Dragon Sea Empire

Yin Feng was very witty, and immediately cupped his hands and said: "Master Shen, the students still need to deal with trivial matters urgently, so I will leave first." Then he turned and walked away, taking away all the sailors by the way, only Shen Yourong was left on the beach subordinates.

A group of helmsmen and sailors from the water village came to the seaside, they discussed with Shen Yourong's soldiers, and suddenly they all knelt down around Shen Yourong.Shen Yourong's face was livid, and he asked in a deep voice, "What are you guys trying to do!"

An old helmsman straightened up and said: "My lord, please take pity on me and wait for the little soldier! The family is about to be uncooked, give me some rewards, and help my family!"

At that time, there were two sources of soldiers for the rangers in Fujian Shuizhai, one was the guards sent by various guards, and the other was sailors temporarily recruited from various places every year, which were the so-called post-carrying soldiers.Both types of soldiers were often underpaid, and when they were paid, they were barely subsisting.Shen Yourong was an upright officer, not only would he not withhold his subordinates' salaries, but he would often allocate more than half of his share to his subordinates.However, due to the strict military discipline, looting of the people is not allowed, so this little food and salary cannot solve the livelihood problems of those sailors and soldiers who are living in difficulties.

That's why everyone knelt down to Shen Yourong now, demanding that this great achievement of driving away the barbarians be taken down.

Knowing that Yin Feng must be watching from a distance, Shen Yourong was ashamed and annoyed, gritted her teeth and reprimanded coldly, "Get up! The dignified officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty don't have to beg for help like beggars!"

This unexpected comedy scene made Yin Feng more confident in persuading Shen Yourong to help him; at least temporarily.Shen Yourong came over, she seemed to be still blushing for what happened just now, seeing Yin Feng didn't know how to speak.Shen Yourong is more than ten years older than Yin Feng, but it seems that he can be Yin Feng's father.Therefore, he did not want to lose face in front of this young man.

Yin Feng spoke first with empathy: "Master Shen, do you know the reason why my China United Company, that is, the Huaxing Union, was established?"

"Before I came here, I inquired about it and knew a thing or two. Captain Yin, to tell you the truth, there are soldiers' relatives and friends who were rescued by you in my fortress." Shen Yourong laughed at herself; "Right now along the coast of Fujian , and even along the coast of Zhejiang and Guangdong, your reputation for being righteous and sacrificing your life to save people has spread all over the world. If I arrest you today as a criminal who secretly worked in Japan, tomorrow I will be drowned in the spit of all the people in Fujian."

Yin Feng chuckled: "It's just a false name. Mr. Shen has learned from it: Ever since he went overseas to do business, he has sworn that he will never point guns at his folks and elders for no reason; the Chinese company is only for self-protection. You will do something against the imperial court. Therefore, you can rest assured of us."

Shen Yourong raised his hand: "Forget it, you are a smart person, so you don't need to say empty words to perfuse me. I'm here to deal with the Hongmaoyi, not your Chinese company. I hope you can abide by the court's laws, at least not If you go too far, I won't be able to step down. At that time, don't worry about me being merciless."

As he spoke, he sighed and said, "Captain Yin, you are young and talented, courageous and resourceful, why don't you join the army? With your qualifications, I can recommend you as general manager, and you will be promoted to general or higher in the future. Not impossible..."

Yin Feng sneered and said: "If I join the army, can the imperial court let me lead the troops to fight back to Luzon Island to avenge the [-] villagers who died in vain?"

Shen Yourong opened his mouth, he was speechless, only smiled bitterly, cupped his hands and said, "Farewell, there will be a period later. Also, thank you for giving us such a great contribution..." He turned and left, commanding the Ming army Wuyu The officers and soldiers of the navy went to cut off the heads of the Dutch soldiers, carried the seized weapons, and then went back on board.

Yin Feng sighed, and watched Shen Yourong leave Penghu.Yin Feng felt very sorry for Shen Yourong: Originally, Shen Yourong became a "national hero" 400 years later by "retiring the red-haired fan".Now, Yin Feng has deprived him of this opportunity to become a national hero.

... A few days later, Yin Feng landed in Taiwan.At the same time, Shen Yourong returned to the Wuyu water village, and the governor's office in Fujian also received the news that the Hongmaoyi had been driven away, and officials at all levels celebrated with each other.In the end, it wasn't until the beginning of the second year that Shen Yourong received the reward of gold and silver cloth, which was worth 1000 taels of silver in total. He gave all of it to his subordinates, and he didn't take any of it.

In the inner house of Yin Feng's family, Yin Feng was sitting at the head, Zeng Jingshan, Han Ping and his son, Li Lihua, Lu Shitou, Li Yue, An Heping were all passing around to read the draft of the agreement on trade with the red-haired barbarians.

Another board meeting of Zhonghua United Company was held at Yin Feng's home.

Yin Feng was in a good mood, he easily dealt with Shen Yourong, which made him overjoyed; everything was under his control, and this feeling made him very happy.When Mai Wan'er came to pour tea, Yin Feng touched her slippery little hands, and asked her softly, "Where's Madam? Why didn't you see her?"

Wan'er blushed, and whispered, "I went to Master Jingshan's house, and said I went to see Master Six."

Yin Feng giggled, and said in a low voice, "Go down first and wait for me in your own room..." Wan'er blushed and left the room as if fleeing.

Han Ping said with a smile at this time: "Big boss, this is the first time I've heard that you can make money in this war!" He fiddled with the abacus in front of him, calculated, and said: "For this battle of Penghu, we recruit Nearly 250 coastal ships cost 5000 taels of silver; the war fleet lost nearly 30 ships and consumed countless gunpowder pellets; pensions for fishermen killed in battle, rewards for fishermen and common people who participated in the war, medical expenses for the wounded, etc. , A total of 7 taels of silver was spent on the war.”

Han Ping paused for a moment, moved the beads on the abacus a few times, and continued: "Here, the compensation for the company's personnel who died in battle is removed. The ransom promised by the Hongmaoyi is 5 taels of silver to compensate our company's personnel and materials." The loss cost is 3 taels of silver. Hehe, we still have a balance of nearly 1 taels of silver! It’s just that the pension for the dead..."

"This can't be avoided!" Yin Feng said categorically: "This battle is the first battle of our Chinese company's escort team. Boosting morale is the most important thing. Uniting people's hearts is also the key point. What has been promised cannot be changed."

Zeng Jingshan frowned: "Ah Feng, is this too much? There may be more wars in the future. Is there such a high bounty and pension every time?"

Yin Feng said confidently: "It doesn't matter, I already have a solution. As you all know, we have recently lowered the minimum share share to 500 taels; the company's articles of association stipulate that shareholders with less than 1 taels are ordinary shareholders, and they can Participate in dividends, but have no right to participate in the management of the company's business; my suggestion is that the reward can be issued in the form of shares; meritorious fighters can choose two methods to get the reward, one is to take cash, and the other is the amount of the reward Participate in the dividends of the company. Of course, this share is actually the dry stock rewarded to him by the company."

Everyone looked at each other with expressions of shock and surprise on their faces; Han Ping reacted the fastest: "Good idea, so that these brothers who can fight will never betray the company, because he has a share of the company In addition, the company does not need to spend cash, which saves a lot of expenses!"

Yin Feng said with a smile: "The pension of the brothers who died in battle can also be handled in the same way, but I think some regulations can be made; for example, they must be killed in the charge, not killed while fleeing, such as how to calculate the meritorious service for killing the enemy." The problem, I have asked Lin Xiao and the others to investigate and study; in this case, a military justice department must be established to calculate the meritorious deeds of killing the enemy and supervise the behavior of the troops..."

Lu Shitou suddenly said: "The issue of the guard's system is up to you to decide. We all don't understand, as long as you decide." After he handed over all the military power of the battle fleet, the burden on his shoulders was much lighter, and his mood was also good.Lu Shitou joked: "In my opinion, it is better to fight a few more battles to make money like this."

Yin Feng shook his head: "Actually, including our death pension, we still lose money!"

Everyone thought: That's why you must set the pension so high!

Zeng Jingshan shook the trade agreement in his hand and said loudly, "Dear directors, get down to business; do you have any objections to the trade agreement between us and Hongmao?"

Han Ping pointed to a clause in the agreement and said, "Big boss, I don't understand something, so I would like to ask you: Why are the Dutch allowed to open a business office in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and can they send people to stay permanently?"

Yin Feng said: "This is a reciprocal clause. Similarly, our company can also send people to set up shops in the territory of the Hongmaoyi. The Dutch, the Hongmaoyi, even if you don't let them come, they can always find a way to enter. Can you build a wall around the entire Dongfan Island?"

The meeting basically passed Yin Feng's opinion, and entrusted Yin Feng to sign a pledge with Hongmaoyi.

Accompanied by Lin Yu, another Chinese translator, Wei Malang has been visiting Yin Feng's army.On this day, he was called to Yin Feng's office at the company's headquarters.

"Your Excellency, it seems that you have had a good life these days!" Yin Feng handed over the re-drafted trade agreement to Wei Malang: "I am honored to inform you that you can take this agreement to the East India Company gone."

Wei Malang was overjoyed, and hurriedly read the agreement in Latin.This is the manuscript translated by the missionary Baradas from Chinese to Latin overnight, and at the same time translated into Dutch by a Dutch Protestant pastor.This is probably the first commercial agreement in the history of Sino-Western cultural exchanges and Sino-foreign trade history with multiple language texts.

Wei Malang looked at it for a while, then raised his head and asked suspiciously: "Your Excellency, your agreement states that you can provide transportation capacity for the East India Company, and you only need the East India Company to provide 10 cargo ships per year. What do you mean?"

Yin Feng smiled: "Our company can provide you with merchant ships to transport the goods directly from here - the port of Taiwan to the port of the East India Company."

"The East India Company has its own merchant ships, which are enough to transport goods."

Yin Feng's rule is actually to limit the number of Dutch ships going north, and let the Chinese company monopolize and control the trade routes from Taiwan to Batavia and other places.Seeing that Wei Malang seemed to see the problem, he hurriedly said, "I'm afraid that your ship's transportation capacity is insufficient to transport all our goods away. You know, our company and the Spaniards are enemies. There is a comprehensive trade embargo on Luzon Island in Spain, so a large amount of goods to be sold to the Spaniards can just be supplied to you Dutch. Now only our company has the source of goods, and about 30 large merchant ships like Xinxing are needed to supply them. After shipping, does the East India Company have so many ships along the coast of East Asia?"

"We, we Dutch have enough boats..."

Yin Feng thought to himself: playing tricks with me?I have all your details in my hands!

"Your ships have to be transported in Europe, the Caribbean, North American colonies, Africa, and the spices from the Spice Islands are all transported to Europe and America by Dutch ships. Can you guarantee that the same number of merchant ships come to Taiwan every year? If not, We can sell to the Portuguese in Macau, and we can make money anyway.”

Wei Malang was very depressed again for a while, feeling as if he had been stripped naked and seen through.Yin Feng took the lead everywhere and knew the bottom line of the Dutch East India Company like the palm of his hand, forcing Wei Malang to surrender and accept all the terms.

A few days later, Xinxing, which was loaded with silk, ceramics, and other goods, took two other small Chinese company merchant ships, captained by Ye Hua, and Han Jing as the chief financial officer, with Wei Malang, Li Jin, and Wei Malang The 10 Dutch officers and 20 soldiers selected among the prisoners of war set off for Batavia in mighty force.

The 30 prisoners of war were released free of charge by the China United Company in order to show the sincerity of reconciliation with the East India Company.

Yin Feng had inquired from Li Jin in advance; these commodities could be sold to the Dutch East India Company at three times the domestic purchase price, and the Dutch could earn more than double the profit if they sold them to Europe.

This is a big deal!