Chapter six hundred and twentieth: the world is very sinister
"Congratulations to Duke Lian for adding new achievements. Duke Lian is still lacking now. Why not do this? I will be the host tomorrow. What should we tell us when we go to our mansion?"
After coming out of the palace, Zhang Heling, who was drunk, smiled and grabbed Liu Chengfeng's sleeve, and asked to bow and say goodbye at will.
The Duke of Cheng Guo, Zhu Fu, happened to come over and say hello, but after thinking about it, he walked away again.
Liu Chengfeng was not drunk, so he dealt with Zhou Cheng hard today, but in his opinion, the matter was far from over, and Liu Ji was still jumping around.
Seeing that Zhang Heling was about to leave, Liu Chengfeng grabbed Zhang Heling and asked, "Don't leave, I have something to ask you."
Zhang Heling had to stop and said with a smile: "What kind of friendship do you and me have? Just say whatever you want."
Liu Chengfeng said: "Did Zhou Cheng take the impeachment seriously?"
Zhang Heling asked: "What happened to Zhou Cheng's impeachment?"
Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but smile and cursed: "You thief, you still refuse to tell the truth. It's naturally the business of Jubao Trading Company. I've been very busy in the past or two years and have no time to take care of the Trading Company.
I really didn't expect that so many things happened in just over a year."
Zhang Heling also became serious and said, "It is not convenient to speak here, so why not do this. You and I will take the same car together and just take you back and we will talk in the car."
Liu Chengfeng had no choice but to agree that Zhang Heling's car was the latest model customized by Yongchang Car Store in the capital. The carriage was not only made of nanmu, but also a layer of red paint on the outside, but some key parts were added.
There was also a copper piece on it. The car is not small in size and the inside is very spacious. It is said that this kind of car is specially customized for wealthy families. There are four wheels on the bottom. Sitting inside is not only comfortable, but also has no bumps at all.
good.
Liu Chengfeng did not open the curtain and sat side by side with Zhang Heling. Zhang Heling said: "I'm not hiding it from you. Everything Zhou Cheng said was true, but in fact what he said was just some fur.
There are many things that the envoys don't know about." Zhang Heling, the smiling man, sighed rarely and said, "But there is no way to do this. Such a large business, there is more than 100,000 words. If this business is not
Take some measures, let alone anything else, can I build a fleet in Ming Dynasty, can't anyone else? Let me tell you the truth. Since the Lianzhou fleet went to sea, whether it is Japan, North Korea, Annan, Luzon countries.
. They all tried to trade on their own and wanted to follow my Jubao caravan. Although their scale was far inferior to us, it also hindered a lot of our business. If they were allowed to flow on their own, why would our caravan make money?"
He paused and continued, "Besides, these vassal states, those who don't know think they have transformed the kindness of my Ming Dynasty and admired me very much. Actually..." Zhang Heling showed disdain,
"Actually, they think of me as Ming Dynasty. When there is something wrong, they think of us, but if we get some benefits from them, they will become dissatisfied. Two years ago, the caravan went out to sea and arrived in Manobache.
This country is quite large and has a large population. Our fleet entered the port and handed the king a Guanwen. At the beginning, they also allowed it to be released, but later we saw that our fleet had a lot of cargo and the ship was full of ships.
The best porcelain, silk and other things became greedy and asked the officials to ask us for taxes to rest. Good guy, as soon as he opened his mouth, he asked half of our goods to go, so we naturally refused to negotiate with them.
King Nobache did not dare to act heavily on our Ming fleet, but he asked the official army to pretend to be thieves and want to rob us. If our guards were not brave enough to kill all the thieves who came to attack.
I don't know what will happen."
Zhang Heling saw that Liu Chengfeng's face was relieved a little, and knew that his words moved Liu Chengfeng: "So later the business also figured it out. I and several major shareholders together, and the fleet was docked, and it would be impossible to do so without a place to settle down.
, can only rent it. But it is not easy to rent it. However, in the country of Manobache, we learned a group of white-white people. These white people are said to have come from the extreme west, and they are called grape people.
These people once captured a piece of land and built castles in the country of Manobache. Their weapons also included muskets and cannons, but they were different from our Ming Dynasty. However, the other party seemed to be afraid of us, so they did not dare to provoke us without authorization.
Only a fleet of soldiers, with only more than a thousand people in total, can settle in Manobache Country. Not only that, it also repels the attack of Manobache Country and separatizes several islands. Later, we will take up the group.
, Even this white barbarian can do this, why can't we do it? So we simply took a strong move and directly occupied a deep water bay, built some ports, cargo warehouses, and trestles, and then let some guys and guards station there.
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Liu Chengfeng thought about it and knew that the Manobache Country that Zhang Heling mentioned was actually the Indonesian archipelago. As for these white barbarians, most of them were Portuguese. Three or four years ago, about ten years ago, the Portuguese were
They must have been wrong in capturing many colonies in East Africa and Indonesia.
But he didn't say anything and continued to listen to Zhang Heling's words.
Zhang Heling continued: "What else is there to sell women? This is understandable. To be honest, there is no way to do such a business. The various vassals in Japan have been fighting for years, borrowing loans from our money houses, and pursuing the first to buy the fire.
Guns, cannons, we all agreed to our requests at the beginning. Who knew that these damn guys were unable to pay off their loans after borrowing money, so they used the mine to pay off their debts. In this way, they didn't think it was enough. Some of them had no gold and silver in their jurisdiction.
The vassal states in the mine were also red in their eyes, so they used women to pay off their debts. Duke Lian…” Zhang Heling smiled bitterly and said, “There are some business left in this business, so the grandson was willing to sell women, but they insisted on using this to pay for it.
What can you do?"
Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, I'm just asking casually. Anyway, I can't make any time to do business now. It's better to be more restrained. It's really time to have no choice.
Sometimes it’s okay to do something extraordinary. The most important thing is to be in love with you and my will.”
"Of course, it's all your love and I'm willing." Zhang Heling said shamelessly.
Liu Chengfeng shook his head and said in this slightly shaking carriage: "As for those Bai Yi, what are you going to do?"
Zhang Heling said: "They don't seem to be doing business. They just keep transporting troop ships to occupy land everywhere, and then use the local natives as slaves to build ports and castles for them. Moreover, their muskets and cannons are ours.
Different, but it seems to be the same source. Our business has had some negotiations with them. These people only say that the world is vast and everyone has nothing to do with each other. I think they are afraid of us, but on the other hand,
Our business is not without ambitions. To be honest, our caravans have dozens or hundreds of ships all shipped, and they don’t salivate when they see it. Therefore, I thought to myself, maybe they feel that they are not strong enough.
, so I dare not act rashly for the time being. Once the time is ripe, I may not attack us. A few months ago, our shareholders gathered together to discuss this matter. Duke Cheng and several wealthy people in Lianzhou believed that
, we can take the opportunity to knock them out, in the name of the name, we can go directly to the lord of the Manobache Kingdom, and say we are willing to drive these people away for them, as long as they nodded. If we really want to fight, we
The business was able to subdue it. But later I heard that although these people were sharp in artillery and muskets, we still had a way to deal with it. But the most powerful thing about them was to build forts, and it was very difficult to conquer those forts.
, I was afraid that there were many casualties, so everyone gave up this idea.”
Liu Chengfeng smiled slightly and said, "Do you want to hear my opinion?"
Zhang Heling smiled bitterly and said, "My Duke Lian, I just want to hear what you mean."
Liu Chengfeng thought for a while and said, "Keep them for the time being, and even do business for them and have some communication with them. In addition, they have some unique features in making muskets, cannons, and warships, and cannons, and cannons, and cannons, and cannons, and cannons from them.
Learn and learn from it, and maybe we can use this to improve our cannons, muskets and ships, but then again, we must be on guard against others. These people are ambitious, but they must be careful."
Many technologies from the East and the West actually have many complementarities. At least in this era, it is difficult to distinguish between the superiority and inferiority. For example, the fire guns made in the Ming Dynasty were varied, such as the three-eyed, five-eyed, pear blossom gun, and mother-child gun.
And so on, even in the late Ming Dynasty, a musket like a machine gun was played. However, the West now does not have so many diversity in muskets, but focuses on improving range and accuracy. If so
If you can learn from it, it will be very beneficial to the improvement of the Ming Dynasty's muskets.
There is also the difference between shipbuilding, which is actually very big. Because the Ming Dynasty did not have strong sea disasters, most shipbuilding was mainly for business. Since the Song Dynasty, ships have been built larger and larger, especially the lucky ship, which is so large.
, unmatched in the world. The bigger the ship, the more cargo it will be. On the contrary, the Ming Dynasty was a little behind in the construction of warships. The reason is very simple. The Ming Dynasty did not have any enemies from the sea at all. It was near the Ming Dynasty, the so-called
The enemy is just a group of pirates, and there is no need to specially build military ships to deal with them. However, the West is different. There are many island countries and naval battles all year round. The more the warships are built, they are getting more and more refined. In this regard, they are far more sophisticated than the Ming Dynasty.
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Liu Chengfeng's words made Zhang Heling a little difficult to understand. How could he know that Liu Chengfeng just hoped to use the Portuguese as a window between the East and the West, and used it for the time being, and when would it be useless, and then he would take them all in one fell swoop.
However, Zhang Heling never had any doubts about Liu Chengfeng and quickly responded: "This is easy to say. What will I do if Duke Lian said?" (To be continued) rq!~!
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