Daming Yuanfu

The silk and porcelain of this era were indeed astonishingly high from the perspective of trade value, but because of this, their consumption targets could only be mainly for the upper class, supplemented by the middle class, and ordinary people basically did not need to consider it (of course, in In the Ming Dynasty, low-end porcelain actually had a certain sales volume).

Now the Spanish-Portuguese Empire is probably on the rise in Europe, and the decline in trade capacity is an inevitable phenomenon. It seems that there is no particularly good solution for a while... Eh? No, the Spanish and Portuguese empires are fighting again, but Europe's consumption power should still exist, which means that the problem now is not the decline of the market, but the decline of trade capacity.

Gao Pragmatic suddenly felt something in his heart: Otherwise, the missing transportation capacity of the Spanish and Portuguese Empire would be taken up by Jinghua?

He suddenly became slightly excited. Yes, why can only your European ships come to our Daming and Southern Xinjiang to purchase goods, but not our Jinghua company to take the initiative to sell goods door-to-door? Your boatman came to this business because it is very profitable, so why can't we make this money?

Even if you opened the route and you have the "full map" advantage, but now you don't have enough transportation capacity, but the market vacancy is still there, then should we cooperate, I will help you sell the goods, and you will charge a tariff? A win-win situation!

As for the unfamiliar route, shouldn't you send someone to guide us? Of course, we are all decent people. If it doesn’t work out, why don’t we pay to hire a navigator? What a big deal!

Gao pragmatic thought about it and felt that this item should not be a big problem. Although there are still some details that need to be improved, the general direction should be determined. If anything, the main problem may be whether the Portuguese are willing to "leak the waterway" - it is impossible to take the American route to sell goods to Europe. They must take the Indian Ocean, cross the Cape of Good Hope and enter the Atlantic Ocean, and then go all the way north to Lisbon, Portugal, or Seville, southern Spanish port.

The problem is that this route belongs to the Portuguese. Even though Spain and Portugal now form a common federation, the two countries only "share the monarch" and the countries are still independent of each other. This means that to accomplish this, not only the consent of Philip II's son Philip III (Philip II should have died two years ago), but also the consent of the Portuguese local nobles.

The Portuguese regarded this trade route as very important, and even excluded the Spaniards from entering. It may not be that easy to convince them. But for the Portuguese, Gao Pragmatic was not too worried. Precisely because the Portuguese valued this route, it was easy to persuade them.

If that doesn't work, then we can follow what happened in Malacca - deterrence by force. Anyway, Goa is in India, and it is not difficult for Gao Pragmatic to threaten it. After all, if Portugal loses Goa in India, their shipping route will be almost gone. What's more, the main source of goods for the Portuguese's business is now controlled by Gao Pragmatic, and they are not afraid of them not submitting.

Most of the sales problem can be solved in this way, and the remaining half lies in the impact of war, which cannot be helped by high pragmatism. However, he was not reconciled and wanted to find some way to expand the market.

Today’s world is not the 21st century, and there are not many regions around the world that truly have the power to consume. Although there were vast Spanish colonies in North and South America, the Spanish colonies at this time were nothing more than sweat mines and cheap resource production areas. The only colonists with spending power were a few colonists. The number was too small, and there was no big hope at all.

There is no need to think about Africa. The productivity is not much better than that of primitive society, and poisonous insects and ferocious beasts are everywhere. The high pragmatism without quinine has no interest in Africa at this time. As for Oceania... it has yet to be discovered by Jinghua himself, and it is now on the agenda.

So looking at this circle, the so-called "international community" now actually consists of the Eurasian continent, plus North Africa at most. The European market is like that for the time being, Asia...well, sell to India?

Gao Pragmatic is scratching his head a little. It stands to reason that although India is divided into pieces, with only the north united under the Mughal Empire, India's population base is there after all. It is second only to the Ming Dynasty globally. It should have some spending power. Can it be developed? What about for a while?

Gao pragmatic recalled his memories of India at this era, and he was really not sure how receptive they were to silk and porcelain. Although these two products should be popular in the world, it cannot be ruled out that there are local people in India. own preferences. Forget it, no matter what, it is best to have a market. If there is no market, cultivate the market. Anyway, now that the army has fought, dumping goods is a natural thing to do. As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be insular, but if you are rich, you will be free to trade. Now it is time for Beijing to knock on the door and tell India to open up to free trade.

The idea is there, but the specific implementation will definitely take time, so how to appease the Jiangnan chaebol at this stage still needs to be made separately. This arrangement was highly pragmatic and could only rely on Jinghua. Specifically, it was to create a time difference - first let Jinghua unify and purchase the goods accumulated by the Jiangnan chaebol, and then sell them after the trade routes were opened.

Gao Pragmatic was a little lucky. Fortunately, silk and porcelain were goods that could be stored for a long time, especially porcelain. Otherwise, Jinghua's strategy of eating these goods first would not work.

He had never thought of letting the Jiangnan chaebol fend for themselves - even if they were his political enemies. The Ming Dynasty finally had some signs of capitalism. It is better not to stamp it out if possible. Cultivating a class is not about cultivating a few talents. Even political opponents now have to be carefully protected.

Of course, it is one thing to protect the budding capitalism, but it is another thing to fight back against political opponents who dare to show their swords at them. Therefore, the highly pragmatic strategy is that the Jiangnan chaebol will be saved, but those who dare to impeach themselves will die. "Death" does not necessarily have to be in the physical sense, but at least it must be in the political sense.

So, Gao Pragmatic, who wanted to understand the root cause, began to write essays - not writing self-defense essays, but directly writing rhetoric essays.

The Ming Dynasty has its own way of playing. Generally speaking, Gao Pragmatic should write a self-defense at this time, because he has to explain the problem clearly first, and then wait for the group of people who want to impeach him to attack, and wait until bullets are flying like snow flakes. Gao pragmatically then wrote some words to force the emperor to come forward as a guarantor. This is the normal process.

However, Gao Pragmatic didn't plan to play like this this time because he was very, very busy and didn't plan to accompany others to play the whole game.

If you want to impeach me, just impeach me. I don't even bother to argue and just resign. I want to see who can force me to retreat at this time.

When Jinghua starts to acquire the inventory held by the Jiangnan Chaebol, what value will you, the puppets on the stage, have? ——

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PS: It’s snowing heavily, it’s so cold in the south... I don’t want to type a word, I just want to borrow the earth dragon from Gao Yuansuke’s family.