whether it works or not.

Eating is a psychological comfort.

From pawn merchants to noble emperors.

All cannot avoid the pursuit of this "drug".

Now Marshal He is trying to eat it himself, and there is a folk recipe handed down by the genius doctor Li Shizhen, which directly makes things like locusts caught by the people of Shanxi.

Of course, people nowadays don't have the concept that oil can't fry things repeatedly.

Locusts have a little bit of poison, so long as they don't take a certain dose every day, they don't have to be poisoned to death.

Some clever officials even told the Henan people entrenched on the border of Shanxi to catch locusts and sell them in exchange for food.

Due to successive years of drought in Henan, He Jinzhao has taken in many victims, and transported them all to Shaanxi to fill their household registrations.

However, due to natural disasters, there is always not enough food to eat, and production has been reduced, which is really a headache.

In such a situation, He Jinzhao was already trying his best to reduce the man-made disasters.

After He Jinzhao came up with a recipe, he asked someone to transfer some chickens and ducks from Luliang Mountain to the peasant associations in various villages and towns in Shanxi, and use locusts to feed the chickens and ducks.

Of course, there are scattered ones raised in common people's homes, but not on a large scale.

A few years ago, He Jinchao sent people to set up chicken farms, duck farms, and pig farms scattered around Luliang Mountain to ensure the supply of meat for the soldiers.

I'm afraid that if some plague comes together, the chickens and ducks will all die, so they are all raised separately.

Zheng Zhipeng observed He Jinzhao's artillery and firecrackers, and couldn't help being shocked. Is this the kind of armament that soldiers in the north should have?

It wasn't until he saw Cao Bianjiao leading the light cavalry charge and a large group of Mongols whizzing past on horseback that he felt that he had regained his inherent impression of the northern frontier army.

It has to be said that the excellent equipment and training of the Hammer bandits are by no means comparable to that of the Ming army.

Even if they were fighting at sea, the training would not be so intensive.

Seeing the elite level of these soldiers, Zheng Zhipeng felt that the eldest brother really made another move in the right game.

Zheng Zhipeng left behind Zheng Du, who was supposed to be the proton, and then returned to Fujian with a group of people.

He was thinking in his mind, to congratulate a promising thief like Jinzhao, if he can get in the morning.

It is best to marry him, so that the relationship between the two parties can be regarded as safe, much stronger than the general alliance.

Just like Shibazhi, they became brothers of different surnames for the common benefit, and even killed each other later.

But brothers with different surnames like Liu Guanzhang are really rare in the world.

Most people will choose marriage as a means to strengthen the relationship.

In this way, the offspring have a blood relationship.

Zheng Zhipeng made many calculations, that is, the age of the second brother's daughter is more suitable, so he should hurry up and get things done, and send Shi Lang here by the way.

The national policy of the Ming Dynasty is to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, so since Longqing opened the sea, Guangdong's ships have become legal.

However, the Ming government has restrictions on releasing ships based on introductions, and taxes are collected based on how long the ships are loaded.

In order to deal with the empty ships running to Luzon and returning with only the Mexican silver dollars used by the Spaniards, in addition to the normal tax collection, a tax increase of 150 taels was also required.

(Spain was manufactured in South American colonies and flowed into China during the Wanli period)

Despite this, people who want to go to sea to make money still can't get a boat lead.

After Wanli, foreign merchant ships came to Guangdong to conduct trade in Guangzhou.

Regular markets are held in both summer and winter every year, ranging from a few weeks to a few months each time.

Merchants from all over the Ming Dynasty would transport their goods to Guangzhou, making Guangzhou a commodity distribution center for foreign trade.

Businessmen from Southeast Asian countries and European countries will participate in regular gatherings in Guangzhou.

After He Jinzhao occupied Guangzhou, many suppliers became extremely hesitant.

On the contrary, after the Portuguese were forced to surrender to the Hammer Bandits, the Spaniards and the Dutch learned about the attitude of the Hammer Bandits through Zheng Zhilong, and whether they would continue the opportunity of the Ming Dynasty to allow them to trade.

Anyway, they don't care who is the emperor of this land, it is safest to make money.

Of course, it would be in their best interest to find an opportunity to colonize this land.

The Portuguese found great benefit in being forced to surrender to the Hammers.

Portuguese merchants transported the goods received from the Guangzhou market to Nagasaki and Goa in Japan for sale, earning huge profits.

What are you resisting?
He couldn't fight again and again. He thought he was going to be wiped out, but he lost another piece of meat unexpectedly.

If I knew this kind of benefit earlier, what would I do if I had to go to war with the hammer bandits?
When the rest of the people learned that the Portuguese had made more profits than the two countries, they couldn't sit still.

The Spaniards and the Dutch began to take the initiative to send people to contact the hammer bandits. They traveled from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere for the purpose of making money.

The Portuguese who watched the surrender monopolized all trade with the Ming Dynasty during the period when they did not trade.

The back molars that the Spaniards and the Dutch envy are about to be crushed.

Especially watching the Portuguese make a lot of money is even more painful than losing them by sea.

The key is that the Dutch found out after some investigation that the Ming country was extremely rich in products, and it was able to supply a large amount of certain commodities to the whole world.

The Ming people shipped their goods from all parts of the country to those towns and seaports where they thought they would have the best cash to buy their goods.

Especially after the hammer bandits took over Guangzhou, they hoarded a lot of materials and their efficiency was higher than before, so that the Portuguese did not have enough funds to buy them.

They can only pull a boatload of worthless rice to please the hammer bandits when they come back.

Even the local businessmen in Guangdong couldn't sit still anymore, they called their "own pirate ships" one after another, obediently paid taxes and fees to the hammer bandits.

Then take the goods and transport them to Manila, Siam, and Makassar to make money.

You can make enough profit just by going out, so what's the point of paying taxes to the hammer bandits?
They originally wanted to deal with the officials of the Hammer Bandit by using the means they used to deal with the officials of the Ming Dynasty, and sent a lot of silver and rare playthings.

The result is still how to be treated.

The result of bribing hammer bandits and officials is not bad.

White fucking money!

Gradually, there are very few businessmen who still want to take the road of bribery.

Of course, there are also those who are persistent, and the money collected from bribes has also been registered.

After all, within the system of the hammer bandits, there is no impenetrable wall for this kind of thing.

If you collect the first time, there will be a second time. Don't expect those "sea merchants acting as pirates" to help you hide it.

Sooner or later it will leak.

He Jinzhao's methods of dealing with corrupt officials can be described as ruthless.

He can't guarantee that everyone is as clean as water. The deterrent power lies in this, as long as they can accept the consequences of exposure.

Unless you also board a boat and run away.

Therefore, when the foreign trade business in Guangzhou was so hot, the Dutch couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to communicate with the hammer bandits, willing to pay more taxes and fees, and refused to admit such false words as Daming.

Zhang Fuzhen was still looking up the investigation report written by Yang Wenyue.

He has never been in contact with it before, but occasionally heard that Mao Wenlong occupied Pidao and could earn 100 million taels of silver in a few years by shipping.

After all, the money granted by the Ming court to Mao Wenlong was really a drop in the bucket, and it was not enough for him to support so many servants.

Now it seems that Mao Wenlong's shipping business is nothing!
Many people from Guangdong and Fujian have settled down and made a fortune in various parts of Nanyang.

After all, according to the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, even if you get rich and return to your hometown, you will be slapped with leeks.

Wealthy businessmen who have no strength come back and do not follow the path of collusion between government and businessmen. They have plenty of ways to punish you.

Even if you walk this way, you will be rectified.

In Daming, without an official background, businessmen are pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

In the fifth year of Wanli, this group of people controlled and presided over all the foreign trade of Sanfoqi.

As for Java New Village, there are more than a thousand Ming people gathered together.

In view of the extremely developed shipbuilding industry in Guangzhou, the hammer bandits also started to lease ships to foreign countries.

For example, Zheng Zhilong's uncle Huang Cheng took the initiative to be the first customer of the Hammer Bandit. After filling the goods in Guangzhou, Zheng Zhilong's people escorted them to Japan for sale.

This time, I was going to make a big fortune, and then return to my hometown to buy land for the rest of my life.

When capitalism sprouts, fields are always their first choice.

At the same time, it is Zheng Zhilong's face for selling the hammer bandits, telling the surrounding forces that he has a deep relationship with the hammer bandits, and in the sea, the hammer bandits also rely on him.

Zhang Fuzhen saw the marshal drew a dotted line between Guangdong and Hainan. He guessed that he wanted to control the port of Hainan.

"Remember." He Jinzhao put down the charcoal pencil in his hand:
"Ask Yang Wenyue to open up a route for transporting passengers, from Guangdong to Hainan by boat, and get familiar with the hydrology of the surrounding area by the way.

Train the sailors in the name of escort, let him and Zhao Xiaowu figure out what to recruit as instructors. "

"Yes."

He Jinzhao's original intention was to wait until he was familiar with sea-going ships, gain experience, and use the old to bring forth the new.

Then open up passenger transport from Guangdong to Fujian, continue training, and then practice with the Dutch who occupy Taiwan.

Although Cantonese are keen on shipping, but building ships to go abroad requires ample capital, and individuals are often powerless and can only look at the ocean and sigh.

Of course, there are also joint venture shipbuilders, and Captain Wei, who has the most money, is recommended. Most of the "heavy cargo" is his, and the rest are bulk cargo.

But this has led to the phenomenon that the ship owner exploits other merchants. For example, all taxes and fees are paid by small merchants.

But why do they still swallow it?

It's just that running around can earn a hundred times, they can earn ten times, as long as they don't encounter pirates and hurricanes, they probably won't lose money.

What's more, Zheng Zhilong has unified Nanyang in the past few years, and the flag of Zheng's family was hung on the ship, and ordinary pirates would not have eyes to rob them.

At that time, Zheng Zhilong will have to trouble them, after all, the protection fee is not paid for nothing.

"My lord, according to Yang Wenyue's estimate, the taxes and fees in Macau alone exceed 10 taels."

Zhang Fuzhen couldn't help being speechless. He read the records that Macau alone had more than 2 taels of silver during the Wanli period, which was equivalent to the fiscal revenue of a large county. This figure was embezzled and concealed.

This little money alone can support the civil and military officials of the hammer bandits, as well as the allowances and military expenses of soldiers.

Compared with foreign countries, most of the goods that can be sold to Guangzhou are gems and wool, which are nothing to the huge China, and the sales are not good at all.

Most of the products exported are handicraft products, which sell well abroad.

Therefore, except for the price offset of import and export commodities, the export commodities have been in a superior position for a long time.

Therefore, a large amount of Mexican silver dollars flowed into Guangzhou.

But Daming still had a silver panic.

He Jinzhao looked at the silver dollar in his hand. It was probably the deed recorded in the history books that the colonists forced the people of South America to dig silver mines.

Otherwise, there would not be so many silver dollars.

Zhang Fuzhen closed Yang Wenyue's investigation documents and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Then he looked at the former little postman in front of him, and didn't know what to say for a while.

In fact, in his heart, he really didn't want He Jinzhao to be so radical, to occupy Guangdong, which was thousands of miles away from his own territory.

Lingnan used to be the place where prisoners were exiled. What's the point of occupying it?
When the chaos in the Central Plains became more chaotic, the Ming and Zhang Li bandits, the Ming and Qing fought each other, waited for the opportunity, sent troops to Beijing, and established the world.

The boundaries of Guangdong can certainly be passed on, so what's the rush?
Now that the field investigation report in Guangzhou was placed in front of Zhang Fuzhen, he just felt that He Jinzhao's progress was so damn good.

If the emperor of Ming knew about Guangdong, would he still need to worry about money every day?

To control the trade in Guangzhou, you only need to control this platform, and you can get money when you are lying down.

It is a pity that none of the officials in Guangzhou, Fujian and other places reported the maritime transport to the emperor, and even repeatedly emphasized the need to guard the ancestors' patriarchal law and implement the maritime ban policy.

This group of people made a lot of money, wishing they had so much money, they could build a luxurious house.

As for the court, it's a fart!

At worst, change to another emperor and continue to fool around.

Anyway, the sky is high and the emperor is far away.

It is the competition between imperial power and ministerial power.

"My lord, even if it takes a long time to transport grain from Guangdong to Sichuan and to Shanshan, we don't need to worry about it."

Take the Yangtze River system and transport it all the way to Sichuan.

Zhang Fuzhen stood up and said: "Those businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, if they want to go to Guangzhou for bulk goods, they have to help us well. This is called helping!"

He Jinzhao didn't make any fuss about this kind of collusion between officials, businessmen and officials and bandits.

Isn't this basic?

That is to say, people like Zhang Fuzhen worked hard for the Ming Dynasty in the early stage, and Jinshi who was admitted from ordinary people's homes would have much less knowledge of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Some rules are simply not accessible to a person like him who has no background when he becomes an official.

"Even if there is a lot of loss along the way, there will always be food in the account, which is also excellent."

He Jinzhao stood up and looked at the Yangtze River system. If he reported some losses along the way, he could not control it at the moment, so he could only choose to beat and beat.

The businessmen of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Group have never had any in-depth exchanges with the hammer bandits.

They are all about making money.

Helping the hammer bandits to transport food is a loss-making business, so it would be strange if they took care of it.

But in line with the rule of not using it for nothing, they have to pay a price.

"My lord." Qiu Zhitao walked in holding a note:

"According to the news from the capital, Hong Chengchou led troops out of the Kanto and officially fought with the Qing army. The small-scale conflicts between the two sides were very intensive."

(End of this chapter)