Chapter 337: Turning a corner

Jiang Feng knew that when he arrived in Incheon, North Korea, the court had not made any major reactions yet, and the Beijing Merchants Group and the master behind them really made great contributions.

On the one hand, the economy of the Ming Dynasty had prosperous commerce and handicrafts, and on the other hand, the local land annexation was becoming more and more powerful. Moreover, the consequences of this land annexation were not to generate a large number of homeless people, but to change the bankrupt farmers into their own tenants and serfs, and strengthen the relationship between personal dependence.

After the establishment of the reclamation manor outside the pass, although the profits inside were huge, the amount of labor required was too huge. If he migrated inside the pass, this was a refugee who had been extremely taboo in all dynasties, and the reclamation manor was still a semi-public situation now.

Moreover, farmers with extremely strong local concepts would not consider going outside the pass, which is still described as a bitter and cold place, so slaves became the biggest need. The imperial court's ban on seas was placed there, and it was still possible for various wealthy families to go to sea to do some business. If they sent troops to plunder slaves everywhere, they would think they had lived long. If someone sued him, it would be too much to behead him and exterminate the clan.

However, Jiang Feng's abnormality appeared, and he was very brave. In the eyes of these people, he ran from Dengzhou, which had a good management, to the remote countryside of North Korea for no reason. He thought that after that, he would be a mountain king, but no one expected that the person would continue to do it on the sea and expanded the big deal of slave trading, which was almost set up to reclaim the manor.

Although the capital commerce troupe and Jiang Feng also had conflicts of interest, for the source of this slave labor, the nobles and officials behind the capital troupe tried their best to cover it up. Anyway, for the Ming Dynasty court, the most important thing was always the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty itself, and everything overseas was intricate.

The above can also be said to the contrary. Jiang Feng also needs the existence of the Beijing Merchant Group now, and many things still need to be transported and exported by inland people. In this way, they can at least be obtained through silver and trade, rather than being completely disastrous and formed a closed state for themselves. Since this is the case, Jiang Feng has to be a little polite to the people of the Beijing Merchant Group, so these merchants of high-level levels are not afraid of Jiang Feng, but dare to argue a few words.

Xia Qingjiao's residence on the island has now been cleaned up by the guards of the Jiang family army and used as a conference hall. However, it is not a discussion at all, but a quarrel. Although Chen Lei looked like a teacher, he almost slapped the table with Jiang Feng at this time. Zhang Liang and the guards on the side forgot to get angry, but they felt quite amused and crying. The wealth thing is actually so powerful that these merchants are not afraid of anything.

Jiang Feng felt a headache now. He was angry at the time, so he sent someone to deliver letters. However, when he came to Damen Island, he found that only about one thousand people could sell. The Xia family was also valuable naval resources and manpower base for him. Of course, he could not just let them go out casually. Now he couldn't go to Zhejiang to grab some ships from the poor to the merchant group. Although Jiang Feng knew that his moral values ​​were not good people, if he really plundered innocent Han people as slaves, he would be a beast.

On the wall of the meeting hall, according to the rules of the Jiang family army, there are charts placed. After continuous improvement by the maritime merchants and white people, the charts in East Asia now have a similar outline. Jiang Feng bets on it, but he saw an area.

Thinking about it, suddenly stretched out his hand and slapped the table hard, shouting there:

"Stop quarrel!"

The room immediately became quiet. At this time, the businessmen who were unwilling to do so had their brains cleared up. I remembered that the person in front of me was a murderer who could not blink. Could it be that he was angry and ready to kill someone? I was all over my heart.

Jiang Feng first said something to his guards, and then asked:

"Everyone, have you brought enough money this time?"

Everyone felt relieved and nodded repeatedly. This time they thought there would be a large population, and each family brought a lot of money. When Jiang Feng saw the reaction of the people around him, he smiled and said:

"Then please help me to provide all the supply of Jiang's fleet. I will definitely give you enough staff and will never let you go empty-handed!"

After saying this, the merchants were a little confused, but replenishing supplies was a very simple thing for them and it was not difficult. However, Jiang Feng's fleet was all warships, and there was no legal component now, so they could only replenish them on the island of Damen and did not dare to go directly to the mainland to replenish supplies.

Seeing the merchants agree, Jiang Feng just clasped his fists and promised:

"Everyone is here to stay for only one day at most. I will give you a reply and give away the guests!"

When the merchants walked out of the yard in a daze, they watched a few foreigners wearing Jiang Family Army naval uniforms rushed towards the house.

In the current Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Revenue Department is said to be the most wealthy department in the world. The officials who work in it are all very greasy and comfortable. However, they have been a little worried for more than half a year. All the yamen in the Ming Dynasty have basically followed the examples, without any original things, and the officials do not have much innovative spirit. If there are no eunuchs and cabinet chief assistants who want to innovate - such as Liu Jin and Zhang Juzheng, these officials will never take any initiative to innovate and improve efficiency.

The reason why it remains unchanged is that there are no new changes. Over the past hundred years, except for the increasing taxes provided by industry and commerce in the world, the rest are as follows the practices decades ago.

However, the officials in charge of grain knew that the capital and the northern Zhili had reduced their dependence on grain transportation, because there was a large amount of grain for sale in Tianjin Pacific, and the price was even cheaper than those transported from the south. They also knew about the cultivation of manors.

However, no one expected that such a situation would occur. Various productions of the reclamation manors quickly formed a price advantage, and the quantity was not low.

The official grain of the canal alone cannot meet the actual needs of the north, and the shortage must be solved through purchase. Many grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River make a living by this. A large number of private grain evade tax cards in the name of canal transportation. At the end of the canal, merchants in Tongzhou distributed them everywhere.

However, the same large amount of grain outside the Guandi takes the shipping route and has a considerable price advantage when getting ashore in Tianjin. Moreover, the power group behind the reclaimed farmland has more direct and greater influence on the grain merchants in Beidi.

Some grain merchants in Jiangnan have gone bankrupt, and some officials in Jiangnan have complained. The benefits generated by the grain transportation have long formed an interest group in the central and localities of the court (such as officials who eat the loss of the grain transportation), and it is a very large interest group. However, the food (called sea grain) from the Tianjin sanitation office is not a vegetarian. In the court, public opinion offensives have emerged in places where they can exert influence.

What is said about grain trading should focus on the wealth of the court. This wealth means that the food of the family is cheaper, which should be bought by the one. Of course, using slaves as labor force, the crops raised in the fertile soil of the Northeast have almost no cost except the price of seeds. Moreover, relying on the natural water system transportation system outside the customs, the cost of sea transportation is cheaper than that of canal transportation.

Now the officials in the court are vaguely divided into two factions, but this is not a political faction, but the so-called "southern grain" and "northern grain", also known as the dispute between the rivers and seas. The Shanghai faction is basically the faction of the Beijing Merchants Group, while the River faction is a firm supporter of the canal transportation.

Both sides are deeply rooted in powerful officials, and no one can afford to offend them. The Ministry of Revenue is trapped in it and is in a dilemma.

In addition to food matters, the officials in charge of horse administration were surprised to find that some horses began to flow into the pass outside the pass, and the horses, which had always been embarrassed, began to ease.

The problems encountered by various yamen in the capital were strange. For example, the yamen runners of the Shuntian Prefecture and relevant personnel from the Wucheng Military and Masjids were found to have increased the proportion of Korean slaves in the homes of the capital and officials, and it was also a fashion. Whoever does not raise a few Korean slaves, the proportion of Koreans in the market outside the West City has gradually increased...

The hierarchy of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce began to loosen a little, and officials began to quarrel over the interests of businessmen in the front or backstage and began to divide into factions.

The Port of Manila in Luzon is a natural good harbor. Since the Spanish established their colonies here, although it was too far from Europe, the Spanish soldiers and residents who came here all complained that they were honored to be exiled. However, their status here is quite important. A large number of Spanish ships transporting South American supplies regarded this place as a transit station.

Then either transport the goods on the ship back to Spain, or exchange the gold and silver plundered in the Americas in Southeast Asia for Chinese goods, and then traffic them back to Europe.

Therefore, Spain also retained nearly 1,000 soldiers, five gunships of about 200 tons, and built a fort at the port of Manila as a defense. The number of one thousand people can be regarded as neglected figures in the wars between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia.

But the Spanish thought this was enough. You should know that in the 15th century, the five hundred Spanish people defeated the troops of the Inca Empire in the South American, which had tens of thousands of people. The locals in the South Ocean would not have been much more powerful in combat.
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