The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Among them, Song Youlong was born in a new-style school, graduated from the Daming Academy of Sciences, was promoted by Yan Songxiang, and rocketed all the way to the magistrate of the fourth rank.

Shen Lian also followed Yan Song very early and was a Confucian scholar with relatively progressive thinking.

4.5 Accompanied by Song Youlong and Shen Lian, Yan Song and his family took a luxurious day trip to the most prosperous Bund port in Shanghai.

After several years of development, Shanghai has replaced Tianjin at this time and has become the city with the strongest economy in Ming Dynasty.

The Bund Market here has become the largest trade center in the world.

Shanghai's ports can accommodate 6000 giant ships of over [-] tons to berth. At this time, they are full of berths, and there are no free berths at all.Those later merchant ships can only park in the far sea, waiting for the Shanghai Port Authority to allocate berths.Even so, there are long queues and days of waiting to get into Shanghai.

The throughput of Shanghai port is even more astonishing.

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Chapter 2186 Guangzhou Port, Massive Black Slaves [1]

Shen Lian said in high spirits: "My daily cargo throughput in Shanghai is three times that of Tianjin! The stevedores at the port are often busy all day long. They have been divided into three shifts day and night, but they are still too busy. Fortunately The pulley mechanical crane designed by the Daming Academy of Sciences helped a lot and greatly improved the efficiency of port loading and unloading, so that the throughput of my Shanghai Port exceeded one hundred million tons a year."

Yan Song couldn't help but be speechless.

Cargo throughput of [-] million tons per year!

What is this concept?

The concept is that the cargo handled by Shanghai Port will reach 30 tons a day!

At this time, a ship can carry 200 tons of cargo, which is considered a big ship.

And there are more than 1500 such ships that Shanghai Port needs to load and unload in a day!

No wonder there are 6000 ships berthed at the port, and there are still long queues.

"How much tariff can Shanghai Port collect in a year?"

Yan Song asked.

Shen Lian beamed and said, "The tariffs that we 13 can collect in one year are more than three times that of Tianjin. This year it is expected to be 1.7 million taels of silver!"

Yan Song pursed his lips and smiled.

This Tianjin and Shanghai, the two heroes of the north and the south, the tariff alone is as high as nearly 2.5 million!

And the other taxes of Ming Dynasty are even more immeasurable.

It's just that in order to expand Ming's military power, Yan Song deliberately withheld half of the customs duties, focusing on military expenses, building warships and cannons, and did not report it to Jiajing.

Otherwise, wouldn't Jiajing's god-level prodigal son spend all of it?

In other words, Daming's financial situation is actually far better than what Jiajing saw.

It's just that Yan Song's hands and eyes are open to the sky, and the emperor doesn't know it at all.

Some of the huge wealth belonged to Jin Yiwei and Dongchang. Lu Bing and Huang Jin were Yan Song's loyal allies, so the emperor would never know these secrets.

Yan Song took his daughters to eat snacks, buy silk, and buy specialties from all over the world in Shanghai.

After a big purchase, the old beauties of Yan Ge happily walked ahead...

Behind, is a parcel mountain that is slowly moving...

Under the mountain is Yan Ge who is about to be crushed to death...

There is no way, there are too many women, and a man commits suicide when he goes shopping.

Yan Ge is old alone, even if he is superficial, he is too busy with a dozen or so hands-on shoppers who are enthusiastically buying and buying.

Yan Song: "...For the first time, I feel that having more women is not a good thing..."

The ship passed Shanghai and continued to set off.

The next stop is Guangzhou.

As Nanyang was occupied by Ming Dynasty and effectively developed, the status of Guangzhou became more and more important, and even surpassed Tianjin to become the second largest port after Shanghai.

After all, Guangzhou can be regarded as the nearest port of Ming Dynasty to Western Europe, and its geographical location is even more advantageous than that of Shanghai.

(Tianjin Leiben, which was once glorious for a while: the eldest chrysanthemum will not be preserved, and the second will not be preserved...)

Yan Song is planning to establish the Guangzhou Shipbuilding Department, making Guangzhou another window for Ming Dynasty to open up to the outside world.

With the construction of Guangzhou Port, a large amount of wealth, goods, and people flowed into Guangzhou City, driving the rapid development of this Ming city.

At this time, Guangzhou gathered a large number of crooked nuts, and even many black people, who traveled thousands of miles to live here in search of job opportunities.

When Yan Song was in the port area, he saw a large number of blacks, as porters, sweating in the sun and carrying heavy cargo.

This scene also opened the eyes of the beauties.

"Wow, so many black workers."

"They're so dark."

"Isn't my Ming labor force not enough? With so many black workers?"

Ouyang asked Yan Song about it.

Yan Song said with a faint smile: "My Ming Dynasty did not have a shortage of labor force at first, but with the continuous development of industrialization and the opening of a large number of factories, the demand for labor force has greatly increased. The wages have also continued to increase, and the labor force in the past was not enough. These black people , were all sold to Ming Dynasty by the slave trade movement of Western colonists. Because of cheap labor, they were widely adopted by capitalists in Ming Dynasty.”

Chen Yuanyuan couldn't bear it and said, "But these black people are really pitiful."