Beiyang new warlord

The destination of the truck is not too far from Hangzhou, and it is also one of the strongholds of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, Shaoxing!

Speaking of Shaoxing, people’s first impression is Nurhong and the careful planning of Shaoxing masters. The land was highly annexed by those big landlords in the south of the Yangtze River, forcing most Shaoxing people to study hard to find a way out, but the road to the imperial examination is so narrow. However, many scholars and literati who are much more talented than those from the Jiangnan clan have no choice but to work as aides and masters for the shops and yamen.

Five years ago, Shaoxing encountered a catastrophe, which was Mao Jue's famous official reform plan. Almost half of the middle and low-level scholars in Shaoxing moved out, and they went north by boat through Yuhang to take the imperial examination. There were nearly 1 civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, and more than [-] were from Shaoxing. There were also high-paid managers from Shaoxing in the East India Company. Only then did the ancient city of humanities show a trend of revival.

Carriages come in from the north gate of Shaoxing City, just like Wenzhou last year, there is a sound of clanging and knocking and construction everywhere, and the low and dilapidated main street, the abandoned people are demolished one by one, and two or three buildings are rebuilt. The tall, bright and intriguing traditional wooden shops are just different from last year when various maritime merchants intrigued and flocked to build ships to the south. This time, the southern merchants all became rational and finally understood how to unite.

In the center of the ancient city of Shaoxing, next to the Governor's Yamen, at the entrance of a towering three-story wooden building, there are five bright and majestic characters written in gold lacquer, Daming General Firm!

The battle in Nanyang woke up all the merchants in Nanyang. If it wasn't for this spring, the academician Zhang Pu had the cheek to go to Hangzhou to beg, Luo Zhen forced Luo Ning to raise the purchase price by 5000%, and signed a [-] million taels The big orders, the funds have been withdrawn again, and now these Nanshang are still out of breath.

Losing at least more than 3000 million taels, and killing nearly a hundred companies by suicide, the bloody lessons made these southern merchants start to face up to their opponents and analyze production according to the market.

First of all, most of Southeast Asia cannot be visited. The Beiming East India Company has already taken deep roots in various places, and it is to send meat for compensation if it goes to keep it.

Then those industrial mass-produced commodities such as iron tools, clay pots and stoneware, cotton-padded garments, etc., even the low-end silk market have all given up. People's steam looms hum a few times a piece of cloth, and they weave it by hand. There is no comparison to working tirelessly for a piece of cloth a month.

But the handicraft industry also has the advantages of handicraft industry, that is, the delicacy of the people, and the artistic sense of the people is incomparable to large-scale industrial production.

The low-end output Nanshang only exported raw silk, and then recruited master craftsmen, and the high-end output used the famous Suzhou embroidery to occupy the market, and the porcelain also took the high-end line. The official kilns in Jingdezhen were snatched by these Nanshang from Qian Qianyi and other big landlords. After that, they occupied the high-end market of Beiming with a large number of high-quality porcelain.

Then came Wuyi Tea, West Lake Longjing, and Shaoxing Nurhong. In terms of business, these southern merchants began to stratify their strategies.

More importantly, the export allocation share system has reduced internal friction among the southern merchants, and they will not lose money due to the swarm of price cuts, and they have begun to make profits!

However, if you look carefully, you can complete such a short-term strategic transformation, relying on the arrogant and stubborn Jiangnan gentry, it is simply an impossible miracle. While fighting the 80-year war, the Dutch East India Company relied on export trade to maintain the country's fortunes. It was supported by bloody experience. Even in the Ming General Chamber of Commerce, there were many old Dutch managers hired directly from Batavia.

Arriving here by car, Ke En got out of the car with a pipe in his mouth, and bid farewell to shopkeeper Dai. Immediately after, shopkeeper Dai entered the Daming General Chamber of Commerce to report. Not only did the guards at the gate of the yamen not stop him, but they bowed respectfully and sent him into the mansion respectfully.

Before the old guy reached the backyard of the governor's office, bursts of intense gunshots came out again.

In the spacious backyard racetrack, the ten straw men have been beaten to disfigurement and beyond recognition. There, Zhang Pu, who has always been a scholar's weapon, is aiming at a musket with unprecedented interest, and suddenly pulls the trigger. With a bang, the huge recoil pushed him, a scholar, to stagger for a while, but there happened to be another self-defeating bullet, and the bullet that was supposed to hit the foot exploded in the head.

However, this musket is completely different from the previous Daming bird blunderbuss. First of all, a buttstock for shoulder shooting is added. Its appearance is basically exactly the same as that of the Beiming Haiguo Kaihong first year rifle. In terms of ignition method, it also abandons the usual matchlock. , the exquisite sand wheel rubbed against the flint, and a spark ignited brilliantly in the windproof cover, and then the bullet was shot out.

This is thanks to the business opportunity that Qian Zeng discovered. He sold a large number of Beiming kerosene lighters he imported in Champa to the government. The spring-shaped ignition wheel on the kerosene lighter was removed, and it was the ignition of the flintlock. device!

As soon as the shot was fired, the soldiers around him immediately handed over a reloaded musket. He raised his hand and was about to fire when he suddenly saw Ke En walking in with a small walking stick. Zhang Pu couldn't help laughing. Go up to meet him.

"Mr. Cohen, you are here!"

Since the last time, the running boat brought by Lu Feili shined in the battle of the Yangtze Estuary, at least Fushe's attitude towards these "Huawai barbarians" has made a 180-degree turn. In Beiming, the most popular The crooked nuts are the British guys who cooperated with Mao Jue to run the East India Company. In Nanming, they are the Dutch. Now Wenzhou only retains one overseas trade route, which is Batavia. A large number of Dutch people are also restoring the society. Under the political asylum of his father, he got the opportunity to preach and do business.

It's just that there is no love for no reason in the world. Beiming got close to the Britons because Mao Jue wanted to use the British to exert influence in Western Europe. At the shareholders meeting of the Dutch East India Company, Cohen raised an extremely important issue.

"The Chinese are smart, tough, hardworking and hardworking. God has bestowed all their advantages on them, except for one fatal flaw. The Chinese are too good at fighting among themselves!"

"Once Nanming is supported, those greedy family landlords will be the first to sound the battle horn to the terrible lion in the north. At that time, it will be their chance for the Dutch!"

Using India to attract Beiming's attention, when the two empires go to war, the interests of the French, Spaniards and Portuguese will inevitably be involved, almost making Beiming make enemies throughout Western Europe, and even Nanming does not need to fight Beiming How fierce is it, as long as a few ceded ports are brought back, it will be enough to severely damage Beiming's overseas forces. Once the Great Ming shrinks, the Dutch East India Company can eat up the vacant benefits!

Looking at the flintlock gun in Zhang Pu's hand, Ke En's slightly dizzy eyes first showed jealousy, but soon he greeted him happily.

"The most knowledgeable lord in Ming Dynasty, it looks like you are using the new weapons well!"

"The ignition device is too difficult to make! Such a small thing, the workshop under the Wang family imitated it for more than half a month, and only ten copies were made!"

Mentioning this, Zhang Pu couldn't help showing annoyance and helplessness on his face, but only for a moment, he smiled happily and said: "However, through Master Luo's line, in the name of imported lighter accessories, cheap cigarettes from Hangzhou It won't take long to get the goods, my Daming's musket is still energy-produced, and by then, it will be the end of those thieves!"

What Zhang Pu said was full of murderous intent, and Ke En couldn't help showing a deep smile when he heard Ke En's dim old eyes. He bowed slightly with a profound oriental etiquette, and Ke En laughed and said.

"The old man will wish you success in advance!"

"Haha, easy to say!!!"

Hearty laughter suddenly resounded in the whole yard!

Chapter 751. Fallen

The situation is exactly as Keen, the old Dutch fox, expected, and Beiming continues to increase his strength in India!The fleet that departed from Hangzhou early in the morning was marching towards the subcontinent. The Pangu Shuangten mast supply ship with a size of more than 200 meters was loaded with immigrants, weapons, medicines, cement, tools and daily necessities, and it cost an unknown amount of money. The power of the Indian company, and this is already the third batch of supply fleets set off this year.

Beiming's political orientation began to tilt towards the subcontinent.

The East India Company is willing to spend so much money, naturally, because the return on the subcontinent is so rich that even these shareholders are crazy about it. Get rid of the land, get rid of climate factors, get rid of the productive forces of civilization, and only the huge population of the Mughal Empire , is a huge fortune for the Ming Empire.

To be honest, Mao Jue’s stall was too big. After the war, Ming Dynasty had a lot of resources to recover, and overseas Southeast Asia needed population development, and the vast Liaodong needed population to cultivate. Now the New World expedition team is going to East also discovered the main food producing area of ​​the United States in later generations, the vast Great Lakes Plain, which also needs people to develop!Even if Beiming's population of more than 500 million has been growing like rolling sheep, it is not enough for Mao Jue to play.

In order to make up for the lack of population, in many places in Southeast Asia, Mao Jue has used the method of granting Ming nationality, from accepting the influence of the Chinese civilization circle, the Li family North Korea who called himself Little China, and this time was completely defeated, and recognized the Great Ming and Great China. The Japanese state of identity recruited population to cultivate.

Later generations of the United States relied on the hard work of black slaves and Chinese laborers to build up. To be honest, Mao Jue is not a saint. If he were not too far away from Africa, maybe he would also go to the big black brothers!After all, the development continues, and only then is it qualified to point to the pits of corpses to express emotion and repent, to accuse the ancestors of how inhumane they are. If they do not occupy this land, they will not even be qualified to confess hypocritically. It is useless to use ancient poems Love fish.

Now that there are no big black brothers, let the third brothers take the lead first!

By the port of Calcutta, the huge and heavy Pangu No. [-] has arrived at the harbor at this time. At one end, there are native laborers shouting and carrying boxes, while at the other end, groups of immigrants are shouting Smecta Going down the boarding ladder one by one, looking at the hot and hot subcontinent curiously, Wu Sangui, who always likes to stand on the city wall and look down at this scene with a king's attitude, couldn't help but grit his teeth. Monk HP, the counselor next to him, asked.

"Master, why are the recent immigrants all big-faced?"

"Uh, this...maybe they are from the three sides of Shaanxi. Would you like to eat noodles!"

This was just a joke, a small episode, after the embarrassment, Monk HP lowered his voice again and asked dully.

"General, what have you considered about the proposal from the man from West?"

This sudden question also dragged Wu Sangui's thoughts back from the immigrants rolling in from below, causing him to lower his head once with a headache, muttering uncontrollably.

"If you succeed, you will seek the country, if you fail, you will have nothing!"

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For some unknown reason, the troubled Wu Sangui frowned, but he was doing well. Nearly [-] kilometers away from him, in Datong, Shanxi, the majestic police chief was going crazy!

What is self-willing to degenerate?Changping like this!

Good guy, it’s all right to become a nanny. Anyway, Miss, you can play something normal. You can go sightseeing for the first few days, and then Aimee Zhu started going to the gambling house and nightclub like a female gambler. Those messy little gambling houses outside the city sweated a lot after following a group of dubious scumbags. At night, they transformed into courtesans, went to various high-end clubs, and flirted with these rich second-generation sons.

He, Zhang Junrong, is a veteran of Mao Jue. Mao Jue's young wife, Chang Ping, seems to him to be like his own daughter. However, if it is really Zhang Junrong's own daughter, it will be fine. If she dares to be so depraved, she will slap her face If you kick him home, you have to obediently let him go home and cry, unlike now, he can only watch helplessly there.

Sitting with him on the same table with straight eyes, there were two male and female guards, several empty wine bottles were already placed in front of Shen Yunjian, while Lin Wanru's face was pale, and she shook her head anxiously.

"His Royal Highness looks like this, won't he be destroyed when he goes back?"

The more she thought about it, the more frightening she became, her little face became even paler, and she turned her head to Shen Yunjian tremblingly and asked, "Old Shen, if Your Highness is deposed, can His Majesty spread the flames on us again? I was eunuched and entered the palace, so I was sent to the Jiaofang Secretary?"

"drink wine!"

Hearing these words, Shen Yunjian raised his head, poured half of the bottle into his stomach with a grunt, and immediately poured himself down on the table with a bang, his head knocked down a large piece of the empty bottle.

When he fell down, Zhang Junrong had a rigid face, and there was no one to talk to. Lin Wanru started talking to himself instead, muttering endlessly to himself.