Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.

"Is this the red-haired man?"

Wang Fuzhi sat in the restaurant and looked at the bank of the Huangpu River with interest. Several ghosts on a sea boat that had just been berthed were walking off the boat. Several local merchants seemed to meet their relatives, and those ghosts were like the people of the Ming Dynasty, bowing to each other.

"All Dutch ships from Japan, they have a place of residence in Nagasaki."

Xia Yunyi next to him said.

Of course, the Songjiang switch cannot be in Songjiang Prefecture. At this time, the government is in Huating and Songjiang District. The final customs must be Shanghai County. The switch almost instantly turns this originally inconspicuous small county into a prosperous place. Merchant ships from various countries can be said to be coming one after another, including Japan, Ryukyu, and especially the Dutch merchant ships. There are many East India Company merchant ships coming every month. After all, compared with all other customs here, it is easier to trade. The goods that Europeans want can be transported here through the Yangtze River.

This place has an unparalleled advantage over other customs.

Yang Qing’s five-port trading...

Well, it's actually four.

Because the fifth entrance is Songjiang, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and Guangzhou, but at this time Guangzhou was the capital of the King of Gui! The Ming Dynasty controlled only the four entrances, and Fuzhou and Zhangzhou could only be covered by regional coverage, especially Zhangzhou Yuegang has declined for a long time. Ningbo was slightly better than only some of the goods brought by Fuchun River. Thanks to the inability to enter the sea boat in Hangzhou, Ningbo's customs in Zhoushan took on all the goods transported from Fuchun River. Shanghai has the support of the entire Yangtze River, and even the goods from Sichuan can be reached here. The Dutch people on the opposite side came to trade immediately after turning on and off the Shanghai switch.

"Aren't we fighting it?"

Wang Fuzhi said in confusion.

"You said it was a war in Taiwan? That one is no big deal. If you fight, you still have to make money. Since Zhongyong Hou never said that they were not allowed to come to trade, then continue to do business!"

Xu Fuyuan said with a smile.

In fact, Yang Qing would not do that!

The Dutch who left the island not only was the main maritime trading partner of the Ming Dynasty, but also continuously transported various Ming goods to Europe, but also brought him a large amount of vital copper from Japan.

During the year when the switch was switched, there were 4,000 tons of copper imported from Japan alone.

Yang Qing, who knew very well that the Japanese Congress quickly controlled copper exports, adopted a crazy plunder this year. Whether in the Netherlands or the Ming Dynasty merchant ships, as long as they used all copper coins or copper ware to purchase goods in the Ming Dynasty, he would be exempted from tariffs. Most of these coppers came from Japan. Then the merchants who received the copper coins went to the bank to exchange them for silver in additional subsidies. In the end, these copper coins became bronze cannons of the Ming Dynasty's army and navy.

Refuse Dutch merchant ships to enter the port at this time?

Yang Qing's mind has not yet been flooded.

Just as Xu Fuyuan said, if you fight, you still have to do business.

It won't take long to wake up.

Originally, as an imperial merchant, the Fan family also imported an average of 4 million kilograms of copper from Japan every year to the Qing Dynasty, but soon the Tokugawa family woke up and mandatoryly stipulated the amount of copper exported to China and the Netherlands every year. Otherwise, the Japanese would not have copper coins available. In fact, they had already started trading with rice as currency in the later period. Even if the Japanese had accumulated for thousands of years, they could not resist this blood draw method! From 1685 to the early stage of the Ten-Yuan Lao Dog, an average of 4 million kilograms per year for decades! This trade even made the Japanese Kuan Yong Tongbao become a circulating currency in the Qing Dynasty, which made Ten-Yuan Lao Dog confused. He thought that he could rebel to the point of minting copper coins. He didn't know it yet. Later, after the Jiangsu Governor explained it, he learned the truth.

Yang Qing knew this very well.

So he had to take advantage of the Tokugawa family's slow reaction speed, and import as much copper as possible at the fastest speed before they reacted.

This is a baby!

This thing is more precious to him than silver.

Silver cannot be cast guns, but copper was still the main raw material for artillery in the Japanese army until the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. They used 60 steel-bore bronze tube field guns to attack the gorgeous Krupp 75 cast steel camp guns of our Qing army.

For Yang Qing, even the bronze cannon will not be outdated even in the next fifty years.

Looking at the red-haired man outside, Wang Fuyi smiled.

At this time, the meal started serving. The guy came over a jar of wine, and Xu Fuyuan's face immediately calmed down.

"Do you give me sweet potato wine?"

He shouted to the shopkeeper who was serving the side.

"Don't you know Mr. Xu of Huating?"

The shopkeeper was stunned. Obviously, he didn't expect such a mistake to happen. Both the Xia family and the Xu family in Huating were all major families. Then he slapped the friend in the face with an angry look on his face and scolded him.

"I won't go to change the good wine yet!"

He shouted immediately.

The guy quickly took the wine jar away.

"Wait, stay here, I'm quite happy with this wine!"

Wang Fuzhi stopped him and then said to Xia Yunyi.

He did drink this often in Nanjing, mainly because other wines were getting less and less. Yang Qing blatantly ordered the tax on rice wine by 50% with the slogan of saving grain, forcing restaurants and shops to sell sweet potato wine and sorghum wine. Not only that, he also sent an anti-smuggling team to investigate private brewing, which is not prohibited. After all, it is very common for ordinary people to brew wine at home, but it is okay to drink it from his own home. He has to pay taxes whether it is sold or not. Once he finds that the restaurant sells rice wine without the tax stamp, it is immediately punished severely.

In the end, it smelled of sweet potato and sorghum in Nanjing.

Obviously, Shanghai was not spared.

"It would be too strict to even control this!"

Xu Fuyuan said somewhat dissatisfied.

"This is not a bad thing. Rice wine consumes millions of stones of grain every year. This can not only kill the extravagant trends, but also save food. Besides, sweet potato wine and sorghum wine are not bad either."

Wang Fuzhi said with a smile.

At this time, Chen Zilong and another scholar who was almost the same came.

The three of them quickly stood up to greet them.

Wang Fuzhi knew Chen Zilong. After Chen Zilong's introduction, he soon learned that it was Gu Xianzheng, a native of Kunshan, who was formerly the Yan'an Prefecture prosecutor. He was captured by the Shun Army when the city of Xi'an was broken. He was not able to escape until the previous year, but he was still at home.

Of course, what Wang Fuzhi didn't know was that this man was killed in history because he had accomplice to Chen Zilong to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Hong Chengchou ordered him to be taken to Nanjing to threaten him to know the result of Shi Kefa? He replied, "Do you know if Hong Chengchou died?" His family of three brothers and two sons all died because of resisting the Qing Dynasty. Xu Fuyuan also participated in the anti-Qing Dynasty. After the failure, he followed Zheng Chenggong to Taiwan. It must be noted that the gentry in Susong's area resisted the Qing army. As for the lack of ability, it is another matter.

The five people sat down soon.

"Wozi is not in the capital, how can I get it?"

Xia Yunyi asked.

What they invited was Gu Xianzheng.

Wang Fuzhi is a famous scholar in Huguang and is the first among his fellow Huguang literati. He was invited by the Xia family and of course he also invited Su Song’s literary friends to come to the meeting. Kunshan is just a hundred miles away from the Wusong River.

But it was an accident that Chen Zilong came.

Chen Zilong was the chief officer of the military department. Although not to mention the military department at this time, even the Ministry of War was almost a decoration, he could not return to his hometown without any priorities.

"There are already a clear idea in the welcome matter!"

Chen Zilong said lightly.

"Then can Li Zichengzhen let His Majesty come back?"

Xu Fuyuan said in surprise.

"It is to let go, but you have to exchange 15 million stones of grain for it."

Chen Zilong said.

It is obvious that the negotiations between the Shui Tailiang and the others in Chang'an finally achieved results, and the original 20 million dropped to 15 million.

"15 million stones? Even if Jiangnan has achieved good harvest this year, it is impossible to raise this 15 million stones. This is food, and it has to be transported to them. At that time, the entire Jiangnan was only a few million stones to the capital every year, which was already a huge force. What's more, it was 15 million, and there was no sea transportation to pass, only the Yellow River with unstable shipping. This is simply a fantasy!"

Xu Fuyuan exclaimed.

"You can change the silver!"

Chen Zilong said.

"The food only needs 30% of the food, and the remaining silver is discounted!"

He continued.

"That's nearly ten million taels! He was a lion's mouth, and we want the emperor to stay in Nanjing! However, the Ministry of Revenue and the Inner Cus should be able to take it out. If it's not enough, you can issue bonds to raise it."

Xia Yunyi said.

Bonds have long been thrown out by Yang Qing.

He had just issued a five-year treasury bond for the first period, and it was almost sold out by this time. Moreover, the gentry were very enthusiastic about purchasing. Regardless of whether those gentry opposed him or not, they knew very well that the safety of the Ming Dynasty was fine. Now that the reorganization was completed, the total number of new troops of each department was more than 300,000. Although such a powerful force could not be said to be very safe to unify the world, it was absolutely no problem to protect himself. Since this is the case, why not buy treasury bonds? This is a government loan, not Yang Qing’s private loan. Even if Yang Qing stepped down one day, his successor, neither the emperor nor the Donglin Qunxian, would not be repaid.

"Don't Mr. Yuan think Yang Qing will pay for his own money to buy shackles?"

Chen Zilong said.

"Uh, he won't really not pay for it, right?"

Xia Yunyi said naively.

"Of course he won't pay it. It is said that after Li Zicheng paid the silver for the autumn tax in the Ministry of Revenue last year, the rest of the money was used to convene the Fourth People's Congress. Thousands of four people's representatives came from all over the world, and with the compensation prepared for them, all the remaining money was spent on the Ministry of Revenue. Now the Ministry of Revenue relies on loans from Imperial Bank and selling government bonds to this summer tax this year."

Chen Zilong said.

“Where is Neku?”

Xu Fuyuan said.

"The Neiku people have built the Wanshou Palace for Empress Dowager Yian!"

Chen Zilong said.

"Then the more than ten million yuan accumulated by the Inner Cuo since the last emperor, the income from scouting the house is more than ten million yuan. How much can it be used to build a Wanshou Palace?"

Xu Fuyuan said in surprise.

"What can we do if Yang Qing said that we have built the Wanshou Palace for Empress Dowager Yian?"
Chapter completed!