Win the Ding 1617

When he received the urgent bill from the mansion in the capital, and learned that Wang Dehua, the imperial envoy of Xuanzhi, was about to board a ship from Tianjin and leave for Hainan, Shouhan and his wives and concubines had already set off from Guangzhou, preparing to go back to Hue to escape the cold, new year.

Six giant whale-like ships patrolled vigilantly around the turbulent sea, and hundreds of large and small cannons were eager to try behind the gun windows.

Among the fleet, a larger ship was guarded in the center by these six ships like a dragon.On the main mast in the middle of the ship, a large commander-in-chief flag with a square of one foot and two feet fluttered in the sea breeze.

There are not too many official titles marked on the banner, only three small bright yellow characters, "Uncle Ning Yuan", and a huge "Li" in the middle is particularly conspicuous.

Shou Han, his wives and concubines, and his entourage were on the Changsheng, while the soldiers and personal soldiers of the Guards Brigade were on the other six ships.

The layout of Shouhan's cockpit is quite unique, very much in the style of Li Muhua.She felt that the cabin was too tall and unsuitable for living, so she decorated the cabin ingeniously, installed crooked vermilion railings, carved partitions, and displayed exquisite furniture and novelty items purchased from Suzhou and Yangzhou. There is a Western octave chiming bell hanging on the wall.Thinking that the glass palace lantern was not bright, and the candle made of butter smelled very strong, he ordered someone to remove one-third of the gold wire around the palace lantern to make it look brighter.

She is a very smart person, apart from helping the guard to share some irrelevant government affairs, she uses all kinds of thoughts to win the favor of the guard.

She knew very well that there was only one son she could rely on, and once she fell out of favor in front of Shou Han, all the hopes and happiness of her and her son would be gone.so.She wanted to do everything possible to make Li Huayu the next Ning Yuanbo and the head of the Nanyue Army.

On the table between Shouhan, Aolei Yilan and Li Muhua, oranges and tangerines are placed on a large agate plate, and in the middle is a huge glass plate containing large red apples shipped from Weihaiwei .In the corner of the cabin, on a black lacquered mahogany tea table inlaid with spiral steel, jadeite and peach red agate to form a picture of picking lotus, there is a golden incense burner, and a wisp of light smoke is spit out from the lion's mouth.curl up.The house is filled with a strange fragrance, which makes people forget the bumps and fatigue of the sea journey, and the body and mind are immediately refreshed.

Near the hatch of the ship.There is a table used by Shou Han to handle official business. On this table is a bonsai from a famous artist in Suzhou that Li Peiting found for him. .There are winding roads, ancient woods and cold springs, and the Buddhist temple is half hidden, facing a pool of clear water and white stones.Also on the table is a Southern Tang Longwei Inkstone with an inscription written by Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty.Beside the inkstone is a half piece of large ingot of Guangsu ink, on which there are six gold characters of "Made in the Zhengde Year of the Ming Dynasty". Most of the word "system" has been worn away.Next to the inkstone is a Ru kiln secret color brush washer in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a Yongle year-made red inlaid jade pen holder. The inlaid picture is Dongpo Moonlit Night Touring Red Cliff.On the table is also a small piece of jasmine tribute paper made in the fifth year of Xuande, on which is a plum painted by Li Muhua, but it has not been painted yet.In such a magnificently decorated cabin.Hearing that the officials in the official office finished reading the official document and learned that there was an imperial envoy coming, Shou Han put down the other document in his hand and said lightly, "Benbo knows. Tell the navy People, the imperial envoy's fleet has passed the Yangtze River Estuary, and it must be strictly guarded, so there must be no mistakes. After rendezvous with the imperial envoy, tell him that Benbo is waiting for him in Hue."

Ao Lei Yilan, who was already potbellied, blinked her beautiful big eyes, and with the careful support of two maidservants from Silla, sat on the big chair next to Shou Han, "Master, why did you let the people sent by the emperor come to Shun?" melt away?"...

"Sister, if you don't go to Hue to see your husband, why don't you let him go back to Guangzhou to see him?" Li Muhua commented on the imperial envoy's visit in a very contemptuous tone.

Pick up the import and export quota of Guangzhou Port Customs Chongzhen in the 13th year that Shou Han put on the small table with a very delicate jade finger. On it, the number of imports, exports, Japan, ten states, The amount of trade in North Korea and other places, and even the Portuguese and Spaniards from more distant countries, the number of goods shipped from the Fusang country mentioned in the Shan Hai Jing.

Of course, most of these shipments from Fusang are American gold and silver that are exchanged for silver dollars and gold coins to purchase goods.

"Sir, I heard from people who came back from Nanjing." Flipping through the details of customs revenue and tariffs, his eyes were a little dazzled by the numbers on it, but Li Muhua's mouth was unmoved and calm.

"Miss Li had a miscarriage because of subsidized rice, oil and cloth for scholars in the south of the Yangtze River. A boy who had already formed just disappeared."

For Li Lizhen's miscarriage, Ao Lei Yilan's eyes showed deep sympathy for this good sister, remembering the scene of sleeping with her in the same quilt with Shou Han, Hu Tian Hu Di, couldn't help but fly a smear on her face flush.When Li Lizhen taught her those embarrassing postures, postures and tricks in her mind, she couldn't help but feel agitated.

However, Li Muhua secretly called it a fluke for the lack of harvest of the rain and dew that Shou Han had sown in the south of the Yangtze River. To her, all factors that might compete with Li Huayu for the heir apparent were enemies.She is like a lioness patrolling the boundaries of her territory.

After a slight pause, Li Muhua's attention was again directed to the financial statement in front of him.

The gold and silver shipped to Guangdong and the red copper from Japan were only charged a 5.00% tariff in accordance with the provisions of the friendship and trade treaty signed between the Southern Guangdong Army and the Japanese Shogunate.After that, those businessmen with the background of the Japanese shogunate happily exchanged these gold, silver and copper to financial institutions such as the Mint Bureau of the Southern Guangdong Army for gold coins, silver yuan, Tongbao and other currencies circulating in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces to buy. Favorite weapons, cloth, tea, glass, mirrors, silk, porcelain, wine, and food most needed by ordinary people.

The red copper was processed and refined into copper plates, and then made into the currency "Tongbao" that Japan was most willing to accept. It was shipped back to Japan together with rice, cloth, silk, porcelain and other goods, and then exchanged for various Japanese products and goods. Labor, over and over again.

This made Japan from the emperor to the Tokugawa shogunate.The daimyo, samurai, and even ordinary people below shouted that the benevolent and righteous exchanges and trade of the Celestial Dynasty brought great prosperity to Guangzhou Port.Ships traveling between Guangzhou and various treaty ports in Japan brought a large amount of gold, silver, copper, people, sulfur, etc., and contributed to the prosperity of Guangzhou Port.

Counting from the day when the Southern Guangdong Army began to occupy Guangzhou, the number of large foreign ships moored at the Pearl River Wharf and Huangpu Island Wharf in Guangzhou seemed to increase day by day.

Li Muhua saw the trade statistics of Guangzhou Port in the 13 years of Chongzhen.The export volume has reached 600 million silver dollars.And imports are not so much. The total is only more than nine million taels.Calculate according to the treaty signed with Wa.The export duty was only 80 silver dollars.The import is 45 yuan.

In recent years, the tariffs at Guangzhou Port have basically hovered around 200 million yuan.Li Muhua was also aware of this, because most of the people who came from the east were Japanese and a few Koreans.Occasional Portuguese and Spaniards from the distant country of Fuso can be ignored.

"Msister, it seems that tea and porcelain are big profitable businesses."

After carefully looking at the detailed figures on the report, Li Muhua coquettishly expressed his opinion to Shou Han.

"Although the quantity of tea and porcelain is large, the profit is still not as good as that of weapons and..."

Shou Han originally wanted to say that it was far less profitable than weapons, glass, mirrors, etc., but he swallowed the words again.There are some things that even husband and wife cannot say.What's more, this is a super core secret that brings astronomical benefits to the Southern Guangdong Army every year.

It is because the import and export duties of Guangzhou Port Customs are not large, so Shou Han will let them see these in front of a few women. If it is the tax inventory of Manga Customs and Old Port Customs, it is even Yanmeier can not see.

Compared with selling arms and food, cloth, medicine, tea, silk and other goods to places where there are big fights in Europe and Tianzhu.The tariffs brought about by this little trade with Japan, Fuso, etc. are simply a drop in the bucket.Not even [-]% of the trade with the Saurons in Temple Street and other places.Of course, considering that the trade in Temple Street and other places is a risky and highly political act, no tax has been paid for trade in this direction.

"Do the math, am I also a big tax evader?" Thinking about the profits from the trade of fur ginseng, pearls, golden bear paws and other things between Temple Street and the Mainland last year, Shou Han can wake up smiling in his dreams when he falls asleep.Using extremely low-cost ironware, cloth, table salt, spirits, etc., they exchanged high-quality Liaodong specialties and sold them in Beijing, Jiangnan, etc., and the profits made made Shouhan feel ashamed.

"Why don't I pay some attention too? How about paying 100 million yuan?" Shou Han stared at the golden glass chandelier that was swinging regularly on the beam of the cabin, with a smirk on his face. (Chongzhen: You damn local tyrant! I treat you so favorably, why can't you give me more money and food?!)

Most of the huge profits from foreign trade in Old Port and Guangzhou came from the export of tea. A large number of Japanese ships and Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Dutch ships transported the tea from the above ports to their respective countries. destination.

Tea, in the foreign trade in the area controlled by Shou Han, accounted for at least one-tenth of the trade volume and tariff volume.From the tea sold by Longshengxing directly controlled by the Southern Guangdong Army to the east, west, north and south, to the Jiangnan tea exported through the Jianghai joint defense agreement, all brought huge benefits to the Southern Guangdong Army.

An ordinary person, no matter he is a Mongol, Tianzhu, Turkic, Dutch, English, or Spaniard, may not use armor or swords, Chinese silk, or Chinese porcelain. However, the temptation of tea is irresistible for people. of.

The huge benefits brought about by the trafficking of tea attracted almost the entire European countries with ocean-going capabilities to trade in this magical land.

The arrival of these people brought not only gold and silver, but also various things that the Shou Han needed.

For example, when entering the Customs of the Xuanwei Envoy of the Old Port, each ship must have at least one hundred shi of wheat, and a pair of mares and stallions from Tianzhu, Tianfang, etc. to be handed over to the Southern Guangdong Army. Mandatory procedures for entry.If the male and female cannot be matched, at least two stallions are required.

If the businessman is really too poor, or the space in the cabin is too small to feed such a big horse, then they can be replaced by all kinds of people needed by the Southern Guangdong Army.If there are people on the list of Galileo and others who recommended and introduced each other.That's even better.

They will be treated as honored guests by the Southern Cantonese Army, allowing them to experience living conditions and academic environments unimaginable in the war-torn European continent.Together with Galileo, Descartes and others who are regarded as teachers everywhere in Nanzhong, we will conduct research and discussion on natural science, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other fields.

However, theology and others will be put back first.

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As soon as Wang Dehua's Fuchuan fleet crossed the Yangtze River, they were confronted by Zhang Xiaohu's fleet stationed on Chongming Island in accordance with the Jianghai Defense Treaty.

After learning that he was an imperial envoy to Guangzhou to deliver the decree.Zhang Xiaohu didn't dare to neglect at all.On the one hand, he ordered the imperial envoy to go to Shanghai County to purchase supplies, and informed several stewards in the Lijiaqiao Concession to come to meet; on the other hand, he invited the imperial envoy to rest in his camp temporarily.

"Commander Zhang, please order someone to replenish our boat with fresh water, vegetables and fresh meat as soon as possible, so that our family can go to Guangzhou to see Uncle Ning Yuan as soon as possible."

Playing with Cheng Yi sent by Zhang Xiaohu.The newly minted silver dollar in Wang Dehua's hand kept emitting a lovely blue light under the flickering light.This kind of silver dollar with a fineness of more than [-]% is more fine than the so-called golden flower silver.And it does not wear out, and the weight and fineness are guaranteed.It has become the most popular hard currency in the capital.

Zhang Xiaohu gave Cheng Yi [-] silver dollars at a time for the imperial envoy's transit.The accompanying officials, eunuchs, and guards were also indicated according to their rank and status.All of a sudden, the entire mission was full of joy and laughter.

Many people are full of longing for the southward declaration to make a lot of money.

"Please don't worry, father-in-law. Father-in-law will go to see my lord without fear of severe cold and storms. He will naturally do his job with all his heart."

If it was someone else, seeing Wang Dehua's expression, he would feel apprehensive, and then he would make up a generous gift.In order to keep oneself safe and sound, but this kind of situation has never happened to both the host and guest today.

Zhang Xiaohu, as a general of the navy of the Southern Guangdong Army, naturally wouldn't pay attention to the chief eunuch in charge of ceremonies in front of him, so what if you are the trusted eunuch of Emperor Chongzhen?Can you bite my ball? !My lord is the one your emperor's master wants to curry favor with!I treated you like this for the sake of proclaiming the decree to my lord.

But Wang Dehua did not intend to take the opportunity to blackmail.If you want to make money, Uncle Ning Yuan is as rich as the enemy.He spent a lot of money, and he came across the sea thousands of miles at the end of the year. If he didn't spend tens of thousands of silver dollars, he wouldn't be that Uncle Ning Yuan who monopolizes the benefits of maritime commerce.

The left-behind eunuchs in Nanjing had long written letters to him, in which they exaggerated the price and popularity of the hype for the privilege of going out to sea as stipulated in the Jianghai joint defense agreement signed by the general governor Caojiang Yamen and Ning Yuanbo in Liudu and Jiangnan.

"All ships that go out to sea for trade are not allowed to use the flag issued by Jiang Yamen and Ning Yuanbo, and they cannot go out of the Yangtze River Estuary, and go to and from Hangzhou Bay, Jinshanwei, etc. Each ship is usually about two thousand gold. It is not available in the market, and many people are willing to pay ten thousand. Yuan Er asked to borrow a flag for one round trip. With the abundance of merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, the noble families in the capital have an annual income of at least tens of millions, and the families of Xinjian Bo and others have become rich overnight."

At this time, whether it was economically or politically, the dukes and nobles in Nanjing all turned to Li Shouhan, and the two sides began to collude with each other for what they needed.All the nobles in the city, relying on the trade privileges with the Southern Guangdong Army, made a lot of money. The wealth of the rich reached tens of millions, and the few had millions.On the other hand, under the Ming court, the annual city ship tax was only 4 taels.

"Oh! It's too late!"

Walking to the bow of the ship, looking at the star-like lights on the night sailing ship in the distance, Wang Dehua wrapped his black fox fur robe tightly around his body, and muttered something, but he didn't know what he regretted.

The confidant eunuch next to him handed him a cupronickel hand stove, "Elder-in-law, why do you say that?"

As an eunuch, Wang Dehua basically has no relationship with human physiology.However, the great eunuch, who is the supervisor of ceremonies, has far more desire for power and money than ordinary people.Presumably the adrenaline and hormones have translated into a constant drive for power and money.

"If we had known earlier that Uncle Ning Yuan was going to join forces with his old family in Liudu to carry out this Jianghai joint defense, our family would have ordered everyone in Nanjing to participate, and everyone would have made a lot of money, but now we can only see other people's cars and cars. Bring this to the house, the people in our family are drooling watching it in the water!" He threw the silver dollar in his hand onto the board of the boat, and the silver dollar rolled somewhere.

"Father-in-law, didn't Uncle Ning Yuan set up customs at both the Yangtze River Estuary and Hangzhou Bay? According to what he and the emperor said in the inscription, these tariffs should be half of the emperor's, and they should be collected in the internal treasury!"

The eyes of the little eunuch next to him flashed with light, reminding Wang Dehua in a low voice.

"Well! You monkey bastard! You are clever! Our family almost forgot about this matter. Our family also heard clearly when the uncle and the emperor and his ministers were right!"

"Elder-in-law, after seeing that Uncle Li, I can ask for favors in private for the respectable and friendly father-in-laws in Nanjing. Wouldn't it be enough to ask him to reward them with a few banners? In this way, the people in Nanjing will also Look, if you want to get rich, you have to follow Eunuch wholeheartedly!"