Daming One Piece

Chapter 223 The Foreign Merchants of the South Heaven Gate (Part [-])
Nantianmen is the Nantianmen of Ming Dynasty!

But for foreigners, this is Daming, or a city under the rule of Ming.

Although Nantianmen has only been open for a year and a half, there are already many chambers of commerce. In Nantianmen, there are not only chambers of commerce in the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, but even chambers of commerce in England and France. Sweden also opened a foreign firm in Nantianmen.

The reason why they chose to open a port at Nantianmen was not only because it was convenient to purchase goods from Ming Dynasty here, but also because it was a duty-free free port.Just like in history, after the British occupied Singapore, in order to promote the development of the city, Singapore was declared a "duty-free free port" at the beginning of the occupation, thereby attracting businessmen from all over the world to come here for trade. In just over ten years, Singapore became It became the base camp of British colonization in Southeast Asia.

Now, Shi Yiwen is just learning from here. Even Beigang, Hoi An and other places under the administration of Beigang Xuanweisi are duty-free ports. After all, Ming Dynasty is the factory of the world in this year, and Beigang is also stepping up. The further development of industrial production and tax exemption will only benefit the export of Ming Dynasty commodities.

Of course, this is also the fundamental reason why the British in another world play this game. Who made England at that time the world's factory?
However, for John Taipan of Nantianmen London Foreign Firm, of course he didn’t know all this. As an English businessman who came from afar, the reason why he chose to trade here was not only because he didn’t have to go to Guangzhou for trade, but more importantly, Customs here are easier to deal with.

Even, in his opinion, there is no customs in the world that is more efficient and clean than Nantianmen. Of course, tax exemption is also one of the reasons.

"Sooner or later, this place will become the most prosperous city in Southeast Asia!"

Standing by the window, staring at the forested masts of the port outside the window, hundreds of eastern and western merchant ships are moored at berths or trestles, and the coolies on the trestle are carrying, loading and unloading various commodities, all of which prove John’s judgment .

"This is really a good place!"

The transparent large glass inlaid on the window not only allows John to see the situation near the port clearly, but also makes his office look extremely bright-this is the flat glass of Beigang, it is the most special commodity in Beigang, it The thickness of the glass is not large, but this one-square-foot transparent glass can be directly inlaid on the wooden window.

This kind of wooden lattice glass window makes the light in the room extremely bright. All the foreign companies in Nantianmen are equipped with such glass windows, so that many foreigners who are used to working and living in a dark environment feel uncomfortable when they first arrive. Sometimes even a little uncomfortable.

The same is true for John, but this has long been a feature of Beigang. Of course, after Beigang's most important export product, just last month, a merchant ship under John's name shipped back a full fifty boxes of flat glass and ten boxes. Several boxes of expensive glass mirrors, those goods were all shipped from Beigang.

This kind of entrepot trade has made Nantianmen more and more prosperous, and a large amount of goods are shipped from here to Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East and Europe every day.Beigang's flat glass has even become a famous brand in Europe. Even with the expensive shipping and loss, this kind of flat glass is cheaper and more transparent than similar European glass.It is widely used in various aspects such as architecture, merchant ships, and carriages, and glass windows have even become a new fashion. Of course, they have also become one of the new oriental fashions popular in Europe.

At the same time, Beigang's steel-tip dip pen was also introduced to Europe. It writes more smoothly than a quill pen, and its service life is extremely long-it can even be used for several years as long as the nib is not broken.These one silver dollar dip pens each have a steel nib that looks like a handicraft.The birth of the nib has to go through more than ten steps manually completed by workers. For Europeans in this era, such exquisite dip pens cannot be imitated, and importing has become the only choice. For the upper class in European countries For me, owning a few dip pens from Daming is a status symbol in itself.

Of course, for a businessman like John, a rich variety of commodities means money and a steady stream of wealth.

Of course, England does not have any commodities for export, so John is not only engaged in the trade between Nantianmen and England, he will also engage in entrepot trade on other routes to obtain funds.A businessman never turns down an opportunity to make money.

Just like now, another merchant ship under his name has just returned to Nantianmen, loaded with rice and other commodities from Surabaya, and these commodities will be sold to maritime merchants in Ming Dynasty.

"How is it, has the goods been delivered?"

John asked after Tom entered the office.

"Yes, Uncle Tom, they have all been delivered to the Four Seas Trading Company. They offer a good price, 4 silver dollars per shimi, and our profit is [-] silver dollars."

Tom is the son of John's friend, at least in name, but in fact he is his son. Anyone who asks about this knows that he is the old king next door.Five years ago, his cheap son came to the East with him and has been learning trade from him.

"Based on this calculation, our profit for this trip is almost 1 taels. Making money in the East is nothing short of easy."

When John's words fell, Tom said.

"But uncle, when I left Surabaya, I noticed that the local nobles in Surabaya seemed to be planning something, and they were very likely to launch a rebellion."

"Rebellion?"

John was surprised.

"Could it be that they want to fight with Sultan Matalan again? I haven't heard that the government has plans in this regard."

Almost subconsciously, John felt that the aristocratic rebellion in Surabaya was very likely to be related to the government. After all, when the nobles in Surabaya rebelled last year, his merchant ship had transported armor, weapons and other materials there, all of which were produced in Beigang. For Mata Lan Sultan, the Ming government is more willing to support the indigenous nobles in Surabaya.So in his opinion, the current situation is likely to have happened with the support of the government, but there seems to be no movement on the Nantianmen side.

"Who knows? But as far as the current situation is concerned, I think it's best for us to move away from there recently. If we insist on going there, I'm afraid we'll lose everything."

Tom said it was best to wait until things were quieter before going.Of course John agrees with this, after all, they are not Ming merchants, Ming merchants... Behind them is Daming!

At least the fleet of Xuanwei Division in Beigang of Ming Dynasty will always stand behind them!

(End of this chapter)