Since the 23rd year of Hongwu in the early Ming Dynasty (1390), Emperor Hongwu once again issued the "Forbidden Traffic Order of Foreign Domains", and this dynasty's sea ban has become a curse on the people of the Ming Dynasty. When the sea ban was the most severe, the "Xinguo" in the early Ming Dynasty
Gong Tanghe inspected Zhejiang and the coastal cities of Fujian, prohibiting people from fishing in the sea, and implemented an unprecedented "fishing ban"; during the Jiajing period, Zhu Wan, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, "ordered a ban on the sea in Zhejiang, and everyone who was married to the remaining emperor, everything
Destroy it, and those who violate it will be killed!" All the two-masted ships will be destroyed. After hundreds of years of maritime ban, the coastal people have become accustomed to it, and basically regard going to sea as pirates and going overseas to do business as the same thing.
When the Yue Harbor opened to sea, the government issued "ship pilots" regulations stating:
"Those who sell food will be cited every year, returned to the hospital for review, and sent to the hospital for review; those who sell Guang, Zhejiang, Fuzhou, and Funing will have their esophagus checked at the end of the season and sent to the hospital for review." ("Ming Jing Shi Wen" (Edited by "Ming Jing Shi Wen")
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From this regulation, it can be seen that in addition to the people in Zhangquan Prefecture, the merchants in Fuzhou and Funing Prefecture in Fujian were also excluded from the scope of issuance of boat tickets. Otherwise, this system would not have stated "trading Guangdong,
Those in Zhejiang, Fuzhou, and Funing need to have their esophagus checked at the end of the season and be sent to the hospital for review. Only Zhang and Quan prefectures are within the legal scope of this check-in, and people in other areas are not included in the legal scope of this check-in.
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If Zhejiang merchants take merchant ships out to sea from Yuegang to Luo, Luzon and other places to sell silk fabrics, although they will definitely make huge profits, they may be charged with "Tongfan Law" after returning to China.
Most of the merchants gathered at the Zhongqingli Silk Guild in the east of Hangzhou are Huizhou merchants, and the rest are local Zhejiang merchants. Although Huizhou merchants and Zhejiang merchants were once the pioneers of private overseas trade - both merchants and pirates, their experience has
After the major blow during the "Jiajing Great Japanese Pirates" period, few Zhejiang merchants dared to take risks on the sea. In the Ming Dynasty, China's coastal maritime transportation industry had completely shrunk. Therefore, raw silk was transported from Zhejiang to Guangzhou by sea.
Going to Macau is completely beyond their imagination.
Yang Caipu, a Fujian man, was an old friend of the Zeng family in the business world. As soon as Zeng Jingshan arrived in Hangzhou, he entrusted him with the purchase of raw silk, and then took Yin Feng to Nanjing immediately. Yang Caipu was actually a bold businessman.
, in the history of Yin Feng's original time and space, he, Zhang Yuyu, the head of the Silk Guild, and others later went to Japan to sell Hangzhou fine silk in partnership, and made four times the profit at one time. But he did not know at this moment, the mysterious Yin of the Zeng family.
How will the shopkeeper transport the purchased goods out of Zhejiang and then to Macau.
In fact, Yin Feng was not sure at the moment. He originally wanted to visit the beautiful scenery of his hometown Hangzhou, but after only one day, he was dragged onto the boat by Zeng Jingshan and headed to Nanjing along the canal. When he arrived in Nanjing, he didn't have time to browse.
The beautiful scenery of the Qinhuai River and the romance were dragged by Zeng Jingshan to wait outside the yamen guarding the eunuch every day. After three days of boring waiting, a book office finally came out to meet the two of them. This small book office was
Zeng Jingshan’s so-called relationship with the Nanjing garrison eunuch office.
Then, two days later, Zeng Jingshan accompanied Yin Feng to manage a few more yamen, and then took Yin Feng and hurried back to Hangzhou. Yin Feng went to Luosiwan Office on the day he left Nanjing, where the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci
This is the future Shigu Church at No. 112 Shigu Road, Nanjing.
However, when Yin Feng took Magalo to find this place, there were only a few Chinese believers staying here. Half a month ago, Matteo Ricci himself and the missionary Baradas came to visit the place on April 5, the twenty-eighth year of Wanli.
That is, on May 18, 1600 AD, he left Nanjing and went to the capital.
Yin Feng had deep regrets for not being able to meet the first person in cultural exchange between China and the West. He was also secretly happy that the black man Magaro could continue to be his servant for a while. He left a letter to Matteo Ricci with a brief explanation.
After reviewing the facts, I hurriedly left Nanjing with regret.
While Zeng Jingshan was collecting goods from everywhere, Yin Feng, who kept a low profile and mysterious state, was completing his book: "Journey to the East and West", and at the same time became a part-time accountant for a good brand. In order to minimize going out to meet customers, he took on the role of second shopkeeper
When he went to various commercial banks, he accidentally discovered that the accounting method of Haozhao had not yet adopted the debit and credit accounting method. Each account had to be recorded multiple times for verification. On a whim, he took the basic part of the debit and credit accounting method of later generations.
Come out and teach the accountants.
How does he know these accounting principles? It's simple, because both of his parents are accountants, and that's just the result of his upbringing.
As a result, from June to August, he was busy in the accounting room, teaching debit and credit accounting methods, calculating accounts, checking accounts, and checked all the accounts of the first five years of the good brand; he had never wanted to deal with numbers before, but now he can
Well, he dealt with numbers every day, and they were still Chinese numbers. In the end, he got tired of it and escaped from the accounting office on the pretext of printing his own book.
In August, the goods were finally collected. The northwest monsoon in autumn was coming, and it was time to go to sea.
He had no idea that nearly a hundred trucks of goods would go out to sea via a ship under the jurisdiction of the Changguo Water Camp of Zhejiang Province.
The Zeng family was distantly related to the little secretary named Zeng who worked for the Nanjing garrison eunuch. Through him, he found out that Luo Qing, a small sentry officer under the former Fujian Haibei Road, who had had smuggling trade with the Zeng family more than ten years ago, had been transferred.
Changguo Water Camp Beibo General Manager. Originally, the Zeng family only knew that Luo Qing had been transferred to Zhejiang. This kind of relationship might not be used in a lifetime, but now because of the emergence of Yin Feng and the implementation of Yin Feng's risky business plan, it is necessary to
This level of relationship was established. So Yin Feng's trip to Nanjing began, and the Nanjing Ministry of War relationship found out the specific unit where Luo Qing was transferred, and then everything was settled with money and relationships.
Changguo is Zhoushan. In the early Ming Dynasty, when Xin Guogong Tanghe patrolled the sea, Changguo County was abolished in the 19th year of Hongwu (1386), and in accordance with the ban of "no board is allowed to enter the sea", the county seat of Zhoushan Island and Dexing (Yancang, Yancang, etc.)
Ziwei area), advocating that residents two miles away (Lincheng, Baiquan area) and residents of other 46 islands all migrate to the mainland, causing more than 30,000 people to be displaced. This is a major event in the history of Zhoushan. Due to the official documents of later generations
They are scattered and lost, and local chronicles did not dare to discuss the faults of the current dynasty, so there are very few historical materials left to study the emigration of people at that time and the disasters it brought to the people of Zhoushan. Therefore, Yin Feng does not know much about the situation in Zhoushan during this era.
.The image of Zhoushan in his mind was still a tourist resort before traveling. When he saw the empty, silent, and desolate scene of Zhoushan Island at this time, he couldn't help but be shocked. In the Buddhist resort of later generations, the Guanyin Dojo is now only a thatched cottage.
In the temple, there were several monks chopping firewood on the mountain by the sea. These were the only residents of Zhoushan Island that Yin Feng saw.
In the 27th year of Wanli's reign, the governor of Zhejiang, the Ningbo government, and the Dinghai County Office planted the stone tablet of the "Forbidden Covenant" erected on Mount Putuo on the seaside. When Yin Feng went to the navy camp, he happened to see it. It clearly said this
The words: "For this reason, I would like to pay my respects to the abbot monk of this mountain. Pedestrians and others should know that except for the originally built houses and the monks who live in them, and the amount has been checked in Dinghai County, they are exempted from eviction. In the future, bricks and wood are not allowed to be moved or new buildings added."
The courtyard is recruiting disciples. One of them should go to the temple for incense and wandering monks. They should only be given three days of fasting food and go down the mountain immediately. They are not allowed to linger. If there is any reason to violate the rules and the abbot is in the same dormitory, he will be punished.
.......I hereby declare this. I enshrine the scriptures in Shibenshan Mountain, and I will abide by them forever."
Therefore, the few monks Yin Feng saw were the monks who persisted in ascetic practice in this dilapidated temple where incense and money were scarce.
Luo Qing, the commander-in-chief of the Changguo Water Camp, was almost furious at being in a coastal defense outpost like Changguowei, where oil and water were scarce. He was really happy to have people from his hometown come to make extra money for him. According to the quota, Luo Qing was in charge of two areas.
He has nearly 110 naval vessels, including a fortune ship, a winter ship, a sand ship, and 40 bird ships. He has helmsmen and nearly 3,000 troops to assist him; but he actually commands only a little more than half of the rated troops.
, the remaining ship strength only exists on paper. Among them, only two Fu ships and one Dongzi ship can go to sea. Apocalypse's "Zhoushan Chronicle" records that his troops' annual military pay quota is 21,624 taels, 8 cents and 4 cents of silver.
However, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, it would be good to get half of it every year; of course, Luo Qing himself had to get half of it, and the rest could go to the soldiers. This time, the Zeng family gave him 2,000 taels of silver at a time to hire a ship. Of course, he
We are extremely willing, and we have also negotiated a cooperation plan for the next few years.
Therefore, at the end of August of this year, three ships of the former navy appeared in the port of Dongfan, bringing a large amount of raw silk.
The various maritime merchants and pirates in the port did not panic at all. It has long been common for the Fujian Navy on the other side to participate in smuggling.
The Goa, which had been waiting for a long time, and the Tomar, which arrived at short notice, returned with full loads. Bernardo, who returned from Japan, hugged Yin Feng tightly; Zeng Jingshan had been in a state of excitement since leaving Zhoushan and kept praising Yin Feng.
Dare to think and dare to do it. Li Dan and Lu Shitou have not returned from Fujian yet. Yin Feng imagines that if they see the mountains of raw silk in Han Street, their jaws will drop.
The goods of the Zeng family and Bernardo filled the two merchant ships, and the excess raw silk that could not be loaded was resold on the spot to the maritime merchants who gathered in Singgang.
This year, from Yazhou in Hainan to Quanzhou, merchants engaged in overseas trade were all talking about how the Zeng family in Quanzhou became rich overnight. At the same time, Yin Feng also became famous. Legend has it that he was good at dancing, daring and capable of turning stones.
Cheng Jin, a business prodigy, can be called brothers to barbarian merchants. Only Yin Feng himself knows: he just came up with a rough plan. Except for the final sales - selling directly to Fan merchants - he controls the details of the implementation of the plan and
The key links are all completed by the Zeng family's human resources and relationship network.
This year, due to the lack of raw silk goods arriving in Guangzhou, the purchase price in Macao was nearly half higher than in previous years. In the raw silk production areas, due to poor sales and hoarding of goods, the price plummeted to only half of previous years. This rise and fall, except for management
In order to cover the expenses of the government and the navy camp, Yin Feng enabled the Zeng family to skip countless middlemen in previous years and conduct transactions directly with Portuguese merchants in Macau. This year, they earned more than 100,000 taels of silver from the raw silk trade alone.
At the same time, Yin Feng's personal assets increased to nearly 10,000 taels of silver thanks to the income from this trade and commissions.
White money was transported to Quanzhou by sea. The Zeng family had never made so much money at one time in their decades of business. They were originally small businessmen in Quanzhou, and their strength and reputation in Quanzhou were far greater than those of the giant businessmen who had been going abroad all year round.
Big businessmen can almost be ignored. But from now on, the Zeng family can also talk to those giant businessmen with straight backs.
Zeng Qi, the commercial director of the Zeng family and the general magistrate of Yazhou, heard about this incident. He laughed loudly and almost burst out laughing. Then, he immediately wrote a letter to his eldest brother Zeng Ke. He also asked Zeng Yue to prepare
In the name of celebrating the New Year, I immediately returned to my hometown of Quanzhou and took this letter with me.
Yin Feng was also very happy. This was the first time he had fully participated in the planning of a business plan after time travel. He was overjoyed to make so much money. This success made him a small and wealthy businessman, and his plan to become a wealthy businessman went smoothly.
In progress. In any case, the success of this transaction was his credit, so the Zeng family was very generous and immediately bought him a house in Quanzhou and invited him to return to Quanzhou to celebrate the New Year with the Zeng family.
Before that, Yin Feng made a trip back to Yazhou from Macau. He wanted to discuss with Zeng Qi about another business adventure plan for the coming year.
If we say that this year's trade of good brands is illegal except for bribing naval officers and using navy ships to transport goods, the rest is just a side game; but Yin Feng's 1601 trade plan is completely illegal and violates the taboos of the imperial court.
The biggest crime of "traveling with Japan" was to transport goods to Japan for trading, and then transport back pure silver produced in Japan.
It is hard to say whether Zeng Qi agrees. And Yin Feng personally is not yet able to complete this kind of trade independently. Although he can use the power of smugglers such as Li Dan and Lu Shitou to transport goods, the financial strength of Li Lu and others
The upper-level relationship network is far inferior to that of the Zeng family.