Li Youtang has made a brief report in the cabinet, and now he is a formal report to Zhu Xu.

"The emperor, the current structure of Shenlong Mansion is still a seven-member management team, chairman, six major directors, and has a security bureau, arbitration bureau, commerce bureau, tax bureau, judicial bureau, inspection bureau, maritime anti-smuggling bureau and other sixteen bureaus that manage Shenlong Mansion, which is under the jurisdiction of Tianjin, Guangzhou, Gansu and Zhangjiakou counties, mainly developing foreign trade..."

"The development plan of Shenlong Mansion itself is becoming more and more mature. There are as many as thousands of merchants and chambers of commerce in its jurisdiction, both at home and abroad, and there are many people of all kinds. The annual rent alone is as high as two million, and the related taxes are as high as five million..."

"The current registered population of Shenlong Mansion has exceeded 100,000 and is still expanding rapidly. Most of them are merchants and family members, as well as Westerners are constantly pouring in, including Portugal, Spain and Jewish people..."

"There are more than 30,000 ships entering and leaving the port of Shenlong Mansion every month, of which 70% are from the Ming Dynasty, 20% are from the Netherlands, and 10% are from the others..."

"Tianjin and Guangzhou and other four counties have been basically established, and relevant institutions have successively entered and started to operate externally. Among them, Zhangjiakou and Gansu have developed rapidly, trade is booming, and import and export of goods are huge... The port of Guangzhou Prefecture has been basically completed. The Netherlands is very excited about this. There are twenty caravans registered in Guangzhou Prefecture, and there are many others. It is expected that Guangzhou alone will exceed one million in the next two years..."

"The Royal Trading Group has established six branches in the Western Yi, covering almost all major countries, Spain, the Netherlands, and England, with certain privileges, and trade is relatively smooth... The Ottoman is more resistant to trade, has a certain vigilance against our Ming Dynasty, and has a relatively slow development... Eighteen branches have been established along the sea and land coasts leading to the Western Yi and other places, mainly following the joint fleet..."

"There are more than 200 caravans registered in Shenlong Mansion, with a total of more than 3,000 merchant ships. More than 30 can be found in the ocean. The main ones are the Royal Trading Group, and most of the others are sailing in Japan, Ryukyu and the South China Sea..."

"The development of Shenlong Mansion this year is mainly to undertake the cabinet's '400 million silver plan', signing bundled contracts through large orders, selling large quantities of our Ming products, consolidating the existence and influence in some countries and places, and establishing stable and long-term trade relations..."

"Shenlongfu placed an order of 30 million stones of rice from Spain. Spain purchased weapons, ships, silk, tea, porcelain, etc. from the Ming Dynasty for 30 million, for a period of five years. Ordered 50 million grain, livestock, etc. from the Netherlands. The Netherlands placed a mixed order from our Ming Dynasty, including merchant ships, spices, tea, silk, porcelain, firearms, weapons, armor, and many cans, glass, matches, salt, etc. The number of merchant ships in England is increasing, and they proposed that

With a lot of cooperation requirements, compared with Spain, the Netherlands has better conditions, and is more eager for our Ming Dynasty orders and goods, especially warships and cannons... Although the Ottomans are more resistant to trade, they also borrowed two million silver from our Ming Dynasty. The mortgage is a piece of land 800 miles east of Morocco, surrounding the Mediterranean... France has almost no cooperation. They just want to buy our cannons and firearms. The Foreign Affairs Bureau has clearly refused..."

"Shenlong Mansion also followed the Cabinet's order to collect land nationwide. Not only the Royal Trading Group itself, but all the commercial institutions and partners involved are also helping. The land acquired has exceeded 100 million mu. Although there are various ways to pay, the financial pressure is still very high, and the reserve funds of the Royal Trading Group are basically exhausted..."

Li Youtang stood at the table, slowly reporting, as if worried that Zhu Xu would not be able to hear everything, so he deliberately said it slower.

Sun Chuanting stood beside him, his expression still, and his eyes were full of thought.

Zhu Xu sat on the chair, tapping on the table with his fingers gently.

The development of the Shenlong Mansion is basically on the track he sets, and it is also the foundation laid by Bumubutai, without major changes.

Zhu Xu didn't care about other things. Li Youtang, Sun Chuanting and others could do it well, but one thing was the only thing that happened.

That is foreign trade, which involves complex European relations. The Ming Dynasty seemed neutral when it was as transcendent as possible.

The relationship between Spain and the Ming Dynasty, as the Ming Dynasty continued to expand in Europe, especially with the Netherlands and England, and the fleet sold to the Ottomans, deeply stimulated Spain, and its intimate relationship gradually disappeared and became increasingly vigilant.

The Netherlands is extremely passionate about sea trade, but has always been subject to Spain. With the continuous approach of the Ming Dynasty, especially with the protection of the joint fleet, Spain's concerns, the security at sea is more than ten times higher than before! The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty is too rich, the Netherlands is narrow and sparsely populated, and what they do is to transfer the fortune. They now want to be the agent of the Ming Dynasty all over the world!

England was isolated overseas and destroyed Spain's joint fleet, but its strength was still very weak. It depends on Spain's face. With their interactions with the Ming Dynasty, they had the idea of ​​"simple trade". They ignored everything outside and just wanted to do business with the Ming Dynasty.

France is an arrogant Gaul chicken. Now she competes with Spain every day and fights from time to time. She is completely uninterested in the sea trade and only wants to become the overlord on land.

They are indeed mortal enemies, one is the struggle for land hegemony, and the other is the struggle between religion, that is, the old and new religions. The two sides have many allies in Europe, and the war that has lasted for many years has not yet ended, and a new war is about to come.

The Ottoman was not enthusiastic about overseas. The reason why he wanted a navy was to compete with Spain, the old rival, and expand his living space. His relationship with the Ming Dynasty was similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, and it had various obstacles to the development of the Ming Dynasty's trade army in the Ottoman country, but it did not achieve much results.

The reason why the Ottomans wanted to expand their development space was because Russia's rise was blocked from both east and west. Russia's rise was the decline of the Golden Horde, which developed on the basis of annexation of the Golden Horde.

But Russia's strength is still not strong enough, the Ottoman is extremely powerful, and Russia is difficult to advance westward. It has been repeatedly frustrated in Central Asia and other places, so it can only turn to the east.

At this time, the Mongolian tribes and various assimilated Mongolian tribes were still relatively powerful, and Russia's development in the East was not very smooth.

Russia is still a surrounded inland country, and it is difficult to contact with Western Europe and the Ming Dynasty in the East.

Zhu Xu had some ideas about Europe and the world pattern and began to prepare for some things. He needed to remind Sun Chuanting and others not to destroy his plan.

The Ming Dynasty seemed very rich because it mastered the money printing machine and the Royal Bank's years of reserves, its real national strength was very weak and could not withstand the tossing and the "Four Thousand Silver Plan" was also unsustainable. The purpose was to transfusion blood to the Ming Dynasty and slow down the rate of weakness.

Zhu Xu and Li Youtang finished speaking, looked contemplating for a moment, and said, "First point, the arms of Europe should be moderate, and the objects should be carefully selected. Second point, our ally is Spain, and it is only a business partner with the Netherlands. It is limited to military sharing and will not go further. At the right time, we must support Spain. Spain, a long-standing empire that is weak and old and immortal, can survive for one day, and can suppress our potential opponents in Europe for one day. Third point, strengthen the connection with the Ottoman, except for the most advanced firearms and other winning weapons and equipment, everything else can be sold. The powerful armed Ottoman. Ottoman... can release the blood of Europe and Russia to the greatest extent. The fourth point, take the joint fleet as a rocker, pull
Chapter completed!