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This huge benefit even led to the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutch and British purchasing raw silk from Chinese merchants and then transporting them to Japan for sale, earning the range trade price difference and making a big profit. In order to monopolize such huge profits, several countries even fought hard.

At this time, the silver mineral output in the Americas decreased, and Japan's silver output became the highest in the world. For the Ming Dynasty, which had a large demand for import of silver, transporting silk to Japan and then transporting silver back or gold and copper back to the Ming Dynasty, this was a huge profit of several times of profit.

The Portuguese in Macau alone sold more than 5,000 dan of raw silk to Japan in the eleventh year before Japan's lockdown, earning more than 3 million taels of silver and earning more than 2 million.

The Spaniards in Manila, Luzon, even sold the Chinese raw silk purchased in Manila, South China Sea to Japan for sale.

At the beginning, the Dutch reached an agreement with Zheng Zhilong. The Dutch ordered 140,000 jin of raw silk, 500,000 jin of sugar, 100,000 jin of syrup, and 500,000 jin of silk and silk from Zheng Zhilong every year, and paid for 300,000 jin of pepper and some cash silver. The purchased raw silk and other goods were also sold to Japan.

During the same period, the Ming Dynasty Maritime Merchants still had nearly 100 large merchant ships to Japan to sell raw silk. Japan's demand for raw silk in China was astonishing.

Now, Japan is closed to the country, and most countries cannot trade with them. The supply of goods will decrease, demand will only be higher, and trade profits will also be higher.

The Ming Dynasty's navy fleet recovered Taiwan and the Mirror of Fujing, and now there is a large gap in the market for trade with Japan. The establishment of the Ming Dynasty East India Company quickly made up for this vacancy and further showed a stronger position. It regards trade with Japan as its own forbidden body, and is domineering and not allowed to interfere with others.

On the one hand, Japan began to close its borders, while Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries were driven out of this market, followed by the powerful Ming East India Company. Many people were unwilling to give up.

Japan was originally hostile to China. In the past, it could still be secretly trafficked without retreat. Now, Japan is in retreat. Except for Chinese businessmen like Zheng Zhilong who have relationships in Japan, others cannot get in at all. In the past, there were also countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands that competed vigorously to buy raw silk from Chinese merchants. Now these people have been driven away, leaving only this newly opened East India company.

Especially in this company, there are many shareholders, who are the largest raw silk producers in the Ming Dynasty. A large share of the famous lake silk in the Ming Dynasty is occupied by these shareholders. Now the East India Company directly orders raw silk from those big silk merchants and then ships it to Japan. Others want to sell silk, but the channels and volume are fewer.

Even if they have silk, they can only sell it to the hands of the Ming East India Company in the coastal ports, or ship it to Taiwan. They can sell it at a higher price. As for smuggling to Japan, Japanese anti-smuggling soldiers are not afraid, but they can't get around the Ming Navy at the sea. Who doesn't know that the two major shareholders of the East India Company are the immediate bosses of the Navy.

Many maritime merchants had to stop selling private goods to Japan and switched to the Southeast Ocean to traffic silk, tea, porcelain, sugar and other goods. The voyage was longer and the profits decreased. However, after the Netherlands, Portugal and others withdrew from Taiwan, these Western barbarians lost the main source of Chinese goods, so they could only rely on the Ming maritime merchants to transport goods. The price of goods rose a lot for a while. This made up for the mood of Chinese maritime merchants.

At this time, Sihai Bank began to provide large loans to those maritime merchants, allowing them to increase their shipping volume, increase their cargo volume, and make more profits. Although the interest rate of these commercial loans is not low, relatively speaking, maritime trade is a high-profit industry. As long as there is funds, it is not a problem to recover the capital.

What's more, after the Ming naval fleet emerged and defeated several Western barbarian fleets one after another. Now the sea in the South Ocean is much safer. As long as the flags issued by the Ming navy were hung, no pirates dared to move. On the sea near China, the Ming navy was escorted, and on the sea near the Nanyang islands, there were also Western barbarian fleets that were in urgent need of Chinese goods.

Several large shipyards have started construction in Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang at the same time. The new ships they launched are European-style large sailboats, which are larger than traditional Chinese merchant ships. They have changed hard sails to soft sails, which are faster and load more. They can even be equipped with good firepower and have self-defense capabilities.

As soon as the new ship types of these shipyards were launched, they immediately attracted the attention of many maritime merchants who received loans. Many merchants began to pay deposits in advance and began to order this new type of maritime ship.

At the same time, Taiwan is also recruiting large numbers of immigrants. Some Taiwanese governments came to the mainland to recruit immigrants to military farms, and some Taiwanese development companies came to recruit workers and miners in large quantities.

After a period of fermentation, the coastal provinces finally sparked a craze for immigration to Taiwan. Countless poor people finally believed that Taiwan was an undeveloped treasure island, with fertile land everywhere, and roe deer and scoop fish. When they went there, they could get a fertile land and a piece of land of their own. The climate there was a suitable place, just like Fujian, neither cold nor remote, nor even scary and fierce. The Jianlu Tartar barbarians lived in the wild.

Moreover, I can get tax exemption for three years after I go there, and even if I register, I don’t even have to pay the shipping fee.

When some of the people who had passed in advance and came back soon and wanted to move the whole family to continue to happen, there were even many new rumors. Taiwan is called the Golden Island, saying that there is gold everywhere, and everyone goes there to hunt for gold.

Every day, countless ships go out to sea along the coast, including those organized by the Taiwan government, as well as those organized by the coastal provinces, and many of them organized by the East India Taiwan Development Company.

Later, in addition to those official large ships, more ships appeared. Many fishermen even did not fish and switched to Taiwan to transport immigrants. Every day, hundreds of ships traveled to and from the straits at sea.

Before the Chinese New Year, only more than a thousand people immigrated to Baodao in mainland China, but less than two months after the Chinese New Year, more than 100,000 immigrated to the island. Most of them were employees of company hired by development companies and paid salaries, reclaiming land or mining.

There are many other families who immigrated to the farm and reclaim land. They divided a large piece of land for them to be reclaimed, and they were their own, which was a good condition such as three years of tax exemption.

A few others believed the rumors about Golden Island and came to take the risk of gold hunting. Among the earliest people who dreamed of making money, a few of them were lucky enough to find gold mines or Golden Sha River on the island, attracting more people.

The Taiwan Strait is extremely popular. Penghu's transit station has quickly become an extremely prosperous transit port, with countless new shops and warehouses built. Various kinds of commercial goods are constantly transported from the mainland. Even the Chician area has a larger expansion space on land, and it has quickly surpassed the Taiwan City and Dayuan Town on Dayuan Island. People come every day, and news of people discovering gold mines every day. Every day, there are also those who bring their families to their families just to get a piece of honest people from the government.

Liu Jun saw this change in Taiwan. This is the power of capital. If it weren't for the re-export demand for Japanese trade, I'm afraid that Taiwan wouldn't have paid attention to it. It's still a deserted island.

But now, this is a prosperous re-export port, and Liu Jun's intervention has led to a large amount of capital investment in development, attracting countless immigrants.

March is coming. The Ming East India Company is in full swing with Japan's trading business. The goods shipped from the Ming Dynasty to Taiwan are mainly raw silk, as well as Chinese goods such as tea, porcelain, linen, sugar, deer skin, etc., as well as peppers, spices, etc. purchased from Nanyang. After the goods of this ship were transported to ports such as Hirado in Japan, the silver part of the transaction was exchanged into gold, brass, sulfur, lacquerware, etc., and then transported back to China.

Among them, silver is directly transferred to Sihai Bank, and the bank directly issues silver notes to the company that are exchanged from various places. The company then uses these notes to purchase various Ming-made goods to branch merchants in various places, as well as purchasing pepper, spices and other goods sold from Nanyang.

Liu Jun asked the bank to melt the silver received and then cast copper into silver dollars to exchange for silver notes and silver dollar coupons. During this period, Liu Jun also asked Sihai silver dollars to lend out a large number of loans, which were all deposit parts that banks used to use interest in various places to attract depositors to store.

Liu Jun set a deposit-to-loan ratio for Sihai Bank, with the total amount of loans not exceeding 40% of the deposits, and the bank's loans are basically commercial loans. They are given to those commercial banks and merchants with relatively strong interests and high returns.

At the same time, Liu Jun also asked the bank to print silver dollar coupons. Although Liu Jun made the bank claim to be a silver dollar coupon per dollar, and could exchange one dollar in the bank at any time. But in fact, Liu Jun was over-issuing silver dollar coupons. For each dollar reserve, Liu Jun printed two dollar coupons.

In this way, Liu Jun was quickly swallowing the money. Liu Jun knew that as long as the silver dollar coupons could be exchanged at any time, people would get used to using silver dollar coupons over time, and would not often exchange them for heavier components and carry inconvenient silver coins. Just like silver notes with larger denominations, silver notes were originally equivalent to a bank deposit slip, and they could exchange deposits at any time. However, most of the time, because of the credit and convenience of Sihai Bank, people were more accustomed to directly paying and carrying and storing the silver notes as currency.

Because of this situation, the more depositors and the more deposits, the more money Liu Jun Kexin can use to lend. By the same token, the more capital Liu Jun has and the more reserves he has, the more silver dollar coupons he can issue, the more money the people can withdraw money at the same time, and it is impossible for them to ask for exchange for the silver dollar coupons they have in their hands at the same time.

As long as the scale is larger, the smaller the risk of a run.

Using other people's money to make money, using one dollar to turn two dollars or even more money is the real technique of turning stones into gold. However, if you want to play this method, in addition to having enough financial acumen, you also have enough strength, economic and status, otherwise, everyone wants to grab such a cow.

Liu Jun believes that although he has made more rapid progress, considering that today's era is the last generation of the Ming Dynasty, he has the extraordinary trust and status of the emperor, so it is okay to make more rapid progress and take risks.

In March, the Ming East India Company, Sihai Bank, Jiangnan Money House, Taiwan Development Company and other aspects were developing well. The Beiyang Navy, Artillery Brigade, etc. also improved and made progress.

Just as the emperor had already begun to urge him to go to war, Nanyang finally responded.

Just as Liu Jun had expected, whether it was Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, or Portugal, when they suffered a big loss in China, they did not hurry to rush to the north to take revenge.

Just as Liu Jun learned from the European mercenaries and consultants under his command over the past few days, Europe has become a mess. It is the time of a great melee in Europe. The civil war in Germany has gradually evolved into a religious war in Europe, led by the Holy Roman Emperor and the Catholic princes. They united Spain with the support of the Pope and Poland, and fought with the German Protestant princes. They joined forces with Denmark, Sweden, France. They received support from Britain, the Netherlands, and Russia to form a Protestant alliance. The two sides fought unevenly.

After twenty years of fighting, this war has entered a melee in Europe, and it is really your side that we will finish the show. Although this war has been fought until now, the Holy Roman Emperor and Spain have won several consecutive stages of war, but they have consumed too much strength in this bad battle. The old Holy Roman and Spain are destined to be unable to support it. France, the Netherlands, and Sweden are gradually showing their overlord power in this melee.

Many of Liu Jun's mercenaries, such as Nicholas, were all Germans. The civil war destroyed their homes. These people eventually left their hometowns and came to the east to take risks.

It was precisely because of this chaos that the Dutch were able to stand independent from Spain, and later they signed a twelve-year suspension agreement, demanding a truce between each other and not attacking their respective overseas colonies.

After several months of silence in the Ming Dynasty, Britain, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and other countries finally responded.

They all sent envoys to Fujing to meet and negotiate with Liu Jun.

Europe has become a batter, and it has to continue fighting until one side finally collapses and the new overlord replaces the old overlord. Before Europe can get the result, and I don’t know how many years it will take to fight, whether it is the Netherlands, Britain, Spain or Portugal. They don’t want to have another big battle in East India.

The war in Europe has made military expenditures huge, and all countries have to rely on the benefits of overseas trade to continue the war.

The Ming Empire was not the Arab sultanate countries in the South China Sea, especially the attack of the Ming Empire was fierce and fierce. Their strength was greatly damaged. Not to mention the current European war, even if there were no wars in Europe, they were unable to assemble a fleet in East India that could fight the Ming army in decisively.

What's more, they were in East India to make money, not to conquer the world.

Therefore, when Liu Jun defeated their fleet and sent someone to tell them that they were willing to trade with various countries, they hesitated for a long time and were still willing to return to the negotiating table.

After a month of negotiations, the parties finally reached an agreement.

Finally, the Gengchen Peace Treaty was drafted. The treaty stipulated that, 1. Each country would pay 10 million taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty, and each country would compensate the warships, merchant ships and cargoes captured by the Ming Dynasty, and both sides would offset it.

Second, Portugal ceded Tampasi on the north coast of the Strait of Malacca to the Ming Dynasty as a trading port, and the Ming Dynasty could garrison troops in Tampasi. Third, the captured personnel of various countries were immediately released, but those who voluntarily stayed to live in the Ming Dynasty or accept employment in the Ming Dynasty were allowed to choose freely.

Fourth, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Britain apologized for their robbery of the Ming Dynasty, killing the Ming Dynasty and overseas people, and established monuments and stones in Manila, Batavia, Malacca and other places in South China Ocean.

Fifth, trade and trade. Merchant ships from the five countries, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom can go to any port in the Ming Dynasty for trading, and merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty can also go to the ports to which the four countries have trade and trade. The five countries have formulated the same tariffs and are not allowed to increase tariffs at will.

Sixth, when merchant ships from all countries go to the Ming Dynasty to trade, they must abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty. All countries are not allowed to build fortresses, houses, or garrison troops within the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Seventh, Japan and North Korea are exclusive traders for the Ming East India Company. Merchant ships from various countries are not allowed to go to Japan and North Korea for trade, and can only trade within the Ming Dynasty.

Eighth, the five countries are not allowed to plunder merchant ships from other four countries at sea and attack the territories of other four countries. If there is any violation, the other four countries will jointly attack them.

Ninth, all five countries can open commercial halls on the territory of the other four countries, but they cannot build their own houses and castles, nor can they station troops to carry weapons, so they can only be used for commercial purposes. However, the country where the commercial hall is located has the responsibility to protect the staff of other countries' business centers.

The main content of the entire agreement is these nine articles. The specific agreement is written in the text of five countries. Although the four countries are not very willing to have many of the terms, especially Liu Jun's request to ced the island of Tampassi from Malacca occupied by Portugal. Not only did Portugal be dissatisfied, but other countries were also dissatisfied.

The Portuguese had a premature decline, and countries had long coveted the treasure land of Malacca that he occupied for a long time. Especially now, the Netherlands, which is increasingly powerful, has always wanted to seize Malacca. But now the Ming Dynasty has made a move. Although it only takes a corner on the north coast of the Strait of Malacca, it is also unpleasant.

Tambasi is Singapore in later generations. The place is not big, which is as big as Xiangshan County, including the sacred mirror at this time. However, its location is unique and guarding the Strait of Malacca. Liu Jun insisted on making this request, mainly to insert the Ming East India Company into the South Ocean. A little bit larger, with tens of thousands of miles of sea area, the rulers and ministers of the Ming Dynasty would not be able to see it. But if used as a trading port, it is very valuable, and even helpful for hindering the Netherlands, Spain and other countries.

All countries were dissatisfied, but now the Ming Dynasty was the victorious country. With the attitude of cooperation and win-win, they finally barely reached an agreement. Portugal did not want to agree, but unfortunately, four to one. He had to agree even if he did not agree.

Among the other articles, the most controversial one is that the Ming Dynasty wanted to monopolize the trade rights between Japan and North Korea. This article made them dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty to travel to Southeast Asia to occupy a corner of Malacca. However, Liu Jun's attitude became more and more tough in this regard. He directly ended the negotiations several times, and finally forced them to agree. He lost Japan and North Korea, but he still obtained a broader market for China.

As for other apology, they were all trivial. They also accepted the goods they had seized as compensation. After all, they did not expect that the Ming army would vomit back again. As for their employees and soldiers who were originally their employees and soldiers who went to Ming Kingdom to be mercenaries, it didn't matter.

It took more than a month before and finally reached an agreement. From now on, the five countries lived together peacefully, traded and won the mutual cooperation.

After the agreement written in the five countries was signed with the names of representatives of the five countries, everyone shook hands together and each showed satisfactory smiles. Liu Jun also smiled. With this agreement, the few countries would not have to fight to the death on the surface. Orderly competition is always a good thing. The maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty could go out and go further, and merchants from various countries could also come in. Merchants make money, and the court also set up customs to collect taxes and profits. The prosperity of business will inevitably make many people profit.

On the day after signing the agreement, Liu Jun asked Fu Shan to order Jiutoudi to prepare for the entire army to return to Jingxiang.

For Liu Jun, everything that should be arranged has been laid out, and the coastal areas will slowly develop.

It is April now, and the ice in the north is about to thaw, and the emperor is also impatient.

At this time, we will return to Hubei and do our last rectification, and then we will officially send troops to Liaodong.

When he was using the power of the bandits to defeat the bandits, Liu Jun boasted to Chongzhen that he wanted to lead his troops to cross the sea to the east, open up a second battlefield, and break the attack with the Qing army. During this period, he was stirring up the wind and rain in the south, and the strength of the Jiutiao was greatly improved. He also had a newly built Beiyang Navy and Artillery Brigade. With these two troops, Liu Jun felt that he would have more hope when he went to Liao again next time.

After calculating the time, his child is about to be born, but his father is still away and has not been at home for even a year. Thinking about the tens of thousands of soldiers who have not returned home since the fall, he feels a little guilty, but the soldiers are indeed like this. They have lived a pretty good life in the winter and spring in the south.

Liu Jun suddenly wanted to leave, and Zhang Guowei, Zheng Zhilong, Xiong Wencan, Li Shuchu, He Tengjiao and other southern officials were still a little reluctant and unaccustomed. Everyone was even used to having a great god like Zhennan Hou, carrying tens of thousands of troops in the south. They were used to the nine-headed flags flying, the Chu army suppressed bandits everywhere in the south, the visits of their fleets one by one, and the great changes brought to the south by the marquis.

Suddenly, Zhennan Hou was leaving, taking away his Nine-Headed Bird Flag, his fleet, his troops, and his cannons. Everyone felt empty and seemed to be backbone.

"Send a few more warships to defend the Lion City, build more turrets, and don't lose them. That's a matter of finally getting it." Liu Jun explained to Zheng Zhilong when he left.

"Please don't worry, Master, I will let Zhibao keep an eye on there, and I will never lose it."

"That's good." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!