"Has Mr. Huang not come?" Yin Feng first asked the people from the seven major merchants in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.
A man who claimed to be the butler Huang Cheng replied: "The master has gone to Macau, and he is saying hello to you."
Yin Feng smiled and handed him a promissory note and said, "Thank you for your kindness. This is the 2,000 taels of silver entrusted to the Guidong family to receive this year. Please collect it."
This is on the third floor of Leshan Building, Yin Feng's special box, Yin Feng held a banquet to greet representatives of major merchants. Other merchants present were talking and whispering. After Yin Feng came back in Penghu, he sent someone to find out that Huang Cheng was Nanping, Quanzhou.
People also knew his other identity: Zheng Zhilong's uncle.
Zheng Zhilong was still a child in Huangkou at this time, and he was still playing with stones on the street. When Zheng Zhilong grew up, he went to Macau and learned Spanish and did business with Huang Cheng, his uncle. So Yin Feng was particularly good at fighting with Huang Cheng.
After dealing with each other, I was ready to dig the young Zheng Zhilong to his side.
Yin Feng upstairs of Leshan again emphasized: "The Chinese company vowed to stick to the end of the trade embargo on Manila; it is your business that you are unwilling to follow up. At that time, when encountering pirates or typhoons, all the unfortunate events will be with me.
It doesn't matter."
Someone said: "Dadong, who doesn't know that you have the most warships along the coast of Fujian nowadays. If you want to say that it's not your business, no one will believe it."
Yin Feng smiled and said, "This is wrong. There are nearly 300 ships from the officers and soldiers, and the maximum number of warships escorted by our China Company is 100."
"Your Flying Dragon can deal with half of the entire Fujian Navy's ship."
"You have to talk about the constitution. Our merchants are doing business and cannot be able to get along with money! Do we never go to Manila?"
"Yes, tell me what to do, right?"
Yin Feng bowed and signaled Zeng Jingshan beside him to stand up: "Okay, let the shopkeeper Zeng talk about the new year's goods plan?"
Yin Feng asked someone to investigate the records of previous years' trade in Manila - thanks to Zeng Qi's official relations; Zeng Jingshan spread out a roll of paper and said: "In previous years, there were no more than 40 ships to Luzon every year; the best one
The income is only one million taels of silver per year; last year, our Chinese company took over the goods, so everyone got almost the same amount."
Of course, these goods were sold to the Dutch at a high price, and Zeng Jingshan would not mention the fact that the Chinese company made a lot of profits.
"We will still do this this year, but we will discuss the price of our goods with you."
Everyone was talking: "What basis is used as the pricing standard?"
"We have the price of goods that the Florians have found in Manila, which shall prevail."
So a lot of price lists prepared long ago were distributed, and these were all printed detailed catalogs; they even listed the same price comparison of goods in Macau, Peking University, Batavia and other places. There is a
Bold Title: Business Daily
This "Business Daily" is a publication planned by Yin Feng and cannot be considered a newspaper, because it only was released once every few months; because of the information conditions at that time, the business information that was coming and going must be brought by those merchant ships, and the delay in time cannot be avoided
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The supply of goods of major merchants is different, and there is a competitive relationship between them. The Chinese company successfully differentiated their same position and began to discuss business with them separately. All of this was Zeng Jingshan, Han Ping and his son went to work hard, and Yin Feng retreated.
Behind the scenes, he returned to the company headquarters, and Chen Zhongji brought him a few unexpected people.
A few days ago, the warship sent 20 warships to support the guards fighting the indigenous people in the southern Langqiao area. As a result, when they arrived in Langqiao, they captured two strange-shaped sailboats by the sea. People on the ship would say
He spoke Chinese, but he actually claimed to be a native of Luzon. This was so strange that these people were escorted to Taiwan Port.
Some of these people said they knew Yin Feng. After Lin Xiao personally interrogated him, he felt that there was no suspicion, so he asked Chen Zhongji to come over. When Yin Feng saw that it was two men, young and old, one of them was a mixed-race child with a typical Chinese appearance.
He has a relationship with Yin Feng.
Back then, Yin Feng took the Fuxing quota to Manila to save people, passing through the mouth of Ango River in Renyayinwan, Luzon Island. Chinese businessmen were generally called Daimao Port. While repairing the ship there, Yin Feng met the local Yiluo-Hua
Da'an, a descendant left by Lin Feng when he failed to attack Manila more than 30 years ago, when he retreated to Daimao Port, and his descendants left after marrying the locals. Da'an, a Chinese young man, introduced the Chinese vendor Zhang Wei to Yin Feng
Later, Yin Feng sneaked into Manila and escaped from Luzon Island with the simple map given to him by Zhang Wei.
This time, Da'an brought the elders of his clan and also brought news about Luzon:
Physiological-Chinese uprising was suppressed, the Spaniards also searched for sporadic Chinese people in various places. At the same time, the Spaniards also found excuses to encircle and suppress the deep mountains where the Yi'era-Chinese people were hiding. The Yi'era-Chinese people passed through the tribes by the sea.
, knowing that Yin Feng had brought people to Taiwan, he sent someone to Taiwan to contact Yin Feng as a foreign aid to resist the Spanish.
The Chinese vendor Zhang Wei was actually a needle maker in Lin Feng's fleet. He was stranded in Renyayin Bay because he was injured by the Spanish. Later, he became a small vendor in Luzon. He was usually careful.
The terrain of Luzon is so the map he drew for Yin Feng as a small vendor is simple, but the basic terrain and direction are completely correct, which played a great role when Yin Feng led his men to escape from Manila.
Yin Feng was very happy and took the Chinese young man Da'an to visit the factory area and the dock. In order to keep the information confidential and prevent the information from falling into the Spanish, he did not take him to visit the guard camp. Anyway, Da'an and the others had already seen it along the way.
I have come to a lot, and I sincerely admire China Company.
Before leaving, Yin Feng gave them a batch of self-defense weapons used on merchant ships, and promised that they would contact them immediately once they were about to start attacking Luzon Island.
In this way, starting this year, Yin Feng accidentally established a wider anti-Spanish joint front. In May of that year, Yin Feng went out to sea to establish a shopping mall in Siam and parked at Annan Port. The shopkeepers of the local Chinese shopping malls
God mysteriously took a few people onto his ship.
These people's mouths of Zhangquan dialect were originally survivors of the "Pan Hewu Incident" in Luzon more than ten years ago, and were all under Pan Hewu's subordinates. That year, Pan Hewu killed the Spanish Governor Das Marinas, Das
Before the other Spanish soldiers could wake up in their sleep, they were inexplicably hacked to death and drowned one by one. Pan Hewu also took the opportunity to "collect all his gold treasures and armored guards" and took the boat to Annan. Guo Weitai and 32 others returned.
domestic.
After the riot of Pan Hewu's anti-Spanish colonists, Das Marinas, the son of the Spanish Governor, sent a missionary to Fujian to state to Fujian Governor Xu Fuyuan that his father was killed.
The fact that the warships were taken away was asked by the Ming Dynasty government to execute relevant criminals to avenge him. Governor Xu Fuyuan reported the matter to the court, and the Ming court ordered the arrest of Guo Weitai and 32 others to be imprisoned, and sent the Spanish missionaries back with this gift.
Manila Pan Hewu was wiser, "staying in Annan but not daring to return", avoiding persecution. The Pan Hewu incident gave Spanish colonists a clear understanding of the overseas policies of the Ming Dynasty and began to impose unscrupulous restrictions on the Chinese.
, expulsion and other strategies are also one of the causes of the Manila massacre.
Pan Hewu's hatred against the Spanish has not been eliminated, but he lacks personal strength. Although he is the leader in Annan, he has only more than 300 people under him. So after hearing about the background of the establishment of China United Company, he took the initiative to send people to come.
Contact to participate in and cooperate.
Yin Feng naturally accepted all the good things that came to his door, and at the same time consolidated the status of China Company in Annan.
When Yin Feng returned to Taiwan in September, the China Business Center had already been established in Ryukyu, Annan, Chameng, Peking University, Siam, Malacca, Batavia and other places, and its merchant ships had reached nearly 600.
Everything in the company is booming and making gold every day. Craftsmen have completely learned the technology of self-tone bells, and have made self-made self-tone bells more luxurious than those native to Portugal and Italy with the unique fineness of the Chinese. Weapons are produced by Chinese and foreign craftsmen
With the concerted efforts, the production process of the flintlock rifle has been completely straightened out. Yin Feng also painted the entire production process into a picture and prepared it as a textbook for cultivating workers. During the same period, the glass production process was from the Portuguese with the efforts of Li Lihua.
After learning it here, it happened that the coal mine in Jilong Danshui was already produced, which was used to make fuel and glassware. The Chinese company also transported several ships of iron from Foshan, the center of the steel industry in the Ming Dynasty, and tried to make steel according to Western France, and then built it.
Weapons; China's first Western cannon was also developed at the end of this year after two years of experimentation.
There are also small problems. In June, Yuan Jin and Li Zhong's fleet robbed the merchant ships of China Company on the coast. However, the crew of the merchant fleet of China Company were trained to work, and brought their own muskets, bows, crossbows, swords and guns to fight against Yuan Jin.
Li Zhong's ship was not at all inferior. Of course, only such configuration could be afforded by China Company. Yuan Jin and Li Zhong began to turn to those scattered non-company merchant ships, with a small gain, but internal strife broke out due to uneven distribution of spoils.
, and has since disappeared along the coast of Fujian.
Yin Feng stayed at home for the longest time this year, and his harmonious relationship with his wives and concubines also developed rapidly. Zeng Jing had already accepted Yin Feng in her heart, but Yin Feng was too slow and timid, so she didn't realize it. Now that she has been together for a long time, she will naturally be able to do so.
The water melted. At the end of the year, Zeng Jing fell ill and it was not convenient to cross the sea to Quanzhou. Yin Feng took Mai Wan'er back to the mainland to carry out the mission of paying homage to his father-in-law every New Year. Last year, because of the war to conquer the whole of Taiwan,
The sailor rebelled, Yin Feng did not return to Quanzhou, so he must go this year.
His guard team is now a 20-person guard. Since he was back to Quanzhou, it was the territory of the government, so he could not carry muskets and wait for anything. Therefore, the 20-person guards dressed up as servants, holding sticks and swords. These personnel and affairs are all in the forest.
Xiao must have learned martial arts when he selected among the guards. Some people at home worked in the company and were loyal to Yin Feng; and there were also several people secretly hiding around and protecting them in secret.
The captain of the guard was Chen Zhongji and Yan Siqi. The two young men were already good friends and were working as grooms in the front seat of the carriage, while still joking with each other.
This carriage was sent by the Zeng family to Haicheng County to pick up Yin Feng. The local area is said to be the strength of China United Company. The slightly larger vendors or shops have invested in the China Company; half of those who have not invested in the shares are also there.
The Chinese company's stores, merchant ships, and docks work and eat. So the carriage walked very slowly because the carriage had the Zeng family's name on it. Everyone knew that Yin Feng had returned to Quanzhou, so they all came forward and bowed and greeted him.
Yin Feng had to stand at the door of the carriage in a standing posture and kept returning the gifts.
"Big boss, we're back!"
"Ship owner, you are so lucky!"
I am not old yet. Yin Feng smiled bitterly and returned the salute. On the other side, someone kowtowed the ground and shouted: "Boat Master Yin, I kowtow to you!" Yin Feng hurriedly asked Chen Zhongji to stop the car and get out of the car to help the old man up.
This stop was troublesome. The carriage was surrounded by men and women. Some people just looked at Yin Feng. The guards were sweating profusely and finally pulled the carriage out of the crowd. The servants sent by the Zeng family
There are more than 20 servants and each of them is sweating profusely.
On the side of a certain avenue outside Haicheng County, two people squatted there with straw hats, watching Yin Feng's carriage pass by. After the crowd passed, a person on the left whispered: "Let the pigeons be released and notify Haibo."
I've said that there are too many people here who support Yin Feng, and our people can't escape after finishing their work."
A man on the right nodded, stood up and said, "Let's go, let Yin Feng live for a while!"