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Chapter 1477 New Triangle Trade

While Li Zhi, Xu Wei and Zhao Shizhen were eating steamed fish in the Mubin Guesthouse, Chen Mu was looking at a map in the Dongyang Military Mansion fourteen miles away.

A map that covers the entire three walls.

On the map of the west wall, the southernmost point is the pointed pasture, Daxi Port and Rio Guard. Islands are marked in the large area of ​​the coast, and there are Spain and France's Europa to the north.

On the map of the east wall, the southernmost point is the Wangxia Prefecture, which also popped up, and included the entire Asian state under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Military Mansion.

The maps on the two walls have one thing in common, and they are becoming clearer.

The blank areas were slowly filled in, and the maps that had been attached to the early versions were also removed, and replaced with the latest maps after the victory in various places.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Chen Mu held up his armor skirt, took out two battlefield maps with topographical maps from the battle report maps in front of him, and tried to replay a battle that took place thousands of miles away with a stack of battle reports at hand. , and figure out what kind of changes are happening on the sea.

On the battlefield map, it was written in a low-level pavilion style, the Battle of Puzhou.

These battle reports came from General Ying Ming of Puzhou, and were sent to Rio Guard by the tobacco ship that had recently returned from Spain, and escorted by commander Lu Feng to the Gulf of Mexico.

The battle report sent was up to the surrender of the Tower of London. It was difficult to find any command art belonging to the general in the whole battle. The enemy's military and civilian organization, artillery projection ability, armor rate and tactical level were all inferior to Spain.

As for strategy?

A country with a length of [-] miles lost its coast, what was the situation in North Korea during the Imjin War, and all things were lost in ten months, what kind of strategy can we talk about.

On the contrary, the business that attracted Chen Mu's attention.

Li Yuxi's business.

With Puzhou, the nearest stocking port, the merchants of Hexingsheng have their own second safe haven outside Daming Port in Spain in the waters near Europa.

It is not a shelter from the wind in the literal sense, but it can avoid risks. No matter whether it is a warship or an armed merchant ship, it cannot attack Ming's merchant ships near the port of Daming.

This has brought about a significant change in the power of the maritime merchant gangs. From the perspective of the Eastern Military Government, the part of the ships full of tobacco belonging to Li Yuxi is decreasing.

In any era and any ethnic group, those who take the first step are always a minority.

Not only do they need enough courage and wisdom, they even need unmatched luck.

When the road ahead is still unknown, luck, luck can override everything.

But once the first step is taken, real gold and silver become legends and enter people's ears, and successors will flock to it.

In addition to the military and political functions of the Dongyang Military Mansion, Chen Mu's division of this land is very clear.

Most fundamentally, Asia was the production base of Ming Dynasty's hardware, cotton, gemstones and other raw materials.

However, the transportation capacity of this era cannot keep up with the strong production capacity of the Eastern Military Government on this land after assimilating the aborigines.

Therefore, on the other hand, it is also a product processing area for the European and African continents of Daming, such as fur and tobacco, which are low-cost and high-profit goods that are not important to Daming.

He only needs to get the accounts of a few ports, and Chen Mu can control how much goods Asia exports to Europe on the other side of the Atlantic every month and every year.

It’s not that other places can’t go to sea, and the long coastline can go to sea anywhere, but there are only a few places where bulk goods can be processed intensively, and there are only a few places with good road facilities.

Of course, other places can go to sea, but the goods should be transported there avoiding the roads and guards in various places, and the merchant ships and cargo ships should be transported there avoiding the coastal patrol fleet of the military government, and they must be transported to places without trestles.

The cost has exceeded the customs tax.

The ship tax of the Eastern Military Government shows that more and more merchants choose to buy tobacco from Li Yuxi's tobacco factory, escort the ship to their first stop, England, and sell it.

Li Yuxi's ship, the share of tobacco in the warehouse is decreasing, and the furs, leather jackets, rock sugar, dyes, and partially processed gemstones and metal ornaments made by the Oriental Army are increasing.

These ships sailed from Long Beach Port in Makino to England, and finally appeared in Rio Guard with a full load of cargo after four months to half a year or even longer.

What they shipped out were cheap, processed, and heavily taxed tobacco, and what they brought back were gold, ivory, and war horses.

War horses are the most inopportune cargo. Unless the sailing is extremely smooth, these living creatures will die in large numbers at sea, and even if they can be transported to port, they will be sick.

However, when the horses are transported to Daxi Port, they will be directly purchased by the military government at a price several times higher than the market price, which is equivalent to reducing or exempting part of the tax.

In the east coast port of Dongyang Military Mansion, merchants with super luck emerge almost every month.

Comparing the goods it carries when going to sea and returning to the voyage, it is usually more than tens of profits; those who are unlucky can also earn three to five times; and those with the best luck once earned 530 to six times the profit.

They don't kill people or attack cities, that's the business of the military government. They don't even sell slaves, they just do simple trade, but they trade a golden route that belongs to the Ming people.

Normally, a ship carrying 5000 boxes of tobacco can make a net profit of 2 taels in Puli, [-] taels in France, and [-] or nearly [-] taels of silver in Spain.

After all, England has a small population and is close to the pastures, so the tobacco market is not so scarce. Merchants are also happy to clear the cabin in Puli to buy other goods and sail to Europa.

After all, France and Spain have a large population, and the spreading smoking habit and unsaturated market have brought a lot of profits to merchants.

The merchant who made the most money dumped the entire shipment of tobacco in France, reserved [-] boxes of Muye tobacco into Baishan, rented [-] supply ships, and joined Chen Jiujing's fleet to Daming Port, Spain.

On his ship, there were bows, swords, spearheads, shields, and chain mail worth 9000 taels of silver.

The war in France has just ended, and these inferior armor purchased from the Baishan war profit and the French feudal lord are extremely cheap.

These things allowed him to arm various troops in Songhai and many countries and tribes in war in Africa in exchange for gold.

A whole ship of gold, 32 catties, brought back more gold than Chen Mu planned to send back to the mainland this year.

Even water and food were sailed back to Daxi Port on the boat borrowed from Chen Jiujing at a high price-paying taxes to Chen Mu almost made him cry.

Of course, in the new triangular trade sweeping across the Atlantic Ocean, merchants are never the most profitable.

It is to build roads for them to better transport goods, build cities for them to have a better environment, and build shipyards on the seashore to sell ships for them to go to sea on a larger scale.

It was Marshal Chen who was looking at the battle report and map with his mouth curled.

　Chapter 3 will be released before [-] o'clock, everyone can watch it tomorrow morning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)