Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 119 Go Board

Chen Xingfu won a big order from the British East India Company and was in a happy mood.Although His Highness the Crown Prince has only been in charge of Guangdong for a few months, His Highness the Crown Prince's ability has been unanimously recognized by the people.Especially for businessmen, the new regime of Nanming has a positive attitude towards business encouragement. Although a large number of systems have been reformed and the requirements for taxation and regulations have become stricter, many restrictions have been reduced.

During this period of time, Chen Xingfu's management of Guanglide has successively done business with the British, Portuguese and Spaniards, and the total transaction volume has approached 100 million taels.Chen Xingfu not only wants to sit in Guangzhou and wait for these foreigners to come to deliver business, but also gradually considers Guanglide as the shipowner, renting ships with downwind shipping, and going down to Luzon, Annam, Siam, Cambodia and other places for trade activities.

He is full of ambitions and hopes to make a career out of it. Compared with the small troubles of the Chen family in the past, the development of Guanglide has inspired him. He once heard His Royal Highness say that in the future, only Guanglide will be a company. It is possible that the annual trade volume will be tens of millions of taels, bringing millions of taels of profit to Daming.Although the Chen family only holds a single-digit percentage of shares in Guanglide Company, according to the calculation that Guanglide distributes dividends every year, accounting for 10% of the profit ratio, the Chen family can obtain a net income of 10,000+ taels.Naturally, the Chen family also needs to pay 5-10% dividend tax.

The new imperial court of Prince Jianguo has stricter supervision on business and more taxation, but it also gives everyone more opportunities to make money.Compared with the previous practice of the imperial court and local governments, it is obvious that the current set is more profitable.

Not to mention, His Royal Highness put forward a new slogan of equality between scholars, farmers, businessmen, and the people, and the discriminatory policies against businessmen have been canceled one after another. This also allows merchant families like the Chen family to hold their heads up.

Chen Xingfu was smugly contemplating the idea of ​​continuing to operate Guanglide Company, and it was late at night without realizing it.At this moment, his door was knocked hard, Chen Xingfu opened the door and saw that it was his younger brother Chen Xingquan.

"Why are you in such a hurry, it's already late at night, and you're not afraid of disturbing others?" Chen Xingfu said.

Chen Xingquan is a young man who is not yet in his thirties, but he has traveled all over the world and has been a businessman for many years, so he has a lot of experience.

"Brother, the shopkeeper who took the Hunan trade route at home came back and said that the Qing army has arrived in Hengyang, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and he wants to harm my Guangdong. The shopkeeper gave money to a general in the green camp to eat wine, After drinking, he made out his words. It is said that the Qing court has sent Murima as General Jingnan, with Hong Chengchou in charge of military affairs, to attack the prince's troops. Not only that, but the Qing army seems to take the extermination of the prince as the first task. The general also said that the Qing court ordered Zhao Butai and Li Guoying to contain the troops of Jin Wang Li Dingguo in Guizhou, Sichuan, and let Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao of Guangxi lead the army to attack Guangdong from the west; People led the army to attack Chaozhou Prefecture, threatening Lingnan from the east..."

Chen Xingfu listened to his younger brother's narration, sweat dripped from his forehead, he said nervously: "Is the news conclusive?"

Chen Xingquan hurriedly said: "When the shopkeeper got the news, he sent someone back to report it immediately. I hope the family will make plans early to wait for changes."

Hearing this, Chen Xingfu said with a livid face, "It was so hard to cut the tail of the money rat. Do we have to do it again? Before the Guangzhou disaster, hundreds of thousands of lives were devastated. My Chen family was lucky to escape the catastrophe. If we let Qing When the army comes to kill, how many people will die? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wise and mighty, and the National Restoration Army under his command is a mighty army in a hundred battles. This battle may not necessarily be defeated."

After all, Chen Xingquan is the younger brother, and the elder brother has the final say in the family. He sighed: "Brother, I know you are optimistic about the prince, and he has indeed done a lot of things that are beneficial to the business. There are thousands of people, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not have many troops, and he is like the Zheng family, if there is a problem, he can sail away, but where can our Chen family go, and follow him to Australia?"

Chen Xingfu said: "I have made up my mind. Now I will go to find the crown prince overnight and inform the Ming army about it so that the Ming army can prepare early. We have seen a lot of what the Qing army is. The Ming Fuguo army has sharp guns. There are ten times the Qing army, and it is difficult to shake it. As long as it is deployed properly and there are righteous men from all walks of life to help, Guangdong will be safe and sound."

Chen Xingquan sighed helplessly: "I hope so."

Chen Xingfu immediately ordered his servants to prepare a car and rushed to the acquainted director of the Economic and Trade Development Bureau, asking him to inform His Royal Highness of the emergency.The official didn't dare to neglect, even though it was midnight, he took Chen Xingfu to Bai Mingxiu's mansion to knock on the door.

Bai Mingxiu's lucid dream was also ruined by these two people, but he still patiently listened to what Chen Xingfu said.

This was the second time Chen Xingfu saw Bai Mingxiu. It was late at night after all, but the matter was urgent. When His Royal Highness listened to him, he seemed very serious and calm.

"That's the way it is. Your Highness, please make an early plan to fight against the Tartars."

Bai Mingxiu smiled, and said to Ma Zouri, the deputy envoy of Jin Yiwei who was in charge of his guard work, "So I told you that people must be placed in the business, and this time, Manager Chen's family members are better than yours." Jin Yiwei has to move fast."

He was more joking, Jinyiwei had only just been established, and the development of intelligence work was relatively rudimentary, and the intelligence network set up by Xiang Xingtian, Che Quzhi and others was only at the beginning.

Ma Zuuri still responded: "Actually, we have analyzed this kind of thing without intelligence detection. It is impossible for the Qing army to let you, His Highness, run Guangzhou and accumulate strength. Moreover, the soldiers of Mulima and Hong Chengchou are It took another three months for the logistics to be mobilized and ready. The response of the Qing army was very slow. The troops of the two old traitors were transferred from the Western Front to the Eastern Front, and they had to go through some trouble. As for the Fujian side, there are even more people from Zheng Jing. If Li Shutai and Da Su really dare to send troops to Guangdong, Zheng Jing may be about to attack the mainland."

Bai Mingxiu also agrees with Ma Zuori's judgment very much, this martial arts master also has a good strategic vision.The response of the Qing court was very slow. Bai Mingxiu won the province of Guangdong, which greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.By the time Murima came to Guangdong with his troops, it would have been four or five months after Bai Mingxiu occupied Guangdong, and it was even possible that he had been in Guangzhou for six or seven months.But Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao's army West Road Qing Army, Li Sutai and Da Su's East Road Qing Army, with Li Dingguo and Zheng Jing behind them respectively, the whole situation has been transformed into Go.

The Qing army surrounded Bai Mingxiu, the big dragon, and Bai Mingxiu could turn against it. As long as he was surrounded, the dragon would be eaten up.

(End of this chapter)