"Long live my lord, I really don't know what 500 large-scale ships can transport. Silk and tea are not heavy, only porcelain is of some weight. But if 500 large-scale ships are loaded with porcelain, Europe will not be able to eat it.

Long Live Lord, you may not know that all European countries have been busy fighting wars in recent years, and they really can’t use so much silk and porcelain..."

Zheng Zhilong wore the python robe he had just received, bowed and followed Zhu Youjian, walking step by step by the water of Taiye Pond - he was going to the "Yingtai Children's Paradise" to say goodbye to his daughter Cha Gu, and from now on

Later, Tea Girl became Zhu Cihong's "child bride".

However, the richest man is very enterprising. Even if he is about to die, he still puts his own business first, so he talked to Zhu Youjian about maritime trade while walking.

The products exported by the Ming Dynasty were mainly silk, porcelain, ironware, tea, etc. Among them, silk and porcelain were the bulk, and the main markets were India, the Ottoman Empire and Europe. Because silver and gold from the Americas flowed into Europe in large quantities, the purchasing power of the European market dropped

He got up soon, and by the beginning of the 17th century, he had become the largest customer of silk and porcelain in the Ming Dynasty.

However, starting in 1618 AD, a Thirty Years War swept across Europe, involving all European countries. Due to the surge in military spending, the demand for Chinese products decreased.

Therefore, the 500 trade certificates given by Zhu Youjian are indeed a bit too much... Before the start of the Thirty Years' War, there were not 500 merchant ships loaded with porcelain and silk sailing to Europe in a year! Now!

People are busy killing people and setting fires, so do they still need porcelain and silk? Do they need to be used as urns or to wrap corpses?

Zhu Youjian stopped and looked back at Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Shaofu, whose brows were furrowed and he seemed to be thinking hard.

"Admiral Zheng," Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "Traders, do you want to communicate with each other? If you export what the Ming Dynasty has in abundance and import what the Ming Dynasty lacks, won't trade be successful? As for where to export? It doesn't have to be Europe.

No! Can’t we export it to Nanyang?”

"Long live the Lord, you don't know something," Zheng Zhilong shook his head and said, "Nanyang is vast and sparsely populated, so there is nothing to sell..."

"The land is vast and the people are sparsely populated?" Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "Admiral Zheng knows what my Ming Dynasty has so many things about?"

"I know," Zheng Zhilong nodded, "Silk, porcelain, tea."

"Wrong!" Zhu Youjian shook his head, "Nowadays, the most people in Ming Dynasty are poor people! Poor people who have no food to eat! Since there are no people in Nanyang and there are many poor people in Ming Dynasty, then I, Ming Dynasty, will export poor people to Nanyang...

Admiral Zheng, is this business profitable?"

What? Export poor people to Nanyang... and ask if it is profitable?

Zheng Zhilong didn’t even know what to say. Those poor people are all the subjects of your emperor!

Exporting people? Isn’t this too sensational?

Although there has always been slave trade in the Ming Dynasty, most of it was done privately. But now Long Live Lord wants to sell the poor people of the Ming Dynasty to Nanyang as slaves... How evil!

"Long live my Lord, this is not okay!" Zheng Zhilong shook his head repeatedly, "The native princes of Nanyang are all cruel and evil, and they don't even care about their own people, let alone the people of China who are selling the past?

"Zheng Zhilong!" Zhu Youjian couldn't listen anymore, "What nonsense are you talking about? I want to export the poor to give them a way out, not to sell them to the native princes as slaves!

If I have this idea, why would I spend so much effort to win over the Dutch? The sea in the South China Sea belongs to the Dutch, and the land will be the land where our great soldiers roam. I have formed an alliance with the Netherlands and joined forces to use the vastness of the South China Sea.

, who can defeat it?”

What do you mean? Zheng Zhilong was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Zhu Youjian was thinking - it turned out that the Emperor of Heaven was even more evil than he thought!

Emperor Chongzhen did not want to sell his people into slavery, but he wanted to join forces with the Western Yi Red-haired Dutch Kingdom to seize the territory of the Nanyang Tuwang!

I thought you were a personal trafficker, but I didn’t expect you to be a giant thief who has taken over people’s kingdoms and ruined their countries...

"Long live my lord," Zheng Zhilong frowned, knowing that the territory in Nanyang was difficult to occupy, "the Dutch are treacherous and cruel, and must not be trusted easily! Moreover, Nanyang is full of malaria and development is difficult... I am afraid that the people of the Central Plains cannot adapt, so they went

After Nanyang, it is easy to get sick and die early. Last year, I moved many hungry people from Fujian to Dayuan to open up wasteland. In just one year, nearly 20% of the immigrants got sick and died! Dayuan is close to Fujian, and even the people in Fujian can't

How much more to move the poor people of Zhongzhou to Nanyang?"

Zhu Youjian glanced at Zheng Zhilong and said to himself: When did you, the Pirate King, care about the lives of ordinary people?

Zheng Zhilong was startled by Zhu Youjian's cold eyes, and then he remembered the old saying that accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. He quickly dropped his hands and shoulders, looked at his nose and mouth, and asked his heart, looking like a virtuous minister.

Zhu Youjian put his hands behind his back and started walking again, "Zheng Zhilong, although you are from a humble background, you have never asked for a meal... and you have never seen hundreds of thousands or millions of hungry people who are desperate!"

The natural disasters you have in Fujian are comparable to the disasters in Shaanxi, and the disasters in Henan are simply incomparable! You Fujian people really have no way out, but you can still follow you as pirates, and you can still cross the ocean to Annan, go to Dayuan, and get off.

In Nanyang, you can always risk your life to find a way out!"

But I have never been a pirate... Zheng Zhilong shouted in his heart: I am just an honest maritime businessman who collects protection fees!

Zhu Youjian didn't even look at Zheng Zhilong's unjust face, and continued to educate this great pirate who didn't know how dangerous and evil people's hearts were.

"But the hungry people in Shaanxi and Zhongzhou are really desperate... Shaanxi and Zhongzhou are geographically isolated. Without me to take them, they can't even go south to Huguang and Sichuan to beg for food, let alone cross the ocean to make a living?

But do you think they would have died of hunger without me taking them with them? Impossible!"

Zhu Youjian took a deep breath, and there was a bit of fear in his tone, "They will become evil spirits! By then, they will no longer be human beings...they will be evil spirits! God will not let them live.

, they will not let the world live! So I must find a way out for them, there must be a way for them to go!

As for how many difficulties and obstacles there are on this road, 30%, 40%, 50% or more will die before they find their comfort zone... They don’t care, and I don’t care either!”

Zhu Youjian said these words, of course from the standpoint of the feudal emperor class... He will not truly realize the disasters in the previous life and the previous life. In the final analysis, it is him, the feudal emperor, and the Ming Dynasty.

Caused by this feudal dynasty!

So the solution he is coming up with now is also extremely reactionary...fill the pit of feudalism with an even more evil form of colonialism!

No food to eat?

Go abroad and grab it!

He died of illness, drowned on the road, was beaten to death by the colonial people, died in a fight with himself...Zhu Youjian didn't care!

All he cares about is whether the surviving people can help him seize the territory and whether his heirs can become overseas kings!

And he doesn’t have as many progressive ideas as his son, such as opposing Western colonization, the primary stage of capitalism, and the accumulation of capital and technology before industrialization... He doesn’t understand it at all. Although he wants to engage in colonization,

At heart he still values ​​agriculture over commerce, so he is not worried at all that profiteers from the Netherlands will ruin his business.

Because what he wants to do will not only not block the United East India Company's financial path, but will expand more markets for the United East India Company.

Zhu Youjian said to Zheng Zhilong: "As for the Dutch... what they want is completely different from what I want. What they want is industrial and commercial interests, and what I want is to support the people."

, the land of the prince. So as long as they are willing to join forces with me, the commercial cities in Southeast Asia can be developed by the United East India Company. This is much larger than the territory they occupy now! And I only want farms and manors to settle my subjects. This
Chapter completed!