Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 523 Zheng Yiguan's Plan
At dawn the next day, Zhao Wen led his troops and set off.

At the same time, Zheng Yiguan also led his troops to the coastline.

After arriving at the coastline, Zheng Yiguan boarded the boat here and went to Phi Island.

When he came to Phi Island, Zheng Yiguan took a short rest here for a day, and then drove the boat to Zeelandia City.

At this time, Zeelandia City has become the most prosperous place on Taiyuan Island, and has become a very important transit point on the sea. The city has also been enlarged many times by Zhao Wen before.

The headquarters of the Maritime Association founded by Zhao Wen is on Taiyuan Island. The only fly in the ointment is that there is no shipyard on Taiyuan Island.

After sailing on the sea for several days, Zheng Yiguan's fleet finally docked at the port of Zeelandia.

The port where Zheng Yiguan called was a specially built military port.

Originally, the military port and the civilian port were in the same port, but with the development of commerce, more and more maritime merchants came here, so as a last resort, Zheng Yiguan had someone rebuild a military port.

Standing on the port, Zheng Yiguan looked at the civilian port not far from here, feeling full of emotion in his heart, "I really didn't expect Taiwan Yuan Island to have the weather it has today."

"I have to say, Mr. Zongbing is really powerful. Back then we only dared to survive on the northern tip of Taiwan Yuan Island. As for this place, we didn't dare to touch it at all.

The Hongyi who gathered here were wiped out by the commander-in-chief. If we were allowed to come, I am afraid we would not be able to take this place at all. "Zheng Zhihu stood behind Zheng Yiguan, full of emotion.

"Haha, this is all thanks to the chief soldier, that's enough, let's not talk about it, let's go to the city quickly." Zheng Yiguan laughed loudly, and then walked forward.

Zheng Yiguan's men also jumped off the ships docked at the military port and began to gather at the military port.

After they were assembled, they began to drive into the city.

The distance between the military port and the city is not far, that is, the distance of two miles. It didn't take long for Zheng Yiguan to come outside the city.

Although it is outside the city, there are many vendors setting up stalls here.

There have been more than a dozen markets, large and small, gathered outside the city, and these markets surrounded the city.

These street vendors are basically people from the coast, who come here to make a living.

Of course, there is a tax to sell goods here, but the tax is not very high.

Although most of the stalls here are ordinary small traders, there are also some small traders.

These small merchants don't have the financial resources to buy and sell bulk goods in the city, so they buy and sell things outside the city that big merchants don't like.

For example, some spices with poor appearance, or some raw silk with poor quality.

Although big businessmen look down on them, these things still contain a lot of wealth.

The market is full of bargaining voices, and the noise is fierce.

Zheng Yiguan stopped outside the bazaar on the east side of the city wall, looked at the bazaar with people coming and going, heaved a sigh of relief, and said with an excited face: "I really didn't expect that one day this place would be so prosperous. .”

"Brother, what's unexpected about this, it's normal." Zheng Zhihu looked at the scene and said excitedly.

"General Zheng, is this General Zheng?" Just then, a high-pitched voice sounded from behind.

A middle-aged man in a uniform led by a dozen followers greeted him from behind.

Zheng Yiguan looked back and saw that it was Liu Changchun, so he said with a smile: "So it's Yuanwai Liu."

"I've seen General Zheng!" Liu Changchun walked up to Zheng Yiguan and hurriedly saluted Zheng Yiguan.

Zheng Yiguan waved his hand and said, "You don't need to be too polite!"

Liu Changchun stood up straight and said with a smile, "General Zheng just came back?"

When Zhao Wen attacked Batavia, he once asked Zhao Daniu to drive a treasure ship to Fuzhou to find Zheng Yiguan.

And this Liu Changchun is the sea merchant who wants to win over Zhao Daniu.

When Zhao Wen established the Maritime Association, this Liu Changchun was the first to join the Maritime Association.

Because of good vision, financial resources, and Zhao Wen opened up the sea route to Java, Liu Changchun has made a lot of money in the past few years.

When Zheng Yiguan went out, Liu Changchun also knew, but he didn't know what Zheng Yiguan was doing, so now when he saw Zheng Yiguan, he asked politely.

"Yeah, I just came back. How is Mr. Liu's business recently?" Zheng Yiguan asked with a smile.

Liu Yuanwai pointed to the civilian port, and he said: "The ships I ordered from Phi Island just arrived a few days ago. Including the ships I ordered this time, I now have a total of ten large ships, medium-sized ships and small ships. There are more than 30 ships."

Phi Island not only manufactures warships such as treasure ships, but also manufactures some civilian merchant ships. Anyway, if you have money, you don’t make money.

Liu Changchun's face is full of pride. A fleet of his size is in the upper middle position in the Maritime Association.

"So many ships? Yuanwai Liu has made a lot of money in recent years, right?" Zheng Yiguan said with a smile.

"Don't dare, I just make a little money. The top few in the Maritime Association bought a lot of land in Java, planted spices there, and opened mines. The money I earned was just some hard money.

If it wasn't for the commander-in-chief who opened up the sea route to Java, where would we have such a day now?All of this is due to the commander-in-chief. "When Liu Changchun mentioned Zhao Wen, his face was full of excitement.

Although Liu Changchun had never met Zhao Wen, he also knew that Java was attacked by Zhao Wen's troops.

In fact, these merchants in the Maritime Association basically knew about this matter, and even many people and officials in the southeast coast knew about these things, and they all knew that Java was attacked by Zhao Wen's troops.

Zhao Wen did not deliberately conceal this, so it is very normal for these people to know.

Although they knew it, it was only limited to them internally and kept silent to the outside world.

Those officials on the southeast coast are inextricably linked with these maritime merchants, so it is impossible for these officials to tell the court about this matter.

In other words, the entire southeast coast now knows that Zhao Wen has opened up the sea route to Java, but the imperial court does not know.

"General Zheng came back today and was exhausted. I will set up a table of wine in the Qinggong Tower to clean up the general. I wonder if the general would like to show his face?" Liu Changchun looked at Zheng Yiguan expectantly.

Zheng Yiguan just wanted to refuse, but he thought of something, so he pushed the boat along, "In this case, let Liu Yuanwai arrange it."

"Thank you, General Zheng, for your kindness!" Member Liu thanked him, and then hurriedly said to the butler who was following behind him, "Hurry up to Qinggong Building to wrap up their best private room, and then ask them to hurry up and prepare the best one." Food, just say that I want to treat General Zheng to dinner today, hurry up."

"Yes!" The housekeeper nodded at Liu Changchun, and hurried towards the city.

"General Zheng, please!" Liu Changchun stood on the spot and extended a gesture of please.

Zheng Yiguan laughed loudly and said, "If that's the case, then I won't be polite."

With that said, Zheng Yiguan walked towards the city.

Liu Changchun hurriedly followed Zheng Yiguan and walked towards the city.

Not long after, Zheng Yiguan, Liu Changchun and others were sitting in the private room in the best part of Qinggong Building.

Zheng Yiguan sat at the head seat, and Liu Changchun sat at his lower head.

"Liu Yuanwai's business is very big now, and now he has so many ships in his hands." Zheng Yiguan looked at Liu Changchun with a smile.

"It's all thanks to the commander-in-chief and the general. Without the commander-in-chief and the general, how would I have so many ships now?" Liu Changchun said modestly.

While the two were talking, the food was served.

The two exchanged cups, ate and drank wine.

When the food was over five flavors and the wine had been around for three rounds, Zheng Yiguan put down the wine glass in his hand and said, "I have something to do here, I wonder if Yuanwai Liu is interested?"

When Liu Changchun heard this, he became interested. He looked at Zheng Yiguan and asked, "I wonder if the general needs my help?"

"This matter was entrusted to me by the Chief Soldier. It is a very big event. I originally thought about doing it myself, but after thinking about it, I still want to get some people to do it together."

What Zheng Yiguan said was nothing else but what Zhao Wen had entrusted to him.

Originally, Zheng Yiguan wanted to do it by himself, but when he heard Liu Changchun outside the city gate just now that he had dozens of ships, his thoughts suddenly came alive.

If you do it alone, even though you have a lot of ships in your hands, it is impossible to transfer all the ships there.

As the saying goes, more people are more powerful, so it is better to bring some businessmen to go there together, and it will be more convenient to find rubber trees and cinchona trees at that time.

And even if the businessman found these things, but Zhao Wen entrusted him with this matter, and he also found these businessmen, so the credit would naturally be on his head.Besides, Zhao Wen didn't say that Zheng Yiguan was not allowed to find a businessman before.

If you really find a rubber tree, once the rubber is produced, you can let these merchants transport the rubber back, leave it there, and then make the rubber.

The Chief Soldier said before that this rubber is very important, and the more it is sent back, the greater the credit.

Although the seeds of the rubber tree will be brought back, this is a tree after all, and it is impossible to produce rubber in the first few years, so in the last few years, the source of rubber must rely on the Americas.

In this way, it is better to give these merchants some small profits and let the merchants help transport the rubber.

In addition to letting businessmen help transport rubber, these businessmen can also be allowed to establish rubber plantations locally and let these businessmen produce rubber locally.

In addition to rubber, cinchona trees can do the same.

And I can free up my hands to do other things. This is a win-win situation.

Zheng Yiguan used to be a pirate, but he was also a businessman.The greatest ability of a businessman is to reduce costs and strive for maximum benefits.

"I don't know what the general is talking about?" Liu Changchun suddenly became interested, and looked at Zheng Yiguan with great interest.

Zheng Yiguan lowered his voice, asked Liu Changchun to close his ears, and said in a low voice: "This matter was entrusted to me by the commander-in-chief. It is a very important matter. As for what it is, I can't give you details. Say, I can only give you a general idea!"

As he said that, Zheng Yiguan told him what Zhao Wen had entrusted to him. He only gave a general idea, and at the same time gave a rough outline of his own plan.

Listening to Zheng Yiguan's voice, Liu Changchun kept thinking.

"Since it's something that the commander-in-chief entrusted to the general, wouldn't it be a violation of the commander-in-chief's order if the general takes me?" Liu Changchun kept beating his heart, not knowing whether to agree or reject for a moment.

"Don't worry, I believe the Chief Soldier will agree. As for whether it will be successful or not, I have to ask the Chief Soldier, but I think the Chief Soldier will definitely agree.

How about this, for the next month, you stay here and don't leave, and at the same time tell the maritime merchants on the island not to leave, I will write a letter to ask the commander-in-chief for instructions, and if possible, I will take you to do it.

If this can be done, maybe you can earn more money than running Java. Believe me, I won't lie to you. " Zheng Yiguan said in detail.

"In this case, then follow the general's arrangement." Liu Changchun's heart became hot when he heard that he was earning more money than running in Java.

……

After eating, Zheng Yiguan returned to his subordinate yamen.

After returning to the subordinate yamen, Zheng Yiguan drank some tea to soothe the hangover, then went to the study room, wrote his thoughts on rice paper, and put them in an envelope.

Early the next morning, Zheng Yiguan asked people to send the letter to Liaodong by express boat.

During the period after sending the letter, Zheng Yiguan was not idle, and began to purchase a large amount of supplies in preparation for going to America.

In addition to purchasing materials, Zheng Yiguan also asked people to escort the commercial tax collected in the recent period to Xuanzhen.

When the Maritime Association was established, Zhao Wen formulated the regulations. The first article of the regulations was that anyone within Zhao Wen's sphere of influence, as long as they were doing business, had to pay taxes.

Although these businessmen are unwilling to pay taxes, they also know that if they don't pay taxes, then they don't want to do business on the sea, especially in Java.

As a result, these businessmen also had to pay taxes.Compared with the money earned from doing business, the money paid in taxes is really nothing.

When Zheng Yiguan's letter was floating on the sea, Zhao Wen had already led his troops to the place where the later Changchun was.

Zhao Wen stood on a hillside, looking at a dilapidated small city in front of him.

"The small city in front is called Long'an Station. It used to be under the jurisdiction of Yidonghewei, the capital of Nuer Gandu, and then it became the territory of Wuliangha Sanwei, and then it became my Horqin's grazing land.

After falling out with Jiannu, we also left here.This place was also occupied by Jiannu, and the city in front of us was built during the Yongle period, more than 200 years ago.

In the past, this place was under the jurisdiction of Daming, and Daming would carry out repairs every year.But later, Wuliangha Sanwei occupied this place, and it has never been repaired since then.When I, Horqin, were grazing here, this small town was my residence.At that time, I also had people repair it a few times, but not many times. " Buhe pointed to the small town of Long'an station in front of him, and said to Zhao Wen.

(End of this chapter)