As the comforting envoy of the Marine Pacifier Department, Deng Jian felt more and more that the pressure was getting stronger and stronger.
Zeng Feng, the envoy of the Jinyiwei in Shuangyu Port, asked for a visit every day and reported the latest information from Nanyang here. There was already a huge crisis lurking in Nanyang.
The imperial court set up a hundred households of Jinyiwei in Shuangyu Port. Although it was only one hundred households, due to the support of the Pacification Envoy, although there are only more than ninety official Jinyiwei in this hundred office, there are thousands of non-staff members.
These people may be sailors, merchants, or just unknown water diggers, but their footprints are spread all over the country, delivering all overseas information to Shuangyu Port Hundred Houses and then screening and
After sorting it out, it was summarized and reported to the court and the appeasement envoy.
The South Ocean has become increasingly unstable recently. On the one hand, it is mainly stimulated by the Ming trade, which has made Franchise very profitable. The Franchise people's colonial activities were originally mainly concentrated in Africa and the American continent, but due to the Far East,
The huge profits made them begin to pay more and more attention to this region.
Even in Franc, Spain made a bold statement that whoever dominates this area of water will get the key to the golden world.
The reason for this is that the silk and porcelain trade tasted great benefits. Porcelain and silk were loved by the entire Franchise continent. Not long ago, a German monarch exchanged six hundred elite cavalry for another.
The German monarch's one hundred and twenty-seven pieces of porcelain, this kind of exchange is extremely common throughout the Franchise.
Four fully armed elite cavalry, including their war horses, their full set of armor and weapons, in Franchis, it would cost a lot for a monarch, and a piece of porcelain
, you can exchange four powerful cavalrymen of Kongwu, four war horses, which is enough to make people shocked.
Of course, in Spain, the price of porcelain is lower, while in Germany, the price remains high. Even porcelain does not trade in cash at all, but only exchanges goods. This shows how rich the profits will be. (Note:
The fact that six hundred elite cavalry exchanged 127 pieces of porcelain is a historical fact.)
In order to obtain more trade rights and expand trade with the Ming Dynasty, the Spanish and Portuguese began to compete.
These two maritime empires were originally mediated by the church, so they made some compromises in colonial plunder. The regions they focused on were slightly different. For example, Spain focused on America, while Portugal was more active in Africa and Asia.
Now, the mediation of the church has become a piece of paper, and both sides realize the importance of the Ming trade.
In order to expand trade and ensure that one can gain greater advantages in trade, the two maritime powers have continuously enhanced their military strength in Nanyang. Zeng Feng, the Jinyiwei Baihu, noticed that in Luzon, the Spanish were in eight
Month ago, a huge fleet arrived there. They began to compete for some important areas in the South China Sea, such as Malacca, Aceh, and Java, where the Portuguese are more active, and even Taiwan. They also began to continuously enhance the strength of their strongholds.
The Portuguese were not inferior, and they also strengthened their strength. Although they had not yet had conflicts with the Spaniards, their colonial activities against the countries in Southeast Asia began to increase.
A large number of Franco-Emergency mercenaries also arrived here in the footsteps of the two sea empires, either robbing the pirates on this route, or employed by the Spanish and Portuguese to engage in more proactive colonial activities.
Aceh, Manraga, Boni, Sulu, Chameng, Zhenla and other countries were suffering one after another. Similarly, the big food was increasing with the Portuguese and the Spaniards, because they continued to occupy important ports along the way and mastered them.
The waterway prohibits the passage of cargo ships that cannibalize the world, hoping to achieve a monopoly position in the Ming Dynasty trade.
"Sir, a month ago, the Spanish attacked Cham City again. It's okay that they attacked elsewhere. Cham City is an authentic vassal of our Ming Dynasty. This is a country that will never be conquered by the emperor himself. This matter will definitely be spread to
The court, the court, is afraid that it will not give up."
#Zan Jian smiled bitterly and said, "These guys are really not going to stop. I also said, why haven't there been any big food merchant ships coming recently? It turns out that someone is making trouble. I will report this matter to Xu Zhitai. You order people to continue to be strict.
Monitor it.”
"Yes, and the envoys from Aceh, Sulu and other countries have arrived at Shuangyu Port and are all here to ask for help. Do you want to see me?"
#Za Jian widened his eyes: "What's the use of me? I'll send them all to Hangzhou to give Lord Xu a headache."
This guy always mentions Lord Xu, which made Zeng Feng really feel that his family had set up the wrong place, and it should be set up in Hangzhou.
Zeng Feng laughed and said, "Yes, yes, but, the amount of silver issued by hundreds of households has been insufficient recently. I'll comfort the envoy..."
Although Shuangyu Port Hundred Houses are under the name of Jinyiwei, everyone has long been experiencing the northwest wind with the salary allocated by the Beizhen Prefecture Department. Such a huge organization, and due to the recent tense situation, the recruitment of non-staff personnel and
The eyeliner keeps growing, and the filth is naturally getting bigger and bigger. Therefore, the nominal guard of the Hundred Houses is independent to some extent. After all, financially unfree. They usually point to the comforting commander to make money in a hurry. Today
The Funeral Instrument Department was unhappy. Everyone would have to tighten their belts tomorrow to prepare for hunger. So although the Jinyiwei sounded horrible to outsiders, when they arrived at the Funeral Instrument Department, they had no confidence at all.
"Why are there so much?" #Zan Jian was shocked and said angrily: "It's not enough to give you 70,000 or 80,000 taels of silver every year? You might as well kill me, don't you want the money, and you have one to die, do you want it?
?Also, don’t you give a hundred households a ship to supply and sell it yourself? Why do you have tens of thousands of taels of silver in the annual income? What about these silver?”
"This..." Zeng Feng said with a smile: "Isn't this the adults earning some extra money for our brothers in the Hundred Houses?"
#Zan Jian had to look at him and said, "Let's talk about it, raising you people is really a waste of money. A hundred households with such a big appetite, so I might as well keep a few more boats."
Zeng Feng was in a tragedy. The hundreds of households were worried about labor. If there was no contribution, we worked hard. We have made contributions to the comforting envoy and sold our lives for the adults. Now we are not as good as several boats.
However, anyone who has figured out the temper of Lord Lan knows that Lord Deng speaks without restraint. Zeng Baihu is puzzled by such a person, and he is actually entrusted with important tasks by the court. However,...it doesn't matter. Lord Deng
He would eventually be able to swear money, and it would be okay to curse a few more things. He wanted to say a few more things. At this time, someone came to report and said, "Officials from several prefectures and counties in Fujian and Nanzhili have arrived.
Deng Jian smiled at Zeng Feng and said, "You come back tomorrow. I want to meet these imperial officials."
The four words of the imperial court's official are spoken, as if Zeng Feng had become an idle person outside the post and a temporary worker. In fact, Zeng Baihu really wanted to say that he was also an official of the imperial court and a personal teacher of the emperor. But these words are only
It is useless to swallow it in your stomach, and it may even attract some ridicule.
Zeng Feng said goodbye and left.
Immediately, Lin Hai from Baihu led Nie Bao, Yang Song and others in. When Deng Jian saw them, he immediately laughed heartily: "Everyone, everyone, there are some mistakes to welcome him, but some mistakes to welcome him. In fact, Xu Zhitai had already sent a letter.
, said that you will be pillars in the future and you will rely more on it in the future. Let me take you here for a walk, take a look, come, come, come, come, come, please sit down, come, and have a drink."
Have wine...
There seems to be no rules for serving tea here. Do you use wine to entertain guests?
Officials from several prefectures looked at each other without saying a word.
Everyone exchanged a few greetings, and then #Zanjian said, "You have anything to ask, just come and ask."
Yang Song said carefully: "Did Lord Xu mention the issue of Fujian freight in his letter?"
When Zang Jian heard this, he had a headache and said, "This... to be honest, our sea road comforting commander is also in trouble."
He then suffered a lot: "Everyone knows that the sea-road pacification envoy looks glorious, making a profit of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of silver every year, but this pacification envoy is actually poor. Not only do you have to support so many people, but you have to do it.
Subsidize food and also subsidize the firearms of Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau. Just these two items alone, you have to pay 20 million taels of silver every year. If you want to transport goods and comfort the envoy, you must at least prepare.
Ten million extra expenses.”
Ten million taels of silver, such a huge amount, was like playing in Deng Jian's mouth, but the comforting commander did make money, but the expenses were also huge, which was the truth.
However, Nie Bao was quite interested in buying grain and couldn't help asking: "What's going on with this subsidy for grain and firearms? Please give me advice."
#Zang Jian said: "Of course, you can collect grain at a high price, and all sea ships enter the port. If you carry more than half of the ship's grain, you will be exempted from taxes, and the consumption here is quite large."
Nie Bao was even more confused: "Even if the grain is collected at a high price, the shipping cost is so huge. How can those merchants be willing to transport grain?"
Nie Bao knew nothing about shipping, but Deng Jian has now become an expert, saying: "You don't understand it now. A sea boat goes to sea, so naturally it can only earn money by loading precious commercial goods, such as ivory and agate.
For example, spices, but these things are limited after all. If you transport too much, the price will drop. There are at least dozens of cargo warehouses in a sea ship. After all, these rare things cannot fill all the warehouses.
But if you install a ballast, wouldn't it be a loss? Therefore, many cargo ships come to this Shuangyu Port often load some rare goods, and other warehouses are loaded with grain. In this way, not only are the food tax-free
Even other treasures are tax-free. Selling all of these foods to our tutors can barely pay back the shipping fee. What really makes money is those spices, ivory and other things."