"Anchor!"

As the sailors shouted, the Confucian business delegation represented by the imperial merchant Du Shouchang officially left Ningbo Port by boat.

This time, they went overseas to find partners suitable for investment and construction in the factory in the name of the emperor.

"Looking at the whole world, there are still too few countries that believe in Confucianism and Taoism. In the Southeast Asian area, most kings are called sultans. Not to mention the colonial countries established by Westerners, they also have their own culture. Therefore, it is still difficult for our Ming Dynasty to find compradors who have a common cultural identity."

At this time, in the cabin of the steamship, Du Shouchang talked to Zhu Zhiyu and his men about the difficulty of finding a partner comprador.

After Zhu Zhiyu glanced at the endless blue waves outside the cabin, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's so difficult to promote Confucianism and Taoism!"

As he said that, Zhu Zhiyu walked towards Du Shouchang and said, "Mr. Du said that he is right. Compared to the Ming Dynasty, his tolerance and acceptance of foreign cultures is not the same as our respect for those with true knowledge. For example, Matteo Ricci in the West and others are regarded as the great Confucian Confucians. Your Majesty also gave him the position of Confucian ministers. In fact, the sultans of the South China Sea and the governors of the West do not have the mind of our emperor. They are more conservative and exclude foreign cultures."

"Your Majesty once said that the Western world is a maritime civilization, and it is a robber culture at its core. It is openly promoting "love" to the whole world, but in fact it slaughtered and plundered, and did everything evil. Cultural expansion is also a barbaric act. Therefore, it is very difficult to make them obey our civilized order! In Korea, it is better to open factories in Ryukyu and Japan than to go to places like Nanyang, so my suggestion is not to go to Nanyang, but to the East."

Zhu Shunshui, who was walking with him, replied.

"Yes! But I heard that the population is densely populated in the south of China. My Ming Dynasty officials and businessmen don't go there to investigate. If Your Majesty asks, wouldn't we blame us for being ineffective?"

Du Shouchang Road.

"It's better to go to Ryukyu first and find out a few merchants to find out what the Governor of Florida in Manila is about our Ming business travel."

Zhu Zhiyu suggested.

After hearing this, Du Shouchang nodded and said, "This is a solution."

...

"Businessman Huang Dawei refused to execute the Governor's tax increase order, and committed the crime of betraying me, Folangji!"

"He is now sentenced to hang him, and his daughter is a slave, and his property is a tax-resistant fine!"

Manila.

Outside the town hall.

The official of Yifolang Machine read the verdict loudly.

At this time, Huang Dawei, a Ming businessman who was tied to a gallows, looked at Cangtian helplessly and cried.

The Ming people watching below were also very angry.

Like Huang Dawei, they were all Ming expatriates who moved here from Fujian and Guangdong.

There are many Ming expatriates in Manila.

Since the Wanli period, due to the sharp conflict between people and land in China, a large number of Ming Dynasty expatriates moved here privately.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has completely opened its seas, and with frequent domestic disasters, more people in the Ming Dynasty have moved privately to Southeast Asia.

It can be said that now, most of the residents of Manila are expatriates from the Ming Dynasty.

As mentioned earlier, the Ming Dynasty is the most advanced country in the world.

The Ming expatriates moved here were much more advanced in culture and science and technology than the Westerners, which still use looting as the main method.

Therefore, the Ming expatriates brought advanced agricultural technology, advanced commercial civilization, technological innovation, and cultural innovation here.

The Han culture, which has accumulated thousands of years of civilization, has a strong survival ability and assimilation ability in this area, which has led many natives to accept Chineseization.

However, the Folangji colonists, who were the rulers of the place, felt very troubled by the arrival of the Ming Dynasty expatriates.

On the one hand, they rely on the taxes and benefits provided by these Ming expatriates, but on the other hand, they are disgusted with the Ming expatriates' exclusion and contempt for other civilizations.

To this end, the Folangji colonists kept increasing taxes, using tax increases to increase their own interests, and thus making up for their dissatisfaction with the Ming expatriates.

The uncontrollable tax increase naturally attracted more and more dissatisfaction from the Ming Dynasty expatriates.

Huang Dawei was just one of the more radical Han people who expressed dissatisfaction.

But now he is sentenced to hang for this.

"ah!"

As the hang rope became tighter, Huang Dawei felt more and more painful.

The Governor of Folangji (Spain), Cartersey, looked at this scene with satisfaction and ordered: "Anyone who refuses to increase taxes will be hanged and executed, and every Ming people who resist taxes must be hanged!"

"In addition, the tax revenue will be increased by 10% next year! Reporting to the king means that the country's prices are low. These Ming merchants can make a lot of money by shipping freight. My Ferlang machine can completely increase taxes to gain benefits in the Far East! Let gold and silver flow continuously to our Spain!"

"Governor General, something is not good. Our merchants sent back news in Ryukyu that officials and businessmen in Ming Dynasty are inquiring about the situation in Manila, but they are afraid that they will annex Goa, Haojing, and now they will annex Myanmar."

A general named Dero suddenly came to Catersey and suddenly said.

Kosolo, the assistant officer beside Catersi, looked solemn and said, "In this way, we have to guard against them encouraging the Ming people in Manila to rebel first!"

"Since that's the case, we must first get rid of the entire Ming people in Manila to prevent accidents."

Catersey said to Cosolo.

"But what if the Emperor of Ming Dynasty launched a large-scale military force?"

Delong asked.

"We just explained that these Ming merchants launched a rebellion and we had to suppress them, and then bribe them heavily to the Ming emperor and officials. The Ming emperor was afraid that the Ming emperor would not pursue them. Moreover, the Ming country should understand that their goods also need our help to sell them. If they really want to take ruthless measures against us and kill all of us, then he would break the trade line of this thing by himself!"

Kosolo said, "Governor General, I support killing all the Ming expatriates in Manila first!"

Seeing this, Delong had to say: "Well! Anyway, Manila cannot fall into the hands of the Ming people for nothing! I have a suggestion that, like before killing Guangming people, these Ming people can use the greed of profits to purchase the iron tools in their hands at high prices. That is, if we want to conquer the Netherlands, we need a large amount of iron tools to smel them into weapons, so that the Ming people cannot resist our military suppression!"

"This is an idea. First, we buy iron tools from our merchants at a high price. The city hall cannot directly purchase them because these Ming expatriates do not believe us. They are still willing to believe our merchants. At that time, our merchants will purchase iron tools from our Ming expatriates at a high price, and then resell them to us at a high price, and take out all the tax and silver in the treasury! Now spend the money, and in the future, we will take back the lives and wealth of these Ming people!"

After saying this, Governor Catsey said, "I will directly order all officers and soldiers to hang every Ming man he saw!"

"yes!"

Kosoro waited for a reply.

...

"The price of ironware in Manila soared, and some Florian merchants purchased ironware at a price of five or six times higher than usual. The Chinese were greedy for profit and sold them all, so that every family had no iron!"
Chapter completed!