open sea

Chapter 189 Yak
The fleet of three surnames set sail again, carrying ceramics and silk fabrics from Haojing to Luzon.

If all goes well, when they come back, they will bring goods worth ten thousand taels.

This fleet controlled by Chen Mu, Bai Yuanjie, and Zhang Yongshou also got the flag of Haojing. Chen Mu even planned to find a chance to get the Malacca waterway charter from the Portuguese, but his desire was not so strong.

He even hopes to be able to draw business taxes in Malacca like Hao Jing.

It's just that it's still too early to think about that. He only has a few ships in his hand, which is a trivial matter. If he wants to, he can pull out nearly [-] people at any time. The key is that he doesn't have the power to start a war.

Guangdong guard Chen Lin, Xinhui Qianhu Huang Dexiang, Shunde Qianhu Shao Tingda, Qingcheng Qianhu Bai Yuanjie.

As for his friends, all of them hold power, and no one has hundreds of troops under them. Except for the unlucky Hu Liangpeng, everyone has soldiers, but they don't have the power to go to war.

Only Lin Feng, who is free and easy, is not a friend.

Say Lin Feng, and Lin Feng will come.

In late July, Haojing was very lively. The barbarian merchants who came from Malacca or Nagasaki had not yet left. As the tax revenue presided over by Zhu Xiang accumulated more and more, Chen Mu’s smile improved significantly, and the transaction volume of Haojing had exceeded 40 taels, the lottery is as high as 6 taels, out of 6 taels, 1 taels belong to Guanfang.

The trade volume is so huge, many of which are due to Chen Mu's credit. He went straight to Zhang Han with his hands-on book, hoping to let the Guangzhou Kinki Navy patrol the islands around Haojing.

A businessman alone can't fight against the navy, not to mention that the leader of the barbarians in Haojing is also on Chen Mu's side, and there are also Pereira's ships patrolling overseas.

When they have a share in the tax, none of the ten merchants is willing to escape the Haojing Customs. This makes the calculation of the barbarian businessmen who have hidden on the island for private transactions in the past 20 years come to naught, and no one can escape the exploitation of the Haojing Customs.

It was also at this time that Chen Mu realized how much power he had in Haojing. If he wanted to, he could hold barbarians to death!
No one can ask him for it, because after Wang Bai was transferred, Chen Qianhu covered the sky with one hand in Haojingao.

But he didn't do that, he just realized that he had sent someone to buy the boat too early. In just two months, Chen Lin and others intercepted [-] barbarian captains without flags, including Japanese and Frangji. Chen Mu only gave two paths.

It costs more than a thousand taels of silver to find ten merchants to buy flags and boat guides, because every time a flag is issued, the merchants need to pay a fee ranging from 2000 taels to 1 taels to Haojing, and attach it to the stern nail of the ship. The font size relative to the flag is to prevent counterfeiting.

Not all of the money belonged to Chen Mu, half of it had to enter the customs and hand it over to the imperial court, half of it went through Chen Mu's hands, and some of it was distributed to the naval fleet that arrested them.

One hundred taels for small boats, 200 taels for medium ships, and 400 taels for large ships.

But the battalion brothers are very happy!

The governor on the top made a speech, and thousands of households on the bottom gave rewards, and caught a big ship with a month or two of salary.

The pirates can only run if they can't beat them. If these sailors can't beat them, they can call someone directly.

The sea around Haojing is a hundred miles away, and there are currently four guards on patrol. In addition to Chen Lin, Yu Dayou's two generals lead four guards, and the force is sufficient!

"Chen Qianhu, a barbarian merchant has been captured!"

Chen Mu was happily writing his artillery drills in the house, when he heard the rumor that a barbarian merchant was imprisoned and must see him, he waved his hand and smiled at the girl who was fanning the wind and ink, and then got up and walked to the yamen.

The girl was sent by Yan Guifang Su Sanniang. I was embarrassed by Chen Mu's favor, so I sent two new painters to wait on her. They are female apprentices trained by Su Sanniang since childhood. They have learned many complicated functions, and it is natural to fan the wind and pour water. It's a piece of cake, but unfortunately they don't know how to make cannons.

What a pity!
Although it's cool to have someone waiting around, Chen Mu still kept an eye on everything, and dealt with everything in the yamen, and only wrote a book by himself before staying in the mansion, so as not to have any troubles falling into the hands of others, whether internally or externally. It's always trouble.

When he arrived at the front hall of the yamen, Chen Mu discovered that he was not the Franji man he had expected, but a Japanese man with a moon hair comb. His young and thin face showed the firmness common to Japanese in this era, and he wore a black net scarf on his forehead. But it is tied with a white belt, and the black lacquered samurai uniform is also covered with imitation Song-style armor of the Ming Dynasty.

Although he is not tall, he is not too short, and he can barely support the gorgeous armor. It looks like a collection of East Asian cultural exchanges.

His two Japanese knives were unloaded by the servant and placed on the weapon rack at the door. He stood in the middle and saw Chen Mu come over and bowed his hands in salute. Lord Hu, I, Lord Zhuang, are Lord Lin Feng's retainers!"

With a loud voice and serious expression, Chen Mu couldn't help but smile.

Because this Japanese man named Zhuanggong took the matter of giving his name and surname a little too much, even more than he paid attention to meeting the governor.

"Ah."

Chen Mu smiled impolitely, and immediately said to Zhuang Gong very gently: "Okay, I am not an adult, and you are not a villain, let's get up, sit down and talk, relax a little, I am not used to it."

Qi Zhengyan, who was straddling the sword beside him, said in a low voice, "Master Chen, Japanese people are like this."

The smile on Chen Mu's face was still there, he nodded to show that he knew, and waved to the servant: "Since it's Lin Feng's brother, he asked you to come to me for tea, what's the matter?"

Duke Zhuang didn't follow Chen Mu's wishes and sat down on the chair. He still kept his posture and looked up at Chen Mu. Ship patrols are not allowed to approach, we have no intention of harassing, please allow your lord to enter the port for trade!"

Accompanied by the last sentence, Duke Zhuang patted his hands and five fingers together on the floor in a more serious posture, and at the same time kowtowed without intending to raise his head, so he stopped the movement.

Lin Feng wants to come to Haojing?

Chen Mu knew he would come, but he didn't expect to come so soon.

After Zeng Yiben was defeated, he attacked his base camp in Nan'ao and burned the camp. He must have gained a lot. Chen Mu thought that he would visit Haojing to dump the stolen goods soon.Lin Feng must have his own channel to sell the small stolen goods, but no one can eat the large stolen goods. There is no Ming Dynasty port around Penghu where he can sell supplies, only Haojing.

So Chen Mu knew that Lin Feng would definitely choose to come to Haojing.

But at this time when Lin Feng came to Haojing, it basically means that after he attacked Nan'ao, he might just rest in Penghu for a few days, and then sailed directly to Xiangshan. This Lin Feng is really very courageous.

"What is he going to sell and buy? How many ships and soldiers are there?"

Duke Zhuang still didn't raise his head, and replied very quickly: "Boats, cannons, blunderbusses, armour, silk, porcelain, fragrant wood, women, Mrs. Lin Feng wants to buy food, water, cannons, blunderbusses, boats, agricultural tools, and oxtails. "

Chen Mu felt a little confused, especially the last thing Lin Feng wanted to buy, and asked, "Oxtail?"

"Oxtail hair for whisk." Zhuang Gong raised his head to look at Chen Mu, and said, "I heard that Mr. Matsudaira Ieyasu from Sanhe, a Japanese daimyo, is buying Ming country oxtails to make Tangtou."

After thinking about it, Duke Zhuang said something again.

"That daimyo changed his name to Ieyasu Tokugawa three years ago."

　Good morning!

　　Jiakang's two treasures are Tangtou and Pingba.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)