After the establishment of Huaxing Company, it raised a total of more than 7 million taels of silver.

This can be called a giant, with the company's extremely strong capital. In the past six months, Huaxing Company urgently needs to expand, and has invested in the construction of new industries such as leather production and cigarette factories, as well as the large-scale acquisition of Japanese raw silk, which cost a huge amount of money.

Within half a year, Huaxing Company spent nearly half of its funds but did not make much profit, which made many shareholders feel worried and depressed.

The shareholders of each company, at least tens of thousands of taels, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars, are hard-won. Seeing that nearly half of the money has been spent, the company has not yet achieved results, and the company is in serious losses, it is inevitable that it will be shaken.

This made Zhao Ming feel extremely stressed, and the key to success or failure is the expo, so Zhao Ming attaches great importance to the expo.

In order to stabilize the shareholders' minds, not only did businessmen from all over the world come to the expo, but shareholders and exhibitors also arrived.

In recent times, the most common content in Fuxing newspapers is the introduction of the expo. Duke Zhao and senior executives of Donghai Town often appear, and the coverage of the expo is even more than the length. Recently, a war between the Ming and Qing dynasties occurred in Jingzhou.

After Emperor Longwu moved to Changsha, he changed Changsha to Xijing and set it as a temporary residence. Longwu was in Changsha and lived in Hunan and Hunan. He had his favorite minister He Tengjiao, Du Yinxi, who was in Changde on the left, Ganzhou ten thousand yuan, and Guangzhou Su Guansheng behind him, both of whom supported Longwu.

This gave Emperor Longwu the opportunity to show his ambitions. What Zhao Ming and the Qing Dynasty did not expect was that Longwu launched the battle to recapture Jingzhou shortly after he moved to Changsha.

Like Zhao Ming, Longwu knew that the Qing Dynasty occupied a vast territory. If the Qing Dynasty was allowed to rest, it would only increase the strength of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In this case, Zhao Ming chose to reform society, improve productivity, and use the improvement of productivity and technology to shorten the gap, and even surpass the Qing Dynasty.

Longwu did not have the knowledge of Zhao Ming, so he could only see that as well as his cultivation and rest, the Ming Dynasty would only be distanced from the Qing Dynasty, so he chose another way, and continued to fight against Shu Han, and took advantage of the unprepared Manchus to launch the battle to recapture Jingzhou.

Of course, in this battle, the Longwu court did not fight blindly, but had its own strategic purpose.

Jingzhou is the center of Chu, the north bank of the Yangtze River, the south of Xiangyang, and the upper reaches of Wuchang.

Since the Qing army headed south, there have been many wars surrounding Jingzhou City, and the city has changed hands several times.

Now the Ming army in Huguang is in opposition to the Qing army on the front line of Yuezhou. If the Ming army leaves Yuezhou to seize Wuchang, the enemy in Jingzhou will inevitably encircle the Ming army's retreat, leaving the Ming army on the defensive.

After Emperor Longwu discussed with his ministers, he decided to take advantage of Daishan, Duoduo and others' deaths one after another, and the army was newly defeated and unstable, to launch a battle to recover Jingzhou.

Jingzhou is located in the upper reaches. If the Ming army obtains Jingzhou, it can take Yiling west to guard against the Qing army in Sichuan, Xiangyang north to resist the people of Henan, and finally it can seize Wuchang from the bottom and reverse the offensive and defensive situation.

In this battle in Jingzhou, Du Yinxi gathered 18 generals including Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Liu Tichun, He Zhen, Sun Shoufa, Ma Jinzhong, Hao Yaoqi, etc., with a hundred generals and an army of 150,000, and will attack Jingzhou City.

Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, the Qing Dynasty, and Geng Zhongming also raised an army from Wuchang, Xiangyang and other places, and the two sides launched a fierce battle in Jingzhou.

Zhao Ming was out of reach for this battle in Huguang, but he sent people to transport a batch of arms to the front line of Huguang. Who knew that two months later, on the eve of the fair, the court sent people to the court, saying that the firearms sent were very useful and Zhao Ming needed to provide a batch.

Zhao Ming did not agree immediately, saying that the court needed to allocate funds to order so that Donghai Town would have the strength to continue to build firearms.

This incident made Zhao Ming make another decision to put the firearms produced in the workshop at the expo, but only Mingjun towns are allowed to bid for orders.

Under the report of the "Fuxing Daily", the entire southeast coast knew about the expo. The merchants participating in the exhibition, merchants from all over the country who purchased goods, and merchants from the Ming Dynasty came to Tamsui Port one after another.

After four years of development, Tamsui Acropolis has transformed from a shanty town with earth walls and wooden fences into a big city.

However, unlike the Central Plains city, the city walls do not enclose residential and commercial areas. The city has no boundaries, which can help the expansion of the city scale and save the cost of building the city walls. The money of building the city walls is spent on other aspects.

Many of Zhao Ming's subordinates have a lot of opinions about this. The city without a wall always makes people feel uneasy and sleeping hard.

This is also a habit that Chinese people have always loved to be comfortable and use walls to surround themselves to sleep at home. Zhao Ming did not build a city wall. One is that it was expensive and not cost-effective, and the other was that he wanted to change his mentality of liking to build a wall.

Tamsui Acropolis, like the Japanese Honmaru and the Western castle, is not big. Below the city are planned residential and shop areas.

The main goods in northern Taiwan are concentrated in Tamsui City, with shops and many hotels and inns under the city, which are already very prosperous.

In order to welcome the arrival of the merchants, Zhao Ming ordered the best hotels and inns in Tamsuiwei to be booked and officials were sent to welcome and resettle, which surprised and flattered many merchants.

On December 11th, on the eve of the opening of the expo, merchants who came came to Tatanshui Port one after another.

At dusk, five Dutch armed merchant ships sailed outside Tamsui Port to attend the expo.

The Netherlands and Donghai Town have a trade treaty, and merchant ships from both sides can enter each other's ports for trade, and Zhao Ming did invite the Dutch to participate in the expo.

"Duke, the Duke of the State, came to the outside of the port for five armed merchant ships. Will they be allowed to come in?" Guo Zhong hurriedly ran over and reported to Zhao Ming.

Zhao Mingzheng discussed the expo with Chen Mingyu and others. Wen Yu raised his head and sneered: "Five five-mounted merchant ships, the Dutch are showing off their strength and threatening me. Let them in, otherwise I would think I was afraid of them."

Outside the harbor, Ming army ships came to pick them up, but Dutch merchant ships did not enter the harbor, but were just cruising outside.

On a merchant ship, the Dutchman Kaowu frowned, "Your Excellency, Duke Zhao is very confident! I heard that many merchants rushed to Tamsui, and the situation was not good for us!"

Mos on the ship didn't expect that Huaxing Company not only did not surrender, but its attitude became stronger.

Mos said calmly: "I have to admit that Zhao is very strong and we cannot conflict with him head-on, but those merchants are not our opponents. The company's ships are cruising here. I see who dares to buy Huaxing Company's goods."
Chapter completed!