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    Yuegang!

    Located in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, after the opening of the sea in Longqing, after decades of development, it has gradually become a place where "ships gather together, merchants gather together", "farmers and merchants are mixed, traveling overseas is like a market, all day and night are supplied by the sea, and all entertainment is barbarian production"  The only foreign trade port in Ming Dynasty.

    The main reason why Yuegang is in its current situation is that in 1567 AD, Emperor Longqing decided to implement the New Deal after he ascended the throne. Tu Zemin, the governor of Fujian, took the opportunity to propose the "law to eliminate barbarian trafficking", paving the way for Fujian to develop maritime trade!

    After a battle with the courtiers, Emperor Longqing finally allowed the wealthy shipping merchants at that time to "sell goods from the east to the west", which was regarded as the beginning of ocean trade in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

    Originally, the imperial court initially chose Meiling in Zhao'an for trade, but later changed it to Haicheng. From then on, Yuegang became the only legal starting port for maritime trade in the Ming Dynasty.

    In the original history, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Jing and his son were in a confrontation with the Qing army on the coast of southern Fujian. The battle lasted for nearly 40 years, and the war inevitably affected Yuegang.

    In order to control the Zheng Group, the Manchu Qing Dynasty implemented "relocation and sea ban" along the coast. The Haicheng area was classified as "abandoned land". As a result, the prosperous Yuegang shipping and trade gradually declined. From then on, Yuegang flourished for hundreds of years in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.  , came to an end, and the status of the commercial port was replaced by the Xiamen Port that later emerged.

    When Yuegang was at its most prosperous, Spanish merchants¡¯ ¡°Manila Galleons¡± continuously transported Ming Dynasty commodities from Fujian Yuegang to the distant port of Acapulco in Mexico, America.

    During that time, whenever a large sailing ship arrived at the port of Acapulco, Mexico, a grand market was held there. The cheap and high-quality raw silk and silk of the Ming Dynasty were very popular and sold well.

    So much so that Mexican silk weaving factories once relied on raw silk from China to maintain production. In 1637, a silk weaving factory in Mexico that used raw silk from China as raw material had 14,000 workers.

    This shows how huge the amount of raw silk shipped to Mexico was. According to statistics from later historians, the amount of silver flowing into China from the Americas at that time could reach about 13,000 tons, which was nearly half of the silver production in the Americas at that time.

    However, in this timeline changed by Zhu Youxiao, the glory of Yuegang will once again set off an unparalleled climax, because the products of the Ming Royal Trading Company will no longer be those cheap raw silk, folk silk, and Ming Dynasty silk.  Mass-produced folk kiln porcelain!

    On the opening day of the Ming Dynasty Royal Trading Company, all the merchants in Yuegang were stunned by the goods of the Royal Trading Company, especially those from Europe. They looked at the full-length mirrors as tall as a person, the exquisite glassware, and the magnificent officials.  Kiln porcelain, Suzhou-woven silk as smooth as a girl's skin, eyes full of hungry wolves!

    "Oh God! I must have arrived in heaven. How can the goods here be so exquisite? These things can only be created by the hand of God!"

    This is the most common evaluation of the goods of the Royal Trading Company by European businessmen, but since it is a Pok¨¦mon created by the hand of God, the price is naturally as unattainable as God!

    A dressing mirror costs 50,000 taels of silver, a small mirror costs at least 1,000 taels, glassware starts at 5,000 taels of silver, a piece of fine silk woven in Suzhou costs 10,000 taels, and official kiln porcelain costs less than 100,000 taels of silver. Don¡¯t even touch it!

    Don't be too expensive for this, and don't even mention bargaining. No matter you are a count or a duke in Europe, no matter you are a noble or a pirate captain, as long as you mention bargaining, those smiling clerks will immediately become stern.  Get up!

    "Do you know where these objects come from? Our great emperor, the Ming Dynasty, wants to show you the pity of you uncivilized people and what it means to be a natural treasure. How dare you bargain for this treasure? You are all over the earth.  Go around, no matter in Europe, America, or Africa, where have you seen this thing? It must be expensive, but there are cheap ones! When you go out and turn left, you will find bargains!"

    Of course, the gangs do not know what the earth is, what porridge is in Europe, the Americas, and Africa, but these lines are well -made. As long as they are suitable, just throw these lines out!

    But although the guys didn¡¯t know the meaning, they could tell from the looks on the faces of the Western fans who heard these words that those guys were scared to death!

    In the eyes of Europeans, Ming Dynasty is indeed a rich country, but they also keenly discovered that Ming Dynasty did not seem to care about the outside world, so that most Europeans thought that Ming Dynasty people did not understand the world!

    But when words like the earth, Europe, America, and Africa came out of a young boy¡¯s mouth, those Europeans immediately realized that Ming¡¯s understanding of the world far exceeded theirs.??Imagine!

    Especially when Cao Ling led two thousand Guards cavalry into Yuegang, all the Europeans who still had a slight contempt for the Ming Dynasty put away their arrogance!

    Look at this cavalry. Except for their horses, they are not as tall as those in Europe and America. The rest of them, whether in equipment or temperament, show that they are a powerful cavalry!

    Especially after hearing that this cavalry force of only 2,000 men had just killed 10,000 Japanese pirates and built the enemy's corpses into a high mound to show off their achievements, all the Europeans in Yuegang looked at them with amazement.  With obvious fear!

    This time, Cao Ling led his people all the way from Suzhou to Yuegang. Along the way, he made detailed records of the roads, climate, customs and customs along the way. At the same time, he also tested the Guards cavalry's ability to run long distances over long distances, and especially the musketry.  And artillery, tested for use in wet conditions!

    After arriving at Yuegang, in addition to showing off his military power, Cao Ling also did another important thing, which was to publish a "Ming Empire Royal Guard Army Purchase List"!

    In this list, there are war horses from Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, high-quality iron ore from India, cinchona tree species from the Americas, as well as various machinery, ships, gunsmiths, various military personnel and scientific researchers, etc.!

    The most exciting thing for those Europeans is that at the end of the list, it is marked that all items will be settled with the goods of the Royal Commercial House, and the transaction location is set in Tianjin!

    This time, the European merchants who came to Yuegang spent all their last taels of silver and bought much less goods than before, just to take away a few goods from the Ming Dynasty Royal Trading Company!

    However, these profit-seeking guys who want money rather than their lives know one thing very well. When ordinary goods are shipped to Europe, they will make money, but when the goods of the Ming Royal Merchant Company are shipped to Europe, it will cause a sensation across Europe and bring them great consequences.  Not only is it a huge amount of money, but it is also an unparalleled reputation and honor!

    When dozens of large sailing ships left Moon Harbor and headed for distant Europe and America, Moon Harbor also gathered thousands of skilled shipbuilders and enough wood to build hundreds of large ships!

    These people and materials will be transported to Nanjing, because under Zhu Youxiao's will, the Nanjing Shipyard has been reactivated. However, due to hundreds of years of desolation, there is a serious shortage of craftsmen and shipbuilding materials, and these southeastern maritime merchants are not  Short!

    Under Zhu Youxiao's policy of using a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, Southeast maritime merchants also understood one thing. The little emperor in Beijing definitely has the power to control everything in the Southeast. Resistance will only bring destruction, so since they cannot resist  , then surrender!

    Starting at the same time as craftsmen and wood, there is also the five million two silvers escorted by Li Jinzhong.

    In the first year of the Ming Dynasty, after experiencing the turmoil for more than half a year, it finally calmed down when the autumn wind blew up!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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